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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21
'MEANY MUSIC
WILL FEATURE
X. FLAGSTAD

Kristen Flsgstad, nationally FAM
Gus soprano, will open the 30th An
nual Music at Meany' concert
cries at the University of Washing
ton on october "a Music at Meany"
sponsored each year since 1920 by
the Associated Women Students a.
a non-profit enterprise. is equally
populer among students, faculty and
townspeople.
Orders for season tickets will be
taken until October in 304 Clark
Hall on the campus. A season ticket
assures a good seat; last year the
concerts we're sold out. Further in
formation may be obtained by call
ing Melrose 0630, extension 2911.
Patrons will have an opportunity
to meet Nine. Flagstad at recep-
ton to be held in the new Associated
Students Memorial Union Building
Immediately after the concert. Other
artists in the series are Arturo Mi
chelangeli, pianist, who will play on
Feb 2. and Igor CORN, who is sched-
uled for April S. Michelangeli is
hailed as a second List" in Italy
where he was born in 1920 and CORN
will be remembered for his fine
radio performance on Hollywood
Hotel. Voice of Firestone", "Har-
vest of Stars, Ford Sunday Eve
ming Hour" and Kraft Music Hall
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21

be withdrawn"
In San Francisco, the Nichi-Bei
Times noted that Prof. Davis Nc
Entire, associate professor of social
welfare AT the University of Calf
ornia; Father Hugh r Lavery. di-
rector of Los Angeles Maryknoll. and
DR.. Aaron A. Heist, Southern Calf
ornia American Civil Liberties IN
ion, director. have expressed con-
domination of Bendetsen's actions in
1912 when the latter enforced the
army evacuation orders.
Prof. McEntire said that tho
record of the VEGA disclosed a
"racist" attitude on the part Of
its wartime chief
He said he based his opposition
TO Bendetsen's appointment upon
the attitudes of racial prejudice and
discrimination expressed in the po-
licies and official report of the
VEGA, of which Bendetsen was the
head.
The official report of the VEGA,
in which all persons OF Japanese
ancestry were condemned as an
enemy race" was cited by Prof.
McEntire
while Bendetsen's attitude on
Japanese Americans Is now mere
~ matter Of history" the u. c.
professor said. the same attitude
on race might easily endanger the
position Of other racial groups, in
GLIDING the Negro group"
He pointed out that the present
army program of eliminating racial
segregation from the armed forces
might be jeopardized by Bendet-
sens appointment.
Father Lavery. recalling his ex-
periences with Col. Bendetsen at
the time of evacuation, stated in his
letter to President Truman;
Col. Bendetsen showed himself
to be a little Hitler. mentioned that
We had an orphanage with children
Of japanese ancestry and that some
of these children we're half Japan
csc. others one-foiirth or less asked
which children should we send to
the relocation center?
Col. Bendetsen replied, I am
determined that II they have one
drop Of Japanese blood In them
they must all 60 10 camp Just as
Hitler. II was question of blood"
DR.. Heist declared in his protest
TO President Truman
''Thosc Of us who suffered pub
lie disfavor because we stood for
the constitutional right of all Am
erican citizens arc dismayed by
the report that one Col. Kari II.
Bendetsen has been suggested AZ
assistant secretary for the army.
I'VE believe that Col Bendet-
sen consciously misrepfesented nisei
loyalty Nor do we find him among
the many leaders who have been
men enough to acknowledge their
mistake and to announce their flu
ture regard for the rights of Ameri-
can citizens
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21
JaDaneSe Recital
Slated Sunday

Strains of Japan's famous sami-
sen and koto will be heard when
Seattle's Hatsune Kai sponsors a
japanese song and dance recital
this Sunday, Sept. 25, in the Seattle
Buddhist auditorium.
The recital, which will feature
Issci Nisei and even Caucasian
talent will start at 5 pm.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21
Tacoma YBA Hop
Set for Oct. |

A benefit dance, Autumn Sere-
made, will be sponsored by the
Tacoma Y.BA. on Saturday, October
l, in the Seattle Buddhist gym.
Dancing hours will be from pm.
to IL midnight
Co-chairmen of the stag -stagette
affair are Kaz Nakamura and Mid
Tanabe.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21
Japan
Journey
BY FLOYD SCHMOE

