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Mercantile Division Worker's Redouble
Efforts in Campaign's Final Stage

Busy Allied Jewish Campaign
workers are redoubling effOrts to
secure 100% pledges from pros-
pects on or before June 13, date
of the final campaign report
luncheon at the Standard Club.
Mercantile division members
are putting a whirlwind finish
to their slow start, due to strike
conditions. Harry Kay, in the
jewelers' section of this division,
has 60 slips and Herbert Green-
stone, working on 54 slips, re-
ports new pledges.
In the shoe section of mercan-
tile, William Hoffman is nearing
100% on his 30 slips. Daniel
Rachmiel is busy covering all
shoemakers.
Active workers in the dry
goods section inclusive Morris
Kwaselow. Mathew Schufro and
Benjamin Tushman.
Every mail delivery brings
pledges from furniture workers
Charles Abramson, Edward Lich-
tig and Edward Safier.
Leon G. Winkelman, Jahies
Wineman and I. Lewis Zuieback
are co-chairmen of store owners,
executives and employees sec-
tion.
Ted Kaplan, working three
sections of Mercantile division,
covers store owners, executives
and employees in the General
Motors Building area. One-man
teams in mercantile are Nathan
Fierberg and Nathan Rosen-
shine, section chairmen of

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Friday, June 9, 1950

traveling salesmen and millin-
ery.
In services division, Phillip
Kanter and Rudolph Leitman,
co - chairmen of life insurance
section, covering their entire
section.
Mrs. Dan Krouse, in services,
is covering beauty shops.
Mitchell Feldman covers park-
ing lots; Louis Vineberg a n d
Benjamin Maltzman, factory
scrap dealers.
Louis Beckerman and S. Jos-
eph Wallach covers the auto
parts section. Sterling Mallon, a
non-Jew, asked to be assigned 40
prospects who had never contri-
buted.
Louis Langsam is covering in-
dustrial employees' section.
In real estate building divis-
ion, Harry Sosnick, Morris Wit-
tus, William Jacobs and David
M. Zellman are among the lead-
ers:
Kopel I. Kahn covers the en-
tire hotel section. Benjamin Wilk
is chairman of building suppli-
ers.
Mervin S. Jacobson and David
3. Goldberg are soliciting in the
coal and ice section.
In the hard a r e section,
Samuel Rossen, Oscar Warren
and Irving Zeff, have been cov-
ering almost all of the section.

New York Backs AJC
Protest on Biased Ads

A complaint filed by t h e
American Jewish C o n g r e s s
against prejudiced advertising
in the Journal of the American
Medical Pitsociation has resulted
on a ban against such adver-
tising in all "situations-wanted"
ads appearing in the Journal,
according to an agreement be-
tween the New York State Com-
mission Against Discrimination
and the AMA.
The complaint had cited "sit-
uations-wanted" ads containing
such terms as, "Anglo-Saxon,"
"native - born," "gentile," a n d
"Protestant." It also declared
that the ads violated a section
of the Executive law of New
York and aided perforthance of
acts prohibited by the state's
Law Against Discrimination.

Invite Gifts to Segall
Technion Scholarships

Benjamin Wilk, president of
the Detroit Technion Society,
this week issued a call to all
members and friends of the
movement to support the Tech-
nical Institute at Haifa, Israel,
to participate in the Karl B. Se-
gall Scholarship Fund. which
was established by the local so-
ciety in honor of its first presi-
dent.
Mr. Wilk announces that the
fund now exceeds $1,300—half
of it contributed by Samuel
The HIAS Ellis Island Bureau Brody. Contributions to the Se-
in 1949 handled the cases of gall Scholarship Fund may be
1,198 Jews detained there, and mailed to Mr. Wilk, 14200 Clo-
accorded 10,354 consultations.
verdale.

Plan World Seminar At Israel Institution

An annual "international
seminar" for distinguished Jew-
ish and non-Jewish scholars
and leaders will be inaugurated
by the Katznelson Institute of
Social and Political Science in
Israel, it was announced by
Aron Horowitz, dean of the
foreign studies department of
the Institute.
Dr. Ernest 0. Melby, dean of
the School of Education, New
York University, welcomed this
announcement in an address at
the reception held at Hotel
Henry Hudson, New York, by
American Friends of the Katz-
nelson Institute for the stu-
dents, teachers, a n d social
worker s, representing many
states and universities who are
leaving for Israel to participate
in the NYU Workshop on "Mod-
em Israel's Life and Culture"

Shekel Drive Limit
Extended to July 15

NEW YORK—In order to ob-
tain maximum registration by
American Jews and to insure
the representational strength of
the Jewish community here for
the forthcoming World Zionist
Congress beginning Dec. 20 in
Jerusalem, the all-party U. S.
Central Shekel registration drive
was extended until July 15, it
was announced by Charles Ress
of New York, chairman of the
U. S. Central Shekel and Elec-
tion Board.

in conjunction with and taking
place at the Katznelson Insti-
tute.
Dr. Carl Harmann V o s s,
chairman, executive council,
American Christian Pales-
tine Committee, who partici-
pated in last year work-
shop, told the students "what a
rare privilege" would be theirs.
Rabbi James G. Heller, chair-
man, board of directors, Ameri-
can Friends of the Katznelson
Institute, greeted the students.
Dr. Abraham I. Katsh, pro-
fessor of education, NYU, out-
lined the purposes of the work-
shop. A Detroit chapter of
American Friends of Katznelson
Institute was planned here
Thursday evening at a meeting
at the home of Charles Fein-
berg.

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FLORENCE WEINTRAUB will
present her students in a• piano
recital Tuesday, June 13. at
Baldwin Hall.
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BETTY KOW.ALSKy will pre-
sent the following pupils in a
piano recital at 3 p.m. this Sun-
day, in the auditorium of the
Woodward Jewish Center : Mich-
ael Gantz, Joyce Surowitz, Rich-
ard Firman, Marvin Littky, An-
nabel Weiss, Phyllis Pullberg
and Shirley Chicorel. The public
is invited.

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