20-THE JEWISH NEWS

Israel Flag at Rotary Conclave

Friday, June 23, 1950

Uriel Friedland of Haifa Tells of
Activities of Israel's Chapters;
De Castros Represent Panama

Israel's flag was -prominently
displayed on the stage of the
Rotary International convention
headquarters and in the con-
vention's House of Freedom at
Hotel Statler, in honor of the
Israel chapters affiliated with
the world organization and the
Israeli delegates here.
Among the most .distinguished
delegates at the convention was
Uriel Friedland, president of the
Haifa Rotary Club and general
manager of the Shemen Oil Co.,
manufacturers of soaps and
vegetable oils. Sam F. Friedland
of Detroit is his uncle.

Mr. Friedland also came to
this country on an important
business mission. He left De-
troit on Tuesday afternoon to
proceed to New York where he
is negotiating fOr the purchase
of $400,000 worth of machinery
for the Shemen Oil Co. with
funds advanced by the U. S.
Export-Import Bank.
In Israel for the last 25
years, Mr. Friedland has been
among the leaders in .Rotary
circles in the Middle East for
many years. His wife is an en-
gineering, professor at Haifa
Technion.

The Haifa Rotary Chapter of
• which he is president.is 18 years
old. There is a chapter in Jeru-
salem, 20 years old, and in Tel
Aviv, 16 years old.
Mr. Friedland pointed out that
While the Tel Aviv chapter is all-
Jewish, the Haifa and Jerusalem
chapters are mixed, membership
including JeWs, Arabs—Christian
and Moslem—and British. U. S.
Consul Waller is a member of
that chapter.
During the years of disturb-
ances, he pointed out; the Ro-
tary chapters .functioned unin-
terruptedly and during recent
fighting it- met weekly. The Hai-
fa chapter has 40 members, Tel
Aviv's 70 and Jerusalem's 40. He
said that most of the Haifa and
Jerusalem Arabs had fled during
the war but a number of them
remained and continue to be ac-
tive in Rotary.

In Tel Aviv, Mr. Friedland
said, the language used by
Rotary is Hebrew, while the
Haifa and Jerusalem chapters
use English as the medium of
discussion. The chapters meet
weekly at luncheons, and often

AJC Women Sound
Final Note in Drive

Nearly 300 campaign workers
participated in the picnic of the
Women's Division of the Allied
Jewish Campaign, at Franklin
Hills Country Club, where the
final note was sounded in the
women's 195C drive. Individual
A ft workers continue to clean up on
campaign slips.
One phase of the picnic
looked forward to the 1951 cam-
-paign. Women bid on box lunch-
es offered by men. For contract-
ing to take the largest number
of pledge slips in the 1951 cam-
paign, Mrs. William B. Isenberg,
chairman of general solicitation
for 1950, won the box lunch of
Isidore Sobeloff, executive direc-
tor of the Federation, and Mrs.
Seymour J. Frank, vice-chair-
man, won the box of Julian H.
Krolik, chairman of the general
cabinet of the campaign. Mrs.
Charles Briskman, master of
ceremonies, led the bidding.
Mrs. John C. Hopp, chairman
of the Women's Division, was
crowned queen of the division
With a wreath of pledge slips, by
Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner, division
president, and was presented a
blue ribbon for untiring work
and able leadership.
Participants in the picnic pro-
gram included Mrs. Eli Gross,
Mrs. John West and Mrs. Harold
Koenigsberg.
Samuel Marcus, director of
the 12th Street Council Center,
led a dance group of 11 women,
including Mesdames Morey
Abrahams, Adolph Baron, Wil-
liam Brown, Saul Dunitz, Irving
L. Goldman, Joseph Goodman,
David Jacob, Benjamin Koploy,
Samuel Marcus, King Shwayder,
and Samuel Willis.

Holly, Mich., Student
Wins School Laurel

Scholastic honors, topped by
a two-year scholarship to Mich-
there are joint meetings of
igan State Normal College at
the three groups. The Israel
Ypsilanti and a $100 check cli-
clubs belong to the 89th Dis-

trict which includes Syria,
Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and
Cyprus. Since there is no com-
munication between these
lands at present, the Israel
Rotary maintains direct con-
tact with the Rotary Interna-
tional in Chicago.

