,, E. ISH ERALD VOL. XIII No. 23 PROVIDENCE, R. I.. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1938 5 CENTS THE COPY Nazi Bund' Seeks Members In R. I. Wife of Litvinov · Radio Youth Leader Jersey City Center Solicitor Selling _Combination Reported Detained locks Out Synagogue Magazine and Me1!1bership Confined · to Opimon . of Hagu;- Into German-American Bund Summer Villa Cause of Quarrel Evidence that the German-American Bund is ex LONDON.-The Daily Express tending its activities to Rhode Island was unearthed quoted friends of Mrs. Maxim JERSEY CITY.-The Congrega this week, when a representative of the organiza Litvinov, wife of the Russian tion Emanu-el was locked out of tion was discovered peddling subscriptions to a Foreign Affairs Commissar as the Community Center here and "cultural" magazine, which discloses methods of alleging that she had been for was forced to meet at the home saving America from un-American influences. bidden by secret police to leave of a member. A secondary offer was made with a five-year sub the city of Sverdlovsk, in the Ural The Congregation was notified scription to the magazine. If, at the end of two Mountain area. several weeks ago that its privil years, the reader wished to join the German-Amer Litvinov and his wife have a ege of renting quarters in the ican Bund he could do so at a reduced initation fee. summer villa at Sverdlovsk and Center would be canceled, pre This information was disclosed by a resident the Daily Express quoted Mrs. sumably 'because Rabbi Benjamin of the East Side who, although Jewish, is non Litvinov's friends as saying she Plotkin is an outspoken opponent Semitic in appearance. The incident described be had been unable to leave there of Mayor Hague. A committee of low in his own words. While he devulged his name for six week's, though able to prominent Jews w~s formed in to the Herald, he wished to remain unidentified to move freely in the city, where New York to investigate the case. the public. The story follows:- MURRAY SEASON GOOD she directs a school teaching Eng It met in Brooklyn yesterday for "Waiting for a street car, I was Murray Seasongood, former lish to children. what was to have been the final approached by a well-dressed of Cincinnati, will serve as There were reports, the Daily hearing. Find Bomb Near middleaged man, carrying a brief "youth leader" torrow, saturday Express said, that Litvinov had Harry Goldowsky, chairman of case. He asked me ig I received morning on the weekly "Call to been asked by the government_ to the executive committee of the any cultural magazine at home. Youth" broadcast sponsored by Hadassah Hospital divorce his wife. Center, asserted that Rabbi Plot I told him I did. He then wanted the Union of American Hebrew Mrs. Litvinov is British by birth. kin and Dr. Irving Schuman, pre JERUSALEM, - Police dis· to know if it was a 'real Ameri Congregations and carried by the covered a high-explosive time Her mother, Mrs. Alice Herbert, sident of the congregation, had can' magazine. coast-to-coast Blue Network of bomb near Hadassah Hospital in was quoted as saying: -"The refused to participate in the hear- "I asked him what he menat by the National Broadcasting Com the center of Jerusalem, two Russian Embassy told me nothing 'real American'. He said some pany. Mr. Seasongood will speak ing because Rabbi Robert Gordis, hours before it was set off. had happened when I telephoned thing that inspired me to do some from the studios of Cincinnati's chairman of the Social Justice A large store of explosives, there. I receive letters from my thing for the good of the country, Station WCKY at 11 A. M., East- arms and ammunition also was daughter sometimes. She never Commission of the Rabbinical which would keep my country ern Standard Time (12 noon, found near the Mosque of Omar mentions politics and she never Assembly of America, was not from falling apart, and to hold to Eastern Daylight Saving). "Youth in a rapid series of raids. has mentioned divorce. That able to attend. As a result, said the wonderful constitution. He and the State -- Clean Politics" is Troops fired on an Arab crowd would be their private concern. said also, tha tthe magazine the subject chosen by Mr. Season- Goldowsky, the Center was attempting to invade the Safad I have no reason whatever to be would inspire one to keep out un good. locked. Jewish quarter and wounded lieve there is going to be a di American' organizations from en three Arabs, one fatally. The in vorce. tering this beautiful land of free cident followed a bomb explosion There have been frequent re dom: in the Safad Arab quarter which ports for years in London news Elect E. Kaufman Chairman "First I thought he was trying wounded also three Arabs. papers that Litvinov or his wife, to sell me a Socialistic or Com- More than 17,000 British sold or both, had incurred the dis In HBig Four'' Unity Session munistic propaganda, but I saw iers, marines and sailors guarded him pull out a German magazine. pleasure of Russian authorities. NEW YORK.