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Wish mrofticle coins 625 North Milwaukee Street Telephone MA rquette 4 7 0 0 AVeeldy or the JeTTisM Vol. 30, No. 3 Entered second-clasa matter at the poetoffice ot Milwaukee. under the Act of March 3. 1879 MILWAUKEE, WIS.

MARCH 17, 1933 Per Year $3 OUTRAGES AGAINST GERMAN JEWS Hitler Lieutenants Repeat Assurances of Jewish Security Berlin. (J.T.A.) The new Munich America's Greatest Gift to the Science of Government CONTINUE THROUGHOUT NATION DESPITE HITLER'S "GUARANTEES" ZIONIST LEADERS TO CONTINUE PALESTINE DRIYE Imminence of Financial Collapse of the Jewish Agency Spurs Efforts in U. S. CITE GERMAN SITUATION AS SPUR TO MOVEMENT By COVERNOR POLLARD of Virginia United States Ambassador Protests Assaults On American Jews, But More Are Beaten Indescribable Brutalities Practiced by Nazi Hoodlums Boycott of Jewish Merchants and Professional Men Spreads. JEWS ARE ROBBED BUT GOVT REFUSES PROTECTION denominations only, and to other religions simply toleration; but the word 'toleration' has no place in our political vocabulary, for it carries the implication that we, by our grace, may extend to others the privilege of worshiping God as they may please, while as a matter of fact men do not worship God according to the dictates of conscience by virtue of any man-given right.

The gift is direct from God. It is born with us. "Liberty for All" "Nor is this liberty of which we speak confined to religionists, for a man not only has the right to worship God in his own way, but he has an equal legal right not to worship Him at all, for, as Jefferson said, 'Why punish him in this life because we suppose he will be miserable in the life to "Nor can it be said in any true legal sense that this is a Christian nation, some authorities to the contrary notwithstanding, for Christians are entitled to no special rights or privileges. "By way of parenthesis, may I say, if a politician has any right to an opinion in the realm of the spiritual, that there is no such thing as a Christian state even in a religious sense, for, according to my theology, religion is strictly a personal matter? Men are saved, not by states, nor by races, nor by groups, nor by families, but as individuals. Salvation is not a wholesale transaction.

It is strictly retail one by one. "Law and Religion Differ" "The state has no religious function, may I add the church has no po Police-President, Himmler, one of the statement to the press saying "I fundamentally consider citizens of the Jewish faith as German citizens in every respect The life and property of Jewish citizens should be afforded the same protection as is accorded to all Germans." He added that their businesses, too, should be protected. The appointment of Dr. Joseph Goebels as the new Propaganda Minister, has been followed ythe resignation of Dr. Funk as chief of the Federal Press Department.

Funk, for whose appointment Goebels was responsible recently gave assurances through his secretary that the Jews would be adequately protected. HOLD OPEN HOUSE AT HOME FOR AGED JEWS, SUNDAY AFT. To Celebrate Third Anniversary In New Home, 2:30 To 5 P. M. EXPECT THOUSANDS TO VISIT BEAUTIFUL HOME The third anniversary of the opening of the new Milwaukee Home for Aged Jews, 2436 N.

Fiftieth street, will be appropriately observed at an Open House celebration to be held at the Home on Sunday afternoon, March 19, from 2:30 p. m. to 5 p. m. The beautiful structure, which was the culmination of a dream of over a quarter of a century, will be thrown open for inspection for several thousands of persons in the community who will visit the building.

Members of the boards of directors of the men's and women's organizations affiliated with the home will act as hosts and escort visitors through all departments of the institution. These organizations are the Association of the Home for the Aged, the Hebrew Institute, the B'Noth Israel Women's Auxiliary, the Women's Auxiliary of the Home for Aged Jews, and the Council of Jewish Women, which maintains the Infirmary in the Home. The present structure of the Home was dedicated in March, 1929. It was made possible by a building fund campaign, which was the shortest and most successful money raising efforts ever undertaken in the community. It was led by Mrs.

Sig. Ruscha, who was the first Jewish woman to head a major drive in this city. The goal of the drive was $75,000 but that figure was reached in only two days and before the week was over, close to $100,000 had been pledged. The new Home on Fiftieth street is one of the finest of its kind in the country. The building, furnishings and equipment represent a total cost of $125,000.

