Charles Passman, a representative of the Joint Distribution Committee, today left for Teheran by plane to arrange the transportation of food and clothing to needy Jews in liberated Poland. The first transport, valued at $250,000, will leave the J.D.C. warehouses in Teheran within the next ten days, Mr. Passman said.
Dr. Emil Sommerstein, head of the Jewish Relief Committee in Lublin, was informed by cable that more relief supplies will be forthcoming from the joint Distribution Committee for Jews in liberated Poland. In the meantime, he was asked that his committee take all possible steps to assure expeditious transportation and to arrange that no custom duties are charged when the supplies enter Russia in transit to Poland. The cable also advised the Jewish Relief Committee in Lublin to keep in touch with the Teheran office of the J.D.C. on all matters pertaining to shipment of relief supplies.
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