All Allied Campaign Divisions Move Into Action;
Justice Douglas to Speak at Dinner on Tuesday
- Leaders and workers in the 1951 Allied Jewish Campaign will gather
at dinner, at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Grand Ballroom of the Book Cadillac..
Hotel, .to honor their guest speaker, Hon. William 0. Douglas, associate
justice of the United States Supreme Court, and officially to open this
year's major community philanthropic drive.
The dinner will be under the general direction of Louis Berry and
Joseph Holtzman, chairmen of pre-campaign activities.
Justice Douglas is acquainted at first hand with the situation in Israel,
having spent considerable time in that new democracy during a visit to
countries of the Near East in 1950.
- The youngest man ever appointed to the Supreme Court of the United
States, Justice Douglas in 1947 prophesied the emergence of Israel as "a
new and great democracy," in a speech in the United Nations Assembly.
Following graduation from Columbia Law School, he began his legal
career . as an instructor at Columbia University. In 1937 he was appointed
by President Roosevelt as chairman of the Securities and Exchance Com-
mission, - where he reorganized the stock exchange, and was named to the
Supreme Court by FDR in 1939, his predecessor being his old friend, the
late Justice Brandeis, who often referred to Douglas as "my son."
The Allied Jewish Campaign moves into action this week, with the
following major events:
"Stay-at-Home" one-day campaign of Junior Division, Sunday.
Vounteer women workers' training sessions, April 4, 5 and 6, at
Davison Jewish: Center and JWV Building. Speaker at all sessions, Mrs.
Albert Pilavin of Providence.
"Gifts and Dolls" luncheon of Women's Division, April 11, at Book
Cadillac: Speaker, Mrs. Kurt Laeminle of Hollywood.
Women's G-Day—A Great Day for Giving—Sunday, April 29.
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Israel Sets Election Date; Huleh
Conflict Stirs Syrian- Troubles
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Israel Bond Office Opened in Detroit ;
JERUSALEM—The Israel Cabinet on Tuesday set
July 10 as the date for the forthcoming general elections.
The date will have to be confirmed by the Israel Parliament.
Max Osnos Heads Campaign Organization
The Cabinet also decided on replacements of Cabinet mem-
bers during their stay in the United States. Premier Ben-Gurion.
will replace Communications Minister Dov Joseph, Finance Min-
ister Eliezer Kaplan will deputise for Yaacov Geri, Minister of
Trade, while Minister Pinchas Lavon will replace Minister of
Labor Golda Myerson. Mr. Kaplan also will act for Premier Ben-
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., chairman of the board of American Financial and Develop-
ment Corporation for Israel, which will float the $5000,000,000 Israel Bond Issue, this
week expressed "heartfelt satisfaction" over the acceptance by Max
Osnos of the. chairmanship of the Detroit committee for the bond drive.
Edwin Mayer. has been named manager of the Detroit bond office
which has been opened at 2208 David Stott Building.
An executive committee now is being organized for the Detroit bond
drive and will be announced next week.
It aso was indicated this week that a Detroit committee, to be sel-
ected from the bond organization, will participate in the reception to be
given to Israel Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in New York on May
10. Mr. Ben-Gurion is scheduled to arrive in the United States on May
7. He will be the guest of President Truman in Washington before going
. Max Osnos on to New York to address the mass rally which will open the bond drive
at Madison Square Garden.
In his announcement of Mr. Osnos' acceptance of the Detroit chairmanship, Mr.
Morgenthau said that the national organiz ation is heartened by the selection of an out-
standing Michigan leader to direct the lo cal drive. He expressed confidence that De-
trioit—always a leader in movements for Israel's support — again will play a leading
role in the $500,000,000 investment effort.
Special articles containing expert analyses of the Israel Bond Issue appear on Page 6.
Ben-Gurion and 5
Ministers to Aid
Bond Drive., UJA
Iraq Rescue Move:
Anti-Jewish tension
in Iraq continued to climb to its highest point since that coun-
try's participation in the invasion of Israel nearly three years
ago.
