The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee has been licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department, permitting it to pay in this country a note for $138,500 borrowed after Pearl Harbor, by its American representatives in Shanghai, to bring food, clothing and medical supplies to many of the 22,000 Jewish refugees now in that city, it was announced today by Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman of the organization. The note was brought to the United States early this year and was payable to relatives of the Shanghai resident who made the loan.
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