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XV, No. 26
1 Forms
Unite U. S.
Groups
YORK (\\;VNS)--A new ha-
Jewish agency intended to
ahout unity among America's
Jews (m all matters affect-
equal rights of Jews here art(1
came into being this week
yes of the An)eri(.an
Committee, the American
Congress, the B'nai Writh
Jewish Labor Comnfittee,
ag in 'dl-day session under
of del)'u'tment store
Edgar ,l. l(aufm.um of
concluded their deliber-
With an "umeuncement (if the
ii0n of the Gcner.fl Council for
Roghts to eoeMinatc the ac-
of these four organizations
heat. sl)ecific.dly on the safe-
of the e(lu.d rights for
cation of the Council is in ,to-
nee with the decision reached at
on June 13 at the first con-
(Coat. on Page 8, Col. 1)
17, Wins
Prize
EW Y()RI( (WNS)--First prize
ational essay contest (m "The
I w.mt" Sl)Onsored l)y Am-
azine went this weel< t()
Lcnkoff, 17-y(;ar ohl Louis-
'Udent, who worked his way
school selling ncwsl)al)ers.
reeeivcd a prizc of $2,500.
PLAIN
TALK
By ALFRED SEGAL
Just re'td "t letter liy
the father (,f the
violinis(D Yehudi. Mr.
is I)rotesting Ititterly
the criticisnb nay, even re-
.t, which has been heaped
Menuhins because Yehudi
11 arl] e nleaals "Jew ), ) has
non-Jewish gM.
tie sltys 1 "who curses anti
a fellow-Jew for daring to as-
. or marry 'm individual sym-
Gentile, is not a lilt less
and detesl.al)lc than the
gangsters now ruling poor
v',"
In what way, asks
Mr. Menuhin, dues
such a Jew differ
from Nazis "who
1)reach, through os-
tn/cism, the whip
and the col)ccntra-
lion carol), the mad
theories of racial
superiority . . . be-
hind which they
torture vnr poor
ttl. al hell)less and de-
fenscless l)eople?
sighs Mr. Mcnuhin, "we
also I)lagued with sonm of
(Qoat. on Page S, Col. 1)
for
isb Cranscripi
Synagogue On Palestine Trip
lie r'tced a tr.fin in a wild laxi ride
Combined With THE JEWISH CHRONICLE i,, Roun)ania ......
$2 a year; 5c, single COl
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, AUGUST 26, 1938
Trouble Is 14/orse In Zion; Seattle Man's
Nine Jews Are Massacred Property Is
Nabbed
IlA1FA (WNS)---A 1)and of 70
Arab brigands ela(l in khald lhis
week an)bushed a (ruckload of Jew-
ish sctth:rs .tnd gh.tflirs il nfile from
Yan.roth Ifacarmel, and mowed d(iwn
nine (if its passengers.
At. (,lle first news of the attack a de-
la(.,hnlent of tr(tops froth the West
Kent R(:gimemt rushed to the,scene
and eng.tged the brigands in '1 fierce
batth: in which nine of the bandits
were shtin.
Stunned l)y the tragedy, the ,Jew-
ish eonlmtniity paid its final resl)ecls
1,o the victims in coml)lete silence.
There were no sl)eeches or cerc-
moilies at the funeral at II,dfa.
The 1)odies were (h'al)ed in flags
I)ut n(/ eulogies were deliv:wed. The
list of dead are Moshe Bl,t(.t, Dov
lIcnsehrek, Asher Keh:me, Mendel
Glickl)erg, lsn.ac lhw, hl)in(ler, Ziggy
Kehane, Leon Osterman, Abr.thain
Wollhen(hr .rod Judith Mirnmls(.ein.
(if lh'itish (.roops engaged the bri-
gands (his week in a 1)itchc(1 /),title
that l)roved (.o lie ame (if the fiercest
clashes since the beginning of the dis-
orders.
At le.tst 50 of the (.crrorists were
killed in the encounter in which the
sohliers were .ti(le(I I)3' Royal Air
Force I)l'mes.
Forty of the bandits were shot
down in strafing from the :tit'.
The British causalty list included
two sohliers ldlled, one (,filter ,rod
seven sohliers wounded.
