Allied Drive Approaching Victory
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U • S. Solicitor General
Simon Sobeloff Speaks
At Campaign Closing
The Hon. Simon E. Sobeloff,
Solicitor General of the United
States, will be guest speaker at
the closing victory dinner of
the 1956 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, in
the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel
Statler.
Sobeloff, brother of Isidore
Sobeloff, executive vice-presi-
dent of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration of Detroit, is' a native
of Baltimore, Md., and was chief
judge of the Maryland Court
of Appeals before being ap-
pointed Solicitor General by
President Eisenhower in Jan-
uary, 1954.
Fittingly. enough, it was a
public address that launched
Simon Sobeloff on his career of
public service. Cong. John Kron-
miller heard 12-year-old Simon
deliver a political oration in the
1907 mayoralty campaign in
Baltimore and was so impressed
by the performance that he la-
ter gave the boy a job as a
House of Representative page.
Sobeloff often jokes that he
graduated from Baltimore City
College by "remote control."
He took his examinations in
Washington while working there
as a page.
A law career that began mo-
destly as an office boy for two
lawyers for the sum of $1.50 a
week led him to the position
of thief attorney for the United
,
States Government.
A graduate of the University
of Maryland Law School, So-
beloff was admitted to the bar
in 1914 and has been continu-
ously active in the practice of
law.
He has served his city and
state as Assistant City Solicitor,
Deputy City Solicitor, Federal
District Attorney, City Solicitor
and Labor Adviser.
In addition to his official
capacities, Sobeloff has served
as an advisor to Baltimore's
Mayor Broening for two terms
and to Maryland's Governor
McKeldin as both Mayor of
Baltimore and Governor.
In Jewish affairs, Sobeloff has
been president of the Baltimore
Jewish Board of Education, the
Baltimore branch of the Amer-
ican Jewish Congress, ' Cong.
Har - Sinai Brotherhood, and a
member of the board of Balti-
more's Associated Jewish
Charities.
At the opening dinner . of
'Detroit's Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, .Isidore Sobeloff an-
nounced that his brother would
be guest speaker at the closing
dinner. He appealed to those
present to make i t a victory
dinner in order to meet the
urgent need for fundS in Israel,
Africa and locally, and "to prove
that all the wonderful things
I have told Simon about De-
troit are true."
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Communal Agencies Again Sponsor
Institute for High School Graduates
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The second annual Institute
for Jewish Graduates of High
Schools will be held at 7:30 p.m:,
May . 3- at Temple Israel, it was
announced by Hoke Levin, In-
Stitute chairman.
iSponsored by the Jewish
Community Council of Metro=
tiolitan Detroit; in coOperation
with the Bnai Brith Hillel Foun-
dation, Jewish Vocational Serv-
ice, and the Jewish War Vet-
erans, the Institute is organized
in response 'to a widely felt
Community need to acquaint
1956 graduates with the, various
communal resources and serv-
ices available to them.
The Institute is also planned to
develop a closer relationship
between the graduates and the
total Jewish community.
Trained persons, active in
handling the various problems
of youth, will participate. They
will answer such perennial
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Friday, April 20, 1956
questions of Jewish high school
graduates as:
"What job am I best fitted
for?" . "What occupation - offers
the best job opportunities for
me?" "How. can I qualify for
one of the many local and na-
tional scholarships?" "What may
I expect When I enter the_armed
services? "Where can I find
congenial companions w
whom I can 'spend my leisure
time enjoyably and construe7
tively?" "What about JeWish
activities on the College cam-
pus?" "What if I encounter dis-
crimination in employment, ed-
ucation, armed services, etc?"
No fee will be charged for
the Institute participants. Re-
freshments will be served.
Names and addresses of 1956
high school graduates may be
sent to the Jewish Community
Council, -163 Madison, so that
as many prospective Jewish
high school graduates as pos-
sible will be able to participate
in the Institute.
Tight Race for Annual Trade Honors
Top leaders in the Arts and Crafts try 'to figure out a way
to capture the lead from the Real Estate and Building Council
in the race for the cup among the trade and professional divi-
sions in the 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign. Pictured here are
(left to right) Harvey Willens, Hyman Safran, Leonard N.
Simons and Wilfred B. Doner. These two divisions and the
MechanicatTrades group have passed 85 per cent of their 1956
quota.
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Surpasses 1955's $4,100,000 Mark
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cil, and Milton Howard and estate council and are five per
Irving Rose are associate chair- cent beyond their $374,000
men. Nathan Balaban leads the quota. Section chairmen are
Arts and Crafts Division with George Klein, Harry Nachman,
Paul Broder, Arthur Robinson Samuel Seyburn and Benton
and Harvey Willens vice chair- Wolfe. _
The trio of Dan Carpenter,
men.
The seven sections in the James Marks' and Morris Tu-
DSG compete annually for a lupman has led the supermar-
silver cup awarded to the sec- kets Section of the Food Divi-
tion that oversubscribes its sion to a 107 per cent collec-
campaign quota by the largest tion at this point.
amount.
Selig D. Sidney, chairman of
Seven sections have passed the health services section of
the 100 per cent mark and still the Professional Division, has
have more slips to cover. 'led his section to a very
Leading the way is the park- healthy 111 per cent of quota
ing lots section of the Mechani- subscribed.
cal Trades Division with 120
Musicians are calling the
per cent of its 1956 quota sub- tune in the arts and crafts sec-
scribed. Mitchell Feldman is tion with 102 per cent of their
section chairman.
quota in, and advertisers and
Led by Harry Barnett, the commercial artist's have drawn
steel section has accounted for in 97 per cent of their quota:
117 per cent of its quota. The
Philip Brestoff and Milton J.
gas and oil section, with Reu- Woolf lead the musicians, and
ben Axelrod, chairman, and Leon S. Wayburn is chairman
Martin Fried, co-chairman, has and Herbert H. Klein and Jack
reached the 114 per cent mark. K. Lewis, associate chairmen
The builders continue to of the advertisers and commer-
William Wetsman, Junior Di-
vision chairman of the 1956 pace the building and real cial artists.
