Coalition Cabinet Stays in Israel %FL Party of Ben Gurion Leads, Rest Trailing D attzda- Lt ...Teurz14. h, XRDNICLE Vol. 51, No. 4 52 41110. 110 Friday, January 28, 1949 10c a Copy $3 Per Year New State Time Press With Recognized by France -!€,- • 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. 'Boni Leaders • • 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. --- 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. 4 , 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. • • * 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.