Service Group Begins Work Early • -
To Avoid Community Complacency

Response to a letter sent to all
trade and professional workers
in the 1949 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign has revealed that there is
general feeling that "the conn-
ing year will bring greater, prob-
lems to our Jewish community
and to the infant democracy of
Israel, which will require the
best possible leadership we can
muster," according to Irving W.
Blumberg, president of the De-
troit Service Group.
The Service Group, fund-rais-
ing arm of the' Jewish Welfare
Federation, invited workers to
send in nominations for officers
in all trade and professional
divisions, in preparation • for
elections to be held early in
November.
The quotation was taken from
one of many spontaneous com-
mentS from active workers, in-
dicating that the men and
women who are instrumental in
raising $5,300,000, the second-
largest total in Detroit's Jewish
philanthropic history, are con-
cerned over "signs of compla-
cency, not only in our own Fed-

. THE JEWISH NEWS

AMPAL Takes • Control
Of Purchasing Service

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Com-

plete control of the Palestine
Purchasing Service, Inc. has
been assumed by AMPAL-
American Palestine Trading
Corporation — through the
purchase of all the outstand-
ing P.P.S. stock, it was an-
nounced by Ralph Wechsler,
president, and S. A. Dickler,
manager of the Palestine Pur-
chasing Service.
Organized in 1945, the Pal-
estine Purchasing Service has
grown rapidly with the ever-
increasing needs of Israel.
The over-all trade total for
the four years of the com-
pany's existence exceeds $30,-
000,000 in purchases in the
United States. Recently it
placed an-order with General
Motors Tor approximately $3,-
600,000 for trucks, automo-
biles, spare parts and service
equipment.

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Open House This Sunday to Mark
Halevy Music Center's Completion

LZOA to Hear Ilan
At Sept. 15 Rally

eration but in communities
throughout the nation," Blum-
berg added.
It is because the year ahead
The Labor Zionist organiza-
is another decisive one. both for
Jews overseas and here at home, tion and its affiliates will open
that the Detroit Service Group the fall season with a rally at
year-round organization has be-
gun functioning early,,Blumberg
said. Nominations from workers
are helping to arrive at the best
possible leadership fOr 1949-50,
and serve as a demonstration
of broadly-based interest in
community affairs.
Plans for an intensive collec-
tion drive, to raise immediate
cash payments for housing in
Israel and pressing local needs,
were discussed by the Detroit
Service Group executive com-
mittee at a meeting this week,
Gus D. Newman, chairman, an-
nounced.
Other membefs of the execu-
tive committee, are Sidney Alex-
ander, Ben B. Fenton, Harvey H.
Goldman, Abe Kasle, Ben L.
Silberstein, Leonard N. Simons,
George M. Stutz, and Esther R.
Prussian, executive director.
BEN ZION ILAN

Bnai, Brith Officers' Training Institute
To Be Held All Day Sunday at Tuller

Sunday, Sept. 11 will be Bnai
Brith Institute Day at the tul-
ler Hotel. Registration begins
at 9:30 a.m. for the all-day
affair. Each Institute will com-
mence at 10 a. m. and will be
held for two hour periods.

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Friday, September. 9, 1949

The purpose of the all day
conference is to acquaint of-
ficers and committee chairmen
with the specific duties of their
office, and to bring them up to
date on Bnai Brith activities.
The Institute is conducted un-
der the aus pices: of the Greater
Detroit Bnai Brith Council, with
president Dr. Lawrence I. Yaffa
in charge.
All presidents, financial and
recording secretaries,- treasurers,
lodge deputies, bowlers and
chairmen of the following corn-
mittees will participate: ADL,
BBYO, conservation, Hillel, in-
doctrination, membership, pro-
gram, .publicity, veterans' af-
fairs, vocational service.
Those •who have not as yet
done so, are urged to phone the
Council office, WO. 3-7838, to
make their luncheon reserva-
tions.

8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, at
the Labor Zionist Institute, Lin-
wood at Pasadena.
Guest speaker will be Ben Zion
Ilan, ZiOnist leader who is famil-
iar to Detroiters as the speaker
at the Israel anniversary rally
last May at the Coliseum. His
topic at the LZOA rally will be
"Israel and the Labor Zionist
Movement Today."
Participating organizations in-
clude all LZOA branches, the
Farband, Pioneer Women's Or-
ganization and Habonim.