ED. note: This Is the fifth
in series of articles being written
for THE NORTHWEST TIMES by
Floyd SchmOe, who is heading the
House for Hiroshima" project in
Iiiroshima City, Japan. Schmoe
represents the Pacific Yearly
Meeting of Friends, and the hun
dreds of others of all religious.
racial and social backgrounds who
contributed financially and other
wise TO make possible the House
for Hiroshima" plan.)
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21

Rev. Murphy Joins Move to Block
Appointment of Evacuation Aide

The Rev t. G. Murphy, prominent retired minister well
known in the Seattle Japanese American community today Joined
the movement to block the appointment of exCo Karl E Ben
detSen to the post of assistant secretary of the Army.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21

Sincerity is the indispensable
ground of all conscientiousneSs. and
by consequence of all heartfelt re-
ligion. - Kant.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21

Sincerity and truth are the basis
of every virtue. - Confucius.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21
Classified Ads
Experienced grocery
clerk. 504 Main St.. Sc. 1889.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CLOSE In BEAUTY

ton. Five spacious rooms, utili-
ties, breezeway, garage rambling
over paved corner lot. Low pic
ture windows faces charming
vista. Beautifully decorated
walls creates charming atmOs-
phere. Abundance of tile. Rock
cry. New surroundings. Special
price, SI8,5OO. LA. 1920.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21
Q FARTHER

q FARTHER
along there are extensive tea gar
dens on the sleeper slopes and in
other areas, vineyards or pear Or
chards. But always, there are the
rice paddles in the intervening
valleys.
Women with straw hats and n
strip of mating tied to their backs
to shield them from the burning
sun, stoop between rows of knee
high rice. From daylight to dark,
they weed and cultivate the muck
with their hands. Old farm women
are invariably stooped-sometimes in
later years entirely unable to straight
ten their backs-from these long
years of toll in the paddles. And it
is not uncommon to see an ancient,
wizened "Obaasan'' who, because
of paddy stoop' and rheumatism,
is forced to walk on all fours.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21
Q THE

HE
fresh green japanese countryside
slid smoothly past our windows.
Rice paddles, vegetable gardens
rural villages, clumps of tall bam-
boo, hillsides covered with forests
of red pine and deciduous trees,
tunnels. and more forest and more
rice paddles. Here and there an
industrial city = the factories mass
of twisted steel, and the tall CHM
neys dead.
On our right are the long ridges
which buttress the mountainous
backbone of Honshu, and on our
left is the sea. Almost the entire
twenty-hour trip from Tokyo to Hi
roshima is series of rapidly chang
ing scenes which alternate between
densely-populated and intensively-
cultivated valleys, and rugged noun
tain spurs which we either duck
through or wind around
Beyond Odawara there are groves
of oranges and tangerines on steep
hillsides and these give way sudden
ly to the broad valley of the Full
River. Fujiyama, the lone and only,
looks down this valley toward the
sea; the lower slopes sweep majes-
tically up to the clouds. which, with
misplaced modesty, shrouds the love-
ly curves of the worlds most grace
full mountain.
Japanese admirers of Full San
which is to say all people of Japan
csc ancestry wherever they are -
must surely be able to sympathize
with us jewellers of the Puget Sound
country who are SO often embarras-
sed by our inability to exhibit "our
mountain" to admiring visitors be-
cause of unwelcome clouds I have
passed by the foot of Full San seven
times now and have not yet seen
the summit from the train.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21
RUBY A. INOUYE. MD.

announces he opening Of her
office for general practice At
122 jackson Bldg. MI. 0S11
31S 9th Ave. SO. Res. Ell. 9454
Seattle 1. Wash.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21
O FARMSTEADS

are often veritable islands in the
green sea of rice. The land is raised
a few feet, walled, and compactly
filled with straw-thatched houses
and sheds. Around two sides, trees
are planted as a wind break, and
squash vines, now with golden yellow
blossoms, climb over every roof and
CONTINUED on Page TwO)
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-09-21

~ JAPAN. THAT Is
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-07-22
Rabbi SmoIIer Of Chicago Appointed
Director Of Western Regional Office Of
Union of American Hebrew Congregations

