Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-12-16

EDUCATION MINISTER
PRAISES PATRIOTISM
OF RIOTINC STUDENTS
BLAMES "JEWISH
CULTURE LEAGUE"
Filderman Replies "Jews Raise
Rumanian Prestige, Anti
Semites Retard 1t"

| A'h' HC 'N-
cesses in Bessarabinn and Roumanian
towns last week came up for discussion
yesterday in the Roumanian parlia.
ment when the Roumanlan Minister of
Education, Petrovici, replied to an in
tcrpellation on the subject.
The Minister of Education empha-
patriotic student body" Declaring.
however, that the demonstrations of the
students are rcgrettable, he charged
that the first excesses In Kalaras were
caused by n Jewish culture league"
The government will remove those who
are responsible for the eNccsses and
will punish them, he stated.
The raid made by the Bucharest po-
lice on the Offices Of the Union of Rou-
manian Jews, of which DIR. William
Filderman is president, caused consid
cradle interest In iu,e -Roumanian
press DIR. Filderman published n de-
nial of the reports of the anti-Semitic
] htN HpuPtis W tHt tllut NVlll-
promising documents were found in the
office Of the Union. Nothing com
promising was found in our office" DR..
Filderman declares. "The Jews in Rou-
mania support the Roumanian prestige
abroad. while the Hakenkreuzler com
promise her name
! Whom IN, I;I,Inr,,an ,.;sItnI l,,n,.
/ lea and was received by President
Coolidge. he spoke Roumanan. 1t was
the first time that the Roumanian Ian
guage had been heard in the White
House. He spoke only Roumanian at
all the banqucts and meetings he at
tended Mr.. Trezescu, who arranged
the visit of Queen Marie to the United
States, had stated that he was proud
that "Roumania has such sons as Fill
derman. His stay in America has been
of great value to Roumania.''
Berlin-Further details concerning
the anti-Jewish excesses in Rouman-
ian towns were received here in
dispatches from Bucharest.
1t appears that the students re
turning from the Jassy Congress at
tackled the Jewish population in the
cities of Foscany, Buzeu and Ploechti
where many Jews were seriously in
jured. Anti-Semitic excesses also
took place in Jassy and in Bucha-
rest, where five Jewish students in
the law school were seriously in
jured. The reports state that in the
city of Kishineff, three synagogues
were destroyed. Jews are afraid to
leave their homes and hush pre-
walls in the city. Rabbis and leaders
of the Jewish community are con-
sidering the proclamation of sew
en-dGy fast. The Jewish merchants
association has urged its members t,
close their stores for one day as
sign of protest against the excesses
Warsaw-The indignation of Jew
ish public opinion in Poland at the
new outbreak of anti-Jewish excesses
in Roumania was expressed by Dep
uty Waclaw Wiclicki, member of the
Club of Jewish Deputies.
AS protest against the anti-Jew
ish excesses, Deputy Wiclicki, in 3
letter addressed to King Ferdinand
declared that he rejects the order
the Roumanian government had con-
ferred upon him. In his letter, Dep
uty Wiclicki expresses sympathy
with the Roumanian Jews.
The order was conferred upon him
in October, 1925, during his visit to
Bucharest as member of the Po-
lish parliamentary delegation.
; Jassy-That the Roumanian gov
ernment is financially supporting the
, anti-Semitic students movement was
) made clear from the proceedings OF
, the students congress held here re
Gently.