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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20
Jewish Mems Club
Plans Round Table

Another round table discussion
is planned in October for the Jew
ish Mems Club, it was announced
by M. w. Goldstein, secretary,
who declared that the affair will
probably be broadcast over a To-
cal radio station.
The unusual success Of the last
such event held several months
ago has prompted the club to bring
another round table discussion to
the people of this vicinity.
Four outstanding citizens will
be invited to represent a like num-
Der of different views on a time
ly and important subject. Further
details will be presented to the or
ganization on Oct. LIST, at the next
regular club meeting. Nat Shor-
stein, chairman of the committee
for arrangements, will outline full
particulars at this time.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20

Mails coming from abroad UNI
der the international postal agree
ment, as well as that of domestic
origin, are covered by the meas
ure, which provides penalties of
a fine up to $4,000, Imprisonment
up to five years.
The bill is part of a legislative
drive to combat the vast increase
in Nazi propaganda mail from Eu-
ropean countries which material
lied when the spread of the war
cut off transmission by German
steamship lines and G m a n
groups within this country.
Dickstein also contemplates the
introduction of legislation order
ing United States withdrawal from
the International Postal Union I'M
der which Uncle Sam is required
to act as postman for propaganda
shipments at his own expense. He
has written to Postmaster-General
Frank Walker for an opinion on
the possibility of such action. This
move is seen here as having the
effect of forcing the Post Office
Department officially to state the
exact amount Of increase in Ger
man mail in recent months, Stats
tics it has refused to divulge to
date.
Dickstein pointed out, however,
that regardless of the fate of the
move to bring about United States
withdrawal from the union, Con-
gressional approval of the bill in
troduced would result in cutting
off all of the Objectionable matter
now handled by the United States
mails under the terms of the ag-
reement. He added that Walker
had informed him that the depart
ment had launched an investiga-
ton of the charges forwarded by
Dickstein and that a report would
be made on the matter shortly.
Meanwhile, a move materialized
to prevent use of the Congress
ional Record as a propaganda me-
dunn = dir set e d particularly
against Jacob Thorkelson, lame
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20
Local B'nai Births
To Meet Thursday

The Jacksonville chapter of the
international order of B'nai Birth
will meet Thursday night, Sep
TENDER 26th, at the Jewish Center,
starting at 8:15 o'clock, it was
announced.
A report of the state conven-
ton held recently In Miami Will
he delivered in brief talks by DR..
Leonard H. Grunthal, Dave Davis
Nat Shorstein, and Morris Witten,
delegates attending this meet.
A feature of the gathering VIII
be an address by Barney Cohen
retiring president of the State
Federation and present chairman
of the state chairman of the state
Anti-Defamation committee. HIS
talk is expected to be of timely in
terest and a large attendance is
urgently requested.
Following the business session
refreshments will be served III
which beer and pretzels will be the
chief items of interest. :.
The B'nai Birth chapter mere Is
Iacksonville's largest JEWS n
Mems group which seeks to serve
local Jewry impartially without
regarding to degree of religious
11:~e 1Ta,,obarshin is open to all.
The organization has done gooo
work in civic and philanthropic
ondeavors and has just recently
awarded two scholarships TO wor-
thy Jewish students.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20
Anti-SemiteS Lose
In Michigan Vote

DETROIT (JTA) Frank Fitzger-
aid, liberal Catholic, piled up a
five-to-one lead against Louis B.
Ward, former editorial director of
Social Justice and biographer of
Father Charles E. Coughlin, in the
democractic senatorial primaries.
In the 18th Congressional District,
DR.. George Hermann Derry, form
er president of the Marygrove Col
lege, who has been delivering an
ti-Jewish speeches, was also
showed under in the Republican
primaries.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20
Army DepOrts $50
Jewish Workers
From Panama