a graduate of the John Hopkins
University, Baltimore. He has
been active in civic and philan-
thropic activities in the COM
munities in which he has held
posts. He is also treasurer of the
Central Conference of American
Rabbis, the largest and oldest
rabbinical organization in the
United States, and a member of
the Board of Governors of the
Hebrew Union College, his alma
mater. A classmate of the late
DR.. Joshua 10th Lehman, he was
an intimate friend of the author
of "Peace of Mind, and deliver
ed the official eulogy for DR..
Lehman at the annual convent
ion of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis.
In Joplin, he served as Pres
ident of the Joplin Council of
Social Agencies, as a member OF
the Board of Governors of the
Jewish Students Foundation of
the University of Missouri, and
as Public Representative and
Panel Chairman of the Disputes
Division of the War Labor Board.
At the time of the commence
ration of his five years of service
as Director of the Chicago Fed
Grafton of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, the Of
ficers of the Federation, of which
Max Robert Schrayer is Presi-
dent, presented him with testi-
monial citation as "a devoted SER
want to Reform Judaism, selfless
and sacrificial beyond the re-
uuirements of his office, who has
given five years of creative serv-
ice in Chicago helping to guide
our efforts on to the path of
cooperative endeavor for the sake
of Judaism, and Of the Jewish
people"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-07-22
Municipal Council
Authorizes Erection
Of TobIet'

PARIS, (JTA) - The Paris
Municipal Council this week vot-
ed authorization to the Zionist
Federation of France to erect a
memorial tablet on the building
at 81 Rue Dambon where Theodor
Herzl, founder of political Zion
ism, lived and wrote der Juden-
staat," laying down the princi-
Piles of modern Zipnism.
The plaque will be unveiled in
September at a ceremony IN
connection with the Congress of
European Zionist Federations to
be held here under Jewish Ag-
ency auspices.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-07-22

1t was reported here, but with
out confirmation, that the Syrians
who previously demanded demil-
itarization of the town of Zem-
akh, have agreed to allow this
claim to be discussed later by
the mixed armistice commission
which is to be established under
provisions of the armistice agree
ment.
It was also reported that an
agreement has been reached be-
tween, Catholic and Israeli re-
ligious authorities for the for
nation of a joint commission to
investigate war damages of the
Church of the Dormition on MT.
Zion in Jerusalem. The church
was in a frontline position dur
ing the Arab-Israeli war and the
Israeli authorities are prepared
to repair whatever damages the
Church may have suffered. Is
raeIi and Catholic representatives
will meet July Is to discuss the
question of PREPARATIONS.
Foreign Minister Moshe Shar-
EFT. addressing an anniversary
meeting marking the first year
of liberation for the famous
Negev settlement of Negba, de-
clared that the struggle for the
Negev has not yet ended and
we have to be ready for further
campaigns - perhaps even now
they are fighting.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-07-22
TrioI Of HitIer's
Envoy In Paris
Opens

PARIS, (JTA) - The trial OF
Otto Abetz, Hitler's ambassador
in Paris during the Nazi occu-
nation of France, will open here
this week. The charges against
him include responsibility for
Nazi pillaging of Jewish prop
ertv in France and for the de-
nortation of thousands of East
European Jews from France to
determination camps in Poland.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-07-22
NEW YORK. NY.

NEW YORK, NY. - The ap-
pointment of Rabbi Phineas
Smoller of Chicago as Director
of the Western Regional Office
of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, with headquart-
ers in Los Angeles, was announc-
ed by DR.. Maurice N. Eisendrath
of New York, President of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations. Rabbi Smoller
has for the past five years been
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-07-22

Director of the Chicago Feder-
alton of the Union OF American
Hebrew Congregations. Previous
Iy, following his ordination at
the Hebrew Union College of
Cincinnati in 1880, he held pull
pits in Springfield, Ohio, 19SO-35,
and Joplin, Missouri, 1854.
During the war, he served as act
ing-chaplain at Camp Crowder,
Mo.
Rabbi Smoller, who will as
sumo his new duties in Los An
geles on September 1st, will re-
linquish his position in Chicago
today July 22). Rabbi Smoller,
native of Milwaukee, Wis, is
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-07-22

