THE JEWISH NEWS.
Page •ourteen.
JDC Allocates $5,953,000
For January Relief Work
Joint Distribution Committee to Use Largest Monthly Ap-
propriation in History to Aid Sufferers •Overseas;
Greatest Portion to Be Used for Polish Jewry
NEW YORK.—An unprecedented appropriation of $5,953,000 by
the Joint Distribution Committee for January for overseas relief
and rehabilitation activities in nearly 50 countries, was announced
at national JDC offices, 270 Madison, New York.
The January appropriation is the largest monthly allocation in
the 31-year history of the JDC, major American agency for dis-
tressed Jews overseas. Budget requirements for relief and re-
construction activities of the Committee in 1946, it was disclosed,
are estimated at $58,350,000.
The JDC' is a constituent agency of the United Jewish Appeal,
which opened a campaign to raise $100,000,000 for overseas needs,
refugees and Palestine.
Largest appropriation in the January budget is for work in
Poland for 70,000 surviving Jews, according to Dr. Joseph J.
Schwartz, JDC European chairman, who returned in December.
For relief and reconstruction work in Hungary, the JDC ap-
propriated for January $650,000 to continue feeding 90,000 Jews
daily in 278 communities and providing relief to returning de-
portees; medical and child care; communal services; and clothing
and household equipment.
The January appropriation for Romania, whose 335;000 Jews
comprise the largest Jewish community in Europe, amounts to
$500,000. Special allocations of $500,000 for the financing of credit
cooperatives throughout Europe and in North Africa and $250,000
for the purchase of special Passover relief supplies also are included
in the January budget.
The JDC has allocated $265,000 in January for emigration pur-
poses. A parcel service which has been carried out for more than
a year for Polish Jews now refugees in Soviet Russia, amounts to
$100,000 per month.
JDC Will Open Orphanage For Children From Belsen
HAMBURG, (JTA)—A special home for orphaned children of
the Belsen concentration camp will be opened in a Hamburg sub-
urb this month, it was announced by David Rothman of the Joint
Distrubution Committee. Some 300 children up to 16 will be
cared for on the estate of the Warburg family, which fled Germany
in 1938. The Germans took over the estate, but it is now legally
considered the property of the Warburg family.
S. S. Jacobs to Speak
Before Brandeis Lodge
Congress Women Here
To Fete Mrs. Shepard
Detroit Women's Division of
Stanley S. Jacobs, director of
the American . Jewish Congress
the Bnai Brith Anti-Defaniation
will honor_ one of its national
league • speakers bureau since vice-presidents, Mrs. Anna Shep-
1938, will address an open meet-
ing of the Brandeis Lodge, Tues-
day, Jan. 22, at 8:30 p. M. at the
Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg. The
public is invited.
Jacobs has had wide and varied
experience as a newspaper
writer, lecturer and public rela-
tions counsel. A graduate of the
School of Journalism of the
University of Missouri, he has
had intensive experience as • an
editorial writer, political writer
and analyst.
He has long been active in
Jewish affairs, and in 1934 was
recipient of the Goldman Scholar-
ship awarded annually at the
University of Missouri to the
student most active in Jewish life
on the campus.
Nahelu Campers and
Counselors' Reunion
Camp Nahelu campers and
counselors held a reunion on
Dec. 30 at the Belcrest Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Michaels,
directors of the camp, greeted
campers and friends.
The program included songs
and entertainment by campers
and counselors, a magician's act
by Roy Hall and refreshments.
Mr. and Mrs. Michaels are now
preparing the program for the
coming camp season.
Kvutzah lvrith Plans
Hamisha Asar Jan. 19
Kvutzah Ivrith's Hamisha Asar
b'Shevat program will - be held
at 8:30 o'clock Saturday evening,
Jan. 19, in the auditorium of the
Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg.
It has become a tradition with
the Kvutzah to delegate this
project to the young women
members. The following will be
the participants: Miss Miriam
Gold, Mrs. Yonina Mathis, Mrs.
Fayne Ackerman, Mrs. Deborah
Dworkin, Mrs. Alex Roberg,
Mrs. Gertrude Bresler, with
Mrs. Solomon Kasdan as chair-
man.
