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7 Service Group. Divisions
To Hold Annual Meetings
Friday, December 3, 1948
.
Will Convene-Dec. IS and 16 at Jewish Center to Elect
Their Boards- and fo Hear Addresses by Dr. Mark
McCloskey on Status of DPs, Emigration Plans
Dr. Mark McCloskey, promin-
ent educational leader, who has
just returned to this country aft-
er a seven-week tour of displaced
persons' camps in Italy, Ger-
many and Austria, will address
the trade and professional divi-
sions of the Detroit • Service
Group of the Jewish Welfare
Federation when they convene
for their annual meetings on
Wednesday and Thursday. eve-
nings, Dec. 15 and 16, at the
Jewish Community Center.
Irving W. Blumberg, president
of the Service Group, has an-
nounced that on Wednesday,
DR. MARK McCLOSSEY
Dec. 15, at 7:30 p. m., the follow-
ing four divisions will hold their
meetings to elect - representatives
to the Service Group board and
to consider amending their divi-
sion by-laws.
Mercantile Division, in the Ginsburg
Lounge. Maurice A. Enggass is chair-
man. and Max Osnos honorary chair-
man of the division.
Services Division. Fred A. Ginsburg,
chairman. will meet in room 301.
Arts and Crafts Division, headed by
Leon S. Wayburn, will assemble in
room 305.
" Food Service Council, under the
.chairmanship of Nathan Lurie and
Paul Zukerman, acting chairmen, in
Butzel Hall.
At 8:30 p. m. the four divisions
will gather in Butzel. Hall for a
general program that will fea-
ture Dr. McCloskey's address.
On Thursday, Dec. 16, at 7:30
p. m., three additional divisions
will meet as follows:
- Mechanical Trades. Milton K. Mah-
ler, chairman, will gather in the Gins-
burg Lounge.
Professional Division, headed by
'Judge William Friedman, in the Con-
ference Room.
Real Estate and Building Council,
Louis Berry, chairman, • will meet in
'Butzel Hall.
A 1 1 divisions will consider
amending their by-laWs to pro-
vide Vfor biennial elections in-
stead of annual elections, and
will elect their representatives to
the Service Group board.
Following the procedure of the
previous evening the three
groups meeting Thursday will
convene at 8:30 p. m. in the But-
zel Hall where Dr. McCloskey
will address them.
Dr. McCloskey, who will pre-
sent an authoritative report on
conditions facing 200,000 Jews
still living in DP camps through-
out Europe, as well as an account
of the steps to be taken in speed-
ing emigration. to Israel, the
United States and other - lands,
has been' director of the Divi-
sion of Community Education of
the New York City Board of
Education for 10 years. During
the war, he served for four years
as director of the Office of Com-
munity War Services in Wash-
ihgton, and received the Presi-
dential Medal for Merit, highest
award to civilians for war ser-
vice.
A former Administrator of the
National Youth Administration in
New York City, Mr. McCloskey
has spent a lifetime in social
work and adult education. After
his graduation from Princeton
University in 1918, he became an
associate head worker at the
Hudson Guild, a settlement house
in New York, and served on the
faculty of Fieldston School. He
is a member of the bdard of trus
tees of Vassar College.
All contributors to the 1948
Allied Jewish Campaign are in-
vited to the meetings of their res-
pective trades and professions.
Officers of the Service Group
are: Irving W. Blumberg, presi-
dent; Gus Ds-Newman, chairman,
executive committee; Ben L. Sil-
berstein, chairman of the board
of directors; Leonard N. Simons
vice-chairman of the board; Sid-
ney L. Alexander, Ben B. Een-
ton, Harvey H. Goldman, Abe
Aasle, George M. Stutz, vice-
presidents; Esther R. Prussian,
executive director.
Truman Praises
Histacirut Work
Mail Early During
Corning Four Weeks
For the next four weekS, mail
delivery will be at its slowest—
due to the approach of Christ-
mas and New Year days. ..
While The Jewish News dead-
line remains normal—before noon
on Mondays for photographs and
before 9:30 a.m. on Tuesdays for
last minute copy, we urge ,our
readers to send their material' at
least two days in advance in
order to assure copy reaching
us on time.