90 1Or Needy Jews In THIS one area
iding distressed Jews abroad.
The chart also indicated a
tremendous drop in the DIP pou-
ulation of Jewish camps in the
U. S. Zone, from $4,000 two
years ago, to $4,000 today. JDC's
emigration program, which pro-
vided transportation costs, has
enabled thousands of Jewish sur
vivors to reach new homes in
Israel, the United States and 9TH
er countries, with most of those
remaining in the U. S. Zone also
slated to leave in the near future.
JDC receives the funds for its
overseas relief, rehabilitation and
reSettlement programs from the
$250,000,000 campaign of the
United Jewish Appeal.
The DIP exhibit indicates that
in this one area JDC distributed
21,12 tons of food, 1,780 tons of
clothing and 1923 tons of amen
ity items during the two-year
period. These supplies are enough
to have filled a freight train made
up of 1890 freight cars. Other
salient features include:
MEDICAL CARE
$4,000 Jewish DPS were ex-
amined in a JDC mass health
survey, by staff of Is American
and foreign medical personnel
and 687 DIP doctors and nurses
who received JDC support. JDC
also provided supplemental sup
port for ZIG camp medical clinics
and other institutions. Among
the life-saving drugs distributed
were 5,862,OOO,OOO units of peni-
cillin and 6,483 grams of Strep-
tomycin.
CHILD CARE
JDC provided monthly food
rations for 29,676 DIP children, OF
whom 1920 were fed at JDC
nutrition centers. Some 10000,
children were sent to JDC sum-
mer camps. For infants, most of
them born in the U. S. Zone,
JDC provided $500 complete
layetteS.
EDUCATION
Unsupported schools in the
DIP camps had a total of 7,043
students, with 7O7 DIP teachers
who received support from JDC
as well. In addition, JDC brought
so teachers from Israel into the
camps to help establish a school
system suited to the needs of
the DPS. To provide reading
matter and textbooks, JDC print
ed 20 different books, for a total
of 305,0O0 copies.
CULTURE. and RECREATION
JDC provided support for. Il
Jewish newspapers and maya
zines. In addition to those who
saw performances by the Is for
eign artists whom JDC brought
to the camps, JDC mobile units
presented Yiddish and American
films to audiences totaling 1850.
600 persons.
Continue on Page s.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-07-22
IsroeIi-Syrion Armistice Still Not Concluded
Hopes High For Early Signing

TEL (JTA)Despte optimistic that the Israeli
Syrian asce concluded this week 2hour
negoao for both countries ended early this week
immediate results The next negotiating session has not
been set held Circles to the
delegation believe that there is good chance the
Ia. AZ aarlud
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-07-22
JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA, FRIDAY JULY o. 1s49
JDC Aid To Jewish DPS In
U. S. Zone Of Germany Totaled
5l.23O.OOO Lbs. In Two Years

scope Distribution Committee aid
Jewish DPS the u Zone Germany during the
dramatically prepared month by of
Jewish refugees Munich Germany The exhibit revealed that
pounds vitality
supplies needy
major American aiding distressed Jews abroad
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-07-22
PLAIN TALK
BY Alfred Segal
DEATH OF "A RABBI

In our IOWuS Tic Ot4SG WSeAE
died the monumental Rabbi
David Phihpson. He was justly
proud of his title: Dean of Reform
rsbbis. All the others who had
started with him on the stream
line progress of Reform. in the
early 1905. long had gone be-
fore him. He was like a stately
edifice left over by time which
had reduced all its neighbors to
the dust.
His obituary was printed in
this column on his 85th birth
day-two years ago-by way of
a birthday gift. He had asked
for it in a moment of laughing
whimsy.
I had written his obituary some
10 years before for the daily
newspaper on which I earn my
living. DR.. Philipson had been
seriously ill. and. in the practice
Of the press. his obituary was
written against the moment of
his death which seemed imni-
nent then.
He kept his obituary waiting
in our files until the other week,
for he returned to health and
strength. Some time later told
him: Doctor, you know, I have
your obituary all written and
ready. 1 hope it won't have to
be used for many years..
I'D like to read it,. he. said.
IT would be nice to know what's
going to be said of me in the
hour of my death.
For his 85th birthday 1 let
him see it in this column. He
was thankful "The best of
birthday gifts, he said.
So this column can be no obit-
uarY in the sense of his vital
statistics and all that. It shall be
quick look at Reform in its
current scene and that should be
timely survey now that the
last and stateliest of its old land
marks has fallen.
DR.. Philipson in his latter
years had seen many changes
coming over Reform Judaism,
Its congregations and it's rabbis.
tie belonged to the remote, early
ume when Reform, in the fresh
eagernesS of its youth, threw off
not only the stuffier garments of
Jewish tradition but some of the
more lovely ones, too.
Services in Reform temples
used to present the severe. naked
austeritY of some of the churches.
orthodox people used to ask. Just
what difference is there between
the services of a Reform temple
and those. say. of a Unitarian
church? Where is the distinctly
Jewish content?
reform had rationalized itself
oown to the bare bones of Juda-
iSm' Its rabbis were frequently
magnificent men who in their
eAtramural activities brought
great credit to their Jewish COM
mumtieS. Some of them were
spoken of as rabbis to the Chris
uans. This was a left-handed
H,oute to the high respect in
winch they were held in the gen.
stal community; it also suggested
mat Reform rabbis should be ap-
plying themselves more to keep
Hs the chilly heart of Israel warm
IN the temples.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-07-22

