People Make News JACOB BLAUSTEIN received the Governor's Medal and a giant silver tray engraved with the names of 250 American and foreign statesmen, when he was honored for services as a hu- manitarian and philanthropist at a testimonial luncheon of the Advertising Club of Baltimore. * * * ALBERT ELAZAR was elected a member of the national execu- tive committee of the National Council for Jewish Education, at the convention in Atlantic City. PHILIP M. KLUTZNICK, pres- ident of Bnai Brith, conferred with George V. Allen, Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East, in Washington. Mr. Klutz- nick, who recently returned from a three-week tour of Israel, re- ported to the Assistant Secre- tary on his observations and im- pressions of the present situa- tion in Israel. Later, at the Em- bassy of Israel, Mr. Klutznick was presented with an Israeli scroll denoting that h i s name had been entered in the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund in Jerusalem. N. Y. State Attorney General JACOB K. JAVITS and HERMAN WOUK, author of "The Caine Mutiny," will be among the re- cipients of honorary degrees at Yeshiva University's commence- ment June 21. More than 200 academic degrees and diplomas will be conferred. • • * Rabbi HAYIM DONIN of Con- gregation Bnai David, Detroit, was elected regional vice-presi- dent of the Rabbinic Alumni of Yeshiva University. * * * More than 400 veterans of three wars, as well as communal leaders, paid tribute in Balti- more to HARRY GREENSTEIN, executive director of the Associ- ated Jewish Charities on the oc- casion of the award to him of the Distinguished Service Medal of the Maryland Department of the Jewish War Veterans. Sen. Lehman, addressing the guests at the affair, said that Mr. Greenstein was a "real friend of hundreds of thousands and even millions of people. The lives that were saved by UNRRA were sav- ed in no small measure by Harry Greenstein's brilliant work." • * MELVIN S. ZARET, 28, has been elected executive director of the Milwaukee Jewish Wel- fare Fund. He succeeds Elkan C. Voorsanger, who held the post 17 years. * * * Rabbi JOSEPH H. LOOK- STEIN, of New York, was ap- pointed chairman of the Chap- laincy Commission of the New York Board of Rabbis. * * * An honorary degree of Doctor of Technological Science was awarded to J. W. WUNSCH, president of the American Tech- nion Society, by Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, which also awarded an honorary degree of Ingenieur to ELIAS FIFE, chairman of the society's board of directors. * * * Top ranking American Zionist leaders paid warm tribute to AVRAHAM HARMAN, Consul General of Israel, at a farewell reception tendered him and Mrs. Harman at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, under the joint auspices of the American Zion- ist Council and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, on the eve of their return home to Is- 10—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Labor Zionists Show Building Fund Progress Friday, June 3, 1955 Hope to Close Refugee Camps rael. Mr. Harman has left to assume a high position in the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. * * * SYDNEY W. ROOS of Rock- By ARTHUR LEWIS ville Centre, N. Y., was elected (Copyright 1955, Jewish Telegrahphk to serve a fifth term as presi- Agency, Inc.) dent of the New York Federa- UNITED NATIONS—The UN tion of Reform Synagogues. High Commissioner for Refu- gees, Dr. G. J. van Heuven Goedhart, says he hopes to close Eisenhower Requests down the refugee camps in Congress to Liberalize Europe during the next four Refugee Relief Clauses years. Dr. Goedhart makes only one WASHINGTON, (JTA) — With condition for cleaning out these a plea to the Congress that it camps which are a festering reaffirm the "great tradition of sore on the face of the free sanctuary" in America, Presi- world — but it is an important dent Eisenhower urged that it condition. He says, in his an- adopt ten specific amendments nual report which has just been to the Refugee Relief Act of published here, that it can be 1953. He asked that action be done as long as the newly set taken during the present Con- up United Nations Refugee Fund, or UNR.EF as it is called, gressional session. By enacting the changes he receives sufficient funds for its recommended, the President four-year program . said, Congress "would permit ef- The High Commissioner's fective administration of the office estimates there are 75,000 Act by the executive branch of refugees who do not come under the Government and greatly aid the High Commissioner's man- the success of the program." date. Most of them are escapees The President's message re- from behind the Iron Curtain, ported that "during the last year although there are still some and a half, substantial progress "displaced persons" who have has been made in setting up the not been relocated despite the complex organization required