THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, May 3, 1946

1,000 Volunteers Launch
Junior Division Campaign

60,000 in U. S. Zone
Waiting Anxiously
To Go to Palestine

Additional Workers Being Recruited to Help Canvass
Community in $2,000,000 Allied Jewish Drive
17,000 Prospects on Group's List

Sixty thousand Jewish survi-
vors living in the American zone
in Germany are counting the
days until they can emigrate to

•- •a:

The Junior Division of the Allied -Jewish Campaign began
soliciting its prospects during the week. Appromimately one thou-
sand volunteers began covering the Jewish community.
Additional volunteers still are';`
being enrolled to help in the drive Division, which solicits treasury
for $2,000,000 in Detroit. The gifts from youth organizations. .
Junior Division has set for itself
List of Volunteers
an unusually high quota and is
David B. Mayer, Mollie Win-
endeavoring to reach over 17,000 okur, Agnes Brown and Neil
prospects through its corps of Oppenheim were added to the
volunteers.
list of volunteers in the Special
Eight Sub-Divisions
Gifts Division. A report meet-
Headed by Sol J. Schwartz, ing of the division was held Mon-
chairman, and Richard B. Kramer day evening at the home of
and Dr. Samuel Krohn, vice- Margie Aronsson at which en-
chairmen, the Junior Division is couraging progress reports were
divided into eight sub-divisions, given.
each headed by two co-chairmen
Edith Shanbom, Marian Simon
and including 16 captains and 96 and Audrey Perchikoff volunteer-
ed to serve as captains in Divis-
workers.
If0„•
In addition, some 35 volunteers, ion JA, completing the roster of
LAVY M. BECKER
headed by Henry N. Ehrlich and captains for the division.
Alex J. Etkin, are soliciting for
Al Sparage was added to the
Palestine, Lavy H. Becker, for-
special gifts among the large list of captains in Division JC, and
mer Detroiter, who is director of
contributors. Mrs. Max Chomsky Mrs. Burton Bloom volunteered
Joint Distribution Committee ac-
is in charge of the Organizations to serve as captain in Division JE.
tivities in the U. S. area in Ger-
many, declared in New. York.
"Practically . all of the Jews I
spoke to during the six months I
spent in Germany for the JDC
told me of their longing to go to
Palestine," Mr. Becker said. "To-
Volunteers and vehicles are
day, almost a year. after their
still urgently needed to pick
liberation, they are still in Eu-
up donations to the SOS Emer-
rope. Yet they still hope, they
gency Drive, according to Mrs.
plan, they look only to a life in
Helen Singer, city-wide chair-
Palestine."
Delegates From Seven States man of the drive.
Mr. Becker, a native of Mon-
and Canada Expected to
"We are grateful for the re-
treal, urged widespread support
sponse so far," Mrs. Singer
Come Here July 7-10
of the $100,000.,000 campaign of
added, "but we will need ad-
the United Jewish Appeal, from
ditional vehicles for the motor
More than 500 men from seven
which the JDC receives its funds
corps
if
the
collections
are
to
states and three provinces of Can-
in the U. S., and of the United
keep up with the contribu-
United. States, and of the United
ada are expected to attend the
tions."
Refugee and War Relief Agencies
convention of Bnai Brith District
People interested in driving
of Canada, a cooperating organi-
Lodge No. 6 at the Book-Cadillac
in the motor corps, or wishing
zation.
to lend their cars, station
Hotel, Detroit, July 7-10.
wagons or trucks full or part
A pre-convention reception is
time for the duration of the
planned by Greater Detroit Bnai
drive, are requested to call
Brith Council on July 6.
Mrs. Singer at UN. 3-9280.
Although the convention is op-
erated through the district offices
at Chicago under the chairman-
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—Jew-
ship of Herbert J. Nickelson, De-
ish parents have been urged by
troit, the host city, is arranging
ALBANY, N. Y. — Governor the DATA, Central Jewish repre-
local matters through a commit-
sentative body, to register their
Dewey
appointed Stanley H. children of school age, in order
tee of the Greater Detroit Bnai
Brith Council under the leader- Fuld, former chief of the Appeals that they may be excused from
ship of Lawrence I. Yaffa. His Bureau of the New York County taking Catholic religious instruc-
committee includes:
tion.
David G. Kurzman of Detroit Attorney's office, to fill the va-
Since 1943 all school children
cancy
caused
by
the
death
of
Lodge, banquet seating; Max H.
are given such religious instruc-
Goldhoff, Pisgah, banquet tickets; Judge George Medalie on the
tion unless their parents ask that
Alfred W. Keats, East Side, re- State Court of Appeals.
they be excused. Some Jews
porters; Murray Sabin, Marshall,
Judge Fuld, who was born in have failed to ask exemption for
entertainment; Samual Dubrin-
New York in 1903, has been ac- their children, believing that to
sky, Brandeis, exhibits; Samuel
tive in Jewish affairs and is now do so would single them out from
G. Bank, Marshall, housing; Sam-
chairman of the Lawyers Divi- their classmates and make them
uel W. Leib, Pisgah, invocations;
sion of the Joint Defense Appeal conspicuous.
Maurice B. Resitman, Herzl, page
of the American Jewish Commit-
The educational authorities
boys; David I. Rosin, Louis Mar-
shall, reception; Sam Hersch, tee and the Anti-Defamation have not yet replied to the re-
East Side, registration; Isidore League. He has held offices in cent protest by the DIAI against
Starr, Pisgah, religious- services; the J.D.C. and the N. Y. Federa- the anti-Semitic remarks of Prof.
Meyer Lebovitz, Pisgah, ushers; tion for Support of Jewish Phil- Benjamin Zaccheo, who told his
classes that ritual murders by
and Oscar Bank, Marshall, and anthropies.
Jews were an established fact.
Jack J. Hartstein, Zager, radio
Hank Greenberg Voted
and publicity.

