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GOLD MEDAL WINNERS TO . BE PRESENTED m RECITAL. Little" Miss Dorothy -Lustgarden, daughter of Mr.' and Mrs.- B. Lust-" garden,- eleven-year-old violinist*-will be presented in" a" recital .Friday evening, January 18, at;the Schmoller. & Mueller Auditorium by her teacher, Miss Emily Cleve. She, will be"_accompanied by her sister,. Ida Lustgarden. She -will be assisted in'the Tecital by Master Robert" Eeuter, twelve-year-old, on the piano,, who is the son of and pupil of Professor Paul JReuter, of Seward, Nebr., who is head of the Lutheran" SenSnaryv Both of these children are - gold medal winners. -Miss Dorothy Lust^ garden received -the > gold' medal' in violin and Master Kobert Eeuter-in piano. ...'-•". \
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1924
SIJBSCEfFTION .PRICE,. 4 YEAR. $2.50.
JEWISH. HISTORY LECTURE AT COMMUNITY CENTER lews ire Severely- GREATEST HEBREW - FRIDAY EVENING LIBRARY IN THE WORLD Attackedfcylouse Immigration Comritittee
More than . 69 youag .-xoen and York.—The library became of the Jewinterlaced every their civilized culture with Hat women attended the. •weekly Jewish of practically or semiishNew Theological seminary the ties greatest Hebrew library in the world civilized nation, and this vast encyclo- Mstory lectere at the Jewish Comi with the acquisition of the Elkan Na- pedia of their writings over ten cen- munity Center last Friday evening-. I than Adler collection,- which has ar-turies and in every part of the world This is the largest attendance thus far Accuse Jews of U n l a w f u l l y rived from London in 66 cases and is forms a magnificent treasury of his- registered since the course started Instraetors Will Money- To Be* Collected Before being unpacked and sorted out by Dr. torical sources." three weeks &go, and is indicative of Securing Passports for Year Books Are Printed. Monday And Wednesday* Alexanders Marks and other scholars Before the. Adler library was pur- its increasing popularity. Countries. at the seminary in New York. chased the Hebrew library of the JewThe lecture is open to the public, WANT ALL PERSONS- TO SUPERINTENDENT OF FEDTheological seminary was sur-and is held every Friday evening at . TRYOUT FOR-PARTS. COMMISSION P R O P O S E S This collection comprises more than ish ERATlON (JIVES HIS 40,000 printed volumes and parts of passed by.that of the British uraseum 7:45. Mr.-J. L. Wolfson is making: PRESENT LAW BE REPORT. volumes and more than 4,000 manu- and that of Oxford. Both of these each lecture a unit while fitting it With tryouts for the children deALTERED. scripts, and was the greatest private libraries wished to acquire the Adler into the general course. In this way sirous of participating in the secosel Determination to complete collecWashington.. ( J . T . A.) Jews and Hebrew library known to exist. It in- collection, but they have both been newcomers may join the group at any annual Y. M. H. A. vaudeville show tion of -outstanding subscriptions' for on Monday evening, and tryouts for immigrants were brought to task at1. c l u d e s s e v e r a l thousand unique vol- practically penniless since the war.time. the Jewish Welfare' Federation for the adults on Wednesday evening, active the hearing today before the House j u m e s SXid nsanuscripts dating from the Mr. Adler, who was an international year 1928, and thus to conclude the rehearsals for the big review and enImmigration Committee by Lathrop ninth century to the present, and pro- lawyer of London, was willing that the business.for that year-as soon as tertainment will'soon be under way. collection should go to any of the two duced in every country of Europe and Stoddard, author of a member of artipossible, -was the keynote of the . On Monday evening at 8 o'clock, atAsia, and in many of those of Africa or three great Jewish cultural centers, j cles and books against immigration, monthly meeting of the Board of Dithe, Jewish Community Center, &tl j and he accepted an offer of §125,000,* who recently returned from Europe. and the new world. rectors" of the Jewish Welfare Federchildren "will have an opportunity to The whole collection has scarcely' a nominal price, from the Jewish TheHe