THE JEWISH
Friday, June 22 ; 1945
EWS
Zionist Membership Drive
To Be Launched Here July 1
Palestine Progress,
U.S. Trade Problems
Viewed at Parley
Community Leaders to Make House-to-House Canvass to
Enroll Members; Rabbi Fram Calls upon Detroit Jewry
to Register as Vote for Homeland
President of Economics Corp.
Says Country Is Ripe for
Capital Investment
Summoning the Jews of De :
troit to register their will for the
creation of a Jewish Common-
wealth in Palestine, Rabbi Leon
Fram, president of the Zionist
Organization of Detroit, has is-
sued a call, designating Sunday,
July 1, as Zionist Registration
Day.
Leaders of the Jewish com-
munity will make a house-to-
house canvass throughout the
day to enroll new members.
The workers will meet at
breakfast Sunday, July 1. at 10
a. m. in the auditorium of the
Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg., Lawton
and Tyler, where they will re-
ceive instructions. Teams of two
and three will spend the rest of
the day enrolling members.
Rabbi Fram's Call
Rabbi Fram has asked that
those who are not approached
during the day send their en-
rollment check for $5 to the
Zionist Organization of Detroit,
1044 Penobscot Bldg.
Rabbi Fram has issued the
following Registration Day call:
"The hour of decision has ar-
rived. Our American government
as well as the organization of the
United Nations are about to
pronounce a final verdict on the
claim of the Jewish people to a
homeland in Palestine. Their
decision is bound to be in-
fluenced by one powerful con-
sideration, namely, the will of.
the Jewish people itself.
"They would not undertake
the drastic action of establishing
a Jewish Commonwealth in Pal-
estine unless they definitely
knew that such action was de-
sired by all the Jewish people
of the world and especially by
the Jews of America, whose
financial contributions to the
project IA rould be of paramount
importance.
Only Available Measurement
"There is only one way by
which American . Jews c a n
specifically and unmistakably
register their will for the final
establishment of a Jewish Com-
monwealth in Palestine. Mem-
bership in the Zionist Organiza--
tion is the only available
measurement which our govern-
ment and the United Nations
can use in ascertaining the desire
of the Jewish people. •
"I therefore, call upon every
Jew of Detroit to speak out in
behalf of Palestine. Your en-
rollment is your vote in favor
of a homeland. Your silence and
your absence from the rolls is a
vote against a Jewish homeland.
"The ghosts of the five million
Jews who were massacred in
central and eastern Europe call
upon every Jew in Detroit to
speak out in favor of one place
in the world which Jews can call
their own, and where they are
not a minority constantly in
danger of extirpation by dema-
gogue-ridden majorities.
"Let every Jew in Detroit be
waiting gratefully for. our can-
vassers, or take the initiative and
communicate direct with the
Zionist Organization of Detroit,
1044 Pencibscot Building,"
21,500 Jews. Killed
By Nazi Scientists
Jewish Teacher Killed
In Damascus Rioting
IvIAUTHAUSEN, (JTA)—Rec-
ords showing that of 24,000 Jews
brought by the Nazis from all
parts of Europe to the Maut-
hausen camp — where German
scientists used inmates as guinea
pigs in poison-gas experiments-,--
only 2,500 were found when U.
S. troops liberated this town,
were made public here.
Most of the survivors were de-
portees from Hungary who are
now en route to their native
country. At present there are
349 Jewish men and 626 Jewish
∎Tomen left in the camp. About
25 percent of them expressed a
desire to go to Palestine, while
others said they wanted to emi-
grate to the .U. S., or to South
America.
A Jewish committee, headed
by Dr. Maxmillan Hernung of
Cracow, is completing a list of
survivors, their closest relatives,
and where they want to .go. The
American commandant of the
camp is a Jewish captain,
Michael Levy, from Houston,
Tex.
JERUSALEM, (Palcor)—
Jacques Franco, father of four
children, a teacher at the Al-
liance I s r a e l i t e Universelle
School at Damascus, was stoned
and stabbed to death during
rioting there June 2.
The pretext for the assault
was the allegation that he was a -
French agent. The attack oc-
curred while he was out walking
with his son.
