Histadrut Drive In Final Weeks ;
Celler to Address Public Rally

The Honorable . Emanuel Cel-
ler, chairman of the judiciary
committee of the House of Rep-
resentatives will address a -city-
Wide Histadrut meeting at 8:30
p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26, at the
Northwest Synagogue. The Jew-
ish community is invited.
The gathering is being called
by the Detroit Israel Histadrut
Campaign, entering the final
weeks of its $300,000 drive, to
acquaint Detroit Jews with the
Urgent problems facing Israel
and to present the objective
facts of Histadrut's contribution
in the development of the Jew-
ish State.
Congressman Celler, a mem-
ber of the United States Con-
gress for 26 years, spearheaded
forces seeking to remedy the
plight of the Jews in Europe as
early as 1937. He urged the set-
tling up of UNRRA after the
war, and is presently pressing
legislation to liberalize the pro-
visions of the Displaced Persons
Act of 1948.
Campaign totals and enthusi-
asm were boosted by the re-
sponse of more than 250 listen-
ers to the Hista.drut radio pro-
gram-on station WJLB last Sat-
urday evening, who answered
Louis Levine's appealing with
contributiohs ranging from $5
up to $50.

The workers' rally of Thurs-
day evening, March 2, at the
Labor Zionist Institute, will wel-
come back the Histadrut cam-
paign founder and leader, Mor-
ris L. Schaver who has been
away from the city because of
illness.
An urgent call went out from
the organization division to all
affiliated groups to complete
their work before the campaign
closes on March 19.
Reports submitted by organ-
izations at the last rally includ-
ed David Horodoker Aid, Philip
Shkolnick; Israel Club, Harry
Dermer; Rovner , Progressive,
Sam Bassin; . Jewish Women's
Mutual Aid, Mrs. Kaplan, and
Skverer Society, William Par-
man.
Morris Kane, Histadrut chair-
man of Branch 6, Labor Zion-
ists, announced that his work-
ers had gone over the $4,500
mark of last year. Branch 10,
LZOA, also reported exceeding
its last year's figure of $3,600.
Branch 137, Farband, with al-
most $80,000 already reported,
raised $5,000 for the week, with
solicitations led by J. M. Singer,
Norman Cottler, Henry Strub,
Moritz Schubiner, Harry Schu-
mer, Max Lieberman and 25
other workers.

Call WA National Mobilization
To Launch $272,455,800 Campaign

NEW YORK—A national mo-
bilization meeting of Jewish
leaders from all parts of the
country to inaugurate the cam-
paign program for the 1950
United Jewish Appeal for $272,-
455,800 will be held at the Sax-
ony Hotel at Miami Beach, Fla.,

I thousands of Jews who have
been brought to Israel during
the past year and hundreds of
thousands of others who are
still in the Moslem lands and
Eastern Europe.
The agencies of the UJA
which carry on these humani-
tarian activities are the United
Palestine Appeal, the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee and the
United Service for New Ameri-
cans.

UJA Drive Priority
Urged by N.Y
Y. Rabbis

J. HOWARD McGRATH

on Sunday, Feb. 26, it was an-
nounced by Henry Morgenthau,
Jr., UJA general chairman.
Principal speakers will be At-
torney Gen. J. Howard McGrath
and Drew Pearson, columnist
and radid commentator.
Morgenthau explained the pur-
pose of the conference would be
to"establish standards for the
campaign, on whose outcome de-
pends the future of hundreds of

Israel Industrial
Research Aide to
Address Technion

Harry Tabor, head of the in-
strument division of the re-
search Council of Israel, will ad-
.dress the Detroit chapter of
American Technion Society,
Wednesday, March 1, at the En-
gineering Society rooms in the
Rackham Bldg. His topic will be
"Applied Science in Israel."
A native of England, Tabor
was active in Jewish .youth work
and spent 10 years in research
and development work on .tcien-
the and industrial instruments
and in the theory of automatic
control.
He spent the last year living
in Israel, working for the devel-
opnient of a scientific instru-
ment industry.
Tabor is in the United States
to supervise purchase of $1,000,-
000 worth of scientific equip-
ment for Israel, for which Tech-
pion already has allocated $400,-
000.

