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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

July 3, 1942

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A TRIBUTE

By MYRTA R. MATTHEWS

by Phineas J. Biron

THE CHURCHILL VISIT
IV hen Prime Minister Winston
Churchill arrived in this coun-
try last week, supporters of the
Committee for a Jewish Army
sent him thousands of wires
pleading - for the establishment
of such a Jewish army . A n d
though most of the wires were
addressed to the White House,
the protocol-wise telegraph com-
panies delivered every last one
of them to the British Embassy
. . And after two days of an
incessant flood of these telegrams,
the piles of which mounted so
high that the Embassy staff had
to work as from behind barri-
cades, one of the secretaries is
said to have commented: "I wish,
by Jove, the P.M. would decide
to give the Jews their army be-
fore we're completely crowded
out of our quarters" . . . A day
after Churchill's arrival, inci-
dentally, we were startled to re-
ceive a note from one of our
scouts to the effect that Churchill
and Hitler are good friends .. .
It was quite a while before we
recovered our composure suffici-
ently to read further, and thus
learn that our informant meant
Lieutenant Churchill and Corporal
Hitler of the U. S. Army, both
of whom are at the Ordnance
Training School at Aberdeen, Md.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

We just want to remind you
that Governor Ernest Gruening of
Alaska had been expecting the
Japanese attack on his Territory
for quite some time, and, as a
matter of fact, has been working
for the better fortification of the
peninsula and the Aleutian island
chain . . . The first liquor com-
pany to build a plant in which
to make synthetic rubber out of
alcohol, says Danton Walker, will
be Seagram's . . . This firm, as
you should know, is controlled by
the Bronfman family of Canada
. . . Irony of fate department:
Over two years ago, in April,
1910, Vice Admiral Joseph K.
Taussig, now retired, testified be-
fore the Senate Naval Affairs
Committee that Japan, was arm-
ing herself to the teeth against
the United States . . . Official
Washington immediately disowned
him and •hastened to declare for-
mally that the Admiral had been
expressing only his personal
views . . . So time marched on,
and in December, 1941, the Japs
made their infamous flight against
('earl Harbor . . . And among
the Navy Officers wounded in the
attack was Ensign Joseph K.
Taussig, the Admiral's son.

What is it that has fed the courage of the Jew through all
these years?
serted Second Avenue for good
Forever staunch and loyal in spite of bitter tears.
. . . The former Yiddish comedian, Think you his zeal, in pools of blood so freshly drawn by count-
who made Broadway roll in the
less foe,
aisles with his antics in "Spring
Is built on only facts of birth? To you I say, ah, no!
Again" earlier this season, now
has an equally funny part in that Why is it that a Christian world, with Leader like the Christ
hardy perennial, "My Sister Ei-
Should so despise the very Race that gave this Man his life?
leen" . . . Showman Billy Rose,
whose short stature has earned Why is it that you cannot see—when Christ said words so tile .. .
"Of Jews Salvation is." Those words were meant for you!
him the title of "Tiny Titan of
Times Square," is having trouble
finding chorus girls for his new Some say the Jews despise the Christ—Again, this is not true.
It was not they who caused His death; that crime, they like
night club show . . . This because
us, rue.
his demands are so high—not only
must the girls be able to sing Two thousand years before the Christ, when Te•ah's son was born,
Their trek began, from then 'til now, they've wandered on,—
and dance, but they must top the
in scorn.
six-foot mark in height.

