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VOLUME 18—No. 22
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Israel Averts Education Crisis;
Lockout of 2,500 Stirs Nation
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
Largest Individual Gift
Mrs. Warburg Marks 75th
Birthday With $650,000
Contribution to the UJA
.
To mark her 75th birthday which came on Saturday,
Feb. 3, and also the 80th birthday of her late husband,
which occurred Jan. 14, Mrs. Felix M. Warburg made a
special gift of $500,000 to the United Jewish Appeal in ad-
dition to a gift of $150,000 which repeats her last year's
contribution to the UJA, it was announced by William
Rosenwald, Rudolph G. Sonneborn and Rabbi Jonah B.
Wise, UJA national chairmen. The total $650,000 contri ,
bution was made through UJA of Greater New York.
. In a letter which accompanied her gift, Mrs. Warburg
indicated that she was making it because of the urgent need
for philanthropic funds to help
large numbers of recent immi-
grants in Israel to leave recep-
tion camps there and to integrate
them quickly into the life of the
country. She expressed the wish
that her gift be used to provide
both housing and educational fa-
cilities for the immigrants.
- _In making her contribution,
• Airs, Warburg said she felt her
gift could be "of practical help
- -the people.- of Israel who are
--.1 making a real contribution to
-) democracy in these critical times
by continuing to 'share their free-
dom with thousands of immi-
grants from places of oppression."
Mr. Rosenwald, Mr. Sonneborn Mrs. Felix M. Warburg
and Rabbi Wise, in commenting on Mrs. Warburg's contri-
bution, said: "Mrs. Warburg's selfless generosity will serve .
to strengthen the free way of life in a new country whose
record for democratic achievement is impressive."
Lifelong Record of Service
Mrs. Warburg, daughter of the late Jacob H. Schiff,
has a life-long record of service and benefactions to com-
munal and philanthropic causes. She and her husband ac-
tively aided settlement and educational programs in Pales-
tine before it became an independent Jewish State, though
they were never political Zionists. Late last month, she ac-
cepted the post of Honorary Co-Chairman of the National
Women's Division of the United Jewish Appeal.
Mrs. Warburg is the only woman who has received hon-
orary degrees from both the Jewish Theological Seniinary of
America and the Hebrew Union College. She has long been
associated with the Joint Distribution Committee, of which
she is an Honorary Chairman, She has also been actively as-
sociated with the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New
York, and the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew As-
sociation. In 1947, she gave the former Warburg home at 1109
Fifth Avenue, in New York, to serve as the Jewish Museum
of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Supporter of Hadassah. - Hebrew University
With the late Felix M. Warburg, she was a leading supporter
-, of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem founded under the lead-
ri ership of their life-long friends, the late Dr. Judah L. Magnes.
In his honor, Mrs. Warburg established the Judah L. Magnes
Fund for the post-graduate training of physicians resident in
Israel. Mrs. Warburg has also supported various phases of Ha-
dassah activities, and served as honorary chairman of the build-
ing fund campaign for the Rothschild-Hadassah University Hos-
pital.
Kasle Names Berry, Holtzman
As Pre-Campaign Co-Chairmen;
Mrs. Hopp Heads Women's Division
Louis Berry and Joseph Holtzman, two of Detroit's
leading campaigners, will serve as chairmen of pre-
campaign in the 1951 Allied Jewish Campaign, Abe
Kasle, campaign chairman announced. Mrs. John C.
Hopp heads the Women's Division.
Berry served as chairman of the Allied Jewish
Campaign in 1949, and as a member of the three-man
cabinet directing the 1950 drive. Holtzman was vice-
chairman of the pre-campaign cabinet in 1950 and was
vice-chairman of trades and professions the year before.
JERUSALEM—A new crisis in the Israel Cabinet was averted Tuesday when a par-
liamentary debate on the question of religious education for children in the immigrant
camps was postponed until next Monday, thus creating a possibility of settling this con-
troversial issue through inter-party negotiations.
The debate was to follow-a statement made Monday night in the Parliament by Min-
ister of Education David Remez on behalf of the Israel Cabinet implying that all the
demands of the religious bloc with regard to education in the immigrant camps have
been fulfilled by the government.