declared* that the- Jews desire to ation last Sunday. display their talents in qualification migrate to "America more than any been touched by scholars. The super-* ological seminary. Mortimer L. Schiff Linens Used to Help Gothe ImReporting outstanding pledges of for parts in the show. Children wife ficial work which has been done on took the lead in raising the money. other' nationality in Europe. They $4,200 Harry Malashock, chairman of migrants in Palestine. prepared specialty mimbers are a&kedi fill the quotas of the European-coun- the collection as Adler put it together.' With "the acquisition of the Adler the Finance Committee, -urged the to be ready to present tliem st th© tries before the native population of shows, Doctor Marks said, that it will' collection the Jewish Theological semimembers ;of the Board to give Learty More than three hundred women tryouts. Miss Dorothy Devers will First Lodge in District to Present the respective countries have a chance throw light on every phase of civiliza-1 nary will have a total of about 80,000 co-operation to the work of collecting, attended the fifth annual Linen again be in charge of this department Radio Program. to apply for visas. Mr. Stoddard tion in Europe £rom the rise of Mo-1 Hebrew books and about 6,000 maim- Shower and program of the Omaha of the show. A special act, featuring* and his -plea -was met by enthusiastic charged that these immigrants are 1 kammdan civilization, and perhaps scripts and over 100 incunabula. This response. A statement of every outThe Omaha Lodge, L O. B. B., will assisted in coming here by certain' earlier, down almost.to the present, j vast library has.been put together al- Chapter of Hadassah Wednesday the children, will form the opening standing subscription is now in the afternoon, January 16, at the Burgess- number of the show. 3 5 give a radio program February 5 from hands of some committee and all de- 9 to 11 p. m. All persons can tune in Jewish immigrant organizations in the P " attribution of Jewish communi-:-most wholly in the last 20 years. Nash Auditorium. On Wednesday evening, Mass. Cecelinquent subscribers -will be called and hear, a program that -will be very United States who supply funds and The variety of linens collected will lia Fesler, who vtiU sgain be in charges upon before the books for the year entertaining, according to the com- advice. be sent to the hospitals and welfare of the adult singing, will try out ap*< He accused many Jewish immiare closed. mittee in charge .of arrangements. stations in Palestine who take care of plicants for parts in the adult de* The Board Sunday accepted the in- The program -will be broadcasted from grants of the practice of unlawfully the hundreds of sick immigrants who partments. Young men axid women securing passports and visas by going vitation of the Council of Social Agen- station WOAW. arrive daily and have to be given im- •who can sing or dance, or who are to other countries ,when refused in cies to affiliate -with that body in the from "Chamishor Osher B'shvat" To Bemediate medical care, "which is given otherwise talented in various lines of The Omaha lodge of the B'nai B'rith their own countries, and obtaining Agencies Receiving Money promotion of a social "work program is the first lodge in the district to Celebrated Saturday Evening. Community Chest. entertaiiUBent, -.are asked to try exit to them without any charge. for the entire city. Harry A. Wolf broadcast a program. Mr. Henry Mon- visas by making false statements. for Mrs. B. A. Simon and Mrs. B. parts on that night. and Samuel Schaef er, superintendent sky, past president of District No. 6, American consuls are quite willing to In an announcement made yester-j The Deborah Society is sponsoring A -wide range of entertainment will of the Federation, were appointed to and a member of the executive com- issue visas under such circumstances, day, E. F. Folda, Treasurer of the'the annual Chamishor Osher B'shvat Handler were in charge of the affair, be incorporated in the show, in both the following proalthough .they know that the staterepresent the Federation on the Coun- mittee of the Independent Order of Omaha Community Chest and Welfare Program that the City Talmud To: ments in the application for an Orsa for the afternoon's entertain- the children and adult divisions, and cil of Social Agencies. B'nai B'rith, will be the principal are false merely in order to get rid Federation, madef an appeal to con-is presenting Sundar evening at seven all available material will The following directors were pres- speaker. There will be many song tributors to the recent campaign to o'clock iir the new" annex of the!! ment: -according" to I.