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Detroit 26, Michigan, April 6, 1945
Welfare Fund Cities Appoint
Committee to Make a Final
Effort to Reconstitute UJA
(Special Wire to The Jewish News)
CLEVELAND, (JTA)—A committee of three was appointed at
a meeting of representatives of 12 of the largest Jewish welfare
fund cities, held here during the last week-end, to confer with the
Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal and National
Refugee Service, in a final effort to reconstitute the United Jewish
Appeal.
The meeting also recommended the creation of a fact-finding
committee' which would, in collaboration with the JDC, UPA and
NRS, conduct a special study of 1945 budgetary grogram needs
under the auspices of a provisional committee for inter-welfare
fund cooperation.
Abraham Srere of Detroit was named temporary chairman of
the inter-city committee. The fact-finding committee was ordered
to submit a report by May 15.
Interfaith Milestone:
The National Council of Jewish Women's
.gift of a $250,000 Bronx community
house to Negroes was hailed by MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT as "a milestone"
in inter-group relations. Left to right are • MRS. JOSEPH M. WELT, of Detroit,
president of the NCJW; Mrs. Roosevelt; DR. CHANNING TOBIAS, second secretary, •
Service to Colored Boys of the YMCA, who received the community house for the
new Inter-racial board; and MRS. NORMAN S. GOETZ. president, N. Y. section,
RCJW, who made the presentation. More than 1,700 attended the presentation cere-
mony . in New York.
The following communities were represented: Detroit, St. Louis,
Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Hartford, Kansas
City, Milwaukee, Newark and Pittsburgh.
Roosevelt Urged by Clergy
To Repudiate Anti-Jewish
Remarks by Ibn-Saud's Aide
WASHINGTON, D. C. (JPS)—President Roosevelt was urged
by a group representing 5,000 Christian clergy in the United States,
to denounce "pro-Nazi anti-Semitic statements," made recently by
the advisor to King Ibn Saud, the Foreign Minister of Iraq and
the Prime Minister of Transjordan.
In a letter delivered to the White House by the group, the
—clergymen charged the Arab leaders with "carrying --over-- their
wartime pro-Nazism into a postwar pro-Nazism." To let their
statements "go unchallenged would be to accept their views," the
letter -Warns, "and having faith in your leadership, we believe that
you will raise your voice in no uncertain terms in sharp reprimand
of this foul cynicism."
The letter was signed by the delegation which two weeks ago
petitioned the President, in the name of 5,000 Christian
clergymen associated with The Protestant magazine, that he inter-
vene for the opening of Palestine's doors to Jewish immigration.
The new statement reiterates the group's "support in your (the
President's) endeavors to bring about as quickly as possible the
Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine."
Jewish Chaplains: ,
DR. STEPHEN S. WISE, president and
founder of the Jewish Institute of Religion,
telling a group of alumni, now chaplains in the armed services, of plans to raise
$1,000,000 for endowment. More than 25 percent of the institute graduates have enlisted
ini the chaplaincy. Left to right: Navy Chaplain SOLOMON E. CHERNIAK; Army
Chaplain COLMAN ZWITMAN; RABBI PHILIP BERNSTEIN, executive director of
the JWB committee on Army and : Navy Religious Activities; Dr. Wise; Army Chap-
lain ARYEH LEV, stationed in Washington; Navy Chaplain WENDELL PHILLIPS,
Lecturer at: Chaplains' School; and Army Chaplain SIDNEY I. GOLDSTEIN.
Pearson Predicts "Repercusions" ea FDR-Ibn Saud Meeting
Columnist Drew Pearson reports that "President. Roosevelt's
meeting with King Ibn Saud caused vigorous discussion at a meet-
ing of 1,000 Jewish leaders in New York and may have repercus-
sions." The reference, apparently, is to the dinner for Dr. Abbas
Hillel Silver. Pearson adds that "the President's chief - motive
in conferring with Ibn Saud was Arabian oil, for which U., .S.
firms have big concessions."
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Says Big Business Seeks to Bar Jews From Palestine
NEW YORK (JPS)—"Big business in Arabia is thought to be
a new force preventing the emigration to Palestine of one and a half
million Surviving Jews," writes Edgar Ansel Mowrer, New York
Post columnist..
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Palestine-Bound:
THE S. S. SELAHATTIN, chartered by the
Joint Distribution Committee, shown jammed
to the railing with its human cargo eagerly seeking safety, carried 543 refugees from
Constanza bound for Istanbul, enroute to Palestine. The trip, made late last year, is
one of several -JDC-arranged rescue projects which brought more than 8,000 . refugees
from the Balkans to the Jewish homeland in 1944. The JDC seeks $46,570,000 this year
to care for its expanded world wide program of relief and rehabilitation, especially
e newly liberated European areas.
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Cloth e Them:
This war victim family believes
that "the only good Nazi is a dead
Nazi." From such a dead Nazi, "Mom" obtained the overcoat
which covers her and the baby. "Junior" got the shirt, his only
garment: "Pop" got shoes to smarten up his ragged rig, and little
"Davie" got a strip of canvas for a makeshift toga. Millions of
others in war-ravaged lands need all the clothing, 'shoes and bed-
ding you can give to the United - National Clothing Collection.
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