Friday, March 29, 1946

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JEWISH NEWS

Page Five

Dance of Brandeis
Lodge on April 7

Trades, Professions Gird
For All-Out Participation

200,000 Palestinian
Jews Residing in
Mixed Municipalities

Various Groups Hold Organizational' Meetings, Plan. for
Further Gatherings in Effort to Assure Success of Allied
Jewish Campaign for $2,000,000

JERUSALEM, (ZOA)—At least
200,000 Jews live in municipal
areas inhabited by a mixed Jew-
ish-Arab population, according to
a report issued by the Vaad
Leumi, Jewish National Council.
The number of Jews residing in
Jerusalem totals 95,000, out of a
total population of 155,000; in
Haifa 62,000; at Jaffa 30,000,
among 90,000 non-Jews; at Tiber-
ias 5,800; and at Safad 2,200.
Jewish Municipalities and Local
Councils comprise 290,000 Jew-
ish residents. An additional 80,-
000 Jews live in various parts of
the country under no officially
recognized local authority.
The Jewish population of Pal-
estine totaled 600,000 at the end
of 1944, with 167,000 living in the
old Jewish city of Tel Aviv.
A new company, with a share
capital of $1,000,000 has been
organized for the purpose of
furthering commercial relations
with France, it is reported here.
Arabic is now being taught in
69 Hebrew schools maintained by
the Vaad Leumi (Jewish Nation-
al Council). The courses are
given by 40 Jewish teachers of
the Arabic language and jointly
supervised by Jewish and Arab
lecturers.

The tempo of organization for the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign stepped up this past week as group after group met
and began preparations for all-out participation in Detroit's
$2,000,000 emergency drive. 4 .

Building Trades
A Steering Committee of the
Roofers and Tinsmiths Section
met Wednesday with the section's
chairman, Jacob E. Kalt, to plan
campaign organization. Members
of the Committee are: Nathan
Kachman, Abe Segal, Manuel
Grossman, B. L. Leavitt, Sidney
Rubenoff, Max Nissel, Adolph
Ettinger and Max Rabinowitz.
Nathan Rosenberg is chairman
of the hardware division.
Under Allan B. Kramer as
chairman, the Property Manage-
ment Section met on March 25.
The Architects Section held a
meeting on Thursday with their
chairman, Charles M. Agree.
A luncheon meeting of the
Hotel Section took place Thurs-
day. EManuel J. Harris is chair-
man of the section.

Professional Division
Reorganization of the Osteo-
paths Section has begun under
the direction of Dr. Sydney F.
Ellias.
Plans for campaign organiza-
tion of the Social Service Section,
of which Miss Clarisse Freud is
chairman, were made at a lunch-
eon meeting of captains in the
Hotel Tuller last Monday. Those
present included Celia Shetzer of
the Detroit Department of Public
Welfare, John Kurland of the
Juvenile Court, Rose Zesser of
the Bureau of Social Aid, Albert
Cohen of the Jewish Vocational
Service, Selma Sampliner of the
North End Clinic, and Harold
Silver of the Jewish Social Ser-
vice Bureau.

Services Division
Leaders of the Services Divis-
ion met last Sunday at the Jew-
ish Center to plan for the cam-
paign activities of the • sections
comprising the division. Rep-
resentatives from the Cleaners
and Dyers, Tailors, Laundry, In-
surance, Finance, Linen Supply,
Barbers and Beauty Parlors at-
tended the meeting.
Louis Blumberg, Fred A. Gins-
burg and Ben Tolmich are pro-
ceeding with plans for a meeting
•of the Insurance Section which
will be held Thursday, March 28,
at 8 p.m. at the Bagley Room of
the Hotel Tuller.

Food Products Division
A meeting of the leaders in the
Beverage and Liquor trade to
oranize for the campaign was
held Wednesday at the Hotel
Statler. The meeting was called
by Bud Blum,Ita,rry Cohen,
Perry Feigenson, Ben Grosberg,
Maurice Morse, Morris Newman,
Abraham M. Weinstein and
Joseph Zitomer.
A dinner followed by discussion
of the Poultry Section's participa-
tion in the drive will be held on
Tuesday, April 2, at 6:45 p.m. at
the Standard Club of the Book-
Cadillac Hotel. The leaders in
the trade who are -calling the
meeting include Sam Goodstein,
Jack Horwitz, Hyman Karp, Her-
man Miller, Max Miller, Herbert
Mitnick, Hyman Mitnick and Sol
Singer.

Organize Dairy Section
Max Weiss, Albert Dubin, Al-
bert Green, Morris Mendelohn
and Al Silk have formed a steer-
ing committee to organize the
Dairy Section, and .have issued a
call for more workers, fuller
participation and broader under-
standing in the industry than in
past campaigns.
Leading members of the fish
trade will meet on Tuesday, April
2, at 6:30 p.m. in the Book-Cadil-
lac's Standard Club for dinner
and a meeting to plan trade
organization for the campaign.
The call for the meeting was is-
sued by Irving D. Bloom, Sol
Bloom, Max Davis, Max Halperin,
Nathan Metz, George Rabinowitz,
Jack Rabinowitz, Arthur Salas-

nek, Charles Salasnek, Max Salas-
nek, Sam Saltzman and Meyer
Tarnpol.
Mechanical Trades
Important leaders in the Me-
chanical Trades Division meeting
in the Hotel Statler last Monday,
beard Louis Sobel, assistant sec-
retary of the Joint Distribution
Committee, tell them that libera-
tion will be a mockery for the
Jews of Europe unless American
Jewry comes to their rescue.
With Milton K. Mahler presid-
ing, the meeting heard Mr. Sobel
explain that because UNRRA is
limited by its charter, its aid does•
not extend to countries where 75
per cent of Europe's Jewry is now
struggling to stay alive.
Calling for real sacrifices on
the part of American Jews,
Sobel said that even the $100,-
000,000 that must be raised by
the nation-wide Unite-d Jewish
,Appeal will only meet the min-
imum needs of Europe's impov-
erished Jewry.
Abe =Kasle, leader in the Me-
chanical Trades Division, called
on those leaders present at the
meeting to take the lead in the
local Allied Jewish Campaign to
raise $2,000,000. Isidore Sobel-
off, campaign leader, urged that
contributions to this year's cam-
paign be increased to meet the
tremendously increased needs.

