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144 ARE^ ARREST!)™^W J '.^ Over a Hundred Reported Dead and Several Hundred Injured Constantine, Algeria, (W. N. S.)— is hundred forty-four arrests have been made in connection with the anti-Jewish outbreak in which the Jewish-quarter of this city was looted, many houses were burned and 24 Jews, according to the official figures, were killed. Unofficial estimates report the dead at 100 and the injured at several times that figare.* Two of those arrested were charged with murder. Rivaling in savagery the anti-Jewish riots' of the Palestinian Arabs five years ago, the pogrom here raged for several days before the French ^administration finally succeeded in restoring order. A strict censorship was maintained in order that the disturbance might not spread, and Senegalese- troops were being used to patrol the streets. All these precautions notwithstanding, however, automobiles filled with armed Arabs have been attempting to enter this city, and disturbances in other towns are being reported. Governor General Jules Carde, who had to hurry back here from his vacation, is in personal command of the troops. While originally. the outbreak was blamed on an alleged insult to a Mosque by a Jewish soldier, it is now believed that the disorder was due to religious fanaticism fanned by paid agitators, coupled with the old resentment of the Arabs, who are mostly farmers, against the Jews, most of whom are shopkeepers and bankers, and consequently creditors of the Arabs. Military authorities here are investigating reports that entire families were-massacred by the' Arabs, and that, some nonJews too -were killed when they accidentally strayed into the Jewish quarter. ^
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17,1934
Vol. X—No. 29
arf Leader
Jewish Youths Needn't Governor Lehman PALESTINE PLANS - JEWISH PARLEY 9 Conference of Hear "Aryan * Enters Lists Again WILL CONSIDER 10WER HOUSE' Creed Federations Is MANY PROBLEMS M GOVERNMENT Being Planned
(J. T. A.)"—Vienna Jewry was grimly amused when it was disclosed that a Jew, Josef Kraus, had given blood for a transfusion to save the life of Dr. Anton Rintelen, former Austrian Ambassador to Rome, who left his post and returned to Vienna in anticipation of being the first Nazi chancellor of Austria. When the Putsch failed he shot himself and is dangerously ill in a Vienna hospital. The Vienna papers who carried.the story commented drily that if Dr. Rintelen had become Nazi chancellor "he would also have had Jewish blood, but in a totally different fashion.'*
ANTI-SEMITISM REPUDIATEDBY SWISS FASCISTS Various Newspapers Deny Movement Has Anything to Do With Anti-Jewishness
Albany, (J. T. A.)—New York's Berlin (J. T. A.)—The Reichsminfirst Jewish Governor, Herbert H. istry of Education has ordered the Lehman, announced in spite of his release of all Jewish pupils from ob"very strong personal desire to rePosition in An Lands to Be Dis- turn to private life," that he is a Predict Civilian Body's Creation ligatory attendance at the school hour devoted by law to Nazi racial candidate for re-election. cussed at Geneva - Is Step to Legislativeteachings. In a formal statement which came August 20 Assembly on the heels of Minority Leader AsGeneva, (J. T. A.)—The Jewish semblyman Irwin Steingut's opinion Jerusalem, (J. T. A.)—The Palesworld conference, which has been that- the Republicans could not beat tine government will shortly ancalled by the Committee of Jewish Lehman this year, the Governor set nounce important steps leading to Delegations, and which will open its aside speculation,; about his candi- the constitution of an advisory counsittings here on August 20, will deal dacy. He declared*. cil of civilians which will act as a with the problem of the Jews in Ger"I have received. many inquiries "lower house" alongside the present many; the Jewish position in various with regard to my candidacy for the official advisory council, it was countries; defense of Jewish minority Governorship this f alL learned here. rights, and proposed measures for "I have not made any announce- The action will serve as a stepcombating anti-Semitism, it was an- ment before because of ray very ping stone to the creation of a legis- By Frank Bohn in Article in the Magazine nounced here. strong personal desire to return to lative assembly in the near future. Today" The provisional agenda of the con- private life. For six years as Lieu- The new" body will have three offiference, which was made public in- tenant Governor 1 have given the cials among its membership, in adNew York, (J. T. A.)