The Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1933 Page: 1 of 4
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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
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Vienna.—An account of the situa-
tion in the German concentration
camps was published -today in the
Catholic newspaper KefchsposL
It was that of a Hungarian Cath
olic who had just reached Austria-on
his release from one of the camps
This man, Desiderius Takhen, a
printer who had been working for
a Duesseldorf newspaper eighteen
months, was arrested .in March by
storm troopers and takeft to * the
Duesseldorf prison. ' „ j ■
In his story Herr Takhen said:
"For the first few weeks Iwe were
comparatively well-treated. Eight hun-
dred men, however, were confined,
without any charge, in a prison built
to hold 350.
"We never saw any of the authori-
ties of the prison nor any of the ward-
ers—only heavily armed Storm Troop-
ers and special guards. After a time,
we began to hear terrible cries at mid-
night from newly arrested men who
were being beaten.
"On May 28 I was removed to a
concentration camp at Siegeburg, near
Cologne. Here were 2800 persons—
Catholic priests, lawyers, doctors,
journalists, actors and workmen of all
kinds.Life was terrible. The prisoners
were thrashed on the faintest excuse
with rubber truncheons, particularly
those who objected to morning and af
ternoon daily drills. Two Communists
-who attempted to escape were shot.
"Communists and .Radical Social-
ists were put in the lowest of the
three classes of prisoners and had the
worst* treatment. •
' "Jews \vere allow to receive food
furnished by their religious commun
ity, but they had the meanest tasks
to perform. They had to polish the
. boots of the storm troopers. On orders
‘theyhad to kiss the boots of the
guards. Any hesitation brought down
a truncheon on their shoulders.
"I myself saw how lews had their
hair torn out with suen violence that
fragments of the scalp adhered. They
were forced to strike one another in
the face. If th'ey did not hit hard
enough they were beaten with trun-
cheons until the blood flowed
"Once a week a doctor came, but
he listened to no complaint. One day
the man naxt to me said his lungs
were affected.
" 'Castor Oil,’ was the inevitable
reply. ’Next pataient.’ The same an-
swer wu given to the many prisoners
who had nervous breakdowns.
"What I can tell you is only 4
quarter of what is happening. Many
prisoners have hanged themselves in
(heir cells, among them the Senior
Alderman of Duesseldorf municipality.
This suicide occurred in Duesseldorf
prison on April 20 or 25.”
.BEAUMONT YOUNG JUDEA
Because of the high waters caused
by recent downpours we have found
it necessary to change our dance site
for Sunday, August 6th. High waters
make it impossible' to approach the
Ship. ' '
However, the dance committee has
dona just as' well in securing for the
night, the beautiful Bdeon Hotel ball-
room. Elaborate plans are practically
complect at we have just engaged the
largest Jewish attendance ever to at-
tend a dance in Beaumont. As a spec
ial inducement we have offered tickets
at only 75 cents per coup); or stag.
Flatonia Man To
Be Buried Here
ticket salat
tonik, manager of the Alexander Gro-
cery Company there, died at the home
of his sisters in La Grange Tuesday
night. —
Mr. Alexander was associated with
the company for 30 years as active vice
president, but for the last eight years
had begn manager of the branch in
Flatonia.
He was a member of Lafayette
Lodge No. 34, A. F. and A. M., of
La Grange; Scottish Rite of Galves-
ton; El Mina Temple of Galveston;
Knights of Pythias lodges of La
Grange and Flatonia, and Post L, La
Grange T. P. A.” **
Although Mr. Alexander had never
resided in Houston, he was well known
here. Surviving him are his wife; one'
son, Dr. Charles Alexander of Hous
ton; one brother, Jake Alexander of
La Grange; five sisters, Mrs. B. Hell-
man of Houston, Misses Essie, Rae,
Gertie and Jeannette Alexander of La
Grange.
Funeral services were held in La
Grange at l p.m. Thursday, Rabbi
MScht of Waco officiating.
Immediately after the services the
body wa^a brought overland to Hous-
ton and burial was in Beth Israel
Cemetery. Rabbi Barnston officiated
at the services at the grave.
American Scientist
Challenges Nazis
Berlin. — Sherwood Eddy, distin-
guished American sociologist, now .vis-
iting Germany surprised a gathering
of Nazi officials by stating that Amer-
ican public opinion was becoming in-
creasingly apprehensive over the things
happening in Germany, pointing out
that the new German attitude toward
liberalism and racial problem* was
shocking world opinion. Mr. Eddy re-
ferring to the Jewish conditions said:
"I had hoped to find that there was
no longer persecution of the Jews,
instead I have learned from many re-
liable witnesses, both Jew end Gentile,
that the fate of the German Jews is
becoming increasingly more hopeless.”
