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TEL AVIV (Special)—The coalition cabinet will con-
tinue to rule Israel as incomplete returns in the elections
Tuesday revealed that no party had received a majority.
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Leaders
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The strongest vote-winner, as
seoxcpilacted, was Mapai, the labor
socialist party of Prime Minister
David Ben Gurion and Foreign
Minister Moshe Shertok, who
will retain their posts. There
had been some predictions that
Mapai would sweep the vote,
but Maparn, the leftist labor
group of Moghe Sneh, made a
strong showing as did the five
party bloc of orthodox groups.
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PARIS (Special) — France
has accorded de facto recog-
nition to Israel, and Britain
and the other western powers
were expected to follow silit in a
few days.
Full de jure recognition by
the U. S. and appointment of a
minister to the new republic was
expected momentarily. Official
proclamation of the results of the
voting in the Israeli elections
was believed the only factor
holding up fulfillment of Presi-
dent Truman's promise to grant
de jure recognition.
The Rome newspaper "II Gior-
nale della Sera" reported that
Italy had formally recognized the
new State, but • there was no
confirmation. Similar rumors
about Belgium and Holland were
also heard in diplomatic quar-
ters.
"Consultations with the do-
minions and allies were delaying
British approval of the Israeli
State, a foreign office spokesman
said.
PythLans Give
Bond to Son of
Dead Fireman
In response to an editorial in
the Jewish Chronicle, Detroit
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, pre-
sented a $100 bond to the 'two-
week old son of James Daggett,
one of two firemen who lost their
lives battlint% the disastrous Dex-
ter and Monterey blaze. Leonard
Goldman heads the lodge.
The presentation was made by
Avery Cohen at the home of the
widow, 12770 Alcoy avenue. The
family, which includes a second
son Gary, has been forced to
move in with relatives.
The new baby, Richard James,
was only two days old when his
father died. Residents of the area
are making collections on behalf
of the families of the two victims
and on behalf of two Jewish
families which lost all their be-
longings in the flames.
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Photo by Jack' Bigelman
An audience of 1,000 filled Bnai Moshe hall for "The Press Questions the Experts on Israel."
The event was sponsored by Chapter • Ong, Those who participated included: Seated from
left to right, Russell Barnes, Detroit News correspondent; Carl Cederberg, WWJ commenta-
tor; Lee Smits, WXYZ news analyst; Joseph Mainline, WJR news broadcaster; and Col. Royce
Howes, Detroit Free Press editorial writer. Standing from left to right, Rabbi Leon Fram,
Rabbi Jacob Segal, Leon Kay, president, Detroit Chapter Haifa Technion; Lawrence W.
Crohn, past president, Zionist district; Albert Elazar, associate superintendent, United Hebrew
Schools; Saul Gottlieb, regional director, Michigan Zionist Region; Seymour Tilchin, publisher,
Detroit Jewish Chronicle; Robert Ettinger of Chapter One and chairman for the evening.
Rabbi Fram and Kay will be participants in the "The ZOA Story" evening of the region
Monday at the Center.
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Members Are • Alerted
Zionists to Tell 70A Story'
"The ZOA Story," a half-hour
audio-visual presentation of the
projects and accomplishments
of the Zionist Organization of
America, will be the highlight
of the Membership Mobilization
Conference at 8:30 p.m.,_Mon-
day, at the Center.
Rabbi Leon Fram, who will
be chairman for the evening,
will act as narrator. Harry Coh-
en, chairman of the Balfour Ball
committee, will speak on the
American Zionist Fund and Food
for Israel. The public relations
aspect of the organization's ac-
tivities will be described by Dr.
Louis Kazdan, president of Haifa
Chapter. Leon Kay, president
of the Detroit Chapter of the
Haifa Technion Society, will
speak on economic affairs.
AWAITS RIG CROWD
Interest in the conclave indi-
cates a record attendance, ac-
cording to Saul Gottlieb, reg-
JWF to Tighten Controls
in 1949, Sobeloff Reports
More than 75 percent of the
pledges made in the 1948 Al-
lied Jewish Campaign have been
collected, Maurice Enggass,
head of the Mercantile Division,
told a meeting of the Detroit
Service Group, Jan. 18. This is
slightly ahead of the compar•
able collection record for 1947,
he said.
Isidore Sobeloff, executive di-
rector of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, gave the first pub-
lic intimation that the Federa-
tion would attempt to take over
greater authority in the various
agencies and services which are
beneficiaries of the Allied Jew.
ish Campaign.
The fund raisers should be
the community planners," he
told the Service Group leaders.
COMMUNISTS TRAIL
Neither the Communists nor
the Freedom party of Menachent
Beigin, extreme hationalists,
failed to make any great inroads
in the vote. The Communists
received less than 3 percent of
the .vote and the nationalists 7
percent.
Mapai led with about 35
percent, the United Religious
Group and Mapam received
about 15 percent each. Tabu-
lations will not be completed
until the end of the week.
Israeli citizens elected 120 de-
puties for the parliament which
is to adopt a constitution and
set up an official government.
