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FIERY SESSIONS ENi WORLD ZIONIST MEETING IN SWITZERLAND Clashes Mar Outstanding Leaders Make Stirring Serenity of Pleas Conclave
Interesting and Entertaining OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1931
VOL. IX.—No. 23
Blames Jfewry for Freiberg Passion Play MANDATORY Victoria, British Columbia—Inertia on the part of the Jewish community is / held responsible by Frederick Landsberg for the failure to prevent the presentation of the Passion Play in Victoria, B. C, the city which honored him a. year ago by voting him as its best citizen. After singlehandedly using every influence, in his power to prevent it being shown in Victoria, Mr. Landsberg found that he had begun his efforts too late, due to the delay of other members in. the community in. coming to his aid.
GIVES Palestine to A«et Directly; on Visas STEPS TAKEN TO HELP HOMELAND
Economic Equilibrium Restored, Palestine Government Reports in Memo
Jerusalem.—(J. T. A.) — Applications for Palestine immigration certificates front Zionist refugees in Russia will in the future be received and acted upon by the government, immigration authorities, without reference in each case to the Colonial office, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has learned. In this way, applications are to be expedited in line with the Jewish Agency Executive's long standing recommendation to the government.
SAN BEBER NAMED FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT OF B'NAI BRITH DISTRICT NO. 6 63rd Convention Is Held at St. Paul
London.—(J. T. ^(L)—Facts and figures to show that the economic equilibrium of Palestine has been restored are cited by the' Palestine government in its annuaL report to the Manonstrative protest against the speakThe decision of the seventeenth dates Commission of the League of e r ^ a n d the ALaborite delegates at"World Zionist Congress as to who Sam Beber, prominent local comNations. The report cites increased tempted to shout him down with cries shall: lead the * movement or munal leader, was chosen first vice* building activity, new buildings to the of .."demagogue,"and appeals to the whether the reins should be turned president of District grand lodge No, value of $9,250,000 having been erectchairman to forbid the continuance of over to a praesidium had not been 6 of the international B'nai Brith at : ed during the year, the continued exhis speech." "• . determined at press time. A comthe election of officers featuring tha pansion of citriculture and the slow plete report on this most vital "I indict the present government of sixty-third annual convention held in consolidation of the position of the factor in Zionism today will be St. Paul the early part of this week< England on this tribunal of the Jewprincipal factories* The fact that the Plajyand Learning Combined at carried in the next issue of the Beber was second vice-president durish people before'the moral conscience Nesher Cement Works has shown a Center's Annual SumJewish Press. ing the past term. He is the youngof the world as having, tragically failprofit of $9G;O0Oiand that the Tel mer School est man in the history of the order; ed to ftttfflTits' obligations under the Jewish Quarter of Salonika to Be Aviv silicate planl has resumed proto hold such a high post. Reconstructed With Govern- duction is also pointed out. Palestine Mandate to the ' Jewish ' Sokolow. Opens Congress Even though the Jewish Communment Subsidy ' Never in the thirty-four years of people," Dr. Wise called out. ity Center Play School is ten days Dr. A. Greenberg, who is president Emphasize Absence of Disturbances old, registrations are still being made Sam Beber. its history has a Zionist Congress - "Dr. Weizmann's speech sounded of the local lodge No. 354, was electSaloniki. — (J. T. A.) — George like a statement by the British govIn the introduction to the report by children who have been hearing of toeen so dramatically moved ed to the general committee of the ernment/' he continued, "but my word Maids, Greek minister of finance, has the fact that comparative tranquility the manifold benefits and. pleasures weighed down by fate, Nathan grand lodge. low, the seventy-year old chairman of will be a statement to the British placed 500,000 drachmas ($65,000) at prevailed is emphasized as is the ab- derived by those attending. Close to seven hundred delegates .. the Zionist Executive, declared in of- government. Whether it will be the disposal of the governor of Sal- sence of any disturbances which is and visitors from Canada, Nebraska, All classes have been -well organficially opening the 17th i Zionist Con- necessary to speak against England onfld for the reconstruction of the credited not only to increased security ized and are working in full swing, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South gress with a' plea to ihe- Jews of the depends on whether we shall have a Jewish quarter of the