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TT WIS 0 Ef OMOe 240 North Milwaukee Street Telephone MArquefte 2 9 9 2 AWeeldy Pap for the JeyioIrJme Vol. 48 No. 4 Knrerrd aa aoond-elaaa matter at tbn poatoffle of Milwaukee. umfer the Act of March 3. 1879.

MILWAUKEE, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941 Per Year S3 British Jews Can Take It Many Cited For Bravery Protests Increase Over Lindbergh Speech; Issue Splits Isolationist Group JEWISH AGENCY SENDS GREETINGS TO RUSSIAN JEWS Replies to Message Recently Sent By Russian Intellectuals CITE "COMMON CAUSE" IN STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM London (W'NS) Responding to an appeal for aid made recently by 26 famous Russian Jewish intellectuals, tne Jewish Arencv fnr By CHARLES SOLOMON London correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency describes British Jewry's contribution to the war effort during the year past. Editor Dutch Population Demon st rates Contempt for Nazi A nti-Jewish Measures Stockholm (JTA) Demonstrating their contempt for the anti-Jewish propaganda vhich the Nazis are conducting in the Netherlands, crowds of Hollanders flock to the theatres where the Nazi anti-Jewish film "The Eternal Jew" is being shown under orders from Berlin, and sit through the entire performance with their backs to the screen. A report reaching here from authorities in Holland have issued an order compelling all Jews there to wear a yellow Star of David over their heart. The order specified that the special anti-Jewish war regulations now prevailing in Germany, subjecting Jews to a curfew and prohibiting them from traveling from one city to another, are automatically to be applied to the Jews of Holland. Many Resign from the America First Committee Following the Anti Semitic Line Taken By Leaders she was working.

Another brave Jewish girl, Miss Winifred Ortwviler, who gained the same award for extrication of injured people from debris in a raid, had previously been rejected for service in the Women's Auxihary Air force on the grounds that her parents were "foreign." It is nrohahl tnt record might have been improved i Atlantic by plane. They w.d make, upon had it not been for the fact a first-hand study of the religious and ash.ngton-( Nb hile pro-that anti-alien prejudice has to some''01 amHn the PP'" or-; tests against Charles A. Lindberghs extent impeded the enlistment of I Kaniwd rel.gious groups in England ut," thHt fws together Jews in the various defense services, i and Inland. They are scheduled to ith the Roosevelt administration and (Three American Religious Lead-I era Reach England to Study Social Trends London (JTA) Dr. Everett R.

CI inch Presbyterian minister and president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in America, Father Vincent C. Donovan, a Domini- 'con Order priest and head of the Cath- olio Thought Association and Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron of Baltimore have i reached London after crossing the remain in r.ngiano until tne enu September. UIT VW fll EC IIILLIyID VjHnilUlJkJ ANTI-SEMITISM IN MOVIE PROBE Claims Senators Nve and Clark 1T. i Use Means to urther Isolationism 3AY PYPnRTC FFK Tfi Mia E.l Wlllo nor.rv IVJ HAMSTRING U.

S. POLICY i i tti his charge that sponsors of Senat movie probe had to rouse anti-Semitic sentiment in their isolationist campaign. Wendell Willkie in an interview with the Jew ish Telegraphic Agency pointed out that there had been no denial of this fact by Senators Gerald V. Nye and Bennett Clark, sponsors of the inves- titration resolution. Nye.

in testimony before a Senate Commerce subcommittee, anv ti.Spmitin, hut i i ANGLO-JEWRY has every reason to feel pride in the contribution it has made to Brit ain's war effort during 5701. In the armed forces of the CroT. the services of Jewish sailors, soldiers and airmen have been recog nized by the award of a number of decorations. In the Navy, the Distinguished Cross has been awarded to two gallant sailors. They are Lieutenant Commander M.

