New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-01
Advisory Council
Named for Jewish
War Fund Drive
Members To Be Entertained
at Dinner Tomorrow by
Chairman Warburg

The intensive $5,000,o00 campaign for
the relief of Jewish war sufferers, un-
der the direction of Felix M. Warburg,
will be begun in this city next week.
Announcement was made yesterday
from campaign headquarters at the
hotel Biltmore of the membership OF
the advisory council, which will have
charge of collections. Mr.. Warburg
will entertain the council tomorrow at
a dinner at his home, where campaign
plans will be discussed.
For collection purposes all trades
and industries in the city have been
grouped into divisions. Altogether
about 10000 individuals and firms will
be visited personally by the agents OF
the fund. Women's teams also are to
be organized.
AS announced, the advisory council
includes, besides Mr.. Warburg, Cyrus
L. Sulzberger, secretary; Arthur III
Lehman, of Lehman Brothers, and
Paul Baerwald, of Lazard Freres
treasurers; Louis Marshall, chairman
Of the America Jewish Relief Com
mittee; Leon Kamaiky, chairman OF the
Central Relief Committees; Alexander
Kahn, chairman of the Peoples Relief
Committee; Jacob Billikopf, of the
American Jewish Relief Committee
who conducted last years campaign
headed by Jacob H. Schff; Charles S
Ward. of the international Y. M. G. A.
who is this years director; DR.. l. Ed
win Goldwasser, director of the red
Grafton for the Support Of Jewish PM,
anthropic Societies., who is ASSOCIATED
with Mr. Ward in the conduct of the
campaign; Miss Harriet B. Lowensteln
Max Senior Aaron E. Nusbaum, Or
Boris D. Bogen, Baruch Zuckerman ant
Albert Lucas.
The division heads for the various
trades are as follows:
Samuel Untormyer and Samuel Sachs
bankers and brokers; Jacob Werthelm
beverages and tobacco; Louis )
Robertson, leather and kindred lines;
Sidney Blumenthal, fancy goods; WIZ
lam Goldman, mems and boys cloth
ing and furnishings; Dudley d. Sicher
underwear, petticoats and children
wear; Leopold Plaut, miscellaneous
cdassifications; Henry F. Samstag, Lud
wig Vogelstein, foods and food pro
ducts and metals and mining; Bernard
Semel, merchandise and dry goods;
Sampel Kridel, silk goods and alice
lines; Z. Van Raalte, veilngs, hosiery
notions; Arthur D. Wolf, women's ap
parel; Max Wilmer. cotton goods ant
linen handkerchiefs; August Gold
smith, jewelry stocks and kindred lines
David A. Anspacher, drugs and chemi
Gals; Benjamin S. Mordecai, real estate
and allied lines; Max Goldsmith, ex
ports and impcits; Edward n. Myers
miscellaneous waste industries, felts
bags, burlaps, clippings and rubbe
goods.
Among the Cheering reports received
by the committee yesterday was ont
from the Central and Peoples Relic
Committee in Chicago, announcing
that twenty-five tons of clothing ha
just been shipped from San Francisco
for the ex-patriated Jewish war suf
ferers now stranded at Vladivostock
Hardin, Yokohama and in Manchuria
Announcement was also made that tn
War Trade Board has granted license
for personal remittances to Jews il
Rumania. These may now be sent
together with remittances for Poland
Lithuania and Galicia, through tn
Transmission Bureau of the Joint Dis
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