Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1945 Page: 1 of 6
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37 Govemers Ask President To Aid
In Creating Jewish Commonwealth
JEWISH
IIERALD-V OICE
i A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHWEST JEWRY
HOUSTON,
JULY IX,
Mackinac Island, Mich. (JPS)
Governor Coke R. Stevenson
was one of thirty-seven Governors
who, in a petition to the Presi-
dent of the United States released
of the United States, released
significantly on July fourth, Am-
erica’s Independence Day, tht
Governors of thirty-seven states
endorsed independence and state-
hood for the Jewish people, and
called on the President to util-
ize all possible means for the im-
mediate opening up of Palestine
to Jewish mass-immigration and
colonization and to bring about,
“at the earliest,” the conversion
of Palestine into a Jewisn Com-
monwealth.
The petition, released at the
close of the Governors’ Confer-
ence here, was initiated by Gov-
ernors Dewey of New York, To-
bin of Massachusetts, Baldwin of*
Connpcticutt, McGrath of Rhode
Island, and by Governor Maw of
Utah, who made public its full
text. In an accompanying letter
to the President, Governor Maw,
who presided at the Governors’
Conference, called on President
Truman to take up the issue of a
Jewish state at his forthcoming
meeting with Prime Minister
Churchill and Marshal Stalin.
The letter read in part:
“Concerned as it is with the
position of the Jewish people in
Europe and the future of the Jew-
ish National Home in Palestine,
we believe that this petition rais-
es matters of far-reaching hu-
manitarian and political import-
ance. The considerations which
prevented action in regard to
these pressing issues while war
still raged in Europe, no longer
apply. The urgency of the Jew-
ish problem and its solution in
Palestine has become such that
I venture the earnest hope that
it may be thought opportune to
give attention to this question in
the course of your forthcoming
conversations with the Prime
Minister of Great Britain and
Marshal Stalin.”
The thirty-seven Governors
who signed the petition are:
Sparks (Ala.), Osborn (Ariz.),
Laney (Ark.), Baldwin (Conn.),
Bacon (Dela.), Caldwell (Fla.),
Green GIL), Gossett (Idaho),
Blue (la.), Schoeppel (Kans.),
Willis (Ky.), O’Conor (Md.). Kel-
ly (Mich), Thye (Minn.), Don-
nelly (Mo.), Ford (Mont.), Car-
ville (Nev.), Dale (N. H.), Fsfr-
ley (N. J.), Dempsey (N. Mex),
Dewey (N. Y.), Cherry (N. C),
Aandahl (N. Dak.), Lausche (O.),
Kerr (Okla.), Shell (Ore.), Mar-
tin (Pa.), McGrath (R. L), Wil-
liams (S. C.), Sharpe (S. Dak.),
McCord (Tenn.), Stevenson
(Tex.), Maw (Utah), Proctor
(VO, Meadows (W. Va.), Hunt
(Wyo.), and Tobin (Mass.).
Christians Back
Jewish Palestine
Princeton, N. J. (JPS)—An ed-
ucational program of Christian
action on behalf of Jewish aims
in Palestine, was launched by
the American Christian Pales-
tine Committee at its national
seminar on Palestine here on
July 2nd and 3rd.
Dr. Eduard C. Lind eman of
the New York School of Social
Work, told the seminar that “the
minority question is no longer
purely European as it was after
the last war. It is now an Ameri-
can disease, too, and we- must
help the rest of the world to
solve this problem if we wish to
avoid in this country the same
kind of trouble which bedeviled
Europe during the last 80 or 90
years. It is, therefore, for our
own s&kes as Americans that we
mtist help to solve the Jewish
problem.” The solution lies in
the founding of a Jewish national
home in Palestine, Dr. LindSman
said .
Speakers at the seminar in-
cluded David ben Gurion, Chair-
man of the Executive of the Jew-
ish Agency for Palestine, now
visiting the United States, Dr.
