New York (Feb. 18)
The launching by the United Palestine Appeal of a nation-wide campaign to meet its $35,300,000 budget was announced today by Rabbi James G. Heller of Cincinnati, national UPA chairman.
The announcement said that the country will be divided into four campaign zones with a chairman for each. Joel Gross of Newark, N.J., a former chairman of the United Jewish Appeal of Essex County, will be campaign chairman for the East; Harold K. Goldenberg, president of the Federation for Jewish Social Service of Minneapolis, will be the chairman for the Middle West, Mortimer May, of Nashville, for the South; and Charles Brown, chairman of the 1944 campaign of the United Jewish Welfare Fund of Los Angeles, for the West.