Hamisha Asar program will
feature brief talks, an address on
the significance of this festival
and singing. Hamisha Asar re-
freshments, consisting of fruits
grown in Palestine, will be
served by the Ladies' Auxiliary.
Everybody is invited without
charge.
MRS. ANNA SHEPARD
ard, at a reception and tea next
Wednesday at 1:45, at the Lee
Plaza.
Mrs. Shepard, a former teach-
er. in New York schools, former
educational directdr of the
Mayor's Committee on City
Planning, leader in Hadassah,
is c o-or din at o r, of organiza-
tion of the Congress Women's
Division.
The fifth annual fund raising
campaign has been launched un-
der the chairmanship of Mrs.
Max Saidman, who is assisted
by Mrs. Lew Levitt, Mrs. Philip
Steller and Mrs. Robert Block.
Marshall Lodge Women
To Hold Rally Tuesday
Louis Marshall Women of
Bnai Brith will hold a donor
rally on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at
Workmen's Circle, Burlingame
and Linwood. ,
Mrs. B. C. Bolotin of Chicago,
executive secretary of Women's
District Grand Lodge No. 6, will
be guest.
"A Bnai Brith Tableau" set-
ting forth its program will be
presented. Mrs. Louis Snyder,
director of the organization's
dramatic group, will direct the
scenes and Mrs. Bernard Sharkey
will act as narrator. Refresh-
ments will be served.
Mrs. Ben Nadis and Mrs. Leon
Meckler, co-chairmen of the
donor committee, urge members
and friends to attend.
The organization's donor
luncheon will be held on Feb. 6
at the Book. Cadillac,
Agency Treasurer
Endorses Detroit
$2,000,000 Drive
Isidore Sobeloff
Jewish Welfare Federation
51 W. Warien
Detroit, Michigan
I would' like to add the of-
ficial support of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine to the
recommendation addressed to
the Jewish Welfare Federation
of Detroit to provide, through
its Allied Jewish Campaign, a
minimum of two million dol-
lars as Detroit's share of histor-
ic one hundred million dollar
campaign of United Jewish Ap-
peal.
It is a responsibility so great
and urgent as to require all
forces to give their utmost and
unreserved support to the wel-
fare federation if it is to real-
ize this objective.
All friends of Palestine will
realize that the principle and
overshadowing c o n t r i b ution
that can be made to Palestine
upbuilding this year as to the
survival of Jewry in Europe,
is through unprecedented gen-
erosity to the UJA.
For Zionists particularly
there is a primary responsibil-
ity to the UJA in relation to
all other enterprises in which
they have an interest.
I am confident knowing the
spirit of Zionists in Detroit
that this will animate all of
their activity in the months
ahead so that they may take
the leadership and set an ex-.
ample for the whole community
in 'loyalty and consecrated ser-
vice to the Jewish Welfare
Federation, which is the chan-
nel for the UJA.
ELIEZER KAPLAN
Treasurer, for Palestine
Jewish Agency.
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Friday, January II, 1946
Architect's• Sanatorium Drawing
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CITY OF HOPE to strengthen
the ramparts in the "war against
tuberculosis, Los Angeles Sana-
torium this week started con-
struction on a $2,100,000 expan-
sion program which will double
its capacity to 500. Upper arch-
itect's sketch shows the new cen-
tral dining room and kitchen
building, while lower drawing
shows group of four personnel
buildings with sixty rooms.
Mizrachi Jrs. to Give
Membership Tea Sunday
Mizrachi Juniors will give a
membership tea at 2 p.m. Sun-
day, at the home of Miss Miriam
Dishell, 2279 Calvert. Anyone in-
terested in attending call Miss
Florence Schwartz, 2983 Richton,
TO. 7-8624. Miss Zelda Rosenthal
will be guest speaker. At the last
meeting on Jan. 6, at the home
of Miss Carol Shuman, 293.9 Bur-
lingame, Mizrachi Juniors elect-
ed the following officers:
Miriam Dishell, president; Helen
Friedman and Florence Schwartz, vice-
presidents; Bell Cohn, treasurer; Mar-
ian Newman, corresponding secretary;
Sara Pessman, recording secretary;
Carol Shuman, financial secretary;
Sylvia Barish, National Fund chair-
man; Mrs. Goldie Topper, cultural
chairman: Mrs. Fay iiteiuberger, pub-
licity chairman.
