Call
Volunteers Needed: Al li ed Campaidns Urgient
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"A big job" must be accomplished during the coming few
weeks—and it must be achieved by volunteer workers. This is the
gist of an urgent call issued by Abe Kasle, chairman of the 1951
Allied Jewish Campaign, who declared that "all of us will be
needed to work and to give to the best of our abilities to make the
campaign our primary community obligation for the coming
months."
Declaring that "the Allied Jewish Campaign holds a unique
place in our community life," Mr. Kasle emphasized that it is one
drive that includes "every cause we have agreed deserves our
united support, the one drive that translates our work and our
generosity into a world of service for all Jewry."
The Allied Jewish Campaign, Mr. Kasle stressed, is the "one
Israel's Industry:
Agriculture and
Shoe Manufacturing:
How Bond Issue
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campaign where one gift provides for our aged here at home and
the old people of Israel, for the Jewish education of Detroit boys
and girls and for the care of Jewish children overseas, for com-
munity relations in our own city, for recreational facilities for our
Jewish servicemen and women wherever they are stationed, for
employment counseling of new Americans, for housing new immi-
grants in Israel." He added that he has been "deeply moved by
the volunteering by many of our outstanding campaigners to take
on arduous responsibilities in the 1951 Campaign and I want to
extend a personal invitation to all of our good workers to join in
our drive to get our job done soon, and well."
Volunteers for the trade, professional, women's and junior
divisions are urged to call the campaign office, WOodward
5-3939, at once, to facilitate formulation of campaign plans.
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Four-Point Pact Assures Israel
Technical U. S. Aid
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TEL AVIV—Extensive technical aid from the United States for Israel is
expected as a result of the American-Israel four-point agreement signed here
Monday by U. S. Ambassador Monnet Davis and Israel's Foreign Minister
Moshe Sharett.
The agreement, general in nature, contains provisions prescribed by the
U. S. Act of 1950 for International development, passed as part of President Tru-
man's Point Four Program. the framework of this "umbrella agree-
ment," provision will be made for specific projects to assist Israel by bringing
experts from the United States and sending Israeli trainees to the United States
for enlarging their knowledge and experience in specialized fields there.
The Israel government already has suggested that American experts would be useful
and welcome in the Jewish state in connection with road construction, railways, irriga-
tion methods, organization of public health services, technical training and citrus fruit
production. The fields wherein Israel would like its own people trained in the United
States include deep sea fishing, ceramic, industry and ship repairing.
"All these prOjects are related to the broad program of economic development pro-
jected in Israel's four-year plan and are designed to aid Israel's efforts to develop its
resources and improve working and living conditions," says a statement issued here,.
Great Beginning:
Launching of the United
Jewish Appeal's 1951 campaign at Miami Beach in mid-
February proved to be the greatest opening of a nationwide
UJA drive as more than 500 Jewish leaders from 40 states
contributed a total of $10,250,000 to set a new record for
individual giving. Among those who took part in launching
this year's campaign were, (seated.) EDWARD M. M. WAR-
BURG, left, general chairman of the UJA, and ABBA S.
EBAN, Israel's Ambassador to the U. S. (Standing) JOSEPH
MAZER of New York, left, who with his family announced a
gift of $300,000, and MORRIS W. BERINSTEIN, chairman of
the UJA's 36-man National Campaign Cabinet. Eighteen De-
troiters contributed $538,000 at the Florida meeting.
Mapam Continues to Oppose Ben-Gurion
The Mapam party will vote against Premier David Ben-Gurion's latest plan for an
interim government functioning without an agreed upon program, it was decided here
Monday night at a meeting of the executive committee of leftwing Socialist party,
May Close Gap Between Imports and Exports
Authorities are making efforts to assure the steady supply of raw materials, David
Horowitz, treasury head, told a conference sponsored by the Tel Aviv Chamber of Com-
merce and Commercial Club. He added that the present world price situation presents
Israeli industry with a unique opportunity to close the gap between imports and exports.
Davis Presents Credentials; Bond Issue Approved
JERUSALEM—U. S. Ambassador Mon net Davis presented his credentials to Presi-
dent Chaim Weizman of Israel in the presence of Minister Sharrett on Monday. No form-
al speeches were made at the ceremony. Instead, the President and the American dip-
lomat chatted for a short while.
The Finance Committee of the Israel Parliament unanimously approved the bill
authorizing the Minister of Finance to float Israeli bonds to the value of $500,000,000 in
the United States and other countries outside Israel. Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan,
speaking to the committee, warned that Israel cannot depend on assistance from
abroad for the solution of the country's economic problems. He called for the mobiliza-
tion of all possible resources as well as increased productivity.
Burial of Non-Jews in
Jewish Cemetery Cause
Of Controversy in Rome
Water to Negev:
An irrigation pipeline is
laid to 'bring water to a section of the Negev, the vast desert
in the southern part of Israel. Large scale irrigation will be
of crucial importance in the projected expansion of Israel's
agriculture. The growing source of strength for Israel through
agriculture is described in a special article on Page 6.
ROME—The Union ' of Jewish
Communities of Italy has submitted
a memorandum to the Ministry of the
Interior asking for a review of the
Jewish community's case against the
burial of non-Jews id a portion of
the Rome cemetery reserved for Jews.
The memorandum points out that
the matter is going to become one of
major importance as the years go on
and more former Jews who were
converted to Catholicism during the
Fascist regime, die.
Many of these former Jews pur-
chased burial plots in the Jewish
section and were interred in the Jew-
ish section when they died. The Rome
municipality, supported by the Min-
istry of the Interior, insists that these
non-Jews cannot be denied burial in
the Jewish section because the ceme-
tery is not exclusively Jewish.
Voice of America, to Beam
Hebrew Broadcasts to Israel
NEW YORK—Hebrew language broadcasts
beamed to Israel will be inaugurated by the Voice
of America late in April, the JTA learned Tues-
day. The short wave transmission of a half-hour
daily will contain news, feature interviews and
news commentaries, and will reach Israel in the
evening hours.
The Broadcasts will be audible only to those
possessing short wave receivers, it was learned.
Dr. Sidney Glazer, who has been in the Middle
East Division of the Voice of Israel for the past
three years, is the director of the Hebrew division.
ZOA to Inauguarate Bond Drive
NEW YORK—The first national conference
sponsored by the Zionist Organization of Ameri-
ca in behalf of the Israel bond campaign will
be held on March 11 at the Waldorf Astoria•Hotel,
it was announced here Tuesday. The bond issue
is due to be formally launched on May 1. It was
also announced on Tuesday that Manuel Posy
was appointed director of the ZOA bond cam-
paign, .