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OMAHA, NEBRASKA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13,1933
Grossman Attacks i Propagandists
"There are Hitlers among all naTickets Being Sold for Series of tions—there are hungry and discour- counteract the cries of the hungry." He told how the Nazis in Germany Five Outstanding aged people ready to believe any discriminated against the Jewish peoLectures fraudulent, anti-Semitic charges, and ple, emphasizing that "never since
Fashion Revue and Frolic.by Highland Saturday Evening A gala Frolic and Fashion Revue will be given by the Highland Country Club this Saturday, October 14, at 8 p. m., at the Paxtcn Hotel ballroom. Sam Leon is chairman, assisted by Mrs. Philip Levey, Mrs. M. S. Livingston, Mrs. Abe Herzberg, and Mrs. David Cohen.^ Those who will *model include the Misses Jane Ro&enstock, Bernice Sherman, Frances i' Bergman, Bernice Yousem, Irene Morris, Marjorie Hiller, Sylvia Zevin, and Flora Marks, and Mesdames Bert Hene, Maurice Jt.cklin, Julius Newman and Leo Krasne. \ An elaborate floor show is being planned for the occasion. Leslie Burkenroad will be master of ceremonies. After the style kevue and floor show, there will be| a keno game. Non-members are cordially invited to attend. About seven hundred are expected to attendi
Vol. IX—No. 37
Commission to Care for Refugees from Germany Kerch Jews Get Right to Transport Property to Palestine in Advance
Nazis Finally Agree to High Coinniisioner Appointed By League
even this noble and great democracy days of the Spanish Inquisition The enthusiastic response to date of ours is not immune," Joseph F. the have the Jewish people suffered such of the general public to the list of Grossman, of Chicago, president of tortures as they have in Germany Community Forum series speakers District Grand Lodge No. 6 of the since Hitler's advent to power." demonstrates that the.choice of the B'nai Brith, pointed out to a capacity He told of the Nazi cells in the BERLIN (J. T. A.)—Permission to committee in charge meets with pop- audience at the J. C. C. auditorium United States. There are seven . in Tuesday evening. . Jews who are planning to leave for ular approval. Chicago alone. He also told of their Palestine but who find it impossible -The Forum series opens on Mon"We are living in an age of attempts to spread Nazi propaganda to go at the present time has been day evening, December 4, when Dor- strange paradoxes," the s p e a k e r in this country, anti-Semitic in charAn independent commission with granted by the government, to for- an international complexion will be the Philippines, and Herbert Hoover, • pthy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) stated. "The J e w i s h people are acter. ward property in the form of goods formed to care for and solve the former president of the U n i t e d speaks about Germany. charged with controlling the capital The anti-defamation league of the to the Holy Land. A guarantee that refugee problem of those fleeing1 the States. •Norman Thomas, socialist candi- wealth of the world, and yet they B'nai Brith, Mr. Grossman pointed The High Commissioner will be apthey will leave Germany is necessary Nazi regime in Germany. date forpresident in the last election are charged at the same time with out, does valuable work in battling pointed by the League of Nations. from the Palestine office in Berlin. ,d a silver-tongued orator, will speak the crime of communism and sabot- such propaganda. He cited several This was determined at the comThe Palestine office was empower- mittee sessions of the League of day evening, January 8. age to destroy the capitalistic sys- examples of effective work in comed to issue certificates enabling Jews Nations held in Geneva this week.' On Wednesday evening, February tem. They are charged with instigat- batting anti-Semitic efforts. GENEVA —At a session of the to transfer their property by Dr. External pressure from the delegates 14, Bishop Francis J. McConnell will ing all the wars, yet since the days He also stressed the necessity for Karl Schmitt," minister of economics. of the other countries forced Ger- subcommittee of the League of Nalecture. He is one of the leaders of of Isaiah they have continuously having such anti - defamation work The certificates will make it possible many to agree to this commission, tions, a resolution was adopted for Protestant Christianity in America preached