Kehilla dissolved in Poland

The Polish government dissolves the Warsaw Jewish kehilla yesterday. This was a local community structure in administering Jewish society and laws in urban communities throughout Poland.

Shechita ban in Poland

No doubt influenced by the Nazi Party in its increasingly nasty neighbor Germany, Poland made a decree to ban ritual slaughter that went into effect today. The slaughter of animals in a humane and religiously proscribed way has been a part of Jewish religious and dietary customs since the days of Moses. In fact, it may have been before that.

Shechita is a rite that a man spends years training to be proficient at. Without a shochet to prepare kosher meat, many Polish Jews, particularly Hasidic and Orthodox Jews, will be malnourished since they will not eat non-Kosher meat.

This also destroys the economic prospects of many Jewish men and their families.

King Edward VIII reign is over

The Abdication of King Edward became complete today with the accession of his brother Albert to the throne. Prince Albert will now be styled as King George VI.

The King's coronation will follow at another date as is tradition.

Prince Edward addressed the British people via the BBC radio broadcast. In the address, he said "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love".

It is believed that Prince Edward will travel to France where Mrs. Wallis Simpson is already after the reaction she received in Great Britain.

King Edward VIII chooses Abdication

Edward VIII gave up the British throne for the love of woman. After considering his options, the King was forced to choose abdication and giving the throne to his brother Prince Albert, the Duke of York.

It is possibly the biggest constitutional crisis to face the British Empire in the modern era.

He signed the instruments of abdication yesterday in front of his three surviving brothers: the aforementioned Prince Albert, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Prince George, Duke of Kent. The fourth and youngest of the Princes was John who died in 1919.

From this he has one last act to complete before his reign is over and he is allowed to follow his heart.

Though the commonwealth nations of British Empire rejected his request to marry the American divorcée Mrs. Wallis Simpson in the event her divorce is finalized, it has managed to grab the attention of romantics worldwide. Many in the United States have voiced opposition to the need for King Edward to step down.

King Edward VIII is expected to address the British people at some point on December 11th (later today).

Royal Crisis brewing in Great Britain

The King of Great Britain is in love with a married commoner. Bessie Wallis Simpson is a socialite from the United States. She has long been an acquaintance to the King. Mrs. Wallis Simpson is in the process of divorcing her second husband, Ernest Aldrich Simpson.

King Edward VIII informed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of his intention to marry a commoner on the evening of November 16. The Prime Minister informed the King that his subjects would not accept a marriage with a commoner on moral grounds. The Church of England does not allow for divorced persons to remarry. An American divorcée was even worse in public opinion.

The King also offered a Morganatic Marriage which would allow him to marry her without any inheritance of title to herself or any resulting issue the marriage might produce. This was rejected as well.

There is a particular law that also requires more than just the home government's acquiescence. The Statute of Westminster of 1931 states that "any alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne or the Royal Style and Titles shall hereafter require the assent as well of the Parliaments of all the Dominions as of the Parliament of the united Kingdom."

Many of the commonwealths of the British Empire have rejected the possibility of the King marrying Mrs. Wallis Simpson. These include South Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Only Ireland has been indifferent.

Mrs. Wallis Simpson has fled for the South of France to avoid the negative attention since the public became aware of the affair and the King's intention to marry her upon finalization of her divorce.

Japan & Germany sign Anti-Comintern Pact

Yestersay, Japan and German diplomats have signed a pact against the Communism International. The treaty stipulates that should either nation become belligerents in a conflict with the Soviet Union, they will consult the other for which measures they should employ. It does not necessitate that the other nation needs to come to the other nation's aid.

With Japan's increasing activity in China, Germany felt a need to establish some parameters with Japan. This treaty also seems to cut any support Germany might have given China in continuing military movements on mainland Asia. The pact is interesting considering Germany's historic alliance with China.

The Pact was to be originally introduced in late November 1935 with invitations for Britain, Italy, China and Poland to join. However, concerns by the German Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath and War Minister Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg that the pact might damage Chinese-German relations plus political disarray in Tokyo following the failed military coup of February 26, 1936 led to the Pact's being shelved for a year.

It was signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Affairs Advisor and Ambassador Viscount Kintomo Mushakoji of Japan.

Roosevelt wins by Landslide!

Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his second term as President of the United States of America last night. A close race was predicted by many in the press and experts but Roosevelt went won the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the current two-party system in the 1850s. George Gallup, who conducted a poll, predicted that Roosevelt would win re-election.

Conversely, Literary Digest, was not correct. Recently, the magazine released its prediction. They believed Landon, the Republican Candidate would win with 370 electoral votes. They based this on the responses of 2 million readers of their magazine. Until this ellection, Literary Digest has been accurate for 5 elections in a row.

