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Bethrothal Announced.
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Miss Bertha Blumberg.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Blumberg, 2411
East Kirby avenue, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Bertha,
to Mr. Martin Block, who has re-
cently returned from overseas, serv-
ing as master engineer with the
310th Engineers.
SHAAREY ZEDEK Y. P. A.
BEGIN WEEKLY DANCES
NE of the first considerations in the
selection of furniture is good work-
manship. Robinson-Cohen's showings
include the best Grand Rapids makes,
noted for their finished craftsmanship as well as
for their distinguished designs.
O
th
Robinson
The Young l'eople's Auxiliary of
the Shaarey Zedek will resume their
weekly dances, Sunday evening, Oc-
tober 5th, in the gymnasium of the
synagogue, corner Willis and Brush
streets.
The announcement comes as cheer-
ful !IONS to the younger set with
whom the weekly dances were very
popular last winter. The series of
dancing parties, beginning next Sun-
day evening, will continue weekly
throughout the season. .As last year,
Shooks' orchestra will furnish the
music.
The first rally of the V. P. A. will
take place Wednesday, October 22d.
An unusually splendid program is be-
ing arranged for the occasion. It will
include interesting speakers and
musicians of note.
-Cohen Co
Corner of Hastings and High
Five Blocks East of Woodward
Fivo Blocks North of Cratiot
I. our teen tti Ave. C•rs
the /Ayer.
Open Evening. and Sundays
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JUDGE JAYNE TO SPEAK
AT FORUM LUNCHEON,
B'NAI BRITH, TUESDAY
The Forum Luncheons held every
Tuesday noon at the club rooms of
I'isgah Lodge, B'tiai Brith, promise
to be one of the most interesting edu-
cational features of the fall and win-
ter season. Speakers of local and na-
tional prominence are ,scheduled to
give short talks on topics of timely
interest.
The speaker at the Forum Lunch-
eon on Tuesday, September .30th, will
be Judge Ira \V. Jayne, of the Wayne
County Circuit Court. His subject
will be "The Courts and I resent C.on-
ditions." Judge Jayne needs no in-
troduction to a Detroit audience. He
is one of the most progressive of
public officials on the bench. His
wide experience as superintendent of
recreational activities in Detroit has
given him an understanding and sym•
pathy with human problems that few
men possess. Because of this know-
ledge and experience Judge Jayne has
been delegated to handle most of the
domestic relations matters that come
before the local cricuit court. His
handling of these difficult matters of
litigation have already attracted more
than local attention.
A large gathering will be on hand
to hear Judge Jayne and all members
of the Pisgah Lodge are urged to he
on time. The luncheon begins
promptly at 12:30, and the address
will begin at 1 o'clock. Ladies are
invited to the Forum Luncheons.
They are held in the club rooms at
25 Broadway.
BICUR CHOLEM, JUNIORS.
Bicur Cholem Juniors will hold the
first meeting of the 1919-20 season
next Thursday, Octboer 2, at K. of
P. hall, commencing at 8:30. The
feature of the meeting will be the an-
nual election of officers for the en-
suing year. With the membership of
the organization back to its pre-war
quota, it is expected that a greater
and renewed interest will be taken
in the activities of the club, and a
large attendance of members is ex-
pected to help select the new officers.
Visitors are welcome and are cor-
dially invited.
The remainder of the evening will
be given over to general entertain-
ment and dancing, during which re-
freshments will be served. An or-
chestra of Robert Drems, violinist,
been secured .to furnish the music.
Chicago, III.—Congregation 13'Nai
Zion, in the north-end section of Chi-
cago, was formally dedicated Sunday,
September 21, thus marking the cul-
mination of the efforts of a half-dozen
Chicago men, residents of the neigh-
borhood, whose aim it was to create
and build up a congregation in the
North Side. Amid solemn ceremonies
Rabbi Siam Hatovaz, the rabbi of the
new synagogue, was installed. Among
the speakers were Dr. Lessen, hi r.
Stolz and Dr. Yudelson. Mr. Herman
Spivek is the president of the new
congregation and Mr. Joseph Z. Will-
ner is secretary.
