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Roosevelt Reveals Order
B ring Refugees to U. S

Conservative
Rabbis to Honor
Dr. Ginzberg

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Navy and War Depts: Get Orders to Transport 1,000
From Italy, and to House Them in N. Y. Under
Supervision of War Relocation Authority

EDITORIAL

The Haven for 1,000 Refugees

Eminent Talmudic Scholar
To Get Rabbinical
Assembly Scroll
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Approximately 1,000 refugees will . be

immediately brought to the United States and placed, in an "ern7.,
ergency refugee shelter" to be established at Fort Ontario, -near*
Oswego, New York, President Roosevelt disclosed at hiS press Con-
ference this week.
While the War Refugee Board is charged with the overall re-
sponsibility for the project, the Army shall take the necessary
curity precautions, so that the refugees will remain in the camp,
and the actual administration of the camp is to be in the hand of
the War Relocation Authority, the President. revealed. •
Inn - a cablegram of instructions to Ambassador Robert Murphy in
Algiers. the President said he would "like the group to include a
reasonable proportion of various categories of persecuted people who
have fled to Italy."
He cabled Murphy that the "procedure for the selection of the
_•refugees and the arrangements for bringing them over should be as
simple and expeditious* as. possible, uncomplicated by any of the
usual formalities involved in admitting - people to the U. S. under
the immigration laws."
Navy and War Depts. Get Transportation 'Orders
The Navy and War Departments were instructed in a memor-:
andum to the secretaries to take the • steps necessary to -expedite
the transportation of the refugees to the U. S. and the Wkr Dept:
was ordered to arrange. to furnish and properly equip Fort Ontario
to receive the refugees, and to arrange for their transportation from
the port of arrival to the camp.
The U. S. Bureau of the Budget will make arrangements for
financing the project until the United Nations Relief and Rehabilita-;
tion Administration is in a position to assume the financial- re-
sopnsbilities involved, it was disclosed.
Praising President Roosevelt's order to provide a temporary
home for 1,000 Jewish refugees, Rep. Samuel Dickstein of New York
stated that thiS number is too sniall and that unlimited numbers of
homeless should be given refuge in this .country.
Rep. John McCormick of Massachusetts, Majority Leader, stated
in an address in the House that the alleviation of human suffering
shot.; ld not be made "a matter of partisan politics."
;Congressional Committee Will Hold Hearing on "Free Ports"
Resolutions urging the establishment of "free ports" in the U. S.
have been introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Vito
Marcantonio (ALP of N. Y.), Rep. Thomas E. Scanlon (D. of Penn.),
Rep. William Rowan (D. of Ill.) and Rep. Emanuel Celler (D. of
N. Y.).
At the same time, Rep. Dickstein, chairman of the House Immi-
grationCommittee, announced that a hearing on. the various reso-
lutions calling for the establishment of "free - ports" as temporary
havens for refugees will be held on June 21 unless the President
acts -before then.
Meanwhile; Secretary of the : Treasury Morgenthau and John
Pehle. director of the War Refugee Board, spent an hour with Presi-
dent Roosevelt this week. Ira Hirschmann, the Board's special rep-
resewl'tive in Turkey, is in Washington conferring with Pehle and
:.:ers of the Board.

S. Jank Installed
As President of
Marshall Lodge

Rabbi Folkman Addresses
Installation; Growth of
Lodge Reviewed

%g Rabbinical Assembly of
America will honor Dr. Louis
Ginzberg, eminent Talmudic
scholar, at a dinner, on Jdne 27,

President Roosevelt's announcement that 1,000 refugees
from Italy will be given immediate haven in this country
and will be settled for the duration of the war at Fort On-
tario, N. Y., should be welcomed with great satisfaction by
all Americans, irrespective of race or creed.
This decision represents acceptance in principle of the
idea for the establishment of "free ports" in this country. It
in no way affects immigration laws, but it does make possible
the rescuing of large numbers of people who are to be re-
turned to their homelands or to other places of resettlement
after the war.
- The pity of it all is that only 1,000 are to be saved im-
mediately. The mercy plan should provide for large-scale
rescue activities, and it should encourag5 other democratic
countries to follow the example set by our government in
providing refuge for the many thousands of unfortunates.
The rescue program for refugees should be one of the
major efforts in preparation for a just peace to follow this
cruel war.
In welcoming President RooseVelt's latest order to effect
rescue plans, it our hope that this represents only the first
step in a major effort to save not one thousand but tens of
thousands of Nazi victims.

