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:THE JEW1SH NEWS
Sobeloff Hails U. S. Board
For Aid in Reviving UJA
Director of Detroit JWF Reveals that Americans Contrib-
uted Billion Dollars for Local, Overseas Relief and
Rehabilitation, in New York Address
-
Histadruth Welcomes
Communist Members
Friday,
June 15, 1945
Communists into the federation. mittee announced that its mem-
Its stand was made known in bers' will fight shoulder to shoul-
a letter to the central commit- der with the Histadruth for the
tee of the Palestine Communist abolition of the White -Paper and
Party declaring that it -welcom- for the establishment of a Jew-
ed all Communists who have ish national,, home:
changed their attitude regard-
ing basic divergencies. •
The Communist central corn-
•.j ERUSALE M, (JTA)--The
central committee of . the His-
tadruth, the Palestine .Federation
of 'Labor, discloses that it 'has no
objections to the admittance , of
Buy War Bonds!
(Special to The Jewish News)
NEW YORK—Addressing 400 Jewish social service and
welfare workers at the YMHA here, at the three-day con-
ference, Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit, presitlent of the National
Conference of Jewish Social Welfare, revealed that $1,000,-
000,00 had been contributed by the people of this country
for local, social services for over-
seas relief and rehabilitation erican Red Cross for countless
and for work among the armed instances of vital aid in the task
of feeding, rescuing and re-es-
forces.
Praising the cooperation of tablishing victims of the great
governmental and quasi-govern- European upheaval.
"These agencies have been
mental agencies in the field of
overseas relief and rehabilitation gracious enough to report 'that
work of Jewish voluntary agen- the Joint Distribution Commit-
cies, Mr. Sobeloff declared that tee and the Jewish Agency for
the President's War Relief Con- Palestine have been tremendous-
Are' Board has earned the grat- ly/helpful to them in furthering
itude of all Americans‘, for hay-, their, humanitarian programs."
Other speakers included Irwin
ing reduced the number of sep-
arate appeals. Mr. Sobeloff was Rosen, chairman of the New
referring to the War Relief Con- York City Post-War Planning
-trot Board's efforts which re- Commission, Kurt Peiser,, Dr.
sulted in the reconstitution of John Slawson, Louis H. Sobel,
Martha H. Biehle, Max Silver-
the United Jewish Appeal.
stein, 'Ilya. Dydn, Aaron Tart,
Effective Leadership
Dr. Ira Eisenstein and Philip
In the course of his address, Bernstein.
Mr. Sobeloff said:
Reconstitution Confirmed
"The "War Relief Control
Isidore Coons and Henry Men-
Board, created by President
Roosevelt to insure orderly and tor, executive vice-chairman of
approved methods of organiza- the reconstituted United Jewish'
tion for war-time fund-raising, Appeal, in a message addressed
has earned the gratitude of the to Judge William Friedman,
'American contributing public president, and Isidore Sobeloff,
and of beneficiaries both at executive director of the -Jewish
home and abroad, for its effec- Welfare Federation of Detroit,
tive leadership in reducing the state with regard to the revival
number of separate appeals, re- of the UJA:
"We wish to confirm the
leasing volunteer campaign per-
reconstitution
of the United
sonnel for other necessary tasks
Jewish Appeal—an objective
and insuring equitable ,allocation
which communities in the
of material aid o _ n the basis of
United. States had sought. It
need.
is the confident hope of the
"Jewish welfare federations
reconstituted U J A that
of the United States' owe, a spe-
union of effort will produce
cial debt of thanks to the board
front American Jewry a new
for its latest action in stimulat-
outpouring of generosity
ing the reconstitution for 1945
commensurate with the life-
and 1946 of the United Jewish
saving needs and their satis-
Appeal, thereby re-uniting the
faction with this announce-
Joint Distribution Committee,
ment."
the United Palestine Appeal and
the National Refugee Service in
a single approach to the con-
tributing public for overseas
needs and Palestine.
Matched in Other Areas
"The assistance 'which our
agencies have received through Local Congress -Groups An-
the good offices of the War Re-
nounce That 2,000 Books
lief Control . Board -in the field
of fund-raising has been matched
Are Already In
in other areas, too, and we are
indebted to the War Refugee - Detroit Section of the Amer--
Board, the UNRRA and the Am- can Jewish Congress has set
5,000 books as its goal in the
Book Collection, to be Detroit's
contribution to the national drive
to replace volumes destroyed in
the ruined Jewish communities
in Europe.
Yiddish and Hebrew books as
well as books in other -languages
are welcome. To date, 2,000
5-Point Decision Announced books have been donated.
A book collection radio pro-
for Return of Property to
gram will be broadcast, Satur-
_ Expelled Jews
day, 9:45 p, m., over station
WJLB.
Special 'Wire to. Jewish News
Books may be left at thei fol-
BELGRADE, (JTA) .— Supple-
menting the recent law outlaw- lowing stations:
American Jewish. Congress, 727
ing- racial and religious preju-
dice, the Yugoslay National David Sott Bldg. and 9124 Lin-
Council adopted a decree pro, wood"; Jewish Community Cent-
rviding for the restoration of Jew- ers. Woodward at Holbrook and
ish property in accordance with. 12th at Blaine: Chesluk Book
Store,. 9663 12th; Zion Book
the following. provisions:
1. Immediate restoration of Store, 908 12th; Jewish War
property to Jewish individuals Veterans, 12th; Metro Music
and groups who were forced to House, 10324 Dexter; Shaarey
Zedek Library, Chicago at Law-
leave the country.
2. Annulment of expropriatiohs ton; Bnai Moshe, Dexter at Law-
for racial and. religious reasons. rence; Bnai David, Elmhurst at
3. Restoration 'of property will 14th; Epstein Baking Co., 9936
be made by special tribunals, ir- Dexter; United Hebrew Schools,
respective of any claims present all "branches.
Call TO. 8-2484 or UN. 3-9269
owners may have against former
far pick-ups.
owners
4. Holders of Jewish property
must surrender it immediately
to the state administrative body
irrespective of how property was
obtained. If the former owner
is dead or disappeared the court
for
will entrust it to the near relal
AUTO
DEALERSHIP
tives. If the property is consid-
erable, the court may assign only
Active or silent
part of it to private administra-
$25,000 investment required.
tion to prevent accumulation of
Going concern.
large fortunes.
Write Box '797,
5.. Attempts to Conceal former
Detroit Jewish News,
Jewish property will be punish- ,
2114 Penobscot 'Building,
able by fines and three years
Detroit 26, Mich.
imprisonment
Seek 5,000 Books
As Detroit Quota
Yugoslav Decree
For Restoration
Of Jewish Goods
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