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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
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PTI7-- No. 15
■Week In Review
|y MILTON MOWN, J.T.A. j|
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ft national unity
■"Phooey,” exclaimed Rex Stout,
Ke famous author of mystery
m-ie* this week at the opening of
K Carnival of Democracy in New
Berk. The Carnival of Democracy
Ba joint enterprise of all the or-
Baizations combatting fascistic
Buts, race hatred and the like.
■Mr. Stout’s exclamation was di-
Bted at the idea that we are a
Kted people. We are not, vigo-
Busly shouted Mr. Stout, as long
B the appointment of Mayris
Baney to the Office of Civilian
Bfense caused “an outburst more
Bter and more violent than the
Btburst against the Japanese for
B-> treacherous attack at Hono-
B° ”
■Many others, Jewish and non-
Bvvish leaders, expressed opinions
B this subject of national unity
Hg week. The National Confer-
Bce of Christians and Jews has
B the week between the
Bodays of the two greatest
Bnerican figures, Lincoln and
B&shington as Brotherhood Week,
Bd Brotherhood Week is a good
B» e to find out if we are really
Bitted
■ Mayor LaGuardia, endorsing
Botherhood week expressed the
Bpon that the war is affording
of all faiths and
■Btionalities, a splendid opportun-
B to create a new and better
B j *t of understanding, coopera-
B n an d friendliness. Men and
B men °f a il classes, and all races,
Mi the mayor, are forming new
B ntacts w ith one another through
* ir voluntary work as air raid
fire wardens or in any
B the numerous other positions
B > d er this program.
■The non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi
B 8 however, in a report this
B* k gives the results of an in-
B*tigati,')n, which shows that all
■ not as w ell as it might be, that
B*P ite the great peril which faces
• country and which should
m* f° r unity, anti-Jewish pro-
is still being widely dis-
B minatod in th e United States.
B the New York area a Lieuten-
W. General Count Cherep-Spirid
•ch “seems to be one of the
B ,o ‘Pal sources distributing such
B#hs as ‘The ,Holy See and the
l* 8 ’ and the ‘Talmud Unmask-
uot this be a good time
|B ttle government to unmask the
BrQ t J ?”
■tJ E k ‘ k K ’ still active
■The Anti-Nazi League finds that
B . K,ux K lan too is still ac-
JF e in many sections of the
•“try.
!|B^' e are a democratic people and
l not g° in for concentra-
B*! cam P s - hut in time of war
• men are enemies in our midst
F Must be treated as such. Dur
• the Civil War, Abraham Lin-
Sen t the man who was breed
good deal of disunity—Val-
into the ranks of the
Might it not be a good
B!, I? Senc * Lieutenant-Gen-
Count over to Hitler. This
BtJ, ? 0t be re garded as a wrong
BL / the Lieutenant-General-
Mr for h e would then be among
■ People whose ideas. he likes.
■j, T H E MUFTI AGAIN
Bent " as considerable excite
about the Mufti this week.
■Port En<l somewhat confusing
s came byway of Jerusalem,
B“ “ and Rome, but it seems to
■V “P to this:., some of the
B\> S followers have been allow-
B feturn to Palestine, but
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1942
Georgia U. Loses
Medical Place
Because Os
Race Prejudice
»
Chicago (JPS)—Because Gov
ernor Eugene Talmadge of Geor
gia, after accusing several of
Georgia University’s professors of
“race equality," forced their dis
missal on those grounds, the
Council of Medical Education and
Hospitals of the American Medi
cal Association at a meeting here
dropped Georgia U.’s Medical
School from the list of approved
schools.
The resolution to this effect was
adopted by the Council and signed
by the Council’s Chairman, Dr.
Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of
Stanford University. It was
stressed that present students at
Georgia would not be made to
suffer. The students now attend
ing the Medical School will have
the Council’s approval upon grad
uation. Those entering the school
hereafter will, however, not have
the approval of the Council.
General Moishe Cohen, Chinese
Military Hero, Reported Shot By Japs
London (JPS) —General Moishe
Cohen, called “Mushy-ko” by the
Chinese, the rollicking Jewish ad
venturer who swaggered from the
tough mining camps of Canada to
the esteemed position of Occci
dental bodyguard and confidant of
the Chinene Nationalist leaders
Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek,
was reported shot by the Japan
ese, according to an unconfirmed
report in the British press. Mushy
ko whose full name is Morris
Abraham Cohen, has become al
most a mythical military hero
through his organizing and leader
ship of the Cantonese Army,
which he headed as General under
Chiang-Kai-shek’s command. Born
in Manchester 62 years ago, Co
-4,000 Dutch Jews
Worked To Death
By The Nazis
LONDON (JTA)—The predic
tion that all Jews in Holland will
be deported by the Nazi occupa
tion authorities to Poland is made
here this week in the “Voice of
Netherlands a weekly newspaper
published by the Dutch Govern
ment-in-exile.
Estimating that "about 4,000
young Jews have already been
worked to death in the mines of
Yugoslavia,” the paper reports
that able-bodied Jews in Holland
are being picked up on the streets
by the Nazi occupation authorities
and deported to concentration
camps from where they are sent
to dangerous forced labor. The
paper also states that the Jewish
birthrate in Holland has dropped
fifty percent since the Nazi oc
cupation.
these, the British government
maintains, are relatively innocent
ones, from whom no danger is ex
pected.
Brotherhood
Week
Declaration
New York (JPS)—High
lighting the observance of
Brotherhood Week, sponsor
ed by the National Confer
ence of Christians and Jews,
leading Protestant, Catholic
and Jewish clergymen and
laymen issued a declaration
of fundamental religious be
liefs held in common by fol
lowers of the three faiths.
