January 2, 1931 by Jewish Press

Interesting and Entertaining Hut*«!« «* »eco»a-iaaii mall.'nutter- on January,2?,: 1921, at .•< poftofflce at Omaha; Nebraska, .under the Act of March 3.187a

Our hats off to: Sam B e b e r \ \ Klutznick and others who are ret % x sible for the nationwide promin\ of the A. Z. A.—sufficient to nt words of praise from President. HoVs er . . . . and to Wm. L. Holzmari, t\

THREE WORLDS MOURNING FOR LORD MELCHETT

Poem Tby Mrs. Rbmonek [To Install Officers of "• Dr. Levine Historian Chosen by "Troubadour" •of-Reserve'Officers B'naiBrith' Mrs. Philip Romonek has been honored by "having one of her poems, "At the Beach" chosen as one of forty-five selected out of- over 600 submitted for; the Nebraska-iiumber of

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the Nebraska Clothing boss . . . .for hi^-ramed Industralist and Ardent Her poem was also read.over radio recently far a i College1 Club Zionist Leader Passes democratic spirit . . . . not referring creative writers' program^ Away to his political affiliation . . . . but for his joviality and genial nature London,—(J. T/A.>^Three worlds . . . . and to Mrs. Herman Jahr . > . . joined, in - mourning for Lord/.Mel-for the extraordinary manner in chetti whose death last Saturday came which she has developed the Center as a distinct shock, thought he.was,62 Players Guild of the J. C. C. 1 . . . and had been ill of plebitis for some time. The world, of Jews knew him Mrs. Jahr choosing the cast for "The as one of the leaders in their conJazz Singer" and finding greaf certed effort to establish the Jewish difficulty in securing an Al Jolson or National Home in Palestine", the chairSam man of the Council of the' Jewish Geoi'gie Jessel for the lead Josephson.'the Hill Hotel landlord in- Agency for Palestine;. the- ' world' of industry knew him as the head pf a dulges occasionally in some mischiev- $50C,000,000 chemical corporation, reous, pranks a very playful puted to be the richest man in Eng-. gentleman who enjoys a good joke land, and the wisest of modern indus. . . . discovered: a quartette of genuine Jewish blonds .'. . . and not by "proxy'' . . v . Lucille Isaacson, Edith Dolgoff, Evelyn/Goldberg and Lillian Johnson . . . . the,, name is Johnson but she is "Yiddish^. . . . Rabbi Goldstein addressing a Sunday School class . . . . during his questioning asks: "and who was Amos?" . . . . little boy replies: "The President of the Fresh Air Taxicab. Companj" . . . . A speaker greatly in demand and particularly by civic bodies . . . . . Henry Rosenthal the head of the Union Outfitting Company . . . .His talks are said to be inspiring and j Lord Melchctt filled withôptimisnv . . . I and he is. - " 'considerably active in Temple Israel trialists; the world of art knew him affairs Pleasing ^personalities: as a great collector, and as a patron of: living artists and-writers, Mrs. Harry Scmmer, Rabbi Frederick j He was, until shortly before his Cohn, l Mrs v :Sam Nathan, Mrs. B e n j d e a t h i p r e s i d e n t o f t h e English ZionGlajser'»-. ;f ,; JAjje Goldstein, the de-i i s t Fedsration. partment: store .magnate, attired inj L or ,j Melchett was also chairman t" • derby jihd-with iwjilking stick, taking of the Non-Partisan SurveyVGommisU'; his'usU:aJi .Syâyj jnorning stroll . . . . sion for Palestine, and sought to just',like the,,^few Yorker on Perk establish definite constructive- ,'pfans *•""Avpnii* MifWrpn particTmrticAvenue v. v'•'.- i •Jlftitoish children Asâ chemlsfkhd metallurgist he

VOL. VIII.—No. 49

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1931 *

\ "Troubadour" is a national magazine, published <mi San Diego and devoted entirely to poetry.

The-newly-elected officers of the local lodge.of the B'nai Brith will be formally installed at an open meeting to T)e held next Thursday, January 8, in the lodge room of the J. C. C» '-' • Gustavus Loevinger of St. Paul, Minn., past president of the District Grand Lodge No. 6, will be the principal speaker. The officers are Irvin Levin, president; Harry B. Cphn, vice-presi-. dent; Isadora Abramson, secretary; Harry Friedman, treasurer; Leo Abramson, guardian; Jack Alberts, warden; and Philip Klutznick, the outgoing president, monitor.

Dr. Victor E. Levine has recently been elected historian of the Nebraska section %of the Reserve Officers' Association of America. Dr. Levine - is captain in the Medical Department of the Chemical Warfare Service. He has also been recently elected Director of the Professional Men's Club.

