Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1944-11-10

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Archnenloglcal & Historical MUw N. High St. at 15th—1
Si\\/y   Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community'^/\^
Vol. 22. No. 4fl     Entered as SccondK^asa Matter. ' PoltoUlce   ColumbuB.. Ohio.
LUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1044 "
Davotvd   lo   American and   Jcwith   Idaali
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits   Prom   Everywhere By Phincas J. Blron
Local Men fill Be Heard At Welfare Conference Nov, 11-12
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS .
te How come that Carl Mote, president and general manager of the Northern Indiana Tele¬ phone Company and of the Commonwealth Telephone Cor¬ poration of Indianapoli.s, is carrying on hui anti-Semitic ac¬ tivities so unabashedly? ... By the way of hobby he edits a .sheet he calls "America- Prefer¬ red," in which he spon.sors in¬ tolerant anti-democracy . . . Re¬ member how busily the (wo Oer- alds — Gerald L. K, Smith and Gerald K. Wlnrod — were scurrying about during the election campaign? . , . But their score was zero . . . .loel Slonim, tbe YlddLsh poet and journalist who died last week,, was a very close friend of the late Wendell L. Willkle , . . .loel once confided to us that Willkle was In favor of a Fed¬ eral statute outlawing anti- Semitism. . . . ECH0K8 . . .
1^ K 1 p 1 i nger's confidential Washington newlcttcr has laiimrhod a ferocious attack on Secretary ^of the Treasury Henry Morgent'hau, ,Ir., for his advocacy of harsh peace terms for Germany . . . The newsletter declares'that Morgenthau is re¬ sponsible for the desperate fight¬ ing the Nazis_^ an doing these days . . . No'w it can be told that the Democratic National Committee rejected a slogan sug¬ gested by one of the country's biggest advertising copy writ¬ ers . . . The slogan read: "Bet^ ter a Fourth Term than a Third World War" . . . Out of Ger¬ many via the grapevine comes the news that Gabby Joe Goeb- hels has issued an important ' new order, to wit: "True Ger¬ mans do not look at the .sky — it is Allied territory". . HISBOBS . . .
(^ The heroine of the Green partisans is Madi Moscowltz, an eighteen-year-old Jewish girl who was tortured to death hy the Nazi Gestapo for refusing to divulge Information they want¬ ed aliout her comrades ... A monument to Madi will he erect¬ ed in .\thens . . . Jochanan Tar- takower, recently killed on the) Western front, had been In the United States less than two years when he enlisted in the Army . . . When his father, Dr Ariel Tartakower, the noted American Jewish Con^-css lead er, received the tragic news, he did no,t inten-upt his work for even one hour, but asked that he be given respon.sibilitles JEWISH NEWS . . . SS Spokesmen for the Counc-il of Judaism will renew their op- ptisition to the Palestine Com monwealth Resolution when it Is reintroduced In Cpngress af¬ ter the elections . . . The B'nai Zion Voice is developing- into one of the better Anglo Jewish monthlies, thanks to the inter¬ est that Louis Lipsky, president of the Order, taKes In this pub¬ lication . . . Daniel Frisch's lit¬ tle booklet, "What Happened to the American Jewish Confer¬ ence", demands that the Con¬ ference take up the issiie of combattlhg antl-Seijiitlsm in this country . . . Incidentally, Larry ¦ PYlBCh. Dan's fourteen-year-old son, Is radio's latest discovery . . .' New 'ITork directors consid¬ er him one of the greatest juven¬ ile actor finds of recent years . . THEATiRE NOTES ... ImThe play baoed on Franz (Continued on Faie 8)
Allan Tarshlsh will present a report, on the Columbus Coun¬ cil for Democracy at the An¬ nual Conference of the Ea.'it Central States Region of the Council of Jewish Federations and welfare Funds. The Con¬ ference is being held in Detroit Nov. nth and 12th. Dr. E. J Gordon is a pa.st presiident of the Conference. Albert Schiff is a member of the program com mittee.
Among those \iho will at¬ tend the Di'troH (Conference are Dr. and Mrs. I']. ./. <;or-^ rtou, Albert Srhlfl, Harry fill- bert, Ben Vertkln and .Miss Rose  Sugarman.
