Friday, May. 25, t945

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`Joint' Must Raise $46,570,000 This Year Film
To Rehabilitate the 1,500,000 Survivors Folk

Europe's Liberated Jews Look to JDC for Help

Liberation of the conquered countries of
-Europe has disclosed a picture so black that it is
difficult for Americans to comprehend the rav-
ages that the Nazis have wrought on the de-
fenseless Jews of Europe.
A few years ago there were 6,000,000 Jews
in continental Europe exclusive of the Soviet
Union, Of this number some 1,500,000 are alive
today to participate in victory. The Joint Dis-
tribution Committee is dedicated to the task of
saving the lives of as many of these tortured
people as is possible.
The 1,500,000 who have been liberated are
free only from the threat of Nazi brutality. There
still remains the menace of starvation and epi-
demic. They have come out of concentration
camps or out of • the caves and forests in which
they have been hiding, broken in body and spirit.
They want to be reunited with their families
—and their families, if still living, are scattered
to the four corners of the earth. They long to go
back to the homes which once were theirs—and
they find them theirs no longer.
This group will be the main beneficiaries of
the $46,570,000 campaign fund—the minimum
amount which must be raised throughout the na-
tion in 1945, if the last surviving remnant of the
Jews in continental Europe is to be saved. The
sum is larger than the JDC ever has sought in its
30-year-old existence.

200,090

Destitute in Romania

ROMANIA—To the 200,000 destitute Jews in
Romania the JDC is transmitting via Switzerland
$500,000 monthly for relief. Requests have been
received to increase the relief fund to $800,000
each month. In addition the JDC is sending
shoes. clothing and medical supplies.
HUNGARY—The story of the Jews of Hun-
gary is still uncertain. Estimates show 200,000
Jewish survivors who have outlived mass bomb-
ings, the siege of Budapest and Nazi extermina-
tion squads. One hundred tons of food, clothing
and medical supplies were rushed to Budapest
24 hours after its liberation.
FRANCE—The Jewish population of France
is estimated at 170,000. At least half of this
number can look only to the JDC for help. Many
are stateless, the responsibility of no government.
The JDC has budgeted $250,000 each month for
the suffering Jews in France. Tens of thousands
of tins of condensed milk and other food supplies
have been shipped from Switzerland; tons of
shoes, clothing and blankets have already been
received. In addition JDC has .appropriated

Intermediate Boys
Form 2 Ball Teams
At 12th St. Center

Two soft ball teams, the "Nat-
urals" and the "Center Champs"
have been formed._ by the Inter-
mediate boys of the Twelfth-
Street Council Center. Through
the efforts of Lewis B. Daniels,
program chairman of the 12th
St. Council Center, sponsors have
been obtained.
Lou Wisper of Wisper and
Wetsman has given the "Center
Champs" their uniforms. Equip-
ment and uniforms for the "Nat-
urals" have been supplied by
Max Handler.
With 30 boys already in uni-
form, the teams are planning to
enter the Parks and Recreation
League. Practice games are being
played at Codd Field. Plans are
under way for the formation of
an athletiC club at the 12th St.
Center, to include participation
in other sports such as swim-
ming, wrestling, boxing and
basketball.
A five game series has been
scheduled between the two
teams. The winning team will
be awarded a prize.
Playing with the "Naturals"
are: Bobby Cohen, 2b; Arthur
Brand, 3b; Irving Schneider, o.f.;
Marvin Friedman, o.f.; Phil
Green, o.f.; Sol Stein, lb; Charles
Subalske, o.f.; David Roth, c.;
Norman Purple, p.; Harvey
Miller, c.; Seymour Barnett, s.s.;
Bernard Farber, coach; Bernie
Roberts, manager; and Harold
Weiss, coach.
The "Center Champs" include:
Irving Cooper, s.s.; and captain;
Al Citron, s.c. and asst. captain;
Mickey Solomon, 2b; Jake Guns-
berg, 3b; Harvey Goldberg, c.;
Harry Cohen, c.; Dave Rubin, p.;
Irving Pickens, p.; George Cen-
don, lb.; Roy Primeau, lf.; Irv-
ing Stein, c.f.; Bernie Ekelman,
r.f.; Irving Grinsky, coach; Mar-
tin Katanick, coach; and Dave
Katz, manager.

HUC ANNIVERSARY NOV. 23
CINCINNATI—A colorful cele-
bration of the .70th anniversary
of the Hebrew Union College
will be held in Cincinnati, Nov.
23-24, the institution's Board of
Governors decided recently.

$200,000 for a fund to establish credit cooperatives
and is supporting 3,000 orphans in Jewish chil-
dren's homes.

