Riday, DeCember 10,' 1943 THE JEWISH NEWS 17 Millions to Be Required By JDC for Relief in 1944 Judge A. M. Kross To Address Local Palestine Group Page Seven Resolution to Rescue Jews Inadequate, Dr. Wise Says Two or Three Times That Sum Would Be Needed if War Were to End Within Year;' Repatriated JDC Worker Judge Picard Will Preside . Urges House Foreign Committee to Draw Up Amendment to Keep Open Doors of Palestine as Simplest Way Describes Plight of Jews in Shanghai at American Palestine of Helping; Hearings on Bill Continued Committee Luncheon NEW YORK (JTA)—At least $17,000,000 will be required by. the Joint Distribution Committee during 1944 to carry Michigan Branch of the Amer- out its activities in Europe, Asia and North Africa, it was stated this week by .Paul Baerwald addressing 4,000 dele- ican Palestine Committee, the or- gates from 135 cities attending -the 29th annual meeting • of ganization of Christian friends of a JeWish Palestine, will hold a, the JDC. - Mr. Baerwald stressed that "if: the war were to end tomorroW, been emigration aid. Dr. Schwartz or'' Within the year, we would reiplire twice or three times that stitn—or even. more." Baerwald was elected hairman• of the JDC, succeeding Capt. EdWard M. M. Warburg, ho is on, active service with. the S. Army. For the past two ears Mr. Baerwald has been urictioning as honorary chair- aiil* Mrs: - Felix WarbUrg was alined honorary - chairman -and ames::N. Rosenberg was elected o the newly created post of hairman of the board. WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Terming the resolution for a commis- sion to rescue the Jews of Europe "inadequate," Dr. Stephen S. Wise. this week called for an amendment to keep open the doors of Palestine as the "simplest way of helping the, of Europe." He told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that he was not dis- cussing the establishment of a Jewish - commonwealth, bill that the. failure to mention Palestine as a haven-meant that he reso- luion did not "touch the heart of the problem." He charged that the Emergency, Committee to Save the Jews of Europe has been using newspaper advertisements to misrepre- sent. the bill as a proposal to open Palestine to immigration. Asked by Rep. Charles A. Eaton, (R) of N. J., about the "pro- priety of a committee of the 'House 'serving notice on the British Parliament as to what action they should take," Dr. Wise said that `inorally and spiritually" the U. S. shared Britain's mandate over Palestine. "We can suggest that the doors of Palestine be kept open .because we are friends," he said. Rep. James W. Wadsworth .(R). of - N. Y., disclo'Sed that the Foreign Affairs Committee last week 'heard four - hours of testi- mony .on, the efforts of the State Department and the..Intergovern- mental Committee on Refugees to. help European Jews. ' Rep. Will RogerS Jr., (D) of Calif., Who with Rep. Joseph Clark Baldwin, (R) of N. Y., introduced the resolution in the House, called the support of the American Jewish Conference "one of the most hopeful things that has happened," but said he doubted the "wisdom of injecting the ancient and acrimonious issue of Palestine into' a specific resolution designed for rescue." Lewis G. Hines of the AFL and Kermit Eby, representative of Phillip Murray, president of the CIO, asked favorable consideration of the resolution. Further hearings will be held next week. Senator Guy M. Gillette, Iowa Dem., who introduced a similar bill in the' Senate, said he expected the Committee to consider resolution at its next meeting. ,pointed out that since Pearl Hai-, bor, the JDC has enabled 12,000 to emigrate to the Western Hem- isPhere and Palestine. In recent 'months the JDC has been aiding large groupS of Jews who had escaped to Turkey and to Aden, to .go to Palestine. • , , Miss Laura Margolis, the Only woman in the JDC's — overseas service, said that "the JDC and the organization it set up in enemy-occupied Shanghai has F meant the • difference between life - and death to thousandS of refu- Relations Resumed ,gees there." Miss Margolis was Joseph C. Hyman, executive sent to Shanghai by the JDC ice-president of the JDC ; diS7 May 1941 to supervise its relief ussed arrangements which the activities - behalf of the 21,000 DC has just concluded Je ish refUgeeS.- Even-atter Pearl Russia to send food, clothing and rbor,• he pointed out;.:the JDC )ther supplies, in the „ amount kit was feeding 5,000: persons JUDGE FAAI lic . A. •ICARD • 500,0.00 into the USSR Within daily and - . its five camps were the next few months for distribu- hOusing..inany::thore.- luncheon meeting at the Book Roosevelt, Hull Asked to Support Resolution to Aid Jews ion by the RUsSian *Red Cli.bs-S - Starvat L.: • . Cadillac Hotel Tuesday, Dec. 21. i on Taking `Toll NEW YORK, (JTA)—A request that President Roosevelt and a '• civilians on a '11bn-sectarian Judge' .Frank A. - PieaTd, Who Secretary Hull support the pending Congressional resolution for war: . Ja.pan Continiies o asis in areas of predominaritlyiT ewish population. He said tiia -Cf.f0,11 several ,,thOre years, at lealt. will:preide at --the,Iiiii-Cheon; an- establishment of a commission to effect the rescue of persecuted nounced- this week that the guest European Jews was made this week by Dean Alfange, vice chair- hiS :marked -the formal resUMP-: half of the Jewish refUgees speaker .at- the •luncheon will be man • of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of ion. of _ . relief relationships: - Shanghai. Willi. be -`.`uSeress if Europe. Deploring "the inertia of the U. S. Government in the ween JDC and the Soviet. fOria . starvation," said Miss:' Judge Anna - Moskowitz. KrosS., of face of appalling revelations" of mass `murder, he said: ew YOrk, who has distinguished _ W•o.. ,retUrried; High" praise for the JDC's work. "Up to this moment neither the- President nor Mr. Hull have aine fioin Herbert H. Leri-Man, abOa_rci':: the SWedish exchange .herse • .conimunity work and indicated publicly their approval of this resolution, though one Flag been...active especially ef- word, one nod from either, would assure its passage." :Gtfipshoina. . irectoi!" general of the 'United: ations Relief and Rehabilitatiati The EmergencY Committee to Save the Jewish People of e: problem. was:-Corn- forts:::tO, improve _Negro relations in NeW York. Europe, which is sponsoring the resolution, issued a statement here ddilnistration, in a letter 0:Mr: :liCated;1"?MiSs ,. MargOlis: yman: Mr:' Lehman, who ;for e fact, that- in Feb_ruary - pf• 1942 : • PrOrnifient pulite officials.,, pointing out that the resolution asks the establishment of an agency to deal with the situation of the trapped Jews in Europe and not uarter of a century was actively. : all` stateless persons were ordered, a.yors _ o'fseVeral. cities in Mich.- with the problems of refugees who have already escaped from ssociated with the JDC, dedlared- to - Move : into the-HOngkew section igan, judges Viand clergymen are occupied countries.' • at agency, "dealing as it :doei; -Of . Shanghai. She .stressed that :members Of the -MiChigan - Chap 7. lot .merely with current needs, the 1-lorigirew area