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Dacember 24, 1937 THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE 5 Belief aire Band Plays At Celebration GEN. LUDENDORFF, NOTORIOUS ANTI- Hebrev University Seen As Peace Intermediary Director of American Friends of Mount Scopus Institution Says University May Solve Arab-Jewish Problem. New York (JTA) The solution of Arab-Jewish difficulties in Palestine may come not from those fighting out the question in the political arena, but from the "ivory tower" of the Hebrew university, Samuel B. Finkel, director of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, declared last week on his return from Palestine. The university on Mount Scopus, through the mutual respect for the respective cultures of the Arabs and Jews that it arouses, may well lead built some day when the $100,000 necessary is provided by some benevolent person and students must live wherever they can and commute to classes every day.

There is a clubhouse with a cafeteria and assembly hall, but little student life as compared with American colleges. The university has a student body of 779 731 regular students and 48 research students and a faculty of 120. Ten of the students are from the United States, most of them from New York, one from Hartford and one from Pennsylvania. The instructors include three Americans Prof. Mor-decai Kaplan, Dr.

Alexander Dush-kin and Prof. I. J. Kliger. Ask Heavy Fine For Bernstein Berlin (WNS) A fine of marks, a confiscation of all "illegally acquired property, amounting to several million marks" a prison sentence of five years and loss of civil rights for ten years were demanded as punishment for Arnold Bernstein, Jewish shipping magnate, by the state's attorney prosecuting him for alleged economic treason.

Heavy punishment was also asked for four other Jewish defendants in the sensational trial. If the court accedes to the prosecutor's demands Bernstein will be left, penniless. The Bellefaire band did its part in commemorating the birthday of the late Dr. Samuel Wolfenstein, superintendent of the Jewish Orphan Home for thirty-five years, when the Alumni took charge of the December birthday celebration, on Friday evening, December 17th, at the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home. Made possible and maintained by the Frank J.

Godsol Memorial Fund, the band was organized in July, 1936. It is made up of forty-two boys and girls ranging in age from ten to seventeen, all but two of whom had no previous musical instruction of any kind. Thirty of these children now play in school bands, and so much interest has been displayed by all the children that a second band has been organized. The Home, founded by B'nai B'rith in 1868, cares for children from sixteen states of the Middle-West. New Type of Beer Made in Palestine Leaves Estate to University New York (JTA) The Hebrew university will receive approximately $35,000 under the will of Adolf Lowinger, realtor of Lawton, who died Dec.

6 at the age of 83, it was announced by Samuel B. Finkel, director of the American Friends of the Hebrew University. Mr. Lowinger's will, dated Dec. 11, 1936, provides that his entire estate be turned over for the use of the Hebrew univrsity except for $2,000 bequeathed to the Jewish community of his native town of Papa, Hungary.

to a realization that Arabs and Jews can live together, said Mr. Finkel in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "The remedy," he declared, "may come, not from the heated controversies, but from the cool recesses of an educational institution. The university can be instrumental in showing the futility of attempting to solve this difference by hatred and force." Mr. Finkel, who conferred with university officials and talked with teachers and students, said that both the faculty and student body at the university are determined not to permit the situation in Palestine in any way to affect their plans and their work.

There are no Arab students at the university probably because would-be students feared reprisals from other Arabs but the doors of the institution are open to all. One of the things the university lacks, Mr. Finkel said, is a campus life. There is little of organized athletics. The students are too busy.

Many have to work for a living, and a number get their exercise hauling bricks to build the new medical center on Mount Scopus. And then there is no dormitory although one will be SEMITE, SUCCUMBS Preached Doctrine of Hate Long Before Rise of Hitler FANATIC ORGANIZED NEO-PAGAN MOVEMENT Berlin (WNS) The death of General Erieh Ludendorff, German World War commander, removes from the scene an embittered fanatic who was notorious for his anti-Semitic preachments long before most people had ever heard of Adolf Hitler. After the war Ludendorff, under the influence of his second wife, the former Mathilda Kemnitz, organized the Tannenberg League, a neo-pagan, anti-Christian and anti-Semitic group. Through the weekly paper of the league, the Wochenschau, Ludendorff preached the most fanatic sort of anti-Semitic nonsense. Previously he had been identified with Hitler and joined with him in the abortive Munich beer cellar putsch of November 1932.

