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VOLUME 13, N U M B E R 17 P I T T S B U R G H , PA. , M A R C H 28, 1941, 29 A D A R , 5701 Per copy, G cents SI.DO The Year

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7,000 Greek Jews Fighting on Albanian Front : B y DR. ASHER I S A A C S :

HAT RABBI Alstat calls an anomaly of the Second Wor ld W a r is f o u n d in a recent United Press re lease : The luxurious Knightsbridge mansion of the Redesdale family , which was once the childhood home of Lady Unity Freeman - Mitford (whom Hitler calls the " p e r f e c t Nordic beauty") has been converted into a shelter f o r Jewish re fugees .

Fifty German and Polish Jewish families who three months ago were bombed out of their East End tene-ments and a score of families re -cently arrived in England n o w make their home there. (The big bed-rooms, once sumptuously furnished, are now modest but comfortable fiats. The high-ceilinged reception room has been transformed into a refectory, with a single long table flanked b y benches . . . ) The r e f -ugees are running their n e w home on the principles of Jewish ortho-doxy. They held religious services regularly; and in the spacious base-ment of the mansion they conduct cooperatively a strictly k o s h e r kitchen and restaurant.

The f ounder and manager of this Jewish shelter is Mrs. Peter Rod, a sister of Hitler's " p e r f e c t Nordic beauty" and a sister-in-law of Sir Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader n o w in a concentration camp. Mrs. Rod herself resides in the quarters f o rmer ly reserved f o r the servants.

• • o T o p s y - T u r v y

SINCE LITHUANIA CAME under Communist domination, the question of Sabbath-observing offi-cials employed by the government has become acute. But ivliat is inter-esting is that the agitation against them has not been started by the government but by a group of "Jew-ish" Communists who are demanding that Jews either work on the Sab-bath or resign. This is just another indication that Communism and Ju-daism do not go together. . . .

This year the British—non-Jews as ivell as Jews ate Hamantaschen oh Purim or Hitler-taschen as they called them. It came about in this way. Crowded together in under-ground shelters, all within hearing heard the reading of the Book of Es-ther and then enjoyed the three-cornered cakes. The famous London Evening Standard editorialized that Hitler would meet the same fate as Hainan,. . . .

9 • • Greek J e w i s h H e r o e s

MORE STORIES CONTINUE to reach these shores about Jewish heroism in Greece. One man, a well-known athlete, f o u n d himself in charge o f a handful of men and outnumbered by the Italians whose outpost they were attacking. In a fashion reminiscent of Biblical he-roes, he ordered his men to make a tremendous amount of noise. The I t a l i a n s , believing that they faced huge odds, surrendered. . . Another soldier was decorated f o r picking up the hand grenades as rapidly as the Italians threw them and then hurling them back against the Ital-lans. . . A third hero accomplished the well-nigh impossible f e a t of bringing down an Italian bomber who was flying low b y using his. n f l e . . . The Palestine Symphony Orchestra n o t only continues in s Pite of the war but completed a

r y successful appearance i n %ypt. It seems strange that a Je\vish orchestra reverses the proc -ess of go ing f r o m Palestine to kgypt and receiving a welcome in-stead of looking f o r an exodus.

Jewish Army Negotations In Progress, Says Weizmann

By DANIEL L. SCHORR Jewish Te legraphic A g e n c y

N E W Y O R K , March 2 6 . — W o r n and nervous f r o m the effects o f an arduous four -day air voyage f r o m Lisbon, Dr. Chaim Weizman, president of the Jewish A g e n c y f o r Palestine and the World Zionist Organization, accompanied by his w i f e , stepped off the Dixie Clipper at LaGuardia Field at six o ' c lock last Friday morning on a pro jected two-month visit to the United States.

been conducting in a special chemi-cal laboratory of the British Admir-alty, and will discuss with Amer i -can Jewish leaders plans f o r en-abling Palestine to give maximum aid to the British cause in the Near East.

His f i rst public address was de-livered Wednesday evening at a rally in the Hotel Astor .

Despite the early hour, a delega-tion of about 20 Zionist leaders was on hand to greet Dr. Weizmann. A m o n g them were Louis Lipsky, Mendel N. Fisher, Morris Margulies, Jacob Fishman, Meyer Weisgal , Henry Montor, Miss Julliet N. Ben-jamin, David Wertheim and Arthur Lourie.

