Ford’s Reputation As Antisemite Based on Error, German Agent Claims

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The claim that Henry Ford’s reputation of anti-Semitism is erroneous and is traceable to his German translator, Theodoar Fritsch, was made by the German Agency of the Ford Motor Company.

The “C.V. Zeitung,” the organ of the Central Verein der Deutschen Juden, refused to publish an advertisement of the German agency of the Ford Motor Company. The agency then wrote to the “C. V. Zeitung,” explaining that Ford’s reputation as an anti-Semite is traceable “to the falsified translation by Theodor Fritsch of Ford’s book, “The International Jew.” Ford’s representatives have begun legal steps to prevent the further publication of the translation and to demand indemnity. The letter further states that the head of the Ford Motor Company, E. G. Lie-bold, is a Jew and that the Ford plant employs 2,400 Jews.

RAISE FUND FOR VICTIMS OF ROUMANIAN PERSECUTION

A fund to assist the victims of political persecution in Roumania is being collected by The International Committee for Political Prisoners. This information is published in the Bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Anna C. Davis is treasurer of the fund. The money secured by the appeal is to be distributed through the Quakers.

The officers of the Federal Council of the Church, by authorization of its Administrative Committee, have been carrying on correspondence with the Roumanian Minister to the United States, with reference to reports of anti-Semitism in Roumania, the Bulletin states.

LEADERS OF ALL SECTIONS ARE SPONSORING MARSHALL-WEIZMANN DINNER TRIBUTE

Fifty-five men prominent in Jewish communal life in New York and other cities have been named as an invitation committee for the dinner to be given March 22 in honor of Louis Marshall and Dr. Chaim Weizmann. The appointment of the committee was announced yesterday by Judge Irving Lehman, Associate Justice of the New York Court of Appeals, who is the chairman of the national committee arranging the dinner.

The gathering, which will be held at the Biltmore Hotel, has been instituted as a joint public tribute to Mr. Marshall and Dr. Weizmann for their services in establishing the accord among leaders of the major organized groups of American Jewry.

The committee just announced makes up a representation of all sections of the community, professional, banking and business, labor, education and religion, embracing orthodox, liberal and conservative elements, Zionist and non-Zionist. The New York City members in addition to Judge Lehman, include Max Blumberg, David M. Bressler, Harry Fischel, Bernard Flexner, Hon. Alfred Frankenthaler, Lee K. Frankel, Jacob Goell. Jonah J. Goldsteain, Col. H A. Guinzburg, Alexander Kahn, Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan, Samuel C. Lamport, Herbert H. Lehman, Abe Liebowitz, Louis Lipsky, Judge Julian W. Mack, Judge Mitchell May, Walter E. Meyer, I. D. Morrison, Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, Dr. Henry Moskowitz, Emanuel Neumann, David L. Podell, Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, Joseph Polstein, Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, Judge Olto A. Rosalsky, James N. Rosenberg, Samuel J. Rosensohn, Morris Rothenberg, Samuel Rottenberg, Bernard Semel, Hugh Grant Straus, Nathan Straus, Jr., Lewis L. Strauss, Louis J. Vorhaus, Philip Wattenberg, Morris Weinberg, Maurice Wertheim, Benjamin Winter, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.

Other members are David A. Brown of Detroit, Jacob Billikopf, Albert M. Greenfield, Hon. William M. Lewis, and Albert H. Licberman of Philadelphia; Felix Fuld, Newark, N. J.: Louis E Kirstein, Boston; Albert C. Lehman, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Armaand May, Atlanta, Ga.; Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Cleveland; Archibald Silverman, Providence, R. I.; David Snellenburg and Louis Topkis, Wilmington, Del.

Col. H. A. Guinzburg of New York is the treasurer of the dinner committee.

COMMUNICATION TO THE EDITOR

Sir:

I have been greatly impressed by the endeavor of the “Jewish Daily Bulletin” to keep items of fact and opinion separate and labeled; by its readiness to publish hostile as well as favorable dispatches; and by its admirable sense of proportion in the presentation of its material. For the editorial workmanship that goes into the paper, you have reason to be proud and your readers have cause to be grateful.

RALPH HAYES, Director, New York Community Trust., New York, March 1, 1927.

Seven Jewish students are among the 46 seniors and juniors at Yale University elected to the Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic fraternity.