THE Friday, January 10, 1947 Yiddish, Hebrew Now Allowed in DP Mail Morgenthau Accepts First ILIA. General Chairmanship ForMer Secretary of Treasury Heads $170,000,000 Drive for Refugee, Overseas, Palestine Redemption Needs; Calls Goal Americans' Moral Obligation' Page Three JEWISH NEWS MUNICH (JTA) — Displaced Jews in Germany will be per- mitted to send mail in Yiddish and Hebrew out of Germany, it was revealed here, with the pub- lication of a military government order permitting the use of all languages in international mail. Prevoiusly the military govern- ment had refused to pass Yiddish and Hebrew letters because it claimed that sufficient translators were not available for censorship. - Jewish leaders hailed the an- nouncement by a German theater grdup that it would cancel a pro- posed production of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice." The Jewish Central Committee had protested to the troupe and to the military government that the German people were not yet "ready" for the play. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., for 12 years Secretary of the Treasury, has accepted the invitation to become general chairman, the first in the history of that organization, of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Ovearseas Neects and Palestine, which has undertaken to raise $170,000,000 in 1947 for the relief, rehabilitation and resettle- ment of Jewish victims of war and oppression, it was announced at the national headquarters of the,. Appeal, 342 Madison Ave., New York City. In a statement issued on the ac- ceptance of leadership in one of the largest voluntary relief cam- paigns ever conducted in the United States, Mr. Morgenthau said, in part: "The American people dedicat- ed their resources and manpower to the destruction of the menace that Hitler represented to our se- Medical Group Scores curity and, freedom. It is now Admission Discrimination equally their will that those who PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — A were the first and most tragic resolution opposing discrimina- victims shall have their fullest tion of any kind in admission of sympathy and support until they students to undergraduate and are able to stand on their own medical schools was adopted here feet. to make their own way. I have accepted the general chair- at a three-day convention of the manship of the United Jewish Association of Internes and Med- HENRY MORGENTHAU, JR. Appeal because I regard it as the ical Students. The association also went on moral obligation of every Amer-, BUCHAREST, (JTA)—Roman- ican, man, woman and child to ian police have arrested six per- record as favoring national and save from despair and destruction' sons who broke into a synagogue local legislation to guarantee the the pitiful remnant of Jews w o . . Pancota, Transylvania, and availability of medical care to all remain alive in Europe." desecrated it. All six are Hun- I persons "regardless of racial, eco- nomic or social status." The United Jewish Appeal corn- garians. bines the fund-raising activities of the Joint Distribution Commit- tee, United Palestine Appeal and United Service for New Amer- icans. These provide. respective- ly, for the relief and reconstruc- tion of Jews in Europe, resettle- ment of Jews in the Jewish home- land in Palestine'and aid to new- comers to the United States. Hitherto the leadership of the United Jewish Appeal has beer. provided by three national chair wen representing each of the con- stituent agencies: Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, Charles J. Rosenbloom and William Rosenwald. Jewish Groups' Efficiency Speeds Entry of DPs to U.S. WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The effectiveness of Jewish organi• , a- tions in making available "thousands of affidavits of support" f displaced persons in the American zones of Germany and Austr'a who have applied for visas to the U. S., was disclosed by C■ rge J. Haering, chief of the visa division of the State Department, in a letter to Senator Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia. Revercomb recently submitted to the Republican steering com- mittee a report unfavorable to admission of DPs to this country. In response to a request from Revercomb to the State Depart- ment for information on visa issuances to displaced persons, Haering wrote the Senator on Dec. 18 that "for obvious reasons. the majority of the persons qualifying under the German and Austrian quotas would be Jewish persecutees." Haering's letter is printed in the Revercomb report. Pointing out all DPs must be qualified for admission into the U. S. under the immigration laws, including the so-called public charge provisions, Haering said "the slowness of most non-Jewish welfare agencies in providing any considerable number of affidavits and of establishing adequate staffs of their representatives in the field to deal with cases requiring evidence to meet the provisions of the law naturally affected the number of non-Jewish cases which could qualify in early months of the distribution of visas to DPs. "In contrast," Haering continued. "Jewish organizations had large staffs and thousands of affidavits of support available at the very beginning of the program and they were, therefore. in a position to take up any balance of monthly quotas for which non-Jewish appli- Cants were not available by virtue of a lack of adequate documenta- tion concerning support" Influx of Polish Jewish Refugees to Austria Renewed VIENNA. (JTA)—Emigration of Jews from Poland to Austria which stopped last month due to cold weather has resumed again at a rate of 100 a day, it was revealed. The new refugee influx is apparently caused by fears the coming election in Poland will bring new outrages against the Jews. In a broadcast appealing for better treatment for the 30.000 Jewish refugees from Eastern European countries now in Austria, Bronislaw Teichholz, president of the Jewish Refugee Organization. declared the refugees do not want financial or other material aid from the Austrian government. He pointed out that their food was supplied by the American military forces and the Joint Distribution Committee. He said the Jews did not desire to remain in Austria, but were waiting to go to Palestine. Casual Clothes from the South 267 ORT Schools Functioning in 10 European Countries GENEVA, (JTA) — A marked increase in the number of Jewish institutions in Europe as well as greater Jewish participation in the productive life of Europe are the first indications that Jewish communities are gradually be- coming stabilized, it was reported by Dr. Aaron Syngalowski and Dr. David Lvovitch, co-chairmen of OA. World Union. Dr, Syngalowski said 267 ORT trade schools and training work- shops are functioning in 10 Euro- pean countries, excluding Ger- many. The institutions include 105 new schools and workshops established during the past four months in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Switzer- land, France, Belgium, Holland and Czechoslovakia, in addition to seven agricultural schools. Up to December, he reported, 7,500 Jewish youths and adults received vocational training and 3,600 displaced Jews attended courses in ORT schools in camps in the American zone of Ger- many. 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