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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1928
ootiiofflce HI Omaha. Nebraska, under tbe Act
VOL. All.—No. 17
Gift of $103,000 Helps . ! Louis uvv Awarded . JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER flfTAMAR BEN AVI TO 1 * BSS to Meet Hospital Deficit WITH INPRESENT BREACH BETWEEN ZIONIST LAUNCH 1 E 1 B JUKflAL CONDUCT LEADERS AT CENTER AUDITORIUM
Louis Lipp won the Thomas McNew York.—(J. T. A.) .—The Board Shane Medal in the finals of the of Trustees of Mount- Sinai-Hospital, Creighton Extemporaneous Oratorical the oldest Jewish hospital in New Contest held at the college auditorium York, has made public receipt .of a last Friday night. Maurice Alperin gift of $103,701 from George BlumenI. D. Morrison, Attorney, Criti- was awarded second honors. Ephriam thal,, president of the hospital- and cizes Judge's Part in Marks was one of the ten finalists Mrs. Blumenthal, to balance the en• Zionist Opposition. who survived the preliminaries in tire deficit of the hospital's operating which fifty orators competed. All account for 1927. Announcement- of the gift was made to the trustees by ASSERTIONS UNFOUNDED. three men. are members of the Pi Delta Sigma fraternity. Mr. Blumenthal in a cablegram from . That Federal'Judge Julian W. Mack j Paris. ' ' •' ' Ms acted in a manner unbecoming C O C n AAA ADADTMEHT Confronted with the prospect of an immediate financial crisis, First hand information on the verbal battle which is now being judicial office id his acts as chairman j 5 Z jl/.UUU ft"A|>{II1L!I I the trustees, directors and officers of the Jewish Community •waged so savagely between the present Zionist administration and oi the conference:in opposition to the] •Center met last night at the Ad-Sell restaurants to discuss and the opposition will be threshed out by Ittamar-Een A v i a t the mass present Zionist admiiiistration, held on i adopt a plan which will enable the Jewish Community Center to meeting which will be held Monday in the«Center auditorium. Mr. Sunday at Washington is the assercontinue the extensive work which was begun this year. Ben Avi is duly qualified to present his views on the controversy tion- made by Isidore D. Morrison, New since he has had his finger on the pulse of the situation "tiirough • It. vas reported' at the meet ing York attorney, who has served at the the Zionist opposition convention. that the present activities of the Modern Conveniences to Feature j bar for thirty-two years. Center would have to be greatly Mr. Ben AvFs tour j -which includes1 Architectural Design Mr. Morrison was the honorary secreduced and some discontinued unPlans for Next Year's Course to every principal city of the Unitedretary of, the first Zionist Organiza-} of Apartment less immediate financial aid was seStates, is sponsored by tiie Zionist orBe Announced at Later tion of America, thirty-one years ago. j - An apartment house on the order cured. ganization for the purpose of securTime. Mr.,Morrison has been associated injof the studio apartments in demand Tbe group who met. resolved to ing Zionist members. "the upbuilding of Palestine for a. great in eastern cities* will be erected in set aside the -week of May 14, degBoston.— (J. T. A.—A change in Classes in" Yiddish, Hebrew and many years, and recently gave $100,- Omaha this summer, according to Joe as "Jewish Community Centhe leadership of the World Zionist. Nathan Straus Deplores Modern Jewish history in the depart- 000 toward reconstruction work in and Sam Wolf, owners of the Elwood, ter eek r Rnd t o ealT Lincoln—A fine life nipped in its ment of Jewish Studies, conducted at Palestine. Organization was again urged as a ! ^" >' >~ <m Dissension Birchmore and Ardmore Terrace prime. There could be no greater re- the Community Center Since January, - In an open letter written to Judge apartments all in Dundee. The new solution to the present Zionist situa- \that w e e k & city-vide campaign for new members and the collection of In reference to Dr. Wise's resig- gird.for rny man than has been felt will come to a «lose Wednesday, May