In another mililary (!tlgage.ment
with Arab terrorisis south of Kil-
ldlieh ten I)rig:mds were kilh:(1.
The cl:tsh began when the Arabs
ambushed .t l)atrol of h'ish Guards
,rod a motor h)rry carrying troops
wits (l'un'tgcd l)y a land n)ine ex-
I)h)sion.
Smnmoning the ai(l of aircraft, the
tr()ol)s relmlse(l the :ti.l.ltclers.
Two British airmen were killed
(Con(. on Page 8, Col. 3)
Arabs Kidnap
Family Of 4
,II';ltUSAIA"AI (WNS) A (..olnplcte
Imttalion, munl)ering more than
1,000 sohliers, this week was en-
gaged in the mest ehd)ora(.e ]nitn 1
hunt ever un(lea't:tken in P.destine in
aat t'['f()t't 1o tracl (h)wn tlm Ar'd)
})rigand gang which on Angust 17
raided 1,he IMson camp "it Athlith
and Iddnapl)ed a Jewish llolice in-
sl)ector spamed David L(dserowitz,
his wife, her mother and tw() chihh'en
before they were driven off 1)y trool)s
rushed to the scene.
The entire area .m)und Athlith,
ineluding Arab villages, is l)eing in-
tensively searched fol tracesof th,,
kidnal)l)ers.
M'my arrests have ah'e:My /)ecn
nmde in that vicinity and many weft:
detained for questioning in the are,t
ef "l'ulkarenb which has also been in-
eluded in the wide dragnet set Ul)
(Cont. on Page 8, Col. 3)
2 Women Wounded,
6 Men Shot In Attack
JERUSAI,EIVI.--Six Jewish men
were shot and killed and (,we Jewish
women were wounded this week
when Aral) terrorists opened fire
fr()m :nnl)ush on a Jewish Itus along
a road in the Mount (.trmel district,
Itell a' t l'dfa.
]h'iiish trool)S rushed I() the scene
and killc(I seven of the Arab gumnen
in a l)h)ody l/attle. Two land mine
exlatosions during the night killed
one Jew .rod w(mn(led l wo British
sa)hliers and '1 Jew.
Rabbi Solomon Gehlnmn of Chi-
cago, l)resi(lcnt of the Zionist, nr-
ganizalion of Americ'h arrived last
wc(!k fron) l)ohmd for 't 1)rief visit.
()no British officer wqs killed .rod
two I)rivales womnh:d in a new in-
cident when :t military truck wits
Mown Ul / by a mine hidden in tit(:
foothills east nf Acre.
50 Killed In Battle
Between Troops, Arabs
JERUSAI,EM (W N S)--Making
contact with 't l.u'ge "tnd well-armed
Ar'tb gang netlr Acre, three cohamns
Nazi Not Active On Pacific
Coast, Declares Investigator
WASIIINGTON, D. C. (W N S)--
There is little evide, nce of Nazi ac-
tivities on the Pacific Coast, Edward
F. Sullivan, sl)ecial investigator for
the llouse Committee investigating
un-Americ'm activities, asserted this
week in a rel)ort tiled with the coln-
mittcc.
Sullivan declared that "the only
evidence presented regarding Nazi
activities was the picketing of a Jew-
ish meeting :it the Aml)assador lIotel
(Los Angeles) by menfl)ers ef the Ger-
man-Ame)'ican Bund and the circula,
tion of a very vicious circular at-
(Cont. on Page 8, Col. 5)
Congressman Resigns From Dies Committee;
Legion Official Linked To Anti=Semite
(For picture of Gerald Winrod,
See Page 7)
WASIllNGTON, D. C. (W N S)--
Resignation of Representative Ar-
thur llealey of Massachusetts from
the Sl)ecial House Committee In-
vestigating Subversive Activities lie-
cause 'of the committee's red-baiting
policies and its f.dlure to prol)e Nazi
and Fascist activities this week re-
vealed a deell-seated cleawtge in tit<:
committee.
Coincidentally with Representa-
tive Healey's resignation, the com-
mittee el)rained from the Federal
Bureau of Investigation its bulky
files on the Garman-American Bund.