NEW YORK, "(JTA)—The New
York Board of Rabbis, at its 69th
annual meeting adopted a reso-
lution declaring "the United
Jewish Appeal should have pri-
ority among the philanthropic
campaigns of American Jewry."
The board is comprised of 425
Orthodox, Conservative and Re-
form rabbis from New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut and
Pennsylvania.
The board also endorsed Pres-
ident Truman's civil rights pro-
gram and lauded the aims of
the FEPC.
The present large-scale im-
migration of Jews to Israel, the
board stated in another resolu-
tion, "places an inescapable re-
sponsibility upon every Ameri-
can Jew to give generous finan-
cial assistance towards provid-
ing for housing, care, education
and employment."

Women to Take Action
On Retailing Practices
For Passover Foods

20—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 24, 1950

Ben Gurion Assails Absentees

UN Information
Aide Speaks Here

Orthodox Bloc Shuns
Extraordinary Sessions

Benjamin A. Cohen, assistant
secretary-general of the United
Special Teletype' Wires to the Jewish News
Nations in charge of the depart-
ment of public information, will
JERUSALEM—The Israel parliament Tuesday heard
address a meeting to be held Preniier David Ben Gurion's statement on the boycott of

cabinet sessions by Orthodox ministers. He reported that the
cabinet meeting in extraordinary session—adopted a reso-
lution to effect that a minister who absents himself from
meetings of the government or fails to carry out any of its

decisions shall be regarded as-t>
having resigned. Ben Gurion did I they would attend Wednesday's
not ask the Knesset to debate i meeting, the crisis in the cabi-
the matter but it was free to do net is actually solved.
so if it so wishes. The Knesset,
Leaves .Sickbed -
by majority vote, decided to re-
ler the cabinet resolution on col-
Ben Gurion left his sickbed
lective responsibility to Knes- Monday to address the Parlia-
set's legal and constitution corri- ment. In a 100 minute address
he urged the Parliament not to
mittee.
Refrain From Attending
press for adoption of a consti-
The Orthodox members of the tution since the "law already laid
cabinet had abstained from at- down in Israel's declaration of
tending Tuesday's session. It is independence of May 14, 1948,
understood that the cabinet de- assures the civil, political and
cided to uphold the principle of religious rights and freedom of
collective responsibility for the every citizen without distinction
government's policy.
as to race, creed or sex."
The religious bloc indicated
Ben Gurion argued further
that, although Orthodox mem- that the Jewish State's consti-
bers of the cabinet boycotted tution should not be "mechani-
Tuesday's • extraordinary meet- cally copied from other coun-
ing, they would attend Wednes- tries, since there are constitu-
day's meeting at which the con- tional states without freedom."
troversial issue of religious ed-
Minister of Social Welfare
ucation in immigrant camps Rabbi I. M. Lewin, leader of the
will be taken up.
Agudah, -also advocated non-
Informed circles consider that adoption of a constitution unless
since Orthodox members said it is based on Mosaic law.

.

BENJAMIN A. COHEN

under the auspices of the Mich-
igan Council of the American
Jewish Congress at 8:30 p.m.,
Thursday, March 2, at the De-
troit Art Institute. His subject
will be, "The Only Channel for
Peace—The United Nations."
After serving for 11 years as
a reporter, city editor and asso-
ciate chief editor on several
dailies in Chile, Cohen held nu-
merous diplomatic posts for the
Chilean government.
Besides the conferences
in which he participated as a
Chilean. Diplomatic Officer, Co-
hen served as an international
official in commissions and ar-
bitrations and as secretary, in-
terpreter and delegate in numer-
ous international conferences.
He has been a member of the
faculty- of the School of Foreign
Service in Georgetown Univer-
sity.
In 1945 he was loaned by the
Chilean Government to the In-
ternational Secretariat of the
United Nations.
Early in 1946, ne was appoint-
ed to his present post.

