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English-Jewish. Publishers Join
In Newspaper Week Sponsorship

Friday. August 26, 1949

BUFFALO, N.Y.—Elias 4acobs, plementary statement .that
editor and publisher of the Buf- President Truman has endorsed
falo Jewish Review, (secretary of National Newspaper Week and
t h e American Association of
English-Jewish newspapers, an- has commended the choice of
nounced this week that the the slogan.
"National Newspaper Week
should go a long way in over-
coming biased and undeserving
criticism of the American press,"
Slomovitz said. "The English-
Jewish press has a specail in-
terest in this effort. The growth
of the American Jewish com-
munity, the fact that English
now is the medium of expres-
sion of more than 95 per cent
of the Jews of America, the spe-
cific obligations of the English-
Jewish press to evaluate Jewish
needs culturally and spiritually
and as a factor in advancing
American ideals, make the -ob-
servance of National Newspaper
Week an important factor in
American-Jewish public r e 1 a-
tions. We sincerely hope that
organizations, synagogues a n d
schools will - devote meetings,
sermons and school sessions to
HOWARD W. PALMER.
discussions of our press during
English-Jewish publishers' as- National Press Week."
sociation is one of the co-spon-
Howard W. Palmer, of Syra-
sors of National Newspaper cuse, N.Y., manager of the New
York Press Association, is chair-
Week.
Jacobs announced that Na- man of the 1949 National Press
tional Newspaper Week will be Week.
marked by newspapers through-
out the land from Oct. 1 to 8. US Officials Presented
"Freedom Goes Where the News- Israel Economy Report
paper Goes . ' is the 1949 slogan
for National Newspaper Week,
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A re-
according to Jacobs.
view of economic conditions in
Philip Slomovitz, editor and Israel was presented to the State
publisher of The Jewish News, Department by Moshe Witkon,
president of the American As- new economic counsellor of the
sociation of English-Jewish Israeli embassy. Witkon was in-
Newspapers, declared in a sup- troduced in the State Depart-
ment by Ambassador Eliahu
Elath and conferred with George
McGhee, Assistant Secretary of
State for Near Eastern Affairs.

Poland Retains Bar
On Jews' Migrations

Direct JTA Teletype Wires
to The Jewish
JERUSALEM.—Although the
Polish government has lifted its
ban on the migration of Polish
Jews to Israel; the number of
immigrants leaving Israel will be
lifnited in the beginning. the
Jewish Agency announced Tues-
day. In informed circles it was
asserted that the Polish gov-
ernment still maintains restric-
tions on the granting of exit vi-
sas to Polish Jews.
The return of the Jewish capi-
tal to Jerusalem is not only a
historical necessity but also a
"contemporary national necessi-
ty," Premier David Ben Gurion
told an annual meeting of the
Jerusalein Chamber of Com-
merce. Ben Gurion insisted that
the Jews had every right to the
city, not only on the basis of
history and Biblical promise, but
because Jewish arms had de-
fended Jerusalem during the
recent war. He added that the
city's problems were economic
and strategic as well as political.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
spokesman for the Soviet Em-
bassy here said that a report
that Jews from Bukovina and
Bessarabia were sent to Arctic
concentration camps was "as
fantastic as many stories of that
kind."
A spokesman for the Roman-
lan embassy here attempted to
shift the inquiry to the Soviet
government, pointing out that
the province of North Bukovina
was administered not. by Rom-
ania but by the USSR. He sug-
gested that if the report was
true, the Jews involved were
probably from North Bukovina,
hence Romania could not be ex-
pected to account for their fate.
The spokesman said he thought
the whole story was untrue.

Due to the Labor Day holiday Sept. 5, the deadline for
The Jewish News edition of Friday, Sept. 9, has been
advanced to 12 noon Friday, Sept. 2, for all copy and
photographs. They may be mailed or delivered to The
Jewish News office, 2114 Penobscot Bldg. .0

Jewish Volunteers Join
In Award Presentation

hours or more of work to social
services since May, 1948.
Tickets to the ceremony are
available to volunteers at the
Three members of the Jewish
Central Volunteer Bureau. - TB.
community are members of the 1-1600.
Volunteer Committee of the
Council of Social Agencies which
is sponsoring the annual presen-
tation of awards for volunteer
service at 9:30 p.m., Monday,
No Contract Necesary
Sept. 19, at the Fox Theatre.
Prices Reduced
.
Mrs. Benjamin Jaffe, Mrs. Ju-
Special Price to Those
lius Gilbert and Mrs. Theodore
Who Fill Tanks Now
Bargman are members of the
committee who will be on hand to
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greet the 5,000 volunteers who
serve in Metropolitan Detroit's
social service agencies.
24-Hour Phone Service
Awards are being made to all
volunteers who have given 100
TR. 1-4804

FUEL OIL

Joe Sinai

Israel, India Exchange
Independence Day Cables

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—On India's
Independence Day, last week,
Israel Foreign Minister Moshe
Sharett cabled Prime Minister
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, say-
ing that Israel, reestablished in
its ancient home as a free and
independent nation, is anxious
to take its rightful place in the
family of Asiatic countries.
Sharett received a cable from
the Indian Foreign Ministry ex-
pressing thanks and apprecia-
Glenn Curtis piloted an air- tion for his message. This was
plane called the June Bug on interpreted in some circles as
the first public flight of a mile India's semi-de facto recogni-
tion of Israel.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Reports in the United States.
that" Jews in Bessarabia • and
Soviet Bukovina were deported
en masse to Siberia last month
after they registered for emigra-
tion to Israel were made known
on the basis of private letters
reaching here.
According to the letters, Soviet
authorities in Kishinev and
Czernowitz announced on July
1 that Jews •wishing to emigrate
to Israel could register with the
local authorities. The majority
of the Jewish population of the
two cities, as well as Jews in
all towns of Bessarabia and Soy-
iet Bukovina, immediately regis-
tered for migration to the Jew-
ish. state.
The letters report that be-
tween July 10-20, all Jews who
had registered their desire to
proceed to Israel were packed
in specially-prepared railway
coaches and dispatched to the
Murmansk area, in the Arctic,
which allegedly had been ear-
marked as a new concentration
area for all Jews ejected from
towns located on the Russian-
Romanian border.
The letters add that panic is
spreading in Bessarabia and in
the Romanian part of Bukovina
among Jews who had been .pre-
paring to emigrate to Israel and
who remained "paralyzed" fol-
lowing the prohibition on emi-
gration. Many months have
elapsed since Israel relatives of
Jews in Bessarabia and Buko-
vina have received any mail
from those areas, it was noted
here. •

Claim Russian Jews
Signed for Israel
Exiled to Siberia

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