Mercantile Division
A rally of all people in the
dry goods, men's apparel and
merchant tailors trades will take
place at 8:30 p. m. next Thursday
in Butzel Hall of the Jewish
Center. Jacob Chalat, noted New
York . lawyer, will speak on the
plight of the Jews of Europe
and a movie, "Battle for Sur-
vival," will be shown.
Max Osnos, issuing the invita-
tion to the meeting as chairman
of the Mercantile Division, point-
ed out that with the dissolution
of the War Chest the Jewish
community must organize to
meet its responsibility for the
survival of the Jewish people
overseas.
Joining with Mr. Osnos in
urging attendance at the meeting
were the Executive Committee
of the Men's Apparel Section:
Harry S. Cohn, Herbert M. Eiges,
Bernard E. Pincus, Nathan H.
Scholnick, William W. Sharpe
and Dan Winograd.
Morris Shatzen and Morris M.
Jacobs, co-chairmen of the Dry
Goods Group, and Samuel A.
Granadier and Jack J. Stark, co-
chairmen of the Merchant Tail-
ors Section, urged their members
to attend.
Real Estate, Building Trades
Key people in the real estate
and building trades section of the
Detroit Service Group will meet
for dinner at the Standard Club
of the Book-Cadillac Hotel at 6:30
p. m. Monday, to hear _ Jacob
Chalat discuss the problems con-
fronting Jewish survivors.
Leaders in the trade who called
the meeting are Louis Berry, Ben
Fenton, Joe Holzman, M. M. Rob-
inson, Louis Schostak, Barney
Smith and David Wilkus.
Mr. Chalat has a wide range of
knowledge of the problems af-
fecting the Jewish people
throughout the world and their
needs.
Women's SOS Campaign
Cases of food and clothing are
beginning to pour into SOS
Depots as the collection drive for
Supplies for Overseas Survivors
gets under way with Mrs. Harry
Singer as chairman.
First reports show that Pisgah
Lodge collected nine cases of food
and 20 cases of clothing. Cong.
Shaarey Zedek's depot already
had received five cases of food
and the Council of Mother's Clubs
had collected two cases.
Ten cases of food were collect-

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Cut 100 Carat Diamond
JERUSALEM (ZOA)—For the
first time in its short history,
Palestine's diamond industry has
received a really large gem to
cut—a raw Cape diamond of 100
carats. Palestine has an oppor
tunity to prove it can compete
in the world market in handling
big stones.

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The annual • Spring informal
dance of the Louis D. Brandeis
Lodge of Bnai
Brith w i 11 be
held •Sunday
evening, April 7,
at the Book Cad-
illac Hotel. Mu-
sic will be pro-
vided by Frank
Gagen's Orches-
tra and Eilleen
Faye will be the
soloist. Bill
Brown is chair-
Bill Brown
man of the committee on arrange-
ments for the dance.

U. S. General Puzzled
Over DPs' Future

FRANKFURT, (JTA) — C o n-
firming that Jewish displaced
persons are not affected by Sec-
retary of State Byrnes' announce-
ment that most DP camps will
be closed by Augtist, Gen. Joseph .
T. McNarney, U. S. Command-
ing General in Europe, told the
press that he did not know what
would happen to them.
Asked what would be done
with the Jewish DPs' Gen. Mc-
• arney said: "I wish you could
tell me." He added that the
chances are that very few will
remain in Germany because "not
even one in a 1,000 wishes to stay
in Germany."

Awards to 2 Singers
To Be Made Tuesday

The $200 Lillian Gordon Alpern
Memorial Voice award will be
formally presented to Barbara
Jayne (Snook) at a luncheon
next Tuesday at the Statler hotel.
The Music Study Club of Detroit
and Phi Sigma Sigma national
sorority will be to-hostesses.
Music Study Club, in addition,
will present a $100 bond to Eti-
gene Malitz, runner-up.
Members and guests are in-
vited. Reservations may be made
by calling Mrs. A. R. Brasch, UN.
1-3728.

World Congress Branch
is Formed in Hungary

After several months of pre-
liminary organization delegates
from a number of the leading or-
ganizations in Hungary met at a
constitutional convention in Buda-
pest and formally established the
Hungarian Section of the World
Jewish Congress.
A representative of the Foreign
office of the Hungarian govern-
ment (Mr. Kertesz) delivered of-
ficial greetings to the convention.

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junior divisions of 14 women's
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1,Irs. William Grahm is co-
chairman of the SOS drive and
Mrs. Abraham Flayer is secre-
tary. Mr .and Mrs. Samuel Shul-
man are active members of the
committee.
Hack Heads Shoe Men
Key people in the shoe trade
met to organize for the Allied
Jewish Campaign at a breakfast
on Sunday, March 24, at the home
of Samuel D. Plotler.
Leonard Hack was elected
chairman and Samuel D. Plotler
and David M. Lieberwitz were
chosen co-chairmen of the Shoe
Section. The Steering Committee
will consist of Joseph Bienen-
stock, Morris Cantor, Harry
Eisenshtadt, William Hoffman
and James Schorr.
The group outlined measures
to organize ;the entire shoe trade
within the next two weeks and
made plans for a wide educa-
tional campaign.

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