AJC: Workers Make Final
Reports at June 13 Session
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 9, 1950
Fortune Lauds
Israel's Foreign
Investment Plan
The final report luncheon of 1950's Allied Jewish Cam-
paign—Tuesday noon, June 13, at the Standard Club, sixth
floor of the Book Cadillac Hotel—will be target date for 1500
campaign workers in trades and professions, according to
"Israel is practicing a brand
Harvey H. Goldman, chairman of thig division, whose work- of 'socialism' that can be re-
ers intend to achieve 100',O coverage of all their prospects. commended to much of the
They will be working also to
make their division the cam-
paign's money-raising leader in
the final report.
With $3,950,000 raised in the
campaign to date, another $1,-
400,000 must be secured in the
remaining days of solicitation to
equal the $5,300,000 result of the
1949 drive.
-Many campaign sections al-
ready boast 100% coverage and
have raised more than 100% of
their 1949 totals.
The building • financing sec-
tion, headed by Irving Franzel
and Benjamin Levinson, has
raised 120% of 1949, with all
prospects covered. Garages, with
William P. Greenberg as sole so-
licitor, was the first section to
complete coverage and raised
116%. In the .hand laundries
section, 117% was raised by Leo
Polk who singlehandedly covered
all 481 prospects. Gas and oil,
headed by Nathan R. Epstein,
has 109% and expects to climb
higher.
Three sections in the cam-
paign-leading professional divi-
sion have achieved 100% cover-
age—social services, under Nor-
man Silver; osteopaths, led by
Dr. Sidney Ellias, and optomet-
rists, led by Dr. Bernard Maness.
Other sections reporting out-
standing jobs include:
Heating and plumbing in
which Daniel A. Laven and Har-
ry C. Davidson have raised 95%
of their 1949 total on the first
two-thirds of their slips; super-
markets, Merwin K. Grosberg,
chairman, 93%; steel, headed by
Joseph Gendelman, 91%; fi-
nance, stocks and bonds, led by
Myron. D. Stein, 92%; religious
services, Rabbi Joshua. S. Sper-
ka, chairman, 92%; general in-
surance, led by Joseph B. Gay-
lord, Maurice Klein and David
M. Welling, 90%.
Heads B B Parley
DR:. LAWRENCE YAFFA,
president of the Greater De-
troit Bnai Brith Council, is
chairMan of arrangements for
technically capitalistic world,"
Fortune . magazine • declares in
a brief article in its June, 1950,
edition.
The article outlines Israel's
recently-adopted tax program
to encourage foreign invest-
ments, terming it "one of the
most enlightened foreign invest-
ment codes in force in any of
t h e world's 'under - developed'
countries."
"Israel, painfully deficient in
natural and industrial resources,
is by no means underdeveloped
in courage and economic real-
ism," Fortune continues.
Some of the major capital
investments already made, such
as the Kaiser-Frazer assembly
plant, the General Tire and Rub-
ber factory, General Shoe Co.
plant, and Moller-Dee Textile
Cord. spinning mills, are listed
in the article, which points out
that this money is "not going
into Israel out of compassion,
but in the expectation of
profits."
Israel's cordiality to foreign
investors and its plans for in-
dustrial expansion might profit-
ably be_ studied by a number of
governments in Latin America,
Vcrestern- Europe and the Arab
world, the article concludes.
the District Grand Lodge No.
"Neighbor, Where are you
Six of Bnai Brith convention,
Running
To?" is the title of the
which will be held in Detroit
July 1 through 4. More than recent leaflet issued by the Jew-
600 visitors .are expected.
ish Community Council.
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Bnai Brith Council
Ford Urges WA
Support as Aid to Holds Installation
Democratic Living Annual installation of officers
LOS ANGELES -- The demo-
cratic way of life must be sup-
ported "not only within the
boundaries of this republic, but
throughout the rest of the
world," Henry Ford II declared
at a meeting here in behalf of
the United Jewish Appeal.
Support of the United Jewish
Appeal, which provides for im-
migration in Israel and rehabili-
tation and refugee aid in -other
of the Greater Detroit Bnai
Brith Council will be at 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 10, in the Bel-
Aire Terrace Room.
Dinner will be folowed by the
formal installation, to which the
public is invited. A musical pro-
gram, including Maurice Short,
vocalist, will be presented.
Participating in the program
will be Samuel W. Leib, presi
dent of District Grand Lodge No.
six; who will deliver the invoca
tion; Harry Yudkoff, past presi-
dent of the district, who will be
installing officer, and Robert R.
Nathans will make a presenta-
tion to Dr. Lawrence I. Yaffa,
the outgoing president. •
For dinner reservations, con-
tact the 13nai Brith Council of-
fice, WO. 3-7838; or Milton - M.
