Whether You're
voting 'For' or 'Agin'
Registration is
How you begin!
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review t2
,4
July 9 is Final Day for
Registration for Au-
gust 11 Primaries.
VOLUME 21—No 14
of Jewish Events
Fate of
Dutch Jews
Feared as a
Vanishing
Community
Article by Norman
Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
708 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, June 13, 1952
7
Kurland, Page 28
$4.00 Per Year: Single Copy, 10c
Israel Moves to End Black Market
Top Workers' Caravan Pushes
Drive
•
Success of Allied Jewish Campaign Hinges
Upon Response From 300 Big Contributors
Deeply concerned over the slowness with which a number of large contri-
butors are respondinr, to the Allied Jewish Campaign. a flying squadron of
workers was organized this week to visit a group of 300 previous participants in
campaigns whose gifts totalled more than 7 0,000 last year.
The caravan of workers will visit the group in question with the urgent
plea to make their gifts known at once in order to prevent failure of the drive.
In response to a call issued by Abe Kasle, campaign chairman, and'Samuel Rubiner.
president of the Jewish Welfare Federation. teams headed by Joseph Holtzman, Nathan
Epstein, Harvey Goldman. Ben Kramer and a score more of the most active workers
are beginning their visits to the non-givers to-date to inspire prompt contributions.
Rubiner pointed out at a meeting at which the caravan was organized that social
successes do not justify cutting of pledges. He also called upon workers not to delay
contacting their prospects. "A card in your pocket does not gain in value," he warned
them.
"Detroit Jewry is facing the test of its life in this drive," Holtzman admonished
his fellow-workers. urging them to join with him in the effort to secure outstanding
pledges and to end the drive speedily by reaching the goal of $5,200,000.
Additional efforts to secure gifts and to mobilize last minute effort for the drive
will be made Sunday evening at the George Jessel party at Knollwood.
Rubiner expressed the hope that Detroit will live up to previous achievements
and will conclude the drive successfully. He pointed out that Cleveland Jewry has fin-
ished its campaign_ in record time by attaining its goal.
Acting Mayor Miriani, Senator Moody Head
Committee Of Welcome to Eban Here June 22
A civic reception committee, headed by Acting Mayor Louis C. Miriani and Sen-
ator Blair Moody. is being mobilized to welcome to Detroit Israel's Ambassador to the
United States. Abba Eban. who is coming here to address the dinner and public meet-
ing, Sunday evening. June 22, at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel. for the official opening of
the 1952 Israel bond drive.
Ambassador Eban will speak at a dinner at 5 p.m. The public meeting will follow
at 8:30 p.m.
Louis Berry. chairman of the dinner committee. met last week with representatives
of local organizations to arrange for table reservations. which, he stated. are limited
to available facilities. The following number of tables already have been reserved by
these organizations:
Labor Zionists. 12; Mizrachi, 10; Zionist Organization. 8; Bnai Brith, 15: Landsmanshaften,
3: Congregations Shaarey Zedek, Adas Shalom. Bnai Moshe and Temple Israel. 2 each: Hadassah, 1
4: American Jewish Congress. National Council of Jewish Women and Jewish War Veterans,
each: unaffiliated individuals, 6.
A call has gone forth from various groups to their memberships to make immediate reserva-
tions for the dinner. A call for participation in the reception has been issued to. the commun-
ity by a committee headed by Morris Schaver, Harry Schumer. Morris Lieberman, William
Hordes. of LZOA; Philip Stollman, Irving Schlussel, Daniel Temchin. Abraham Nusbaum. of
Mizrachi; A. C. Lappin, ZOD; Samuel Lieb, Maxwell Lowe, Bnai Brith; Harry Kaminer, Lands-
manshaften; Harry Madison. JWV.
The call of this group of leaders also is accompanied by a message of welcome to Ambassa-
dor Eban.
Governor G. Mennen Williams has issued the following mesage of welcome:
"I am most happy to welcome to Michigan His Excellency Abba Eban, Israel's Ambassa-
. dor to the United States, on the occasion of his visit to Detroit Sunday, June 22, when a
dinner in his honor will be held at the Sheraton Cadillac Hotel.
"Mr. Eban represents the people of Israel with such eloquence and energy that, today, he
is recognized as one of our most brilliant younger statesmen. It is an honor to extend this
welcome to him.
"May I, also, express my warmest sympathy for the mission which brings him here—one
designed to fortify the economy of a thriving, vigorous democracy, growing in the very teeth
of adversity and the acute problems arising out of Israel's obligatory and humane policy of un-
limited immigration."
The dinner committee headed by Mr. Berry includes the following: Mrs. Samuel Aaron,
Mrs. Theodore Bargman, Mrs. Benjamin Bond, Jack Citrin, Abraham Cooper, Mrs. Samuel Cm'',
Mrs. Philip Cutler, Mrs. Herbert Eskin, Walter Field, Mrs. Shay Foreman, Julius Green, Mrs.
