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nvasion of Salonika Yields 50,000 to Nazis
ictims Appeal
[To Americans
|For Assistance
ATHENS (JTA)—The German
blitzkrieg in Greece and Yugosla-
L, ha < engulfed the 50,000 Jews
L Salonika and various groups of
efugees who did not succeed in
scaping in time.
Virtually all of the Jews of Sa
lonika. Greek seaport on the Ae
gean fell into the hards of the
Czis because the Jewish popula
tion of Macedonia and Thrace 1 e-
ELd to flee before the German
Invasion, preferring to remain and
arr y on their work.
German military requisitioning
Ipf food and other supplies has
[made the plight of the Jews des
perate and they appealed to Amer
ican organizations for help of all
Ikinds.
(A Jerusalem dispatch said Dr.
|Ben Zion Uziel, Sephardic Chief
IfUbbi of Palestine, cabled Ash
kenazic Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog,
|wh is now in New York, asking
lim to appeal to American Jewish
Institutions to rush aid to Salon
ika Jews.)
Meanwhile, it was learned here
|that 180 German Jewish refugees,
The Southern Israelite
Weekly Newspaper
For Southern Jewry
Vol. XVI., No. 16.
ATLANTA, GA.. FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1841.
Established 1925
Price Ten Cents
most of them children, had arrived
it Zagreb, Yugoslavia, en route to
[Palestine last Tuesday—two days
Wore the city was occupied by
lince they had left Germany legal
ly they would be allowed to pro
ceed to their destination.
Other reports from Yugoslavia
aid representatives of the Jewish
communities and important Jew-
bodies there, after a meeting in
Belgrade, issued a manifesto to all
(See Salonika, Page 3)
LONDON (JTA)—Many Bal
kan refugees and Jews in Istan
bul. alarmed at the proximity
•f the German troops, are liqui
dating their businesses, the
News-Chronicle reported.
Advisory Budget System
Wins in Referendum Vote
NEW YORK (JTA)—The pro-1 Baltimore and William Rosenwald
posal for a nattonal advisory bud- of Greenwich, Conn., proposed the
get service, which was submitted establishment of a national ad-
in a referendum^ to the member visory budget service for national
agencies of the Council of Jewish and overseas agencies appealing to
Federations and Welfare Funds,,local communities for support,
has been approved by a majority It recommended that a eompet-
of t e agencies voting, it was an- 'ent and intensive process of fact-
nounced by H. L. Lurie, executive finding, both on programs of serv
ice and on financial experience,
From the Four Corners
director of the Council
The results of the referendum
will be submitted to the Council’s
board of directors at a meeting to
be held early in May, when the
board will consider the steps to
be taken and the procedures to be
established to develop the type of
services most helpful to its mem
ber agencies.
The board of directors, at its
meeting in Atlanta last .January,
approved the advisory budget pro
posal but decided to submit it to
the entire membership of the
Council in order to give each the
opportunity of registering i t s
wishes.
A complete report on the refer
endum to the member agencies,
Lurie said, will be made by the
board after it canvasses the ballots
at its May meeting.
The questions on which member
agencies expressed their views on
the referendum were based on
recommendations made at the At
lanta assembly by the Council’s
Committee on the Study of Na
tional
on
should be developed under
auspices of a committee of
(See Budget, Page 8)
the
the
LONDON (JTA) — The Berlin
radio announced that the anti-
Semitic film “Jew Suss" had been
witnessed by Rumanian Premier
Ion Antonescu and members of
his Government at a special show
ing in Bucharest.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Amer
ican Jewish Congress announced
that an Australian Section of the
World Jewish Congress was estab
lished at a meeting held In Syd
ney on March 17. Sir Samuel Co
hen, Jewish leader in Australia,
JERUSALEM (JTA) — R a b b i! was named the ,>resldent -
Soloweitchik, world-famed spir- LONDON (JTA)—Radom is the
itual leader of Brest-Litovsk, has ; h rs t Polish city to have two sep-
arrived here after an arduous orate ghettos for Jews, Polish offi-
journey by way of Siberia.
cial circles here reported.