peace. done by a responsible committee or for Jews to send their property and though her delegates strenuously op- submission lo the parent body by and is a past president of the Fed"These charges are the cries of body who after considering the probremain in. the Reich . indefinitely. A posed the light of the league to dis- which minority people will be afforderal Council of Churches of Christ in j demagogues, - - those. desiring to per- j lem carefully, would sneak in the ed tangible and substantial protecrider to the decree orders the Cur- cuss the matter. America. He is a great liberal. petuate their selfish ambitions or to n a m e o f t h e J e w i s } 1 peO ple. He illustion. rency Board not to bar shipping of Oswald Garrison Villard will come However, Germany made it a contrated how harmful it would be if goods by Jews possessing certifi- dition The atmosphere was charged with here for the night of March 14. Ediof her agreeing that the comeach individual undertook to right a cates. tense feeling. The German delegates tor of the "Nation," he is a trenchmission will not be under the aegis took a firm and implacable stand supposed wrong. ant critic of American life and one of the League. "In dealing with the German sitof the country's leading liberal thinkAccording to advance reports, a against iccognizing the Jews as a uation," Mr. Grossman stated, "the ers and writers. High Commissioner would administer minority and therefore disqualifying B'nai Brith did highly effective work BUDAPEST, Hungary (J. T. A.)— The series will be brought to a the project. He would be allowed the them from League intervention. This through diplomatic channels. We did The Austrian government will settle close on April 11 when Maurice "fullest freedom of action." Geneva front was broken through by the opnot publish what we were doing with the Jewish question when, it has Samuel appears here. Samuel is one newspapers mention for the post the posing opinions of the delegates of fanfare and a brass band, but we solved other, important state probof the best Jewish speakers to ever names of Colonel Theodore Roose- other nations. worked along sane, diplomatic lines." lems, ' the Austrian Vice-Chancellor The resolution answered this quesappear in Omaha and he gained wide Basket ball is getting off to a fly- velt, Jr., former governor general cf tion, over the German protest, as popularity and praising comment the New Wave of Violence, Arrests, He told how this type of action Emil Fey, declared in an interview ing start way ahead of season at the worked successfully. Tortures and Boycott with the Hungarian newpaper, Pesti follows: "Assembly considers forelast time he spoke in the city. J. C. C, as physical director M. H. B'nai Brith is now celebrating its Hirlap. Reported . going principles are applicable to all Grodinsky Urges Support. ninetieth birthday. In his address, ."I have never been an anti-Sem- Sogolow is tuning up the machinery categories of nationals who differ "The Community Forum is recogLONDON (J. T. A.)—From au- Mr. Grossman told of the origin of ite," said Major Fey, "neither in for the winter indoor sport. from the majority in race, languag* nized as being an invaluable cultural A meeting of managers will be the order and its changes to meet and religion.'" asset to Omaha," declared William thoritative sources, the Jewish Tel- changing conditions, defending Jew- principles nor in feelings, neverthe- held on Monday evening,. October 16, egraphic Agency learned that a new Despite the fact that to date the less, measures against the Jews are Grodinsky, chairman of the educaat 7:30 p. m., at the Center to diish institutions and the Jewish name, action taken has been favorable to tional committee of the Jewish Com- wave of anti-Semitism expressing it- perpetuating the Jewish faith through unavoidable as the result of the genthe Jewish people, it is the general eral situation. However, the Jewish munity Center, which has charge of self in physical violence, arrests and its work among the youth. feeling in Geneva that condemnation problem is not an immediate one. junior loops and to award contracts. the Forum, "and we are therefore a renewal of the economic boycott, At the last meeting held Monday Prior to his address, Mr. Gross- There are more important problems of Germany's repressive anti-Jewish hopeful that our present ticket-selling has broken out in Germany. ten teams applied for franchises