Rage Fourteen THE JEWISH NEWS 14-Year-Old's Cantata Played at Confirmation (Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service) PALESTINE Announcement of the construction, now under way, of 350 houses being built by Shikun, Housing Corporation of the Hista- • druth, Jewish Palestine's Federation of Labor, was announced at a Jerusalem press confer- ence. Jewish capital influx into Palestine during the four and a half years of war, ending March 1944, was estimated at $104,000,000, according to the newspaper Haboker. Arab commercial institutions in Palestine and in other Arab countries have received invitations to send representatives to the International Trade Congress which is to con- vene in the United States next November. According to Nathanya estimates, the pro- duction of finished diamonds in Jewish Palestine's workshops will bring exports to $12,000,000 and place the diamond industry at first place on the list of Palestinian exports. Introducing a fresh note into Jewish peasant folklife, the fifth anniversary of sheep-breed- ing at Dahlia, in the Hills of Ephraim south of Haifa, was observed by what has become known as the Shearing Festival. AMERICA Count Michael Karolyi, ex president and premier of Hungary, called upon the "whole Magyar people" to "take their stand along wtih their Jewish brothers" against their "perjur- ious government," according to the newspaper PM of New York. According to PM, Count Karolyi warned that "the Hungarian people will be made to pay for the treachery of their rulers who handed the country over to the Nazis." Alien Jews who lived in Luxembourg prior to the Nazi invasion will "be welcomed back to Luxembourg' at the end of the war," Pierre Du Pong, Prime Minister of the Luxembourg government-in-exile, said in a letter addressed to the Luxembourg Committee of the WOrld Jewish Congress. A large number of Jews, many of them in positions of command, are .among the 1,025,000 armed guerillas estimated by authoritative • military sources in London to be actively en- gaged against the Nazis in Europe. Appointment of Rabbi Joel S. Geffen as - Polish Jews in Exile Seeking Kin Here The Polish government-in-exile has requested the local office of the Federation of Polish Jews to assist in securing the addresses of the following: 272/43 — Wiehna nee Lelezuk Josym, • born in 1900 in Bialy-: stock, requested to communicate with Strzelec Abram Lelezuk, Polish Forces—PAl—forces No. 299. 430/44—Feuer Isidor, Abram, Moses sought by Cpl. Maurycy Unger. • 428/44—Dina Berkowitz, sought by Sara Szuster. 427/44Grosfater Aron, sought by his brother, Jozef Grosfater. R. 801/11—Winokur Bejla, let- ter from Russia. R. 80i/12—Lena Schwartz,. who resided at 2910 Joy Road, De- troit, a letter from Izrael Gar- finkel, at present in Teheran. R. 801/13—J. Joseph Herbert, Manistique Bank Building, De- troit, letters from Marie Kessler (his cousin) at present in Tehe- ran. R. 801/14—Friedlander Miklos, formerly of 3008Webb Ave., De- troit, letters from Mieczyslaw and Wilhelmina Rosenblit, at -present in Teheran. R. 801/10 — • Greenhut Shoe Store,. 5423 W. Warren Ave., De- troit, letter from Silberfeld Natan,. at present in Kazakstan, USRR. Information concerning the above may be had from the Con- sulate of the Republic of Poland, 7620 Dexter Blvd., TYler 7-6969, daily from 10 to 5, or at the office of Federation for Polish Jews, 9214 Linwood. Welles Backs Magnes' Plans For Palestine NEW YORK (JPS)—Describ- ing Dr. Chaim Weizmann, presi- dent of the Jewish Agency, as one of the most able statesmen of our time and depicting in glowing terms Jewish achieve-. ments in Palestine,• Sumner Welles, former undersecretary of state, concludes in his • _book "Time for Decision" that a bi- national state along the lines proposed by Dr. J. L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew Uni- versity, incorporated in a feder- ative system to include Syria, Lebanon and Transjordan, is the only possible solution for the Palestine problem. 5y - Fr iday, July 28, 1944 Weekly Review of the News of the World (See Also Page 3) r _ • Al WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., (JPS) —Edward A. Weisman, 14-year- old pupil of pianist Josef Lhe- vinne, heard the performance of his first cantata, "A Redeemer Will Come," based on verses from Isaiah, at his confirmation spiritual adviser to the National Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs, with headquarters in Philadelphia, was announced by Milton Berger • of Philadelphia, national president. Colonel Juan D. Peron, Argentine Vice- President, strong man of its fascist regime, replying to charges that he is organizing labor and capital along totalitarian lines, declared, "if the Nazis think along these lines, then the Nazis must be right." at the Jewish Community Center here. The cantata was perform- ed by a choral ensemble directed by Nicholas L. Saslaysky. Ed-: ward is the son of Herman L. Weisman, chairman of the Zionist Youth Commission and honorary secretary of the Palestine. Foun- dation Fund, and Jeannette Weisman, Hadassah worker. OVERSEAS The extinction of Poland's Jews through shootings,- maltreatment at forced labor, in concentration camps and through wholesale executions in gas chambers was confirmed by Poles captured when serving with