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Sobeloff Stresses Greater
• ,Need for Welfare Giving

Detroit JWF Director's Statement Accompanies Optimistic
Report by Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds; Jews Fully Aware of Problems

Friday, 5e0ferrihai 21, 1945

U.S. Army Checks Sen. Pepper, Dorothy . Thompson
Nazi Records for At UPA Anniversary Conference
Sedition Evidence NEW YORK—The vital role Jewry, channeled through the
played by the Jews of this coun-

United Palestine Appeal, will be
try in the reconstruction of the discussed by outstanding spokes-
Jewish National Home in Pales- men of American life who have
had the opportunity to witness
these accomplishme Vs at first
hand, among them TA S. Senator
Claude D. Pepper of Florida, now
By MURRAY FRANK
touring the Middle East, Dorothy
WASHINGTON (JPS)—At the
Thompson, distinguished jour-
request of the Justice Depart-
nalist who was a recent visitor
to the Jewish homeland, and Dr.
ment, a search of Nazi files and
Heller himself, the first Amer-
records has been undertaken in
ican Jewish leader to visit Pales-
the hope - of locating evidence in-
tine since the end of the war in
criminating the 26 defendants in
Europe.
the sedition trial which ended in
Other noted American leaders
who will address the conference
a mistrial last December, it was
learned here.

German Files Are Searched
to Disclose Dealings With
A confident and generally ,optimistic outlook for fall
Defendants in U. S.

fund-raising is held by campaign leaders of philanthropic
agencies throughout the country, according to analyses and
. opinions submitted by them to the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds.
In analyzing the effects of cutbacks and reconversion

from war to peace as unsettling
factors in future giving capacity,
leaders in the welfare field stated a handful to come to us, now
we can go to them and give them
that: •
material help, limited now not
1. The immediate general out- by our enemy's power, but only
look is favorable and a continued by the extent of our own gen-
optimism is warranted.
erosity. This, at last, is the year
' 2. Cutbacks are temporary fac- of liberation.
tors which may reduce contribu-
The results of this search, now
"The general population may
tions from employes, but other
being conducted by American of-
have
a
more
"objective"
view
classes of givers are expected to
toward overseas needs. Our view, ficers in Germany, may deter-
take up the, slack.
thanks to educational and pro- mine whether the sedition trial
Accumulated Profits
motional work that must continue
3. Business people, especially and increase, can dare to be a will be resumed or entirely dis-
those in manufacturing, have sub- little more "emotional" and a carded. It is believed that some
stantial accumulated profits to good bit more generous. In sum- of the files will disclose dealings
more than offset any possible re- mary, our prospects are as good between the defendants in the
conversion losses.
sedition trial and the NaziS.
as we wish to make them.",
4. Tax exemptions continue as
It is reported that both, FBI
The Council of Jewish Federa-
an incentive to philanthropic
tions and Welfare Funds is a agents and Army intelligence of-
giving.
ficers, are conducting this investi-
5. Basic factor is psychological national cooperative association gation of major. German propa-
providing
fact-finding
and
con-
attitude. This is the year of lib-
ganda s organizations, including
eration and the opportunities for sultation services -for the organ- the German Foreign Institute, the
constructive aid abroad are un-, ized Jewish communities of the League for Germandom Abroad,
surpassed. At home we can plan United States and Canada. Es- World Service, and the Fichte
with courage and imagination for tablished in 1932 to help plan and Dund, which specialized in
the needs of today and tomorrow. finance Jewish communal ser- spreading Nazi ideology to fas-
6., While war chests are on vices, its membership now num- cist-minded natives, in various
their way back to peace time bers 266 agencies in 234 cities.
countries. It is believed that the
community chest levels, Jews are
files will disclose the direct con-
still acutely aware of pressing
nections between these organiza-
and unsolved Jewish problems.
tions and the sedition defendants.
Organized Communities
The Citizens' Protective League
7. Well organized communities
of New York, an alleged Nazi
have the experience, and 'compet-
front organization, has filed suit
ence to put over effective fall
in the District Court in Washing-
campaigns.
ton in an effort to block deporta-
8. Fall campaign MUSTS are
tion
to Germany of Ferdinand
WARSAW
(JTA)
—A
r
thur
—moie prospective contributors,
more intensive and better public- Bliss Lane, U. S. Ambassador to Westhoff, of New York, known
as a Nazi sympathizer. The suit
ity, brOadening the leadership, Poland, returned from a trip to names
Attorney General Tom C.
activation of returning service- the extermination camp at Maida-
Clark as defendant. Westhoff
men,
nek
where
the
Germans
mur-
intensified
solicitation,
thorough organization.
dered hundreds of thousands of claims that he is a citizen of Peru,
9. The long range outlook is Jews in gas chambers and burned although he was born in Ger-
many.
somewhat more uncertain and their bodies in crematoriams.
President Truman announced
will depend on economic and
"The most extensive reports in
political factors which are now the press hardly conveyed the the appointment of Alexander
in the making and on which real picture of horror which one Holtzoff, executive assistant to
there is disagreement among ex- witnesses at the Maidanek camp Clark, as judge of the District
pests and in Congress. even today," the U. S. envoy de- Court to fill the vacancy created
Statements submitted to the dared. 'He brought with hini last year by the death -a-Justice
Council by campaign leaders in- ashes of the creimated Jews and Edward C. Eicher, the presiding
dude the following, from Isidore toys which had belonged to judge at the sedition trial.
Sobeloff, executive director, De- JeWigh infants. He will send these
troit Jewish Welfare Federation: relics to the United States to be
"For the first time in years, the used in a forthcoming exhibition
tortured of Europe now dare to of German and Jap atrocities.
cry out in their suffering: Now,
after all these years, we can hear
their cries. We can reach them,
we can help them—those who
before military victory did not
know whether their voices would
ever be heard again by the out-
side world.
Must Help Thousands
NEW YORK=-The Trade Union
"Where before we helped hun- - Committee fOr Jewish Unity has
dredt who managed to escape, we launched a campaign in the AFL
must now help thousands. Where an CIO To secure further sup-
before we smuggled food in Port from these' labor organiza-
package lots, we must now send tions, in line With resolutions
shiploads. Where before we stood both Organizations adopted at
by helplessly beyond the borders their National Conventions (AFL,
of Nazi territory and waited for 1943—CIO; 1944) for the abroga-
tion of the yinjust and discrim-
inatory Palestine White Paper of
1939, which bars Jews from
entering Palestine and establish-
ing a National Jewish Homeland
there.

