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-VOLUME 24—No. 15

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

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Arabs Make
Dirty Word
of PEACE

Important N. J.
Court Ruling on
Bible Distribution
In Schools

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Ike Re • orted Proposing Egypt
Refrain from Attacking Israel

UJA Votes to Raise $119,921,150;
Drafts Warburg for Fourth Term

NEW YORK, (JTA)—The three-day annual national
conference of the United Jewish Appeal adopted a goal of
$119,921,150 for 1954 and concluded with the drafting of
Edward M. M. Warburg for a fourth successive term as
UJA general chairman.
The goal represents the budgetary sums required as a
• minimum in 1954 by the constituent agencies of the United
Jewish Appeal and was adopted to provide $91,620,000 for
the United Israel Appeal, $26,186,000 for the Joint Distri-
bution Committee, and $2,115,150 for the United Service
for New Americans and New York Association for New
Americans. •
In a resolution adopted unanimously by the 1,200 com-
munity leaders who attended the conference, anxiety was
recorded over the fact that cash receip6 of the UJA for
1953 are running behind those of 1952. The resolution urged
all communities and all their contributors "to undertake at
once an effort to enable the agencies of the UJA to continue
without interruption or delay their great humanitarian pro-
grams in Israel, Europe, North Africa and the Moslem
countries."
The resolution requested that contributors make full
payment on their pledges before the end of this year and
urged the communities to pay in full outstanding amounts
of allocations to the UJA for 1953 and'prior years.
.Another.resolutioacyxpressed "warm affection and high
esteem" for David Ben-Gurion on the occasion of his re-
tirement as Israel's Premier.
Joseph Holtzman of Detroit, newly re-elected na-
tional campaign chairman of the UJA, who served in 1953
as UJA's national chairman for cash, urged the communal
leaders on return home to begin mobilizing cash sums to
advance to the United Jewish Appeal on account of their
local 1954 drives.
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, UJA's executive vice-chairman,
who also was re-elected for another term, reported on the
leadership given the UJA by the present administration
which came into office three years ago under the general
chairmanship of Mr. Warburg. He told the conference that
-Since January, 1951, Mr. Warburg and his associates had
led the UJA in raising a total of $223,000,000 in pledges,
of which almost $215,000,000 has been received in cash.
Israel on Way to Economic Independence, Eshkol Says
Israel Finance Minister Levi Eshkol said in his address
that the Jewish State has passed the half-way mark to
economic independence and is not being deterred from the
fulfillment of crucial long-range development plans by Arab
efforts to destroy the new state's sovereignty.
The Israel Minister read to the conference a farewell
message from Premier David Ben-Gurion to American
Jews. In his message, Mr. Ben-Gurion emphasized that
Israel's enemies are numerous and strong, and seek to
wreck the achievements of the Jewish State.
Israel Ambassador Abba Eban told the delegates that
while Israel is "commanded by every consideration of na-
tional and regional welfare" to actively seek an Arab-Israel
peace settlement, the need for economic progress in his
country's total scheme of things has a priority which "is
still unchallenged."
Governor John S. Fine of Pennsylvania told the con-
ference that this country "should exercise every influence
to urge acceptance of a just peace" in the Middle East.
"Israel, I'm sure," the Governor declared, "seeks a peace
-which will be a lasting peace," adding his belief that the
new State "will continue in the pursuit of such peace."
- The Governor, who returned a week previously from
visit to Israel and Europe, assured the delegates that the
voluntary funds raised through UJA and "the public funds
our Government has lent and given are being well spent
in the practical work" of Israel's reconstruction and reha-
bilitation.
Leon Keyserling, who served as chairman of former
President Truman's Council of Economic Advisors, fore-
east that the year 1954 would continue to see high pros-
perity in the United States and that this favorable economic
condition was the basis for increased support of UJA.
Other speakers at the three-day conference included
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, William Rosenwald, Rudolf Sonne-
born, Morris W. Berinstein and others. Reports on the ac-
tivities of the constituent agencies were made by Moses W.
Beckelman for the JDC, Ellis Radinsky for the United Israel
Appeal, and Arthur Greenleigh for the United Service for
New Americans.

