Friday, September .15, 1944 Jewish Variety Theater to Open In Biro-Bidjan JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Keren Kayemeth (J e w is h National Fund) headquarters announced here that the Fund's world re- ceipts for the period from De- cember 1, 1943, to July, 1944 were $5,603,508, representing a 61% increase over the corresponding period last year. America is in the lead with $3,381,480; South Africa is second with $582,748; Palestine contributed $579,952; rt and Britain $485,436. • Canada contributed $239,956; Australia, $96,060. Total contributions from the British Empire amount to $1,404,200. Contributions from Latin Amer- ica are $165,284 as compared with $46,012 in the corresponding period last year. Jewish National Fund land possessions now total 704,859 dunam of which 42,899 were ac- quired in the past 10 months, in- cluding the soil of the Kfar Uriah settlement which was under Jew- ish cultivation • before 1929 and abandoned that year because of the riots. Palestine Jewish Unit - in England for Training LONDON (JTA) — A Jewish unit from the Palestine military forces has arrived in Britain for special training. The unit, commanded by four Jewish officers headed by Capt. Joshua Licht, is composed of sol- dier:, drawn from the Palestine companies which gained renown in 'the battles in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Several members of the- unit are graduates of t h e Hebrew University. Greetings and Best Wishes LaBelle Furs Remodeling Repairing 11943 GRAND RIVER Greetings and Best . Wishes MIKE FALK "Rothschild's Violin". To be Orchestrated By D. Shostakovich OW/ ALL MOSCOW (JPS) — The first Jewish variety theatre will soon open in Biro-Bidjan under the directorship of Shloime Faintuch, d a Jewish composer from the Ukraine who is now residing in the Jewish autonomous territory. The variety theatre will be corn- prised of amateur and profession- al actors, musicians and dancers. The first program of skits and war songs will include a sketch called "H e r s h e 1 e Ostropoler Meets Nasredin." Hershele Ostro- poler is a classic figure in Jewish anecdotal literature and Nasredin is his complement in Uzbec folk- lore. Another sketch is called "Haman and Hitler" and its. con- tents are obvious. Faintuch began his musical ca- reer some twenty-five years ago. He has writen music for many plays and songs by Yiddish au- thors. For some years he was affiliated with the Odessa Jewish Theatre as a special director; he later conducted the Kiev Jewish Song and Dance Ensemble. His best known scores are those of M. Pinchevsky's play "I'm Liv- ing" and S. Halkin's "Der Shpiel, Foigel." JNF World Receipts $5,603,508 in 7 Months SHOuGHT TO BAY *BY 'BRITISH DESTROYERS AND HIS NORWEGIAN . MAJESTY? 5HLP stotp,RmANyy FAME) COCKEf-DAME-7 - SHIP SCHARNHORST WAS CRIPPLED Ty THE 13R1115H 'BATTLESHIP Tula of YORK,' SUNK DY THE CRUISER JAMAICA, #7. //A:vv. t••,, •y s;• • By N. VORONTSOV Special from Moscow to the In- dependent Jewish Press Service) MOSCOW (JPS) — Dmitri Shostakovich, leading Soviet composer, is now completing or- chestration of "Rothschild's Vio- lin," a one-act opera by the late Benjamin Fleishman, who died fighting at Krasnoye Selo, near Leningrad. The work Was deliv- ered to Shostakovich in Decem- ber, 1943,1T a friend of Benjamin Fleishman. The young composer was born in Bezhetsk where his mother, Rachel Fleishman, had been ex- iled some forty years ago by the Czarist police for revolutionary activity. Before her exile, she spent months in prison where agents of Czarist police tortured her to obtain information about her comrades, but could not break her spirit. Benjamin, a stu- dent of composition' at the Lenin- grad Conservatory, and his broth- ers, left for front-line duty in the very first days of the war. All three perished in battle. 4;44,' • AO' . •s• 68-YEAR-OLD LIONEL COHEN, ACTING WING COMMANDER 0 IHE R.A.F.TECEIVED THE 'DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS FOR"UNTIRING ENERGY' AND COURAGE" Aj A VOLUNTEER GUNNER AND OBSERVER OW 45 OPERATIONAL 'FLIGHTS WITH THE COAL ! TAI- COMMAND. VETERAN of THREE wARS,CoHEN SAw ACTION AT {7, GAVE . UPPri •VoLoNfEER RESERVE af IRE OufsB170F WORgi WAR .L - TARA NG To J01 1.1 ME PATHS TO PLOE.S77/ , 'ENGINEERS fRovi NEW ZEALAND COWSfRUCTED THE 'RUNWAYS TOR THE AMERicAN'LIBERAToRS WHICI4 'BOMBED 'THE -FLOES-ft OIL 39 New Settlements In Zion Since War Refugees Flee Hungary Disguise as Priests, Nuns JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) — Thirty-nine communal and small holders settlements have been es- tablished in Jewish Palestine since the war,–it was announced by the Merkaz Chaklai, Agricul- tural Workers Organizations af: filiated with the Histadruth, Gen- eral Jewish Federation of Labor. Most of the settlers were young people who had been trained in Palestine for agricultural work and waited several years for the opportunity to start settlements of their own. Keren Hayesod, Palestine Foundation Fund, monies played the major role in the founding of these settlements. On the second anniversary of the death of M. M. Ussishkin, the late president of the Jewish Na- tional Fund, a conference will be held under the Fund's auspices to plan for postwar land redemp- tion in Palestine. WASHINGTON (JPS) — Two Hungarians were recently ar- rested and interned "for helping fleeing Jews and Poles over the Romanian frontier," disguised as priests and nuns;i the Nazi-con- trolled Budapest newspaper. Magyarsag' said in an article re- ported to the Office of War In- formation today. The men- arrested were Mihaly Ivan, editor-in-chief of Uj Nern- zedek of Szeged and Sandor Skultethy, director of the Sze- ged tourist office. 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