HE JEWISH NEWS Guest Editorial: Expansion of Center Movement A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Philip Slomovitz Tells of Hadassah Work In Israel Page 24 See Page 4 VOLUME 16—No. 8 708-10 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit 26, Michigan, Nov. 4, 1949 7 $3.00 Per. Year; Single Copy, 10c Israel's Problems Grow As Flow of Refugees Puts Population Near Million fission' 'Crisis Returns, to Tell Of Israel's Needs By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Exclusive Cables from Israel, Combined With Special Teletype Service and Jewish Telegraphic Agency Dispatches TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — With the population of the new Jewish State nearing the million mark, an accomplishment expected to be celebrated by Hanukah, the government of Israel, the Jewish Agency and the United Jewish Appeal are desperately seeking to empty the refugee camps here and to place the newcomers into gainful accupations. Major barrier toward this end is housing—o etting the 100,000 'campers' b into what will be to the vast majority their first homes since the outbreak of the war in Europe. And yet they pour onto the shores of Israel, the only nation ready and willing to accept refugees without restrictions. "Let them come, we'll give them a home," appears to be the real democratic spirit of Israel. Last week approximately 5,000 arrived in the Jewish homeland. That ap- pears to be the average weekly figure on new arrivals. Few have anyone to go to immediately, and those who don't must then go to one of the refugee camps here. There are more than 90,000, with the prospect that the camp population will reach 110,000 by the first of the year. Israel will receive $2,500,000 from the International Refugee Organization to finance the permanent care of aged, sick and handicapped Jewishrefugees, , . DR. Chaim Weizmann, (in light coat) Israel's President, welcomes the Mission on its visit to Israel (left to right) HENRY MONTOR, direct- or of the UJA; MELVIN DUBINSKY, St. Louis; JOSEPH MAZER, New York; SOL LUCKMAN, Cincinnati; CHARLES BENDER; HENRY BERNSTEIN, Executive Vice-President of UJA of Greater New York; JULIAN B. VENESKY, Peoria, III.; DR. WEIZMANN, SAMUEL ROTH- BERG, also of Peoria, MRS. JOSEPH MEYERHOFF, Baltimore; HARRY GREENSTEIN of Baltimore, Adviser on Jewish Affairs to the U. S. High Commissioner in Germany; MR, AND MRS. JACK D. WEILER, New York, and JOSEPH MEYERH'OFF, Baltimore. Isidore Sobeloff, director of the - Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, was a member of the Mission. NEW YORK, (JTA)—The "Crisis Mission" of the United Jewish Appeal, which has been in Israel conferring with leaders of the gov- ernment on the immigration crisis in that country and the extent of aid that will be required in 1950 from American Jews, arrived at Idlewild Airport Oct. 25. The group will report their survey at the UJA national conference in Atlantic City, Nov. 25-27, which will blueprint plans for the 1950 community campaigns on behalf of the UJA. , While in -Israel, the Jewish communal leaders from major cities in the East and Middle West conferred with President Chaim Weiz- mann; Premier David Ben Gurion and other top officials. They were informed that unless large-scale assistance from the United States, through the United Jewish Appeat is forthcoming in 1950, the entire immigration program in the Jewish state faces collapse. • EDITOR'S NOTE—Mr. Slomovitz' semi-weekly air express package of copy from Israel, which includes background for his last minute cables to The Jewish News, is believed to have been destroyed- in the tragic crash of Air France's Constella- tion in the Azores last Friday morning, taking the lives of 48 persons, two bound for Detroit. it was announced. The funds will be used to further an extensive buildino - pro- b gram in Israel to care for the so-called "hard core" cases among displaced persons. In a recent poll by the Public Opinion Research Institute it was found that three-quarters of all Israelis are opposed to any sort of restrictions on the continued immigration of Jewish r efugees to this country. Perhaps the economic situation at the present time has thrown a scare into the anti-immigration supporters. The present standard of living of the Israel worker is in great danger, Premier David Ben Gurion told a special meeting of members of Mapai labor councils. The parley was called to answer attacks on the Histadrut executive for agreeing to government requests for a secotad cut in the cost of living bonus. Ben Gurion pointed out that during the last year the national income was - only 200,000,000 pounds, the equivalent of $45 per month per person. The pur- chasing power of the Israel pound is only half that of the pound sterling, he said. (Both are pegged at the same value in relation to the dollar—$2.80). Unless the productivity of the individual worker increases and production and export increases, the value of Israel's currency will drop, the Premier warned the delegates from the various Mapai groups. At (Continued on Page 6) Wayne Accepts Temple Beth El Gift To Honor Dr. Franklin's Memory A .program for the ad- vancement of human rela- tions, named in honor of a Detroit citizen known widely for his humanitarianism and understanding, has been es- tablished through action of the board of trustees of Tem- pleBeth El and of the De- troit Board of Education in providing for a "Leo .M. Franklin Chair in Human Relations" at Wayne Univer- sity. Dr. David D. Henry, Wayne president, who has been au- thorized by the Board of Ed- ucation to complete plans for the project, pointed out that this is the first memorial chair provided. for Wayne University. "We are grateful to the sponsors for selecting Wayne as the medium through which to honor the memory of one of Detroit's outstand- ing citizens," he said. Rabbi Franklin died in Au- gust, 1948, after 42 years at Temple Beth El. He had been. twice president of the Public Library Commission, a mem- ber of the boards of the Detroit Symphony Society, the Civic Theater Association, the Ford Republic, and the LATE DR. FRANKLIN League of Nations Associa- lion. He had received the honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, from Wayne in 1940 and a Citation "for distin- guished living" from the De- troit Round Table of Catho- lics, Jews, and Protestants. Establishment - of a fund for the Memorial Chair was approved by the Temple's Board of Trustees and re- ported by Beth El's president, Nate S. Shapero. Creation of a Memorial Gifts Committee, to be in charge of the funds and to be headed by Martin Butzel, Detroit attorney, also was reported by Mr. Shapero. A tentative plan calls for a Wayne University professor to be named the Leo M. Franklin Memorial Professor in Human Relations each April and for . the occupancy of the chair to begin the fol- lowing Septembek.. The honor would carry an annual stipend of $1,000 over and above the professor's sal- ary, and the recipient would be given a lighter academic load so he could carry for- ward research or lecturing activities. A five - member board designated by the pres- ident of Wayne would select the professor, basing the choice upon teaching, re- search, or community activity in the field of human rela- tions: Under the. plan, Wayne would present annually a lec- ture series known as the "Leo M. Franklin Memorial Lec- tures in Human Relations." The series would include ad- dresses by the memorial pro- fessor, and by four other lec- turers selected by him. ! Israeli s br u it : . —International Soundnhoto 1", A-1 AMBASSADOR ELIAHU ELATH I srae l - presents to PRESIDENT TRUMAN a silver ark to hold the Torah which Israel President Chaim Weizmann presented to the Chief Executive early this year. The envoy made the presentation in Washington in behalf of Dr. Weizmann.