February 10, 1939

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By AL BEGAIi

A German (Aryan) woman -called--on me. Hitler certainly • "Would call her the perfect Aryan type: Blonde, pretty and stately. She was troubled about some Jews in her native town in GerEntered M&eoond C3aa» Mail Matter on Janoaxy M. 191 VOL. XYI—No. IS OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1939 many. She hadn't seen them tor POBtoffloe. ot Omaha. Nebraefca. under the Act of March" . ten years. Her sister had written to her about them. Her sister was very sad to see the horrid fate in which they had fallen. They were all of one family — sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts— about twenty in all. It was a small town and these Jews had lived there longer than tae oldest inhabitant could remember. They seemed as deeprooted a s the town's ancient church. Yes, Baid the Aryan lady, I al• ways had a great respect for Jews on account.ot these Jews in our - town. We never raw any difference between them and us, ex- cept that they didn't go to**our church; that was scarcely any dil" lerence at all. We used to call at each other's All Doubtful Round-Table Three-Point Program Adhomes In happiness and in sorvanced for Basis of JewConference to Be xow. There was sadness all over ish Emigration Success town when their grandfather died. He was a fine old gentleman who the children all loved. Our town MEETING SEPARATELY REQUIRES FINANCING isn't big; every child knew him. So it was in our town in the Zionists Will Refuse to AcRefugee Bureau to Meet good times before the children cept Change in on Sunday to Discuss Members of the Beth El Auxilwere taught to hate Jews. There iary are sponsoring the organizaMandate Program were some people in town .who tions annual dance this Sunday hated other people but that was evening, February 12, in the ballBy VICTOR >I. BIEISSTOCK London (JTA) — Pessimism for special reasons. Nearly every: Dr. .Solomon Goldman, president of the Zionist Orgiifc&JN; Chief of J. T. A. Foreign Service room ot the Hotel Paxton. body hated old Fritz (he wasn't a was prevalent and an impasse in tion -of America, will be principal speaker at the annual tn^i* Music for the dancing will be London (JTA) — A threeJew) because he was such a mis- negotiations was predicted by ing o f the Jewish Federation, J\"onday night, February X§, »* furnished by Freddie Ebener and point memorandum defining the er and a hard creditor to people both Arab and Jewish leaders as German position on the Jewish bJa orchestra.' For those not irt»h- 8 o'clock at the Jewish Community Center. Who owed him money. But it was the parallel conferences opened emigration question and establish- ing to dance there will be a room impossible to hate people just be- Tuesday under the aegis of the Before succeeding1 Rabbi Stephen Wise ns Zionist ing a basis for an orderly exodus for cards. "dent. Goldman was r»bHt cause of the blood in their veins. British government. d t Dr. r Gld Two dance contests are on the of German Jewry over a stipulatI the Congregation Anshe EHM?"^ "•& Sidor Belarsky Leah Deganith I remember our preacher, the The Jewish delegation heard evening's program, oae a contest ed period of years has been j Chicago. Kis congregation Svr Pfarrer Schneider, a Lutheran, Dr. Chaim Welzmann, president jr : cently gpve him. a leave « ! •*J>SIdor Belarsky, distinguished 1924 as a member of a Zionist brought from Berlin by Director for jitterbugs and the other a used to say that people were all of the Jewish Agency, at a closed Waltz contest. Prizes will be sence BO he can devote all 1»is **• of one blood and of one soui preliminary meeting, declare that basso, and Leah Deganith, star of pioneering group. This is her first George Rublee of the Intergovern- awarded in each group. mental Refugee Committee' and ————— ergies to the Zionist movwnftni. which was the soul of God, He al- the government's policy was not the "Ohel" theater of Jerusalem, visit to the United States. Mrs. Moe Linsman, chairman, ' Mexico City (WNS) — AlarmBelarsky was for