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VoL X—No. 28
OMAHA, NEBRASKA^ FEHJAY, AUGUST 10, 1934
Knoxville, Term., (W. N. S.)—C. G. Bart, believed to have been the oldest Jew in the world, is dead here it the age of' 118. Until a few days before his death he was in good health and able to read the Jewish papers. A native of Poland, Bart came to this country 22 years ago. He is survived by a son, three daughters, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Austria Nazis Planned REVEAL ARMED NEW SOUTH AFRICAN SAYS Holyday Services To Make Jew For Jewish Youth PARTY ADOPTS PLANK Press "ARYAN" CULTURE DUE Chief SILVER SHIRT AGAINST RACIAL BIAS TO Services for. the Jewish youth of Vienna, (W. N. S.)—Documents
STORM TROOPS
Omaha during the approaching High discovered in the possession of Nazis London, (WNS).—A terrific blow Holydays win be held at the Jewish Capetown, (WNS).—A special arrested in the mopping up campaign was administered to the advocates of Community Center lodge room, under plank repudiating racial and religi- by the Schuschnigg government reAryan nonsense by Prof. Sir S. El- the joint sponsorship of A. Z; A. No. ous prejudice is incorporated in the veal the amazing and unbelievable Congressional Committee Told Chancellor Schnschnigg Dedares of Plan to Seize U. S. liott Smith, world famous anthro- 1 and A. Z. A-.-No. 100. program of the new South African fact that a Jew was scheduled to be This To Be "Self pologist, when he told the Congress The entire MTvieeS/on Bosh Hasho- party created by the merger of Gen- named press chief of the Austrian Government Understood" of Anthropoligical and Ethnological nah and Tom Kippur wffl be conduct- eral Hertzog's Nationalist Party. Nazi regime if the recent putsch had Los Angeles, (WNS).—Uniformed, Sciences that "the so-called primitive ed by A. Z. A. alephs. Rabbi David Vienna (JTA) — Chancellor Kurt The plank reads: "The party ac- succeeded. Aryan culture derived from Babylon A. Goldstein win sefve as religious knowledges Schuschnigg assured the Jews of AusThis Jew is Dr. Walter Nogelston, and armed storm troopers of the Silthe sovereignty and ver Shirts are drilling near San was, in fact, due to Semitic influ- advisor for lie group ~ tria through, the Jewish Telegraphic guidance of the Almighty God in the former editor of the Neue Wiener Agency that they would receive full ences much in the same way that Last year's yonth services were con- destiny of peoples and countries, and Journal. Nogleston was one of those Diego In preparation for seizing the equality with all other Austrian citithe renaissance of learning in ducted by members of the local A. Z. desires the development of the peo- arrested immediately after the mur- United States government and removing all Jews from public office, zens. Europe in the middle ages, was the A-, and were "highly Jiuccessful. ple of South Africa along Christian der of Chancellor Dollfuss. He is now In the course of a press conference result of intermediation of the Jews Ernie Priesman is reneral chairman lines," without prejudice to the right held in protective custody in his own according to testimony given at a attended by a large number of press between Spain and the Greek world in charge of arrangements. Chairmen of the individual citizen to freedom home and forbidden to leave Vienna. secret hearing of the Congressional of the religious com: of the two correspondents the new chancellor deHe has been dismissed from his po- Committee of un-American activities. in the eastern Mediterranean." chapters are Ben Shrier of the Mother of thought, conscience and religion; sition as editor of the Neue Wiener Government agents' who have been cared that there would be equality the promotion of healthy feelings of checking up on the Silver Shirts rePlaying the Nazis' attribution of chapter and Iz Mittletnan of the Cen- national pride, based on the fullest Journal. lor all citizens under the Austrian ? vealed that they have an organized distinctive qualities of mind and tury chapter. law. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency appreciation of the nation's spiristorm troop auxiliary -which purcorrespondent thereupon asked the character to the Nordic races and tual and cultural heritage in all its chased 2,000 rounds of .SO calibre chancellor whether the Jews were in- Newark, < JTA) .