-Meeting for the "The American Jewish Com the most troubled spots in the ten I think it was a German-Ameri- first time since the adoption of mittee, The American Jewish days of bloodshed between Arabs can Bund publication because, the Pittsburgh r esolution author Congress, the B'nai B'rith and the and Jews. with a five-year subscription I izing the creation of an organi Jewish Labor Committee, at a Center Frolic Wed. would be entitled to membership zation to coordinate their activi, joint meeting of representatives in the Bund within two years ties relating to the safeguarding of their respective organizations time at a reduced rate of initia at Bristol Casino of equal rights of Jews, repre held in Ne York on July 7, take Wealthy Jews Sell tion. The Third Annual Summer Fro sentatives of the American Jewish notic; of the intergovernmental "I didn't say anything until he lic of the Jewish Centre Council Congress, American Jewish· Com conference now being held at Sudeten Holdings pulled out pencil and paper and will be held next evening at the mittee, B'nai B'rith and J ewish Evian-les-Bains, France, and wish PRAGUE.-The Petschek family, asked me where he could send Bistol Casino. Music for dancing Labor Committee convened here it success in finding an effective Jewish industrialists, h ave sold the magazine. I laughed like hell will be furnished by Frank Fal and elected Edgar J. Kaufman of and speedy solution of the refu their mining interests in Sudeten and then told him a few things. lon and His Troubadors from 8 Pittsburgh, prime mover in the gee problem, in which the whole territory, valued at 20,000.000, He hurriedly put his papers away to 12 :30 o'clock. civilized world is deeply con unity meeting, temporary chair to a Czech group headed by Ziv Dr. Mitchell Sack is chairman and walked into a store on Hope man. cerned." nostenka Banka. in charge of arrangements, assist street. The meeting also discussed an The transaction, described as ed by Isador Korn, Dr. A. Budner organization plan, appointed vari BOAT TRIP POSTPONED the largest in the history of Lewis, Dr. Joseph Markowitz, ous committees and decided to The first annual Moonlight Sail Czechoslovakia, was interpreted Iring Bilgor, Myron Keller, Bert hold a report meeting on August of the Rhode Island Auxiliary of as a step toward forestalling pos Dictators Linked to ram Pickar, Walter Chuchnin, 1. The meeting also sent the fol the Jewish Consumptive Relief sible difficulties which may arise and the Misses Mary Hasmund, lowing message to Myron C. Tay Society, which was to have been for Jewish business connections Palestine Outbreaks Ethel Levine, Ruth Blank and lor, head of the American dele in proposed concessions to Ger h eld on Wednesday evening, was LONDON.-The names of Mus Ruth Berger. . gation to the intergovernmental mans living in the Sudeten region. postponed until Monday evening solini and Hitler were linked to refugee conference at Evian-les The Petschek family retained the present troubles in Palestine Bains, France: because of inclement weather. its Prague b~nking house and Open Million-Dollar in the House of Commons when chemical and mining holdings John McGovern asked Colonial Jerusalem Post Office outside Sudeten German territory. JERUSALEM.-Jerusalem's new S~cretary Malcolm MacDonald Secret German Radio Station Members of the family had oper $1,000,000 post office and $300,000 whether the Italian or German ated the vast holdings through automatic telephone exchange rulers might not be held responsi Czechoslovakia since the death in were inaugurated . by Postmaster Combats Nazi Anti-Semitism ble for some of the activities now 1934 or Dr. Otto Petschek, found General George H. Webster in the BERLIN.-The German under- cleanse the German name which disturbing the Holy Land. er of the industrial empire who presence of officials, foreign con ground "Liberty Station," broad- is now besmirched before the His question was met with a was known as Czechoslovakia's ~uls a,nd prominent Arabs and casting from a secret location world. negative reply from McDonald Jews. High Commissioner Sir within the Reich, has appealed to Show your solidarity with the "Coal King." who said there was no evidence Harold Alfred MacMichael made German workers not to allow Jews, just as everybody has to ---- of terrorist inspiration traceable the first telephone call, exchang themselves "to be misused by par- stand in solidarity with the vict- Hebrew Teachers to Hitler or Mussolini. MacDonald ing congratulations with Mayor ticipating in the shameful out- ims of Nationl Socialism. Don't S also said he had no information Daniel Auster of Jerusalem. rages against the Jews, instigat- tolerate a condition where honest Picket ynagogue on McGovern's question as to The first cable to be handled ed by the Nazi racketeers." .Jewish men, women and children NEW YORK.