Weinstein, general installation
chairthan, WO. 1-3981, before 5
p.m, Friday.
Canfors Sail for Israel
At Premier's Invitation
HENRY FORD II
parts of the world, Ford told
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More than 700 persons at the
Beverly-Wilshire Hotel, is a
"step in the right direction"
which will help "to accomplish
this universal aim."
:Another principal speaker was
Golda Myerson, Minister of La-.
bor in the Israel Government.
Ford emphasized the difficul-
ties that Israel had encountered
in its efforts to absorb some
40,000, immigrants within the
past two years.
.Ford is one of more than 'a
hundred outstanding •Christian
leaders in business, government,
labor and religion who have lent
their active support to this
year's United Jewish Appeal
drive through its National Chris-
tian Committee headed by Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Sen-
ator Robert A. Taft, honorary
chairmen, a nd Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Jr., chairman.
Council Leaflet Aims
At Halting Area Panic
Eddie Cantor, a national cam-
paign chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal, sailed on his. first
visit to Israel "to see hoW the
little guy among the democracies
of the world is getting along."
Cantor, whb is making the
trip at the personal invitation
of Prime Minister David Ben Gu-
rion,. said that he was going to
Israel as "an American who
wants to see what the United
States accomplished in helping
set up one of the smallest dem-
ocracies in the world." He was
accompanied by Mrs. Cantor.
Cantor is considered in some
quarters as the most logical suc-
cessor to Henry Morgenthau Jr.
-- when the latter retires—as
national UJA chairman.
His departure- climaxed a
whirlwind tour in which the en-
tertainer visited' more than 20
key cities throughout the coun-
try in behalf of the United Jew-
ish ApPeal.
First Jewish College
Leon Kay Will Report to ZOD
At Annual Election Meeting
Thursday on Visit in Israel
Leon Kay, president of the
Zionist Organization . of Detroit,
whd is slated for re-election at
the annual meeting to be held
next Thursday evening at the
Zionist District, will submit a
draft to Thursday's meeting for
ratification.
In a cabled statement from
Tel Aviv to The Jewish News, _
Mr. Kay, states: "Dollars are
needed so badly here that it is
criminal not to provide larger
funds through the UJA. The
State is being built and definite,
progress is being made in all
walks of life."
Consider Allocations
For Aged, Refugees
LEON KAY
Northwest Synagogue, Curtis
and Santa • Rosa, is expected
back home, from Israel, in time
to report on his observations in
the Jewish .state.
Dr. Louis Kazdan, acting ZOD
president, announces that Harry
Cohen, chairmaii of the nom-
inating committee, will present
nominations to be acted upon
by the membership.
All members are urged to at-
tend this meeting, to hear Mr.
Kay's report on Israel and to
participate in discussion of
plans for the future.
Mr. Kay is now completing a
five-week stay in Israel, his sec-
ond in a year. . Together with a
delegation from Michigan and
New York, he studied economic
conditions in Israel with a view
to establishing new industries
there.
A. C. Lappin, chairman of the
committee appointed to draw up
a constitution for the Detroit
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The circular, addressed to the
Jewish residents in the 12th
Street-Linwood area urges per-
sons living in this area to resist
artificially created panic de
signed to induce them to sell
Constructive Living
their homes.
Residents of the area have Seen as Main Theme of
complained to Council repre- American-Jewish Scene
sentatives of receiving daily
phone calls, visits and letters
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Edu-
urging them to quickly dispose cation for constructive living as
of their property and move from American Jews is fast becoming
the central theme in American
their homes.
Jewish community life, Michael
A Stavitsky of Newark, N.J.,
'I'm Human'
president of the American As-
sociation for Jewish Education,
Non-Jew Repeats $25 declared at the second annual
meeting of t h e Association's
Gift to Allied Drive
board of governors
More than 40 Jewish com-
"I'm not Jewish, but I'm
munity leaders from 15 major
human, and I want to help,"
cities throughout the United
George Econ of 1422 Griswold
States attended the session and
told Allied Jewish Campaign
made plans to translate the in-
solicitor Herman K. • Cohen,
creased emphasis on education
handing him a check for $25.
into a cooperative effort of all
Econ's only regret was that
organizations and communities
business difficulties made it
to improve Jewish education, at
impossible for him to in-
a National Conference on Jew-
crease his gift. He had given
ish Education, to be held in New
$25 to the AJC in 1949.
York in October.
Budget committees allocating
funds raised in the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign were considering
this week, how much money De-
troit will spend on care of its
aged and shelter for newly ar-
rived refugees. -
The Jewish Home for Aged
and the House of Shelter, two
of the oldest Campaign-sup-
ported local services, outlined
their needs at a meeting of the
Health and Welfare Division of
the Jewish Welfare Federation,
of which Milton K. Mahler is
chairman..
Representing the Home for
Aged, Myron A. Keys, president,
and Ira I. Sonnenblick, director,
stressed the need of an expand-
ed medical program, including
X-ray facilities for diagnosis,
and expansion of the present
laboratory and physio-therapy
facilities.
The Home's capacity of 195
residents is not eripugh, home
officers pointed out, to elimin-
ate the waiting list of old peo-
ple in the community, or to meet
the minimum national standard
of three beds per 100,000 popu-
lation.
The House of Shelter serves
today as a first stopping place
of many newly arrived Jewish
refugee families.
The Health and Welfare Di-
vision includes representatives
of the following member agen-
cies of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration: Camp Chelsea, Fresh
Air Societe, Hebrew Free Loan -
Association, House of Shelter,
Jewish Community Center, Jew-
ish Home for Aged, Jewish So-
cial Service Bureau, Jewish Vo-
cational Service, North End
Clinic, Resettlement Service.
L. W. CroknHeads
Zionist Council
Lawrence W. Crohn, former
president of the Zionist Council
and Zionist Organization of De-
troit again was chosen president
of the, Zionist Council—which
includes all Zionist groups in
Detroit—at the annual meeting
held at the Labor Zionist Insti-
tute on June 1. He succeeds Sid-
ney Shevitz who is retiring from
the presidency after serving .two -
terms.
Mrs. Theodore Bargman (Ha-
dassa0, Irving W. Schlussel
(Mizrachi) and Irving Pokemp-
ner (Labor Zionist) were elected
vice-presidents; Williath Hordes
(Labor Zionist), treasurer; Mrs. -
$340 to the Child Rescue and Julian S. Tobias (Hadassah),
Building Funds, and to the secretary.
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The following were elected
members of the executive com-
mittee: Mrs. Beatrice Fealk,
Mizrachi Women; Mrs. Bud
Blum, Hadassah; Rabbi Leon
Fram, ZOD; Morris Jacobs, ZOD
Benjamin Laikin, LZOA; Morris
Lieberman, LZOA; Leon Kay,
ZOD; Philip Slomovitz, ZOD;
Rabbi Sidney . Akselrad, ZOD;
Rabbi Morris Lehrman, .ZOD;
Rabbi Max Kapustin, Mizrachi;
Sidney Shevitz, _ LZOA; Aaron
Schreier, Hechalutz.
Mr. Crohri again was elected
to represent the Zionist Council
on the board. of governors of the
Jewish Welfare Federation.
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Reports were submitted at the
annual meeting by Mr. Hordes,
treasurer, and Mr. Shevitz, who
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outlined the accomplishments of
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the Zionist Council in numerous
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fields of activ ty in behalf of Is-
Mrs. Kanter Becomes Council Chairman
Of Pioneer Women at June ?:Conference
The. annual all-day conference
sponsored by the Detroit Council
of Pioneer 'Women was held at
Halevy Center, June 7. All 13
chapters participated, and an-
nual reports were given by the
outgoing officers and committee
chairmen.
Dec. 6 was the date chosen
for the annual donor event.
Highlight of the evening's
session was the installation of
the following newly-elected of-
ficers of the Detroit Council:
President, Mrs. Norman Kanter; vice
presidents, Mesdames Irving 'J. Berman,
Phillip Stellar. Alex Schreier, Gerson I.
Berris; secretaries. Mesdames J. E. Stein-
hardt, Mendel Landsberg, A. Primak, H.
Schechter; treasurer, Mrs. David Colman
Chairman of standing committees are:
membership, Mrs. A. Heller; Moazot Hap-
oalot, 'Mrs. Irving Turner: Child Rescue
and Building Funds, Mrs. . Israel Levine;
contributing organizations, Mrs. Isadore
Lazaroff JNF, Mrs. Jack Rosenthal ; cul-
tural, Mrs. Lillian Grahrri ; choral. Mrs.
William Fisher ; legislative, co-chairman,
Mrs. Morris Silber, Mrs. Martin Messer:
shul in, Mrs. Jacob Glaser; Habonim, Mrs.
Saul Stein: program, Mrs. Paul Feldman;
English publicity, Mis. Ben Bayer; Yid-
dish publicity. Mrs. I. Zemel ; social, Mrs.
Henry A. *Wolok; advisory committee,
Mrs. Michael Michlin, Mrs. David Sislin.
The ,first Jewish college was
MRS. NORMAN KANTER
Maimonides College, established
in October, 1867, at 7th -Street,
family
of Gitel Gornbein, which
The council expressed its ap-
below Callowhill Street, Phila-
delphia, Pa. The college closed preciation to the Minkovitzer donated $250 to the Child Rescue
Ladies • Group for its gift • of Fund in her memory.
in 1873.
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rael.
Mr. Shevitz was honored for
his activities in a 'resolution
which commended his leader-
ship.