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British Aid to Arabs Stirs Israel

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3-Front
Offensive
Launched

Dettzia - Lt Jaurah,

HRIIN'ICLE

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Vol. 51, No. 1

TEL AVIV—In an offen-
ige to clear Egyptian invad-
ers from Israeli soil, the

Jewish army launched a three-
pronged drive in the western
desert in what is believed to he
the greatest battle of the Pales-
tinian war.
• Israeli forces were' attacking
in the region of Rafa, just inside
the Egyptian border, and redou-
bled their campaign against
Gaza and the Faluja pocket
where 2000 Egyptian soldiers
&re trapped.

EGYPTIANS HELPLESS
"I do not know whether the
Egyptians will thank Mr. Bevin
for so openly proclaiming the
incapacity of the Egyptian ar-
mies to defend themselves."
The Egyptian bombing of the
Jewish section of Jerusalem
may pi•-•ipitate retaliation
against Egyptian cities, includ-
ing Cairo, it was indicated.
Five persons were reported to
have been injured and the dam-
age wes slight. The two attacks
took pie within an interval
of three hours. It was the first
time in over five months that
the Holy City had been subject-
ed to an air-raid by the enemy.
Meanw'•ile it was reported
that the Israeli cabinet had met
to consider the Security Coun-
cil's cease-fire resolution.

200 ift Cover City
on Cplieetion Day

Plans for the Junior Division
Collection Day to be held Sun-
day, Jan. 16 call for the parti-
cipation of at least 200 volun-
teer workers.
"To assure that every assign-
ment is covered," said Albert
Colman, chairman, "we are urg-
ing every member of the Junior
Division to reply to the letter
which they received this week
requesting their services. All
other interested persons are
asked to call WO 5-3939 and
volunteer immediately for "Pay
Up Day."
Two dispatch centers will be
set uo Jan. 16 in the Dexter and
Northwest sections. Colman has
appointed Lillian Sobel and Vir-
ginia Blrnett as chairmen of the
two dispatch centers.
At 10 a.m., the solicitors will
meet at their assigned dispatch
center and will at that time
receive instructions and a kit.
From there, they will be sent
out to various neighborhoods to
contact personally the hundreds
of Detroit Jewish contributors
who have not paid their 1948
campaign pledge in full and
who request a visit from a
Volunteer.

Paper With Full

Local Coverage

52 ovino,, 110 Friday, January 7, 1949 10c a Copy $3 Per Year

Stars Salute Israelim

Deny U.S.
Threat to
Tel Aviv

WASHINGTON *(Special)
— Responsible American offi-
cials denied a London report

'ACTIVE ALLY'

An Israeli government official
charged, meanwhile, that Bri-
tain had become "an active ally
of the Arab states" and was pre-
paring to wage full scale war-
fare against the Jews.
British action on behalf of the
Arabs included aerial reconnais-
sance over the Negev fronts,
British pressure on the U. S. to
intercede on Egypt's behalf and
the granting of British guns and
vehicles to the Egyptian army.
"When Egypt defied the UN
and her troops drove deep into
Israeli territory, Britain remain-
ed silent," the Israeli spokesman
asserted. "Now that the Egyp-
tians are being driven out, Bri-
tain seeks to rush to the rescue
and is even prepared to wage
full-scale war against Israel.

Only Anglo-Jewish

\LAMP
Hollywood notables join to honor Israeli war he
roes during their visit to the film capital in con-
nection with the United Jewish Appeal. Left to right,
Gregory Peck, Cpl. Alisa Pnueli, Ava Gard-
ner and Capt. Yehuda Koppell get
together during a pause in the Aiming of a new movie.

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Histadrut Drive Rally
to Hear Chicago Rabbi

Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein, dis-
tinguished head of K.A.M.
Temple of Chicago, oldest re-
form congregation in the west,
will address the city wide
Histadrut demonstration at 8
p.m., Sunday in Music Hall. The
event will formally open De-
troit's Histadrut campaign for
$375,000.
Rabbi Weinstein, Jewish scho-
lar, former director of the
School for Jewish Studies in
San Francisco, received national
recognition during the war as
a public representative on the
National War Labor Board.
More than 2,000 Detroiters will
participate in the campaign's
opening.
For those from all walks of
life who will be there—General
Zionists, Mizrachi, and Labor
Zionists; representatives friin

Sheruth President

Synagogues, organizations, fra-
ternal orders, women's organ-
izations and family clubs; Yid-
dish and English-speaking Jews
—the gathering will also be a
demonstration of Detroit Jewry's
spiritual identification with the
Chalutzim of Israel.
The demonstration will be
their salute to Histadrut, re-
presenting 45 per cent of Israel's
Jews, who, in addition to sup-
plying The great bulk of Israel's
fighting manpower and giving
Israel responsible leadership is
now undertaking to help in the
rehabilitation of the thousands
of newcomers arriving in Israel.

Rabbi Leon Fram gave the
principal prayer at the inaugura-
tion ceremonies for Gov. G. Men-
nen Williams, Jan. 1 in Lansing.
In his address the governor
spoke of the teachings of Moses
and of Jesus as the principles
upon which human behavior is
based.

