DETROIT

Page Two

Agreement on Neutral lone
Brings Quiet to Jerusalem

The
warfare will continue.
(Continued from page 1).
bakers sold Sabbath Challos for Americans insisted on such sep-
the first time in six months. aration. The premier also op-
Pastries also were put on sale posed moving the headquarters
and a truckload of Haifa-made of the Jewish Agency to the
plate glass arrived to replace United States.
An urgent call to Amefican
shattered windows of the city.
Two of Jerusalem's garages Jewry to help rebuild the battle-
reopened and began selling oil torn areas of Israel coupled with
and gasoline again, With autos a report on the conditions of
driving around freely in the city the Arabs in the Jewish State
for the first time since the was cabled from' Tel Aviv by
Dr. Israel Goldstein, United Pal-
British restrictions started.
The killing by Egyptian gun- estine Appeal national chairman.
fire of the two French truce ob- currently making an on-the-spot
servers who were flying over survey of needs in Afrael.
Dr. Goldstein stared that the
Gaza confirmed Israeli sus-
picions that the UN mediator settlement Mishmar Ilaemek,
had failed to place truce ob- where the Arabs met one of
servers in that area, considered their first decisive defeats, "has
an important Arab invasion base. already repaired much of the
According to a Stockholm re- damage and built modern air
port the plane was flying over shelters."
an Egyptian-occupied area with-
out clearance.
On Wornett's Panel
PEACE TALK RUMORS
There is growing interbst here
over the recent report that Le-
banon was contemplating direct
peace negotiations with Israel.
It is believed that Israeli repre-
sentatives are already in con-
tact with Lebanese peace envoys.
Rumors have been circulating
that King Abdullah • of Trans-
jordan is also veering to the
idea of direct peace talks. Ac-
cording to an Israeli spokesman,
Lebanon is in the throes of a
financial crisis and may be
forced to make peace in order
to avert economic collapse.
Here, where the Zionist ac-
tions committee has been meet- MRS. RAYMOND SOKOLOV
ing, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver re- is one of eight women leaders
minded a 'meeting of General on a panel which will discuss
Zionists that the rise of Israel the Hunter Survey at a lunch-
was brought about by success- eon meeting of the Women's
ful battling both on the war and Division of the Jewish Welfare
political fronts. He assured the Federation, Sept. 22 at the
gathering of growing support Institute of Arts. The survey
from American Jewry.
analyzes Detroit's child care,
Speaking at the same gather- family, recreation and health
ing, Dr. Emanuel Neumann de- services. Mrs. Sokolov is a
plored what he called the dan- former school teacher and a
ger inherent in the- concept of volunteer worker at the Jew-
two nations—Israeli and Jewish.
ish Community Center.
COMPROMISE SEEN
A sub-committee appointed by
the actions committee to deal
with organizational matters was
reported to have turned down
a motion recommending that the
World Zionist Organization be
considered the representative
body of all Jews throughout
the world outside of Israel.
A compromise was expected
between Premier David Ben
Gurion and American Zionists
on the question of the separa-
tion of functions, between the
government of Israel and the
Jewish Agency.
Ben Gurion had. demanded
that there be no separation, at
least for as long as Arab-Jewish

Friday, September 3, 1948

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Sees War

Tools for Israel's Army

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1SRAEI

Reg ion. ZQA.

Morris Jacobs, right, president of the Michigan Zionist Region,
is shown presenting a giant power shovel on the left and a
truck in the background to Joseph Jacobson, left, assistant
minister of war of Israel, and Col. Ephraim Ben Arzi, quarter-
master general of the Israeli army. The machines were part
of a $100,000 gift to Israel from Michigan communities. The
rare power shovel was obtained by David Rose of Benton
Harbor.

JDC's Help to Cyprus Jews
Over $1,550,000 in 2 'Years

of the second anniversary of
its assistance prografns for Jew-
interned in Cyprus,
ish
the Joint Distribution Committee
had appropriated more than
$1,555,000 in behalf of the 50,000
Israel-bound Jewish men, women
and children who have passed.
through the istand in the past
two years Moses A. Leavitt, ex-
ecutive vice-chairman, revealed.
In a review cf the Cyprus op-
eration, Leavitt pointed out that
"every Cyprus refugee has been
assisted in one form or another
through the JDC. At present,
he said, 11,000 Jews remain in
Cyprus camps.