The Home numbers 34 aged men and women who are pass ing the years remaining to them in pleasant comfort. It is earnestly hoped by those who are making effort to bring happiness into the lives of these splendid old folk that they will receive the encouragement of many visitors on Sunday. No solicitation of any kind will be made. MIDWEST ZIONISTS HOLD ANNUAL CONFERENCE AT The annual conference of the Mid- West Zionist Region will be held on Sunday, March 19. at the Chicago headouarters of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, 11 S.

La Salle street, at 2 p. m. The conference, embracing Illinois, Indiana, Wicconsin. Michigan, Min nesota, North and South Dakota, promises to be one of the most important meetings ever held in the Mid-West in view of the extraordinary arrangements being made in connection with the celebration of the Jewish Day at the World's Fair under auspices of the Agency for Palestine. Louis Lipsky, former president of the Zionist Organization of America and national chairman of the Ameri can Palestine Campaign, will be guest of honor and will address the confer ence on the present Jewish world situ ation.

Max Shulman, chairman of the Mid-West Region, will preside. Speakers will include Judge Harry M. Fisher. Chicaeo chairman of the American Palestine Campaign; Jacob M. Braude president of the Zionist Organization of Chicago; Pearl Franklin, who will speak on women's participation in the World's Fair Jewish Day: and Meyer L.

Weisgal, executive director of the Mid-West Zionist Region, who will outline plans concerning the part to be taken by Mid-West Jewry in the World Fair. In view of the unusual interest that attaches to this annual conference it is expected that every Jewish commu nity in the Mid-West will be repre sented on March 19. The officers and executive committee of the regional organization are Max Shulman, presi dent; Rabbi PhiliD Pincus, vice-presi dent; Rabbi M. Steinberg, vice-presi dent; Simon Shetzer, vice-president; Arthur Shutkm, vice-president; Ran bi Aaron Cohen, secretary; B. Hot wich, treasurer.

OVERNOR POLLARD, of Virginia, at the National Celebration Commemorative of the Religious Character of George Washington and the Separation of Church and State, held in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on October 16, 1932, delivered a masterpiece on the subject of religious freedom, "America's Greatest Gift to the Science of Government' as follows: "We are here to do honor to a great man and to rededicate ourselves to a great principle. Our immortal Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 reminds us that frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is the price of liberty. In the same declaration we are told that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of "Nine years after this famous declaration, came Jefferson's Statute of Religious Liberty, which placed all religions on a basis of absolute equality before the law. It announced to the world that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry, and that all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge affect their civil capacities. "America's Greatest Gift" "This was America's greatest and most distinctive gift to the science of government.

Acts of toleration had before been passed, but never before had any government put all religions on a footing pf perfect equality. "To the minds of snmp. rplici'nna liberty means liberty to Christian' JESSE I. STRAUS NAMED AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE BY PRES. Is First Jew to Represent U.

S. In Major Diplomatic Post PRES. OF R. H. MACY NEPHEW OF OSCAR STRAUS Washington.

President Roosevelt sent to the Senate Monday the nomination of Jesse Isidor Straus, of New York, to be Ambassador to France. Mr. Straus is a nephew of the late Oscar Straus, who was secretary of Commerce and Labor in the cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt, and the first Jew to hold a cabinet position. Jesse I. Straus is the first Jew appointed Ambassador to a great world power.

Henry Morgenthau and Abram I. Elkus served previously as ambassadors to Turkey. The appointment of Mr. Straus to the post in Paris was forecast several days ago when it was learned that the State Department had sounded the French Government on his acceptability. It was said at the time that he was especially well gratified, being a fluent speaker of French, one of President Roosevelt's requirements, and a frequent visitor to see France.

For nearly 15 years he has been president of R. H. Macy and has made a name for himself, not only as a conspicuously successful business man but as an organizer in unemployment relief drives during the last few years. Born in New York City on June 25, 1872, he is a son of Isidor Straus and Ida Straus, who were lost when the Titanic went to the' bottom. His grandfather Lazarus Straus, was a pioneer merchant who established himself at Talbotton, in 1848.

