A regional organization to help the campaign of the Jewish National Fund, comprising Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Oklahoma, was formed at a conference here today of representatives of Jewish groups in the five States. Harry Friedberg of this city, chairman of the provisional conference committee which issued the call to the meeting, presided. Mrs. Avis Shulman of Chicago was the principal speaker at the evening session which concluded the conference.
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