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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-10-11
Adelbert Friedman
To Be Speaker
at ZiOniSts' Meet

Adelbert Friedman will be the
guest speaker at the opening
meeting of the Jacksonville Zion
ist District which will be held
Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in the
Jewish Center. I. NJ. Leiberman,
president will be in the chair.
There will be a short business
meeting.
Mr.. Friedman, who is from At
lanta, is the Southeast regional
director of the Zionist Organlza-
ton of America. Having spoken
here before, Jacksonville audiences
have found in him a fluent and
enthusiastic speaker. It is hoped
that a large group will avail them
selves of the opportunity OF again
hearing Mr.. Friedman.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-10-11

Newspapers report that the Ma
zis have removed the monument of
the High Rabbi LOew from the
City Hall in Prague.
Rabbi LOew, friend and advisor
of Medieval German Emperors,
was the most famous of AL Kabbar
lists, and created the mysterious
GoIem, figure made of clay that
he brought to life as so powerful
a man that he could put him back
to sleep again only with difficulty.
He told the secret of how to re-
vive him only to his successor. AS
legend has it, the successor told
his wife and she awakened the Go
lem when a pOgrom broke out and
her husband had already been ia
ken to Jail. The GOlem ended the
pogrOm by destroying part Of
Prague and by killing the most
fanatic Jew-baiters.
Picture shows the monument Of
the High Rabbi LOew at Prague's
Citv Hall.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-10-11

ucatiOn." That accounts for the
small and insignificant influence
the TaImud TOrahs have over the
life of the Jewish youth in Ameri-
ca.
Charity and mercy have become
the idols of American Jewry. To
these the Jew bows down, and to
them he devOteS most of his COM
munal efforts. The greatness of
a Jew is now measured by phiIan-
thrOpy alone and not by scholar
ship. The Jew of renOwn is not
the distinguished rabbi, the pro-
found student, the savant or writ
er, but the giver, the donor of
large sums to charitable causes.
The communal leader is not the
sage, journalist, or the man of
learning and foresight; that dis
tinctiOn goes to the person able
to provide the greatest amounts of
money for charities devoted to
immediate physical relief.
The United YeShivOs FOunda-
ton limits its activities to purely
financial ends, but seeks always
to upIift the moral and spiritual
standards of orthodox education.
Ultimately il hopes to create COM
pIete uniformity in the methods of
orthodox Jewish education in
America. (H. L. Selig)
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-10-11
British Jews Hold
New Year Services

LONDON (JTA)-British Jewry
greeted the New Year in hundreds
of synagogues throughout the
country, many of which bear the
scars of N All bombs. At least
three of the synagogues in Lon
don could not be used for the ira
ditional services because of bomb
ing damage.
With the civilian population ac-
tually in the front line of the war,
Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz ordered
a drastic curtailment and modi-
fication of the New Years service
to prevent a congestion and ex-
pose the congregations to the dam
ger of night raids.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-10-11

All Jews, Orthodox, Conserva-'
tive and Liberal observe this one
holy day.
Characteristic of the evening
service that ushers in. the holy
day is the Kol Nidre chant whose
origin is buried in the story of the
past.
One of the festivals which was
evolved from an ancient autumn
harvest feast, Yom Kippur was
marked with great ceremony in
the days of the second temple.
A week was spent in preparation
for the services, which were con-
Quoted only by the High Priest of
Israel. Jews from all parts of the
world made a pilgrimage to the
temple in Jerusalem in order to
participate in this ceremony of
fasting and prayer for a New Year
of life.
After the destruction of the Sec
Ond temple, there was no longer
a central place at which ceremO-
MES were held. But in synagOgues
wherever Jews were settled, the
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-10-11
YOM KIPPUR
The Holy Day
BY RABBI DAVID P. ALPERT

