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Five-State Conference Seeks
To Aid $100,000,000 UJA Drive
Senator Barkley Will Address Delegates
From Southeast; Atlantans To Preside
With U. S. Senator Alben W. Barkley, Majority Leader I
of the Senate, and other distinguished leaders scheduled to
address them, delegates from Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Eastern Tennessee will meet Sunday, March
17, at 10:00 a. m. in the Ansley hotel for the extraordinary
Council Women
In Savannah To
Elect Officers
SAVANNAH, Ga.—A new panel
of officer candidates has been
announced by Mrs. D. A. Byck,
chairman of the nominating
committee of the local Council
of Jewish Women. The election
will be held in May.
Southeastern States Conference
of the United Jewish Appeal to
consider emergency action for
the relief, rescue and resettle
ment and Europe’s 1.400,000
homeless and destitue Jewish
survivors.
Speakers who will address the
five-state conference, in addi
tion to Senator Barkley, include
Captain Herschel Schacter, first
chaplain to enter Buchenwald
concentration camp; Joseph C.
Hyman, executive vice-chairman
of the Joint Distribution Com*-
mittee; Miss Barbara Lawrence,
noted New York civic leadet;
The ticket of officer candi
dates includes: Mrs. H. Sol Clark,
for presidnt; Mrs. Walter Guth-
man, Mrs. Arthur Wetherhorn
and Mrs. D. A. Byck, Jr., for vice
president; Mrs. B H. Levy, for
recording secretary: Mrs. Edwin
Feiler, for corresponding secre
tary; Miss Sadie Garfunkel, for
treasurer and Mrs. Joseph
Mendes for auditor.
At the last meeting of the
group Mrs. Kayton Smith, re
presenting the League of Women
Voters, spoke on the league’s
membership drive and asked
council members to Join. The
council indorsed the survey and
census of public schools which
the league is seeking.
Rockefeller Gives
$100,000 to UJA; T‘
Cooperation Cited
and Eleazer Lipsky, prominent
attorney and author.
Presiding officers at the con
ference include Donald Ober-
dorfer, Armand May, Samuel
Rothberg, J. B. Jacobs and Frank
Garson.
Delegates to the five-state
conference, Mr. Oberdorfer said,
will consider emergency phases
of an unprecedented program
for the relief and rescue of
homeless Jews in displaced per
sons camps, orphaned children,
impoverished families in Hun
gary, Poland, Rumania and
Greece, and their resettlement
either in Palestine or in other
friendly countries.
These problems, he explained,
will be brought before the dele
gates in terms of regional sup
port to the unprecedented $100,-
000,000 campaign.
This record sum, Mr. Ober
dorfer said, will provide the fi
nancial resources for the rescue
and reconstruction programs of
constituent agencies.
Augustan Elected President
Of Southeastern Hadassah
Helen Yablon Installed At Jubilee Dinner;
New Head Seeks Cooperation, Confidence
AUGUSTA—The first peacetime conference of the
Southeastern region of Junior Hadassah, the Young Women’s
Zionist organization of America, was concluded at the
Terrace hotel, Tampa, Fla., last week. Miss Helen Yablon,
delegate from the Augusta unit, was elected president. She
■ has been an active member of
HARRY H. EPSTEIN
Rabbi Epstein
Named Chaplain
In Atlanta Pen
Macon Jewry.
Will Hear
Savannah Judge
MACON, Ga.—Judge Emanuel
Lewis of Savannah will address
a rally in Macon Wednesday,
March 20 under the auspices of
the Zionist Organization of
the regional board during the
past two years having held the
offices of Youth Aliyah (immi
gration movement) chairman,
fund-raising chairman, Jewish.
National Fund chairman, and
first vice president.
Miss Yablon also holds the po
sition of vice-president and pro
gram chairman of the local Au
gusta unit.
Helen Yablon was Installed as
newly elected president by Mrs.
I. D. Shapiro, regional president
of the senior Hadassah, at the
silver jubilee dinner March 3.
The Attorney General of the
United States has appointed
Rabbi Harry H. Epstein, of Con
gregation Ahavath Achim to the
position of Jewish chaplain at
the federal penitentiary in At
lanta.
Word of the appointment was
released by Warden Joseph W.
Sanford this week.
Rabbi Epstein has been In At
lanta 18 years. He came here
originally from Chicago and re
sides here at, T14 Pulliam Btreet,
Street, S. W. The minister had
been approached by the warden
about six weeks ago and asked
if he would accept the appoint
ment if offered.
Although fully occupied as
religious head of the synagogue,
the Rabbi accepted the addition
al responsibility which will in
volve visits with prisoners with
the idea of improving their
moral.
America. The meeting will take
place at the Ideal club at 8:00
p. m. Rabbi Herschel Levine is
in charge of arrangements.
Judge Lewis, vice-president of
the Southeastern region, is visit
ing Macon in the interest of an
expanded Zionist membership
and organization p r o g ra m ,
which he heads throughout
Georgia.
He is the Georgia representa
tive to the American Jewish con
ference, representing the state-
at-large with the exception of
Atlanta. He has served as presi
dent of Dlstrist Five, the Georgia
Association of B’nai B’rith lodges
and the Savannah lodge. For
many years he has been judge
of the Municipal Court of Sa
vannah.
The judge’s address will be
followed by a question and an
swer period and the showing of
a sound film. Delegations from
Savannah and Atlanta are ex
pected to attend the meeting.
There will be no solicitation of
funds.