city, which was forces but also to the fact that the according to Miss Sophie Rosenstein, DaKota, Illinois, Michigan and Minne:world not to despair when they meet leadership which shall speak to Eng- almost entirely destroyed by fire-as temper of the populace became per- director. sota, were in attendance. with defeat because a fight for a land." Dr. Wise then declared that he a result of the anti-Jewish riot here. ceptively less violent and inter-racial Each day some new feature is inThe greatest ovation of the convenjust cause is bound to lead to victory. offered no indictment against the As a result of this money becoming antagonism somewhat less bitter. An- troduced into the program. Last tion was given to Beber at the conEnglish people. "How," he asked, available it is believed possible that other factor in the 'restoration and Thursday slides from the Union Pa- Annual Scholarship to Jewish clusion of his report as president of '•Forward, Not Backward" stone buildings will replace the dilapconditions cific on National Parks were shown Saving that some people may call "can I indict . • Lord Balfour Lloyd idated wooden dwellings in which the maintenance of . -peaceful -» the supreme advisory council of tha Girl to Be Awarded George, Lord Plumer and General by Gilbert" Harry, and Mr. Wright of this optimism, Mr. Sokolow declared was the gradual disappearance of the Aleph Zadik Aleph, the international September 1 Jews "previously lived. that."it is in optimism that the secret Smuts? It is these who are repreArab boycott of Je*lsh products and Boy Scout headquarters delivered a junior B'nai Brith movement which he Seventeen Greek and three Jewish a revival of economic intercourse, the short address. Friday, several num- "Th'eiocal Council of Jewish Women himself founded here in Omaha eight of the preservation of our people lies. sentative of the English-people and not Lord Passfield High Commissionorganizations, including the B'nai report notes. More-than ;-a"|eW Arab bers were" given" by the comb orches- is now ready to receive applications years ago. Hopelessness and Zionism are opposite contrasts; forward and not back- er Chancellor, and Keith Roach, dis- Brith, met here and adopted a resolu- bankruptcies during^the year were a tra, directed by Miss Lilyan Chada- for its annual scholarship loan, acThe complete list of officers chosen tion expressing regret at the disturb- -consequence of the boycott the gov- coff.cording to ah announcement made by are Harry Lashkowitz, Fargo, N. D. ward is the; motto of Zionism. The trict commissioner in Palestine." f ances and confidence in the local au- ernment adds. •present' Congress' is one of realities Justin Wolf - addressed the Play Mrs. J. H. Kulakofsky, chairman of president; Sam Beber, Omaha, Nebr., "Security, Land, Immigration.*' thorities. Representatives of the press Regarding the Mandates! Commis- School Monday morning. On Tuesday "the educational committee of the and means, to-look facts directly in The three major points for the who -were invited to the conference sion's question as fe wha| measures the assembly was featured by" dance Council, following a special meeting first vice-president; Joseph F. Grossthe face more than ever." man, Chicago, 111., second vice-presi« establishment of the Jewish National promised to aid in the restoration of of that, committee Tuesday at'1 the ' Applaud Weizmann. -..'.;'•• Home are security, land and immigra- peace and in the improvement of re- were taken for securing^'the estab- numbers and comedy by Sam Brown, home of Mrs. Herbert Amstein, pres- dent; Otto G. Felton, Chicago, III., lishment of the Jewish National Home and a comb number and song by Joe secretary; William Bensinger, East •} Five minutes before .the opening of tion. Dr. Wise said. "Security should lations between Greeks and Jews. The the Palestine goveinnjfcnt refers "not Harris, a Play School pupil. ident of ttie Council. .VY,--*"-' St. Louis, HI., treasurer; Dr. A* jhe Congress -Dr.- Chaim Weizmann not' lest on .British bayonets but on parley also decided to summon anoth- only to last &e^lcfca^ # «HrfiiiimlaT«afip loan fa ©pen fo any Greenberg, Omaha, Nebr., and Ed E« New members goes an end of-the will ajxd efforte-.on the er conference tjf-afi^Greek, Jewish and back to 1920 and enumerates ten to the Play SchoSl's teaching staff in- Omaha Jewish girl for further study entered- the .hall with the entire'ZipnBarron, Sioux City, elected to the .Executive following "'" - • - •him - - - •to - ^ g part of .British officials in Palestine national professional groups to take steps taken to indicate the growth of clude Mrs. A. Pitler, in charge of sew- No particular school or type of study general committee. Jtribuflfc- ?As .Weizmann entered the who incite the Arabs against the j steps to end all misunderstandings. the Jewish National Home. They are ing classes; Miss Louise Pitch, as- is specified. Reports were rendered at the conJews. We