Six weeks ago, the Rotary In-
ternational president, Percy
Hodgson, visited in Israel. After
his visit in the Arab portion of
Jerusalem, he was compelled to
fly to Cyprus and from there to
take the trip to Israel, where he
was feted at a luncheon and
visited with President. Chaim
Weizmann.
In behalf of the Israel Rotari-
ans, in appreciation of Mr. Hodg-
son's visit in the Jewish state,
Mr. Friedland brought to the
convention, for presentation to
him as Israel's gift, an illustra-
ted Bible printed in London in
1683.
Israel's other delegate was Al-
ex Monis, treasurer of the all-
Jewish Jaffa-Tel Aviv Rotary
club. Mr. Monis is an importer
of semi-manufactured non-fer-
rous Metals for the firm of Van
Perlstein, in Tel Av . r and or-
iginally came to Israel fifteen
years ago from Amsterdam, Hol-
land.
Mr. Monis explained that the
Jaffa-Tel Aviv club was a mer-
ger between the Arab and Jewish
Rotarians, that was broken when
the Arabs fled Jaffa at the be-
ginning of the Israel-Arab war.
Prior to that time the club had
rotated Jewish and Arab offi-
cers for over twenty years.
The 69 members of the club
engage in charitable activities
and support a crippled chil-
drens' fund. One of its newest
members is Fritz Bernstein,
leader of the Israel General Zi-
onist party and former Israel
Minister of Commerce.
Distinguished among the . le-
gion of South American dele-
gates were Senor and Senora
David DeCastro of Panama City.
Senor DeCastro has held every
office in the Panama Rotarian
district and is well known for
the part 'he plays in the Jewish
Welfare Board activities on be-
half of American troops sta-
tioned in the Panama Canal
Zone.
A native Panamanian, he is a
first cousin of Morris DeCastro,
governor of the Virgin Islands.
An enthusiastic leader of Jewish
communal life in Panama, he
is a former president of the or-
iginal Spanish-Portuguese syna-
gogue there, and former 'head
of the new reform congregation,
Sherit Israel.
Attending the convention were
a number of delegates from
Arab countries, including Fachni
Husseini of Alexandria, district
governor.

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Swope Heaps Praise
On Miracle of Israel

NEW YORK—"A miracle is
happening," Gerard Swope, for-
mer President of General Elec-
tric Company, reported to a dis-
tinguished group of American
industrial and civic leaders at
a dinner given by the Palestine
Economic Corporation at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Swope, just returned from Is-
rael, said that he was greatly
impressed by the "determina-
tion to succeed—a zealous ap-
plication of brains, money and
energy that is truly fanatical—
all dedicated to a successful
creating of a Jewish State. In
my opinion such unprecedented
movement cannot be denied—it
will succeed."
Swope who had visited many
countries in the Near and Far
East on his trip stated that while
the highest standard of living
he has seen was of course that
of the United States, next was
I s r a e l' s "notwithstanding all
their difficulties a n d large
monthly immigration." He at-
tributed this to the high pro-
ductivity of Israel labor.

SYDELLE SCHWARTZ

maxed the graduation of Sydelle
Schwartz, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Schwartz of Holly,
Mich.
Sydelle maintained an all-A
average at Holly High School and
in recognition of her achieve-
ment in school work and extra
curricula affairs, received the
check from an anonymous well-
wisher. A merit award 'was also
presented her for scholastic
achievement.
The 17 year-old niece of Mr.
and Mrs. M. H. Surath of 3246
Pingree, Detroit, was salutatori-
an for her graduation class. Ac-
tivities she- engaged in included
the school glee club, student
council, dramatics, social clubs
and girls' athletics.
Sydelle will enter Michigan
Normal this fall, to major in
education.

Israel Youths to Study
Aviation Mechanics in U.S.

TEL AVIV—(JTA)—Fifty-one
Israeli youths left for the
United States to spend one year
in an American civilian train-
ing school learning aviation
mechanics. They were chosen
from among hundreds of appli-
cants who underwent a rigorous
examination for the course.

