American Awisk Periodical Cotter

CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

1'14;

•

1C 42

DETROIT

CAPITOL LETTER

JEWISH CHRONICLE era The Legal Chronicle

9

Moshe Ber Gordon New • s eS
Bnai David Cantor
TRICTLYCONFIDENTIAL••
•

By CHARLES BENSON

an.
wir
yin

au-

ch.

St-
ash
nv

all

nd
ye

rag

'al
∎ 11
th
Id

le

Cantor Moshe Bet. Gordon, new-
by Pitineas J. Biron
ly elected cantor of Congregation
Thew is mixed reaction in Jew- British tinny an infantry regiment Bind David. Elmhurst and 14th, MINE IS THE VENGEANCE
rather than read, take a gander
ish cirdes in Washington to the is not a closely-knit unit of 800 comes from New York where he
with the trickle of refugees at Ellery Queen's "Adventure of
announcement that a Palestinian to 1,000 men as in our own forces.
Husk of Cain " included in
"regiment" is to be formed in A British regiment has It gent•
from Europe practically dried up, the Mk
'
f'
the Near East, but no one doubts graphical or traditional name, like
the grapevine
isn't
working' as the Pocket Mystery Reader, and
as
in
.A4`
farmer
days
. . . Re - you'll see it's just as spine -chilling
that Jews have gained some N• iC- the Royal Scots or the Lincoln-
well
4:'-!i;
ho we ver small, in their ca-
nt shire or Yorkshire groups, and
eently, however, w e heard a story ., M • print , as o n
i r
l)
P
• • •
i volume tooth ie s a il mem
iti(auig.'' ti for the establishment of a each regiment may contain any
we thought you'd like to have nis
b y y
Litt
II
rte
'
Jewish fighting force in Palestine. number of battalions, which are
passed on to you . . . It concerns
a ' de-Rhin.; ' not Isl .ith mys-
Only a month earlier Sir James the tactical units corresponding to
an the
incident
in a little cella r room : tery ., but with sudden death, which
in
\\ . arsaw
ghetto
which
a
IS
th
had categorically rejected all pro- our regiments.
e essence of must whodunits
From Grigg's speech, it would
Po-.d
s .s for a Jewish fighting force
group of pious Jews used as their a II y W.4. 1 y • • • " W ha t the Bullet
le - is the nallIV of the poem.
o r even a home guard. Now he appear that the largest Jewish
s ynagogue . . . In it they had , ' al-
has announced that Jews will be units are now companies of no
stored II Tonal scroll saved from STAG I: AND SCREEN
permitted to participate freely in more than 120 men. Now they
better days, and the sacred writ-
The release of 1Valt Disney's
-lt
the recruiting of an additional 10,- will be organized into battalions
ing was guarded dtly and night "Bantle is accompanied by the
by
one
000 men, and that a large propor- of about 1,000, as will the Arabs.
Or /111(411M' stalwart young news that Felix Salto', ;miff. of
,t.,
tion of their soldiers will be as- Usually three battalions from dif-
man of the group. nume the day the novel on which the film is
:ambled into a single unit.
ferent regiments make up a b•i-
when a Nazi storm trooper, out basest, is safe in Switzerland . . .
for a good time, invaded the place The new Bella and Sam Spewack
What are the figures? First, gad e, and an infantry division—
according to the British lnforma- the smallest self-contained fight-
of worship, knockeddown the musical scheduled for Broadway
MOSHE PER GORDON
tion Services, there are already ing force, about 15,000 men—in-
guard, seized the scroll and started for the coming season will have
12,000 Palestinian Jews in the eludes three brigades as well as served manY prominent sync- tearing it to bits .
"That's a sc o re by Kurt Weill, the can-
i
E,
fighting services. The Jewish pop- headquarters troops, engineers, ar- gogue4 n the ast. Before corn- what 1 think of your Jewish God," tor's son, who has Hitler to thank
ulation of Palestine is about 550,- tillerists andother specialists. So ing to the United States he he taunters. . . "See, Ile can't for his success as an American
000. That means Palestine's Jew- it seems that although Jewish served as Cantor in the Broder even do anything to me ... Don't coinpose• .. . If producer Michael
ish community has raised the units are now to be a degree Synagogue in Manchester, Eng- you think He'd strike me dead Todd has his way, Charlie Chap-
equivalent of an American army larger and more complicated, they land, and in Tel Aviv Palestine.
if He could?" • . . Painfully the En will appear on Broadway next
Cantor Gordon will officiate dun- Young Jew got to his feet . . . "I season in a Ferenc Molnar play
of almost 3,000,000 men, for we are still some distance from inde-