CLASSIFIED
PISGAH LODGE NOTICE
WANTED—Furnished room with
congenial Jewish family, by refined
Jewish lady; reference exchanged .
Lodge, No. 37, Independent Order of
Address Box 234 Detroit Jewish
B'nal Brith will take place at the
Chronicle.
Initiation of new members to Pisgah
lodge rooms Monday evening, Septem•
ber 29th, at 7:30 p. m. All members
WANTED—Large room for two
and candidates are urged to be on
time,
gentlemen, with private Jewish
family; garage in connection Re-
ply to Box 650, Detroit Jewish
Chronicle.
Jacob K. Viner, who has recently
been connected with the office of the
United States Tariff Commission at
Washington, D. C., has been ap- WANTED—Room, by young man
with private family, in North
pointed to an assistant professorship
Woodward district. Address Box
in the Department of Political Econ-
315, Detroit Jewish Chronicle
omy at the University of Chicago.
YOUNG JUDAEA NEWS.
Nine of the local Young Judaea
circles will hold a combined holiday
celebration Sunday afternoon, at 2:311,
were afraid it would come too late. at the El Moselle synagogue, twenty-
Nobody thought of surrender. I can- ninth street, near Michigan 'avenue.
not explain to you how a man feels The feature of the afternoon will be
under circumstances like that. You a debate between the Knights of the
Does one Judaea and the Auxiliary of Zion on
become like an animal.
the question, "Resolved that Esther
(As he told it to Meyer Magui, J. W. We had to either advance or retreat. wild animal surrender to another?
We began to be afraid that the di- was justified in denying her Jewish
B., A. E. P.)
When we got the order to smash
vision had forgotten its or that they origin." A musical program will be
through at all costs every man felt
Abraham Krotoshinsky is a barber it was up to hint. Our regimental gave us up for dead. We had to get offered by a group of Young
by trade. lie is a small, emaciated position was 'way to the left of the a messenger through. It meant al- Judaeans representing all the clubs in
young man with large, limpid blue 154th Brigade sector. To the left of most certain death, we were all sure, the city. hlr. Samuel Heyman will
eyes set far apart in a face which us were Germans and to our right because over a hundred and fifty men act as chairman and Mr. Herbert Par-
Six corn-lhad gone away and never come back. zen, who recently returned front the
suffering and privation have made to was the 307th Infantry.
Zionist Convention at Chicago, will
• conform very close to the contours patties of the 308th broke through and But it had to be done. •
The morning of the fifth day they diliver a short address. All in-
of his skull. He has been for six we pushed as far forward as Charle-
I
called
for
volunteers
for
courier.
terested in the work of Young Judaea
years in the United States which in- yams Mill, where we finally came to a
cludes two years in the service of halt on a hillside overlooking the volunteered and was accepted. I are invited to attend this open
ought
to.
meeting.
I
went
because
I
though
Uncle Sam.
ravine in front of us.
was lucky enough not
The newspapers recently carried a
But we were surrounded. On one First of all I
PHILOMATHIC DEBATING
report that he had become a full- flank stretched solid German terri- to be wounded. Second, after five
days
of
starving,
I was stronger than
fledged American citizen.
tory and on the other the advance of
CLUB.
many
of
my
friends
who
were
twice
His outstanding characteristics are the 307th had been stopped. Com-
diffidence amounting to shyness and pany K, of the '3rd Battalion, 307th, my size. You know a Jew finds
Teeming with the spirit of Judaism
a complete lack of affectation or pos- did get through to us before Jerry cut strength to suffer. Third, because I and ranging over a variety of sub-
would just as soon die trying to help
ing. He seems to be unaware that off our rear, but that was all.
jects,
the Jewish program that was
he did something that riveted the at-
During the five days that we were the others as in the 'pocket' of hun- held at last Sunday's meeting of the
tention of the whole of America on cut off and surrounded in that hell- ger and thirst.