many years a was communicated to members of BesicleR liis "ionist work, J»* it wayB preached brotherhood. This known and that the Jews would will appear in a joint recital on and Mrs. Robert Kooper, co-chair- ed over increasing anti-Semitism a member of t h e Hillel Fouiut*. Jewish family gave donations to insist on unrestricted immigration Wednesday, February 15, at the member of the Leningrad State the committee. ; : Jewish Community Center under Opera Company. He carae to this The memorandum, which drops man, entertained the dance com- 1B Mexico, Jewish ri-cleF exp-esF- ' t*or Cn-rr~ ,~~ rm, t h e our church, and often they had my to Palestine. the auspices of the Jewish Na- country in 1930 on the invitation the export guarantee and the in- mittee of the Auxiliary at a des- ed anxety over t b e TIPV F LiiPt C-fv- , f,\p r io- 7. .i'F. Couu"'!, father and my mother at .their He emphasized that the partici- ional Worker's Alliance, Branch of Dr. F. S. Harris, President of ternational loan provisions of the sert-luncheon last Monday. eral Nicholas Kec-nsv^ fniiKi"- fpr T o'-f" n \ ^TPPP Ol t\lSi Pasover - dinner. Once they had pants were pledged to secrecy 54. 1 Tickets for the affair are 11.23 and commander of ine 'go'c-st r <.- , r-1 " , ? . ' . . Brigham Young University, Prooriginal Schacht plan, would if Seminary, the Pfarrer Schneider at theit during the entire negotiations. per couple and may be purchased vo, Utah. Dr. Harris had been so put into effect, go far to elimined Fascist anti-Semite OT-frpr.-s,-i "i.-i- <>" Since 1925 Miss Deganith has r reputation table for Passover. Jewish leaders were doubtful that 1 5 from members of the Beth £1 impressed "by • Belarsky's singing ate "panic emigration" .from the tion, Accion Heioluc>one-iP TVi " .- v o-', r ,~r • A Kabbi the conferences would bring long- been the star of Palestine's famhe offered hira a professor- Reich and permit an orderly, sys- Auxiliary. icanista, h a d retu-ned ic r.Texicc £ n,.: • " - " ,T ev in the Our town was slow in taking sought Arab-Jewish amity, point- ous labor theater group. Her per- that ship at the University. tematic emigration and resettlefrom exile. IP-=.- • "~,** -olden Chait' up anti-Semitism. The people ing out that the Arab delegation formances have, because of the Since then he has appeared ment program. The plan covers The L a z a - r Cs^ceii&F EO^PTT- "C .-> n couldn't believe there was any- had refused at the outset to sit recent disturbances in Palestine, given under trying circum- with the leading American opera the following points: ment, meanwhile, look TWPFV-PF ' *, ,-.; thing true in what Hitler said with the Jewish representatives. been alestine Conditions stances. The "Ohel" troupe trav- companies and has been soloist to prevent fu-?be- TTUabout Jews. These Jews in our Arab leaders continued to insist els here in sh*> from colony to colony,, the with several symphony orchestras. demonstratioTiE I T f c - b (1) It establishes the. condilecture *•'** town were so fine. When in Ber- on annulment of the Palestine male members acting as guards. Harry Crounse is chairman of open-air meetirge ETC tions of emigration, providing for lin the stores of Jews were picket- mandate and Balfour Declaration Miss Deganith is a native of the locaL committee arranging the a fixed number annually, which tions for which ve~r-_\r ed by storm troopers in the earlj and the reduction of the Pales- Russia and came to Palestine in concert. l that issued. Tor*- r r * ' - r c r r i ir is less than the 100,000 figure endays of Hitler nothing like tha' tine Jews to the status of a miarrested tl^-r .!