Friday, 'Mardi -10, 1944

THE JEWiSH NEWS

Page Twelve

Community Council Makes
Vital Decisions on Monday

JNF Rally to Aid
Annual Donor Fete

Ellmann, Franck to Attend
Civic-Protective Meeting

Affiliation With New National Defense Body to Be Ratified
at Quarterly Conference; Report on Enlarged Budget
for 1944-45 Amoti§ Eight Items on Agenda

Mendel N. Fisher of N. Y.
to Be Guest Speaker at
They Will Represent Jewish Community of Detroit at
Gathering Tuesday
National Parley March 18-20 Which is to
Plan Fight on Anti-Semitism
Mendel N. Fisher, executive

The March quarterly business conference of delegates
representing 200 constituent organizations of Detroit's Jewish
Community Council will be held on Monday at 8:30 p. m., in
the auditorium of the Jewish Comunity Center, Woodward
at Holbrook.
James I. Ellmann,, president, has made public the agenda

The Jewish Community Council of Detroit, acting in
behalf of the organized Jewish community of Detroit, will
be represented at the first meeting of the newly-,formed
National Public Relations Advisory Council at its initial
meeting in New York City March 18 to 20.
The convening of the first meeting of this council,

for the conference, at which im-
portant decisions are to be made,
affecting Detroit's Jewish com-
munity, both internally and in its
relations with the larger Ameri-
can Jewish community. The
agenda includes:
1—A report on the creation of
the new national body which is to
formulate policy on combatting
anti-Semitism, and on the signifi-
cance of this new body both for
Detroit and for the national scene.
Discuss Decision
2—Discussion of the Executive
Committees' decision that De-
troit's Jewish community, as rep-
resented by its Community Coun-
cil, affiliate with this new body.
3—A report on the Conference
on Anti-Semitism held in New
York under the auspices of the
American Jewish Congress, and
a discussion as to- whether sugges-
tons for Detroit's program
emerged out of any of the Con-
ference sessions.
4—A report on the plan to fur-
nish to constituent organizations
a memorandum on the state of
inter-group relations in Detroit
and in America at large.
Report on Budget
5—A report on the Community
Council's request for an enlarged
budget for 1944-45.
6—A report on plans of the
newly reorganized internal rela-
tions committee, under the chair-
manship and co-chairmanship of
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer and Jos-
eph Bernstein respectively.
7—A proclamation of Commun-
ity Council Month in April, and
the plans - for greater consolidation
for the community through an in-
tensive program of interpretation.
8—Introduction of Abraham
Cohen, the Community Council's
new internal relations director. •
"Important decisions will have
to be made at the March 13
meeting," stated Mr. Ellman. "The
Comunity Council represents
democracy in action, and it is
both the privilege and • the duty
of representatives of the Coun-
cil's constituent organizations to
participate fully in these larger
decisions for Detroit's total Jew-
ish community."

Zion Economic Committ
Resumes Its Activities

The American Economic Com-
mittee for Palestine, a benefic-
iary of the American Fund for
=
'" Palestinian Institutions, has re-
sumed activities, after a short
•suspension, with offices in New
York (250 W. 57th St.) and in
Palestine.
Its function is to be of practi-
cal assistance to Palestine indus-
try, agriculture and commerce,
and to help create sound indus-
trial, agricultural and commer-
cial enterprises in Palestine so
that employment opportunities
may be created for new immi-
grants.
Since 1932 the Committee,
through its offices in. New York
and Tel Aviv, served about 9,000
individuals originating from
more than 50 countries.
The present officers are: Sid-
ney Musher, president; Israel B.
Brodie, Edward A. Norman,
Robert Szold, co-chairmen;
Aaron Baroway, vice-president;
Julliet N. Benjamin, treasurer;
Edna Preiser, secretary.

ELLY KADOORIE DIES
NEW YORK (JPS)—Sir Elly
Kadoorie, financier and philan-
thropist, died last month in
Shanghai, it is reported by the
Associated Press. Sir Elly was
born in Bagdad 27 years ago
and went to China as a young
man where he founded the firm
of E. S. Kadoorie and Co. and
made his fortune. Sir Elly, and
his brother, the late Sir Ellis,
gave over a million dollars to
found schools and hospitals all
over • the world.

