The Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1934 Page: 1 of 8
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A Weekly Journal Devoted to the Interests of the Jewish People
The Oldest Jewish Newspaper Published in the Southwest
Twenty-seventh Year
HOUSTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1934
Number 41
La Guardia Names
4 Jews to Key Posts
New York.—Mayor Fiorello H. La-
Guardia appointed four Jews to major
positions in the new municipal Fusion
administration which took office in
January. The most important office to
which a Jew was named was'the com
missionerlhip of hospitals which went
to Dr. Sigismund S. Gold water, in
temationaily known hospital consul-
tant, former president of the American
Hospital Association and health com
missioner of New York in 1914.
Maurice P. Davidson, chairman of the
City Fusion Party, and one of the
principal leaders in the Fusion victory,
was chosen commissioner of water sup-
ply, gas and electricity. Irving Ben
Cooper, who was counsel to the Sea-
SENATE RESOLUTION CALLS ON
PRESIDENT TO INTERCEDE WITH
HITLER ON BEHALF OF JEWS
burv Investigation, and whose work as
prober gave the Fusion campaign the
bulk of its ammunition against Tam-
many Hall, was named counsel to the
commissionet of accounts, an office
regarded as of the utmost importance.
Miss Pearl Bernstein, for seven years
secretary of the municipal affairs own
mittee -of the New. York City League
of Woman Voters, was named Secre-
tary of the board of, estimate.
-o--—
Attorney Named
To Argue Jewish
Minority Rights
Berlin.—The Jewish advocate, Dr.
Reichman of Kattowice, Upper Silesia,
will argue the petition submitted by
Dr. Perl, a Jewish doctor of Hinden-
burg, before the Upper Silesian Mixed
Commission appointed by the League
of Nations when it comet up for con-
sideration.
Dr. Perl, who was dismissed from
the sick fund panel at Hindenburg,
maintains that his dismissal was wrong-,
ful and contrary to German under-
takings ^towards the Jewish minority in
Upper Silesia.
Despite the fact that the Perl peti-
tion, which appears destined to achieve
the fame of the petition submitted by
Franz Bemheim, and which brought
upon Germany a rebuke from the
League for its treatment of the Jews
in Upper Silesia, the German press
has not triMUlBnvd the matter.
/ Dr. Perl's petition was forwarded to
the secretariat of the League and then
handed to the Mixed Commission for
action. The petition accuses the Ger-
man government of having consistently
violated the rights of the Jewish minor-
ity in Upper Silesia even after Ger-
many had promised the Leage to re-
store Jewish rights there.
country, for near-
years to take official
Jabotinsky Splits
Polish Revisionists
Warsaw.-—The split in tha ranks of
tha Revisionists has extended to Po-
land as a result of Vladimir Jabo-
tinsky’s demand that tha executive of
the Polish Revisionists resign immed-
iately because of the refuse! to heed
his demand for e boycott of Palestine
f—nlsrerims certificate. Becauee of this
will not attend dip
President Roosevelt was asked lest
Monday through a resolution intro-
duced in the Senate by Senator Mill-
ard E. Tydings of Maryland to com-
municate to the Hitler government "an
unequivocal statement of the profound
fillings of surprise and pain exper-
ienced by the American people" at
t|ie oppressions of the Jews in Ger-
mmany. The resolution requests the
president also to express' the "earnest
hope of the people of the United
States that the. German Reich will
speedily alter its policy" toward the
Jews and will restore their civil and
political rights. . *
Senator Tydings, in the preamble to
his resolution, explained that the
United States Government had often
interceded in similar instances and in
cases of Jewish persecution at least
nine times between 1840 and 1919. He
emphasized toe fact that it jarthe
ditional poljcy of toe
ly one hundred year
cognizance of "such invasions of hu-
man rights.!’
