pAcx, SIX THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE MYSIEVISOMPRTI MPINOM I 11111 ♦ `Iv • I,JI , i6 sill IIJ 111111 NM N IN L E Bethrothal Announced. 'M. M r ratig Nurniturr itI Tonfibriur 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 Credit Terms Arranged '40 111111111111111 111111111111111111011111111111111111111111111111111111311 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 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. Of 679 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 .„.t North of Forest 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 e■ ie,1111,i1q11.111.11'1,1 11.1 ■1 , 1011111 , 11i11111111111111111111111111111101h1111111 ■ 11111M1111111i1 ■ 1111111111111.111,.111 ■ , 1 0,11 rt 1. ■ V 'ilirlp.j1010,11,1101'1111 I,M1 III nvi, 7 41711111 KROTOSHINSKY HERO OF LOST BATTALION, TELLS OWN STORY School Shoes For Misses and Children 4.00 4.50 '5.50 If You are not a Subscriber, Mail Coupon Now The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co. C. KRENZ Merchant Tailor 925 Woodward Ave. Ave.