Walter Clay Lowdermilk of the
U S. Department of Agriculture.
Reverend Wendell Phillips, Pas-
tor of Christ Church, Rye, New
York; Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, Ed-
gar Ansel Mowrer, New York
Post columnist, and others.
Detroit: The Board of Direct-
ors of the Council of Jewish Fed-
erations and Welfare Funds meet-
ing in Detroit, June 24th, ap-
proved in principle a report fav-
oring national advisory budget-
ing subject to the acceptance of
such a program by its member
welfare funds, federations and
community councils.
The program, if adopted, would
provide for the review by a rep-
resentative national committee of
the budgets of national and over-
seas agencies, and reporting of
the findings to the member a-
gencies as a guide in distributing
the funds raised by each commun-
ity.
Likewise considered were the
reconstitution of the United Jew-
ish Appeal planning for Jewish
social services, development of
local community relations organi-
zations and election of the coun-
cil’s executive committee.
The national advisory budget-
ary proposal under consideration
is limited to the following defini-
tion:
Natonal Advisory Budgeting is
defined as a review by a national
committee selected by the Coun-
cil or by the welfare fund mem-
bers of the Council. It is assum-
ed that the Committee appointed
for this task would be acceptable
both to the member agencies of
the Council and to the national
and overseas organizations as an
impartial and objective group
concerned primarily with reach-
ing equitable decisions- which
would be helpful to fund raising
and to local budgetary proced-
ure. The national and overseas
agencies would in the first in-
stance, as heretofore, determine
what their budgets should be.
The national committee to be es-
tablished would then review the
budgets, and after objective and
thorough study, would attempt,
together with the national and
overseas agencies, to arrive at
joint decisions on the amount of
funds— required to carry out the
specific programs. These would
be recommended—op an advisory
way—to the welfare funds as a
minimum goal for fund raising
and fund distribution.
Where joint decisions could not
be reached, the Committee would
advise the welfare funds as to
the part of the agency's budget
and program of work which had
been agreed upon and would pre-
sent both sides of the major
items of difference.
The Committee would not at-
tempt to establish local quotas.
The decisions reached by the
Committee could be utilized by
the member agencies which de-
(Continued cm page 5)
European Jews Face Hardships As
Old Pattern Continues Everywhere
~\T a* in j • j-i j n rrti ABRAM L. GELLER IS
National Budgeting Favored By The elected president of
Executive Of National Federations HERZL lodge no. m b. b.
At a meeting of the Herzl Lodge
No. 608, B'nai B’rith, of Houston,
Abram L* Geller was elected to
serve as president for the ensu-
ing year. Mr. Geller will serve
as president of the Lodge for the
second time, having been presi-
dent in 1935. He also served as
secretary of Houston Lodge No.
434 'from 1916 to 1928, and has
served as chairman of the local
B’nai. B’rith Council several
times.
Other officers elected by the
Lodge are: Harry Juran, Albert
Meyerson and Aaron Topek, vice-
presidents; Mike M. Goldstein,
treasurer; Jacob Rudnick, re-
cording secretary; Albert Bentch,
chaplain; and Manny Simon, war-
den.
An open-air fneeting is planned
by the Lodge for the first Tues-
day in August in the form of a
watermelon party on the Jewish
Community Center lawn, when
the newly elected officers will be
installed.
Herzl Lodge is planning many
i >r the,, coming year,
a: exterfeive member-
upa gn; plaining for ser-
he new Naval Hospital
which Ik h sing m>w constructed
in Houstoh a suitable Service
Memorial fir thl members of the
Lodge in Service; interesting tor-
(Continued on page 8)
.STEINHARDT en route
TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Washington, D. C. (JPS)—Lau-
rence Steinhardt, U. S. Ambassa-
dor to Turkey for three years,
believed responsible for the es-
tablishment of the War Refugee
Board, and who was instrument-
al in rescuing Jews from Europe,
is en route to Prague, where he
will be the first U. S. Ambassa-
dor to Czechoslovakia.
