May 24, 1940

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Entered-a» Second Clans Mail Matter on January SI. 1931, At Postottica, of Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March t, 1871

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 2 4 , 1940

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Rep, Dies Warns of JCC SYMPHONY Fifth Column in U. S. CONCERT TOI GIVEN SUNDAY Three Soloists to Appear Oh Program at Center Featuring a varied program and.several outstanding soloists, the Jewish Community Center Little Symphony Orchestra will make its concert debut on Sunday evening, May 26, at 8:15 in the Center auditorium under the direction of Al FinkeJ. Yoathful and adult musicians Comprise the personnel of this orchestra which was organized a little over a year ago by the ActiTitles department of the Center. Several interesting family groups

Washington (JTA)-—Rep. Martin Dies told a crowded House that Nazis and Communists have united In this country to form a "fifth column" dedicated to "the downfall of democracy. He charged that the German-American Bund was Hitler's official representatives in the United States, and said he could produce correspondence to prove it. "It Is not generally known," Dies said, "But I have information that the Communists united with Nazis In Holland in "Trojait Horse" tactics." Dies statements were received with thunderous applause.

Pittsburgh (JTA)—A rally of the League of Germany held at Moose Temple was broken tip by police after they had beeu Informed by officials of the temple that it had turned into a Nazi meeting. District Attorney Park confiscated literature left behind at the hall and said he would Investigate connections of t h e league with the New York Nail organization.

ALL FAITHS TO RED CROSS $ 10,000,000 Is B e i n g Sought to Help War Victims

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Marvin Hornstein are to be found among the players, and the orchestra boasts of several talented mothers and their children. Soloists on the program will be: (Continued on Page 5.)

TALMUD TORAH TO GIVE HEBREW PLAY "The Young Campers" or "Having a Wonderful Time," a two-act Hebrew play will be given Sunday, June 9, at 3 o'clock at the Jewish Community Center by pupils of the City Talmud Torah. Mr. Judah Wolfson Is directing the play. Members of the cast include; Arlene Dansky, Eunice Feldman, Eyelyn Byron, Jerry Greenberg, Yehudah Osheroff, Paul Gitlln, Erwin Witkin, Solly Baumer, Bernard Wolfson and Esther Baumer. The public is invited. .

UX).C. Brotherhood To Elect Officers / atTuesday Meeting

Washington JTA)—Leaders of all faiths rallied in support of the Rod Cross drive to raise 810,000,000 for war-ravaged Europe, with Babbl Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland taking the lead oh behalf of American Jews. Rabi Silver •— co-chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, declared in a message to Red Cross Chairman Norman H. Davis that "the tragedy which has overtaken the peoples of Europe knows no boundaries of race or religion." Catholic' Archbishop Curley of Baltimore and Episcopal Bishop Freeman of Washington emphasized that all religions must cooperate in support of the Red Cross, which ministers to all without respect to color, race, nationality or creed. Help To Belgians, Dutch The Red Cross acted to help Belgian and Dutch refugees pouring into France and England from their invaded countries. Many are believed to. be German emigres who were quartered in camps in the Low Countries. Chairman Norman H. Davis announced $100,000 had been cabled to Paris headquarters for this mission. Assistance will be given, Davis said, through the French and British Red Cross societies. Davis announced, in answer to numerous inquiries, that funds collected in the war relief drive will not be used in Germany, the German Red Cross having served notice that Germany would take care of her own needs. ' / Maurice Blsgyer, secretary of BJnai, pledged the full support of the organization - to the Red Cross" European relief drive. "The only consolation granted to us In these/troubled "times," he said, "is that survival of civilization is made possible in great measures by the humanitarian work of such organizations as the Red Cross:"

The final dinner meeting of the year will be held Tuesday, May 28, at 7 p. m. by the U. O. C. Brotherhoods The dinner will take place at the B'nal Israel synagogue. New officers are to bo elected at this time. Seek to Bring Noted An interesting program h a s been arranged for the evening. Refugee to India The dinner will be served under the direction of the Sisterhood. Bombay (JTA)-»-The vice-chanReservations can be made at cellor of Allahabad University has the office of the U. O. C, JA asked the Indian Gogernment for permission to bring to India the 0887. .noted Austrian scientist, Prof. Erwin Schredinger, one of the HEBREW SCHOOL world's foremost authorities on MEETS IN FREMONT "wave mechanics." ' Prof.Schredinger, who has been A Hebrew School Is meeting elected by the university's-execudaily in Fremont, Nebraska, under tive council to the chair of phythe direction of the community's sics,, is now living in Dublin. He shared the Nobel Prize in physics new rabbi, Rabbi Sol Oster. Sunday school agsslons are also in 1933 with Dr. Paul Dirac of Cambridge. being heU

PLANM SCHOOL Seen as Partial Answer to Discrimination Problem ^ New York (JTA) —A partial Answer to the problems of discrimination in medical schools may be provided by the planned establishment of a new medical college in New York City, to be supported " by prominent physicians and laymen, non-sectarian in character and with an eventual endowment of $25,000,000. The idea of such a college, which has bee discussed for many years, came to a head when a group of sponsors, headed by Dr. Simon L. Ruskln and Dr. Anthony Bassler, petitioned the charter committee of the New York State Board of Regents for a provisional charter. The stranding of many American students, unable to complete their medical studies in Scotland and other European! countries because of the war, is one of the immediate factors making establishment of such a college urgently necessary, according.... to Dr. Ruskin, who helped to work out the program together with Max D. Steuer, the attorney. To Be Named For Gorgas The college would be called the (Continued on Page 10.)

