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NUMBER 41
JANUARY 7, 1940
HOUSTON, TEXAS
VOLUME 54
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Mrs. Julius M. Israel was added that “the most important
vehicle to achieve this end is
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vestigations
Klutznick Urges Creation of "Hard-
Hitting” American Jewish Press
Jut
Elect Mrs. Julius Israel
President Women's
Branch, S.W. Union of
Orthodox Congregations
The Director,
New York Public Library
Fifth Ave. A 42 Street
NOTED JOURNALIST TO
ADDRESS BIG GIFTS
DIVISION LUNCHEON
Ruth Gruber, author and
journalist, well known to Hous-
ton audiences through her pre-
vious appearances here, will be
the featured speaker at a
Luncheon Meeting of the Big
Gifts Division of the 1960
United Jewish Campaign,
Wednesday, January 13th, at
the Rice Hotel, according to an
announcement by Division
chairman Dr. S. S. Schaffer.
The current United Jewish
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Capital Spotlight
MILT*. FRIEDMAN
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Washington’s Embassy row
has noticed the 402-unit build-
ing. It is not only a spectacle
of beauty, rising from filth in
the redeveloped zone, but also
is Washington’s first super-
modern apartment open to all
Americans, regardless of race
or color. Washington apart-
ments bar Negroes in a syste-
matic manner; some even refuse
to rent to Asians and Africans
employed by Embassies and in-
ternational organizations.
The Federal Housing Au-
thority has termed the Scheuer
project the finest constructed
under any Government pro-
gram. But its main feature is
not in its creative architecture,
replete with murals and statu-
ary. It is in fact that Washing-
ton’s face has undergone archi-
tectural plastic surgery, remov-
ing part of the ugly blemish of
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were underway, held Sunday, January 10, 2:45
too, in France and Norway.
IN ENGLAND
London, Jan. 4. (JTA)—A
self-styled spokesman for the
- “British Nazi Movement” tele-
phoned the office of Chief Rab-
bi Israel Brodie here today and
Jews would be taken as “hos-
si
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p.m., in the Synagogue build-
ing, 3847 Tur berry Circle.
On the agenda will be re-
ports of the past year’s activi-
ties and the election of board
members.
Refreshments will be served.
All members are urged to at-
tend.
SINCE 1908 ... THE VOICE OF SOUTHWEST JESaYork, 18 • N-Y•
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the Anglo-Jewish press whose
capacity and ability should be
equal to this great challenge.
We do not have such a press
today."
The B’nai B’rith leader as-
serted that the facilities avail-
able to the English-J ewish
press to gather news “are so
woefully inadequate as to ren-
der miraculous the degree of
accuracy which it does obtain.”
He praised the world-wide
news gathering service of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
but he added that the emphasis
and space of the JTA was “pri-
marily devoted to overseas and
especially Israel. It serves but
a minor purpose in drawing out
and circulating domestic items
of interest.”
seat-filler next November.
Scheuer has already helped
rebuild the face of America,
not only in Washington, but
through his urban renewal
projects in cities like Cleve-
land, St. Louis, Sacramento,
San Francisco—and in Puerto
Rico. As a leading urban re-
developer, he simultaneously at-
tacked slums and racial preju-
dice, integrating all his proj-
ects.
In 1956 Scheuer was select-
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modern apartment development ideas on our failure in telling
in the center of the scarred, foreign nations the story of
ragged land of the now-razed American civil rights achieve-
Southwest area. It stands as a ments in housing and other
lone concrete symbol of the Re- fields. Nixon then told Scheuer;
development Land Agency’s “We ought to make you the
vision. head of the United States In-
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British capital last night when elected the first president of the
a Jewish Telegraphic Agency newly organized Southwest Re-
editor recorded a telephoned gion, Women’s Branch of the
threat from a man describing Union of Orthodox Jewish
himself as a spokesman for the Congregations of America, at
“British Nazi Movement.” its first convention in San An-
h
Chicago, (JTA)—Philip M.
Klutznick, former president of
B’nai B’rith, urged this week
thercreation of a “hard-hitting
capable American Jewish
press” to provide full reporting
on American Jewish life.
In a guest editorial in the
Sentinel, Chicago English-Jew-
ish weekly, he urged Jewish
publishers to meet with “15 or
20 American Jews who are
free of organizational ties and
who may be prepared to risk
some capital to explore this
problem."
In the next decade, he wrote,
American Jews would need
“good, solid information if it is
to rise to its full stature.” He
prejudice.
Models of Scheuer’s Wash-
ington project were exhibited
by the U.S. Government at the
Brussels and Moscow exhibi-
tions.
Although he is a Democrat,
Scheuer recently received a
commendation from Vice Presi-
dent Nixon for his vivification
of the American image.
Scheuer, as chairman of the
American Jewish Committee’s
National Committee on Civil
Rights and Civil Liberties, call-
ed on Nixon to present a study
of civil rights achievements.
