How National Organizations Are Reducing Staffs and Expenses Read Smolar's Column On Page 2 'SA7 ISII NEWS A Weekly R eview fif of Jewish Events VOLUME 16—No. 20 708-10 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit 26, Michigan, January 27, 1950 Moscow Curbs Soviet Jews' Interest in Israel Expose on Page 24 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c 2 Billion Heirless German-Jewish Property Mayfle Shifted itqlsrael Direct JTA Teletype Wired to Jewish News 'J ERUSALEM—The Jewish Agency executive appointed a five-man com- mittee to investigate the possibility of transferring Jewish heirless and corn- munal property from Germany and other European countries to Israel. Dr. Nathum Goldmann, chairman of the American section of the Agency, will head the body. Jewish heirless property in Germany 'alone is estimated at about $2,000,- 000,000. The estimate is somewhat less for Poland and other countries in Europe. Advocates in Israel of the transfe r of heirless property to Israel claim that the Jewish state can be built even if only a . part of this property is ob- tained. Their opponents argue that the -`transfer means helping Germany through receiving German goods. The newly appointed committee will seek to find a solution acceptable to both clamps. Ikrael Orchestra in U. S. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will visit. the United States for a lirnited nationwide tour of 10 weeks beginning in January, 1951, it was announced by S. HUROK (front, left), con- cert manager, and EDWARD A. NORMAN, (front, right), president of American Fund for Israel Institutions which has been aiding the Israel Symphony since 1942. The 95 orche- stra members will fly from Israel foi- their U. S. concerts. PAUL PARAY, (standing; right), eminent French conduc- tor, and LEONARD BERNSTEIN (standing, left) , both of whom have conducted the orchestra in Israel, will lead-the ensemble for a portion of their concerts in this country. - The committee will investigate what part of the property can be utilized \ here and how it will affect -Israel's economy. -- Dr. Israel Goldstein, former treasurer of the Jewish Agency, revealed that 25,000 claims for Jewish heirless and communal property have already been filed in the AMerican zone. of Germany. The Agency, he said, may receive "many millions of pounds from these sources in the form of prefabricated houses and other items needed in Is- rael, but it will take time." , Plan Erection of 133 New Settlements The Israel - Cabinet and the Jewish Agency met jointly to discuss problems con- cerning immigration, absorption of Immigrants and financial relationships between the two bodies. It was decided that _wider - pdlitical issues should not be discussed now, but post- poned until a plan—drafted by the American section of the Agency---on, the future role of the Zionist movement in the light of the establishment of Israel has been discussed by Zionist leaders through the world. The Agency's agricultural department has worked out a plan for the erection of 133 new settlements, of which 35 will be peopled exclusively by immigrants and 21 will concentrate on the production of olives under the Agency's plan to revitalize the olive growing industry. Forty-two of the settlements will be established by chalutzim and veterans, while 35 settlements will be composed of persons who will support them- selves partly on the land arid partly by industrial labor. s A special investigating committee composed of ranking officials of the Israel Education Ministry has reached the conclusion that reports that immigration camp personnel are interfering with the religious life and education of Orthodox children in the camps are • unfounded. Education Minister S. Z. Shazar, who is taking a keen interest_ in the situation, ordered the investigation. Crum Returning From Israel to Report at JNF Event on Sunday AFL Leaders at ORT: During the re- cent visit of DAVID DUBINSKY (center) president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and MAT- THEW WO•L (left) , vice-president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, to Europe for the first meeting of the In- ternational Confederation of Free Trade Unions,- these prom- inent trade union leaders visited the ORT. (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training) Montreuil School in Paris. The building for the school was donated to ORT 6\1 the ILGWU. Mr. Woll, and Mr. Dubinsky are watching an ORT trainee in the carpentry course. Bartley C. Crum, U. S. member of the. Anglo-American Committee. of Inquiry on Palestine who in.. the past three years has been one of the staunchest supporters of the cause of a redeemed Jewish state, was in Israel this week on a special mis- sion regarding the future status of Jeru- salem. within the UN orbit. Mr. Crum is returning from Israel in time to address the annual donor rally of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Jewish National Fund of Detroit, at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, in the main auditorium of the Masonic Temple. He brings with him an important message regarding the latest developments in Is- rael. All donors and their escorts are urged to attend this important rally. Story on Page6; Editorial, Page 4; Special JNF. Supplement, Pages 11-14 A Hassid in Israel: A typical scene in the one-time Arab village of Safariya is this bearded Hassid, en- gaged in the laborious work of road-building. He is one of the 280 Hassidim who_ recently came to Israel from Russia., to establish a self-sufficient community where there were only desolation and the ruins of war a few months ago. American Jewry, through contributions to the United Jewish APpeal, has made this projectpossible. Details of Transfer of Israel Offices to Jerusalem • TEL AVIV—An official announce-, ment issued by the Lsrael Government said that the transfer of government of- Bees from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is con- tinuing systematically and that so far several ministries have already been fully transferred. The transfer of the Premier's office, - the Ministries of Communications, Justice and Education is nearing completion, the announcement said. It added that next week the transfer of the Ministries of Interior, Immigration, Police and Labor will begin. Tlie Comptroller's. Office will also be moved next week to Jerusalem, as will the government broadcasting studios. Remaining in Tel Aviv for the pres- ent will be the President's. Office, Foreign. Office, Defense Ministry, Tourist Bureau, Continued on Page 6 UN in Holy Land: Four Mixed Armistice Commissions, each with a' United Nations' representative as chairman, are helping Israel and her neighbors maintain the peace they agreed upon more than a year ago. Above, MAC members look over the ruins of a tank. At right, they super- vise the reclamation of soldiers' bodies from unmarked desert graves where they were temporarily buried. , LILL