-The West Side whether it was true that a num- was a message of the Jewish Tel The broadcast said the r enew- are treated like dogs. Remember Institutional Synagogue Hebrew her of revolvers and wire-cutting egraphic Agency reporting an ed anti-Jewish drive was intend- there is justice in history. School, which has about 250 implements discovered by police Arab attack in which a Jew wa11 ed "to stupify" the German peo- As we treat people today, so pupils, was closed and its five had German markings. fatally wounded. pie and "to cover up th eir own 1shall we be treated when the teachers picketed the synagogue sins of corruption, war-mongery day of r eckoning comes. When demanding a minimum salary of WINE GLASS TO ENTER PARADISE and baseness" and declared that the Nazis state that we have to $25 to $30 a week. The strike During medival times, after the Four shall not enter Paradise, "to oppose the barbarism of Jew- take everything away from the was called, they said, after Rabbi ceremonial wine glass was brok- - - - - . - - 2 PROVIDENCE, R. I .. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1938 Promises Aid Publisher Supports "Grow Nice .and Then Papa Urge Elks to Fight Mussolini's Decision Adolph Come and Rescue you, too!" Nazi Activities Asserts Fascism ATLANTIC CITY.-Major Char les Spencer Hart, retiring grand Zionism Don't Mix f exalted ruler of the Benevolent OMAHA.-Should a Jewish state and Protective Order of Elks be established in Palestine, it ) 1 urged the half million Elks in the would raise the question "wheth- United States to join in a move er or not I should continue to be ment to stamp out "foreign· prop a Jew," the Omaha Jewish Press aganda" during his message to quoted Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the 74th annual convention here publisher of the l'{ew York Times, last week. as saying during a one-day visit "We must stop Nazi and Fas to Omaha. cist propaganda in this country," According to the Jewish Press, said Maj. Hart, "and each man Mr. Sulzberger said "I do not sub can play his part. Do not permit scribe to the theory that all Jews four or five minor political par are brothers. When I was in the ties to become established. They army during the war, a German will split our country wide open Jew supposedly made as good a if experience of other nations is target for me as any 'other alien anything to go by." RABBI JONAH B. WISE soldier." Rabbi Wise of New York has Mr. Sulzberger was also quoted DEPLORES OUTBREAK promised the Evian Refugee Com- as saying that he believed Mus LONDON.-Colonial Secretary mitt-ee full cooperation of the solini was in his rights when he Malcolm MacDonald praised Pale- American Joint Distribution Com stated that Italian Jews could not .. stine Jewry's "admirable r e- mittee in any constructive work, be Zionists as long as Zionism was part of British imperial pol straint throughout difficult times," and told of the millions of dollars it has already spent in and icy and as long as that policy but voiced regret that it had around Germany. conflicted with Italian aims and broken down in some cases re- interests. " cently "thus increasing the diffi- LION TAMERS culties of the situation." He spoke Royal lion tamers in medieval Egypt Closes Doors in the House of tom1110ns. Spain wer e Jew s. To Jewish Refugees --Anti-Nazi Bulletin CAIRO.-The government press condemned "the attempt to create Leading Jewelers prefer Watkins fine quality findings. a Jewish problem" in connection Jewish Capital Ballooned in They know the service and consideration given every with a campaign for an anti-Jew order. Send us your specifications or write for samples ish boycott launched in universi Order to Goad Anti-Semites • now! ties by Senator Abd-el-Meguid. • NEW YORK:-To swell to a the multiplying unit, based on life The Senator interpellated the D. M. WATKINS CO. staggering total the amount of expectancy, is seventeen. Government in Parliament re Ga. 2758 274 Pine St., Providence, R. I. Ga. 2759 capital ostensibly still in Jewish garding Jewish usurers, land For persons of seventy-five, the hands, the Nazi Government is speculation