M. Bright, R. N. who received his decoration for "outstanding real, patience and cheerfulness, never failing to set fan example of that wholehearted devotion to duty without which the high tradition of the Royal Navy would not have been upheld." The other Jew to receive this award was Lieutenant Martin H. B.

Solomon, only son of Major Robert B. Solomon, the well-known British Zionist, who rendered military service in the last war. Lieut. Solomon's decoration was conferred on him for sterling work in connection with the historic withdrawal from Dunkirk. "Great Gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" was also shown by Temporary Lieutenant Harold Reginald Neugass, R.N.V.R., in earning the award of the George Cross.

Awarded Decorations In addition to this, two well-known Jewish yachtsmen have given their lives while engaged on Naval duties in connection with the war, namely Claude Beddington and Lieut. A. N. Abrahams, R.N.V.R., was recently reported Several Jewish airmen have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal for gallantry and devotion to duty, including Sergeant-Observer Bernard Bardega, Sergeant Michael Max Wiseman and Mark Alfred Ny- At one time certain the aerWe. including the Home Guard, had a regulation that all applicants for cn- listment must be British-born of British parentage, so that the absurd situation arose 01 a British soldier who won the Victoria Cross in the last war (Jack White) being rejected by the Home Guard! Some of these anomalies have now, however, been rectified, and British children of alien parents are permitted to serve Brit- ain in most of the services.

Greater use is also being made now of the large numbers of aliens, many of them Jews, who are known to be friendly to the Allied Cause. Thousands of technically "enemy" aliens are rendering good service in the Military Pioneer Corps, and it is partly due to their sterling work a iu officially dropped from the title of lw Vl "7 milieu iv urar uriiin, inu iney have the right to apply for transfer to other branches of the Army. Al iens, including "enemy" aliens, are also allowed to play their part in the defense of the country against air raids, and recently there has been a great increase in the opportunities afforded to foreign Jews in England to serve in industries directly con- jews, win nave registered lor em ployrr.ent by the end of the year. Refugee Scientists Active It would be difficult to overestimate the benefit Britain has derived in this manner from the many Jew- scientists to whom she has given i PLAN COMMUNITY CELEBRATION OF J. N.

F. 40TH YEAR Delegates from Entire to Attend This Conference State SEN. ALBEN W. BARKLEY SCHEDULED AS SPEAKER On Sunday evening, October 26, Milwaukee and Wisconsin will celebrate an epochal event in the life of the Jewish community. On that date Jews of every shade of political, social and economic conviction will gather at what promises to be the community's gala occasion the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Keren Kayemeth Israel (Jewish National Fund).

On that evening, also by the will of those present, there will be augmented and further strengthened and enlarged the presently thriving nucleus SENATOR ALBEN W. BARKLEY V. 'A i i man The first two of these have I cerned with the war effort. Many since been commissioned. have been released from interment Numbers of Jewish soldiers, both for the purpose, officers and other ranks, have also Service by aliens in industry in been awarded decorations, and very i at) international labour force has now many have been mentioned in dis- been made compulsory, and it is ex-patches.

Unhappily, this achievement nefted that nearly a quarter of a has not been won without cost, aslTtTl.1ion," a large proportion of "them voiced the belief that active support Jews. It is believed that this cam-of interventionist policies by leading paign is closely directed from Berlin Jewish writers and other figures would and that participating in it. whethe-create strong racial feeling. conscious of its source or not, re "Mr. Nye's statement makes it plain both Father Coughlin and the Apvth.m that the sponsors of this resolution First committee.

have no reluctance to fan the flames "Lindbergh's outburst again; the to smear the motion picture i. lstry, Jews at Des Moines cn CepVnilwr 11 of latent anti-Semitism in their drive and the simultaneous opening of hcai-which, in turn, is only an effort to injrs before the subcommittee of the hamstring the American foreign pol- senate interstate commerce commit-icv through coercion," Willkie declar-I tee investigating the molion-pictuie ed. He added that acceptance of industry are seen as part of this or-Senator Nve's theories regarding the ganized campaign. The busic struc- 'V Treetings- to the Jew I me ooviei union and assured Russian Jewry that "the Jews of the W1 not fail the common cause." I he Jewish Agency's statement f'nt Hitler and all read: Your special appeal to world he stands for has reached us and we wholeheartedly respond to it. From the very outset Hitler made the Jews his chosen victims.