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Red Cross Worker Overseas Sends Gift To Memorial
From the American Red Cross overseas, where .she l.s doing hospital recreation work, comes a contribution liy Mi.ss Clara Neustadt,    former  local   .'-chdol
Ephralm Gomherg, Director of Public Relations of the Nation¬ al Refugee Service, will ropoit for the United Jewish Appeal on latest developments on the | overseas scene, tho place of the Jewish Agencies in relation to UNRRA, prospects for increas¬ ed .Jewish programs and post war posslbililies in this country. This report will be given at a luncheon on Sunday, .N'ov 12th. Isidore Sobeloff, of Detroit. President of the National Con- ferenee of JewLsh Social Wel¬ fare and Executive Director of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, is to address the opening session of the Confer¬ ence. Other sessions will dis¬ cuss problems of returning ser¬ vice men and war workers; care foj- the Aged; programs to combat bigotry and intolerance. There will be a special report on the program of the National Community Relations Advisory Council. Israel Rappenport, sec¬ retary of the Committee on New Approaches to Jewish Edu¬ cation, of New 'York, and Azrlel Eisenberg, Director of the Bu¬ reau for Jewish Education. Cleveland, and secretary of the East Central States' section of the American. A.ssociation for Jewish Education, will discus.s Education for Jewi.sh Life and New Approaches lo Jewish Edu¬ cation.
Jerome Curtis, Chairman of the Social Agencies Committee Cleveland is President of the Region. Judge Maurice Ber- non, vice-president of the Cleve¬ land Welfare Federation is Chairman ot the Program Com¬ mittee. Martin M. Cohen is Secretary and Field Representa¬ tive.
Zionist Membership Drive  Making Real Progress
Tcniplu   Sisterhood   To   Hear
Boy's Choir Next
Tuesday
On Tuesday, Nov. 14th, the Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood will again be privileged to hear the Columbus Boys' Choir untlter the direction of Herbert Huff¬ man at its meeting, to begin at 1:30 P. M. Dessert will be served by Mrs. Harry Mellman, Mrs. Harry Freldenberg and their commlntee. Mrs. Harry Zelger will read the prayer.
Tuesday's meeting was plan¬ ned by Mrs. Herbert Wise and Mrs. Melville Frank.
.Miss   rliira   Neustadt
teacher, to the Edwin J. Schan¬ farber Memorial F'und. accord¬ ing to an announcement liy Julius W. Riteinhauser. trca.sur- er of the fund. Mi.ss Neustadt if! a sister of the Chronicle edi¬ tor and publisher.
With an objective of $100,000 for the memorial, to take the form of a new home for the B'nal B'rith Ohio State Univer¬ sity Hlllel Foundal,ion, subscrip¬ tions continue to-come in from many sections of the country. Atlditionai sub.scriptions just announced are: Mr. and Mrs, L. K. AUman, Hollywood. Fla.: Mi.ss Jeanetite Levi, Rochester, Ind; Edwin Q. Linick, Perth Rosenfeld, Springfield, 0.; Herh- ert Spagot, lota Tau Gamma, Marion Lodge No. 8(i-l, Marlon, O.. additional; Mrs. Pauline N. Cahen, A. E. Pi Mothers and Wives Club, Abe J. Welner, Na- tha,n Zeff, Mr. and Mrs. Herb¬ ert R. Linick.    ¦
Allianc^Lodge, Irtai li'rith. Georgo "S. Jacoiiy, Lorain, O.; Master Sgt. and Mrs. Jack Mat-' thews, San I'^nincl.sco,. Calif.; Cpl. Leonard Axelliand. I'lcvo- land; Louis Orn-'^tein, Cle\'e- land; Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Klein- maier, Marion. 0.; Arthur and Harry Goidlierg. Abe Comoinr
The following subscriptions are all from Denver, Colo.; Charles R o s e n b a u lU. Max Grimes, Mr. and Mrs Wm. 1-1. Goidlierg, A. B. Hirschfeld, Mil¬ ton L. Anfenger, A. H. Goiven, S. Grimes, David E. Haslon, Sol Simon, J. VV. Silversmith, Noah A tier, Samuel J. Frazin, Samuel Sohaefer, Percy S. Norris. L. E. Shuterman, Louis A. Heller- stein, Charles J. Kaufman, Isaac Mellman, Edwin ,1. Wlttelshofer, Mountain Finance & Realty Co., Isadore Samuels, D, IL Stein, Simon Juinat, and Walter A. Simon.
Leonard Kohn, Chairman of the Membership Committee of the Zionist District, announces' that the Membership Drive which began three weeks ago has been making splendid pro¬ gress. In spite of the distrac¬ tions of the Presidential elect¬ ion and other local efforts, the varous committee members are continually reporting the en¬ rollment of new members.
