Workers Honor Former AJ C Chairmen Around. the World . • • A digest of current news reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the Israel Service of Information and the World Jewish Affairs News Service. The United States Workers in the Allied Jewish Campaign are paying tribute to four former campaign chairmen at a report luncheon May 5, in the Indian Room of the Detroit-Leland. Honorees are (left to right, above), HEN- RY WINEMAN, campaign chairman in 1931- 34-39 ; NATE S. SHAPERO, chairman in 1946; MAURICE ARONSSON, chairman in 1948, and LOUIS BERRY, 1 949 chairman. All four . are active in the 1950 campaign. Wineman is honorary chairman; Berry, chairman of the pre-campaign cabinet, and Aronsson and Sha- pero, members of the general cabinet. Julian H. Krolik, chairman of the general campaign cabinet, presiding at the luncheon meeting, will call for reports of campaign giving from the seven divisions of trades and professions solicitations. Section Heads Meet, Distribute Allied Campaign Prospect Slips Results of organization in the Trade and Professional Divisions and Sections of the Allied Jewish Campaign were announced this week by Harvey H. Goldman, chairman of the Campaign Trades Cabinet. In the-food division, more than 90 percent of the slips have been assigned and are being covered, chairman Morey L. Rosenthal and co-chairman.0 Samuel Frankel disclosed. Tom Borman has been named pre- Denies. Anti-Semitism campaign chairman. The follow- ing section chairman were Minister to Cleanse named: Hart from Within Bakers, Samuel • Markowitz; beverages. Wines. Morton Feigenson; wholesale groc- ers, George D. Keil; super markets. Marv- in K. Grosberg; retail grocers and meats. Max Shaye; wholesale meats, David Aaron ; food brokerS and processors, Abra- ham J. Gurwin ; night clubs. bars, res- taurants, Andor Feldheim ; tobacco and confectionery, Sally Kay; dairy and eggs, Morris Mendelson. The following are ad- visors-at-large. Morris Berg, Lester Gru- ber, Nathan Metz, Peter Copeland, Real Estate and Building Council, under the leadership of George D. Seyburn and Barney Smith, completed its organiza- tion last week - in a series of meetings at the homes of the four vice-chairmen: Louis Alper, building and construction; Mil- ton J. Sa,ffir, real estate and man- agement; Mandell L. Berman, sub-contractors; Daniel A. La- ven, allied trades. The following section 'leadership was selected: Builders, Tames M. Rossin; building finance, Benjamin Levinson; real estate, Harry B. 'Liebterman, Julius Berman, George Fox ; -hotels, Kopel I. Kahn ; prop- erty management, Allen B. Kramer; mis- cellaneous contractors, Abe Silberstein; modernization and roofers, Harold G. Schreiber; building suppliers, Benjamin Wilk, Albert Glassman, Philip Hellman; Chemicals and janitors supplies, Samuel Rouff and Morris' Surath; painters and decorators, Charles H. Charlip ; paint stores and suppliers, Nathan Soberman and Samuel Victor; heating and plumb- ing. supplies, Harry L. Aaronson, Harry C. Davidson; Electricians and suppliers, Milton J. Boner, Philip Lowell ; architects and building engineers, Charles N. Agree, George Goldberg, Saul Saulson; coal and ice, David J. Goldberg and Mervin S. Jacobson ; hardware, Rubin Kaplan. Irving Zeff, Samuel J. Rossen'and Samuel Wei- der;, hotels and restaurant equipment, Ralph L. Rdsenb latt; Jacob Schreier, Ben- jamin L. Smith. . In the arts and crafts division, chairman Lew Wisper and vice- chairmen, Leon S. Wayburn and Patil P. Broder have completed their campaign structure. They named the following advisory committee: Maurice Aronsson, Leonard N. Simon_ Frank A. Wetsman, Walter Laib, Julian G. Wolfner. •Section chairmen are: Julian Grace ; artists, Philip Ma.rcUse, is ou Luckoff; printers and Publishers; Harvey Willens, • David Safran, Herman L. Lewis, Jr., Max Burns; paper products • and office suppliers, Joseph M. Welt, Stanley R. Akers, Nathan Bron- stein; Musicians, Milton J. — Woolfe; pho tographers, Jack Drapkin, Leonard Ba- novitz; florists. Nathan Abrams, How- ard P. Berger; Murray Grushoff ; amuse- ments, Elliot D. Cohen, Adolph Goldberg, Joseph Lee, Arthur Robinson, George K. Bremen; bowling alleys, Irving B. Dwor- Man; . , z In the Mercantile DivisiOn, Samuel H. Rubiner; chairman, and GUs lD. Newman, advisor, announced the following section appointments:- , Dry goods, Samuel H. Schwartz. Ben- jamin D. Lieberman; Ivor J. Kahn. chil- dren's wear; Samuel • H. Platt, variety stores; shoes, Samuel B. PrOtler, William J. IlioWn; luggage and loans, Morris Ben Lewis. Jack Berger; stores and store own- ers, t executives and employees, :James Wineman, Leon G. Winkelman, Lewis Zuieback, Joseph Sampliner, Ernest Siegel, Maurice Klynn, Ted Kaplan. Walter J. Mayer; traveling salesmen. Nathan M. Fierberg-; men's apparel traveling sales- men, Joseph . Bearman, Harry S. Cohn; milliners, Nathan Rosenshine. 