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5705 M1I 1944 CT02TI ISOOflSlfl WISE EfOfHiCl for the jGwisliSm AWeeMy Pap Vol. 54-No. 2 Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice ol Milwaukee. under the Act of March 3. 1879.

MILWAUKEE, SEPTEMBER 15, 1944 7 Sections -68 Pages Per Year $3 FCPlCTOKY AH BUY fWl fiM buy 4 1 Jiff Special Gifts Division Of 1944 War Chest Drive Again Headed by H. S. Falk Solicitation for Advanced Gifts and Special Gifts Open This Week; Bert C. Broude and Maurice C. Chier Head Sections The appointment of Harold S.

Falk, prominent industrialist, as chairman of the Special Gifts division of the 1911 Community-War Chest campaign who headed that division last year, has been announced by James H. Daggett, general chairman. Mr. Daggett expressed great satisfaction over the fact that he had been able to again secure the services of Mr. Falk to lead this important division of the campaign, which is to raise a large proportion of the more than $3,000,000 which will be the 1941 goal.

American Jewish Groups Will Send Delegates to Poland to Speed Relief Jewish Leaders in Liberated Poland Organize Relief Committee; Express Hope for Financial Aid from American Jewry New York (JTA) Jewish organizations here and in Canada were reported to be preparing to send delegations to the liberated parts of Poland in order to initiate emergency relief measures on behalf of the surviving Jewish population. The preparations are being made as a result of an invitation cabled to major Jewish organizations by Dr. Emil Sommerstein, member of the Polish Committee of National Liberation in Lublin who emphasized that "there is need of immediate and direct relief. The Canadian Jewish Coneress A Rosh Hashanah Prayei 5705 May the new year 5705 witness the end of the terrible war now raging across the seas. May the forces of evil that seek to enslave the energies and spirit of man by violence and terror be checked and eliminated from the earth.

May peace come to all the nations and all the peoples of the earth a just and lasting peace under which men of all races and creeds may live in mutual respect, co-operation and harmony for the welfare of all. Implant in us all the spirit of hope and faith in the future, that we may carry on our daily tasks, our responsibilities and loyaities, with assurance in the eventual Tightness of things, despite the reversion to barbarism that is so rampant in the world. Bless this great land of democracy and freedom that it may ever be a stronghold of peace and justice for all its inhabitants. Strengthen the bonds of friendship and fellowship among the peoples of various races and creeds who have gathered here from all parts of the world to build an ever greater America. Eliminate from their hearts any of the suspicion and hatreds against their fellow human beings.

Strengthen us in our loyalty to the faith of our fathers that we may ever be ready to aid our brethren here and everywhere. Inscribe us all in the Book of Life for a year of health and strength that we may better face the problems of life in these critical times, for ourselves, our country, our people and mankind. Oppose Emergency Refugee Shelters in Palestine New York (JTA) Strong opposition was voiced by the American Federation for Polish Jews to the resolution recently introduced into both Houses of Congress calling for the establishment in Palestine of Emergency Refugee Shelters similar to that established at Oswego, New York. In a letter addressed to the sponsors of the bill, among them Senators Taft, Thomas, and Murray, and Congressmen Somers, Baldwin, and Lane, Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, president of the Federation, declared that the establishment of the proposed camps would be "detrimental to the conception of Palestine as a Jewish National Homeland where the Jew should enjoy complete freedom" and to which Jewish refugees should "be admitted without restriction and with no restraint imposed on their normal human liberties." Dr.

Tenenbaum stated that although the Federation is opposed in principle to internment of Jewish refugees and favors the granting of normal liberties in common with all other elements of the population of the countries offering haven, the Federation "has taken an active part in bringing comfort, both material and cultural, to the 250 Polish Jews among the 982 refugees now at Oswego." for all surviving Jews in the liberated part of Poland has been established here. It is headed by Dr. Shloima Herszenhorn who is also the head of the Jewish department at the Polish Committee for National Liberation which is recognized by Moscow as the temporary Polish government The hope that an American Jewish relief delegation will shortly come to liberated Poland was expressed here both bv Dr. Herszenhorn and by Dr. Emil Sommer Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, Hadassah and Youth Aliyah, National Labor Committee for Palestine and other overseas organizations in more than 50 countries around the world.