Mack, Mr. Morrison, who is a member apartment building will cost approx- tion by Dr. Stephen S. Wise in his ; f :?r Roy WPepperberg,\who died Satfirst public address on a Zionist topic \ delinquent dues. nation, Mr. Straus said: 23, when the students- and faculty will of the adminisirative-committee of the imately" $250,000 and will adjoin the j K w a s Ported out that the Jew"I am greatly shocked at the un- i^day at 2:50 a. m. after a short ill- meet at an informal socir' leathering. Zionist Organization a£ America, says Efrrood apartments on Forty-ninth since his resignation. - Speaking before the Abukah, Zion-I ish Community Center IF now opcrprovoked disturbance in the press" ness. The last-regular session will be held that in his-capacity as judge, Hon. and Dodge streets. forty-three years were nobly Wednesday, May 16. budge under ict. students RfnHpntK organization, n-rc-H-niratin-n. at the thp. Com- i; ating sting on a minimum budget about Zionism and Palestine. I am The building1, will be a three-story, ist Julian W. Maek should never have m lived, and his deeds ;will ever remain but that the mander Hotel, Dr. Wise characterized ! ost rigid economies thoroughly against the placing of There was a total registration, of permitted the material that was pre- fireproof U-shaped structure, having obstacles at the critical time in the after him. Mr. Pepperberg had lived fifty-four' students, but the average sented at the conference to be brought a frontage on Forty-ninth street of an utterance of Dr. Weizmann in his j income from present membership •way of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, pre- T Lincoln for twenty-five •„--:•_ . before a jury, and nevertheless these 166 feet. It will contain 14 apart- •address before a Detroit gathering as | dues is . insufficient to continue the ~ been sole ownsr -o£ the Pepper- attendance for the season was only "vague assertions were permitted to ments, with a court facing forty- "an unforgivable disloyalty to the j program outlined for this rear. sident of the World Zionist Ois.anthirty-six, which means that only twoand again we have complainization, and Louis Iipsky, president berg Segar company 'at. the time of ninth street The first floor of the Jewish people, if he had been cor-j"Time thirds of those enrolled attended the come before the general press. his death. He wasr born in Plattsr°ctlv quoted. Ie<^ °^ fi^s^ces," said Harry Lapidus of the Zionist Organization of frant wings will have four 6-room Mr. Morrison's letter to Judge Mack classes regularly.' Forty-sin of the America. No man is strong noutb, Neb., ' graduating from the apartments, each composed of a re-] ~Taking as 'his text Dr. Weizmarra's j in addressing: the meeting, "but at fifty-four registered, students were reads, in part: enough to do injury to the cause of Tlattsmouth High "school in 1903, folcation hall, living "and dining roo'nJ alleged phrase "A quarrel with Great | this moment it is not a matter of " I "During my thirty-two- years of Palestine. This attempt will also *•'-•• * by Jus graduation from the Uni- ladies. 1 practice at the bar I have acquired a two bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchen, I Britain will last for five minutes and I complaint but a question of closing The attempt.to hold all the classes fafl. My Heart is with Zion and versity rf Nebraska with A. B. and maid's room and a maid's bathroom. you won't quarrel again," Dr. Wise j the doors of the Jewish ConrmuTuty on one evening a week proved very profound respect* for our Federal Juwith the present Zionist leader in B. S. degrees i- ; 1907. The following The second and third floors of the declared that Great Britain will not j Center _unless we collect delinquent, diciary. It has been repeatedly assertais great work. he received a masters degree and satisfactory from the students' point ed that the Federal court- are the bul- front wing will have four duplex do more than it will be compelled to j dues arid obtain fit least five hnn; dred additional members," - "That man is not my friend who r fellowship in the department of of view, as well as from the