Mr. Straus was graduated from Harvard University in 1893. He began work as clerk in the Hanover National Bank in New York and then went to the concern of Abraham Straus in Brooklyn. In 1896 he became connected with H. Macy and has been president of that department store since 1919.

An ardent and active Democrat, Mr. Straus for many years has been a close friend of President Roosevelt, and worked energetically for his nomination and had spoken in behalf of Mr. Roosevelt's election. Mr. Straus and his brothers, Percy S.

and Herbert N. Straus, contribu ted $300,000 in 1924 for a dormitory at Harvard memory of their father. Mr. Straus has given large sums to charity and in 1930 donated $25,000 to New York University. Mr.

Straus is a director of the New York Life Insurance Company, the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company and the American In ter-Insurers. He is a trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank and Northern Westchester Hospital, was president of the National Retail Dry Goods Association in 1922 and vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce of New York from 1923 to 1927, member of the board of overseers of Harvard, of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the For New York. By a unanimous decision of leaders in the Palestine movement in America, it was voted at an emergency executive meeting held last Tuesday night of members of the Greater New York American Palestine Campaign Committee to continue "without hesitation, without loss of enthusiasm and without cessation of effort" with the American Palestine Campaign, the fund-raising effort which enables the Jewish Agency for Palestine to maintain colonization, education, immigration and sanitation activities in the Jewish homeland. The emergency meeting, summoned by Mr. Louis Lipsky, national chairman of the American Palestine Campaign, and Mr.

Morris Rothenberg, president of the Zionist Organization of America was in response to an alarming cablegram that had been received from the Executive of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, which indicated that a financial collapse is imminent for the Jewish Agency in Palestine, and warning that Jewish relations with the Government and economic stability of Jews in Palestine would be disastrously affected. The call for the meeting was issued on Friday, before the New York bank holiday had been declared. It was exited, therefore, that last night's conference would result in the cancellation of plans for the American Palestine Campaign, which are to have their climax with a dinner in honor of Nathan Straus, on March 29. On the contrary, however, the meeting was characterized by Mr. Lipsky who presided, as "the most genuinely enthusiastic meeting for Palestine held in New York during the last decade." Two factors were said to be responsible for the decision to go ahead with Palestine fund-raising: "an unabated confidence in the strength of America," which was expressed in a formal resolution; and the events of the last few days in Germany, which were Continued on Pagre 8) LOUIS LIPSKY TO SPEAK HERE MON.

MAR. 20 ON WORLD JEWISH EVENTS Noted Zionist Leader Will Address Meeting at Colonial Room Hotel Wisconsin Louis Lipsky, national chairman of the American Palestine Campaign, and outstanding Zionist leader in the world movement, will be in Milwaukee Monday, March 20, and will deliver an address at a meeting to be held in the Colonial Room of the Hotel Wisconsin at 8:30 p. m. The meeting to be held under the auspices of the Milwaukee Zionist organization is open to the entire community. There will be no solicitation for funds.

Dr. Eugene Heifetz, president of the local Zionist organization will preside. LOUIS LIPSKY Mr. Lipsky will bring to the Jews of Milwaukee first hand information on the status of the Zionist move ment and the progress being made in Palestine, together with the situation that confronts the Jews throughout the world. Mr.

Lipsky's talk will be particularly interesting and informa tive at this time in view of the critical events that are transpiring in Germany and other countries where the Jews are made scapegoats for every national ill. Mr. Lipsky's wide range of knowledge of world affairs, his earnest eloquence, and his intense Jewish loyalty is well recognized in Milwaukee. He has spoken here many times and always attracts capacity audiences. Inasmuch as the seating capacity of the Colonial Room is limited, it is urged that all who desire to attend come early.

A dinner will be given to Mr. Lip sky preceding the meeting to which those who desire to meet him personally may attend. Reservations may be made by calling Dr. Heifetz, Kil- bourn 9848. BY NAZI GANGS, Nazis, who picketed the customers and prevented entrance.