*• ,'BTX visaged by the Evian body. All nority within an Arab Btate and was seen in our town. riots, v e-e re'ppse-r" r^c s Jewish emigration would be unsuspension of Jewish immigraThe Jewish family had a hard tion. der the direction of a Reich cen•ware store and our people kep tral Jewish emigration office unNegotiators on "buying from them as if nothing der the direct control of Field "Friends of we-e Marshal Hermann Goering, thus had happened. The preacher still The British. negotiators e r e to Launch . cr1i~i taking the question out of the said that humanity was all of one headed hy Colonial Secretary Malin Nation hands 'cf Karl district leaders, loblood and of one soul. Our town colm MacDonald and Foreign "Un^Reservations are betas received cal authorities and police. was like a place apart from Nazi dersecretary Richard A. Butler, York tJTA) — T c at the Beth El synagogue office, It is stressed that the memorGermany until the gauleiter had who will attend all sessions, while JA. 7987, for the dinner ; to* be_ -B.ndum. entails ~o 'enairge-iii -tas of the Friends o£ T—"*Chamberlain and .Foreign Secreheard about it. • _• r "given"Sunday evening, "February Nazi anti-Jewish policy, since the organization vhiefc. T 1' The gauleiter is the Nazi Iead- tary 'Bora HamaiT-wlH"bS avail26, at the Blackstone hotel for Nazis are determined that all nation-wide c&mpE.5;r~ * r able for consultation and for par.~.er of. the district who must see to Daughter of Lord Melcnett Dr. Louis Finkelstein, provost of Jews must leave within the stip- the American people z.z t ticipation in the discussions when ~ it that everybody in the distric the Jewish Theological Seminary ulated time; the difference is that democracy, •*$**££ aniiciir^^J Apprehensive of Efforts will be made to is a good Nazi. He came to our desired. of America. keep the parallel discussions with henceforth control of emigration Rev. L. M. Birkheafi. r r t , v" Round-Tables town and made a speech. He said Arabs and Jews abreast of each Dr. Finkelstein, who was a will,be in the hands of a central, rector. The organiss.1 cr ^^^ rr1 the town hadn't done its duty other in examination of the probtional headquarters :n "vC* '": New York (JTA)—The March- teacher of Rabbi David A. Gold- responsible authority. •gainst the Jews. He dismissed lem. The Jewish delegation deCity ami an easterr r:-.rrr.'. c r stein of Omaha, is one of the .(2) The memorandum estab- fice in New York, v-.tb Zir. TI -I.; our buergermeister and put in a clined to be lodged in hotels at ioness of Reading, chairman of foremost Jewish scholars and ora- lishes the conditions under which new man to be the iuehrer of th< the government's expense, which the Palestine Foundation Fund in tors in America. A. Swartz as regiorci j",~?c,t^r. Jews who are unable to emigrate Great Britain and prominent in town. Pfarrer Schneider was dis- the Arabs are doing. It is planned to cr*^; r*.- ' . r T ' The dinner at the Blackstons and others who must await their Jewish welfare work, here for her charged from his pulpit. The old another regional r T - r -"- — will be Kosher. Mr. Arthur Cohen turn may live in the Reich. It is first visit to the United States, The Jewish Agency negotiating teachers who didn't know how to Francisco or L-os ^r-«-"?r. T1"1 and Mrs. J. Blank are chairmen understood that this point consaid this week that British Jewry 1 committee is headed by Dr. Weiz'.teach the true Nazi faith were anncanceraent contained e. tt-e-" tains assurances against establishdisplaced by young Nazis from mann and includes David Ben was "rather apprehensive" about in charge of this affair. ment of a ghetto and similar meathe outcome of the forthcoming Gurion. Moshe Snertok, Prof. other towns. ^ "'development cl der:cc:r.t c c ' sures. Selig Brodetsky, and Dr. Nahum London Conferences on Palestine. The oldest of the teachers ling Goldmann. Additions will be made (3) Some ararngements are ilizatior.," €^relvp7D^-i r* " r—•Lady Reading Intends to comered in his class room when th from an advisory committee of bine a four — or five-week tour made for the transfer of property, pram for "intelligcrf irccT'"=new Nazi teacher came to take his 40. The advisory committee in- of the United States to study conbut the general question of Jew- tions in oar GemocrEcy" s.