—The G e r m a n the so-called Aryan people, Profesbearings and the protection of every ammunition at the U. S. Naval Air cluded. "That is self understood," the American League of Essex county, sor Smith told the congress, which Siyum Hatorah to section of the population therein. Station at North Island near San chancellor , replied, "the equality is embracing almost all German Ameri- included many German scientists, rights and privileges guaranBe Held&n Sunday The Diego from members of the U. S. for all who obey the law." can organizations in this section of that the racial doctrines of the Nazis teed to each section of the people armed forces on active duty. DiscovThe Austrian Jews who were very New Jersey, has gone on record as is a delusion that "comes into flaby the constitution shall "be impartiYeshBrin The Adass ery that the Silver Shirts are planmuch perturbed by the kiling of being- entirely "de-Nazified." synagogue, grant conflict with the generally 25th and Seward street, will nold -a ally maintained and safeguarded." ning a coup d'etat to take over the Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and the recognized teachings of anthropolical A resolution was passed by the "Siyum Hatorah" at the synagogue government prompted intelligence ofNazi revolt* were afraid that the new group banning the swastika and all science." Sunday, August 12, starting at 3 p.m. ficers of the army, navy, and marine regime might attempt to curb their other Hitlerite emblems savoring of His statement was vigorously ap- The Torah was presented by M. Sei- De-Nazified Bialik Death and Stavsky Ac- corps as well as other government Tights. Color was lent to such rumors race hatred from the German Day plauded by all but the German delequittal Fail to Mend ner, in memory of his wife. Newark—The German American operatives to press a vigorous inby a statement made by Prince von celebration scheduled for next Sun- gates, who greeted his remarks with Schisms League of Essex County, embracing The Jewry of Omaha and Council vestigation of Silver Shirt activities Starhembefg during his short Incum- day in the United Singers' Grove in stony silence. Bluffs are invited to,attend. almost all German American organiall along the Pacific coast. bency of the post of chancellor. He Springfield. He also pointed out that it is a declared that while there would be no John C. Koerber, president of the deliberate fraud to make the term A program including prominent zations in this section of New Jersey, London, (J. T. A.)—Reports reachWitnesses told the committee, prepogroms in Austria the Jews occupied league, announced' that all measures Aryan synonymous with non-Jewish. speakers has been arranged, and re- has gone on record as being entirely ing here from various European Jew- sided over by Representative Charles ish centers indicate that the bitter infreshments will be served. "de-Nazified," a totally disproportionate place in the to forestall Nazi attempts to rule the ternal fight in the Zionist movement Kramer of California, that the Silver life of the nation, and defensive measGerman element in this section would between the various factions is as- Shirt storm troopers do not wear ures would be taken against them.r be adopted. He went further to resuming more serious proportions every swastikas but keep them at home. Members of the storm troop brigade buke the Deutsche Zeitung, New day instead of dying down. York Nazi periodical for a-recent The acquittal of Stavsky and the do not know their fellow members, "unjust and insulting reflection on death of Chaim Nachman Bialik, the •who include members of the U. S. the league and the person of its Hebrew poet laureate, which it was navy, marine corps and California president" The league adopted this thought might have a moderating in- National guard. An tmidentifed old latter sentiment in the form of a fluence on the internal fight in the man is said to supply the Silver resolution. Zionist ranks, have failed to have the Shirts with funds, arms, ammunition expected effect. The appeals for peace and supplies, which are obtained Richard H. Krueger, commander of issued by various groups on the death from a dealer in Btolen goods on the Newark Post of the German and By RABBI UBI MILLER of Bialik have been disregarded and University avenue, San Diego. The Austrian War Veterans, which reWas Only Jewish Member of Di cently broke with the Nazis has been has dared up once again. committee was told that a U. S. Babbl Uri Miller, who is making question, nevertheless told us to walk found in Frankfort an orthodox com- QlInfeeling Warsaw sharp street clashes oc- marine corporal investigating the plomatic Corps in Washaccepted, back into the league, in- an extensive tour of Europe and to our next appointment and not to munity, its membership composed of curred between the Zionist Revision- Silver Shirts was fired on several troduced a resolution condemning the Palestine, spent two days in Ger- hire a cab. The fear of being quoted men and women, graduated in the uniington . times by the storm troopers. swastika as "a symbol of anti-Semit-1 many just before Hitler** "bloody by name seems to be all-pervading in versities of Germany and Switzerland ists and the Laborites, when the latThe Silver Shirts, testimony reter posted the manifesto issued by the Washington, D. <C. (W. N. S.)