In the countries which one by one fell under his sway he has repnacted his cruelties in intensified decrees. Fascists the world over have followed his lead. Now he has reached Soviet lands. With deep sorrow we hear of your sufferings. But we are proud of the fight which you are putting up in the Soviet armies whose achievements have earned universal admiration and have strengthened our faith in victory.

"That faith we did not and shall not lose even in the darkest hours. Where enslaved Jews bear their fate with dignity, where free, they fight. In Palestine the Jewish community, now numbering a half million plays its part the struggle. Ten thousand Jews have enlisted in the Jewish units of the British army and have JKncd the British air force and navy. They fought with distinction in Libya, Abyssinia, Greece, Crete and Syria.

Many more thousands eagerly await their turn to enlist, and should the enemy ever reach Palestine the men and women of our people will fight as you do. Ask Chance to Serve "Tens of thousands of Jews in other countries ask for the chance to serve in a Jewish army so that we as people may take our place in the struggle for a common cause. We send you our fraternal greetings. You may assure all your fellow citizens that the Jews of world will nat fail the common cause." At the same time, the Russian Haatiaura om I'axr i Strictly nr HI HON Confidential Tid-Bits from Everywhere Chile Confusion That Chilean consul's refusal of a visitor's visa to Maurice Schwartz, American Yiddish dramatic star, is simply another tip-off to a most significant condition to be found in many South American lands Whenever officials of such countries see a passport obviously belonging to a Jew they automatically refuse to issue a visa, whether immigration or transit If statistics were published on the number of refugees who, in order to get into some (not all) of the Latin American countries as settlers or even transients, had to produce certificates of baptism, the figures would be practically identical with the number of Jewish refugees who have entered those lands This and That Did you see that statement issued not long ago by a group of Japanese anti-Semites? "The Jewish aspiration to dominate the world is not absolutely compatible with the spirit of the empire," they proclaimed But they didn't say "positively" We thousht you'd like to know that Lloyds of London, whose business it is to make no mistakes, are offering 1000-to-l odds that Washington, D. will never be bombed That Sena- SIS.

tt uestTnTf whether the anti-Nazi films unrfer fire ahniild he considered inti-Amorinn danger of anti-Semitism developing Meanwhile the movie probe con- hospitality, une may recall the la- uoul(, have the cf th mous words used by the I'nme Mm- npht of free to a substantial ister the House of Commons, when and thoroughly loyal part of our citi-he said: Since the enemy drove out tne Jews and lowered tneir tech- standards our science is major developments the mounting casualty lists puonsnea in the Jewish press have shown. Jewish civil defense workers have not been behind their co-religionists in the Forces in rendering yeoman service, and their efforts too have won them many awards. Notable among those decorated with the George Medal is Dr. Hannah Billig, a woman shelter doctor at the dockside at Stepney (London). Desoite the fact that she had her self sustained a broken ankle.

Dr. Billie continued to render medical I aid to other sufferers in an intense "blitz." She is a sister of the late Lewis Billig. lecturer in Arabic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem u'li i'o a tviiirlori! hi nn Arab ilur- ine the riots in Palestine. Another George Medal winner is David Laz- jarus, a seventeen-year-old Home Active in A.R.P. I Numbers of British Empire Medals mtely ahead or theirs, la has also the erhoinjr of Sye's chanres been openly stated the British by s.nator Bennett Clark and an in-press that the new devices that cation by sulcommittee chairman D.

