THE DAY IS THIS SUNDAY
Women Prepare for Intensive One-Day Drive
Sunday, April 24 or The Day, as it is better known tom
the workers and prospects in general solicitation of. the Wo-
men's Division of the 1949 Allied Jewish Campaign will find
two thousand women ringing doorbells as they cover 14,000
prospect slips.
With their campaign kits ready to tuck under their arms,
the army of general solicitation workers awaits Sunday,
April 24, when they will march forth for this concentrated
one-day drive, the first of its kind in the history of the
Women's Division.. Mrs. William B. Isenberg, as chairman
of general solicitation, will handle all activities on The Day.
Mrs. Harry L. Jones, who is in charge of auxiliary plan-
ning for Tha Day, stressed the responsibility of every Detroit
Jewish woman on this all-important day in the campaign.
Junior Division
Collects $10,000
For 1949 AJC
At a report meeting held last
week Junior Division worker's re-
ported , over $10,000, bringing the
-total collected to date to more
than. $40,000 for the 1949 Allied.
Jewish Campaign.
Many of • the 700 workers have
completed their assignments.
Lawrence Fleischman, chairman,
of the Junior Division, stated
workers who have not turned in
She should either be working on solicitation or should remain at
complete reports are holding, slips
home to make her pledge to the campaign worker who will call
of prospects whom they were un-
on her.
able to reach after one or two
Motor Corps to Aid Workers
Establishment of allVfotor Corps will facilitate the transportation
visits. He urged these workers
of workers without cars to the areas in which their slips have been
to finish their job as quickly as
assigned. Arrangements are under the direction of Mrs. Edward M.
Rosenthal, Jr., and working with Mrs., Rosenthal are vice-chairmen
posible.
Mesdames Lloyd Ivan Frankel, Joseph Gaylord, Lewis Manning,
An innovation in the Junior
John Redfield and Oscar Zemon.
As each worker completes the solicitation of her slips she will
Campaign is the mobile division
MRS.
BERNARD
PONT,
left,
and
MRS.
THEODORE
I.
ROTH
pur:
report to the following division headquarters: Mrs. Arthur Gould,
home of Mrs. Joseph Hartman, 2485 Chicago Blvd.; Mrs. Benjamin chase tickets from MRS. CHARLES RUBINER prior to joining 500 other headed by Sam Frankenstein.
E. Jaffe, home of Mrs. Joseph Stub, 3510 Oakman Blvd.- Mrs. Sidney women for a buffet luncheon in the auditorium of the Jewish Community This division is composed of
J. Karbal, home of Mrs. Oscar Grey, 18484. Pennington
' Dr.; Mrs. Center April 6. In the morhing kits for THE DAY, Sunday, April 24, the workers with cars who 'are cover-
Samuel Keene, home of Mrs. Benjamin Laikin, 8360 LaSalle Blvd.;
concentrated one-day drive on behalf of the Allied Jewish Campaign, ing the hundreds of slips of pros-
Mrs. Carl S: Schiller, home of Mrs. Ben Maltzman, 3810 Fullerton. -
Reservations are pouring in from women contributors in special were distributed.
pects living in scattered neigh-
gifts and general solicitation for
borhoods from postal zones 1
the two big Women's Division
through_ 31. Mr. Frankenstein -an-
luncheons, Wednesday, April 27,
and Thursday, April 28.
nounced that his mobile teams
Special Gifts Luncheon
were doing an outstanding job
Franklin Hills Country Club
and he praises them for their
will be the setting • on April 27
willingness
to travel the distanc-
'for the annual special gifts lun-
es between prospects' homes.'
cheon which will honor those wo-
men who have pledged $100 or
The Junior Division, in addi-
more to the campaign.
tion to approximately 5,000 Jun-
The general solicitation lun-
ior prospects, covers more than
cheon will take place the follow-
4,000 retired and unclassified
_ ing day, Thursday, April 28, at
prospects.
Fantasia, (formerly the. Latin
division
organizations
The
Quarter). This event will be open
headed by Corinne Perlis is con-
to contributors of $36.50 or more.
tacting all young adult organiz-
Both events are scheduled for
ations for treasury gifts. She
12:30 . p.m.
urged presidents of these groups
Guests at both luncheons will
to discuss their treasury contri-
have the privilege of hearing
butions at their next board meet-
Stefan Heym, currently acclaimed
ing. The Sunday Schools which
for his best-seller, "The Crusad-
laSt year pledged more than $10,-
er." With him will be Valerie
000 are also included in the work
Stone, who in private life is
Mrs. Heym, a well-known writer
of the organizations team. Pro-
and lecturer, now associated with
grams related to the Allied Jew-
the Information Division of the
ish Campaign have been initi-
MRS. MARVIN J. WETSMAN, standing, grati- ated in the Sunday Schools which
FRAN HARRIS, right, WWJ's women's com-
United Nations. Also featured will
be members of the delegation of mentator, hears MRS. ROTH MARLIN'S story of
to
fied with her success, returns a completed kit to encourage their young , pupils
nine young Israeli war heroes the Joint Distribution Committee's part in bringing
contribute in their own name to
who are touring the United States. her brother to this country from Austria, and the ad-
MRS. BEN MOSSMAN, a vice chairman in The the Campaign.
