DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle 12 March 27, 1942 Mlawer Verein Receives tinguished Flying Cross in this CENTER NEEDS war among American forces, six PORTABLE RADIOS Letter From President pilots—that is, eight per cent— Tidbits From Everywhere are Jews, have been unearthed The Jewish Community Cen- The following Letters Were by Winchell . . . George Jessel ter is in need of portable radios Sent to and Received from By PHINEAS J. BIRON for civilian defense purposes. is a very disappointed man, be- President Roosevelt cause his application for Navy Used sets are acceptable and bat- WAR ECHOES service was rejected on physical tery sets are preferred. Those Ambassador Lawrence F. grounds . . . But George, after who have sets available are re- The Honorable Franklin D. Meinhardt, whose appointment all, is no chicken, being well quested to telephone the Center, Roosevelt, to his new Ankara post entrusts over 40 . . . Songstress Dinah Woodward at Holbrook, Madison President of the United States. him with a most delicato diplo- Shore will be working for Uncle 8400. Dear Mr. President: matic mission, succeeded in mak- Sam now . . . She's going on a We, the members of the Mla- ing himself persona very much Defense Bond sales tour . . . Passover Greetings to All! grata with the Turkish govern- Cellist Emanuel Feuermann, who er are in a position to do it in wer Umgegend Verein, a chari- ment even before leaving this recently completed some trio and their own countries, you'll be table organization which com- country to take up his duties .. . quartet Victor recordings with interested to know that a group prises approximately 150 loyal Helin Tackle Co. It was Steinhardt who arranged such artists as Jascha IIeifetz of refugee diamond cutters is United States citizens, at our Manufacturers of for the lend-lease shipment of and Arthur Rubinstein, was a starting a school in New York eighth annual ball and birthday celebration, unanimously agreed American pursuit planes to Tur- in which this difficult art will "The Famous Flatfish Lure" key, which had been unable to tremendous hit at Fort Riley, be taught . . . The most inter- to convey to you, Mr. President, acquire these aircraft in any Kan., the other day, when he esting aspect of a recent experi- this message of our wholehearted other way . . . One of the few interrupted his concert tour to ment in mass hypnotism on the and unquestionable trust and Jewish generals in the British give a free recital before the student body of New York's complete confidence in what you army is Frederick H. Kisch, who soldiers of the Cavalry Replace- Yeshiva College lies in its fail- decided to fight for unflinchingly as Col. Kisch was the chairman ment Training Center, the only ure in a certain point . . . Al- until your aim shall be accom- of the Jewish Agency Executive camp in the country where both though ordered to eat bacon lished. You are fighting a cause from 1923 to 1931 . . . General the old-fashioned horse and mod- while in their trance, all of these that posterity will recognize as ern mechanized units are in the most logic and sound under- Kisch is with the General Staff, very Orthodox students refused taking of all time. and is considered an authority use. to do so. We pray unceasingly and untir- on desert warfare . . . Reports STAGE AND SCREEN Over 400,000 Sold in 1941 ingly for your welfare and well- Broadway was afraid to touch ABOUT PEOPLE that the Japanese have captured Why Max Reinhardt, indubit- and killed China's General Ma- it, but the Studio Theater of ably the greatest name in the being, and because we see light CHARLES HELIN, Prop. Ma, the former Moishe Cohen the New School for Social Re- theater, has not yet been offered in what you represent. So with your guidance and with the help of Manchester, indicate that our search recently staged "Nathan 6342 PULFORD AVE. teaching job in one of Amer- of God, the Flag of Freedom Chinese allies have lost their the Wise," the famous play on a ica's PLaza 1458 universities is beyond us will wave, never to be interrupt- Jewish military leader . . . But tolerance by the great German . . . Reinhardt would make one fate has sent them another Jew- author Lessing—and was sold of the best drama professors ed as long as there is breath in ish aide, this time in the person out for every single perform- imaginable . . . To those who the human soul. of slim, pretty young Ottilie ance of its run before the cur- are wondering what Walter Win- May God bless the path of Wang, who was a medical stu- tain rose on the opening night chell will do after his contract your humanitarian undertaking, Sincerest Passover Greetings dent in her native Germany till . . . This play, of course, was with his present syndicate ex- and give you strength in your Hitler's oppression forced her to one of the main items in Hit- pires this year, we may confide most wonderful venture. leave . . . She married a Chinese ler's book-burning spree of some that Walter intends to take a Hoping that the light of free- fellow student, and for the past years ago, despite the one hun- sabbatical year and devote him- dom shall never be dimmed. We several years has been working dred per cent Aryanism of its self to war work . . . The first remain yor respectfully and for- day and night in the military author . . . Luise Rainer's at- official function which Dr. Chaim ever at your command. hospitals of the Chinese army. tempt to make a stage come- Weizmann will attend in this Mlawer Umgegend . . . A widow now, her husband back in a revival of Sir James country, some time in April, will Verein, having been killed in battle, Ot- Barrie's "A Kiss for Cinderella" be a conference of all Zionist Benjamin S. Golden, tilie is continuing with her was not much of a success . . . parties, climaxed by a great din- OPEN DAY AND NIGHT work . . . But no Florence Night- But the