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Volume 110, Issue 2 (The Sentinel, 1911 April 14, 1938 THE SENTINEL 51 Canadian and American Pioneers Killed Hungary Launches Anti-Semitic Program In Ambush by Band of Arab Terrorists Jerusalem, Apr. 11 (WNS-Palcor cordon arrived soon thereafter. After As Premier Proposes Restricting Bills Agency)-Two pioneers who had come exchanging signals with the Mishmar to Palestine from the United States Haemek settlers, in the hope of head- Plan Legislation to Curb Participation and Canada were shot to death as they ing off the escaping band, the airplane were returning from ploughing in the pilot scouted around for hours in a In Professional, Commercial fields toward the colony of Juara, re- fruitless search. Armored 'cars were cently named "Ain Hashophet" in pressed into service, as troops and and Industrial Fields honor of Supreme Court Justice Louis police spread fanwise throughout the D. Brandeis. The latest victims of Jezreel area to apprehend the band Budapest, Apr. 11 (WNS)-Hungary which only 20% of the members may Arab terrorism were Eliezer Krongold, which mowed down the young settlers officially embarked on a program of be Jews; 2-limits to 20% the amount 24, and Ephriam Tiktin, 21. They were without giving them a chance for de- anti-Semitism when Premier Koloman of wages and salaries that may be paid with two other settlers who were riding fense. By foot, by cart and truck Daranyi laid before the lower house of to Jews by any business or banking in two carts when a band of thirty hundreds 'of settlers in the Valley of Parliament a sweeping anti-Jewish enterprise and forbids any such en- men encircled their vehicles and Jezreel streamed toward Ain Hasho- omnibus bill which will limit drastical- terprise to employ more than 20% pumped a stream of lead into them as phet for the funeral exercises for ly Jewish participation in Hungary's Jews; 3-new Jewish admissions to the they came near the Arab village of Eliezer Krongold and Tiktin. Solomon cultural, economic and social life by legal, medical and engineering cham- Rihanian. One cart with two other Kaplansky delivered the funeral ora- setting up an all-embracing numerus bers are limited to 5 % because Jews colonists managed to escape, while tion on behalf of the Jewish Agency clausus limiting Jewish employment in are said to constitute more than 20% Krongold and Tiktin were mowed down and the Keren Hayesod while spokes- the professions, commerce and indus- of the proportion in those professions; by the withering blast. men from the surrounding settlements try to 20%. Describing the measure 4-forbids Jews to hold any public Tiktin, who came to Palestine in paid tribute to their fallen comrades, as aiming at "more efficient protection office; 5-provides for the revision of 1935, was formerly a laborer at who, it was pointed out, were the van- of the social and economic balance," citizenships granted to Jews after July Hedera, while Korngold was the first guard of American and Canadian Premier Daranyi said that it was as 1, 1914; 6-defines a Jew as anyone Canadian Hashomer Hatzair member chalutzim. "These ghastly murders far as his government would go who professed the Jewish religion to come to Palestine in 1933. Both have created a new blood pact be- in restrictions against the Jews. In- prior to August 1, 1919, thus affecting were founders of Ain Hashophet. tween us and this soil which we shall troduced a day after its details had all Jews who embraced Christianity in Tiktin, from Detroit, leaves behind a never desert," Kaplansky declared. been outlined by Minister of Justice the last 19 years; 7-forbids any com- widow at Juara. Krongold, of Toronto, Juara, a Keren Hayesod settlement Ladislaus Mikecz at a conference of merical or industrial enterprise em- was single.. southwest of Mishmar Haemek, was the government National Union Party, ploying less than 10 people from dis- Fire 200 Shots founded originally by six members of the bill was referred to a commission charging a Christian worker unless he It was estimated that the brigands the Hashomer Hatzair movement in for study. It is expected to take sev- is replaced by another Christian; 8- had fired 200 shots at close range. the United States who came to Pales- eral weeks before it is reported to the provides for revision of permits held Tiktin had his revolver and shoes re- tine in May, 1931. As land was pro- chamber for debate. Ultimately, pas- by Jews for publication of papers. moved by the brigands before they vided by the Jewish National Fund, sage of the bill is regarded as certain War Veterans Exempt made off. Galloping horses, frightened the colony grew until today there are since the government has been under Exempt from the provisions of the by the barrage, who bolted from the 154 