THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
VOL. 6—NO. 26
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of Jewish Events
Detroit 26, Michigan, March 16, 1945
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Jews Demand epresentation
At Hied Conclave n April 25
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Federation, Affiliated Agencies
Discuss Community roblems at
Meeting at Center Wednesday
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peed. Reunion:
Service to Foreign Born
case workers of the Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women facilitate an 8,000 mile • trip
that will reunite a 60-year-old refugee with four children in
CapetoWn, South Africa. First to find a permanent home of
the more than 900 refugees at the Oswego refugee camp, MRS.
ELSA NEUMANN (left) receives her passport-still stamped
with the Nazi "J"—from MRS. IRVING M. ENGLE. national
chairman of the Service to Foreign Born Committee. Since
fleeing fromAustria to Italy eight years ago, Mrs. Neumann
has lived' in the concentration camps, in one of which her
.husband died; lived for two .weeks in, an Italian cellar as bat-
tle raged between the. Nazis and the forces of the United Na-
tions; and made the long trip to America.
Joint Distribution Committee
Leaders View Immediate Needs
In Rebuilding Lives in Europe
—Pages 7 '14
tulists 22 Groups
Clothing Campaign
Organizations whose membership includes 70
•percerit . of nation's populkion co-operating in
the United Nation's Clothing Drive for war re-
lief during April . . . Joint Distribution Com-
mittee to act as claimant for clothing in behalf
of Jews whose needs are not met by UNRRA.
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Detroiters Distinguish
Selves on Ail War Fronts
Chaplain Adler performs Jewish GI wedding
in Philippines, given • honor of - presenting
Washington Birthday address before Filipinos
on Leyte . . . Praised by co-chaplains ... Many
make supreme sacrifice, others decorated for
heroism, several promoted in latest infOrmation
received by The Jewish News.
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UFA Dril-e:
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The 1945 United Palestine Appeal for $35,000,000 .will be con-
ducted under the chairmanship of DR. JAMES. G. HELLER
(center), national chairman. JOEL GROSS (left) of Newark, N. J.; will be national campaign
chairman for the Eastern states. HAROLD J. GOLDEN-BERG (right) of Minneapolis,. Minn., wilt
be national campaign chairman for the Middle West.. • Mortimer May of Nashville, Tenn., will
be
national chairman in charge of the Southern states' campaign activities and Charles Brown of
• Los Angeles will be in charge of the Western states' activities.
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Stress JDC Needs:
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Shown above are four leaders of the 1945 Joint Distribu-
tion Committee's national campaign which seeks to raise .
$46,570,000 for the emergency relief of as many as possible of the estimated million and a half
Jews in continental Europe. The picture shows RABBI JONAH B. WISE, • national campaign
chairman, addressing the campaign's Committee on Organization in New York, March 4. Others
shown, left to right, include: JOSEPH C. HYMAN, JDC executive , vice-chairman; PAUL
BAERWALD, JDC chairman and honorary Chairman of the national campaign; and ISIDOR
COONS, national campaign director. - Rabbi Wise told " the gathering that JDC faces the greatest
task in its three decades of relief-giving - and rehabilitation.
ln. ves•me n t:
DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN'
(right), president of the
Zionist Organization of America, purchasing the first
share in the new $1,500,000 issue of common stock . of
the Palestine Economic - Corp. from ROBERT SZOLD,
chairman of the Corporation's board of directors and
a former president of the Zionist Organization of
America. There are 1,400 American stockholders. The
Corportion's new issue is for a postwar program.