A s Dr. Weizmann entered the cus-toms room at LaGuardia Field, a f ter having been brought ashore f r o m the Clipper on a launch and being passed by the immigration inspectors, re-porters clustered around him f o r an interview. " I cannot speak," he told

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Pleading lack of rest, Dr. Weiz -mann refused to be interviewed, but did indicate to a J T A representative that negotiations regarding f o r m a -tion of a Jewish army were still in progress in London. Informed that the London Jewish Standard, Zion-ist-Revisionist organ, had reported the negotiations deadlocked, he said "That is not correct ." Asked if it could then be assumed that the talks were still in progress, he said "yes . "

Dr. Weizmann would not discuss the results of the interview he had with Prime Minister Winston Chur-chill before leaving London. Nor would he talk of any aspect of Zion-ist policy or the scientific work in which he is engaged. He did re-veal, however, that one of his sons is a pilot in the Royal A i r Force and the other is serving in the British Army .

Dr. Weizmann will confer with leading American scientists regard-ing his chemical research f o r the British war e f fort , which he has

Nazi Papers Laud Jews in Moscow By Jewish Telegraphic Agency

STOCKHOLM, March 28.—Exten-sive quotations in the Soviet press f r o m highly appreciative reviews published in German papers of the performance of Wagner ' s opera "The Valkyries" in Moscow indicate the curious fact that Reichsminister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels has ordered his myrmidons to waive anti-Jewish prejudices in the cul-tural sphere so f a r as prominent Soviet Jewish citizens are concerned.

Reviews in a number of Nazi pa-pers pay high tribute to the Jewish producer, Serge Eisenstein, but all of them are outdone by the Ham-burger Fremdenblatt which says:

"The very strongest and most im-portant feature of the performance is the mise-en-scene directed by Eis-enstein. His culture, intelligence and talent made the performance an immense artistic achievement. The producer has deep and unequalled understanding of the Gereman na-tional epic poem."

Read L o u i s L i p s k y ' s s t o r y o n Jewish unity on page 2.

Kaufmann Predicts Palestine Future By Jewish Telegraphic Agency

N E W Y O R K , March 27.—Estab-lishment of Palestine as a Jewish commonwealth after the war and the settlement of at least three million homeless Jews in that country over a period of f i ve to ten years was predicted by Edmund I. Kaufmann, president of the Zionist organization of America, in an address b e f o A 1,500 persons attending the 33rd an-niversary dinner of the Order Sons of Zion.

The dinner marked completion of the $25,000 project which the Order launched in January f o r land ac-quisition and reforestation in Pales-tine. This fund is an addition to the sum of $100,000 raised by the mem-bership of the Order in the last three years f o r establishment of a re fu-gee colony.

The new project includes the planting of a forest in the name of Dr. Harris J. Levine, f ormer Grand Master.

Aid-to-Britain Body Is Formed By Jewish Telegraphic Agency

N E W Y O R K , March 26.—Formal establishment of the Jewish Section of the Interfaith' Committee f o r Aid to the Democracies, f o r the purpose of rendering aid to Great Britain was announced this week. Dr. Israel Goldstein has been elected chairman of the committee.

The Jewish Section, Dr. Goldstein said, will undertake as its immediate task the ful f i l l ing of a pledge to secure 200 mobile f ield kitchens f o r the British population, at a cost of approximately $400,000.

The organization has already turned over $75,000 to the British W a r Relief Society, in whose o f f i ces it is headquartered.

Meanwhile, more than 1,000 dele-gates of Jewish organizations in the metropolitan area voted at a confer -ence at the Hotel Edison to support the American Jewish Congress in its program f o r the post-war recon-struction of Jewish life in Europe,

The conference also voted to es-tablish a permanent organization of fraternal bodies to be known as the Metropolitan Council of the Amer i -can Jewish Congress. Edward S. Silver was elected chairman.

Announement of the institute was made by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, presi-dent of the Congress, while its pro-gram was developed in the f irst pub-lic address in this country by the di-rector of the institute, Dr. Jacob Robinson, formerly of Kansas, Lith-uania.

The f i rst all-American Jewish conference in history is to be held in July, 1941, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Dr. Wise stated. This meeting of representatives of Jewish communi-ties in the 22 Countries of North and South America will have a three-fold purpose, Dr. Wise said:

" T o strengthen the bond inherent in the American way of l i fe; to unite all Jews in the Western Hemisphere in a common program of aid f o r Jews throughout the world; and to mobilize support f o r a Jewish Com-monwealth of Palestine after the

MRS. M A U R I C E L Y O N • • •

Veteran Woman Leader 'Saluted'

When hundreds of Iladassah mem-bers and their friends gather at the Will iam Penn Hotel on Monday, March 31, f o r the annual Iladassah Donor Luncheon, there will be a number of tired but happy workers -—women who have devoted almost a year to making this a f fa i r the out-standing e f f or t of Iladassah and one of the highlights of Jewish com-munal activities.