Famed Flutist Appears
justment services rendered upon his arrival. As a
Special Gifts workers have' al-
Special Gifts Division. Gifts totaling $47,385 were
One of the best-known of these captain in the Women's Division of the 1949 Allied
most • completed their campaign,
young Israelis is Hillel Rabinadar, Jewish Campaign Mrs. Marlin will be a member of
reported at the April 6 meeting, where distribution IrVing Goldman, chairman of this .
brilliant flutist and singer who the army of women who solicit prospects on THE
section reported.
of kits among general solicitation workers was an-
has achieved a national reputation DAY. The interview was part of the program of the
A resident of Tel Aviv—and a
other feature ,of the morning.
resident 'of Palestine since the Women's Division meeting April 6.
age of two—Rabinadar joined the
Haganah soon after his _gradua-
Religious ;Leaders
tion from high school. He was sta-
Great Tribune of the Jewish
Hold Posts in Israel
tioned in the agricultural com-
People Called by Death
munities of Galilee and the Emek,
and learned to love the soil. He
TEL AVIV, (MNB)-A num-
At the Age of 75
came to the United States some
ber of important foreign and
time ago to receive medical treat-
domestic Israeli governmental
The entire world—Christians
ment for battle wounds received
posts are now held by religious and Jews — is 'mourning the
while serving as a gunner in the
leaders, World Mizrachi head- death of Stephen S. Wise. -
British Artillery during World
Dr. Wise, one of the. outstanding
quarters reported. Among those
War II.
Americans, great Jew, one of the
listed by WMO are:
Mrs. Meyer L. Prentis is in
Dr. Joseph Burg, former di- most noted Zionists, died at 4 p.m.
charge of arrangements for the
rector
of the Mizrachi European Tuesday—jUst as this issue of The
special gifts luncheon. Mrs. Al-
Office
in Paris and Hapoel Ha-
fred Loewenstein, Sr. will assist
mizrachi leader, was recently
her; Mrs. Royal Oppenheim and
named deputy to the chairman
Mrs. Lawrence Michelson are co-
of Knesset. 'He represents the
chairmen in charge of hostesses,
religious bloc and serves as one
and -reservations are being handl-
of two deputies assisting Joseph
ed by Mrs. Arthur Bloom.
Spr i n z a k (Mapai), Knesset
Luncheon Reservations
Mrs. Harry Glick and Mrs.
The happy expressions on the "faces of members of the Foods chairman.
Irving Hirschman head the Division are an indication that their annual fundraising dinner on behalf
Dr. Rordecai Eliash, one of
arrangements committee for the
of the 1949 Allied Jewish Campaign, on April 4, at the Standard Club, Israel's foremost lawyers and a
general solicitation luncheon.
devout Jew, was recently ap-
Reservations for either lun- was a huge success. Seated left to right: NATHAN LURIE, MAX pointed Ambassador to London.
OSNOS,
principal
speaker
at
the
dinner,
•PAUL
ZUCKERMAN,
chair-
cheon may be made through- a
Dr. Eliash who was given a
solicitor at the time the pledge man of the Foods Division, and CHARLES GROSBERG; standing, traditional Jewish education in
is secured, or by calling the Wo- MOREY L. ROSENTHAL, TOM BORMAN, MAX M. SHAYE, Russia, was warden of the Jeru-
men's, Division at WO. 5-3939.
SAMUEL FRANKEL and MORRIS MENDELSON.
salem Synagogue, and during the
past eight years in the Holy City
Judge Rifkind Won't
Falling U. S. Sales Cause
Hungarian Zionist GrOup conducted a Talmud Study
Circle.
Be Candidate for the
Diamond Slump in Israel
Dissolved
in
Board
Action
Dr. 0. Wolfsberg, prominent
Presidency of the ZOA
BUDAPEST, (JTA)—The dis- Israeli medical specialist and a
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A
Judge Simon H. Rifkind has slump in the Israeli diamond in- solution of the Hungarian Zionist Hapoel Hamizrachi leader, was
DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
notified The Jewish News that dustry, owing to falling sales in Federation and all its branches, this month elevated to the rank
he will not be a candidate for the the United States, has been re. announced in the publication Uj of envoy in the Scandinavian Jewish News was going to press,
ZOA presidency. He states that ported by the Office of Interna- Elet, organ of the Jewish com- countries. He will shortly enter at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York,
at the age of '75. He entered the -
"it will be quite impossible for tional Trade, Department of Com- munity, is described as a volun- upon his duties in Stockholm.
hospital on March 30 for treat-
tary decision by the executive
me to run for election" and adds, merce.
ment of a stomach ailment and
81,149 Entered Israel
The Department of Commerce committee of the Federation.
in comment on The Jewish• News
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A total of underwent an operation on April
"Since the state of Israel has
proposal that he should be the said that it has learned from the
candidate, that "I am very grate- United States embassy at Tel been established," the commit- 81,149 Jewish immigrants entered 7. His children were at his bedside
ful to you for your kind thoughts." Aviv that members of the Israeli tee's resolution stated, "the su- Israel in the first three months of at the hospital until his death.
Rabbi Wise was to have spoken
diamond industry are reported preme aim of the Federation has 1949, it was announced by Henry
seeking extensions of time for been fulfilled and normal diplo- Morgenthau, Jr., general chair- at the Shaarey Zedek in Detroit
6 THE JEWISH NEWS
turning in dollars earned, or sub- matic relations exist between man of the United Jewish Ap- on March 23, but the doctors
.ordered him to cancel, his trip.
Hungary anii Israel."
sidies from their government.
Friday, -April 22,, , 1949
Dr. Wise Dies
Food Division Makes Progress in
-Efforts for 1949 Allied Campaign
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