THE JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

VOL. 5—NO. 9

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of Jewish Events

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AFL, CIO, Members of Congress

Urge 'Free Ports' for Refugees

President Gets Pleas
For Quick Action

The executive committee of the Jewish Com-
munity Council this week went on record unanimous-
ly in favor of the proposal for the establishment of
"Free Ports" in this country to rescue large numbers
of refugees.
This. action was taken at a special meeting of the
executive committee at the Jewish Community Center
on Monday evening, when plans were made for the
mass meeting to be held June 7 at Cass high school
in commemoration of the first anniversary of the
Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto. Archbishop Edward
Mooney will be one of the principal speakers at
that rally.

Roosevelt Receives AFL Appeal

Refugee Children Placed in Foster Homes

- Map reading is a pleasant pre-occupation of :these refugee children, who arrived
recently. at an East Coast port from Lisbon. Not long ago it was serrious business as they
moved on foot from country to country in their escape from the Nazis.

The National Refugee Service, through its European-Jewish Children's Aid, has
placed them in foster homes, through child care agencies, in scattered parts of the
country. The NRS_ is a constituent . agencx of the United Jewish .Appeal.

The children who range in ages from 7 to- 13, do not know the whereabouts of their
parents. But like others whoa preceeded them to the United States, they will speedily
pick up the coloration of Americans ; from American slang to a deen love for the country
which has given them haven.

PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The demand for the
immediate establishment in the U. S. of "free ports"
for refugees, to where they would be admitted for
the duration, was supported this week in an appeal
addressed to President Roosevelt by William Green,
president of the American Federation of Labor, who
is now attending the International Labor Conference
here.
"I urge you, Mr. President, in my own name and
in the name of all the members of the AFL to cause
the creation of free ports in the country for refugee
victims of the cruel war — now, before it is too
late," Mr. Green's appeal to the President stated.
"Such action on your part, I believe, will clear the-
way for similar action in other parts of the Allied
and neutral world,"

CIO Endorses 'Free Ports' in U. S.

NEW YORK (JTA) -- The proposal that the
U. S. establish "free ports" for refugees was support-
ed this week by the Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions in a 'letter sent by Philip -Murray, CIO presi-
dent, to Adolph Held, chairinan of the Jewish Liabor
Committee. The letter disclosed that Mr. Murray is
writing to the President and to the War Refugee
Board endorsing the plan.
The National Council of Jewish Women this
week endorsed the demand for the establishment of
"free- ports" in a telegram to President. Roosevelt.

Urges Retraining in 'Free Ports'
NEW YORK (JPS) — A proposal to institute

retraining courses in the temporary havens or free
ports planned in the U. S. and in other countries
by the War Refugee Board, was made by Dorothy
Thompson, columnist, writing in the New York Post,
stating that "new countries need people with a
pioneering spirit."
Senator Robert F. Wagner (D) of New York,
announced his support for a plan now under con-,
sideration by the. WRE to establish in , the U. S. and
in other countries "free ports" for Jewish refugees
in a communication to the Jewish Labor Committee.

WRB Chief Confers with Roosevelt

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- President Roosevelt
this week received the first oral report on the activi-
ties of the War Refugee Board from John W. Pehle,
executive director of the WRB, who spent 15 min-
utes with the President.
Speaking in the House, Rep. Thomas J. Lane
(Mass. Dem.) and Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (Conn.
Rep.) supported the establishment of "free ports"
in the U. S. to give shelter to refugees for the dura-
tion without affecting existing immigration laws.

JUDGE WILLIAM FRIEDMAN

THEODORE LEVIN

Levin Succeeds Friedman as UJC Head

Theodore Levin, former president of the Jewish Social Service Bureau, was elected
president of the United Jewish Charities, succeeding Judge William Friedman who
resigned from this poa upon his election recently as president of the Jewish Welfare
Federation.

Judge Friedman's services as president of the UJC for eight years are commended
in a resolution adopted by the board. (See story and text of resolution on Page 5), .

Other Highlights in This Issue

Between You & Me
2
Center Activities
13
Children's • Corner
4
Classified
15
Confirmands, Conse-
crants, Graduates
16
Confirmands' Fetes....8, 9
Editorials
4
Heard in Lobbies
2
Jews in Uniform....14, 15
Music
13

News Review
3
Obituaries
15
Purely Commentary
2
Quotation of Week
2
Radio
5
Society
8,' 9
Strictly Confidential.... 2
Synagogue News....11, 12
4
Talmudic Tales
Theater
10
Youth Listening Post 15