proved so successful beating of Vorth Clark that he would accept Nazi raiders on British towns were u-mnv. hrincr SEE DIRECTION FROM BERLIN "nr irymg io niirn-prcs sure the American people into war. i continued to pour in from all parts of the country, a wide Icavaee developed 1 in the ranks of the isolationist group. Shocked at the ex-Colonel's close ad- herence to the Hitler line, scores of individuals and groups, sincerely op- posed to the country's present fureig policy, resigned from the America 1 First committee and denounce! Lindbergh's speech in vigorous language 'which made clear that the American 'people were not ready to accept Hit. Jer anti-Semitism even if the "lonely nKlt am hj, handfu, of C()hnrU in senate were.

Th Mlet f-indfcergh'a P-h was meant to lie the ontninir shot in a gigantic anti-Jewish campaign, di- rrffii mrtA fina nr! from Hi-rim anrnt hr a. in an interview followmg an ad.lresi before the Dayton America First committee chapter, repeated the charge that "the Jewish people are a large factor in our movement toward war." Organized Campairo In a special dispatch to the New Republic, Michael Straight reported: Th firvirfinn tr rnvL- irtr in WacH- ington that an organized campaign of intimidation and terror has been un ture of this anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi campaign is a chain of small newspapers and magazines which have sprung up throughout Amenta and in particular in the middle west. The articles used in these publications re-semblp closely those printed in for-eitrn-lanjruaee paotTs controlled li-rectly by Adolf Hitler." That the isolationist leaders would not abandon their anti-Jewish, drive, despite the shocked reaction of the entire country, was demonstrated when Senator Nye told newsmen: "It is only natural that the people should be among the leaders in the figTit fjr intervention. The Jewish people have suffered under the Nazi regime and they wish to see the Nazis defeated. For the same reason, the Jewish people in this country are among the leaders in the war move- ment Kundists, CouRhlinites.

Applaud Support of the Lindbergh-Nye clique came from the Nazi-American (fallur4 I'll 11 Not Anti-Semitic, Says Committee National Committee of America First Claims Interventionists Injected the Race Issue onel Lindbersrh and hi fellow mem- hers of the America First committee are not anti-Semitic," and charged interventionists had injected the race issue "into peace." The stat the discussion of war or tatement wa sissued by the group national committee, the policy making body, as a result of Lindbergh's speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 11. Text Statement The statement mittee follows: issued by the com- "Ever since the nation-wide effort to keep America out of war began, th intorvvnt ioninta have anuirht to 'hide the real issue by flinging false charges at the America First commit- tee and at everv leader who has spoken on Colonel Lindbergh is merely an other case In point. "Colonel Lindbergh and his fellow members of the America First committee are not anti-Semitic. We deplore the injection cf the race issue into the discussion of war or peace. It is the interventionists who have dnr.e the ir thai, "Amu has invi rica First, on the other hand.

ited men and women of evrrr race, ant ntion.4l or'V-'i jo this eomm.tti'e, rr. di only that t.i-y are patr'oric citizens wt.o put the of their 'i't ry ny oth-i n'poAt U5T tvitin." of Nachlath Wisconsin, or Wisconsin! a bombed building and in the process' Despite Jewry individual contn-colony in Palestine. sustained injuries which kept him buttons to the war effort, the year Iliirhliirht of the occasion will be a in hnsnital for four months. i shown no progress towards the ry the work. of German Jewish dentists, who also perfected a new Jlfthod of dealing with incendiary realization oi tne pian ior a jewisn Army.

The scheme has won the sup- jPi or many prominent puniic men, "llu crn nine nrirt formal negotiations. The net conference at the Schroeder hotel of delegates from the entire state of Wisconsin. This conference is scheduled to begin at 11 o'clock in the forenoon and will deal with ways and means of the development of Nach- lath Wisconsin. This will be follow- ed by a gala banquet in the crystal ballroom of the Schroeder hotel. The guest of honor who will make the principal address at the banquet will be the Honorable Alben W.