Print More Hitler
Birth Revelations
The Oesterreichische Abendblatt,
Hsimwehr organ, continued to print
revelations of Hitler’s origin in its
attempt to prove the German chancel-
lor is of Jewish descent. The Abend-
blatt featured a story from the direc-
tor of the Point Museum in which
he confirmed with documents the story
printed previously concerning Hitler’*
family tree. However, the museum
direct** concluded hk confirmation
with the note that "if the chancellor
belongs to the same Hitler family as
an eleven piece dance or- ^ p#|>4 ^ ^ then few Jews
a p~d« family ~ dm. the
Pinchot Appoints
Jew To Public
Service Position
For the first time in the history of
the Public ^Service Commission of
Pennsylvania, a Jew has been named
mitin. J?lr ..is
Herman Goldberg, of Wilkes-Barre,
Hho^wAj^ appointed by Governor* Pin
chot to a 10 year term, at a salary of
jU0,000 a year.
Mr. Goldberg is also the youngest
man ever appointed to the conjrpission,
being but 34 years of agj. He was
dejputy attorney general and won a
reputation for the manner in which he
prosecuted election officials for fraud
He is active in Jewish affairs through-
out the State —Jewish Exponent.
Schoenberg Returns
To the Jewish Faith
(New York Times)
Paris.—Arnold Schoenberg. the
composer who abandoned the .Jewish
faith in 1921, w.%s officially readmitted
today in a ceremony at the Liberal
Synagogue here with I?abbi Louis Gerj,
main Levy officiating. *
-Dr. Schoenberg, a native of Vienna,
is 58 years .old; He has conducted
classes in the Berlin Academy of Arts
and has written works for orchestra,
chorus and chamber music ensembles
His ' Study of Harmony” was pub-
lished in 19/t.
According to Dr Schoenberg’s own
version of his musical education ,his
.earliest contact with the art came by
self-instruction. When he was 20 years
old he became the pupil of Alexander
von Zcmlinsky mid in 1901 went to
Berlin where he became a conductor in
Ernst von Wolsogen’s Buntes Theatre.
During this first two year period in
Berlin Dr. Schoenberg also taught
classes in composition at the Sern Con-
tervaory. In 1908, he returned to
Vienna where he established himself
as a music teacher.
He became a teacher of competition
at the Imperial and Royal Academy
in yirnna in 1910, bat the next year
returned to Berlin, where he Jived for
many years and where- tne mfot
of his works were composed.
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New Attack On
' Austrian Jews
notable
Vienna.—Despite official promises
that Austrian Jews need not fear anti-
Semitism, s new drive tgainec the
Austrian Jews, modelled on the Hit-
lerite program, has been launched by
the principal newspaper of the Lower
Austrian Bauerband, the .itrong pots
ant organization ’ belonging to the
Clerical Christian Social Party, the
bulwark of the present-mti-Nan Aus-
trian government. The peasant organ’s
onslaught gained in significance when
the'Weltblatt, the Clerical organ, sec-
onded the sentiments of the anti-Sam-
itk outburst.
The article in question tzpresses in-
dignation at the expansion of* "Jewish
influence in every trade and profession,
at the insulting behavior of the Polish
Jews and at the uncontrolled conduct
of the younger Jews. The Jew is the
on our Roman Catholic Church.”
Advocating a policy that would
bring "Jewish influence down to some
thing comparable with pre-war figures
of population, strict limitation of the
Jews in the rr>»du.al, icga! and other
professions, the pi per reminds its
readers that "the rtpresvon of Jewish
influence is on? cf the principal points
in j the program of the Christian Social
Farcy.”
A Story With a Moral
The empty shell which a certain
group of "chanty Jews” ask us to sub-
stitute for all our Jewish values and
aspirations serves to recall the story
that is told about the Negro who refus-
ed to fraternize with bis own kind,, , , e . _ ... ,
explaining that he hid resigned from l I~*
the Negro people* Whereupon another
See Confiscation
of All Jewish
Property in Reich
Berlin.—The last blow which Jews
of Germany had feared has at last
fallen. The Cabinet has issued an or-
der permitting the confiscation of the
Vrimt*- propeefy
might be deemed an "enem/ of the
state and of the people.” The brood
latitude of the order will make it "pos-
sible for the brown shirted anti-
Semites to seize, the estate of any
Jew. .