do not demand safety for hall the entire gathering rose en Applications should be made to In the meantime the - minister of as follows: sistant in dramatics, and Miss Gerclave on the various activities of the masse and applauded vociferously for our men in Palestine, but we demand justice and the -minister of aviation aldine Straus, accompanist for danc- Mrs. J. H. Kulakofsky in writing by order. The district voted to raise Steps in Growth of Home. several minutes. The loges were oc- that the; British government grant together with the governor of SakonAugust 15. The final decision as to ing. 1. Jewish immigration was legalcupied by many prominent guests and security for "women, children and old iki are looking into the cause of the the winner will be made on Septem- $45,000 for the Wider Scope during the coming year. men who were the,especially chosen outbreak. Senator Ascher Mallah, ized. diplomatic officials. ber 1. victims of the 1929 riots. Our second Deputy Bessantchi and M. Tacoel the 2. The Turkish embargo on land Funds available for this scholarship demand is free and legal access to the legal adviser of the "Jewish commun- purchase was withdrawn. Jabotinsky Wins Applause work have been raised chiefly through 3. 800,000 dunams of land passed :.- With aTinging "Ani Maamin," ex- land, and our third is fredom of im- ity,' conferred with the minister of the Council's circulating library at the pressing his faith in the destiny of migration. Blackstone Hotel and contributions to justice, A. Avraam, and explained the into Jewish hands. Oscar Mayerowich was installed as the scholarship fund. 4. A rabbinical council was estabthe Jews, that electrified, the. dele- " "During the past two years we situation to him after submitting lished and tile Jewish religious court president of the Mother Chapter of gates and visitors to. the Zionist Con- have had hone of these things. We memorandum, The members of the educational the A. Z. A. at th committee are Mrs. Herbert Arnstein, gress and that brought them to their have had bad; laws administered by M. Avraam said that he was con- recognized. regular meeting of Mrs. Sam Gerson, Mrs. Morris Jacobs 5. The High Commissioner empowfeet in a hurricane of uncontrollable worse officials; We had utter and vinced that the Maccabee Sport Club the organization last Mrs. R. Kulakofsky, Mrs. Max HolzCtpplause, Vladimir Jabotinsky, leader tragic insecurity". fWe had restric- is innocent of the charge of the press ered the Jewish community to organ Thursday. Mayero- man, Mrs. Joseph Stern, and Mrs. J of the Zionist Eevisionists and one of tion even-cancellation of immigration. and the National organization that the ize itself. An estimated attendance of five 6; General government measures wich is also ser- H. Kulakofsky, chairman. the outstanding opponents of the We are justified in i saying" that the Maccabee representatives' had utilized hundred boys are expected to be asWeizmann policies, brought to a dose establishment of the Jewish National their presence in Sofia last year to for the country's well-being also benegeant at arms of sembled in Milwaukee when the openhis thrilling two-hour address before Home has been practically"annulled attend a meeting of agitators favor- fitted- the Jewish community. the Missouri Valley ing session of the eighth Internation7» A fiscal policy exempting raw the Zionist Congress. • by fiat of the British government.""' ing Macedonian independence. L Aleph Association o: al Junior B'nai Brith (A. Z. A.) con"Let us make a last experiment the A. Z. A. Characterizing" ; Dr.-' Weizmann's .With the police and special military materials from the tariff and the imvention is called to order this Sunday with Great Britain," he cried out. "I speech as a personal i apologia and • not detachments fully armed patrpling position of a duty on imports. morning, July 12th. These young Other officers in 8. Land settlement and the cadas believe in the honesty of the civilized a political address. Dr. Wise empha- the streets, complete order has been men, all between the ages of 16 and stalled include Ervin •world. If we would have truthfully sized that the Congress "will never restored throughout .the city. Sue tral survey are progressing. 21, will have traveled many "hundreds Wezelman, v i c e 9. The government constructed a described to the British public the sit- accept the MacDonald letter as set- Jews and five Greeks, implicated -in of miles from all parts of this counpresident; H o r r i uation as unbearable we might have ting right the White Paper. } The let- the rioting, were sentenced to three network of road communications setry and Omaha, in order to take part Franklin, secretary New York.—(J. T.. A.)—Denying in the important functions which are obtained justice. What can we ex- ter is not a treaty of peace but red days in. prison and fined. 