the German forces in Normandy, it was revealed in London by Dr. I. Schwartzbard, Jewish member of the Polish National Council, who interviewed the captives. They had told him that they were pressed into German service against their will. The investigation of anti-Semitism in the Polish forces is proceeding satisfactorily, Dr. Schwartzbard, who is on the investigating committee, announced. Observers of the Polish government-in-exile are present at the hear- ings. Many Jewish and non-Jewish officers have been questioned. The sum of a quarter of million liras has been allocated by the municipality of Rome to enable the Jewish Community Council to continue its relief work. The Council expects considerable financial assistance from Jewish relief agencies overseas. Five guerillas, three of them Jews, were shot after a Nazi court-martial found them guilty of the assassination of the quisling mayor of a town in the province of Sarthe in France. The Nazi people's Tribunal in Brussels, Bel- gium, sentenced to death twenty-five guerillas, among them Leib Silverstein, a Jew. The Soviet newspapers report that a guer- illa army, containing many Jews from the towns of Grodno, Lida, -Volkowsk and Novo- grudik, has assisted the Red- Army in breaking Nazi resistance and liberating Grodno. Not .a single Jewish survivor was found in Pinsk by the liberating Red army, the Moscow radio reported. A Soldier Prays By BENJAMIN GRONER Rabbi, Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue, Windsor I received a letter from a col- lege chum of mine who is sta- tioned in England. In one of the paragraphs, he writes: "I made the acquaintance of a fine family, evacuees from London, and I spent the Sedorim with them. We go every Friday night for serv- ices to this town. I never before have "daavened" as much as now. I know the services prac- tically by heart." To appreciate what the para- graph actually means, you have to know a, little.: bit about the au- thor. Bernie was a bright chap in school, always getting high marks. Yet, like every other nor- mal lad; he viras full of mischief. If ever a ripple of laughter dis- turbed the equanimity of the classroom, the professor's wrath was vented full blast at Bernie. Today, Bernie isn't kibitzing .very much. He "daavens" every morning, even if it means getting up a half-hour earlier than any- body else. He's been "daavening" so regularly and so fervently that he has learned the prayers by rote. Will Bernie continue to "daaven" when, please God, he comes back home? Frankly, I don'. know. But even if he does put his prayer-book away, he never will forget the wondrous miracle that was wrought when the drone of airplane motors buzzing among the clouds melted into a mystic hymn of sweet melody with the opening words of "Mah Tovu." Harvard Professor Says Palestine Only Solution to Problem NEW YORK.—Predicting that anti-Semitism will exist in Eu- rope even after the defeat of the Nazis and that the Jewish problem still would be "one of the most burning problems" aft- er the victory is won, Prof. Carl J. Friedrich, director of the School of Overseas Administra- tion of Harvard University, de- clares that the solution of that problem is "an essential condi- tion of a lasting and just peace" which ranks with the elimina- tion of the German militarists and the Nazi Party itself. These statements appear in a pamphlet entitled "The Voice of Christian Am e r i c a" published jointly by the American Pales- tine Committee and the Chris- BONDS . . SECURITY! I tian Council on Pale4ine. rom Foxholes and Parliaments- Harry Posner Here For Zion Orphanage Harry Posner of New York ar- rived here a few days ago to contact Detroiters for _-contribu- tions and renewals of member- ships in the Zion Orphanage of Jerusalem. FROM THE MAN IN MORK AND THE DIPLOMAT IN POWER Founded in 1900 by Rabbi A. I. Blumenthal of Jerusalem,. this orphanage was converted during the last - war into a home for war orphans, and many children whose parents were lost were cared for there. In this war, too, many war orphans are provided homes there. ALL the Jewish news from every part of the globe is brought to YOU by THE JEWISH NEWS, every Friday. The world's best correspondents represent- 0 Maurice H. Zackheim, Detroit Jewish .leader who is a member of the board of the orphanage, stated that funds gathered here are immediately sent to Jeru- salem. ing ALL Jewish news and feature agencies are on the lookout for YOU for all happen- ings involving and affecting Jews every-, The Vaad Hayeshivoth, headed by Rabbi Joseph Eisenman, has endorsed .. Mr. Posner's activities in Detroit, and has issued a state- ment urging he be given the backing of contributors and members. • Mr. Posner served in the U. S. Army for four yeais during the laSt war and he was a Civilian Auxiliary in the present war. His son is now • serving in the U. S. Army. Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog of Palestine has endorsed the Zion Orphanage of Jerusalem in a statement in which. he • said: "Pray spare no efforts to help this great orphanage. Starvation literally threatens hundreds of orphans unless increased assist- ance is cabled immediately in dollars. .All other sources of in- come have been stopped by the war." 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