Allied Jewish Campaign Opens May 6;
Women's G-Day Solicitations Sunday
Silver Guest Speaker at
Dinner Tuesday; Solicit
30 000 Potential Givers
,
Welcoming home Abe Kasle, chairman of the 1932 Allied Jewish
Campaign
who, with Mrs. Kasle and Mr. and Mrs. Israel Davidson,
•
is returning from a visit to Israel, Abba Hillel Silver, one of Ameri-
ea's foremost rabbis and orators, will join with workers and con-
tributors. as this year's Allied Jewish Campaign opens officially,
at a dinner meeting, 6:30 p.m.. Tuesday. in the Grand Ballroom
of the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel.
Mr. Davidson, honorary vice-chairman of the 1952 Campaign,
will add his impression of the Jewish state.
•
Kasle returns to Detroit to find that, true to their pledge. his col-
leagues in the campaign have been setting a "plus" pace for 1952. The
Women's Division. led by Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, senior adviser. Mrs.
Henry Wineman, honorary chairman. Mrs. Abraham Cooper and Mrs.
Leonard H. Weiner, campaign chairmen. and Mrs. John C. Hopp. division
president. opened their phase of the drive with a gala "Fashion in Fig-
urea" brunch April 22. Women attending contributed $172.000 to the
campaign. with a general five per cent increase over pledges from the
same people last year.
The Women's G-Day will be conducted this Sunday. (Details on
page 20).
Headed by Louis Berry and Abraham Srere. counselors, and Milton
Mahler and Ben L. Silberstein. chairmen, pre-campaign workers have
K.
sompleted their assignments and will follow up immediately after the
6 meeting. Other leaders are filling their posts with the conscienti-
May
ousness campaign chairmen have learned to expect from Detroit workers.
heading the Junior division. will report that the young
Leo Majzels,
adults have just about completed their phase of the drive. with 336.000
raised to date.
Other campaigners setting a pluspace for their giroups are Division
Chairmen James Wineman. mercantile. Samuel J. Greenberg, services,
A. Laven and Benjamin Wilk,
Albert Fruman, mechanical trades. Daniel
Keil. food, Dr. Martin Naimark and
real estate and building, George D.
Arthur S. Purdy, professional, Nathan Balaban. arts and crafts. and Leon
K.ay and Mrs. Samuel A. Green, metropolitan and organizations.
Points Out Scope of ,Drive
Associate chairman Irving W. Blumberg called upon every member of
community responsibility"
the community "to support this number one
working
and
giving
to
the
1952
campaign.
'No
matter what our indi-
by
vidual special interests may be," Blumberg. pointed out. "we find it in-
in the campaign. along with all of the other Jewish causes that
cluded
as individuals. Whether a person is primarily concerned over
concern us
recreation for teen-agers. good care for the aged. upbuilding Israel. civic
purpose by active support to the 1952 Allied Jewish Campaign."
Overseas Needs Underlined
Joseph Holtzman, associate chairman. emphasized the importance of .
campaign in the future of Israel. "Life in Israel is austere," he said
home-
the
Her free and deliberate decision to keep her doors open to all the
among the Jews has meant great sacrifices. Israel's people have had
loss
cn-
400 share their food. housing. medicine and clothing with 700.000 new or
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VOL. 21—No. S
Cut I Million in
Israel Aid Grants
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
WASHINGTON—Aid for Israel under the Mutual Security program will he
reduced about $10,000,000 in conformity with the general slash of one billion
dollars made by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in an "across the
board" cut of the $7,900,000,000 requested by President Truman for foreign mil-
itary and economic aid. it was learned Tuesday. The President had asked $76,-
000.000 for refugee settlement in Israel, and Israel would also have received ad-
ditional funds from the balance of the 5196.000.000 the President had requested
for the Middle East.
Fears Dominate Russian
Jews; Synagogues Alive
HAIFA. (JTA)—Mernbers of the Israeli delegation to the Moscow Economic Con-
that
saw Jews in the Moscow synagogue only during Passover the and
Is raelis .
ference said they at
other
times.
the
local
Jews
seemed
afraid
to
approach
then, as well as
The delegation returned from the Soviet Union.
One member- of the delegation told of seeing his brother-in-law
in the syna-
the "translators."
was afraid to speak to him because of
the
latter
-
news-
said.that-
-
no
Yiddish
-• gegue,.but
tes reported there was
who accompanied the delegates. The delega
paper in Moscow, but that a small number of Yiddish books is available.
The delegates said there appeared to be a possibility for increasing Israeli citrus
sold at the high price of four
exports to the USSR. One delegate stated that oranges
to five rubles each.
Synagogues Function; No Trace of Jewish Culture
LONDON. (JTA1—Jewish religion is still alive in Moscow but there is no trace
of Jewish cultural institutions. Sydney Silverman. left-wing Laborite member of the
Bitish Parliament. declared upon his return from the Moscow Economic Conference.