In an introductory state
ment Dr. Everett R. Clinchy,
President of the Conference,
said: “In these critical days
it is important to state the
foundation of common relig
ious convictions on which
American institutions rest.
“The foundations, Protest
ant, Catholic and Jewish
leaders agree, are spiritual
in character . . . Victory for
our way of life demands
that we preserve intact our
common religious heritage.
This is as important as any
thing that can be said about
this war.”
! hen’s cowboy training and restless
: spirit were instrumental in his
■ rise.
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; B’nai B’rith To
Hear Hyman Rubin
; Wednesday Night
Hyman Rubin, third vice-presi
’ dent of the Fifth District of B’nai
’ B’rith, will be the guest speaker
at the monthly meeting of the
Jacksonville lodge of B’nai B’rith
! which will be held in the auditor
ium of the Jewish Center.
The newly formed auxiliary of
the lodge will also meet with Mrs.
; Irving Levin in the chair. It has
been stressed that this newly
formed arm of the Jacksonville
lodge is not a fund raising organ
ization, and no dues will be asked
from the ladies.
| Plans for the district convention
to be held here in May will be
discussed at both sessions.
Deatherage, Anti-Semitic Fascist,
Runs Big Contract For Navy
New York (JPS)—One of the
most violent anti-Semites and
Fascists in the United States,
George E. Deatherage, is the en
gineer in charge of a $7,000,000
naval construction project at Nor
folk, Va., according to Kenneth
Crawford, Weshington correspond
ent of PM, New York daily.
Once connected with Major
General George van Horn Moseley
in a plot to make Moseley an
American Hitler, Deatherage,
leader of the Fascist group called
the Knights of the White Camellia,
has frequently espoused the cause
of anti-Semitism. In an attempt
tp define Fascism, he termed it a
“patriotic revolt such as the re
volt of the White Russians against
Jewrocracy.”
Cameron,Once Jew-Hater,
Assails Anti-Semitism
Detroit (JPS) —Calling racial prejudice “a vestige of
tribal barbarism,” William J. Cameron, former editor of
Henry Ford’s now defunct Dearborn Independent, anti-
Semitic sheet, asserted that “anti-Semitism is the negation
of humanity, intelligence and Christianity,” in a broadcast
on the Ford Sunday Evening Hour.
Assailing any antagonism to
ward any people as a people be
cause of color, race or religion,
Cameron indorsed the objectives
of Brotherhood Week, sponsored
by the National Conference of
Christians and Jews. Such a week,
Cameron declared, is needed in
the United States “because the
intolerance rampant abroad has
been imported and manifests itself
here.” He added, however, that
“Brotherhood Week is held here
because this is one of the very,
very few countries in the world
Zionist Meet To
Have Interesting
Program
The Jacksonville Zionist District
will hold its monthly meeting
Monday night in the auditorium
of the Jewish Center. Harry
Katz will preside over a short bus
iness meeting. The main business
of the evening will be the an
nouncement of the plans which are
being made for the appearance
here of Maurice Samuels, noted
author and orator.
Following the business meeting
an hour length film in technicolor
and sound, “This Is The Land,”
will be shown. The public is cor
dially invited to attend.
DR. WEIZMANN’S
YOUNGER SON,
MICHAEL, MISSING
London (JS-Palcor) Michael,
younger son of Dr. Chaim Weiz
mann who was commissioned in
the Royal Air Force at the end of
1939, was reported missing by the
R. A. F.
JEW NAMED AS
MINISTER TO LONDON
Geneva (JPS) —The Abyssinian
Government, its freedom gained
when the Italian East African
Empire collapsed under British
pressure, has named Abraham
Abram, a Falasha Jew, as its dip
lomatic representative to London.
[ Jewish Naval Aide
Promoted To
Rear-Admiral
London (JPS)—Chief of Staff
John Edelsten, Jewish aide to
' Commander of the Mediterranean
Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham,
was promoted to the post of Rear-
Admiral in the British Mediterran
ean Fleet in a recent order. Ad
miral Edelsten received a citation
last year, Commander of the Brit
ish Empire, for skill and judg
ment in his handling of the
cruiser Shropshire, then under his
command in the East African
campaign' against the Italians
where Brotherhood Week can be
held.”
Backing the stand taken by
Henry Ford, who recently attack
ed anti-Semitism and warned anti-
Jewish organizations against using
his name in connection with anti-
Semitic literature, Cameron said:
“As to racial enmity such as a
few would excite against the Jew,
there can be no two opinions.
When we saw racial enmity given
free reign in Europe we knew im
mediately that the regime that
sanctified it was doomed. The
moment that thing appears, sen
tence both human and divine is
pronounced against it.”
Cameron attacked what he call
ed the “racket” of “professional
defenders of this race or that.
“The poor creatures who circu
late the scurrilous stuff are not
the dangerous ones—the really
dangerous people are those who
listen and believe it without chal
lenge.”
Vigorous as Mr. Cameron was
in his attack on anti-Semitism,
even more violent was the tongue
lashing which he bestowed upon
professional Jews “who professed
to save thdir fellow-Jews from
the Gentiles.” Characterizing them
as parasites who are responsible
for keeping antagonism alive, he
urged that they be cast out with
the result that “much alleged in
tolerance and manufactured intol
erance would disappear.”
Leader of Palestine
Terrorist Band
Is Killed
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Abraham
Stern, alleged leader of the terror
ist band that has caused death
and destruction in Tel Aviv and
Haifa during the past month, was
killed this week in a gun battle
with police who surrounded him
in his hide-out on Florentin street,
here. A bomb explosion charged
to Stern’s gang killed three po
licemen here on January 20. A re
ward of LI,OOO had been offered
for Stern’s capture. ,
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| April 2—Passover
| April 3 —Passover
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