Jewish Center
Activities

Mothers' Clubs Annual
Purim Ball Wednesday
The annual Purim masquerade
ball of the Mothers' Clubs will
be held Wednesday evening at
the Jewish. Community Center.
Prizes will be awarded to in-
dividuals for the most appropri-
ate costumes.
There will be special awards
for the group or club that best
depicts a group activity any-
where in the world, particularly
stressing intercultural and social
relations between the group peo-
ple of North and South America.
* * *

- L'Aissian, North African

Films at Center Wednesday
Films of Russian and North
Africa will be shown at the Jew-
ish Center on Wednesday, at 8:45
p. m. The Russian films are
"69th Parallel," which deals with
lend-lease activities to Russia,
and "Report from Russia," latest
Russian war film release. "Bomb-
er Over North Africa" is a vivid
picture of the air war.
* * *
Charm Program March 15
The Charm Program of the
Jewish Community Center will
feature Philip, of Phillips Beau-
ty Salon, on March 15, at 9 p. m.,
in the Art Studio.
* * *
Purim Holiday Hop at
Center Sunday. Night
The sixth Holiday Hop of the
Jewish Community Center will
be a. Purim dance, on Sunday,
at 9 p. m. Gene Fenby and his
orchestra return for this event
by popular demand. Sally Ro-
main, vocalist, will appear with
the band. The auditoriuin will
be decorated in keeping with the
Purim theme. There will be a
surprise novelty event with
prizes. Refreshments will be
available.
* . * *
•
Plan Marriage Counseling
Course for Mep. at Center
A Marriage Counseling Course
for men only will start at the
Jewish Center as soon as there
are enough applicants, under the
direction of Miss Betty Koron-
sky. A new . Marriage Course
also wil start soon for young
women.

Honor Joshua Glassgold
In Golden Book of JNF

The memory of Joshua Glass-
gold, who passed away a year ago,
was honored, on his first yahrzeit,
by his family and Branch 79 of
the Jewish National Workers'
Alliance, with an inscription in
the Golden Book of the Jewish
National Fund.

Former Berlin Editor,
Theodor Wolff, Dead

NEW YORK (JPS)—Theodor
Wolff, one of the leading editors
of pre-Hitler Germany, died in
Berlin after being removed ill
and broken from a concentration
camp, it is reported by Aufbau,
German-language weekly pub-
lished here.
•Mr. Wolff was the editor of
the Berliner Tageblatt for many
years, but was removed within
six months after Hitler's rise.
An opponent of militarism be-
fore the first World War, after
Versailles he became more na-
tionalistic, advocating defiance of
the peace treaty, and attacking
the Weimar Republic's policies.
He frequently was consulted by
kings, premiers and diplomats.

director of the Jewish National
Fund of America, will be the
guest speaker next Tuesday at
the final rally
and dessert
luncheon of the
J.N.F. Women's
Auxiliary, to be
held at the Rose . k
Sittig Cohen
Bld g. at 12:30
p.m. Mrs. Louis
Fineman will be
hostess.
An invitation Julius Chajes
to attend this rally is extended
to all women interested in Pales-
tine land redemption work.
Mrs. Philip -Cutler, president,
announces that reports will be
submitted on the progress of the
work for the donor event to be
held March 22 at the Masonic
Auditorium, with Pierre V a n
Paassen as guest speaker. Mrs.
William Klafer, fund-r a is i n g
chairman, states that husbands
of donors are invited.
Mrs. Benjamin Laikin, pro-
gram chairman, assisted by Mrs.
Albert Rosenthal and Mrs.
Joshua Sperka, have arranged
for the following musical pro-
gram for the donor event to sup-
plement Mr. Van Paassen's ad-
dress:
A string trio, consisting of
Julius Chajes, pianist; Jascha
Schwartzman, cellist, and Henry
Siegl, violinst.
A vocal trio composed of Mar-
guerite Kozenn a n d "Harriett
Toomey, sopranos, and Margit
Kormendy, contralto, accompa-
nied by Mr. Chaj es.