(Cont. on Page 8, Col. 5)
Menuhin Calls Rabbi Newman "Thirsty
Publicity," Hits Back At Critics
Irked by criticism, Papa Moshe Menuhin, parent of the marrying, musical Menuhins, sat down
battered portable typewriter that he has carried'round the world, to write a blistering attack
critics to the editor of The Transcript. Here is what Papa Menuhin says:
The Jewish Transcript of Seattle,
among ether Jewish weeklies and
dailies, have recently lmblicized an
article l)y one Zirelson of New York,
the headline of which screams across
the full l)age "Menuhins Blamed 'Is
Bad Parents," "Fame Ruined In-
tense Jewislmess of Prodigy's Fami-
ly," and "Why Didn't Yehudi Play
in Palestine? Is Question)"
Not to miss a chance of fishing in
dirty and murky waters, a certain
rabbi, I. Louis Newman, joins the
gaatg of blackmailers, and in a na-
tional release, "Tells in Gatll" sonic
of his own sly and "original" re-
suits, of his own "witch hunting"
and crime-findings.
The ex-rabbi of San Francisco's
(Cont. on Page 8, Col. 4)
BHUAN (W N S)--One of Ger-
many's htrges(, chains of retail shops
passed into "Ary.m" control when
the Jewish-owned Shocken ])el/ar -
ment Stores Trust was sold this week
to l|eW ()vcalers.
Salman Shocken, founder of the
chain, now lives in Palestine, whmv
he is chairnmn of the ltebrew Uni-
versity's executive council.
Two other Shoclen firms in Ger-
m.my-the Shocken Vel'lag and the
Shoeken Estatc-will continue un(ler
their ohl ()wnershil).
NEWSFACT: I[ea'm.ln Sh<)clu:n,
cousin of B'nai B'ri(h Secretary Irv-
ing Lewis, is a I)art-owner of his
brother's chain stm'es, lives in l)res-
(h:n, is a U. S. citizen.
"Sarah" or "Israel"
To Be Added As Names
BERLIN (WNS)--All Jews in
Germany must have Jewish first
names after January 1, 1939 and
if they now have given names re-
garded as non-Jewish they must
adopt as an additional first name
"Israel" if male and "Sarah" if
female, a new government decree
announced this week.
A large majority of German
Jews will be affected by the decree
since such names as Fritz, Kurt,
Max, Julius, Friederich and Leo-
pold, which are common first
names in Germany, are also com-
mon among Jews.
But
Court Orders Husband
To Halt Nazi Teachings
CHICAGO (WNS) --In a tempo-
rary injunction against Harry
Doherty, a bell captain at a Chi-
cago hotel, Judge Peter H. Schwa-
ba of the Chicago Superior Court
this week ordered him to stop
teaching Nazi doctrines and the
"Heft Hitler" salute to his two
small sons."
The injunction was issued on a
motion of Mrs. Doherty, who has
filed a bill of divorce.
Suicide Is Tragic End
To Victims Of Hitler
NEW YORK.--The Nazis com-
pleted their work this week on the
Hechts.
In a Fiatbush rooming house,
Ludwig Hecht, 25, killed himself
by gas after writing a note ending
"everything is wrong."
In King's County Hospital lay
Ludwig's younger brother, Mein-
hard, driven insane by Nazi per-
secutions against the Jews.
And in Berlin, Ludwig's elderly
parents are suffering dire need
and poverty because their dry
goods business has been taken
away and "Aryanized" and they
do not have the means to emi-
grate.
That made a perfect score of 4
to 0--favor of the Nazis.
Ludwig came here a year ago
and Meinhard followed shortly
after. They lived with an aged
uncle, Gustave Sterns.
Christian Maid Joins
Whole Family In Death
LONDON (W.N.S.)--Seven mem-
bers of a Jewish family in Vienna
committed suicide en masse when
the father lost his job, the Ex-
change Telegraph Agency's Vien-
na correspondent reported this
week.
According to the dispatch, the
suicides were M. Hase, a railway
employe, his wife, son, three
daughters, a daughter-in-law and
the family maid, a Christian.