JDC Brings Them to Safety

POLAND—Of the 3,500,000 Jews who once
were in Poland, it is estimated that 150,000 are
there today. This number may be increased in
the near future. Tons of food, clothing and
medical supplies have already been sent into
Poland, and arrangements are now completed for
a continuous flow of from 40 to 60 tons weekly
from the JDC warehouse in Teheran. There is
the _added problem of about 250,000 Polish Jews
who fled to Asiatic Russia. Food packages from
Teheran. continue to go to them at a cost to the
JDC of $100,000 each month.
These are only a few countries in which the
JDC is working to date.
Nothing can be done for these stricken
people unless the Jews of America respond to
their pleas. The decision is ours. Shall it be
life or death for the surviving Jews of
Europe?
Twelve thousand Jewish orphans have been
found in France, Belgium and the liberated sec-
tions of Holland. These children are hungry,
homeless, parentless and frightened. They have
seen their parents dragged off to concentration
camps—slaughtered before their eyes.
In homes for Jewish children, supported by
the JDC, these Jewish children are being cared
for awaiting the time when some relative can
claim them. For some this has already come to
pass—for many no relative will be found and JDC
will be compelled to continue its program of
protective care. Their one hope for survival is
the American Jewish community.

Aid Rushed to Polish Jews

Thousands of Jews in Europe have been
snatched from death and transported to safety.
Many families, after years of flight and terror,
now are en route to Palestine. They are on
board the good ship Nyassa chartered by the
JDC, the organization dedicated to the relief,
rescue and rehabilitation of the million and a
half surviving Jews of Europe. The JDC has
arranged transportation to Palestine and other
countries, provided funds for passage and main-
tenance en route for thousands of Jews who have
escaped extermination.
For 1945 it is estimated that more than four
million dollars will be required by the JDC for
this 'emigration service which is but a single item
in its world-wide-life-saving program.

Soviet Diplomats Become
Active In Arab States
CAIRO, (JTA)—Soviet auth-
orities have recently increased
their propaganda activities in the
Arab countries, it is learned
here. They are especially active
in Iraq, Syria and Egypt, and
editors from those countries
have been invited to visit Russia.
Soviet diplomats frequently at-
tend sessions of the various par-
liaments and the Russian am-
bassador was the only diplomat
to attend recent ,Egyptian army
maneuvers.
Meanwhile, Egyptian Minister

of Finance, Makram Ebeid Pas-
ha, speaking in the Chamber of
deputies, warned against the
competition of Jewish industry
and commerce in Palestine.
The question of- Arab land
purchases in Palestine will head
the agenda of the meeting of
the agricultural and economic
commissions of the pan-Arab
league which is scheduled to be
held here next month, Abdul
Rahman Azzam Bey, secretary
general of the league and Min-
ister for Arab Affairs in the
Egyptian Government, said.

(Copyright.
1945 Jewish
Telegraphic
Agency)

By LEON GUTTERMAN

American film audiences will
soon see motion pictures taken
by the Nazis and designed to. bol-
ster German home front morale.
Last December, footage of Von
RundstecIt's "offensive" was cap-
tured from a German Army cam-
eraman. The film was seized by
Americans before the Nazis could
destroy it. The pictures never
reached German screens . . . In-
stead, they will be seen for the
first time in a new War Depart-
ment short subject, "The Enemy
Strikes," produced by the Army
Pictorial Service. Scenes of Nazi
troops smoking American cigar-
ets, taken from the bodies of
American soldiers, are included.
* * *
John Garfield confided to me
that he plans to enter the inde-
pendent production field at the
termination of his contract with
Warners. Although his Warner
term deal- still has 10 months to
go, John is now negotiating with
Barney Ross, ex-Marine hero and
boxing champion, for the screen
rights to the latter's life story.
The star wants to play the role
of Barney Ross in the picture,
which would be his first under
his own production set-up . • .
Garfield also tells me that he
has cancelled plans to do a
Broadway play, preferring in-
stead, to devote all of his avail-
able time to his own film pro-
duction venture. Two scripts
are currently being prepared for
him at the studio, but his next
assignment • is still indefinite.
* * *
Vicki Baum, noted author of
the new Warner film, "Hotel
Berlin," credits her success as a
novelist to a thorough know-
ledge of music. She spent many

of her girlhood years studying
the harp. She believes her storm
ies have swing and punch be-
cause she composes them to read
like music—play tunes on the
gamut of human emotions. Har-
mony, she says, is as vital to
literature as to music, and an
aria in words can be as beauti-
ful .as an aria in song!
* * *
Ira Marion, script writer for
the Blue network, has been
honored by the American Jewish
Committee which has selected
four of his scripts for special
distribution.
Subject matter of Ira's scripts
ranges widely. There is a dra-
matic treatment of America's
slowly disappearing isolationism,
a synopsis of the _life of Dr.
Joseph Goldberger, discoverer of
the cure for pellagra, an episode
in Hitler's attempt to make a
single people scapegoat for his
nation's difficulties. Also drama-
tized is the "Springfield Plan"—
a design to make an entire city
a laboratory of human relations.
Only the pro-democratic theme is
uniform in these half-hour shows.
Believing that Ira Marion
drives home the democratic ob-
jective, the American Jewish
Committee is offering his four
scripts free to inter-faith groups,
labor organizations, and the like.
* * . *
The Marx Brothers—Groucho,
Harpo and Chico—have been
signed by David Loew to star in
an as yet untitled production
slated to gb before the cameras
in August. Under terms of the
deal I hear that the comedy trio
will participate in the profits.
The Marxes have been off the
screen since 1941 when they
wound up their Metro contract
with "The Big Store."

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