Entered as Second Class Mat! Matter on January 31, 1931, at Pofitoffiee. of Omaha- Nebraska, under the Act of March S, 1879
Congress PREPARATION JewishAids Red Cross FOR AIR RAIDS IN PALESTINE Haifa Anti-aircraft Guns Given Two Hour Teat Jerusalem (JTA) — Air raid ' precautions are being intensified 'throughout the country as a re*ult of latest developments in the international situation. High Commissioner Sir Harold A. JMacMichael has issued an order, under the defense regulations/listing 73 buildings in various parts of Haifa as public air . raid, shelters. The District Commissioner's office is compiling a register of children, aged, infirm and m o t h e r s of infants who - should be the first evacuated from Haifa in the event, of emergency. . , -The Jewish Agency's A. It. P. .'(air raid precautions) adviser, accompanied by a staff, is touring the country advising settlements on organization of precautionary measures, arranging for warning, shelters, fire-fighting and f i r s t aid. In the coastal colony of Nathanta an A. It. P, instructor has been appointed and a co-ordinating committee lias been set up including the local military commander, civil administration, police and communal heads. A Jewish special constabulary of 1,000 volunteers is being formed in, Tel Aviv under the command of the district superintendent of police, in collaboration with the Jewish Agency and the Tel Aviv municipality. The govern; ment. has authorized enrollment of men aged 30 to 45, of good character and prepared to assist the police in maintaining law and order when called upon. The volunteers will be g i v e n a short training course and will not be paid. The officers of the corps will also be volunteers. More than 1,000 young men And women have completed first aid courses and 7,000 more have completed elementary c o u r s e a given by the Red Shield (Jewish ^jted Cross), according to an announcement in Tel Aviv. The (Continued on page 5.) .
8,000 AMERICANS IN PALESTINE NOW Washington, June 10 (JTA) — E i g Ji t thousand Americans, of •whom 90 per cent are Jews, were in Palestine when Italy declared war on the Allies, the State department estimated today. • There were more American citizens In Palestine than in either Great Britain or France when those nations entered the war. The State department estimated that two-thirds of American Jews in Palestine were naturalized citizens and one-third native born. By far the largest percentage of American Jews were admitted to Palestine on visas providing for, permanent residence there. I The J. T. A, learned that there have been few if any requests from Americans in Palestine for aid in leaving. the country and that nearly all now regards Palestine as their permanent home artd will not take refuge elsewhere. A proclamation declaring t h e Mediterranean a belligerent zone forbidden to American shipping, expected.to be issued within 48 hours, will dose one of the last outlets for emigration of German refugees from Europe..""'.'. • •Among-the refugees stranded in -Italy are 45 who wero scheduled to 'Bail for the Dominican Republic.' Officials of 'the "inter. governmental Refugee Committed' here were conducting: prelimniary discussions on tho - possibility tb^t a new group of refugees" now- in' England and.Franco might be selected for thp Dominican colonlzation project in lieu of those held In tlaly... -, ..
VOL. XVII—No. 32
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940
The World Jewish Congress, from its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, has sent 5,000 francs to the International Red Cross to be used for assistance of war sufferers of all countries. In a c knowledging this contribution the International Red Cross wrote to the World Jewish Congress in Geneva, as follows: "We wish to thank you warmly for your generous contribution in the amount of 5,000 francs to the International Red Cross. This contribution will assist us in continuing our humanitarian work for the relief of the suffering caused by the war in all countries. , "Rest assured that within the limit of our meajis we will always take great pleasure in continuing to offer our services for the investigation of particular cases and for the forwarding of your relief shipments." As the flames of war spread, demands correspondingly are increasing for the humanitarian assistance of the Red Cross in the war zones. -*
La Paz, Bolivia (JTA) — With Nazis intensifying their activities, the press is urging the Government to exercise more careful surveillance of the fifth column in Bolivia. According to newspapers, t h e German school in La Paz, which is attended by some Bolivian children as well as Germans, is a center of Nazi activity. Several days ago a celebration was held in the school during*which a teacher demanded that the pupils give the "Hell Hitler" salute. An attempt was made in the school to replace portraits of Bolivar and S u c r e , Bolivia's liberators, with a picture of Hitler. In a cafe, a Nazi s h o u t e d : "Down with Bolivia! Long live Hitler!" Several anti-Semitic newspapers supported by the Nazis are conducting ; violent propaganda for expulsion of the Jews. These papers deal In varjous sorts of antiJewish allegations, such as that Jews bring social diseases into Bo' livia, Bolivian newspapers, especially La Razon, warn the Government to watch the illegal Nazi party. German business men Operate Important enterprises here. In 1934, a group of Nazis asked the President to legalize the Nazi party, but he refused. Since then the (Continued on page 5.)
