HE ISH ERALD VOL. XII_I, No . 14 P RO VI DENCE, R. I. , FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938 5 CENTS THE COPY Jersey City Congregation Ordered to Vacate Center Pioneer Donor Luncheon Sunday; Te~ple, War Veterans Guest Speaker Rabbi Loses Battle Mrs. Boy man Re-elected Pres. Plan Memorial Service With Mayor Hague Arrange P rogram T ernple Financial For Fri., May 27 Backers Withdraw Jersey City: The Congregation Raymond E. Jordan, Lt. Governor Emanu-el, headed by Rabbi Ben­ of Rhode Island, will be guest jamin Plotkin, critic of Mayor speaker at a Memorial Service spon­ Hague, was looking for a meeting sored by Temple Beth-tsrael and house today, faced with expulsion the Jewish War Veterans, Post No. by July 1 from its present quarters 23, on Friday evening, May 27, at in the J ~wish Community Center the Temple. here. A program of ritual and speakers 'Judge Morris Barison, Hague ap­ is being prepared by Rabbi Schuss­ pointee to the Hudson County Ju­ heim and Dr. Samuel I. Kennison, venile Court bench, and Louis J a­ memorial chairman of the War cobs, member of the Hague-control­ Veterans. led city Board of Education, are a­ Participating in the service will mong the more influential officers be officers of the Post, the Auviliary, of the Jewish Community Center. the Junior Command and members A year ago, after Rabbi P lotkin of the Jewish Boy Scouts. RAYMOND E. JORDAN had attacked Mayor Hague several Lt. Governor times before the congregation and Jews and Christians also had spoken at 'ttnti-R'ague de­ monstrations, the Center served no­ HARVEY EFIMOV MRS. HENRY LAZAR.US Join to Raise Funds tice that Emanue-el must vacate. Guest Artist Dinner Co-Chairman PhiladeLphia- For the first time Anti-JewishRow But a committee representing the I --- in the history of University of congregation reached an agreement Mrs. Alter Boyman was re-elected publicity chairman; and Mrs. Ben- Pennsylvania, Jewish and Chris­ with the officers of the Center, .president of the Women P1oneer's jamin s. Silverman toastmistress. tian religious groups are joining to Denied byCollege which permitted the former to re­ Club, at its annual meeting held Other officers elected for the en- raise $2,000 to carry on the respec­ Madison, Wis.,-Denial that anti­ main. last Tuesday afternoon at Arcadia suing season to serve with Mrs. Boy- tive activities of the Christian Asso- Semitic feeling has dominated the It is now reported that the com­ Hall. man are Mrs. Harry Schleifer, first ciation and the Louis Marshall So- dispute over the ouster three weeks mittee at that time undertook to Mrs . Harry Schleifer, general (Continued on page 2) ciety. ago of Richard Davis, New York guarantee that the Hague admin­ chairman of the sixth annual don- Jewish student, as editor of the istration would not be attacked fur­ or's dinner, to be held on Sunday Daily Cardinal, student controlled ther, though the rabbi denies that evening, in the Crystal Ballroom of M campus newspaper, was expressed he knew of any such agreement. the Narragani,ett Hotel, reported that r • Washington's Public Address by President C. A. Dykstra of the At any rate, his attacks have con­ final arrangements for the affair University of Wisconsin. tinued and he spoke at the anti­ have been completed. Against Jews Brave But Not Wise President Dykstra indicated he IIague mteting a few months ago As guest speaker for the dinner, would act to settle the strike of at Fairmount Hall. He also was a the program committee has secured New York:-Yokum Washington, trate in Night Court. about 50 Cardinal workers sup­ character witness for John R. Lon- Mrs. Israel Goldstein, wife of Rabbi 39, a Negro, decided this week to Washington said he was a welder porting Davis if the students can­ (Continued on page 6) Israel Goldstein, national chairman talk publicly against the J ews and when he works. He said he was a not work out the controversy them­ of the Jewish National Fund. Har:. chose Pitt and Rivington Streets, little "ginned up" the night of his selves. vey Efirnov, New York Art Group, in the heart of the east side, for performance. R'e walked into the "Doubtless in the heat of the Car­ will be guest artist of the evening. the scene of his culmination. It Clinton Street police station and dinal campaign some opposition of Vienna Jews Pay A~isting Mrs. Schleifer on the was an unhappy choice. started to criticize the Jews. He individual Jews has been expressed, dinner committee are Mrs. Henry When a squad of police and fire­ was led out by police. He returned but I · feel sure that this opposition Lazarus, co-chairman; Mrs. Sam.