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IVati By Sam Cooper Award 1,584 Palestine ed Honor by Certificates Given V.F.W, Two Month Period iounignuit l&d, who ©&me to from P o l a n d eleven years ago, Wednesday was named • the winner of A national e s s y . contest sponsored by the ladies . §uUlarjr of the Veterans of Forklgik Wwrs on the sabject "The Jleneflte of Democracy." . Sam Cooper, 18, son of Mr. and lira, Martin Cooper, was awarded ^ it>ne thousand dollars and a gold • medal, for his paper, "This Is My •FUg, v My Land," according to announcement made at the natlon•1 encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, being held in . Los Angeles.. A senior at Central - High, he lias made the honor roll every semester but one. In 1937 he rated highest in a current events i%wt g i v e n at all elementary "tchool of the city. Ho, was recentl y -named a member of Mother Chapter No. 1, A. Z. A. Sam was born in the village of Chelom, now Nazi-occupied Poland, la 1929 with his mother «nd another brother, he came to gtaa&a to join his father, who- six years previously had arrived in Omaha, where he opened a small ^grocery store. His prise-winning: e s s a y follows: "Democracy to me is not something abstract and far off. It 19 with-me at home, on the street, at school. It is with me when I walk, talk and sleep. It is like the Jrery air I breathe. Bat Where Else? " ."'Mr father owns a small grocery store. That is not much in |ts«lf, perhaps. But my father £ f e an immigrant. Where else (Continued on Page 10.) f
DEMOCRATS H U E SOL ROSENBLATT AS GENERAL COUNSEL
Jerusalem ( J T A ) — A schedule providing for Issuance of 1,584 immigration eerlfteates to J e w s during August a n d September was announced In the Official Gazette this week. Added to the two-month schedule will be certificates not used in the April-July period, plus additional certificates sufficient for admission of wives and children (under 18) of immigrants arriving during the current period or before it began. The total immigration schedule for the August-September period, according to the Gazette, called for issuance of 2,050 certificates. Of this number, however, 100 are tor Arabs and 366 for immigrants who entered the country illegally during May, Jund and July.
What !a described m the largest ta%& mmt novel Ivro Conclave to fee held in maay years, will take place tola week; end, 8ep tcmber 1 and 2,' at ttsie Paxton Hotel. About 250 persons are expected to a t t e n d : this convention which is held every four years In Omaha. The Ivreia a Jewish social organization with chapters in Omaha, Lincoln, Sioux City, and Des Molnea. A rormal dinner dance -will be <held Sunday night at the Paxton. Monday there w i l l be separate /uncheons for men and women and on Monday evening an informal supper dance will take place. Nautical Theme Theme of the Conclave will he that of a cruise on a luxury liner. Delegates will be .given cruise tickets, facsimile passports, and sailor hankies and hats. r President of the Grand Lodge Is Reuben Brown of Omaha. Paul Bernstein is president of the local chapter and Hyman Shrler is the local chairman In charge of arrangements for the affair. Mrs. Ben Shapiro -Is chairman of the "Women's 'Committee. ' It Is planned to hold n e x t year's convention In Lincoln.