—-: ism." purge." He writes from Europe a land where concentration camps and cultured, refined, modern, yet pious vealed, own a secret rifle range in Palestine Labor party on the Stavsky The diplomatic corps in Washington The resolution said in part: "If what he learned of German Jewry firing squads have usurped the seat to the utmost. The large synagogue the neighborhood of El Cajoh and El verdict Revisionist enthusiasts immelost its only Jewish member with the this disavowal constitutes an insult through observation and through of justice. in Frankfort was well attended for diately tore down the posters and a Mesa, a sparsely settled region, death of ' Pan! May, Belgium's am- to the German chancellor nobody but conversation during bis short stay. In regard to the American-press- mincha services — hundreds of wor- series of fights followed. where target practice and drilling, are bassador to. the JUniJted States, .who j Hitler is responsible for that." •••-..-.. - ". — E D H 0 B . reported spiritual revival in German shippers including women. Order and In Vienna the Palestine office com- held. According to inteligence offip p succumbed. to an operation for. gallg was considered aij onej . —__^_— The meeting J i riT^ replies replies dignity prevailed. Our discussions; with mittee in charge of the activities of cers the avowed objectives of the stones.' A veteran of the" Belgium for-; Jewryy we received $; ^ various German Jewish leaders i leaders in Fraikfort had and become in Ber- showed us their knowledge of the the Palestine office decided to-disband Silver SMrts are: First, to employ eign ''service,, May's 35-year diploma- tory of local Germandorn} having re-j Tuesday* morning and were awakened from lin. Certain individuals tict career-was climaxed in 1930 by his pudiated both Hitler and his Ameri- by the customs officials who inspect' nterested in Jewish life and culture world and its treands; and their own "in view of increasing differences be- their armed strength to overcome the Revisionists and members communists, who, they believe, will app'oinrment-t6:tn8iWashington post, can sattelites. ed our baggage. There were mutter- but they were few in number. Many positive reaction to everything Jew- tween of other groups represented in the stage an uprising and seize "the U: making him the first Jewish ambasings over our extra unused film. "You had become interested in Palestine ish. -Here was the traditional ortho- committee." S. government; and they in turn are sador of Belgium in the United States could have bought it in Germany,'' and the Hebrew language but this was dox Jew synonymous with cultural Fearing that repeated clashes be- planning to wrest it from the comand only the second Jew to represent complained the inspector and consult- expediency, not cultural revival. All modernity. Here was the orthodox tween Revisionists and Laborites in munists. And secondly, to remove all \___^ a foreign power in this country. The ed his superior before giving our those we interviewed agreed that were synagogue and its service a thing ofr Antwerp might lead to deportation of Jews from public office, including first was Lord Reading. May was an baggage his O. K. the situation to be relieved tomorrow beauty and a spiritual experience. And many of the participants, who are Henry Morgenthau, jr., secretary of Orthodox Jew and a member of the no sign of these converts would re- the liberal synagogues were almost aliens, the Belgian Zionist Federa- the treasury. Several minutes later a swastika old Jewish synagogue of Brussels, emblazoned on the hillside could be main. So much for the religious and orthodox. Men and women were sep- tion called an urgent conference of where his family has lived for generarated; the orthodox ritual was fol- all the Zionist groups, including the discerned in the morning light. We cultural revival. Philadelphia—Many protests were ations. His grandfather was a veteran lowed, heads were covered, and only Revisionists. An agreement was We saw and heard instances of the had left the Saar and were in Gerregistered with the National Repubof the Belgium war for independence. economic and terror program being a mixed choir and organ indicated de- reached at the meeting to avoid hereBorn in 1872, May