Allied Drive Approaching Victory * • • 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." . . Communal Agencies Again Sponsor Institute for High School Graduates • 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 28—Detroit Jewish News 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. • Drive Surpasses 1955's $4,100,000 Mark • • 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 •- * 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. * * * 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- I Campaign Juniors Hit 60% Mark • The Human Side Of THE Drive I • . * * * 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 I 4 • 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.