Sol Rosenblatt, well-k n o w n New York lawyer and a former Omahan, Was'Saturday' n a m e d general counsel for the democratic national committee. Mr. Rosenblatt is' the* son bt "Mrs.' MolUe Rosenblatt. After attending public school in Omaha1,' he went' to Harvard Law school where he won high scholastic honors. Upon his graduation he became associated with' a prominent New York law office. i Of late; h^* has' been* active* in Democratic circles. U n d e r the iNRA, he was named director of the code for actors and during, the 1936 presidential campaign dlrectod the theatrical division. . Now Haven (JTA) —- DiscovHe is a brother of Ann Ron- ery of a secret-key which among jieli, composer of popular music. other things rationalizes the Genesis of the Old Testament and shows that Methuselah lived only 192 years instead of 969 was announced, here by Dr. Andrew Efron, Yale University research tel' Rabbi Isaiah' Rackovsky of the United Orthodox Congregations w i l l address the Congregation peth Hamedrbsh Hagodel at the morning service this coming Sabbath. " . '' Sunday morning services < continue as- usual' at the" B'nai- Israel Synagogue jmder the auspices: of the Brotherhood ,of th6" U. 0* C. i Since the return of-Rabbl-RackOVBkft-'the Bible Study . g ' r o o p ; which .meets- after' the' services at the. breakfast table; has. resumed ,lta work*. «T4i e Sunday services start at . 9, -the study. group • at *:45 - ' *
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Appointment of committees to arrange the banquet and pageant to be held in connection with the Seventieth Anniversary celebration of Temple Israel have been it&iiied by Milton Abrahams, general chairman of the Anniversary observance. T h e anniversary celebration will open Friday evening, September 20, with a special service at the Temple. The banquet will be held at the Blacks tone the following evening and on Sunday, September 22, an all day Jubilee will be held at t h e Highland Country Club. Mrs. Ben Shapiro is chairman of the committee arranging tor the pageant which will trace the Temple's seventy years. Assisting her are: Leonard Nathan, Mr. and Mrs. William Feiler, and Mrs. Milton Abrahams. T h e . c a s t is now being chosen and those wlsh(Continued on Page 12.)
Classes at the City Talmud Torah will begin on Tuesday, September 3. Registration will be held on that date. Parents are asked to accompany children for registration. Classes will be h e 1 d in the morning until the public schools open. At that time sessions will begin at 4 and last until 7:30. A new and revised curriculum has been worked out during the summer months. The high school group will continue and the curriculum has been made to co-ordinate with its work. Mr. Judah Wolfson and Mr. Arthur Rapport will be in charge of classes.
URUGUAY TO CURB ALIEN ACTIVITIES
Montevideo . (JTA) — Seeking to keep closer tabs on alien activities, the Uruguayan Government has introduced bills in Parliament requiring the registration of all aliens over 15 and forbidding the publication of newspapers and other printed matter In "foreign and exotic languages which are difficult to control." The first bill, introduced in the Chamber, provides that all aliens failing to register or guilty of giving false information to the authorities will be deported. Every alien who intends to remain In Uruguay *nore than 00 days must register, giving his address, business, nationality, his reasons for low. • • -" residing In* this country, and his The" key used by Dr. Efron is last address prior to his arrival a tree-shaped symbol which has here. been found carved on rocks and The bill on the use of foreign in other records or. the ancient languages in the publication field world. The'scientist, who f l e d was introduced in the Senate by Russia in 1919"/claims to have Domingo Rt Bordaberry, Governevolved-a new and more correct ment party member. It provides interpretation. of' the tree' code that no newspaper be published In than heretofore used. -• ', a langauge not. taught in l^cal * Study of the symbol convinced high schools, unless S p a n i s h Dr. Efron' that the r great biblical translations of. all material also ages,, had. come -from mislhterpre- are* provided. - • • , • ation'olf, Botoewhat similar symIf the bill should become law, bols'." "A6c6rdirig 'to his findings,' the Jewish colony would be hardAdam.-dled.wheu he was" 96 years est hit, since It is.the only one old, rather than 930,' and Noah j that publishes daily, weekly and was - 48' ,'and.' nb£ 600 years ' old j other periodicals in a language when lie .built the- Ark. not officially.recognized.
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FREMONT SCHOOL TO Repudiates Support of OPEN THIS SUNDAY Coughlint and
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Fremont—The Sunday and Hebrew school of the Fremont Synagogue will begin activities this New York (JTA) — Wendell Sunday, September 1. Willkie, Republican presidential Rabbi Sol Oater Is iu charge nominee, this weekly flatly reof these activities, pudiated the support of Charles E. Coughlln and of all other persons "who stand for any form oj prejudice as to anyone's rack or religion."
