Volume 111, Issue 9 (The Sentinel, 1911
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A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO AND MAGAZINE AMERICAN AND COMBINED JEWISH IDEALS Vol. CXI No. 9 Thursday, September I, 1938 Price Oc per copy-$3.00 a year PALESTINE OFFICIAL KILLED BY ARAB British Commissioner Exiled German Youth in Holy Land Proud Death Toll Reaches 54 Felled;_Assassin Shot To Bear Jewish Names Scorned by Nazis after Bombing inJaffa (Dispatch on Nazis and Je'wish names is on page 35) Jerusalem, Aug. 29 (JTA)-Walter New Jerusalem, Aug. 31 (JTA)-Arab S. S. Moffatt, Acting District Com- York, Aug. 30 -Commenting stated. "Uri," "Ayala," and "Shmuel" on the new Nazi decree requiring all are also favorite names chosen by raiders and snipers added three Jews missioner in Jenin, last week suc- to the mounting death toll in the cur- cumbed to gunshot wounds, while an Jews to assume Hebrew names, the youthful pioneers in Palestine. Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Or- The autobiographies came as answer rent disorders, which reached 54 as Arab identified as his assailant was a result of last week's bombing in killed in attempting to escape from ganization of America, disclosed here to a request made by Hadassah for recently Jaffa and subsequent attacks. a military camp. that exiled German and Aus- authentic information on the adjust- The 45-year-old government offi- trian Jewish children transferred to ments made by exiled children in Snipers on Beach Palestine have been changing their their new home. Most of them refer cial, who had served in Palestine con- Jews were killed and a third Aryan names to Hebrew equivalents to Jewish life in Germany and Aus- Two tinuously since 1925, died in the was seriously wounded during an voluntarily tria as "nightmares" and "unbeliev- Government Hospital in Haifa after a for the past two years. Jewish cooperative able spiritual oppression," Mrs. Green- attack on the blood transfusion and emergency op- The custom was verified in a sheaf settlement of Ein Shemer, near Kar- berg stated. eration. He was the most important of autobiographies just sent to Hadas- kur. Arab snipers fired into a group British official to die at the hands o1 sah by a group of 15 and 17-year- "The Nazi persecutions cut deep into our hearts," writes a 16-year- of Jews strolling on the beach at Arab terrorists since the murder of olds who were among the 2,400 boys Acre, killing one. A special police- Lewis Y. Andrews, District Commis- and girls removed to Palestine by the old girl who calls herself "Sarah," one of man was seriously wounded when sioner for the Galilee, in Nazareth Youth Aliyah (immigration) move- the 91 names designated by the German government as a compul- Arab snipers fired into Tel Aviv sub- last September. ment. were re- sory appellation for all Jewish females urbs. Two Arab terrorists Colonies Abandoned, Built Most exiled children consider names not already known by Hebrew names. ported to have been killed by Jewish Abandonment of the southernmost like "Fritz," "Hans," and Gretchen," "It is hard to forget the signs special policemen when they were am- Jewish colony of Ruchama, east of detriments in their new environment which read 'Dogs and Jews Only'; the bushed while patrolling a road near Gaza, was reported here following in Palestine, Mrs. David B. Greenberg orchestras which played-but not for Motza. withdrawal of a police post which had of Mount Vernon, N.Y., national Youth been subjected to repeated Arab us; the sports which were barred- War Materials Seized Aliyah , chairman of Hadassah, said. schools which were verboten attacks. On Saturday night, the post the A patrol of Irish Guards capture, The life histories were written in the (forbidden) ," writes a girl who has had repelled a band of Arab raiders, cooperative agricultural colonies and two Arab terrorists transporting killing two and wounding ten. This changed her German name of "Anna" huge load of war materials in a taxi trade centers where the children have to "Ayala." morning, the last Jewish resident of been sent for a two-year training near Nablus. The taxi contained 35 "We longed to look at beautiful of the colony, a groves foreman, course in farming new and four old French hand gren- and other voca- things and stole into the museums was evacuated. tions. ades, 97 detonators, 122 sticks of dy- Meanwhile, 35 men and women of like thieves to see them," writes a namite and 214 rounds of revolver "Rhea" becomes "Ruth"; "Max" the communal settlement of Em Ham- boy who signs himself "Uri," another ammunition. becomes "Micha," and "Brunhilde" -of the 185 male! names classified as ifratz, composed of members of the attacked a patrol of becomes "Brocha," Mrs. Greenberg Jewish by the Nazi officiats. An Arab band Hashomer Hatzair, Zionist youth or- Jewish supernumeraries near Kfar ganization, from Polish Galicia, se- Hakoresch. One Arab was killed in cretly moved at dawn from Kiriat FASTER! FASTER! the clash. Police, troops and planes Haim to the southern shore of the of the Royal Air Force joined in pur- Naaman River, two miles from Acre, suit of the band. Other troops en- in a completely Arab region infested gaged a second band near Beit Iba, by bandits. The settlers will drain killing one Arab and taking a rifle. 8,000 dunams (about 1,600 acres) of salt-marsh land owned by the Jewish Curfew Continues National Fund preparatory to colon- Curfew continued in effect in the ization by the settlers remaining at Arab cities of Jaffa, where a bomb Ein Hamifratz and at two other explosion resulted in the death of colonies. 32 Arabs, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem U. S. Intercedes and Ramleh. The United States Consulate was Judge Mustapha Bey Khalidi, a instructed by the State Department member of the Palestine Supreme to intercede for the protection of Court, became mayor of Jerusalem, American Jews living in Gan Javne, taking over the duties performed by isolated southern orange-growing col- Acting Mayor Daniel Auster, a Jew, *ony owned by a group of New York- since exile last October of Mayor ers who had invested $500,000 in it. Hussein Khalidi, a relative of Mus- The colonists had sought better pro- tapha Bey. Appointment of an Arab tection, pointing out that the number mayor has stirred resentment among of government-paid special policemen Jerusalem's Jews, who comprise a assigned to the colony had been re- majority. duced from 23 to three. The colony has been subjected to Arab Interviewed four attacks so far this year. In one The Arab press published an inter- of them, an Arab band destroyed a view with Izzat Tannous, Arab leader house and groves owned by Solomon who is now in London, who was White, formerly of Long Island City, quoted as declaring that Britain's N. Y. The band, which had raided Palestine Partition Commission would White's property on August 14, drop the partition plan and propose warned that it would return. White's a new solution of the Palestine prob- request for police protection was lem. Meanwhile, Ragheb Bey Nash- fruitless and the Arab raiders re- ashibi, leader of the Arab defense turned August 20 and completed de- party, left by airplane for a stay of struction of his property. several months in Europe..