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Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

VOLUME 20—No. 21

708 David Stott Bldg.—Phone Wo. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, February 1, 1952

Israel Backs Arab Refugee
Plan, Libyan Independence

PARIS, (JTA)—The United Nations General Assembly passed
resolutions continuing the UN Palestine Conciliation Commission
and establishing a $250,000,000 relief and re-integration program
for the Palestine Arab refugees. Israel voted for both resolutions
after a compromise offered by the Canadian delegation had been
accepted, dropping proposals for expanding the membership of
_ the body from three to seven and for instructing the commission
to implement earlier resolutions of the General Assembly on the
Palestine issue. In effect the original proposal would have meant
. that the Commission would have been ordered to implement the
return of the Arab refugees to Israel. In its final form, the reso-
lution instructed that body to seek agreement with parties con-
cerned to settle differences in line with the Assembly resolutions.
Acceptance of the relief and re-integration program for the
refugees involves the establishment of a fund of $50,000,000 for
refugee relief, and a $200,000,000 fund for building up the re-
sources of the Arab states.
Israel welcomed independence for,Libya and urged its admis-
sion to the UN.
The work of the World Health Organization, United Nations
health agency, was hampered last year by the Arab states' boy-
cott of Israel, it was reported by the • executive of WHO.

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This is a reproduction of a Jewish Music Festival poster an-
nouncing the eighth nation-wide observance of the festival, to be
held this year from Feb. 9 to March 9 under the auspices of the
National Jewish Welfare Board-sponsored National Jewish Music
Council. To aid participants in the Festival, the Council has
available 30 program aids. Included among these is the recently-
published "Musical Gems of the Sabbath."

Sum Includes Extra Funds
For Hospital, Local Needs

A formula adopted by the pre-campaign budget conference of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation last Sunday, at the Jewish Center, proposed that the aim of the
Allied Jewish Campaign in 1952 should be to raise $5,200,000--- .--representing an in-
crease of 10 per cent over the sum of $4,700,000 raised in 1951.
. The steering committee's proposal, which was approved by the all-day session after
lengthy debate, indicated that the - increase will be necessary in order to maintain a
high level of support to Israel and to meet increased local operating and capital com-
mitments. It was reported that this year's commitments include $250,000 towards
the fund for the completion of the Sinai Hospital.
In the course of the debate on the question of the allocation to Israel, JoseA
Holtzman, who was torch-bearer for the.- request for. a maximum of support to the.
Jewish state, asked the participants in the conference, who included members of
boards of various Federation agencies as Well as of the budget committee, to approve
a formula that in the event the 1951 sum of $4,700,000 is matched in 1952 that
the same amount given in that year to Israel and overseas needs — $2,783,900 —
should be reallocated this year, regardless of local needs. Only 18 of the approx-
imately 65 -voting representatives backed this proposal.

Samuel Rubiner, president of the Federation, presided at the concluding session. Dr. Harry
August, chairman of the steering committee, presided at the session at which the budget com-
mittee debated the proposal.
A picture of United Jewish Appeal and other overseas needs was given by Julian H. Krolik,
who outlined the UJA's 1952 goal of $151,000,000.
Abe Kasle, who has been renamed to head the 1952 Allied Jewish Campaign, called for
community-wide action to assure success fot t1 coming drive.
Milton K. Mahler, Morris Garvett and Ben L. Silberstein, chairmen of the health and wel-
fare, educaticin, and community relations budget and planning division, respectively, made
both the local and national presentations of needs as put to their committees.
In the absence of Max Zivian, chairman of the committee on capital needs, Max Fisher,
a member of the committee, outlined the pressing capital needs of the community. He stated
that although the committee had not yet set up any sort of priority for the five major capital
items-a treatment home for the Jewish Social Service Bureau, an addition to the Jewish Home
for Aged fOr the chronibally ill, building camping facilities, a Jewish Community Center in the
Northwest and Hebrew school facilities in the Northwest—the only way the community could
possibly begin any of these projects as well as make payments on the Sinai Hospital loan of
$1,000,000 was to set. aside a sizeable sum of campaign funds for the capital needs each year. It
was on this issue that the spokesmen who asked retention of Israel's status differed with those
who seek emphasis on local capital needs.
The steering committee had as its objective to develop a recommended formula for the
allocation of 1952 campaign funds to the following futit fields: Overseas and Israel, local
operating, local capital, and national. Other members of the committee, in addition to Dr.
August, included Fisher, Judge William Friedman, Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, Garvett, Kasle, Krolik,
Max Osnos, Rubiner, Silberstein and Abraham Srere.

