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$885,000 Raised by Detroit Allied
Jewish Campaign for Year 1942
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DETROIT.
Workers Making Last Calls Although Drive
Officially Over: Most Teams Pass 1941 Quota;
Women and Youth Divisions Lead in Returns
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The Allied Jewish Campaign is officially over, but the effort
of the solicitors has not ended and will not end until the very
last prospect has been. canvassed and his pledge gotten.
The amount raised will be $885,000, and increase of $50,000
over the largest amount ever raised before, and this was done de-
spite the fact that many of the most active workers were in the
armed services.
Detroit will be able to take care of its local commitments
and its obligations to the Joint Distribution Committee, Palestine
and the National Refugee Service will be met. The groups who
have made it possible are the following:
Amt. reported
to Date
Division
A—MERCANTILE
$193,772.60
Israel Himelhoch
Louis Robinson
B—SERVICES
54,936,00
Henry Lapides
Joseph Sandler
C—M ECHANICAL TRADES
120,923.50
Harry Frank
Harry S. Grant
Samuel J. Rands
D—BUILDING TRADES
126,473.50
Charles N. Agree
Julius Berman
Max C. Handler
Barney Smith
E—FOOD PRODUCTS
72,794.00
Benjamin Grosberg
Philip Lipson
F—PROFESSIONAL
102,790.75
Peter P. Gilbert
Dr. A. Max Kohn
Henry Meyers
G —A RTS and CRAFTS
53,919.00
Harry M. Raden
Alex Schreiber
Leonard N. Simons
11—TREASURY GIFTS
27,459.00
Joseph Bernstein
James I. Ellmann
Myron A. Keys
J—JUNIOR DIVISION
17,681.30
Jacob Keidan
W—WOMEN'S DIVISION
95,933.82
Mrs. Hyman C. Broder
*—Figures in brackets indicate decrease.
Increase
Over 1941
$26,852.60
(5,851.45)
12,824.50
20,686.00
8,994.65
3,145.69
5,898.00
(570.98)
3,954.75
9,845.77
Jewish Organizations Pledge Their
Support to the Jewish Theater Guild
• !le speakers stressed the fact
since the Guild is dedicated
he service of the Detroit corn-
"ItY, it will take upon itself
task of planning for and pro-
.og the talent and entertain-
I required by the organiza-
for their various functions
1 affairs. The organizations,
• I h e other hand, are to recipro-
, by lending their active sup-
' t in the membership campaign
the Guild.
h e conference unanimously
H•: , .pted a series of resolutions and
I- commendations, expressing con-
gratulations to the Guild upon its
iyanding and pledging the aid of
toe organizations represented, in
12. 1942
Abraham Goldberg
Memorial Group
Organized Here
10c Single Copy: $3.00
Per Yt21
Pioneer Women's Convention to
Near Margaret Bonfield on June 13
At the meeting of representa-
tives of the Zionist Council, the
American Federation of Polish
First Woman Cabinet Minister to Speak on Women's
Jews, the American Jewish Con-
gress, and the Jewish Section of
Role in Post-War Reconstruction: Ben Gurion, Sara
the Russian War Relief, plans
Feder, Ch. Greenberg, Other Notables, on Program
were made for a memorial meet-
ing to honor the late Abraham
Three hundred delegates rep- Pioneer Women's Organization.
Goldberg, great Jewish Zionist n'senting 235 clubs of the Pion-
Owing to the mobilization of
vial leader.
eer Women's Organization of women in Palestine for industry
The members of the commit- America, meeting for their 8th and the establishment of the
tee are as follows: Benjamin national convention in Detroit,
Lakin, president; Rabbi Morris at the Book-Cadillac Hotel, will
Adler, Rabbi Joshua Sperka, Mor- continue their sessions through
ris Mohr, Henry Abramowitz, Sunday, June 14. Delegates have
Aaron Rosenberg, Isidore Mellin, come from as far as Los An-
Isaac Finkelstein, Harry Kam- geles, and Winnipeg and Calgary
miner, Benjamin Garubart and in Canada.
