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THE. JEWISH NEWS

Palestine Becoming. Noted
For Research in Chemistry

Corn Turned Into

Jobs for Americans
By Refugee Expert

Dr. Bergmann, Chief Chemist of Daniel Sieff Institute, Tells
Detroiters of Vital Products Being Developed, Need
of Funds to Enlarge Rehovoth Laboratories

Yishuv Sorry
Mr. Roosevelt
Didn't Visit

were Arabs, and 18,726 were
"others," while departures com-
prised 17,647 Jews, 104,267 Arabs,
and 18,278 "others." There was
a net increase in population of
700, but the Jewish net residue
was 1,600.

Jewish Agency Sends
Delegation to London

Allied Chiefs of Staffs Tour
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Jerusalem Between
Jewish Agency executive, at a
meeting this week, decided to
Conferences

Chemistry as a medium for the creation of colonization
and reconstruction possibilities in Palestine became a fasci-
nating subject even to laymen when Dr. Ernst Bergmann,
chief chemist of the Daniel Sieff Research Institute in Re-
hovoth, Palestine, described the efforts of this great chemical
agency, at a meeting of leaders who are conducting the cur-
rent drive here for Detroit's quo-@

to to help support the Institute, ern Palestine can be transformed
on Dec. 8.
into a great productive area. He
Abraham Cooper, local chair- stated that dates will grow on
man, presided at the meeting at salty soil and that the Negev,
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred which has an abundance of salt
A. Ginsburg, on Chicago Blvd. water, can be converted into a
Mr. and Mrs. Ginsburg have been large date-growing area provided
interested in this cause since its the dates are used not for food
inception. Their son-in-law, Lewis but for the fermentation process-
Ruskin of Chicago, who is now es to create the planned agricul-
residing in Washington where tural industries.
he is engaged in special govern-
Most Plausible Plan
ment work, is national chairman
Indicating that this is the most
of the Chaim Weizmann Founda- plausible plan for the develop-
tion which finances the Sieff ment of Palestine, Dr. Bergmann
Institute.
said that he saw Palestine as a
center for processing products in
Room for 2 Million
Indicating that 2,000,000 Jews the Middle East and as the most
can be saved after the war for peaceful means of solving the
gradual settlement in Palestine, Arab-Jewish question through
Dr. Bergmann, who is one of the the creation of a great scientific
world's acknowledged great center in Palestine by Jews.
Dr. Bergmann also declared
chemists, declared that in order
to accomplish this task it will be that Palestine is capable of de-
necessary to create agricultural veloping a pharmaceutal indus-
industries in Palestine, and he try. Recalling that Germany was
devoted his address to a descrip- the chief world center for the
tion of projects which serve as manufacture of dyestuffs and
foundations for such industries. pharmaceutical substances, he
The utilization of agricultural asserted that the establishment
products for the • research work of Palestine as a center for such
of the Sieff Institute was ex- manufacturing projects would
plained by Dr. Bergman. He re- prove the greatest act of ven-
ferred to the lupin, a Palestine geance against the Germans.
Among the other interesting
soya bean, whose poisonous sub-
stances have been removed as a points advanced by Dr. Berg-
result of processes perfected by mann was the information he
that the Sieff Institute
the scientists at Rehovoth, so that
it became useful in many ways. is working on cures for cancer,
tuberculosis and leprosy.
Produce Vital Substances
Serum Developed
Pointing to the exhaustibility He revealed that together with
of petroleum, since the world is the scientists at the Hebrew
today using up this product from University a serum has been
the available material, Dr. Berg- developed which may prove ef-
mann stated that the Sieff Insti- fective in fighting these two di-
tute has begun to make use of seases.
the only inexhaustible substance
The production of pharmaceuti-
in nature—sugar—as a source of cals, he stated, has helped raise
energy.
the standard of living in Pales-
"Only .since the last war, as a tine, which is the only way of
result of the chemical research cementing Arab-Jewish friend-
work of Dr. Weizmann have we ships.
learned that it is possible to con-
Dr. Bergmann pointed to the
vert fermentative products into need for expansion of research
vitally needed cheinical objects," institutions to give opportunity
Dr. Bergmann said.
for work to Jewish scientists and
"One of the processes is the to make real the hope of Jews
conversion of oranges into ace- in concentration camps in Hitler-
tone and ethyl alcohol," he stated. dominated Europe that they will
Among the most interesting find a home in a Palestine re-
revelations made by the eminent constructed as the Jewish home-
chemist at the local meeting was land.
the fact that the Negev in South-
Referring to the industrial co-