WASHINGTON (JTA)-A hun
dred and fifty Jewish refugees at
Panama, who several months ago
were engaged by army officials
for technical work on the canal,
were to be deported this week as
a precautionary measure, it was
learned here.
The $50 were to be placed on an
army transport sailing for Ellis
Island on Sept. II, reaching New
York on Sept. 81. A Justice De-
partment agent visited the Canal
Zone, where the refugees have
been confined on a prison island,
and discovered that 80 of them had
relatives who were United States
citizens. Those 80, after arriving
at Ellis Island, will be sent to
live with their relatives.
The remaining go will be offered
a home in the Sosua colony by the
Dominican Republic Settlement
Association.
In some official quarters criti-
cism was being voiced of the ar
my's drastic action against the
refugees. Early in August tn e
plight of Jewish refugees in Pa
mama was brought to public atten-
ton when Secretary of War Hen
ry L. Stimson announced that $50
foreign agents" had been arrest
ed. These 80 were Jewish refu-
gees working on the canal and are
included in the. $50 being sent to
Ellis Island.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20

According to an announcement
by Philip Selber, assistant treas
urer of the Jewish Community
Council, local Embarrassing agency
for nationwide and overseas re-
lief and educational institutions,
the local group has only collected
40 percent of the amount to be
raised by Jacksonville Jewry as
it's share of the countrywide drive.
L. A. Stein, president of the
council, urgently requests that
those who have failed to send in
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20
Jewish Community Council
Is 60 Percent Behind in Collections

their contributions do so at once
and not wait for personal solicitors
to call upon them. "By mailing
your checks to the Jewish Commu-
nifty Council, P. o. Box 872, you
will save our workers much time
and energy" he declared. Every
Jewish women's organization in
the city has selected three teams
of workers to help wind up the
present campaign, while Dave Da-
Wis and I. M. Lieberman have been
appointed to contact the larger
donors.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20
"Why Did Hitler
Bomb Me?" Is
Asked by Tot

TEL AVN (JTA) = Six
year-old Selma Gershowitz
is bewildered, not angry, ov-
er the loss of her hand as a
result of injuries suffered in
the Sept. 9 air raid.
When this correspondent
visited her in the Hadassah
Hospital shortly after her
hand had been amputated,
she muttered: "Why did Hit
Ter throw a bomb on me,
what did I do to him 2"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20
House Bill Bars Race
Hatred From Mails

WASHINGTON (JTA)-Rep. Samuel Dickstein dem.
N.Y. has introduced bill in the House amending the Uni
ted States Criminal Code to bar from the mails all matter
"incng racial religious hatred bgOry intolerance
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20
Week In Review
M MILTON SROWN. JT.A.

THE BOMBING OF TEL AVN
premier MussOlini'S arm e n
cain winged their way to Pales-
inc and subjected the thriving
Dort of Tel Aviv to the heaviest
1ombing carried out thus far by
he Italian air arm against Pal
stine detectives. The attack on
he port, in which $50 persons
we're killed or wounded followed
Nv few days another attack on
Haifa.
The 10000 population of Tel
Ayiv, the largest of any city in
Palestine, was caught unawares
when the Fascist airplanes ap-
peared suddenly overhead Sept. 9
Ind sent high explosive and incen-
iiary bombs hurting into streets
md buildings in thickly-populated
districts.
ANTI-SEMITIC DEVELOP
MENTS IN EUROPE
The anti-Jewish trend made
resh Roadway in Rumania, SlO-
aka, Hungary and France.
Acting anew on Rumania's an
i-Semitic. drive, the Bucharest
Ministry of Education ruled that
III synagogues and temples could
be used for services only under
pecial permission from the min
stry. The ministry ruled t h t
Iuch permission only would be
granted if there were at least 400
Jewish faithful in a city and 200
4 each specified rural district. All
ynagogues refused such permits
ZION will become State property.
According to official estimates the
Action resulted in the closing of
per cent of Rumania's syna-
kogues.
The SlOvak Parliament passed a
Pill empowering the Government
carry out Reorganization" of
PlOvak economic and social life.
Dther measures made it possible
OR an "Aryan" whose property
vas purchased by a Jew at auc-
ION to recover the property by
payment of the auction price.
In Hungary more than 5000
Jews were thrown out of work
When the Hungarian Parliament
passed a law "Aryanizing" the
lrewood business, handled pre-
pominantly by Jews. A reliable
ource close to the Government
disclosed that from $4,000 to
oO,OOO Jews had been modified
= August Id September for
ervlce in special labor camps. An
Stlmated $4,000 Budapest Jews
ne-third of the City's male Jew
pa population-were at work on
Crdge and bodybuilding projects
throughout the country.
Anu-JewiSh action was pursued
occupied and unoccupied
France.
according to reports reaching
icny from Paris methodical elm
aatlon of Jewish specialists from
drlous branches of industry was
Underway.
Inc Petain Regime cancelled the
lOzenship of ten prominent MEM
erS OF the French Jewish cOmmu-
W including BarOns Robert,
,enn' Philippe and Maurice de
.otnSchild, on charges they had
~ france between June 10 and
Anelr property was ordered
'onfiscated.
Inc Government decided to
axe definite measures ito ensure
ae national interests because it
Onsloered the presence on French
.ii.ory of very numerous emil
anl or deported persons, for
S, Sners or apatrides (persons with
:. nationality Jewish or nom
br vwlsn as definitely dangerous to
uD.ic tranquility"
me NE law providing that only
No. ~ncnmen or sons of Frenchmen
~ serve as State officials was
FAtended to lawve,..
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20

