IT'S THE HEAT Dear Mr. Editor: At this -writing the -weather is insufferably hot. Two fans, one in front and the other behind, fail to do anything for me save tlnteieti as Sjecund C'latui Slal' aiatter on January 31. 1331. at OMAHA, XEBHASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1939 Postotflre. ut "maha. Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1S79 to stir up the muggy air and thus afflict me -evci the more. A piece of paper, fallen out of a window rap across the s t r e e t, descends through the motionless air and lies -without any fluttering: on the sidewalk. i i i < Windhoek,- Union of So. Africa : \ Bob Fromfcin, son of Mr, and i . Oh, I say, it's hard enough to (JTA)"— General Marie Maritz, : Mrs. Mas Fromkin, won the Boy's T r suffer this day without "being organizer of a South African Fas- • City Tennis championship on SunJewish as well. Yet I must sit at cist group, was found g-uilty by a day, and was presented with a this typewriter and by the sweat court here of promoting hostility | gold trophy. He had won a gold of my brow grind out some lambetween races through sale and i medal earlier in the summer as distribution of his book, "My Life i entation or other for the heart zone champion and was later Work Even on Sabbath to awarded a silver trophy in the Report Breakdown -ad Struggle," which violently at- ; of- Israel. ""-- the Jfcv,-s. Omaha World-Herald tournament. The popular authors of Israel Prepare Warsaw ° Agency fcr"S--cv, Negotiations Ftla? — > ! fined 75 pounds with ! are those who know best how to for Crisis to Pogrom-. For three years he has won "5'-e of nine months' ;' rend Israel's heart but I have not tennis honors at Camp Indianola "idge Hoexter de- j even a tear for him today. I am and has also received awards in ZIONISTS S7rvA:\TE boot was an ex-; not feeling Jewish in the least; FOOD STORES OPENED basketball and track. He is an FOREIGN JEWS LEA\ - v.^ "•"jjj", venomous, con; I feel hot. honor student at Central High. At Same Time Rumor Hitil propaganda." ; Americans SccL So I have resolved to write no Jewish Groups Organize for Defense of ler May Declare column today. It's no day for rcblc n p work. I shall just sit here surCountry to Cct Eh'r Amnesty V rounded by these" envelopes of hot *.* &..* iu air which make me impervious to Paris I'JTA" 1 —""Warsaw (JTA) — The Jewish Jaris <JTA) — A newspaperthe pain of being Jewish; since population was actively participatFT; p ryr.Tnent has r r r r • man just returned from Berlin this heat is pain enough. ing in special defense measures said this week'that the-Jews of ". Indeed, I begin to find the heat throughout the country.- Old and IE t;cr. of a new Jrv Germany were in an extremely somewhat comforting as I give young Jews, many of them wearticularly to z.r"—\ dangerous position at this ZSDmyself entire to it and come even ing traditional garb, are digging Workmen's Circle Plans ment, perhaps more dangerous To Take^ Enrollment fcr the event of i ato a solution of the Jewish prob- air raid precaution trenches, of here. Palest - z.r1-% than at any previous tine since for Conference This 'Coming Semester lem. Yes, if it were always hot which Warsaw alone has 250 covwould play tr"~ < the Nazi regime.' He quoted esWeek-End like- this, people wouldn't have ering several kilometers. Many tremely qualified foreigners in at Park such a Dree anything else to get mad-at. The orthodox Jews are working even from other \zv - r : r i F heat itself would be enough and on the Sabbath, holding that the Nebraska and Iowa branches of _ Pupils cf the City Talmud considered. Amnesty HumoreS they wouldn't look for other danger of war and the duty of the Workmen's Circle, Jewish fraT i e discus* "•"=• v - - e *• Torah and the History and ..Re•Berlin (Havas) — German, ligion department have been in- by the Erics'- t:^ :-r~ r-- v r c^ things to aggravate themselves defending their country absolves ternal- organization, will m e e t foreign and "stateless" Jews vited to the annual picnic which offered center r~r— "i them from observing the Sabbath September 3 and 4 in Omaha for jrith. ' . I as well as all foreigners livissr rest. the eleventh annual Conference of i is to be held on Wednesday. Sep- cluamg lmc.'v c ? •FJ' 1 "-" O At Equator Tfo Anti-Semites i in Germany, are being included v the Mid-West District.