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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04

this number are Hillelites from
the University Of Florida, Florida
State College for Women, the Uni
versity of Miami, Rollins College,
the University of Georgia, Geor-
gia Tech, Auburn, University Of
South Carolina, University of
North Carolina, University of AL
ALBANIA, Emory, and the Univer-
sity of Tampa.
Students in charge of the con-
ference are: George Wolly of Or
lando, general chairman, Sidney
Aronovitz of Key West, chair
man of the program and seminar
committee, Jack Suberman of Mi
ami, chairman of the reception
committee, Aaron Wexler of Mi
ami, chairman of the tickets and
finance committee. and Ed Gold
berg of Miami Beach, chairman of
the dance committee.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04
Announcement!

The American Jewish Commit
tee and the Authorization
League of B'nai Birth are pleased
to announce that in the interest
of reducing the number of COM
petitive appeals for funds for
Jewish defense, they have agreed
to project Immediately a joint
Embarrassing campaign for their
defense programs. The plan also
contemplates increased coopera-
ton between the two organiza-
lions in their operations. In TAX
ing this step the two organizations
hope to bring about the maximum
efficiency and economy
in their defense activities.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04

At the Seder Service on FRI
day evening, April 18th, which
this year begins the Passover
Holiday, the Jewish people, in the
svmboIicaI Seder rites, will live
again the days of their bondage in
PharaOh's Egypt, and remember
with gratitude their leader Mos
es. who led them from slavery in
to freedom.
In the Haggadah, the book
which contains the service for the
seder, every detail is told with
care. even to the enumeration OF
the ten plaques which were WIS.,
tied upon Egypt when Pharaoh
refused to let the Israelites de-
part: for it is also written in the
Haggadah that the story of the
EXODUS. with its theme of liber-
tv shall be recounted in under
standable phrases to all the sons
of Jews: the wise son, the WICK
ed son, the ignorant son and the
stupid son.
These four sons appear fire.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04

The conference will be officially
opened at 7:3O Friday evening
with the welcome address at the
University Student Union Build
ing. Rabbi D. M. Eichorn, director
of Hillel at the University of Flor
ida and at Florida State College,
will then conduct a short service.
Philip Selber, prominent young
Jacksonville attorney, will be the
guest speaker. Claude Murphree,
University organist, will favor
those present with several selec-
lions. A reception will be held at
the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity
house following the opening meet
ing.
Saturday morning, April 5, at
10 o'clock the conference will
continue with a seminar on mar
riage and the family, conducted by
DR.. Ehrman of the Sociology De-
partment of the University of
Florida. At 2:3O the conference
will resume with a discussion at
the Tau Epsilon Phi house on
problems of Jewish youth, led by
delegates of the various colleges
and universities represented.
A formal dance at the Ameri-
can Legion Hall in Gainesville Sat
urday evening will close the first
annual Hillel Southern Youth
Conference. Ted Sherwood and his
Floridians will play for the dance.
Approximately $50 persons are
expected to attend. Included in
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04

DR.. Solomon Goldman, of Chi
cago, former president of the
Zionist Organization of America,
introduced DR.. Weizmann.
The world-famous Jewish lead
er and scientist, who flew here
from England by Clipper plane,
declared that Palestine's 5OO,OOO
Jews "stand sentinel at the en-
trance to the Suez Canal and
that "every man, woman and
child in Palestine would rather
die than yield that frontier winch
is one of the most strategic ap-
proaches to the western heml-
sphere"
Emphasizing that the problem
of millions of homeless Jews IN
Europe affects not only the Jews
but "the world at large" Dr.
weizmann said that without a
decent solution of that problem
mankind will fail and civilization
will suffer a blackout." 10 us
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04

tber evidence of the obstructive"
tactics of which DIR. Weizmann
had spoken. A group of more than
.00 Jewish refugees from Ruma-
MIA who arrived in a small Doat
were refused admission 70 raloS
line and were reported to have
hoen interned temporarily. jew
;sh organizations appealed to the
Government for leniency on tnelr
behalf.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04
President Roosevelt Greets B'nai Birth