WASHINGTON (JTA)-The re-
suits of the probe conducted by
the Dies Committee investigating
un-American activities into the re-
cent "Anschluss" between the Ger
man-American Bund and the Ku
Klux Khan will be aired at hear
ings to be held shortly in Newark,
N. j., before a subcommittee head
ed by Rep. Joe Starnes Of Alaba-
ma, it was learned.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20

duck" anti-Semitic Montana Con-
gressman-by means Of House
Printing Committee rule that on
ly words actually spoken on the
floor of the House can be printed
in the Record. This move was
urged by Chairman John J. Coch-
ran of the House Accounts Com
mittee.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-14
Tokyo Discusses
.Jcpuf, u. s. War

the time the plc4ident was max ~
his speech Saturday night FOREIGN
Minister Yosuke Matsuoka was tell
ing q mass meeting here that he
thought Germany and Italy would
win the war but that If events
turned against them, Japan must
be prepared to go TO tn ir aid.
tMatsucka made his spec h Sul-
day morning, Jaoanesc time. Japan
is IA hours ahead 5f eastern stan
dard time)
1t was evident that the president
had mace great impression in
Japan. Hakichiro Sulna, fJreigA Of
flee spokesman refused to con m mt
lin the absence of official infOs-
nation, and add, l. IN these times
the less statements, the better"
The newspaper Chugai said that
calmly, because it undoubtedly was
the foreign office viewed the speech
a political gesture against Wendell
Willkie.
Domei, the chief news agency.
said that the governments policy
would not be affected in the least
by the presidents remarks.
Newspapers, which often are in
spired in such instances, were
franker in their comment.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-14
Recruits CIearinq
London of Debris
Left By Bombers
BY WALLACE CARROLL

LONDON, Oct. ID. CUP)-Five
thousand army engineers were call
ed from active service today and
unemployed men were recruited at
labor exchanges to start clearing
London of debris after 38 days of
aerciless German air raids.
Piling into trucks, the civilians,
armed with picks and shovels, went
to the worst hit area and there,
under the army men, began remov-
ing debris, demolishing buildings
which threatened to collapse, and
salvaging bricks. wood and other
materials fit for reuse.
They found more wreckage as the
result of an all night raid in which
the Germans shoWered high ex-
plosive bombs from deadly new
bomb baskets" all over the city
pand in the provinces.
Apartment houses, tenements,
private homes, business premises,
air ra:d shelters and one convent
had been struck and the casualty
list had shot up tragically.
The new containers had burst in
the air sending down a rain of high
explosive bombs which exploded
on contact.
Damage was severe, but the de-
bris clearing and demolition work
which started today marked the be-
ginning of planned program which
is to continue until reconstruction
is possible after the war.
Royal engineers started to work
repairing damaged roads and other
communications as the labor corps
started work in London.
German planes gave London a
,quiet forenoon after their night
long terror attacks, but they be-
gan trying to force their way up
the Thames Estuary early this af-
ternoon and London had a day
light raid alarm.
There was no sign of activity at
first. Then anti-aircraft guns bark
ed in another district rs planes
were heard high over obscuring
clouds.
Air raid precautions squads had
worked for hours digging in piles
OF debris for men. women and
children buried during the night in
the ruins of a London apartment
house, which collapsed when four
bombs exploded on and about it.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-14
Russia, Balkans
Prep pare for War

