Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1934 — Page 2

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PALESTINE ON THE AIR

An interesting bit of news from the far East tells us that very soon we be listening to radio programs roadcasted directly from Palestine. those who cannot go to see Pales.ine there is at least some consolation in the thought that now they Will soon be able to hear it. After receiving hundred's of requests, the Palestine department of Posts and Telegraphs recently announced that it has ordered the equipment for a new broadcasting transmiiss'ion station which is to be built just outside of Jerusalem^. The studios and control rooms are to be in Jerusalem, and they will be connected by land lines with the actual station. It will have a frequency of 668 kilocycles. Radio reception in Palestine has been most expensive because of the distance from good foreign stations, and the instruments required had to be of a very powerful make. With its own broadcasting unit the costly character of Wireless reception will be greatly diminished, and it will also be equipped to relay foreign transmissions. The government plans to set up a program board, and the offerings will be in three languages. The 'board will offer opportunities to composers and authors to make “their debut over the air.” These Palestinian programs will be relayed to America and will offer great entertainment to Jews here. There will also be limitless possibilities for studio advisors and engineers, and in addition to being another great step toward the desired progress of our Jewish homeland, it will be another gold star for the radio industry.

JEWS IN SPAIN This year, Rosh Hashona was more widely observed in Spain than it has been for more than 400 years. Ten new synagogues were opened in Barcelona, and all were crowded. A new Jewry has taken root here, and Ashkenazic and tSephardic Jews worshipped side by side for the first time. Jewry in Spain has 'been given great impetus by the many Jews who have left Germany and fled to'Madrid and Barcelona. Early in 1492 Sephardic Jews were driven from Spain by Ferdinand and [Isabella, and the=e Jews settled in Germany, where uiey helped develop the country. Today Jews from Germany are well on the way toward redeveloping Spain. Thus history has Miraculously reversed itself. To enable these newcomers to establish themselves Rabbi Ferdinando Nissan Friedman, spiritual head of [he Barcelona Ashkenazic Community has come to America as Spanish Jewry’s first envoy since 1492. His visit iiere is for the purpose of raising M25,000 to encourage the cultural, economic and religious progress ammg the Jewish people in Spain.

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LINDBERGH KIDNAPPER

For many months the German leader, Hitler, has been attempting to dispose to the civilized world the criminal instinct of the Jew. But directly crossing his path is a FULL BLOODEID ARYAN, who is now the alleged kidnapper of the infant son of America’s hero, Charles Lindbergh. Bruno Richnrd Hauptonan, the accused is 100 per cent German, but reports from Berlin indicate that the Nazi press' is directly suppressing the news; they only say, that their “lansman” was arrested in the “Jewish Quarters of New York,” applying the term to the Bronx, The Nazi editors believe that this statement alone will convey the impression that Hauptmann is a Jew, and their enemy. However, it recently became known that the alleged kidnapper visited a Nazi club on many occasions, and it is said that he is a member of the Friends' of New Germany; it is also known that he was a great “disliker” of the Jewish people, and his' wife once said that “Jews can’t (be trusted”. When Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested some weeks ago, the newspapers stated that many Yiddish books were found among his possessions. Immediately a pang of fear went through every one of us, and we thought “that’s all we need, he should be a Jew.” The cards were turned, h'ow-ver, and today we learn that the books either belonged to a neighbor, someone who had used his premises before, or were placed there to mislead authorities when trying to identify Hauptmlann’s nationality. The entire Nazi world has become decidedly uncomfortable over the wh-,le situation, (but should thousands be condemned because of the sins' of ONE? Should we Jews cry out to our G ntile friends that our oppressors are only humaniacs? Just because one of their members' comimitteit :he crime of the century, should we blame the whole race? Certainly not. Suppose, on the other hand, that Hauptmann were a Jew. Then, due to the national notoriety which the crime had gained, the Jewish people, unlike that of any other race in the world, would! immediately be seized with a feeling of unwarranted guilt, as if each had participated in the crime. And' it is needless to say that our oppressors would be unrelenting in their accusations, and would for many years continue to associate the crime with the Jewish people.