following of Presidents ROOsevelts message
Birth convention held last Saturday night 1t
addressed Henry MOnsky, president of Bnai Birth
Monsky:
NV hearty greetings participate the National
Trennial Convention Of B'nai Birth
of its activities this organization
fields of charity philanthropy
reflected hospitals homes for the aged
and fatherless advancing education and
noting Americanm likewise widely known and deeply
appreciated
trust forthcoming deliberations will be fruitful
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04
Millions of Jews Are Now
Preparing for Passover Holidays

uuentIy as the decorative motif
on ceremonial objects us ed in
the formal Seder service. 1t is
in the Passover Holiday that jew
ish observance attains its high
est degree of traditional ceremony.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04
Heinrich Heine's
Grave Demolished

ZURICH (JTA) - The Paris
grave of Heinrich Heine, famous
German Jewish poet, has been des-
ecrated and demolished, with no
trace of the grave left, the Ger
man radio reported.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, APRIL 1871
Week In Review
By MILTON sRoWN. J.I.A.

THE PALESTINE SI1OAI1ON
The first two weeks of DR..
Chain Weizmann'S projected
two-month stay in the United
States have witnessed a marked
intensificatiOn of Zionist activity
in this country.
Less than a week after he had
stepped out of a transatlantic
clipper at the seaplane basin of
New York's LaGuardia Field,
there was announced in Washing
ton the formation of an Ameri-
can Palestine Committee of more
than 300 leaders of government,
religion, education and civic life,
headed by Senator Robert F.
Wagner, to support the Zionist
movement and prepare Palestine
for large-scale Jewish colonial
ton after the war.
That the Zionist movement is
now concentrating on post war
plans was m d e clear by DIR.
Weizmann in his first public adj
dress, delivered last week to a
reception rally under the auspic-
es of the United Palestine APP
peal, with some 1000 turned away
for lack of space. Chief points
in DIR. Weizmann's address were:
~ The end of the war will
find "the worlds statesmen far
reader to Ike up the Jewish
problem radically than they ever
were before IS. there is every
possibility of an advance over our
present position comparable to
the one which was achieved at
the end of the first World War"
(2) Arab-Jewish cooperation ''is
already fact. The question of its
extension into the future is a
matter of practical craftsmanship.
The larger view does not merely
permit the building of Jewish
homeland in Palestine; it actually
calls for it as part of the revival
and sterilization of the Near
East"
81 The Palestine administra-
tons continued policy Of restrict
ing immigration and land sales is
mot in keeping with the spirit of
the time" and 1--WE shall continue
to press for a fundamental modi-
fication of such situation"
az The ZiOnists demand for
nation of Jewish army since the
Jews, as Hitler's first victims,
should have "the privilege to give
our answer in the fullest meas
ue -. in the field of battle"
Regarding the present status
Of negotiations for formation of
Jewish army, complete details
are still not known. British Am
bassador Lord Halifax was ques-
toned about it at press con-
ference in New York last week
and said that while the negotia-
tons had not been concluded when
ne left London, 81 think there was
very general agreement about the
outlines of what they (the Brit
ish Government and DR.. Weiz-
mann) wanted to see."
Lord Halifax was also asked
about the extent to which the
BalfOur Declaration had been car
ned out. and replied to the eff,
1ect that Britain was fulfilling
the declaration according to her
own lights and that there was an
undue amount of criticism being
ieVelled at Britain on this subject.
Continuing his whirlwind cam
paign to intensity Zionist activity
N this country, DR.. Weizmann
went to Chicago las st weekend
where he and Vice-President Wal
,dce were the principal speakers
Defore the triennial convention of
B'nai Birth.
while these things were hap
penlng in America, the Palestine
administration was giving fur
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04
Prominent Zionist Leader Speaks
At B'nai Birth Meeting

CHICAGO-A federation of the great Arab countries
side nv side with an autonomous Jewish commonwealth In
Palestine was predicted this week for the Middle East
president of the World Zionist Organization in ad-
dress at luncheon session of the national rlenna cOnVen
tim of Rnai Rrfh.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04

Zionists," he continued, 'its solu-
ton implies an opportunity to
build our homeland in Palestine,
with no strings attached"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04