-F. Goodman, gensrst of those people. .. ent: pay their quarterly subscriptions Talmud Torah. In" connecQon with the \ . A dance travelosme. tlirected bx Miss director. ... ,. numbers on the program. The com', , "Wise, and Miriam Kubach. at the Most of the immigration today, ac- •which were due January, 1st if they Dr. Philip Sher, Henry Monsky, plete program will.he announced in piano. • program, the Deborah Society . "The Y i$ going to make tins French Ballet, ETelyn Epstein, Betty: cording to Stoddard, is undesirable. Herbert Heavenrich, M. Kulakofsky, the next issue of The Jewish Press. have not yet done so. dedicate the new annex that wss ; Siegel and Sara Tretifik. show better'than that' of. last They are not laborers, he continued, Sam Altschuler, J. J. Greenberg, Louis recently built for the Talmud Torah Solo. Euurce "Every time' send out a stateThe following committee i s in but belong to the class of push cart said Mr. ^Goodman. "Many, new iw«3 Oriental, I<3a Tenenbatnn. Harris, A. ScWaifer, A. B. Alpirn, charge of the arranging of the proI Chinese, Xabby - Bernstein Sara novel features "will be introduced, as ment it costs us nearly eight cents," children. • - . - - / peddlers and organ grinders ivblch Dave Greenberg, Eabbi J. M. Char- gram: Abner Kaiman, chairman, Sam Chamishor Osher B'shvat means i said Mr. Folda. "Every, time we -well as unique stage settings, i . f lop, H. Marcus, Harry Malashock, L Beber and Nathan Bernstein. "This Mr. Stoddard identifies with New spend an extra eight cents, it is that the fifteenth dsy of Shvat and on this | _ rfotSC' Abltidziacr and Ann want this slsow to reflect the S. Goodman, Harry Freldman, Harry i s something new, for'local Jewry,'' York's East Side. In fatf^'.Mr. Stod- much taken xrosj -the money which day the Jews in Palestine celebrat?' «£ the Jewish €©mTarn«ty dsrd -goes -so far as to say :tha± -most said' Abner. Kaiman.' "We are going of the Jewish population of foreign should go t6wafd~aMingr the oriforni- "Arbor Ha.y. • The' school' children in i Cfclcfcen Keel, Anne HorrrSts and Omaha, and ws «onsiallj" invite" ' S. ?S. Dium, J. t oJ.. oioBDern Joe 4oe Wolf, won, a. . t o h a v f l > a v e i y . interesting program countries who now immigrate to the nate,-the distressed, the disabled and Palestine on this day plant fruit trees one who wishes to try out for Sophie Jacobs, Sam Leon, Fred White, I r a n cson „„ ,. - fans - ^ tmt _ „ ._ r all. radio* can *tune innon Shames All they have to do is to conns up tA welfare agencies which comprise the in the fields of Palestine.; To com-; United States are the "peddler type." Stalmaster, Isy Rosenthal, Sam Beber, Tuesday evening, February 5, and enmemorate this day here this program Stein. the Jewish Coimamuty Center on TW.Y: His observations lead Stoddard to Chest." Grecian, Helen Wise. Mrs. B. A. Simon, Mrs. K. Tatle, Mrs.! joy a,pleasant evening." is •given for the entire Jewish Persian, Julia Wise. Monday evemng for children, or quarter of the pledges ! -The first think that everybody in Europe wants Yiddish. Sopnie Spar, Mary Belle H. Q. Mjirx, Mrs. D. P. Elgutter. were due on New Year's day. A good public. All the members of the Shames Wednesday for adults." s.n<3 X>oris Stein. to come to the United-States, not beSuperintendent Schaefer read the two-act ulayiet, •written &n& directed cause of any real love of America or proportion already has been received, Deborah Society are espeically re- byA Mrs. Eea Handler, "The Change ..of following report .at the-meetings, '• : j; Climate," vrtm presented: Those ta&ius part its ideals, but for the .furthering of but Mr. Folda said many have not yet Quested to attend. were the ilisaes Gertrude Perils, Bertha REPORT FOR JANUARY 13, 1924. Cantor Fleisher will chant