NAZI PRESS

Nazi censorship in Germany is so confident of its ability to control news that it (Joes not hesitate to propagandize the wildest lies. “The truth shall not pass” is the slogan of the Goebbels’ outfit. When one hundred per cent Aryan Hauptmann is charged with the kidnapping of Lindbergs’s baby, the German press implies that Hauptmann is a Jew, stressing the fact that he lived in the Bronx “the Jewish neighborhood of New York.” To us, in this country, so brazen a distortion of fact appears the height of stupidity, as it cannot hope to hold water longer than one edition. In Naziland, however, Hauptmann will be labelled a Jew and sixty million Germans will believe it. Max Baer before his fight with Max Schmeling was qualified as a Semite in the Nazi press. After his victory over Schmeding, he was suddenly transformed in the columns of the Hitler papers to a German Amer-

NATIONAL AID FOR YESHIYA IS ASKED

An urgent request to all Jewish communities that appeals be made to enable the Yeshiva Rabbi Isaac Elchanan to continue its work has been issued by Agudas Ha-Rabonim (Union of Orthodox Rabbis of America and Canada), the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and Canada, the rabbinical alumni of the Yeshiva and several local rabbinical bodies. The statement follows: “The Yeshiva Rabbi Isaac Elchanan is not primarily a professional school for the training of rabbis and teachers, but an institution of higher Torah learning, where the Torah and Jewish idealism, our glorious heritage of millennia, are preserved and advanced for their own sake. Out of the Yeshibot of all ages have come our scholars and sages of the Torah. Throughout the ages, the Jewish genius has asserted' itself in our Yeshibot and there the Jewish soul has found its truest and nobles* expres-

sions.”

For Jewish Law “The Yeshiva on this continent, founded about 40 years ago upon a sanctioned 1 Jewish model, and named after the sage, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan, is devoted to the comprehensive and intensive study of Jewish law and lore, of all phases of our great heritage. For over a generation it has helped maintain and advance Jewish ideals, as a living force in our daily lives, as a source of sustaining strength in our striving for spiritual survival. Its 500 students come from all parts of the United States and Canada. There are also students from Palestine and India. There are students from Germany, seeking opportunity for the intensive study of the Torah. The Yeshiva advances the cause of constructive Jewish learning, many of its faculty and students engaging in research and investigation and helps elucidate the truths and ideals of the Torah in the light of modem thought. Deserving students receive scholarships and there is no tuition fee/ “The Yeshiva not only sends forth well equipped and effective rabbis and teachers, but furthers the knowledge and ideals of the Torah and trains a generation of learned and loyal Jews, leaders for the spiritual enrichment of the community. The Torah is the heritage of all Israel, and where and whenever our fathers have settled they have established Yeshibot, centers of intensive study of the Torah where its knowledge and love are cultivated 1 and fostered. The ‘saving remnant’ in all generations have come from the Yeshibot.” No Endowment Fund “The Yeshiva has no endowment fund, and due to the general financial situation during the last five years, finds itself in a desperate situation. Unless immediate relief is forthcoming, it may not be able tc continue its sacred and life-giving - work. A state of emergency exists. In the name of the Torah, by which our fathers have lived and for which they often gave their lives, we appeal to every congregation and every organization to contribute, in accordance with their means, to help make possible the continuance of the sacred work of the Yeshiva Rabb ; Isaac Elchanan, the true home of Torah on this continent. Contributions are to be sent to the Yeshiva Rabbi Isaac Elchanan, Amsterdam anvenue and 186th street, New York City. o Jewish Radio Hour

Starting today (Friday) a Jewish Radio Hour will be a regular Friday evening feature over the NBC-WJZ network The program is under the auspices of the United Jewish Laymen’s Committee and will feature prominent speakers and appropriate music. The new Jewish Hour can be heard every Friday night from 9:30 to 10 P. M. over the Indianapolis station WKBF. O ARE YOU A POST SUBSCRIBER ? OR DO YOU GET A SAMPLE COPY OCCASIONALLY.

ican. There is no limit to the corruption of the German pressi under Hitler regime. In the Lindbergh case, however, the Nazi sheets have overreached themselves- Herr Bruno Richard Hauptmann happens to be a member of the Nazi organization in New York even if he did live in the Bronx. JOSEPH SALMARK

Hadassah’s Twentieth Annual Convention

Will Stress Zionist

Education as the most vital factor in Jewish life today to combat antiSemitism and to foster an appreciation of the Jewish contribution to civilization wll be the keynote of the twentieth annual convention of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, to be held at the Wardnuan Park Hotel, Washington, D. C., from October 14 to 16. Mrs. Samuel W. Halprin, national president of the organization, said jester day that American Jews must assume leadership in Jewish life because reactionary forces in Europe have retarded activity there in be-

hailf of Jews.