in international bessions to He At- measures is being soft-pedalled. Even in Berlin Jews are again dis- man was honor guest at a dinner waiting for solution. campaign will be the most successful the two leagues for the pre-season at the J. C. C. At noon he was hontended by Many Jewish appearing under mysterious circumThe general resolution proposed by "It is necessary to solve the Jewexperienced. ored at a luncheon at the Hill Hotel ish problem on the basis of national play. The t e a m s and managers: stances. They are being taken from Dr. Frangulies, Greek jurist, does Representatives "The lecturers who have appeared Mother's Cookies, Abe Katz; Psi Mu, by the past presidents and officers not come up for discussion at the on the Forum rostrum in previous their homes, not by uniformed Nazis, of the local lodge of the B'nai Brith. minority recognition, -whereby the Iz Bogdanoff; Xi Lambda, O s c a r as has been the case previously, but LONDON (J. T. A.)—Representa- present assembly. T h i s resolution government will ..not tolerate the years fcave brought prestige to cur Mayerowich; A. Z. A. 1, Jack Temin; At the mass meeting, Harry MonCommunity Center, and this year the by the police. Many of those who sky, a member of the executive of rowdy anti-Semitism of the Nazis. A. Z. A. 100, Nate Crourise; Yaffe tives of Jewish institutions from all would guarantee Jewish rights in all over the world were invited to be countries now threatened with antiEven the Heimwe&r does not desire speakers obtained are ..as outstanding have been placed under arrest have the international order, presided. to solve the Jewisl| problem with the Printers, Sol Yaffe; Up-to-Date Clo- represented at the London conference Semitism, and protect them on huas, if not more outstanding, than in not been seen since. The victims inthiers, Hy Giller; Tuxis A. C., Ray ; clude many aged men and-women. called to discuss the German-Jewish manitarian grounds. fist.. The best proof of that is that the past. T : the- Heimwehr entails as members, Shapiro; Pants Store, Morrie Ep- situation. The gathering is to be Beginning l i b i s ^ e k , a,_spedal' de-^ '-' -^^We are'''fraiibIsr;.protid of the arstein. At Sixth Session. known 'officially "as" the "=Go-nf.erenee respectable patrioticj. Jews." ray of brilliant lecturers who will partment has been established by the The incompatibility of the minorSix will be in the senior loop, and for the Belief of German Jewry and . speak ^ here.-and J. we jjrge the entire secret police headquarters for dealfour in the junior. The senior league will open on October 29 in the build- ity agreements with the treatment of ing solely with the cases of Jews. VIENNA (J. T. A.)—The press community to support the project to the Jews in Germany received etnLast week the School of Jewish here featured the Fey interview as starts play Thursday, October. 26, at ing of the Board of Deputies of phasis at last Tuesday's session of. the full by buying season tickets and 7 p. m., and the junior league on j ° B ;tish J e w s Youth, whose activities are under the an anti-Semitic sensation, and interattending each Forum number." the sixth commission of the League, direction : of the Youth Association preted the Vice-Chancellor's declar- Sunday, October 29, at 1:30 p m . i n v i t a t i o l i s t o t h e confe rence when a protracted debate developed Refunds. Followmg the pre-season league ' ation as an intention to introduce ^ The members of the educational and which is supported by the Jewon the Nazi treatment of their Jewp the numerus clausus against the Jews the regular season will get under committee are now engaged in sell- ish organizations, was raided. One o f ish population. way about December 1. B o a r d rf D e p u t i e s o f CINCINNATI, Ohio (J. T. A.)