several Kushner, Elsie ^ their- own .selfish ends to improve paid. Enrwits, Dorothy Klein soa a n d Board of Directors: their personal financial condition. The Community Chest made their ss a musical program wfll bej^Sa «Sbn"S With the functional activities of the ^y the City Sunday School i<he recently elected officers of the Jewish boys are well represented te year 1923 ended, we present herewith The members of the Committee in first payment of one-twelfth of the ~ a few of the outstanding features of Defeat Omaha News Team for favor of restriction of immigration money raised to the thirty charities and a literary'program y p g con-,i i eai Hadassah organizations are: re: basketball circles cf the city; tivf> 0 o c ai money raised to the thirty charities the work of the past 12 months which Leadership. and social welfare agencies which parsisting of poems and recitations wfll, Mrs. A. Komm, president: Mrs. J.teams representing as many clubs ni , , p were -well satisfied with Mr. Stod•was directly" under the supervision v e n k of the h budget d h h was raisedd *** ^ tt hhee ^ ^ ^ Torah president; * ^ Torah Rsenberg Rosenberg, vice vice p president; Mrs Mrs. O O.C C. the Y. M. H. A. beinp enrolled ir. of the superintendent. dard's testimony which, it is thought, take which The Thorpeian Athletic club basket- will prove very detrimental. ill \ GoMner, second vice president; Mrs. various smateur leairueg throag)if>>5t by the recent city-wide campaign. children. Eabbi J. M. Charlop will In our local relief department a toprincipal address, d tal of 176 persons, 64 adults and 112 ball team broke the tie for the leadEepresentative. Sabath was Enable Besides paying one-twelftli of the ^ % icipal address •Ben -Handler, secretary, and Mrs. the city. presentation of the children, were cared for. The dura- ership of the Y. M. C. A. Commercial to shake Stqddard's testimony or les- money raised to meet the needs of the Charles Levinson, treasurer. The B'nai Israel team, re tion of the period of care ranged all league Wednesday- night when they of both the agencies for January, fhe Budget f " ? the B'nai Israel newsboys' club the way from one week to the entire overwhelmingly defeated the Omaha sen its effect, on cross-examination. Sunday the City Talmud Henry H. Curran, Commissioner of Committee also has w^ped away tte 52 weeks of the year. In all, 44 famthe Y. M. H. A^ plays £cr the h ilies received aid during- this time. Of News Co. team by the score' of 26 Immigration at Ellis Island, was also deficit of the various agencies for Torah will be given packages of pionship of the 115-POKTJCS (bar.tsra the cases continuing throughout the to 7. called. The Commissioner proposed last year, giving them a "clean slate" fruits. weight) di"vision of the Sunday Sciwwt year, there were 14, representing that The feature of the game was the that the present law be altered, abol- for 1S24. League on Saturday evening tsX T:"ft number of families, embracing 14 par- wonderful defence of the Thorpeians, ishing the right of appeal to the De"I am confident that the Chest ^11 ents and 40 children. Averaging all YtNBl Tub .PlSCSSSli If at the Y. M. C. A. B'nai Israel opiv>Work of Regional Direct- nents will be the Dtmdce Presbytcriaa the weekly relief over the year, we who allowed the News Co. team by partment of Labor in Washington and prove a big success during this year, y , ft E A. ieBllIS St & f i i | To Outline find that 36 adults and 59 children one field goal. The remaining points vesting all right of decision on ap-and will again be accepted by the ors Throughout District. boys. were aided each for 52 weeks. points being scored on free throws. The B'nai Israel team has been ih? peals in the Commissioner at port of j people with the generous response; More than 300 persons were present Our total relief expenditures for The Thorpeians shot baskets literally Dr. Chahn Weizmann, leader of the talk of .this 'league, having won A» t h i year, comprising shelter, heat, from" all corners of the floor. The arrivals.