ileth,crLt Vol. 51 — No. 38 • Clapp Mission Split on Arali R NICLE 27 Thursday, October 13, 1919 10c a Copy — $3 Per Year TEL AVIV — (WNS) Gordon R. Clapp and the rest of the members of the United Nations economic survey mission conferred with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett but What a Lovely Esrog! — Hungry Israel to Get More Meat and Eggs TEL AVIV—(Special)—Israeli citizens are going to eat a little better. Supply Minister Bernard Jos- eph has revealed that the auster- ity program will be loosened enough to give Israelis more beef and eggs. The relaxation of the strict regulations is due to the improved economic conditions and a more rational use of resources, he ex- plained. HUGE IMPORT BILL 1 Israel spends $40,000,000 an- nually for imported food. The new nation produces no sugar or oil seeds, only 10 per cent of her grain requirements and less than five per cent of her meat.• Home production includes but '40 per cent of the milk needed, 42 per cent of the fish and 90 per cent of the vegetables. Joseph reported that a vast ag- ricultural scheme is planned fin. 1950 to offset the great lack of farm production. TRACTORS ARRIVE A shipment of $1,000,000 worth of tractors and combines has ar- rived and is being distributed. Unions are facing a new wage cut Oct. 15. TliCy accepted a 3 per cent slash in July. Jeffrey Flaachen and Shulamith Gruskin, pre-kindergarten students at Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, examine the Essig and Lulav, traditional symbols of the Succoth festival, which ends Saturday with Shemini Azereth, Radio Hour's `Israel Impressions' Slated Theme Shifts by FDR Jr. for N.W. Talk Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. In search for the type of radio will be the. guest speaker at a program that will most please the general meeting sponsored by the listening audience, the Jewish Men's Club and the Sisterhood of Chronicle Hour Sunday will dramatize the life story of one of the world's most famous enter- tainers—Eddie Cantor. The Jewish comedian will be featured at 11 a.m. over WKMH to enable the public to choose from religious subjects, organiza- tional activities and various other topics. DEFERENCE TO HOLIDAYS Semour Tilchin, publisher of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle, said that the Chronicle Hour would like to hear from its listeners as to the type of program they wish to hear. The Chronicle broadcast is at II a.m. every Sunday over sta- tion WKMH, 1310 on your dial. Both next week's program and this week's were transcribed in advance because bf the holidays. As part of a "Tribute to Zion- ist Organizations in Detroit," the F.D.R., JR. Oct. 23 program will dramatize • • • the life of Max Nordau, whose the Northwest Hebrew Congre- centennial is being celebrated. gation at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. HADASSAH HAILED 20. The program will also feature Roosevelt, who was elected interviews with Leon Kay, ZOD president; Rabbi Jacob E. Segal, representative to Congress from vice-president; and Aaron Kur- the district which had been rep- resented by the late Sol Bloom land, publicity chairman for the for more than 20 years, has re- Balfour Ball. cently returned from a visit to Last Sunday, the Chronicle Israel. hour was devoted to the work of He spent several weeks in Hadassah. The founding of a new 100,000 MAXIMUM Simultaneously, a high Israeli official declared that it was Is- rael's position that "most of the Arab refugees must be settled in the Arab countries" and that "se- curity reasons and the need of preventing friction in the future make it impossible for Israel to agree to the entry of large num- bers of Arabs on its territory." The maximum number of Arab refugees acceptable to Israel is believed to be 100,000 and the Tel Aviv government is expected to resist pressure for a more elastic policy. It is rumored that the United States is still pressing the 250,000 figure. WINDS SHIFTING Indications of a change of at- titude by some church authorities toward the Jerusalem problem became evident with the disclo- sure that the Israeli government was prepared to grant territorial status to the holy places in the city and to give the clergy the same rights it enjoyed under the British mandate. Concurrent with a report. of a softening by the Vatican on the internationalization issue it was disclosed that leading Christian (Continued on Page 14) Joyfulness