Beryl Harrison, William Hordes, John Isaacs, Mr. and Mrs. William Isenberg, Harry Kaminer,
Sidney Karbel, Mrs. Joseph Katchke, Mrs. Harry Kay, Mrs. Joseph Kunin, Mr. and Mrs. Benja-
min M. Laikin, Leon Kay, A. C. Lappin, Samuel W. Leib, Morris Lieberman, Mrs. Irving Lipson,
Maxwell M. Lowe, Mrs. Morris Lufkin, David Pollack, Mrs. Julius Ring, Charles Rubiner, Mrs.
Alexander W. Sanders, Mrs. M. R. Saulson, Morris Schaver, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schiller, Irving
Schlussel, Harry Schumer, Sidney Shevitz, Mrs. Rose Singer, Richard Sloan, Mr. and Mrs.
Phillip Stollman, Daniel Temchin, Benjamin Wilk, Lew Wisper, Morris Zack.
The Israel bond office reported this week that on BIG Day No. 2, last Sunday, volunteer
workers sold bonds in_the amount of $29,500. Volunteers met at the Young Israel Center on
Dexter to receive instructions and to submit reports after their solicitations. Mrs. Julius Meskin
of Pisgah Bnai Brith Women, Julius Zemmol of Arlazaroff Branch of Farband and Samuel
Feldstein of ZOD were among the outstanding workers.
Drastic Step Puts an End
To Speculation in Pounds
Israel's drastic step of imposing a compulsory loan
and calling in all currency in circulation before June 22 is
believed to be the most important step taken to end the
blaCk market.
An important statement released through the Ameri-
can Jewish Press reveals that the drastic move is intended
not only to force a loan. to end hoarding in Israel and to
prevent a black market within the Jewish state. but also
to freeze holdings of Israel currency in the United States
and to prevent the re-importation of Israel bank notes,
taken out by black marketeers, into the Jewish state.
Harry Zinder. Israel press attache in New York, has issued
this statement through AJP. in connection with the announce-
ment that Anglo-Palestine Bank notes must be registered:
"In connection with the announcement that a new issue
of Israel bank notes has become legal tender, all previous bank
notes issued by the Anglo-Palestine Bank—now Bank Leumi
L'Israel, the Israel National Bank—cease to be legal tender.
All holders of bank notes of one pound and 500 mil denomina-
tions will be able to deposit these notes against official receipts
in banks whose names and addresses will be released later.
The money deposited will be credited to the owners in a
blocked account held in Israel by the Bank Le -umi.
"Owner. of bills above denominations of one pound will not
be afforded the same facilities, since, according to a law valid
since the establishment of the state, only bank notes of one
pound and 500 mil denominations were permitted to be taken
out.of the country. It is therefore presumed that all bills of
higher denominations were taken out of the country illegally.
"Deposits of Israel currency must be effected prior to June
22. All currency not deposited by that date will no longer be
valid. Definite procedures for the deposit of these notes and
the banks which will handle the transactions will be announced
later."
Regarding the ban on bringing Israel bank notes into the
country by travelers. Mr. Zinder issued this statement:
"The Treasury Department of the Government of Israel
has instructed that travelers entering Israel will not be allowed
to bring Israel currency of any denomination with them into
the country. This regulation. which includes travelers of all
categories, comes into effect immediately.
`This regulation has been introduced as a result of
a
considerable amount of Israel currency having been taken out
of Israel illegally over the past four years.
"Travelers to Israel who bring U. S. dollars with them wilt
be able to exchange that currency at the established prefer-
ential rate of Silo to the pound."
The Israel government', announcement :"as to the effect that
as an emergency measure 10 per cent of all money in circulation
will be withdrawn as a compulsory loan. except bank accounts
of 50 Israel pounds and bank notes of one pound denominations
and lower. The Israel Minister of Finance, Eliezer Kaplan,
whose resignation is pending. said that the new measure is ex-
pected to raise a loan of 25.000.000 Israel pounds.
The new issue of banknotes became legal tender on June 10,
and banks will exchange banknotes within two weeks.
Einstein Honored:
Prof. .ALBERT EIN-
STEIN receives a special scroll from Mrs. DAVID de SOLA
the Hadassah-Hebrew University
Medical Center building fund to mark the' ground-breaking
for the new center in Jerusalem, which took place on June
POOL, acting chairman of
5. The scroll informed Prof. Einstein that his name would be
inscribed upon the "Wall of Healing," an architectural
feature of the center. Also in the picture are Mrs. SAMUEL
W. HALPRIN, past president of National Hadassah. and Dr.
GEORGE S. WISE, president of the American Friends of the
Hebrew University. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion said at
the ceremony in Jerusalem: By establishing this institution
Hadassah has once more displayed the wonderful qualities
that underlie our Zionist creation: faith, vision, courage."