BY RABBI DAVID p. ALPERT
"FOr thus saith the High and
Lofty One that inhabits the uni
verse, and Whose Name is Holy:
1 dwell. with him that is of q
contrite and humble spirit. :"
Isaiah 58)
Yom Ha-Kipurrim remains UNI
iquely Jewish Day. Though its
religious exercises and its spirit
ual abolutions touch deep into the.
heart of all men and women, only
LIE Jews alone in their worship
have set apart one sacred day each
year to recognize these innermost
needs of the human spirit.
Man, touched with greatness,
and filled with dismay, holds hea-
ven within his reach. The confess
sion of sin is exacted from him
at Yom Kippur, not as something
morbid, not as pleasure-in-reverse
by mention of his failings as
means of living them over. The
confession of sin at Yom Kippur
sustains him in hope and upholds
him in the depth and direction
that he should go to make the
most of life. And the long confess
sion of sin las in the Al Het) item
Continued on Page Eighty
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-10-11
PaleStine'S Future
Seen Depending
On Jewish Army

NEW YORK (JTA)-David Ben
Gurion, chairman Of the Jewish
Agency's Jerusalem Executive, ar
rived here on the British liner Scy-
thia en- route to Palestine via the
Far East. He will remain in the
United States for a few weeks.
In an interview, Ben Gurion pre-
dicted that the center of war
would soon move to the Near East
and asserted that Palestine's sur
vival depended on the immediate
organization of a Jewish army.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-10-11

executive committee, said the
statement Gin a sense has wider
and farther-reaching implications
than the Balfour Declaration" DR..
Perlzweig also made public assur-
ances from Gen. Charles de Gaulle'
head of the Free France move.
ment, regarding restoration u
Jewish rights in France.
THE FIFTH COLUMN IN The
UNITED STATES
A counter attack" on N AL
18th column activities in the UNI
ted States was urged in the inter-
ests of national defense Dy FOR
t1,na magazine in an exhaustive
stTdv of '.Nazi Agents in the u
SD in the October issue. Inc mag
zine declared that the action OF
the Federal Bureau of 1nvesuga-
tion and exposures in the press
hod achieved some results in COM
notino the fifth column but stated
frat more drastic action was ne
c c including the possible es-
ton1;shment of a government agen-
cv designed specially to analyze
and warn against foreign prOPA
ganda.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-10-11

prayers that had made up the
temple services were recited. Each
individual said his own prayers
asking for forgiveness and for an
other year of good life.
Not related to any nature festi-
val or historic event, Yom Kippur
probably developed out of desire
to prepare, in a fitting way, for
the grateful celebration of the
harvest which follows.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-10-11
Berlin Jews Are
Clearing Debris
Of British Raids

LONDON (JTA) = Berlin
Jews are punished for Royal
Air Force raids by being i'm
pressed into gangs to clear
up the debris, it is reported.
Jews living near public shell
tiers do not venture into them
during air raids because of
incidents created by storm
troopers, the report said.
Those living near the "ghet-
to shelters" constructed by
the Berlin Jewish Communi-
ty use these.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-10-11
Week In Review
'EIr ANTI JEWISH DRIVE IN
FRANCE

