Page Eleven
THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 12, 1947
Sentenced Nazis
2 Relief Agencies Owe
Banks, U. S. 36 Million
36 Jews, Many British Hurt
In Exodus Disembarkation
Special Cable to The Jewish News
"Exodus" Jews were disem-
barked after 36 were injured and more than a dozen arrested
following fierce resistance by Jews aboard the Runnymede
Park, the last of the three British vessels. An undisclosed
number of British troops is reported to have been injured.
Thirteen women were among those injured.
Earlier, all Jews on the Empire Rival disembarked with-
out incident.
The Runnymede Jews rejected an ultimatum to disem-
bark and the British sent hundreds of steel-helmeted para-
troopers aboard, equipped with gas masks. Water hoses were
used. The forced.disembarkation lasted more than two and a
half hours,' during which the exhausted troops were replaced
by reinforcements.
'HAMBURG (JTA)—All
'Slowness in UJA Cash Collections' Causes
Jewish Organizations to Borrow
So They Can Meet DPs' Needs
Agencies of the United Jewish Appeal are in debt to banks
and the U. S. government to the extent of $36,000,000, it was
revealed at the closing session of the United Jewish Appeal
conference held in New York.
A resolution adopted by the meeting revealed that these
agencies—United Palestine Ap-
peal, Joint Distribution Com-
mittee and United Service for
New Americans—were forced
to borrow against outstanding
cash pledges because of "slow-
ness in cash collections. -
It was explained by UJA of-
cials that the money owed the
government is for surplus war
materials. such as medicine
and clothing. Whereas it is not the official policy of the organiza-
tions to borrow against uncollected sums, the urgent need of
assistance to refugees abroad made the change in procedure
unavoidable. it was pointed out. The UJA agencies have spent
$105,000,000 this year.
The text of the resolution follows:
"The Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine
Appeal and United Service for New Americans have re-
ported that because of lack of cash their work has been
seriously affected, that at a time when the need is at its
maximum they have been forced to cut relief and that they
have reached the limit of their borrowings from the banks.
"The Joint Distribution Committee, for example, had at
the close of business on Sept. 3, $141,0011 in the bank. It had
urgent requests for the remittance of $1,500,00(1 and owed
the banks and the United States government $20,0411,000.
Similarly, the agencies of the United Palestine Appeal,
which began the current year with a very large deficit,
have been forced to borrow an additional 516,000.000 in
order to keep their current operations going.
"Realizing that the campaigns of the United Jewish
Appeal started late in the season, and that this has neces-
sarily resulted In a slowness in cash collection, this confer-
ence resolves that the leaders of the United Jewish Appeal
in every community immediately inaugurate an all-out
collection campaign, especially with the major contributors,
to collect in full the outstanding pledges and thus to redeem
the promises which the Jews of America have made to the
sorely tried Jews of Europe."
The closing session was addressed by Herbert H. Lehman.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Edward W. War-
burg and Ruth Gruber.
Lehman said that Jewish communities in eastern and
southern Europe face a famine in an area of "deep-rooted anti-
Semitism." In Central Europe, the condition of the 250,000
DPs is steadily growing worse.
Dr. Goldstein urged the admittance of 150,000 Jews to Pal-
estine and called upon Britain to return the Exodus passengers
to the Jewish homeland.
Warburg appealed for generous contributions to the new
UJA campaign. and Miss Gruber reported on her recent trip to
Cyprus.
Among the Jews arrested was Mordecai Rosman, whom
British called the leader of the Runnymede Jews.
After landing, about 50 Jews attempted to escape from
the wire cage, but were beaten down by water hoses and the
troops.
Several hundred Hamburg Jews attempted to penetrate
the cordon around the landihg area but were forced back
by troops.
the
JUDGE CARRINGTON TAN-
NER MARSHALL arrives in New
York en rouse to his Ohio home
after - presiding over trials of Naz:
war cr:minals at Nuernberg. Ger-
many.
(International)
Yiddish Publishing Ban
Removed in Austria
VIENNA. (JTA) — The first
Yiddish newspaper to be pub-
fished in Austria in nine years
will appear shortly.
The weekly newspaper will be
entitled "Die Yiddische Welt. - Its
publication follows the opening
of the first Jewish print shop,
equipped with Hebrew type,
since 1938, when the Nazis en-
tered Austria.
Award
Hunter College Instructor
Chilean Officials Pledge
R $2,0 0 0
Admission of Jewish Refugees
NEW YORK. (JPS)—Leo Gur-
NEW YORK, (JTA) — High
' ko, a teacher at Hunter College,
Chilean government officials have
was awarded the $2,000 Dodd,
promised to admit without dis- IMead and Co. prize for the best
crimination Jewish refugee crafts- ; non-fiction work in preparation
! men who have contracts guaran- by a faculty member of an
teeing them work in the country, American College. His manu-
script, "The Angry Decade," is
I it is announced by HIAS. The
information was forwarded to the a study of social conditions and
HIAS headquarters here by its literary phases from 1929 to
representatives in Latin America ' Pearl Harbor. More than 100
1 to whom the pledges were made. manuscripts were submitted.
Urges Immigration Cooperation
WATSON MILLER
(center),
newly appointed United (States
Commissioner of Immigration, told the executive committee
4f
Bnai
Brith during its Washington, D. C. meeting that the State Depart-
ment, Congress, the Immigration Service and organizations such as
(caul Brith' must work together in solving the displaced persons and
immigration problems of the nations. Shown above are FRANK
GOLDMAN (left), Lower'.
Mass.,
president of final Brith, and
MAURICE BISGYER (right), Washington, 13. C., national secretary,
greeting
Miller.
UJA Gives Disinherited New Hope
The above scene gives some 'idea of diffic:ulties that must be
faced by Jewish settlers, all of whom regard these as far preferable
to life in a DP camp. United Palestine Appeal, with funds provided
by American Jewry through the $170,000,000 campaign of the United
Jewish Appeal, w help them irrigate and cultivate the desert.
FAMOUS LEAR
AC-DC Table Radio
$19 95
With Built-hi Radio
You'll be thrilled with the true fi-
delity of tone and selectivity of this
"Lear" table model radio. Com-
plete with automatic volume con-
trol, permanent Magnet Dynamic
Alnico speaker, and reflexograph
dial. Housed in unbreakable plastic
cabinet in ivory color. You'll agree
that this is truly an outstanding -
value !
$2 Down Delivers IT
FINSTERWALD CQ
- - 219 Michigan Are.
OPPOSITE BOOK-CADILLAC HOTEL