viewpoint wark of our EBertaes and I have apartments, an arrangement popular] do. of the instructors. The department, is against' him, for he has. given his gsology. learned' this to be the fact because in the east. The tenants will havel "The right kind of Zionist leader- | Harry" Malashock, chairman of Uie He was a member of the Jewish however, was disappointed at the lack Federal jjidges are usually not influ- their suites on two floors. The typi-j ship is necessary and a firmer and committee, urged the imlife to the cause. Dissension and controversy are, of course, very Temple, of which he was- president of interest* apd the indiff«rence on. the -eased by the impulses of the mob or cal suite will consist of u -large living j more " figressive * policy toward thej Portance of obtaining new members. from 1922 to 1924. He was brevet part of the young people of the !cdn> detrimental to. the-cause room extending the full height of two mandatory..power is-essential if. the} "We must .have the co-operation of •'courses- wtfe captain of rhe "RDTC at tbe University i 'calmly," judicially • and without stories, giving a studio effect; a din- Balfour Declaration is carried out.[every Jew in Omal.- in order to .offered* • • All who are interested in the wel- of Nebraska. Many other -activities prejudice. I was, there-ore^ amazed to ing room, reception hall, breakfast Unless this-is done the minimum will I maintain the g-ood work that is be-' The students who attended regular- read the account of the proceedings of room, kitchen, maid's roan, maid's be'done'by Great Britain to aid in the j i*£ ^one in the Jewish Community fare of our people should co-operate were his, including the presidency of with the Zionist. organization and the Rotary club in 1919,'life rr'—^cr- ly have alt. expressed their satisfac- the conference at Washington held on bathroom and lavatory on the lower establishment of the Jewish National | Center." give of their means for the restora-i ship in the Chamber of Commerce, tion with-the courses and particularly the 29th of March, over which you floor and three bedrooms, two baths Home. How can any self respected-; The Jewish Community Center isworshipful master of Lancaster-lodge, have they been impressed with the presided. and a gallery on the floor above. Jew speak in the terms attributed to | the only Jewish Educational nnd tidn of Palestine.,, No. 54,: A. F. and A. M."in 1913, and ability of the instructors, Mr. R. LacAll apartments will be equipped the World Zionist leadership?" Dr. | Recreational Institution of its kin 'Tor the past four years I have deA native of" Palestine, he. received meirbership in the University club. He kow, Mr. I. Morgenstern, and Mr. J voted myself assiduously .to the work with modern conveniences, such as Wise asked. "There will be no change in the city. Every Jewish man. his early education in the Holy Land also served as the chairman of Kound- Wolfson. The instructors on their of the Zionist Organization and its electric refrigerators, built-in kitchen or improvement in Zionist, affairs un- woman, and child should take adand later in the universities. of Paris! Up week at the University of Nebras- part are greatly pleased a i d satisfied, subsidiaries. My work has not been cases, monel metal sinks, incinerators, less the Zionist leadership will be vantage of the activities offered. with the progress of the-students. | There - are also numerous org-nniz;,iand Berlin. Since his graduation, Mr. i ka last year. sporadic but continuous and was fre- package receivers for deliveries and changed," Dr. Wise said. All the bathrooms He is survived by his widow, Ruth, Plans for next • year's' courses, to quently done at the sacrifice of my other features. I tions for both young: azid old. Ben Avi has taken an active interest ,in every phase of the Zionist move- a 13-year-old son, Louis, - and two begin in October, will Le made and health. You have done me the honor will have tile floors and walls and the .ment, participating in every enter- Irothers, Leon of Dallas, Tex., and announced sometime this summer. of stating that you believe