At Breslau, the Tietz, Woolworth, and Barasch stores were compelled to close. Similar reports have come in from Dus-seldorf, Gladbach, Rheydt, and Wup-pertal, where the Tietz, Schocken, and other Jewish stores have suspended business. At Gotha a band which commenced to attack Jewish shops, left when the regular police arrived. At Hanover, the house of Professor Lessing, the well known Jewish philosopher was demolished by Nazis, and his library, including valuable manuscripts, destroyed. At Breslau, there was a concentrated attack on the law courts, and all Jewish officials were ejected.

Throughout Bavaria, chain stores and small shops owned by Jews, as well as Jewish banks stopped business, either because they were given to understand that it would be advisable to close, or because they fear to open. Goering Guarantees Safety, But Boycott Goes On Berlin. (J.T.A.) "The safety of the life and property of the Jewish citizens is legally guaranteed to all who are loyal to the Government," de-( Continued on Pagre 6) RABBI S. I. SCHEINFELD APPEALS FOR PASSOVER AID TO JEWISH FAMILIES Appeals On Kehalf of 250 Families UnaLilt to Purchase Articles For Holyday Observance On behalf of 250 local Jewish families, who are unable to purchase the articles necessary for full observance of the Passover holydays, Rabbi Solomon I.

Scheinfeld, leader of the United Orthodox Congregations of Milwaukee, has issued the following appeal to the Jews of this community: "In accordance with our annual custom we are sending out a committee to solicit funds to assist our poor over the Passover. There are many Jewish families in the city who are self-supporting and who ask for no assistance from the local charities, but who find it hard on their very small income to meet the particularly heavy expense of the Passover week. In addition to helping these people in a dignified manner, the fund is used to provide special Passover meals for the unfortunate and friendless Jews in the various county and state "Last year the generosity of the RABBI S. I. SCHEINFELD community made it possible for us to aid 260 deserving families and to provide over 400 meals for the Jewish patients in the county hospital and the Jewish inmates of other institutions.

This past year has been an even more trying one for many of our community. Many wage earners have been employed only part time or not at all. We expect that there will be more than 400 families whom we will have to assist. This is a duty we cannot shirk and we are relying upon the generosity of those" more fortunate to make it possible for us to take care of them all." "The following men have volunteered to give freely of their time and effort to solicit for this cause and are authorized to collect donations: H. Rabinovitz, H.

Weinstein, I. Glick, Theodore Klein, Sam Rosen, Max Holzman, H. Bragarnick, S. Hersh and I. Cohen.

Any courtesy extended them will be deeply appreciated." Sincerely RABBI S. I. SCHEINFELD. 1 Berlin. (J.T.A.) Although the! United States Ambassador Sackett made representations here last week regarding assaults on American citizens, more Americans have suffered at the hands of Nazis.

They are Julius Fuhs, and Edward Dahlberg, the author, and a student, Lewis, Ber-man. Dahlberg was attacked on the Kurfurstendamm by Storm Troops, and badly beaten on the head. Fuhs was attacked and robbed by Nazis in a cafe, of which he is the owner. Louis Berman, a medical student, was beaten up in the street by Nazi troopers. No Cessation to Anti-Jewish Outrages London.

(J.T.A.) Despite the lull in the attack on Jewish businesses following the publication of Hitler's order, there is no cessation in the acts of violence against individual Jews. At Kiel, Wilhelm Spieger, a Jewish lawyer and a Socialist candidate at the Municipal elections, was shot dead by two men, who pretended to be police officers. They knocked at his door demanding that he open it in the name of the law. As soon as Spieger opened the door, they fired at him, killing him instantly and escaping. The London "Times" which fea tures the prevalence of violence in Germany, describes the case of a well known Jewish lawyer in Munich who complained to the police of Nazi interference with Jewish stores.

The Nazis thereupon attacked him and compelled him to parade the streets with a placard, inscribed "Never Again Complain to the Police." Sr.vi:Yr are reaches hero from Vienna. Today's Austrian press vividly describes the inhuman torture of Jews who have been imprisoned in the German military fortress of Spandau. The Austrian newspapers reproduce the details given to them by refugees from Germany who have left the country after being released from Spandau, which had previously been reserved only for prisoners of high rank. They tell that on being brought into Spandau, the Nazis greet every new group of arrivals with the question whether thev are Jews. If the reply is in the affirmative, the victim is forced to lie down on the floor and his body is stamped and kicked, until he is unconscious.

