Campaign Gets $1,250,000 Advance Gifts
Eddie Cantor Inspires Allied
Drive Special Gifts Meeting
THE EYES HAVE IT! The Allied Jewish Campaign gath-
ering last Monday was electrified by EDDIE CANTOR'S appeal
for the United Jewish Appeal, for Israel and the oppressed
who are being settled in the Jewish state; and by his.show-
manship. At Eddie's table at Hotel Statler on Monday were,
round the clock: MRS. EDDIE (IDA) CANTOR, MRS. LOUIS
BERRY, MR. BERRY, MRS. ISIDORE SOBELOFF, MR. SOBEL-
OFF, MRS. ABE SRERE, JULIAN H. KROLIK, MRS. KROLIK,
RABBI LEON FRAM.
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Detroit Jewry's retention of an honored place among
the communities of this land which always live up to their
responsibilities to Israel, -to overseas relief, to local and
national causes, seemed assured on Monday evening, when
the sum of nearly $1,250,000 was announced as having been
raised in initial gifts towards the 1950 Allied Jewish
Campaign. •()
This sum, of which more than Hopp as chairman of the wo-
$100,000 is the women's first men's division and Mrs. Harry
share in the drive, was sub- Becker as head of the women's
scribed at a dinner at Hotel pre-campaign effort.
Statler. Eddie Cantor, one of the
Cantor told with pride of his
greatest showmen of our time, participation in campaigns in
and his wife, Ida, were guests Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cincin-
nati and bther cities, and of the
of honor.
The evening was made mem- happiness he derived from the
orable by the "total perform- 40th - anniversary-on-the-stage
ance" of the great actor. Eddie one-man show he gave on March
Cantor did more than deliver a 21 at Carnegie Hall, New York.
speech. He told stories, remin-
isced, exchanged puns with
former associates in the show
business and with people whom
he had met previously. More
than that: he called the cards
to help secure advance gifts and
tallied the amounts announced'
at the meeting. Until the very
last moment—up to 11.10, when
the meeting adjourned—he kept
watch on the deliberations,
served as a bookkeeper and gave
humorous touches to the pro-
ceedings.
Although the Allied Jewish
Campaign is not schedule.d to
start until April 18, when Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver will address
the opening rally, the adv"ance
gifts made at last Monday's
meeting represent the best
beginning for any campaign
in the history of fund-rais-
ing in Detroit.
As was indicated in The Jew-
ish News last week, there is no
quota for this year's drive, but
the aim is to raise at least as
much as in 1948—$5,778,042—
and to make certain that much
more than was raised in 1949-
$5,323,116—is subscribed in 1950.
While there is, as yet, no cam-
paign chairman, Louis Berry
and Joseph Holtzman have been
named chairman and co-chair-
man of the pre-campaign divi-
sion. Berry, who presided at
Monday's meeting, was intro-
duced by Julian H. Krolik, pres-
ident of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, who expressed con-
fidence in the success of the
drive and asked for more liberal
giving—beyond the 15 per cent
tax deduction allowed for char-
itable purposes.
Berry took occasion to pay
honor to Krolik by pointing
out that while the evening's
guest, Eddie Cantor, is now
celebrating the completion , of
40 years in the show business,
Krolik has completed 45 years
in community service.
Berry appealed in behalf of
the network of agencies and
services represented in the drive
and declared that "our purpose
is to do justice to all of them,
with due regard to our obliga-
tions to those in North Africa
and Europe and above all to
those in Israel." He announced
the formation of a campaign
cabinet, including himself and
'Holtzman, with Mrs. John C.
"I'll make you famous,"
said EDDIE CANTOR to the
chairman of the women's di-
vision of the Allied Jewish
Campaign, MRS. JOHN C.
HOPP, at the pre-campaign
rally last Monday, and her
efforts for the drive were re-
warded with a hug.
He told some of the stories he
related at that affair, among
them the "so exciting" experi-
ence he had with the late Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt.
FDR had called him in to assist
in the movement to fight polio.
The President wanted to secure
the help of 1,000,000 people, at
a fee of $1, but Cantor suggest-
ed the enrollment of 10,000,000
at fees of a dime each. "That
was the beginning of the March
of Dimes campaign," he re-
vealed.
Greeting Bob Hall, who was
in the audience, Cantor re-
called that both had done
two-a-day shows together
many years ago. Continuing
in a light vein, which soon
was to be transformed into
one of the most serious ap-
peals heard in behalf of the
drive, he dubbed Berry 4nd
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Frit‘ay, March 31; 1950
Holtzman as "the Jewish
Amos and Andy of the Allied
Jewish Campaign."
Laurence A. Steinhardt, U. S. Envoy
o Canada, Dies in Air Crash; Was 58
"We are today experiencing T
the greatest emergency that has 1
ever faced our people," Cantor
said. "I am campaigning as an
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American. I believe our country
WASHINGTON — Laurence A.
should practice what we preach.
If we pour billions into Marshall Steinhardt, U. S. Ambassador to
Plan countries, why don't we Canada and one of the out-
help the only democracy that standing American diplomats,
has come up out of World War died in an airplane crash Tues-
day en route from Canada to
II—the state of Israel?"
Criticizing those who said the United
they could not give as much States, the State
in 1950 as they did in previous Department an-
years, Cantor said: "I say nounced. He was
that the business of being a 58 years old. Be-
Jew never has been better— tween •1937 and
because for the first time we 1945 he held the
posts of United
can walk erect and people no
longer can say that Jews States Ambas-
can't fight. The Jew in Israel sador to Peru-,
is the greatest fighter we have Soviet Russia,
Turkey and
ever known."
Deploring the shipment of Czechoslo-
Steinhardt
arms to the Arabs by Great vakia.
During the period of his serv-
Britain, Cantor condemned
Bevin and stated that when he ice in Turkey—between 1942 and
was told his pictures would be 1944—he successfully intervened
banned in England, he said: "I with the Turkish government on
have no desire to make people
laugh whose government made Bob Hall who is associated with
Pfeiffer's.
our people cry."
The largest gift announced at
Appealing for Israel, for
those streaming into the J ew- the meeting was telegraphed
ish state, for t h e sick and from a boat on which they are
impoverished Yemenites, Can- vacationing by Mr. and Mrs.
tor asked his audience to Henry Wineman, who pledged a
give more and to be prepared to total of $87,000, for themselves
give more in the years to come. and the Andrew Winemans.
Others who spoke briefly at
The great actor had occasion
to pun some more during the the meeting were Mrs. Hopp,
gathering of pledges. When Al- who called for the women's
fred Eppstein announced his gifts, Holtzman and Isidore So-
gift of $50,000—an increase of beloff. Rabbi Leon Fram gave
$11,000 over last year's contribu- the invocation. Mrs. Abraham
tion—Cantor sent for (Epp- Cooper led in the singing of the
stein's) Pfeiffer Beer and drank national anthem, accompanied
i1 in . toasts to his friend and to at the piano by Mrs. Royal Maas.
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a number of occasions to permit-
the landing in Turkey of hun-
dreds of Jewish refugees who
had escaped from the then Nazi-
controlled Romania and were
making their way to Palestine.
He was lauded by the Jewish
Agency for Palestine and by the
Joint Distribution Committee
for his achievements.
A nephew of the late Samuel
Untermyer, he practiced law
with his uncle's firm until he
joined the • diplomatic service.
He was born in New York City
and received three degrees from
Columbia University. The Medal
of Merit was awarded him by
President Truman in 1947 "for
the performance of outstanding
services to the United States"
as U. S. ambassador to Turkey .
during the war.
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