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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-07-09

Lapidus,' Hyman Kushnir, Gregory
Senderovitch and Mordecai Sing
er.
Amongst the recipients of the
medals there were also Jewish
women. Foremost amongst them
Miriam Rivkin and Rose Gusman.
There is also the famous fighter
Rose Teitlebaum, who has been
named by her co-fighters 1.-The
Chief of the Bryansk woods"
Here is one of the exploits of this
famous Jewess who is a leader of
the underground fight. The story
was told by the famous poet,
Isaac Feffer, when he returned
from the front last spring. Isaac
| Feffer is at present in America
as one of the delegation of Soviet
Jews to the Jewish people of this
country):
THE Nazis had driven all the
Jews of a certain town into the
synagogue and were getting ready
to burn their victims alive Just
at that time, THE Chief of the
Bryansk woods" appeared with
her party, drove the Nazis out
and saved the Jews who were al
ready dispaired of their lives"
There is also the legendary
Jewish woman fighter of the I'M
foreground, Khasia. She is spoken
of as the Jewish Joan D'Arc, who
has on many occasions inspired
the partisans to act with super
human valor.
This is what the famed Ukrain-
ian writer Kornaichuk, the author
of the world-known dram a
Front, had to say about the
Jewish fighters in the under
ground. Kornaichuk spoke at
Kuibyshev on the 10Th of May,
1913, and he said:
There are Jewish fighters to
be found in almost every brigade
of the guerrillas. At a certain
point I came across an entire
Jewish family of partisans. There
was the father, the mother, and
their two sons. It was during the
severest cold of the winter when
I met those people in dugout in
the woods"
There is the story of Mendel
Kamenitzer from Odessa, who
though an aged man, risked his
life to bring ammunition to Red
Army detachment that had been
cut off from its main base.
Not only do adult Jews go into
battle with a flaming hatred of
the enemy and an iron determin-
alton to fight to the last drop of
blood, Jewish children as well
play an important role in the
struggle against the invader.
There is the story of the Jewish
boy Sioma Greenberg. He was
only IL, but he took upon himself
the very dangerous task of a mes
senger carrying documents to the
beseiged army at Sevastopol. 1t
is no wonder that Sioma took
that risk. There was a flame
in his youthful heart-a burning
desire to take revenge, for his
mother was dishonored before his
eyes by two Nazi officers.
Sioma managed to carry on his
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-07-09
BY. S. ALAMAZOV

(AuthOr of 'The Underground War in EurOpe')
Copyright, 1913, Jewish Telegraphic Agency Inc
Out of the weer of blood and misery and suffering
which has been the lot of the Jews in the
territories there emerges factor demonstrating beyond
shadow of doubt that the Jews do accept their doom
submissively They fight back They fight they
They fight with whatever they have at their
disposal
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-07-09

veteran of the last war; Rabbi Abraham Nowak Of No.
Rochelle, is in by Captain Herman Zuckerman in INV
presence of Colonel Burt Webster Chief of Chapan BranI
Chaplain the armed services with the ecclesiastical
endorsement Of the Committee Army and Navy RELIGION
Activities Of the Jewish Welfare Board
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-10-28
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5 sob. Seta "a 2 spalne sobe,
set "a obednico, druzabno So
DO, it'd. Zglasite Sc med 1 in 5
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10. Sledil je sepet. Prosnja je
bila v MEM. Pritajeno govorje-
ME je pretrgal rahel smeh. 70
pet sepet. Zdaj je beseda glas-
nejsa, zdaj tisja. Naposled Sc je
okno zaprlo; senca Sc je odtr-
gala cd stene in Sc razgubila v
noe. Drugi dan 81 je pripel mia
denic nagelj ma ~prsi.
Dekleta poznajo r1avade fam
toy. Dan pred praznikom wa
mejo radi, tega 2 oxen cvetoce
nageljne in jih skrijejo v sobi.
Pa je katera, XII pozabi, da bi
jih skrila, ali je katera, XII jih
pusti nalasc ma oknu. - Noe
je. Proti hisi gre crna, postava.
Postoji in poslusa, nato .stopa
tho dalje. Pod oknom Sc usta-
vi. Zdaj Sc zarise ma zidu po-
doba kose. Jeklo .udari ob ka-
men. Postava sc zdrzne in OBJ
,stane. Molk. Napeto pretece
trenutek. Rosa sc zopet dvigne.
Narahlo, skoraj neslisno zaja-
me rezilo v cvetje, XII popada
ma tia. Senca Sc skloni, isce in
pobira. Zopet tihi koraki. Senca
je ma klancu. Zdaj udari stopi-
MIA trse OBJ kamen. Vrisk Sc "a
reze v noe.
Ia oknom je morebiti prislu-
skovalo budno uho. Srce je bile
v navalu pricakovanja. Vrisk je
prevzel duso.
Dalje prihodnjic)
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-10-28
"Nobeno Sc

