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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday,_ 4Ober I II, I' M&

Moshe Sneh Denied Visa
To Come to ZOA Parley

Heads OSE Project

Agency to Ask $56,000,000
Budget at World Congress

Agency Leader Who Is on British Proscribed List Refused
Permission to Enter U. S.; Byrnes Denies He
Opposed Truman's Palestine Statement

Coming Year's Zionist Expenditures to Include $18,000,000
for Immigration and Housing; Jewish National Fund
Asks World Jewry for $20,000,000 for 5707

WASHINGTON, D. C. (JPS—Palcor)—Moshe Sneh, member of
the Jewish Agency Executive, reportedly wanted by the British,
was refused a visa by the American consulate in Paris to come to
the United States, where he was to address the national convention
of the Z:.L..::•st Orr!enizaf'on of America in Atantic City starting Oct.
25. Sts: ,.D -r-,artment officials. replying to interventions by American
Zionist leaders and editors of the Jewish press said they could do
nothin".
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( Replying to an inquiry by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
Elliot B. CouFer, ass's ant chief of the Visa Division, said
that Sneh was reused a visa on the basis of his activities in
Pales'ine. However, Coulter and other sources in the State
De'a*'- ment stressed that the entire matter was still under
cons'fltration and that a decision could be expected soon.
Meanwhile, the American Zionist Emergency Council, the
Zionist Organization of America and the office of the Jewish
Agency in New York lodged protests with the State Depart-
ment against the action of the consulate, pointing out that this
is the first time that a member of the executive of the Jewish
Agency has been denied a visitors' visa.)
iRvrnes Denies He Sought to Halt Truman Statement'
PARIS (WNS)—A denial that Secretary of State Byrnes had '
sought to hold up President Truman's recent statement on Pales-
tine was made here by one of his spokesmen. who_ said he had been
authorized to make the statement by Mr. Byrnes.
Palestine Police Continue Illegal Arrests .
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Jews are still being seized and interned
in Latrun despite their acquittal in court or release on bail pending
a trial.
One of the most flagrant cases is that of 17-year-old Isaac Bavli
who was arrested on May 20 for illegal distribution of leaflets.
When brought to trial on Sept. 19. the judge scored the police of-
ficials for having held him so long without trial. The judge asked
the complaining policeman what would happen if the accused
were acquitted. The answer was that he would be re-arrested and
interned immediately. The judge declared Bavli guilty and sen-
tenced him to six months imprisonment dating from the day of
his arrest. With the remitting of one-third of his sentence for
good behavior, customary in Palestine, Bavli actually had to serve
only one day. The fdllowing day when he was released, however.
a policeman was waiting to take him into custody again.

JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor)—Optimism over the admission of
large numbers of Jewish refugees into Palestine, despite the recent
crisis and current deadlock over Palestine's future status, was
indicated by the disclosure by a Jewish Agency spokesman that
the Agency's departments will require a budget of $56.000.0)0 for
the fiscal year which began Oct. 1. $18.000.000 of which will be
needed for new immigration and housing. This year's requirements
are more than twice - last year's expenditures which amounted to
$24,000,000. The Jewish Agency spokesman disclosed that last year
the Agency had received $12,000.000 from the U. S. through Keren
Hayesod (Palestine Foundation Fund).
The new budget now under consideration and to be brought
before the forthcoming World Zionist Congress calls for over
$14.000,000 for new colonization and $6.000.000 for the settlement
of ex-servicemen.
JNF to Ask $20,000,000 in Coming Year
With news of the establishment of 12 new settlements in the
Negev still fresh, thousands of new Jewish National Fund workers
and representatives of all sections of Palestine convened on Mount
Scopus Oct. 7. to observe the annual Jewish National Fund "Call
of the Land - ceremonies on the fifth anniversary of the death of
M. M. Ussishkin and the 25th anniversary of the settlement of
Emek Jezreel. The convention was preceded by a pilgrimage to
Nikanors Cave. on the Hebrew University grounds. where boy
scouts stood a guard of honor around Ussishkin's tomb. Messages
were received from Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Leon Blum, Judge
Morris Rothenberg. Berl Locker, Aron Wright and Nachum Kirsch-
ner.
The convention decided to appeal to world Jewry to raise
$20.000.000 in the coming year. $2,000.000 of which will be asked