Hundreds thousands Of Jews parts Of Europe are today enduring
the trials of the children OF Israel under
Pharaoh ancient Egypt On the occasion the Of Passover
oppression and wandering The United Jewish Appeal
the single Embarrassing instrument for the Joint Distribution Con"
ee the United Appeal the National Refugee Service
urgently in need provide the rehabilitation of the victims OF
the upbudng and defense OF the gewn
IN Palestine refugees the United States
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04
WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICAT
Southern Youth Conference
Starts in Gainesville Tonight
BY STANLEY B. RICHARD

On Friday April the first annual HeI Southern Youth Con-
ference by the Bna Birth e
Florida, University campus Gainesville
Florida.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-04

Of wise counsel TO carry forward
the good work of the past through
all the years that lie ahead.
Very sincerely yours,
FRANKLIN ID. ROOSEVELT
Evening star., 1941-05-02
u. S. War Seen as HitIer/s Decision
Petrol in Aidto-Briton Policy Sets Stage for Fireworks
Thut Germonys Dictator Might Touch Off
By MORGAN M. BEATTY,

Associated Press Feature Service Writer.
It is possible to draw on map
part of the answer to the question,
How close is war to American
shores?"
All you have to do is to take:
l. The Hitler combat zone as re-
vised by the German government
on March 26 and superimpose on
that
2. The American defense line
1,0J0 miles from American shores
from Greenland south TO Florida,
as defined on April % by Chairman
F. H. La Guardia of the United
States-Canadian Permanent Joint
Defense Board, and then draw on
top Of that
8. The steamer lanes between
Halifax and Liverpool, over which
most of our aid to Britain must
travel.
Trouble Spot Develops.
When you have done all these
things (see map) you have mid
Atlantic trouble spot, where Amer
lean patrols, British conveys and
German blockaders might meet.
Washington's closest observers of
the war scene suggest that when
American patrols meet German sub
conveys, the stage is set for fire.
works.
The next question is, will they 60
off?
If the observers read their history
right, the answer to that question
has been left at this stage of the
game to Adolf Hitler. Here's how:
During the first World War, Presi-
dent Wilson created an American
precedent, backed by majority of
the American public of that day.
Notes Foreshadowed War.
Before we entered that war, q
series of public statements and notes
exchanged between the United
States, Great Britain and Germany,
made 1t clear that the United States
would ultimately fight If the Euro
pean belligerents sank American YES
sells, or vessels on which American
citizens were legally travelling.
Germany at first respected that
position, refrained from sinking
American ships. Later she revised
her position, fatty announced she'd
carry on unrestricted submarine
warfare against ships she thought
were carrying aid to Britain The
United States went to war.
Before the present European war
broke out, our neutrality law was
passed, designed to keep American
vessels out OF combat zones, it was
Evening star., 1941-05-02

March expenditures for building of
$818,s51 and a 100 per cent increase
over the figure for the same period
last year, which amounted to ST.
041, 1,459.
The county issued permits for
erection of ITS one-family dwell
ings, totaling $l,064,740. Other des-
ignations announced by Mr.. Han
rahan and Mr.. Locke were Is two
family dwellings, S15,500; semi
detached dwellings, $4,000; 80
apartments, totaling 262 units,
S816,977 (3l of the 33 are located in
Buckingham seven business estab-
Evening star., 1941-05-02
S2,125,275 Arlington
Construction Sets Record

Arlington County surpassed all
previous records for building activ-
ity last month, County Manager
Frank G. Hanrahan reported yes
terday, when 335 permits were is
sued with total valuation of $2,-
125,275
Don Locke, zoning administrator,
said the April total represented q
200 per cent increase over the
Evening star., 1941-05-02

were to broadcast the presence of
German raiders, would Hitler Or
der his raiders to attack American
patrol vessels? Or would he pre-
fer to limit raider actions to the
area he has already announced to
be the combat zone?
If he ordered his raiders to fire
on patrol vessels, what risk would
he run? Would America decide to
fight?
AS the cards have been played
in the war game up to now, Mr..
Roosevelt, Mr.. Churchill ct al, have
checked the bet to Hitler.
Evening star., 1941-05-02

