Detroiters Set New High Mark for
Gifts to WA; Join in Israel Loan

$1,233,000 Contributions
Announced in Miami as
Start of Allied Campaign

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'MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—For the second consecutive year, the
Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit and its Allied Jewish Cam-
paign led the entire country in advance gifts at the national in-
augural conference of the United Jewish Appeal, at the Saxony
Hotel here, Sunday. Reporting $1,233,000 in early 1954 pledges as
Detroit's share of the $12,900,000, announced as the launching sum
towards the $119,921,000 required for support of programs for
refugee and distressed Jews in Israel and other parts of. the world,
the Motor City's representatives in Florida went on record with
gifts exceeding last year's. It was the largest sum for any city
outside of New York.
Marking the opening of the 16th annual campaign of the UJA,
the major fund-raising instrument by Jews everywhere in the world
for the United Israel Appeal, Jewish Agency, Joint Distribution
Committee and United Services for New Americans, the conference
was attended by leading workers and contributors from hundreds
of communities, with Detroit's leadership playing a prominent role.
Prominent among those on the dais at the conference fund-raising
session were Joseph Holtzman and Abe Kasle of the national UJA
cabinet, Samuel H. Rubiner, Detroit Federation president, and
Irving W. Blumberg, co-chairman with Harvey Goldman of the
Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign.
Holtzman, national UJA collections chairman, was one of
four leaders who called for responses to the appeals made by
Edward M. M. Warburg, UJA general chairman, and Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver of Cleveland.

_ Detroit's showing was the result of weeks of intensive pre-
parations both in Detroit and in Miami Beach. Among Detroit
families in the front ranks of contributors were the Winemans,
the Davidsons, the Kasles, the Hamburgers, the Sucher-Fisher-
Epstein-Kay interests, the Holtzman and Silverman families and
the Lurie Brothers.

Rabbi Silver reviewed developments on the world scene dur-
ing the last year, with specia1.4-eference to America and Israel—
particularly as they affected the Jewish communities. He em-
phasized that fulfillment of, responsibilities to Israel was inter-
twined with fulfillment of obligations to democracy.
Mr. Warburg outlined the program which the beneficiary
agencies of UJA have set for 1954, including establishment of new
agricultural settlements, irrigation, farm aid, and special assist-
ance for new immigrants now living in transition camps under
slum conditions. He described the construction program to pro-
vide 10,000 housing units and listed plans to care for 16,000 dis-
tressed and needy Jews in Europe and North Africa.
While Mrs. Sidney J. Karbel, Detroit's Women's Division
campaign chairman, was at home organizing her forces, Mrs.
Harry L. Jones, year-round president of the Women's Division,
Mrs. John C. Hopp, a women's division national UJA vice-chair-
man, and Mrs. Henry Winernan marshalled cooperation among
southern vacationers for the first annual national women's meet-
ing. Assisting in organizing the women's program were Mesdames
Joseph Holtzman, Harry Becker, Abe Kasle, Philip Lipson, Sam-
uel H. Rubiner, Israel Davidson, Abraham Cooper, Israel Himel-
hoch, Nathan Simons and Melville S. Welt.
At the similar campaign conference in Miami Beach .last year,
Detroit's gifts totalled $1,100,000, while the total contributions
were $14,150,000.

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Communities Pledge $70 Million Loan to Israel

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., (JTA) — Sixty-nine Jewish communi-
ties throughout the United States, with Detroit playing a leading
role, have already pledged the sum of $69,350,000 towards a five-
year loan of $75,000,000 to retire short-term indebtedness of the
State of Israel and stabilize the country's economy, Dr. Joseph
J. Schwartz, executive vice-chairman, announced here.
The UJA conference was told that the loan—first such project
ever undertaken by an American philanthropic agency— was in
addition to the $119,921,000 goal of the UJA for 1954. UJA lead-
ers hope to complete the campaign for the loan within the next
six weeks to avoid interference with the regular UJA drive.
The extraordinary loan project was proposed by the UJA on
Dec. 10 in New York at a meeting of representative Jewish lead-
ers. They were told that the Jewish Agency had incurred a cri-
tical indebtedness arising out of the mass influx of 750,000 im-
migrants from May 14, 1948, when the State was founded, to May,
1953.
Taking action on this report, the New York meeting endorsed
a proposal to seek a $75,000,000 loan from the country's Jewish
communities to be amortized over a five-year period at a rate of
20 percent per annum to be guaranteed out of the receipts of the
UJA's fund-raising campaigns. The meeting named a 99-man or-
ganizing committee headed by William Rosenwald, national chair-
man of the UJA, who led a move to present this plan to local
Jewish welfare funds.