Haifa Harbor to Be Expanded
Into Major Mediterranean Port

HAIFA— ( JTA )—Communi-
The congestion in the port of
cations Minister David Remez Haifa is due to the present peak
this week announced the first in the loading of .the citrus crop
for export to Britain and else-
stage of a plan for the eventual where, the arrival of a great
conversion of Haifa into one of deal of material purchased in
the largest ports on the Medi- the U.S. under terms of the
loan and the recent bad weather
terranean Sea.
which held up all port opera-
The first phase, Remez said, tions for several days. Citrus
will be the construction of a loadings are proceeding at the
new quay and the addition' of rate of 250,000 cases a week.
grain and new facilities for
handling passengers and for the Shipping Between Italian Port
loading and unloading of cargo. And Israel Doubles in Year
—This stage will cost approxi-
mately $7,000,000, he added.
ROME — (JTA) — Shipping
Charles Crooks, member of the trade between the port of Tries-
ECA staff in Paris, has filed a te and Israel was more than
memorandum with the Israel twice as large in the first 10
government advising it on the months of 1949 as for the same
most efficient and economical period in 1948, according to sta-
manner of using harbor equip- tistics released today. A total of
ment purchased from the United 450,090 tonieof goods were ship-
StateS in the congested port of ped from Trieste to Israel dur-
"Council 'Round the Clock," a Haifa. The equipment was pur- ing 1948, while shinments in the
day's presentation of education chased with funds from the first 10 months of 1949 totalled
and entertainment, is being of- American $100,000,000 loan.
900,000 tons.
fered to members of the Detroit
Section, National Council of
Jewish Women, at the Jewish
Community Center on Wood-
ward,• on Monday, March 6.
With Mrs. William Isenberg
as program chairman the as-
pects of the day are being ar-
ranged -by Mesdames Oscar
Schwartz, A. Joseph Seltzer and
Alexander Sanders.
"Peppy-World Citizen," a pup-
pet show -by Carol and James
Tait, will be shown at 10:30 a.m.
in Butzel Hall.
Tw6 special sessions will be
offered at -11:30, by the United
Nations and contemporary Jew-
ish- affairs committees. Boris M.
Joffe, executive director of the
Jewish Community Council, will
speak on duplication of energies
and work among Jewish .organ-
izations. Mrs. William Haber
will address the second meeting,
which will consider the United
Nations, Israel, and the general
world Situation.
Following luncheon, which will
be served in the auditorium at
1 p.m., Mrs. Moishe S. Cahn, of
NeW Orleans, vice president of
the national organization, will
speak. She will be presented by
Mrs. Dan Krouse, vice president
in charge of program. Mrs. Lew-
is B. Daniels, president of the
section, will preside.,
As the Middle East experienced its worst winter in more

Council Section
Schedules All-Day
Education Parley

On Feb. 28, a dessert lunch-
eon of the Jewish CoMmunity
Council's Women's Committee
on Consumer Problems will be
held at the home of Mrs. Sam-
uel Aaron, 2276 Oakman Blvd.
This committee was largely in-
strumental in obtaining agree-
ment from the Kosher Butchers'
Association on the posting of
prices in Kosher butcher shops.
The meeting will inaugurate
activities towards correcting al-
leged Passover ► abuses. Informa-
tion concerning prices on gro-
cery products for the holiday,
as well as "labeling" on Pass-
over products will be distribut-
ed. Presidents and delegates of
women's organizations have
been invited.
Mrs. William Cohen is chair- Tour Israel to Assess
man of the committee,• and Mrs. Damages from Snow Storm
Samuel Aaron is co-chairman.
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A govern-
ment commission is touring the
An average of 80,000 copies of country assessing damages to
the Bible, the world's best-sell- crops caused by the severe snow
ing book, are sold every day.
and ice storm.

Victim of Israel's Worst Winter

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than 50 years, this Yemenite Jewish boy sees his first snow.
He is standing barefoot in eight-below-zero weather at the
Ras El Ayn camp, where tents for 85,000 immigrants have
been set up. The youngster is one of more than 40,000 boys
from Yemen, who were recently removed to the New State of
Israel with the help of the United Jewish Appeal.

