• Noted Leaders View Israel Bond Issue as Foundation for Economic Future THE JEWISH NE S A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Campaign Moves Into Action: Enlist as a Worker NOW Articles on Page 6 VOLUME 18—No. 21 Allied Jewish Editorial, Page 4 708 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, February 2, 1951 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c Israel To Take In 30,000 in 60 Days; Shazar Rejected by USS Underground to Freedom! How Jewish Secret Agents Rescue Stalin's Victims By JOE HARRISON FRIED Abe Kasle Selected Campaign Leader; '51 Aim: $6 000 000 (Copyright, 1951, American Jewish Press. All rights reserved). Second in a Series of Three Articles Mrs. B is a short, stocky little woman blessed with ten talented fingers and two healthy children. As a child in Europe, Mrs. B yearned for a .career tickling the keyboard of a grand piano. Her dream never quite came true. Instead, like many Jewish newcomers to America, she went to work in New York City's teeming garment center in order to obtain the necessities of life_ Her talented fingers have operated a sewing machine this past score of years. - Then there is Mr. Z, a fine old man known to the kids around the block as just plain "Zada." For years he operated a neigh- borhood grocery store and watched the young ones grow up, marry, and rear children. Relying heavily upon the effectiveness of his trusted cane, the 87-year-old Zada edges his way through crowded streets of the Lower East Side three times daily for Services at the synagogue. _ Mrs. B, Mr. Z, and others like them, differ little in outward appearance from the more than seven million human beings who cram the subways and pack the automats in the world's largest community. And therein lies their great worth to the Jewish underground operating inside the Iron Curtain countries, and which to date has facilitated the rescue of more than 1,000 Jews Which the Soviet Union-ddminated regimes have refused to allow to migrate to a safe haven in Israel. Mrs. B and Mr. Z are links in the vital comm unication chain established by Mr. "Aleph" and thR Jewish Labor Committee to rescue active Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. Through Mrs. B. and Mr. Z, agents of the Jewish underground in Poland and 4omania are able to scribble coded messages—seemingly innocent to the censor, but packed full of vital data once de- ciphered—to Mr. "Aleph" in the United States. To address the letters directly to Mr. "Aleph" at his Ameri- can headquarters would mean certain death for Jewish agents inside the Iron Curtain. Instead they address the letters to Mrs. B and Mr. Z who in turn rush the data to Mr. "Aleph." One such letter arrived this week. It read in part: "Thirty- two members of the `mishpacha' (family) attended the wedding . Chaim wants to know if Belka, thanked you for the gifts . . ." Three weeks before a member of the U. B. Polish secret police or a Communist censor carefully scrutinized this same letter be- fore allowing the words to leave Poland's prison-like borders for the free outside world. He checked to make certain there would be no leak; that "untruths" about treatment of Jews in. Poland would not be spread to -the "capitalistic" world. Apparently, he found nothing wrong. * * * Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News NEW YORK—Thirty thousand home- less Jews in Eastern Europe and Moslem lands mnst be moved to Israel in the next 60 days if the United Jewish Appeal's ern-. - ergency program for the mass transfer of 200,000 Jews to Israel is to be carried out before the expiration of emigration deadlines in some of these countries, Ed. ward M. M. Warburg, general chairman of the UJA campaign, Tuesday told worn- en delegates from all parts of the country, at the opening meeting at Hotel Plaza of a two-day conference to launch the 1951 drive of the National UJA Women's Division. Russia Rejects Shazar As Envoy from Israel It became known this week that Soviet Russia had rejected Israel's nomination of Zalman Shazar (Rubashov) as her envoy to the USSR. Shazar, former Israel Minister of Education, was a Zionist leader in Czar- ist Russia. His rejection is attributed to the anti-Zionist policies of the Russian government. It now is believed that Dr. Shmuel Elyashiv, Israel Minister to Czecho- slovakia, will be named to the Moscow post. 4BE • WASLE Abe Kasle, prominent community lead- er, for the past five years president of the United Hebrew Schools of Detroit, has been named chairman of the 1951 Allied Jewish Campaign. Under his leadership, the campaign or- ganization hopes to raise $6,000,000 this year—the aim being to secure an all-time high in fund-raising in Detroit. Story and biographical sketch of Mr. Kasle, Page 2; Editorial, Page 4 Mr. Warburg told the delegates that the UJA in the last 30 days had made possible the movement to Israel of 15,000 Jews from Ro- mania, Iraq, and Iran but that only if neces- sary funds are on hand can the emigration program for the months of February and March be carried out. He urged the women delegates from 40 leading cities to spare no time in launching the Women's Division on. their return home. "The UJA," he declared, "is faced with one of the greatest emergencies in its 12-year his- tory. It must hasten the resettlement of 200,- 000 men, women, and children who must be moved to Israel in the shortest possible time.* He related this crisis to mounting world ten- sions, asserting that "any breakdown of the world's peace on a large scale will make im- possible the transfer to safety and freedom of Jews who live in lands of fear and hate." (Continued on Page 20) Israel Symphony Here Sunday: The famous Israel Phil- appearance in Detroit Sunday afternoon, at harmonic Orchestra will make. its long-awaited the Masonic Auditorium, under the direction of Dr. Serge Koussevitsky. Every seat is ex- pected to be filled for the occasion. Last week, DR. ALBERT EINSTEIN accepted, at a ceremony in his home in Princeton, N. J., the score of "Symphony No. 2—David" a new —AJP Photo Border Inspection: Border patrols; such as those shown in action above, carefully check the creden- tials of Jews seeking escape from the dungeon-like bleakness the Soviet-dominated countries in Europe. The anti-Com- munist Jewish underground has assisted more than 1,000 such Jews to escape Poland and other Soviet-controlled states a in the past year. Israeli musical composition dedicated to him by its composer Menahem Avidom, secretary general of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, on the occasion of the 40-city American tour of the Orchestra presented by the American Fund for Israel Institutions under the manage- ment of S. Hurok. The work tells of the legend of King David and was written while Israel's war of independence reached its peak—a war that has been compared to David's fight against Goliath, and was victorious for the same qualities that helped the boy David to over- whelm his mighty adversary. From the left in the photo OSCAR M. LAZRUS, fund direc- tor; Mrs. JEAN NORMAN, co-chairman of fund's Israel Advisory Board: Mr. AVIDOM, HERBERT KATZMAN, fund director, Dr. Einstein, HARRY C. OPPENHEIMER, fund direc- tor, and ERICH TOEPLITZ, flutist in the Orchestra. 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