reasoned we would have no excuse
for war if our ships were not sunk, If
American lives were not lost.
More recently, the Congress and
the President amended that law to
provide all aid to Britain short of
war. The bill is known as the lease
lend bill. But so far, all aid has
gone to Britain in other than Amer
ican ships.
Teeth Put in Aid.
Still more recently, Secretaries
Knox and Hull, American Joint De-
fense Chairman La Guardia, and
Winston Churchill have injected new
meaning into the phrase laid short
of war"
Mr.. Knox of the Navy says we
cannot allow our goods to be sunk
in the Atlantic, after specifically
making them for Britain. Mr.. Hull
of the State Department says the
safety of the hemisphere requires
resistance to the Axis wherever
resistance can be effective. The
President puts teeth into what his
cabinet officers say by declaring
to the world that American naval
vessels would patrol as far into the
seven seas as may be necessary for
the defense of the hemisphere.
Finally, Mr.. Churchill says United
States naval patrols have been
ordered to warn the peaceful ship
ping of all nations outside the COM
bat zone of the presence of lurking
U-boats or raiding cruisers.
Decision for Hitler.
Washington observers add all
these statements together, conclude
that the American patrol puts a
mighty ticklish point up to Hitler
Raiders and submarines are eff
fective only if their presence at a
given moment in a precise spot is
not known. If American patrols
Evening star., 1941-05-02
Gene Tunney Is Named
U. S. O. Liuison Officer

b. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 2-Gene
Tunney, now a lieutenant COM
mander and head of the Navy's
physical fitness program, has been
named by the Navy to serve as
liaison officer with the United States
Organizations for national defense,
it was announced last night by Dis
trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey,
United States Organizations ma
tional campaign chairman.
The United States Organizations
has launched a morale program
through operation Of more than 300
service clubs near Army and Navy
bases and defense plans.
Evening star., 1941-05-02

lishments, $1o1 300, including q $780,
900 shopping center in Arlington
Forest; 80 alterations, $73.093, and
various accessory and supplemental
construction permits.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
How t0Find0ut # You'd
Make dG0OdG0|fer

PERNATIT Phillips physical education
x Pennsylvania state Cole-c Tho toward IhD
- degree by making neT study Of just what anyone has to
have to be a good eolcr
Young Phillips al athlete Berlin 1856 with
the Olympic typical American sports
has definitely proved lot things that the otctro0m boys
have suspected % a long
For brains have nothing 20 DO with rcIfrg ability
Nothcr strength And hc scientist knocks the
spots off the do~n' advice of the test books that golfers have
feel" their ing
Philips has learned that Of clever tests he has
devised for predicting gohng ability
best a plt'cr driver Scientist Phillips
rakcs guinea pigs drive blnhoded and with tie
inches. This pulitzer has a long
spike place usual head punches holes
target.
The novice stands while young Phillips centes the
point just bulscye Then still bndfolded the
subject Phillips with apers and micromo
calculates by how much and why the novice did not hit
the ball.
It seems golfers might make hrftcr scores by
choppug off right OF tho tested
had injured hands and could not the club with
their right little They had to grip with
teaching professional has preached this
doctrine years and scientist Phillips nailed that because
sa.,l tor Gro managed 10 keep
.fe,.t on 'Irrsrtt." f.. iari after his
thumb healed hc ,.tly is...I his But the
back his right hand hitting and probably wound
up in the rough.
Besides putcr-targct Mr. Phillips has devised
swing zgzag right and the left hand
predicts eGbt finishes tho uTfcr tenth all
four he will finish the better
half of the group n carly performance putting.
driving tho odds three and half TO that
the upper half he while these four tests
national champion they have just much value
predicting performance putting and driving ntel
eoncc tests have in predicting success IN college"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
F0unddRdi|r0dd Station Full Of Snakes