— in all branches of Austrian life, being the Forum tickets. A season's hundred students were arrested, takPleas for solving the minority All managers must be present at j Monten d the L e o nAnglo-Jewish ard All managers must be present at B r i t i s hp r e s i d e n t a of ticket for the five lectures is three en to the Elsasser Strasse police sta- ongratulations on the attainment of cause the national minority status is problem so as to protect minorities fc A f h ts 90th birthday and for its record tantamount to numerus clausus. Monday's meeting. An entrance fee Association, '£ . , „ of, the ., ,Joint . . without country or state were mads dollars. Single admissions will be one tion and subjected to an all-night mon behalf B and bond of good faith will be terrogation. The ages of-the arrested of achievement, were received here Major Fey promptly; denied the corForeign Committee of the Board of by delegates from France, Sweden, dollar. by B'nai Brith, Jewish world-wide rectness of the interpretations and quired from = each quintet. students range from 18 to 20. Deputies and the Anglo-Jewish As- Poland, and Spain. The references Due to the fact that last year the fraternal order with affiliated mem- stated that all he said was that the Physician Beaten. sociation, the Alliance Israelite Uni- made by the French and Spanish talk by Warden Lewis E. Lawes had A well-known Jewish physician of ership of 603 lodges throughout the Jewish problem does not exist in verselle, the American Jewish Com- delegates to the Jewish question were to be cancelled because of. the speakworld. Austria, but that if it should arise, mittee, the American Jewish Con- applauded by the assembly. er's illness, all those who had tickets Berlin was stopped by the Nazis President Roosevelt, writing to Al- his solution was national minority while driving on the Kurfuerstendam last year are allowed a refund of the C mmittee f At another s e s s i o n , particular Delegat: 50 cents on the purchase of a ticket without being given an explanation. fred M. Cohen, president, expressed status for the Jews, with all minorstress was laid on the necessity of his felicitations in a communication He was carried off to a Nazi cellar ity rights. . n The proposed committees, which in this year. increasing immigration to Palestine A memorial meeting for Morris the absence of an agenda, indicate in view of the German-Jewish sitThe Austrian Vice-Chancellor disAnyone wishing additional infor- and placed in adjoining cells. The which read as follows: "Celebration this"year of the nine- claimed any other pronouncements Hilquit, national socialist leader of the matters that are to be discussed, mation about the tickets or the se- physician was beaten and his friend's uation. anniversary of the founding of contained in the alleged interview. New York, who died, early this week, a r e : ries is asked to call the Jewish Com- wife was compelled to scrape off her tieth manicured nails with a knife which B'nai Brith should be the cause of will be held at the Labor Lyceum, 1. A Palestine committee. munity Genter.. the Nazis thrust into her hand. The rejoicing to all who cherish freedom, 22nd and Clark Streets, this eve2. An economic committee, subNazis painted her face with lipstick, justice and truth and who are interning, October 13, at 9 p. m., under divided into four committees, for shouting abuse at her. When they ested in the improvement of condithe auspices of the Workmen's Circle reconstruction work in Germany, were finally released they saw on tions of our fellowmen and Nation. Branch No. 173. emigration, relief outside of GerBERLIN (J. T. A.)—Approval ot "The people of the United States approaching their home, lights in the He was chairman of the executive many and finances. German Jews who are Zionists was windows. Suspecting a raid, they tel- have had an unusual opportunity to of the socialist party in the United 3. An academic committee for expressed by the powerful Hugenberg ephoned their house from the home know and to evaluate the services i Announcement wasr made today by States, having been a socialist leaddealing with the problems of chain of newspapers owned by Dr. of a neighbor and were told by a your order has performed, particular- Mrs. Harry -Z.- Rosenfeld, convention er for the past forty-five years. He refugee scholars and teachers. The invited organisations were re- Alfred Hugenberg, nationalist leads? > Jacob S. Pearlstien, executive di- stranger that the occupants were not ly in promoting international good chairman, that Omaha has be?n se- was also an active leader in the quested to send not only delegates, and deposed minister of economics. rector of the J. C. C. and Welfare at home. Their neighbor, an aged will, in aiding the poor and stricken lected as the convention center for trade unions. but also experts on the various sub- The papers ridiculed Jews who conP'yieration, has been placed in charge Jew, volunteered to enter the house and in uniting American Jewry in District No. 20 of the National Fedsider themselves Germans. but he never service