THE JEWISH NEWS— A Call to the Community to Help Complete Needed Hospital FuRds Friday, February 23, 1951 Wineman Accepts Honorary Position In 1951 Campaign By MELVILLE S. WELT Campaign Chairman, Jewish Hospital D:vision I have met with the representatives of the Greater De- troit Hospital Fund, and have been advised that they are about $1,000,000 short of their goal. In our conversations, they indicated that Continuing a history of ser- their only source of additional funds would vice to the Allied Jewish Cam- be the Jewish Hospital Division and the paign, unbroken since he headed Oakland Campaign. Their records show that the first united Jewish corn- , our Jewish community of Detroit has con- tributed $710,000 toward our quota of $1,- 000,000, and they are depending a great deal on our raising the additional $300,000 to complete our portion of the Campaign. ,Re- m. S. Welt member : the Jewish Hospital will receive a $2,500,000 allocation from the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund when it completes its drive. I have discussed this problem with Max Osnos, president of our board, and it is our•mutual feeling that the responsibility to make our phase of this Campaign a success lies with the entire community. We cannot afford failure. Histadrut Drive in Final Weeks; Dr. Herman Ponrenze, Kupat Holim Director, to Speak Next Thursday WILLIAM GAYMAN, of Farband Branch 137, (left) is shown accepting an award for outstanding campaign work on behalf of Histadrut from HARRY SCHUMER, chairman of executive board, center. MORRIS LIEBERMAN, campaign chairman, (right) ac- claimed Mr. Gayman for the unique achievement of obtaining 75 new pledges during the current Histadrut campaign. dle money are required to absorb the newcomers in Israel, Campaign reports of. Labor Zionist Organization division re- veal that branches of the move- ment have reached 80% of last year's total, with .branches 10 and 6 over the 100% mark. Larry Nichamin, Norman Naimark, Irving Pokempner, Philip Gold- stein and Morris Lieberman are leading the Labor Zionist move- ment in coverage and amount raised. The Farband division, under leadership of chairman Hyman Wiener, attained 70%, with branches 79, 557, 114. and 137 in the forefront. Arlazaroff branch 137 reported $64,274, the highest sum raised by any Farband branch throughout the country. Leaders of the branch are: M. Baker, N. Cottler, J. Isaacs, M. Schaver, H. Schumer, H. Strub and M. Schubiner. At a mid-campaign rally. Pioneer Women organization last Sunday evening, Harry Schumer, chairman of execu- clubs are nearing the- 100% tive board, presented awards mark. Rose Yendick, Club 2 to outstanding campaign Histadrut chairman has dis- workers who have distin- tinguished herself M coverage guished themselves during the and exemplary work. three-week "Namir Drive" to The landsmanschaften of the boost campaign progress; Wil- organizations division, handi- liam Gayman was acclaimed capped by a late start of cam- "Histadrut man of 1951" for paigning, are slowly forging his unique achievement of ob- ahead under leadership of Louis taining 75 new pledges. Others Levine, chairman, and Max who earned awards were: A Rosenthal and Morris Ft6Ss, co, Wineman, M. Rosenthal, A. chairmen. Detroit's Israel Histadrut Cam- paign, having . attained • two- thirds of its last year's amount, is bringing to Detroit Dr. Her- man Pomrenze, director of Kupat Holim convalescent home near Jerusalem, to address the weekly Histadrut campaign rally next Thursday evening at the Labor Zionist Institute. Dr. Pomrenze, former chair- man of the Labor Zionist Or- . ganization and Histadrut cam- paign in Chicago, a distin- guished Zionist leader in the U.S. for the past 25 years, set- tled last year in Israel to direct the medical institution of Kupat Holim. He is on a brief visit in the country in the interests of Kupat Holim. He will acquaint Detroit Jews with the urgent problems facing • Israel and present the objective facts of Histadrut's contribution in the development of the Jewish State. Graff, I. Pokempner, N. Rose, M. Shmukler, M. Levine, •W. Klafer, D. Mondry, Rose Yen- dick, M. Stein and S. Dronzek. Special recognition was made to campaign workers for overall campaign work and solicitation of new pledges: M. Baker, L. Nichamin, Screier