Among the beneficiary agencies of the Milwaukee Jewish Welfare Fund is the Mount Sinai Hospital, Jewish Vocational Service, the local Talmud Torahs, the Milwaukee Army and Navy Comuiittee, the Milwaukee Committee for Jewish Refugees and the Milwaukee Jewish Council. Other divisions of the Community-War Chest campaign are going rapidly completed and daily meetings of campaign executives and fund workers are being held. It is anticipated that when all the divisions are formed, that more than 8,000 volunteer workers will be engaged in the campaign to obtain from the patriotic citizens of Milwauke County gifts of more than $3,000,000 for the Milwaukee County Community-War Chest. War Chest Campaign Leaders IT, 1 stein, the 61-year-old Zionist leader and member of the Polish Committee for National Liberation. "The need among the surviving Jews is great," Dr.

Sommerstein told me. must get relief from abroad, especially clothing, by airplane, if possible. Most of the 100,000 surviving Jews have nothing to wear. They also need medicine, machinery, tools and; all kinds of help to return to normal life. What does the maintenance of 100,000 Jews mean to their brethren in the United States who came to the aid of millions of Jews in Europe before the outbreak of the war?" INTERFAITH RALLY HEARS WARNING OF POST-WAR BIGOTRY Anti-Semitism, Nazis' Deadliest Weapon, Justice Murphy Declares New York (JPS) Warnings against the postwar re-emergence of bigotry movements in the United States, fed on racism i a i XT ij 7 Te -ii jPf an interfaith rally addressed by Assistant Secretary of State A.

A. Berle Justice Frank J. Murphy of the United States Supreme Court and U. S. Senator Robert F.

Wagner. Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia presided. Prayers were recited by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Bishop William T.

Manning of the Episcopalian Church, and by Catholic, Protestant and Jewish army chaplains. Speaking from a twin rally in SanFrancisco, with his voice heard here by record transcription, Justice Murphy warned against anti-Semitism, "one of the Nazis' deadliest weapons," even after Allied military victory. Senator Wagner recalled the "dangerous reaction" that set in after tht First World War when the KKK was on the rampage and warned against similar trends at the termination of this war. He called for special vigilance against such outfits as Gerald L. K.

Smith's America First Party. Assistant Secretary of State Berle said that the Nazis' had planned to "Balkanize" the United States by rousing "hatred against Jews and having done that, to create whatever other race hatreds they could stir up." Of the press reports about the Lublin death camp, Mr. Berle said: "The information on hand seems to indicate that the hideous death plant in Lublin was merely one of several Though they were primarily intended as instruments of anti-Jewish hatred, it would appear that other races likewise contributed victims to this nightmare in real life." In the organization of the Spe cial Gifts Division, Mr. Falk has chosen as his associate chairmen Mr. William B.

Uihlein and Mr. Edmund Fitzgerald who will be in charge of the solicitation of larger corporations; Mr. B. E. Nickoll who will direct the solicitation of the national chain stores group; Mr.

Joseph W. Simpson, Jr. and Mr. Bert C. Broude in charge of the teams to solicit individuals.

In accepting the important task of leading the Special Gifts Division-Mr. Falk said, "Our goal is high because the need is great. Our workers will be impressed with the importance of greater effort on their part to reach the goal and we must impress upon all citizens of the county the vital necessity for larger gifts than ever before. I am confident that the patriotic and generous citizens of Milwaukee County will respond in full measure." First active gifts solicitation got under way this week with a kick-off dinner meeting of the advanced Gifts Division under the chairmanship of Maurice C. Chier, vice-president of the Milwaukee Jewish Welfare Fund.

In referring to the Advanced Gifts Section, Mr. Daggett, the General Chairman, expressed himself as being delighted that Chier had accepted the chairmanship of this section, and predicted that under his leadership the same high standard that was set last year would be maintained and surpassed. All special gifts sections will start their solicitation this week end, following a series of kick-off dinners. Bert C. Broude, president of the Jewish Welfare Fund, is co-chairman of special gifts.