—"Today," cludes consideration of:. best that is in me to tie service, of dition to the civilians. No conflict 1. The position of the Jews in the the people of the^ state. with Palestine's international obli- a weekly-magazine edited by Rayvarious countries of the world. A pogations as a result of the move is mond Moley, friend of President Roosevelt and former member of the litical report by Dr. Nahum Goldforseen. "brain trust" in its issue of August mann and an economic and social reIton Meyuchad,- independent Tel 18th, calls Hindenburg and Hitler port by Dr. Jacob Lestscinsky, will Aviv daily, states that -the new coun- members of the same "militarist sobe given. _ . cil will be appointed on the basis of cial system" at different stages in 2. The position of the Jews in Gernominations by municipalities of its development, in an article by A gala affair, one of the highlights many. 3. Measures of organized defense in of the' summer social calendar, will their most representative and mod- Frank Bohn on "The Secret of Nazi the political, moral and religious, be given'by t i e local Hadassah at erate citizens, from among whom Power." the : popular rendevous, the "Sixty High Commissioner Wauchope will spheres and in the economic field. "Different as are the two charIn connection" with these points the Club," 7500 No. 60th St., on Wednes- select the persons who will make np'l in all outward appearances," I conference will deal with special ques- day evening, August 22. This will the council. the article continues, "we find that be a benefit for the medical fund. It is learned reliably that question-' the new Hitler is the flesh and blood tions, such as Jewish minority rights Mrs. Sam Theodore is chairman of naire forms have been printed- and of the old Hindenburg. in the Saar area in view of the approaching plebiscite, and prospective the event, and Mrs. John Faier is will be sent out to- the municipali- "Old Hindenburg, who was a very negotiation with the Soviet govern- co-chairman. Mrs. Sol Novitsky is ties soon. There will be no elections' typical character, represented the ment'on problems affecting the posi- chairman of the Hadassah Medical at this time, it is understood, but a| Prussia of the Eighteenth Century. body is to be formed, representative • . • tion' of the Jews in the Soviet Union. fund. Germany never had a normal NineSpecial entertainment will be fur- of the municipalities,' which later teenth Century history, and therein '4.' Defense of Jewish : minority rights within the limits of the nished for the affair, •which- is open may be converted into a legislative lies the greatest tragedy in the trouLeague of Nations in connection with to the public. Jack Pettis and his or- assembly based on popular elections. bled story of modern Europe. How the resolution of the Polish govern- chestra will furnish the music sturdily this old system fought on — The following women are on the ment for generalizing minority obliand how well its longevity was porgations, which is coming up at the committee assisting Mrs. Theodore trayed by the last flickering spark September meeting of the League of and Mrs. Faier; The Mesdames Louis of life in the grim old warrior! It Nations. . ; -m Alberts, J. Stein, Dave Brodkey, T. has gone down at last, not before H. Hoddy, Jack Kaufman, J. J. 5. - Measures for combating antithe mind and life of our more civilFriedman, D." R. Cohen, j . Levin, H. New York, (W. N. S.)—The 40,- ized Twentieth Century, but in surSemitic propaganda. 000 members of the National Coun-j Bosenbloom, J. .Blank, ~S. Novitsky, render to a monstrous perversion of D. Epstein, J. Abrahamson, B. .A. dl of Jewish Women joined the non- the life and that mind. Hitler is a sectarian clean movie crusade when Simon, William -Milder, J. GoodTwentieth Century militarist, masbinder, Ben Handler,"P. Wintrpub, the board of directors of the Coun- querading in the uniform of a social cil voted to ally itself with the reliJ." Goldware, L W. T&osenblatt, J. philosophy the implications of which Bagdad, Iraq, (W. N.. S.)—The J Greenherg, .Irvin * Stein, _ Dave gious bodies working toward the constructive - work • done- by—Zionists Stein, D. Sherman, Gail Margolin. elimination * of objectionable • films. he cannot possibly understand. in Palestine is given high praise and Tickets may be obtained .from any Mrs. Arthur Brin, president of the !*If the Hindenburgs, as a class, like Axabs'of the NearEast are urged of these committee members, all of Council, - emphasized that" the" organ- had really opposed Hitler, he could to emulate the Jewish. example ia a whom are" raising^ their- Give-or-Get ization does not advocate movie cen- never have come to power. Hindensorship. burg, to the last, represented the book published here by Dr. Faik quotas through this event. Germany of arrested development, Shacker, an Arab physician. the old and stultified political mind of Bismarck and the Kaisers. He accepted the republic because nothing else, at the time, was possible."
