Conference Today to Discuss Date and Methods of N. Y.’s Allied Jewish Campaign

A conference of representative Jews of this city to determine the time and methods of raising funds for the Jews of Eastern Europe and Palestine has been called by former Justice Joseph M. Proskauer and Paul Baerwald, at the Hotel Biltmore today, it was announced yesterday from national headquarters of the Allied Jewish Campaign.

In their joint letter, which has gone to more than a hundred men active in New York City’s Jewish philanthropic and communal affairs, Messrs. Proskauer and Baerwald say: “The situation of the Jews abroad presents a grave problem, challenging our best thought and effort. On American Jewry rests the inescapable responsibility to rescue and rebuild the lives of millions of our fellow Jews in other lands.”

The Jewish communities of Texas, it was also announced, will launch a statewide drive to raise $200,000 at a conference, in Dallas, on Sunday, which will be addressed by Morris Rothenberg, one of the national chairmen of the Allied Jewish Campaign. The Jewish communities of the neighboring state of Oklahoma will launch a drive for $75,000 two weeks later.

Other drives that will take place in the near future for the $6,000,000 being raised by the Allied Jewish Campaign, for the Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, include one in New Haven, beginning May 4th, for a $50,000 quota. David M. Bressler, one of the national chairmen of the campaign, addressed a preliminary meeting in New Haven last night.

On the same day there will begin a joint drive by the Jewish communities on the Hudson River line of New Jersey, including Jersey City, Hoboken, Union City, and West New York. Communities in Western Massachusetts, including Springfield, Holyoke, Pittsfield, Northampton, Greenfield, and a number of other towns will begin an Allied Jewish drive on May 14th, with a public dinner in Springfield.