ABOUT PEOPLE
Alexander Rose, New York
union leader and an important
figure in the American Labor
Party fought in the Jewish Le-
gion in the first world war . . .
In those days his name was Olesh
Royz . . . Only a couple of weeks
ago, you'll remember, Rose visited
the White House for a discus-
sion of the New York guberna-
torial campaign.
E m i 1 Lengyel's forthcoming
book, scheduled for fall publica-
tion, is about Siberia, where he
spent a couple of years in a
military camp during the first
world war . . . It was during his
captivity there that Lengyel's or-
iginally (lark hair turned white.
Now that he has given us the
best movie of the decade, William
Wyler, director of "Mrs. Miniver,"
has left screenland for service
with the Air Corps . . . And he's
Major Wyler now.
To your list of Jewish athletes
in our armed forces add the name
of Irving Jaffee, Olympic ice-
skating champion . . . Irving has
enlisted in the Coast Guard.
Winchell reveals, incidentally,
that the Dr. Paul Roland who
has been reported missing after
the fall of Bataan, where he was
the outstanding medical here,
was born Paul Rosenberg . . .
Roland was one of Broadway's
best-loved doctors.
That pretty girl selling news-
papers at the corner of Seventh
Ave. and 49th St. is Dorothy
Kaplan, holding the fort for
brother Jack, who had to leave
his stand when Uncle Sam called
him up for service.
David Sarnoff, head of the
Radio Corporation of America,
is in uniform now . . . And a
full-fledged colonel, too . . . His
son, you'll remember, is an en-
sign . . . And Max Bear, the
one-time boxing champ, is try-
ing desperately to get into uni-
form . . . The rumor that Al-
bert Lasker resigned from the
University of Chicago's Board
of Trustees because of Milton
Mayer's Saturday Evening Post
article (Mayer being on the
University's faculty) are all
wrong . . . Lasker differs sharply
with Robert Hutchins, president
of the University, on almost
every political question.
Promise of becoming the new
generation's Shirley Temple is
given by Susan Levine, a five-
year-old who'll be presented for
your inspection in the new Ab-
bott and Costello film, "Pardon
My Sarong" . . . But don't
bank on Susan's name remain-
ing unchanged if she does
achieve stardom . . . Which re-
minds us to tell you we've just
learned that Irene Manning's
name has no resemblance to her
real monikor, which is Hope
Ha•vuot, but is an adaptation
of the name of her husband,
Harold Manheim, a screen pub-
licist who right now is in the
service of his Uncle Sam.
Georgie Jessel is trying to re-
vive "The Jazz Singer", the
play in which he scored his
greatest stage success, some 15
years ago . . . Georgie wants
to present it in a modernized
version.

RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT
When you read the Prophet
Ezekiel's words "and your tires
shall be upon your heads and
your shoes upon your feet," don't
be too puzzled . . . It does look
as if the Prophet were foretelling
that the time would come when
people would walk instead of rid-
ing around on tires . . . But ac-
tually Ezekiel was referring not
to the tires you cusomarily use
on your car, but to a headdress,
the word "tire" in this instance
being a contraction of "attire"
. . . For the first time since Jews
were permitted to settle in Swe-
den, which was way back in
1763, a Jewish boy from that
land is now studying for the rab-
binate . . . He comes from Stock-
holm, his name is Menasheh Leh-
man, and he's enrolled at the
Nei. Israel Rabbinical College in
Baltimore . . . Lehman reports
that the total Jewish population
of northern Europe's lone neutral
nation is 7,000 of whom 6,000
live in the capital . . . Because
its community is so small, Swedish
Jewry has hitherto "imported"
its rabbis from Germany or Po-
land . . . But Lehman expects
to establish a precedent by re-
turning to his active land after
he is ordained by the Ner Israel
Yeshiva.
WEEKLY GIGGLE
American refugees who've man-
THIS AND THAT
aged to return from Europe have
Some of Arthur Szyk's paint- brought with them a number of
ings hang in the White House, good stories that are now going
he has learned from Mrs. Roose- the rounds . . . One of these
velt . . . Szyk, a Polish Jew who concerns a fishing trip that Hit-
lived in Paris until the Nazis ler took . . . The camp lay just
took over, is the world's out- at the Swiss border, and the
standing anti-Axis satirical car- stream Adolf chose for his angl-
toonist . . . You've surely seen ing served as the borderline—one
some of his Hitler and Goering bank lying in Germany, the other
caricatures on the covers of some in Switzerland . . . So Hitler
of the large-circulation magazines nodded and reeled, but nary a
• . . Is it true, by the way, that nibble did he get . . . Yet on
the Saturday Evening Post lost the opposite bank a Swiss angler
5,000 in circulation since it pub- was hauling one fish after the
Mayer's 'Case other ... Finally Hitler hailed the
lished
Milton
Against the Jews'? . . . Joseph other fisherman, and asked: "How
Hula' has, it would seem, de- come that though we're both fish-

They did not live in palace grand—their worldly goods were rare.
Life meant to them a fateful lot—their very souls laid bare.
The name of Hebrew, Israel, Jew, still stands as faithful, true—
They Christ revere . . . Our God they love . . . The same as
me and you.

Messiah, in the Jewish faith, has meaning deep, but clear to see;
A King to guide . . . to heal their hurt . . . from bondage set
them free.
To GOD alone they homage give . . . His inner help is all they
need . . .
A King with power they still await . . . On God alone they
build their creed!

On history's pages writ with precious blood of Martyr fame—
From Abraham's day to that of Hitler's cruel shame . . .
The name of Jew has stood for Christ, for Jacob, Moses, Einstein,
Stahl;
It stands for Freedom, Courage, Justice for you, for me, for all!

Why is it then, that Christian Folk can only see one way?
Each one is striving for a goal, a better, brighter day.
We every one must stand alone . . . Believe in God we do!
Each life will answer for itself, when all our days are through.

to exotic foods. The fellow is
still very orthodox and won't even
look at a chess board on Friday
night or Saturday. Nor will he
touch any food that is not kosher.
On one of his return trips to
Russia some years ago, his re-
fusal to eat the food in the Soviet
Capital made headline news. The
story alleged that Moscow was
forced to send to Biro-Bidjan, the
Jewish community some fifteen
hundred miles away, for kosher
food for the stellar attraction of
this international chess meet.
Needless to say, Sammy won that
tourney hands down.
But though Sammy has ruled
the roost of the American chess
scene for to these many years,
there are thousands of enthusiasts
who flock to the tourneys no mat-
ter where they're played. Nor is
Sammy the lone Jewish star on
the boards. There are scores of
others who are almost as brilliant
as he is and still others who
have been giving the maestro a
stiff fight each time they meet.
Among the latter are such experts
as Isaac Kashdan, Israel Horo-
witz, Al Pinkus and Louis Levy.
Don't be surprised at the pre-
dominance of Jewish names in
this "sport." As a matter of fact,
of the top-flight sixteen who per-
formed in the last tournament
sponsored by the United States
Chess Federation, all sixteen were
Jewish. Aside from those already
mentioned, there were Steiner,
Sediman, Levin, Chernov, Plinick,
Baker, Lessing, Green, Hahlbohm
and Altman. And in the women's
division, the top three performers
were Jewesses. Miss Karff of
Boston and Mrs. Grosser and Mrs.
Raetigg.

Downtown Theaters

One sets aside a law just made for man by man;
The creed of churches, tenets all, are only for a span.
UNITED ARTISTS — Red
God's law is boundless . . . No Race, no Country, outside its Skelton and Ann Sothern get
love . .
together for the first time in
We all are children of the Gracious God above.
"Masie Gets Her Man," now
at the United Artists Theater.
And so, a Gentle offers tribute to the Jews throughout the world, On the same program will be
A wbrld whose Flags of Freedom shall ever be unfurled!
the newest Tarzan thriller "Tar-
This War, when told in history by pen of truth and might—
zan's Secret Treasure," starring
Will tell of deeds of valor . . . of sacrifice for right.
Johnny Weissmuller and Mau-
Then Jcwish Folk and you, and me, will blessed peace enjoy . .
reen O'Sullivan.
Breathe God's sweet air of Freedom, than which none can destroy!

THE JEWISH
SPORTS WORLD

By VICTOR WAYNE

SAMUEL RESCHEVSKY STILL
REIGNS SUPREME
Samuel Reschevsky, the erst-
while boy wonder of the chess
boards, is still the master of the
men who manipulate the kings
and queens and bishops and
pawns. The perennial chess cham-
pion of the United States and one
of the five best chess players
in the world today, Samuel Res-
chevsky, recently added new laur-
els to his many honors by finish-
ing in a tie for first place in the
recent matches sponsored by the
United States Chess Federation.
Of course, each and every time
we mention the game of chess in
a sports column, we get a host
of letters asking us why chess
is considered a game and more
than that, why it has a place on
ball and football and lacrosse and
the sport pages along with base-
water polo . . . To be sure, chess
is an intellectual pastime and
not in the same class with those
sporting endeavors whose chief
claim to popularity is its appeal
to mayhem and manslaughter.
But long before we arrived on
the scene, chess was considered
"a sporting enterprise" and has
remained on the sport pages.
Thus the name of Reschevsky has
been headlined across the sport
sections of the nation's press
along with Di Maggio and Green-
berg and Benny Friedman and
Barney Ross and Hank Prusoff.
Sammy arrived in this coun-
try at the age of five—some
twenty-seven years ago. He was
a child prodigy then and his feats
at the chess board preceded him.
He played a twenty-game match
simultaneously with twenty of our
army's best players and succeeded
in trouncing them all. His first
tour of this country was a huge
success—if not financially, at least
spectacularly. He continued his
amazing performances through
the years and the Chicago Phil-
anthropist, Mr. Rosenwald, be-
came his patron saint. The Rosen-
wald fund put the boy through

ing in the same stream you've
catching a tremendous lot, while
I can't get a single One?" . . .
"That's easily explained, Herr
Hitler," the Helvetian told him
. . "On this side of the stream
the fish aren't afraid to open
their mouths."

Chicago University and enabled
Sam to travel to every far-flung
corner of the world where cham-
pionship chess tourneys were be-
ing held.
What is more, Sammy did much
to popularize the game in inter-
collegiate circles. But so marked
was his success that even those
sports-minded fans who couldn't
tell a bishop from a mashgeach,
knew that the Jewish fellow was
the best in the country. When
the dark haired chap went
abroad and added new honors to
the American sporting scene, the
public basked in the glory
achieved by this Jewish fellow,
even if they knew nothing about
the game.
No matter where the Master
Chess Tournaments may have
taken Sammy, he never succumbed

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