The United Palestine Appeal will continue for a number of days to enable the workers to canvass prospective pledgers and thus to make it possible for the Detroit committee to reach its $100,000 goal.
This announcement was made Sunday evening at what was to have been the closing dinner of the drive.
A report circulated among the guests at the dinner on Sunday showed $55,382 raised among 722 pledgers. By adding to this the sum of $13,500 raised by Hadassah at its $25-a-plate luncheon, the sum raised toward the $100,000 quota was reported to be $68,882.
Abraham Cooper is chairman of the drive. Fred M. Butzel was toastmaster of the evening. Jacob Billikopf of Philadelphia, the speaker of the evening, informed his audience that his Detroit address marked his debut in behalf of the rebuilding of Palestine. He quoted at length from the reports of the experts’ commission for the establishment of the Jewish Agency in proof of the advisability and necessity for the upbuilding of Palestine.
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