~C ""OF-place. He.had been there so long cludes three Americans — Mrs. ditions with speaking engageish capital transfer is left open. tering the ideals, espresssd _~ ." E and.it was like leaving home, you Rose Jacobs, Dr. Stephen S. Wise ments for the XTnited Palestine Arrangements covered in the Constitution," a. r"-iCE ~" : : memorandum do not go so far as pamphlets has been p-crr-ef r r ' might say,, and he stood awhile and Robert Szold. Appeal. She will Visit Chicago, to provide emigres with sufficient the attack oa fiemocrrcy. v:~ riby the door. Then the new teacher Other members are: Britain— Cleveland and Boston, among othfunds for emigration nad resettle- will be distribute;! t h - c u - ^ r i ' ' gave.him a'blow and kicked him Lord Bearsted, Lord Reading, Ne- er cities. the country. ment. .into the street. . . . • ' • ville Laski, James de Rothschild, She stressed, In an interview, r c1 c ^ - r r • • r -> It is also planned t ; tsf ;]r*'. Still most of our people couldn't Lionel Cohen, Sir Osmond d'Avig- that Palestine was "the heart of To Discuss Plan Detroit (JTA)—Father Charles press, radio an-d isrt.or r ctr-p.- hate the Jews, even after all the dor Goldsmid, Chief Rabbi Joseph the solution of the refugee prob- E. Coughlin renewed his radio atCarrying out the program on ! o' the gauleiter had said against the H. Hertz, Prof. L. B. Namier, Dr. lem" and urged an international tack on Jewish "international the scale envisaged by the mem- "to expose the n-r*-- rc-er*,t:'" F1 dangers facingtcrnrc-tc;." Jews. They said.these Jews nev- Jacob Rosenheim, Harry Sacher, loan for settlement^of 200,000 bankers," concentrating in par- orandum will require very exten• r l A specis.1 iSBCr cT Z'C"rzr ertheless werestill the same kind- Leonard Stein and the Rev. J. K. refugees in the Holy Land in ths ticular on Secretary of Treasury sive financing, considerably in 1 devoted to c r ~ r c - c " - c r : ly, decent people they had always Goldbloom; F r a n c e —• Dr. B near future. Regarding the polit- Henry Morgenthan, Jr. He charg- excess of present funds available Grapric aa.3 religicr^ r— -j T — . known. But there were others in Weill-Hall; Germany—Chiet Rab- ical question, Lady Reading said: ed Horgenthau with haviing set to private organizations ad vol- racial published, tiacier the i , ; , "Cr" our. town! They saw what /bene- bi Leo Baeck; Belgium — Prof. "'British Jewry liopes a solution up a "financial dictatorship" untary contributions such as the ivz America: The C!-t'"crre * :rr: T fits came to people who were good Herbert • Speyer; Eastern Europe will come out of the conferences, through the $2,000,000,000 stab- Baldwin Refugee fund. Officials Democracy Beaches: O1 E~ 1~'~~F " !•. B o * Uazis: One had.become the fueh- —Sholem Asch; South Africa—J. but Is doubtful and rather appre- ilization fund regarding which, of the Intergovernmental Refu- The IE 2-page nu.ir.bf- c~—-"rrer of the town in place of the .Janower.. All members ~" of the hensive. Still, we are beinding all the priest said, he did not have gee Bureau are of the opinion that articies by noted •<• r. crs. ~z~buergermeister; good party mem- Jewish Agency executive are auto efforts. We have a good team for to report to anyone but President a large international loan will be toons and photograrhs r e E T - . required to raise funds for the bers had become the teachers in matically members of the advi- the negotiations. All have great Roosevelt. y ill be the conseciiecces ™1 f " r ? \ i ' ~ the school; a faithful party man sory committee. A number o: faith in the leadership of Dr. Father Coughlin declared that resettlment of the refugees. This abroad, rsincritieE, c " - s : ; t , ; ; -• > - other names were to be added. Chaim Weizmana." • was the new preacher. Morgenthan, 'during his recent loan, of co-arse, would be entire- refugee situation, Je: ^ 11 ; c American Zionist representaLady Reading was pessimistic visit to Paris, had conferred with ly different from that proposed by mocracy at home rr£ K fi->' _ -A ET"! Yes, to hate Jews seemed, prof- tives I5r. Schacht, since it would have stated that the Jewish deleitable and some of our people" gation would walk out of the par- about various efforts to alleviate ex-Premier Leon Bluxd, American no connection whatever with the Eium