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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNK 20, 1947 'BI^IOOQ JO
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NO. 25
ATLANTA CAMPAIGN NOT OVER
Chairmen Urge Workers
To Redouble Efforts
Spurred on by a communication from National Chairman
Henry Morgenthau, the general co-chairmen of the Atlanta
Jewish Welfare Fund campaign of 1947 had a cryptic an
nouncement for a number of recalcitrant workers. It is
“The 1JM7 drive ir Atlanta is not over.’’
The statement meant Chairmen Abe Goldstein, Meyer
and Lawrence Fox were
determined to boost the raised in
campaign to <he highest possi-T^
Ml figure.
The sta.ement meant too that a j
number of workers with cards un-
tftturned so far have interpreted
the drive as being over and hence
have not completed the cycle of I
solicitation and giving.
To date the adding machines |
Showed $736 000 has been pledged.
This sum C'* ,T >e from 5 220 giv-
•rs.
Many Allan u<uis as yet have
not given and the co-chairmen
haUeve every person will wisii to
participate in the campaign to
his or her most generous extent.
Some of the workers too have
checks to turn in and since cash
Is so urgently needed, they are
asked to contact the Welfare Fund
headquarters. 616 Chamber of
Commerce Building, immediately
and leave what they have.
Other donors whose contribu-
tions are already a matter of
pledge record will perform addi- !
their gift into cash at the earliest j
possible moment.
Meanwhile the workers with
cards are requested to redouble |
their efforts to complete calls and
to make reports.
Clean-up squads are being or
ganized in the Men's and Wo
men's Division to contact contri
butors who have been unavailable
so far and to seek out new sources
of revenue. Leaders of the Youth
Division are canvassing patiently
through their prospects.
Coordinators of groups too are
reminded the campaign will not
be over until every possible con
tributor has been contacted.
Discussing the Wernerville
Coo«cr«r'ce Mr Morgethau wrote
I. M. Weinstein. Allan a Welfare
Fund president:
“All of us were overwhelming
ly impressed with the fact that,
as of July 1, we are faced with a
new position of critical, even dan-
ggfous implications. On that date.
tfltRRA comple ely goes out of
existence. IRO has not yet been
ul be so limited as to throw a
much greater burden upon our
agencies.
“Even more important Ilian
these two facts is is the abandon
ment by the United States Army
on July 1 of its feeding program
for DPs. As was pointed out at
Wernersville. file situation is ap
proximately this: DPs are now
faced with receiving a maximum of
from 25c to 45c a day in contrast
with an amount of between 85c
and $1.00 a day up until this time,
which in the light of the Europe
an situation was an "austerity
budget." It is the meeting of this
difference which imposes upon us
the added responsibility of taking
every step necessary to raise the
BI-NA. • wi tn ft- I MLCJ I I IN cr
effectively set up. Even wiien set
up. the resources at its disposal full quota at which the U.TA aims.”
Permits May Be Withdrawn From Hotels
Barring Jews, Says British Food Minister
LONDON. (JTA)—Food permits
may be withheld from any hotel
refusing to serve Jewish or other
customers on racial ground, Food
Minister John Strachey said this
week in a written reply to Tom
Driberg. Indpendent Labor, who
had asked what action would be
taken against hotels at the resort
towns of Margate and Cliftonville.
whose brochures state “Gentiles
Only.’’
Strachey added that “I am sure
that we all abominate racial dis
crimination as practiced in Clif-
tonviUe.” He said that he was ex
amining the situation in Margate,
where the Labor Party held its
annual conference last month.
Later in the week, Strachey
asked Britain's 15 divisional food
officers fo rreports of hotels and
clubs in their areas which bar
Jews, it was learned. He and his
legal staff will study the reports
to see If there are any cases seri
ous enough to warrant withdraw
al of food permits from the res-
tauranteurs.
A three-man Palestine delega
tion has arrived in Hull to attend
tiie International Conference of
Fishermen. The Jews represent
the Histadruth, the Tel Aviv fish
ermen's cooperative and the Ath-
lit collective fishing settlement.
They have ben accorded every
opportunity to study the British
fishing industry both at sea and
ashore.
Miss Englander on Program
Young Judaeans Head
For Jacksonville Conclave
JACKSONVILLE. — Some 150
Young Judaeans will assemble
here June 22-25 for their 26th an
nual Conclave.
Highlights of the four-day con
vention will include such events
as Palestinian choral singing,
swimming, softball, oratorical con
test, track meet, bowling, socials,
ping pong, camp day, weiner roast,
business sessions, leaders’ insti
tute. round table discussions, a
final banquet and dance, and a
day at the beach.