At the convention Mrs. Halprin will call upon the 1,500 delegates to take back to their chapters in every state of the Union a recommendation to expand and intensify Zionist and Jewish education. The convention will be asked to consider an increased budget to carry out the expansion

75 Year Old Sculptor Now Carving Moses

CHICAGO—The status of Moses, the law giver, descending from Mount Sinai which for a time this year stood in the Jewish section of the Hall of Religion at A Century of Progress stirred one spectator to revolt. The figure, a life-size statue, represents the leader sleek and wearing a halo, and carrying a single tablet of the law. Isaac Marks, himself a student of the Talmud and an artist, felt that the impression was out of keeping with the circumstances and the effect that such an experience would leave on the one who underwent it. Yet he also felt that criticism without likewise attempting to create an interpretation would be unjust to the sculptor. Mr. Marks has for the past four years found pleasure in sculpture and modeling. In his jewelry shop he has many figures which he carved' in various mediums, clay, ivory, marble, but the majority in woodi Taking a huge log and setting it in a garage, he began his figure of Moses. Knowing as a scholar the original Hebrew version of the giving of the Ten Commandments, he differs with the commentators who have interpreted' the sentence which records the expression on the face of the leader as he returns from his lonely vigil on the sacred mountain. It is the commentaries’ version that he descended wearing a halo, or his face shining with light. Marks’ feeling is that the sentence should have been translated that his forebead was wrinkled, and his countenance worn from the long time he had spent. A body emianciated and worn, a face stern and powerful, are being given to the figure on which Mr. Marks is working. It carries two tablets instead of one. The subject is life size or slightly larger and is rapidly approaching completion. Mr. Marks’ acquaintance with art, as an artist, was interrupted abruptly 38 years ago, when he had come to Chicago from Marinette, Wis. He had painted six pictures in oils, but the needs of a large family made it necessary for him to drop his brushes for the tools of a jeweler. After he passed the three-score and ten mark, he became interested and this time started in clay. He has used the other materials mentioned since. In his collection one finds many of the old orthodox Hebrew rabbis, one in full morning ceremonial garb, and ready to pour the sacramental wine. These subjects Marks has taken, not from their religious significance but 'because he believes that the future will see them seldom and he wishes to leave his statues as permanent record of them. An amusing trio is formed by three figurines, first a nursing mother and her twins, a second with the same adult and one child, which he calls “Revolution” and a third, with the same subjects, “Depression.” Other subjects he has carved' are President Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, whom he admires greatly, and whom he modeled in clay, as he listened to a lecture by the great scientist at the Standard Club in Chicago, and his wife. o YOU MISS A GREAT DEAL WHEN YOU MISS THE JEWISH POST

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program, and this wdl be augmented by a recent gift of $2,500 from the Louis D. Beaumont Trust. The educational program will be carried out among the 40,000 senior and junior members of Hadassah. A special feature of the convention will be radioed messages from Jerusalem describing the ceremonies, to take place there in connection with the laying of the cornerstone of the first medical center in Palestine, to be built by Hadassah and the American Jewish Physicians’ 'Committee. The event in Jerusalem, in which high government and Zionist dignitaries will participate, will coincide with the opening session of the convention. Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, president of the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee, and Dr. J. J. Golub, director of the Hospital for Joint Diseases, who returned from Palestine recently, will describe the plans for the medical center.

When Frederick the Great died, he stated that his body should be buried next to that of a mad dog. Just recenly, Adolf Hitler said that he wants to be buried next to Frederick the Great when he dies.

LOOKING AT PHIL HARRIS

By Post Special You’ve heard him on the air, and you’ve seen him in pictures, but just what else do you know about the popular orchestra leader who looks a bit like Harry Richman and sings a little like the late Bert Williams. Phil (St. Regis) Harris was. bom in Linton, Indiana on June 24th, 1994 which makes him just a little over thirty years odd. There were no other children in this Harris family. The father was a musician who wanted his only child to be a lawyer, but Phil couldu’t see law. Plays With Orchestra After the family had dived in Nashville, Tennessee for a while young Phil took a great liking to music, after watching and listening to his father’s small bands in the southern city. He entered .Hume Fogg Academy and began doubling on various instruments with the “Dixie Syncopators,” a schooi band. One week Ruth Stonehouse, the movie queen, appeared in Nashville on a personal tour. She listened to the “Dixie Syncopators”, liked' their style, and asked them to leave school to accomipany her on a series of one night stands. They did this for almost a year, and it was really great training for Phil Harris. At the close of the tour the boys returned to school, 'but a letter came from a man who had heard them with Miss Stonehouse. He was managing the Pjincess Theatre in Honolulu, and he sent the Syncopators transportation expenses to come there. Comes Back Broke Phil was in Honolulu for more than six months, when he left the orchestra and returned to the United States broke. He landed in iSan Francisco friendless and hungry. After a month of this the breaks began. He started by playing in a band in one of Frisco’s largest theatres, and his competitor was none other than Paul Ash, another Jewish orchestra leader, in a spot directly across the street. A short time later Phil set sail for Australia with his own band. The boys spent a year there, and during that time the leader met a beautiful lassie who later became Mrs. Harris. When they returned to this country, the orchestra was signed by the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, and from there they went to the Cocoanut Grove in Hollywood. They later appeared at the famous St. Regis Hotel, and our Phil was given the nickname because of his long stay at the place. Harris is a very modest chap, almost six feet tall, and weighing around 170 pounds. He has 'beautiful teeth and curly brown, hair, likes to play polo and watch football games. His greatest thrill was received when he made his first picture “So This. Is Harris.” Our reporter, however, asked Phil one question that he refused to answer. That was. “What was the toughest thing, for you to overcome?” He actually blushed. o READ EVERY ISSUE OF THE JEWISH POST