20—THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, May 5, 1950 • OMAHA, Neb. • (JWA)—Dr. El- wood Rowsey, prominent Pres- byterian minister of this city who recently accepted a position as vice-president in charge of education of the National Eco- nomic Council—an organization which the . Anti - Defamation League has labelled anti-Semitic and pro-Fascist—told the Jew- ish Press of Omaha that he is not anti-Semitic and that he "will not be a party to anything that smacks of anti-Semitism." In an interview with David Blackner, publisher of the Jew- ish Press, Dr. Rowsey said that he was joining the National Eco- nomic Council because he is con- vinced that through this group he can work for the protection of the traditional freedom of America. The Council is led by Merwin K. Hart, described by the ADL as one of this country's top "hate merchants." Dr. Row- sey pledged that he would do everything in his power to "cleanse the Council of what- ever anti-Semitism may exist among some of its personnel." Mizrachi Presents Leibele Waldman Mizrachi Organization of De- troit will celebrate the second anniversary of Israel's inde- pendence with special Mizrachi Sabbath festivi- ties and a grand concert the week-end of May 12 to 14. Cahtor Leibele Wald m a n and Samuel St e r n- berg's 10 - b o y choir w ill be featured at Sab- b a t h services Waldman Friday evening and Saturday morning at blEinai Zion Syna- gogue, Humphrey at Holmur. The concert will be Sunday eve- ning, at the same synagogue. Abraham Nusbaum, vice presi- dent of Detroit Mizrachi, is chairman of the committee for the weekend events. Tickets may be obtained at the Mizrachi office, 12244 Dexter; at Young Israel Center, Dexter at Fullerton, or at Hebrew book. stores. WASHINGTON—Anti-discrimination recommendations will be studied by 85 colleges and universities in the Middle Atlantic area following a "crack-the-quota" conference here. Representatives of the institutions present concluded that rejection of school applicants because of "race, creed or national origin is unjusti- fiable and un-American." NEW YORK—The country's first directed leisure-time program for the aged—conceived on a nation-wide, comprehensive basis— will be undertaken by the National Council of Jewish Women, it was announced by the national president, Mrs. Irving M. En- gel. Non-sectarian in nature, the program includes training in care of the aged for Council volunteers and an integrated plan for creating additional services for the aged, as well as an expanded program of occupational therapy . . . Sharp criticism of the American Council for Judaism's week-end attacks on Zionist activities in the U. S.. was contained in statements is- sued by the Zionist Organization of Amer- ica and the Pioneer Women's Organization. LAKE SUCCESS — Representatives of the World Jewish Congress and the Agudath Mrs. Engel Israel World Organization appeared before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to emphasize the necessity for setting up machinery providing for the right of petition by indi- viduals and groups in -cases where human rights are violated. BOSTON—A law voiding all municipal and town ordinances prohibiting the establishment of churches or religious-educational institutions of any denomination was signed by Gov. Paul Dever of Massachusetts. MIAMI—A total of $300,000 in claims against the German Government for loss of liberty and health has been filed by 128 claimants in this area. Canada MONTREAL—A ban on further DP immigration to Canada was demanded at the conference of the Canadian Legion, a vet- erans' organization . . • A goal of $5,000,000 was set for the United Israel Appeal of Canada in 1950. Montreal will seek to raise $1,680,000, while Toronto is aiming at $2,110,000. WINNIPEG—The national Social Credit Party of Canada has cut all ties with its Quebec branch, known as the Union of Electors, because of the latter's anti-Semitic program. Israel JERUSALEM—The mixed Israel-Transjordan armistice com- mission is taking drastic steps to prevent the recurrence of serious frontier incidents, such as that which took place at Beit Bejrin in which several Jews • were killed. . . The newly-founded "Mir" company, set up with government aid, received its first American order for $40,000 worth of locally procured handicraft objects An additional $14,000,000 will be required by the Jewish agency to carry out its immigration and colonization plans for the fiscal year in Israel, it was reported by Levi Eshkol, Agency treasurer . . . 