Later he became estranged from Hitler and went his own way, only to be reconciled in 1935 on his 70th birthday. Although Ludendorff never abandoned his rabid anti-Semitism, in 1930 he sued his wife for divorce on the ground that she had tricked him into agitating against Jews and masons and maneouvred him into the adoption of his anti-Christian views. Made Lurid Charges Among the lurid charges he hurled at the Jews were that they were responsible for the increase in railway accidents as plot to further the sale of Jewish-made automobiles; that President Roosevelt was "the servant of the Jews, Freemasons and Catholics" who was trying to do for America what Walther Rathenau had done for Germany; that the Jews had undermined England's military power; and that the Jews were to blame for Japanese nationalism. In his war against Christianity he repeatedly declared that "Christian teachings have only one purpose, to help the Jewish people to domination." lie also charged that "the Jews aim to stir up nationalism everywhere to its zenith in order to cause the various nations to fall upn each other and thus pave the way for Jewish control of the world." J. D.

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endorsing in general the idea of the Welfare Fund. Rabbi Wise stated that if the Welfare Fund is organized under a leadership representing all the elements of the community, and if the profound emotional appeal inherent in the causes of the U. P. A. and the J.

D. C. are maintained, and if the national and local minor causes do not receive a disproportionate amount of the total raised, "I feel that it would be to the interests of the U. P. A.

to co-operate with you to the utmost in the furtherance of your scheme, for I believe that anything which strengthens the Jewish community and eliminates duplication of effort and promotes union on a basis of common causes, is serving Palestine as well as the whole Jewish people." The effect of Rabbi Wise's letter strengthened the conviction of all present that details of difference should not obscure the larger benefit to be derived in promoting harmony and mutual helpfulness in the local community itself, the members of which are now more than ever anxious to discard the many rivalries that necessarily prevail in the collection of many funds, and which result in an ever widening splitting up of the community into competitive groups. Besides Chairman Stein, the committee of the Federation present were Mrs. Sig. Ruscha, secretary, Bert C. Broude, Aaron Scheinfeld, Rabbi Jos.

Baron, and Jerome C. Saltzstein. Others present were Mrs. S. Mark-son, Robert A.

Hess, Peter Ottenstein, Joseph G. Daneman, Benjamin Poss, Alex Himmelman, I. B. Padway, Louis Heilbronner, Benjamin Saltzstein, N. Sand, Hyman Seidelman, Samuel Shapiro, N.

B. Goldstein, Samuel Rosen, Sol Perchonok, Ben Glass, George Gratz, Morton Wax, N. J. Gould, Rabbi bamuel Hirshberg, and Solomon Shapiro. Threaten to Sell Nazi Camp to Father Divine Southburn, Conn.

JTA Fritz Kuhn, national "Fuehrer" of the German-American Bund, threatened last week to sell the 178-acre site acquired for a Nazi camp to Father Divine if the town of Southbury continued its "persecution." The threat to sell out to a Negro group came as a meeting of this town's 1,300 inhabitants was called to discuss a zoning proposal which would indirectly block the establishment of the Summer camp for from 3,000 to 7,000 pro-Nazis. Isaac, Mexican Jewish Leader-Dead Mexico City (WNS) Albert Isaac director of the Keren Hayesod of Mexico for the last three years and secret agent of the German government in Mexico during the World War, is dead here of a heart attack. Member of a prominent German-Jewish family, Isaac had lived in Mexico for more than 20 years before he became interested in Jewish problems. 'A Friendly Place to Buy Your Fuel' IFUJEIL CD. Call MArquette 3242 COAL COKE FUEL OILS 1323 North Water Street particularly dangerous to any party but the bull.

One word led to an other, it always does. "I talked too much. I eruess." he says, "for the first thing I knew, had talked my way right into the bull ring." Considered Tops Today Sid, who had seen exactly one cor rida, did not pull his punches when he made his debut. In Spain, boys are sent to schools at 14 and remain there for five or six years before they are adjudged to be proficient in the gentle art of killing a bull with grace and finesse. Some men start as picadors or ban darillos and never learn to use the cape and sword well enough to meas ure a sagging, subdued bull for the final thrust.

Franklin entered the arena as a matador. The aficionados confidently expected to see the rash American carried out on a stretcher Franklin was carried out on the shoulders of a delirious mob. They finally did have to put the Jewish matador away in the hospital wnere he was supposed to remai. for eight months, in 1930. But con tracts, rewarding him with as much as $10,000 for a single performance had been signed, and Sid met every one of his engagements.

By that time he had an ecstatic public in Spain and the ring held an overpowering fascination for him Seven severe gorings and seven major operations in the following five years intensified, rather than diminished, his passion for the corrida. The grand circuit Mexico, South Ameri ca, Cuba, Spain, Southern France still knows him and pays tribute to him as one of the most skillful ex ponents of the classical school. At first Spaniards refused to be lieve that a matador who executed the traditional maneuvers and bulls- with such faultless purity of form and action could possibly be a foreigner, an untutored American. After they saw Franklin perform, they still did not want to believe that he was only a few years removed from Brooklyn. Madrid, Seville Valencia and Barcelona made a great show of presenting him as a native son.