110 Beneficiary Agencies In commenting on the campaign, Mr. Daggett, general chairman, points out that this year the Community-War chest is helping to support 110 agencies whose serv ices are performed on the Fighting Front, the Allied Front and the Home Front. Last year there were 106 agencies deriving part of their financial needs from the Community-War Chest. The increase in the number of agencies served this year is due to the creation of new war relief organizations which need funds to carry on their essential On the Fighting Front, Communty-War Chest funds support the USO (United Service Organization), United Seamen's Service and War Prisoner's Aid. Qn the Allied Front, the Community-War Chest contributes to the work of Belgium War Relief Societies, British War Relief Societies, French Relief Fund, Friends of Luxembourg, Greek War Relief Association, Norwegian Relief, Polish War Relief, Queen Wilhemina Fund, Russian War Relief, United China Relief, United Czechoslovak Relief, United Yugoslav Relief Fund and the United States Committee for the Care of European Children.

In Milwaukee, War Chest dollars help to support 48 social and health agencies, hospitals and settlements, day nurseries and foster homes, workshops for the crippled, clubs for youngsters, homes for the aged and sick, as well as the local USO for servicemen in Milwaukee on leave. The Milwaukee Jewish Welfare Fund is one of the major beneficiaries of the Community-War Chest this year. This institution, with its 41 agencies, is serving on the home front, the national scene and, through the United Jewish Appeal, the American ORT, the of Quislings by German Envoy movement. Those denounced either perished in torture chambers at the Drancy and Vittel concentration camps or were removed to Poland's death camps. The failure of Von Abetz to destroy these records may be explained by mere negligence and little concern for his quislings once they performed their functions, or by designs to retain the evidence so that in the future the Nazi underground might blackmail the quislings into further collaboration even when they might balk at its dangers.

The archives found in Von Abetz's office include full files of the legislation, special decrees and secret orders dealing with the policy of the eradication of the Jews, documents evaluating confiscated Jewish property and containing statistics on the number of deported Jews. and the United Jewish War Relief Agencies decided to place all re sources of Canadian Jewry at the disposition of any group seeking to alleviate the hardships of the Jews in Poland. The American Federation of Polish Jews announced that in reply to Dr. Sommerstein's appeal it intends to send a delegation to Poland to extend material and cultural aid to the surviving Jews there. The American Ose, Jewish Health.

Society, announced that it has contacted the Jewish Relief Committee in Lublin and authorized Dr. S. Herszenhorn, former chairman of the Jewish health organization "Toz," in Lublin, to proceed with the immediate restoration of the Toz work and to organize mobile medical units capable of rendering urgent aid to the dispersed Jews in all sections of liberated Poland. Russian Ships May Carry Supplies to Jews in Poland Ottawa (JTA) The Soviet ambassy here will make Russian ships abailable for the transportation of relief supplies to the Jews in liberated sections of Poland, as soon as such arrangements are approved by Moscow, a delegation of the Canadian Jewish Congress was assured by Soviet ambassador George Zarubin. The delegation, headed by Samuel Bronfman, Congress president, discussed with Mr.

Zarubin the various problems involved in getting, food, clothing, medicine and other relief supplies to the Jews of Poland. The Jewish leaders said that the Congress was ready to supply unlimited quantities of assistance provided transportation and means of distribution are available. The ambassador expressed sympathy with the Congress' aims and said that he would immediately i contact Moscow to secure informs-; tion concerning all aspects of the relief problem. Jewish Relief Committee Organized in Lublin Lublin (JTA) A Jewish relief committee to organize aid Strictly BT PHINKAS J. BIKON Confidential Tid-Bifcs from Everywhere L'Shono Tovah The curtain rises on 5705 The past year was the darkest page in the book of Jewish life It witnessed the destruction of hundreds of thousands of Jewish men, women and children whose only crime was the Jewish blood in their veins European Jewry lies prostrate, reduced to one-fifth of its former size The economic position of the survivors has been obliterated The new year must bring better tidings, now that Hitler's defeat is inevitable and will be complete within a few months What do we wish our Jewish leadership for the coming year? Unity, and determination to fight for Jewish rights uncompromisingly and fearlessly The war has demonstrated that we cannot do business with fascism and that our salvation lies with an anti-Fascist democratic world of tomorrow Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Teheran.

