DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Page Sixteen

Friday, January 9, 1948

Launch Histadrut Drive

A Third of a Century of Service

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Detroit Histadrut launched its 1918 campaign for $200,000 at
a conference last Sunday at Temple Beth El. Shown, left to
right, are Morris Schaver, honorary campaign chairman;
Isaac Hamlin, national secretary of Histadrut campaigns who
was a guest speaker; Helen Waren, official of Americans for
Ilaganah who also spoke; and Harry Schumer, campaign
Chairman. (See story on page 2).

The Joint Distribution Committee's annual meeting last Sunday in New York marked the
completion of one-third of a century of aid to distressed Jews overseas. JDC was formed in
response to an urgent cablegram, dated August, 1914, from Henry Morgenthau Sr., U. S.
Ambassador to Turkey, warning that 60,000 Jews in the Holy Land, cut off by warring ar-
mies, faced starvation unless American Jews immediately sent help. Photo upper left records
JDC's first shipment of food overseas. Since then, JDC has approriated more than $300,000,-
000 for life-saving and life-building assistance. It has trained and transported thousands of
Jews for productive careers and new homes in Palestine and other lands (photo upper right)
and provided relief, rehabilitation and resettlement aid for millions of Jewish men, women
and children (photo lower left). JDC receives its funds from the United Jewish Appeal. Its
operations began at ,its first business meeting in November, 1914, with Chairman Felix M.
Warburg (left of globe), Jacob H. Schiff, (right of globe) and Louis Marshall (behind War-
burg) in attendance. Standing in back of Mr. Marshall is Herbert H. Lehman, later governor
of New York and director general of UNRRA.

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is an aerial view of the Hebrew Institute of Technology in Haifa, Palestine, (Tech-
nion), the only center of applied science and technology in the Middle East. Dr. Walter C.
Lowdermilk, author of the Jordan Valley Au thority Plan for Palestine, will address the De-
troit Chapter of the American Technion Society at its annual dinner Saturday evening in
the Hotel Statler. Ilis subject will be "Palestine—Haven for Millions of Settlers." Proceeds
will go to the school.

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ADL Honors Gutstadt

Aids Infant's Service

Above is an example of one of the many ways that Hadassah
aids in the upbuilding of Palestine. These Illadassah nurses are
playing a vital part in safeguarding and restoring the health
of a new Jewish generation. The Detroit Chapter of Hadassah
will sponsor an all-day institute Jan. 20 at the Hotel Book
Cadillac to study "Palestine Today." (See story on page 5)

Jews Make Z i • on's Desert Bloom

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At a testimonial dinner attended by prominent representatives
of the Jewish community, Richard E. Gutstadt, second from
left, is presented a scroll of honor "in tribute to his 15 years
of inspiring leadership as national director" of the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith. With him are, left to right,
Justice Meier Steinbrink, national chairman of the league,
Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the American Jewish
Committee, and Benjamin R. Epstein, newly-elected national
director of the ADL.

MRS. LEWIS LEVIN is chair-
man of the Ilth annual fund-
raising affair of the Infant's
Service Group, a "Mardi-Gras"
show and dinner-dance, to be
held Jan. 25 at Latin Quarter.
Ray Correll and his orches-
tra will play. For tickets call
Mrs. Samuel Guttenberg, TO.
7-1610, or Mrs. William Katz,
TO. 7-4783.

Visitors to Palestine have marveled at how Jewish settlers
have made the desert bloom with the assistance extended by
American Jewry through the United Jewish Appeal. The
Negev—once a drab and isolated region in southern Palestine
—is today one of the fastest growing areas in the Jewish State
thanks to the efforts of Jewish pioneers such as these.