Drive Seeks to Reach 3,000 More
Prospects; 100 Percenters Listed

Allied Jewish Campaign work-
ers met this week with their
section and division chairmen
to re-examine 3,000 outstanding
slips in the trades and profes-
sions, and mobilized for com-
plete coverage by June 26, Har-
vey H. Goldman, chairman of
trades and professions, an-
nounced.
On Monday, workers in the
food division, headed by Morey
L. Rosenthal and Samuel Fran-
kel, met and slips were reas
signed.
To date workers in trades and
professions have secured 9,400
pledges. The entire campaign,
including women's and junior
divisions, has signed 24,300 con-
tributors, which compares with
28,540 who pledged in all of last
year's campaign. With their
campaign virtually complete ex-
cept for mop-up, the wbinen
have received 12,650 pledges.
They had 12,767 gifts in the 1949
campaign. 2130 juniors have
pledged to date, compared with
2,268 in .1950.

Some Reach 100% Mark

Some sections of the Allied
Jewish Campaign have reached
the 100% mark in solicitation.
In the lead
with 140% of
1949 totals, and
slips still unre-
ported, are
drivers of sup-
pliers, h e a ded
by Isaac Litwak.
Arthur Graff
and Jack Grant
assist in this
section. Tied at
Litwak
121% are building financing un-
der Irving Franzel and Benja-
min Levinson and garages, led
by William P. Greenberg. Gas
and Oil, led by Nathan R. Ep-
stein and Nathan Kolb, have
120%.- and hand laundries, so-
licited in entirety by Leo .Polk,
117%.

Professional division which
was honored at the May 16
report meeting as the cam-
paign's foremost division, has
remained in the lead contin-
uously. Led by Dr. Charles
Lakoff, it has now chalked up
89% of its total 1949 pledges.'
Real estate and building coun-
cil, headed by Barney Smith
and George D. Seyburn, has
raised 85%. Mechanical Trades,
Milton K. Mahler, chairman,
has 81% and has raised the

Israel Sets Up 'Security
Zone' in Area of Clashes

JERUSALEM, (JTA) —Premier
David Ben Gurion, in his capac-
ity of Minister of Defense, de-
clared the Hartuv-Beit Jibrin
area a "security zone". Hartuv is
located about • 15 miles west of
Jerusalem, while Beit Jibrin is
about 12 miles south of Hartuv.
This area which was frequent --
ly mentioned in official Israel
repbrts of battles between Jew-
ish troops and Arab infiltrees
from Transjordan territory. The
setting off of the area as a "se-
curity zone" in an effort to end
the infiltrations may be followed
by the removal of portions of
the local population which has
been aiding and abetting the
marauders.

This measure will in no way
interfere with the functioning
of the mixed Israel-Transjor-
dan armistice commission, nor
with the operation of the plan-
. ned mixed border patrols. Neu-
tral UN sources have express-
ed the opinion that the move
may help in ending the border
clashes.

A total of 66 Arab infiltrees
were rounded up by Israel se-
curity forces in various parts of
the Negev. A number of encoun-
ters between Israel units and
Arab marauders were reported,
with the heaviest attack of the
night launched against Kibbutz
Saad.
Israel's general satisfaction
with the "positive attitude" of
Britain, France and the United
States in opposing the continua-
tion of the Near East arms race
was voiced here by Foreign Min-
ister Moshe Sharett.
A Foreign Ministry spokes-

man formally denied a report
in the American press to the
effect that the Israel govern-
ment . has resumed peace talks
with Transjordan.

The Israel Ministry for Religi-
ous Affairs sent greetings to
Moslem citizens in the Jewish
state on the occasion of the
opening of the Ramadon month
of fast.
All Moslem prisoners in Israel
will be released froM work dur-
ing Ramadan. Double rations of
food will be issued by the Min-
istry of Supply to Moslem citi-
zens who observe the fast from
sunrise to sunset and celebrate
during the evening with feasts.

Arabs Reject UN Body's
Note to Start Peace Talks

GENEVA, (JTA)—Egypt, Syria
and Lebanon rejected the United
Nations Palestine Conciliation
Commission's recent note calling
for the immediate launching of
peace talks with Israel. The three
Arab states insisted on the need
for prior talks regarding settle-
ment of the Palestine Arab ref-
ugee question.
Egypt has withdrawn her dele-
gation from the Conciliation
Commission.
(At L a e Success, the UN
Trusteeship Council adopted a
report on its activities in con-
nection with the Jerusalem is-
sue and voted to transmit the
report along with the new Israel
proposal on Jerusalem to the
General Assembly. The question
of internationalization of Jeru-
salem is thus returned to the
General Assembly for retonsid-
era tion)

largest sum of money in the
campaign—$945,000.

Newcomers to the 100% circle
include Nathan Metz, Milton J.
Woolf, Dan A. Laven, Harry C.
Davidson, Merwin K. Grosberg,
John Isaacs, Morris L. Shaver,
Rabbi Joshua S. • Sperka, Norma
C. Silver, Henry Feinberg, Dr.
Simon Berent, Dr. Martin Nai-
mark, I. J. Siman, Irving Wein-
garden, Dr. Bernard Maness,
Dr. Sidney Ellias, Norman
Drachler.
Two sections with the largest
quotas have passed 90% : Steel,
under Joseph Gendelman, has
raised $272,340, 95% of 1949;
Real Estate, under Milton J.
Saffir, George Fox, Harry Lich-
terman and Julius Berman, has
$273,000, 90%. Advertisers, under.
Julian Grace and Louis Luck-
off, raised 95% and 100% cover-
age ; junior division, Albert M.
Colman, chairman, 95%; ac-
countants, David P. Zack and
Arthur S. Purdy, 94%; physi-
cians Dr. Hyman S. Mellen and
Dr. Leo Orecklin, 93 % ; cartage
and transportation, Moe Pearl-
man, 94%; finance stocks and
bonds, under Myron D. Stein,
93 % ; Phillip L. Kanter and Ru-
dolf Leitman, 91% in life insur-
ance section; retail markets,
under Max Shaye, 92%; poultry,
under Herman Miller, 96%.

Marwil Back on Job
Robert R. Marwil, a worker in

Detroit's first Allied Jewish
Campaign, came out of tempor-
ary retirement this month to
prove that personal effort is all
it takes to turn potential pledges
into cash for the campaign.
Mr. Marwil read that addi-
tional workers were needed,
called the campaign offices for
assignments near his home,
cored nine slips in two eve-
nings, obtained seven increases
—one of 300%—and turned in
checks with all his pledges to
minimize bookkeeping expense.
A former president of Congre-
gation Shaarey Zede k, the
United Hebrew Schools and the
Zionist Organization of Detroit,
Mr. Marwil was a key worker in
every Allied Jewish Campaign
from 1925 to 1948.

C o n t r i butions from non-
Jewish drivers are included in
the record 140% of the 1949
campaign total reported by
the laundry drivers section.
Frank Topolewski, union stew-
ard at Domestic Linen Service,
attended the campaign organ-
ization meeting of the section
and assisted materially in
covering his plant. Another
Domestic driver, John Robette,
contributed $50. Arthur King,
steward of a plant which has
no Jewish employees, con-
tributed $25.

A non-Jew, Sterling Mallon, is
one of the shock workers in the
Allied Jewish Campaign wind-
up drive.
Mallon's employer, S. Joseph
Wallach, is chairinan of the
auto parts and accessories sec-
tion of the campaign. Mallon
said he understood the objec-
tives of the campaign, and, al-
though a non-Jew, wanted to do
all he could. He was assigned
40 prospects—none of whom
had contribtued the year before.
He solicited all, and made
contributors of half the list.
This week, when auto parts
workers mobilized to insure
raising their quota before the
June 26 campaign closing. Mal-
lon was reassigned slips which
Jewish workers had failed to
cover.

Arlazaroff Welcomes
Schumers and Levine
At Dinner Thursday

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schumer
and Louis Levine will be wel-
comed home; after a three-
month visit to Israel, at the final
meeting of the year of Arlazar-
off Branch of Jewish National
Workers Alliance, next Thursday
evening, June 29.
Dinner will be served at 6:30
p.m. Rabbi Morris Adler will be
the principal speaker. Greetingi
will be extended to the return-
ing labor Zionist leaders by lo-
cal JNWA and LZOA officials
and there will be a musical pro-
gram. David SKlin will preside.