In Detroit, the local Auxiliary
of the Los Angeles Sanatorium
is conducting a drive for $15,000
to complete this city's quota of
$25,000 for the erection of a De-
troit Pavilion at the Sanatorium.
Nathan R. Epstein is president
of the Detroit L. A. S. Auxiliary.
Weds Donald Schiff Detroiter's Niece
Survives in Poland
Polish Jews Plan
50-Ton Clothing
Campaign Here
A conference of delegates rep-
resenting organizations, congre-
gations, and ladies' auxiliaries,
called by the Detroit Federation
for Polish Jews was held at La-
char's Hall, under the chairman-
ship of Max Nusbaum, campaign
chairman.
Rabbi Shlomo Gliksman ap-
pealed to 'representatives of or-
ganizations to extend generous
help to rescue unfortunate Jew-
ish orphans' surviving in Euro-
pean countries:
"An amount of $300 will give
one child a home and care for
one year," said Rabbi Gliksman.
Rabbi Gliksman stated that the
local federation for Polish Jews
is conducting a 50-ton clothing
drive. Clothes will be shipped
in five ton parts from Detroit
directly • to the Jewish commit-
tees in Bialystok, Bydgoszcz,
Czectochowa, Katowics, Kielce,
Lublin, Lodz, Przemysl, Radom
and Warsaw, Shipment of the
clothes will be free as UNRRA
will take care of expenses.
Mr. Nusbaum read the his-
tories of some of the children of
whom he has pictures and rec-
ords and who have already been
placed in homes by the Federa-
tion. He stated that a million dol-
lars has been appropriated for
immediate use for the Jews in
Poland by the Joint Distribution
Committee.
The. campaign will be com-
pleted within six weeks.
Major portion of the building
program is scheduled for comple-
tion next year.
MRS. DONALD W. SCHIFF
The marriage of Miss Rosalie
Pergament, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry B. , Pergament of
Elmhurst Ave., to Donald W.
Schiff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Schiff, was performed Dec. 23 at
Cong. Bnai Moshe. After a hon-
eymoon in Chicago they will
make their home at 120 Glynn
Ct., and Mr. Schiff will resume
his studies at the College of
Medicine, Wayne University.
Four months ago Mrs. Amelia
M. Spunt, 2615 Leslie, received
news about the death of her
parents, sister, brother-in-law and
their son in Stanislawow,.Poland.
Only her 11-year-old niece, Brita,
escaped death, being hidden by a
neighbor.
This week Mrs. Spunt received
a letter from a friend in Pales-
tine, telling of the massacre of
the Jews in Stanislawow, the
home of Mrs. Spunt.
"In September, 1942, all the
Jews were driven to the ceme-
tery with the 'instruction not to
take anything but their jewels
and valuables. At the gate to the
cemetery Nazi patrol took their
possessions and the Jews were
ordered to go deeper into the
cemetery and sit on the ground.
A Nazi official then said to them:
`If any of you have any hidden
valuables, return them at once
otherwise you will be killed in-
stantly'. On that day 12,000 Jews
were killed in that cemetery."
Mrs. Spunt -is expecting her
niece to come to the U. S. in a
few months to reside with her.
PORTRAITS
"Individually Yours"
by
ALUMA to Hold Social
At UHS Branch Jan. 19
A social event will be held
Saturday, Jan. 19 by the ALUMA,
Labor Zionist Youth Organiza-
tion, at the D. W. Simons branch
of the United Hebrew Schools,
4000 Tuxedo.
Purchase of 50 trees in Pales-
tine in honor of Habonim who
have fallen in the war have been
pledged by ALUMA. Molly
Zeltzer is chairman of the social
committee. For information, call
TY. 6-3261.
Mel Shuman
133 I 5
Linwood near Davison
TO 8-5372
10 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Tues. and Thurs. Eves 7 to 9
Sunday by Appointment
JOSEPH LATTIN
• CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
ANNOUNCES HIS RETURN FROM ACTIVE DUTY
WITH THE UNITED STATES ARMY
To Resume Practice At
1404 Dime Building
RAndolph 1461