Notable Increasesy Marked Reports Z-Day Campaign
Of Trade and Professional Divisions In Grand Rapids
The Real Estate and Building. Has High Results
With group soliciation com-
pleted in most of the trade and Council, under Barney Smith,

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professional divisions of the 1948
Allied Jewish Campaign, nearly
1,000 workers in these groups
accepted prospect slips and are
doing the "leg work" of individ-
ual solicitation.
In six group meetings of the
Mercantile Division, the Furnit-
ure Section with an 80 per cent
increase over last year's gifts and
the Men's Apparel Section with
77 per cent increase, set the pace
for the entire division. One man,
who last year gave $50 and this
year raised his pledge to $1,000,
proved an inspiration for the
Furniture Group's fine record,
according to Louis Tabashnik,
who chaired the, meeting.
Individual increases in con-
tributions from $350 to $700
and from $1,350 to $2,500 were
leading gifts that have helped
the Services Division, with
John Isaacs as chairman, to
pass the half-way mark in
quota raised to date.
Leading the trade and profes-
sional divisions in percentage of
increase is the Mechanical Trades
Division with 87 per cent so far
on 60 per cent of its quota raised.
With llmeetings completed, this
group will hold four group solic-
itation meetings next week. The
Scrap Iron Section with Hyman
R. Nathan, chairman, will meet
Tuesday (May 4), at 6 p. m. at the
Hotel Statler, while the same eve-
ning the Auto Sales group, un-
der Saul H. Rose, will meet for
dinner at 6 p. m. ,at the Hotel
Sheraton. The Steel Section,
with Samuel B. Solomon and
Sol Eisenberg as chairman, will
meet for dinner at 6 p. m. at the
Hotel Statler at the same time
that the Bags, Barrels, and Bot-
tles Section will meet at Lachar's
under the chairmanship of Al-
fred Berkowitz. Steel section
members • will be guests of Harry
Barnett, Louis Hamburger, Sam
Hamburger and Abe Kasle at
their meeting.

has set a 77 per cent all-divi-
sion percentage of increase to
date, headed by the Painters
and Decorators, whose meeting,
`under Irving Bronson, hit • 128.5
per cent rate of increase. Pace
setting gifts in the whole divi-
sion include raises from $15.-
000 to $30,000, from $800 to $3,-
500, from nothing previous to
$50, from $200 to $1,000 and
from $500 to $5,000.
Out of eight meetings in the
Food Service Council, the most
outstanding job was done by the
Night Clubs, Bars and Restaur-
ant Section members who, with
Owen Pat Cleary, chairman of
the Michigan State Liquor Con-
trol Commission as their guest,
pledged an increase of 124.6 per
cent over last year's contribu-
tions. The food division, with
Max Schayowitz as chairman, has
been sparked by such increases
as from $25 to $200, from $4,000
to $10,000 and from $25 to $250.
First to distribute an prospects
slips in the division, the Profes-
sional group, under Martin Leo
Butzel and Dr. Charles Lakoff,
has been setting the pace in qUota
achieved, and coverage, with over
one-third of all pledges already
secured. No one section can be
singled out in this division as out-
standing increases have been
achieved at many of the 17 group
meetings, by the Pharmacists,
137%; Physicians, 122%; Optom-
etrists, 174%; Accountants, 74%;
Government workers, 139%, and
Osteopathic Physicians, 77%.
Several contributors in the
Arts and Crafts Division, led by
Alex Schreiber, have set the pace
for their group by increases over
last year of as much as 400%. In
two meetings of the Amusements
Section, the group reached in-
creases of 97.6% and 69.3%.

The Grand Rapids District of
the Zionist Organization of Am-
erica, under the leadership of H.
B. Shaine, vice-president of the
Michigan Zionist Region, held its
Z-Day membership campaign
April 18, obtaining almost 100
new members in a drive which
was unequalled in_ the history
of Grand Rapids_Jewry.
Membership chairman David
Cohodes was host at a breakfast
meeting at his home for 25 volun-
teer workers.
The total membership 'of the
Grand Rapids District now is
251. District leaders expect to
reach 300 by. Oct. 1.