1,000 Refugees Will
Settle In Philippines
MANILA, P. I. (WNS)--Insti'ue-
tions to admit 1,000 Austrian and
German Jews to the Philil)pine Is-
lands were sent this week to Ameri=
can Higl) Commissioner Paul V. Me-
Nutt by President Roosevelt. The
refugees will lie selected by the
Itilfsverein der Juden in Deutsch-
(Cont. on Page 8, Col. 3)
nity, when they permit their public
column (o al)y interested columnist
atnd slanderer!
I have therefore again decided to
make an exit out of our solitude and
reticence, and have another "say,"
if I may bc permitted, to expose the
som'ce and motive of the new "witch
hunters" and In'ofessional fault-fiml-
ers!
Perhaps afterwards, innocent Jew-
ish writers and editors, with a little
more coral)unction and with a sense
of responsibility in the interests of
honor and truth, will think twice be-
fore turning over their magazines to
mischevious individuals who have
no honor or self-respect, in prostitut-
ing their talents of writing false-
hoods for a fee!
ly IIOSHE MENUHIN
was called to a series
.CUrrilous aspersions on the
family, this time in the
magazines.
replied openly and boldly
and Itebrcw press or-
eampaigii ef villificatiam,
by interested parties and
"I)atroncsses" well known
{enuhins, that avalanche of
lies stopped.
l)terested l)arties however,
It their hired scribes to the
editors of the English Jew-
May I still exl)ress my lie-
depressed feelings, at
many Jewish writers and
in any sense of re-
lty, self-respect, and dig-
That was (he most thrilling exl)ea'i-
elite (if his 20,000-nfile, (.hree month
(rip.
Ile wore a l)ei'et, and took the [irst
:drl)Inne )light of his life in a 31 hour
dash from I)r'Igue to Brussels----
'Fhat was a sign that he was on Va-
ration from the usuidly so[chin du-
ties of a synagogue l)resi(lent and
quilt m,tnufaetlarer.
And Saturday, Sel)tcml)er 3, at
8:15 1). m., Charles Millet', likur
Cholum Syn.lgogue head, who re-
turned last week from a trip which
took him I,() l'alestine and through
Euroite , will bc formally welcomed
I)ack t() Seattle at 't celebration
Sl)onsored I)y the synagogue's auxil-
i'u'y and el)on to Sealtle Jewry. The
lr'ulition:d M'I,ava Malka will lie
hehl in the synagogu2 vestry.
l'erry R. Gershon, young attorney,
will be chairman, lie s:ti/I that Mr.
Miller will spe.tk im what lie saw in
a three-week visit tit l'alestinc and
will also (liscuss other highlights of
his trip. lie will show pictures he
CHARLES MILLER
. .. he raced a train!
took oat his travels.
Mr. Miller will I)c the only sl)eaker
on the l)rograln. Refreshm,.,))ts will
lie serve(]) ll'S. Alllla lz'B)w, in
charge) announccd. Mrs. N.Ohan
LeviLt, Mizrachi president, will make
an announcement on (}re Gh'[s'
Techni(.al tIome in Tel Aviv.
There will be no charge, Mr.
Gershon said.
Leo Meltzer Sells Invention,
Concocted On Sleepless Night
Because it took him 4 hours and 15
ntintltes to sce It two-holn' m'ttion
picture it year ago, l,eo A. Mel(,zer,
47-year-ohl ex-B'nai B'rith presi-
dent, llerzl Religiams Sch(tol chair-
man and wholesale dry goods (leah:r,
may make it fortune!
lh: came back from Chicago this
week with the glad tidings that his
invention of a theatre chair which
I)anishes getting Ill) in your seat
wh(:n :t movie Itatron edges throaagh
the aish: to his seat down the Msle
h'ts been accepted for l)roducti(m by
the nationally-known R.oyal Metal
Miumfacturing Co., title of (.lle three
theatre (:])'tit' makers in the country.
The cOral)any will !nvest $I00,000
in manufacturing and marketing (he
clever invention that was inspired
by it 15-cent se'tt in " Bellinghanl
theatre, where Mr. Meltzer, for the
past 13 .ve.trs It friend and advisor to
Jewish l)risoners It(, McNeil [slant1
penitentiary, drol)ped in to see it
prison l)icture, Paul Muni's "Fugi-
tivo From a Chain Gang."
Inventm' Meltzer's 'qnagic chair,"
he explained, is like any the-tre
seat, excel)t that it is fitted on it
slide, so that :t fOOt of clearance is
provided in front of the seat, when a
theatre - goer imsses through the
aish:.