Senator Ty ding’s resolution follows:
Whereas, toe present'government of
the German Reich has deprived cer-
tain groups of citizens of many of
their civil and political rights and has
imposed upon them restrictions, pains
and penalties' harsh and severe in na-
ture; and
Whereas, among the groups so dis-
criminated against by said government
are 600,000 or more Jewish citizens of
the Reich; and
Whereas, it is manifest that, as re-
gards toe greater number of said Jew-
ish citizens of the Reich, the actual
causes for toe discriminations against
them are their religious beliefs or pro-
fessions and their racial origin, neither
qf which ia a ground reasonably af
fecting their rights and privileges ai
citizens of a modem State; and
Whereas, the United States has, an
numerous occasions interceded on be
half of oppressed minorities in other
lands, especially when their oppression
proceeded from or was linked with re-
ligious intolerance; and
Whereas, on at least nina historic
occasions, beginning in toe year 1840,
and continuing down to toe year 1919,
such intercessions have been made by
toe United States on behalf of Jewish
citizens of States other than^toe United
States, oppressed or persecuted by their
own governments or peoples; and
Whereas, this h oner able record of
the United States has been tha subject
of-pains taking research on toe pert of
Mr. Max J. Kohler of New York, who
has published its raeults in a pamphlet
entitled "The United States and Ger-
man Jewish Persecutions," in which
pamphlet, on pages 34 to 42 indue
ive, there , appears a full account of
each of these intercessions, showing
that for nearly 100 years tha tradi-
tional policy of tot United State* has
been. to take official and diplomatic
cognizance of such invasions of hu
man rights: and
Whereas, by express treaty tha Ger-
man Raich stands pledged to the
United Scats* to accord ha nationals
ish Persecutions" supra, page* 42 to 48
inclusive), now therefore, be it f
Resolved, that the President is re-
quested to cummunicate to the govern-
ment of the German Reich an unequiv-
ical statement of the profound feelings
of surprise and pain experimenced by
the people of the United States uppn
learning of the discriminations and
oppressions imposed by toe Reich upon
its Jewish citizens, and be it further
Resolved, that the President in such
dimmunication is requested to express
the earnest hope of the people of the
United States that the German Reich
will speedily alter its policy, restore to
its Jewish nationals the civil and politi-
cal rights of which they have been de-
prived, and undo so far as may be toe
wrongs that have been done them.
Senator Tydirtg’s resolution was re
ferred to the Foreign Relations Com
mittee.
$500,000 Gov.
Loan For Jewish
Homesteaders
Poland Reconsiders
Action on Jewish
Hospital There
Warsaw.—Because the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
has invested $100,0001 in the Warsaw
Jewish Hospital for toe establishment
of a nurses* school and a pathological
institute toe Polish government is ex-
pected to change its mind about re-
moving toe hospital from Jewish
hands. A memorandum submitted td
toe t» government by a committee of
Jewish lawyers points out that the
government cannot legally name its own
commissar to administrate the hospi-
tal because it it partly toe property of
American citizens. The plan to take
the hospital away from to* Jewish
community grew out of to* charge diet
it was a neat of Communists. The gov-
ernment has already appointed a non-
Jew as head physician.
New York J,(T.A.):—A govern-
ment loan of $3000,000 to finance
establishment of a homestead settle-'
ment of 200 Jewish- families in Mon-
mouth county, New Jersey, was hailed
at toe opening of the conference called
by the Provisional'Commission for the
Establishment of Jewish Farm Setde-
men tv
The loan is being made by the Fed-
eral Subsistence Homestead Corpora-
tion, through which the Subsistence
Homestead Division of the Depart-
ment of the Interior functions, to a
corporation to "be organized for toe
project.
Two hundred families, recruited
from toe needle trade industries, will
be sealed on small farms each of
which will have at least one acre for
gardening. The homesteads are expec-
ted tp cost about $3,000 each. A co-
operative . (um, with a dairy herd, a
hennery and facilities for' providing
other foods for the settlement- will also
be organized. A school for 300 pupils
and a community center will be erected
on the settlement grounds for which op-
tions have already been obtained on
1,253 acres.
Each settler will be required to pay
$500 down and the remainder over a
twenty-year period.
A modern factory building, designed
to serve as a model for other projects
will be erected at a total cost of $35,*
000. The‘factory will have private sup-
port to toe extent where homesteaders
will be assured of a definite cash in-
come and will operate under toe pro-
visions of the NRA. It will maintain
contact with the New York market ...
where its products will be disposed of. University
2 Jewish Scientists
Present Revolu-
. ' tionary Theories
Cambridge, Maaa. — Two Jewish
scientists startled the' -savants of the
country at the annual meeting of the
American Association for to* advance*
ment of Science with two new and
revolutionary discoveries, one altering
ell principles of disease immunization^
and the other revealing a hitherto un-
known miracle of creation. Profaaaot
Reuben L. Kahn of the University of
Michigan, reported toe discovery than
the skin has .power of Immodity Ml
times as great as that found in the
blood stream. His theory radically at*
ten all previous medical ideas of im-
munity and susceptibility ter infections
diseases. Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer of
the University of ^California, presented
a new mathematical theory which hake
toe material with the non-materiel and
explains how matter is being constant-
ly created out of radiation like the raps
of light.
