Evening star., 1938-11-29
S2,ooo,0oo Raised
inU. ). in Two Weeks
For Jewish Refugees
Contributions Pour In
After Ruids on
Shops in Reich

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-In one OF
the most remarkable responses ever
made to appeals for the aid OF a
people in need, American Christians
and Jews in a little more than two
weeks have showered at least $2,000.-
600 on agencies for relief of German
refugees.
This estimate was made today by
responsible officials of various drives
on the basis of results in leading
cities. The bulk of the donations
have gone to the American Joint
Distribution Committee, which has
a record of 20 years experience in
Jewish relief activities in Europe.
1t is also the chief contributor to
the National Co-ordinating Commit
tee for Aid of German Refugees, an
an affiliation of "a Jewish, Catholic
and Protestant relief organizations.
Contributions began pouring in a
few days after the November 10
raids on Jewish shops in Germany,
when the full text of the anti
Semitic measures were verified, in
cluding the virtual alright ban on
permitting emigrants to take any
money out of the country.
Campaigns Go Over Top.
Since then the Joint Distribution
Committee has received about $780,
900 in Greater New York. Nearly
an equal amount has been received
by other agencies, including the
Council of Jewish Women, the Com
mittee for German Jewish Children,
Emergency Committees to Aid Dis
placed German Scholars and PhySi-
clans, the American Committee for
German Christian Refugees and the
Catholic Refugees Aid Group.
A special Jewish campaign in
Philadelphia raised 100000 the first
day and closed with 100000, well
over a S500,O0O quota. Cincinnati
exceeded a s23O00O quota by $45, 900.
Tulsa, Okla, and Charleston, S. c.,
went well over quotas of $4,000 and
$4,000, respectively. Bayonne, N. j.,
with a $4,000 goal, raised $4,000.
Schenectady, N. Y, hit $4,000
$4,000 over.
These were typical figures avail
able at the Distribution Committee
headquarters as basis for the ma
tional estimate.
The Distribution Committee,
which has spent about S5,000,000 on
the education, rehabilitation and
travel expenses for German Jews in
the previous five years, expects to
raise an additional $4,000000 as its
total for this year alone.
A separate campaign launched
Sunday by the United Palestine Ap-
peal is seeking a s1000O,OOO fund
for settlement in Palestine of 100000
German Jews.
Many Offer Private Aid.
Over and above these amounts,
officials of the Distribution Commit
tee said thousands of Americans
are privately taking care of from
one to a score of Jewish refugees
already in the United States until
they are able to provide for them
selves.
Still uncalculated in the totals
are funds to be raised in scores of
theatrical benefit performances
scheduled on New York's Broad
way and in other cities. A Texas
theater chain operator, Karl Hob
litzelle, describing himself as a Ger
man American but not Jewish, has
promised the gross receipts of De-
cember 7 from 1913 movie houses.
The two-week record of contribu-
tors for these refugees compares
with $10,000,000 quota of the Red
Cross in the drought relief cam
paign of several months in 1921 and
the raising of less than $5,000,000 in
the 16 months since the Sino-Jap-
anese war began by American Chi
nese relief organizations. The big
gest peace-time operation of the
American Red Cross was S25 100000
raised in about six months in 1887
for aid of 100000 persons in the
Ohio mississippi floods.
The Chinese contributions came
mainly from the 10000 Chinese in
this country, as compared with
about 100000 Jews chief contribu-
tors of the funds raised for ref
ugees.