Lawrence Crohn. These members
Due to the war it was decided
of the committee were chosen to call the convention earlier
from the organizations named than usual which is October. The
above.
urgent need of its sister organ-
The committee is planning to ization in Palestine, the Work-
invite prominent speakers to ad. ing Women's Council, for a larg-
dress the meeting.
er budget to cover its expanding
The committee is asking all or- program on behalf of women's
ganizations in Detroit not to hold training and children's services,
their meetings on the day the as well as the intensification of
memorial meeting will be held, its defense program on the home
in order that these organizations front and in American-Jewish
may attend this memorial meet- life, have increased the ever-
ing and give their last respects growing responsibilities of the
to the memory of the late Mr.
Goldberg, who gave so much of
his life and devotion for the Jew-
ish cause.
The plans of the committee will
be released as soon as possible.
Mayor Jeffries Calls
War Chest Meeting
See DRIVE — Page 12
A conference of presidents and
ice-presidents of the Jewish or-
ganizations in Detroit was held
in behalf of the Jewish Theatre
Guild on Wednesday evening,
June 3, at the Workmen's Circle
Educat'onal Center.
The Jewish Theatre Guild, re-
cently founded here for the pur-
pose of establishing a Jewish
communal art theatre in this city,
called the conference for the pur-
pose of formulating a plan of
cooperation between the Guild and
the Jewish organizations in the
vitY. The conference, under the
chairmanship of Aaron Rosenberg,
president of the executive board
of the Guild,
attended by
•19 presidents a
nd vice-presidents
and
of various organizations through-
out the city. The main speakers
of he evening were Jacob Mar-
,
editor of the Detroit Jewish
tH, , side, and Mark Yuviller,
is heading the membership
for the Guild. Harry Wein-
' of the Weinberg Jewish
.drs over Station WJBK, Isaac
kelstein, Morris Mohr, JaA
man, Mrs. Ethel Shorr, and
Lifshitz participated in the
MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE
the membership drive of the
Guild. It was recommended that
the presidents appoint committees
of three or four to canvass mem-
bers for the Guild within the or-
ganizations headed by them; that
they send a letter to their respec-
tive membership bodies, urging
them to become members of the
Guild, and that a portion of each
organizational meeting be reserved
for the Guild and its representa-
See THEATER—Page 10
Hatzala Campaign
Continues Effort
New Communications
Received from Many
Russian Yeshiva
The $15,000 campaign for Vaad
Ilahatzalah (Emergency Commit-
tee for the aid of stranded Yesh-
iva Scholars and refugee Rabbis),
which was initiated in Synagogues
cduring the Shevuoth holidays, is
now widening its activities, in
accordance with the plans adopted
at the first meeting of synagogue
representatives and the delegation
of Roshei Yeshivoth. All syna-
gogues have accepted quotas, and
most' of them conducted Yizkor
appeals, the collection of which
plcdges are now in progress.
Solicitation of organizations and
individuals will begin this week,
after the close of Vie Allied Jew-
ish Campaign.
During their stay in Detroit,
the Roshe Yeshivoth have been
in constant communication with
their pupils in Russia. A card
received by Rabbi Grazowsky, dean
of the Yeshiva of Kamenetz, tells
of the release of 80 of his pupils
from a forest prison camp near
Murmansk, and implores the Rosh
Yeshiva for immediate aid. Rabbi
See HATZALA—Page 12
Detroit Leaders to Plan
For Consolidated Drive
At Book on June 15
a lack of rapid transit systems
such as subways and elevated
trains the automobile has become
the most vital accessory in
carrying our war workers to and
His plan has much merit and
in order to acquaint our readers
with it a copy of the letter con-
taining the plan follows.—Ed.
Auxiliary
Territorial
Service, the Workin• Women's
Himelhoch's Awarded
Flag for Bond Quota
The coveted "Minute Man
Flag" is on display in Himel-
hoch's Department Store.
The flag was presented to Mrs.
I.
Himelhoch by Charles ,E.