fflNDENBURG AND HITLER LINKED IN SAME CASTE
Medical Fund Benefit Wednesday Evening
Geneva, (J. T. A.)—Fascist groups in Switzerland axe publishing declarations repudiating allegations they are anti-Semitic The Italian organ of the Lugano Fascists declares that the group has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. A similar declaration is published in a German Fascist leaflet. In the same way the French paper" Le Fascist Suisse of Lausanne, repudiates the charge of anti-Semitism. "Our attitude on the race question is well known," it says, "we do not engage in anti-Semitism." Some Swiss Frontist groups, however, are conducting anti-Jewish propaganda. The newspaper Die Front recently alleged that Princip, murderer of the Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo, was a Jew and a Freemason, and "thus the Jews arid Freemasons started the War." ~ ~ ' r ~ The Bund of Berne writes: "Are we to alloV such a vile lier to appear in a daily Jiewsn4per/:iir. Switzerland? The intention is obvious. It is an. attempt to bolster up the exploded Protocols of Zipn. Apart_ frqm.^the. fact that Princip. and nine fellow-conspirators belonged. to organizations similar to those which here call themselves Die Front, these papers, know well enough that he was.neither a Jew nor A Passionate Protest Is Made a Freemason. It is high time to stop Against Racial Hatred and these^ people poisoning the wells." Persecution The Staatsbuerger publishes an article condemning anti-Semitism. "We New York, (J. T. A.)—A passion- know no Jewish peril," it says, "we ate protest against racial hatred and iwiss people have always seen our,in-: By WALTER WTNCHELL, America's Best-Known Columnist racial persecution, particularly point- habitants of various origins, religious ed at Nazi Germany's brutal treat- and languages able to live together : I am indebted to various people of crusade is likely to decimate the or- to relieve the world permanently of ment of Jewish citizens, as expressed in accord, because we are inspired by the United States for forwarding clip- chestra far and wide, since the major all the Jew has done, but we must by Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Indian he idea that every fellow-man who keep a t it. It may involve tearing part of the personnel is Jewish. philosopher and poet, in a personal adapts himself to our condition de- pings of a-most interesting thesis. It down three bridges over the East Rivoriginally appeared in a Dayton, Ohio, "Not only would music suffer, but letter to N. E. B. Ezra, the Jewish erves rights and respect." er of New York—Manhattan, Queensnewspaper, a letter to the editor from medicine. The Rockefeller Institute fOT Telegraphic Agency's special corboro and the Williamsburg—but in the a! ChristiaTi woman, Charlotte Reeve the Advancement of Sciences would respondent at Shanghai, has just Conover, one of Dayton's outstanding have missed Dr. Solomon Flexner and interests of so great a cause it must been made public by the latter. citizens. She is a writer and a lec- his wonderful medical discoveries, and be done, for it was a Jew who de"The insults offered to my friend turer and has traveled widely in Eu- the American Journal of Medicine its signed all three. Einstein have shocked me to the rope and in America. She refers to editor, Dr. Morris Fishbein; but no "We can't very well get rid of the point of torturing my faith in modone Pelley, organizer of another matter — they are all Jews and we stars in the heavens that Sir William Brussels, (W. N. S.)—The Dinaso, "shirt" racket, who now is out on must keep our institutions pure. Selig- Herschel and Goldschmidt discovered, ern civilization," wrote Tagore, who is a leading figure in the fight to Belgium's green shirt, anti-Semitic bafl, indicted by the government for man in Harvard, Dr. Louis Levine in because they seem to be up there to nationalize his native country. He Fascist organization, has gone out fraud. A few editors have picked up chemistry and Dr. Joseph Jastrow in stay, but we can get up some propwas referring to Albert Einstein, of business of its own accord after Charlotte Reeve Conover's spellbind- psychology must go, too. Charles aganda against Justice Brandeis and famous German scientist now an an existence of several years. All of ing and caustic comment, but let's put Steinmetz, called 'The Wizard of the Justice Cardozo and Judah P. Benjathe Dinaso's storm troopers have it in another 100 newspapers. It fol- Electrical World,' was a Jew. Too bad min, of the U. S. Supreme Court and exile in this country. "I can only draw consolation from been disbanded and their command- lows: , . . ; . ' . .'