in my in- kitchen will have tile floors. Oak prise for the establishment of the Abe of Brooklyn, N. Y. tegrity and sincerity of purpose and floors will be used in all other rooms All principal Roy Pepperberg died as \ e lived, a Jewish Homeland. His latest endeavthat you knew "that I had no axe to in the apartments. rooms will have plaster cornices and or is the Latinization of the Hebrew brilliant leader of men, both Jev? ard grind. alphabet in which work he is support- Gentile, and one whose death all Lin"You, as presitling- judge at a trial, the decorative scheme will be in keepBecause of the many celebrations in New York.—In a recent report, j m j h m o r ooff MMootthheerr{{!! , ddaayy>>..tthhee JJiimmiioorr cc hh ]] b ed by Vladimir Jabotinsky and the coln mourns. would not permit such flimsy and un- ing with the type and class of the apartments. nouncement was made of a couno?- c o u n d , h a g p o s t p o n e { 1 t h , ( 3 r a m a t ; c Hebrew poet, Jacob Cohen. Moscow. A ^Russian teacher, Duna- supported evidence to be submitted wide tuberculosis survey of Palestine, p r e l i m i n a r k g f r o m M 1 S t o Wej|_ Plans for the building are being He is ^ t the present -time editor of yevtzi, will be tried for teaching ths to a jury and yet you permitted this drawn by James T. Allen and Noel S. which is being conducted by the Anta- n e s d a y great undertaking of Palestine .•upthe Dear Hayeam, the Hebrew Daily ritual murder tale, at the instigaT b l i L Wallace, architects. Tuberculosis League. paper of Jerusalem, and is also the Each .play is limited to oiw-half tion of the Gepeu, the * political building to be excoriated on such un- • Mr. Wolf is actively identified with editor of the Palestine Weekly, and founded assertions as wer' made at Hadassah has been carrying on-, hour. Ko costumes or scenery are repolice. many Jewish organizations. .English paperi- A powerful orator, in within the frame of its medical work! qUiv-d for the preliminaries. The A recent notice from Young Judaea -'.; The teacher," a non-Jew, told his this lamentable conference." English and Hebrew, a brilliant pub- national headquarters ogives the in Palestine an anti-tuberculosis cam- chibs will present their plays in the that it was possible that Jews) f^ IT i /~e paign. It maintains a special tuber- following order: Hertzl, Gi30 p. m.; licist, Mr. Ben Avi has made a pro- formation that the national Young for the Passover ^wi> ritual. R a r e Volumes G i v e n -..».*— v-tf..™^. found impression .on the numerous O^daea oratorical: contest, will- be held use blood cular vrard in the Hadassali hospital Zion Fairies, 7; Eionah Girls, r/:30; + andianceg which he has addressed in a t the Scarboro hotel, Long Branch, One pupil said in class that he hadj in Safad, which contains 30 beds.! a m p Fire, S: Junior Classics, S:30: a Matza factory which used America. i le A v a u a b N, J., from June 21 to Tune 24. J e r u s a W fjcholastic ratings of Creighton •uni- This ward offers the only hospitaliza- J 2.'.2ier Shfeyah, 0; Girl Sooiits, P:30; 'collection of 4,000 rare volumes has Since Mr. Ben Avi is an ardent At this contest will be lepresented ; collection versity, college of pharmacy, as given tion facilities for tubercular patients j Henrietta Szold, 10. Hebrew Uni- out by the dean of the pharmacy in Palestine. The Safad hospital was Zionist worker, he will, in all prob- the winners-,of,.each. one.r* the twelve The judge? have already been se"I.have also heard of similar hh ee ee nn dd oo nn aa tt ee dd ^ 1 abilities defend the Zionist cause was regions. Headquarters for region^ 12, cases,"-the declared " h teacher h d l d and d re-! ! ^ e r s i t y l i b r a r y "by Marcus Fech- school, show that Louis Burnstein of chosen because of the healthful cli- lected to pick the four best plays the view expressed by Mr. J. J. Fried- which includes. Nebraska, Iowa, Mis- conntedto his class the incidents of h e i m e r ; I n 1925 Mr. Fechheimer £"- Louis, Mo., ranked first among the mate and high altitude of the town. which will be presented on Monda> The Hadassah Medical Organization man, president of