Rakbi Goldstein Will Open Annual Series Nov. 4 Plans for the forthcoming series of Book evenings, conducted by It a b b i David A. Goldstein, have b e e n muHnracedi by Mrs. David Greenbcru*, president of the Beth El Auxiliary, sponsors of the series. Rabbi Goldstein will open the annual book reviews on Monday, November 4, with a discussion of "How Green Was My Valley" bf Richard Llewylln. On November 18, he will' review two books by negro authors, "Native Son" by Richard Wright and "The Big Sea" by Langston Hughes. The third book evening will be devoted to a review of "The Star Gazer" by Szold de Harsanyl. January ,-14, Rabbi Goldstein will review Thomas Mann's latest book, "The Beloved Returns," a story of Goethe. The fifth and sixth book evenIngs will be held January 28 and February 10. The books for those evenings are yet to be selected. Tickets for the series may bo purchased from members of the Beth El Auxiliary.
1ED HILLEL HEAD Washington, D. C. — Appointment of Rabbi Jehudah Cohen, now executive director of t h e Jewish Centers Association of Los Angeles, as director of the B'nai B'rith Hlllel Foundation at the University of .Michigan was announced here.this week by Henry Monsky, president of B'nai B'rith and chairman of the National Hillel -Foundation Commission. Rabbi Cohen succeeds Dr. Isaac Rabinowltz, who Is being transferred to the new Hillel Foundation opening in the fall at Brooklyn College. Dr. Rabinowitz has been at Michigan since 1938. A graduate of tho University of California at Los Angeles, Rabbi Cohen was ordained at the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. For the past six years he has directed the Jewish Centers Association of Los Angeles, being responsible for two instltuions. The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan — one of twenty-one maintained at as many American colleges by B'nai B'rith as religious/ cultural, and social welfare centers for Jewish undergraduates, in addition to nineteen extension units — is one of tho largest in' the country, 'serving 1,500'Jew-r lsh students. • • • • < -•••
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Replying to a question concerning Coughlin's stand, as expressed in the latest issue of the "radio priest's" organ Social Justice, Willkie told a press conference: "I am not interested In t h o support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anyone's race or religion, or la for the support of any foreign economic or political philosophy In this country. I don't want Father Coughlin's support. As a matter of fact, I repudiate his support. If " h I a philosophy includes opposition to any race or religion, I cannot replace my owa philosophy merely to g a i n hia support." . ., •. Grateful for Attack Winkle's attention w a s theaT called to an attack made on him last night by Joseph E. McWil* Hams, anti-Semitic candidate for Congress In Yorkville who had been publicly repudiated by W1I1klo at a press conference l a s t week. McWilllams la trying to obtain the Republican nomination in his district. "I'm grateful for Mr. McWllliams' denunciation of me," Will* kio said. "I never wanted hist support, and he hasn't mine. His philosophy is un-American, a n d against my own personal philosophy. I have no sympathy with him, or anyone else who garners following by pitting one r a c o against another race." Asked whether h 1 s statement also applied to Father Brophy, head of the Catholic Truth Society and an active supporter of the Christian Front,.who has also been supporting him, Willkie said that it did.
CLAIM MILLION FIFTH COLUMNISTS M U. S. New-York (JTA) — One million fifth columnists are already at w.ork. within the United States, ready to s t r i k e telling blows when the time for action arrives, George Brltt, N. Y. World-Telegram reporter, asserts In his new book "The Fifth C o l u m n Is Here," published this week by Wilfred Funk, Inc. Charging t h a t this "foreign army" Is four tlme3 as large aa the United States- A r m y ? Britt says that should this country be> drawn into war "enemy"Btaff of-, fleers, when they want wrecking done, now have the names of suitable agents, indexed geographically and according to talent, to put their fingers on them instantly," • • ' • • , .- • . k V, • In the fifth column ranks the author-put 500,000 Nazis, .including 25,000 Bundamen; 200^00® Italian Fascists, -.both uniformed and in mufti, 100,0,<)0 Irish r TO-. ralnians, Slovaks -and others r&» apohsivd '..to., oldscountry ^appeals and 100,000 ; Communists .' and "native converts of alt names' an&~ sairta." <•'..