Call Volunteers Needed: Al li ed Campaidns Urgient !r) "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 Will Aid Both HE Special Features, Page 6 VOLUME 18—No. 25 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. History vs Myth: How Folklore Spreads Most Vicious Libel Against Jews IS H NE ;iii of Jewish Events 708 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, March 2; 1951 Read Commentator's Column on Page 2 7 $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c Four-Point Pact Assures Israel Technical U. S. Aid Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News 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, .