TYPEWRITER TALK By A. Stenog

ATTENTION, Martin Levy—In Hollywood, California, the leading kosher restaurant Ls Levy’s, and it’s patronized by most of the Jewish actors anid actresses. Hyman Grande is now a big federal man. His work is “checking alcoholic permits in taverns etc.’ ’ . . Morris Kaplan (the milk man) will have no more dates until he thinks he has found the one and only. “I’ve broken too mhny hearts already,” he recently stated. AND a certain Phyliss Greenberg is really THAT WAY about handsome Lou Stauber, dontcha know? “Babe” Caplan has a new girl. Says her initials are H. S. (who?) Ann Cooper was recently escorted by one who has supposedly proposed to anotlu r. E( YOU KNOW that there is a woman £mong us who sleeps with cats? (See me personally foe idem tification f The other Sunday night I peeked into the “private” dinner dance of the Sigma Alpha Tau Fraternity. It was the frat’a fim affair for the new season, and everybody was happy, etc. There were, however, c few real SENSATIONS to be observed. The lipstick on Howard Dulberger was from Betty Fafber, and Morris Katz was with burly Lil Milie." (Oh Abie) . . . Maurice Epstein with cute Frieda Wexler (Oh, Irving) ... Lil Chaplick was 1 escorted by Sammy Sacks, am! pretty Anita Cohen was brought up by the petit president of the organizatifcm. AND what do Louise WeLsman and Edna Zier have in common ? Louise would not return to Indiana University this year unless Edna did, so . • • both are now in Indianapolisi . . . Eotelle Oppenheim is a student at Ohio State University in Columbus, and you can address her at Neil Hall. iNTROOUiOING—A new debuiantalizer, Becky Azimbw; she hails from that town north of here, Alexandria, and is one sweet kid 1 . . . likes pop corn and doughnuts . . . attended Indiana U. last year and will soon learn to play golf and ride a honse. WONDERING—Why Meyer Gallin came to Schule so late Tuesday morning? Why the Schules are so crowded on Simchas Torah, but on Friday night there is hardly a minyon present? (Maybe they bring their kids for the candy, yea?) AND who was the third couple with the Dave Sabloskys and' the Doc Falenders at one of the local dine and dance spots last Sunday night? JACK FOGLE wants to see his name in this Codumn andi so . . . here ’tis. Jack has been married for about five years and still don’t seem to mind it. HAVE YOU HEARD—How Revin Barskin spends his spare time? That Dave Henman is crazy about derby hats? That the Pals Club are staging another swell affair on the 28th of the month? That the JEWISH POST will soon be larger and much more frequent? So ... So subscribe nOw, while the fee is yet only fifty cents the year. From our Atlantic City office comes the interesting dispatch that on the day* before Roaih Hashona a Jewish man was arrested for picking pockets. The judge who tried him was also a Jew. When the accused came to trial, he asked the judge in Yiddish to be lenient, and he gave his word that he would go straight from then on. He also stated that he did not want to be in jail during the high holidays. The Jewish judge paid little attention for he sentenced him to thirty days in jail. After hearing the sentence the prisoner cursed the judge in Yiddish and his sentence was lengthened to one hundred 1 days. This column has NOT been in the habit of (“panning” people, but we think that the judge did wrong in not allowing the Jewish prisoner to go free upon his word, or at least to have delayed the sentence until after the holidays. What has become of Bob Pallman Saw Esther Bernstein the other night (first time in months). Mae Brown is again among the unemployed. Jack Kollinger works at night. Isadore Cohen is in California. Florence Kestenbaum is getting gorgeous. The Levinsikys (Lillian) moved back to Union street, after living near 30th and iCallegie for awhile. Again the parting hour has come. We’ll be back on the 19th with some news from the hot spots; so, until then, remember that Pm still your correspondent, and you know where to get me if you need me.