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UJA Planr New Drives

The national administrative
committee of the American Jew-
ish Congress voted to dissolve the
Metropolitan Chapter of Detroit,
by upholding the earlier decision
of the national executive com-
mittee.
The Metropolitan Chapter will Vol. 51 — No. 34
appeal the decision to the na-
tional convention of the Congress
slated to meet on Nov. 9, to elect
a successor to its late president,
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, stated
Sam Brown, regional director.
Brown believes that the vote
of the administrative committee
was 88 to 40 for dissolution.
Members of the administrative
committee from Michigan who
attended the New York meeting
include Mrs. Samuel Green, Mrs.
Harry Frank, Mrs. I. B. Dwor-
man, Zeldon Cohen and Albert
Silber,

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Gifts in U.S.

WASHINGTON — (WNS)
eptember 15, 1949 10c a Copy — $3 Per Year --Supplementary campaigns
for the United Jewish Appeal,
in addition to those already in
progress, will be conducted
throughout the United States

Plan Neugaricau Affair TVA Official

in Israel for
UN Program

JERUSALEM — (WNS) — Gor-
don R. Clapp, chairman of the
Tennessee Valley Authority, has
arrived in the Middle East where
he will direct a UN survey aimed
at improving general economic
conditions and assisting in the re-
settlement of the Arab refugees.

UN Reveals
Jerusalem
Control Plan

GENEVA—(Spedal)—A draft
statute giving the UN permanent
control over Jerusalem was re-
leased this week.
The internationalization plan
gives the Arabs and Jews local
authority over their respective
divisions of the city but bars
them from establishing govern-
mental offices there.
The UN would have authority
over the Holy City and surround-
ing villages, including Bethle-
hem, through a commissioner, a
mixed partly elective council, an
international coiirt and a mixed
tribunal.
AWAIT ASSEMBLY O.K.
The plan would go into effect
Immediately upon approval by
the General Assembly which con-
venes Tuesday.
There was little doubt that the
proposed statute would be strong-
ly opposed by Israel in the As-
sembly. The Jewish State has
made it clear it would agree or.ly
to internationalization of the
holy places while insuring free
access to them.
Israel is also expected to op-
pose the restrictions whereby the
population ratio of Jerusalem
would be permanently kept even.
BRITAIN FRIENDLY
Meantime, evidence grew
stronger that Britain was making
an honest effort for friendship
with Israel. There was even the
possibility that Britain would be
back of the Israeli viewpoint on
Jerusalem, favoring partition
rather than internationalization.
Israel's acceptance of British
membership in the Palestine eco-
nomic survey group is believed to
be a sign of conciliation at-
tempts.

Clapp would not admit that the
mission had as its chief objective
the development of the Jordan
Valley Authority. However, he
did say that the contacts of the
mission would be chiefly with
Israel, Transjordan, Lebanon and
Syria, the countries mainly in-
terested in the Jordan prospect.

Arrangements are being made for the annual luncheon of the
Neugarten Medical Aid, slated for Wednesday, Oct. 26, at the
Book-Cadillac Hotel. Proceeds from the affair will go towards
the purchase of cancer dressings, dental care, surgical supplies,
physical therapy and other special medical supplies. Shown here
are left to right: Mrs. David Saks, yearbook chairman; Mrs.
Milton Goldsmith, luncheon chairman; and Mrs. Ben D. Key-
well, ticket chairman.

Germans Dig Up Graves
at Dachau to Use the Clay

MUNICH, Germany—(Special)
—With a memorial sign bearing
the Star of David cast aside
nearby, graves of thousands of
victims of the Dachau concen-
tration camp were being dug up
last week to supply pottery clay
for a German firm.
Military government sources
and British witnesses who visit-
ed the scene of the desecration
reported that numerous human
bones are being unearthed and
casually thrown into a wooden
box at the diggings.

MARKED GRAVES OF 2.000
The Star of David, according to
Carlos Munschenheim, - repre-
sentative of the Dachau surviv-
ors, marked the graves of 2,000
Nazi victims.
Munschenheim, an inmate of
the camp for six years, pointed
out another grave 100 yards
away, which contains the bones
of 8,000 men and women.
The site of the graves is next

2 Chronicle Hour Features
Designed to Interest Pupils

The "March of Time" and
"Tribute to Greatness," two fea-
tures which will be part of the
Jewish Chronicle Hour, will be
so designed as to be of great
value to Sunday School classes.
The program will be heard at
It a. m., Sundays, over WKMH.
The inaugural program, Sunday,
Oct. 2, will start at 10:45 a. in.
"The 'Tribute to Greatness'
feature, said Seymour Tilchin,
publisher of the Chronicle, will
be a dramatized biography of a
famous Jewish personality and
should be of especial interest to
Sunday School classes."
There has been a great re-
sponse to the program's request
for talent, Tilchin revealed.
It is dramatic talent, offered
on a volunteer basis that is need-
ed, however, he stated, applica-
tions should be mailed to the

Chronicle rather than called in.
The Chronicle's address is 2827
Barium Tower.
The show will be directed by
Bob Seymour of WKMH, and
Seymour Tuchow of WXYZ.