* This will tember 6, at Fontenelle park. interned Jev !~ * «^-i ^-~ _ Numerous Jewish food stores "Who, for example, can be in a in distribution of rationing be the Jubilee marking ten The children, will meet at the grants in T?z'-~- - ' "* vr« ' " mood for anti-Semitism on a day were open to enable the popula- also cards to the entire civilian of existence of the Mid-West Jewish Community Center at 10 these talks t t r f •"->-' f- f--- --, i <I like this?.Rev. Coughlin, were he tion to lay in emergency rations. years population. District Committee. a. m. and transportation will be head of the ,'e^ - t / c«--c = ~" •enduring this heat, would have Several shopekeepers, both Jews 1 provided to the park. They will litical Depart- "" ' '~ *c I "• only the weather on his mind. and non-Jews, have been commit- ' Sessions of the two-day conference will be held at the Elks Club. also be returned to the Center a t don after COT"1'. — r " ' > ' r ~ " v "London (JTA1 — Only in _ cool, equable-weather ted to the government concentra- A banquet for delegates and ist Congress - t ~-<-"-s i<= - s . -" News, organ of the co-operative 4 p . m. could a man think up such a tion, camp at Kartuz-Bcreza for will be held Sunday even- movement, predicted t h a J Luncheon will be served a t t h e returning to ?r ^ monstrosity as "Garfinkelstein" profiteering. All Jewish organi- guests ing at 6:30 at the Elks Club. Chancellor Hitler's next sur- j picnic by. j.h.e Deborah society. More than - - c ( ." r T- - ^< •whichp according to Rev. Cough- zations, including the Writers' and Toastmaster for the evening will estine already ' r ' fn i ?i !^^—" • ' Journalists' association, have inprise will be to declare amnesty i Prizes will be awarded for gaiaes lin in a radio address in the coolbe Max Selicow. for the persecuted Jews in or- j and the awards for perfect at- to carry arms C^ ? - " o" < : ."FTness of last Spring, is the real structed their members to take Installation of the Englishin the trench digging. Speder to impress foreign Jevrs, ' tendance the past semester dis- isb Legion u" r- . - sp")-^-^-' -i name of former v premier Blum of part Speaking branch, 690-E, newly or- particularly American. T h e | tributed. T r of the Jewisl ' - r - r " v r i . "^ T < r cial contingents of diggers have ., France.: lease British -•o^-- t o - «— -f ^~ been- formed "by refugees f r o m ganized in Omaha, will be the feanewspaper pointed out that in. The enrollment for the new se- other fronts. -~—r ti—- v f i No, Rev. Coughlin would say, Germany. ture of the evening. Many dele- the last .fortnight all Jewish. 1 1 on a day like this, it's far too hot gates and guests from surrounddoctors in Germany have been mester will be t a k e s at the park. Jews recrui"e_ "* .. Tr " - " " ic r Press Appeals New classes win begin on Thurs- United State- 0. -, s ?r to bother thinking up a new and ing cities are expected. called to war service and nacy •" L - r ^ The entire Jewish press appeals horrible name' for M.- Blum. I'll A thirty-page Journal, edited by rope, served - -s- ~*r -• other Jews have been given day," September 7, at 9 a. in. to the Jews to make the greatest S. Lerner, is being published in i A drive for new pupils will also just let him stay Blum. ish Legion ^ - - r t j - i i - M , fi - - v - -r-v well-paid posts. start, on Sunday. September S. As, throuch these feat waves, possible sacrifices to defend t h e conjunction with the conference. £S part of K - - v - ' i'lrr 1 -- <= ' o - -r c, rn-~i - country against Nazi aggression. i Mrs. Hytaa.!! Noddle is cfcairI scan the civilized world I beThe bulletin, predominantly in ces in tbe N-f- V. ^^ f- T F o .^ \ . u \ '.come aware that only at the The Jewish Parliamentary club Yiddish, features the Tenth An- Berlin whose names could cot, for | man of the picnic. Co-chairmen the legioiiTiE —>: % " ' r-s ^ r~ adopted a resolution worded as iare Mrs. Dave C r o u n s e ' a n d Mrs. for valor. T r - .