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• Friday, January 7, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Vandenberg Named
On U. S. • Palestine
Group's Executive
Refugees Get A Kick Out of Being Americans
U. S. Chamber of Com-
merce Head Accepts Post
as Committee Chairman
Others who have accepted Sen-
ator Wagner's invitation to serve
on the group's executive commit-
tee are Senator Arthur H. Van-
denberg of Michigan, Senator
Claude Pepper of Florida and
CIO President Philip Murray, all
of whom declared that they are
in complete sympathy with the
American Palestine Committee's
aims.
The Hyde Park High School in Chicago is
proud of its soccer team for two reasons—first,
because it is headed for championship, and sec-
ond, because the refugee lads in its lineup
symbolize liberty—and brotherhood in Ameri-
can sports. Members of the team who are en-
joying a free boyhood in the U. S. are (left to
right) : Ludwig Fritsch and George Herz, from
Austria; Martin Prager and Edward Auerhan,
from Germany; Charles Ullman, from Czechos-
Dr. Perlzweig
Speaker at the
PWO Luncheon
Mrs. Shever, Noted Concert
lovakia; Russel Lee, China; and Charles Techo,
Czechoslovakia.
Thousands of youngsters rescued from Hitler-
ism are growing into healthy, useful Ameri-
cans, and many of them, with their parents,
are being helped by the National Refugee Ser-
vice, whose work is financed by the United
Jewish Appeal. Their older brothers are al-
ready repaying this country's hospitality in the
ranks of America's fighting forces.
Jr. Hadassah Holds
Meeting This Sunday
Detroit chapter of Junior Ha-
dassah invites prospective mem-
bers to its general meeting on
Sunday, at 2:30, in the prayer
room of the Shaarey Zedek. Ber-
nard Isaacs will lecture on "He-
brew Language and Literature."
The fund -r a i s i n g chairman,
Alyse Geer, will disclose plans
for the donor luncheon to be held
Feb. 22 at the Book Cadillac
Hotel.
Senator Vandenberg pointed
Artist, to Be Soloist at
out that he has been a member
Jan. 18 Event
of the organization since its in-
ception. "I continue to be deep-
Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig,
ly interested in its objectives and
shall be glad to serve in the man- chairman of the British section of
the World Jewish Congress who
ner you suggest," he added.
has made this country his home
Judge Frank A. Picard of the
Membership chairman, Ger-
for the past three years, will be
U. S. District Court is chairman
trude Goldman, is planning an-
of the Michigan chapter of the
other membership party. The
American Palestine Committee.
drive to reach the quota is still
on and the committee is busy
The American Palestine Com-
formulating plans.
mittee is Christian America's ve-
hicle for the expression of sym-
Jan. 11 is the date for another
pathy for Jewish aspirations in
Hadassah Study Group lecture at
Palestine. It already includes
the Hadassah- offices, 9144 Lin-
many outstanding figures in the
wood, at 8 p. m. Lawrence Crohn
field of education, government,
will swak on the subject "Pales-
church and labor, and now aims
tine and Great Britain." Junior
to enroll the broad mass of
Hadassah invites members of
Christian Americans in its na-
other organizations to hear Mr.
tion-wide drive to re-establish
Crohn and to participate in the
the Jewish National Home in
singing of Hebrew songs.
Palestine.
Russian Rams Presented
To Zoo in Tel Aviv
J. Burrows' Name
TEL AVIV (Palcor) — Four
Inscribed in Golden
Russian rams brought from the
Book of the JNF
Soviet Union by a Polish Army
unit now in Palestine have been
The Detroit Wholesale Mer-
presented to the local zoo. The
chants Association and the Mich-
soldiers also gave the zoo a bear
igan Wholesale Apparel Associa- DR. MAURICE L. PERLZWEIG
tion this week announced that
bodies in important consultations
they have inscribed the name of the guest speaker at the 13th an- not only with the British govern-
the late Jacob Burrows in the nual donOr luncheon of the Pio- ment but also with other Euro-
Golden Book of the Jewish Na- neer Women's Organization, on
pean governments. He serves on
tional Fund in Jerusalem.
Jan. 18, at the Book Cadillac the executive committee of the
Hotel.
Mr. Burrows, who died Dec. 27
WZO and of the Jewish Agency
Emma Shever, popular Detroit for Palestine and is head of the
at University Hospital, Ann
Arbor, at the age of 60, was a concert artist, will be featured as Agency's political information
highly learned man and was a guest soloist at this annual event. department.
lifelong Zionist.
Rebecca Frohman will be her ac-
Heads Students Union
A very modest person, very companist.