He carried all but 8 electoral votes. Roosevelt carried every state except Maine and Vermont. By winning 523 electoral votes, Roosevelt received 98.49% of the electoral vote, the highest percentage since 1820.

Here's a breakdown of the votes:

Presidential candidate	Party	Popular vote		Electoral vote
		Count	Pct
Franklin D. Roosevelt	Democratic	27,752,648	60.80%	523
Alfred Mossman Landon	Republican	16,681,862	36.50%	8
William Lemke	Union	892,378	2.00%	0
Norman Thomas	Socialist	187,910	0.40%	0
Earl Browder	Communist	79,315	0.20%	0

The country broke down this way with much of the Republican vote coming from the Northeast.



In accordance with the 20th Amendment, Roosevelt's second term will begin January 20th of next year with his inauguration.

Governor Landon has indicated that he will return to Kansas and complete his Gubernatorial term.

German-Italian Treaty

German and Italian Government officials have signed a treaty of friendship between the two European states. Mussolini's fascist Government has waged an Abyssinian campaign in Northern Africa. This has been met with opposition from the League of Nations. In an effort to help Italy, Germany has pledged friendship in a treaty signed October 25th.

Berlin Olympics come to a Close

These Olympics have been notable not only in themselves but for the effect they have had upon all who have participated in them and watched them.

These have been the biggest athletic games ever staged, the best organized, the most largely attended, the most picturesque and most productive of new and startling records.

However, that is not only all true, but it is the picture constantly impressed on one's mind as one moves from one stirring score to another, always amid a good-humored, happy crowd, always under a forest of bright-colored flags, never lost of jostled with plenteous space around and courteous guides at hand.

That is the picture foreign visitors will take home, to the undoubted improvement of world relations and general amiability. This may be only a temporary truce in the world's quarrels, a pleasant interlude in the long procession of diplomatic disagreeableness, but even at the reaction cannot help but be good and lasting.

Take the effect on the German hosts themselves. One has noted everywhere not only pride in German athletic accomplishment - which has been really notable - and the utmost satisfaction in the great achievement of staging the show itself, but equal pride in the unstinted foreign praise given that achievement.

It is quite certain that the foreign reaction was awaited here with a ceratin measure of trepidation. There is manifest anxiety for once to win foreign praise. It has been forthcoming from every quarter and the anxious hosts are happy over the fact - happy and amiable beyond reckoning. They know now they have made an excellent impression upon upon their cosmopolitan visitors. They are back in the fold of nations who have "arrived".

Going a little deeper it is perhaps true also that this contact with many nationalities and races has made the Germans more human again after four long years of a régime which, while it strengthened, tended also to harden its votaries. It might even be said that this experience has deflated the German ego a bit. They have seen here for themselves that all races are good, some in certain respects perhaps even slightly superior to the Teutonic.

These Olympics will be remembered for the amazing feats of Jesse Owens of Ohio. His friendship with German athlete Lutz Long and competitor is a model for other athletes to emulate in the future.

The Olympics used a new technology, television to mixed results. It can be very difficult to discern images at time. It is a technology that much improvement can be made upon.

Lima Mobs beseige German Consulate

The news announcing that Peru's 4-2 victory in soccer over Austria was ruled out by the International Football Federation in Berlin caused indignant crowds to assemble here as well as in Port Callao today to protest the decision.

As soon as the report was received, crowds running in the thousands congregated at the principal newspaper offices to await further information. The local Olympic Committee immediately took up the matter with the President of the Republic, Oscar Benavides, who instructed the committee to withdraw its delegation from the Olympic Games.

Then a shouting crowd started a march to the palace, the thousands in line clogging traffic and pausing en route to tear down the Olympic flag which was flying from the business house, the German manager of which is the Austrian consul here. The arrival of police prevented further damage.

Booing, whistling, yelling and shouting, the demonstrators reached the main square, the Plaza de Armas, where they were joined by others from the Newspaper offices. When they arrived in front of the palace, they urged the President to appear.

Accompanied by Ministers of State and military aides, President Benavides appeared and listened to the speeches. In reply, he said: "I have received cables from the Argentine, Chile, Uraguay and Mexico solidifying the Peruvian attitude against the crafty Berlin decision".

The President further recommended that the demonstrators bind themselves clamly not to imitate the unsportsmanlike Berlin decision. The President of the local games committee read the cables sent and received to the crowd, including cables from the Austrian consul and the local Nazi representative in which reconsideration of the International Federation's decision was asked.

Singing the National Anthem, the crowd continued its demonstration along the main street, where it gained further supporters. With the Chilean, Argentine, Uraguayan and Ecuadorian flags accompanying that of Peru, the crowd surged toward the Plaze San Martin, were it was addressed by various speakers.

Reforming its ranks the crowd later marched to the German consulate where is stoned windows in protest. Police arriving in trucks peacefully managed to get the crowd to disperse.