entered the di- lican Committee because of the ele- many. carried on. In a public Jewish build- parture from tradition. And we found after all incidents which might unWe spent two days and nights in vation of Congressman Louis T. Mcplomatic service when he was 23, being we were shown shattered windows synagogues where the organ was no favorably bring to the attention of the Germany—in Frankfort and Berlin Fadden in the leadership of the ing attached to the foreign office. In and told in a whisper this was a "za- longer in use. during the days and on a third class party in the light of his record of outside world the internal fight with- Earl Kulakofsky, 26, son of Mr. 1896 he was appointed attache to the char le'churban"—a symbolic remem- The Jewish communities in Ger- in the Jewish ranks. wooden bench travelling at night. We, anti-Semitism. and Mrs. Reuban Kulakofsky, died Belgian legation at Washington. He spending no more money in Ger- brance of the terror. We tried unsuc- many as in most European countries Monday of diabetes, at Tela, Honwas promoted to first secretary in the - McFadden, who hails from Penn- were many than absolutely imperative. We to find a Jewish barber in have governmental recognition. As duras, where he had been in the emsame year, and a few months later sylvania, has been rabid in his out- arrived in Lithuania after three sleep- cessfully Berlin with its 150,000 Jewish such they have rights and privileges. ploy of the United Fruit company. was transferred to Tolrio, where he spoken anti-Semitic "tirades from the less nights and welcomed the Sabbath all Apparently the license They tax their members to carry on Funeral arrangements will be served until 1901. For the next eight floor of-congress. He has again and quiet of the Yeshiva town Telz where- population. had been utilized by the Brown their activities. And every member made when the body arrives in Omayears he was stationed in China, Lon- again upheld the exploded Protocls in we had our first rest since leaving clause Shirts to wipe them out completely. must pay; the government sees to ha next week. don, Constantinople and Paris. May of the Elders of Zion, which he had Paris. We were told of a Jewish lad stabbed that. Only by resigning from the JewIn addition to his parents, Earl is first became a full-fledged minister reprinted in the Congressional RecNo disorders came to our attention by his nazi school mates. When we ish community can they escape this survived by two sisters, Mrs. Aaron in 1912, when he received the appoint- ord. Close to seven hundred enjoyed cf a similar instance in tax, and then they no longer receive The entire matter arose in connec- during these few days. Our only un- remarked Richards of San Jose, Cal.. and Mrs. ment as minister to Mexico, where he was a dispute with a por- Feuchtwanger's "Oppermans" we any religious service as weddings, themselves at the 'annual "Highland Abe Brodkey of Omaha; and one did yeoman service during the trou- tion with a scheduled radio address pleasantry Fling," blue-ribbon classic of the burial at Jewish cemeteries, etc Rabthat the book was unknown Tuesday by Congressman McFadden, ter which ended with his muttering learned bled years of the revolution. in cultured Jewish circles in Germany. bis in communities throughout Europe Highland Country club held Wednes- brother, Seaman, of San Jose, Cal. "verfluchte Juden." On the other which had been arranged by the NaAt the outbreak of the World War hand the conductor gave a special A Jewish official told us of 200 Jew- have life-time positions. Under no cir- day. he was recalled for a special mission tional Republican Committee. The private compartment for our morning ish land workers who had been dis- cumstances can, nor would the com- Visitors from Omaha and the surand later assigned to look after Bel- Philadelphia Council of the American prayers and everyone we inquired of missel "for biological reasons." The munities desire to rid themselves of rounding vicinity were the guests of gian refugees in England. In 1917 he Congress and the Philadelphia Jew- ave us directions politely. We avoid- charity list in Berlin contained four- their spiritual leaders. Again and members at the Fling, for which a returned to China as minister, to re- ish World were among the first to ed several minor parades of Brown teen hundred physicians. Lawyers again, in Frankfort, in Kovna, in full day's entertainment was arplace Baron Cartier de Marchienne, take issue. Shirts and spent most of our time in were .no longer considered in a cate- Warsaw, the Rabbis characterized ranged. In a letter to.Nathan Fleisher, edi- conversation with German