Dr. Perlzweig is also the chair-
Reservations for the luncheon man of the World Union of Jew-
few people knew that in his early
manhood in Russia he was a gov- can be made at the PWO Council ish Students and a member of
ernment rabbi and that he was a office, 9142 Linwood, or by call- the Students Commission of the
leader in Jewish circles in Eng- ing TY. 7-2880, TO.N 8-1239 or TO. International Institute of Intel-
land at the turn of the century. 8-8646.
lectual Co-operation of the Lea-
Acclaimed at Concerts
gue of Nations. He is Chairman
Mrs. Shever has been acclaim- of the Central Jewish Lecture
Publishers Convene
ed at concerts throughout the Committee of the London Board
In Indianapolis Jan. 15
country, and her most recent tri- of Jewish Deputies.
umph was her appearance with
A graduate of the University
INDIANAPOLIS (JPS)—Pub- the famous violinist Bronislaw Christ's. College, he studied Rab-
lishers of Anglo-Jewish papers in Huberman in Toronto. She is binics with Dr. Israel Abrams,
the Middle West will meet in scheduled to make the following e ntered the Ministry in 1921 and
Indianapolis Saturday and Sun- appearances: Jan. 9, Cleveland; h ecame a Minister of the Liberal
day, Jan. 15 and 16, it was an-
eb. 6, at Festival of Jewish ,J ewish Synagogue of London.
nounced by a sponsoring com- Music in Town Hall, New York; D using the last 20 years he has
mittee composed of L. H. Frisch, Feb. .9. Grand Rapids.
poken on a variety of platforms
of the •American Jewish World,
Dr. Perlzweig has served as o n behalf of Zionism and in de-
Minneapolis; Henry Segal of political representative of Jewish f ense of Jewish rights.
American Israelite, Cincinnati;
Phil Slomovitz of The Jewish
News, Detroit and Gabriel Co-
hen of the Jewish Post.
.
.
,
Palestine Children Donate
Hanukah Money to Fund
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — More
than 1,000 children who hold
policies in the Histadruth's Hass-
neh Insurance Co. have turned
over "Hanukah money" paid to
.them by the company to the
Child Welfare Fund, it was an-
nounced here. The funds will be
used to help care for refugee
children who are brought here
from various occupied countries.
Hadassah Luncheon
To Feature `Child
Welfare' Program
Board ,of Education's Head
of Nursery Service to
Speak Tuesday
WASHINGTON — The forma-
tion by the American Palestine
Committee of an executive com-
mittee, which includes some of
America's leading citizens, was
announced by Senators Robert F.
Wagner of New York and Charles
L. McNary of Oregon, co-chair-
men of the committee.
Responding to a message from
Senator Wagner, Eric A. John-
ston, president of the U. S.
Chamber, of Commerce, said: "I
gladly accept your invitation to
serve on the executive committee
of the American Palestine Com-
mittee; I am pleased to do this
because I feel that the Palestine
Committee can do an effective
job toward alleviating the des-
perate situation of the Jewish
people."
Page Eleveri
Gives JNF $1,506
To Plant Forest
For Allied Chiefs
"Child Welfare" will be the
phase of Hadassah activity to be
featured at a luncheon meeting
of the Detroit Chapter at the
Jewish Community Center, next
Tuesday at 12:30 p. m.
Luncheon arrangements, which
will follow as closely as possible
the school luncheons served the
children in Palestine, are being
supervised by Mrs. Benjamin
Gordon and Mrs. M. S. Perlis.
The luncheon will cost 59 cents
and proceeds will be allocated
to the Child Welfare Fund.
Miss Irma Unruh, supervisor of
the Nursery and Extended School
Service of the Board of Educa-
tion, in charge of nursery schools
and canteens in Detroit, will talk
on "Nursery Schools in War
Time."
Mrs. Milton Maddin, chairman
of Hadassah Child Welfare Fund,
which provides school luncheons
for children of working mothers
in Palestine, will review this
phase of Hadassah activity in pro-
moting the war effort of the
United Nations in Palestine.
Mrs. Morris Adler will preside.
Trees in Palestine Will Bear Pioneer Women to Seek
Names of Roosevelt, Stalin, $250,000 for Program
Churchill and Chiang
A new project for the estab-
lishment of a special Building
Fund for children's institutions
in Palestine has been undertaken
by the Pioneer Women's Organ-
ization, it was announced by Miss
Dvorah Rothbard, national secre-
tary. It is estimated that $250,-
000 will :)e required for the pro-
gram mapped by the Working
Women's Council in Palestine, of
The planting of the first 1,000 which the Pioneer Women's Or-
trees in the United Nations For- ganization is the American
est on the land of the Jewish Agency.
National Fund, has been made
possible by a gift of $1,500 to the
JNF made by Isaac Evans, hon-
orary vice-president of the Cleve-
Take Chances!
land Zionist Society. He pre-
Have your radio
sented the money to Dr. Abba
repaired now —
Hillel Silver, Rabbi of The Tem-
par ts may be
ple, Cleveland, president of the
United Palestine Appeal and
unobtainable
chairman- of the executive com-
later. Satisfac-
mittee of the American Zionist
tion guaranteed.
Emergency Council.
FREE LOANER
CLEVELAND — A forest that
will bear the names of President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Chur-
chill, Marshal Stalin and Gener-
alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek will be
planted in Palestine in apprecia-
tion of their achievements at the
recent Cairo and Teheran con-
ferences.
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