Rumanian and foreign military
sources reported that Russia had
taken military precautions along
both the Bessarabian and Bukovin-
ian frontiers of Rumanian and that
civilians were being evacuated from
Cernauti, chief city of the northern
Bukovlna territory which Russia
took from Rumania.
Russia troops were reported con-
structing strong defensive position,
on the Bukovina frontier.
1t was reorte.d also that Russia
had massed formidable forces al
along the river Pruth, forming part
Of its new frontier with Rumania,
as far as its junction with the Dan
ube.
1t was Understood here that De.
fore Germany marched into Ru-
mania it had almost completed its
evacuation of Germans from Bessa-
rabia.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-14
BY FREDERICK C. oECHsNER

BERLIN, Oct. IA. CUP)-A semi
official Nazi informant disclosed
today that German shock troops"
are serving in Africa with the Ital-
ian forces under Marshal Rodolfo
Graziani.
Refusing to disclose the number
or classifications of the German
troops, the informant said they were
cold bloodedly looking forward TO
the coming African campaign"
German troops now in Africa, the
informant said, were acting as a
sort of German guinea pig corps,
gaining experience which would en-
able the German forces in future
to operate in the African tropics
without endangering their health.
The Nazi disclosure came after de-
malls here and at Rome that Field
Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief OF
the supreme command of The Ger
man armed forces, would SuperSede
Graziani as commander in chief of
a combined German Italian army in
African operations, presumably timed
with a drive from the Balkans.
(There had been reports also that
German troops had arrived in Atri-
ca, and Rome had dismissed them
with the statement that the only
Germans serving n Africa were l
company of residents of Ethiopia
who had volunteered for service with
the Italians.
ct seemed apparent that the
mere mention OF the presence of
German troops, said specifically to
be shock troops, and the hint of
many more to follow, meant that
Germany and Italy planned an Of
fenS!ve in Africa to WreSt control of
the SueZ canal from Britain and
deprive it of great oil reserves in
the Near East)
Before the disclosure of the pres
ence of German regulars in Africa,
the newspapers this morning had
asserted that German troops and
German airplanes had been sent
to Rumania to forestall an alleged
British plan to bomb the Rumanian
oil fields from the air.
ITO bomb the fields British planes
would have to make round trip of
about $500 miles from England or
1000 miles from EgyptD
The allegations were similar to
those made in Nazi organs before
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-14
warships, Planes
Attack Italians
Off Turkish Coast

ROME, Oct. IA (UP) - A high
command communique disclosed
today series of attacks by British
Warships, airplanes and armored
cars or italian positions in Africa
and the Dodoecanese Islands Off
the Turkish coast.
Three British warships shelled
Italian positions at Sid Barrani
on the Egyptian coast, the com
munique said but it was asserted
that they did no damage and caus-
ed no casualties.
1t was admitted that in q bomb
ing attack on the big Italian naval
ard air base at Tobruk in Libya
British airplanes cause slight"
damage, including hits on an air
plane hangar and the tearing down
of telephone lines. One man was
killed it was sad.
In an attack on the Port of Lago,
IN the Island of Leros in the Dode-
canese crop, the ccmmnuique said,
British planes killed "a persons and
wounded 90. 1t was added that
bombs struck a Catholic church
and several houses, and it was as
serted that two British planes
were shot down.
The communique said that Brit
ish armored cars attempted to
attack the italian positions south
east of Sidi Barrari but were re-
pulsed by artillery.
italian planes, the communique
said, bombed Perrin Island com
manding the southern entrance to
the Red Sea, and air fields at
Fuka and Ell Daba in Egypt.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-14
ThaiIand Fearful
As British Reopen
War Supply Route

BANGKOK, Oct. ID CUP)-Semi-
official sources said today that
Thailand army commanders are
taking measures along the northern
border to prevent possible territor-.
ial violations in connection with
the reopening of the Burma roaI
to China.
However, Publicity Minister Villas
Osthanorat denied reports that
Thailand was cooperating with the
axis powers to aid Japan in keep
ing the Burma road closed.
He recalled that Thailand had
just exchanged notifications Of a
nor-aggression pact with Great
Britain and also had concluded Il
treaty of friendship with Japan.
ThailandS neutrality was en-
hasized but it was said that it was
too early to make any authorita-
tive comment or the Burma road
question.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-14