J
LEO A. MELTZER
•.. his invention clicke !
The idoa fer the seat vame t) him
at 5 it. ln. ltftor it sl,',;el)less nihl, Mr.
Meltzer s:tid. "Aftor I left the
show," lie recalled, "l ask:,(] laiysolf
why someone eotaldai't (l.,;vis,, a elutir
whose seat slid I)aek s() (h'tt a filln
fall, Colnfortal)[y soatecl, wc, llldn't
have to rise every tim'.' a l)erson
l)asscd. That bothered m>--until I
figured out how at, 5 a. m."
Production on the chairs will be-
gin September 1. ltead (}f (hc' an:tattl-
facturing coml)any is Irving Sol-
man, who, like Mr. Mellzer. is active
in synagl)guo affairs in Chie:tg,).
In Week's News: Jerry Tipp
Announces Troth At Midnight
Plfiladell/hia (m Thursday I);,eause
tie is the No. 1 new insurance sales-
man in the nation for his com-
pany) the big, 91-year-aid Penn
Mutual Life. The trip to Phila-
delphia, and it banquet in his
honor at which (.he campany's
president, financier William Kings-
ley, will present him with a trollhy,
werc won I)y Salesnmn B.:rnbaum,
who once wanted to I):: a doctor,
when lie sohl 57 policies valu-,d at
$183,143 during the l)qst y.ar--
the highest volum fin' w_,w sides-
men in the entire company. Seattle
I)orn Salesman Bornl)aunl is aal
ex-president of Lionoers, gradual/.;
of Temple de. tth'seh, Pi Tau Pi
and Zeta Bet.t Tau fraternities,
Junior Chamber of C)mntere.,
only Jewish memb.r of the corn-
(Cont. on Page 8, Col. 5)
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Tipp were a
bit startled when their telel/hone
rang at midnight Wednesday. But
their surprise changed to joy at the
news they heard. It was their
son, Gerald A. "Jerry" Tipp,
sleek-haired, fast-talking young
jeweler, speaking from Wenatchee,
telling his family that he-had just
become engaged to Shirley Aleen
Weinstein, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Julius B. Weinstein of
Wenatchce. Miss Weinstein tit-
tended Anne Wright Seminary and
the University of Washington. The
wedding date has not yet been set.
$ $ $
Sanford M. "Sandy" Bernbaum,
l)lue-eyed, dark-complexioned, soft-
spoken) gee't-looking 23-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Bernbaum, will beaM it train for
Mother Saves Son, 6, From
Hanging In Children's Game
NEW YORK--All Mrs. Frances
LicberInan couhl see was the i)icture
of her son, Paul, 6, swinging I)y his
neck from a fence post, his face pur-
ple, while five screaming boys piled
wood at his feet, and prepared to
start a fire under him.
All she could remember wits rush-
ing out from her ground-floor al)art-
ment in Brooklyn, and cutting the
I)oy down, as lie swung scmi-con-
seious and limp with a thin red mark
around his neck.
"He wits so close to death," she
said this week. "I thought he was
(lead when I held him.
"The doctors worked on him and
they didn't say anything, but all the
time I tllought they were fooling me°
and that lie wits dead."
Paul and his friends, she exphfined,
started a game of cowboys and In-
dians in the yard in back of the
house.
Panl was one of the slnallest of the
b)ys and he finally was Cal)tur{d
by the "Indians."
It was decreed that lie lie i)urned
at the stake. So the I):)ys rigged it
clothesline around his nvck and
hauled hint upward along the fence
post, and while his fac,: darkened
and lie dangled to h)osen the rope,
they gathered small w().)ll an:l
stacked it under his feet.
At first Paul was yelling in fun,
just to keel) the game realistic, but
then he starte:l to choke an'.t when
lie tried to scream lie couldn't make
any sound.
It was just then that Mrs. Liebcr-
man leaned from her window to call
lfim in for dinner.
She sltw the "htdians" doing their
"death dance" aud then she saw
her boy dangling.
An ambulance doctor from Coney
Islaud Hospital worked on Paul.
Soon afterward, Mrs. Lieberman
collal)sed.