TRAM WORKERS OUT Budapest (JTA) — The Municipal Tramway and Autobus Company has discharged all Jewish laborers, conductors, motormen and drivers in its employ. This is the' first time since passage of Hungary's second anti-Jewish law that members of the w o r k i n g class have been isingled out for dismissal on racial grounds. Heretofore the law has been applied only to" J e w i s h ' b u s i n e s s men, shopkeepers,r traders and professionals. ,., .. ,ti •'• •., _,:•' . ; The Hungarian Government has always insisted that the purpose of the Jewish law was not to molest- Poor Jews' but merely to reduce the number of. wealthy Jews in industry, commerce and professions to_ a number equivalent, to the proportion ot the Jew's to the total"population of H u n g a r y . From, now on-, .however,, it appeara that the -law w i l l be enforced against all Jews. - -' • - - • •-
ps 4,000Jews; ortation JEWS FORCED TO FIGHT FOR NAZIS Are Molested in E v e r y Nazi Controlled Territory • London (JTA) — The Jewish Chronicle reports that the German authorities have issued a decree making Jews liable to military service, In contradiction to a previous prohibition of Jews in the army. The Berlin Jewish Community has been ordered to open a special bureau to register Jewish physicians, dentists and engineers for army Bervice, the report said. Reich Jews Seen Living in 'No-Man's-Land' London (JTA) — The diplomatic correspondent of the Manchester Guardian declares . that "the systematic destruction of the Jews in the Reich and Poland is ever more horrible than the worst Nazi • excesses in the past seven years of terrorism." , "The German Jews are already living in a sort of no-man's-land between life and.dep.th where the rulers hope they,will rot into extinction," the c o r r e s p o n d ent writes. "Rations-allowed to them are smaller than those received (Continued-on page 6.)
Services to Take Place This Evening, Tomorrow
Confirmation services of. the Beth El "Congregation will be held this evening and. tomorrow, morning. ,; Tonight's service begins promptly at (t, and tomorrow morning's at 10. ~ The following girls will be confirmed:' Betty Bordy, daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Bordy. Pearl Brick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Sam Brick. Harriet Cohn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Morris Colin. Shirley Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Davis. Pauline Fnllt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jfake Falk.' Madorls Leon, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Mark Leon. Roselle Osoff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hyiiinn Osoff. Geraldine Shnfer, daughter of Air. and Mrs. Aaron Shafer. Lcnore Simon, daughter of Mr. and rMs. Nathan,Simon. Rosnlio Washerman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Waserman. Phyllis Waxenberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Waxenberg. Corinne Wohlner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al Wohlner. Ribbon stretchers will be Joan Levy, Arlene Raffel, Evelyn Osoff, Ann IzeAtatt, Phyllis Helene Wohlner, Bernice Sommer, Harriet Taub and Rita Mann. - Members of the Honor Guard will be Lee Bernstein, Alan Bramson, Arthur Cohen, Stuart Frankel, Stanley Malasliock, Harold Margolin, Teddy Meyer, Richard Nowman, William Raffel, Selwyn Roffman and Herbert Strauber.. i Parents of the continuants will receive in their honor on Sunday afternoon, June. 1C, from 2:30. until 5, at the Hotel Fontenelle. -
Paris, June 10 (JTA)—From the Jewish point of view, Italy's entry Into the war today has three major effects: (1) The 40,000 Italian Jews and more than 4,000 Jewish refugees in Italy are placed in a perilous position. (2) One of the last outlets for overseas emigration . of Jewish refugees from German territories is closed. (3) The war area is extended to the Mediterranean, bringing the danger of war to Palestine. The Italian preparations for war had been accompanied with mounting anti-Jewish feeling, resulting in rioting in Trieste last month in which windows of Jewish schools and synagogues were broken and several stores wrecked and ransacked. Later, Jewish stores reopened u n d e r police guard, but it was feared that today's war declaration would be followed by increased anti-Semitic agitation. For the more than 4,000 refugees in Italy, who had been seeking desperately in the face of insufficient emigration outlets and transportation facilities, to escape before Rome .entered the war, there now looms the possibility of deportation to German territory. A J. T. A. Rome dispatch on May 22 said the refugees were cognizant of the possibility ot being transported en masse to Nazioccupied Poland when war came. The. refugees in Italy include 260 from Poland for whom issuance of Palestine certificates has been authorized, another 100 German and Polish Jewish refugees with American visas and 445 with Dominican visas, who are stranded together with the several thousand, the largest group of whom are quartered in Trieste, who had no immediate emigration prospects. Italy is now also finally closed as a country of transit for refugees, although actually the Italian government had banned refugee transit last month. There were (Continued on page 0.)
