Friday, September IS, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS Servicemen at Home in Bnai Brith Free Los Angeles Hotel JDC Names H. D. Biele Latin-Amerircan Aide Harry D. Biele, prominent so- cial worker, has been appointed secretary of the Latin American Committee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Corn- mittee, it was announced by Jo- seph C. Hyman, executive vice- chairman of the organization. The JDC is the major American agency for aid to distressed Jews overseas. Mr. tiele suc- ceeds Robert Pilpel„ who is now a member of the JDC's overseas staff stationed in Lisbon. Mr. Biele comes to the JDC after four-and-a-half years as Secretary. to the National Refu-, gee Service's National Commit- tee for the Resettlement of For- eign Physicians. Ile also was ex- ecutive secretary of the Emer- gency Committee in Aid of Dis- placed Foreign Medical Scien- tists. Methodist Students Contribute to UJA • Contributions Received by Jewish Hospital Assin for _ Leucaemia Research The Robert S. Deutsch Fund for Research in Leucaemia, which was formed in tribute to the memory of Lt. (j.g.) Robert Stanley Deutsch, who died in the U. S. Naval Hospital at Mare Island, Calif., on July 29, is at- tracting considerable interest ini the community and has received a number of new contributions. Additional gifts to this fund were received from Miss Neva Gutterman, Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Gottfurcht and Mr. and Mrs. Sherwin L. Rosenberg. Contributions to this fund may be made to the Jewish. Hospital .1 Association, 51 W. Warren Ave., CO. 1600. Latvia Partisans Rescue 600 Jews BY KARL FRAHM 'Jewish Telegraphic Agency Corre- spondent in Sweden) . STOCKHOLM, (JTA) -- Six hundred Jews who had been forced by the Germans in occu- pied Latvia to work on fortifica- tions were recently liberated by Lativan partisans when trans- ferred to Liepaja, it was reported here by the newspaper Ef.altiska Nyheter. The report says that the res- cued Jews are deportees from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hun- gary and Holland: All joined the Latvian partisan units im- mediately upon their liberation. The same paper estimates that only several hundred Jews have survived in Lithuania of the 170,- 000 who were there before Ger- many invaded the Baltic coun- tries. Most of the surviving Jews are hiding in the woods. In the early months of 1944 there were still 9,000 Jews in the Kaunas ghetto, all of whom were used for forced labor. But in March the Gestapo - discovered a secret tun- nel dug by Jews from the ghetto to the Neris River. For this "crime" about half of the Jews in the ghetto were shot. The last 3,000 Jews in the Vilna ghetto were likewise exterminat- ed during the month of March, the" paper states, adding that the victims fought against the Ger- mans on the barricades before meeting their death. About 4,000 Dutch and Bel- gian Jews are now alive in a con- centration camp which the Ger- mans established in the coastal town of Krestinga several weeks ago. They are engaged in the heaviest manual labor. 'Abbe Press, Inc. Printers and Publishers The United Jewish Appeal re- ceived a gift from 203 Methodist high school students of the Green Mountain Junior College of Ver mont as their contribution to aid the relief and reconstruction of homeless and oppressed Jews. ; In transmitting the contribu- tion, Mr. Harrison Davis pointed out that it represented one- fourth of the -World Friendship These photos show the Bnai Brith hospitality House at 519 Offering of the young students South Spring Street, Los Angeles, sponsored by the nation's largest who voted to include the UJA Jewish service organization, which is the world's biggest free hotel as a beneficiary because of the for servicemen. Since it opened on Dec. 24, 1943, it has ac- desperate plight of. large num- commodated 14,000 men in uniform on Friday and Saturday nights. bers of Jews under Nazi domina- Top photo shows entrance to the Los Angeles Bnai Brith Hos- tion. pitality House. Bottom Leff: Registering for beds; Right—Writing letters to folks back home, using ample writing facilities and free stationery provided by Bnai Brith. • Additional Gifts To Deutsch Fund Page Twenty-three TYPESETTERS FOR THE JEWISH NEW$ Community News Wyandotte Tribune River Rouge Herald Grocers' Spotlight Graham News Michigan Beverage News • PUBLISHERS OF Grosse Pointe News 9662 Grand River Detroit Westward . HO. 6743 missidnaries Aid Jews in Shanghai GENEVA (JPS)—Condition of Jews interned in the ghetto of Shanghai has considerably im- proved as a consequence of the intervention of French mission aries with Chen Kung Po, Chin- ese mayor of the Japanese-occu- pied city, according to reports re- ceived here. Two hundred Jew- ish families, removed to the ghetto from the International Settlement, have been permitted to return to their homes. Immediately after the Japan- ese forces had established a foothold in Shanghai the plight of the Jews was desperate. Their monies and property taken from them, they lacked the bare ne- cessities of life and were all de- pendent on relief. Herded into a limited area in the Old City's quarters, congestion among them was great and conducive to the spread of disease, according to early reports. We, join in the hope and prayer, voiced in this Season of Solemn Assembly, that the New Year will not only bring Victory but will also see the Aged-in, sealed-in planting of the seeds of a Lasting Peace! To our many friends everywhere we extend the traditional greeting: "May you be inscribed for a good year." H. J. HEINZ COMPANY PITTSBURGH, PA. Makers of the 57 Varieties, many of which bear the © seal of approval of the UNION OF ORTHODOX CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA.