Barkley's Speech Helps AJC Hit
$4,000,0 Budget Talks Begin
Hospital Fund Leaders Inspect
Model of New Jewish Institution
Budget sessions began this week to allocate
the funds Detroit is raising in the 1950 Allied
Jewish Campaign. The translation of Detroiters'
pledges into assistance programs and services
will proceed simultaneously with the campaign's
intensive home-stretch drive, which must raise
nearly $1,500,000 more in the next 30 days, from
12,000 remaining prospects.
The campaign total to date is estimated at
nearly $4,000,000, although the audit of pledges
turned in at the clubs' dinner in honor of Vice
President Alben W. Barkley is still incomplete.
Campaigners are working to surpass the $5,300,-
000 raised in 1949.
"The flickering life of the new Jewish state
must be fanned into a greater flame, "Vice
President Alben W. Barkley told diners at Frank-
lin Hills Country' Club, Wednesday evening, May
31.
Israel is a symbol of the free world, born out
of the ashes of tragedy and the suffering of
2,000 years, the vice president told members of
Detroit country and city clubs who honored him
for his services to 'the United Jewish Appeal,
major beneficiary of Detroit's Allied Jewish
Campaign.
Expressing his elation that the United States
and the other majOr Western powers have at
last consented to sell arms for Israel's defense,
The scale of Detroit's assistance to the United
Barkley continued, "It should be our proud boast
Jewish Appeal and other overseas causes—for
that we have so dependable a friend as Israel in
the upbuilding of Israel, the emigration and re-
this area—a friend we can depend upon to carry
settlement of refugees in Israel and America—
on the noblest ideals of democracy and human
will be determined by the progress of the Cam-
self-respect." -
paign from this point.
Terming Israel "a miracle of modern history
for the rehabilitation of Jews in Europe and
Under the formula adopted at the pre-cam-
paign budget conference last January, the pro-
other distressed areas," the vice president re-
portion of funds alloted to UJA will go up as
minded his listeners that the new state. needs
campaign receipts increase. The overseas pro-
help, economic, voluntary help, because it can-
grams will - receive 75 percent if the campaign
not yet provide all its own needs—greater cul-
reaches last year's $5,300,000, and the bulk of
tivation of the land, more housing, schools and
hospitals.
any increase above that figure.
HAL A. WHITE (left), co-chairman of the downtown
A visit to Europe a year and a half ago, Bark-
- Nearly a million dollars in cash has already
ley related, made him realize , the significance of business and professional division of the $19,720,000 Greater
been sent to UJA as an advance on the 1950
the tragedy of those who were incarcerated in Detroit Hospital Fund, and ALFRED T. WILSON, co-chairman
allotment. As cash comes in with the pledges,
Hitler's hell on earth. He saw Buchenwald and of the entire Detroit division, look over the model of the new
it is sent to meet the pressing overseas needs.
Dachau, the gas chambers, the infernos and
Three budgeting and planning divisions of the incinerators. He saw men, women and Jewish Hospital, one of four new medical centers to be built -
through the fund. A $2,500,000 allocation from the Hospital
the Jewish Welfare Federation have begun the
children moving along the highways of Europe.
Fund, supplementing funds already in hand or pledged, will
distribution of approximately $875,000 budgeted
"They wew pushing carts; they were on their
facilitate
early construction of this new health center in the
for local campaign beneficiaries in 1950-51. Mil-
way somewhere but not knowing where--just
ton K. Mahler heads the health and welfare
anywhere to get, away. Some wanted to' come northwest area. More than three quarters of a million dollars
division Henry Meyers' the eduCational and
to the U. S. but a great majority wanted to come has - been added to the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund during
cultural division, and Morris Garvett the -com-
to
Palestine—it was their theme song—their the past week. Contributions totaling $754,450 were an-
munity relations division. Their recommenda-
homeland, Palestine."
nounced, at Hospital Fund report luncheons last Tuesday and
tions, subject to approval of the Federation's
Pledges announced by diners who responded Friday, bringing the amount subscribed to date to $16,464,130.'
Board of Governors, will be completed by the
to Vice President Barkley's message brought the
end of the month.
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total raised to date in Detroit's Allied Jewish
Campaign close to $4,000,000.
Workers in the professional division, led by
Dr. Charles Lakoff, still are in front of the trade
The campaign' benefits the Jewish com-
and professional units in campaign results, with
munity's 45 major local and national services, as
75 per cent of their 1949 total. Mechanical
well as the United Jewish Appeal, which sup-
trades, headed by- Milton K. Mahler, is the
ports the emigration and absorption of refu-
gees in Israel and the United States
largest money-raiser among the divisions, with
a total of $750,000.
