Convention of Anglo-jewish Press Pledges Aid to $100,000,000 U.J.A. Campaign

The American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, at the concluding session of its annual convention here yesterday, pledged its member newspapers to devote their major interest towards assuring the success of the $100,000,000 drive of the United Jewish Appeal, and called upon the entire English-Jewish press in America “to place all their facilities at the command of the fundraising machinery of the American-Jewish community.”

Another resolution adopted by the publishers and editors expressed a “sense of horror and resentment over the establishment of a state of martial law in Palestine” This resolution charges that Britain’s policy interferes with Jewish progress in Palestine and calls upon our government and the President of the United States “to demand strict adherence to the Balfour Declaration and to the resolutions adopted by both Houses of Congress, and to demand the rescinding of the disgraceful order for the establishment of martial law in Palestine.”

The publishers, in special resolutions, paid honor to the host publisher, Irving G. Rhodes, and to his periodical, the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, which is now celebrating its 25th anniversary. This resolution praised Milwaukee Jewry for selecting Mr. Rhodes as the chairman of its $1,000,000 United Jewish Appeal drive. The convention also went on record as supporting the Chicago Sentinel in its fight against fascism and in its defense in the libel suit for $250,000 brought against it by leading figures in alleged anti-Semitic movements.

One of the major developments of the convention was the approval of a program of cooperation with the leading national Jewish organizations in the interests of advancing the standards of the English-Jewish press.

In addition to re-electing Mr. Slomovitz as president and choosing Mr. Rhodes as secretary, the convention elected the following: vice-presidents, Robert Gemzey, Intermountain Jewish News; Levis Solomon, Southwestern Jewish Press, San Diego; and Jack I. Fishbein. The Sentinel, Chicago; treasurer, Leo H. Frisch, American Jewish World, Minneapolis; additional members of the executive committee, Dr. Joseph G. Brin, Jewish Advocate, Boston; Albert W. Golomb, American Jewish Outlook, Pittsburgh; and Ben Z. Heustadt, Ohio Jewish Chronicle, Columbus.