WOMEN'S DIVISION MET ON MONDAY

\ London (WNS)— Exhausted from continuous air bombings and Bhelljngs, the Jewish population of Amsterdam has fallen easy prey to a typhoid epidemic which has swept the Jewish quarter o£ that city, it was reported here. While Jewish doctors a n d nurses rallied to combat the dreaded epidemic, the Mayor of Amsterdam issued an appeal for food. It was learned here that the invading German army had confiscated most of the city's food supply, leaving Amsterdam with insufficient food to meet her normal needs. The epidemic in the Jewish quarter was attributed to the fact that Jews from all parts of the land rushed to Amsterdam aa soon as the Nazis started to march, hoping to secure safety in that city. The influx of Jews from the provinces, coupled with Inadequate food and water, resulted in the rapidly-spreading epidemic. The Mayor has requested the Jews to abandon the Jewish quar(Continued on Page 2.)

PUPILS OF TALMUD TORAM TO RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD Scholarship a w a r d s will be given by the History and Religion department of the City Talmud Torah at the closing exercises which are to bo held Sunday at the Center. Those to be honored are: Rer becca Finer, H e r t z e l Gendier, Doris Welnberg, I d a Rundell, Thelma Goldstein, Albert Feldmau, Arthur Rosenblatt, Manfred Siegler, G e r t r u d e Sherman, Eunice Feldman, Irvin Gendier, Pauline Noodell, Harvey Lipsman, Shirley Dolgoff, Ann Deuenberg and Evelyn Byron. Also Morris Abrahamson, Phyllis Kirshenbaum, Gertrude Kjaiman, Betty Robinson, Eva Rundell, Elaine Meyerson, Gertrude Rosenblatt, Miriam Weinsteln and Sidney Swartz. Attendance awards will also be given at this time.

A review of the year's activities and plans for their five key projects constituted the program at the brunch held by the Executive Board of the Women's Division of the Jewish Community Center.on Monday, May 20. "The Women's Division has five major responsibilities," stated Mrs. William Lazere, president. "These projects aro all important because they render necessary services to the community. Catering, the Needle Guild, the Employment Bureau, Camp Jay C-C and the Thrift Shop offer us a five fold challenge which we are glad to meet." . A. tentative calendar, of activiThe committee on Arrangeties was adopted for the coming year and various appointments ments for the celebration of made, to be announced at a later Founder's Day at the National Jewish Farm School, Bucks Coundate. . ty, Pennsylvania, announces that Henry Monsky of Omaha, InterBeth El Graduation national President of B'nal B'rith will be guest of honor and prinExercisesMay3t cipal speaker on the occasion. The forty-fourth Day Graduation exercises of the at the school will Founder's take place on High school department of the Beth El. Sabbath School will be Sunday, June 2. held next Friday evening, May 31, at the regular services of the GeorgesMandel Synagogue:. The following have completed Interior Minister the three year course: Florence Tatelman, Lillian Katz, Estelle London (JTA) -— Commenting Raduziner, Shirley Fox, and Mir- on the reconstruction of the iam Dansky. French Cabinet, the Daily Telegraph refers to Interior Minister Georges Mandel as "one of the Mrs. Jacob Sails m o s t vigorous administrative Jerusalem (JTA) — Mrs. Rose forces In French politics today. At Jacobs, the only American' Zionist the ministry (colonial) which he leader to visit Palestine since the now leaves Mandel brought a war broke out, sailed for the vast increase in the economic proUnited States after a stay of two ductivity of the colonies. At 54 months here during which she this ex-secretary of Clemenceau surveyed health conditions under has already gone far and may well the auspices of Hadassah. go farther."

MONSKY TO SPEAK AT FARM SCHOOL

RELIEF GROUPS PLAN TO MOVE Jewish Offices to Go to French Interior or Portugal Paris (JTA) — International Jewish relief organizations in the interior or to a neutral countries were planning to move into try should this become necessary, ortugal was mentioned as a country to which Nome of these organizations might transfer part of their,, activities. Te&^atlve plans to establish offices of the Joint Distribution Committee in Switzerland, Italy and Hungary were announced by Morris C. Troper, J. D, C. European director, following his return here from a visit to the United States. Dr. Joseph Schwartz, newly appointed European vice-chairman of the J. D. C. arrived* here to assume his new duties. Dr. Schwartz was formerly secretary of the J. D. C. In New York. . League to Vichy Geneva (JTA)—Relief organizations in Geneva were faced with the problem of where to move lu the event of invasion of Switzerland. The League of Nations is already moving to Vichy,'France, but an organization such as < the ited Cross, which operates in Ger(Continued on.Page 5.)

BETH EL PUPILS TO CONDUCT SERVICE In observance of the Beth El Hebrew School Sabbath, services at the Beth El synagogue will thia evening be conducted by pupila of the school. Richard Newman will act as cantor and will be" assisted by a choir whose members are Sheldon Harris, Edward Zorinsky, Donald Rice, Jerry Cohn, Harold Marer and Justin Simon. A choir of six girls will lead the congregation in the concluding hymns. Members of this group are Jean Blacker, Barbara Blacker, D o r i s Levenson, Charlotte Sommer, Miriam Kahz and Arlene Cooper. David Rice will chant the Kiddus in observance of his B a r Mitzvah. Rabbi David A. Goldstein will speak on "What a Jewish Education Can Do for Our Children."

Wezelman Named - T o Phi Beta Kappa Sol Wezelman; a junior at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary fraternity." : ' . • • . : . " ' " '. • •' : Wezelman is a graduate of Central High school.

EARLY DEADLINE Because of the Memorial Day holiday next Thursday, it will be necessary for "The Jewish Press*' to be published a day; early. .News for next Friday'spaper niust be in the office of the "Jewish Press" by, Tuesday, May 28, before .4 o'clock. Items brought la after that time will not appear.la the May 31 issue.


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