me- ANTI JEWISH DRIVE In
FRANCE
Fhe fOreb0ding among JEWS in
,cunied and unOccupied France
ssneued as the Petain Govern
IN and the Nazi occupation au-
ROrities expanded their antt-Sem-
iic program.
The Vichy regime decreed COM
ulsory labor service for all for
Iqners unwilling or unable" to
migrate and who are considered
aIperfluous" for French economy.
be law stipulated that all for
ieners between the ages Of 18
IA As considered "superfluous" to
fench economy and who, being
efugees, were unable to return to
heir native lands, would be as
embed in special groups by the
rench authorities. Foreigners aft
ected by the law would be per-
nitted to emigrate if willing and
bIe to do so. Those ''superfluous"
oreigners remaining in France
FouId be used for compulsory la
boz.
At the same time the Vichy cab
net met to discuss proposed sta
ute designed to establish q defi-
lite status for Jews In France.
Pressure on the Jews increased
occupied Paris, with q census Of
Il Jews and apartinekaks ilIlabit-
ed BY Jews ordered by the Nazi
authorities. Jews W ere reported
hppfehensive about going out af-
ter dark in Paris owing to the in
creased activity of anti-Semitic
bodies, such as the New Youth"
Nazi occupation authorities re-
pOrtedly promised French retailers
that Jewish merchants soon would
be squeezed out of the trade. A
|Nazi official was quoted as say
ing that not a Jewish merchant
would be in the business after
Nov. l.
THE SITUATION IN GERMANY
A tragic picture of the plight
|Cf Jews in Germany was drawn
|by Richard o. Boyer, a correspon-
dent of PM who recently returned
Prom Germany, in an article in
fhat newspaper.
Regulations directed against
Ene $4,000 Jews still in Germany
there were never more tn an
100000 - have made it literally
rue that all a jew in Germany
may do els to sit in his room and
nope and wait for DEATH" either
through starvation or illness, Boy
er said.
Under present restrictions, Jews
are forbidden among other things
20 buy clothes of any kind, re-
celve reduced food rations, with
no milk, are forbidden all coal and
cannot engage in business, or go
% movies, restaurants, shows or
operas, and are forbidden refuge
- bomb shelters in many places,
Boyer said.
BRITISH PLEDGE TO JEWS
a message from Arthur Green
WOOD, British Minister without
.Or1oliO, stressing the restOra-
!. .On OF Jewish freedom and equal
~ In Europe following a British
victory was made public in New
1Ork by the Rev. Maurice L. PERL
-Weag' head of the European head
quarters of the World Jewish Con-
sreSs, as Britain's first public dec
.atalOn on the Jewish question
''ace the outbreak of war.
NJ " Perlzweig, who arrived in
. .s York from London via Mon
@ said at a press conference
J. = view York that he had brought
c r,s letter for presentation to the
q Svngress executive committee. DR..
Ssepnen s. Wise, president of the
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-10-11
Most Sacred Jewish Holiday Will Start Tonight
Yom Kippur Will Be Observed
By Jewry Throughout the World

Following the traditions of ages, Jews will gather in
their Synagogues and Temples tonight Friday evening" Oc
tober 11t the eve of Kppur observe the Day of
AtOnemen the solemn holy day of fasting and prayer
which will last until SHUTDOWN Saturday October 18th
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Evening star., 1940-01-13
Accidental Suffocation
Held Cause Of baby's Death

A certificate Of accidental death
by suffocation was issued by the
coroners Office late yesterday in the
case of 2-month-old Warren D. Wat
son of % South Pershing drive, Ar
lington, Va, who was found uncon-
scious by his mother when she re-
moved him from his crib on the
back seat of her automobile in front
of an apartment at 2801 Adams Mill
road NV.
The mother, Mrs. Walter Watson,
caught up the child and rushed into
the apartment lobby, where she
chanced to encounter Mrs. William
M. Mann, wife of the Zoo director
who was on her way out of the
building. Mrs. Mann offered assist
ance and took the mother and child
to her apartment.
The fire rescue squad was sum-
moned, along with an Emergency
Hospital ambulance and a physi-
clan. Efforts to revive the infant
proved futile. Mrs. Watson was on
the way to visit a friend, Mrs. Ralph
Lewis, who lives in the building.
She noticed the child was lying on
its face after she parked her car,
it was said.
The child apparently was smoth-
cred in the wraps in its crib.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
New Rudio Invention
To Be Demonstrated

A demonstration of wide-band
frequency modulation will be given
by Maj. Edwin H. Armstrong of
Columbia University before the
Washington Radio Club at 8 o'clock
tonight in the National Museum
Auditorium, Tenth street and Con-
stltution avenue NV.
Maj. Armstrong will describe the
neew system he invented before
members of the Institute of Radio
Engineers and the American Insti-
tute of Electrical Engineers, who
will be guests of the club. A dem
onstration to show elimination of
static and whistle from the radio
will be performed, the program
originating with Jansky and Bailey,
consulting engineers, in George
town, and picked up in the audi
torium.
F. w. Albertson, president of the
Washington Radio Club, will pre-
side over the meeting, to which the
public is invited.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Merchant Manufacturer
Units Officers Named