He added that the government has been carefully considering all its steps concerning this
issue in order not to sharpen the conflict which has developed between the Cabinet and lead-
ers of the religious bloc on the problem of children's education in the camps.
The decision to postpone the debate was preceeded by direct talks between religious
members of the Parliament and members of the Israel labor party. The laborifes had
previously indicated that they would not yield to any pressure on the part of the religious
group as far as the question of education of children in the immigrant camps is concerned.
Probe Lockout
The Israel government Monday night
Senator Ferguson Backs
Financial Aid to Israel
Michigan's United States Senator Homer
Ferguson, during his visit here on Monday to
address the Economic Club asserted that he de-
sired to reaffirm his interest in
Israel and to go on record as
being among those who are pre-
pared to support the infant
state in its effort to rescue per-
secuted Jews everywhere
Senator Ferguson stated to a
committe of Detroit Zionists
that he con-Siders it vital that
those who are persecuted in
Moslem countries and who must
be rescued from Iron Curtain
areas should be given an op-
Ferguson
portunity to settle in Israel.
He added that he will welcome an opportuni-
ty to cooperate with Senator Irving M. Ives of
New York and others who are seeking means of
extending United States financial aid to Israel.
announced the appointment of a three-
man commission to investigate the lockout
in the metal products industry which has
thrown 2,500 people out of work and halted
one of Israel's major industries.
Meanwhile, the Histadrut announced
that it will hold a nationwide sympathy
strike for two hours. Minister of Trade
and Industry Yaacov Geri has cancelled
his trip to England to help spark the Israel
campaign there because of the threatening
labor situation, but Finance Minister Elie-
zer Kaplan plans to proceed to London as
scheduled.
Claim Discrimination
TEL AVIV—The Manufacturers' Associ-
ation's bi-annual conference adopted sev-
eral resolutions chiefly demanding-govern-
ment treatment for various industry sec-
tors without preference or discrimination.
The conference otherwise supportd the
struggle in the metallurgical industry and
criticized the government for demanding
on the one hand inflation controls whilst
on the other approving wo -kers' strikes for
higher wages unpegged to proportional
output increase.
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Underground to Freedom: The Case of 'Seaman X'
Jew's 'Arrest' Puzzles Crew,
But He Is in Israel Now!
By JOE HARRISON FRIED
(Copyright, 1951, American Jewish Press. All rights reserved).
Third and Concluding Article in a Series
It is late afternoon several months back on the waterfront of one of Northern
Europe's small seacoast villages. Several hours before a Polish-manned crew lowered
a gangplank at the port. They were busy now loading and preparing to sail for home.
Suddenly a police truck converges on the dock area. Armed troopers, unaccustom-
ed to the ways of the sea, struggle up the gangplank and call for the Polish skipper.
"You have a seaman on this voyage," a police officer says in harsh tone, "who is
We know he's aboard. His name is
wanted on charges in
The police then proceed to check the seamen's papers. Sure enough, Mr.
is on board.
Despite the pro-Communist skipper's protests, the
seaman in question is handcuffed and led from the
boat in a police vehicle. The ship sets sail for a home-
land where puppet leaders talk big when backed up
by Soviet bayonets.
But even the Soviet-dominated seamen on the
little schooner windino- its course back to Poland feel
a touch of sorrow for
Seaman , now firmly in
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the hands of the "capitalistic war-mongers" of the
country whose port they have just left.
very long,
They had not known Seaman
the crew members recall, but still and all, he was a
"good Comrade."
Had they known the true story of Seaman
and the circumstances of his arrest by the
"capitalistic" cops they need not have grieved so
tenderly.
had arrived
Four minutes after Seaman
Bars Ex it : Soviet guards, like
at police headquarters he was walkino - the streets of
the one above, bar the last exits
t'
a free man ! His handcuffs had been
removed
for thousands of "active" Jews
with the usual polite pardons and the little Jew who
trapped in Communist-dominat-
had been slated for "disappearance" by the U. B. po-
ed states: But Jewish under-
lice was out of their grasp and en route to Israel and
ground agents find ways and
a new life.
means to sneak Jews through
His "arrest" was as phony as his name. The story
had its actual beginning weeks before when Jewish
the closely-guarded borders to
a free nation, and then to Israel,
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