Barkley, roallaor4 fmfr S) have also been awarded to gallant amopg tnem mt. uoia ueorge, i re- Senator Gerald P. Nye at the opening Jewish A.R.P. workers, two Jewish jnier the last war. Commander i in Washington of the inquiry into the women being prominent among them.

Locker-Lampson, M.I and Mr, Tom motion picture industries, is The first British Empire Medal ever intringham, leader of the Inter- )expressi jn the New York Press, to be awarded to a woman was won: national Brigade in the Spanish Civil I ijnjt.r the title "Isolationist Boom-by Miss Rosalie Gassman, a telephoa- wa-- of the project has been rranjf tne xew York ist in the London Auxiliary Pire Ser- encouraging and discouraging by points out editorially that Senator vice, who continued with her duties; turns; we have been told that ne-. wheeler chairman of the St-nate In-; throughout an intense raid, despite i gotiations were progressing satisfac-: terstate 'Commerce committee had no! the collapse of the building in which torily, that they had been broken off. auth0rity whatsoever from his cham- of it all has been nil. despite the definite and specific offers that have Dotn olliciauy mat to the British Jewish Veterans Wear Medals To Defy Nazi "Yellow Badge" Decree Uovernment. It looks as if the they makt.

no pretense of friendliness I Chicago The America First com-i achievement of this aim will be de- i- Germanv" and that they "ab-'mittce said in a statement that "Col- Risk Imprisonment By Wearing World War Decorations Instead of Mogen Davids Mellett, director of government reports, to the stand to answer charges that the governmrnt had forced the motion picture industry to act as a propaganda medium. New York I'res Condemns Nye's Insinuations New York (JTA) Condemnation of tn(, anti-Jewish issue injected by I (a mni nl th mhi'nmnilt WMcn nnw onnrfuctml? the inauirv. The HorM praises Willkie' nouncement on behalf of bold pro- the motion ture industry and its personnel that hor everything which Hitler repre- sents." The N. Y. Post, in an editorial un- ider the title "Senator Scandar says: "We do not use this word in reference to Senator Nye's crudely anti-Semitic radio broadcast which immediately pre- AcA th.

intrnurtinn nf the Clark V.ri.mut Bank, Atlas Corporation, and the Roc kefellers." t. Maii i an mis investiRStion to churn up a (jeaj cf talk about anti-Semitism and pro-Semitism in the United States," the paper writes. "There has been a lot of hush-hush talk on this subject cf iate. little ventilation 0f the question will be good. People who are accused of anti-Semitism fall j-, two quite different categories: first category is represented bv the Ku Klus Klan and the Social Jus'- I are accused of anti-Semitism fall isn't submitted to the American pub-; Stockholm (W KS) Jewish war lie It seems to us that exhibitors veterans appeared in the streets of all over the country should have wearing medals and other dec-fred to run these films airain and to orations gained as a result of their It was hoped that a that a shortage of! would result in of the Nazi decree textiles Germany the postponemen but the Nazi press and radio warned th tvennlo he the iudes Hn Jges One Jews that under no conditions would technicians, it was announced this motion.

It is scandalous that the the order be postponed rnd advised week by Dr. Norbert Enzer. director Senate majority has watched the sub-Jews to wear "mogen davldsn madj of laboratories at the hospital. The terfuge without protest." out of paper if no other materials i course will be conducted under the p. referring to Senator Nye's were available.