GYRUSADLERAT New York (WNS) —- Twentyeight students received degrees at the 53rd commencement exercises of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at which tribute was paid to the late- Dr. Cyrus Adler, former president of the seminary. Memorial : speeches were made by Sol M. Stroock, president ot the board of directors of the seminary, who discussed "Cyrus Adler and the Community," and by Dr. Louis Glnzberg, professor of Talmud, who spoke on "Cyrus Adler and Jewish Learning." Dr. Louis Flnkelstein, acting president of the seminary, conferred two hoijorary degrees. The degree'of Doctor.of Hebrew Let ters was conferred on Professor Jacob Nahum Epstein, of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who was praised as "one of the most distinguished rabbinic scholars of our time." The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on Rabbi Israel H. Levinthal, o£ ' the Brooklyn Jewish Center, who was lauded for devoting himself for 30 years "with indefatigable energy','- to the work of the rabbinate, to Jew-, ish scholarship and the upbuilding o£ Palestine.
ALIENS PLEDGE U.S. LOYALTY Principles of Democracy Recognized by Conference New York (JTA) — A pledge* of "unconditional loyalty" to the American Government and people has. been sent to "the competent authorities" by the Immigrants Conference 193!), which r e p r e sents more than 15 organizations of immigrants of all nationalities, races and creeds who had to leave Europe because of the National Socialist and Fascist revolution. The resolution said: "At a time when the inner and outer security of the neutral- countries is seriously threatened, the Conference wishes to express its unconditional loyalty to the Government of the United S t a t e s and to the American people in the name of its affiliated organizations a n d their individual members. ' "The Immigrants' Conference, considers the adherence to Amer* ican principals as a basis for the new life of the immigrant who has to show his gratitude for the equal rights which he enjoys in the United States by his loyal attitude towards t h e government and the people of the U n i t e d States. Abstaining from any interferference in the foreign and domes* tic policies of the United States, the organizations united in the Immigrants' Conference 1939 rec» ognize the principles of democracy such as they are laid down iu the Constiutibn of the U n i t'e <t States. They decline to maintain any connection whatsoever with the governments of their countries of origin and they reject any kind of dictatorship no matter of what political color. All these organizations are under obligation to keep their own ranks clear of all doubtful elements. They are determined' and ready to participate in the de. fense and protection of the democratic principles and .institutions of the United States at any time wherever they may be placed and whenever the people and the Government of the United States will call upon them."
Rabbi Goldstein to Speak in Detroit Rabbi David , A. Goldstein ot the Beth El congregation of this city will read a paper on t h e ."Rabbi and the Interfaith Movement" at the national convention of . the Rabbinical Assembly : of America which will be held in Detroit, Mich., on June 25, 20, and 27. Rabbi Goldstein will return to Omaha about July 4.
National Jewish Youth Broadcast "Religion a n d Personality" will'be the subject of Dr. Bernav* J. Bamberger of Albany, N. Y.}) w h e n he addresses,* Saturday// June 15, at 12:30 p. m., E. D. 3f T. (11:30 a. m., E. S. T.),-tW Nation's youth over the -coasM coast red network of NBC. broadcast will .be one of a series of "Call to, Y o u t h" -programs, sponsored by the_Ualon ot Ara^ff. can .Hebrew, Congregations," ;CJn-. cianati. " .-,- • -• . ' .,• ,,