to their .country and to hu- eration of Temple Sisterhoods. The jects to be discussed. of radio publicity for the annual and see who was there, 1 convention will be held Tuesday and manity. returned and there is no indication The papers indicate that German Omaha Community Chest drive, acgovernment circles are sympathetic to "To B'nai Brith I extend congrat- Wednesday, November 14 and 15, cording to an announcement made as to what happened to him. the Zionist movement, which need not thfc$ week by Walter F. Cozad, gen- Feeling responsible for the fate of ulations for past achievements and with headquarters at the Blackstone fear suppression. The Jewish Telethe old man, the husband and wife best wishes for continued future Hotel. eral chairman. District No. 20 is composed of Ne- : The annual card party of the Pio1 graphic Agency learns, however, tb*i": The campaign will be held October went to the police station to obtain success." braska, Iowa, Missouri. and Kansas. neer Women to raise funds for the Zionist headquarters in Berlin, espewhat information they could, but The order of B'nai Brith which 31 to November 9. The quota has Mesdames Jeane£te M. Arnstein, cially those branches assisting emithey too have since disappeared. was founded in New York City, Ocbeen set at $603,136. kvutzos in 'Palestine will be held A farewell concert will be given gration to Palestine, are CIORP!'" Outrages Are Unexplained. tober 13, 1843, has as its mission Max Holzman and M. L. Cohn are The Jewish Community Center and Tuesday afternoon, October 17, at 2 by Cantor Joseph Malek at the B'nai watched by agents of the political pomembers of Mrs. Rosenfeld's commitA Berlin Jew, who was taken from "uniting Israelites in their best interWelfare Federation is a constituent o'clock at the J. C. C. The proceeds Israel synagogue, 18th and Chicago lice to ascertain whether all activities agency of the Community Chest, and his home last week, was subsequent- ests and those of humanity." At the tee. Other chairmen are: Reception, Mrs.-If. Mantel; Dec- will also go toward making room in streets, this coming Sunday evening, going on are strictly. Zionist. the J. C. C. and family welfare and ly found, dead in prison. His family outset of its organization, the order children's care budgets are set by received" two death certificates, one functioned with secret ritual and im- orations, Mrs. Louis Kulakofsky; Mo- Palestine -for hundreds of Jewish October 15, at 8 p. m. Cantor Malek, stating that he had died of pneu- pressive ceremonials, all of which tor Corps, Mrs. Sam Berkowitz; Reg- girls forced to flee Germany because who has been in Omaha for the holythe Chest. day season, was cantor in a local In urging the utmost support for monia and the other that he died of were later eliminated. Its earliest istration, Miss H a z e l Degen and synagogue a few years back. achievement was the erection of the Mrs. Sam Gilinsky; Reservations, of Nazi persecutions. the coming drive, Pearlstien stated: hunger. Mrs. J. Hahn is chairman of the He has conducted the services in Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home in Mrs. David Rosenstock; Luncheons "The problem of the Jewish Federaand Dinners, Mesdames Harry Wolf, affair. The members of the other some of the largest synagogues in 1868 which was rebuilt in 1930. tion is inseparably interwoven with The date of the stag dinner br An important phase of its social Mollie C o h e n , Charles Schimmel; Jewish women's organizations are in- the country, succeeding Cantor Rosthe success or failure of the Omaha vited to attend. the Brotherhood of Temple Israel has Publicity, Mrs. Morris. E. Jacobs. enblatt at the Ohab Zedek synawork was the care of Jewish immiCommunity Chest. gogue. He also made several concert been changed to Tuesday, October gration in the 1880's. B'nai Brith "The most worthwhile Jewish intours with the late Cantor Rosen- 17, at 7 p. m., at the Blackstom founded and allocated large sums for stitution i n . O m a b a is the Jewish Hotel. blatt. The program of popular activities the support of the Erie Orphan Community Center, and the most imThe guest of honor will be Rabh; Cantor Malek will sing religious Home, the Atlanta Home for Orin the physical education department portant branch of our work is that songs as well as Hebrew and Yid- David H. Wice, who was recentlr of the'Family Welfare department, of the J. C. C. is under way, and is phans, the Memphis Home- for the dish folk songs. He will be accom- named associate rabbi at the Temple, rendering service to and caring for meeting with enthusiastic response Aged, the Yonkers Home for the An excellent program of enterpanied at the piano by Mrs. Henry Handball, volleyball, and calisthen Aged, the National Jewish Hospital over one hundred Jewish families. tainment has been arranged, and s. SAN FRANCISCO (J. T. A.)