..." we can't obliterate all he did, but let the eleven other prominent judges the hope that it was an unhappy act er, M. Van Severn, has gone into throughout the country. We can burn "According to a writer in a recent that pass. We can destroy the sculp- Max Rosenthal's paintings and Louis done in a drunken mood and not the hiding. ture of Jo Davidson and Jacob Epissue of a magazine,Hitlerism is comThe green shirts had definite Nazi sober choice of a people so gifted stein. We can burn the books of Untermyer's poems and Walter Lippas the Germans," the letter contin- affiliations and were responsible for ing to America. We are going to get George Brandes, Ludwig Lewisohn, man's politics and Octavus Roy Corid of the Jews, Also, we have a new the development of considerable antiued. Edna Ferber, Heinrich Heine, as was hen's fun and Waldo Frank's literary In referring to the Hitler regime Jewish sentiment in Belgium. Their kind of shirt for our national ward- done in Berlin, because they were all criticism. But Lombroso's and Max In Germany the poet first drew at- elimination. from the public scene is robe — Silver Shirts — the object of j Jews. Nordau's study of crime will have to tention to the fact that newspapers the result of the internal difficulties which is to exterminate the Jews and "If we saw (and raved over) Bem- remain as the basis of our new crimhave printed different versions of of the Hitler regime which has pre- all their works from the body politic hardt in Thedre,' we can forget about inology, and F. Tannenbaum's revithe events there. Tagore adds that vented it from continuing its finan- All right. Let us keep up with the j it. She was Jewish. We can petition sion of prisons. it cannot be denied that the German cial subsidies to Nazi groups abroad. times. But let us do it scientifically. Congress to have the words of Emma "They have been so pestiferous, the Another Fascist group, the Na- Let us make a thorough job of it. Let • people were goaded to many acts Jews. They have worked and studied Lazarus chiseled off the Statue of us out-Hitler Hitler. ' of desperate folly by the humilia- tional Blue Shirts, continues to funcLiberty. What does, a Jew know about and invested, been on hand with funds tions imposed on them by the vic- tion in Belgium despite a recently "Let us not be satisfied with any liberty? Unfortunately, we cannot when it was a question of benefiting enacted law forbidding the use of half-way, measures. Let us not only torious nations of the World War. the human race; and that reminds me get rid of the Jew, but wipe; from the take back the milk that Nathan Straus •—it's mortifying, too, because we "Nevertheless if the brutalities we uniforms to political groups. pages of,history all that he has done. distributed to hungry babies in New can't very well get rid of the United read of are authentic," he said, "then If we don't do that he may continue York; for they are all grown up, no civilized conscience can allow to do some; of the pernicious things thanks to the generosity of a Jew. States of America—that it was a Jew compromise with them." that he.hasjdone in the past. Keeping Nor can we undo the welfare work in who first set foot on our shores, always in Tnind that we do this be- the Public Health Association of the Louis Torres. He and four other Jews cause we, : as Gentiles, Nordics and late Lee Frankel, of the Metropolitan were members of Columbus' expedition; selected because in the world at Rabbi Isaac Ashkenasy, Yiddish Protestants, and we alone, have no life Insurance Company, nor the fifty that time no one knew so much about years of work of Lillian D. Wald of disagreeable characteristics; are alauthor, is visiting in Omaha until ways polite,Jhigh--principled, generous, the Henry Street Settlement, who was geography, astronomy and map makthe early part of next" week. ing as the Jews. They were the brains Jerusalem, (W. N. S.)