­ men rescued him from an inft11riated and started again. He was escorted has not extended further than to Nazi Blackmail fund uel Shatkin, treasurer; Mrs. Mor­ crowd of more than 300 men and out again. specific individuals," the university Vienna - The Vienna Jewish ris Beeber, secretary; Mrs. · Morris women he was cut and bruised and He protested that he was "smart" head declared. Community has succeeded by her­ Golin, associate secretary; Mrs. Ar­ bleeding from his face and head. and assured the police he had "four culean efforts in raising the 800,000 thur Einstein, music program chair­ Then he was charged with malicious years of la;w in my cranium." They schillings ($160,000) demanded of it man; Mrs. Henry Burt, chairman of mischief for turning in a fire a­ told him to go home and sleep it by the Nazi authorities and has arrangements; Mrs. Joseph Biller, larm and was placed in $100 bail off. Finally he strode to the street Jews TooDespa·1r·1ng turned over the money. The Nazis co-chairman; Mrs. Joshua Bell, when anaigned before the Magis- corner and started his speech. When insisted on getting this sum as a he made the statement, "The Uni- Says Col Wedgwood "token" of good will because the ted States needs two Hitlers instead 1 • Jewish Community was charged •William Lipson Heads of one," things began to pop. wioh raising a similar sum to fin­ 1,000,000 $1 Gifts The crowd piled on and Washing­ New York - Jews are giving a­ ance the proposed plebiscite of for­ Beth-Israel Men's Club ton, suddenly sober, dashed to a fire way too much to despair and not mer Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. f box and turned in an alarm. Police exhibiting sufficient boldness in the Meanwhile, it was disclosed that ~ked for duration At the annual meeting of the Beth and fire apparatus arrived and the face of the present crisis, Col. Jo­ Jews - leaving Austria must make New York-Gifts of $1 each from Israel Men's Club, held last week, men that manned it tried with clubs siah Wedgwood, British Laborite up their minds to leave behind vir­ the 1,000,000 orthodox J ews of the the following officers were installed and poles to open a path to Wash­ member of the House of Commons, tually all of their property. Tech­ United states to support a program by Judge Maurice Robinson: ington. The crowd released him said on his arrival for a speaking nically, Jewish refugees are suppos­ of J ewish education in· America ru·e W illiam E.- Lipson, :president; only when fireman threatened to tour. ed to be allowed to take 75 % of being sough t by the Union of Or­ Maurice W . Hendel, first vice-presi­ turn on the hose. R'e also deplored the fact that their entire property. thodox J ewish Congregations. dent; Dr. Walter Nelson, second Washington was brought back in­ Jews are manifesting "too much William Weiss, president of the vice-president; Barney Taber, trea­ to the station house, where he was rei,ignation a11d not enough indig- organization, said the fund would surer; Milton Levin, secretary, and treated by a doctor from Gouver­ nation." Czech. Jews Ask be used to co-ordinate religious e­ Reuben Tannenbaum, steward. neur Hospital and then arrested. In his first public address at a Sudeten Safety ducational work throughout the luncheon given him by the Amer­ country under the auspices of the ican Jevvish Congress, Colonel Wed­ Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, National Orthodox Board of Educa­ B'nai B'rith Auxiliary Ar~anges gwood predicted that sooner or lat­ The Jewish party expressed hope tion . er the great democracies will have in a resolution that the government would guarantee protection of th e The fund, he said, will provide for to come to the defense of the vic­ Installation Jewish minority against "brutality the support of Yeshiva College of Initiation and Tea- tims of totalitarianism. and boycott in Sudeten German dis­ New York, the Chicago Theological tricts. Seminary and other schools of high­ Roger Williams Auxiliary, B'nai Angelo Goldestein, a Jewish dep­ er Hebrew learning, as well as for B'rith, celebrates its first anniver­ Ben Gurion Urges uty, said that Dr. Stephen S. Wise religious schools and Talmud Torah sary Sunday afternoon, May 22, in of New York had cabled a denial of schools attended by cQildren. Military Trai.~ng the Indian Room of the Narragan­ reports of\ an American J ewish boy­ sett Hotel, at the Installation Ini­ Rehoboth-David Ben Gurion, cott against German industries in tiation and Tea at which time Mrs. head of the Jewish Agency's Jeru­ Czechoslovakia. Honor Schlossberg salem executive, has urged world­ Joseph Seefer, re-elected :president for Civic Activities wide military and naval training of and her officers will be installed Jewish youth and fortification of Hold Conference on More than 1501 friends of Joseph by Mrs.