Los Angeles Launches Joint Campaign for $200,000

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Louis B. Mayer, President of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, was elected Chairman of the local committee for the United Jewish Appeal, at an organization meeting of the committee attended by sixty representative Jewish men and women of the city.

A joint campaign for $200,000 for this year for the United Jewish Campaign and the United Palestine Appeal will be launched at a banquet the last week in April. The vice chairmen elected were Ben R. Meyer, Samuel Markowitz, Chairman Keren Hayesod; Treasurer, Louis S. Nordlinger; Campaign Director, I. Irving Lipsitch, Director of Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations. The Executive Committee includes Louis M. Cole, George Mosbacher, President of Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations, Harry A. Hollzer,. Judge of Superior Court, Ben M. Goldman, I. Eisner, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin of Temple B’nai B’rith, Doctor D. W. Edelman and Charles Ullman.

Rabbi Leonard Orthstein, Pacific Coast Director of United Jewish Campaign and Bernard Stone, Associate National Director of the United Palestine Appeal, are cooperating in arranging the campaign for the entire State of California of which Irving H. Hellman is Chairman and Mortimer Fleishhacker is Treasurer with Mr. Lipsitch as State Secretary. The meeting also authorized the Executive Committee to borrow ten thousand dollars for immediate remittance to David A. Brown, National Chairman of the United Jewish Campaign, in answer to the S.O.S. call.