*-v - i - t - -"•= r - . -- ^r M equator (the hottest spot) is follows: "In the present decisive niversary of the District organiza- obvious reasons, be divulged. Berlin, he reported- was in the | Michael C o i n . The committee garrisoned PE "' -= i "r-/". ^ ~ r-VtL-< there no anti-Semitism. Only at hour when,, in a manner rousing tion and describes the activities grip of an almost hysterically fev- j assisting includes: Mrs. Morris To Aid A T C " .c-i ZI->- ' ' -^ r n r ,the equator are there no Goeb- the admiration of t h e whole of the District. bels. no Coughlins, no Moseleys. world, the Polish State is preparThe local Arrangements Com- erish w a r atmosphere. I t was an Burstein, Mrs. Judah Wolfson, An Americri-i •" v ^ > br. , - c -~c no Pelleys, no Kuhns. This mu?t ing to resist plans threatening its mittee is under the chairmanship ugly atmosphere, full of plain evi- Mrs. Charles Ross, Mrs. A. Sch- provided to eT ' ' \-r-<— - - r ^ t - -- * -be more than accidental. At the integrity, independence and sov- of Julius Schneider, 717 So. 21st dence of bitterness and disappoint- waczkin. Mrs. A. Katz, Mrs. J. delegates to r'- v - . - - Z^^i=> . „ , , , - _ „ T equator men have enough to do ereignty against barbarism, god- Street. Members of the Committee ment which might a t any time ! Finkel, Mrs. Is. G. Cohen and Mrs. Congress at C-r-fa " ~ ' " " * " " - ,^ i : - i , to keep themselves alives in the lessness and breach of faith, the are: N. Martin, I. Shafer, S. Tarn- t a k e .the form of brutality against Eva Konecky. vig-ation faile^ J ° I r f. ? ~ "~ ; «.,-rv intense heat; so they are willing entire Jewish population of Po- off, Ben Gorelick, and Sam Kap- the Jews, b u t a breakdown :n i t ? Embassy as-- 1 " i. r ? ' -,„ _,„ „ ^. negotiations to find a w r y c u t d to let other people live as they land declares that it is prepared lan of Branch 25S; Sam RuderGoldman, pr-- i —t " t1-- r - ^ - „ „ - r ^ ^l t h e crisis may bring pc^ro~.s of 1 may. . \ i to make any sacrifice for strength- man, Sam Sussman, Sam Stein, unprecedented' severity ;:t:d 7"-ttie Embas»y'<= £ ^ " r ,----—•• ^ _ Moreover, J ew s themselves ening of the country's internal and H. Stein of Branch 173; Her- portion. If fee present criz'.- 'might -feel—inore.comfortalilfi-ln-a. unity and defense-forces... Thisr bert Wintrcub of Branch 690-E; • Hr-OlQnge&-.:for_anv length j;? t —-. cf the ICO-o-~~ *-T : " " , - . ' - -. •continuous heat like this. Even preparedness is not only an ex- Mrs.; s. Canar-of -the ^Auxiliary, the results may be the s a n e . S i t CIt CiUC., .'"'"" Branch 258; and Mrs. H. Stein, now, as I wrestle with the cur- pression of desire to perform nor- Auxiliary, Branch 173. bourg t o ser £ - •. •^ _ _ „ J^J i The journalist, who has just ! modations. T = g-c-.- ~ - ] ,. -,Tent heat, the Jewish problem is mal duties but is the result of the completed a tour of central EuReservations may be made by *-. -^ «v completely off my mind and I deepest civic conviction that the ropean countries, said t h a t non- | Washington fJTA) — A full l u - g s i ^ r L ^ e ^ i . find myself unable to write a fate of the Polish State, with calling Atlantic 4171. Mary on t V k - ' - u i i "^ " -, _ _ r Jews would not be spared if t h e j investigation of tbe income tax which we are indissolubly bound, column for the Jewish press. _r tension reached the b r e a k ing i and finances of William Dudley to attempt t - u n - , 1 - -^ f ' • There are, doubtless, many is at stake. Patriotism is not only since other sz. TZ~ cf Tn "- , t „ LL . [ T " , point. H e declared that this was Pelley will be undertaken by the --.