Friday, April I3, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
JDC Chairman Urges Jewry
To Support Clothing Drive
Millions hi War-Devastated Countries Are In Dire Need o
Wearing Apparel, Baerwald Says; Value of Items
Donated Deductable from Income Tax
Lt. Comm. Goldberg
To Speak April 23
Chaplain Joshua L. Goldberg
will address the Jewish Com-
munity Center Forum on Mein-
day evening, April 23, Morris
Paul Baerwald, national chairman of the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, called upon the Jews
of America - to support the nation-wide clothing drive, dur-
ing April, for the needy millions of all war-devastated coun-
tries.
Baerwald, a member of t he national committee of the
United National Clothing Collec-
tion, of which Henry J. Kaiser
is national chairman, pointed out
that the most important Jewish
national organizations have al-
ready pledged their cooperation
in the roundup of serviceable
used clothing.
William Friedman, president
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion of Detroit, has _issued an
appeal to all Detroit Jews and
to local organizations, urging
them to participate _ in the
clothing collection drive.
Jewish national agencies Par-
ticipating in the United National
Clothing Collection include:
Participating Agencies
American Association for Jew-
ish Education; American Com-
mittee of OSE; American Jewish
Congress (Women's Division) :
American ORT Federation and
Women's Division; Bnai Brith;
Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds; Free Sons
of Israel; Hadassah; Independent
Order of Brith Abraham; Jewish'
Labor Committee; Jewish Na-
tional Workers Alliance; Jewish
War Veterans of the U. S. and
Women's Auxiliary; Hebrew
Sheltering and Immigrant Aid
Society (HIAS); Mizachi
Women's Organization; National
Council of Jewish Women, Inc.;
National Jewish Welfare Board;
Synagogue Council of America;
United Hungarian Jews; United
Romanian Jews.
Deduct Contributions
Donors of used clothes, shoes
and bedding may - deduct the
value of these gifts from their
income tax payments provided
that the total allowable deduc-
tions for all types of contribu-
tions during the year do not ex-
ceed 15 per cent of the taxpay-
er's adjusted gross income, it was
announced at National Head-
quarters of the nation-wide
clothing drive for overseas war
relief.
A ruling recently received by
the organization from the Treas-
ury Department stated that the
value of clothing donated to the
campaign is deductible within
the provisions of the income tax
law. According to this ruling,
"the basis for calculatam =is the
fair market value of the property
at the time of the contribution
but the _burden of proof rests
with the taxpayer to substanti-
ate this valuation."
CHAPLAIN J. L. GOLDBERG
Garvett, chairman of the Center
adult education committee, an-
nounces.
Lt. Comm. Goldberg has just i
returned from an overseas trip!
to front lines.
Further details regarding his '
lecture here, to which the public
is invited without charge, will
be announced next week.
Yenta Pessi to Give
"
Harpsichord Concert
At Center Tuesday
Yella Pessl, outstanding Harp-
sichordist, will make her Detroit
debut next. Tuesday evening, at
the Center's Auditorium. She
will be assisted by Lare Ward-
rop, oboist, member of the De-
troit Symphony Orchestra.
The program will consist of
compositions of the 16th and 17th
centuries, and will include the
first Detroit presentation of Leon-
ardo Da Vinci's Sonata for Oboe
and Harpsichord. Other compo-
sitions on the program are Loeil
let's Sonata in G-Major, Handel's •
Phantasy, Bach - Vivaldi's Con-
Paul Burstein, popular singing, certo, Couperin's Suite, Scarlat-
whistling and dancing comedian ti's Two Sonatas, and T-elemarm's
of the Jewish stage, will appear Sonata in G-Minor.
Tickets are available at Grin-
here in his own production
"Who Is Guilty?", this season's nell's and at the Center.
outstanding New York Yiddish
hit, which will be presented for Institute to Sponsor
only one performance at the
Masonic Temple, Sunday even- An 'All Nationalities'
ing, April 22.
Program This Sunday
The production, staged and
The International Institute of
directed by Mr. Burstein, is an Metropolitan Detroit, Inc., a
adaptation of Louis Freiman's Community Fund agency, will
radio feature of the same, name, sponsor Charter Night in the
for which Ilya Trilling composed form of a "Service and Fellow-
a musical score of folk songs. ship to All Nationalities," to take
The play just concluded a re- place Sunday at 2431 E. Grand
cord-breaking run at the Hop- Blvd.
kinson Theater in New York.
There will_he exhibits, a coffee
Sedition Defendants
It will be presented. here with hour- and folk-dancing from 5 to
Reported Spreading
the entire original cast headed 7 p. m. There also will be a pro-
by- Max Rosenblatt, Henrietta gram of nationality songs and
Anti-Jewish Leaflets
Jacobson, Julius Adler and Anna dances from 7 to 9 p. m.
Admission is free.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The New Toback, and includes Eli Mintz,
Dr. David D. Henry, execu-
York Herald-Tribune reports brother of the late Ludwig Satz;
that several defendants in the Flora Freiman, Feivish Finkel, tive vice-president of Wayne
abortive mass sedition trial- are Sally Schorr, Simon Wolf Janet University, is president of the
spreading anti-Jewish propagan- Paskewitch and Isaac Arco. - International Institute.
da through printed and mimeo-
graphed "newspapers."