40,000 Iraqi Jews have- registered for immigration to Israel, and the Jewish Agency and Israel Government are probing ways of effecting their immediate transfer to the Jewish state. The Iraqi embassy in Ankara announced that in accordance with a law which came into effect March 9, Jews who have left Iraq without a passport will forfeit Iraqi citizenship if they fail to return -to Iraq before May 8 . . . On the second anniversary of the destruc- tion of Kfar Etzion, the new settlement of _"Nir Etzion" was founded. TEL AVIV—Tel Aviv Mayor Rokach has called for evacuation of 1,700 persons from 300 buildings in Jaffa considered unsafe and beyond repair. A commission has been set up to investigate the collapse of an apartment in Jaffa in which, 19 persons loit their lives . . . At the request of the Netherlands authorities, the Court of Justice here has interrogated a number of witnesses for evi- dence on the participation of Peter Menten in the mass murder of Jews committed by the Nazis in East Galicia . .. An .."ingath- ering of Jewish Oriental music" was instituted by the music divi- sion of the Ministry of Education. The division is also selecting a number of Israel compositions to serve as the basis for musical libraries in Israel embassies and legations. . Zionists. Award Cash To Hebrew Culture Unit NEW YORK—The World Zion- ist Organization has. ,awarded $1,000 to the Hebrew Culture Council of the Jewish Education Committee in recognition of its achievements in the promotion of Hebrew culture in America. The sum will be used in the Council's various activities, in- cluding an annual contest of- fering prizes to students for pro- ficiency in the Hebrew language and knowledge of JeWish his- tory and civilization in relation to American life. Detroit Chapter, Hadassah, Presents `Hope Ascending' at Masonic Meeting Europe VIENNA—Five to seven thousand of the 12,000 Jewish refugees now in Austria are eligible to enter the U. S. under the provisions of the DP immigration bill recently passed by the U. S. Congress. . . . The 20-year loan . of 2,000,000 schillings recently made to the Vienna Jewish colianunity by the Austrian government will be used for vocational retraining of community members and" for supplying a works project for unemployed Jews. BERLIN—Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius, opening the third congress of the Protestant Church of Germany, condemned the mounting wave of anti-Jewish "incidents," particularly ,the dese- cration of Jewish holy places. PARIS—Difficulties encountered in absorbing North African Jewish immigrants into the economic and social life of Israel have now been completely •overcome, according to M. Rananes, presi- dent of the Jewish National Fund in Tunis. LYONS, France—Ernst Basedow was sentenced to 10, years imprisonment on charges of being connected with the 1943:mur- der of 27 men, 35 women and nine children—all Jews—in a village near Bourges. ROME—Italian Minister of Education Guido .Gonella agreed to a request from the Union. of. Jewish Communities of. Italy that nation-wide examinations for high school seniors attempting to qualify for university admission would not be given on Saturdays. BERGEN-BELSEN—A meeting celebrating the fifth anniver- sary of the liberation of German Jews by the British Army was attended here by Jewish leaders and British officials of the military and civil administration in the British zone. ATHENS—Israel has requested the Greek government to re- place an Israel Spitfire which was destroyed when it was used by the Greek Air Force against Communist, guerillas in Greece. - A dramatic presentation, "Hope Ascending," first per- formed at the national Fiadassah convention in San Francisco, South America will be featured at the annual meeting of Detroit Chapter of BUENOS AIRES—A virulent attack on the State of Israel Hadassah at 12:30 p. m. Tuesday, May 9, in the crystal ball- room of Masonic Temple. In the cast are, left to right, MES- and the world Zionist movement is published in the current issue DAMES MILFORD PREGERSON, SIDNEY WEINER, HAROLD of the Argentine Catholic monthly "Presencia" .. . The Jewish KOENIGSBERG, HARRY PLATT (pianist) and CHARLES community here honored the memory of Gen. Jose de San Martin, BRISKMAN, and Mrs. Julian Tobias, not in the picture. Elec- Argentine national hero. SAO PAULO, Brazil—Fourteen .youths, members of Hashomer tion of 'officers also will be held. Reservations for the luncheon Hatzair, sailed for Israel, where they will settle ir agricultural and meeting may be made at the Hadassah office, TY. 8-8216, colonies. There are now 39 Brazilian Jewish youths residing in by May 5. Israel.