Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1929, Page 5

* AMERICANS LOS HEAVILY N RIOT _ Tour Sees Few Casualties as Result of Trouble in Palestine. BY VINCENT SHEEAN. By Cable to The Star. JERUSALEM, September 14 (N.A. N.A).—I have just returned to Jeru- salem from a journey through ithe country, investigating the whereabouts and welfare of American citizens for the United States consul general, The trip took me to Jaffa and Tel- | | At Zikhron Jacob, strong Rothschild 'ariff truce proposed by the French and ! colony near Haifa, I found a jovial old Aviv and up the coast to Haifa, then north to Safed and back through Tibe- rias, Nazareth and Samaria. - The gen- eral result of interviews with several score Americans and careful checking of the lists available shows that Ameri- cans suffered no casualties anywhere in the country except Hebron, on August 24. The property loss, however, has been considerable, especially at Safed, where some American families are al- most destitute. The principal role in this expedition was played by a make-shift American flag. When I left Jerusalem last Tues- day the consulate didn’t possess an extra flag. Queer Flag Is Effective. 80 1 proceeded to Jaffa without one. ‘The authorities at Tel-Aviv considered it unsafe to go through the coast area with its alternate Arab-Jewish belts without putting a flag on the car. As it had proved impossible to buy an American flag at the shops a cham- bermaid at my hotel volunteered to make one. She produced an extraor- dinary piece of cloth of the wrong size and shape, with five stripes and nine stars. Yet, wherever this variegated remnant appeared, it produced a re- markable effect. It was cheered by American boys be- Jonging to the Reall Secondary School at Haifa, and in many places, particu- larly Safed, it collected a crowd of Americans almost before I could get out of the car. ~ Once, on Friday, while the car was tearing along the road beside the Sea of Galilee in a great hurry so I could reach a telephone at Tiberias, this piece of bunting was applauded by a group of farmers. A final quaint tribute Was paid at Nablus by & courteous Arab who sold me cigarett - “If you did not have that flag,” he sal milingly politely, “we should kill you.” Troops Play Foot Ball ‘This remark_might have been more fmpressive if British troops had not been visible in a nearby field, playing foot ball. The first area of investigation was Tel-Aviv and the neighborhood sur- younding. I found all Americans safe, and as conditions never had been com- parable to those of Jerusalem, 'the atmosphere of the whole district was better. About 80 Americans living in the colony of Rananiah had been with- out protection until the last few days, but never had been attacked. Charles Lazar of New York. told me that he, like most others, had been on guard every Qight, however, since the trouble began. Petach Tikwah, a strong colony founded & half century ago, contains about 50 American families, all safe. Petach Tikwah now harvors a detach- ment of 15 British sailors in addition to its own defense resources. Among the Americans there are Mrs. Esther Hurwitz and her two daughters, from Far Rockaway, N. Y. Mrs. Hurwitz had severe nervous breakdown after the murder of her son at Hebron, but now is somewhat recovered and plans to re- turn to the United States soon. T Americans are Calm. In Tel-Aviv itself the alarm has been far less than elsewhere in Palestine, and I found most Americans calm, though an appreciable number said they were returning to the United States in a few weeks. ‘When I found Mrs. Morris Silverstein of New York, one of the first on my list, she was kneading bread on the porch of her relative’s home on the out- &kirts of Tel-Aviv. “I heard there had been a lot of trouble,” she remarked, “but I haven't seen any of it.” When I visited the American syna- gogue at Tel-Aviv I found a group of elderiy men leading prayers. They|d were delighted to see a representative | I of the consulate and gave me a good deal of help. Among them were Ben- jamin Rathner, Cincinnati; Wolf Blass, Baltimore; Lewis Polakovitch, Bidde- ford. Me., and Isaac Cantor, Buffalo. All these visitors %o Tel-Aviv, who have been Euleed by recent events, are returning _home during the Fall and Winter. Eli Consminer, 1027 Leggett avenue, New York, blamed it all on the talkies. Will Return to New York. “If they had never been invented,” he said, “I would still be playing the trombone at the Rivoli'Theater in New York. The talkies made it hard for musicians in_America, so I thought I would come here and work in the or- chestra of the Palestinian Opera Co.” Consminer is sailing this Thursday and ‘will remain in New York. *‘Nobody is interested in music here,” he said. When any trouble arises where he lives in New York, he explained, the m}lce stretch a plece of string across e street and nobody dares break it. He wonders why this is Palestine. From Tel-Aviv north Jewish colonies often are in an unenviable position in regard to defense. This is particularly striking at Herzlia, a colony founded by ericans. It has more than 40 Ameri- in families among its 170. They have po telephone and it takes 15 minutes for the rider of a fast horse to reach th nearest telephone at Bananiah. . ‘They are open to attack on all sides and had no tection throughout the not done in TInvest in First Trust Notes Yielding 6 Interest Moneéy to Loan on Real Estate J. LEO KOoLB 923 NEW_YORK AVENUE DISTRICT 5027 | Makes ‘“Washday’’ a Holiday . . . . . Makes clothes last longer | and stay whiter! | With Extractor No Wringer But for lon et an gersice utifully _fin- ished _in white Duco with nickel and black Duco & trim, NEW LOCATION < MUDDIMAN & i 911 G St. N.W. |ing ahead of a British food convoy. | The police pronounced the north road | l1s | senger traffic anywhere, only armored homes every night as well could, though luvln‘ only & half dozen firearms. Fortunately they were never attacked. The Americans there incluge David Hochman, his wife and six chil- dren, from New York, and a family named Mandelmann, from Brooklyn. Number of Isolated Colonies. The road to Jaffa and Haifa is very bad and goes through a number of iso- lated Jewish