The Sentinel, v.125 no. 07, 1942

              February 12, 1942 THE SENTINEL
London (JTA)-Special laboratories
to supply anti-typhus vaccine for the
Middle East will be set up in Palestine
as a precautionary measure to check
the possible spread of typhus from
Nazi-held territories, British health
authorities reported here this week.
Washington (JPS)-Taking the in-itiative
in demanding that friendly
aliens be allowed to fight in the armed
forces of the United States, the Legis-lature
of Maine passed a resolution
urging Congress to accept aliens for
the Army and Navy. Senator Wallace
White of Maine read the resolution
into the Congressional Record.
New York (JPS) - "To mobilize
Americans of foreign birth for victory
in our war and the elimination of
every handicap interfering with the
achievement of this goal," a national
conference will be held by the Amer-ican
Committee for Protection of
Foreign Born, in Cleveland on May 9
and 10, it was announced here.
Geneva (JPS)-Nazi administrators
in conquered Poland are pushing a
vigorous anti-sabotage campaign which
features the publication of a "wanted"
list of twenty thousand Poles and
Jews accused of being saboteurs.
Special Gestapo units are scouring the
country for these elements "subver-sive"
to Nazi rule. Among the accused
are 2,000 Jewish names.
New York (JPS)-Dr. Bernard
Glueck, leading psychiatrist and trans-lator
of noted books dealing with
psychoanalysis, has been appointed
Director of the Family Guidance and
Consultation Service of the Child
Study Association here. Dr. Glueck,
an author himself, has translated the
works of Alfred Adler, Franz Alex-ander
and Paul Schilder into English.
London (JPS) - Delegates repre-senting
10,000 German and Austrian
refugees, most of whom are Jews, con-ferred
here to discuss ways and means
of inducing the British government to
make better use of the services of ref-ugees
during wartime.
Geneva (JPS)-That Danish senti-ment
still braves the forced anti-
Semitic campaigns of the Nazi over-lords
was indicated as a Copenhagen
court sentenced the anti-Semitic Vigor
Staerke, who tried to burn the great
Synagogue of Copenhagen, to three
years' imprisonment.
London (JPS)-The ex-Mufti of
Jeruaslem, Haj Amin el Husseini, par-tisan
to the Nazis in the present war
and recently in Berlin and Rome as
the Arab adviser to the Axis leaders,
has broadcast another radio appeal to
Palestine Arabs to await the arrival
of General Rommel as one who would
"free them from the yoke of the Jews
and the British."
Geneva (JPS)-The ruthless Ger-man
penal code, which provides Nazi
authorities with the right to punish
Jews and Poles for "crimes" commit-ted
against Germans since 1932, has
replaced the Polish code in Nazi-held
Poland.
Jerusalem (JPS-Palcor) - Ernst
Frischer, former President of the
Jewish Political Party in Czechoslo-vakia
and since last November a mem-ber
of the State Council of the
Czechoslovakian government-in-exile,
left this country for London to take
up his new duties. Frischer has been
living in Palestine since March, 1940,
having before that spent some time
in a Gestapo concentration camp.
New York (JTA)-A check for
$4,100, representing 25 per cent of
the gross receipts of the special British
Empire Edition published by the Jew-ish
Daily Forward on December 7, was
presented here to the British War
Relief Society at a luncheon at the
Commodore Hotel presided over by
Frederick W. Gehle, chairman of the
fund-raising division of the Society.
Moscow (JTA)-The Soviet press
reports from Biro-Bidjan that collec-tive
farming in the Jewish autonomous
region there is to be considerably ex-tended
in connection with war emer-gency
measures taken by the Soviet
administration. The Jewish collective
farms in Biro-Bidjan are clearing
3,000 acres of new fertile land from
the taiga, the Siberian forest, and
10,000 acres of fallow land will be
brought under cultivation, the report
says.
Tel Aviv (JPS-Palcor)-The orig-inal
reward of £1,000 offered for the
capture of Abraham Stern and £2,000
for information leading to the capture
of the gang of terrorists associated
with him was enlarged by the police,
thus emphasizing the authorities' anxi-ety
to apprehend the six members
believed to be the ringleaders of the
band responsible for the fatal explo-sion
in Tel Aviv almost three weeks
ago. At last report one member of
the gang had been apprehended and
two had surrendered.
Zurich (JTA)-All Jewish sports
organizations in Hungary have been
drdered to disband immediately in a
decree issued by the Ministry of
National Education, the Rome radio
reported this week. Jews were also
ordered to leave any Hungarian sports
groups to which they belong.
NEWS BREVITIES
A4SSURES
Jerusalem (JTA)-A forest com-memorating
the late Pinchas Ruten-berg
was planted this week in the
colony of Hanita in Upper Galilee in
the presence of representatives of the
leading institutions in the Yishub, in-cluding
many Jewish National Fund
officials. The money for the forest was
collected about three years ago from
workers of the Palestine Electric Cor-poration,
on the occasion of Ruten-berg's
sixtieth birthday.
Zurich (JTA) - Jews throughout
Germany have been deprived of their
ration cards permitting them to buy
shaving soap and have also been for-bidden
to visit any barber shops, it is
reported here this week. At the same
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SECURIT
time Nazi authorities, tightening their
restrictions on the sale of bread and
flour to Jews, ordered all bakeries and
groceries to post signs stating that the
sale of flour, white bread and pastry
to Jews is forbidden.
London (JPS-Palcor)-Harold Mac-
Millan, who had previously shown a
favorable interest in Palestinian prob-lems,
has been appointed Parliamen-tary
Undersecretary of State for the
Colonies succeeding George Henry
Hall, who was transferred from his
Colonial Office post to that of Finan-cial
Secretary. Noel Baker, one of the
warmest friends of Jewish Palestine,
was also taken into the government.
CONFIDENCE...
AAND D ViI ctoO7 ry.
ITH grim but quiet determination
the people of the United States and
Canada carry in their minds and hearts
the conviction of complete and final Victory
over the enemies of freedom.
This will to win and to hold fast to their
chosen way of life is reflected by nearly
seventy million people throughout these
two countries who continue to maintain
their life assurance because they know it
is the best means of ensuring future eco-nomic
security for themselves and their
families. Their confidence serves a dual
purpose, for their savings have also made
possible the great investments of the life
companies in the National Defense and
Victory loans of our North American
democracies.
SUN LIFE
OF CANADA
From the 1941 Annual Report:-New Assurances issued
during the year: $187,041,959. Total Assurances in force:
$2,971,747,088. Benefits paid during the year: $88,312,394.
Total Receipts: $177.302,861. Total Assets at Dec. 31,
1941: $992,761,140. Total Liabilities: $961,313,800.
(Liabilities and other funds in the United States: $377,239,983.)
For copy of Annual Report, apply to:
Ernest C. Hoy, Branch Manager
One No. La Salle, Chicago Fra. 2390
R. D. EKBLAD, District Group Manager
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