They tell of cases in which the victims, Communists and non-Communists remained unconscious for days. The Austrian press, however, has not published a list of the victims. Similar stories are arriving from Prague which has become a haven for refugees from German prisons. A refugee reports that Alfred Apfel, who was arrested soon after the burning of the Reichstag building, has died as a result of torture, and that another lawyer was so terribly beaten about the face that he is unrecognizable. Alfred Apfel, it will be recalled, was the President of the Zionist Organization in Berlin.

The sole cause of his arrest was reported to be the fact that he had appeared, in a professional capacity, in defense of a Communist prisoner. Arrest, Expel American Jewish Journalist Berlin. (J.T.A.) Dr. Jacob Leschinsky, representative of the New York "Daily Forward," who was arrested last week was released from prison conditional on his leaving Germany. It is understood that in the meantime efforts are being made to postpone his expulsion.

It is also reported that the United States State Department is making inquiries here regarding Leschinsky's case, at the request of the newspaper, because its service is seriously affected. While Leschinsky is the only foreign correspondent to be arrested, others have either been threatened with expulsion or have been called to the Foreign Office, in order to explain passages in the reports sent out by them. At the same time, there is in progress a drive against German Jewish journalists who have no means of protection from outside. Thus, at the regular press conference held by the German Federal Government for the information of correspondents and for maintaining contact with the government, some of the most prominent Jewish journalists were expelled from the meeting. Hitler's Appeal Produces Quiet In Berlin But Agitation Unabated in Provinces Berlin.

J.T.A.) While Hitler's appeal has resulted in a cessation of the anti-Jewish boycott campaign in Berlin, the agitation continues unabated in the provinces. At Frankfurt' the Tietz," Dronken, and other Jewish stores closed by uniformed litical function? I do not consider what I have said inconsistent with my firm belief that the church is by far the greatest single factor in the sue (Continued on Page 7) NATION'S LEADERS HONOR EINSTEIN i. AT DINNER IN 1 Y. Says That He Will Not Return To Germany While Hitler Rules PLEADS FOR SUPPORT FOR HEBREW UNIVERSITY New York. Albert Einstein, explorer of the cosmos and champion of humanity, arrived in New York Wed nesday from California, where he had been engaged in scientific work at the California Institute of Technology, and received the enthusiastic greet ing of nearly 1,000 admirers at a din ner given in his honor at the Hotel Commodore under the honorary chair manship of Governor Lehman and Felix M.

Warburg. Mayor O'Brien greeted Dr. Ein stein in behalf of the city, welcoming him as an honored guest and an illustrious representative of the world's science and culture. In a message from Albany, Gover nor Lehman greeted him in behalf of the State of New York as "a brilliant scientist and friend of mankind." The dinner was under the lomt suspices of the American Friends of the Hebrew University in Palestine and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Dr. Einstein appealed for the support of both these institutions.

Noted scientists, diplomats and rep resentatives of the world of art, literature, jurisprudence, finance and phil anthropy joined with the audience in paying homage to Dr. Einstein. Representing the German Ambassador Paron von Prittwitz und Gaffron, was Dr. Otto C. Kiep, German Consul Gen eral in New York.

Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, discussed at length the revolu tionary significance of Dr. Einstein's labors the field of science, while Dr. Harlow Shapley of the Harvard Ob servatory delivered a scientific ad dress on problems of astronomy dwelling in part on Dr.

Einstein's contribution to this domain. Other speakers were Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, chairman of the American Jewish Physicians' Committee; Dr. A S. W.

Rosenbach, president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University; James Marshall, Dr. Solo mon Lowenstein and Dr. Emanuel Libman. Dr. Einstein was to have sailed for Germany immediately after the din ner, but changed his plans because of the disturbing situation arising from the accession of Hitler to the Chancellorship.

Dr. Einstein will sail for Antwerp on the Belgenland. He de clared that he "does not intend to put foot on German soil as long as con ditions in Germany are as at pres ent." This statement was made in re sponse to a written questionnaire sent by newspapermen to his apartment at the Waldorf-Astoria. "Have any personal threats been made against you?" was another question. "I do not know of any," Dr.

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