Recently elected officers of va
rious trade divisions of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton who will serve during the COM
ing year were announced as follows:
Leroy Gritzen, chairman, and
L. 8. Scott, vice chairman of the
officiating division. H. F. Ashton,
chairman; Walter Phillips, vice
chairman, and Herbert Canon, Sec
retary of the conditioning divi-
sion. Walter Nordlinger, chairman,
mems clothing. J. B. Luttes. chair
man, bakers. George A. Roberts,
chairman, florists. Robert F.. Dyer,
wholesale grocers.
Harry Sherry was named chair
man of the wholesale food distribu-
tors group, assisted by Joseph P
/ Gamble, N. Coppola and NJ. Rex
rode, and additional trade officers
were:
E. j. Mather, chairman, and Ford
Young, secretary-treasurer of the
ice cream manufacturers: Louis
Lavay, laundries, and William B
Bennett, chairman, public utilities
The chairman of each group rep
resents his trade on the Board OF
Governors of the Merchants anc
Manufacturers Association.
Evening star., 1940-01-13

German
change the present structure of the r.
The unpleasant
Stain might things 20
against them, quick trigger.
to the Russian
interested what
after IaianEungaran
and Count
being
the southeastern border of the Reich
Wednesday
ported
Evening star., 1940-01-13

bo1 CduSl dIo III
cooperating with the press. While
England and France have, tradi-
tionally, free press, the human
contacts between the correspond
ents and high officialdom are still
lacking, and both countries are
snarled in censorship troubles. This
is a matter of considerable urgency,
as this is the first Grade A political
war in history.
At the start of the war, liberal
opinion noted with satisfaction
that France and England had ap-
pointed, respectively, to their
ministries of information, a dis
tinguished literary man and play
wright, and leading scholar. 1t
seemed to be an exemplification Of
their war aims. But, like the brass
hats of the past, they didn't seem
to understand newspapers or news
papermen.
The scholarly Lord Macmillan Of
England has faded into the back
ground, and his press censor, Vice
Admiral C. v. osborne, is replaced
by the chubby and gregarious Sir
Walter T. Monckton. In France,
Jean Giradoux, the playwright who
wrote "Amphitryon 49," through
which the Lunts romped so happily
three years ago. is still minister Of
information, but his Office inspires
bitter stories in the American press
about fantastic restrictions. The
censorship tangle is an issue Of
daily mounting Importance in
France.
Newspapermen liked NJ. Giradoux
tremendously when he was spokes-
man for the French ministry of
foreign affairs a few years ago. He
was perhaps, in Goethe's phrase,
all too human" for any careful
growing of public opinion-his own
is ironic and whimsical-and has
been surrounded with a bulwark of
| bureaucracy against which news
papermen are thrown for a loss. In
1928 he kicked up laundering row
in France by writing a play which
| gave Vic 1Cl Halls d III cdh. 11S Is d
charming, monocled gentleman of
SO, who was severely gassed in the
World War and for this reason
speaks in husky voice. He did a
short turn at Harvard before the
World War.
AS to the British, they put on q
grand demonstration last October
of how not to do in New York. A
half-dozen reporters had responded
to their call for an important state
ment by the head of one of their
newly organized war supply bu-
reaus. The charming and courteous
young Oxonian, who received them,
was mystified by their desire to see
the official and question him about
the handout. He cross questioned
them closely as to the newspaper
status and was mystified when one
explained that he was a "leg man
1t was all too confusing and the
boys left without even getting the
handout.
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star., 1940-01-13
CHAPTER IA

1t was 9 o'clock when Clare mn
ished her simple breakfast. one
turned again down Jaeger strasse
and walked slowly to Frau Webers
shop.
The door was unlocked this time,
and as she opened it small peli
tinkled overhead. The girl looked
curiously around, but so far as she
could see it was nothing more than
it pretended to be-a small shop
where newspapers and magazines
and stationery were sold. The store
was neatly arranged, and the noor
was spotlessly clean.
In a case toward the front OF
the shop were displayed dozens OF
photographs and colored litho-
graphs of Hitler and when a short,
rather heavy-set woman ap-
preached from the back and in
ouired if she could serve her,
Claire bought a small photograph
of Der Fuehrer.
"I'd also like a copy OF the
Tageblatt," she told the woman in
German.
AS the paper was handed to her,
Claire, her heart racing, inquired
in a low voice, Am speaking to
Frau Weber,"
The woman, whose deep-set eyes
had seemed dull brown at first
glance, eyed the girl closely for a
minute and Claire saw a sudden
lively interest reflected in her face.
Eyes. And who might you .be?"
she asked.
Frau Weber Understands.
For answer, Claire dug into her
purse and produced the key ~. Y"
had given her and repeated his
message for Cameron. Frau Weber
seemed to understand the meaning
of ~. Y.'s" instructions.
AS she turned to make change for
the girls mark note, Claire heard
the front door of the shop open
and hastily turned her back. pre-
tending to be interested in the
headlines OF the paper she had just
bought.
Frau Weber went forward at once
to greet the man, and Claire stole a
glance in his direction and almost
collapsed.
The man was George Roland who
Evening star., 1940-01-13