engineer had TO have those orders aud
ne and the fireman went back TO the
locomotive and armed themselves with
a couple Of stout shovcls Toy some
times carried firearms IS On tl...a az. th.s
JUNGLE ruo bIt were lacking gums vh.l
they needed them most.
The engineer and his fireman swung
those shovcls vigorously in tho stink and
the jungle heat for more than an hour
until the last of the reptiles was
pulpy casualty. Coughing and rc'c'inc.
They unWound the coils Of sos" of thcir
crushed and mangled body. and found
their orders in one Of his pockets.
a wrecking crcw was dispatched TO
the spot TO clean M the mess and
bury the luckless station agent
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31

way station near the town Of Loanda.
The station agent was supposed to hand
them some papers.
The engineer pulled the whistle cord
time and again bat the AGENT did not
appear ON tho PLATFORM The proper
signals were not set on the semaphore
projecting above The station roof SO
the engineer brought the train to a
stop and he and the fireman got out to
Investigate
They opened that station door and
JAupcd back IN ama2cmcut because the
place WAS a writing mass of snakes,
some of them cooled around the dead
body Of the station agent.
The stencil Of the place was nausoat-
inc and indicated that tho agent had
been dead for a day or two. But the
tr fIr pa. American W..t|. fr. Cr,7t
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31

HE citizens Of Portuguese West
Africa are no strangers 90 life in
tho raw but it isn't often that any
Of them has such a prmcval hair-rais-
ing adventure as did the engineer and
the fireman Of tram that runs through
the jungle in that part OF the Dark
Continent
The men were i'm the cab Of a loco
motive pulling a long freight train
loaded with coffee rubber. hemp ard
other products from TINS section Of
Africa and had orders 20 stop at small
The Engineer and His Fireman
Attacked the Kissing, Squirming
Nest of snakes With Shovcls and
Finally Drove Them out of the
station.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
TELEPHONE Sings
Anew Tune
BsENT. MINDED telephon

A BSENT-MINDED telep one
~ users, who dial a number that
Y has not been assigned TO any
subscriber. are soon 10 hear the wall
Of the banshees in their ears
The Bell Telephone System has
been working a long time to help
people overcome their own mistakes
and their new "no-such-numbcr" tone
is the latest in a long line of tunes
that Includes the busy signal the
ringing signal and the normal dial"
tone
Under the old system anyone who
dialcd a number that belonged to no
one sat ON the end OF a dead phone
until some harassed operator was kind
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31

enough TO plug in and see what was
tying up the lines
Under the new system dialing a
wrong number gets either some one
You don't want and who doesn't want
you or you hear the new "no-such-
number" tone.
This new sound is series Of mp and
down Wallings something like a fire
engine or ambulance siren but pitched
much lower II also means you get
your nickel back and might lust AS
well haul ont the phone book and
start looking mp the right number all
over again
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
CALIFORNIA; CANINE COPS

~OME Of the best policemen in the world
are on the municipal payroll Of Berke-
- ley. California. Most Of them are not
over five years old but their remarkable
ability 10 track down and corner cfIminals
is as well known 20 the bad boys of the
underworld as IL is 10 the taxpayers Of
this up-and-coming West Coast community.
These extraordinary cops h7vc- four tcCs,
and a brand Of courageeand loyalty which
would be hard 10 find in the most depend
able human limbs Of the law" They arc
not afraid of the uCliest two-leGGcd mugs
and they can diSarm such unSaVOry gentry
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
Their Training Begins When
They Are Only Three Months
Old and These Four-Foofed
Police Can Make the Touch
est Crooks Wish They'd Never
Gone in for q Life Of Crime

a club a brick. The dogs are framed 70 run
in such manner that they have a good q
chance Of avoiding death injury from any -
of these weapons In other words, they learn -
how TO Get their man with minimum of dan {
ger TO themselves.
If the dogs are working with human Of
ficer they turn the gun over TO him. If not
they carry it out of reach Of the criminal" and
hold him until the officers show up The strongest
man once he is without weapon, cannot escape
from one of these canine cops
1t usually happens that when these dogs catch
criminals in the act just the sight of the alert and
determined canine policeman quickly takes all the
fight out of the burliest of crooks The dog wall not
harm the bad man unless he puts mp a fight and 1t
is a foolhardy criminal indeed who doesn't stop
right where he is and wait hopefully for the dog
human partner to come up and rescue" him by
taking him to Jail But if the tries To run the
dog trips him and holds him down.