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MANAGED BY BRITISH

alministrative (Afters.
While the authorities are re-
sponsible for supplying food and

Mortimer May
Seen as Favored
in ZOA Race •

other basic necessities, JDC's
program of supplementary assist-
ance has been of "immeasurable
value" to the well-being of the
Cyprus refugees, Leavitt stated.
INDIANAPOLIS (Special) —
JDC's Cyprus operation in-
cludes the provision of extra ra- Mortimer May of Nashville,
tions and clothing medical aid, Tenn., is the favorite to succeed
religious assistance and educa- Dr. Emmanuel Neumann as pres-
ident of the Zionist Organization
tional and vo( ational training.
Under its shipping program, of America, Gabriel Cohen, edi-
Leavitt revealed, JDC had sent tor of the National Jewish Post,
more than 1,570,000 pounds of said in his column last week.
May is Dr. Neumann's choice,
food, 83,C00 i ounds of clothing
and 66,00: pounds of other sup- Cohen said. He is without ene-
plies to Cyprus since it began its mies and his record and loyalty
are unimpeachable, Cohen cem-
program there two years ago.

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THE CAMPS ARE managed by 1,000 IN SCHOOLS
British military authorities with
JDC MEDICAL operations in-
chicle the maintenance of an am-
bulatory clinic in each of the
three detenti,..in camps on the
island and a group of wards and
surgery facilitles in the British
military hospital in Nicosia, capi-
tal of Cyprus. Seven JDC doc-

mented.
Rabbi Irving Miller and Dan-
iel Frisch are other possibilities,

the Indianapolis editor said.

Frisch, he added, has no inten-
tion of giving up the fight for
the post.

Los Angeles Group
to Admit 27 More

tors, three dentists and 20 nurses
are engaged in this program.
The Los Angeles Sanitarium
In June, Leavitt reported, the
Business Men's Club has opened
Cyprus refugees celebratd the
its doors to admit 27 new mem-
birth of the 1000th Jewish infant
bers. Officers of the group ore
barn in the camps.
Under JDC's educational pro- Nathan Epstein, president; Mor-
gram in the camps, the commit- ris Frumen and Adolph Lichter,
tee has provided books, paper, vice-presidents; Nathan Rossen,

desks, benches, blackboards and
other school equipment, plus
complete academic schooling for
1,000 Jewish boys and girls of
senool age under the direction of
36 teachers, members of the JDC
staff in Cyprus.
Hebrew, Palestinian geography
and history and other subjects to
prepare them for life in Israel

United Synagogue Asks
Conference to Continue

NEW YORK—The United Syn-
agogue of America, national or-
ganization of Conservative con-
gregations, favors the continua-
tion of the American Jewish
Conference beyond Dec. 31, 1998
and "until such time as the tasks
for which it was called into be-
ing are completed."

are in the curriculum, Leavitt
stated.

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LOOK TO ISRAEL

Israel Bares Scarcity
of Medical Supplies

treasurer; and Ben Goldberg and
Eugene Epstein, secretaries.
The club was founded to pro-
mote the activities of the Los
Angeles Sanitarium, one of the
most modern' medical centers in
the country.
The Detroit group has pledged
itself to raise $50,000 as its con-

tribution for the coming year.

TO ADDRESS YOUTH
NEW YORK—Eliahu Epstein,

minister from Israel, will be one
"THE CREAIION of the State of the speakers at the national
of Israel has been the outstand- Jewish youth conference Sept.
ing single factor in sustaining the 3-10.
morale of the Jews of Cyprus,"
Leavitt said. "The hope that they
would one day reach the Prom-
ised Land never deserted these
wanderers. but now that a Jewish
State exists, they have become
more and more anxious to be-
gin their lives anew there." -

INSURED

NEW YORK (WNS)—The war
Healthy babies like the sturdy tot above are the concern of
in Palestine and the huge influx
the well-baby clinic established near Rome by the Joint
of Jewish immigrants to Israel
Distribution Committee. DP mothers in nearby camps bring
Since the first of the year has
their infants to this clinic for loving care.
created a shortage in hospital
equipment and certain medicines,
such as penicillin, Dr. Joseph
There is no charge for Bar
Mayer, chairman. of the Emer- Mitzvah or social items in the
gency Medical Council in Israel, Chronicle.
reported.

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IMMIGRATION CURB
United Nations officials are re-
ported to be discussing with Is-

raeli Foreign Minister Moshe
Shertok the question of halting
temporarily the immigration of
men of military age. It is be-
lieved that the Israeli govern-
ment would reject a UN order
to halt such immightion as an
infringement of its sovereignty.
It was indicated in UN circles
that Count Bernadotte, Palestine
mediator, wanted his staff to
check whether Israel had gained
a military advantage by the en-
trance of 35,000 Jewish immi-
the
cooperation
of
two
civilian
NEW YORK—On the approach
grants since May.

P P Babies Get Loving Care

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insists on the liberation of the
whole of Palestine.
"This aim can be achieved
only with the friendship of
France in the west and with
Russia's friendship in the east,"
Beigin said.
Peter Bergson and four other
leaders of the Irgun Zvai Leunti,
who were held under arrest by
Israeli authorities after the at-
tempted landing of the ship
"Altalena," were released. The
five had threatened to go on a
hunger strike unless they were
freed. Bergson is co-president of
the Hebrew Committee of Na-
tional Liberation.

UN 4-9320

H. Fidler, Prop.

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