400. drach- curing access to the most remote JewO. Mayerowich Sam Finkel, treas- Maryland's claim to having intro- scheduled throughout the entire three pect from Britain if by innumerable cross relief for those sorely 'wounded mas each -while another Greek was ish colonies. persuasive speeches we declared our- by the Grand Mufti, Lord Passfield given a 20-day-prison term; 10. The government granted a sub- urer; Art Lapp, reporter; Saul duced religious liberty into the New days of the conclave. selves satisfied during the entire and the pogroms. The municipality and various phil- sidy to the Zionist schools, private Graetz, chaplain; Sam Garrop and World, the tercentenary of which is Philip Seman, director of the Jewnew being planned, B. H. Hartogen seven-year period. If we are truly anthropic organizations are in the Jewish schools, the Tel Aviv hospital Ben Rosen, sergeants-at-arms. ish People's Institute of Chicago, is Letter Cancels White Paper. sis, Baltimore Jewish attorney and optimistic, let us seek the fault in meantime rendering emergency as- and afforded employment during Art Grossman is to be editor of th to address the convention Sunday af"All major and minor pogroms in historian, in a letter in Sunday's New our leadership, its defections and its sistance to the Jewish victims of the time of distress. chapter's monthly publication. ternoon and lead a discussion forum York Times, presents evidence to Palestine hurt Great Britain at least weaknesses. disturbances, many of them having on problems of interest to Jewish show that not only is this claim un as much as they hurt us. Our lead"I cannot believe the world wishes lost all of their belongings in the fire. founded but that the very opposite i: youth. In the evening, a city-wido to close the doors of Palestine to the ership maintains that the MacDonald the case, even up to the present day. open meeting will be held for th« Jews, but if it were true, if our pro- letter is a virtual cancellation of the Crediting Roger Williams in Rhod' purpose of acquainting the Jewry of White Paper. . However, not the British orientation which I helped Island with first having sponsored re- Milwaukee with A. Z. A. and its probring about, was really a mistake, White Paper but immigration permits ! ligious liberty in the New World, Mr, gram. then I do not believe that the fate of were cancelled. England's answer to Hartogensis points out that it was no Vienna.—(J. T. A.)—One of the The degree team of Milwaukee the Mufti-led pogro mists was the canIn the history of the Rothschild art . the Jewish people depends on the de'.greatest private art galleries in the treasures more than one picture had until 1819 that Catholics were ab- Chapter No. 39 will present th« cision of one nation. No religious cellation of permits. Our. leadership's world is now housed in the palace of diplomatic and financial episodes of solved from taking the oaths of ab- Judas Maccabeus Degree, a two-seen* Jew, no irreligious Jew would believe answer was the whittling down of the Jewish National Home into a bi-nathe Vienna branch of the famous an international character hovering juration and abhorence as the test o playlet symbolizing the strugglf this. I believe the Jews are a powerBerlin.—(J. T. AOr-General Erich ful factor in this world. I believe in tional state. We have had insults, in- Ludendorff, former German war lord, Eothschild family. While other aris- around it. There are paintings which office and that Jews fell under the against bigotry and race prejudice i which the seven cardinal virtues oi dignity, shame and degradation from suffered another blow to his rapidly tocratic families of Europe have been required twenty years to reach the same exclusion until 1825. the power of truth Ani Maamin." Saying that it "is time that thi A. Z. A. are portrayed. Richard Gut* The unparalleled ovation that greet- the British government which learned dwindling prestige as a result of. his gathering art treasures for fifty gen- Rothschilds. There are rare pictures ed Jabotinsky after this conclusion the art of fifty-fifty from the Jewish Jew-phobia when Count von Dohna, erations, the collection of the Vienna by great masters whose value can misrepresentation be broadcast every stadt, director of the B'nai Brith came as the climax of an address in Agency, fifty per cent for the Arabs grand master" of the German Masonic Eothschild's is only some two or three hardly be estimated. In the art gal- where as bunk," Mr. Hartogensi membership, Cincinnati, is speaker of •which the Revisionist leader pleaded and fifty per cent against the Jews." lodge, won.'