SLIGHTLY AJAR
The Open Door
with
ada and the transportation costs
will be borne by the I.R.O. Dis
placed persons need not have rel
atives residing in Canada to be
come eligible for selection under
the new order, Mr. Howe said.
Priority would be given to per
sons with special skills and apti
tudes leading to ready assimila
tion within the economy. Single
persons would, because of the con
tinued housing shortage in the
Dominion, recive right of w’ay
over married people.
PERON TO ADMIT
6,000; 75 PER CENT
MUST BE CATHOLIC
LIMA. Peru, (JiAj—An agree
ment between the Peruvian Gov
ernment and the Intergovernmen
tal Committee on Refugees for
the admission of approximately
75 per cent of the prospective im
migrants must be Catholics.
The selection of immigrants will
M admission into Canada of 5,000 be made on the basis of conditions
Qlaptacad persons was announced j set by Peru. Preferred categories
tpite week by Reconstruction Min- : include technicians, professional
irter C. D. Howe who stated that 1 workers, agricultural and cattle
this gesture was “a further and workers and domestic servants,
voluntary contribution by the Do- AH workers must have a labor con-
minion towards the solution of the tract before being admitted.^
DP problem. ” The number will be
deductable from the DP quota
later assigned to the Dominion by
the International Refugee Organi
sation.
A German reparations vessel will
IJ2 SAIL FROM EUROPE
FOR LATIN AMERICA
PARIS, (JTA i—One hundred
and thirty-two Jewish refugees
tailed from Le Havre this week
to establish new homes in ten
Latin American countries, under
the Joint Distribution Commit
tee emigration program.
Aboard one ship were 46 re-
luges en route to Columbia, Mexi-
oo, Nicaragua, Panama and Vene-
wele. A second vessel is carrying
86 Jewish survivors to Bolivia,
Chile Eueuador. Paraguary and
Uruguay. Tire refugees will be
met in Latin America by local
Jewish committees formed
J.D.C. assistance.
CANADA TO ACCEPT
MX>0 ON FUTURE
1*0 QUOTAS
OTAWA, (JTA)—The immedi-
be used to bring the DPs to Can-
Present for the annual conclave
will be Miss Pauline Englander
of New York, former acting head
of National Young Judea, who will
(Continued on Page Three)
Agency Would Reject
Proposal from U. N.
By BURL CORALN1K
JTA Correspondent
JERUSALEM (JTA).—The Jewish Agency will reject any
proposal by the United Nations for the establishment of Pal
estine as a bi-nalional state, Moshe Shertok, head of the poli
tical department of the Jewish Agency, told a press confer
ence. He revealed that the Agency will emphasize to the U. N.
inquiry committee the compelling
need to establish a Jewish state.
The possibility that the Agen
cy may suggest to the committee
that it make interim recommen
dations was also indicated by Sher
tok. He said that he was not aware
of any conscious effort on (Tie
part of the Great Powers to agree
on the Palestine question.
The Agency testimony before
the committee will attack the
British White Paper policy, its il
legalities and iniquities, and will
denounce its pernicious effects,
Shertok declared. It will stress
the need and the possibility for
large-scale Immigration and set
tlement of Jews in Palestine in
the light of historic Jewish rights
and burning actualities.
Asked whether the Agency will
press for the creation a Jewish
state in the whole of Palestine,
Shertok replied that the Agency
will say what the Jewish people
are entitled to." A meeting of the
Agency executive to draft the lan
guage of tiie presehtation will be
held on Friday, he added.
Dr. Chiam Weizmann, who has
been asked by the Jewish National
Council to be its principal wit
ness as the committee $n behalf
of Palestine Jewry, w'as reported
to have completed the draft of
his testimony. He will criticize the
British administration for its in
ability to implement tiie terms
of the Palestine Mandate and will
declare that the establishment
of a Jewish State in an adequate
part of Palestine is the only prac
ticable solution of the problem.
In the face of strong opposition
from various groups which oppose
SUNS FOR NAZI GANG MOLLS
Mrs. Goering Heads List
Peruvian Minister of Foreign
Affairs Enrique Garcia Sayan has
agreed to submit to the Immigr-
tion Council in Lima a request by
tiie HIAS for the admission into
Peru of the aged parents and chil- her arrest and is seriously ill in
dren of Jewish residents. jail. Two other Nuremberg widows,
NEW YORK. (JPS»—Dr. Allred
Loritz, Bavarian de-Nazification
Minister, announced in Munich
recently that orders have gone out
for the arrest of Mrs. Hermann
Goering. widow of the late No. 2
Nazi, and the wives of four other
top Nazi leaders executed at Nu
remberg last year, on charges that
they were members of the Nazi
party. Dr. Loritz's announcement
came almost simultaneously with
reports that he himself is under
investigation as head of the Eco
nomic Reconstruction party, which
is charged with espousing Nazi
doctrines, and faces ousting from
the Bavarian Government, New
York Times correspondent Delbert
Clark reports from Berlin.
