THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review VOL. 6—NO. 26 2114 Penobscot Bldg. RA. 7956 of Jewish Events Detroit 26, Michigan, March 16, 1945 34 oqieio 22 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10a Jews Demand epresentation At Hied Conclave n April 25 —Page S Federation, Affiliated Agencies Discuss Community roblems at Meeting at Center Wednesday —Page 5 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. Page 3 — 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. . . : . . Itlatp UFA Dril-e: . 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. - Stress JDC Needs: —Pages 18, 20 „- • 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.