PALESTINE AGENCY AND J. ©. C. PLAN TO RAISE SEPARATE FUDSIW 1931 gr Reports That Two and a Half Million Are^ Pledged in Allied Campaign of 1930

CHICAGO RABBIS BATTLE SCHOCHET RACKETEERING

The termination of the Allied Jew- country, which had heretofore worked ish Campaign as of December SI and separately, have labored side by side the launching of two new campaigns, in harmony and with mutual goodwill one for the Joint Distribution Com- for both of the causes unified in the mittee and another for the American Allied Jewish Campaign. Important Palestine Campaign of the Jewish {communal values have been created Chicago.—(J. T. A.)—The Orthodox Agency for Palestine, early in 1931 by these joint efforts and the foundarabbinate of Chicago , has declared a were announced by Felix M. Warburg tion has beeiv laid for enduring coban on poultry, and has ordained that and Dr. Cyrus Adler, oh behalf of the i operation in many communities on beno fowl found in Orthodox markets Joint Distribution Committee-and the | half of Jewish causes—local, national A;large. number .of. American Jews shall be kosher. All Orthodox syna- American members of the Jewish and overseas. have,recently provided for the.settlegogues of Chicago have been notified Agency, respectively, in a statement ment of their European relatives in Campaigns in 230 Cities to this effect during- their Sabbath issued through the Jewish Telegraphic Palestine, through the aid of the Pal"During the nine months that have j services. . Agency. estine Department of the American elapsed since the Allied Jewish CamThis order of tha Chicago Ortho-. The Joint Distribution Committee's paign began, interrupted only by the Zionist Organization. j dox rabbinate has been issued in the drive will open in January while that enforced lull of the summer months, Availing .themselves of the oppor'.;. . .• j .—:>:'•-. of the American Palestine Campaign tunity which, has recently been af- They Rejejct' Legislature and war which it is waging against many will start early in 193,1." A national local campaigns on behalf of this union terrorism in the fied effort, h&ve been held in upward forded by the Palestine" government conferenceto initiate this latter camkosher butcher business-here and of 230.cities and towns. Neither the on to apply for permission for persons of San paign will be held-in New York on prevalent economic depression, the infractions of kashruth xitual. a certain age to settle in Palestine as '•'..' Arab disturbances in Palestine at the At a meeting in the Hebrew Theo- January 25. permanent residents,' if they can show Jerusalem.—(J. T. A.)—An intima- i logical. College tonight the situation The full text of the statement is- end of August, 192f>, the Shaw Com-that they have an assured income of tion of the consents of the long-de-j w a s discussed bv ^ ^ a n d l e a d e r s . sued by Felix Warburg and Dr. Cy- •mission - Report, nor the PassfieM five dollars a week, American relaArab reply to the White • White Paper concerning- the Jewish -. Orthodox kehills.\ It rus Adler Jfeâs^,follows r. tives have obligated themselves given By the Arab paper, Al o f t h e Ch * "The"Ai!ied Jewish Campaign, of work in Palestine, were permitted by through a bond guarantee to support Ha.vat. A. -full",session of the Arab chime± that.-Shochti*-have"h ^ which the Joint Distribution Commit- the leaders of the Allied Jewish Cammugt the settler until he will be able to Executive considered-the'jepty "and it i ? f i B r i n g mle that tee and the American members of the paipn to abate their efforts. for receive employment. Jewish Agency for P&lsstine are the "In addition to these fE-ctors, the As soon as the^bond-.is--giVeff,""flie as to the keenness of constituent bodies, was formally leaders of the Campaign were faced Palestine-Department here gets into considers the reply, i launched at the National Conference i by the large and unusually successful Other 2^ l touch with the authorities C, on March Sth collections of the Palestine Emergency salem and sees to f the "numerous explanations and 9th of this year. It was created Fund in this country, which in the consuls in East-European countries b y British | government to calm j It was stated that one shochet, in compliance with a widespread sen- short space of several months, raised should receive instructions to issue ^ n e j e w s > timent to .establish * common ground 1 visas to these immigrants. | S i r Herbert Samuel; left Palestine' Noah Greenburg, was slugged lest I for unified effort to ameliorate the a sum in excess of S2.000.000 and rehabilitation of the victims of the PalAmerican Jews themselves, older j n 1925 with; a horizon as dark as week and that officials of the shochestine disorders and for the purpose people as well as women and children, when he came in 1920îhe Arab state- J of assuring them of a larger measure business manager, have been tried for can make applications for-these set- ment says, according .to the Al HayatJ the upbuilding of a Jewish National of s3curity. murder