„, , ' TJewish matters I ought to be at- a duty but the equal Tight of the considered opinion <5f observ- Bureau of Internal R e v e n u e . ers have bee" r e - o c-^ Arnong the--' - '^ - " 'T ' ^ - - ,v t tending to . . . this and that . . . equal citizens." ers of several nationalities who i Chairman Kartin Dies of the ~ ^ '_ There's so much in Jewish life to The Bund, Jewish Socialist parhave lived long enough in Nazi j House Committee I n v e s t i g a t i n g sides Dr. Go ^ r r - u -\ - r . L c= T sr _ ' ' • _Vc ' ^r' bother a man. But in the heat of ty, issued a proclamation declarGermany to be able to get the I Un-American Activities, revealed. Harry I.I. F i ' - r this morning I met another Jew ing that the Jewish masses were feel of Nazi psychology. At the s a n e time it was learned del Fischer. >r* lc~i T " - -l s v °.T' " J ilargulies, ICf\ "V - 1 "l- - " c " ' ' f ^ '", -and all I could greet him with prepared to make the supreme The newspaperman said an im- that the Federal Bureau of Inves- Gold and ?»Iir=; > - ' i t - - - 1 " " r - " v*•was, "Is it hot enough for you, sacrifice, together with the Polish Williamstown I n s titute portant foreign official voiced in tigation is probins; into Pelley's Rabbi Abb- ^: ' - s ^ - r -- - \ •_ - / ; " Joe?"~On cooler days I greet him, masses, for the liberty and indehis presence the following warn- activities as-an "unregistered for- land,' succeec = - =r -=. ••> ' *~ "^ , - i , Hears Suggestions "Have you read the latest atro- pendence of Poland. ! cign propagandist." ing: "Physical, force against foron a Dutch nr^r1 I -"" "v of Educators city, Jos?" or, "L2t me set you Because of the international siteign a s well as German a n d j The frenzied finance of the Silv- Goldstein, N e v "" — \ - - • " > " .- ~ ' e ^~~" , r ' right on Palestine," or, "Any bad uation, the refugee camp at the j 'stateless" Jews is an imminent I er Shrirt leader was exposed ber r F * CWilliamstown, Mass. ( J T A ) — poEsibility in the event of war. fore the Dies Committee. At the e d to h a v e r - ^ - - i " r " frontier station of Zzonszyn has news today?" ' S t a t e s l i n e r P—'~n-~" " • Stimulation of t h e spirit of racial been dissolved. The last 1,000 • My friend, replying to my Foreign Jews may be beaten, same time it was revealed by Dies t h a n k s to e i r greeting this morning, devoted refugees,' all of whom were de- religious and social understanding jailed a n d cut off from all con- that all efforts to bring Pelley be- P o s t m a s t e r G ^" ~ • <.'" ."" ' c | fore the committee had failed and himself entirely to the weather, portees from the Reich, have been through actual experiences is t h e tacts with the outside world. Tr c ley, a p a s s e r " " " ~ though at all other times he is distributed throughout Poland. most effective way of Improving .' Jews of American. Dutch, Bel- | that be has recently "dis-appeaTrelations, Sister Mary de gian and Danish nationality, as ed" from his headquarters in ' full of the Jewish problem. He Seventy children among t h e m human In o r e e r -.«--' c LourSes of St. Joseph College, well as Frenchmen .and. English- Asheville, N. Carolina. ."We don't said this heat was entirely un- were sent to London under the West A m e r i c a n .Tev - t - ^ " "r " Hartford, Conn., told the -auspices of the Lord Baldwin know -where he is, although he men, were advised to leave Bercalled for and went on to report women's section of t h e Williams- lin without a moment's delay, the was last reported in Montana," tion p e r i r . i t i i " - -~ ' low he had suffered the night be- Refugee Fund. | town Institute of Human Rela- journalist disclosed.. One prom- (Dies said, "and he has refused to sible return t~ rfore . . . "My pillow was wringtions. inent Jewish official of Dutch na- j avail himself of every opportun- the Joint Di. ~ ing wet" . . . "I had to get up Jews Buy Warplanes for France establiElied. z ~r ?• President Mildred H. McAfee of tionality, an active leader in Jew- lity to appear'before u s . " •Paris (JTA) — A check for twice to talce a shower" . . . ''My (Ctrrt r : - — - FoIIcvr Trail purchase of additional war planes Wellesley College declared: " W e ish cultural life, was ordered to | Tvife didn't sleep a wink." can cultivate' a spirit of tolerance Then I said to him. "It.'was cer- was turned over to the French in very, young children by sur- return to Holland immediately 1 rtobsrt E. Barker, committee in(Continued on page S.) despite his close and constant astainly "fierce" . . . "I tossed all rounding them with t o l e r a n t sociation with t h e Nazi Ministry vestigEtor% said that be had folnight, first one way, then the adults and placing a premium of of Propaganda. ! lowed Pelley's erratic financial other" . .