Nixon listened to Scheuer’s
NAZIS CRAWL OUT OF THEIR
DUNG HEAPS; SET PATTERN
FOR THE RABBLE ROUSERS
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tonio, December 25-27.
Others chosen to serve were:
Mrs. Bernard Yellin, Houston,
Mrs. Howard Smolins, San An-
tonio, Mrs. David Cohen, San
Antonio, and Mrs. Ben Kotin,
Galveston, vice-presidents; Mrs.
Irving Salomon, Houston, cor-
responding secretary; Mrs.
Wm. Allan, Dallas, recording
secretary, and Mrs. Abram L.
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IN GERMANY
Bonn, Jan. 4. (JTA)—The
West German Cabinet will give
priority to the anti-Semitic in-
cidents reported throughout
Germany, when it meets Wed-
nesday for the first time since
the holiday recess, a Govern-
ment spokesman said.
The question is being regard-
ed with the utmost seriousness
because reports to the Foreign
Ministry from embassies abroad
indicate that the Federal Re-
public faces a grave loss of
prestige, due to the indications
that Nazi type anti-Semitism
still flourishes in the country.
As further incidents were re-
ported from , all parts of West
Germany and from West Ber-
lin, Bonn officials insisted that
the demonstrations were
“organized" and were directed
against the authority and pres-
tige of the Government. They
asserted that the German peo-
ple were “most indignant” over
the anti-Semitic excesses.
Police of West Berlin found
the slogan “Juden raus” (Jews
get out) in fat red letters a foot
high and a swastika painted
over commercial advertising
posters on Berkaer Square in
the British sector. They an-
nounced they had broken up a
rally of about 25 neo-Nazi stu-
dents in a park Saturday night.
Guards were posteds in front
of synagogues of the Western
sectors of the city. The Berlin
Jewish community numbers
about 7,500 and is the largest
in Germany. Before Hitler,
there were 175,000 Jews in
Berlin.
IN EUROPE
Elsewhere, reports of swasti-
kas and anti-Jewish slogans
daubed on house walls,
churches and other buildings
came almost hourly from wide-
ly scattered places.
Anti-Semitic pamphlets were
distributed in Copenhagen,
“Morte” (death) was scrawled
on the wall of the Jewish cen-
ter in Parma, Italy, and in Lon-
don the windows of two Jewish
buildings were smashed.
Austrian police searched for
vandals who smeared the word BETH JACOB ANNUAL
“Jews” on a Vienna Synagogue. MEEriue cnunAV
in Antwerp, Belgium, a probe ■■»■■■■ QURUMI
was ordered into the defacing The annual meeting of Beth
of the Jewish shrine there. In- Jacob Congregation will be
formation Agency.”
The Vice President did not
know it, but Scheuer’s friends
have repeatedly urged him to
seek a Democratic seat in Con-
gress as a base for his dynam-
ism. Washington insiders ex-
pect Scheuer, a liberal Demo-
The most dramatic construc-
tion here since French Major
L’Enfant designed the capital
city has focused attention on
James H. Scheuer, a New York
slum clearance expert. It is con-
struction along human lines,
applying to Washington the
democratic principles that this
country is attempting to export
abroad.
Communist propaganda oft-
en exploited the fact that shab-
by slums covered Southwest
Washington in sight of the U.
S. Capitol Building. A free en-
terprise builder, Scheuer has
erected Washington’s most
tages” against any action by
the Adenauer Government in
West Germany to punish “Ger-
man nationalists.”
A similar call, received by a
press association, identified Sid-
ney Silverman, a Labor M.P.,
Ian Mikardo, a former member
of Parliament, and Dr. Barnett
Stress, an M.P., as the first
three “hostages."
The Jewish Chronicle was
warned by telephone that the
next move would be “a bomb
at your doorstep.”
Scotland Yard got its first
lead to the vandals who have
been defacing J e wish-owned
and occupied buildings in the
IN NEW YORK
New York, Jan. 4. (JTA)—
Six boys, ranging in ages from
10 to 14, were arraigned in
Children’s Court today on
charges of malicious mischief
in the smashing of three win-
dows at a Brooklyn synagogue
and Hebrew school early the
morning of January 1.
Meanwhile, today, New York
City’s Police Commissioner,
Stephen P. Kennedy, issued
strict orders to all police depart-
mental commanders to see to it
that all who attack or threaten
houses of worship in the city
“get the full measure of justice
—or mental treatment if that is
what they need.”
Commissioner Kennedy is-
sued his orders at a ceremony
at police headquarters, swear-
ing in 97 new recruits to the
police force. With all of the
department’s leading command-
ers present, Commissioner Ken-
nedy stated:
“Today, we are faced with
another disruptive influence in
a democracy. I refer to threats
to houses of worship. See to it
that every member of the force
who walks a post is alerted to
this condition.
“In our democracy, men and
women of all faiths, I know,
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