Jews. who was assigned.to the United States gory by themselves. They were mere- their American counterpart as "mere Besides a galaxy of golfing events, ministry. Three years later he became tor of the Philadelphia Jewish We were interested in obtaining ly unemployed. For them in their employees." "How," asked the Berlin there was a delicious barbecue supSeveral thousand attended the minister to Sweden and in 1925 was World, U, S. Senator David A. Reed first-hand information but found it chosen professon no hope was held chief Rabbi Klein, "can you achieve per, table croquet, presentation of Omaha Hebrew club picnic at Krug sent as ambassador to Brazil from of Pennsylvania denied he had any- extremely difficult. German Jews out. anything if you are bound by the fear awards, and special features. park last Sunday, in celebration of which post he succeeded to the em- thing to do with the choice of Mc- have learned to keep silent. The Mu- But above the individual items of of "a contract not being renewed. How The golf winners: bassy at Washington Ambassador May Fadden as radio keynoter and de- seum in .Berlin which serves as a sort terror was. the fear of an imminent can vou lead when you are depend- Low gross—Ben Cowdery; low net the fifty-fifth anniversary of the orwas the son-in-law of the late Raph- plored the anti-Semitic leanings of of social "center has a large sign in collapse of German Jewry's cultural ent on your followers." We remained —Fred Sweetman and Dr. T. T. ganization. A feature was the baby contest, ael Georges Levy, member of the the representative. the lobby reading:"Discussions of a set-up. A most admirable machine, quiet. No answer was possible. And Schmidtz, 67; longest drive on French senate, well-known economist The. American Jewish Congress, political" nature absolutely prohibited.' working with German preciseness, it we thought of the chaos in American No. 1, B. Yousem; second closest which brought out a galaxy of beauand president of the. Institut de meanwhile, dispatched a communica- Only in Hebrew conversation were we had taken up the shock of the swas- Jewry and prayed it be spared a cri- shot on No. 2, Johnny Goodman; sec- ties which bid fair to challenge the France. In recognition of his many tion under the signature of former able to obtain direct statements, for tika terror. It had tripled its Jewish sis it was so unprepared to bear. ond closest shot on No. 3, M. C. Scan- prettiest in the years to come. Phylis June Finkel, a little damservices to Belgium, May was repeat- Congressman Nathan D. Perlman, the very language seemed to place a school system so that tens of thouIon; closest to pin, first shot on No. edly decorated by Belgian monarehs. vice-president of the congress, to the veil of secrecy over our conversation. sands of children unable to attend There were other points of interest 4, Denman Kountze; longest drive on sel of three, carried away the honors chairman of the National Republi- In other instances we had to infer public schools "because of persecutions in Germany—the old cemetery in No. 5, Ben Cowdery; longest drive on in her classification. The prize for Rothschild's House in trie No. 6, P. A. Lyck; longest drive on boys of three or under went to can Committee, in which he takes from emphasis, from a raised eyebrow by schoolmates could proceed - with Frankfort, Reich Jewish Banks Judenstrasse, the neue synagogue in No. 7, P. A. Lyck; closest to pin first flaxen-haired Lawrence Sadofsky. their education. It was carrying on issue with the McFadden selection. or a discreet silence. Yet the compoBerlin, the museums and libraries. shot No. 8, Dr. M. Greenberg; longest Peggy Nogg was the winner for girlg Not Hit, Says Report A recall of the invitation to Mc- site from many conversations gave us reconstruction work, making mechan- And we left Berlin, feeling our two drive on No. 9, F. J. McKenna. over three, and Jack Fleishman wonics out of ex-lawyers and farmers out Fadden wa3 demanded, but the radio a complete and consistent picture. days had been well-spent. the boys' prize in this section. The of clerks. It was spending 25 per cent London (JTA) — The Jewish situa- address was given as scheduled. A heavy cloud of resignation hangs Westinghouse refrigerator was won tion in Germany was discussed in an over German Jewry. They realize that of an 11,000,000 mark budget on re- Unter den Linden and Friedrichs j by Harry Silverman. official British government report on justice in the Third Reich is dead; lief. Thousands were being prepared Strasse in Berlin were as deserted as for life in Palestine, and other counThe success of the event was due a main street in a small American economic conditions in Germany is- Emigre Pogromists in that the merits of their cause are in*to Albert Kaplan, who was chairman sued by the Department of Overseas Bulgaria Are Alarmed potent So they "have "bowed their tries outside Germany. Institutions of town as we prepared to leave. The vigof the committee in charge, and John Trade. . heads hoping the storm will "blow over all sorts .were maintained in the coun- erous life, tie spirited tempo we found An important District Workmen's try. And this tremendous mechanism According to the report the exact Sofia, (WNS).