WWJ Slates Music
for High Holy Days

A High Holy Day program of
Jewish music will be heard on
radio station WWJ, 2 - 2:30 p.m.
Sunday.
The program is spOnsored by
the culture commission of the
Jewish Community Council.
Participating in the program
will be the choir of Shaarey Ze-
dek, Dan Frohman, conductor and
soloist, with a special prayer to
be read by Rabbi Jacob Segal
of the Northwest Hebrew Con-
gregation.

to a railway spur about a mile
from the internment camps.
A representative of the Ger-
man contracting company insist-
ed that the bones were those of
an ancient medieval community.
When the presence of Allied wit-
nesses was known, the German
police and a member of the
Dachau town council tried to
stop the digging.
DISPUTE EXPLANATION
representative,i
The council
Georg Andorf, however repeated
the claim that the bones were
those of another age. Military
government sources and former
inmates4said that the assertion
was "outrageous."
The German state is supposed
to maintain the graves of all
Nazi victims. There were no
signs that this was being done,
however. Instead, Andorf stated
that the present site would be
plowed up for sowing next
spring.

He emphasized that for the
present the UN was more inter-
ested in the more modest type of
program that could be com-
pleted within a relatively short
time and without too heavy ex-
penditures.

This might be construed as
eliminating from the present ob-
jective the Jordan Valley plan.
Clapp said it would be possible
in a short time, for instance, to
select and dam some minor trib-
utary stream. The mission will
make its headquarters in Beirut.

Congress B.P.
Schedules Miller

Byron Miller, regional director
of the Commission of Law and
Social Action of the American
Jewish Congress, will address the
Business and Professional Chap-
ter on "Are Loyalty Bills Neces-
sary in the United States,"
Wednesday, Sept. 21 at the
Center.

Stanley Myers Gets
Phi Epsilon Pi Award

ATLANTA—Stanley C. Myers,
president of the National Council
of Jewish Federations and Wel-
fare Funds, and Miami, Fla., civic
leader, is the recipient of the 1949
national service award of Phi
Epsilon Pi fraternity.

during the next few months, 800
Jewish communal leaders who
gathered from all parts of the
country decided.
Concern over the fact that the
present-day needs of Israel in re-
habilitating the tens of thousands
of refugees who are entering the
country are not being met by
American Jewry was felt at the
conference after Henry Montor,
director of the UJA, revealed that
while the UJA raised $120,000,000
during the first months of 1948,
only $84,000,000 was raised in
cash during the same period this
year. This represents a 31 per
cent decline in cash contribu-
tions.
ASK LOCAL CURB
The conference decided to ap-
peal to local communities to post-
pone for a year or two the rais-
ing of capital funds of new build-
ings for local Jewish institutions
and concentrate instead on help-
ing the UJA. Jewish communities
will be urged to make loans from
their local banks at once and give
the cash to the UJA and to make
the maximum possible allocation
to the UJA of funds raised by
unified community chests and
similar drives.
"Flying squads" of UJA lead-
ers will be sent to strategic parts
of the country to speed cash re-
mittances.
Speakers at the conference de-
clared that if communities would
defer their needs a little longer,
the task of aiding refugee Jews,
which began 10 years ago when
Germany invaded Poland. would
soon be virtually completed. They
called attention to the present
situation of 70,000 immigrants to
Israel who are living in barracks
and tent cities because there are
no homes for them.
PLAN NOV. 25 PARLEY
It was decided to hold the na l.
tional conference of the United
Jewish Appeal in Atlantic City
on Nov. 25, at which decisions
will be made regarding the scope
of the UJA campaign.
Judge Morris Rothenberg of
New York, acting chairman of
the United Palestine Appeal, pre-
sided at the sessions in the ab-
sence of Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
general appeal chairman, who
was ill.

This Time in Peace

Israelis Top
Million Mark

TEL AVIV — (WNS) —Some
300,000. immigrants entered Israel
since the establishment of the
Jewish St .te, bringing the total
population over the million mark
and some 200,000 new immigrants
are expected in the coming year.
These are the figures given by
a government spokesman.
The same source indicated that
the government was making
much headway in the difficult
problem of housing the new-
comers.
A total of 71,000 immigrants
now ,living in temporary camps,
it declared, will be provided with
permanent accommodations by
next February.
It was announced that a small
group of Spanish Jews would
shortly arrive as well as addi-
tional Jews from India, where
some 2,000 are packing up to
settle in IsraeL

The first train to go tram Tel iliqv to Jerusa.cm on we newly

reopened line is decorated with Israeli flags before starting .s tit*
trip to the Holy City.

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