..suit for libel against the generations old. But the Rothschilds lery of the Vienna Rothschilds there notes that in Maryland "the test ol the evening. It was at this point of Dr. Wise's general in the courts of Gotha. are such art connisseurs that in a is, for instance, one portrait, a Fra- office is upon the faith of a Chris for a rejection of Premier MacDonOn Monday noon, a novelty lunchald's letter to Dr. Weizmann inter- speech that the Congress was thrown In Jamisiry, 1928, Ludendorff, in a comparatively short time they have gonard, worth millions of dollars, tian," wtih exception for Jews, wh eon is to be given at the Schlit* preting the Passfield White Paper. At into an uproar. Dr. Weizmann rose public address, alleged that Count von accomplished in this respect much whose inestimable value can be seen will announce their belief in future Brewery. The convention ball will b* .same time a stirring passage in from the platform and in a half dem- Dohna, knew of a plot of Jewish Free more than the oldest aristocratic fam- from the fact that when ex-Kaiser rewards and punishments; those of all held in the evening. Tuesday is del Wilhelm fled from Germany in 1918 other creeds and non-believers and voted to sessions. The convention*, *thew6peech asked for one further1 at- onstrative fashion left the hall while Masons to murder the Arch-Duke ilies of Europe. Dr. Wise was speaking. tempt at co-operation with the BritDuring a period of seventy years he had a picture by the same master atheists alike are excluded from of will formally come to a close at ft Franz Perdinand of Austria-Hungary ish government. in order to provoke a world war but the Rothschilds became the owners of under his coat. To Wilhelm it was fices of public trust despite the fed- banquet in the evening. Here, Sans Beber, of Omaha, founder of A. Z. A, Weizmann Address that von Dohna did not take steps some of the greatest private art gal- more important to save this picture eral constitution. "Witnesses and jurors alike are dis will deliver an address. Annual Wise Indictment Basle.—After leading the Zionist to prevent it and therefore was guilty leries in the world. The Parisian and than his entire estate in Germany. Vienna Rothschilds especially spent Even many art specialists do not qualified if unbelieving in a God wh awards will also be made . The stormiest session of the present movement for thirteen years, Dr. of high treason. Aleph Zadik Aleph is sponsored In court Count von Dohna produced enormous sums of money and much know the real value of the Rothschild will regard and punish; blasphemy, Zionist Congress came when.Dr. Ste- Chaim Weizmann formally and defdenial of Christ in the very language under the Wider Scope of the B'nai effort and used much discrimination a letter from General LudendorfFs phen S. Wise of New York, speaking initely laid down his office; in conart collection in Vienna. While the as the representative of the Ameri- cluding his report at the Zionist Con- first wife, whom he discovered in in the gathering of their art treas- galleries of the Parisian Hwtfaschilds of the above edict of toleration' of B'rith. 1649 is punishable severely; Sunday can delegation came out with-an ex- gress. In a tworand-a-half hour ad- 1927 after living with her for 25 ures. They didn't merely buy the best 'the Christians' Sabbath, the Lord's are at least semi-public and there is a years, stating that Ludendorff was that could be had at the market or at coriating indictment of England for dress he not only outlined the diffiMove to Larger Quarters Day, established in commemoration - its failure to fulfill the obligations of culties undergone by the Zionist not pursuing the troth and that he international auctions, but they also catalogue for the perusal of connois- of theis rise The Crandell Fur Shop has mov«4 of our Saviour from th the Palestine Mandate, and a bitter movement since the last decade and was a neurasthenist who, out of hat- employed a number of "silent brok- seurs, the gallery of the Vienna Roth- grave',; religiously consecrated mar- into new and larger quarters at 8551 attack on the| leadership .of Dr.; Weiz-; emphasized 'the facts -that j although red for, the Jews, ;had invented the ers? who went about; among the high- schilds is strictly private, only; a few riages alone are legal and not. civil Farnam St. The shop specialises, in m a n n l At one" point J the .Congress1 times have changed" since 1918,- Zion- legend that Germany was the "victim est? aristocracy; and; sought to pur- personal friends havtnf fee privilege or contract marriages, although tin fur. storage, remodeling, cleaning 4 was thrown into an uproar'when Dr. ists remain » unshaken, :bi|t; outlined of a super-state of powers composed chase certain • pictures or other an"V" ' Sir'"•*'<» TO"VM of viewing the ctUectioa. ' .-_-__• state grants civil divorces." Weizmann left the platform in dem.(Continued on Paze 4X' ^•^•j of Jesuits, Jews and Masons. ,. :, tique*. .' r_-^r-
PEACE RESTORED IN GREECE AFTER ANTI-JEWISH RIOT
CHILDREN ENJOY SELVES GREATLY AT PLAY SCHOOL
APPLICATIONS FOR COUNCIL'S "LOAN" NOW BEING TAKEN
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INTERNATIONAL A. Z. A. CONCLAVE STARTS SUNDAY
DENIES MARYLAND CLAIM AS HOME OF LIBERTY
LUDENDORFF AGAIN LOSES PRESTIGE AS RESULT OF
Vienna Rothschilds Own One of Greatest Art Collections