Here and There In case you overlooked it: Homer who at the Gerald L. K. Smith for President convention introduced the resolution to sterilize Jews, is the very same Mr. Maertz who was the leader of the Dearborn Crusaders and the Chicago Silver Shirts We are interested to learn that Jewish parochial schools are increasing in numbers throughout the United States This development reflects the growing tide of anti-Semitism and of Jewish opposition to religious release time in public schools Now it has been revealed that the Nazis ransacked Heinrich Heine's tomb in the Mont-martre cemetery in Paris They dug up Heine's casket and threw it on the rubbish heap And the street named after Heine had its appellation fchanged to the moniker of some Nazi big-wig de Gaulle has promised to restore the tomb and the street. Listen Here Guess whom the grapevine has in full command of the virtually (Continued on Pace 6) JWB MAPS PLAN TO HELP SOLDIERS I POST-WAR LIFE Importance of Jewish Centers for Returning Servicemen Stressed at Meeting New York (JTA) Jewish community centers will play a major role in helping Jewish service men and women to resume social and civic life interrupted by the war, Frank L.

Weil, president of the National Jewish Welfare Board stated addressing a meeting of the Jewish Center Division of the Board at the Hotel Vander-bilt. A new statement of objectives for the 293 constituent agencies of the Jewish Center Division of the National Jewish Welfare Board was drawn up at the close of a two-day session of members representing different geographical areas of the country. Declaring that approximately twenty-five percent of the membership of the Jewish Centers are now in the armed forces, Mr. Weil pointed out that when they come back, it will be in these centers that they will renew their civic and social life and become once more a part of the local community. Recreational Services Needed "Then," Mr.

Weil continued, "there will be the thousands who never used the Center before, but who have learned to use the recreational and hospitality services of Red Cross and USO. It is in Y's and community centers particularly that they will be able to find this type of group service in civilian life and it is only through these centers that they can be made a part of our community life. "In order to care for and to serve these returning veterans and to continue the center's usefulness as a youth center and community forum, it is vital that JWB improve and expand its program, stimulate our centers, and bring to them the benefits of our combined thinking and joint planning. "The unifying of the community and the bringing of various elements together into a common program is another very important function of the Jewish Center," Mr. Weil stated.

"Through its Army and Navy program JWB has developed a pattern of unity in which all groups and organizations in Jewish life participate in a joint program of service to the armed forces. It is our responsibility through the Jewish Center Division program to carry over this pattern of unity into our peacetime activities," he concluded. clear the road for the infantry. She had already crushed two guns and their crews when a shell hit her machine. This time, too, she rejoined her unit.

When the war broke out, she was thirty-five years old, keeping house for her husband and children. Early in the war her husband and two sons were killed. Her parents, she soon learned, perished in enemy occupied territory. The thought of avenging her family persisted in plaguing her day and night. She sold her belongings, realizing fifty thousand rubles and wrote to Marshal Stalin asking for permission to invest in a tank and drive it to the front.

She received permission and soon began achieving a reputation for heroism on the MAJOR POST DIES IN AIR ACCIDENT IN S. W. PACIFIC Shot Down in June, 1943, He Survived 100 Days of Jungle Life Major Arthur L. Post, 27, one of the nation's outstanding war heroes, has been killed in an airplane accident on Biak Island, in the Southwest Pacific, according to a war department telegram received last week by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

John A. Post, 2968 N. Thirty-ninth street. Returned only recently to the Southwest Pacific as commanding officer of an air corps group, Major Post was to have been promoted to lieutenant colonel short- MAJOR ARTHUR L. POST ly.

In January, 1944, in Trshing-ton, D. he received the distinguished service cross which is second only to the congressional medal of honor, in recognition of his outstanding feats of heroism during a reconnaissance mission over Jap-held territory. At that time, he was offered a position as air corps instructor in this country but he asked, instead to be sent back to his unit in the south west Pacific. As commanding officer of an aerial photo squadron, Major Post was shot down in flames over Ra-baul on June" 20, 1943. He swerved his burning plane into a Japanese Zero and parachuted to safety.

Thou1- wounded in landing, he survived an ordeal of 100 days in the jungle until he was rescued by his comrades. Some time after his rescue, his commanding officer, Lt. Gen. George C. Kenny, sent a letter to Major Post's mother which reads in part as follows: "Recently your son, Major Arthur L.

