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Vol. 11—No. 45

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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1944

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Jewish Publishers Shown at Conference Here

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125 STATIONS CARRY TALK Special NEW YORK — Nearly 125 radio stations in 44 states and the District of Columbia will broadcast the address which Supreme Justice Frank Murphy, chairman of the -National Committee Against Persecution of the Jews, will deliver at the national unity session of the IVnai D'rith’s convention at 8:30 p. m. (CWT) Monday, May 8 at Carnegie Hall. Justice Murphy will be introduced by Henry Monsky, president of B’nai ll’rith.

Attending the conference of Jewish editors and publishers here last week-end were seated, left to right, Sam Saporney, Chronicle. Milwaukee; Albert W. Golonth, the World, Pittsburgh; Nathan Seidman, Interracial Press of America, New York; Dr. Joseph Gross, Examiner, Brooklyn; Mrs. Gabriel Cohen; Jack Fishbein. Sentinel, Chicago; Edna Samuels, Israelite. Cincinnati; Steve SchifTer, Israelite, Atlanta; Jacquts Bach, Observer, Nashville; Mrs. Jack Feldman. Middle row, Irving Rhodes, Chronicle, Milwaukee; Mr. Bernstein, World, Greensboro, N. C.; Dr. Joseph G. Brin, Advocate, Boston; Morris Strauss, Chronicle, Indianapolis; Mrs. Rae Solomon, Press,

San Diego; Harry Sable, World, Greensboro; D. H. White, Herald-Voice, Houston; Dr. Asher Isaacs, Outlook. Pittsurgh; Ben Neustadt, Chronicle, Co'umbus; Phil Slomovitz. News, Detroit; 8am Schmidt, Every Friday. Cincinnati. Third row, I. J. Teller. Independent Jewish Press Service, New York; Joe Biben, American Hebrew', New York; Sam Neusner, Ledger, Hartford; Leo Frisch, World, Minneapolis; Gabriel Cohen, Jewish Post; Morris JanofT, Standard, Jersey City; Jack Wolfe, News, Des Moines; Bob Gam • zey. News, Denver; Jack Feldman, Sentinel, Chicago; Bernard Postal, publicity director B’nai B’rith and C. A. Brown, World, Greensboro.

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Snapped while talking over common problems are four delegates to the conference. They are, left to right, D. H. White, The Jewish Herald-Voice, Houston, Tex., I. J. Teller, editor

of the Independent Jewish Press Service, New York; Leo Frisch, the American Jewish World, Minneapolis, and Phil Slomovitz, of The Jewish News, Detroit.— Photo by Zalman Cohen.

Committee Scores Polish Army Action Special NEW YORK — A request “that full and immediate punishment be visited upon the anti-Semitic agitators in the Polish Army” was requested by the American Jewish Committee in a communication to Stanislaw Mikolajozyk, Prime Minister of Poland. Pointing out that “the Polish government owes a duty to itself and humanity to put a stop to these conditions,” Judge Proskauer’s letter expressed “the widespread concern and indignation felt in this country of the manifestations of anti-Semit-

ism exhibited by the Polish Army in England. Referring to the trial of the 30 Polish Jewish soldiers who left the Polish Army to join the British Army, Judge Proskauer said that “these Jewish soldiers were not seeking to shirk military duty; they were seeking to fight in the British Army.” He further said that “it is a complete violation of the great principles for which this war is being fought to punish these men who were driven by intolerable conditions to seek a place in the British Army where they could fight with that morale and heroism that can exist only under decent human conditions."

Not Race or People, Algerian Leaders Say By Jewish Tele(trai>hle Airenry ALGIERS — A manifesto issued here by six prominent Algerian Jewish leaders opposes the establishment of a Jewish state anywhere and protests against “the conception that the Jews are a race or people.” The latter theory is contrary to all anthropological teachings, and would result in perpetuation of Nazi racial theories in France, even after the Germans are defeated, the manifesto says. “Judaism must once and for all be considered only a religion,” it adds. The proclamation is apparently intended as a rebuke to certain Jewish groups here, who have joined with Arab nationalists in demanding an end to French sovereignty after the war. Regarding Palestine, the manifesto calls for a “harmonious fusion of all elements there.” It is signed by Armand Karsenty, an Oran attorney; Prof. Rafael Dreyfus, of Oran; Jacques Nathan, former professor at the University of Paris; Alexander Guenon, an Oran teacher; Alber-t Solal, president of the Oran chamber of commerce, and Jules Skall, an industrialist in the same city.