The Cabinet ruling was announced
after a week of Nazi decisions and ac-
tions that swept the ground from un-
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colored skinned fellow reminded him
that hi# resignation was not accepted.
In the instance of men in the Jewish ’
midst who express an artitude of resig-
nation, it is vyel 1 to point out that
Jews as a whole do not always object
to the sev«rmg of Jr wish ties by those j
who choos? not to emphasize their i
Jewishness. In rur case it is the world
at large which seems tc say even to
the extreme zrsimilsi'orhts that the
desire of the iatter to merge with their
neighbors is one matter, but that it
is another matter when u comes to
heir be'ing accepted. Let the assimi-
lationist-charity Jews take note of this,
and when they learrn to accept Jew-
ish values they will eventually find
greater happiness among their own
people.—B’nai B’rith Messenger.
Roosevelt Meant It
(Jewish Times, Baltimore) "
That President Roosevelt's promise
to humanize the immigration law made
in an interview with Joseph Brainin
before his nomination, wis not an
empty election prom .e was conclusive-
ly proved the other day when the
Roosevelt Secretary of the Department
of Labor, Frances Perkins, promulgat-
ed a new immigration order. The or.
der says: "A ttuden| who has <some
inraqs, but not sufficient income to
lover necessary expenses, will be per-
mitted to accept tufficient employ-
ment to meet necessary expenses. A
student having no means will be per-
mitted to accept employment of, a na-
ture to interfere with his full course
of studies ." This applies to foreign
tmetnts of course. What a change
from the Hoover policy repreaented
bv Mr. Doek who withdrew the. priv-
ilege of employment—even on part
time—from alien student*. There is a
New Deal spirit emanating from
Washington. That it embrace* the im-
migration regulations is most gratify-
ing and of special interest to Jaws in
view of the disfranchisement of! thou-
sands of'vjewish university students in
Neziland.
The United Synagogue of Amcrica
is supervising the Kashruch at several
of the leading Boy Scout camps and
will provide a general Jewish program
for Scouts at these camps, according
to an announcement issued from the
headquarters of the organization.
Among the activities which will be un-
dertaken by tha United Synagogue in
these camps art: Supervision of relig-
ious services, forma non^of study groups
on Jewish subjects end an all-round
program wfcch aims » keep tha Bey
Scout interested m Jewteh life.
who had been hoping, despite events,
that there might be some leniency in
the inauguration of new anti-Semitic ''
measures. The following major steps
tending to the extermination of Jews
in Germany were put into effect dur-
ing the week:
Every Jewish employe in the retail
and mercantile field was ordered dis-
missed from his position,- on the
ground that a Jfcw would not be eli-
gible for the vast Aryan union of
mercantile employes that is being form-
ed under Nazi auspices. Every Jew,
no matter how far removed from Jew-
ish ancestry, is affected
No Jewish producer, author, coqjr
poser, director, cameraman, film cut-
ter, manager or ocher artisan, is to be
retained in. the motion picture indus-
tty- : . • n
An indication that the ' German ^
Government would cease to grant vi- ‘
sas to Jews desiring to. go to Palestine
was given by the passpow bureau. At
the same time, it was announced by
the postal department that vast sums
had been cyfiscated bv the govern-
ment from amounts found in envel-
opes that had, been addressed abroad.
The greater part this money was
from Jewish sources
All the documents in the possession
of the economic . department of the
Central Union of German Jews were *
seized by the Nazi police.
In Bonn the burgomaster issued an
order forbidding Jews to sit in trolley
cars as long as there was any non-
Jew without a seat
'What Nnzi interference is doing to
business generally and particularly to
Jewish enterprises was ' revealed * with >
the announcement that the publishing
house of the late Rudolf Mosao, Ger-
many’s greatest publisher, had
into bankruptcy as a result of
mismanagement. Moaso had' published
the Berliner Tageblatt, of which Theo-
dor Wolff, now an exile, waa tha edi-
tor. I
Due to the suppression of the nowa
emanating from Vienna, only mild
consternation has bean caused in the
ranks of Nazis as a reault of the pub
licai on. of the story that Chancellor
Adolf Hitler is proved to be a Jaw.
It is believed, however, that Nazi ene-
mies are planning to maka strong use
of this bombshell.
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GOOSE CREEK
The Gooae Creek Sunday School
-will give a Kosher barbecue picnic an
Sunday,> August 13th, at Sylvan
Beach Pork. Dinner wiU he sensed at
and at 6 p.m. HakWitHB
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