- . "How long do you social approval on their cultiva] trail from Mexico to Canada and The. writer said he i a d been think this is going to last." " S t " ( I tion of that attitude." from California to Washington. He said, '-"I'll tell you somei Dr. F . Ernest Johnson, secre- warned by a diplomat that "there He said that on'the day after Hitthing . .' . this heat takes everyt tary of the Department of Re- is not an hour to be lost. Foreign • ler became Chancellor of Gerthing yoU've got . . . my wife is search and Education of the Fed- Jews must get out at once. None jm&ny. Pelley founded his'Silver > ' something tike you put through a eral Council of Churches of Christ can tell what will happen or | Shirts. . , when. If t h e Germans get dis•wringer." . ' ' .:; ,-;. i The Beth El -Synagogue will be- in "America, addressing 900 perAt the opening1 of the hearing. Pains Driven Out . gin its year of late Friday evening sons a t a general meeting of the appointing news, there will be ! Dies Plans r.svr *i">" t remarked that the record Thus, my dear Editor, the heat services on September S at 8 institute, suggested that public ed- trouble and no foreign diplomat |-would show that Pelley intended the registrE* F r drives their special pains from the o'clock. The theme of the service ucation include among its aims will be in a position to help. If j his Silver Shirts to be a military Sabbath Sch">r ( " — f^~ minds of Jews and provides anti- will be preparation for the coming the equipment of boys and girls, war starts or t h e crisis gets worse, organisation, that be had been day morning c " I" Semites with something real to High Holy days. Rabbi David A. youths and adults, for participa- .the frontier will be closed to all able to penetrate into nearly all the Jewish C~" • " 7 "jews. Foreign as well as German get mad a . It's a solution of th*j Goldstein will speak on "The tion in the religious life of the This year • - ? . . * Jews will be in grave personal the states through powerful finanJewish problem. In short, it's all Challenge of the Days of Awe." community." | cial .support, and that he was an danger because of t h e raood of in the weather—a theory that is Cantor Aaron Edgar will conduct ren be ECCOIT " ~ Rabbi Leo J u n g pleaded for bet- government and people here. No I admirer of Hitler and Nazism. not unknown to a '.•onsidera&)e the service. ter understanding and cooperation distinctions will be made. ents at the i ~ ' -- -r- Used Xazi Propaganda group of medical mt a who have Kiddush will be chanted- by among t h e various faiths, b u t sugIn additior •_-(•- ; Barker told the committee that been seeking to""find in climate Lowell, the spn of Mr. and Mrs.. gested, that Jews examine t h e hisPelley's attacks upon the Jews announced Ir \ - - 1 *• ' ' the answer to mncli of the skull- Joseph Hertzberg. He/is -to be torical attitude toward non-Jews dated from the. rise of Hitler to liargolin an -•- ~ duggery and other ills of the hu- Bar Mitzvah at the Sabbath when they a r e . abused. He urged i power. "I'd like to point out," bare bees <•%."-man kindi . the Jews t o investigate Jewish r e morning service, September 9. j Dies interrupted, "that a, good Of course, since it is so hot toThe Beth El congregation has action to ill treatment suffered I many of the articles appearing UE- staff iras fcel r ' through history and assess t h e soday, I am utterly unable to think also extended an invitation to all London (JTA) —Yellow paint- j der Pelley's name in bis publica- Deficite plan- " - - ~ of any way by which equatorial those desiring to attend the Seli- cial attitude of the Jews in lands ed park benches in Berlin reserv- t i o n s were actually lifted in their new year. heat