and other crimes in the Crimtiers' visas if they put up a bond The civil administratiph is unneces-j Home in Palestine. i "In the face of the exceptionally which guarantess an ircome of five sarily large,: the fellahjs too heavily inal Court and have been acquitted. "Since the inception of this c a r n " i unfavorable economic and othe- addollars a week for each person, ac- toxed and prices.fell'/when Sir Her- Shochtim are not permitted to kill if paign forces in Jewish life in this ] verse factors which confronted the racketeers, the rabbis were cording to Dr. S. Bernstein, director bert banned tbe export of cereals", the. campaign since its inception, it has he Talmud demands clean, of "the Palestine Department of the Arab statement says; It recalls that succeeded in securing pledges in the American Zionist Otf&nization. Amer- the visit of t£e first Arab, delegaion amount of S2,500,000 of which almost tEaflfiy applications can receive the necessary per of 1922, which the MacDonald treasury. ipating 'in studio program presented received, 'honorary medals and degrees informat'on through the Palestine "HP- government has now confirmed. kills poultry after Monday -will be T«rms of Agreement by dramatic art pupils of" Milton from' many universities, including the nartmen*, 111 Fifth Avenue, New recognizing, that the acquisition of barred forever from the profession "According to the terms of the and branded as unfit to kill. -. : 1;000.000 dur.ams by the Jews has Bieck .":... . . Edward Cohn^yMildred and Sorbonne of, Paris,.the Gold Medal of York City. Geneva.—(J. T. A.)—The Palestine agreement between the Joint Pistribinjured Arab interests. j Phyliss Berkowiti, Constance Meyers, the Institution, of Mining, and Metalquestion doss not figure ; on the j ution Committee and the America! Dr. Weizmann's objections to the Rosenstock! lurgyând Fellowship.of;ihfe;Royal agenda of "the coming session of the membsrs of the Jewish Agency fol Elaine •Kaimah,' Ruth Reports Paper • are inconsistent Society. . , „ . . . . . • , ,! Council of the League of 'Nations, j \ (Continued on Page 4.) Dewey" Ziegler and Rosalie Alberts Politics his acceptance of the previous j which opens here on January 19, 1931. j —— — he began in 1906 as a . . . . a group*of youngsters posses- In politics document which exceeded the Man- j p g I The agenda which was made public —(J. T. A.) — Contradictory dats when it envisaged assistance for sing a: capable understanding of the . Liberal member of the House of. ComKovno:—(J. T. A.)—The lithuan- here today contains nothing, which s to the conditions of the the Jewish National Home to which and 'jnons. , Subsequently he accepted the' charactei-s assigned to them office of Minister of Health in 192L is no end unless GreE* Britain ic-n government is contemplating the' could give reasons to believe that the particularly the Alberts Miss, a 12- Later he retired from politics. By Jews of Yemen ars being investigated there intends to remain in Palestine for- enactment of a law prohibiting all {British White Paper on Palestine will ] by the Alliance Israelite Universelle. yeai'-old youngster whose interpreta- popular/vote conducted by. the .Spect- by the Alliance Israelite U n e r s e persons not Lithuanian nationals from be raised, because the White Paper, eve r t h e ,' statement reject says. Arab-Jewish was received too late by the Mandate ] tion of--a ''modem Cinderella" was ator, he was seventh in the poll for A committee of Yemenite Jews who g any,; occupation Commission of the League of Nainsisting that peace will would net them & livelihoodGreat quite professional like. . . . . Mr. Tully "The Best Brains of England." to Paris : ; recentlv to seek aid for their tions." w » ^ i v . ™ » ^ m ^ c f o W t l , ^ -not be restored until -nations..! governanxiety prevails m Jewish circles ben Yemen. They stated that _ _ receiving a number of boquets on the Organized Chemical Industries. friends in ^ ^ ^ ^ £ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ fa ^ U w ^ { effect The agenda of the council includes Different Section of Communist - opening. of his new Hat.; istore . . . . After leaving: politics, he organized was The British government thousands of Jewish families in the however a report of the activities of. Party to Be Established one of the finest establishments'of its the Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. the Mandates Commission since its i nas in White Russia country. regarded as one of the greatest trusts tically slaves, that Jews are forbidden increased tne garrison ana eialast session. Although officially the | kind . . . . Mrs. Abe (Toby) Silverman 'e.u. _ -,-i «_ . ^ : ™ « _ „**!.„ +«-.i« «-~«i. A +K^ T^wJci, J, borated plans for defense of the Jew The Yiddishe Stimme points out 1 an ftn anS T in the world. He was chairman of the to emigrate and that Jewish orphans ish col nies t h e and daughters Elaine and Hadassah Intel-national ' statement complains, that if the law is actually passed the White Paper cannot be discussed at t Moscow.