Miley, December 17, 1943

Shortly after coming to Amer-
ica ALBERT FLEGENHEIMER,
formerly a leader in Europe's
sugar refining industry, took
over a long-abandoned mill at
Waverly, Iowa, and made it the
center of a thriving corn by-
products industry which is now a
source of jobs for more than 100
of the town's 3,000 inhabitants.
Mr. Flegenheimer is one of many
refugees whose ideas and abili-
ties are repaying America's hos-
pitality. The 'adjustment of most
of these newcomers has been aid-
ed by the National Refugee Serv-
ice, whose work is financed by
the United Jewish Appeal.

operation of Palestine with Euro-
pean countries and the United
States, he stated that Palestine
is today the largest prOducer of
bromine and that Sieff Institute
chemists have found a way of
crystalizing bromine to make it
suitable for shipment.
All of the discoveries of Sieff
Institute chemists are made avail-
able to the Middle East and the
world at large without charge,
Dr. Bergman stated.
* * *
The Detroit campaign for the
Sieff Institute is being directed
by a committee headed by Mr.
Cooper, to whom all contribu-
tions may be, sent.
Mr. Cooper stated at the meet-
ing at the home of the Ginsburgs
that it is expected that last year's
quota of $10,000 will again be
raised this year.
* * *
After the address by Dr. Berg-
mann a musical program was pre-
sented at the meeting on Dec. 8.
Mme. Marguerite Kozenn, who
was accompanied by Julius Cha-
jes, appeared in a group of He-
brew songs which captivated the
audience. Mme. Kozenn also ap-
peared in a duet with Mrs. Abra-
ham Cooper and Mr. Chajes gave
several piano selections.

JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Disap-
pointment is felt by the Yishuv
over the fact that President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill did not stop here on
their way to Teheran from Cairo.
Rumors, were rife, during the
Cairo-Teheran conferences, that
the President and Prime Min-
ister had made a hurried stop
here.
The Allied chiefs of staff, how-
ever, visited Jerusalem, touring
the Old City and viewing the.
Wailing Wall from a neighboring
roof top.
Erect 39th Settlement
The thirty-ninth. Jewish settle-
ment erected since the war was
dedicated Tuesday in Southern
Palestine by Nitzanim, a group
of General Zionist workers, for-
merly encamped at Herzliah. The
Palestine Foundation Fund (Ker-
en Hayesod) has contributed the
budget for settlement and the
Jewish National Fund (Keren
Kayemeth) has allocated 1,600
dunams.
The 38th settlement was erect-
ed Sunday 12 kilometers from
Gaza in Southern Palestine.
According to statistics of the
Palestine Government Depart-
ment of Migration in its report
for 1942, the total number of ar-
rivals last year was 140,987, of
whom 19,823 were Jews, 102,429

send a three-man delegation to
London composed of Moshe Sher-
tok, Rabbi Fishman and Dr. Emil
Schmorak. The three members
of the executive represent the
Laborites, Mizrachi and General
Zionists, respectively.

60 All-Jewish Units
In British Forces
LONDON (JTA)—There are
now 60 all-Jewish units in the
British. armed forces and 300 of
their officers are Jewish, it is
disclosed in a report by the Jew-
ish Agency here.
The total number of Palestine
Jews serving under the British
flag is about 22,000, the report
says, with 700 in the Navy and
3,000 women in the Auxiliary
Territorial Service, and the re-
mainder in the Army and Royal
Air Force. There are also 6,000
Jews among the supernumerary
police in Palestine and 8,000 in
the regular police.
The Palestine volunteer force,
which was organized in 1940
when it was feared that the Ger-
man army would invade Pales-
tine, will be disbanded this week,
the London press reported. The
step is being taken as a result of
the fact that Palestine is no long-
er in any danger. The volunteer
force has been trained and
equipped by the British army for
cooperation with army units.

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