—Preliminary ne- before their cultural, organizations was being strained to the breaking in Paris and later in Warsaw was Circle conclave wiU be held in Oma- Fellman, who was in charge of ticket sales. Ben Kazlowsky is presidsnt of completely absent. A few overgrown position of the German Jews^is diffi- gotiations looking to Bulgarian re- and their morale disintegrates. But in on September 2 and S, according the club. cult to determine. All that can be ven- cognition of the Soviet Union have their hearts the Hames of resistance point. Less than 20 per cent of the boy-scouts who composed the storm- ha tured is that about 60,000 Jews left alarmed the large colony of" Russian burn brightly and we were happy to eleven million mark budget was raised troopers loafed on the comers. Per- to announcement made by M. the country- Jewish private banks emigres and anti-Semites who have observe this sign of life in our breth- outside" the country. And tie steady haps it was tie lull before the storm Crounse, chairman of the arrange- Lithuania Closes Three impoverishment of German Jewry which broke two days after we left. ments committee. have not been interfered with to any lived here since the collapse of the ren waging this hopeless fight. Dailies extent The Jews in the small towns Whites' hopes in Russia. Many of We were interested in the German made it impossible to continue to raise But we felt that all vitality had de- The district conference will cele- Jewish Riga, Latvia. — Because they rebrate the fifth anniversary of its the tremendous sums necessary to and rural districts suffer far more the emigres are notorious pogrom- Jewry's attitude towards the worldparted from Berlin. A concert in the ported that the legislative council of existence. Thirty delegates are excarry on the ever-increasing burden. than the Jewish inhabitants of the big ists and fear that recognition will wide anti-Hitler boycott and we inTiergarten played to empty seats and the city of Memel had be«n dissolved pected from Sioux City, Lincoln and cities. quired of several leaders in frank di- "The organization of German Jewry we found more activity in Dunaberg, Des Moines. Conference headquarters three Jewish dailies in Kaunas, capiresult in their extradition. They are The author ot the Teport is J./W. F. thl3 situation on the Jews rectness. The answer of one waB typl- in all its phases evoked our xitmost Latvia, than in the capitol of all Ger- wffl be at the Labor Lyceum. tal of Lithuania, have been ordered Thelwall, commercial attache of the blaming caL "Officially," l e stated, "German enthusiasm. Where other Jewish com- many. It was with tension relaxed A meeting of the arrangement shut down by the government fot because it was Jacques Suritz, Soviet British embassy in Berlin. Germany's ambassador to Germany, who laid the Jewry opposes the boycott." Privately munities would nave disintegrated that we crossed into Tafiraania and three months. The newspapers are tJ* economic plight is described as exwe "have opinions." But" even more di- with shattered morale, this commu- prepared to visit the Yes2nT«S -~ the committee of the two Omaha ceedingly bad, but the- Germans are groundwork for Russian recognition rect "was the action of a leader" who, nity had maintained its unity and re- great Rabbinical seminaries ~ha wWch branches will be held Wednesday Moment, the Neies Wort a»4 the Folksblatt. evening to complete final plans. still formidable competitors in the when he was the Russian envoy at Tefnsing to comment on the direct tained its dignified integrity. W H was famous. Istanbul. ' * ' * ••-• world market, the report statesT
GERMAN-AMERICAN LEAGUE PUTS BAN ON NAZI SWASTIKA
UTTER STRIFE SPLITS RANKS OF ZIONISTS
GERMANY-SEEN BY AN OMAHAN
PAE MAY DIES; UXAMBMMMJR FROM BELGIUM
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PROTEST INVITATION GIVEN TO McFADDEN
EARL KUUKGFSKY DIES IN HONDURAS
FLING LD WEDNESDAY
Anniversary Picnic of Omaha Hebrew Club Held Sunday
WORKMEN*S CIRCLE CONFERENCE HERE
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