Friday, March 8, 1946

THE 'JEWISH NEWS

Page Seven

Council Delegates Returned Vets Honored at Tea Dance
To Give Reports By Junior Service Group of JWF
On Conference

Federation Holds Annual
Meeting Monday Evening

Affiliated Agencies to Attend Session at Hotel Statler,
A report on the Cleveland ses-
Opening Busy Week of Planning; Judge Friedman,
sion of the American Jewish
Sobeloff to Give Reports; Rabbi Adler to Speak

.

The annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federation
and several of its affiliated agencies at Hotel Statler on
Monday evening, March 11, at 8:15 o'clock, will highlight
a busy week in the plans for reorganizing the • communal
structure for year-around service and for the immediate
task of developing the $2,000,000 Allied Jewish Campaign
in behalf of the national $100,000,000 drive for the United
Jewish Appeal. The contributing public is urged to attend.
Rabbi Morris Adler, of Shaarey Zedek, will be the prin-
cipal speaker on the subject "New Directions in Jewish Life."
Judge William Friedman, president of Federation, will
present his annual report, and Isidore Sobeloff, executive
director, will submit the executive's report Morris Garvett
will report for a special committee on revision of the consti-
tution. Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, chairman of the nominating
committee, will present names to fill nine expired three-
year terms and one one-year term now vacant on the board.

3-Months' Relief
Costs Double to
$13,754,750

Mrs. Burlingame and 3 Hadassah Groups
Sudran to Give JWB Schedule Palestine
Postwar Lectures
Supplies Showers

Mrs. Caroline L. Burlingame,

JDC Meets Record Demand director, Community Information
Service, and Abe L. Sudran, as-
for Overseas Aid; Hun-
sociate director, Jewish Welfare
gary Gets $500,000

With the • appropriation of
monthly allocations and one-time
grants of $3,775,500 for March,
total expenditures of the Joint
Distribution Committee for the
relief and rehabilitation of dis-
tressed Jews overseas during the
first quarter of 1946 amount to
$13,754,750, it is announced by
the United Jewish Appeal for
Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine.
The quarterly figure UJA head-
quarters explained, is nearly half
the sum spent by the JDC in its
worldwide activities during all
of 1945. The JDC, whose min-
imum budgetary requirements
for 1946 are estimated at $58,350,-
000, receives its funds in the
United States from the $100,000,-
000 campaign of UJA.
Largest appropriation in - the
March budget, amounting to
$500,000, is for Hungary, where
the JDC meets nearly every basic
need for the majority of 200,000
,Jews.

50,000th Letter
Passed On to Kin
By DP Service

Fifty thousand letters from
homeless Jews in the displaced
persons camps of Germany and
Austria, addressed to relatives
abroad, have passed through the
Paris. message center of the Joint
Distribution Committee since it
opened last October as the first
formal communication system
for displaced Jew's in Europe, it
is announced by national head-
quarters of the United Jewish
Appeal for Refugees, Overseas
Needs and Palestine.
Dr. Joseph J. SchWartz, chair-
man of the European Executive
Council of the Joint Distribution
Committee, reported in a cable
from Paris to UJA that from
Jan. 15 to Feb.- 15 alone, more
than 18,000 letters—an average
of 600 per day—were transmitted
via the Paris office, bringing the
four-month total to over 50,000
The overseas relief and rehabil-
itation operations of the JDC are
, conducted with funds raised
through the $100,000,000 cam-
paign of UJA in which the United
Palestine Appeal and the Na-
tional Refugee Service also are
represented.

List Rooms for Vets
With JWB-USO Office

Community Center is re-
ceiving frantic daily requests
from returning veterans for
rooms for rent. A listing of
places available is being kept
at the JWB office for the con-
venience of ex-servicemen and
women. Anyone having rooms
to rent is urged to register by
calling MA. 8400.

Conference will be given at the
next delegates' conference of the
Jewish .Community Council,
Monday evening, March 25, at
the Jewish Center, by Detroit's
delegates to the Conference.
The Detroit Chapter of the
American Jewish Congress and
the United Jewish Folk Organ-
izations have given up their
plans for similar meetings and
will .join the Council in pro-
moting interest in the March 25
meeting.
The full program for the meet-
ing will be announced later.
This meeting will be open to
the community in addition to
Council delegates.

ABE L. SUDRAN
Federation, will speak at the
Jewish Community Center in the
series on "The End of the War,"
next Tuesday, at 8:15 p. m. Their
topic will be "The Community
and its Resources".
These lectures are sponsored
by the Jewish Welfare Board
committe on civilian education
which was organized to carry
out a post-war service in the
local Community recommended
by the Women's Division of the
National Jewish Welfare Board
nnd to help civilians understand
the needs of the veteran as he
readjusts himself to community
living.
Mrs. Burlingame and Mr.
Sudran will familiarize civilians
with available community re-
sources in counselling veterans.
The J.W.B. committee on civil-
ian' education was formed by the
Jewish Community Center and
the following nine Women's or-
ganizations which constitute the
Women's Division of t h e
N.J.W.B.: Hadassah, National
Council of Jewish Women; Sis-
terhoods of Temples Beth El and
Israel; Congregations Shaarey
Zedek, Bnai David, Bnai Moshe;
Ladies Auxiliary of Jewish War
Veterans and Women's Division
of American Jewish Congress.

The Palestine supplies shower
of Senior Hadassah's Central
Group will take place next Tues-
day at 12:30 at the Shaarey Ze-
dek. The Russell Woods Group's
shower will be held the same day
at 1 o'clock at the Rose Sittig
Cohen Auditorium. New sheets,
towels and apparel for infants
and children are needed. In lieu
ot these, cash gifts will be ac-
cepted for the purchase of these
articles.
The meetings will open with
nominally priced luncheons, sim-
ilar to those served to Palestinian
school children through Hadas-
sah's Child Welfare department.
The University Group is spon-
soring as its Child Welfare proj-
ect a children's luncheon party at
Webster Hall on Purim, Sunday,
March 17, at 1 p. m. Mothers and
children will participate in the
event. There will be favors and
prizes for the children. The pro-
gram will include juvenile -danc-
ers, a magician and movies. Gar-
ments made by the Palestine
'Supplies Committee will be on
display. Reservations are in
charge of Mrs. Lewis Millman,
UN. 1-4591. Net proceeds will go
to the Child Welfare Fund.

A tea dance in honor of returned _service men and women
featured the first reorganization meeting of the Junior Service
Group of the Jewish Welfare Federation. Included in the arrange-
ments committee were: (left, to right, front row) Irene Gutow,
Elise Zeme, Diana Rosenblatt, Esther Mossman, Dr. Samuel Krohn,
Elaine Shiffman; (rear row) Goldie Levinstein, Miriam Coggan,
Al J. Etkin, Abe Friedman, Harry A. Heller.

returned from a 10-week tour
Canadian Praises JDC
For Aid to Jews in Poland of that country.

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
work of the Joint Distribution
Committee in Poland was lauded
here by H. M. Caiserman, *gener-
al secretary of the Canadian
Jewish Congress, who has just

' He reported that during his
stay in Poland, the JDC allocated
approximately $500,000 for the
Central Jewish Committee in
Warsaw. It was disclosed at the
conference that another similar
allocation has since been sent
by the JDC.

SOL ROSENMAN

Announces his

RETURN FROM THE ARMY

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ANNUAL MEETING

Jewish Welfare Federation

and the Following Affiliated Agencies:

Jewish Social Service Bureau

North End Clinic
Jewish Vocational Service
Resettlement Service

Fresh Air Society

Monday, March 11, 8:15 P. M.

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Hotel Statler

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