Deiroiters Donate
Machinery to Aid

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the Palestine Projects ' Commit-
tee, Inc., of the World Confeder-
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industrialists are contributing
machinery and equipment for
Palestine.
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The Mufti Dossier
Part of the reported militdry deal with the Arab states was a
promise that the State Department would kill the information it
has on the,pro-Nazi activities of the Mufti and some of the leaders
of the Arab resistance movement . . . If revealed the dossier on
Arab war criminality would make some of our smelly Washington
officials even more malodorous . . Nor is its suppression unrelated
to our private oil interests . . . The bargain was save our lives and
we will save the oil for you . . . Under the late President Roosevelt
the Wall St. gang was kept away from the White House . . . Under
Truman industrialists have reasserted themselves in government ...
As an example, see the April 23 column of Drev;T- Pearson how large
numbers of former associates of Dillon, Read Company are holding
key government positions . . . Too many great interests here and
abroad are involved to base the approach to the Palestine situation
on the merits of justice and decency alone.

Angels of Mercy
Recently the head of the International Red Cross mission in
Palestine castigated the Haganah for the slaying of children in an
Arab village . .. He may have been justified . . . However, thus far
he has not uttered one word of criticism against the Arabs who were
guilty of equally abominable crimes . . . Many people *do not realize
that the International Red Cross does not represent any government
but is a private Swiss organization . . . During the war there were
serious complaints against the IRC . . . It was charged that pro-
German elements had penetrated the organization . . . Many com-
plaints reached Washington about the attitude of IRC officials in
Germany . . . It is perhaps too early 'to pass judgment on IRC activ-
ities in Palestine, but we should keep some of the facts mentioned
above in mind. -

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NORTHPORT 2482

Off the Record

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JERUSALEM (JTA)—A refu-
gee vessel, Mishmar Ha'Am
(Guardian of the People) inter-
cepted -with 789 visaless Jews
aboard, was brought to Haifa har-
bor and its passengers were de-
ported to Cyprus.
The customs house at the
Lydda airport, which was in Arab
hands early this week and which
Haganah seeks to recapture. was
on fire Tuesday as personnel was
fleeing.
Arab sources claimed that
troops of an Egyptian armored
division crossed Palestine's south-
ern frontier at dawn Tuesday.
In the battle for Haifa, the
central railway truilding s and a
number of other structures were
wrecked. Haganah had used a
new de'vastating weapon which
they named "David, King of
Israel."
Jews were barred from a stu-
dent meeting at the Farouk Al
Awal University, in 'Alexandria,
following their protest against a
resolution banning Jewish stu-
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page 5 dents from Egyptian universities.
April 30, 1948
(Assurances were given by the
State Department to Washington
correspondents that in the event
of disruption of communications
in Palestine it would make avail-
By NATHAN Z1PRIN
able as much information as
Copyright Seven Arts Feature Syndicate
possible about developments in
that country).
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The Administration's reversal of policy was grounded on political
hysteria . . . Truman was told by the State Department there was
no hope of saving Italy from communism and that the Western
Powers would have to look to the Middle East as the core of opposi-
tion to Soviet expansion . . . According to one source the President
was sold the idea that if the Italians veered from the democratic path
the Arab states would agree to supply a huge army for a possible
expedition against Italy if the U. S. agreed to abandon partition . .
The President's advisers thought it a good bargain and Truman fell
for the trap . . . This also explains the breaking of the story that
King Abdullah of Transjordan was preparing to come to the rescue
of the Palestine Arabs in order to save the Middle East from com-
munist penetration . . . It is doubtful Abdullah would have dis-
closed his aggreisive intentions at a time when Transjordan's admis-
sion to the UN was under consideration unless he had been given
a green light.

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ment are now on: their way to
Palestine • from Detroit. More of
this equipment is needed, espec-
ially machine shop and wood-
working shop material. Those
who have any such equipment
or know where it might be ob-
tained as a "gift to the Yishuv,
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