This was the first Jewish par-
liament chosen in 2,000 years.
"Every community is grateful to
those who take upon themselves
the arduous task of conducting
a campaign, of doing the solicit-
ing. These same men should be
the ones to see how the money
is used to make a better com-
munity.
"In - 1949, we shall probably
see the final closing of the Dis-
placed Persons camps and the
Federation leaders will have
proportionately more time to
give local affairs. It is our
mutual concern."
Abe Kasle, president of the
United Hebrew Schools, echoed
Sobeloff's views by reporting
on the criticism of independent
campaigns at the conference of
Council of Federations and Wel-
fare Funds.
ional director. Members are
urged to come early.
The principal address of the
evening will be given by Her-
schel Auerbach, national mem-
bership director. Arthur Shut-
kin, Detroit director of the Jew-
ish National Fund, will also
speak. Besides the Detroit mem-
bership, leaders of all districts
in the Michigan Zionist Region
will also attend. Attendance is
open to members only.
ing at the Rose Sittig Cohen
Building at 10 a.m.
Mrs. Albert A. Feldstein, ex-
ecutive secretary of the district,
urges all members of Detroit
chapters to make every effort to
take part in the drive. More
than 1,000 prospects have been
advised by mail that membership
workers will visit them this
Sunday.
DRIVE THIS SUNDAY
Included on the program are
awards to membership workers.
To those enrolling 20 or more
members, Rabbi Fram will pre-
sent a bronze bust of Theodore
Herzl. Those who have secured
10 or more members will re-
ceive a copy of the best seller,
"The Birth of Israel," by Dr.
Jorge Garcia Granados. Guate-
malan delegate to the U.N. The
new ZOA lapel pin will be
awarded to those securing three
or more members.
Winners will have secured their
new members this Sunday, in
a membership drive after meet-
Cyprus Shuttle
to Israel Starts
NEW YORK (WNS)—Immed-
iately after the announcement
that the 11.000 Jewish detainees
in Cyprus would be allowed to
go to Israel, the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee revealed that it
had made arrangements for a
ship shuttle service to Haifa so
that all the Jews in the Cyprus
camps may be brought to Israel
within two weeks.
The first contingent of 1,500 ar-
rived Wednesday.
In 1948 the "Joint" spent $1,-
000,000 for the Cyprus detainees.
During the last six months, near-
ly 1,000 Jewish children were
borr. in Cyprus.
Council to Probe
the Price of Meat
PEACE TALKS SNAGGED
Meantime, armistice talks be-
tween Israel and Egypt were
snagged on the question of boun-
daries. Nevertheless, both sides
signed a permanent cease-fire
agreement which precluded a
new outbreak of the war in the
Negev in anticipation of the re-
commendations of the UN con-
ciliation commission of repre-
sentatives of the U. Si France
and Turkey. Mark Ethridge, lib-
eral publisher of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, is the new
American delegate.
Egypt is insisting that the
desert boundaries be set ac-*
cording to positions occupied by
both sides before the victorious
Israeli offensives of October and
December. Israel is willing to
make some concessions but re-
fuses to retire to positions held
before Oct. 15.
Because of the deadlock, the
evacuation of 3,000 Egyptians
trapped in the Faluja area has
been put off.
Housewives Charge
Kosher Cost Is High
Following complaints by
housewives, the Jewish Com-
munity Council will investigate
Kosher meat prices here, Dr.
Shmarya Kleinman, chairman of
the Council internal relations
committee, revealed. He has
named Robert Nathans to head
the investigating group.
Housewives have charged that
prices of Kosher meat have been
higher than justified by the
small extra cost of Kashruth.
They point to the falling prices
of non-Kosher meat and com-
plain that there is no compar-
able decline in the Kosher pro-
duct.
The Council conducted a si
ilar investigation two years a
Kosher butchers explained t at
other factors than Kosher
slaughtering were involved in
the alleged price discrepancy.
They asserted that the main
reason for lie price differential
was the tendency of Jewish
housewives to purchase the most
expensive cuts of meats and ig-
nore the lesser desired ones.
FIND OIL IN SINAI
In Cairo, it was revealed that
oil had been struck in the west-
ern zone of the Sinai peninsula.
Sinai adjoins the Negev.
Israel rejoiced over the grant
of the $100,000,000 loan. Of this
amount, $35,000,000 was to be
made immediately available by
the Export-Import Bank through
the efforts of the U. S. govern-
ment.
Ai Committee
Picks Detroiters
NEW YORK (WNS) — Jacob
Blaustein, of Baltimore, was
elected president of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee -follow-
ing an announcement by former
Justice Joseph M. Proskauer that
he would retire as head of the
committee, an office he held for
six years.
Detroiters elected to the exec-
utive committee are Julian H.
Krolik, Isadore Levin, chairman
of the Detroit chapter, and Mrs.
Joseph M. Welt. Others on the
committee are Judge Charles C.
Simons, Henry Wineman, Leo M.
Butzel, Victor W. Klein and Prof.
William Haber of Ann Arbor.
Mrs. Clement Hopp is secre-
tary of the Detroit group.