Added to Iraq's May 31 deadline on Jewish emigration to
Israel, authorities there have started to seize Jewish property
and to freeze Jewish funds in banks while reports tell also
that Jews registered for emigration to Israel may be forced in-
to concentration camps while they wait. With Iraq Jews being
transferred to Israel at the rate of 20,000 each month, the
United Jewish Appeal has called on American Jews to ad-
vance $5,000,000 in cash now to speed this mass exodus to
Israel. Above photo is a typical scene in one of the planes now
flying the rescue route between Baghdad and Lydda in Israei.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —
Premier David Ben-Gur-
ion and five other mem-
bers of the Israel Cabinet •
will visit the United States
to assist in the forthcom-
ing sale of Israel govern-
ment bonds and at the
same time to give their aid
to the current campaign of
the United Jewish Appeal.
The Cabinet, at its week-
ly meeting, approved final
plans for the departure of
the Cabinet Ministers on a
stagger schedule. The five
Cabinet members in addi-
tion to Mr. Ben-Gurion are
Finance Minister Eliezer
Kaplan, Minister of Trade
and -Industry Yaacov Geri,
Minister of Health and Im-
migration Moshe Shapira,
Minister of Labor Golda
Myerson and Minister of
Communications Dov
Joseph.
The Premier and the
other Cabinet Ministers,
according to word sent to
Edward M. M. Warburg,
general chairman of the
UJA, will be available to
that organization for UJA
purposes.
Gurion during the latter's absence from the country.
Huleh Conflict Grows in Seriousness
An official announcement issued here on Tuesday reveals
that the meeting of high military officers of the Israeli and
Syrian General Staffs, which took place Monday at the Syrian
frontier, concluded "without results."
The meeting, held under the chairmanship of a United
Nations official, discussed possible changes in the Israeli-Syrian
armistice pact as well as the 'conflict which has arisen between.
the two countries in connection with the drainage of the Hulett
swamps.
Syria continued to concentrate troops Tuesday in the Huleh
area, but Israeli workers continued the work of reclamation
whiCh they resumed Monday after a brief interval. Israeli au-
thorities made it clear that they intend to pay no attention to
the Syrian objection to the drainage of the swamps, some of
which are in the demilitarized zone of the Huleh area.
Huge American excavators are now .being used in digging
drainage canals. Lake Huleh is situated in Northeastern Israel
and its eastern shores border on Syria. Israeli agricultural au-
thorities estimate that the reclaimed area will incease Israels
food output by $10,000,000 a year. Blueprints call for the estab-
lishment of 2,000 new farm units on the reclaimed land.
A concession for reclamation of the .Huleh swamp area was
granted by the Turkish government to two Syrians in 1914. They
were unable to start on the project, and the concession was
purchased by Jewish interests under the British mandate in
Palestine. The Jewish National Fund later purchased much of
the area surrounding the Huleh Lake. Work on the drainage
project began this year but the Syrian government has lodged a
protest with the Mixed Armistice Commission against the drain-
age of the swamps, charging that it violates the Syrian armistice
agreement.
Too Much Noise—Or Is It
Too Much Anti-Semitism?
Maryland University Blocks
Erection of Hillel Building
COLLEGE PARK, Md., (JTA)—The erection of a new
building to house the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the
University of Maryland has been blocked owing to the op-
position of non-Jewish students. Approximately 50 members
of fraternities and sororities appeared before the Prince
George's county commission and said they did not want the
Hillel building erected near their fraternity and sorority
houses because they feared the Jewish students' would make
too much noise.
Following the testimony of members of Phi Delta fra-
ternity and Kappa Delta, Alpha Delta Pi and Delta Delta
Delta sororities, the county commissioners refused to grant
a zoning variance for erection of the Hillel building. About
two years ago a retiring student body president, who was
not Jewish, issued a statement complaining about the pre-
valence of anti-Semitism at the university.