to Rule on Simchas Torah The month-long succession of Tishri holidays will conclude Saturday With the celebration of Shemini Azereth, the final day of Succoth, and Sunday, with the colorful rites of Simchas Torah, the festival for the rejoicing over the Torah. In orthodox and conservative Synagogues, the traditional prayer for dew will be recited and Yiz-i-- ---- - kor will be read Saturday. In the; the choir directed evening the c6stomary hilarity; gal. by Harry Sie- will hold sway with the proces- I • • sional of the Hakofoth, a time of great" excitement and marching Beth Aaron and flag waving for the children Shemin' Azereth services at 9 Hours of worship are listed as a.m., Saturday. Yizkor will be follows: said. Rabbi Pinchos Katz will speak on "A New Hope for Torah- Temple Beth El True J ewishness " Saturday an Shemini Azereth worship at "The Soul of Simchas Torah" 10:30 a.m., Saturday. Rabbi Sidney Sunday. Children's Simchag Torah Alkselrad will preach. Liturgical celebration at 6:30 p.m., Satur- music will be by the Temple day. Adult festivities at 9:15 p.m., quartet under the direction of Saturday. Jason H. Tickton. Gov. G. Mennen Williams, a former schoolmate of Rep. Roose- velt, will be present to greet the gathering, Doris Markel and Her- bert Harris, presidents respective- ly of the sisterhood and men's club, announced. David B. Aaron and Lillian Kaufman are in charge of ar- rangements. Tickets are $1 plus federal tax and may be obtained at the Syna- • 0, • • • • gogue, Mae Brooks, ticket chair- man, disclosed. Temple Israel Bnai Moshe em Azereth ptrayers at A reception has been planned Shini Shemini Azereth services at 10:30 by the Synagogue and its affili- a.m., Saturday a the Art ates for both Roosevelt and his 5:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday Institute. Julius Chajes will direct evenings. Services at 9 a.m., Sat- the choir in his composition, wife. urday. Yizkor will be read and ,"Hymn of Freedom." Yizkor will Rabbi Moses Lehrman will be read by Rabbi Leon Fram. preach. Cantor David Katzman Cantor Robert S. Tillman, accoin- will lead the prayers. Simchas panied by Karl W. Haas at the Torah services Saturday evening.' organ, will sing. Weekday services at 7:15 a.m., and Rabbi 'Fran will speak un "The 5:30 p.m. U.S.Investment in Israel Rises NEW YORK—(WNS)—During the first half of this year Amer- icans invested at the rate of $2,- 000,000 a month in Israel, it was disclosed by Gideon Strauss, Is- rael's consul for commercial af- fairs in New York. In an article in "Economic Horizons," monthly publication of the economic department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, it was revealed that Israeli pur- chases in the U. S. had sharply risen in 1948 above the 1947 figure. About two-thirds of the money Israel gathering statistics and in- medical school in Israel with the formation on which he based his for investment was realized by merchants who sold goods in Is- help of that organization was topic, "Impressions of Israel as a rael and reinvested the proceeds dramatized. Nation." i no,announcement has been made about the result of the talks. The mission is reported split wide open both with regard to function and approach to its task, The U. S, plan offering economic aid only on the basis of Arab settlement has been put in the background. in that country. • • • Northwest Hebrew (Continued on Page 15) Jew Wins Award Honoring a Negro Shemini Azereth rites at 5:30 p.m., Friday and 8:45 a.m., Satur- day. Rabbi Jacob E. Segal will preach on "Judaism by Contag- NEW HAVEN— (WNS) —The ion." Cantor Miklos Fenakel will first Levi Jackson scholarship, es- chant the prayers. Yizkor services tablished in honor of the present at 11 a.m. Saturday. Adult Sim- captain of the Yale football team, chas Torah services at 5:45 p.m. has been awarded to Richard M. Children's service at 6:30 p.m. Tettelbach of this city. • • • The recipient of the scholar- ship is a senior at Yale College Bnai David and a descendant of John Hart, Shemini Azereth services at 6 who in 1703 was given the first p.m., Rabbi Joshua Sperka will degree granted by Yale. Soon- speak on "A House of Memory," sored by the Dixwell Commun- Simchas Torah rites at 7 p.m., ity Organization of New Haven, Saturday. Sunday morning sere- the purpose of the scholarship is ices at 9. Cantor Ilyman Adler to promote closer interracial re- will chant the ritual, assisted by lationship.