USNA to Carry Peak Load in '49;
Speakers Condemn U. S. DP Act
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NEW YORK—A total of $11,-
644,505 will be required to meet
the needs of the estimated 24,500
Jewish immigrants, the majority
of them displaced persons, who
will reach the United States in
the next 12 months, and to pro-
vide for thousands of earlier ar-
rivals who still require assistance,
Joseph E. Beck, executive direc-
tor of the United Service for New
Americans, reported at the an-
nual meeting of USNA at the
Biltmore Hotel.
Beck warned the assembled
Jewish leaders, representing com-
munities in every section of the
United States, that this figure
constituted a minimum estimate
and that liberalization of the Dis-
placed Persons Act of 1948 would
result in increased immigration
to this country and consequently
a greater expenditure of funds.
Declaring that the program of
United Service for New Amer-
icans "is in no small measure re-
sponsible for the successful re-
settlement of many thousands of
newcomers" to the United State's,
President Truman, in a special
message to the conference, called
upon the agency to assume "even
greater tasks" in 1949.
Assails Unworkable Act
Harry N. Rosenfield, N. S. Dis-
placed Persons Commissioner,
s condemned the Displaced Per-
sons Act of 1949 as "not only
discriminatory and un-American
in some of its provisions, but it is
also administratively almost un-
workable."
Rosenfield expressed the hope
that "if we obtain the appropria-
tion recommended by the Presi-
dent to the Congress, the Dis-
placed Persons Commission will
have about 45,000 displaced per-
sons embark for the United
States before July, 1949." He ad-
ded that the DP. Commission was
.aiming at a goal of 12,500 sail-
ing for the. United States each
month, but • warned that this
goal could not be attained with-
: out the "continued and expanded
participation" o f voluntary
,agencies such as the United Ser-
vice for New Americans.
Contrasting the large numbers
•of DPs being absorbed monthly
by "war-torn little Israel" with
those reaching the United States,
he said: "I look with chagrin at
the paltry results thus far
achieved by our great prosperous
and spacious country."
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'Inescapable Challenge'
Rosenfield called upon the Jew-
'ish community leaders to assume
through the United Service for
New Americans a "heavier load
.than_ they have ever had to as-
sume ,in American immigration
experience" in order to help the
United States Government • com-
plete its task of bringing into
and resettling in this country
205,000 displaced persons with-
in the next two years.
The future of the many thous-
ands of homeless men, women
and children still waiting in the
DP camps of Europe for an op-
portunity to emigrate confronts
the American people with an "in-
escapable challenge," EdWard M.
M. Warburg, chairman of the
Joint distribution Committee, told
the meeting.
The year 1948 was a year of
"great achievement" in behalf of
the homeless Jews of Europe,
Edwin Rosenberg, president of
USNA, --stressed in his annual
/Residential report. "Thousands
upon thousands of them are leav-
ing the DP camps for Israel, there
to sink their roots in the build-
ing of a new nation," he said.
"Other thousands are coming
with increasing regularity to
the United States to build new
lives in our democracy."
Peak Year for USNA
In his annual report, Beck
predicted that 1949 would be a
"peak year" for United Service,
i•ointing out that the DP camps
for Jews in Germany, Austria,
and Italy would be closed early
next year with the overwhelm-
ing majority of the Jewish DPs
emigrating either to Israel or the
United States.
He estimated that of the 24,500
Jewish immigrants expected to
reach the United States before
the end of 1949, approximately
1q,500 would come from the DP
camps. The 1949 newcomers, he
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added, would raise to 80,000 the
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potential number of Jewish im-
migrants who may require as-
sistance from Unite:d Service
this year.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
in a special message to the con-
ference, declared that the United
Service for New Americans "per-
forms a noble act of mercy to
humanity and a great patriotic
service to America" by assisting
many of Europe's homeless to
find homes in this country and by
finding jobs "for hands which
have been schackled by an en-
forced and abhorrent idleness."
The end of Jewish homeless-
ness in Europe is within sight,
Henry MOrgenthau, Jr., former
Secretary of the Treasury, de-
clared in a message to the meet-
ing, adding that "members and
friends of United Service may
take justifiable pride in the fact
that they have made a magnifi-
DAVID SHAPIRO, co-captain
cent contribution toward the so-
of the George Washington Uni-
lution of this problem."
Truman to Address'
Dinner for Weizmann;
Asks Better DP Law
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Presi-
dent Truman will go to New York
on February 19 to address a tes-
timonial dinner in honor of Dr.
Chaim Weizmann, President of .
Israel, the White
House said. The
dinner will be
held at the Wal-
dorf Astoria
Hotel.
(In a messae
to the American
people, Dr.