Lawrence W. Crohn and A. C. Lappin were among the Zionist leaders who pleaded in
behalf of -Holtzman's maximum-available-to-Israel proposal. The Hadassah representatives
were unanimous in their support of this proposal.

In the meantime the machinery is being set in motion for the organization of the 1952
campaign. Kasle has called two meeting for this Friday at the Butzel Memorial Building.
Representatives of major Jewish organizational groupings will hold a luncheon meeting and
representatives of member agencies of the Federation and beneficiaries of the campaign
will meet at 4 p.m. The luncheon meeting will be attended by leaders from American Jewish
Committee, American Jewish Congress, Bnai Brith. congregations, Jewish Labor Committee,
Jewish War Veterans, Zionist groups and landsmanschaften.
The national UJA office has announced that the 1952 nation-wide drive for $151,000,000
will be inaugurated at a conference Feb. 24 at Miami Beach, Fla. Many Detroit leaders are
planning to attend this conference, and it is the hope of Allied Jewish Campaign officers that
they will be able to return to Detroit with pledges amounting to at least $1,000,000 with which
to commence local campaigning.

AMPAL to Invest
$6,000,000 in Israel

New Dollar-Pound Rafe

The International Refugee Or-
ganization; one of the United
Nations' Specialized Ageacies, 'ended its operations on Jan. 31,
after a 55-month resettlement program whose annual cost ex-
iteeded that of the - United Nations and all its other agencies.
*hove some refugees front )IRO camps are shown boarding

iiik0-chartered'shtp M Skomerhaven for the USA.

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'52 Campaign Goal: $5,200,000

TEL AVIV—Abraham Dicken-
stein, manager of AMPAL-
American Palestine Corporation,
has arrived here in connection
with industrial projects in which
AMP AL is investing $6,000,000.
Some $2,000,000 will b invest-
ed in a plant near Afikim which
will manufacture masonite and
asbestos board while another
$2,000,000 will be invested through
AMPAL's subsidiary in the Is-
raeli maritime industry in or-
der to expand Israel's merchant
fleet, he revealed. Two hotels
costing $1,000,000 will be built by
AMPAL in Tel Aviv and Beer-
sheba, while it will invest an-
other $500,000 in a glass factory
at Beersheba and $500,000 in a
fuel company.

IRO Dissolved:

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JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Is-
rael government will fix a new
value on the Israeli pound in
relation to the dollar sometime
next week-end, Ehud Avriel, di-
rector-general of the Premier's
office, announced.
Mr. Avriel revealed that Israeli
Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan
and Bruce McDaniel, American
coordinator of U.S. technical as-
sistance, will confer on alloca-
tion of ' $40,000,000 a American

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Germans of Bonn Seek
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In Reparations Talks

Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News

BONN—The

German negotiations with Israel and
the Jewish organizations on reparations claims from
Germany are from the German point of view not only
aimed at bringing about a settlement of the repara
tions question but also at the creation of a "basis of
confidence between the German and Jewish people,' .
it was stated Tuesday in Bonn government circles.
It was also learned that Prof. Franz Boehme of
the University of Frankfurt will probably be named
to head the German delegation to the talks. The same
German circles stressed that Bonn considers the per,.
sonality of the head of the GerMan delegation to be
a matter of great importance.
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.Israel Settles: 70 000 in 263 New
Immigrants' .Agricultutals , Settlements

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Israel Parliament on Tuesday
began a debate on the national development budget.. It
opened with a lengthy report by Agriculture Minister Levi
Eshkol who disclosed that 263 new agricultural settlements
had been established in the three and one-half years since
the state was established,: These settlements house nearly
20,000 families with a total population of 70,000 who wor1C .
some 1,000 ;000 dunams. of land, In addition, 26 immigrant

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