and Jewish refugees, figure is seven. Thus the aged employing fictions of accountancy who, he said, "are coming to Jewish pensioner owns a capital in applying the law for registra Egypt like locusts, causing unem of $2,016 which exists only on tion of Jewish property, accord ployment." the official registration blanks. Cohen's Pleasant Hotel ing to an analysis this week by The press hailed the announce Balloons Property For An Ideal Rest and Vacation the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. ment of Premier Mohammed Mah The agency views this practice Observers estimate that this Reasonab,e Rates All Conveniences mound Pasha that Egypt is closed as propaganda to goad radical clause alone will swell Jewish to refugees and that only six of CATERING FOR WEDDINGS, BAR MITZVAHS anti-Semites of the Nazi Party owned "property" by thirty-three them have been admitted in the ALL KINDS OF PARTIES AND BANQUETS who already have been complain per cent, for the provision in past three years. ing that Jews are not emigrating cludes not only Jewish civil sE:r EXCELLENT CUISINE fast enough and that economic vants but also tens of thousands Dietary Laws Observed "Aryanization" of the country is of persons retired from business proceeding at .a snail's pace. enterprises on pensions, owners Pleasant St. Millis 83 - Millis, Mass CASTLE of war loan bonds who received Nazi Definitions pensions in lieu of interest or THEATRE One important joker, according principal, and aged persons sup to this analysis, lies in the defi ported by their children. CAMP WUNNISHAUNTA Sun., Mon., Tues., & Wed. nition of capital. Ordinarily it is Oddly, the provision does not WOLFEBORO, N. H. used by German business to de apply to salaries or wages re "Kidnapped" note actual assets in cash or prop SHOWS ceived by Jews. Thus a business SURFACED TENNIS COURTS "HOLIDAY" erty. In this instance, however, executive receiving $200 a month NEW CANOES - ROWBOATS a Jew owning nothing but a small need not compute it as par.t of We Please Your Palate Thurs., Fri., & Sat. pension for example, is arbitrari capital, while the mother he may BIG PROGRAM arranged by large Social Staff ly decreed to be possessed of a support with sixty marks a month A never to be forgotten good time "The Toy Wife" certain amount ot capital based is considered a "capitalist" own ASK A WUNNISHA UNTAN on the size of the pension. Thus, Make Reservations b,y Deposit Now "SWISS MISS" ing some $5,000 of assets. S. Brickman Wolfeboro 184 a Jew of seventy-five living in a (In Austria, however, a special home for the aged, whose sale decree lists salaries also as cap income is sixty marks a month ital.) Another important joker HEBREW POET ($24), as a former government expected to swell the figures is "Rather than be a beast among employee, is compelled to list that which r equires business men beasts, I choose to perish with himself as owning a fortune of to value their business as thought Pine Shore House THE FRIENDLY CAMP H. KAUFMAN, Mgr. the lambs" was the principle 4,040 marks ($2.016). they were in "Aryan" hands. formulated by the Hebrew poet All recipients of pensions must Thus a Jewish storekeeper whose DOVER, N.H. Bialik as the group principle multiply their yearly income by income grows smaller and smal * RIDE Guests having t h eir own means of * FISH which he advocated for the Jew a figure which varies with age. transportation , three d olla r s p er day. ler because of boycott pressure Week-ends from Saturday nigh t l odging* GOLF ish people. For persons up to twenty-five, * SWIM up to and including Sunday supper must assess his enterprise at nor * TENNIS three doll~rs. This d oes n o t i n cl ud e* DANCE mal market values. tra nsportation. Happiness - Comfort - Relaxation - Excellent Food If he should try to sell his bus A Vacation You Will Always Remember F orcasting FUN for Everyone at iness, of course, the bargain-seek ing "Aryan" buyer would pay REGULAR RATES $22 PER WEEK "Free Transportation- Bus leaves from Sha piro's Book Store, only a minor fraction of this 7 Beach Street, Boston Crescent ·Park fictitious evaluation. AND EVERY DAY TODAY AFTERNOON & EVENING ON' TO CA MP ANNISQUAM! 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A Marx Maniac' Judge Can't Believe Appeals Prepared Foes of Nazi Bomb Camp "I am going to ask the District "It Happened Here" Attorney to h ave the minutes of With-Leaflets on Patriotism :this trial prepar ed and turned NEW YORK.-A pursuit plane months ago when they answered Bund Appeals over to th e proper Federal r oar ed out over Long Island, spun Japanese bombardments by drop authorities." down toward the · thousands of ping leaflets on the Japanese Verdict, Fines RIVERHEAD, L. 1.