Prkiey, Fe&wary 16, 19415
THE JEWISH NEWS
Resolution on Palestine
Adopted by State House
Rep. El!stein's Bill to Have Michigan Urge U. S. Goverment
to Take Steps to Open Jewish Homeland Now Goes
Before Senate; Iowa 20th State on Record
LANSING—The State House of Represefitatives unanimously
adopted the resolution introduced by Rep. Jack Ellstein of Detroit
urging the U. S. government to take proper-steps to, have Palestine's
doors opened for Jewish immigration and to facilitate efforts for the
establishment of the Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine.
Action by the House. followed a hearing by the House Com-
mittee on Rules.
Rep. Ellstein appeared before this committee and made a strong
plea for the resolution.
Favorable Action Due
The Senate Business and Rules Committee, consisting of Sen-
ators Higgins, chairman, Rawson, Bishop, Porter, Green and Blondy,
held a hearing on the resolution on Tuesday and• similar favorable
action is expected in the State Senate this week.
Rep. Ellstein has been highly commended for his action by local
and national leaders and he has received, warm commendations from
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chairman of the American Zionist Emergency
Council.
Michigan will be the 21st state in the Union to adopt such
resolutions.
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Iowa 20th State to Support Palestine
NEW YORK—The Iowa Senate and House of Representatives
_adopted a resolution demanding "that the U. S. should take a.ppropri-
- ate measures to the end that Palestine should be opened for free
• immigration and unrestricted colonization so that the. Jewish people
may rebuild their ancestral homeland as a free and democratic
Jewish Commonwealth."
Iowa is the 20th state to adopt such a resolution.
The resolution points to the tragic suffering of European Jewry,
the pro-Palestine resolution of the U. S. Congress of 1922, the Demo,
eratic and Republican Party platforms of 1944, and the historic
declaration of President RooSevelt on Oct. 15, 1944, supporting
Jewish aspirations in Palestine. as "in accord with the traditional
. American policy and in keeping with the spirit of the Four Free-
doms.."
Similar resolutions have been passed previously by the follow-
ing 19 states comprising more than 60 per cent of the population of
the United States: Alabama, California, Colorado,. Connecticut,
- Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mis-
souri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
Jewish Agency Representative Brings
900 Palestine Visas to Jews of Rome
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
PALESTINE
. By LANDRUM BOLLING
.
AMERICA
Acting on the repeated demands of Jewish
Palestine for the release of building materials
to relieve the houSing shortage, the Controller
of Heavy Industries, Christopher Wilson Brown,
announced in an address before the War Eco-
nomic Advisory Council, that materials and
shipping space have already been allocated by
the Government for the building of 27,000
rooms.
The Jerusalem Municipal Council passed a
unanimous resolution calling for new elections
for the Council. The last' elections were held
in 1934. A motion proposed by Anastas Hanania,
Christian Arab Councillor, to press the au-
thorities to announce new elections, was sup-
ported by all Councillors, both Jews and Arabs.
The Rehovoth progressives, with a single
representative, hold the balance of power in
this town's new Council. The Righist and
Center parties have five seats, and the His-
tadruth Labor Bloc holds five seats. The His-;.
tadruth Labor Bloc obtained only four seats in
the previous elections. It was announced that
2,774 cast their ballots, out of 3,069 elegible
to vote.
The Jewish Agency is determined to force
open the doors of Palestine for a large-scale
Jewish immigration in 1945, Moshe Shertok,.
Chief of the Political Department of the Jew-
ish Agency, declared at a press conference.
Seventy of the .Mauritius Island reftigees
were accepted as recruits for the Jewish Bri-
gade, and 200 recruits enrolled in Britain for
the Brigade.
Diamonds valued at $152,000 were snatched
by unknown men, who in broad daylight as- ,
saulted postal clerks on a Tel Aviv 'street as
they were transferring a sack of parcels from
one post office to another.
Petah Tikvah stopped .work between. 3-6
p. m. Feb. 3 in protest against indiscriminate
firing by police which resulted in the serious
wounding of Judith Goldstein, 19, at midnight
last Feb. 2. The girl, a resident of this com-
munity, suffered a head wound. She was one
of four passengers in a private car fired at by
police as it proceeded slowly along a road near
here. The other passengers were released
after a brief interrogation at the police sta-
tion.
The Association of engineers and Architects
of Palestine elected Dr. Chaim Weizmann an
honorary, member of the Association. -
A celebration marking the third anniversary
of the formation of the Auxiliary Territorial
Service, Palestine's Wacs, was held at Ohel
Hall, Tel Aviv, under the auspices of the Ex-
ecutive Council of the Histadruth..
David ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish
Agency Executive, and his wife were hosts
at a reception tendered in honor of Dr. Chaim
Weizmann.
One hundred twenty-two Jewish refugees
from Yemen arrived in Jerusalem .Sunday.
They had sought refuge in Aden for the past
few years _after local persecution had driven
them from their .homes in Yemen.
The right for emissaries of the Histadruth,
Jewish Palestine's Federation of Labor, to pro-
ceed to all liberated areas of Europe to organize
the emigration of Jews for Palestine, was de-
inanded by the Histadruth in a resolution
adopted at its sixth national convention.
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)
ROME (JTA)—An enthusiastic reception was given by the Jews
of Rome to Dr. Solomon Umberto Nahon, representative of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, who arrived from Jerusalem to dis-
tribute about 900 Palestine immigration certificates.
Dr. Nahon, who, prior to emigrating to Palestine six years ago,
was the secretary of the Zionist Organization in Rome, was welcomed_
by Jewish leaders here at a special meeting immediately upon his
arrival. He is the first civilian to arrive here from Palestine with
a message from the Jewish homeland. He is scheduled to remain
for several Weeks.
Dr. Nahon conferred with officials of the Zionist organizations
in Rome and with the representative of the Intergovernmental
Commitee on Refugees, discussing the question of transportation
of those who will be selected for emigration to Palestine. At present,.
there are 2,000 applicants for Palestine visas on the list of the
Zionist Organization here. The 900 who will be selected are expected
. to leave for Palestine by the end of March. They will-be the first
group of Jews to leave Italy for Palestine since the liberation of
Rome by the Allies.
Page Three
Rebuilding of the Mederril Sanatorium near
Warsaw, for 20 years the largest Jewish chit-
dren's institution in Europe, will be aided by
the Jewish Labor Cornmittee and affiliated or-
ganizations, Adolph Held, national chairman of
the J. L. C. announced here.
Louis Lipsky, co-chairman of the American
Jewish Conference and president of Bnai Zion,
fraternal Zionist Organization of America, will
be honored by a tribute dinner, to be held by
Bnai Zion, March 25, on the occasion of the
organization's .37th anniversary.
A United States Treasury citation was
awarded to the Mizrachi Organization of Amer-
ica marking completion of the successful $3,-
000,000 War Bond campaign, conducted by
Mizrachi in honor of Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac -
Halevi Herzog of Palestine, to finance the
building of an Army Hospital Ship. • .
A bill in the New York State Legislature,
to end tax exemptions for non-sectarian colleges
and universities which nevertheless maintain a
quota system, has little chance of passing "un-
less we get tens of thousands of letters soon,"
Senator Friedman. who with Assemblyman.
Pinto, introduced the bill, declared in Albany.
OVERSEAS
Refugees who have recently arrived in
Bucharest reveal- that from eighty to one hun-
dred thousand Jews have survived in Budapest;
of these, 40,000 were found in the ghetto. With
the liberation of Pest by the Red Army, thou-
sands of Jews left their hiding places. Only
seven thousand are reported to have survived
in the rest of liberated Hungary.
South American Jewish civilians, recently
released by the Germans in an exchange of
prisoners, are proceeding from Marseilles,
France, to an UNRRA: camp at Phillipville,
Algeria. Some of those released from the in-
terment camp at Bergenbelsen are seriously
ill, and two women died after their train
erassed the Swiss frontier.
The British Labor Party conference in
London, by an overwhelming majority, called
on the Government to abrogate the White
Paper and fulfill the pledge contained in the
Balfour Declaration. The resolution was •in-
troduced by Sir Geoffrey Mander. An amend-
ment was proposed asking- the Government to
look for territories other than Palestine to
settling the Jews, but was not discussed by
the conference.
A new wave of anti-Semitism, "perhaps
the worst yet. if that is at all possible," is re-
ported by Helsinki's leading newspaper Arbet-
erbladet, which blames it on the clandestine ac-
tivities of Gestapo 2.gents who have either
failed to escape or have purposedly stayed be-
hind when the armistice was signed. These
Gestapo men. are hiding in the hothes of Fin-
nish- quislings and from there, are directing .,
anti-Jewish propaganda.
After "the most careful review of- the
circumstances," the Government decided last
November to _reject the claims, filed by pas-
sengers rescued from the Patna, for their lug-.
gage which was damaged or stolen when .their
ship sank, • Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley
declared in reply to a question in Commons.
The decision was based on the ground that
"everything had been done to minimize the
loss."
JDC to Assist
Allied Drive
For Clothing
NEW YORK—Henry J. Kaiser,
national chairman of the United
National Clothing Collection, has
announced that 51 Voluntary war
relief agencies will join the
United -Nations Relief and Re-
habilitation Administration
(UNRRA) in the United National
Clothing Collection. The cam-
paign to raise 150,000,000 pounds
of clothing, shoes and bedding
for needy men, • women and chil-
dren of the war,-devastated coun-
tries will begin April 1.
Clothing collected in the April
drive will be distributed free to
the needy and destitute in the
war-devastated countries without
discrimination of any . kind.
JDC To Assist UNRRA
The Joint Distribution Com-
niittee,irmajor Jewish agency for
overseas relief, will be the. Claim-
ant for clothing in behalf of the
destitute and needy Jews abroad
Where these needs are not met
by UNRRA. The JDC also is
enlisting the support of various
national Jewish organizations.
Heads Special Committee
. At a meeting of representatives
of these Jewish organizations,
Louis H. Sobel, assistant secre-
tary of the JDC, was elected to
the chairmanship of this special
committee. Mrs. Theodore
Prince will serve as executive
secretary.
The JDC also
will claim cloth-
.
ing for needy Jews in many coun-
tries of Europe which are not be-
ing aided by UNRRA.
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