THE JEWISH NEWS

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Abraham Cohen Joins JDC
Staff foir Overseas Service

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Abraham Cohen has resigned
his post with the Jewish Com-
munity Council and has joined
the overseas staff of the Amer-
ican Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee.
Mr. Cohen, who since March
1944 directed the organizations'
publicity and internal relations
departments of the Council, ex-
pects to be assigned to a post
overseas within a few weeks.
In the interim, he will be sta-
tioned in New York at the J.D.C.
offices.
One of the national leaders of
the Habonim labor Zionist youth
movement, Mr. Cohen was in-
strumental, during the past two
years, in Strengthening the Ha-
bonini organization here.
Mr. Cohen came to the Com-
munity Council after serving as
executive director of the Y.M.
and Y.W.H.A. Community Cen-
ter of Brockton, Mass. He is a
graduate of Wayne University
and of the Graduate School for
Jewish Social Work. He has had
experience with the Council Edu-
cational Alliance of Cleveland,
the National Refugee Service and
the Labor Zionist Organization
of America.
During his stay in Detroit, he
taught in the religious schools
of Temple Beth El and Temple

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Israel, and the adult classes of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek. In
the recent Allied Jewish Cam-
paign he helped direct the work

Burns School Aids
AJC Food Campaign

Under the direction of • Mrs.
Evelyn Noveck and the Burns
School Intercultural Council,
with the assistance of Lillian
Rudduck, principal, and Miss M.
Lynde Pardon, assistant princi-
pal, the Robert Burns School is
conducting a successful drive for
the food, campaign.

Mrs. Noveck reports that more
than 1,000 cans of food, includ-
ing soups, vegetables, fruits, pud-
dings and • baby foods, already
have been contributed by the
children.
A portion of this food is be-
ing sent through the Allied
Jewish Campaign, as well as
through otheNrelief agencies.

ABRAHAM COHEN

of the organizations division.
Mrs. Cohen and their daughter
joined Mr. Cohen on his trip
to New York last week. They
will remain with - him during his
stay in New York and will re-
sume their residence in Detroit
upon his departure for overseas.

Ilya Ehrenburg, Simonov,Galaktionov
At Russian Relief Rally Here Tuesday

More Than 120,000 Jews
In Red Army Decorated
MOSCOW (JTA)—Figures re-
leased by the Soviet Ministry of
the Armed Forces revealed that
123,822 Jewish officers, men and
women of the Red Army received
decorations for gallantry during
the war. Of these, 101 were
awarded the highest Russian mil-
itary honor, being named Hero
of the Soviet Union.
The announcement by the War
Office said that Jews rank fourth
among the more than 150 na-
tionalities of the Soviet Union
in the number of soldiers dec-
orated. In first place are the
Russians, followed by the Ukrai-
nians, the Byelo-Russians and
the Jews and Tartars tied for
fourth place.

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Levine Will Carry
Jewish Friendship
Pledge to Soviet

Louis Levine, national chair-
man of the Jewish Council for
Russian Relief, will personally
deliver American Jewry's re-
corded pledge of continued
v.- friendship and aid to the Soviet
people
Mr. Levine who, with six
other , national leaders of the
American Society for Russian
Relief, recently accepted the
Soviet Unioh's invitation to visit
the USSR in July, will present
to the Jewish Anti-Fascist Com-
mittee in Moscow, copies of the
proceedings of the Jewish Coun-
cil's May 12 fifth annual con-
ference in the Hotel Astor, New
York.
At the Conference, 2,400 rep-
resentatives of 1,48.5 national and
local American Jewish organ-
izations pledged to maintain and
strengthen. friendship betWeen
the American and Soviet peoples.

Gewerkshaften Top $125,000 Goal;
Victory Dinner Reviews Results

Eighty key workers in the His-
tadrut Palestine Labor Campaign
(Gewerkshaften), meeting at a
victory dinner at Finkel's on
Linwood, on May 26, evaluated
the results of- the recent drive
and learned that the goal of
$125,000 already was oversub-
scribed by $1,885 and that the
fund may reach the total of
$127,500.
Harry Schumer, chairman of
this year's drive, reporting on
the totals raised, announced that
$61,590 was raised by the various
Farband (Jewish National Work-
ers . Alliance) branches, Arlazar-
off branch alone having secured
$52,900.
Landsmanchaften raised a to-
tal of $43,413, the committee in
charge having been directed by
J. L. Wolock.
There were 4,300 individual
contributors to the campaign.
Reports were submitted at the
dinner by Sam Rabinowitz, ex-
ecutive director of the drive:, M.
Taich, office manager, and John
Isaacs, treasurer. .
Isaac Hamlin, national secre-
tary of the Gewerkshaften drive,
principal speaker, declared that
in spite of obstacles placed in the
path of Jewish national redemp-
tion the foundations are being
laid in Palestine for a Jewish
Commonwealth.
Commending Detroit. Jews for
their efforts for the drive, Mr.
Hamlin praised Mr. Schumer and
his associates and called upon

them to continue until the ulti-
mate goal in Palestine by Jews
becomes reality.
A message of good wishes was
sent from the dinner to Morris
Schaver, organizer of the Gew-
erkshaften drives in Detroit and
chairman for the first 16 years,
wishing him speedy recovery
from illness.