Three Scrolls of the Law and set of Sha the Tamud
of shipment of religious articles shipped to
Israel this month by the Mach Women Organization of America
major religious in the United States Pic
Il. ~ MRS Nachman B. Ebn. national vice
president chairman of Mzrachi Womens Child Restoration
Department. Burack Rabbi Smcha Rabnowitz and
Mrs Lionel Goub acting national president and chairman of the
national board of Mizrachi Women.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-07-22

i at an early date.
Evening star., 1949-06-16

residential TO commercial Use
and an area on the north side
OF @ street between Twenty-stxth
street and Rock Greek and po-
Evening star., 1949-06-16
zoners Slate HEARING
On 0H-Sireet Parking
Space for BUILDINGS

The ZOning Commission viii
take UP proposed new off-street
parking space requirements for
new building here at 10 am. Mon
day when it resumes a hearing
begun yesterday at the District
Building.
The parking items modify pro-
posals discussed at a commission
hearing last October A number
of categories of buildings were
added to the list Of those already
required to provide oI-street
parking spaces.
The commission yesterday took
under advisement several other
proposed amendments to the zon-
ing regulations after hearing wit
nesses.
Fifteenth Street Considered.
One was a move to reZone along
Fifteenth street NE. and Sc.
from commercial to residential
use. Witnesses opposing it pro-
tested that the proposal would
reduce property values substan-
TALLY in the area.
The area includes II acres of
land on Fifteenth street from G
street NE. to Pennsylvania ave-
nue. Sc. The commission was
told. SO per cent Is not now used
for commercial purposes.
Another proposal calls for re-
coming an industrial area in
Northeast Washington OF Benning
road. 1t is bounded by East
Capitol street. Minnesota avenue
and railroad tracks.
Seven acres Of the area would
be changed from industrial to
commercial zoning. and 13 acres,
now all residential or unim-
proved, would be rezoned from
industrial to residential.
Oil Company Protests.
An opponent of this move was
Willis Ruffner. representing the
Sinclair Refining Co. He opposed
the change involving property
owned by the company at Ames
street and Minnesota avenue NE.
Mr.. Ruffner said the property
had been bought for $45,000 and
that it was intended to place a
service station there.
Other proposals aired in
cluded a change from residential
to commercial coming for property
on the east side Of Connecticut
avenue between Livingston and
Morrison streets NV.
It Is proposed also to rezone
property on the west side of Nine
teenth street between N street
and Sunderland place NV. from
Evening star., 1949-05-16

Soaal physician who wAx grad
aated from Crw4ghicnS School O.
Medicine u 1885.
Evening star., 1949-05-16
Harriet (;rifiths Of Star
Named 10 Be Queen
OF Front Page Ball

Miss Harriet ,Grifnths. q re-
porter for The Star. viii reign as
queen Of the Washington News
paper Guilds Front Page Bali
June 2 at the Shoreham Hotel.
Members of the Queens Court
to serve at the ball. the first held
here since 1914. also were an
nounced today. They are Miss
Gladys j. Abel. secretary with
Pathfinder Magazine; Miss Patri-
cia Gavin and Miss Gloria Count.
assistant editors at Pathfinder,
and Miss Elizabeth Shelton. re-
porter for the Times-Herald.
Miss Grifiths. who has been q
staff reporter for The Star since
le43. was born ut Terre Haute.
Ind, and now lives at I405 Girard
street NV. Before coming to The
Star. she studied Journalism ut
George Washington University.
Miss Griffiths stands 5 feet 8
inches tall and weighs 90 pounds.
She Is ~ and has brown hair and
blue eyes. Her chief off-the-job
interest Is music, and she has
studied voice and the piano.
Selection of Miss GrifIiths was
made by a committee Of three
Washington newspaper drama
critics from photographs sub
mitted by guild units here. The
committee included Harry Mac
Arthur of The Star, Richard l.
Coe of the Post, and Ernie Schier
of the Times-Herald.
Miss Abel and Miss Gavin, both
%. live at Capitol Heights. Md.
and 1882 Thirty-first street NV,
respectively. Miss Count is 26 and
lives at 1922 I street NV. Miss
Shelton, who is. married to An
drew Knight. picture editor of the
Times-Herald. lives In Arlington.