Philomathic
Debating club proved
I got my orders and started. It
him and on the Jews of America of hole we had no idea of how soon re-
one of the most interesting and in-
It needs only a visit to our second floor to
whom he was such a worthy repre- lief would come and often hadn't was five o'clock in the morning on formative ever held.
convince any parent of the splendid manner
sentative. much hope that it would come in time. October seventh. I had to run about
The speakers and their respective
thirty
feet
in
plain
view
of
the
Ger-
in
which we can solve the school shoe ques-
Krotoshinsky with his Yiddish We lay in a very exposed position on
subjects were: A. Shevitz, "Signifi-
tion. The unlimited space devoted to our
accent, and his enthusiasm and his the side of the hill. The top of the mans before I got into the forest. cance of Rosh Hashona and Yom
children's dept. enables us to provide every
Personal problems is typical of the cliff was held by the Germans and They saw me when I got up and fired Kipur;" L. Weiss, "Detroit's Need of
type of shoe covering almost every price
Russian Jewish immigrant soldier so the other side of the ravine was Ger- everything they had at me. I could a Y. M. H. A. and Y. \V. H. A.;" H.
feel
the
bullets
whistle
all
around
me
range.
many of whom made the last great !man. We tried to dig in a bit but
Gurovitch,
"Local
Jewish
Prominent
Today we picture one model that has been
sacrifice for America from Lorraine [ it was terribly hard because the soil but I didn't get hit once. I guess it Men;" I. Iskowitz, "Latest Develop-
wasn't
'bashert'
that
I
should
get
extremely popular. This shoe comes in patent
to the Somme. But whether return-! was so rocky. And all the time that
had ments in the Zionist Movement;" R.
I
killed
by
the
Germans.
Then
and gunmetal at the following size and price
ing heroes or heroic dead they were we were at work they kept bombard-
Aronstam, "The Young Judaen
all imbued "with the spirit of love ing us at short range with grenades to crawl right through their lines. Movement;" R. Kallman, "Ilolydays
range.
They were looking for me every-
and gratitude for America, the great and machine-gun bullets.
as
a
Bond
of
Israel;"
R.
Levine,
"The
moved
along
on
my
I
just
where.
Size 6 to 8
Size 8% to II
Size ii5- to 2
New Jerusalem of the West, which
It was terribly hot and we were all
Unaffiliated Child."
took us out of Goluth and gave us the hungry and thirsty as our hard-tack stomach, in the direction was told,
Jacob Rogvoy, ex-speaker of the
keeping
my
eyes
open
for
them.
The
right to•ive, love and worship, each had been finished before we finally
organization, was critic of the even-
according to his own conscience.
got under cover. There was water brush was six feet high and aften that ing. At next Sunday evening's meet-
This same style in tan calf
down in the bottom of the ravine but saved me. Once a squad of Germans ing there will he a debate on the
—M•M.
after two or three men got killed passed right by my hiding place jab- question, "Resolved That a General
6 to 8, 85.50 8J/, to ti, 80.00 11% to 2, SAM
bing
their
bayonets
into
the
thicket
Most of us selective service men, trying to get to it, we let it alone and swearing like the devil. One big Amnesty he Declared for Conscien-
especially the Jewish boys who, like during the day-time.
Second Floor
fellow nearly stepped on my hand. tious Objectors."
The second day I felt so faint, I He looked right into my eye. I
myself, were accustomed to working
indoors found it hard to get used to thought I was going to die. I am not thought it was my finish that time .nearly finished me. But thank God, I
am alive and well.
sleeping in pup-tents, eating the army such a giant, as you can see, and it but he never saw me.
Afterwards everybody was very
chow and exercising hard all day long. was terrible to lie there with the shells
It was almost six o'clock that night
smashing
up
on
the
rocks
over
your
But I thank heaven that I got the
when I saw the American lines. All good to me. I never was put on any
training I did before I went into the head and the grenades bursting all that day I had been crawling or run- details and they gave me all the priv-
lines, or I would never have come out around you without even being able ning doubled up after five days and ileges a soldier could have. General
to answer—because our ammunition nights without food and practically Pershing himself gave me toy Distin-
alive.
