THE JEWISH NEWS-3

DP Measure Unfavorable to
Jews Adopted by Congress

Friday, June 25, 1948

Some Conferees Refuse to Sign Bill Approved in Conference;
Cellar Charges: 'All Bill Does Is Exclude Jews';
Lesinski's Stand Arouses Jews' Resentment

Football Star Gets Zionist Citation

Windsor Joins
Canada Drive
To Aid Israel

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Jewish Conference — have con-
joint House-Senate conference on demned the measure.
In response to a request from
displaced p e r s o n s legislation
President Truman signed it
agreed upon a compromise bill reluctantly and indicated that he the United Zionist Council of
Admitting to the U. S. within disapproved of its discriminatory Canada, the Windsor Jewish
two years 200,000 inmates of DP tone but approved it in order community has organized an
camps, plus 2,000 Czech political to give those for whom it pro- Aid-to-Israel s Committee, which
At the annual meeting of the Zionist Organization of Detroit on
refugees, 3,000 displaced orphans vides admission an opportunity is collecting food, clothing, lin- June 17, MERV PREGULMAN (second from left), star center for
ens,
bedding,
medical
'supplies
under 16, and 15,000 refugees al- to come to the U. S.
the Detroit Lions, was honored by the Michigan Zionist Region for
and other equipment for the as- his outstanding efforts in behalf of the' Zionist movement..
ready residing in the United
sistance of the Jews of the Yis-
MORRIS M. JACOBS (left), president Of the region, gave Mr.
States to full citizenship.
huv.
Pregulman a certificate of honor in recognition of his work in the
Admission of the 205,000 DPs
Reuben Madoff is chairman of formation of • the Lansing Zionist Organization. The citation, signed
now in Europe would be over
the campaign, which is being by' Dr. Emanuel Neumann, president of the ZOA is held by RABBI
the next two years, provided the
FRAM.
carried on through June. A spe- LEON
immigrants conform to stringent
Pregulman, named all-American by Colliers Magazine in 1943,
cially-chartered ship, filled with U. of M. star, best all-around line man, in 1946 turned to pro football.
requirements impbsed by the
supplies for Israel, is expected He was responsible for the development of a highly successful Zionist
conference bill. These are:
to leave Canada July 1.
1. Not less than 40 percent
group in Lansing. As vice-president of the' group in charge of mem-
A long-cherished dream has
of eligible DPs shall come from
Leading the Windsor drive are bership, he enrolled more than 100 residents in the ZOA.
With Mr. Pregulman. were MORTON DAVIS, president of the
Poland, east of the Curzon line, come true for Mrs. Jeanette Ser- the following committee mem-
Lansing Zionist Organization, and RABBI ALFRED FRIEDMAN,
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. ling of 2715 Hazelwood, who bers:
Lansing.
2. The DPs shall have been resi- learned this week that slik is one
Finance, Sam M. Cohen, chair-
dent in camps on or before De- of five women who' have won man; H. Rosenthal J. Cohen, M.
cember 22, 1945. 3. Thirty per- free trips to Israel, offered by Levine, N. Hurwitz,. H. Cher-
cent of the DPs shall be farmers. Pioneer Women, women's labor niak, B. Matthews, M. Sumner,
Second priority shall go to Zionist organization of America. R. Madoff.
viding them with a position which.
By RUTH GOLDSCHMIDT
To be eligible for the prize,
household, construction, and
they didn't hold before the truce
HAIFA
(Palcor)•
—
Two
camps
Food,
Frances
Geller,
chair-
clothing and garment workers, Mrs. Serling had to bring at least
went into effect. The Israel Gov-
within
the
British
military
en-.
as w ll as those possessing sci- seven new members into PWO. man; Mesdames Ann Katzman,
ernment notified the British and
e
entific and professional skills. She belongs to Pioneer Women's Ruth Freedman, 'Bessie Shore, clave south of Haifa, which Brit- the UN earlier that if the camps
ish
authorities
had
attempted
to
Club
Two
of
Detroit,
and
is
ac-
Third priority goes to blood rel-
Frances Minden, I. Alexis J. Blit-
were occupied by the Arabs Is-
atives of American citizens. tive in raising money - for the stein, E. Majer, Lily Richardson, turn over to the Arabs, will be rael forces would serve them with
put
at
the
disposal
of
the
UN
As envisaged by the- House- Child Rescue Fund.
E. Glaser and Evelyn. Kotler.
which will request the Israel an ultimatum to withdraw or be
Senate compromise bill,, each of
Mrs. Serling has lived in Det-
driven out by force.
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these three priority categories roit since 1935, and prior to that Madoff, chairman; L. M. Rosen, Army to provide guards. Israel
The camps involved were near
will itself be broken down into was a resident of Syracuse. She M. Sumner, H. Burke, A. Kauf- authorities charged that turning
Tireh,
5 miles south of Haifa, one
the
camps
over
to
the
Arabs
two special groups. In each cate- was born in Poland.
man, S. Winograd, J. M. Soble, would consti1 ute. a grave ,viola- occupied by the British and an-
gory, those DPs who bore arms
When peace is definitely estab- M. Madoff, M. Tabachnick, N. tion of the truce since it would other occupied by Israelis whose
against America's enemies in lished in Palestine, Mrs. Serling
Rotenberg, H. Gray, N. Tepper- give the Arabs a direct military evacuation the British had de-
World War II will receive pref- Will visit Israel.
man.
advantage *ithin the area, pro- manded.
erence over others, and a special
"left over" priority will be given
to DPs who were in camps on
January 1, 1948, "in exceptional
cases."
The joint conference was bad-
ly split and tempers ran high as
it broke up. Congressmen Eman-
uel Celler and J. Caleb Boggs,
both House conferees, ref used
angrily to sign the report, as did
Senators Homer Ferguson and
Harley Kilgore. Senator Chap-
man 13.vercomb, C onf er en c e
chairman, admitted to reporters
that only eight of the 12 con-
ferees would affix their. signa-
tures.
Rep. Celler has estimated that
while 27,000 Volksdeutsche will
enter the U. S. under the new
bill, only 6,000 will be able to
come here under the new pro-
visions.
"This bill is utterly different
from the kind of legislation
wanted by those of us wanting
to help the" DPs," Celler declared
to newsmen. "It does not give
relief - to those who should be
entitled to it." With eight signa-
tures to the conference report,
it can now go before the House
and Senate for ratification.
Celler's statement read: "This
compromise bill is worse • than
no bill at all. All it does is
exclude all Jews. It is no solu-
tion to the problem. I will
move to recommit it as soon
as it appears. I am heartsick
- -
about it."
Frank Fellows, author of the
bill as it was passed by the
House, commented: "Listen, we
had to have something. That's
why I voted for it and I did so
reluctantly."
Frank L. Chelf, another con-
feree, said, "I want to emphasize
Featured in the
that when I voted for this bill
in conference, I did it reluctantly
also, and I say that again—re-
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luctantly."
(During the debate on the
Fellows Bill in the House,
Michigan's Congressman John
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Lesinski made charges that 90
per cent of those admitted to
the U. S. since the end of th"e
HREE of the coolest, prettiest dresses in our brim-
war were Jews. These claims
have been disputed by facts.
ming collections—one for sunning, one for daytime,
Rep. Lesinski got into an ar-
one for poised town wear. Left to right: flare-
gument with Jewish members
of Congress and accused them
skirted town suit of wool spun rayon—ever-
of voting against the admission
of Poles into the U. S. His
green, brown, gray or black, brief.sizes 10to 18,
charge is considered one of the
$14.95; one of summer's gentle-mannered
ugliest on record. As a former
chairman of the House Com-
shirtwaist cottons—gray with green, pink, mimosa,
mittee on Immigration, it was
expected, his critics say, that
10 to 18, $12.95; fine cotton print sundress in beige,
be should have had better
blue, green under a white pique bolero,
knowledge of true existing
facts.)
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Trip to Israel Won
By Active Detroit
Pioneer Woman

UN Takes Over Disputed Camps '

UDSO\ S

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