Dr. Silver to Speak Tuesday at Rally Openin•Drive's General Solicitations Formal opening of solicitation in the trades and professional divisions of the 1950 Allied Jewish Campaign, scheduled for next Tuesday evening, will be marked by a rally, to open at 8:30 p.m., at the Shaarey Zedek auditorium, with Dr. Abba Hilda Silver as speaker. • Harvey H. Goldman is chairman of the cabinet which is direct- ing the largest phase of the 1950 campaign; as represented in the trades and professional divisions. The Allied Jewish Campaign's women's division, which opened its drive on March 27, will initiate general solicitations'on Monday. General coverage of the junior division already is in progress. Pre-campaign solicitations‘ of top-givers, which commenced at the dinner addressed by Eddie Cantor at which $1,225,000 was sub- scribed, is continuing under the chairmanship of Louis Berry. 'The Earth Is the Lord's' Epic Story of Great Era in Jewish History Read Commentator's Column on Page 2 - Julian H. Krolik is chairman of the general cabinet directing over-all phases of the campaign. •An overflow audience is expected at Tuesday evening's meeting . and keen interest is being displayed in the address to be delivered by Dr. Silver, in view of latest developments in Israel and the UN Trusteeship Council's decision to implement the internationalization of Jerusalem. Dr. Silver, rabbi of the Cleveland Temple, a former co-chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, major beneficiary of the Allied Jewish Campaign, and former national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, played on important role during the UN's - debates on the partition of Palestine in 1947. Dr: Jorge Garcia- Granados of Guatemala, in his book "The Birth of Israel," paid tribute to this "massive man, with dark eyes and leonine head, ' as - having "pleaded the case of his people with dignity and eloquence." : The entire community is invited to Tuesday evening's meeting.i There will be no admission charge and no solicitation of funds. E JEWISH NEWS A Weekly. Review of Jewish Events Fight on Bigotry In Numerous U. S. Areas Review of Forster's Book. on Page 4 • lonist Organization's ate i-n Jeopardy $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c VOLUME - 17-No. 5 708-10 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, April 14, 1950 or A DL's Successful Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News JERUSALEM—The fate of the World Zionist Organization will be one of the major questions under discussion at a nationwide conference of Mapai, Israel's labor party which opened Tuesday with laborite members of the cabinet and of the Jewish Agency In. attendance. last until Monday, will make recommendations whe- The conference, which ther the World Zionist Organization should-"remain in its present form or be limited the work of absorbing immigrants to _ theIsrael • to fulid4aising activities abroad leaving , - - government. Problems concerning relations with the left wing socialist Mapam party as well as broadening the coalition cabinet will, be discussed. , `Second Round' of War Is Real Danger, Ben Gurion Warns TEL AVIV (JTA)—Premier David Ben-Gurion, addressing a mass meeting at the Ain Harod settlement, Sunday emphasized that the danger of - "second round" of war was real and said that "mass immigration is therefore essential to populate the wide and empty spaces in Israel." "Our generation must decide to what extent it is ready to take part in the great JeWish revolution, which is only just beginning," he stated. Nearly 400,000 immigrants came to Israel since the establishment of the state, he said, adding that several sec- tions of the Diaspora, including Yemen, have been liquidated. "This is only a small - beginning as compared with the needs of the future," he stressed. The deterioration of the political situation, the Israel Premier asserted, "necessitates the total mobilization of all forces of the nation." The collective settlement movement, he added, must - "provide larger possibilities for immigrat ion and absorption." The Israel Premier criticized the Present at titude of the collectives, declaring that their "fanatic adherence to their ideology drives them to curtail their own farming activities - to avoid the necessity of obtaining hired labor." „ . s Two Years: Israel's second an- israec niversary—to be marked on the Hebrew calendar on April 23 and to be observed in Detroit on April 30—will focus world attention on monumental achievements made possible. through American Jewry's support of the United Jewish Appeal. These photos illustrate in part UJA's historic role in the upbuilding and development of the Jewish state. They show (top and bottom) some of the homeless Jews who were among the 250,000 to be brought to Israel by UJA in 1949, with current plans to-bring more than 150,000 more during 1950;- and (center) a typical group of Yemenite Jews who - were among the 45,000 to be transferred on the UJA- :financed "Magic Carpet'• from Yemen to Israel. . DR. DOV JOSEPH, Min- ister of Supply and Ration- ing in the Israel Govern- ment and former Military Governor of Jerusalem, is arriving by plane in the United States to address the national conference of the United Jewish Appeal which will convene this Saturday and Sunday, at the Shore- ham Hotel, Washington, D.C. Dr. Joseph will present a special report on Israel's current immigration and settlement needs. Conference Story on Page 16 Arab-Jewish Amity: Arab delegates are shown here carrying the flag of Israel, in a march through Nazareth, en route to a meeting of the Palestine Labor League. The Arabs represented 11,000 laborers in 34 towns. The League is, a branch of Mapai, the Israel labor party.