Woodward and Adams Ave.
Our biggest battle was in the Ar- was very low and we had to save it nothing to drink. Then my real guished Service Cross. He praised
gonne Woods, and it was there that for the attacks. We could see water trouble began. 1 was coming from me and told me I should try to
down
below
and
although
we
were
he
as
good
a
citizen
as
I
had
been
a
our battalion under Colonel Whit-
the direction of the German lines and
tlesey got lost and nearly wiped out. dying of thirst all we could do was my English is none too good. I was soldier.
Now tell me how to get any citi-
We had been fighting hard from the to curse the Germans. At night a afraid they would shoot me for a Ger-
morning of the 26th of September, in few men would crawl down on their nan before I could explain who I was. zenship papers.
the middle of a regular jungle full of bellies and come back with their can-
I thought and thought and finally
swamps, vines and heavy underbrush, teens full of water. The wounded got 1 decided that if I called "Hello–"
and living on bully beef and hard- most of that. Sometimes they would they would know I am an American
tack. At first it was easy because we meet details of Jerries down there soldier, as Jerry never used that ex-
had the advantage of a surprise at- and maybe they wouldn't come back. pression when he tried to talk Eng-
Every day we sent out messengers lish. I called "Hello" until the tears
tack and the Second German Land-
wehr which was in front of us could with instructions to get through the
I was so weak, be-
lines and give the American came to my eyes.
not stand up under our terrible bar- German
command our position and ask for fore a voice called out, "Who the
rage which knocked down the trees
h—I are you and what do you want?"
We never heard Pretty soon two men from the 308th
and ploughed up their trenches. But reinforcements.
They all were picked me up and I was on my way
as we advanced it grew harder because from any of them.
the country was so wild that there killed.
to company headquarters.
Book Building, Detroit, Mich.
were no paths through the woods and
Then we began to get liquid fire.
There the captain asked me who I
everyivhere you went were barbed Many of our men were burned and was. I told him I was from the Lost
wire, and ■ machinesgim nests. You lots ot them died. Almost everybody Batallion. Then lie asked me whether
Gentlemen:—
never' could tell how near you were was wounded and we were so weak
I could lead him back to the bat-
to the Germans, as you could not see from hunger and thirst, that hardly talion.
Enclosed find $2.00 for which please mail The Jewish Chronicle
I said, "Yes." They gave me
ahead of you, the woods were so any of us could stand up. The Ger- a bite to eat and something to drink
every week for one year to
thick. The only way we could go mans tried all sorts of tricks with us. and after a little rest I started back
ahead was by following the lanes in They dressed up squads of Germans
again with the command.
the forest blown out by our long in American uniforms and tried to
Name
'That night the 307th broke through
range artillery.
surprise us—but we got them all right
on the right and we got through a
The Germant k e pt throwing gas —weak as we were. They attacked
will
never
forget
the
I
later.
shells into our position and as the us loots of times coming up in mass little
scene when the relief came. The men
Address
country was cut up with valleys and formation but we always had enough were like crazy with joy. But there
machine-gun
bullets
to
throw
them
narrow gullies it soon became a gas-
were
not
many
of
them
left.
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trap. On the last day of October we hack, although once they nearly came who had entered the pocket only 252
pushed them off the hills north of hand - to - hand with us. They counting myself were alive and of
Depot des Machines and they drew climbed into the trees overhead and those only 150 were able to walk
back to the next row of hills that picked us off one by one.
Almost half of us were dead by now without help.
crossed the woods leaving us in the
Right after that I got sick with the
jungle valley to breathe their gas and and it was terrible to lie there wait-
The Shop where courtesy
eat their minneWerfers and seventy- ing for death. None of us,could un- "Flu" and nearly died. The long hun-
and service prevail
derstand why the relief did not come ger and the terrible hardships, and a
sevens4
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We Were in a critical position: We and when it did not come day after few whiffs of gas that I had gotten L as
could not stay there long and live. day we got terribly discouraged, NVewhile crawling about in the woods
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