David Gaiser, who Is again displaying the same unusual ability and enthusiasm as he did in last year's campaign, is leading the list in nicmlicrship enrollment.      His  list  Includes:
Don Charme, Matty Fried- berg, David Clark Warner. Lee H. Block, .Sam Miller, Rabbi ,Jacoh L. Baker. Mike Abrams, Meyer Gurwltz, .los. Rosen, Leonard H. .Schwartz, Kalman Taxon. Mendel Maggled. .Sam¬ uel Ganz, Frank Zaner, A. J. Shaw, Max Young, Joe. Young, Louis Block, Herbert  liaker.  '
Ben Yenkin's 12 new mem¬ bers are Bertram T. Lando, Sidney E. Marks, Meyer Schorr, Dr. L. M. Harris, Sam Goldberg, Herman Rubin, Harold ,1. Har¬ ris, .Jacob Harris, Sam Krakoff, David  Cole,   Ben   Seifera.s,   Max
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More Than 180 New Members For B'nai B'rith
E. il. Schanfarber Memorial
Clnss To Bi- InKlutrd
IVovember 21st
The Edwin J. Schanfarber Memorial, class to be initiated into 'Zion Lodge of B'nal B'rith oh Tuesday evening. Nov. 21. will be the largest in its Ifi year history.
AVith still another week re¬ maining in the membership ef¬ fort, ISO members have already been signed by the four compet-
.IliDGE DKICKKR WII.I HPIMK HUBK NOV. 21
Sidney l*. Kol/. pmgram chairman of Zion Lodge Vo. (12, B'nal B'rith announced to¬ day that Lewis Drucker, Municipal .fiidgi' of Cleveland, Ohio, will he the main speak- t'l* al the initiation meeling on rs'ovemlx'r'21st.
OnK'kcr is well known in Colnndius. He Is n most en¬ tertaining ''spoakt'r with a wealth of e\peri('n<'e and a I'nII uiiderstnndlng iif people fi-om cver.v walk of Ut*'.
ON   "PALESTINE  SPEAKS" PItOGKAM    SUNDAY
Rabbi H. Kaplan will be a discussion leader tor the Y, W. C. A. In Springfield, 0., this Sunday, Nov. 12th. He will dis¬ cuss milnority problems.
Have you donated a pint of
blood?   Don't waitI
Do It NOWl
ZIONIST CULTURAL GROU TO MEET THURSDAY NIGHT
The Columbus Zionist District first cultural group meeting will be h^id next Thursday, Nov 16, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Yenkln, '2735 Powell Ave., Bexley.
The subjeat, "A Bird's Bye ¦View of Jewish Life in Pales¬ tine' Tod^" to be presented by Dr. B. W. Abramson, will cover various pfiasea of Jewish life In Palestine. The meeting will begin promptly at 8:00 P. M,
ing teams. This brings the total membership of Zion Lodge to 1200, the largest since its organization.
Sam Luper, chairman of the membershiji committee, arv nounced that the original quota has been exceeded by 80 which is more than the goal set when It was decided to name this class in memory of the late E. J.  Schanfarber.
Abe Gertner, captain of the Gold team, leads the competi¬ tion with f)5 new members. The other three teams arc: Blue. David CheSes, captain, .48; White, David Dursc'linitt. cap¬ tain, ;)•!; Red,' Ben Yenkin, cap¬ tain, 'J'S.
The iniliallon ceremony will be open to the public.
Helen   Menken
The distinguished stage am screen actress, Helen Menken is the guest star of ihi.-^ weeks chapter of "Palestine Speak.s' the latest in ilie series of <li i malic true stories being pn sented hy the Columbus Dislncl of the Zionist Orgahizalicin of America, this Sunday Nov. 12 at 1:30 P. M , over siation WHKC.
Miss Menkln appears as Clara Simon, one of the pioneer school teacherJi of the Promis¬ ed Land in the story "The Lift¬ ing of the Veil", which tells how one determined woman threw liglit of reason on the dark supersstitlons which, for cen¬ turies, had bred disease ami misery  in Palestine.
Appearing with Miss Menken In this story of one of Pales¬ tine's unsung heroines are Balph Locke, Bernard Lenrow, Janice Gilbert, and the regular announcer of "Palestine Speaks!", Ben Grauer.
NOTHI) WO.MAN LKlADIilR TO HPlOAK HKRK NOV. I!)th
B'NAI B'RITH TO INSTALli OFFICERS  SUNDAY,  JAN. 21
Zion Lodge No. 62 B'nai B'rith, will hold Its annual in¬ stallation of officers at a din¬ ner meeting to be held at the Broad Street Temple on Sun¬ day, January 21, 1045, at 6:00 P. M., It was announced this week by Edward Schlezlnger, presldetit.
Mrs.  Irnm  Llndholm
A stimulating and enjoyable evening has been planned by the CoUimbus Jewish National Fund Council for' Sunday eve¬ ning, Nov. IBth, at 8 P. M., at the East Broad St. Temple. The guest speaker for the occasion will be Mrs. Irma Lindheim, who for 24 y?ars has dedicated herself, her health, wealth and abilities to Zionism
Upon returning fiom her first visit to Palestine In 1025, Mrs.
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