^ He also suggested that there that it received during its first cam-' of the "Senior Groap of fuel, light, food, clothing and medib no right ih appeal -whatever -where ' paign," said J . E. Davidson, who was the Y. M. and Y. W; H. A. Monday Keren Hayesod, will be the principal seven of th6 games played by d be cine was $12,815. This amount is floor work of Sidney Corenman, Leo exclusion is made mandatory by law director of the campaign. speaker at the Southwestern Keren scores. "'-SEeaibers of the team art.'. evening and were entertained with a $2,195.00 less than that spend in this Konecky, George Bernstein and Harry Hayesod gathering to be held in St. (Continued on page 2) Haykin was featured. From the How- as cases where aliens are afflicted business men and others have told me thoroughly enjoyable program.- Spir- Louis, Mo., • January 29 and SO. At Dave Greeaberg,"l4j.'Louis Bartmaru "with contagious diseases. 14; John Boserfblatt, 15; Harry W V that they happily missed usual tag jt ed discussion from the floor by Irvin ing of the whistle to the end of the Congressman Raker asked Commis- days and the calls made on them for stahnarter: and^Sam Eeber on thethis meeting he will speak on "The 18; Jake 'Sisowsky,14; .Take S game, the Thorpeians outplayed their sioner Curran if there was.a Jewish individual subscriptions." st5% 14; .Jsi3ke-.*Schreibman, IS; S League of-Nations and the Bok Peace Jewish Agency." • opponents. AH regional directors throughout Bosen, '.lS,;and J a t e Stoicr, 15, organization that automatically apPlan, followed David Sher's presentaAt the last meeting of the club, pealed for every rejected Jewish imthis'district'are invited to attend this •' Other Jewish teams in the Y, M. of the latter subject. AH the Jerusalem. (J. T. A.) America members of t h e ' A / Z. A. club, ad- migrant. Curran emphatically denied conference. At this conference Dr. • « ©A ^t-^-kers were roundly applauded for Weizmann will work out complete de- A. league are-'A..Z. A., Y. M. K. ranks as the largest contributor to the dressed the members and explained that he knew of any such organization s ~ i ' « • i n for JdlSt SOdSi E?£E1S|, JSIL 3 0 their famsliarity with' these problems tails with the regional directors for Jrs., Y. .M. -H.-A.- CuKs and Y. K. Jewish National Fund which was the purposes of their organization. or practice. A. .Independents. These teams, of world-wide'interest. The club will be addressed at the founded 20 years ago with the purthe coining Keren Hayesod campaigns. getfeer 'with the B'nai Israel, the V Other witnesses called were "Byron Reservations for the third annual Max Fromkin gave a talk on the According to A. I. - Knlakofsky, pose of buying land in Palestine, as next meeting by Prof. Nathan Bern- H. Uhl, Assistant Commissioner at Mo and the. Boy Scouts team, the unalienable property of the Jew- stein, who will lecture on a very in- Ellis Island, who testified regarding YWHA Mother and Daughter Social Life'.and Achievements of Theodore chairman of the local Keren Hayesod, •form-the Yi-M.'H. A. league and teresting subject. . Evening, to be .given at the Jewish Herzl, which met -with singular'ap- Has • gathering In St. Louis will "be ish people. alien seamen, and. John H.. Clark, for tlie championship of the Community Center, Wednesday, Janproval. Jeanette Levinson gave a America contributed §119,998 of very important, as it is probably tiic tiou during: February. Commissioner of Immigration at Monuary SO, have been -very satisfactory reading, and Arthur Goldstein gave the ?449,366, the total income of the UKRAINIAN POGROM treal, Canada, who •described the to date, according to Anne Selicow, piano selections. Avruni Lusgarten, last time that Dr. Weiaanarjj will be ' Fund for the nine months of January London. (J. T. A.) John ia this part of the country. The conLEADEB EXECUTED smuggling of immigrants' from" Can-' to September, 1923. The total income , Moscow. , (J. T. A.) The bandit ada into the United.States and testi- chairman of the Committee in charge. Arthur' Chudalcoff and Dorothy Lus- ference of regional directors will be the JeM-isb novelist formerly of ' Reservations will be accepted up gsrten, child violinists, rendered solo . of the Jewish National Fund since its .leader, Kuprenko, operating under fied that there was a j;a:at deal of to January 25, and it is anticipated numbers with Ida L^asgarten and Lil- held on January 29 and on January York, lias become caES|?cd to establishment was nearly $5,000,000. 