can be transferred to and es- coth service at midnight, Septem- of freedom and oppression. ed for Jews have been repainted entirety - from German propagantablished in the northern climes: ber 9. As previously announcedDr. H. Richard Niebuhr, profes- green and the lettering marking da coccrnents." to the end that people will be kept the Beth El synagogue will again sor of Christian ethics a t Yale Di- them for Jewish use has been reRepeatedly, testimony showed I J: ^f^ so busy denouncing the heat that conduct its High Holiday services vinity School warned against mak- moved, the Daily Mail reported, I that Pelley was United with other ing a religion of democracy. " T o - quoting advices reaching the j notorious anti-Semites, ischiciBK they will itt their neighbors alone. at the Central Club. t a l it a r ianism can take m a n y Hague. It seems not impossible to alter j George Deatherage. 1 of the Kxisnts The i-iist.o - z forms," he declared. "Whether the the tenipei-Ue zone to torrid in a Signs reading "Jews Not Desir- j of the White Camelia, and James psrtTner.t of absolute be t h a t of race or a type world which is rapidly accomplished" which marked certain shops i True. Torah will \ r ' of government or of a religion have : also been removed it was | • The co-amitf.cr was s t a r t l e d S'<icd£y, Eep - . - 1 ing the miracle of going back doesn't make much difference." * said. The Jewish Press Commit- j v» hen-Barker testified t i a t ten per ment will be • L. from civilization to the savage. tee of Amsterdam suggested' that i cent of all mail handled in AsheOf course, in the beginning such A r>e?r attl r "r these moves were made in order j ville. Jtf. C.,-rwas for the Pelley or- has been e r r " - : a enange of., climate would be to provide "Jewish cannon fod- j sanitation. He seeds cut..1.000,- tliis "^es-T. "Gems of- the Bible and t h e blamed on the Jews. The Jews, der" in the event of war. \ 000 pieces cf n a i l a year. He eonit would be said, control all the Talmud" which is written weekly } ducted correspondence with severheat through their conspiracy by Dr. Philip Sher for J E W I S H -with Jehovah. It would be pointed PRESS, appeared in t h e July issue • al members of Congress. Richard Gordon, Highland's out that it was a Jew, Joshua, of t h e "Jewish Tribune" publish- 1937 Golf championship, regained who persuaded Jehovah to make ed in Bombay, India. hia title in the finals of the anThe "Jewish T r i b u n e " is t h e nual Club tournament ield last •the sun stand still at Jericho. sole organ for the Jews of the F a r So there would be pogroms at Sunday at the Club course. The Closing Dinner Dance of first, but after it was seen that East. I t is published in English By defeating Richard Hiller, de- I the Highland Country Club will and is distributed throughout the destroying Jews made no differj fending champion, 5-4 in thirty- I be heJd this Saturday evening. I The Omaha .Hebr«"^ Club viH ence in the weather, anti-Semites Indian. state j . ' cix holes, Gordon won back his September 2. i bold its first meeting cf t t e seawould resign thnmsalves to baitlost crown. As a special feature, a beautiful json this S-uBcay. Septes.bsr Z-, at ing theiieas, as people everywhere Belgium.-Closes Borders M. G. Chapman beat Harry j.llah Jong set will be given as a are doing on this hot day. It willBrussels (JTA) — The Justice Trustin 6-5 for the second flight Indoor prize: Music for dancing, will | Center. be a blessed world in which peo- | Ministry-announced that no more crown. be furnished by one of Omaha's • As E autriber cf espsoial'y itni foreigners would be admitted inple hate only the weather. popular dance banes. I portsnt : t s n s are to be discussed, j to Belgium because of the interIn fact, on this hottest day I \ The legend of the "Wandering Reservations may be made by , ell members have bees urged to . ! national situation. find that even veteran. E.oosevslt'Jew" was first printed in 1602. phoning GL 9911 or We. 3673. i attend. : .' " (Continued on page S.)
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