A public open house to mark
the completion of the new Ha-
levy Music Center will be held
from 2 to 6 p. m., Sunday, Sept.
11. The newly-completed music
center is located at 13965 Lin-
wood, corner Fleet, near the
Parkman library:
It consists of an auditorium,
a radio broadcasting control
room, a music library and an
office. Halevy on the Air will
broadcast from this center and
the Halevy Society will hold its
rehearsals there beginning in
October.
The reception committee for
the open house, appointed by
Dr. William Klein, president, is
as follows: Aaron 8andweiss,
chairman; Mrs. Esther Levy,
Mrs. Anna Warren, Mrs. Edith
Reznick, Mrs. Gertrude Levine,
Mrs. Paul Masserman, Mrs. Eve-
lyn Milley, Mr. and Mrs. Benish,

Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Mirten-
baum, Mr. and. Mrs. Irving Pia-
nin, Mr. and Mrs. N. Raskin and
Mr. and Mrs. I. Woodrow.
Julius Chajes will again direct
the Halevy chorus. The coming
year will mark the 25th year of
Ha,levy's founding and plans are
now being made to celebrate the
silver anniversary. An orchestra
and a Jewish drama group are
also contemplated by Halevy.

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were built of thick planks in-.
stead of logs as is generally be-
lieved.

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Wishes to announce tp the public at large that prepara-
tions for the observance of the High Holy Days are under-
way. Reservations for seats can be made in person .at
the Congregation Office, Daily from 6 to 9 p.m.' and
also by calling TE. 4-0777.

With New'Year Greetings,

I. Rosenberg, Pres., H. Citrin, Vice-Pres.,
A.•Goroff, Sec.

Minister from Argentina
Arrives in Jewish State

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Argentina's
Minister to Israel, Dr. Pablo
Manguel, arrived at Lydda air-
port where he was met by the
deputy chief of proctocol and
Jacob Neviaski, secretary of the
Argentine legation.

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Ress Sees Conservative
Policy Rising in Israel

JWV Condemns Race
Abuse in Peekskill
Anti-Robeson Riot

National headquarters of the
Jewish War Veterans of the
United States is investigating
the extent to which Westchester
County members of . the organi-
zp,tion had been involved in vio-
lence at Peekskill, N.Y.
Ben Kaufman, national execu-
tive director, in a statement on
behalf of JWV National Com-
mander Myer Dorfman of St.
Paul, Minn., who was attending
the American- Legion conven-
tion in Philadelphia, said JWV
policy forbids picketing and
similar public demonstrations by
members without the organiza-
tion's sanction. He added that
if investigation shows this pol-
- icy has been violated, discipli-
nary action will be taken against
JWV members involved.
If Westchester County mem-
bers had asked for permission
to join in the demonstration
against the contemplated ap-
pearance of Paul Robeson in
Peekskill, "that permission
would have been denied," Mr.
Kaufman said. He continued:
"We disagree emphatically
with Paul Robeson's personal
political views. But we believe
with equal conviction that the
violence and racial and religious
abuses manifested at the Peek-
skill demonstration are far more
destructive of American dem-
ocracy than any song Mr. Robe-
son might have sung, or any
speech he might have made."

NEW YORK — CHARLES
RESS, 'president of the Keren
Hayesod (Palestine Founda-
tion Fund, Inc.) returning
from a three week visit to Is-
rael, forecasts more conserva-
tive policy on the part of the
Israel - Government, that will
encourage private investments
in that country.

German Police Shoot
Munich Riot Victims

WASHINGTON — (JTA) —
Victims of the recent demon-
stration in Munich were shot
in the back by German police
as they attempted to flee, it
was revealed in affidavits re-
ceived by Bnai Brith head-
quarters here, obtained by
Saul Joftes, director of the
Bnai Brith European office in
Paris, who was sent to Mun-
ich to investigate the inci-
dent.
Two Jews who were shot in
the back while fleeing Ger-
man police made swozn state-
ments to the Bnai Brith.
They were Benjamin flaring,
39, and Leib Ribach, 29,
natives of Poland, who dic-
tated their testimony from
hospital beds. Both men es-
capes'. gassing by the Nazis
during the war.

If you haven't received your
key by mail—it will be wait-
ing for you at the store. No

purchase necessary.

