National U.J.A. Conference Opens Today in Atlantic City; Will Set Goal for 1949

Establishing a record without parallel in ##ntary giving in the United States, the United Jewish Appeal, which opens its 10th anniversary National Conference here tomorrow, has raised more than $503,000,000 since inception in 1939, it was reported here today.

The report will be submitted to the 1,200 delegates who began to arrive here today from every section of the country to attend the conference at which the goal for 9 will be set. The report reveals that of the sum raised by the U.J.A. during the years of its existence approximately $250,000,000 went for the overseas program the Joint Distribution Committee; $210,000,000 for the program in Israel of the United Palestine Appeal and $37,000,000 for the refugee aid program here of U.S.N.A.

The national conference of the United Jewish Appeal, which will continue for to days, will devote major attention to the problem or transferring some 200,000 ?meless Jews from Europe to Israel during 1949, in the process of which the Jewish DP ##mps in Germany and Austria will be virtually emptied; launching a vast building and ?using program in Israel to make possible the absorption and integration of a large ##ortion of the 120,000 immigrants who arrived in 1948 and the additional 200,000 in #49; and establishing a network of new settlements and industrial establishments where #he immigrants can be integrated into the country’s economy.Other problems that will be considered include rehabilitative assistance to ##ens of thousands of family heads — particularly in Eastern Europe who as a result of war-time persecution or post-war developments are now obliged to find new means of ?arning a livelihood; expansion of medical and child care installations in Europe, preparing many thousands for emigration; increasing the flow of aid to Jews in North Africa and making possible a larger program of assistance to refugees who receive haven in the United States.

Among the principal speakers at the conference sessions will be Dr. Bernard Joseph, military governor of Jerusalem; Aubrey Eban, the representative of Israel at the United Nations; Harry N.Rosenfield, member, United States Displaced Persons Commission; Edward M.M. Warburg, chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee; Rabbi Jonah B Wise, Herman L. Weisman and William Rosenuald, national chairmen of the U.J.A.; Dr. Abba Hillel Sliver, chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency; Edwin Rosenberg, president of the United Service for New Americans and Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, chairman of the European executive council of the J.D.C.