DR. LOUIS GINZBERG

during the 44th annual conven-
tion at Camp' Delawaxen, Lacka-
waxen, Pa., under the chairinan
Ship of Dr. Robert Gordis of
Temple Beth El, Rockaway Park,
Long. Island, N. Y.
During the past year, mem--
berg of the Rabbinical Assembly
have completed the reading of
the entire 36 books of the Tal-
mud, ordinarily a lifetime work
for one person, undertaken as a
tribute to Dr. Ginzberg, who as
professor of Talmud and Rab-
binics at the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America, has been
accorded many- honors as the.
outstanding Talmudic scholar of
this day.
The Hadran, which is the tra-
ditional lecture delivered at the
conclusion of the study • of a
section of the Talmud, will be
given by Prof. Ginzberg, and
Rabbi David Aronson of Temple
Beth El, Minneapolis.
Rabbi Arthur H. Neulander of
Temple Beth Israel, Richmond
Hill, N. Y., will present Dr.
.Ginzberg with an illuminated
Scroll in honor of his 70th birth-
day, and marking the Siyyum
Hashass. The Scroll was pre-
Appeal Issued by Shaarey pared by Joseph B. Abrams, a
life-long friend of Dr. Ginzberg.
Zedek Unit; Conduct Class
Dr.. Ginzberg is the author of
in Surgical Dressings
the seven-volume "Legends of
the Jews," issued by the Jewish
An urgent appeal has been Publication- Society of America,
issued for Red Cross workers to a n d the three-volume work,
"Commentary on the Palestinian
make surgical dressings.
The Shaarey Zedek Red Cross Talmud."
Unit announces that a large
shipment of bandage material
has been received and that in-
structions are being offered to
all . desiring to take the course
and to. help meet the existing
emergencies.
For information regarding
classes call Mrs. Sidney Frank,
chairman, TY. 4-5855, or Mrs.
Reader's Digest will publish
Sidney Stone, co-chairman, UN. "Dissenting Reports on Pales-
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tine," according to information
All trained workers are asked received this week.
to report for work with the
In a message sent to the thou-
Shaarey Zedek Red Cross Unit sands who protested the original
from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. on "report" on the Palestinian situa-
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, in tion the editors of Reader's Di-
the Kate. Frank Memorial Build- gest write:
ing.
"Your comment on Frederick_
Painton's "Report on Palestine"
has been received and studied
with others that have come to us.

Need Workers
For Red Cross

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Samuel G. Bank was installed
as president of Marshall Lodge
Bnai B•ith, to succeed David • I.
Rosen, at ceremonies on Tuesday
evening at the Bnai Moshe.
Rabbi Jerome • D. Folknian of
Grand Rapids was the guest
speaker.
Other officers installed by
Marshall Lodge are: _
Manuel Helfman and Gilbert
Madden, vice-presidents; Max R.
K ushne r, financial secretary;
Murray Sabin, recording secre-
tary; Oscar • S. Bank, treasurer;
David I. Rosin, monitor; Law-
rence I. Yaffa, assistant monitor;
Sam Jacobs, warden; IVIax Adler,
guardian; Joseph Glazer, Saul
Kling, Edward Belinson; Robert
R. Nathans, William Pa•nos, Lou
Fields, trustees.
Members of the executive.
board are: Karl Katkowsky, Berf
nard H. Sharkey, Irving L. Gil-
bert, Benjamin Nadis, Thinnas
Z o h o t t, Abraham J. Beresh,
Lawrence Rutter, Robert Israel,
Harry Markman, and Stanley M:
Yates.'
The Lodge at present numbers
more than 550 men, as compared
with 269 at the close of the last
fiscal year on July 1, 1943.
Among the new fields entered by
the group was the establishment
of a self-supporting newspaper
and permanent headquarters.

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