Way Chest Wye includes
Aid . -fofi=i All :Allied: :CausO's
Winernan, Vice-chairman of Local Campaign, Points Out
That Contributors Are Contacted Only Once: Allied
Jewish Campaign Included; Goai $8,250,000
- The annual drive of the War Chest . of Metropolitan De-
troit will commence on Oct. 25 and will continue through
:
250 '7
000 • as the goal. •
Nov. 10, with $8 2
iiienry Mirientiari, vice-chairman of . the drive, pointed out
: in a statement this week that icOntributorsi to the War Chest
„. are contacted -only once for the - 24 causes included in the
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_campaign. • The Allied Jewish
_Campaign of the Jewish Welfare
Federation of Detroit is one of
the major beneficiaries.
Other Beneficiaries
Other agencies of the War
Chest that are 'sending help to
the suffering men, women and
children of Etirope are: America
Denmark Relief, American Re-
lief for Ciechoslovakia, Ameri-
can Relief for -France, American
Relief for• Italy, American Relief
for Norway :. Belgian War. Relief,
British-, War. - Relief; Friends of
Luxembourg,.- Greek: War Relief,
Polish War Relief,,• Queen Wit=
helmina Fund, Russian War Re-
lief, United .Lithuanian Relief,
United Yugoslav Relief Fund,
Refugee Relief Trustees, Ameri-
can Field Service, and the
United States Committee for the
Care of European Children.
To the people still under Axis
domination, these agencies have
only been able to send promises
of help.. To the people who have
escaped from occupied territory,
the agencies give assistance
which includes food, clothing,'
shelter, counsel, medical aid and
convalescent care.
Under '3 in 1' Slogan
The War Chest continues to
campaign for worldWide relief
efforts under the three-in-one
slogan—to help our allies, our
fighting men through the USO
and our neighbors. -
The Metropolitan De t r o i t
Branch of the USO, financed by
the War Chest, operates six
clubs and lounges: the Down-
town Club, at 401 Lafayette
boulevard west, the John R.
Club, Grosse Ile Club, Service
Women's Club, Michigan Central
Lounge, Greyhound Bus Termi-
nal Lounge.
It has 14 dormitories with a
total capacity of 1,453 and a mo-
bile canteen _that has served as
many as 800 in a single day.
Based on current figures, the
Detroit USO will, in 1944: Enter-
tain over 2,000,000 service men
and women, including 200,000
Canadian and British.
Give free dormitory lodging
to 113,000 service men and
women.
1,425,000 Sandwiches
Serve 1,425,000 free sand-
wiches and 1,400,000 free dough-
nuts. Counting cakes, cookies,
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candy, fruit, and the like, local
USO canteens will dispense food
to a value of $100,000.
Furnish 1,840,000 free cups of
coffee and thousands of free
cigarets at the Downtown Club
alone.
Send to homes all over the
country, without charge, 36,000
photos of service men; 1,000 por-
traits, individually drawn; 5,000
verbal. messages on phonographic
records.
Provide 75,000 free "lines" of
boWling.
Send amateur shows to camps
and posts in the Detroit area.
Furnish camps in this area
with recreational and dayroom
equipment to a value of $6,000.
Detroit's Home Front
Detroit's Home Front is served
through Catholic, Jewish, Prot-
estant and non-sectarian agencies
charged with maintaining decent
standards of health, welfare and
recreation in the community.
These include the 80 agencies of
the Detroit Community Fund
and local war-related activities.
The Allied Jewish Campaign
is the central body. for 55 Jewish
Welfare Federation agencies, at
home and 'abroad, in the fields.
of relief, education and recOn-
struction that have served
through war, famine, persecu-.
tion and dispersion.