fact that it is ten years since to administer the technical re- the war. There are a few Jews quirements of the Act." But he in these camps; some of them went on to add that experience do not want to go to Israel. has demonstrated that adminis- others are described as "difficult trative improvements are not cases" which Israel cannot enough. A number of the pro- afford to take. (The Jewish state visions of the Act, he asserted, has absorbed a disproportionate require amendment if the Act's number of these "difficult cases," objectives are to be fully the aged and the invalid in need of special care, who cannot pos- achieved. The suggested amendments sibly support themselves.) The report says that the include a proposal that unused quota numbers in various cate- president of the United States is gories be made use of, possibly going to ask Congress to ap- for orphans, on a world-wide prove a contribution of $1,400,- basis; that definitions of the 000, and it lists other contribu- terms "refugee," "resettlement," tions as follows: Australia, $55,- "escape" and "expellee" be liber- 800; Denmark, $72,390; Ger- alized; that requirement of a many, $23,810; Israel, $5,000; passport be waived where it is the Netherlands, $93,000 ; Nor- deemed feasible; and that or- way, $83,998; Sweden, -$115,987; ganizational sponsorship be ac- Switzerland, $116,500; Turkey, cepted as sufficient. '- $4,286. However, the target for Reaction to the President's the fund is $4,000,000 for the proposal was swift. Chairman first year and $16,000,000 .alto- Emanuel Celler of the House gether, and subscriptions have Judiciary Committee com- not come in the way it was mended the recommendations, hoped they would. but criticized the President for failing to remove Scott McLeod Britain to Move Consulate as administrator of the program. To New City of Jerusalem Senator Arthur V. Watkins of JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Britain Utah predicted that the pro- posals would be adopted and ex- will move its consulate from the pressed confidence that if they Old City of Jerusalem to the were, the full number of refu- new city. The move was inter- gees would be admitted before preted here as an indication of the expiration date. But Repre- British defacto recognition of sentative Francis E. Walter of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Pennsylvania, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Act, opposed The Odessa Progressive the President's move and freely predicted its defeat. 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DAVE GARFIELD SEE PAGE- YELLOW PAGES FOR MAC:D-I.AC DEALER iliktiST . YOU With the completion of its new build- ing, Congregation Ahavas Achim will be open to 200 new families for mem- Mr. Morris Skolneck is training a pro- bership. Our total membership will fessional choir for the coming High then be 400, just the proper size for Holydays for our synagogue. friendliness and efficiency. Coll our office daily between 1 and 5 Ahavas Achim has a Religious School P.M., UN. 4-6428 for information concerning Bor Mitzvah, Sunday school, weddings, youth activ;ties and general membership. $10 PER MONTH We Serve as Your Office . . . Permitting your clients to keep in touch with you during business 'ours. SUNDAY, JUNE 5th, 1955 tioned and will seat 800 people. 19190 Schaefer, at 7 Mile Rood kempner, are near assignment completion. Preparations for cornerstone laying ceremonies, to be held at 12 noon, June 19, are nearing completion, with a record at- tendance at a Labor Zionist af- fair anticipated. Plans for a get-acquainted breakfast meeting, to which the younger Labor- Zionist element have been invited, are also un- der way. At this program, the youth will learn how they fit into future plans of the organi- zation. CARD OF THANKS The family of the late Rebecca Koperman, beloved mother of Mrs. Benjamin Fishman, Mrs. John Sklar, Mrs. S. Kushner and Irving Koper, of Pontiac, thank their many relatives and friends for the kindnesses extended dur- ing their recent bereavement. BEL-AIRE BALLROOM CARSON BUICK CONG. AHAVAS ACHIM The steering committee for the Labor Zionist Building Fund this week reported that steady progress is being made in ef- forts of the organization to raise funds to erect a new La- bor Zionist Center on Schaefer and 7 Mile Rd. Heading the campaign is Ar- lazaroff Branch of Farband, which is leading both in cover- age of members and production per capita. Other Farband Branches, specifically 114 and 552, also are showing progress. In the Poale Zion division, Branch 11 has achieved 100 per cent completion of its drive, conducted under the leadership of Herbert Pincus. Branch 2, chaired by Philip Goldstein, and Branch 6, directed by Irving Po- of 350 children, Sisterhood, Men's Club, Youth Group, Bar Mitzvah Club, Junior Congregation, Adu:t Classes, Li- brary, * Athletics and all related ac- tivities. RABBI JACOB CHINITZ