. —■—O - . ..
Dr. Geo. A. Kohut,
Former Texas Rabbi,
Educator, Passes
° New York.—Dr. George Alexander
Kohut, ren'owned Jewish scholar and
The deceased was born in, Hi
He was the son of the! lata
spiritual leader, educator and biblio-
grapher, passed away after an iflnaee
of five weeks. He was'59 yean Of age.
“BE
Alexander Kohut and received his edu-
cation at Columbia University, Berlin
and Jewish Theologiipjj
Ta^>£toT« m'U'^'Vpur^ toe 5?®“^ of America, Hochschul* fuse
market but will supply toe settlement1 die Wissenschaft toe Judenthuqis, mid
fooJ supply. 'rk- *tudl*d rabbinics with his father. He
Egyptian Jews
Grant Funds for
' German Refugees
Jerusalem.—As. a result of toe visit
to Egypt of Dr. Arthur Ruppin, mem-
ber of toe executive' of the Jewish
Agency for Pals*cine, in the interest of
the German relief campaign, the Jew-
ish Community' in Alexandra granted
15,000 pounds, which bed already bams
collected, for the. establishment if a
German Jewish colony. Fifty German
Jewish families will ha colonised an
fend belonging to toe Jewish National
fund in Wadi ,Hawarith. -
Tha Cairo Jewish committee pledged
the aum of 8,000 pounds for a German
Jewish colony of the seme size to be
located in the vicinity of Petach Tik-
vsh. The money, it was
with its food supply. The whole
project will be a demonstration in de-
cenrtalized industry and subsistence
farming which is expected to go on a
self-suppprring basis and eventually to
ha cooperatively owned.
The blerd of directors of toe cor-
poration to be formed will include a
representative of toe Federal Subsis-
tence Homesteads Corporation; Ben-
jamin Brown, chairman of the Provi-
sional Commission for tha Establish-
ment of Jewish Farm Settlements;
Morris Feinitope, geqeral secretary of i
the United Hebrew Trades; Alfred
Waller*tein, retired manufacturer; Rab-
bi Jonah B. Wise, of*Central Syna-
gogue, tfhd Elias Lieberman, vice-pres-
ident of-toe Workmen’s Circle.
Mr. Brown presided at to* opening
of the conference, which was addressed
by Dr. Chaim Zhitlovtkyits honary
chairman; Christian P. Norgord, assist-
ant commissioner, New York State
Department of Agriculture and
Markets, and Dr. Frank Frittt, general
counsel of to* Subsistence Homesteads
Division.
Nazis Jail IS Jews for
Listening to Broadcast
Berlin —For allegedly holding "sub-
versive” meetings, spreading sorallad
atrocity reports and listening in en
radio broadcasts from Moscow, fifteen
tha city of
was rabbi of Congregation Emanuel,
Dellas, Texas, 1897-1900; Sinai Con-
gregation, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; tad
rabbi of Emanu-El Sisterhood, New
York, in 1906-1907. In the latter Mar
he founded Kemp Kohut at Oxford,
Me., and. in 1909 became the founder
of to* Kohut School for Boys. Later
he established toe Columbia
School, New York. He served as
of a number , of publications an
toe author of a number of books, Tha
deceased established toe Alexander
hut Memorial Foundation
University in 1915. He
lisbed toe Alexander K
Collection ..at Yale,
volumees.
zander Kn-
n at Ygl*
Report Berlin
Business
Berlin.—More than one-third *f
total number of stares i
23,877, ere empty as «
ruin that has overtaken _
Dar An griff, leading Nazi
disclosed. This doe* a
total number of empty
number of which Dar Angriff
Jewish
at the Phi
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Goldberg, Edgar. The Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1934, newspaper, January 18, 1934; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1054823/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .