JDC's 34th Annual Meeting to Hear
Lilienthal, Haber and Warburg

"Europe's Jews Face ' the Fu-
ture" will be the topic of the .
34th annual meeting of the Joint
Distribution Committee; major
American agency - aiding ' dis-
tressed Jews abroad, in the Pal-
mer Hodse, Chicago, this Sunday
afternoon, Oct. 31. .
The meeting, which will be
open to the public, is expected
to draw more than 2,000 Jewish
leaders and representatives from
all parts of the country. They
will hear featured addresses by
three outstanding speakers:
David E. Lilienthal, chair-
man of the U. S. Atomic En-
ergy Commission; Dr. William
Haber, adviser on Jewish Af-
fairs to the American Military
Government in Germany; and
Edward M. M. Warburg, JDC
chairman.
No funds will be solicited at
the meeting, it was explained,
since JDC receives its funds
through the nationwide United
Jewish Appeal.
Meeting in parallel. sessions
Saturday night will be leaders
of JDC's Youth DiVision Ad-
visory Council, and JDC's SOS
(Supplies for Overseas Sur-
vivors) Collection.
On Sunday morning, JDC's
National Council (corporate body
of the agency) will meet in its

Midwest Center
Leaders •Assemble
In Detroit Nov. 13

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Friday, October 29, 1948

BB Women's Council

annual business session. Judge
Maurice Bernon of Cleveland will Reports Ticket Sales
preside at this session.
Mrs. Stanley Yates, ticket
At 10 a.m. a special meeting
of the new Board 'of Directors chairman, announces that' reser-,
will be held and at 10:15 a.m. vations are coming in rapidly for
the National Council will meet the annual. fund-
in a discussion session of JDC raising event of
activities during the past year the Greater De-
and plans for 1949 actvities. Mr. troit Bnai Brith
Leavitt will address this session., Women's Coun-:
James H. Becker -of Chicago, JDC cil.
The' Program,
vice chairman, will preside.
A special session Sunday morn- Which' will take
ing will be devoted to Landsman- Place at p.
schaft (folks) groups and how, :. M. Monday:, NiV.
through JDC, they are sending 22, at MasoniC
direct help to their - townsmen Temple will
feature Tito • /sir!, , Yates
overseas.
At 12:15 p.m. in the Palmer
singing artist, and"• his Singing
House, a luncheon will be held.' MariathiS.
At a second luncheon in the
Mrs:, Robert A. Coggan, fund
Palmer House, JDC's West Cen-
tral Region will hold its second raising chairman of the Council,
urges all women to attend.
annual. meeting.
Dr. Haber will fly to the meet r
ing from Frankfurt, Germany, • The cost of 48 Red Feather
'Group. Work and Recreational
where he has been stationed for
Services is estimated at $1,664,-
nearly a year as chief counselor 326.21 , during the 1948 Commu-
to Gen. Clay on the problems
of the 145,000 Jewish DP's in . nity Chest year.
the American Zone of Germany.
He will deliver an eyewitness
report on the latest developments
in the Jewish DP scene in Eu-
rope. Dr. Haber is on leave
from the University of Michigan,
where he is a professor of eco-
nomics.

Community leaders from 40
midwestern Jewish cornmunities
will participate in the '10th an-
nual conference of the Midwest
Section, National JeWish Welfare
Board, to be held in Detroit., Nov.'
13 and 14, according to 'Joseph S.

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Annual clearance of Jewish
National Fund Blue and White
Boxes will commence GA Monday,
Nov. 1, under the chairmanship
of Mrs. A. Friedman, it was an-
nounced this week by the Jewish
National Fund Council of Detroit.
A call was issued by the JNF
Council to all of the thousands of

Haifa Chapter Presents
Social Event Sunday.

Haifa Chapter of the Zionist
Organization of Detroit will pre-
sent a Hallowe'en party and barn
dance Sunday evening, Oct. 31.
Mrs. Philip Bernstein arid Mrs.
Joseph Carp are co-chairmen.
A series of parlor meetings is
the feature of the chapter's mem-
bership drive. Three simultaneous
meetings were held Oct. 19 at the
homes of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour
Kraus and Dr. and Mrs. Philip
Sherman. Benjamin Weiss is
chairman of the campaign.

DetroTt box-holders, urging them
to fill their boxes and give a
courteous reception to the volun-
teer workers.
Announcement also was made
that the annual Flag Day will
be observed next Thursday night,
Nov. 4, on Saturday night and all
day Sunday, Nov. 6 and 7. Mem-.
bers of Zionist youth groups are
active in making plans for the
Flag Day.
Detroit Jewish organizations
are asked to reserve all day Sun-
day, Nov. 21, for the annual Jew-
ish National Fund Conference, to
be held at the Detroit-Leland
Hotel.

German Anti-Semitism
In 'Alarming' State
BOSTON (JTA)—The groWth
of hatred among Germans to-
ward DPs -in Germany and the
threatening attitude of the Ger-
mans toward the Jewish and
non-Jewish DPs is reported in
the Kurier Codzienny, local Pol-
ish-language daily.

Help Make Israel Secure!

Continue Traditional Activities
of the Jewish National Fund

`Message of Israel' ,
To Carry Special JDC
Broadcast on Sunday

A special radio broadcast in
connection with the '34th annual
meeting of the Joint Distribution
Committee in Chicago will be
heard on the "Message of Israel"
program over the ABC network
this Sunday morning. ,
Titled "Report on the DP' ,
the program will feature talks y
two experts on the Jewish DP
Problem: Dr. William Haber, ad-
viser, on.Jewish Affairs to the U.
S: Military Government in Ger-
many, and Rabbi Philip H. Bern-
stein; who preteded Dr. Haber in
this•post. The program, which is
conducted by Rabbi Jonah P.
Wise, JDC vice chairman, will be
heard from 10 to 10:30 a.m.

'No' Vote Urged by
Congress on the
Callahan Measure

JOSEPH S. LERNER

An urgent appeal was made
this week by the Michigan Com-
cil of the American Jewish. Con-
gress that voters should oppose
the Callahan Bill, which has been
placed on the ballot at the Nov. 2
election.
Albert Silber, president of the
Michigan AJC Council, pointed
out that this measure is a threat
to civil liberties. It is listed as
Proposal No. 6 on the ballot and
voters are urged to marked the
ballot NO as a guarantee that the
measure will bes defeated.
The JeWish Community Coun-
cil is included among organiza-
tions cooperating with the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress in opposing
the Callahan measure and in
urging voters to defeat it at the
polls next Tuesday.

Semi-Annual Clearance of Blue and

White Jewish National Fund Boxes

will start on

_MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Be sure to fill your boxes with coins

for land redemption in Israel and

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give a hearty welcome to the volun-

teer workers who will conduct ,

the box clearance.

Lerner of .Kansas City, section
president.
Guest speakers at the meeting;
which will celebrate ten years of
service to Jewish Community
Centers and YM aneYWHAs in
the midwest, will be Harry ,Zin-
der of the State of Israel Mission
to the United States, and Dr.
Oscar Janowsky, professor of his-
tory at the College of the City of
New York and • director of the
historic JWB survey.
The opening session of the con-
ference will include graphic pres-
entations of National Jewish Wel-
fare Board services to the local
Jewish community through its
Center.
The Sunday morning session at
the Jewish Community Center,
will be concerned with Center
programs and problems. - The
concluding luncheon session will
hear Dr. Janowsky and Louis
Kraft, general secretary of JWIt's
national council.
A board of governors' dinner,
to be held Saturday evening, will
honor the presidents who served
during the first decade of the
midwest section, including .Henry
Meyers of Detroit.
Delegates from Colorado, Illi-
nois, Indiana, Michigan, Missonri,
Minnesota, Kentucky, Ohio, Iowa,
Wisconsin, Nebraska, West Vir-
ginia, and Western Pennsylvania
will attend the section confer-
ence.
Samuel H. Rubiner of Detroit
is general conference chairman;
Mrs. Benjamin E. Jaffe of Detroit
heads the local arrangements
committee, and Harry L. Jacobs
of Kansas City is chairman of
the program committee which in-

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UAL FLAG DAYS

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JNF Box Clearance Starts Nov. 1;
Flag Days Set for Nov. 4, 6 and 7

of the Jewish National Fund will be observed on

THURSDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 4
SATURDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 6
LL DAY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Hadassah's Largest
Convention Planned
Nov. 5 in Atlantic City.

Give your encouragement to the volunteer yogth workers with your
generous contributions.

NEW YORK — Hadassah's 977
chapters and groups from 47
'states are expected to send 5,000
delegates and guests to the an-
nual convention of-- the Women's
Zionist Organization of America;
to be held in Atlantic City, Nov.
5 to 9, making the annual con-
clave the largest in the group's
history, according to Mrs. David
B. Greenberg, of New York,
chairman of the convention com-
mittee, and Mrs. David Stein of
Philadelphia, co-chairman. The
delegates will be asked to ap-
prove a $5,935,000 budget for the
coming year.'
Though Hadassah was founded
in 1912; making it -36 years old,
this will be the 34th national an-
nual gathering of the group,
which held its first convention

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A all to All Detroit Jewish Organizations:

eludes Herman Jacobs of Detroit. in 1915.

Reserve Sunday, November 21, for the Annual Jewish National
Conference 'to be held at the Detroit-Leland Hotel
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