matter of fact. Their election, how
ever, is first blood in the campaign
which promises to be intense on
both sides of the political fence. On
the Republican side, candidates
Taft and Dewey have had their
emissaries in the State for some
time. And of course, Senator
Bridges, the "favorite son." has
been at it for months.
The adherents of Vice President
John N. Garner, those of Federal
Security Administrator Paul v. Nc
Mutt and of Senator Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana have been on
the job in New Hampshire. seeking
favorable delegates to the Demo-
cratic convention. And Yesterday,
the first day for filing, Rudolph G.
Cartier deposited his papers as a
candidate for delegate pledged to
President Roosevelt for a third
term.
This is the first filing of a Roose-
welt pledge delegate candidate in
any State. Cartier is a descendant
of George Etienne Cartier, at one
time joint premier of Canada.
Machines to Enter States.
The political machines-both Re-
publican and Democratic-are ex-
pected to enter States of their own
in the primaries. Already there
have been conferences among the
leaders to pick the lists of delegate
candidates. And when they are
picked, they are likely to have the
better chances for election.
Gov. Francis P. Murphy, who re.
Gently declared that the Republican
candidates for the presidential
nomination were widely divided
over what stand the G. o. P. should
take on national issues, and Senator
Bridges, have had their heads to.
gether several times trying tt
decide on the proper delegates
What the party needs, Murphy said
is unity.
Yesterday Senator Bridges issued
a statement urging that the
Republican voters in New Hemp
shire send an "uninstructed dele
CATION to the Republican Ma
tional Convention. Presumably
such delegation, when it gets its
seats in the national convention
will be prepared to vote for Senator
Bridges for the presidential nomi-
nation, certainly on the first ballot
In his statement, Senator Bridges
announces his own candidacy for
delegate to the convention.
The tactics of Senator Bridges
and probably those of Gov. Murphy
would prevent knock-down, drag
out fight in the primary for dele
gates pledged or instructed for
Senator Taft of Ohio, Thomas E
Dewey of New York or Senator
Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan
recognized today as the leading
aspirants for the presidential nomi-
nation
Sees Bitterness Costly.
Senator Bridges believes, he says
in sending uninstructed delegates
from all the States to the nationa
convention. TT is my understand
Evening star., 1940-01-13
by ROB EDEN

SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTER.
Claire Dutton, private secretary to
William Comeron. American diplomatic
liaison official, rushes from the French
liner st. CroiX at LIE Havre as the
gangplank is being lowered, after send
ing for her four bags. Cameron has
been delayed in Paris and Claire
knows she can't return home without
him. Returning to Paris she discov-
ers there are five bags; one an exact
American Embassy, Welles Sanford
Generate. and he finds in the bag a
chemical capable of destroying the. St.
Croix While Bornet is searching
Cameron's hotel rooms. Claire finds a
slip of paper on which Bill had writ
ten her first name three times. She
goes to her own room to find her over
night bag gone AS she leaves to meet
Danny Brooks. a neWspaperman. q
stranger enters her taxi, tells her
Cameron is alive, and gives her her
vanity case from the stolen bag. In
il she finds a card reading e.. Y.
Danny introduces her to Maria here
EEK. who takes them and Capt Rene
Martin to her fiat. Noel Yorke an
American painter calls there, ne
proves to be q. Y" Sanford telis
her Bill is dead: but z. z. says ne ne
was kidnapped by. Nazis because ne
knows the plans for an alhea onenv Il,,
sive She agrees to ny 10 rern Geamahhs ~ y
and tell Bill to pretend TO olvulse nr .i,e
plans but to misstate the zero iands n1u., har
on a crude field near Berlin. ohe