U.S. Envoy Brings
Ashes of Jews
From Maidanek

MISS DOROTHY THOMPSON

tine will be marked at the 20th
anniversary conference of the
United Palestine Appeal, to be
held at Hotel Commodore, New
York, all day Oct. 21, it was na-
nounced here by Dr. James G.
Heller, national UPA chairmah.
The celebration will also honor
the 25th anniversary of the Keren
Hayesod (Palestine Foundation
Fund), fiscal instrument of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine,
which shares with the Jewish
National Fund in the proceeds
of the UPA.
The achievements wrought in
Palestine during the past- two
decades with the aid of American

SEN. CLAUDE D. PEPPER

sessions include Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, Dr. Israel Goldstein, Louis
Lipsky, Bernard A. Rosenblatt
and Judge Morris Rothenberg.

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Trade Union Group
For Jewish Unity
Launches Campaign

G. L.K. Smith Asks

Re turn to the Air
By Fr. Coughlin

WASHINGTON (JTA)--Deny-
ing that he was anti-Semitic,
Gerald L. K. Smith, who de-
scribeg himself as a "nationalist",
this week charged that the Jewish
people in the U. S. have been
"hysterical" for the past five
years, and that the Communists
were inciting the Jews to raise
money,
At a press conference in the
Statler Hotel here, Smith circu-
lated petition blanks calling for
the return to the radio of Fr.
Charles Coughlin, whose publi-
cation "Social Justice" carried
violent attacks against Jews until
it was suppressed by the govern-
ment afteL the U. S. entered the
war.
SMith said he would confer
here with former Senator Robert
Reynolds who heads the so called
"Nationalist Party," and also with
several members of Congress,
who, he were "nationalists
at heart."

The communication pointed out
that the election of a Labor gov-
ernment in, Britain' presented. a
splendid opportunity for the real-
ization of these resolutions. .
It suggested that the AFL and
CIO. unions ask their British
counterparts and the British
Trades Union Congress to re-
quest' the British Labor Govern-
ment to rescind the White Paper
and thus fulfill, at least in part,
a promise the British Labor
Party had made and reaffirmed
on numerous occasions.

DeGaulle Asks Cooperation
To Solve Palestine Issue
LONDON, (JTA)—A solution
of the • many pressing problems
in the Middle East, including that
of Jewish immigration into Pal-
estine, will be found more easily
if Britain and France cooperate
in that part of the world, Gen.
deGaulle said, in an interview
appearing in the London Times.

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