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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday. October 16, 1942
Allied Campaign Workers Mobilize
Jewish Volunteers 'Beat Gun'
In Great Humanitarian Effort
Wholesale Stores—Rudolph Zuie- Davidson, Maxwell Emmer, Dav-
back, co-chairman.
id A. Goldman, Milton Gordon,
Division 8—News and Adver- Jacob L. Keidan, Henry Lapsides,
tising—
Morton Newlander and Irving
Theaters: Alex Schreiber, Ruby.
chairman.
General Division—Profession-
al: Architects: Charles N. Agree,
Division 9—Lawyers-
Barium Tower—Abraham Sat- chairman.
ovsky, chairman. National Bank
Clergy: Rabbi Morris Adler,
Bldg.—Adrian D. Rosen; co- chairman; Bernard Isaacs, assist-
Large Percentage of Solicitors Already Enrolled, Sobeloff Goldstick, Harry S. Grant, Ben
Reveals; Various Divisions Organized for Intensive
Grosberg, Mrs. Charles Ham- chairman. General — Sidney L.
burger, Mrs. John A. Heaven- Alexander, chairman.
Campaign; All Jewish Causes Included
rich, Mrs. John C. Hopp, Benja-
min Jaffe, Fred H. Klein, Max
J. Kogan, Mrs. A. Max Kohn,
Julian H. Krolik, Mrs. Walter
Laib, Mrs. Herman Lewis, Sr.,
Metropolitan Unit
The Metropolitan Unit includes
Detroit's greatest humanitarian drive in history—the
War Chest—is in full swing, and the Jewish community is
throwing in all its manpower to assure achievement of the
*5,800,000 quota.
Litchterman, Philip Lip-
Although the dates of the campaign were set offici- Harry
son.
ally for Oct. 26 to Nov. 12, the campaign machinery of the
Henry Meyers, Mrs. Henry
Allied Jewish Campaign of the
Jewish Welfare Federation and
the Detroit Service Group al-
ready have commenced mobiliza-
tion of workers for the drive.
Unprecedented Effort
Isidore Sobeloff, executive dir-
ector of the Federation, stated
on Wednesday that a large per-
centage of the Allied Jewish
Campaign workers already have
been enrolled for the War Chest
and that all indications point to
unprecedented effort for the
great War Chest.
Two district headquarters
will be located in Jewish build-
ing. District No. 2 will be at
the Jewish Community Center,
Woodward and Holbrook. Dis-
trict No. 11 will be at Congre-
gation Shaarey ,Zedek, Chicago
and Lawton.
Meeting Thursday noon, the
division in charge of corporation
gifts organized its forces for the
drive. Henry Wineman is a mem-
ber of the executive committee
of the corporations division.
The industial and commercial
division, of which Irving W.
Blumberg is a co-chairman, or-
ganized Thursday evening.
Special Gifts Division
The special gifts division com-
menced activities last Monday.
Melville—S. Welt is co-chairman
of this division with Joseph P.
Glaser.
Mrs. Leo Butzel is chairman of
a committee formed to insure 100
per cent participation in the
drive by local social agencies
Abraham J. Lachover is a co-
chairman of the treasury gifts
division and is also active on the
speakers' committee. Former
Judge Charles Rubiner is co-
chairman of the speakers' bur-
eau with Lee A. White of the
Detroit News.
Advance Gifts Unit
Israel Himelhoch and Mrs.
Henry Wineman are majors of
the advance gift unit. Their cap-
tains• include Fred M. Butzel,
Abraham Cooper, Clarence H.
Enggass and Henry Wineman,
and Mesdames Isaac Gilbert,
Samuel R. Glogower and Abra-
ham Srere. Team members of the
advance gifts unit are:
Sidney L. Alexander, Sidney
J. Allen, Mrs. Sidney J. Allen,
Eugene J. Arnfeld, Maurice Aro-
nsson, Morton F. Ashner, Julius
Berman, David Block, Irving W.
Blumberg, Louis C. Blumberg,
Morris H. Blumberg, A. J. Blu-
menau, Jerome Brasch, Hyman
C. Broder, Mrs. Hyman C. Broder
Mrs. Douglas I. Brown, Miss
Emma Butzel, Harry Cohen.
Henry Cohen, Herman Cohen.
Irwin I. Cohn, Mrs. Abraham
Cooper, Mrs. David S. Diamond,
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, Ben B.
Fenton and Barney Smith.
Rabbi Leon Fram, Harry
Frank, Mrs. H. J. L. Frank, Mrs.
Max Frank, Samuel Frank, Mrs.
Seymour J. Frank, Dr. Leo M.
Franklin, William Friedman.
Harvey H. Goldman, Nathaniel
the following workers who have
been active in Allied Jewish
Campaigns:
Mrs. iflyman C. Broder, chair-
man of organization.
District 2—Headquarters: Jew-
ish Community Center—
District Managers: Mrs. John
C. Hopp, Mrs. Herschel V. Kreger
and Harry Z. Brown.
Secretaries: Mrs. Harry Z.
Brown, Mrs. Maurice A. Landau,
Mrs. Charles Rubiner and Miss
Louise Shiffman.
Zone Chairmen: Mrs. Eugene
J. Arnfeld and Mrs. James Wine-
man, Mrs. David Cooper and
Mrs. Herman L. Lewis, Sr.; Mrs.
Al Dreifus and Mrs. Sol Wolff;
Mrs. Adolph Ehrlich and Mrs.
Isidore Sobeloff; Mrs. Harry C.
Goldberg and Mrs. A. C. Lappin;
Mrs. Edward Stein.
District 11 — Headquarters:
Congregation Shaarey Zedek-
Meyers, Gus D. Newman, Mrs.
Robert J. Newman, Max Oshos,
Mrs. J. H. Polozker, Meyer L.
Prentis, Mrs. Meyer L. Prentis,
Herbert D. Robinson, Louis Rob-
inson, Setta Robinson, Meyer
Rosenbaum, Samuel Rubiner,
Reuben Sandler, William Sandl-
er, Mrs. Nate S. Shapero, Abe
Shiffman, Bert Silverman, Fred
F. Simmons, Mrs. Nathan Simons,
Abraham Srere, William Stark-
stein, Sidney Stone, George M.
Stutz, David M. Welling, Joseph
M. Welt, Mrs. Joseph M. Welt.
Mrs. Melville S. Welt, David
Wilkus, Mrs.
David Wilkus,
Monte D. Wittelshofer.
Industrial, Commercial
While the industrial and com-
Dentists: Dr. Max Winslow,
chairman.
Speakers' Bureau
The Speakers' Bureau includes:
Judge Charles Rubiner, co-chair-
man; Mrs. Morris Adler, Rabbi
Morris Adler, Benjamin Bavly,
Norman Birnkrant, Philip Brez-
ner, Mrs. Douglas I. Brown, Louis
S. Cohane, Mrs. Ida B. Colton,
Mrs. L. A. Edwards, James L
Ellmann, Henry J. Feinberg,
Rabbi Leon Fram, Isaac Franck,
Dr. Leo M. Franklin, Mrs. Louis
Heavenrich, Sidney J. Immer-
man, A. J. Lachover, Henry Lap-
ides, Theodore Levin, Samuel M.
Levin, Nathan Milstein, Rabbi
Jacob Nathan, David Rosen. Miss
Selma J. Sampliner, Harold Silv-
er and Isidore Sobeloff.
Mailing Squad
Mrs. Morris H. Blumberg. who
has for several years rendered
great service to the Allied Jewish
Campaigns as chairman of the
mailing squad, is in charge of the
War Chest mailing squad and her
committee this week began pre-
paration of 16,000 kits for work-
District Manager: Mrs. Max
Frank; Asst. District Manager:
Mrs. Perry P. Burnstine; Secre-
taries: Mrs. Jack Behrman, Mrs. ers.
I. D. Friedman; Mrs. Robert
Additional appointments to key
Purdy and Mrs. Charles Robin- positions in the War Chest will
son.
be announced next week.
Zone Charmen: Mrs. Samuel
Jewish Causes in Drive
Green and Mrs. Ernest J. Sachse;
Inclusion in the drive of all
Mrs. Ralph Davidson: Mrs. Morse the war relief causes is spurring,
Goldman and Mrs. Seymour J. the community to record-break-
Frank; Mrs. Ben Jacob; Mrs. ing efforts in behalf of the War
mercial unit of the campaign is
sitll incomplete, several appoint-
ments were announced as fol-
lows:
Division 2—War Parts Manu-
facturing—
Steel: Abe Kasle.
Machinery: Dave Emerman,
Harvey H. Goldman, Emil Stern.
Division 3—General Manu-
facturing and Sales—
Reclaimed and Salvage Mater-
ials: Samuel G. Key well and Ben
Kramer, chairmen.
Ralph Ley; Mrs. Philip Lipson; Chest. Included are the United
Mrs. Morris Luskin: Mrs. Henry Jewish Appeal (Joint Distribu-
Wagner and Mrs. Samuel Feld- tion Committee, United Palestine
man.
Service); all the agencies of the
Detroit Community Fund. in-
Special Assignments
Chairmen of. Special Assign- cluding the Jewish causes; Unit-
ments: Mrs. Fred A. Ginsberg ed Service Organizations (USO),
and Mrs. David S. Diamond.
including the Jewish Welfare
District 10—District Manager: Board, and all the local and na-
Benjamin Wilk.
tional causes of the Allied Jewish;
Zone Chairmen: A. J. Blumen- Campaign (except the civic-pro-
au, Chester L. Colen, Harry C. tective groups).
Division 4—Building and Con-
struction—
Sanford D. Adler, Harry J.
Glasser, Max C. Handler, Allen
Kramer, George D. Seyburn and
Benjamin Wilk.
Division 5—Mechantile-
Retail and Variety Stores—
Maurice A. Enggass, co-chairman.
Late News Brevities
Mussolini Gets Churchmen's Roosevelt Greets
Zionist Conclave
Protest Against Jew-Baiting Lauds Palestine's Contribu-
Appalling Sight of Jewish Misery in Polish Ghetto Forces
Apology From Nazi Leader; Other Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency News Briefs
ant.
Compiled By Independent Jewish Press Service
AMERICA: Benjamin V. Cohen appointed chief counsel of the
Office of Economic Stabilization . . . U. S. Government deCides to
tions to United Nations'
War Efforts
admit French Jewish refugee children; JDC and NRS to aid entry
. Dean Alfange pledges legislation to prevent racial and religious
NEW YORK — Warm recogni- discrimination in N. Y. state ... New York City Council opens city
hospital jobs to non-citizens . . . Dickstein scores Dies Committee
ZURICH—The Bishops of Rome, Turin, Milan, Trieste, Fiume tion of the part which Palestine for ignoring Fascisls ... F. D. R. warns Axis atrocities will be pun-
and Padua have made strong protests to Premier Mussolini against plays in the fight of the United ished after the war . . . Equal rights promised to Norwegian Jews
the persecution of Jews in Italy, it is revealed in Regime Fascista, Nations against the Axis is made . . New book on American Jew sponsored by Hadassah . Massa-
by President Franklin D. Roose-
velt in a message of greeting
addressed to the delegates of the
concurrent conventions of the
Zionist Organization of America,
and Hadassah, women's Zionist
Nazi Officials Appalled at Misery in Ghetto
organization, which opened here
STOCKHOLM—The misery prevailing among the Jews in the Wednesday with a combined
ghettos in Nazi-held Poland is too much even for Werner Schramm, delegation of more than 2,000 in
the hard-boiled Nazi official whom Hitler has appointed as leader of attendance.
the German youth in occupied Poland.
Lauding the "substantial con-
In an interview published in the German press, Schramm ad-
mits that what he saw in the Jewish ghetto in Mlava, near Warsaw, tribution" of Palestine to the
made such an impression on him thah he found it necessary to apol- United Nations' war effort, the
ogize to the leaders of the Jewish community there for the sufferings Chief Executive, in his message
sent to Judge Louis E. Levinthal,
which they are undergoing.
Gen. Somervell Lauds Valor of Jews; Roosevelt Greets Veterans president of the Zionist Organi-
SCRANTON, Pa.—Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell, chief of the zation, attributes that contribu-
army's services of supply, speaking here before the 47th annual tion "in great part to the work"
convention of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, lauded of the Zionist Organization of
the valor which Jews have displayed in all the wars of the United America and Hadassah in the
States and denounced as traitors and saboteurs those who spread past and in the present.
prejudice against persons of any race, color or religion.
The hope that "the present
Prior to Gen. Somervell's address the delegates heard a message
which reached here this week.
Regime Fascista, published by Roberto Farinacci, formerly sec-
retary of the Facist party and the chief anti-Semitic propagandist
in Italy, mentions the protests only obliquely in an attack on the
church leaders, since the Italian press was forbidden to publish any
reports of the Bishops' action.
of greeting from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, citing the fighting world crisis will mark a long
step forward towards the realiza-
tradition established by American Jews.
At its closing session the JWV defeated a resolution proposing tion of the Zionist vision" for the
the creation of a separate Jewish army in Palestine. Instead, a reso- establishment of Palestine as the
lution was adopted asking for the arming of Jews as part of a Pales- Jewish National Homeland was
tine defense force.
voiced by Field Marshal Jan
The convention of the Jewish War Veterans was informed that Christian Smuts, Prime Minister
one of the Aircobra pursuit planes donated by the organization to of South Africa, in a message
the American armed forces has been named "Star of David" by the cabled to Judge Levinthal on the
military authorities.
occasion of the Zionist conven-
Russia, Other Nations Get Proposal For Punishing Nazis
tion.
LONDON—Paralleling President' Roosevelt's statement in Wash-
ington that a United Nations commission will be established to in-
The War Chest drive, Oct. 26 to
vestigate the guilt of individual Axis ringleaders responsible for Nov. 12 is the application of the
mass-executions and atrocities committed upon the civilian popula-
tions in Axis-held countries, Viscount Simon, the Lord Chancellor,
announced in the House of Lords that the proposal for the creation
of such a commission came from the British Government, and has
been communicated to Russia, China, the Fighting French and other
nations. .
Allied Jewish Campaign and
Community Fund principle of
organized, boncentrated giving on
an even wider and more united
front.
chusetts Committee on Public Safety analyzes anti-democratic ru-
mors .. . Sergeant Julius Schellenburg wins Purple Heart for New
Guinea action.
War causes shift from Friday evening to Sunday morning serv-
ices in Temple Israel of St. Louis ... Amendment of Neutrality Act
saves thousands of Americans, including 8.000 Jews in Palestine,
from cancellation of citizenship ... 120 refugees arrive at Baltimore
on Serpa Pinto . . . Mrs. Roosevelt hopes Jewish victims of perse-
cution will find homes in Western Hemisphere . . . Catholics put
book on Polish history on preferred list ... Bill introduced in House
to exempt parents of soldiers from enemy alien class ... Anti-De-
famation League demands postal authorities bar circulation of
Kamp's book . . . Viscount Halifax deplores Nazi brutality against
Jews . . . Congressman Holland says Patterson-McCormick papers
cater to race hatred.
OVERSEAS—AND PALESTINE: On return to Palestine, David
ben Gurion says America is preparing to assure world order after
peace . .. Three Jewish companies in Pioneer Corps disbanded for
new Palestine regiment ... Lady MacMichael visits ATS Magnes
group asserts, it wants uninterrupted immigration ... 133 engineer-
ing men enlist with British armed forces . .. New book on Hitler
atrocities planned by Polish Jews in Palestine ... Hebrew University
Scientists serve as human guinea pigs in spotted typhus experiment
. . . Several hundred new recruits join Jewish battalions despite
labor shortage ... Palestine Orchestra gave 201 concerts in its sixth
season.
Plan to have Warsaw ghetto accommodate "Aryans" ... Ruman-
ian Government charges Jews allowed -to function under Rumanian
names . . . London Times correspondent says Nazi prisoners in
Russia "bitter anti-Semites" ... Lieutenant Max Lev awarded medal
for bravery by Soviet . .. Reveal that Herriot breach with Vichy
dates from defense of Jews . . . Doriot's strength growing among
Nazis ... Paris denies Vatican intervention ... French Fascist news-
paper claims thousands of Jews hiding near French Switzerland
. .. British launch commission for postwar punishment . . . Nazis to
introduce anti-Jewish laws in Denmark • . . Hungary admits adverse
effect of anti-Jewish measures . . . Slovakian people and officials
impede anti-Jewish measures ... Palestine Home Guard not to enroll
additional Jews ... Hundreds die as Swiss erect new barriers against
refugees . . . Yugoslavian refugees who return to their homes
arrested and sent to concentration camps . . . Prague Zionist leader,
Dr. Franz Kahn, deported to Theresienstadt . . • 66 Hungarian Nazis
expelled from Congress for dissenting on Jewish issue . . . Nazi
radio appeals to Caucasian population to kill or take hostage local
Jetrjsh peasants who try to escape .
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