THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, July 13, 1945

Yemen, Aden Rulers Allow
JDC to Send Medical Units

Page Five

Rabbi FraritAgain
Heads Zionists;
Views Progress

Mrs. Mathilde Welt, Pioneer
Michigan Resident, Dies at 89

155,000 Parcels Sent by 'Joint' to Polish Jewish Refugees
Re-Elected to Second Term
in Asiatic Russia During 1944 and First Six Months
As District President;
of 1945; More Packages on Way
Name Other Officers

Was Born in Monroe Before Civil War; Her Late Husband,
Louis, and Two Surviving Sons, Melville S. and
Joseph M., Were Temple Beth El Presidents

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Medical missions shortly will
leave for Yemen and Aden, under agreements reached with
the rulers of those countries, it was disclosed by Dr. Judah
L. Magnes, who reported on the activities of the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee in the Middle East and the Balkan
countries. Dr. Magnes is chairman of the Middle East Ad-
visory Committee of the JDC.*

Mrs. Mathilde Welt, one of
Michigan's most prominent wo-
men, a pioneer of Civil War days,
died last Sunday at her home,
5440 Cass Ave., at the age of 89.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, with Dr. Leo M.
Franklin officiating. Burial was
in Woodmere Cemetery.
Mrs. Welt was born in Monroe,
Mich., in 1856, and was a mem-
ber of the Meyerfeld family—
one of the few Jewish families
in Monroe and Michigan in pre-
Civil War days.
Her husband, the late Louis
Welt, served as president of
Temple Beth El from 1913 to
1918.
Her two surviving sons—
Melville S. and Joseph M. Welt
—also had the distinction of serv-
ing as presidents of Temple Beth
El.
Mrs. Welt was one of the
founders of the Twentieth Cen-
tury Club and was a member of

During 1944 and the first six peace and prosperity for the
months of 1945, the JDC sent benefit of all citizens.
155,000 parcels to Polish Jewish
refugees in Asiatic Russia, Dr. 1,300 Liberated Children Due
Magnes said, adding that of the In England from Theresienstadt
estimated 155,000 such refugees LONDON, July 5. (JTA)=The
in the Soviet Union, the JDC has Central British Fund, a Jewish
the names and locations of about relief organization, announced
100,000 in a card index in Jeru- that 1,300 Jewish orphans from
salem. The parcels, which were Theresienstadt will arrive in
Sent via Teheran contained, in England soon. The children will
some cases, only food, while remain here "until new homes
larger parcels also contained are found for them," the an-
clothes and other supplies. Total nouncement said. They will be
value of the parcels sent in 1944, placed in the custody of Jewish
he said, amounted to about $3,- organizations and will be main-
000,000. tamed by the Fund.
In addition to the packages
sent to Polish Jews in Russia, Three Jewish Aid Units
the JDC sent 350 tons of goods Help UNRRA in Germany
to the Jewish Relief Committee JERUSALEM, July 5. (JTA)
in Lublin, which is headed by Dr. —The British Government, ac-
Emil Sommerstein, Dr. Magnes cording to reliable sources, has
revealed. He said that a third approved the assignment of three
means of getting assistance to welfare units recruited by the
the Jews of Poland—from Stock- relief agency of the Jewish Na-
holm via Leningrad—was being tional Council and the Jewish
Agency to work with the UNRRA
explorM.
among displaced persons in Ger-
Revisionists Beckoned
Efforts once again are being many. The final decision on as-
.made to bring the Revisionists signment of the units, it is under=
back into the Zionist fold. stood, rests with SHAEF.
The present attempts are being The last group of Yemenite
made through Rabbi Meir Ber- Jews authorized to enter Pales-
lin, leader of the Mizrachi organ- tine under the present immigsa-
izatiort, with the immedate ob- tion quota arrived here today. It
jective of getting the Revisionists consists of 145 men, women and
invited to the world Zionist con- children, including 50 orphans.
ference opening in London on
300 Jewish Internees Leave
July 30.
Expansion of Palestine's rail- Switzerland for Palestine
LISBON, July 5.—(JTA)—The
road network so that it may be-
come part of the Capetown-Lon- Joint Distribution Committee has
don line was predicted here by chartered the Spanish steamer
M. M. Kirby, manager of the Lima to transport 300 former in-
Palestine railroad system, open- mates of German concentration
ing a new branch between Haifa camps to Palestine.
and Naharia.