Bros., M. Brose and A. Diskin. Norman Cottler, campaign treasurer, announced that an additional check for $50,000 was forwarded to the national of- fice of the National Committee for Labor Israel in response to an urgent appeal for largest outlay of cash desperately need- ed by Histadrut in Israel: Morris Lieberman, campaign chairman, issued an urgent call for immediate action to cam- paign solicitors to wind up cov- erage of pledges during the final weeks of the campaign. He pointedt out that huge sums ot HENRY WINEMAN munity drive in 1925, He n r y Wineman accepted the invita- tion from Abe Kasle, 1951 chair- man, to be honorary chairman of this year's campaign. . Wineman's first important communal post was membership on the board of the United. Jew- ish Charities, predecessor to Federation, in 1918, and . he served as president of the Chari- ties, from 1924 to 1926, when he was chosen president of the newly-created Federation. He is currently treasurer of Federation and is a bbard mem- ber of the Jewish Community Center, Jewish Hospital Associa- tion, United Jewish Charities and United Hebrew Schools. He has also been a board member of the Jewish Community Council, Temple Beth El and the Zionist Organization of Detroit. He is co-chairman of the Detroit Round Table of Catholics, Jews and Protestants, member of the executive committee of the. Com- munity Chest and was a founder of the greater Detroit War Chest. Mrs. W i n e m an holds the equivalent position of honorary chairman of the • Women's Divi- sion of the Allied Jewish Cam- paign, while their son, James H., is chairman of the Mercantile Division. JERUSALEM — (ISI) — Is- rael's rapid economic expansion was reflected in the announce- ment that sale of electricity in- creased by 21, 298,000 kilowatt hours between the March-April and July-August periods. PARIS (JTA)—The Federation of the Agsociations of Jewish War Veterans brought libel ac- tion against "Aspects de la France," the organ of the anti- Semitic organization A c t io n Francaise because of a series of anti-Semitic articles. NCRAC Condemns Communation Of Nazi Criminals' Sentences Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News The recent clemency actions by U. S. auth- orities in Germany, resulting in the commutation of the sent- ences of 89 Nazi war criminals, represent a "mistaken tender- ness toward the perpetrators of mass murder and other heinous crimes against humanity and democratic society," major Jew- ish organizations declared in a letter to Secretary of State Acheson. The letter was released to the press by the National Commu- nity Relations Advisory Council, the coordinating body for the American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, Bnai Brith, Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish War Veteran s, the Union of Amer i c an He- brew Congregations and 27 local Jewish community councils throughout the country, includ- ing Detroit's. "In granting these commuta tions," the. Jewish organizations wrote, "expediency appears to have been a factor in seeking the appropriation of these Ger- man elements whose devotion to democracy is justifiably sus- pect." The commutations are "dangerous," the letter to Sec- retary Acheson says, in that they "tend to throw into doubt the entire basic procedure, and judgments of the 12 trials con- ducted by six U. S. Military tri- bunals at Nuremberg." Declaring that the commuta- tions were "obviously intended to placate German opinion in the effort to make Western Germany a bulwark against the NEW YORE. — SANDERS ELECTRONIC SERVICE, Inc: 33 Edison Progress Report Southeastern Michigan's busi- est year is reflected in the De- troit Edison Company's 1950 re- port to stockholders. Unprecedented industrial pro- duction volume has in 1950 brought high employment and accelerated commercial enter- prise throughout the metropoli- tan Detroit area, the newly- issued annual report notes. In it, Prentiss M. Brown, Edi- son board chairman, and James W. Parker, president, point out that this large volume of busi- ness has brought new high re- quirements -for electric service from the Edison Company. They predict still greater power use as the result of industrial plant conversions arising from the Korean crisis. 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