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Vol. 6—No. 37

M-DAY DRIVE SET FOR MAY 20 « *• ' •. Y'l Men To Set Plans Sunday Morning, With Zionism Expert As Speaker

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“Pk? almost gave us a saiestalk on it!" Sawyer told The Post. "He fully agrees that Israel is our best hope for promoting democracy in the Middle East, and, as such, deserves this country’s aid under the Point Four program, of rehabilitating such, deserves this country's aid under the Point Four program, o! rehabilitating foreign econo-

mies."

The bill in Congress calls for a grant-in-aid of $150 million to develop basic industries. That amount would be modified by any over all increase or decrease

CJW Membership Push Is Set For June 15-30 The Indianapolis section of the

m the legislature's appropriation National Council of Jewish Wo-

for aM abroad.

men will hold its annual mem-

Ben Kroot Named Drive Chairman For Southeastern Indiana JWF Ben Kroot, Columbus, was selected as chairman for the current campaign of the Southeastern Indiana Jewish Welfare Fund

at a meeting of its Board of Directors.

No goal has been set for this year’s campaign, but it is reported that past campaigns have always done well. Communities represented in

4 hy Young Men Drool . . . This luscious collection of local charm, the Sub-Debcttes, will put on a style show for WOMEN at a meeting of the Temple Sisterhood at 12:.'hi p. rn. Monday at the Broadmoor Country Club. (L’nofHcial reports have It that several young men are looking for loopholes In the Sisterhood membership

regulations.)

The models pictured are, left to right, standing, l.inda Miller, Henrietta Rosenberg, IJIlian Shuster. Judy Glazer, Phyllis Cohen and Joyce Gould. Smiles in the second row belong to L.ynn Cassen, Judy Stein, Nanette Miller, Barbara Young and 1 imla Silver. Elaine .latte re- lines In front, (Snb-Debette mem hersiiip rales are time-tested and air-tight, our spies sadly

rejort.) _

Copehorl, Brownson Will Support Aid-To-Israel Bill In U.S. Congress , ...o of Indiana's legislators in Washington have promised full support of the aid-to-Israel bill which has been introduced in Congress, according to David Sawyer, director of the Indianapolis

Jewish Community Relations Council^

Senator Homer Capehart and Representative Charles E. Brown-

son have pledged their backing. " Brownson conferred with a Israel Anniversary

group made up of Sawyer. Julian p ro}irum Set On WISH Freeman, Juhan A Ktser and A spwJaJ r<MO ,

memorating the third anniversary of the state of Israel will be made at 8:15 p.m. this Saturday over station WISH. It has been arranged by the Indianapolis Zionist Council ano

the .Asapli organization, Mrs. Nathan Hewn (ok, aeere-

Ury of the Cou,.d2. wdll speak oo the significance of the day. Israeli recordings by Paamoni, a baritone, and Cantor Myro Glass will be on the program.

Captains and lieutenants lor the M-Day drive of the Jewish Welfare Federation campaign will meet for breakfast at 9:30 a. m. this Sunday at the Broadmoor Country' club. The city-wide M-Day drive will be held the following Sunday, May 20. Hundreds of workers will gather in the morning at the headquarters, the 38th Street branch of the Indiana National bank,

for assignments throughout the city.

— " The collection in the current

campaign has reached $400,000. A goal of $675,000 has been set at the minimum amount to meet local, national and overseas

needs.

, For the breakfast meeting this Sunday, Professor Lester Seligman of the University of Chicago political science department will be the guest speaker H<* was recently commissioned to prepare a course of study on Zionism and Israel for the Anti-De-famation Leegue. He has been active in Zionism and Is a contributor to national political science publications. Norman Abrams and Jack and Richard Efroymson, the heads of the Men’s division of the M-Day campaign .will be in charge of the breakfast session. They will work in cooperation with Mrs. Philip Fichman and Mrs. Nat Smith, Women's chairmen, for the one-day drive. Women to Meet Tuesday ' The captains and lieutenants of the Women’s division will lia entertained at a dessert luncheon at 1 p nr ^Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Jacob Solotkin. 6111 N. Meridian st. Mrs. Fichman and Mrs. Smith will outline the women’s part of the drive Invitations have been mailed to all women who have been assigned to teams; but any other woman in the community willing to work in the May 20 drive is «l*o invited, it has beau announced.