—By the His latest Yiddish opus is entitled unselfish! anrf dean. We -can afford to the originator of the Federal Chil- of the • company, and it was Jewish throw stonesibecausewe have no perdren's Bureau. But we can discourage terms of an understanding being "Gems of-Jewish Humor," and as a money, too, which financed the expeworked out between Arabs and Jews, foreword to the book is a letter from sonal or racial faults. This being con- the work of the Red Cross because dition, and not Isabella's pearls, as we ceded, we must lay out our program the first meeting was held in the Ragheb Bey el Nashashibi, Arab Albert Einstein* praising the selection house of a Jew—Adolphus Solomon. have been taught. Sangatel handed mayor of Jerusalem, will retain his of. the material. The letter says in and act with consistency. out of his own pocket 17,000 ducats office and a Jew will be elected vice- part: "We can turn the radio off .when to Columbus. But no matter. It was "The next time we go to a concert : mayor. • ' " " . . . We have to strive to find hap- and the program includes 'Midsummer Eddie Cantor and Ed Wynn come on a pernicious business, this letting the Returns from registration- for tin piness for sadness comes by itself. Night's Dream' let us get up and walk the air, for they are both Jews. And, Jews in on the discovery of America. municipal elections indicate that, the Therefore .your book deserves a place out. Mendelssohn was a Jew. And" if Of course, if "we are traveling and Now, according to Bill Pelley, they new city council will consist of six in Jewish homes especially at the the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra want to send a radio message from a are undermining our government. Let Jews, four Arabs and two Christians. present time of down-heartedness." comes to town, buy no tickets. Sto- moving train we will not do so because us get on our Silver Shirts and save Of all three groups the Jews have a r Among his other "books are Kibutz kowsM is a Jew; and what do we want it was David Sarnoff who invented the day! On with the program!" majority but they do not have an ab- Golieth, Hagaluth VHageulah. From with Jewish conductors? That goes, that instrument, and he is a Jew! It Far be it from your New York solute majority. the Gallery of Great Men and Eter- too, for the late David Belasco in the was Dr. Louis Cohen, a Jew, who ban- and California correspondent to edit Because of this situation the Jews nal ' Memory. He is widely-traveled; theatre; for Oscar Hammerstein in ished static from the radio; and Nik- in any way the above document of are understood - to have agreed to he left Germany a year ago.;^ 1 i opera; and for Jascha Heifetz, Mischa ola Tesla, -with Fritz Lewenstein, who Charlotte Reeve Conover. .. . . But support Nashashibi provided a Jew ' While in Omaha, he is staying at Elman,~Efrem Zimbalist, Fritz Kreis- it vented the "famous wireless switch the home of M. Somit. ; .-! ler, violinists. Come to think of iU oar wave. Believe me, it will be some job is named vice-mayor. (Continued on Page 2.).
Council of Jewish Women Join Crusade
Arab Lauds Zionist Work in Palestine
WALTER WINCHELL
NAHTREATMENT
GREEN SHIRTS OF BELGIUM DISBANDED
Agreement Is Reached on Jerusalem Council
Yiddish Author Is Visitor in Omaha
Regional Conference To Be Held in Omaha on October 6 Preparations are being made for the Regional conference of Jewish Community Centers and Welfare Federations, to bs held in Omaha October 6. Delegates from all the Jewish Federations in this section are expected to attend. Philip M. Klutznick -was elected general chairman of the conference in May, and Jacob S. Pearlstein secretary. The general committees of the conference, consisting of representatives of the various cities, have not yet been completed. Harry A. Wolf and Dave Goldman of Omaha are on the general conference committee. Dave Goldman is chairman of ths local committee, and is assisted by Frank Ackerman, Max Barish, Sam Beber, Morris Jacobs, J. J. Greenberg:, Ben Kazlovsky, Jack Marer, Al Mayer, William Milder and Harry Silverman. This conference is under the auspices of the National Conference of Jewish Community Centers and Welfare Federations. Sam Beber is on the executive committee of the National Conference. Recently, Henry Monsky and William Holzman were named on a national Mobilisation committee to effect Jewish communal unity throughout the country, another of the many phases of activity of the national conference. Functional fields of Jewish social service as well as general fields will be discussed. Outstanding lay leaders will lead the discussions.