"I think it ij a pity that in the Soviet Union. which always took a great and
justifiable pride in its encouragement of languages and cultures of so many minorities
and nationalities, the Jewish community seems to be an exception," Mr. Silverman said
with the London Jewish Chronicle. He said he was unable to check n
noted Soviet
in an interview
his wife brought back from Russia last year that Itzik Feffer.
information
Continued on Page 24
Anti-Semitic Flare-Up Marks House Debate onWalter
Immigration Bill • Truman Expected to Veto Measure
bills would surrender
The McCarran and Walter
Anna Rosenberg Attacked by Hoffman
many of our finest traditions and retard our efforts
WASHINGTON, aJTA — President Truman will
Attacking Rep. Celler, a series of vituperative
speeches were made by Rep. Clare Hoffman, a Michi- to rally the allies of democracy against the Commun-
omnibus immigration leg-
veto the McCarran-Walter
adopted
by
Congress.
informed
sources
gan Republican. Hoffman said of immigrants that ist tTen
islation if it is
hrea major Jewish organizations
predicted.
meat condemning the McCarran Omnibus Immigra-
lawyers in this community, in New York, and else -
he groups at the same Immigration
The measure, accepted by the House of Repre-
n Bill.
l.
where to get in. many of them do that, you know, and t o
The Hum
sentatives by a vote of 206 to 68 after a three-day
went
to
the
Upper
House
where
Senators
The
10
bodies
warned
that
the
McCarran-Walter
debate,
is no good. our way of life is no good, and they want
Hubert Humphrey, Herbert H. Lehman, Guy Giletta
to change it, just like Anna Rosenberg. Assistant Sec- measure would establish a harsh
policy of restriction
brriers
a
ct unreasonable
and others were reported mapping a strong fight
n, would
retary
of
Defense
who
wants
to
take
all
the
boys
and
and
xclusio
tion, would i ntro-
ere
aturaliza
n
nd
against it.
against immi gr
girls and put them into the armed services."
duce racial and religious discriminaton and would
legislation has been de-
The McCarran-Walter
come
Rep. E. L. Forrester, of Georgia, said "I have
racist" in principle, and has
being
dis- "abandon our country's finest traditions by dropping
nounced by liberals as -
to the realization that the persons who are
been condemned by all major Jewish organizations.
criminated against in America are the old-fashioned an iron curtain around our
shores."
the
Rabaut Opposes Bill
Civic groups warned that the bill would jeopardize
Yankee and the old-fashioned Southerner." Forrester
,:.
naturalized
citizens
Michigan
Congressman
Louis C. Rabaut opposed
tights of aliens and
said that ''the men who are always hollering `dis-
Anti-Semitic Flare-Up In Debate
crimination' I find are living in the most palatial House approval of the omnibus immigration bill.
The 14th District Representative pointed to the
Rep. Emanuel Celler of New York led the fight
apartments in Washington and driving the best auto-
views of Protestant. Catholic, and Jewish social or-
against the bill, aided in large measure by Rep.
mobiles
.
.
Rep. John Rankin. of Mississippi joined in the ganizations. the American Bar Association, the Asso-
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and Rep. Louis B. Heller.
chorus, claiming attempts to liberalize the Walter Bill ciation of Immigration and Nationality Lawyers, and
The latter, addressing the House, said of the Walter
numerous other groups concerned with immigration
are police state provisions, police
Eau: "To me, these regard
were a part of a "communistic plot." Hoffman ex-
them
as
constituting
a
seri-
pressed
agreement
with
Rankin,
calling
him
"my
problems.
in opposition to a number of the provisions
state methods. I
friend." The Michigan Republican said he agreed of the bill. He pointed out that "the omnibus bill
• 118 threat to our democratic form of government."
this
harbors
some
serious_ threats to the civil liberties of
Debate on the measure, frequently acrimonious
with Rankin that "if there are any people in
marked
by
anti-Semitic
flare-ups.
Reactionary
country
that
needed
protection
from
those
who
prat-
the
American
people themselves. For example, any
Was
E.
tice discrimination while condemning it, it was the car or vehicle _within a 'reasonable distance' of the
elements in the House rallied around Rep. Francis
may be searched without a warrant
Walter, chairman of the House Immigration Sub-com-
white Gentiles." Canadian border
down
the
scattered
opposition
to
his
At
certain
points
during
the
debate,
there
was
by
immigration
officers.
and there are other provi-
to
shout
Inittee,
applause by as many as 50 members of remarks such sions which likewise do violence to the principles of
bill.
Rep. John T. Wood, Idaho Republican, who sup-
as those made by Forrester and Hoffman. due process
established
The as
House
approved in
bill our
will law."
now go to the Se nate
that on
Protests Mount Against McCarran-Walter Bills
ported the Walter Bill, said "it seems to me
ope.
I h"
fol-
a
not
the question of racial origins—though I am
As Congress began its debate on immigration, 65 where a similar measure is already pending. "
faiths appealed to the said Rep. Rabaut,that further action on this measure
lower of Hitler—there is something to it." He added
prominent Americans of alI
ilhat "the fact still remains that the peoples of West-
American publican through newspaper advertisements will see the removal of many of these repressive and
ern Europe have made good American citizens." Wood
to wire their representatives in Washington to oppose restrictive . provisions so that our immigration laws
the McCarran. and Walter Bills and support the Huai- will reflect the basic democratic ideals _ which have
Epoiripiained about leaving immigrants "penned up
their
own
kind
in
the
large
attracted so , many people to our shores."
OD:hong the people of
_ phrey-Lelunaa-R•oseveIt bills,
their
own
newspapers."
Wietkrn. cities. They read