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Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News

WASHINGTON—Informed circles here indicated Tuesday that President Eise
hower, in his talks with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Bermuda, su
gested that Egypt must be put under a promise not to attack Israel as part of the settle-
ment of the British-Egyptian dispute over the Suez Canal.
In return, Egypt would receive U.S. munitions and the State -Department woulc'
pay more attention to the Arab arguments at the United Nations, the formula presented
by President Eisenhower for settlement of the Suez Canal issue is reported to hav( .-
stipulated. The American formula, rejected by Mr. Churchill, called for the withdrawa'
of British troops from the Suez Canal on the basis of an Egyptian agreement to alloy'
the return of such troops in the event of war.

Financial Crisis May Force Technion to Close

HAIFA, (JTA)—The Haifa Technical Institute is faced with a financial crisis or
such depth that the school may be forced to close its doors, it was learned here Tues
day. Unless the Israel government offers aid, the battle to keep the school open seems lost.
The Technion has been unable to raise additional funds and the government ha-
has been unable to provide the difference between operating costs and receipts. The
school's administration has made an attempt to raise tuition fees, but this move wal:
opposed by the students.

Ben-Gurions Leave Tel Aviv, Move into Negev Home -
TEL AVIV—David Ben-Gurion vacated his. Tel Aviv apartment Monday and lef'

for Sdeh Boker, the tiny sheepherders settlement, where he will become an ordinary
citizen. His belongings have already been shipped to the prefabricated house on tlie
treeless and grassless plateau which he will henceforth call home.
At Beersheba, en route to Sdeh Bo ker, Mr. Ben-Gurion was given a warm.
greeting. The chief participants in this ceremony were about 1,000 schoolchildren who
will turn out to welcome this new citizen of the Negev to Israel's development frontier.
Hundreds of persons, including man y children, crowded around Mr. Ben-Gurion%.
house in Tel Aviv to see him off. He shook hands with police sentries before passin"
throtigh the 'gate. - W. and -Mrs. Bt n-Gur ion moved directly to their new house ire
Sdeh Boker. The couple later had lunch in - the communal dining room, eating from
metal plates. Mr. Ben-Gurion's house has a kitchen equipped with a refrigerator and a
stove operating on bottled gas, but it will be used only for entertaining visitors.

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Prof. Sehapira's Remains Exhumed for Israel Burial

COLOGNE—The remains of Prof. Hermann Schapira, noted Zionist pioneer an('
one of the founders of the Jewish National Fund and a professor of higher mathematics
at Heidelberg University, were exhumed Tu esday at a suburban Jewish cemetery in prep-
aration for their shipment for reinterment in Israel.
Present at the ceremony were the entire staff of the Israel purchasing mission in
this city and various Jewish leaders.
Prof. Schapira, a Russian Jew, traine d for the rabbinate later turning to math-
ematics. He died in 1898, three years before the JNF was actually established.

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First Ilanukah Since Truce:

The Festival of Lights, as cele-
brated by GIs both here and abroad, is depicted here. Photo at left shows Jewish service-
men of the Third Infantry Division in Korea receiving presents—gift-wrapped morale—from
the hands of Chaplain MILTON J. GOLDBERG, IX Corps chaplain. Gifts were sent by the
Newark, N. J., Serve-A-Chaplain Committee of the National Jewish Welfare Board's Wom-
en's Organizations' Division. In photo at upper right, Chaplain SHOLOM SINGER is seen
lighting the second candle at Hanukah Services conducted for GIs at Fort Jackson, S. C.
Taking part in service are BEN KLEIN (in civilian suit) , USO-JWB associate director at Co-
lumbia USO Club, and Pvt. JAY SCHORR of Miami, Fla. Photo at lower right shows Chap.
lain DAVID S. HACHEN giving Chaplain BENJAMIN F. HUGHES, Naval Ai.r Station chap-
lain, Hanukah supplies furnished by JWB to turn over to Jewish personnel at the Big Three
conference in Bermuda. Chaplain Hachen, Jewish chaplain at the Norfolk, Va., Naval Train-
ing Station, was flown to Bermuda by the Navy to conduct a special Hanukah service on the
eve of the conference of President Eisenhower, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier
Laniel. The chaplain also distributed Hanukah gifts provided by the Washington„ D. C.,

Serve-A Committee of JWB's Women's Organizations' Division.

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