ASSAIL NAZIS AS MENACE TO
Cincinnati, (J, T.. A.)—A pamphlet attacking Hitler and HitleriBm *s a menace to civilization has.bft&i lir1" sued by The Friends of the Truth,* an organization of Cincinnati German-Americans, none of whose members, it is asserted, is Jewish. The pamphlet is signed by a publication committee composed of August Hamelberg, William Lohmeier, Fred Bender, John Wainz and August Hauck. The brochure is entitled, "TheMenace of Nazism," and carries the explanatory sub-title, "As Sober. Thinking German-Americans View Berlin, (J. T. A.)—Reichsminister Hitlerism." An introduction states of the Interior Dr. Willhelm Prick that the pamphlet "has been comissued an order permitting schechita, piled by Cincinnatians of German exthe killing of animals for food ac- traction and one of its purposes is cording to the orthodox Jewish ri- to bring to all Cincinnatians of Gertual, in Upper Silesia, which is a man origin that their first duty at plebiscite area under the control of present, is to cooperate actively in the League of Nations. keeping out of this country the maSchechita was prohibited in Ger- lidousness" and xinsavoriness of Nazi many soon after the Isazis came into \ propaganda." power on the ground that it was "Let it be clearly understood that cruel to the animals. Displaying the touching the untouchables that is, utmost solicitude for animals, the associating openly or clandestinely Nazis not only forbade shechita, but with Nazi-ruled societies and conimposed unusually heavy prison terms cerns, is equivalent to condoning for Jewish shochtim and butchers murder, corruption and filth. Let i t accused of practicing shechita. be particularly clear, that German While nothing is mentioned in the societies which in the future use reasons actuating t h e p ^ p^,,^ a s their organ> Dr. Fnck, the successive defeats suf- which join in common activities witiv fered by the Nazi government when Na-si organizations, and which admit it attempted to extend anti-Jewish or retain members who belong to measures to upper Silesia are no Nazi societies, are siding with forces doubt at the bottom of this unwont- subversive to the constitution of the. ed display of Nazi generosity. United States and inimical to the German anti-Semitic measures in v.elfare of their old and their new Upper Silesia were rebuked by the country. They must know that they League of Nations in connection with will be judged accordingly by everv the Bernheim petition and the Nazi American." government was compelled to withdraw the anti-Semitic laws and to promise full protection for the Jewish minority there.
JEWRY OF SILESIA TO BE PERMITTED USE OF SCHECfflTA
British Ships to Fly Zionist Flag
London, (W. N. S.)—The Union CONSERVATIVE SERVICES Castle Steamship Line, one of the British shipping companies, TO BEGIN SEPTEMBER 7 leading •whose boats ply between South AfThe Conservative Synagogue will begin its year of services on Friday evening, September 7, the Sabbath eve before Rosh Hashonah. J. J. Greenberg, president of the congregation, announced that plans for an active, interesting season have been formulated. He declared that the services this year will be enriched by a choir directed by Harry Braviroff. Mr. Braviroff has been working with thirty singers, young men and women, during the summer. The new choir will make its first appearance on Rosh Hashonah eve, which will take place Sunday night, September 9. The women of the organization, headed by Mrs. Dave Sherman, Auxiliary president, have already begun their year of participation in the synagogue work.
rica and England, wiil henceforth fly the Zionish flag on all its ships •whenever they touch Polestinian waters.
Demand Zion Settlers Enter Through Jaffa Jaffa, (J. T. A.)—"We'want Jewish immigrants to land in Palestine through Jaffa," is the uncompromising demand of Arab longshoremen here who refuse to listen to the government's arguments that the port of Jaffa is to be reserved solely for orange ships while debarkation of all immigrants will be centralized at Haifa. They also have submitted a new plaint to the authorities in which they insist on their "rights" to handle the Jewish immigrant traffic