free entertainment she ner in his honor . . . Maxim President. Brightly Illuminated— ingale is she—instead, she is gave at Fort Dix the other day Litvinov's wife is a most versa- Professional Instruction considered one of the Chinese made her the darling of the tile lady . . . She's a writer, My dear Mr. Golden: army's most skillful surgeons. boys in khaki . . . Charlie Chap- and a most original painter . . . The President has received 4400 W. BOSTON BLVD. lin, they say, is hoping to make And, you should know, she start- your letter of March 12 on be- WAR NEWS West of Dexter a new film in the near future Statisiics showing that the . . . It will be about Landru, ed painting only recently, since half of your organization, and asks me to thank you for writ- TYLER 5-1800 first 75 recipients of the Dis- the French Bluebeard of some coming to Washington . . . Car- toonist Milt Gross is having an ing. years ago, and will appropri- exhibit of his drawings in Holly- He wants you and everyone ately be entitled "The Lady Kill- wood, and the movie colony is concerned to know that he much A Very Joyous Passover To All er" . . . Besides, he is planning hailing him as a genius . . . appreciates your expression of to reissue some of his old pic- Baseball fans are advised to keep confidence in his leadership, and F. D. BERARDINO TILE CO • tures with sound dubbed in— their eye on Ed Levy, who may is grateful, too, for your prayers. a musical background, and a make the grade for the Yankee Tile. Mosaic, Terrazzo and Marble Very sincerly yours, spoken commentary which he team this year . . . To scouts Structural Glass M. II. McIntyre, himself provides. In fact, one who have seen him in action lie Sani-Rox — 20 Colortones Secretary to the Aristocratic Varitones of these reissues, "The Gold looks like a young Hank Green- PLAZA 3022 President. Rush," is already being shown begr. 6564 HARDING AVE. here and there, and is creating what its title indicates. WHAT THEY PUBLISH You are cordially invited to our We hope you didn't miss Annual Seder—Wednesday Eve., April 1 Waldo Frank's beautiful article, FOR RESERVATIONS CALL TR. 4-8882 "The Jews Are Different," in the March 21 Saturday Evening BLAINE KOSHER RESTAURANT Post . . . We've been tipped off, 8737 12th ST. however, that Milton Mayer's "The Case Against the Jews," DERMER'S KOSHER RESTAURANT appearing in the Post of March 60 CADILLAC SQUARE 28 (which we have not seen at this writing), is even more tact- We will serve Passover meals throughout the week. less than the piece on the Jews which the same magazine car- ried some months ago under the signature of Jerome N. Frank 9150 TWELFTH STREET . . . We understand also that at Atkinson the gentleman who until recent- PHONE TRINITY 2-0629 ly was the editor of the Satur- day Evening Post refused the suggestion that his paper pub- lish an interpretation of the Jew- ish case by Pierre van Paassen . . . "Songs of New Russia," a collection edited, with English lyrics, by Olga Paul and our friend Gregory Bronsky, has EXPERT FURRIER gone into a second edition, to which four new songs have been LATEST STYLES in added . . . The publishing house JACKETS £ COATS of Harpers is bringing out a new collection of Hitler's rant- REMODELING — COLD STORAGE ings . . . When somebody called the attention of Cass Canfield, Harper's literary editor, to the "danger" of Hitler's (lying be- Season's Greetings and Best Wishes to All fore the book is out—which would kill the sale of the vol- HURON FORGE MACHINE ume—Canfield retorted: "That is a risk which Harpers are de- COMPANY lighted to take." THIS AND THAT Commercial Steel Forgings The largest matzah ever TYler 5-6740 9041 ALPINE AVE. baked has just been produced by the Manischewitz Company —and in the shape of a "V" (for Victory) to boot . . . It's Urgent pleas for help have been received by the United Jewish Appeal four feet tall, and represents Season's Greetings 'and Best Wishes to All for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine from large numbers-of Jews the first change in matzah shape in Germany, who are now being subjected to mass deportation and an in many decades, since the old- intensified program of severe restrictions and humiliation. Photo shows fashioned round matzah gave Jewish couple walking along a street in Berlin with a six-pointed yellow way to the modern square var- star, inscribed with the word "Jude", sewn on the left side of their FRANKLIN TOOL CO. iety . . . Just to show that they clothes. By a special decree adopted, last month, all Jews in German ter- mean it, the Manischewitz peo- ritory must wear a yellow star or armband as a mark of identification. The desperate situation confronting Jews in ple are also cooking up a special Jigs - Fixtures - Gauges Nazi-occupied territories during the third winter of the war is taxing the resources of the batch of matzah perforated in Joint the dot-dot-dot-dash code "V" Distribution CoMmittee, the United Palestine Appeal WE SPECIALIZE IN PLUG GAUGES and the National Refugee Service, which look to American Jewry to for Victory . . . What with provide the means for relief and rehabilitation overseas, upbuilding and defense of Palestine America having to do her own and refugee RA. 0796 adjustment in the United States, through 1438 FRANKLIN ST. diamond cutting these days, the single fund- raising instrument of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas since the Dutch and Belgian Needs and Palestine, specialists in this work no long- e INFANT SERVICE GROUP Mrs. Morris Hosnos of 2984 Clements Ave. was hostess to the Infants' Service Group on March 22. Mrs. Sam Rader and Mrs. Harry Rose were co-host- esses. The group is giving a spring party in the form of a luncheon and bridge at Kern's, on Wed- nesday, May 27. Nrit410 Strictly Confidential - 4 ....g■1111•1■INW Boston Golf Driving Range Practice Course MARKED WITH A YELLOW STAR] 4 •