Friday, Oefortifir 9, 1942

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Two

Srere Issues Call for War Chest Aid

Urges Contributors, Workers-Rally
To Emergency as Jews, Detroiters

Pledges to War Chest Will Cover 1943 Contributions to
Allied Jewish Campaign; Max Lerner Addresses

First Meeting of Jewish Participants in Drive

Abraham Srere, president of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration, has issued a call to all workers of the Allied
Jewish Campaign and to all contributors to enlist for
service with the War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit, which
includes all the Jewish causes ordinarily covered by spring
fund-raising drives. The goal is $5,800,000.

M. Butzel, addressed the gather-
ing.
Besides Mr. Butzel, who pre-
sided, other speakers at this
War Chest rally included Mr.
Srere, Isidore Sobeloff, execu-
tive director of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation, and a number of
Allied Jewish Campaign leaders
who participated in the discus-
sion.

Labor Joins Hands

The CIO American and Allied
War Relief Campaign and the
United Nations Relief Commit-
tee of the AFL are joining with
the war chests of the Nation in
their united campaigns to pro-
vide funds for service to the
armed forces, the suffering in
war-torn countries and the needy
at home.
This was disclosed in a message
from Phillip Murray, president
of the CIO, and William Green,
president of the AFL, to Per-
cival Dodge, managing director of
the Detroit War Chest. This will
be the first time that national
and local co-operation between
labor and philanthropy has been
agreed upon, according to the
statement by Murray and Green.

Calling attention to the fact,'
that there will be no Allied Jew-
Co-operation Promised
ish Campaign next May because
"Convenient terms of payment
of Jewish participation in the may be arranged in paying the
War Chest drive, Oct. 26 to Nov. new WAR CHEST pledge, so
12, Mr. Srere emphasizes the fol- that those who may have ex-
lowing facts regarding the hausted their 1942 philanthropic
status of Jewish agencies and budget can defer payment, as
contributors:
required, into the following
Plan Saves Labor, Expense
year. The War Chest under-
"All of our Allied Jewish Cam- stands our special situation, in-
paign agencies and services will sofar as payments are concerned,
receive their next year's support and contributors have every as-
through the War Chest, and your surance that such details will be
pledge to the War Chest will worked out satisfactorily, the
cover your 1943 contribution to only immediate request being
the Allied Jewish Campaign, as that the War Chest PLEDGE
well as your 1943 gift to all of cover next year's giving for all
the other War Chest agencies, of the causes combined."
which previously campaigned in-
Mr. Srere's appeal for workers
dependently of each other.
for the War Chest reads:
"By making your pledge this
"Detroit Service Group officers
Fall, the Jewish community will
are at work integrating our
be saved the labor and expense
splendid army of solicitors into
of conducting its dwn campaign
the War Chest machine. If you
in 1943, and needed manpower
have not enrolled as a worker.
will be released for other press-
please do so now on the inclosed
ing war-time activities. Contribu-
card. We are about to enter into
tors will be asked to add up their
the greatest humanitarian enter-
1942 gifts to all of the causes in
prise in the history of Detroit.
the War Chest, to take into ac-
count the increased needs of the We are confident that our people
will do their part gladly—and
various services for 1943, and to
make a pledge that represents generously."
Leaders Plan Campaign
our full obligation as Jews and
A large group of local leaders
as Detroiters.
"Outs4auckng balances on past who have been active in War -
campaigns to any of the War Chest campaigns met Wednes-
Chest agencies will, of course, day evening at the Jewish
be payable to the individual Community Center to plan
agencies—and the Allied Jewish participation in the forthcoming
Campaign will continue billing drive.
Max Lerner, professor of po-
and collection of ALLIED JEW-
ISII CAMPAIGN PAST AC- laical science at, Williams Col-
lege, who was the guest of Fred
COUNTS.

WASHINGTON (JPS)—In a
nationwide broadcast in behallf
of community and war chest
campaigns, which in some lead-
ing communities include the
drives for overseas needs, Pales-
tine and other national Jewish
campaigns, President Roosevelt
urged Americans of all creeds to
"transform some of our new buy-
ing power into giving power."
Speaking over the .combined
networks of' the various radio
chains, the President declared
that "we must stretch a hand-
clasp of hope and courage across
the Seas" and emphasized that
through "generous giving we will
affirm before the world our fia-

Incredible Nazi Atrocities
Reported in Moscow. District

Zionists Condemn
Magnes Plan for
Bi-National State

Russian Press Praises Jewish Heroes in Embattled Stalin-
grad; Other Late News Briefs From Cables of

U. S. Body Takes Issue With
New Ichud Party on
Palestine Question

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Roosevelt, Appealing for War
Chests, Sees Greater Giving
Power

WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
Zionist Organization of America
officially went on record as op-
posing the reported plan of Dr.
Judah L. Magnes, president of
the Hebrew University of Jeru-
salem and a leader of the new
Ichud party in Palestine, ad-
vocating the formation of a bi-
national State in Palestine, in a
statement of policy adopted at a
special meeting of its national
executive committee held under
the chairmanship of Judge Louis
E. Levinthal.
Characterizing the views that
have been credited to Dr. Judah
Jewish Heroes In Stalingrad Praised
L. Magnes in reports to the Am-
KUIBYSHEV—Reports in the Soviet press this week laud many
Jewish officers and men who have distinguished themselves in the erican press concerning the fut-
ure of Palestine as "wholly at
bloody battle for Stalingrad.
Sergt. Kasik and Pvt. Berkovitz weer given the assignment of variance with t h e American
cleaning out a squad of Germans entrenched in hidden pits and Zionist position," the statement
ditches along a road on the outskirts of the city. As they approached, warns against "unauthorized poli-
German tanks appeared. Kosik and Berkovitz threw scores of "Mol- tical negotiations by Dr. Magnes
otov cocktails", setting the tanks afire and forcing their occupants and his associates."
to flee, making the Nazis easy targets for the Russian riflemen.
In another case a Jewish private, Bernstein, led a group of 13 MAGNES DENIES HE WANTS
trucks carrying ammunition through burning streets, under .heavy
aerial bombing and artillery fire, to relieve a Russian regiment that JEWS TO REMAIN MINORITY
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Dr. J. L.
had been surrounded. Other heroes mentioned are Sergt. Lieb Fisch-
man, who led his unit against 100 Nazi tanks, destroying 15 and Magnes, head of the Hebrew Uni-

MOSCOW—Chana Landberg. a Moscow social worker who has
returned here this week after a relief tour of the devastated areas
in the Moscow region recaptured from the Nazis, relates harrowing
details of the German atrocities.
In the village of Glinka, a Nazi soldier, pretending to aid a
Jewish woman who was carrying her sick child to a hospital, took
the child from her arms with the words, "I'll help you," and then
flung the infant onto the point of a bayonet. In the same village
Meyer Ginsberg. 60, was shot by a Nazi soldier when he refused
to interrupt his prayers to remove his overshoes which the Nazi
wanted. In all the villages, Mrs. Landberg reported, she saw hus-
bands whose wives had been violated and children killed before
their eyes.
The Germans were particularly brutal in their treatment of
children, Mrs. Landberg continued. In the village of Ivliany, in the
Volokolamsk region, a sleeping Nazi soldier, disturbed by the crying
of a three-year-old Jewish child, arose and kicked the boy in the
head, blinding him.

forcing the others to retreat; Lieut. Scheichet, whose platoon lured
85 Nazis into a trap and killed 35 of them; and 19 year old cavalry-
man Abraham Resnitsky, who made a perilous gallop across no-
man's land to restore communications between two Soviet regiments.
A Jewish doctor, Simon Rafalowich, and his staff, are praised
for continuing to work in their Red Cross hospital after a Nazi bomb
scored a direct hit, killing six members of the staff.
Switzerland Grants Sanctuary to 22,000 Jews
BERN—More than 2,000 Jews who entered Switzerland illegally
in order to escape deportation from France to Nazi-held territory
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CLIP AND MAIL AT ONCE

Pledge of Service

ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN,
51 West Warren Ave.,
Detroit, Mich.

I want to serve the War Chest of Metropolitan
Detroit.

Please enroll me as a worker.

Name

Home Address

Business Address

Home Phone

Business Phone

tion's faith in the inalienable cent live in approximately 325
right of every man to a life of cities."
Reviewing the changes that
freedom and justice and decent
security."
have taken place in these 10
years of the Council, Mr. Lurie
Lurie Discounts Fears of
noted with respect to fund-rais-

"Inter-Sectarian Cooperation"

NEW YORK (JPS) — Saying
that Jews were "among the first
to recognize that anti-Semitism
is a phase of fascism and threat-
ens the whole of civilization,"
Harry L. Lurie, executive direc-
tor of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds,
declared "groundless" the fears
of those who think that Jewish
communal organization in Amer-

ica may be weakened as a result
of Jewish fund participation in
community war chests. "Inter-
sectarian co-operation through
community war chests and the
outlook for governmental direc-
tion of voluntary agencies
through the President's War Ap-
peals Control Board," in the view
of Mr. Lurie, will not retard
"group progress toward our re-
ligious, social and cultural objec-
tives."
Mr. Lurie's statement was is-
sued on the occasion of the 10th
anniversary of the Council of
Federations which is reported to
have 223 member agencies in 187
cities "of which more than two-
thirds have been . organized since
the Council was established." Mr.
Lurie pointed to the estimate
that "Jews reside in over 3,000
cities, villages and rural areas in
the United States, but 95 per

ing that "the former --method of
appealing primarily to large giv-
ers for philanthropic funds has
been replaced by energetic ef-
forts to secure the interest and
support of all. Community bud-
geting is replacing haphazard
private giving and community
planning is taking prepedence
over casual individual philan-
thropy. One of the obvious re-
sults of communal development
can be seen," he says, "in the
increasing funds raised annually
for Jewish causes . . . the UJA
constituent agencies raised 52,-
140,000 in 1935 as against ap-
proximately $14,000,000 raised in
1941."
Saying that community organ-
ization tends toward unity, Mr.
Lurie cited the United Jewish
Appeal as a primary example,
although saying that "other by-
products of such co-operation
which might be anticipated. such
as joint planning of overseas
work, have not yet been de-
veloped. Neither has the United
Jewish Appeal been extended to
include the needs of other over-
seas or refugee agencies."
In his lengthy review of Jew-
ish developments in the past 10
years, the word Palestine is not
mentioned by Mr. Lurie.

Late News Brevities

Compiled By Independent Jewish Press Service

AMERICA: Director of Cleveland Bureau of Employment Prob-
lems sees some Jewish communities declining to press discrimination

issue ... Senate declines to support elimination of race discrimina-
tion . . . Lt. Clarence W. Lipsky is awarded Distinguished Flying
Cross for flight over France ... Senator Mead urges immediate occu-
pation of all French possessions in western hemisphere in reprisal
against Laval regime .. . Jewish winner of war medals in World
War I. David D. Silverman, is refused employment by Brooklyn war
plant because of religion . . . Dickstein bill seeks to speed soldiers
to citizenship . . . Dr. Morris Fishbein appointed chairman of NBC
morale committee . . . American Unity magazine issued to school
teachers and administrators, to promote tolerance in schools . .
Dr. I. J. Kliger of Hebrew University says Palestine is center of
Middle East science . . . Senator Reynolds called upon by Amer-
ican Jewish Congress to disavow anti-Semitism . . . Belgian
Infomation Bureau describes brutal . murder of 14,000 Jews
by Nazis in _Riga . . . Former chief rabbi of Breslau, 72-year-old
Rabbi Herman Vogelstein, dies in New York after brief illness .
Philanthropist Louis D. Beaumont dies at age of 85 . . . Columbia
College considers establishment of department of religion because
of "religious illiteracy" among student body .. Brewster Aeronauti-
cal Corporation, once taken over by the Federal Government, is
charged with anti-Jewish discrimination . . . Director of Council of
Federations declares "groundless" fears that Jewish communal or-
ganization may be weakened by "inter-sectarian co-operation" . . .
Committee for a Jewish Army forms Women's Auxiliary ... U. S.
expresses sympathy with Syria's hopes for independence.
OVERSEAS AND PALESTINE: Payment of subsistence allow-
ances to families of Palestine Jews in British Army at 2/3 rate paid
to British soldiers criticized in Commons . . . David ben Gurion
arrives in Palestine after two-year absence . . . Emperor Haile Se-
lassie imports Jewish advisers to rebuild Ethiopia.
One thousand children held as hostages by German authorities
in Holland . . . Hitler boasts that Jews have "already forgotten to
laugh" . . . British press protests confiscation of anti-Nazi pamphlet
by Swedish Government ... 50,000 Jews starved to death in Warsaw
Ghetto in eight months ... Nazis print 10,000,000 pamphlets attacking
Pope for intervention in behalf of Jews . . . Committee of British
Jews formed to try to bring Jewish children to England.

versity and leader of the Ichud
Bulgaria decides to deport all Jews to Poland ... Statistics show
Party, this week issued a state-
in "New Hungary" ... Council of Christian, and Jewish
ment denying a report published 750,000 Jews in
Great Britain formed to combat racial - and religious
in the press here that he alleged- organizations
intolerance . . . Organization of baptized Jews in Hungary dissolves
ly agrees that the Jews in Pales-
. Russian Jewish guerrilla lauded for releasing Jews slated to be
tine should permanently remain shot by Nazis ... Italian Bishops protest against Hitler's persecution
a forty-percent minority. "I hope of Jews . . . Polish Government-in-Exile asks Pope's aid for Jews
to soon publish my views on the . . . Employers of Jews fined in Hungary . . . Moslems resent talk
Palestine immigration problem," of postwar "Christian" world ... Swiss Protestants plead for Jewish
refugees ... Dutchmen who aided Jews sent to concentration camp.
the statement says.

