Friday, March 22, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

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Women's Groups Organized Meyer Asks USO
Workers to Carry
For Overseas 'SOS Drive'

on

Service

Effort

Trees in Palestine
Planted to Honor
Youth's Sacrifice

Discharged from Navy

Commemorating the first yahr-
Local Organizations Cooperating with JDC's National
zeit of the death of Pfc. Robert
'Supplies for Survivors' Collection Campaign; Mrs.
The Metropolitan Detroit USO P. Weisman, killed in action in
Harry Singer Is Local Chairman -
ofowhich Henry Meyers is presi- Germany, March 20, 1945, his

dent, is urging all volunteer
groups to continue their services
of which they have so generously
given throughout the war years.
In a letter to all volunteers,
Mr. Meyers stated:
"Our statistics for January
reveal that we have served over
68,000 men and women during
this month, so it is self-evident
that we still have a job to do.
"Our volunteers are the 13ack-
bone of the USO services, and it
is because you have so generous-
ly .given of your time and energy
that the Detroit program serves
its purposes so notably.. We shall
continue to need your participa-
tion for some months -to come.
May we count on you?
"Please be .assured that we
shall not continue services after
the need for them has disap-
peared. When it appears that a
service is no longer needed, we
shall notify , you well in advance
of . its _ discontinuance.. This will
permit you, or your group to
transfer your interest to, another
MRS. HARRY SINGER
phase- of USO program, or some
not a fund-raising campaign. It other- .1current peacetime corn-
represents aid to Jewish victims munity activity."
of Nazi persecution over and
above any financial participation ized to pick up packages of
in the Allied Jewish Campaign of clothes on a date that will be
Detroit," Mrs. Grahm told the chosen and publicized by the com-
women who organized the drive. mittee. A men's group, • Boy
Collection Stations
Scouts, Girl Scouts and AZA
Collection depots will be set up members will be organized to help
in synagogues and Jewish centers with the packing and shipping of
throughout Detroit and vice- material to warehouses from
chairmen will be elected in each from which the overseas ship-
community in which a depot is ments will be made.
located to coordinate the driVe in
that section of the city.
Pick-Up and
Plans have been mapped by the
Delivery
SOS leaders to arrange for show-
ers in individual homes, to organ-
ize sewing and knitting groups
and to contact jobbers, manufac-
turers, cleaners and laundries for
assistance. Plans were made to
form a doctors' and dentistS' proj-
ect to make possible shipments of
C
medicines and a project was out-
line51 to interest Sunday Schools,
Talmud Torahs • and Yiddish_
Schools in- the campaign.
Dry cleaned or laundered
A motor corps will be organ-
SPECIAL THIS WEEK

A city-wide - organization of items to supplemet the low sub-
Jewish women for the "SOS Cam- sistence level on which the 1,-
paign" to collect food, clothing 400,000 Jewish survivors are now
and other necessities for shipment existing."
"The SOS collection is a relief
to stricken Jewish survivors over-
seas is swinging into action with program on a personal basis and
Mrs. Harry Singer as chairman,
Mrs. William Grahm as co-chair-
man and Mrs. Abraham Flayer as
secretary of a committee to which
other names will soon be added.
Joining with the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee in a national
"Supplies for Overseas Surviv-
ors" collection campaign,- the lo-
cal drive is being sponsored by
the Jewish Welfare Federation
through the League. .of Jewish
Women's Clubs in cooperation
with national organizations, their
local affliates and junior divi-
sionS.
Cooperating Groups
Organizations cooperating in
the drive are:

American Association for Jewish Edu-
cation, Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds. Hadassah. Ladies'
Auxiliary and Jewish War Veterans of
U. S.. Mizrachi Women's Organization
of America, National Council of Jewish
Women, National Federation of Temple-
Sisterhoods. National Jewish Welfare
Board. National Women's League of
the United Synagogues of America.
Synagogue Council of America. United
cs Order of True Sisters, Women's Ameri-
can ORT. Women's Division of Union
of Orthodox Congregations, Women's
Supreme Council of Bnai Brith.

Delegates of leading women's
groups mapped the SOS drive at
a recent planning meeting, at
which Mrs. Carl Schiller, war ef-
forts chairman of the League of
Jewish Women's Clubs, presided.
Ira I. Sonnenblick, SOS field rep- ;
resentative for the Joint Distribu-:
tion Committee, and Isidore So-
beloff, executive director of the
Jewish Welfare Federation of De-
troit, brought to the meeting. the
full urgency of the need for ship-
ping supplies to destitute Jewish
survivors.
Mrs. Brown Presides
At a general meeting on the
SOS drive, Mrs. 'Douglas Brown,
president of the League, presided.
Plans for the activities of the
Women's Division of the Jewish
Welfare Federation were present-
ed by Mrs. Max Frank, Mrg. Har-
ry Singer, Mrs. Maurice Klein and
Mrs. H. L. Jackson.
"The SOS drive," Mrs. Singer
explained at the meeting, "is a
national effort to secure, through
the voluntary response of every
Jewish man, woman and child in
America, bulk supplies of food-
stuffs, bedding, clothing, layettes,
articles for children and comfort

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active service, having served in
the army for 35 months.

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ish National
forests in Pal-
estine.
When word
was received of
his death, his
parents, who are
devoted sup- Pfc. Weisman
porters of the JNF and active
members of Arlazaroff branch of
Jewish National Workers' Al-
liance, inscribed the war • hero's
name in the Golden Book.
Pfc. Weisman, who was killed
a few days before his 19th
birthday, entered the armed
forces in August, 1944, soon
after his graduation from Cass
High School and went overseas
the following January. He was
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