The principal beneficiary of
the Allied Jewish Campaign is
the .United Jewish Appeal for
Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine, which is the foremost
Jewish war-related organization
registered with the President's
War Relief Control Board. The
United Jewish. Appeal is the
fund-raising body for three ma-
jor rescue agencies—the Joint
Distribution 'Committee, which
carries on relief and rehabilita-
tion programs in Allied, neutral,
occupied and liberated areas
throughout the world; the United
Palestine Appeal, which is en-
abling Palestine to serve as the
major haven for Jewish refugees
from the Balkans and other
parts of Europe, and which is
giving valuable support to the
United Nations in the Middle
East in manpower and in in
dustrial and agricultural re-
sources; and the National Refl.'-
Distinctive
Interiors
Interiors that most please the dis-
criminatin.g are those that have
been assembled a piece at a time
. . .each to harmonize with the fur-
niture already in the room. Natur-
ally, the success of such selection
depends on the ability to find dis-
tinctive pieces . • . such as you see
in our displays.
Your Community War Chest
needs volunteers to assist with
the organization in its corn-
ing campaign.
The campaign is Oct. 25
throUgh Nov. 10, but don't
wait to volunteer. There is
lots of work which must be
done immediately. Your as-
sistance is vital to the success
of the campaign. Call Miss
Esther Prussian, COlum.bia
1600, and volunteer. You can
work in your own neighbor-
hood.
Sudran Named Assistant
Director of Federation
Abraham Srere, Chairman of the Federation Boarili,
Announces Appointment of Prominent Social
Worker as Assistant to Mr. Sobeloff
Abe L. Sudran has been named assistant director of the
Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit to succeed Herman M.
Pekarsky, who was recently called to ;the post of managing
director of the Council of Social Agencies. He will serve
as assistant to Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of the
Federation.
Mr. Sudran's appointment was
announced by Abe Srere, chair-
man of • the board of the Federa-
tion.
Mr. Sudran, a native of Ho-
gee Service, which provides ad- boken, N. J., is a graduate of the
justment assistance for the new- University of Chicago where he
comers in the United States and
helps them serve the cause of.
democracy.
More Responsibilities
The agencies in the United
Jewish ApPeal are faced with
greatly increased responsibilities
as a result of the activities of the
President's War Refugee Board,
and other governmental and in-
ter-governmental bodies which
are calling upon them to finance
large-scale rescue projects . in
behalf of Jewish refugees. The
U.J.A. is also co-operating close-
ly with UNRRA, and the Inter-
governmental Committee f o r
Refugees.
Representatives of the U.J.A.
agencies are now directing res-
cue . and rehabilitation activities
from many centers, including
Rome,. London, Cairo, Jerusalem,
Lisbon and Teheran.
ABE L. SUDRAN
A lengthy analysis of the work specialized in social science and
of the United Jewish Appeal for social • service administration,
Refugees, Overseas Needs and after which he was engaged for
Palestine will be found in the a number of years in public
special article by Mr. Wineman welfare work, unemployment re-
elsewhere in this issue.
lief, service for transients, family
welfare, youth activities and
recreation. •
As a result of his experience
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in vocational counseling and gui-
dance at the Jewish Vocational
Service and Employment Bureau
in Chicago, he was called upon
to organize a vocational adjust-
ment service for refugees. He
was among the first executives
of a bureau to counteract dia-
crimination a g ain s,t minority
groups and for a time acted as
director of the Jewish Commu-
nity Council of Cleveland.
.Since 1939, Mr. Sudran has
been executive director of the
Jewish Vocational Service • of
Cleveland. He is also a member
of the faculty of the School of
Applied Social Sciences of Wes-
tren Reserve University and is
a member of the Ohio State . Ad-
ministrative Council on Reha-
bilitation.
Belgian Queen Mother
Organizes Relief for Jews
BRUSSELS (JPS) — Queen
Mother Elizabeth of Belgium has
taken the initiative in creating
a special committee to aid needy
Jews, and to house orphans of
parents deported to Poland by
the Nazis. The new committee
consists of representatives of
non-Jewish organizations. A Jew-
ish delegation was received,
audience by the Queen Mother
and expressed gratitude for her
many interventions with the
Nazi authorities in their behalf.
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