"Nobeno se."
"Ena ii DO gotovo dala ma
gelj. - Mi bos kupil prebiral-
ko?"
Andrej je pomolcal "a trenu-
tex, kakor bi Sc bojeval sam S
sabo, a dekletova blizina ga je
omamili, da je dejal:
"Bom, &c mi hos dala ma
gelj."
stefanija Sc je nagnila prot
MENU, da je zacutil oh svoji
strani nZeno rame. Toplota ga
je spreletela.
lie pridi ponj!!"
Nocni hlad je prevzel ozrac-
je. Gluha je lezala noe mad Po-
logon. V travi in med dreves-
mimi vejami so Sc utrinjale
drobne lucke. V hisi je pojema-
la svetloba ognja. IL veze so
zazveneli trdi koraki.
Andrej je vstal. Voscil je
Stefaniji lahko noe in je odsel
po klancu.
Drugacna je bila danes pot
kakor navadno. Oh strani je GU
til V spominu stefanijo. Kakor
da gre MIN, Sc mu je zdelo.
Nj hotel motif opojnega razpo-
lozenja v svojem srcu in nj ho-
tel pregnati cd sebe stefanije,
cato je stopal narahlo in je j.
skal mehkejsih stopinj kraj
proti. Sc lie blizu donna, ko je
zagledal dalec preko zidu po-
veznjeno streho domace hise,
da je bila videti kakor preveli-
ko pokrivalo ma drobni glavi, sc
je zdrznil in streznil.
Andrej je pogledal ma okna,
vsa SO bila temna, zato Sc je
popel po lestvi ma hlev.
V senu Sc je oglasil France
"Kod Sc obotavljas?"
"Posedel sem malo pred hi
So"
lie glej, da te ne speljeta
Otrocji 81 Sc dovoljw
Andreja je zbodla v srce, ko
mu je brat ocital mladost; a
odgovoriti 81 mu nj upal. Mol
cal je. France je govoril dalje: :
"Ne poznas Dragarjevih. Use
sc obesa mamie. Vsakomur so
odprta vrata. Fantalini, XII sc
komaj speljejo, lazijo okrog
njihove hiSe. - Mikas jih. Kaj
je NINA mar, &c smo mi zadol-
zeni pri njih. Mislita 81, da te
zato Sc laze ujameta. Kuga je
donna. pri Dragarju, pazi SEP
Andrej je zagledal pred ocmi
nagelj, XII mu ga DO dala Ste
faniia, videl lie Sc prebiralko,
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-10-28
DOLG
.Povest
Povest
GIRL DREKONJA

10 ma tia, ma obleko, " obraz.
Francetu je vzplapolala srajca,
veter sc mu je pognal v rokave
in jih napihnil.
Moski so pograbili orodje in
stekli po stezi proti sosednjemu
seniku. Justina in Nanica sta O.
grnili predpasnik cez glavo,
popadli posodo jedmi in pija-
co ter zbezali "a mimi.
Vedno gosteje je padal dez.
Med kapljami so priletavala
drobna sklena zrna. Ko so Ko-
sanovi in Dragarjevi prihiteli k
seniku, je bill naliv ze popolen.
Andrej je stresel glavo, Sc uda-
ril ma prsih po mokri srajci ter
Sc zleknil v seno. Ia MIN so po-
legli tudi ostali.
Prijeten je bill pocitek po tr-
dem delu. Mokrota v obleki Sc
je ugrela. Seno je disalo in va
bilo "a spanec v oci. Zunaj je
igrala nebeska godba. Sum dez-
ia je prijetno del usesu.
v seniku Sc je zasvetilo. Dez
je ponehal. Mladenici in dekleti
so vstali. Otresli so sebe mrve
in Sc odpravili domov.
Po vecerji je stopil Andrej
k skafu.
"Se vode sc moran napiti." "
France ga nj cakal. Wei je o.
rodje; odsel je sam po klancu
proti domu.
Ko je odlozil Andrej korec,
Sc je nameril proti vratom. Sto-
pill je ma prosto, a ma pragu ga
je ogovorila stefanija:
cali sc ii mudi domov?"
'"Truden sem in brat je re
odsel."
"Sedi malo, hlad je. Pet mi
nut spanca bos re ugresil.'
stefanija je sedla ma klop
pred hiso; Andrej jo je ubogal
in je prisedel.
"Kako Sc me bojis; blize Sc
pomakni! Sc vidi, da Sc Sc nisi
naucil vasovati."
"Vsega hkrati Sc clovek ne
more nauciti."
"Star FAINT bos, pa DO. Nero
den kot tnalo. Seveda, mlad 81
Sc, pa te imajo V oblasti starsi,
posebno France"
"Nihce mi ne gradi poti."
"Semenj bo ma smarnico, 81
ze izbral katero?"
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-10-28

Felix's je vail zagrabke pro-
ii Andreju. Dekleti sta mu po-
magali in cistili cd zadaj. Med
delom je nastavil Nanici grab
lie pod noge. Dekle je zadelo
oh ME; pablo je seno. zdaj je
pograbil mladenic kup sena in
ga zvalil nanjo. Zavresealo je.
Justina Sc je smejala ma glas.
Tudi Andrej je pogledal in Sc
nasmehnil. France pa Sc je "a
letel S kope naravnost proti
Feliksu. Dvignil je grablje ka-
kor "a udarec in je zakrical:
"Norce hos uganjal! Ma kopo
pojdi in delaj!"
"Ti bos meni ukazoval?"
"Ce tt delam, tudi kaj uka.
zem!"
"Delas, ker 81 dolzan."
Francu je omahnilo orodje
ma tia. Mrmral je pretrgoma, ko
Sc je vracal h kopi.
Nanica Sc je pobirala il Sc
ma. Rdeca Je bila v obraz. S
sebe je stresla mrve in 81 po-
pravljala v zadregi ruto ma gla-
vi. Pogledala je pricujoee; tudi
Feliksa je osinila. Pol karanja,
pol hvaleznosti "a fantovo salo
je bilo v njenih oceh.
Oblaki so drveli dalje in da-
lie preko neba. Solnce je "a
medlelo in Sc s..-'ilo. la Pecmi
Sc je poblisknilo, nato zagrme-
10. Grom je bill Sc dalec, je O.
znanjal neizbezno nevihto. Plaz
sena je ginil kopi. France Sc
je dvigal vedno wise. Oprijemal
Sc Je StOZJa, lOVll SenO 2 graD-
ljami in ga tlacil.
Sc enkrat Sc je zablisknilo.
Svetloba je zazarela, kakor da
Sc je vzgala dolina in da so Ia
goreli hribi. Sledil je grom.
Mogocno Sc je zaganjal glas cd
gore do gore in Sc votel razgu-
bill V grapi. V oblakih je SUI
melo.
Poslednje moci so napeli de-
lavci pri senu. Molj je objel vse;
samo roke so grabile, metale,
delale. Sc par vii sena je lezalo
ma tleh. Andrej je ograbil kopo
ma debelo, sprawl mrve in jih
vrgel bratu.
Zopet blisk, grom. ze so pa
dale prve debele kaplje. Mocan
veter je potegnil, vrgel dez S 81
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-10-28