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Prof. Andre Oultramare, fam-
ous Swiss scientist and Progres-
sive member of the "Bundestag"
(Swiss Federal Parliament) who
will head the "OSE" Anti-Tuber-
culosis Curatorium in Geneva)
"OSE" project for the fight against
tuberculosis among Europe's
Jews.

Ku Klux Klan's Charter
Dissolved in New Jersey

TRENTON (11 -NS)—An order
revoking the Ku Klux Klan
charter in the State of New Jer-
sey was issued here by Justice A.
Dayton Oliphant following action
by Attorney General Walter D.
Van Riper, who charged the klan
with being an unlawful organi-
zation engaged in arousing and
disseminating religious and racial
prejudices and with fomenting
disorder and riots.
The New Jersey Klan charter
was filed in 1923. In recent years
the organization conducted its
activities under cover, but in late
months it showed signs of open
and intensified activities.

of Palestine Jgwry.
Dr. Abraham Granowsky. president of the Jewish National
Fund of Jerusalem. reported contributions totalling $13.200.000 for
the year ending this month. two-thirds of which was supplied by
U. S. Jewry. The amount. he said, represents more than a ten-fold
increase over the figure ten years ago. Despite the continued
enforcement of the 4940 land transfer regulations. the Jewish
National Fund increased its holdings and now owns 865.000 dunams.
Dr. Granovsky reported. During the past year. he said. ten ex-
servicemen's settlements were established on 42,000 dunams of
I JNF land.

Crum to Address
Zionist Sessions

Store Hours Daily, 9:15 to 5:30

NEW YORK—Bartley C. Crum,
member o fthe Anglo-American
Commission of Inquiry on Pales-
tine, will address the sessions of
the 49th annual convention of the
Zionist Organization of America
which will open on Friday morn-
ing. Oct. 25, at H - -'s Breakers
and St. Charles in Atlantic City,
Joseph W. Greenleaf, program
cl ii. man, announced.
Plenary sessions will be de-
voted to a discussion of and ac-
tion on the political situation and
other issues confronting the forth-
coming World Zionist Congress.
The presidential address by Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver, which will set
the tone of the convention, will
be delivered at the Saturday night
session. Dr. Silver will review
the political scene in' Washington,
London and Palestine.

Acheson'Toughened
Truman's Statement

NEW YORK, (Palcor) — Drew
Pearson. widely syndicated Wash-
ington columnist, stated regard-
ing President Truman's Palestine
message: -
'The White House asked Act-
ing Secretary of State Will Clay-
ton to draft a statement for the
President to be issued on Yom
Kippur eve. Clayton turned it
over to Loy Henderson, head of
the Near East Division, who has
been accused -of being pro-Arab
and who came up with a milk-
and-water declaration calculated
not to offend the British and
Arabs. It got thumbs down. By
this time Under Secretary of
State Dean Acheson was back at
the helm. He sat up most of the
night re-drafting and toughening
the statement which Truman is-
sued."

Blue Prints "Discovered" by
Police Were Government Plans
JERUSALEM (JPS--Palcor)—
The Palcor News Agency learned
from Shimon Diskin, well known
contractor, who, with Solel Bo-
neh, construction coopeiative of
Histadruth, handled the major
portion of all military construc-
tion for the British in the Middle
East during the war, that the
various maps and blue-prints
which police announced they had
discovered in searches. of the
Givat Shaul quarter of Jerusa-

lem, were found in one of his
warehouses and were plans of
buildings built by him for the
government.

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