There will be women there who have handled thousands of dollars and thousands of details, laboring' clay and night f o r this worthy cause. And while it is impossible to point to all of them by name and tell just what part each played in making the a f f a i r a success, The Outlook takes this occasion to pay tribute to each of them.

For one of these women, how-ever, the Donor Luncheon will be of special significance. Mrs. Maurice Lyon who has been the Donor Chair-man is deserving of special mention f o r hers has been the gigantic task of co-ordinating the work of all the committees and supplying many of the ideas incorporated in the luncheon. C o m m u n i t y G r a t e f u l

To Mrs. Lyon, accordingly, has gone The Outlook Floral Tribute which has come to be regarded as a unique way in which the community expresses appreciation f o r outstand-ing work of a civic nature.

Mrs. Lyon is no stranger to organ-ized activities of this community. Coming to Pittsburgh at the age of eight, she was only 16, when as Mollie Millstone, she joined Junior Iladassah which was being organ-ized at the time. Her devotion to this organization continued f o r a

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Jewish Goebbels Family Changes Name

LONDON, March 27 (JTA)... —A storm was created in Hit-ler's ranks by the discovery of a Jewish family named Goeb-bels in Budapest when the death of one member, Helena Goeb-bels, was announced, The Jewish Chronicle reported.

An order, coupled with blood-curdling threats, was issued im-mediately to surviving mem-bers of the family to change their name. The new name is Glibes.

Display Great Calm in Face Of Nazi Threat

By LEIGH W H I T E Jewish Te legraph i c A g e n c y

With Nazi occupation of Bul-garia threatening Greece with imminent invasion, Co-n-espond-ent Leigh White rushed from Belgrade to Salonika and Ath-ens to cover events there. Fol-lowing is the first of his rvire-Icss dispatches from Greece. A T H E N S , March 27.—More than

7,000 Jews are f ighting on the Alba-nian f ront in the Salonika divisions, which have seen some of the heav-iest f ight ing of the war—a fact of which the Greek Jews are very proud.

They are also proud of the fact that the f i rst superior o f f i cer killed in action was a Jew—Col . Mordecai Frizis. Earlier this month the Arch-bishop of Athens called the Chief Rabbi of Salonika, Dr. Zvi Hirsch Koretz, to the capital to assist him in a memorial service f o r Col. Frizis and other Jewish dead.

On the occasion of the memorial service, Rabbi Koretz was made an honorary member of Parnassos, lead-ing Greek literary society—the f irst time in Greek history that a Jew was so honored. N o A n t i - S e m i t i s m

A f t e r observing the ever-increas-ing anti-Semitic repressions all over the Balkans, this correspondent found it refreshing to arrive in Sa-lonika, where there is no anti-sem-

Goering Consults Jewish Scientists

LONDON, March 26 (JTA). —Several German Jewish sci-entists were recently consulted by Field Marshal Hermann Goering regarding questions connected with prosecution of the war, it was learned here from a source which is reliable but cannot be disclosed for ob-vious reasons. The scientists were freed from concentration camps in order to meet Goering.

itism and where 50,000 Jews live on equal terms with 200,000 Greeks and Turks. They are descendants of refugees f r o m anti-Jewish persecu-tions over f our centuries ago.

The Jews of Salonika are acutely conscious of what is in store f o r them if the Germans conquer Greece. For this reason they have thrown themselves into the war e f f or t even more wholeheartedly than the Greeks themselves, if such a thing is possible.

British f ight ing planes are mak-ing it practically impossible f o r It-alian raiders to get through and bomb the strategic Greek city of Sa-lonika, it was learned. B r i t i s h E f f e c t i v e

This correspondent noted during an air raid alarm in the port city the other day that only part of the population bothered to take advan-tage of shelters, strong and inviting as they were. Emerging f r o m a shelter with my wi fe a f ter an "all c lear" was sounded I was informed that the British f ighter defense had become so effective the Italian air-men could no longer pierce it.

All traces of nervousness among the Greeks in Salonika and nearby points have disappeared despite the massing of huge German forces along the nearby Bulgarian frontier to the north. The city is being ac-tively prepared to resist siege. The old Jewish quarter already possesses some of the best air raid shelters I have seen—certainly better than anything I saw in Spain during the Civil War .

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Cleveland to Have Opera Festival

A gala week-end of five operas in two days climaxes the 16th spring-festival of the Metropolitan Opera Association of New York in Cleve-land Public Hall April 14 through 1!).