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Get. ID
UP) Russia, Turkey, Jugoslavia and
Greece were reported to be engag-
ed in urgent interlocking negotiG-
tions today Powerful Russian mill
tar yforces were reported massed
or the Rumanian frontier and the
Balkans awaited q move by Ger
many or Italy or both following
up Germans military entry into
Rumania.
A Turkish Greek -Jugoslav de-
fensive alliance pledged to resist
any aggression / the axis powers,
was reported to be ir' process of
formation. Diplomatic quarters re-
ported that Turkey and Russia
Moscow.
Diplomatic quarters professe1 to
see signs Of Russian alarm result
ing from the arrival of German
troops in Rumania and reports that
German troos either had arrived
or would soon arrive in Bulgaria
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-14
CCC YOUTHS FIGHT
COAST BRUSH FIRE

San Luis Obispo, Cal, Oct. IA
CUP)-More than 200 C.C.C. youths
fought today TO hold a brush fire
which had burned over 200 acres
on Garcia mountain 80 miles cast
of here. Cause of the blaze was
not known.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-14
Nazi Planes Drop
Tons Of Bombs on
EnqLish Positions

BERLIN, Get. Ia UP)- German
lirplanes droppo'l 10000 pounds of
bombs on London, Liverpool and
towns in southeastern England
during the night while British
planes were dropping between 49,
2G0 and 17,600 pounds of bombs
on Germany. the official news ag
9ncv asserted today.
The German planes resumed their
tttlck on Lordon at dawn today,
he agency said.
According to semi-offiCial esti-
mates 13 British planes and one
German plane were shot down yes
terday.
The official news agency admit
led that British planes had bomb
ed frontier regions" of western
and northern Germany during the
right. They tore up railroad tracks
leading to a factory, the agency
said, and damaged a number of
houses but did no military damage
Nazi sources said German bomb
ing planes had uninterruptedly
bombed Lor Ion during the night
centering attacks on central Lon
don.
InfOrmantS said the German
planes started fires so large that
they could be seen from the French
coast, 85 miles away.
Omitted Press London dispatches
had mentioned previosuly that,
though London was bombed severe
ly, it was unusual that no fires
could be seen from central London
even after several hours of bomb
ipo1
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-14
BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS

LONDON, Oct. IA up Brit
ish airplane fleets, despite execrable
weather, bombed German naval
bases, armament works, airdromes,
oil plants and invasion ports dur
ing the night in their steadily in
tensified ladder" program, the air
ministry said today.
The great naval bases at Kiel
at the Baltic end of the Kiel Canal,
and Wilhelmshaven, on the North
Sea coast; oil plants at GelseI-
kirchen and Duisberg, the gigan-
tic Krupp ornaments works at Es-
sen in the Ruhr, several airdromes
and Searchlight and antiaircraft
gun batteries and the channel ports
from Cstend to lie Havre were at
tackled with the loss of but enc
plane.
The ministry of information as
serted that according to neutral re-
ports. British planes in a recent
raid on the French naval base Of
Lorient two big German ships were
sunk and 5000 German soldiers
killed or drowned. Only Is men
escaped, according to these reports.
The ministry also asserted that
civilian morale in Berlin had beer
seriously affected by British raids,
partly because some high Nazi Of
ficials had seen fit to leave the
target zone for ',auiumnal vaca-
tons" IN the safety Of upper Ba-
varia.
Civilian morale in Berlin had
been affected partly, it was said,
because Field Marshal Hermann
Goering, the Nazi air chief, had
been unable to make good his boast
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-14
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-14
Ry II. O. THOMPSON

TOKYO, Oct. IA. CUP)-The pos :
sibility CT an extension of the war
in which Japan would clash with
the United States was mentioned
with increasing frankness by news
papers today as Japan interpreted
President Roosevelt's Dayton, o..
speech as q definite and official
declaration against its alliance
With Germany and italy.
The significance of newspaper
comment. possibly inspired, was
increased by the fact that at about