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NEW YORK, (JTA)—President
Truman praised the program of
the National Committee for La-
bor Palestine, which is currently
conducting a • $10,000,000 drive in
behalf of Histadrut. In a message
to jos,eph Schlossberg, chairman
of the campaign, the President
declared:
"I am happy to extend to the
National Committee for Labor
Palestine my heartiest. congratu-
lations on the occasion of its
Silver Anniversary. Convention to
be held next week. I am well
aware of the high cibiectives of
your organization and wish you
every success in your humani-
tarian efforts." A message of sup-
port also was received from SeC-
retary of- Labor Maurice Tobin.
—Photo by Paul Kirsch, Jewish News Photographer
LEO' LOW, eminent
Jewish Religious Groups
In Romania to Merge
BUCHAREST (JTA)—New by-
laws for Jewish religious com-
munities in Romania were adopt-
ed at a conference of more than
100 rabbis and representatives of
Sephardic and Ashkenazic groups
from all parts of the country. The
by-laws, which, for the first time
in 80 years, provide for the uni-
fication of all Jewish religious
groups into one central body, are
based on the new law regarding
religious communities promul-
gated last July by the Romanian
Government.
Under the new arrangement
the Sephardic and Ashkenazic
communities will no longer func-
tion as separate groups but will
merge into a single community
although observing their specific
traditions as hitherto.
Capt. Wayland to Address Histadrut;
Will Meet Officials Here Thursday
Capt. Yaakov Wayland, 35-
year-old Israeli officer who com-
manded the defenses of Negba in
the Negev, a feat acclaimed by
Prime Minister David Ben-Gur-
ion, will address a luncheon meet-
ing next Thursday, Dec. 9, at the
Statler Hotel. He will be for-
mally presented to Michigan's
Gov.-elect, G. Mennen Williams,
Detroit Common Council Presi-
dent George Edwards, Frank X.
Martel, president of Detroit-
Wayne County Federation of La-
bor, August Scholle, president of
Michigan CIO, and other civi
leaders at a reception arranged
in his honor.
The reception, set for '.4 p.m. on
Thursday, will enable Capt. Way-
land to bring personal greetings
and thanks to the many Michigan
friends of Israel and the Hista
drut.
Arriving Thursday morning;
Capt. Wayland will be .met by
Detroit Zionist and Histadrut
leaders and representatives of the
Halevy _observes Two Anniversaries
Yi
composer (left), was awarded the annual
Max Levy Memorial Award of the Halevy Singing Society, last Sun-
day evening, at a double celebration at the Labor Zionist Institute—
in honc`of Mr. Low's 70th, birthday and in observance of the first
anniversary of the United Nations' partition decision. DR. WILLIAM
KLEIN, Hatevy president (right}, made the presentation at the over-
flow meeting in which the following also participated: Philip Slornovitz,
guest speaker; Sam Brown, representing the American Jewish Con-
gress; Rabbi Joseph Miller, membership director of Labor Zionist
Organization with which Halevy is affiliated; David Sislin, chairman
of Arlazaroff JNWA branch; Canton Pavel Slavensky, soloist; Elia
Stullman, violinist, accompanied by. Aliza Stullman, and the HaleVy
choir, which was directed by Mr. Low. •
Self-Help Bazaar, Dec. 11, to Aid DP Relief Funds
A concerted effort is being
made to secure a good response
for the annual bazaar of the De-
troit Chapter of Self-Help, to be
held Dec. ,11 at the Fort Wayne
Hotel, Fred Hopfeld, chairman,
announced this. week.
Mr. Hopfeld is assisted by Mrs.
John J. Leopold, Walter Gottlieb
and Paul Corby. The program
will include a variety of booths,
dancing and .refreshments and a
"Cafe Parisienne."
Proceeds will be used for aid
to DPs.
Tickets may be purchased from
Walter V Herz, Nellie's Sweet
Shop, Selma Bonheim
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press and will then address the
luncheon meeting at the Statler.
During his stay in Detroit, at his
special request, he will visit in-
dustrial plants specializing in the
manufacture of agricultural
equipment, since he is the secre-
tary of the agricultural settle-
ment, Negba, which ne helped to
found in 1939. Capt. Wayland also
will meet with Jewish war vet-
erans.
It was in the Negba, a farming
community of 350 pioneers, as-
tride 'the strategic El Majdal-
Falluja road, that 20 Egyptian
attacks by vastly superior forces
were beaten back. Successfully
fighting against Egyptian tanks,
planes, artillery and 4,000 infan-
trymen, the settlers under Capt.
Wayland's command laid the
basis for Israel's successful coun-
ter offensive in the Negev, break-
ing the. Egyptian hold on south-
ern Palestine.
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