the Southeastern Indiana group are Shelbyville, Columbus, Connersville, Edinburg, Franklin, Rushville, Greensburg, Madison, Knightstown, Greenfield, Martinsville. Seymour. North Vernon, and Mooresville. Present officers of the organization are Michael Joe Ison, Edinburg. president; Mrs. A. Goodman, Shelbyville, honorary president; Hyman Drevno, Shelbyville,

treasurer; Leon Adler, Mooresville. secretary; and the following trustees: Sam Joseph, Gene Guttman, and Philip Cohen, Connersville; Paul Sirkus and Stanley Frank, Shelbyville; and Ben Kroot and Aaron Tross, Colum-

bus.

The campaign will wind up with a banquet meeting at the Hotel Washington. Indianapolis, on Sunday, May 20th.

JCBC Speakers Will Give Plan To Fight Beds, Preserve Rights A dual-purpose plan, for combatting Communist infiltration and for safe-guarding civil liberties, will be presented by three public relations experts at 8 p. m. Monday at the WorW War Me-

morial building.

The speakers, highlighting the third annual meeting of the Indianapolis Jewish Community • Relations Council, will be Eman* - ■,■‘--$1 uel Muravchik, national field dl-

Senator Capehart appeared on bership drive from June 15 to b**h a if of the JORC, that h» June 30. Mrs. Victor Goldberg would back the biii. Senator ami Mrs Lewis will be oo-chair-Jenner and the Indiana repre- men. sent a five* have been contacted —

Dr. S. Andhti Fine berg, one of the three experts on the JCRC meeting panel, will be beard on the Gilbert Forbe# noon radio program this Sun-

day.

rector of the Jewish Labor Committee; Dr. S. Andhii Flneberg, community service director of the American Jewish Committee, and Isaiah Minkoff, director of the NCRAC. The tensions created by recent espionage cases and the trend toward infringement on civil liberties of smear campaign victims have been died by Julian Kiser, local Council president, as providing a timely background for this session. The panel will also review negotiations by American Jewish communities with the State department and the U.S. Congress In maintaining the communities' integrity. The meeting is open to the public.

EMANUEL MURAVCHIK Combata Reds in Jewish Labor

by various groups, according to parties to stop favoring Jewish I-ouis Greenberg, director of the interests, and he told Sawyer State JCRC offUce. Greenberg ex- that he would not be intimated pects to have more information On other occasions ,he has about them shortly. asked Sawyer for support by the Representative Brownson has National Jewish Community Rebeen promoting this legislation lations Advisory Council in comin spite of warnings by some batting hate fomerrtert.

Rabbi Mervis Accept* Pulpit in Chicago TERRE HAUTE — Rabbi Leonard Mervfs of the United Hebrew Temple here has accepted the invitation to be spiritual leader of the Washington Boulevard Temple in Chicago. No successor has oeen named for Rabbi Mervte,

Mrs Cawn Will Hoad Evans villa Hadassah EVANSVILLE — Mrs. Paul Cawn has been elected president of the Hadassah chapter here. Mrs. Maurice Hamburg and Mrs. David Lerner were elected first and second vice-presidents, respectively, Mrs. Ben Elenbogen will take office as financial secretary, Mrs. Sol Silver will be the recording secretary, and Mrs. Louis Mack wii: take up duties as treasurer.

Mazur Family Gives Talmatt Sei lo UHC A 34-volume set of the Babylonian Talmud has been presented to the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation by the Mazur family in memory of their late parents, Henry and Julia Mazur. It will be formally dedicated at services this Friday evening. According to Rabbi Maurice GoldWatt, it is the Soncino edition, translated into English. “Only one other similar sef exists in the city, as far as we know,” Rabbi Goldblatt says, praising the gift as an expression of the Jewish tradition that tha temple is the center of learning. Registration Begins For Zionist Convention Reservations are being accepted through chairman Ben Prince for the Ohio Valley Regional Zionist convention, to be held Saturday and Sunday, June $ and 3, at the Severin hotel. Abe Borin, overall convention chainnan, says that a representative of the Israel diplomatic corps is being sought as a guest speaker. Rabbi Samuel J. Fox, publicity chairman, urges eariy registration for the meeting.