Stevedores did not work for two hours on the two vessels at Callao, the German Ammon and the Norwegian Remulus, as an act of protest, while various hundreds paraded in the streets there protesting and voicing their indignation. The Police meanwhile guarded the German Consulate.

The Afternoon papers bitterly attacked the federation's decision in the editorials. One said :"It lacks basis as a reason, the Austrians' only pretext was to eliminate the team which had a good chance to win and thereby see its national flag wave from the scene of operations."

The whole press praises the gesture of the Latin American delegations in meeting in Berlin to support the Peruvians. All is quiet here now.

Differences in Demeanor

Never has Berlin seen so many polyglot visitors. Every hotel is crowded beyond normal capacity and all its best known restaurants spend most of the dinner hour turning them away because there are no more seats.

Conversation in Adlon Hall at Tea Hour is reminiscent of Babel, with English running German hard as the predominant tongue and the Polish, Czech and Scandinavian Languages drowning out the customary Continental French.

English beyond doubt if the Latin of the modern world. In the press box at the Olympic Stadium and at most of the information offices more English is spoken than German. Yet in comparison with the crowds of Scandinavians, who make up the largest part of the foreign contingent, relatively few Englishmen or American are here. The Scandinavians, however, seem to get along better in English than anything else.

Scandinavians in the stands have adopted American cheering tactics and shout "Rah! Rah! Rah!" in unison.

Anybody interested in his fellowmen has been able to get a kick out of noting the difference of these foreign visitors. There is a good deal of truth in a familiar story which purports to classify national characteristics under such circumstances.

The Frenchman enters a hotel looking around with a general air indicating he would like to own it.

The German walks in looking as though some day he expects to own it.

The Englishman strolls in as though he does indeed own it.

The American goes in with the general air which seems to say he doesn't give a damn who owns it.

The Marathon and Women's Relay

Even the sun came out today for the climax of the 1936 Olympics today. Under a cloudless sky Summer sky, a record crowd gathered for the marathon, the most widely advertised Olympic event, and the relays - always full of uncertainty and thrills. To come down to it, the marathon was rather a disappointment from the spectators' seats simply because it could not be seen.

Only the grand finale, the reappearance of the first weary runner, is perhaps worth the price of a ticket. The first runner was not even weary. Kitei Son of Japan came jogging into the stadium as fresh as a daisy.

In the midst of all the gaiety, black despair settled on the generally vociferous German crowd. The German women's relay team, the pride of the Fatherland, established a new world record for the 400-meter race yesterday, had been running again today in top form. The jubilant crowd sure of another gold medal and in high holday mood, was thrown down from its emotional pinnacle which it could not recover for the remainder of the afternoon.

A fast runner dropped the baton as it was being passed and the Germans had to drop out of the race. The Führer who was watching in his customary box, slapped his thigh in frustration. The girls proved they were after all, genuine women and not just feminine athletes by having hysterics on the field. With tears rolling down their cheeks there were taken up to Hitler's box, where he consoled them as best he could, assuring them he knew they would have won.

Apart from the question of whether they would have won, which can be disputed, they had the crowd with them. A bond of human sympathy with the four young people who had experienced the most atrocious bad luck united the more than 100,000 in attendance.

Norway beat Germany 2-0

Gloom pervaded the German morning papers today over the event in the Post Stadium yesterday where in the presence of Chancellor Hitler, Germany's Soccer team lost to Norway, 2-0.

"How could this happen?" the sports press cries bewildered. Germany's hopes actually centered on winning the gold medal in this event. With the crack Uraguayan team out the competition, they figured themselves the Olympics' best. Norway, on the other hand, was figured as a minor contender.

So sure was Germany of victory that Hitler for the first time failed to appear in the Olympic Stadium. All German victor until now have told the German press in interviews that they thing only of the Führer when competing and outdo themselves when he's there to watch.

Jews allowed to fly German Flag

Not since the Nuremburg Laws were passed last September have Jews been allowed to fly the German flag.. However, these Olympics have given them the opportunity to display banners of some kind over their houses and businesses.

The prohibition still holds but there is nothing to stop them from flying the German flag. They are glad to do so rather than draw attention to their shops and homes by leaving them bare in the streets otherwise plenteously adorned with bunting. One department store in the west end carried whole rows of the Olympic banners. Some others have added symposiums of flags of the Olympic nations all except the swastika - without objection.

The practice has the advantage, from the German viewpoint, of saving foreign guests the of puzzling over empty flagpoles until they divine the real reason and thereby reminded of the German official race prejudice.