On Friday and Saturday of opera week there will be performances at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

A double bill of the two most popular operas, "Cavalleria Rusfci-cana" and "Pagl iacci" opens this varied program.

The evening performance of Ros-sini's "The Barber of Seville" brings to Cleveland another outstanding

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Broadway success of the year, with a distinguished cast headed by Bidu Sayao, Tito Schipa, Salvatore Bac-caloni and John Brownlee.

The Saturday performances are the matinee of "Faust" with Helen Jepson, Lucielle Browning, Thelma Votipka, Charles Kullman, Ezio Pinza, Richard Bonelli, and Arthur Kent, and the evening performance of "Rigoletto" with Josephine Tum-inia: Lawrence Tibbett in the title role; Bruno Landi as the Duke, Nor-man Cordon, the Sparafucile and Bruna Castagna the Maddalena.

Tickets are obtainable f rom Northern Ohio Opera Association, Union Bank of Commerce, Cleve-land.

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Jacobson-Gordon Wins High Rating

In recognition of the excellence in equipment, personnel and opera-tion of its Service Department, Jacobson-Gordon, Inc., Chrysler and Plymouth distributor of 530 Eighth A v e n u e , Homestead, has been awarded a rating of 1 0 0 % by the factory. A handsome w a l n u t plaque with bronze shield and orna-ments, emblematic of this honor, has been presented to this dealer f or display on the showroom walls, and a large banner of similar design for the Service Department.

The rating was conferred upon Jacobson-Gordon upon recommen-dation of the factory district sales manager and the regional service

manager after a thorough personal inspection of the establishment

Award of the 100 per cent rating is renewed annually and for each renewal a disc is furnished to be attached to the plaque. In judging-a dealer's fitness for the award and its renewal, factory representatives are guided by the standards of com-petitive dealers and the better in-dependents as well as by Chrysler's own high standards.

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Teller Addresses Numerous Groups

Sidney Teller, director of the Irene Kaufmann Settlement, has been busy all season addressing non-sectarian groups of diverse af-filiations in the Pittsburgh district.

On Monday, March 31, he will address the Monday Club of Leech-burg at 2 p. m. in the Irene Kauf-mann Settlement on the "Challenge of the Slums." On the following day he will speak before a North Side Unitarian Church group.

On Wednesday he will give a talk to a group from the Ingram High School, which will visit the Settle-ment. The Banksville Parent-Teach-ers Association will hear him dis-cuss "How to Develop a Hobby" on Thursday. On Tuesday, April 8, at the Settlement he will address Mt. Lebanon-Dormont High School classes, and on Friday, Apri l . 18, he will talk on "Democracy and Tolerance" before the Beechwood School Parent-Teachers Association.

Future speaking engagements will find him addressing the fo l -lowing organizations: B'nai B'rith Women's Club, Trinity Reformed Church of Wilkinsburg, Brentwood-Castle Shannon High School group, Bennett School Parent-Teachers As -sociation, Jackson Parent-Teachers Association of Bellevue, and Wes-leyan Service Guild of Emory Church.

Camp Holds Services W A S H I N G T O N , March 28

( R N S ) . — A feature of the Religious program at Camp Meade, Md., is the holding- of an undenominational service f o r the entire division every Sunday evening, apart f rom the reg-ular services f or both Roman Cath-olic and Protestant groups.

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Veteran Woman Leader 'Saluted'

(Concluded from Page 1) number of years until she married and as Mrs. Maurice Lyon continued her efforts in behalf of Palestine as an ardent worker in the Senior Chapter.

Other organizations, too, were soon to learn of her abilities and during the years she has been a tower of strength in the Ladies Hos-pital Aid Society, the Council of Jewish Women, the Y. M. & W. H. A., Beth Shalom Congregation, and so on. Active in Drives

She has taken an active part in various drives for members and funds of different organizations, both Jewish and non-Jewish. From 1938-1940 she served as President of the Conference of Jewish Wom-en's Organizations — the agency which co-ordinates the work of most of the women's organizations, pre-venting conflicts of dates and meet-ings.

Mrs. Lyon, or Mollie Lyon as she is universally known, is the mother of three girls. An ardent theatre-goer and a regular attendant at nu-merous meetings, Mrs. Lyon finds time to devote herself to knitting and other activities of the Red Cross, and it is said that while her mind is busy with communal affairs her hands are busy as well.

Dr. Harvey Gaul, noted musician-and winner of the Floral Salute last week, has sent The Outlook the fol-lowing note:

I was more touched by your telegram and flowers than I've been by anything to date. Ter-ribly sivell of you—and thanlcs for the grand "obit" in The Out-look.

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