— (J. T. A.)—A new kind Nickel Company of Can- *«« forced to adopt 'the religion-of b u t ? ^.Policies resting on force are Jews will be exposed to starvation or the coming session, it • is• possible, o f Yevsectzia, of Jewish section of popular broadcasters of song over ada,of the Finance Company of-Great Islam. Reports of recent Jewish arid charity - or else will have to" throw nevertheless, that Dr. Voyislav Mariri- ths Communist Party, is to be estabthe Tucson Arizona Jtadid Station Britain and America, and the former non-Jewish' travelers .who passed bound to fail, it adds. The Arabs are themselves into, the river. While the kovitch,'Premier of Jugoslavia, frho is Jished in White Russia, according to through"YeWn do not ^support this dissatisfied with the proposed legis." and; Elaine bsing hailed as an- of the Amalgamated .Anthracite Col- mcture.âs fliev declare^the Jew^ of J^ve council wh,ch they are_ready government measure to restrict work the rapporteur of the Mandates Com- ' an order issued toda-y, by the praesi; which they Other '<BaIr Rose Marie" of the -air i Iteries, Ltd.,, which, controls, over 80 .picture,; as ; they declare 1 Jews mission, will be able to touch upon dium of the White Russian central extheir are to citizens only may be justified in the White Paper in his report because ecutive not committee. The order calls > f the anthracite output of j Yemen to be unpersecuted view of the acute economic crisis, it They; . . . .' Hermine Hirschman, daughter I fully I badly < demand" a is pointed out that most of the Jews of his friendly attitude to Zionism. for the organization of national minSouth Wales. _ law forbidding the transfer of l&nd of Dr. and Mrs. H. Hirschman in a Such possible mention of the White ority committees at the local Soviets to the Jews without the High Com- who are not citizens have been living Tadio audition from K.OIL Station missioner's approval and a ban on im- in Lithuania for decades. Some of Paper will however be' only superfi- of Minsk, Vitebsk, Homel and forty . . . . with favorable prospects of re1 migration so long as a single Arab is them even possessed Lithuanian. citi- cial. • The fail discussion of the .Whits other townships. Each committee is to consist of ceiving a: contract as a soloist on. the unemployed. .. • ^ zenship at one time but they lost it Paper cannot be expected before next because" of technicalities since most of September, -since the Mandates Com- seven members with a paid secretary. Barnsdall hour . . . . a coast to coast them have no proof of their residence, mission is hof-'yet ready with its own The chairman of the committee must hookup over C. B. S. network . . . . _, , Jf j i Jewish Araib Shoemakers the various foreign occupation during decision regarding the White P&per, be identical with the president of the Jerusalem.^-(J. T. A.) < — Germany, and honest you wouldn't believe me The area available at for 70,000 orange .cul- »j .. .1 ,i?; the war having destroyed official which aroused, Jewish protests the local Soviet. The committee's funcas well ss England> is now an im- tivatioii is estimated -acres, Tiberius* —Shoemakers-.: of all the d o c u m e n t s . "• ••• • . . . . b u t Henry Burbig is not a Jew portant consumer of Jaffa oranges. so that some 45,000. acres remain on -.'•.tions •will be to enlighten the local world over. communities in the city united here, . . . .An Omahan who has made good Last year 300,000 cases were sold to which' oranges can- be grown. Soviets on cultural and economic 'forming a committee to act for their needs of the national minorities thus in a large city . . . . Sam Dansky, the Germany, which is a 50 per cent inInteresting comparisons r betweetv , c p m m o n g0^ xh e committee concontrolling the existence of the naperfect host, now residing in PhilaHel- crease over the previous' year. r ••_' sist of five members, three of whom tile-orangs groves of TG£3ifo"rnia and tional minorities. This development for oranges is good Ann Rosenblatt, one of hearing for the Palestine growers, for Palestine have been made. Here the are Jews, and two Arabs. phia While the Jews of White Russia are Broadways popular song writers un- the constant extension of the area un- yield "per acre in a well tended or- Boycott Egyptian Merchandise being told that this is an important step to aid them they nevertheless der the nom de plume of "Ann der cultivation which will soon be chard is nearly twice as great as in Jerusalem.