oa "TThat TCe Crr r»r o- t ' i il] refugee problem. The George Ambassador William Bullitt — Challezge Reachirg. O^e- Z~r~z. took up hating Jews with a great leys if a proposal-was voiced for the Reich. talks in Berlin "are a step whom Coughlin • termed "a half fury, though they never did find modification of the mandate. Dr. Rnblee | Raymond Grain S v . r s is z?sz.the right direction," she said, Jew" — and Soviet Foreign ComRublee reported to Lord Tv'inany fault with Jews before. They WiBe told the J. T. A. that the in flic "but I have great distrust of any- missar Maxim Litvinoff "and there terton, chairman of the cor mit- j! editor of the issue. stood in front of the Jewish hard- chief task of the American-dele- thing that comes out of Ger- had emerged a secret agreement Scientists KT' '"?-•" tee. The plan, will then be fiis-| ware store-and ordered customers gation was to inform the British many." Scientists can no r r t r - -eT-r with France. cussed at a meeting oT the Cora- ifrom political activ ' : . 1 •_' r ; : away. They carried signs . . . government fully on the state o: Lady Reading; is the daughter The priest linked.his charge of mittees . directorate on Februi "Jews are • our misfortune" . . . American public opinion regard- of the late Lord Melchett and her enlist with other -£-o :-f ^ i"~ the "secret conference" to the zry 12, and at a plenary session i That's what the signs - said. -. snfi ing Palestine. Dr. Wise "Sras to b< husband is the son of the late newspaper reports quoting Bttllitt of the committee the following j lective action to sr'cr^r—' i-~r - We never had such a thing in named a member of the negotiat- Marquess of Reading, one-time as stating in a speech in Bordeaux day. H'jbiee may return to Berlig dom of teaching ard ; t i l ; • ~r.. Albert Einste.r rr ; ,r — our town before.; there had al- ing committee. (ire: Viceroy of India. She came by her that France and the United States afterward to inform the Reich cr| 1i Prof. ply to a qcestionsai-c F~rt i. —v * ways been peace in our town." interest in Palestine from her fa- sood together in peace and war. the extent to which the commit- the Lincoln's Eirtr^ The children were learning fast ther, and almost every year visits (Bullitt has denied mating this tee members are welling to coop- tee for Democracy 11 li ' ' ~ from the new. teachers. They had ,the Holy Land to spend the spring statement.) Father Coughlin also erate in the program. Meanwhile, ual Freedom. never thought of the Jews being at her villa on the Galilee. "I'm referred to the Montefiores, the it is understood that the bureau's The questions, EU any different from other- people; on the best terms with the Arabs," Samuels, the Rothschilds and the negotiations "with the Dominican they did not know even to call she said. "We live at peace in our Sassoons as "international bank- Republic on settlement of mans- Prof. Einstein, ?ec-f 1 Dr. Israel Knox, National Di terior them Jews. They were just peo- rector of the youth, section of the Villa, with our. beautiful garden ers" who were manipulating vast refugees are progressing rapidly, j £ 5 ^ rK&rold ^ L. Ic ^ -B_ Workmen's Circle, will be gues and orange grove. The villa was resources. ff ot the American Arr,-^ Now they were throwing stones speaker at the rally of youth on buijt by my father and was left to the Advancement cC ; . at the children of the Jewish fam- Wednesday, February 15, at 8 p me." Miami.(JTA) — In contrast to •*"^fessor Clyde " . . ily and calling them names. The m. at the Labor Lyceum, 22nd Fatter Coughlin's charge that teachers saw to that. They would and Clark streets. I Teacbers Cc'Iesrc, ?