s BUY MORE WAR BONDS T HE JEWISH NEWS VOL. 6—NO. 7 A Weekly Review 21 14 Penobscot Bldg. RA. 7956 of Jewish Events Detroit 26, Michigan, November 3, 1944 BUY MORE WAR BONDS 344665e• 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 104 Romania Charged With Failure To Abolish Anti-Semitic Laws Page 5 Increased Giving Urged in War Chest Drive —Page 6 Bricker's Attack on Refugees At Oswego Stirs Controversy; Reaffirms Stand in Visit Here —Photo by Herman Krieger, Jewish News Staff Photographer Spur Drive: A stirring appeal for increased giving to the War Chest was made last Sunday morning at the conferen.ce held at the Home for Aged by DR. B. BENEDICT GLAZER, Rabbi of Temple Beth El (left). A. C. LAPPIN (right) presided at the conference. MISS ESTHER R. PRUSSIAN (center) is secretary of the Detroit Service Group and a War Chest campaign consultant. Give to the War Chest A15411NOMA• *" 44‘ Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, one of 18 governors who signed the appeal drafted by the late Al Smith urging the President to establish a temporary haven for refugees, gets War Refugee Board's reply to his attack in recent speech in Denver . . . Reaffirms his statement to repre- sentative of The Jewish News during preSs conference on his visit in Detroit .. Liberal Judaism warns American Jews "not to be intimidated by coarse anti-Semitic vilification." . .. Chicago Tribune charged with racial and religious bigotry by 10 Christian clergymen. —Page 7 Vote on Tuesday It is the sacred duty of every qualified voter to cast his ballot on Tues- day, Nov. 7. This is a crucial election, and no one with a sense of re- sponsibility darei to stay away from the polls on that day. commanders of vet- C ommanders: Six national erans organizations met for the first time at the 49th annual Encampment of Jewish War Vet- erans. Seated, left to right: EDWARD N. SCHEIBERLING, Com- mander, American Legion; ARCHIE H. GREENBERG, Command- er, Jewish War Veterans; JEAN BRUNNER, Commander VFW, and MILTON COHEN, Commander, Disabled American Vets; stand- ing, left to right: E. T. McCAFFREY, Commander, Catholic War Vets; EARL NORTON, Commander Army-Navy Legion of Valor. Voters are admonished to remember that there are separate ballots for the National and State tickets and to be sure to use the National ballot if they are not to lose their votes for the Presidency. Be sure to vote EARLY next Tuesday. Give to the War Chest JDC Shipping Clothing, Food to Jews in PoIand With Aid of War Chest An important announcement made public this week by Isidore Sobeloff, evecutive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation, in behalf of the War Chest, revealed that first material aid going directly into liberated areas of Poland for assistance to surviv- ing Jews will be sent immediately to the Jewish Re- lief Committee in Lublin by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in the form of 50 tons of food and clothing. This important relief effort is being made pos- sible with funds now being- raised by the War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit, which includes- the Allied Jewish Campaign and its 55 overseas, national and local agencies as well as the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine—the great American relief agency which includes the Joint Dis- tribution Committee, the United Palestine Appeal ant the National Refugee Service. The 50 tons of food and clothing have been ordered by the JDC for shipment from Teheran to the Jew- ish Relief Committee in Lublin, for distributon among the needy Jews who have been rescued from the Nazis. Nazis. In addition to these supplies valued at $250,000, which will be transferred from JDC stockpiles in Teheran, the JDC has appropriated another $250,000 for the purchase in the United States and elsewhere of additional commodities to be used in this important relief effort in behalf of Polish Jews. • The action of the JDC follows an exchange of cables with Dr. Emil Somerstein, for many years prior to the war a co-worker with the JDC, and climaxes the ef- forts of the JDC to return to a major scene of its re- lief - activities prior to the outbreak of World War IL —Photo by Herman Krieger, Jewish News Staff Photographer W ar Chest Delegates: Men's and women's fraternal and social organiz- ations, synagogues, synagogue auxiliaries and landsmanschaften sent delegates to the conference held last Sunday at which reports were submitted on treasury gifts contributions to the War Chest. HAROLD SILVER, secretary of the treasury gifts division in the War Chest drive, is shown here receiving contributions to the $8,250,000 fund for overseas and local needs, including the causes of the Allied Jewish Campaign. Another conference will be held next Sunday morning, at the Home for Aged, with Fred M. Butzel as speaker. Give to the War Chest "The Jews of Poland have been special targets of Nazi brutality," Joseph C. Hyman, Executive Vice- Chairman of the JDC, explained in announcing the emergency program. "The need for the materials we are sending to Poland has been a long-standing one. "The food and clothing will be of immediate value to the comparatively small number of Jews remain- ing," he continued. "It is our earnest hope that further shipments of food, clothing and medicaments can be made in the immediate future."