The Tribune says that Mrs.
Elizabeth Dilling—author of the
The Flowers
"Red Network," an alleged list
of Communists which included
high ranking officials and even
That Bloom in the Spring
Mrs. Roosevelt—is putting out a
monthly publication, a recent
issue of which describes Presi:.
... can be brought right into your
dent Roosevelt and Premier Sta-
home ... with a bright bit selected
lin as "stooges. of Jewry," and
charges that efforts to punish
from among -the many odd pieces
collaboratiOnists in Europe. are
you'll want for yourself or for
Jewish-inspired.
Charles B. Hudson of Omaha,
really important gift-giving. You'll
the paper discloses ; issues a
thrice - monthly mimeographed
be especially interested in our dis-
publication, called "America in
play
of unusual chairs, tables,
Danger," which devotes most of
its articles to anti-Sernitistn.
lamps, pictures and mirrors.
The current issue, commenting
on the Jewish Brigade, says it
open evenings
will never be used to fight Ger-
many, but will be used in the
Near East against the United
States and Britain in a war by
Russia against the "white race."
Burstein to Appear
In 'Who Is Guilty'
At Masonic Apr. 22
,
Detroit
JOE BROWN
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JDC, UPA Launch Drives;
Both Claim Major Shares
'Joint' Reports
Receiving Larger
Share of Funds
Palestine Appeal
Says Communities
Plan 50-50 Split
NEW YORK—Isidor Coons, dir-
ector of the 1945 Joint Distribu-
tion Committee National Cam-
paign, revealed that community
leaders throughout the country,
aware that the needs of 1,500,000
stricken Jews surviving i n
Europe have first call on Am-
erican generosity, are in general
making the J.D.C. the major ben-
eficiary of community campaigns
for increased funds.
J. N. F. Labor
Drive Opens
Here May 6
The annual labor Zionist drive
for the Jewish National Fund
will open here officially at a
public rally at the Jewish Com-
munity Center on Sunday even-
ing, May 6.
Harry Schumer, chairman of
the J.N.F. labor department in
Detroit, announced plans for this
drive and stated that nationally
prominent speakers will address
this rally.
Mr. Schumer also said that an
interesting surprise announce-
ment will be made at the May
6 affair, which will inauEilrate
the Berl Katznelson project. -
A call is going forth to all
labor elements in Detroit, as well
as to all landsrnanschaften, to
participate in the annual J.N.F.
labor drive.
The organizations participat-
ing in the labor J.N.F. project
are the Poale Zion, the Farband
branches, . the Pioneer Women's
Organization chapters, League
for Labor Palestine, Habonim
and Hashomer Hatzair, with the
assistance of local landsman-
schaften.
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NEW YORK—Many commun-
ities in the country have adopt-
ed decisions for a 50-50 division
of the funds raised in 1945 for
the United Palestine Appeal and
Joint Distribution Committee in
an effort to do full justice to the
vastly increased needs of up-
building and mass settlement in
the Jewish National Home in
Palestine as well as to the en-
larged program of overseas re-
lief and rehabilitation, the UPA
The national campaign di- reports.
rector, reviewing completed and
Among the Jewish communi-
forthcoming spring campaigns,
said that 55 communities, where ties which voted parity distribu-
decisions on the division of funds tion between the UPA and JDC
had already been made, had al- are: Middletown and Waterbury,
loted to the J.D.C. 60 per cent or Conn.; Portsmouth, Va.; the
more of the total funds they will North Hudson United Jewish
furnish to both the Joint Distri- Appeal, which embraces Union
bution Committee Campaign and City, N. J., New Brunswick,
J., Massena, N. Y., Elyria, Ohio,
the United Palestine Appeal.
and the following South Car-
Cleveland Gives 60%
olina communities:
Baniberg,
Mr. Coons pointed out that Greenville and Newberry.
Cleveland, in its division of funds
Among communities which
between the J.D.C. and the have made other decisions with
U.P.A. has officially decided to regard to the distribution of
grant the J.D.C. 60 per cent of funds are: New Haven, Conn,
funds set aside for these overseas Lancaster, Pa., and Spartansburg,
programs. Hartford, Conn., which S. C., which voted 45 percent to
has raised its campaign total goal the UPA, and 55 per cent to the
from $304,000 in 1944 to $504,000 JDC. Atlantic City decided to
this year, will make a similar give 47 per cent to the UPA and
distribution of funds between the 53 per cent to the JDC.
J.D.C. and U.P.A.
Peter Lorre, the horror man,
New York City has alloted the
J.D.C. the larger portion of over- says he fled Germany before_
the war because he felt that one
seas hands.
murderer over there was suffi-
Houston and San Antonio, Tex., cient.
have officially advised
the
J.D.C. that they will grant it the
larger share of funds to be set
aside for overseas needs. Similar
recognition of the necessity for
saving Jewish life in Europe has
been given by Nashville, Tenn.,
Richmond, Va., Troy, N. Y.,
Atlantic City, N. J., and New
Haven, Conn. -
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