-r — Secretary of Treasury Henry Morcall a Jewish child to the front genthau Jr. vrs.s aiding the French The National organisation o The Workman's Circle Dra- r e l ed of the schbl room and point him the Workmen's Circle added a 5oir Government, Matthew Woll, pres- matic group is holding rehearsals related out to all the other children . . . youth division eight years ago oPCn ident of America's Wage-Earners' for the five-act, operetta, "Shuiaon opinions on the bes-..'v "This Is a Jew. Look at him!" Dr. Knox's object is to organize a Heralded as one of the high- Protective Conference, asserted mith," by A. Goldfaden, which is bat racial acd reii" . At first most of our people paid youth branch in Omaha. here that the Treasury Departlights of the Jewish Community to be presented on Sunday eve-1 nation. no attention to the Nazi whj Young folks IS years or over ment had •'deliberately set sside" at S p. m. at the i stood in front of the Jewish store are eligible for membership. In Center Forum thi3 year. Dvora the Anti-Dumping Act of 1921 Eicg, Karcb. 121 ? j Dean Tirgii-ia C. to warn everybody away. These formation on the organization Lapson will appear on Tuesday, and Tariff Act of 1900 and vras Central club. 28. Miss Lapson will Tickets are 50 cents and 75 ' cf Bsrrard CoHe--^ storm troopers ware the ne'er- may be received b y calling GL February apparently "acting for the benefit Present a brilliant program. cents, tar included, and may be do-wells of our town and whs 5056. Through the medium of the dance of Hitler and ether totalitarian obtained from members ci the should decent people pay any atviolent; ucucs Urin she interprets every phase of Jew- states and contrary to President cl-ub or from the ticket chairman, ![ sweeping or»r t i s tention to them? Roosevelt's foreign policies." ish life. • MIZRACHI SECRETARY A, Coltoff, YKE 4106. ' -•-•"• ' v ° „ . - . , . .i , 1 But bullies can frighten even Forum tickets will ad1 TO VISIT' IN OMAHA mitSeason brave people with threats against B'NAI B'RITH HEARS to the recital. Cs.tholia E t c x e s t s c - - . - - - - z.--— , Fiaas Aid ! their liberty, and their lives. And Rabbi Kirshenblum, national TALK. BY JOHN CHAPEL Helsingfors, Finland (TTKS)— collegss £,t E. cor^ir^.1.11 ,~irr. "^ - ^ BO it was. From time to time re- secretary of the MizracM Organi• John K. Chapel, member of the A nation-wide collection cf fnsds fast. Ueaa Gilders-C. ^ c>- <.* -~ % ». GETS .MUSIC POST ports came of what was happen- zation of America 1B making a announcing staff of WOW, spoke for the support of destitute refu- altfeoizch Elie hm ' ' ing in the big cities to people who tour of tho middlewest and will before the local lodge or the B'aai gees from CentrEl Europe, prin- xaarkatle vxAtj" "r * ~ ?-,— ••— : Cincinnati (JTA) •— Dr. Erica too friendly with Jews and visit Omaha on February 20. "Werner, an emigre from Ger- B'rith at a meeting held Monday cipally Jews from Germany who dealt with them. Dachau! That During his stay he will be th many, has just taken Tip his duties I night. A short business have sought refuge in Finland, lion hatre-fi and c~ r.r- ^r C" - z\ ,was the most terrible of the con- guest of the local Mizraehi oras professor of Jewish Music at preceded Mr. Chapel's talk. has been started by a large num- many shocked us t\\," t i e hrC Cr s centration camps. .. ganization. Further details cl The next meeting of the locLre ber of Finnish citizens. The na- beguE to leel recertlr thEt "re-- ir,- c: i ; So "the old hardware business this visit will be announced dur- Hebrew Union College, The post was vacant since,, the retireraent j Trill be held'oa "Monday evening, tion has been urged to contribute'! haps tae xxmtj VBF nc»t B? con-, cr (Continued on page'8.) ing the forthcoming week. ,, Idelsohn tttfli. of the late Dr Zsvi 20 to the Svua iplete." iplete" 'Ir February 20. to Sv.ua, of the late Dr. Zsvi Idelsohn.

n to Speak Monday

ARTISTS IN JOINT RECITAL RUBLEE, NAZIS .JEWS END REFUGEE S1ISTIC CUSSIONS ATPARLEYS

To Address Annual Federation Meetini Beth H Auxiliary DanceWmBeHeld on Sunday Evening

Past Year's Work of Local Organization Also to Be Reviewed ipulation ' in Mexico Alarma

Reservations for JBeth El Dinner ; Being 'Received

FIGHT AGAINST INTOLERANCE RISING IN If

SHUN ATTACKS AN

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To -Address YoutK Group Wednesday

Dvora Lapson to Appear on Forum

Operetta Will Be Presented March 12!-:

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