Chaim Weiz-
rn a n n empha-
sized that the
Truman
friendship an d
support which President Truman
and the American people have
given to Israel "have been an
encouragement beyond measure,
and this will long be remembered
in °fir annals." He compared the
Israeli fight for freedom with
that of the American colonists.
The Israeli President conveyed
this message through the New
York Herald Tribune which be
gan serializing Dr. Weizmann's
autobiography, "Trial and Er-
ror.")
In his State of the Union mes-
sage, the President called upon
Congress "to open our doors to
displaced persons without unfair
discrimination."
It was the only reference to
displaced . persons legislation in
the nearly 4,000-word speech
which covered a multitude of
domestic. problems, touched on
foreign policy, and described
"prejudice and intolerance" as
one of the country's major short-
comings.
Two bills providing for the
setting up of a permanent Fair
Employment Practices Commis-
sion were introduced in the
House at the opening session of
the 81st Congress by Reps. Adam
Clayton Powell of New York and
James Fulton of Pennsylvania.
A bill calling upon the United
States to remove its embargo on
the shipment of arms to Israel
was introduced in the House by
Rep. Emanuel Celler. The same
measure was first introduced by
Celler during the last Congres-
sional session.
AJC's 42nd Annual
Meeting Set in N. Y.
NEW YORK—Major domestic
and foreign activities of the
American Jewish Committee for
1949, including the campaign for
domestic civil liberties and inter-
national human rights and rela-
tions between America and Israel,
will be determined at the forty-
second annual meeting of the
committee at Hotel Astor here,
Jan. 21 to 23, it was announced
by Ely M. Aaron of Chicago,
chairman of the arrangements
committee and head of the Chi-
cago chapter of the AJC.
Benjamin V. Cohen, United
States delegate to the United Na-
tions and former counselor of
the Departemnt of State, will
be the guest speaker at a dinner
Jan. '22, addressing the meeting
of national Jewish leaders on
"The World-Wide Struggle for
Human Rights."
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The
central committee set up by the
State Council to supervise the
parliamentary elections sched-
uled to be held Jan. 25 announced
that 22 groups submitted lists of
candidates, all of which have been
approved.
Leading the list on the Mapai
(Labor Party) ticket are David
Ben Gurion and Moshe Shertok.
the list of Mapam — United
Workers Party — is headed by
Itzhak Tobenkin and Meir Yaari.
The . Mizrachi-Agudah list is
headed by Rabbi J. L. Fishman
of Mizrachi and Rabbi M.
Lewin, Agudah leader.
General Zionists have put Dr.
Fritz Bernstein and Mayor Israel
Rokach as first on their list of
candidates. Freedom Movement
named Menachem Beigin and Uri
Zvi Grinbergi Progressive Zion-
ists have Dr. Felix Rosenblueth
and Dr. Abraham Granovsky.
Zionist-Revisionist Party headed
its election list with Dr. N. Alt-
versity basketball team, is the man and Baruch Weinstein.
hero of the exposure of the at-
tempted "fix" of a Madison
Square Gardens basketball game.
Shapiro, a World War II veteran,
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reported to police that he had
been offered $1,000 to "throw"
a game with Manhattan College.
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Among Crash Victims
ROME, .(JTA) — The remains
of eight Jews who died in an
aircrash some 65 miles north of
here last week while en route
from Israel were buried in the
town of Orbetello, near the scene
of the tragedy.
. A special Italian air..force_ unit
attended the services, which were
conducted by Rome's Chief Rabbi,
Dr. David Prato, and at which
the local Police orchestra played
funeral music. Among the victims
were Prof. I. Farkas, nofed
Hebrew University chemistry
professor, and Asher Branzel and
Moshe Zeidler, Jewish Agency
representatives.
The Communist list is headed
by L Mikunis and an Arab, Tew-
fik Toubi. The Popular Arab Bloc,
sponsored by Mapam, and the
Arab Workers Bloc, under the
auspices of Mapai, have each also
submitted lists of candidates.
Fighters, for Israel submitted a
list headed by, Nathan Friedman-
Yellin and Sheikh Abu Gush.
Other' groups which registered
seperate lists of candidates in-.
elude Haoved Hadati, religious
laborites affiliated with the
,Histadrut; Women's International
Zionist Organization; Hapoeleth,
Mizrachi labor women's group;
Sephardic Community and Agu-
das Israel Separatists.
The , Arabs in Nazareth have
filed an independent list, as did
the Arabs of Haifa. A separate
list has been also registered by
Jerusalem Jews, headed by Mayor
Daniel Auster. Yemenite Jews
present a list of their own. There
also is a list known as the Sepa-
ratist Jerusalem Bloc.
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