'Old-Timers'
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VOLUME 19—No. 11
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Ben-Gurion Captures Heart of Michigan
Purchases of $2 Million Open
Detroit's Israel Bond Campaign
Barkley, Ben-Gurion,
Kaplan Will Speak at
Chicago UJA Parley
Vice-President Alben W. Barkley will join Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion of Israel and Israel Finance
Minister Eliezer Kaplan in addressing the United Jew-
ish Appeal's extraordinary National Action Conference
this weekend at the Palmer House, Chicago, it was an-
nounced by William Rosenwald, Rudolph G. Sonne-
born and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, UJA national chairmen,
The conference will be attended by more_ than 1,000
Jewish leaders representing communities in 40 states.
Prominent Jewish leaders who will join the guests of
honor in addressing the conference include Edward M. M.
Warburg, general chairman of the UJA; Di. Nahum Gold-
mann, chairman, American Section of the Jewish Agency;
Morris W. Berinstein, chairman, UJA's 37-man National,
Campaign Cabinet, and others.
The conference, which will mark completion of the
first five months of UJA campaign activity, will be climaxed
with a special tribute to the Israel Prime Minister, on the
eve of his return to Jerusalem.
This tribute will take place Sunday afternoon, when
hundreds of community leaders come forward to present
Mr. Ben-Gurion with millions of dollars in cash represent-
ing a major installment on this year's UJA campaign.
In addition to this dramatic ceremony, the conference
also will witness a special presentation to the wife of the
Israel Prime Minister by leaders of the national women's
division of the United Jewish Appeal.
The Sunday morning session of the conference will hear
reports on the accomplishments so far this year of the
UJA's constituent agencies—United Palestine Appeal, Joint
Distribution Committee and United Service for New Amer-
icans—along with a detailed analysis of the needs of each
agency for the balance of 1951,
The 1,000 Jewish leaders will consider adoption of a
special campaign action program to expedite the movement
to Israel of tens of thousands of Jews from danger zones in
Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. There
also will be a special meeting of the UJA's National Cam-
paign Cabinet, whose members have been active in helping
mobilize cash for presentation to Mr. Ben-Gurion.
Women leaders of the UJA throughout the country will
Meet at the Palmer House in Chicago today in a one-day
conference preliminary to the opening of the UJA national
action conference, it was announced by Mrs. S. Alexander
Brailove, national women's chairman. Mrs. John C. Hopp,
chairman of the women's division of the Detroit Allied
Jewish Campaign, will represent the Detroit women.
Detroit Delegates to Present
Ben-Gurion with $1 Million
In tribute to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Detroit
will join with other Jewish communities throughout the
country in making a cash gift to the statesman when he
addresses the national action conference of the United
Jewish Appeal in • Chicago this week-end.
Detroit leaders attending the conference will present
Ben-Gurion with a check for at least a million dollars, Abe
Kasle, chairman of the Allied Jewish Campaign—Detroit's
medium for supporting the UJA—announced. "Our workers
have been making an intensive drive for pledges and col-
lections especially this week," he added, "so that we can
make this dramatic gift to Mr. Ben-Gurion as a part pay-
ment on our support of Israel's upbuilding,"
. Other Detroiters accompanying Kasle include Mrs.
Kasle, Louis Berry, Nathan R. Epstein, Joseph Holtzman,
Mrs, John C. Hopp, Mrs. Harry L. Jackson, Leon Kay, Judge
and Mrs. Theodore Levin, Morris L. Schaver, Isidore Sobel-
off, Mrs. Samuel S. Aaron, Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, Mrs. Max
Frank, Mrs. William B. Isenberg, Mrs. Sidney J. Karbal„
and Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner.
Edward M. M. Warburg, UJA general chairman, has
announced that on the basis of reports submitted by com-
munities and the UJA cabinet, it is hoped that the total
cash gift to Ben-Gurion will be one of the most notable ever
presented to Israel.
Coincidental with Warburg's announcement came the
disclosure by Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, UJA executive vice-
chairman, that a record-breaking total of more than 30,000
Jews from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East were
brought to Israel in April.
Detroit long will remember the visit here for 38 hours of the courageous Israel Prime
Minister, David Ben-Gurion.
The friendly, humble and persuasive diplomat literally captured the hearts of all the
Michigan leaders with whom he conferred during his brief stay here. He met with industrial-
ists, with government officials, with bankers, labor leaders, Jewish and- non-Jewish heads of
community groups. His wide knowledge of world affairs, his understanding of all problems
that faced him, emphasized to all who conferred with him the truth of world opinion that
he is today among the four or five ablest statesmen in the world.
Coming here primarily to inaugurate Detroit's campaign for the sale of Israel Inde-
pendence Issue Bonds, as part of the naitonwide $500,000,000 drive, Mr. Ben-Gurion not only
received rousing welcomes wherever he appeared but also was given a practical demonstra-
tion of the faith Detroit and other Michigan communities have in Israel. At the dinner he
addressed on Monday evening at Hotel Statler, more than $1,600,000 worth of bonds were
bought by a majority of the 500 guests. An additional $200,000 was subscribed by guests
from several Michigan communities. Together with the sales made prior to Monday's dinner,
Detroit Jews already have purchased more than $2,000,000 worth of Israel bonds.
The brilliant address delivered by the Israel Prime Minister and the thrill which ac-
companies the presence here of the great leader inspired many large purchases and numer-
ous increases over earlier commitments.
The Prime Minister—the popular B-G—is not a stranger to Detroit. When Sam Roth-
berg of Peoria, Ill., who delivered one of the addresses at Monday's dinner, posted him
on Detroit Jewry's glorious record in philanthropy, B-G responded that he could tell him
something about Detroit. He recalled his visit here 36 years ago, "as an exile during the
First World War," when he recruited Detroit Jews to enlist in the Jewish Legion to fight
for what was then referred to as "the liberation of Palestine." Commenting on the pur-
chase of $5,000 worth of bonds by Norman Cottler "in honor of our having been in one
tent in the Jewish Legion in Palestine in 1917, 1918 and 1919," B-G said there were many
Detroiters whom he had enlisted in the fight for liberty. He made special reference to a
son of one of the Jewish Legion fighters, Maj. Victor Avrunin, a former Detroiter, who
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now is rendering great service to Israel.
As they alighted from the Pan
American specially - chartered
plane, at Willow Run, Israel's
Prime Minister and Mrs. Ben-
Gurion were welcomed by hun-
dreds of Detroiters, including
many outstanding local leaders.
From the left: MRS MAX OS-
NOS, who presented Mrs. Ben-
Gurion with a bouquet of flow-
ers; MAX OSNOS, chairman of
the Detroit Israel bond drive;
HON. DAVID BEN-GURION,
PAULA BEN-GURION, ISRAEL
DAVIDSON, honorary chairman
of the local bond drive, and MRS.
MORRIS SCHAVER, friend of
the Ben-Gurions who was greet-
ed with kisses by Mrs. Ben-
Gurion. Lower photo: The Prime
Minister and THEODORE KOL.
LEK, Israel Minister Plenipoten-
press conference
Sunday evening.
tiary, at the