500 to Attend

Bnai Brith
Parley Here

SOS Motor Corps
Volunteers Needed

Page Five

Allied Jewish Campaign Calendar

Tuesday, May 7, 6:30 p. m.—Formal Opening Dinner. Guest
speaker: Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver. Chairman: Nate
S. Shapero.
Grand Ballroom of Hotel Statler.
Thursday, May 9, 12 noon—Report Rally. Grand Ballroom,
Hotel Statler.
Monday, May 13, noon—Report Rally. Grand Ballroom,
Hotel Statler.
Wednesday, May 15, noon—Report Rally. Grand Ballroom,
Hotel Statler.
Friday, May 17, noon—Final Report Rally. Grand Ballroom,

Hotel Statler.
All workers are invited to attend.

Women's Division Volunteers
To Hold. Final Report Luncheon

A final report luncheon for volunteer workers in the Womens'
Division of the Allied Jewish Campaign will be held at 12:30 p. m.
Monday in the Jewish Center.
The luncheon will give workers chairman of the report luncheon
an opportunity to announce the program. The luncheon will be
results of their personal solicita- arranged by Mrs. Irving L.
tion of prospects. Following up Hirschman, who has recruited
the series of teas sponsored by and directed the committee on
the Women's Division, volunteers arrangements, for which she is
have spent_ the past week calling chairman..
personally on prospects who were
unable to attend teas.
Work for and give liberally to
Scores of teas were held at
various homes throughout the city the Allied Jewish Campaign.
from April 24 through May. 2,
eliciting unprecedented „support
for this year's campaign. Ac-
cording to Mrs. Robert J. New-
man, • chairman of the campaign
for the Women's Division, the
average pledge has been five or
six times as great as in 1942.
Mrs. Harry Jones will serve as

.

•

Planning a Vacation?

Urge Parents to List
Children as Jews
S. H. Fuld Appointed In Argentine Schools
To Succeed Medalie

This Summer enjoy a perfect one... at this

smart, Northern Michigan lakefront hotel.

Ideally situated to provide all summer sports,

quiet rest and hay-fever or sinus relief.

Private White Sand Beach • Tennis and Shuffleboard

Courts • Private Golf Course • Riding Stables • Good

Fishing in Nearby Lakes • Beach Parties • Orchestra

for Dancing • Hay Rides * Planned Entertainment

Jewish-American Style Meals • Counsellor for Children

Ti,.'''Ast

Sea

For a. snack, Nightly

Dancing and Evening Entertainment

SEASON JUNE 1st TO SEPT. 15th
EARLY RESERVATIONS SUGGESTED

Reduced Rates

Until June 22

On U.S. 23, 196 Milos North of Moro,. ...3 Busses Daily

Detroit Phones:

TOwnsend 7-2113, 7-5677—ot Wale

MICHIGRO'S ITIOST POPULAR SUMMER RESORT

Oki LIME

Hunan

GREENBUSH,

'thinucan

Top Jewish Athlete

Anti-Zionists Press
Attack in Hungary

•

NEW YORK (JPS) — Hank
Greenberg, star player of the De-
troit Tigers, has been voted the
outstanding Jewish athlete of the
LONDON, (Palcor) — Slander- years, in a poll of sports writers
ous attacks against Zionists and here. Second place went to Sid-
immigration to Palestine are be- ney Tannenbaum, New York
coming the daily diet for readers University basketball player.
of the Communist-dominated
Hungarian press, which ignores
ant i-Semit is demonstrations
throughout Hungary but accuses
Jews of accepting money from
members of the Fascist Arrow
Cross Party, in return for smug-
gling them out of the country
as "Zionist Jews," it was learned
here in reports from Budapest.
The press war on Zionism be --
gan in earnest, April 9, when
three non-Jews suspected of be-
ing Fascists were discovered by
Political Police among a group
of 230 Palestine-bound Jews,
who were detained forcibly in
Hungary. The same day, Polit-
11 A.M. fill 11 P.M.
64 Booths --- $100,000 Display
ical police raided the offices of
Ezra, official Jewish relief or-
'SPECIAL •
ganization, arresting Jonah Ros-
DOLL & BUTTON EXHIBITION.
enfeld, its head, and 17 of his

ROUE

HOW

MAY 18-19.20-21
Masonic Temple

eo-workere, all of whoni were
subjected to the "third degree."

Everything For Sale
ADMISSION- 35c PLUS TAX

All the lovely new styles that
make ELGIN the most desir-
able of compacts for smart
gift-giving.

Wein Jewelers

7338 W. McNichols Rd.

4 Blocks West of Livernois

UN. 2-3640