77 Alumni of HUC
Serve as Chaplains

CINCINNATI—Some 77 alum-
ni of Hebrew Union College,
Reform seminary, have been
commissioned as U. S. chaplains,
Dr. Julian Morgenstern, presi-
dent, announced this week.
A faculty member, Major
Abraham N. Franzblau, and two
students, Cpl. Alvin S. Roth and
Pvt. Irving B. Cohen, are in the
Army. Another student, Seaman
Charles E. Israel, is in the Mer-
chant Marine.
Of the chaplains, two have
died in service. They were Alex
D. Goode and Samuel D. Hur-
witz.
The HUC chaplain roster in-
cludes the following five from
Detroit:
Morton A. Bauman, Morton J.
Cohn, Albert A. Gordon, Her-
schell Lymon and Melvin Sands.

Rabbi Jacob J. Nathan will ad-
dress the youth symposium this
Friday at 9 p. m. in the Bnai
Moshe Assembly H a 11. The
topic will be, "Problems Facing
American Jewish Youth." A dis-
cussion will follow. All young
people of the community are in-
vited to attend.

which was formed during the
assembly sessions of the Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds,
held in Pittsburgh last month,
was announced by Philmore J.
Haber of Cleveland and Edgar
J. Kaufman of Pittsburgh, co-
chairmen of the committee.
Ellmann, Franck to Attend
James I. Ellmann, president of
the Jewish Community Council,
and Isaac Franck, the Council'S
executive director, were chosen
Detroit's representatives.
Participating in the meeting
will be representatives of the
American Jewish Committee,
American Jewish Congress,
American Jewish Labor Commit-
tee, Bnai Brith and of 14 com-
munities which have central
agencies f o r civic-protective
work. The new body will attempt
to coordinate national policies
and to integrate activities of lo-
cal Jewish agencies with the pro-
grams being sleveloped by the
national organizations in the field
of combatting anti-Semitism.
Deal With Problems
The announcement, issued by
the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds, states
that each national agency will
be represented on the new or-
ganization by five persons, in-
cluding two of its officers. "It is
expected that the first meeting
will undertake at once to deal
with problems confronting Amer-
ican Jewry, devoting only a
minimum of time to organiza-
tional structure and procedure,
so that the new body may start
to serve the purpose for which
it was established," the an-
nouncement says.
Henry Monsky, president of
Bnai Brith, in a letter to the co-
chairmen, stated that "the mat-
ter has been submitted to our
goevrning board who undoubted-
ly will authorize the acceptance
of, and participation in, the pro-
gram, and that as soon as such
authorization had been accomp-
lished, the Bnai Brith would
name representatives."
Name RepreSentatives
Several local community rela-
tions organizations invited to
participate in the first meeting
have designated their represent-
atives. These cities include De-
troit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapo-
lis. The Executive Committee of
the Minnesota Jewish Council

likewise has -recommended the
participation of that organiza-
tion.
Other cities invited and expect-
ed to participate include Balti-
more, Boston, Brooklyn, Los An-
geles, Milwaukee, St. Louis and
San Francisco.
A Committee of the CJFWF
has been attempting to find a
mutually acceptable formula for
the past three years and the res-
olution uniformly adopted at
Pittsburgh on Feb. 6, was. a- re-
sult of the deliberations of rep-
resentatives of the Council's 246
member agencies.
In addition to Mr. Haber and
Mr.. Kaufman, the Organizing
Committee established by the
Council of Jewish . Federations
and Welfare Funds include Ber-
nard P. Kopkind, New Haven;
Maurice B. Fagan, Philadelphia;
Sidney Hollander, Baltimore,
Watahrn-aker, Boston;

Robert Szold Predicts
Palestine to Expand
Like Southwest U. S.

NEW YORK (JTA)—The pre-
diction that "Palestine and in-
deed the whole Near East . is due
to expand in the next genera-
tion in the waY in which the
American Southwest did within
the last hundred years," w a s
made by Robert Szold, Ameri-
can Zionist leader who just re-
turned from Palestine, during an
address before more than 100
leaders and members of the na-
tional board of Hadassah meet-
ing at their annual mid-winter
conference.
Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner,
who visited Palestine during his
recent tour of Allied fighting
fronts, told the conference that
"The Jewish population of Pales-
tine is contributing more per
capita toward t h e rescue of
Jews from Europe than any
other group of Jews throughout
the world."

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