Plans for Atlanta Welfare Fund Drive Being
Completed: Additional Leaders Are Appointed
Oberdorfer, Paradles
Urge All-Out Giving
In Nearing Campaign
Personnel ot Women’s
Advanced Gifts Group
CO-CHAIRMEN
Leading the Women’s Advance
As the organization to test the j Gifts Committee in Atlanta’s Jew-
heartbeat of the Atlanta commun-1 ish Welfare Fund campaign are
Mrs. Louis Regensteln Sr. and Mrs.
I. M. Weinstein, both outstanding
ity for charity was being perfected
this week, came these stirring
statements from the local 1941
Jewish Welfare Fund drive co-
chairmen:
members of the community.
Their direction in achieving the
drive’s 1941 goal finds substantial
Emphasized Donald Oberdorfer: 1 basis in a * actor which has brought
to the Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Fund a most worthy and sightfi-
cant ally—the desire and respon
sibility of women in giving inde
pendently of the men.
Designated on the Women’s Ad-
“We must not lose sight of the
fact that the Welfare Fund cam
paign means one campaign ard
one contribution; one donation for !
86 beneficiary agencies. This
really means 86 campaigns in one. I _ .. „ ,
Of the 88 agencies, at least 46 „ re j vance Olfta Committee are the fob
Budgeting Proposals. After the larger agencies. Each contri-
! lowing who have been active
an extended study, this Commit
tee, headed by Jacob Blaustein of
button made is for a period of 12 Welfare Fund campaigns:
(See All-Out, Page 8)
Soldiers in Atlanta on Passover Leave
IjUILSIS I IN ATLAINIA—acic ate - “ " - - - M p ,
c % f °r the Passover week end from Forts Benning, Blandmg, M cC1 ellan and Mc p her-
I h k ey u are shown registering with Miss Regina Schaten at the J ewtsh Education a
“ • i L* hlc h serves as a center for the Atlanta Army and Navy Service Committee
er s and others were guests at numerous public and private Sedars in Atlanta, which
1 8cor e* of other communities throughout the country furnished hospitality to soldiers
cam Ps in the neighborhood.—Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.
Mrs. Clarence Elsas, Mrs. Rich
ard Guthman, Mrs. Edwin R. Haas,
Mrs. Herbert J. Haas, Mrs. Arthur
I. Harris Sr., Mrs. Herman Hey-
man, Mrs. Julian Hirshberg, Mrs.
J. B. Jacobs, Mrs. Harold Montag,
Mrs. Louis Montag, Mrs. Donald
Oberdorfer, Mrs. Eugene Oberdor
fer, Mrs. I. J. Paradies, Mrs. Rich
ard H. Rich, Mrs. Walter H. Rich,
Mrs. Sol Romm, Mrs. Julius Simon,
Mrs. Eugene Stern, Mrs. Oscar R.
Strauss Jr., Mrs. A. J. Weinberg.
Mrs. Weinstein, a veteran work
er in campaign activities of the
Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund, has
been for the past year vice pres-
(See Women’s Gifts, Page 8)
Temple Groups
Meet in Detroit
Southern Reform Jewry is se
lecting representatives of its con
gregational activities to attend the
series of conventions opening in
Detroit next week end.
The Fourteenth Biennial Assem
bly of the National Federation of
Temple Sisterhoods will open Sun
day, April 27 and continue through
May 1, with a special Leaders and
Speakers Training Institute on the
program.
Problems facing all members
will be considered at the Thirty-
Seventh Biennial Council of the
Union of American Hebrew Con
gregations. “The World Upheaval
Challenges the Synagogue” will be
discussed in detail at round tables,
a colloquy, general meetings and a
banquet devoted to “Religion and
the American Dream.”
Delegates and visitors from 130
(See Temple Group, Page 4)
, •> <■
MRS. I. M. WEINSTEIN
A tower of strength in the com
munity, Mrs. Weinstein has ac
cepted the chairmanship of the
Women’s Advanced Gifts Commit
tee along with Mrs. Louis Regen-
stein Sr., another outstanding At
lanta leader.
HARRIETT WEINBERG
Co-chairman with Bobby Ferst
of the Youth’s Division is Harriett
Weinberg. This year the Youth’s
Division not only represents those
young in spirit but young in age
as well. It is really a youth’s
group, with the leaders securing
splendid training for their future
place in the community.