—Maraat El Sharak, an Unique paintings and lithographs college owns some of his canvasses and iesrv that it means the return of the making itself felt on the figures of California. Labor is che&per here, Arab paper, urges Palestinians to Ronell" . . . . her number "Baby's production to a marked extent, calls but the Californian grower may take boycott Egyptian goods. The boy- m&de with dexterity and a true art- lithographs in their permanent col- Yevsectzia. This fear is based on the Birthday Party" a smashing hit . . it's genius are bringing national fame lections. fact that these national minority comfor a corresponding extension of outAnd now: for inventories and resolu- lets if the industry, hitherto largely comfort in the fact that he at least cott is demanded in retaliation for the to a former Omahan, William S. Schwartz won second prize in an mittees are not to be created in Ukhigh.protective tariff that Egypt has tions . . . . speaking of inventories dependent on exports to the United does not have to fence in his orchards placed on certain Palestine products. Schwartz. Schwartz, a Chicagoan, is all-American art showing at the Chi-1 rainia and Central Russia, where the or pay wa>ges to a watchman. in Omaha, visiting with his brother cago Art Institute two years ago. He i Jewish Communists do not play sa . . . . the salesmen who sell red ink Kingdom, is to remain a remunerative mun a<nd sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Max has also won first p n z e m a n u m b e r )Jj me wp osrht a n tC o&mrolfi d are thus unable are expecting a flourishing business one. Schwartz and his mother. of exhibitions. to influence their respective central The present area under orange . . . . See you again next week. Critics have recognized his merit in Born in Russia, Schwartz came to executive committees to return them groves is estimated to be between the East for his modernity and orig- this country at an early age. He to power. twenty and twenty-three thousand inality of ideas. He has a studio in spent several years in Omaha. While 5,883 Jews Entered The original Yevsectzia was liquid' acres. . The shipments last year Chicago, and does some sculptural here he studied under Wallace, and ated last February by the central com' amounted to about two million cases Palestine in Year and are expected to exceed two and Madrid.—(J. T. A . ) — The first to obtain the legalization of the com- work in addition to his other artcraft. then lef t for Chicago where he committee of the Communist Party and recognized synagogue to be establish- munity and for obtaining a plot for The press has been very generous pleted his studies at the Chicago Art Communist work among the Jews wai • , London.-—(J. T. A.)—A total of 5,- a half million this year. Institute. 883 Jews entered Palestine during the The rate of increase since 1922 has ed in Spain since the Jews were exiled a Jewish cemetery despite the objec- in it's praise, and several well- He is also noted as a singer. In- turned over to special instructors Jewish year 5690, October 1,1929, to been remarkable. At; the close'of that in 1492 was opened here with 30 mem- tions of church officials. Bauer also known magazines have carried arti- deed, he financed his way: through named by the central committee. The September 30, 1930, the executive of year the : area was no more than 8,000 bers ^present who will form the first undertook the financial responsibility cles about his work- A study of his art studies. He : sang in many con- abolition of the Yevsectzia was hailed the Jewish Agency announced. l a acres, which in 1929 had increased to official Jewish -community in Spaia. for maintaining the synagogue which Schwartz, together, with illustrations certs, singing as soloist for1 the Chi- as a great step in relieving the Jew> ish economic situation in the Soviet A representative of the Spanish po- is located in the central section of of his art work, by Manuel Chapman, ; August there were 182 immigrants, in about 25,000 acies. cago Symphony orchestra. : Union. The Yevsectzia was regarded has just come off the press of L. M. Madrid. lice was also present and he anSeptember 257 and in Octpber 175. , Fromjthis, seôn onwards .a large by. the official Soviet leaders as th( Of the 614 immigrants who! entered increase in the, output is to be ex- nounced and signed the draft of the The synagogue has a library ad- Stein Company, Chicago. special representative of the Jevvisl Jewish Artists Honored constitution for the community and exhibition of his paintings will during these three months, 305 were pected, arid as this will; become more joining it -where a number of old re- beAn masses and It was largely responsibl* recorded its êstablishment. Berlin.—The Prussian Academy of held the first two weeks in Febradmitted under the labor schedule, 224" pronounced over a period of years, it ligious articles collected from governfor the persecution of the Jewish reuary at the Morrill Hall, Lincoln, Ne- Arts has awarded state medals for Ignacio Bauer, a local banker, was wenf-relatives M Jews; already resi- is eviq^ntl that. the oranges: available figioni, the; l Hebrew language • ment museums ?and private collections braska,' under the auspices of the Mne painting to two Jewish.artists, Hans for expert will sodnVe^xlouile 'the elected+preshfent*of ?tH« Community iff denf in-Palestine"arid 85 we're' Arts Colleere of the nniversitv. present total recognition of his personal endeavors are housed.. ' grants possessed of means. ' • " ( • ;

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