Dr. Schwartz pointed out that the loan would serve not only to
relieve the Jewish Agency of its most pressing problems, but would
have the effect of making it possible for the government of Israel to
retire some $75,000,000 in short term debts which now impose a stagger-
ing burden on the new State's economy. This follows from the fact that
the Jewish Agency, like all organizations and individuals under Israel
law, furnishes its foreign currency to the Israel Treasury in exchange
for Israel pounds,

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Jordan Expected to Accept Call
To Peace Conference with Israel,
But May Try to Stall Agenda

JERUSALEM, (JTA) —Israel government sources expressed the belief that
Jordan will agree to accept the invitation of United Nations Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold to meet representatives of Israel in Jerusalem, but may at
the same time attempt to stall the conference by blocking acceptance of a mu-
tually agreeable agenda.
The invitation to an Israel-Jordan conference, which was extended by Mr.
Hammarskjold to Israel and Jordan, stipulated that the agenda of the parley
should be decided on at the conference itself. If it proved impossible to agree on
the agenda, the conference obviously could not continue, Mr. Hammarskjold said.
Government circles here indicated that Israel Premier Moshe Sharett will
ask Mr. Hammarskjold to call the meeting between Israel and Jordan, invoked
by Israel under the terms of the Israel-Jordan armistice agreement, as soon as
possible. Mr. Hammarskjold, who offered to act as chairman of the conference,
urged Israel and Jordan to suggest a date for opening the talks.
In his letter to both governments, the UN Secretary General said that in his
opinion the conference should be - restricted to "concrete issues of limited scope
arising out of the implementation of the Armistice Agreement." Israel, he went
on, has accepted that view.
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, former Acting Mediator in Palestine, who helped ne-
gotiate the armistice agreements, may be present at the conference with Mr. Ham-
marskjold, it was reported here. Dr. Bunche's presence was seen as an aid in the
direction of lessening Israel-Arab tensions.
It was noted here that Israel's agreement to Mr. Hammarskjold's phrasing
of the conference call, limiting its scope and leaving its agenda open, has im-
proved Israel's position since the Secretary General is now in a position to con-
duct the conference in such a manner a s to force Jordan to accept some sort of
agenda, even if it is "limited."

Israel to Relax Policy on Selecting Immigrants

Policies governing the selection of immigrants to Israel will be relaxed, it was
indicated here after a meeting between representatives of the Jewish Agency and
the Israel government, held in the Premier's office.
It was decided that persons who left Israel and now would like to return
will be given another opportunity to settle in Israel, provided they agree to live
and work in an agricultural settlement. The
top age limit for the acceptance of skilled
Honor Tercentenary
immigrants has been extended to 50, instead
of the 45 which was the top previously.

With Pa. Exhibition

PHILADELPHIA, (JTA)—An ex-
hibition commemorating the ter-
centenary of Jewish settlement in
America was opened here at the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Co-sponsored by the American
Jewish Historical Society, which
concluded a two-day annual meet-
ing at Dropsie College here, the
exhibition will last a month.
The chief emphasis of the Jew-
ish historical group's meeting was
on the role of the early Jewish
settlers in this country. The ter-
centenary, to be celebrated
throughout the country this year,
marks the settlement in New York
in 1654 of 23 Jewish refugees from
Brazil.
Dr. Salo W. Baron, professor of
Jewish history, literature and in-
stitutions at Columbia University,
was elected president of the so-
ciety, succeeding Dr. Lee M. Fried-
man, who was named honorary
president.
The home of the late Dr. A. S.
W. Rosenbach, Jewish historian,
philanthropist and internationally
famed bibliophile, was opened here
as' a museum with a special ex-
hibit of rare letters written by
George Washington and documents
concerning him.
The museum was established by
the Rosenbach Foundation—set up
by Dr. Rosenbach and his brother
Philip in 1950—and will house part
of the famous Rosenbach book
collection. The emphasis of the
museum will be on Americana, of
which the Foundation has the best
known collection. It will also house
Dr. Rosenbach's collection of Ju-
daica, which was one of the col-
lector's favorites.

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Einstein Says Israel
Will Conquer Difficulties

PRINCETON, N. J., (JTA)—Although
Israel is now facing economic difficulties, the
Jewish State has come to stay, Prof. Albert
Einstein declared here, receiving at his home
a delegation of OSE leaders headed by Abel
Shaban of Johannesburg, chairman of the
World OSE Union, who is now visiting the
United States.

Brotherhood 'Weak' !

Anti-Semites on Rampage

M 0 L I N E, Ill., (JTA)—Signs reading
"This Place Owned by Jews" were pasted
over some 35 store windows in this city and
in nearby Davenport, Ia., and Rock Island,
Ia.
The signs were printed in ink on strips
of paper which also bore rubber stamps pro-
claiming "Anti-Jew Week, Feb. 21 to 28."
The dates coincide with those of Brother-
hood Week which is being observed interna-
tionally this week.
Police removed the stickers, but nobody
has yet found out who is responsible. The
police said some of the stores singled out by
the anti-Semites were owned by non-Jews
with names that sounded Jewish.

Release Time Bill
Killed by Tabling
In State Legislature

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