Sarnoff Gets New Job By J4»«vi«h TVlyffraphic Agency LONDON — Col. David Sarnoff, in private life president of the Radio Corporation of America, has been appointd special consultant to the communications branch of the Public Relations Office, Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force announced this week.

Propaganda Aim Aided By Tribune By JAMES A. WECHSLER FM Service WASHINGTON — Col. Robert R. McCormick’s Chicago Tribune, echoed on most days of the week by Cissie Patterson’s Washington Times-Herald, is acting as unofficial mouthpiece for the 30 accused seditionists in their campaign to use the trial as a profascist, anti-Roosevelt propaganda forum. Examination of the handling of the case by these two PattersonMcCormick journals during the past fortnight confirms the jubilant predictions of many of the defendants that the Tribune and the Times-Herald would serve as a sounding board $or the wildest outcries of the indicted array of its legal spokesmen. From the outset of the trial it has been apparent that a large bloc of defense counsel and of the indicted group would seek to put the Administration on trial and to lay a smoke screen over the real issues of fact and law raised in the Government indictment. Headlines Slanted Col. McCormick’s paper, usually seconded by the Times-Herald, has made an almost daily campaign to the confusion-campaign — either in headlines, stories, incidental comment or a combination of the three. Providing the coverage for the newspapers is Arthur Sears Henning, veteran Tribune correspondent. One of Henning’s first dispatches included thil; give-away passage: “The seamy side of history under the Roosevelt Administration will be exposed to public view and there may be even an airing of the responsibility for Pearl Harbor, as one of the defendants has requested the court to subnena Rear Adm. Kimmel and Maj.-Gen. Short, who are awaiting courtmartial for failure to avert that disaster. “Other witnesses whose testimony is sought by defendants include Justice Frankfurter of the Supreme Court, Bernard M. Baruch and Samuel L. Rosenman, President Roosevelt’s legal aid and ghost writer.” Accept I.aiiR’hlin’s Charges When James J. Laughlin. the loquacious lawyer for James Edward (Continued on Page 21

Compromise Averts Split By Papers With the eyes of American Jewry on the meeting of Jewish publishers here last weekend, a split in the ranks was na''!""!- • oided when a motion by D. H. White, of the Jewish Herald-Voice el Houston, Tex., resulted in the bringing in of a compromise. The compromise deelarpd that the conference was in favor of the establishment of an Associat on and empowered the chairman to name a steering committee of five with power to act to set up the rules and policies of the organization. Twenty-one of the editors and publishers present wanted to organize the Association last weekend. but a group of four, led by Dr. Joseph G. Brin, of the powerful Jewish Advocate, of Boston, were willing to agree only to the organization in principle and wanted the actunl formation put off

Annual Award by B’nai B’rith Bernard Pudal, publicity director of the B’nai B’rith, announced at the conference that that organization had decided to award a yearly trophy to the Anglo-Jewish publication which had best served its community during the year. The award will he presented at the annual meeting of the new association.

until another meeting could he called at some future date. The steering committee, which will meet in Milwaukee late this month or early : r. June, includes Dr. Brin, Irving Rhodes of the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, Leo Frisch, of the American Jewish World. Phil Slomovitz of the Jewish News, and Ja"k Fishbein, of the Sentinel. Gabriel Cohen, of The Post, chairman of the convention, who named the committee, and Sam Neusner, of The Jewish Ledger, secretary, are members ex-officio of the committee. Community Support Trend Problems affecting the Jewish publishing field were discussed for two days by the delegates. The trend towards community support for the local Anglo-Jewish paper was clearly evidenced as the speakers discussed their local situations. This support took the form in some instances of actual lump sums of money and in others of subscriptions from the cornunity as s whole through the local federation. In one instance, each organization in the comunity. depending on its size and importace, paid in annual sums to the paper. Problems in connection with advertising were also discussed, and the Jewish department store owner came in for a round of criticism. Mr. Rhodes, whose paper carries ads from every Milwaukee department store, said these men withhold advertisng from their local Anglo-Jewish papers and then expect these papers to perform a decent service, when were the same advertising withdrawn from (Continued on Page 2)