katero il DO kupil. Ma vest mu
je leglo, a lie trenutek. Nato ga
je premagala trina. Dejal je:
ga varuha mi hoces biti!"
"Kdo to pravi? Ali obesil sc
bos, da Sc ne bos znal vec sneti
in oni Sc bosta norcevali il tebe.
Ne poznas jih!"
mi tako hudo, kakor pravis
ii. &c DO treba, Sc bonn JAZZ nor
ceval IL njih."
"Govoris kakor mladic. Stare
lisice bos vodil "a nos! Pa maj
bi to re bilo, kakor hi hotelo, a
hudo je, da Sc je mas oce' obesal
Dragarju in mu bill usluzen, ii
Sc bos pa zenskam. Moe ii bodo
vzele. Nam mora biti samo dom
ma misli."
'Lahko govoris I'll, XII ii ljudje
pravijo, da 81 menih. Jaz sem
pa mlad in Ivesel." ~
"Rodi! Ali pa rnislis, da bo
Dragar crtal dolg, ko pripeljes
stefanijo k hisi? To sc ne DO
nikdar zgodilo. Ubije te poprej.
In tudi &c bi Sc, sprawl bi svo-
! je reci in hi Sci "a vedno."
"Saj 81 tt ma vrsti, da bos go.
spodar:"
zee bonn, pa nimas sile, da bi
sc zenil krog deklet!"
Utihnila sta. Pozna ura in
trudnost sta razpeli spanec med
bratoma.
Drugi dan so kosili Kosano-
vi ma svojem.
V.
Nedelja, prank: Jutro je
svetlejse kakor OBJ delavnih
dneh. Nebo je razpeto mogoc-
mem loku cez obzorje. Priroda
je prerojena, odeta v svecanost.
! V vejah vaskih dreves igra We
ter skrivnostno pesem. Ozracje
/ lie raZciScenO: liz MEGA dina
vonj po daljnem kadilu. Solnce
vstane dvojno lucjo, Sine med
, drevje, sc osloni ma bella zidisca
his, leze ma polja in jih prepoji
s svetlobo in toploto. Zemlja
pociva. Mir je njej. Mic potu
in della ne zahteva.
Mladina hodi lahkotnih ko-
rakov. Dekleta pospravljajo v
hisi,' pometajo in pomivajo, da
ujamejo cas-, ko bo treba iti k
mast. IRA napravljanja je tu.
Pritajeno Sc oglasi pesem IL
sobe. Dekle Sc skloni cez okno.
Med zivimi, cvetjem tkanimi
zavesami zari njen obraz. Po-
gleda po klancu, pa Sc umakne
pred radovednimi pogledi fan
tov, XII cakajo v gruci sredi poti.
Fantje sepetajo. Zagonetno
81 pomezikujejo. Ma prsih Jim
zare nageljni. Vsak cvet nosi
svojo skrivnost, vsak cvet IRA
ia ljubezen.
Ma predvecer je mladenic po-
trkal ma okno. Tho Sc je odpr-
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-10-28
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Joe. Sustarsic
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postregli z dobro pivo, zganjem
in whom ter okusnim prigriz-
kom. Vsak petek in soboto We
Ger je ma razpolago fina godba
"a zabavo.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-10-28
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Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-10-28

Eleven members Of a secret Bel
gian underground organization re-
sponsible for aiding United Nations
fiers shot down over German occu-
pied territory were executed by
Nazi firing squads recently over a
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Evening star., 1943-07-31
Gov. 0'Conor Will Review
Guard BaHaIions Today
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md,
July 31.-The II battalions of the
Maryland State Guard prepared to
pass In review today before Gov.
O'Conor and Maj. Gen. Milton A.
Reckord, commander of the Sd
Service Command, as a climax to
their week-long encampment.
AS the guardsmen's week of strenu-
GUS practice maneuvers neared
its end, there we're II casualties
reported up to yesterday. They
ranged from heat prostration and
sprained ankles to appendicitis and
heart attack.
Capt. Earle r. Burkins, Mayor OF
Bel Air, suffered heart attack and
was taken to Marine Hospital in
Baltimore. He also is a member of
the House of Delegates from Har-
ford County.
House-to-house and street fight
ing took up the greater part of the
Guards practice n1aa1euvers yester-
day. The tactical program was
based on Russian methods ,;sed in
the defense of Stalingrad, Brig. Gen.
Dwight H. Mohr, State Guard COM
mander, said.
Six Regular Army officers, most of
whom have seen foreign service, in
structed the 223 officers and 1871
enlisted men in the tactics.
Evening star., 1943-07-31
Farmers in Fairfax,
State Aides 10 Discuss
Grain Production Drop
Cut in Milk Supply
Feared as Result Of
Dairy Feed Shortage

A meeting of Fairfax County
farmers and State Extension Service
representatives will be held August
IL to discuss the effects of a possible
one-third drop in grain production
in the county and a corresponding
shortage in dairy feeds, Lawrence
S. Green, agricultural agent, an
nounced today.
Mr.. Green said the meeting of
farmers and State agricultural off,
cials will talk over substitute foods
as means of keeping milk produce
tion at its peak.
Asserting that some loss in grain
production in Fairfax is due to the
drought, Mr.. Green said the State
wide drop is due largely to a conver-
sion Of grain lands to other crops,
and to an increase in livestock.
The seriousness of the drought
may be seen in the experience of
one Fairfax farmer, who this week
harvested his silo corn with a small
wheat binder, the county agent said.
In the State as a whole, Mr.. Green
said, there is 5 per cent more acreage
in production than last year. At
the same time, however, there was
less wheat planted this year than
during the 77-year history of crop
reporting in the State.
While the soybean acreage has
(See FARMERS, Page B-5)
Evening star., 1943-07-31
New Tidal Basin
Bridge Open 10
|2-Way Traffic
Connecting Roodwoys'
Completion Expected
In Three Weeks
Picture on Page A-2.)