souls in it, including 38 from heavy pressure for months from right- bill are war veterans, war pensioners scene of the shooting gave the first Poland. Juara is encircled by Arab ist and Nazi groups which have been and Jews wounded or disabled in the inkling to the settlers of the grim villages: to the east is Kufrin, to the demanding even more rigorous curbs war. The restrictions are to become tragedy. But when the colonists arrived west is Rihania, to the southwest is on the Jews. effective in trade and industry within on the scene they were too late to give Dalit er-Ruha and to the north is Abu Limitations Placed on Jewry five years, in the theater, movies and any help. An airplane and a police Shusha. The bill sets up the following re- journalism in one year. Earlier re- strictions: 1-Establishes new guilds ports that the government intended to Swiss Court Imprisons Arrest Three Germans for the theater, movies and press in revise ownership of real estate ac- quired since 1919 were not confirmed. Pro-Nazi for Espionage In American Spy Ring But in response to a demand by the Hungarian Agricultural Chamber the Berne, Switzerland, Apr. 11 (WNS) New York, Apr. 11 (JTA) - Three Germans and Austrians ministry of agriculture issued a decree -After a two-day trial, the lower Germans were arrested last week in forbidding the practice of shechita criminal court of Berne found Boris the investigation of a spy ring selling In Palestine Cast Votes throughout the country. Government Toedli, treasurer of the anti-Semitic American Army, Navy and coast de- spokesmen indicated that these meas- and pro-Nazi Swiss National Front, fense secrets to representatives of a Jerusalem, Apr. 11 (JTA)-German ures, when passed by Parliament, will guilty of charges of espionage in be- European country. A fourth man was and Austrian residents in Palestine, be carried out gradually in order not half of Germany and of furnishing being sought on a bench warrant. except for Jews, voted in Chancellor to upset the country's economy. forbidden information to the German The arraignment of the three was Hitler's plebiscite Sunday on Austro- Immediate action on the bill by Nazi party about Swiss citizens, and the first sign of progress in the in- German Anschluss on a ship three Parliament was postponed, it is be- sentenced him to three months' im- vestigation since the arrest of Otto miles out in the Mediterranean, it was lieved, because the government is seek- prisonment, a fine of 500 francs and Hermann Voss, Seversky Aircraft reported. ing means of circumventing the con- ordered him to pay nine-tenths of the Corporation mechanic, on March 10. They sailed on board the S. S. von stitutional guarantees lof equality for court costs. Toedli was tried in The existence of the ring was re- Steuben from Haifa outside the three- all citizens and also of getting around absentia, having escaped to Germany vealed on February 26, with the arrest mile limit, it was said. The German the minority rights guarantees in the in November, 1937, after the Swiss of two men and a woman on charges Consul-General here, reached by the peace treaties. authorities raided his headquarters of espionage. Jewish Telegraphic Agency for verifi- and seized a mass of evidence which Those arrested were Karl Fre-drich cation of the report, would neither established that he was a leading figure confirm nor deny it. Jewish Leadership Divided in the distribution Wilhelm Hermann, John Baptiste Unkel of the "Protocols A bench war- A party of German tourists in Budapest (WNS) - Jewish leader- of Zion" in Switzerland. and Wilhelm Boening. His co-defend- rant was Palestine planned to embark for home ship here is sharply divided over what ant, Ernst Isler, secretary issued for the arrest of Ewald of the Na- Rossberg, who disappeared from Haifa, which is predominantly stand to take toward the government's tional Front, who was in court, was after being questioned once by Leon G. Turrou, Jewish, rather than from the Arab port numerus clausus legislation which acquitted, but he was ordered to pay of Jaffa. Jaffa stevedores who re- would limit to 20% Jewish participa- one-tenth of the court costs. veteran agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. quested the German Consul-General to tion in trade, industry, professions and Receives Short Sentence Jews agree with the Two of the arrested are members arrange for embarkation from Jaffa culture. Some The government prosecutor had de- of were told present plans could not be attitude of the liberal press that pro- a uniformed Nazi corps in this only manded only two months' imprison- country. changed. tests would be futile and might ment for Toedli, a Swiss citizen of The presence of tourists from Nazi lead to worse measures.
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