70,000 JEWS IN GERMANY
TO BE UNDER SOVIETS
Brussels (JPS)—Eighty thous-
and Jews have so far been liber-
ated from German concentration
camps by the Red Army, accord-
ing to Soviet spokesmen. An es-
timated seventy thousand Jews,
so-called non repatriable*, are
still in Buchenwald and other
former concentration camps
where the high death rate dim-
inishes their numbers daily. With
evacuation from parts of central
Germany of British and Ameri-
can troops, these Jews will come
under Soviet authority.
TORIES ACCUSED OF ANTI-
SEMITIC ELECTIONEERING
___
London (JPS)—Lord Strabolgi,
Laborite, has accused British
conservatives in the current elec-
tion campaign of employing
“veiled anti-Semitic Nazi meth-
ods” by using Professor Harold
Laski, a Jew, and a member of
the British Party, as the number
one election bogey.
STALIN FeSotaTES
JEWISH ENGINEER
Moscow (JPS)—Major General
Lev Gonor, Soviet-Jewish engi-
neer in charge of the Stalin ar-
tillery plant in the Urals, which
during the war produced thous-
ands of heavy guns for the Red
Army, was congratulated by Mar-
shal Stalin in a message com-
mending the plant’s production
record.
27 MOSLEMS SENTENCED
FOR AIDING NAZIS
Belgrade (JPS)—A Yugoslav
military court at Sarajevo im-
posed the death sentence on XI
Moslems found guilty of having
Joined the Gestapo and having
participated in the deportation of
Jews. Jewish property which had
been allocated by the Gestapo to
the accused was ordered return-
ed to its Jewish owners. ,
-*-
Vienna (JPS)—Numerous let-
ters from readers proposing that
Jews liberated from German con-
centration camps be assigned to
guard Nazis now working in
fenced labor battalions have been
received by the Viennese news-
paper Neues Oesterreich.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MONITOR SAYS EUROPE'S
JEWS IN SAD PLIGHT
Boston (JPS)—“The Jewish ques-
tion has not been disposed d by
the ^Allied victory in Europe.
Not even the extermination of
5.000.000 Jews, represent!^ 70
per cent of Europe's Jewish
population outaida of Russia, has
eased the problem.” ft nasi A
Pisko writes in an article in the
Christian Science Monitor, de-
scribing the plight of Jewish
remnants in liberated and defeat-
ed countries. "Short of the open-
ing of adequate non-1
countries to resettlement, e
an intensive campaign of edu
tion and the enforcement of
temational law . . can give
Jewish remnants a fair
security.” Mr. Pisko
The Christian
devotes s
its "split page” to
tide on
1
la
Paris (JPS)—Seven
Jewish refugee children.
France, who had lived in
Jewish homes during the
man occupation, have been
leted with Jewish families
Ouvres Secours Enfant*,
welfare society i
children arriving from
concentration camps. The
ty has accommodated 2J00
ish children. 70 per cent of
orphans, in its 14 HH
additional hostels are fc
pared to acoommodal
children arriving from
wald.
LISHTENSTEIN — A
NAZI HIDE-OUT
Geneva (JPS)—Nasi wi
in ala. harbored in
tiny principality on the Sww-
Auetro frontier, have paid as
much as 60,000 pounds for a Lich-
tenstein passport the sum Jewish
refugees fleeing Germany had to
pay is the Lichtenstein blech
market during the war. The
Nazis are reported to have cach-
ed their money there as weO. The
demands for their
have set off a political
Lichtenstein.
AUSTRIA TO REINSTATE
JEWISH PROFESSIONALS
Vienna (JPS)—A resolution to
reinstate Jewish doctors end law-
yers expelled from their profes-
sions on racial grounds, and to
pay pension to Jewish
returning to Austria, hai
adopted by the Austrian
and lawyers association.
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