-r- speakable persecutions in Germany." Monsky. And these are supported by the Com- ics are the major diversions" of the of Denver, the Leo N. Levi MemoM senior men, though- the handball rial Hospital and the Touro In- The members of a Christian congre- . Dr. Sherman has designated the The various rabbis of the city will large number have already munity Chest. firmary; - . ; gation were asked to fast Sunday as occasion of bis church service as a also be present. Part of the pro- reservations. "Due to the increase in the de- courts are crowded. On October 18 the order will ded- penance for the crimes of Hitlerism "Christian Day of Atonement for ceeds from the concert will go to the The Health Club meets daily a mands for Chest funds to support Crimes Against Jews." Jewish National Fund. bur own and other community ac- noon. Volleyball is so popular with icate the ninth of its university cul- against the Jews of Germany. Cantor Malek promises that "this Elaborating on his novel plan, the Announcement of t h i s intention tivities, it is obvious that there ought them that plans are going forward tural centers at Northwestern. The Hillel Foundation will be supported was made at a recent mass meeting Rev. Mr. Sherman said: concert will be outstanding, one to to be a most generous response to the for a noon league. Reducing exercises and volleyball by the B'nai Brith Wider Scope fund. of San Franciscans by the Rev. WalChest campaign." "We can and will unite with Jew- be remembered." While here, he has The current year marks also the ter John Sherman, minister of the ish people everywhere in fullest col- sung before a large number of the The congregation of Adass Yasnare the favorite pastimes in the gym Hungarian Anti-Semites urim, 25th and Seward, adopted tfcf for the matron women and busines twentieth birthday of the Anti-De- First Methodist Episcopal church of laboration for the enrichment of the Jewish organizations. commission form of management *t girls. A basket ball loop for thi famation League and the tenth year Oakland. Sentenced life of man. The pity of this perseBERLIN.—All government officials the election held Snnday evening. "I know of no precedent for this cution is not finally the damage to BUDAPEST, H u n g a r y . -Three younger women will soon.be formed. of the Hillel foundations. The B'nai The seven commissioners electee Hungarian Nazi leaders, BoeszermenPhysical Director Morris H. Sogo- Brith sponsors as one of its chief in my denomination," he declared at be done the Jewish people in their were ordered to submit proof to the yi, Olah and Lengyel, were sentenced low urges everyone to "get in con- activities the Aleph Zadik Aleph, a the mass meeting, "but on next Sun- bodies or possessions. The pity of it authorities, previous to ttxeir mar- are G. Soref, Max Kirshenbaum, Joe to eleven weeks iimprisonment foriin- dition.'' He invites consultation on junior order for» youths between 16 day evening I shall \ ask ;my congrei will be seen in damage done to the riage, that their intended brides are Ban, Abe Kirshenbaum,. J. Shukert, and 21 years of age. M. Cohen, and Joseph Cohen citing against the Jewish religion. of Aryan descent. Otherwise. > physical education problems. gants to' fast in protest of the un- soul of Germany."
Minority Iftatiis f or JewstfJrged as Solution in Austria
GERMANY'S NAZIS RENEW PRESSURE AGAINST JEWRY
Planning Pre-Season Basket Ball League
LONDON WORLD CONCLAVE FOR GERMAN JEWS
tBOSEVELTPRMS B'NAI BRITH UPON 90TH ANNIVERSARY
Memorial Meeting at . Labor Lyceum Tonight \Zll£L
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Hugenberg Papers in Approval of Zionism
Sisterhood Conclave for Omaha Announced by Mrs. Rosenf eld
Community Chest Campaign to Begin r Here October 31
Pioneer Women Card Party Next Tuesday Farewell Concert by Cantor Malek on Sunday Evening
Stag for Rabbi Wice to Be Held Tuesday
Increased Popularity of Gym at Genter
Congregation Asked to Fast As Penance for Nazi Crimes
Adass Yeshurim Name Seven Commissioners