Boyd, secretary of the Retail
Merchants' Association, as a
tribute to the 98.6 tier cent of
Himelhoch employes who signed
up to buy war bonds on the pay-
roil plan.
These employes have pledged
to buy $52,000 bonds in the corn-
ing year.
from their homes and defense
plants. As all of this is a *fore-
gone conclusion, I shall not try
to elaborate on the transporta-
tion problem that exists in De-
troit and with which you are
very well acquainted. I would,
however, like to make the fol-
lowing suggestion that I' believe
if followed through conscientious-
ly by all participants would help
your stand against rigid gasoline
rationing. Therefore, I propose
the following plan:
CHAIM GREENBERG
Central Vocational School for
Girls near Tel Aviv, the first
school of its kind in the Near
East. The demand for more agri-
cultural workers to replace men
in the army has also made the
speedy founding of a new agri-
cultural training farm in the
Hulea area of Galilee imperative.
Girls and young women, among
them a huge
•• number of refu-
gees, will thus be rehabilitated
in their newly found homeland.
In the 17 years of their ex-
istence the Pioneer Women have
remitted to the Working Wo-
men's Council of Palestine over
half a million dollars which was
used for building and maintain-
ing nine agricultural training
farms for women, vocational
courses for girls in city and
colony, women's cooperatives,
employment bureaus, cultural ac-
tivities among working women,
special services for refugee wo-
men; children's services such as
nurseries, kindergartens, homes,
afternoon clubs, vacation serv-
ices, to relieve working mothers;
and more recently, the training
of women for home defense and
assistance for the families of
men in the service.
Let the Secretary of State can-
eel out for the duration of the
war all existing driving licenses
for all males and females under
21 years of age, especially young-
sters who are today attending
high schools and higher schools,
Outstanding speakers include
also other private schools, who
are using their own automobiles David Ben-Gurion, president of
or the family car for non-essen- the Jewish Agency Executive and
tial driving, or to identify this prominent leader of the Labor-
more to the point, pleasure driv- Zionist movement, second only
ing, which is absolutely in bad to Dr. Chaim Weizmann in World
taste at this critical time. These Zionism; the Rt. Hon. Margaret
youngsters can be seen driving G. Bondfield, ministo• of labor
their autos promiscuously, want- in the British Labor government
only, and dangerously at this time from 1929 to
1931, the first
with seemingly no knowledge of woman cabinet minister in the
June 8, 1942.
lion. Prentiss M. Brown, M.S.,
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator Brown:
I have been following with con-
siderable interest the articles ap-
pearing in the Detroit news-
papers concerning your fight
against outright gasoline ration-
ing for the State of Michigan.
I am in full sympathy with what
you are trying to do as I am
sure are the majority of citizens
of our great commonwealth.
In view of the stand that you
have taken in this matter of
great concern, especially in the
City of Detroit where because of
Palestine
In order to consolidate the
Council is putting forth all ef-
countless •appeals for funds which
forts for the completion of the
have developed this year, Mayor
Edward J. Jeffries has called a
meeting of more than 150 men
and women civic leaders to unify
these appeals into one War Chest
of Metropolitan Detroit. This
meeting will he held at the Book-
Cadillac Hotel on Monday, June
15, following a luncheon. Among
those appointed were the follow-
ing:
Fred M. Butzei, Justice Henry
M. Butzel, Clarence C. Eng-
gass, Joseph P. Glazer, Rabbi
A. M. Hershman, Israel Himel-
hoch, Max Osnos, Nate S. Sha-
pero, Isidore Sobeloff, Abe
Srere, Melville S. Welt and
Henry Wineman.
Detroiter Has Gas Rationing Plan
The present debate in Congress
on gas rationing has elicited wide-
spread discussion throughout the
nation. Benjamin Levinson, a
well known member of the De-
troit .Jewish community, has
evolved a plan which he has sub-
mitted to Senator Prentiss M.
P,rown of Michigan.
SARA FEDER
BENJAMIN LEVINSON
See PLAN—Page 12
See WOMEN—Page 10