Racism at the Games

The victories of the Negroes of the American Olympic team are the sensation of Europe. how thoroughly the Olympic spirit has spread here is seen in the fact that to date only the Nazi newspaper Angriff has spoken of them dispairingly, and only in the government box has there been other presumptive evidence of racial feeling.

of course, carious countries react in various ways. The French are loudly enthusiastic about the Negroes' accomplishments. The English, guided perhaps by imperial considerations, are somewhat cool and inclined to depreciate their presence. The South Africans openly deprecate it.

On the other hand, the German team is ostensibly friendly. Something like a Damon and Pythias friendship has sprung up between Lutz Long, German star and Jesse Owens, outstanding member of the American team.
What may be called the social success of the American Negroes largely is due to the their own tact. They are perfectly aware threre is a race prejudice in the air and they carefully avoid places where they might not be welcome.

It should be added, however, that since his defeat by John Woodruff, Mario Lanzi, sensational Italian middle distance runner, has introduced some racial feeling in the Italian team. Lanzi's final spurt in the 800-meter race two days ago was spoiled because the two Negro leaders, Phil Edwards of Canada and Woodruff, refused to yield him the inside lane. The Italian seems to be possessed by the idea he had a right to this lane, although there is nothing in the rules entitling him to it.

Enthusiasm for the Negro contingent centers mainly around Owens. None of the others enjoys anything approaching his popularity. The German press calls Owens the super-athlete of these Games. Long has expressed the view that with more training Owens could jump 7.5 meters easily.

In private conversation the Germans tell each other that the Negro race is extraordinarily adept at running because of a certain peculiar conformation of their bones. They do, however, have the good sense to scoff at English reports that American runners have undergone certain operations on their legs to increase their speed

Salvation Army in Berlin

The Salvation Army is not missing the opportunity to put on a campaign in Berlin. They are making a drive for funds from charitable Germans and foreign guests alike.

The Olympics are international and so is the Salvation Army. Germany is at least internationally minded until August 16th.

Eleanor Holm Jarrett isn't competing in Berlin?

Eleanor Holm Jarrett went for a sight-seeing stroll with a friend, met onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst at Netherlands Palace. Swimmer Jarrett reported that the onetime Crown Prince had sent her flowers. In New York, her husband, Crooner Art Jarrett, suddenly took ship for Germany.

The American Public and many sports fans worldwide would expect Mrs. Jarrett to be in the Swimming Pool competing in the backstroke. She was suspended from the American team for setting a bad example in getting intoxicated while on the transatlantic voyage to Europe.

Mrs. Jarrett has said of her suspension, which came as a surprise to the Champion of the 1932 Los Angeles Games, this:

This chaperone came up to me and told me it was time to go to bed. God, it was about 9 o'clock, and who wanted to go down in that basement to sleep anyway? So I said to her: `Oh, is it really bedtime? Did you make the Olympic team or did I?' I had had a few glasses of Champagne. So she went to Brundage and complained that I was setting a bad example for the team, and they got together and told me the next morning that I was fired. I was heartbroken.

Avery Brundage, the Team Leader, has not commented on this. Holm's Olympic teammates petitioned unsuccessfully to overturn the suspension.

Owens wins third medal

By winning the 200-meter dash, Jesse Owens became the fourth American to capture three or more championships in on Olympic event.

He joined the heroic company of Alvin Kraenzlein, who won four events in 1900; Ray Ewry, who swept three standing jumps twice: 1900 & 1904.; and Archie Hahn, triple sprint winner in 1904.

Chancellor Hitler was driven from his box by a heavy downpour of rain that occurred just after Owens flashed across the finish line for his third triumph and wasn't among the thousands of die-hards who remained and thundered acclaim when he stepped up for the third time to be crowned with a laurel wreath and given his third gold medal and oak tree, which will be planted on Ohio State's Campus.

Stephens wins Women's 100-meter dash

Miss Helen Stephens, after winning the 100-meter race for women yesterday, was received by Chancellor Hitler and congratulated on her success. Then she went back to the women discus throwers to her turn for the United States.

Miss Stephens had been in the discus competition before the start of the 100 meters. She just dropped out for a few minutes to win the gold medal in time just 1/10 of a second behind her world record established the day before.

Military Guard adds to Olympic pageantry

There are three companies of the military guards marching around the Berlin streets daily during the Olympics. Normally, only Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, as War Minister, rates a guard company for his military. It stages a parade with bands daily when the guards change.

But the procession down Unter den Linden has proved such an attraction to the crowd that two more guard changes now are put on for the satisfaction of the Olympic visitors.

The second of the three companies is a guard for the headquarters of the Berlin command which is at the foor of the Unter den Linden opposite the old imperial palace. The third id Colonel-General Hermann Göring's own gray-coated company for the Air Ministry, called the Luftwaffe here.

To see not only little boys but their daddies, rotund, solid burghers, all marching alongside the soldiers is to gain a little understanding of the Third Reich.