Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-22 | Page 9 | Millions Needed to Aid Starving Jews

MILLIONS NEEDED TO AID STARVING JEWS STEW YORK, March 21. Henry Mor-genthau Mor-genthau of the American Jewish relief committee, announced here today that .. - $10,000 000 must be raised in the United States by June 1 if the 3,000,000 Jews in the eastern war zone are to be saved from , tarvation. Mass meetings are to be held in the principal cities in every stale and prominent prom-inent Jews will make coast-to-coast trips to address these gatherings. It was announced an-nounced that the state department had given assurance that in the event of war between this country and the cen-eral cen-eral powers American diplomats to neutral neu-tral 'countries' would carry on uninterruptedly uninter-ruptedly the work of feeding Jewish non-combata.nts. Men associated with Mr. Morgenthau in the campaign include Jacob H. Schiff, United 6tates Supreme Court . Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Daniel Guggenheim, Gug-genheim, Nathan Straus and Herbert H. Lehman.