Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1939-08-04

              XJJM^ Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community \^AIK
Volume 18.     No. 31
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1039
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Everywhere By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Dovoted to Atnerkan and tTowlBh liloaln
Bricker Appoints Fred Cramer Judge
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RUMORED ABROAD
Is there anything to this big reciprocal trade deal between N.izilaiid and Rumania which gives Germany 50,000 carloads of Rumanian wheat?. . I. Those who favor the Rublee plan and approve of the J, D. C. turning over S1,000,000 for that purpose should read the news from Dan¬ zig carefully. . . Here is a glar¬ ing ex.imple ot how Jews, even when tliey follow to the letter the Nazis' instructions on the transfer of their lioldings, are still made the victims of special decrees that rob them of their lawful percentage of the money tlicy were compelled to turn in to the Nazis. . . We don't knci\V how compatible the political in¬ dependence . of Denmaric and Norway is ivith the decision ot the governments of these two countries to ban Warner Broth¬ ers' "Confessions of a Nazi Spy' ... No movies showing Hitler or Mussolini are permitted to bo screened in Mexico. . . Italy, on the other hand, doesn't O, IC any film scenes depicting labor strikes... ' HEAR ITE."
¦ An interesting report reaches tis that Cardinal Gasparri, pre¬ fect of the Supreme Tribunal ot the Apostolic Signature ot Rome, is coming here to put a stop to Father Coughlin's in¬ creasing delusions of grandeur. , . . The ray.iteiy oi Avlio is fin¬ ancing Coughlin's radio time is becoming tliicker. .. He has con¬ tracted for daily quarter and halt hour periods on almost fifty stations. . . In order to cir¬ cumvent the new radio code that prohibits dissemination of "racial" propaganda Coughlin books his thne through his So¬ cial Justice organization. .' . The New York Post's Ludwig Lore knows what he's talking about, a . When he claims that the Italian Fascists are going In for the organization of Ital¬ ians in America ih a big way, the State Department had bet¬ ter take notice. . . Believe it or not, there are 1,500 Germaii Clubs in New York. . . but not ail ot them are Nazi in their leadings. . . THIS AND THAT
Hollywood still has illusions about European marlcets for its film prodlicts. . . The Cohn brothersjof Columbia are mak¬ ing two versit^ns of "Golden Boy," one being toned down.to the extent of substituting the word "anarchism'' for the term "Fascism'' used in the version intended for domestic conump- tion. . .Interesting .statistics: Our of the 38,000,000 immigrants who landed at Ellis. Island be¬ tween i820 and 1930 fully sixth remained in New York. The ultra-kosher Poliakoff Restaurant in New York City features in its window a big poster bearing the inscription "Gentiles Are Welcome." OPINIONS DIFFER ..
Tliore's something fishy about twenty-year-old University of California graduate William Bardwell Curts. . . Young Bill spent a month in a Nazi ja^l for insulting Hitler. . .Now, back in this country, he sings the' prais- e.i of his jailers for the treat ment they accorded him. . .And when a reporter asked him about the beating he received, he sweetly replied that he had¬ n't been beaten up very badly. ... A different reaction is that (Continued on I'ago I>
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Deny Citizenship To 45,000 Jewish Families
BUCHAREST (WNS)—A, to¬ tal of 135,000 Jews have lost their Rumanian citizenship on var¬ ious grounds including such charges as fraudulent entry and insufficient length of residence.
During, the past two Weeks approximately 45,000 Jewish families were told to apply for alien residents' permits before August ' 25 or face removal to concentration camps. According to figures supplied by the American Jewish Committee, there are approximately 728,000 Jews in Rumania.
Six Carpatho-Russian . Jews were sentenced to prison for 11- legar entry into Rumania, by a military court at Cluj, capi¬ tal ot the Rumanian province ot Transylvania. The defend¬ ants, said to have entered Ru¬ mania after the Hungarian oc¬ cupation of Carpatho-Russia, testified they fled because of fear of Hungarian violence.
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Judge  Fred  B;  Cramer
about what he says and .does - - should conform to a higher ethical standard - - than men and women of numerically dom¬ inating religious groups, 'be¬ cause all Jewry is judged by tlie individual's mode ot life.'
Just about 13 year.s ago when the B'nai B'rith Hillei Founda¬ tion at Ohio State University was beginning to mako its in¬ fluence felt on the campus, a young law student, "Freddie" (Contlnaed on Fnso S>
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LONDON    (WNS)—Declaring
that it has not in the interest,ot Germany to keep half-Jewish children in Geiinany even if they had not been brought up as Jews, a German court, for the first time, has ruled that a child, ot mixed parentage is bet¬ ter out of' Germany. It has been known for some time that Nazi authorities have favored the emigration of children of mixed parentage and. had even assisted in thte removal of hun¬ dreds to England and other countries. The decision of the cAurt at Karlsruhe came after it was called upon to decide whether or not the application of a Jewish parent living aboard, asking for custody of his 15- year-old son from his foriher "aryan" wife living in Germany, should be granted. The court ruled that as a 50 per cent "Mis- chiing" the child's place is not in Germany since the court a greed with the father that his son had no future in Germany. LONDON (WNS) — Jewish communities throughout Ger¬ many have paid a forced emi¬ gration tax to the Nazi regime of approximately 20 million marks since last December when special regulations were first issued at Frankfort-am- Main. The emigration tax varies trom one-half to 15 per cent of the assessed fortune of a Jewish emigrant, depending on the extent of his wealth. Pay ment of the emigration tax ,1s entirely apart from the. Reich "flight tax," which must also be paid by every Jewish emigre.