-Minutes of Fritz Kuhn, fuehrer of the Ger Am rican Nazis on the grounds mainland," 9fficials of the, League the trial in which the six incorp man-American Bund, was in the of the German-American Settle- said. "Our League felt that a orators of a Nazi camp at Yap courtroom as a spectator. He de ment League camps at Yaphank campaign should be organized to hank were found guilty h ere of clared t hat Camp Siegfried, at and let go with a barrage of red, bring the truth directly tb mem violating the State civil rights Y aphand, would b e continued white and blue leaflets, asking bers of American Nazi organiza law, were being prepared today despite the jury's verdict, and th e Hitlerites to follow purely tions. Many of these people, we for submission to the "proper that "new camps" would be open American principles. know, have no knowledge of the Federal authorities." ed. Sponsored by the Non-Sectar- real issues at stake. They are This step was ordered by County Lindsey R. Henry, Assistant ian Anti-Nazi League, Inc., the victims of a constant barrage of Judge L. Barron Hill immediately District Attorney, said he would flight was the first move taken in speeches by Nazi propagandists after he passed sentence on the ask the court to appoint a r e North America to rededicate fol- such as Fritz Kuhn, the Fuehrer convicted Nazis. The jury which ceiver for the camp· unless the lowers of the German Volksbund of the Bund, of Nazi publications heard the case deliberated less $10,000 fine was p aid in ten days. to the pledges they made when printed in both German and It's GROUCHO-Chief than fifteen minutes before re they became citizens of the English. Camp life at Yaphand irresponsible of the· Marx turning its verdict. United States. and other Bund camps is a series Brothers tempestuous tribe MuelleT's Contempt Costly Would Bar Nazi Twenty-five thousand leaflets. of ballyhoo stunts, drills and pa of convulsion provokers. The German-American Settle were dumped. The raid had been rades, all arranged with a view U piforms in U. S. ment League, which operates the planned for several weeks. Of- to convincing the membership NEW YORK.-Uniforms such as camp, was fined the maximum of ficials of the League contacted that Adolf Hitler is a combination those worn by memb ers of the $10,000. Fines of $500 and jail officials of Nassau County, L. I. of Midas and Santa Claus. Brother and Sister German-American Bund and the sentences of one year were im to ascertain that they were not Court trials and imprisonment display of such insignia as the posed on the defendants. violating local ordinances. Copies of Nazi leaders are a _necessary swastika would be outlawed in Pass Dental Exams "Things went on in this court of the leaflets were kept under move, insomuch as they bring New York City under the terms lock and key in the League's the dangers of Nazism home to Frances I. Go rfine and Hyman that I didn't believe could happen of a resolution introduced in the office until a few hours before the the American public. However, L. Gorfine of 65 Lyndhurst ave. -or · at least I hoped couldn't city council of Councilman J os flight was to take the air, then . have passed their dental exam happen," Judge Hill said as he eph Sharkey. were rushed to Floyd Bennett these actions also create a martyr, inations for dental hygienist and The resolution would ban the field by motor and loaded direct- complex among the members of' dentist, respectively, it was an- wearing of uniforms or insignia ly into the plane. the Nazi organizations. Nothing is nounced this week. Fraternal Will Hold of foreign nations in the streets
IMITATED CHINA more valuable to a movement 1 Mis Gorfine attended Classical of New York unless the w earer "China gave us the idea three than a martyr. High School i n Providence·, and is attached to the military of that after a year at Washington Uni Picnic on Sunday country. versity went to th e Murry and An outing and picnic of the Leon' Guggenheim School for Providence Fraternal Association [PACK YOUR VACATION ' Dental Hygiene. will be held on Sunday at Duby's Hyman Gorfine studied at Prov- )Grove, Warwick avenue, Lake I FULL OF FUN . I , idence College, and graduated wood. The affair will start at from the St. Louis University 11 o'clock in the morning and __,..-0 :l~efn~~'=--~~~ii~ue Dental School. Dr. Gorfine is a continue on into the evening. -<;,,c~,nns * 21/z Mile La),e c11° dntiol' * B'way Musical Revues First · Lieutenant in the Dental Entertainment will include field cofllo nt * A La Dincin Cuisine Reserves. events, a softball game b etween f!.C 13 e9'f:. ()() Art l{alm's 11-Piece Orchestra