Christian Leaders Call National Conference in Support of U.j.a.; to Open April 15

In an action unprecedented in the history of the United Jewish Appeal, a group of outstanding American Christian personalities, including Secretary of Agriculture Charlest F. Brannan, Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman, Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Senator Robert A. Taft, Mrs. J. Borden Farriman, former U.S. Minister to Norway, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., announced this week-end that they have summoned an extraordinary national conference in Washington to map plans for enlisting the support of the total American community in the 1950 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal.

The conference, which will be officially sponsored by the National Christian Committee of the United Jewish Appeal, of which Mr. Roosevelt is chairman, will be held April 15 and 16 at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington. Rep. Roosevelt announced at the same time that Major General William J. Donovan, Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll, of New Jersey; Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois; Drew Pearson and Dr. Robert G. Sproul, president of the University of California, have become associate chairman of the National Christian Committee. Other legislators who have been added to the committee, Mr. Roosevelt said, are Rep. John McCormack, of Massachusetts, House Majority Leader; and Rep. Charles A. Buckley, of New York.