LAKE SUCCESS — In a new ganization submitting views or
The following clubs cooperated to sponsor the
plan for solving the Jerusalem claims with respect to religious
vice
president's
visit:
Knollwood
Country
Club,
Workers from the Women's division, whose
James I. Ellmann, president; Franklin 11111s deadlock, the government of Is- buildings, institutions or prop-
solicitation, complete except for last minute
Country Club, RObert J. Newman, president; ra,e1 has proposed that the erty.
mop-ups, has raised $512.000, are pitching in to
Standard Club, Milton M. Maddin, president; United Nations adopt and im-
As an alternative to this
assist the Trades divisions in covering their
slips.
Great Lakes Club, Leo I. Franklin, president; plement a statute empowering plan for a Statute for the
a United Nations authority to Holy Places, the Israel Gov-
Downtown Club, Louis Alper, president.
take effective control of Jeru- erninent expressed its willing-
salem's Holy Places and all ness to cooperate in the crea-
other related matters of uni- tion of an international re-
Jewish DP Problem versal. religious concern.
gime limited to the territory
In a formal memorandum where the Holy Places are
In Europe Reported submitted by Aubrey S, Eban, mostly concentrated—an area
Benjamin Wilk, president of Dr. Shlomo Kaplansky, Technion
Permanent Representative of of one and a half square miles
the Detroit Technion Society president--and one from Judah As 'Almost Solved'
Israel to the. United Nations, to Within the Walled City 'and
which encourages interest here Wattenberg, director of t h e
Roger Garreau, president of the its immediate environs. It
in the work of the Hebrew American Technion Society.
Trusteeship Council, the Israel pointed out, however, that the
(Direct JTA Teletype Wires
Technical Institute in Haifa,
to the Jewish News)
governinent rejected the statute practicability of this solution
In his response to the greet-
GENEVA
Israel '(Technion), announced ings, Mr. Segall urged increased
The number of drawn up by the Trusteeship depends on the Hashemite
Sunday evening, at a dinner at efforts for the Technion and en- Jewish Displaced Persons re- Council in Geneva on the
the Belcrest in honor of Karl B. rollment of a large membership. ceiving assistance from the In- grounds that "religious peace Kingdom of Jordan which oc-
cupies the entire area of the
Segall, that a scholarship has
The national office sent him ternational Refugee Organiza- cannot be secured by political Old City.
been established at the Technion as memories a series of Me- tion in Europe declined during suppression."
In the plan submitted by Is-
in Mr. Segall's honor.
the month of March, official
The main lines of the plan
norahs from Israel.
rael to the General Assembly
statistics
released
by
the
IRO
Brief talks in honor of Mr.
proposed
by
the
Israel
govern-
Col. J. R. Elyachar, president
last November, United Nations
ment are:
Segall, who was the Detroit of the American Technion So- revealed.
Jewish DPs accounted for
Technion's first president, when 3iety, who was guest speaker at
A statute should be adopted authority in Jerusalem would
it was formed 10 years ago, were 3unday's dinner, outlined the only nine per ,cent of the total whereby the r i g h t s of the have been dependent upon
delivered in addition to Mr. Wilk importance: of Technion's tech- on IRO rolls, or 24,916 of a total United Nations in respect of the agreement between the United
by.Harold Goodman and Charlee nological activities in Israel of 281,938. An indication' that Holy Places in Jerusalem would Nations and Israel and the
United Nations and Jordan, and
Feinberg.
.1nd about the n e w techno- the Jewish DP problem in Eu- be derived directly from the the United Nations representa-
Mr. Wilk announced that Sam logical committee w h i c h pro- rope is almost solved — except General Assembly.,
Brodie is matching with ar :ides advice and practical for "hard core cases"--has been
A United Nations representa- tive would have been accredited
equal amount all gifts to the .now-how help to Israelis. He in the fact that only 356 DPs tive or appropriate organ would to Israel and to Jordan. In the
left for Israel during March.