Fair employment practice leg-
islation is high on the list of
recommendations submitted to
the new governor by the Michi-
gan Committee 'on Civil Rights of
which the Jewish Community
Council is an affiliate. The gover-
nor has often spoken in support
of such a measure.

British Cyprus Policy Hit
by AJC at Consulate Here

A delegation representing the
Michigan Council of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress met with
the British consulate in Detroit
Monday to protest Britain's
forced detention of thousands
of Jews on Cyprus.
Mrs. Samuel Green and Al-
bert Silber, who headed the
delegation, left a statement by
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Con-
gress president, with the con-
sulate.
"There are thousands of Jews
forcibly detained on the island
of Cyprus, by order of your
government, where they are
languishing in concentration
camps," the state /Rent said.
"Their only crime is their
passionate belief in and dedica-

MRS. ALLAN BARRON, pres-
ident of the Sheruth League,
announces that the organiza-
tion's fund-raising project will
culminate in a donor lunch-
eon Wednesday, Jan. 19 at
the Book Cadillac. Mrs. Ar-
thur Tractenberg is ad book
chairman and Mrs. Stuart
Palmer is her co-chairman.
Underprivileged children will
be beneficiaries of the project.

Rabbi Fram Gives
Inaugural Prayer

Teclinjon Dinner
to Honor Israeli

Alfred M. Freudenthal, pro-
fessor of civil engineering at the
Hebrew Institute of Technology
in Haifa, will be guest of honor
at the third annual dinner of
the Detroit Chapter of the Tech-
nion Society.
The affair will be Jan. 15 in
the Rackham Bldg., with Phillip
Nusholtz as chairman.

tion to the principles of the
Magna Carta. Yet they continue
to be imprisoned in violation of
every principle of law, justice
and humanitarianism and in de-
fiance of the guarantees of in-
dividual freedom your fore-
fathers won.
"Unless your government im-
mediately provides for their re-
lease it will have to suffer the
inevitable judgment of man-
kind," the statement added.

David Sislin Heads
LZ Folk Schools

David Sislin was installed
Monday as chairman of the
Jewish Folk Schools of the La-
bor Zionist Organization.
Others who took office were
S. Seltzer, M. Krotman and L.
Linsky, vice-chairmen; S. Taxey,
I. Shrodeck and N. Weissman,
secretaries; M. Schubiner, treas-
urer, I. Zemel, chairman of the
pedogogical committee; and A.
Beitner, chairman of the office
committee.
The new executive committee
consists of M. Shmukler, Mr.
and Mrs. A. Beitner, Mrs. David
Sislin, Mr. and Mrs. J. Glaser,
Mrs. L. Goldman, Mrs. S. Boim
and Mrs S. Weiner.

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that the U. S. had threatend to
withdraw diplomatic recognition
if Israel attacked Arab states.
The U. S., however, did ask
Israel for information on the
British claim that Israeli forces
had "invaded" Egypt. Britain,
the U. S. reported, has been
embarrassed by the incident.
MESSAGE TO ISRAEL
The State Department sent a
message to the government of
Israel following a conference
between Acting Secretary of
State Lovett and the British
ambassador, Sir Oliver Franks.
The ambassador had sought
an appointment with President
Truman but withdrew his re-
quest when it became evident
that the report of the "invasion"
had been exaggerated. Israeli
army officials have denied that
any incursion into Egyptian ter-
ritory had taken place. They
put the charge into the same
category as the false British re-
port last month that the Jews
had invaded Transjordan.
BRITISH ARGUMENT
It was reported that Sir Oliver
told Lovett that an Israeli at-
tack on Egypt might obligate
the British to give assistance to
an ally under the treaty of 1936
and that defeat of Egypt would
mean a revolution that would
bring Communism into the
Middle East and threaten Anglo-
American security there.
Jewish sources scoffed at
these arguments and branded
British fabrication of the in-
vasion stories as intercession on
behalf of the defeated Arabs.

150 Million Raised
by UJA in 194$

NEW YORK—A record total of
more than $150,000,000 was raised
during 1948 by the United Jew-
ish Appeal.
The $150,000,000 figure repre-
sented not only the largest sum
ever raised by the United Jewish
Appeal since its inception in 1939,
but also "established a new level
of giving for any non-govern-
mental humanitarian or relief
campaign in the history of the
United States."
Campaigns were conducted in
4,950 cities, towns and villages
with more than 1,000,000 Jewish
contributors. In scores of com-
munities substantial contributions
were received from Christians.
The national conference of the
United Jewish Appeal will meet
in Atlantic City Jan. 12-13 to
map plans for the 1949 cam-
paign.
Of the total raised in 1949, the
Joint Distribution Committee will
receive $64,900,000 for its pro-
gram of overseas relief, recon-
struction and emigration; the
United Palestine Appeal will re-
ceive $74,700,000 for its work of
immigration, settlement and up-
building in Israel; and the United
Service for New Americans, $10,-
400,000 for its program of recep-
tion and integration of refugees
finding a haven' in the U.S.