News Brief

A quota of $75,000 was pledged by Arkansas Jewry for the United Jewish Campaign at a conference here.

The following state organization was effected: Chairman, Myron Lasker. Little Rock; Treasurer, M. L. Altheimer, Little Rock; Chairman for Little Rock, Israel Safferstone and the following executive committee:

Nathan Dreeben, Adolph Kahn, Leo Pfeifer, Harry Pfeifer, Lasker Ehrman, A. G. Kahn Noland Blass, Hugo Heiman, Ike Kempner, C. T. Abeles, Sidney Florsheim of Little Rock; E. N. Roth, Rabbi A. B. Rhine, D. Burgauer, Dave Lockwood, Hot Springs; Henry Marx, William Rosensweig, Rabbi Mayer Lippman of Pine Bluff; Rabbi William B. Stern, I. H. Nakdimen of Fort Smith; Rabbi Joseph Leiser, Helena; Ben Berger, Jonesboro; H. L. Berg, Leo Berg, Camden; Ike Felsenthal, El Dorado and Sam Goldman, Smackover.

Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff, honorary chairman of the Women’s Division of the United Jewish Campaign of New York, was the hostess at a tea at her home for the Women leaders who are organizing teams of workers for the $6,000,000 quota of the campaign, which begins April 25th. The Women’s Division has been assigned a minimum quota of $500,000.

Mrs. Abram I. Elkus, wife of the former United States Ambassador to Turkey, and chairman in charge of the Women’s Division for the drive, addressed the gathering.

Among the speakers were David A. Brown, National Chairman, and Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Among those present were Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, Mrs. Paul Warburg, Mrs. Henry Necarsulmer, Mrs. Morris Loeb, Mrs. Samuel C. Lamport, Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, Miss Sarah Elkus, Mrs. Paul Baerwald. Mrs. Henry Zuckerman, Mrs. H. Seymour Eisman, Mrs. S. W. Strauss, Mrs. Milton Goldsmith, Mrs. Siegfriend Peierls, Mrs. Max Levenson, Miss Fira Benenson, Mrs. Paul Gottheil, Mrs. Maurice Saqui, Mrs. Ernest Grunsfeld, Mrs. David M. Bressler, Mrs. Stephen Rapp, Miss Rosalind Goldsmith, Mrs. Ira L. Bamberger, Mrs. Leopold Stern, Mrs. Stephen Hirshman, Mrs. David Kass, Mrs. Samuel Leuin, Mrs. A. G. Davidson, Mrs. Willard Loeb, Mrs. Moses M. Moss, Mrs. Charles J. Liebmann, Mrs. Alfred Schiffer, Mrs. Simon Frankel, Mrs. Nathan Glauber, Mrs. Nat Levy, Mrs. Henry Bodenheimer, Mrs. Frederick Brown.

Conferences of the women workers were held Wednesday morning at campaign headquarters in the Biltmore. A meeting of presidents of Jewish women’s organizations of the city to discuss participation in the campaign will be held today at Temple Emanu-El.