Dr. Loritz is known to publicly
and violently favor prosecution
of former Nazis, as indicated by
his latest action calling for the
arrest of the widows of Hitler’s
top henchmen. However. Mr. Clark
says, he is reportedly equally ac
tive in seeking to lure lesser Nazis
into his party “whose announced
program includes most of the
fundamental principles on which
Fascist governments are based.”
In one speech, Mr. Clark reports,
Loritz advocated that some former
Nazis should be “put to some po
litical use.”
Of the wives of the dead lead
ers, Mrs. Hermann Goering, Mrs.
Hans Frank, widow of the Nazi
Governor General of Poland, the
man responsible for the death
camps there, and Mrs. Baldur von
Schirach, widow of the former
Hitler Youth leader, are already
in custody, Mrs. Walter Funk,
widow of the Nazi Economic Min
ister suffered a heart attack after
Mrs. Fritz Sauckel, wife of the
Nazi labor boss and Mrs. Wilhelm
Frick, wife of the Nazi “protector”
of Bohemia and Moravia, are still
being sought by police.
COMPLETELY SHUT
the appearance of Dr. Weizmann
as spokesman for the council, he
will testify in the name of the
Council only if he is satisficed
that a considerable part of Pal
estine Jewry and of the Zionist
movement favors such a move.
Otherwise, he has already made
arrangements to invite the inquiry
committe to his home in Reho-
voth, where he will state his views
privately.
The Council Is still in favor of
Dr. Weizmann’s appearance, with
out conditions binding him to any
specific political conclusions, be
cause of his record as the long
time leader of the World Zionist
movement and as a participant
in the drafting of the Balfour
Declaration.
Dr. Weizmann lias not received
any visitors during the last fort
night, and has been devoting all
this time to preparation of his
testimony.
The Agudas Israel asked the
Agency tp demand of the inquiry
committee the establishment of
a “Torah regime” within a Jew
ish state. The Agency replied that
it cannot commit itself to any
such stand, since the constitution
of the future Jewish state will de
pend entirely upbn its parliament.
BULGARIAN REST
HOME FOR CHILDREN
SOFIA, (JTA‘—Tire Bulgarian
Government last week assigned
a large villa to the Jewish com
munity for use as a convalescent
home for Jewish children. Young
sters threatened witli tuberculosis
will be sent there for special care.
The JDC wilt provide all necessary
equipment.
ITALIAN PAPER CLAIMS
TO REPRESENT IRGUN
ROME, t.JTA)—A new’ Jewish
newspaper in the Italian language
lias made an appearance in
Florence.
The newspaper claims to be an
organ of the Irgun Zvla Leumi,
but the authorities have granted
it a regular publication permit.
The Closed Door
UN GROUP DISCUSSES
MIGRATION RIGHTS
LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA)—The
right of individuals to migrate
from one country to another, was
discussed here at a session of the
drafting committee of the UN
Commission on Human Rights.
The United States delegation
expressed disagreement with the
part of the UN secretariat’s draft
covering the right of immigration
and submitted an alternative text.
The main difference between the
two drafts is that the Secretariat
paper states, without qualification,
that the right of emigration and
expatriation shall not be denied,
whereas the United States pro
posal states that “every person
shall, subject to equitable immi
gration and deportation law's, be
free to enter, travel through or
over, and remain temporarily in
the territory of another state, pro
vided always that he observes local
laws and police regulations.
Miss Tony Sendor, observer of
the A. F. of L., emphasized that
the problem of immigration and
emigration must be considered sep
arately. She was supported by Dr.
Charles Malik of Lebanon who
country must be reaffirmed. He
referred to Hitler’s denial to Ger
man citizens of their right to
leave Germany.
VISALESS IMMIGRATION
TO PALESTINE SUPENDED
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Immigra
tion of visa less Jews to Palestine
has been temporarily suspended
and no blockade runners can be
expected to arrive here in the
near future, a Haganah spokesman
revealed this week.
He said that the stream of Pal
estine-bound refugees has been
choked off at its source by the
British blockade of ports of em
barkation and the shortage of
fuel for the immigrant ships. The
Haganah is now working out new
iteneraries and devising new means
for bringing in European Jews,
and it Ls confident that a way will
be found, the spokesman added.
The last refugee ship to arrive
here was the Yehuda Halevi which
docked at Haifa on May 31. It was
the 35th Haganah-operated vessel
to reach Palestine’s shores since
the autumn of 1945, when “illegal”
immigration began. The ships
carried well over 20,000 persons,
nearly 15,000 of whom are still
noted that the right to leave one’s confined in camps on Cyprus.