the local organiza- souri, North and South Dakota, Kan- the Beilis trial, adding,"So far it is p r e s e n t e d ^ evening, May 21. when the finals will library senior class. He is one of the <mttion. Mr. Friedman went on to say sas* -Minnesota, Colorado and tho Far not: the Jews also provides visiting1 home nursing! be held. t kknown exactly tl whether h t h th J standiirg students of the pharmacy .that the local organization is not ex- West, b ut the OmahY1 Community use blood.". present gift - includes first school and was chosen by the univer- for tubercular patients. In Jerusalem ji pressing any views in regard to the Center. The oratorical contest will be The complaint against the teacher \ editions of the Talmud and Maimo- sity to participate in the Fairchild and Tel-Aviv tubercular clinics are; .present situation until after the Zion,- held here on'Sunday afternoon, June was lodged by the principal df: the nides and a Latin translation of the contest, which is a national pharmacy conducted bj^ the Hadassah Medical! ist convention is held in the early part 3. A number of the Omaha Young schooL Organisation in cooperation with the $100,000 for R ussiffla I Mishna. scholarship contest. of June at which time the'- question Judaea clubs will be'represented with Anti-Tuberculosis League. The Hawill be thoroughly investigate.!. "We orations. The Henrietta Szold club, of dassah Medical Organization supplies' feel that the best policy for us to fol- which Ruth Fox is president, and Dorthe funds to cover the services of; New York—(J. T, A.)—A subscriplow now is to support the present ad- ou'.y Cohen, leader, and the Meier nurses, rent, prescriptions, linens, tion of $100,000 by Louis Marsha!! ministration until the situation is equipment, etc. while the Anti-Tuber- was the first announced toward the Snfeyah club, with Sylvia Barnstein, thoroughly investigated at the conculosis League provides various forms! fund which leading: Jew?, of this counleader, and Sylvia Wiener president; vention," continued Mr. Friedman. of social service. In the Hadassah j try are raising to equal the S5,000,00<! ari making plans for entertaining the Mr. Friedman will preside at the visiting orators and other interested Four distinct departments of' edu- that there might be a helpful xmter- who has reached mental old age at Training School for Nurses courses j subscribed by Julius Eopenwald for thp meeting. An elaborate* program is people who will come here for the oc- cation as it is carried on in the' Oma- change of study between our own the age of thirty. . What we -want and instruction are given in the care j continuance of the Russian Jewish agricultural work. James N. being planned. ha Jewish Community Center were group: and the outer world, to the most, is to keep our hand on the puls-3 of the tubercular patients. casion. ! chairman of the Agro-Joint, tlirof our people, and the change with Mr. lUirviss of the Jewish Commun- described in a paper read by .Dr permanent benefit of both." ; agency of the American Jewish Joint, "A little more than a year has changing needs-swaying sometimes, of ity Center is acting regional secretary. Samuel Gerson at the afternoon ses„ , j Distribution coTn-mitt.ee for its agr>sion of the National Conference of changed the atmosphere of our Cen- course, with the fickle wind of fashion ! Dy X1 T e n c h j cultural activities in Russia, made thr Community Center Secretaries, in ter," he continued. "No longer do 'I —but we hope, in the long and short! j announcement of Mr. Marshall's P\ibCincinnati Thursday. told you soV regret the $400,000 spent of it, moving forward to a greater I Paris (J. T. A.) — Ten Jewish, j SCription yesterday. to provide club and class rooms. They usefulness." Home making courses under . the Igaze upon the seething activity that deputies were elected to the French ! In announcing The Hai Eesh fraternity will hold p g 'Mr. Marshall's conThe symposium was led by Piiiiip provision of the Smith-Hughes federal vitalizes our building any night of the its twenty-first annual conclave at • All plans for the big bazaar, which parliament in the