130,000 Jews in Germany
tinder British-American 'Care
LONDON,— July 5. (JTA)-
There are about 130,000 Jews in
the zones in Germany held by
British and American troops, of
whom at least 50,000 are from
Poland, it was estimated here
by Rabbi Klepfish, Jewish chap-
lain with the • Polish armed
forces. upon his arrival from
Germany.
The majority of the liberated
Jews are between 20 and 40 years
old, Rabbi Klepfish estimated.
He said that more than 1,000
Polish Jews are still in Dachau;
11,00 of them, including eight
thousand women, are still in
Bergen-Belsen; more than 1,000
women are in Salzwedel; 3,000 in
Celle and more than 1,000—
mostly women—are in Diepholz,
near Osnabrueck.

Bulgaria Bars Young Jews
From Going to Palestine
SOFIA, (JTA)—The Bulgar-
ian Government is in sympathy
with Zionist aspirations for the
creation of a Jewish homeland
in Palestine, but consideration of
"general state policy" precludes
the emigration of young, able-
bodied Jews, Premier Kimon
Gheorghieff said.
In a statement on government
policy towards the Jewish citi-
zens of Bulgaria, issued in reply
to a request by Zionist and non-
Zionist leaders, the premier ex-
pressed regret at the mistreat-
ment of Jews by the pro-Ger-
man regimes and pointed out
that his government abolished all
anti-Jewish restrictions immedi-
ately after taking office.
He stressed that laws provid-
ing for the return of confiscated
Jewish property have been pro-
mulgated and added that "our
program provides for full reli-
gious liberty and equal treat-
ment for all citizens regardless
of sex, religion or nationalitty."
Mr. Gheorghieff expressed the
hope that Bulgarian Jews will
succeed, together with the whole
Bulgarian people, in building

Rabbi Leon Fram was re-elect-
ed president of the Zionist dis-
trict of Detroit at the annual
meeting of the organization held
July 5, at the Shaarey Zedek.
Rabbi Fram's first term as
president of the organization was
marked by expansion in mem-
-,ia bership and
WV,
-.v.:: Zionist activit-
,ies. In his an-
nual report, Rab-
bi Fram expres-
sed his satisfac-
tion with the
continuing suc-
cess of the mem-
bership cam-
paign headed by
Harry Cohen,
Rabbi Fram with Zionist
Registration Day, which won
hundreds of new friends for the
Jewish Commonwealth in Pal-
estine: with the Zionist Expan-
sion Fund campaign headed by
Louis Berry . and Charles Wolok,
and with the educational value
of the Zionist Bulletin edited by
Lawrence Crohn.
Rabbi Fram cited the work of
Walter Field as head of the Zion-
ist Youth Commission, and ex-
pressed gratitude to Miss Rose
Poskel for her work in the Zion-
ist office.
Other officers and new mem-
bers of the board are: vice presi-
dents, Rabbi Morris Adler, Har-
ry Cohen and Walter L. Field;
secretary, Abe Kasle; treasurer,
James I. Ellmann; executive di-
rector, Mrs. Albert Feldstein;
new board members, H. L. Bale,
A. Borman, Charles E. Feinberg,
J. 0. Lefton, Nathan Milstein,
Max Schayowitz, Nathan H.
Shecter, Dr. I. Z. Silvarman,
Charles Wolok and Harry Zaus-

the Women's City Club and
Temple Beth El and its Sister-
hood.

Dr. Schwartz to Help
U. S. Refugee Aide

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
departure of Dr. Joseph J.
Schwartz, European director of
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, for London on a special
refugee mission was announced
by the State Department.
Dr. Schwartz has been given
a temporary leave by the JDC to
accompany Earl G. Harrison, U.
S. representative on the Inter-
Governmental Committee on
Refugees, as an associate on a
mission of inquiry to Europe
concerning the needs of statelows
and non-repatriable refugees, in-
cluding many Jews, in Western
Europe and the Allied zones of
occupation in Germany.

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Nachman Bialik, poet laureate.
MisSes Jean Baschin and Anne
Hebrew Schools Close
Zelonka of the United Hebrew
For Month'-s Vacation
Schools recited in Hebrew from
Bialik's poetry. Bernard Isaacs
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close for a month's vacation, Hebrew of the life and work of
beginning Sunday, July 15. The the great poet.
schools will re-open on Aug. 15.
The Amsterdam radio reports
Sessions will be held in the
morning until after Labor Day, that Dr. Julius Wolff, 63, pro-
when the public schools open. fessor of natural sciences at
Sessions will then be held after Utrecht University, died in the
Bergen-Belsen camp in Germany.
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