La Med Manuscript.
Deadline Is June 25

The English Committee of the
Louis LaMed Foundation for the
Advancement of Hebrew and
Yiddish Literature announces
that the time for submitting
manuscripts will end on June 25.
Two annual awards of $400 will
be given, but at the discretion of
the Committee, they may be di-
vided in equal or unequal parts
into more than two prizes.
Preference will be given to
manuscripts dealing with Jewish
life of the past century and the
contemporary scene.- Moreover,
the Committee reserves the priv-
ilege of making no awards if any
of the manuscripts do not mea-
sure up to its expectations.
Manuscripts and books are to
be submitted to the chairman of
the committee, Dr. Solomon
Grayzel, 320 Lewis Tower Build-
ing, 225 South 15th Street, Phila-
delphia 2, Pa.

ELECT

Three eminent Soviet journal- worked in factories, later studied
ists will address a rally arranged in the Literary Institute in Mos-
by the Detroit Jewish Committee
cow.
for Russian Relief, Inc., at 8 p. m.
Maj.-Gen. Mikhail Galaktionov,
Tuesday, June 11, at the Scottish
Rite Cathedral of the Masonic military editor of Pravda, is tour-
Temple.
.
The guests who will appear
here at this gathering are:
Ilya Ehrenburg, eminent Soviet
.writer whose anti-fascist articles
and books have been published
in many languages. His book "The
Fall of Paris" has been hailed
among the most significant de-
scriptions of the downfall of pre-
war France.
Konstantin Simonov,
whose M. Galaktionov I. Ehrenburg
talents combine the genius of
Ernie Pyle and Orson Welles. At ing the U. S. and is studying con-
30, he already has to his credit ditions in the western states.
poem s, novels
Reservations for the rally on
a n d scenarios. Tuesday are being taken at CA.
He has twice
won the Stalin 1605 and RA. 3925.

Prize, his book,
"Days and
Nights," is a best
seller and his
play, "The Rus-
sian People,"
was produced on
Broadway. A
K. Simonov lathe operator
in .a Moscow factory, he has writ-
ten some of Russia's most popu-
lar songs. During the war he was
a correspondent at the war fronts.
He never saw his father, who was
among the milliZns who lost their
lives in World- War I. He went to
school until he was 14, then

Friday, June 7, 1946

Morris H. Goldberg

DEMOCRATIC

STATE SENATOR

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5TH SENATORIAL
DISTRICT
WARDS 8-10-12-14

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Primary Election
June 18, 1948

No. 265 on Your Ballot

President of the Detroit Fruit Vendors Association, affiliated with the Teamsters
Union, Local 337, for the past 15 years.

Vice-president of Congregation Beth Moses.

Treasurer of the 13th Congressional District.

CIO, AFL Presidents
Ask Support of WA

Member of Bnai Brith, Pisgah Lodge. -

Member of the Fraternal Order. of Police.

Member of the Nathan Straus Executives.

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Both
Philip Murray a n d . William
Green, presidents of the CIO and
the AFL, respectively, have en-
dorsed the United Jewish Appeal
campaign for $100,000,000;
In a message to Charles J.
Rosenbloom, national chairman
of , the U. J. A., Mr. Murray
stressed. the urgency of the needs
of the Jews of Europe and de-
clared: "The question posed to
all of us is: Shall the destruction
started by Hitler, Mussolini and •
their collaborators be carried on
to its conclusion through the in-
difference of those who escaped
torture, degradation and death?"
Mr. Green said that assistance
for the Jews "who have miracu-
lously survived the suffering,
punishment, and brutal treatment
which was imposed on them"
was the duty "of all classes of
people."

Officer in the United Romanian Jews of America.

Member of the United Progressive Democratic Club.

Member of the 15th Congressional District. Was previously indorsed by the- Detroit
Citizens League as preferred.

Charter member with Frank Isbey's Stamp and Bond Staff. Organized the 12 St.
Merchants Association that sold over Two and One Half Million Dollars in
bonds and stamps and also one of the speakers for blood donors for the Red
Cross.

59 years old—born in this country—and an Orthodox Jew.

For references ask your food dealer, butcher, baker, grocer, fruit market dealer
your, peddlqr.

There is another Goldberg on the same ballot, so look for my designation, Under my
name, and my number 265.

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Endorsed by the entire produce industry in the Detroit Union Produce Terminal
and Eastern and Western Markets. My platform for the citizens of Michigan are
constructive. Will propose to legislature a bill to provide free school supplies to chil-
dren in Intermediate grades. Will propose a measure in legislature to eliminate
the 3 percent sales tax on food. Will advocate and support legislation which will
carry out the promises made to our servicemen in order that they may re-establish
themselves in society with a full sense of security and just compensation for their
sacrifices. I will represent the people of Michigan as they should be represented. I
have been a public servant for the past 9 years, serving in the Detroit Department
Board of Health, in the D.S.R. Intelligence Department and at the present time in
the Wayne County Sheriff's Office—Civil Division. I have been in the food busi-
ness practically all of my life. I assure you that you are not making a mistake by
voting for me.

LOOK FOR
NO. 265
ON YOUR
BALLOT

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MORRIS H. GOLDBERG

DEPUTY SHERIFF