The new Independence Avenue
Bridge over the Tidal Basin has
been opened to two-way trafnc,
and the connecting system OF road
ways, some Of which are not yet
ready, are expected to be finished
within three weeks. Work Is being
rushed on the remaining roadways.
The new traffic artery already is
helping to move the heavy rush
hour traffic between Southwest and
Northwest Washington, diverting 1t
from crowded downtown streets.
This Is made possible by the more
direct connections now opened be-
tween the Rock Greek Potomac
Parkway road system and the road
leading over the new bridge into
Independence avenue and the new
Government building area in the
Southwest.
To Carry Eastbound Traffic.
The new bridge now is being used
for two way traffic, but when the
west-bound roadway is finished
alongside the Tidal Basin, between
|, the new seawall, and the Paul Jones
Monument the bridge will be con-
fined to eastbound traffic.
The new seawall Is virtually
finished along a line northward of
the old seawall, and power shovels
are digging out the earth on the
Tidal Basin side Of the seawall.
One of the reasons for the whole
new system of roadways is to pro-
vide connecting links between the
Highway Bridge and the Lincoln
Memorial Bridge, so that in case
one of them were put out OF COM
mission, traffic could be diverted
easily to the other. The new system
also will provide a direct highway
connection between Capitol Hill and
the Lincoln Memorial area, south
OF the Mall, diverting much traffic
from the streets north of the Mall.
Grade Separation Finished.
The new bridge itself, of con-
crete reinforced with steel and its
piers faced with stone, cost about
$450,000. The roadways, including
one overpass, cost about $1,000, 900.
The whole project should be COM
pleted in about three weeks, Capt.
H. c. Whitehurst District highway
director. said. The grade separa-
ton is finished, the seawall Is about
SO per cent completed.
The grade separation carries the
eastbound Independence avenue
roadway over a single lane spur
road running southwark to con-
meet with the Fourteenth street
entrance to Highway Bridge.
The new Independence avenue
on the south of the Mall, said Capt.
Whitehurst, "is now a companion
highway to Constitution avenue on
the north Of the Mall"
Contract was let in July, 1912. but
work was delayed on account of
shortage of timbers for preliminary
work. The War Production Board
once threatened to withhold the
critical materials used in the bridge,
but permission finally was granted.
and the job went forward.
Evening star., 1943-07-31
DC. Heads DENY
Permits for 81
Roonling Houses
Commissioners Act
To Force Compliance
With Regulations

A new move to force rooning
house proprietors to comply with
District regulations was started yes
terday by the Commissioners when
they denied applications for licenses
for 81 roorning and lodging houses.
Permits were denied after adverse
reports on the places from police.
building inspection and health off,
cials. E. E. Bailey, jr., license SUPER
intendent, was directed to notify the
applicants of the disapproval Of re-
quested permits and police shortly
will be directed to make inspection
of the places to see If they are con-
tinuing to operate. If they are,
operators face prosecution.
Last winter nearly 1000 boarding
and rooming houses were denied
permits and their tenants were faced
with eviction, but that drive was
called of after it became clear the
proprietors would be unable to OBJ
tain required fire escapes. The War
Production Board, which had indi-
Gated at least some fire escapes
would be made available, later found
this impracticable because of war
necessities and Withdrew its promise.
After abandoning the drive to
force such fire safety measures, the
city heads warned they would re-
qulre strict enforcement of other
lodging and rooming house regula-
tlons, as soon as these rules had
been modernized and perfected. This
since has been done.
So far only relatively small mum.
per OF applications have been sub
Ject to decision. Mr.. Bailey said
applications had been filed for some
$500 places, with reflections ordered
to date for only the 81.
Denials in 81 of these cases were
based on adverse police reports, 20
for failing to meet building rules
and because of police reports, nine
Tor failing to meet health requires
ments, one for failing to meet build
ing regulations and one for failing
to meet police, building and health
rules.