national elections tribution, Mr. Rosenberg- said, "I exLittle Bock, Ark., July 1 to 5, inclu- will be staged at the Jewish Commun- act, the city-wide social service course week, and wonder how long this build- Semaa, superintendent of the Jewish which took place yesterday. Among pect to announce other substantial :F»nples' Institute- of Chicago. The sive. " Delegates from twenty-three ity Center on June 2, 3 and 4, under for training in volunteer service, the ing will be big enough. Jewish deputies elected are subscriptions within a few days, but following other workers took part: the concert series, and the department of Maurice Rothschild and Maurice we still have a long way to po toward ". "We know that we have accom-l chapters in all parts of the United the auspices of the ^Daughters of [the raising- of the S5,O0O,OO0 weeded States will attend the'national meet- Zion, :for the Jewish National Fund, Jewish education • were described, plished at least this much. Yet wej Bernard Fischlowitz, educational di- Bokanowski. unique Omaha features being stressed. have no fixed ideas about educational rector, St. Louis Y. M., Y. W H. A.; Leon Blum, leader of the Socialist to match Mr. Ilosenvalrl'f originnl ing. | are bemg; formulated under the leadHarold E. Levin, assistant executive "In the development of these four curricula. We believe that the whole director of the Ninety Second street party, was defeated by a Communist, subscription. We are confident, howNathan E. Jacobs of Omaha, Goun-| ershipof Mrs. Mv^raude- Mrs. A. I Dudos. Henri Torres, M. Corcos ever, that the leaders of the American plans of educational work in our subject of education in-relation to the Y. M. H. A., New York; cil Chief of the fraternity, will pre-[ Kulakofsiy; is treasurer, trside: at the conclave.- Mr. Jacobs was j Donations, for the fcaiaar tnay,; be Center, we have had in mind a triple Jewish Center is, and properly should Koldoney, educational director of -the and. M. Mirtil, chairman of the Jewry will pive their full si'.nport 1 Jewish National Fund of France, the new €10,000,000 fund an. - h^lp m elected; national president at the TLai sent t o Mrs.NJV Tretialt; 3004 Iincoln aim," he said. "To teach"-our own be, in a state of flux. Pittsburgh Y. M. H. A., and a l settle at least another 100,000 Jevwere also defeated. Eesh; conclave in Pittsburgh last sum- [boulevard; Mrsl J . B; Bdbinson, 3316 people how to live more adequately in "This is not so much a symptom of of others. on land in "Russia, in addition to ibta general way; to pass on to our confusion as a symptom of growtL. Iincoln bouIeva^dy.Mi?; ErWeinbetg, mer. It is nothing for you to know a 175,000 that have been Te-establi*=he<i Dr. Gerson took part in a sympo-Several - members of the Omaha 558 If orth Eoriy-ja^Bt street, and *Mra. people the Jewish heritage that is In a recent number of the New Rething, unless another knows that you and newly 'settled there through-ib.' their's, and thirdly, to develop an sium an educational forces in the J«wchaptw of Hai IUsh3are expecting to' .J. Kulakofsiy, 2105; South Tenth jpublic, Horace M. Kallen scores the +i I offices of tlw Agro-Joint. educational a<" 'vity of citv-wide scope, know it.—Persian Proverb. •somnambulisc' of the average" adult I ish Center, the Rnck meetinjr. . street
DRIVE
Tour Sponsored by Zionist Organization to Encourage Membership.
Sixty Workers Met Thursday Night at Ad-Seli to Make Plans for Drive
MR. J. J. FRIEDMAN TO PRESIDE
HARRY MALASHOCK HEADS CAMPAIGN
CLASSES INJEWISH STUDIESTOCLOSE SESSION ONMAY2 3
TO BE BUILT BYWOLF BROS. THIS SUMMER
DRrSTEPHEN S. WISE
DEMHClMiSROY
PEPPMBERG AFTER SHORT MMSS
Hadassah Launch Fight Against Tuberculosis in Palestine
Teacher to be Tried in Ritual Murder Case
YOUNG JUDAEA CONTEST TO BE M B JUNE 21-24
to Hebrew Library
Louis Bumstein Leads Senior Pharmacy Class
Marshall Donates
Agricultural Work
Dr. Samuel Gersori Enumerates Different Phases of Community Work Before National Community Center Secretaries Conference at Cincinnati, Ohio
HAI RESH FRATERNITY TOMEETINLITTLEROCK
! Ten Jewish Deputies
Daughters of Zion i o Stage Bazaar at Center