Kroyanker, Noted Author,
Passes Away in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, June 11 (Pal-
cor)—Gustav Kroyanker, author,
prominent in the Zionist move-
ment in pre-Hitler Germany,
died here June 11. He was edi-
tor of the newspaper Amudim,
published by the Aliya Hadasha
Party, comprised of immigrants
from Germany. He settled in
Palestine in 1932, and was af-
filiated with the Hebrew Uni-
versity.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The prog-
ress achieved in the industrial
and agricultural development of
Palestine and' the opportunities
for American businessmen to
participate in the expansion of
that country were reviewed at
the Palestine Economic Confer-
ence held under the auspices of
the Palestine Economic Bureau
of the Zionist Organization of
America in association with the
Keren - Hayesod.
."Transformation Of Palestine
from the dormant agricultural
and pastoral country it was be-
fore the last war to a progres-
siVe Industrial . -country of high
technical and _cultural attain-
ments is. already well advanced,"
it was. pointed out by Robert J.
Barr, Chief of the Near East
Section, U. -S. Department of
Commerce:
"The most important problem
affecting . American economic re-
lations wit
h
is whether
the existing trade controls are
going to be eliminated. If they
are, the potentialities of U. S.
trade may be realized. If not our
exports to Palestine will be
limited," Barr said.
"Palestine is now exporting cut
and polished diamonds to the
U. S. at the rate of $20,000,000 a
year, an export which during the
war has taken the place of the
former principal export, citrus
fruit. If these two industries to-
gether with the Dead Sea chem-
ical salt industry are maintained
after the war, their exports alone
are likely to reach $44,000,000."
Development of Palestine along
modern industrial and agricul-
tural lines has made that coun-
try. a "going concern," ripe for
investment capita 1, declared
Julius Simon, president of the
Palestine Economic Corp.,. largest
American business enterprise in
that country.
Revival of the building indus-
try in Palestine, which was al-
most completely halted during
the war years, will provide em-
ployment for 30,000 workers dur-
ing the next four years, declared
Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine.
The proposed "Jordan Valley
Authority" is a significant indi-
cation of how American skills
and experience can be of help in
expanding the economy of Pales-
tine, said Emanuel Neumann,
managing director, Palestine Sur-
veys.
Dr: Israel Goldstein, president
of the Zionist Organization of
America, urged American Jews to
invest in Palestine during the
next few years.
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Dr. Wise Postpones Visit
in Detroit Until July 2
Due to unforeseen emergency in New York which made it
necessary for Dr. Stephen S. Wise to remain in the East, espe-
cially due to the arrival of David Ben-Gurion in this country,
the luncheon arranged by the newly-formed Business and Pro-
fessional Chapter of the American Jewish Congress was post-
poned from last Tuesday to July 2, at 12 noon, at the Book ,
Cadillac Hotel. There were 350 reservations for the luncheon
that was scheduled for last Tuesday and these will be renewed
for the July 2 luncheon.
Saul R. Levin, temporary chairman of the pew group, stated
this week that Dr. Wise will be present at the luncheon on
July 2 to give a report on latest achievements of the Jewish
Congress and to present a resume of the Jewish case as it was
presented at San Francisco.
The public meeting which Dr. Wise was to address at the
Shaarey Zedek on Tuesday was also called off.
Temporary officers of the Business and Professional Chapter
of the Congress, besides Mr. Levin. are: Morris W. Stein and
Louis Berry, vice-chairmen; Daniel G. Cullen, secretary; Zeldon
S. Cohen, treasurer. The executive committee includes Law-
rence W. Crohn, Irving B. Dworman, David H. Fauman. Abe
Kasle, Leon B. Kay, Aaron Kurland, Morris Lieberman, Philip
Slomovitz, Jack Tobin and David Vogel.
Born in Russia, he came to
this country in 1911. He was the
author of a number of works on
religious philosophy. He ad-
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Funeral vanced the theory that Yiddish
services were held here last . literature had a Messianic mis-
week for Baruch Rivkin. noted sion, destined to reveal the most
Jewish writer, who died June hidden forces of the Jewish
9 following a prolonged illness. people and the very essence of
He was 62.
Jewish personality.
Rivkin, Jewish Writer,
Dies at 62 in New York
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