Jews who were un-( standards laid down by the Depart- 'anti-Jewish allegations, points out that able to secure mogen davids" were-ment of Medical Education of the "the Nye-Clark attack is completely warned to remain off the streets or American Medical association and of groundles. Actually, Hollywood is face severe punishment. i the American Society of Clinical Pa-not run by foreign-born producers, but While Nazi authorities issued no tholoiristt. mir nJoihist. all Amrri- thing the Senatorial inquiry has order compelling all Jews over to bring out so far, by the wav.

is the age of six in Germany and the that the producers of these films i Bohemian Protectorate to wear alrge knew that some of them could not be- i yellow "mogen davids" on their street come box-office successes, but were clothing went into effect, according ready to sacrifice income what to reports received here, they viewed as a patriotic duty i The Jewish war vets risked impris- Jonment since the Nazi papers had Czech and Doable-Check fnrmfr JUwioW nllir nnt ir. vJo" the first world wa valor in the first world war aa the wear their decorations and the yellow "mojjen david, inscribed with the wora Jae, togeiner. Torva.l Mr a 4 1 s. i VJ Gkki 1 aiC VI lIV Mount Sinai to Train I AhnrAtnrv Vnrlcr 1 -auwrowry VT UrftCr Mount Sinai hospital has estab-! lished a training school for laboratory The rrivd of training i two vr and is open to candidates who have certain minimal educational require- ments. A limited number of students I I I nospnai ior oeraus concerning admission requirements ar.d tuition t.

"The red for medical technologists Is grow'msr and the demands for a perior type of trsin ng is being in-! I i eXDlanation for the introduction of! yellow badges for Jews in Germany, the Berlin press stated that "tne re-j sDonsibility oi all Jews for Jewish V. I. I 1 1 i 1 1 Reports from Berlin sUted that scandiU committed on sundry ether will te Uken, sine the desire of the "What is Anti-Semitism" takes an 'out against our entry into the many "Aryans" approached their Jew-j peoples the Eatt is thus cl arly department is to train a small num. ambiguous attitude. "We look for peaon conflict.

The present attack i f.taH1, 1 AihKw. mnA 1 juuaism iu ovtr v.m wnuuiurr oi meu.cai lecnnaiogists eapaoie cannot escape from this responibil-1 of carrying on and maintaining a high ity." standard of laboratory technique. Application should be made to the More Than 1,0 CO Synaijesurs In director of the laboratories. Mount In Czechoslovakiathe grapevine reports, even the kindergarten tots know what it all about One such youngster, asked by a Gestapo In quisitor what he was learning replied: zney xeacn us to oreame wirougn our noses and keep our mouths shut" Then there was the Czech movie manager who impelled hia audiotice to i applaud vociferously when the an I I nouncement ox a coming action i was flashed on the screen "The; Great Reich World Power," wis th of the Urn, and underneath the) ger had added: "For a few days Recent arrivals from L'u- I title only" Recent arrivals from L'u- I man rope insist that Bruno Moaaelint death in an airplane crash wa t'm i result of an aerial duel the Dim i son fought with a Nazi fUer An- Other ramnr it it that MMinari Fat 11 ikikuuvu onu hands with them, giving vent to their displeasure at the decree which marks the first time that Jews in Germany; bve been forced to wear trsrks of in other Nazi-occupied countries were! cw. crdered early th war to wear badges but the practice has now instituted tn Germany itself.

The Jews were to bur tTh Jews were to bur ia-p3tiiiea eiar. wr.j.;n are-zour imhe re. y'1 left breast of their elotr.wg. ttm 7 cffcciHis. Ih'- est- rf.

v.t "wr-eiPi I. 11 11 PJfnru-T ftld tno iwas each Jew. ifno5a Soviet 69 Mocaw (JTA Tre Sovitt gov-; rrnmf r.t in a Bta'-rii' -r nv -lizious freedom P.u iressr that there i Decl.irca are at m-e-u-r-t 1 .0 3 1 ''J i.n ti.e Sovi there R' cieasii'giy re.t,-sad ir. fcnzer. front.

jch pe believe that tne number of hopita's and schools the Jews now in the United State ff.un,.r thu opportunity is small. te harassed and restricted bv community chould welcome this ZK, or, if possible, legal method. development at lount SmaijThe category cf those who an (CatMia4 rac 19.