3D & mass meeting* of all St. Louis Mrs. Helen Atwood, an American General Petlura, has paid with his such traffic going on. that the next ten days will bring Kan Clmdakcff. accompanying. I t is reported from Vienna that Mr. life for thr many lives he has been vorcec, according: to sn Jewry will be held. the total number of mothers and The nest meeting of the Senior Pinchas Butenberg has obtained $250,- guilty of snuffing out during the po- ZASGWILL A "WOBBLER;" daughters attending the affair well gToap will be held January 2S. 000 there for the financing of his A VOICE PROM INDIA grom wave in the Ukraine. Kuprenko above the 200 mark, as was the plan for the electrification of PalesIiOndon. (J. T. A.) The lidian was tried by the District Court sitting case last year. Y DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT tine. in Kiev and he was sentenced to death Press of the last week of November be AT COMMUNITY CENTER Places are 55c each and may Official authorization has been giv- for the shooting of' a Jewish family just- arrived here has a deal to say I hereby volunteer for tryout for the va«devflle show: The regular seml-raonthly dance of en the Palestine Land Development in a village in Kiev district. Wit- about Mr. Israel Zangwill's address to reserved at the Y office in the Jewthe Senior group of the Y. M. and Y. Nanse --——-~.—.--———...».—_—_—._._.._.„ .„„. „....—. Age..-. ish Community Center. Company for the issue of 5 per cent nesses described the terrible^ pogrom the American. Jewish Congress. W. H. A. mil be given this Saturday debentures. These bonds will be guarThe "Simla Times" calls it a long, Address _™__. »_...__.™. .„, _...._ Tel. -« 'scenes, tinder Xuprenko's participanight at 'the Jewish Community anteed by the .land estate and capital tion and orders. The death sentence and bitter address, and tbinke that POLAND GIVES J . D. C. Center. JTdmissioa will be limited to of $325,000 of-the Palestine DevelopAbility in . Mr. Zangwill does not overdraw his 3MOXTHS TO WIND UP n good standing. • ment Company. The proceeds of this was executed by a firing party. gloomy picture. The '"Bombay ChronThe following are suggested as being svaijsble material: • Warsaw. (J. T. A.) Three months' - issue will be used for the purchase icle" writes: Mr. ZangwiH,,\rho wob- grace, has been given Hie American LECTURER TO SPEAK HE-RE Xante Address Age of land, the building of houses, and DECLINE TO BETUEN bled on the subject at the critical junc- Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Dr. M. Olgin, of New York City, the founding, of small agricultural setSYNAGOGUES OF CHASKOW ture when the present chaotic and un- to liquidate its relief activities ia Pq- noted lecturer and literary critic, will tlements, both in Palestine and the - AND BEALOSTOCK just system of Palestine rule was be- land, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency b e in Omaha nest week t o speak on Di4 Di4sfc6T8u . . . . Kiev. (J. T. A.) The Executive of ing hatched, is now apparently r l earns. The order permitting the "The Present Situation In Bcssia" at Authorization has also been given the Ukrainian Soviet has rejected an footed against Palestinian Zionism Committee to remain an additional the Swedish Auditorium en Saturday the Palestine Mortgage Bar recently application of -the Jewish communi- once. again- He is in the, TTaited three ipoaths was issued hy Minister evening, Jacssxr 19, at 8 o'clock, xmd established "by the Keren Hayesod ties of Charkow and Bialostoek to re- States to wage an anti-Zioa fight. ' "r, who 'is understood -to have lie irili again spsak SazuJay (Palestine Foundation Fund) for the turn the synagogue which had been against the wealthy and influential ~ ' reconsidered fee previous iJedsion to January '20, s t the Labor Xyceasi. ^ issue of die debenture .shares'of the confiscated last year and converted American Zionists. All to the-gooi have £b.e Comsaittee leave Poland \>j Twenty-second and CIstrk streets, OB ;' Palestine" Mortgage-Bank. L into theatres. Every little ielpst January. 1, "The Old and NCTT l i t e t a t e r e , *
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