E'nai BVith Mames i-Nazi Boycott CoMiHiillee
WASHINGTON, D. C.:—Ap¬ pointment ot David Robinson, of Portland, Oregon, as chair¬ man of the national anti-Nazi boycott committee of B'nai B'ritli, as announced here tills week by Maurice Bisgyer, sec retary of B'nai B'rith, in making public the text ot the boycott resolution adopted by the last annual meeting ot the B'rial B'rith Executive Committee, which authorized the creation of a boycott committee.
The committee includes one representative from each of the seven Amtrlcan and Canadian districts of B'nai B'rith. Mr. Robinson, who has just retired as president bt District 4, repre¬ sents that District. The other members of the Committee are:
District 1—Samuel Bisgyer ¦ of Brooklyn,.N. Y.; District 2—Al¬ bert Woldman ot Cleveland: Dis¬ trict 3—Dr. Berthold S. Poiiak
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Would Freeze Jewisli Capital In Danzig
FREE   CITY   OF   DANZIG
(WNS)—Danzig    N^zi    leaders continued their steps toward 100 per, cent "aryanization?" of the City, while measures were, being considered to stop the flow of Jewish   -(vealth  abroad   and  to dispose of property still held by Jews.    . Danzig    hitherto    had made semi-annual payments to Jews abroad by selling Jewish properties.     The"  money   now will be paid into Danzig's banks. but 'the. equivalent   ultimately may go to the emigrants from commercial credits being built up by the Free City in Pales tine.     Officials denied that the procedure amounted to confisca¬ tion of Jewish wealth remaining here.     Nazi authorities in Dan¬ zig were said to be pressing for complete mastery of the Jewish question    because   they   know that "Danzig" and the hundred or   more   villages   surrounding it will come    into   the    Reich soon."     The decree, permitting seizure of .Tewish wealth, struck a blow at emigration hopes of many of tho 1,700 Jew.'? remain¬ ing in the Free City, who are eager   to  follow   10,000  others who have found homes abroad since the rise of the Nazi re¬ gime in Germany.
Jews Strike Back In Palestine
JERUSALEM (WNS)—Strik¬ ing in quick retaliation for the murder ot Michael Adin, who was shot down while at work in the settlement ot Menehemia in the Jordan Valley, Jews killed three Arabs near the scene ot the slaying of the Jewish sett¬ ler. Three Jews from Tiberias were held by the authorities in connection with this latest re¬ prisal against the Arab terror. This report was issued in the form of an official communique.
At the same time troops de¬ scended upon Behovoth and Petach Tlkvah and made whole¬ sale arrests of Jews, mostly young men affiliated with the Betar; Revisionist youth group. A total of 63 Jews were seized —fifteen at Rehovoth and 48 at Petach Tlkvah. Firearms were also confiscated in the homes of fifteen Jews who were licensed to bear arms. In addition the license of the town council for firearms was revoked.
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JEWS EXPELLED FROM AUSTRIAN PROVINCE -GKAZ,   AUSTRIA   (WNS)—,
According to the Vienna Jewish community, fhe government has issued a decree that all Jews in Styrla must leave the province by August 1. At the time Aus¬ tria was absorbed into greater Germany there were ahout 5,- 000 Jews in the province but it is believed that today there are fewer than 300, Two months ago the province of Carinthia or¬ dered complete expulsion of its Jewish . population most of whom were able to receive ale from the Jewish community in Vienna.
LONDON (WNS)—No excep¬ tions will be made in fhe en¬ forcement of the iian on legal Jewish immigration into Pales¬ tine from October 1st, Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald told the House of Commons, after insisting that illegal im¬ migration is "enormous."
AU appeals,from Deputies for relaxation of the stringent Iian ' was met with a uniform answer by Mr. MacDonald that all con¬ sideration had been borne in mind before the policy had been adopted.
The extent of the Colonial Sec¬ retary's  Inflexibility    %vas  evi¬ denced in a reply, in effect a sharp -rebuke, made to Arthur Creech-Jones,   who   had   asked about   a program    evolved by labor unions in England to aid the refugees.    Mr. Creech-Jones stated that an agreement,, with the approval of the Home Of¬ fice, had lieen made by an Agri¬ cultural Subcommittee of Jew¬ ish  Refugees,  on  which  were represented th(3 Fanners Union, the Transport General Workers Union    and    the    Agricultural Workers Union, for the training in England of 1,000 German re¬ fugees   at  various   agricultural institutes for    Immigration    to Palestine within a year.   ' 200 were  scheduled  to  leave  Eng¬ land lii October, 200 In Novem¬ ber and the remainder In De¬ cember.    ,
The questioner wanted to know whether the. order to stop immigration into Pal e s t i n e would    apply to these people.
Mr. MacDonald answered In the affirmative, adding that the plan had been, made without hia knowledge or approval. He was Informed afterward and he did not intend making certifi¬ cates available for the purpose concerned. Answering. Creecii- Jones' further question whether he would . not consider this a special case, the Colonial Secre¬ tary replied that if one case was considered special a great many others might be deemed special. The present policy, he said, is the result ot "enormous illegal immigration."
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To The Subscribers of The United Jewish Fund of Columbus
The United Jewish Fund of Columbus con¬ tributes to all of the major agencies engaged in the defense of minority rights as well as the gen¬ erally recognized organizations which arc carry¬ ing on.a campaign of education for the prcpetua- tidn of, the democracy and those which arc oppos¬ ed to Facism, Nazism, Communism and Anti- Semitism.
Our subscribers are requested to communi¬ cate with our office before responding to any ap¬ peal by agencies claiming to be engaged in work in these fields. There is a tendency among a limited few to improperly capitalize the present
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E. J. Schanfarber
President, United Jewish Fund-
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