Karl B. Segall Scholarship Fun ,.-I
be designated to dischar g e new plan, the United Nations
rged that Detroiters should join
Messages of greeting to 3/1'
United Nations functions in authority in Jerusalem would
1 a Technion get-together in Ben Gurion Warns Israel'
derive its powers solely and ex-
Segall included two cables fror
Jerusalem.
laifa in October and advocated Needs Help in Immigration
Israel—from Leon B. Kay, no
The United Nations author- clusively from the General As-
creased investments in Israel
touring the Jewish state, an
TEL AVIV—Another warning ity should carry out the fol- sembly and would exercise its
.idustri al projects by Americans.
that the I s r a el government lowing functions in respect of functions there • independently
alone cannot cope with, the the Holy Places in Jerusalem: of any local government.
problem of absorption of immi- supervision of their protec-
grants but that an all-out pio- tion; adjudication of disputes
Detroiters Attend
neering effort is needed, was between communities as to
given Monday by Premier David their' rights in the Holy
Mizrachi Meeting
The board of directors of the Wayne University Law School. Ben Gurion. The premier spoke Pldces; maintenance of exist-
Detroit Bar Association, at a He is at present associated with at Kiryat Chaim, at a conven- ing rights in connection with
meeting held last Friday, elected the law firm of Fischer, Brown, tion of Mapai party workers in - the Holy Places; initiation of
A large delegation of Detroit
agricultural settlements.
. Leo I. Franklin, son of the late Sprague, Franklin and Ford.
their repairs; assurance of
Ben Gurion criticized persons their exemption frdm taxa- Mizrachi will attend the annual -
Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, as the
He is treasurer of the Wayne who felt that socialism could tion; questions relating to the meeting of the Mizrachi' Organ-
association's president.
Mr. Franklin, who has been a University Foundation, secre- only be "realized through the maintenance of free access ization of America, devoted to
member of the 115-year-old De- tary of the Boys Republic, mem- seizure of power." Israel will subject to the requirements of educational activities of the
troit Bar Association for 24 ber of the boards of Jewish So- not go "this way," he stated, public order; facilitation of
years, since his graduation from cial Service Bureau, Detroit adding that "our method is pilgrimage movements; issu- movement, Sunday, June 4, at
the University of Michigan Law Chapter of American Jewish based on voluntary effort and ing of reports to the appro- the Astor Hotel, New York.
priate United Nations organs
The Detroit delegation will in-
School in 1926, has served the Committee and North End Olin.. pioneering enterprise."
on all the above matters.
clude Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Tem-
association as treasurer and first ic and is a former president of
the
Men's
Club
of
Temple
Beth
use Koch Indicted
The definition of Holy Places chin, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Nus-
Vice-president and on numerous
as laid down and applied up to b aum, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Stoll-
committees. He first was elected El and a former board member
MUNICH, (JTA) — use Koch, the termination- of the Man- man, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rose
a director of the association in of many civic groups. -
and Zvi Tomkevitz, executive
He lives with his wife, Ethel notorious official of the Buchen- date shall continue to prevail.
1934 when he was 30, remained
a director until 1939 when he A., and son, John, 13, at 17155 wald concentration camp, was
Apart f r o m their statutory director.
indicted by German officials on sphere of authority concerning
resigned to serve as Commis- Muirland.
In appreciation of the work
a total of-- 180 charges of at- the Holy Places in Jerusalem, done by Abe Nusbaum in the
sioner for and State Bar for
tempted murder and attempted the United Nations authority Mizrachi celebration of the • 2nd
Furniture Prices Down
two terms a nd was then again
manslaughter, Bavarian prose- could negotiate agreements with anniversary of Israel, the board
elected a director.
TEL AVIV — (ISI) — "Lakol"
Born here, Jan. 26, 1904, he (utility) furniture prices will be cutor Hans Ilkow announced. Israel and Jordan for the pro- voted to inscribe Irving Nus-
received his A.B. from the U. of reduced 10 to 12 percent follow- Two hundred witnesses will tes- tection of Holy Places located baum, his son, as a life member.
outside the City of Jerusalem. Fifteen hundred people attended
M. in 1924 and his LL. B. two ing an agreement reached be tify against Frau Koch.
The United Nations authority the festivities at Cong. Bnai Zion
years later. He taught courses tween manufacturers and the
16—THE JEWISH NEWS
could also negotiate, if required, Sabbath morning and Sunday
at Detroit College of Law and Israel price controller.
Friday, June 2, 1950
on behalf of any Church or- evening.
,
UN Control for Holy Places
Mapped in New Israel Plan
Scholarship at Haifa Institute
Established in Karl Segall's Honor
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Detroit Bar Association's Board
Elects Leo I. Franklin President
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