Allied Jewish Campaign, this
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week announced that workerS
in his division had achieved
60 per cent of their goal.
. Division pre-campaign chair-
Just when collecting for the' The Wayne County Association
man, N. Brewster Broder, Allied Jewish Campaign boils of Painting and Decorating Con-
singled out pre-campaign work- down to a mechanical task for tractors, whose president is Sam
ers Norman Feinberg, _ Alan the worker a particular gift Starksman, found that as a
Luckoff, Walter J. Rubiner, turns up that adds new zest and group they felt so strongly about
Jerome L. Schostak, and the dedication to his task.
the crisis in Israel that they
husband and wife team of Mary
While collecting pledges from allocated $200 as their first con-
and Walter Shapero for having Robinson Furniture Co. employ- tribution to the Allied Jewish
successfully completed campaign ees, Bernard Moray was sur- Campaign.
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assignments.'
prised to find an • 18-year-old
A worker reported to caml
Broder reported that the pre- girl working on her first job had
paign headquarters that an 80 7
Campaign phase officially- ends pledged $50.
in the Junior Division today.
Suspecting that there had year-old man contributed $6;
Philip -Kra witz, chairman of been a mistake he checked with while apologizing for not con:,
general , solicitation, reported the . pledgee and found that 'De- tributing more He explained
that Junior Division workers anna R. Dunn had pledged $50, that he had recently lost his job
have to date contacted 1,000 to be paid V. a week f5r the because of ill health.
Another worker received 'a
working year.
prospects.
IVfiss Dunn said she would not letter from a man. who said he
Estelle Levine, Sidney Simon,
Junior Division chairmen of the miss a dollar each week and 'in was unemployed.; but felt so
Dexter-Davison area announced a year's time the total would
those
much more
that section chairmen Daniel 'do iniineasurable good in sup-L
in
need
overseas
that
he
en.-
port
of
the
causes
the
Allied
Hoffer, Corrine Lurienfeld ; Leah
Oosed a money order. .
Nelson and Alice Schiff report Jewish Campaign serves.
85 per cent Or better coverage
in their sections. theta Siegel
and Sidney Weiner were the
first division workers 'to contact
all prospects assigned them.
Eight straight hours of work ers are trying to SurpaSs the
Area chairman of the Seven on Sunday and countless days $100,000 mark by the time of
Mile Road section, Walter J. of preparation by hundreds of their next report meeting at
Rubiner, announced that section local women produced the 10 a.m., Monday, in the Es-
chairMen Sherwin Robinson, G-Day total of $74,000 for the ther Berman Building, 18977
Marilyn Kirschmann, Irene Zim- 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign Schaefer.
merman and Herbert Diamond from more than 7,000 contribu-
Women's giftS and pre-cam-'
report better than .85 per cet tors to the Women's Division.
paign workers also will be
coverage in their area.
The figure represents a 20 reporting in at the general
A cocktail party for' Junior per cent increase over G-Day solicitation report session So
DMsion members will be held in 1955.
that all secured pledges will be:
at 8:15 p.m., April 30, at the
'Mrs. Harold Robinson, chair- included in the total presented
Bekrest Hotel. All workers and man of general solicitation, said at the closing campaign dinner
contributors are invited.
that the more than 2,000 work- on Tuesday evening.
This week the Allied Cam-
paign passed last year's total
figure of $4,100,000 without a
pause. The Mechanical Trades
Division became the first divi-
sion to raise over a million dol-
lars.
In behalf of division chair-
men Jack 0. Lefton and Emil ,
T. Stern, Robert Trepeck made
the division's announcement at
the second report meeting.
By the time of the third re-
port meeting, the Real Estate
and Building' Council was also
at the million dollar figure, and
leads the Detroit Service Group
in percentage of quota col-
lected With 90 per cent. Me-
chanical Trades is second with
88 per cent and Art„ and Crafts
third with - 86 per cent.
Abe Green is chairman of
the Real Estate Building Coun-
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Campaign Juniors
Hit 60% Mark
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The Human Side Of THE Drive
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Women Bring In $74,000 on G-Day
Publish List of Slain
Soviet 'Intellectuals
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A list
of prominent Jewish cultural
leader's annihilated in the Soviet
Union is published in the Frei-
heit, pro - Communist daily
newspaper. It is reprinted from
the Folkstimme, Jewish 'Com-
munist organ in Warsaw, Po-
land.
The executions are attributed
to "the Beria gang," blaming
the former 'head of the Soviet
secret service system for them.
The list includes the names
of S. Diaman,stein, head of the
Jewish section of the Commun-
ist Party in Moscow; Moshe Lit-
vakov, editor of the defunct
Ernes, official Jewish Commun-
ist organ in the USSR; A.
Merezhin, head of the Soviet
government office Which super-
vised Jewish colonization in
Crimea, the Ukraine and Biro-
Bidjian; Esther FrUmkin and
Rachmiel Weinstein, prominent
labor leaders; Issie Charik and
Moshe Kulbak, noted poets;
and. H. Dunietz, Jewish critic.
First in Campaign to Top $1,000,000
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Being the first division in the 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign
to pass the million dollar mark makes these members of the
Mechanical Trades Division feel proud. Left to right, Jack
0. Lefton, Jack Epstein, Emil T. Stern, Reuben Axelrod and
Robert. Trepeck.