Total strangers assured him that they knew his mother and father well, were present at his birth and remembered minute details of the event. That same Brooklyn lad will probably enter that Cuban corrida whistling "Roar, Lion, Roar." Austria to Give Only $3,000 to Jewish Agencies In 1938 Vienna (WNS) The Austrian government's budget for social service and religious agencies includes an appropriation of 16,000,000 schillings ($3,000,000) for Catholics and only schillings ($3,000) for Jews. THE SPIRIT OF nnn if bklLiU LfLl PREVAILS Dr. Taubenhaus, Authority On Plant Pathology, Dead Bryan, Texas (WNS) Dr. Jacob J.

Taubenhaus, a graduate of the Mikveh Israel Agricultural School in Palestine, who became one of the leading authorities on plant pathology in the United States, died here at the age of 51. A native of Safed, Palestine, he came to this country in 1900 and four years later graduated from the National Farm School. Since 191G he had been chief of the division of plant pathology and physiology of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Dr. Taubenhaus was widely known for his studies of the root rot of the cotton plant and the development of new methods of treating plant diseases.

Lansbury Proposes Merging Colonies to Deal With the Population Problem Prague (WNS) Lumping together of all colonies under the administration of an international commission responsible to a new league of nations was proposed by George Lansbury, British pacifist, as solution to the problem of finding outlets for Europe's surplus populations. Mr. Lansbury told newspapermen here that his suggested world colony would protect the rights of natives and direct the settlement of refugees. Rishon-le-Zion, Palestine (WNS-Palcor) A new type of beer, black Munich beer, has been included among the products of the "Nesher" brewery. Its production is designed to offset losses in consumption.

The Palestine Breweries did a roaring trade last year when 25,000 British soldiers were in the country. There was an additional investment in plant expansion of $150,000, bringing the total investment in the factory to $400,000. There has been a decline in trade now owing to the economic depression. Machines are not working at full capacity. The new black beer is expected to help.

A new brewery, sponsored by the famous British firm of George Younger and Son, is starting at Beth Vegan, Jewish settlement south of Jaffa. The brand will be called "Kabir" (a play on the "beer," meaning "mighty" in Hebrew). Extends to You and Yours Sincerest and Heartiest JJew3 Era Spoirits By MORRIS WEINER Tossing the Bull Around A new corrida is being built down Cuba way and when it opens a Jew will be on hand to provide the excitement. (A corrida, in case you've never been told, is the name of the one arena in the world where the market is always bullish.) These words merely support our contention that Jews are to be found in the most unexpected places and in all sorts of sports. And, to further it, we give you Sidney Franklin, born in Brooklyn, discovered in Mexico and idolized in Spain.

Wherever he sroes. Jewish Sidney Franklin is eulogized as one ol the extremely few non-Latins who, of his own volition, has embraced the enormously technical and hazardous profession of the mata dor and has consistently escaped from the arena with his life. Classifying bull-fighting as a sport may be stretching a fine point to outrageous lengths who ever heard of a bull getting a sporting, or any chance? but the extraordinary case of Franklin is significant in demonstrating the adaptability aiA courage of the Jewish athlete. Franklin was a typical Jewish boy for 19 uneventful years, unusual only in that he was graduated from Columbia at 17. One fine day he felt the urge to get away from prosaic Brooklyn for a while.

He had the money, the leisure and the desire to travel; he headed in the general direction of Mexico merely because a friend was there. Presently he turned up Mexico City, established himself in an art shop and at the end oi two years was making $1,500 a month. First Reaction to Corrida Sickening The novelty of Mexico had faded by that time and Brooklyn assumed a sudden attractiveness for Franklin. He had completed all necessary arrangements for his return when he remembered that he had not seen a bullfight. He didn't exactly have a burning desire to see one, but it was definitely the thing to do and there naturally would be questions by friends back home.

Sidney Franklin's first trip to an arena meant that Brooklyn was not to see him again for several more years. His first reaction at the arena was typical. He got sick to his stomach then bored (no pun intended). What was all the shooting for The superiority of man over an animal was to be expected, he maintained, and the entire affair did not appear to be GRADY MANNING PrtildeM CEMMCTT KARSTON MMfW UK Health where regaining waters mineral blood th( fervently hope that the New Year 1938 may bring you an abundant measure of health, happiness and prosperity! NATIONAL PARK VIX ARKANSAS is trie keynote of all activities at Hot Springs thousands have found the Fountain of Youth, pep and vigor through the curative thermal of the internationally famous spa. Under government supervision, drinking and bathing in tnese springs afford relief to sufferers from high pressure, neuritis, rheumatism and other disorders.

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