Miss Yablon’s acceptance
speech stressed the point of co
operation among units in the
region and asked the confidence
and willingness of each member
HELEN YABLON
Arab Leader Repudiates
Offer Of Friendship
Threat Of War Seen If Demands
Continue For Open Immigration
NEW YORK—A contribution
of $100,000 from John D Rocke
feller, Jr., was received by Wil
liam Rosenwald, national chair
man of the $100,000,000 cam
paign of the United Jewish Ap
peal for Refugees, Oversea;
Needs and Palestine, it was an
nounced In New York.
In advising Mr. Rosenwald ol
his contribution, Mr. Rockefellei
declared that “the plight of thf
Jewish survivors abroad makes
an appeal that needs no argu
ment or reinforcement. I shall
count it a privilege to have a
part in this campaign. May the
campaign meet with the success
which it so richly deserves.”
In his letter of acknowledge
ment, Mr. Rosenwald charac
terized the Rockefeller gift as
‘‘a priceless symbol of the co
operation between faiths, which
is one of the distinctive marks of
the American way of life.”
Boycott In Austria
VIENNA— (JPS) — Nearly 55
per cent of all Jews who return
ed to Austria are unemployed
because of an unofficial public
boycott, although the Govern
ment continues to urge Jewish
eviles to return, and promises
them a place in the country’s
economic life. So far, only eight
Jewish university professors, 22
doctors, 31 lawyers and 111 Jews
in other professions have return
ed to Austria. _
JERUSALEM.—Jamal el Hus- I
>einj, cousin and aide of the |
sxiled Grand Mufti, and a recent (
returnee from nine years in
forced exile, opened the Arab j
:ase before the Anglo-American!
Committee of Inquiry here
March 12, with a flat repudia
tion of Dr. Weizmann’s offer of
friendship. He repeated Arab
demands for abolition of the
Mandate, complete stoppage of
Jewish immigration and land
settlement, withdrawal of Brit
ish troops and creation of an,in-
dependent Arab State in Pales
tine.
Jamal warned that if Jews
continue to • come to Palestine,
i state of war will be created
which will harm seriously thej
Jews now in Arab countries.
The present situation, he said,
is not a case of “least injustice,”
but of maintaining Arab inter
ests.” Weizmann’s offer of
friendship is unacceptable, he
continued. “Britain did not ac
cept the proffered hands of its
enemies in wartime, because she
knew what that would mean;”
“The Arabs," he added, “regard
the Zionist offer in the same
light.”
Speaking on
Palestine Arab Higher Commit
tee and the Arab Party, Hus-
seini contended that even if all
displaced Jews came to Palestine
Inquiry Committee
Will Tour Palestine
And Arab States
JERUSALEM. — The Anglo-
American Committee of Inquiry
on Palestine, at the conclusion
of five days of hearings in
Jerusalem, will tour Jewish set
tlements and Arab villages all
over Palestine, and may visit
neighboring Arab countries, Sec
retaries Beeley and Rood, of the
committee, announced.
The committee has been In
vited to visit Lebanon, Syria,
Saudi Arabia and Iraq; and in
Iraq, may hear testimony by the
Jewish community of Bagdad,
Secretary Beeley said.
The committee will leave the
Middle East at the end of March
and will assemble in Lausanne,
Switzerland, where its final re
port will be drafted.
the Jewish problem would not be
solved but an Arab problem
would be created.
“We did not create the prob
lem of refugees. It Is your guilt,”
he declared. “We are under nc
moral obligation to provide a
solution. Why appeal to us on
humanitarian grounds when we
are denied our own rights. The
Arabs cannot take in even a few
thousand refugees.” He sug
gested that the Jews accept the
offer of the Dominican Republic
to accept 100,000 refugees.
Jamal’s testimony, which last
ed 65 minutes, dwelled on thi
contention that Palestine Is
over-populated, and the en
trance of Jews had ousted Arab
inhabitants. He asked for “an
end, once and for all,” of all
conditions which cause the
tragic state of affairs in Pales
tine.
Protest British Loan
NEW YORK—(JPS)—Sylvia F.
Porter, New York Post columnist,
reports receiving “an unusaul
number” of letters from readers,
criticizing severely her favorable
attitude towards the proposed
$3,750,000,000 loan to Britain,
because of Britain’s “dispicable
action in Palestine.”
to work toward a better goal in
securing a homeland in Pales
tine.
Other newly elected officers in
the southeastern region are:
vice-presidents Sara Belle Levy,
Charleston, S. C.; Natalie
Frankel, Miami, Fla., and Heidy
Mayer, Jacksonville, Fla.; cor
responding secretary, Henriette
Agoos, Augusta, Ga.; ‘recording
secretary, Rebecca Bloom, At
lanta, and treasurer, Rosalie
Abramovitz, Tampa. Miss Yab
lon will appoint regional chair-
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Mussolini Villas
Will House DP's,
Children, Students
ROME— (JPS) —Ten large
villas in the seashore resort town
of Astia, former weekend resi
dence of Mussolini near here,
have been purchased by the
Jewish Refugee committee of
Italy for the recuperation and
vocational training of children
and ailing DP’s.
A Yoshiva for 30 boys and a
school for 35 children have been
established in Astia. Courses In
tailoring, carpentry, shoe taking
and other trades are maintained
by UNRRA. Twenty-six students
are taking courses in deep sea
fishing.
Training stations for settle
ment in Palestine, have been
established in Rari, Venice,
Milan, Florence and Naples for
the 25,000 displaced Jews in
Italy preparing for emigration
to Palestine.
behalf of the