colonies surrounded by Arab areas. One of these Arab stretches, which bears the werst reputation for turbulence, is Stulkarren. But when ry car drove through there the lan- guid inhabitants didn't even stop eating watermelon. There are Americans scattered all through this area, In some cases—as with the so-called California group at Rothschild Colony, Benyamina—they've taken Palestinian citizenship, but these cases are rare. I verified the where- abouts of the Americans in this coast dlstrl‘ct and found that all intended to remain. chap named P. A. Graff, who has lived there 22 years. He showed me two American flags which, he said, had been extremely useful all these years in times of trouble. Zikhron Jacob was unattacked this time, but the guard has been carefully kept every night. Haifa itself contains a large number of Americans, all safe and sound, al- though there were several cases of seri- ous property damage. Thirty-five stu- dents of the American Boys' School there are now doing volunteer work at Hadassah Hospital, taking care of the wounded brought in from the entire area and also from Safed. Fourteen of these youths were making a hiking trip over Mount Hermon when the trouble started. They had several anxious days before they got safely back to Haifa. AcFe Road Is Unsafe. Ileft Haifa yesterday for Safed, pass- by Acre unsafe, and the chauffeur, a Christian Arab, heartily concurred. Therefore we took the southern road, through Nazareth and Tiberias. The atmosphere of this northern area still bad, and I met no ordinary pas- cars. When I arrived at Safed'my makeshift flag immediately collected a crowd of American citizens and others who wished to tell their stories to a consular representative. one of the worst sufferers in this out- break. Some of the families there are destitute. The British authorities have | assumed the task of supplying food for these from Halfa, but conditions re- garding clothing and sleeping quarters are very bad. Between 50 and 60 houses in the Jewish quarter have been burned. Jacob Richmond of Brooklyn and his wife and six children are all safe, but they lost most of their possessions. They had a farmhouse at Einzeitin, a smail farm colony near Safed, and also a house in the city. The farmhouse was looted and burned and the city house was looted. All Houses Looted and Burned. Richmond took me to Einzeitin to see the ruined settlement. Every house there was looted, then burned. The whole colony is now destroyed. Most of these houses belonged to Amer- icans as private property, unconnected with Zionist holdings. Among those who lost everything was Abraham Norinsky of Brooklyn, a young farmer. When I asked him what he had saved, he remarked cheerfully, “Nothing but this shirt.” Israel Medofsky and his wife, who! have three sons in the United States | Government service, two at the lega-| h]l\'t been through a period of extreme alarm. One of the worst aspects of the Safed affair was the period of six d: - ing, during which the Jewish popula- tion expected an attack and clamored for protection. Solomon Lamport's sister, Fanny Rose Paltrowitz, and her niece, Hannah Heller, were both at Safed when the | outbreak came. They were escorted | safely to Haifa three days ago. Between Safed and Tiberias lies the colony Migdal in a very exposed posi- tion. There are six American families here and two suffered property loss. Moses Feldman, New York, saw his farm storehouse, containing all his im- plements, burned. The 1 lical Magd at the new ican Hotel, the Mag- which was designed as a Winter and overlooks the Sea of Galilee. In the plain of Jezreel, beneath Naz- areth, two large colonies, Balfouria and Afule, both founded with American money, have passed through a period of panic without the loss of anything more important than a few cattle. Their crops suffered & good deal of damage, however. (Copyright, 1029. by North American News- Daper Al ) Nuited install this modern Burner. Safe, Open Evenings ' To Kee and Ornamental Trees. Free of MANN’S EVERGREEN The ancient Hebrew Holy City was |- tion at Bern and one at the embassy | {in Berlin, are safe and well, but they IRISH HIT TARIFF LIMITATIONS PLAN Economic Suicide for Free State, 0’Sullivan Tells League Committee. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 14.—The Irish Free State today tossed the first stone into the machinery being as- sembled for the limitation of European tariffs looking toward a Eu: con- | federation of states. Prof. John O'Sulli- van, speaking before a commit- tee, declared his country could not un- dertake to participate in a two-year British delegations at the League as- sembly. The Saorstat already has set up a commission to study the demand for in- creased tariff to which the Irish gov- ernment is pledged if the commission reports favorably, said O'Sullivan. Called Economic Suleide. “Asking us to relinquish tariffs is equivalent to asking us to commit in- dustrial and economic suicide,” he added. W. D. Euler of Canada, reserved for his government entire freedom of action regarding the French and British pro- posal for a tariff truce. Among other grounds for this position the Canadian impending _tariff _developments with other countries and the possible consequence of the necessity of seeking other markets for Canadian lucts. Expressing sympathy with Great Brit- ain’s task in Palestine, the French dele- gation stated today before the League of Nations committee on gollflcnl ques- tions that difficulties of the mandatory powers will be greatly increased if the idea of the temporary nature of man- dates is emphasized. Lucien Hubert, speaking for France and alluding to comment from an Italian spokesman, warned that care should be taken not to talk too much about mandates being of temporary character. Count Bonin- Longare, the Italian delegate, replied that TItaly fully appreciated the serv- ices of Great Britain in Palestine and France in Syria, but insisted it should be recognized that the mandate was a temporary institution. BODIES FbUND IN ;HElMS MAY BE U. S. SOLDIERS Workmen Immediately Notify Authorities Without Disturbing Remains. By the Associated Press. 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