Post was decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross. It was an award made in recognition of courageous service to his combat organization, his fellow airmen, his country, his home and to you. "He was cited for extraordinary heroism in action near Rabaul, New Britain. "Major Post in an unarmed and unescorted aircraft voluntarily undertook a photographic mission (Continued on Page 10) Js St JAMES H. DAGGETT General Chairman of Drive JEWISH PAPERS AGAIN APPEAR UN BUCHAREST Zionist Organization to Resume Activities in Liberated Rumania Jerusalem (JTA) The Zionist organization in Rumania has been reorganized since the entry of the Russian Army into that country and two of its periodicals have resumed publication, it is reported in a telegram received here by the Jewish Agency from the president of the Zionist Organization in Bucharest.

"We hope soon to renew emigration work to Palestine," the telegram adds. The message, received here through Turkey, was read at the session of the Small Zionist Actions Committee now meeting here. The committee also heard a report concerning the absorption and housing of new immigrants in Palestine. Moshe Shapiro, head of the Labor Department of the Jewish- Agency, disclosed that 14,500 persons entered the country since last October. They came from Yemen, Rumania, Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria and Greece.

Among them were 1,750 children, mainly from Transnistria, Turkey and the Feramonte internment camp in Italy. Recent Immigrants Need Convalescence The recent immigrants, Mr. Shapiro said, differ greatly from previous newcomers, being former members of the middle class who have been stripped of everything including their health, and who are badly in need of convalescence. Many of them are suffering from tuberculosis. As a result, he added, the Agency's relief budget has grown from about $250,000 to $1,000,000.

The labor chief pointed out that in the last eighteen months, 4,100 Yemenite Jews have arrived here, while only 9,000 came in the previous twenty-three years. About 1,500 additional Yemenite immigrants are stranded in Aden under miserable conditions awaiting permission to embark for Palestine, he stressed. An organization of Palestine citizens who have families living in German-held territory or in concentration camps announced that it has appealed to Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, Queen Wilhelmina of Holland and to the Archbishop of Canterbury urging them to intervene to secure the exchange for Germans held by the Allies of 1,200 Jews whose relatives reside here. HAROLD S. FALK Chairman, Special Gifts Division JEWISH PARTISANS IN FRANCE RELATE FIGHT WITH NAZIS Secret Organization Main tained Contact With Jewish Communities Grenoble, France (JTA) In a bare drab office, in Rue Jean Jaques Rousseau here, leaders of the Jewish underground organization described how for four years they fought to protect 3,000 Jews living in this district and during ten bitter months matched wits with the Gestapo and its Vichyite aids.

They outlined to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent the complex secret organization by which they kept in regular contact with 40 families scattered in hiding throughout the Isere Department; how they maintained contact with other Jewish communities; and how Jews contributed to French resistance in this district. They told of the underground railway through which hundreds of children were smuggled into Switzerland from Grenoble alone, and of the "Jewish army" which battled the Vichy militia and the Nazis and spirited young Jews to the Spanish frontier en route to Palestine. They spoke with pride of the hundreds of young Jews serving with the Maquis and who are presently with the French Forces of the Interior fighting the Germans. (Continued on Page 2) French Seize Lists Abandoned Paris (JPS) A special staff assigned to sift the records in the office here of German Ambassador Von Abetz is assembling the exhibits which will constitute the evidence of treason at the trials of thousands of quislings who performed their tasks surreptitiously, certain that they would never come to light. The records so far catalogued include a fairly complete list of French quislings who were paid by Von Abetz for denouncing Jews.

Alongside the name of each quisling is also a list of the Jews he denounced and the price he was paid for each delivery. The German Ambassador had classified the Jews in price categories, beginning with a standard price for anonymous Jews with no political affiliations and no reputations, and extending to fantastic sums for Jews active in the partisan Jewish Woman Tank Driver Smashed Nazis Single-Handed Moscow (JPS) Guards Sergeant Maria Oktyabrskaya, a Jewess, is the first woman tankist to receive the high distinction Hero of the Soviet Union. In a fierce battle at Novye-Selo, near Leningrad, she was the first to break through the German defense line, crushing a German gun ani its crew of thirty, and scattering German tommy gunners. She then found herself alone, separated from her comrades and her tank damaged by a German shell. Disregarding artillery and mortar fire, Sergeant Maria Oktyabrskaya repaired her machine, and, breaking through a German ring of fire, rejoined her unit; In a more recent battle near the Krynki State Farm, when Soviet troops were storming the enemy positions, Maria Oktyabrskaya was among the first tankists to.