have a population of about 130,- pendency. Advocates of a Jewish ing the High Holy days with a don't know," he replied, "but I • . . If .. . One of the fall sea-
army will probably work for an symphonic cho'r under the direr- will" ... And with that he leaped son's first openings "Let Free-
000,000.
tion of David Shkolnick.
at the Nazi—and killed him with dom Sing," will
Sir James said that at least all-Jewish brigade and an all-Jew-
have Mitzie Green
Junior services will be held in a single blow.
ish
division
as
their
next
objec-
ti)liteil, i c :ailiku:lheet3ii.l(((ii,ui(1),iuig:1111).)e(aiiiiiiIng.Itiy,m.tial...ytisAmmnei(oitIzfitel just
10,000 more men will be re-
tive,
but
British
military
tradi-
the
Chapel
of
the
Synagogue
for
crusted, and no parity with Arab
tion does not look with favor on Young Pao ple.. All parents are SIDELIGHTS
enlistments required. Incidentally, such exclusive organizations.
urges! to make arrangements for
Now that Bernard M. Baruch ih
the BIS says that olny 4,800 Pal-
If "we've got the men," accord- their children to attend the Jun- is taking over the task of finding screen period. Real old timers
estinian Arabs are fighting, which inng to the Englis marchi
re-
song
for
services.
These
services
will
ng
a solution for our rubber problem, member her mother Rosie Green,
indicates that the parity rule an of the last century h
the propo nents have a full program of services we may expect to have plenty of as a Ziegfeld Follies beauty,
never have been very strictly en- of a Jewish army ought to be able and sermons under competent lead- rubber before long for our war
forced. If Jews Continue to vol- to sing "We've got the ships, we've ers•
machine and indu
industry. . . But ABOUT PEOP1.1(3
unteer as they have — that is, got the money, too." That would
Rabbi Joshua Sperka will visit don't think that this means you'll
Yehudi Menuhin, whose talents
about two and a half times as
direct lend-lease aid to Pal- the junior services and preach a have all the tires you want for are normally dedicated to another
fast as the Arabs—their share of „ mean
st i fle.
special sermon for young people. pleasure driving . . . That activ- instrument, was recently seen
the new volunteers will be more
Rumors of such aid and sego-
Arrangements to attend serv- ity will in any event have to be getting pointers on harmonica
than 7,000. In addition, they are tiations leading thereto have been ices at Congregation Bnai David curtailed for the duration. . . playing from Larry Adler . . .
to have 1,500 more rural special circulating for some time but can- can be made with the committee Baruch, it is said, has become
a But it was all in fun, of course
police, and the chance—with Arabs not be confirmed here. The main at the synagogue every evening great booster of the Jewish Army . . • Lorin Maazzel, the youngster
—to add 1,600 more men to the objection is that lend-lease goes except Friday.
project . . . Guess who's touring who created a sensation last year
Palestine Volunteer Force. To get only to sovereign states. Even the
the borsht circuit this summer, when, at the age of 11, he led
the significance of these figures 1 i g h t i n
g French get theirs
lecturing at the Eastern mountain the NBC Symphony Orchestra,
in terms of the population of the through the British. Negotiations Freud Will Bequeaths
resorts? . . . It's none other than earned critical plaudits last week
United States, you have to mul- are now under way to give it to
31rs. Hitler, and she's being lis.. when he made his debut at the
tiply them by 250. Thus, an midi- them direct, and it must be said $200,000 to Family
tened to with great interest . . . Lewisohn Stadium, conducting the
Mina] 7,000 Jews in the Near East that if they succeed they will con-
But don't be alarmed—she's mdy New York Philharmonic Symph-
armies corresponds toughly to an stitute an interesting precedent.
A pproxitnately $203,000 of the the wife of Adolf's nephew, Pat- ony Orchestra, no less . . . Quite
additional
own
forces. 1,750,000 men in our But just now lend-lease agree- estate left by Jerome S. Freud, rick Hitler, whose mother is Irish an a•h'evement for a boy who has
meats are almost like treaties, an attorney here 25 years, will and who doesn't like his fuehrious not yet attained the dignity of
Zionist leaders have been calling negotiated through our State De- he shared by his wife, Vera, three uncle either.
Bar Mitzvah, eh? ... Congratula-
tor a Jewish army in Palestine partment and the other country's sisters and a brother, according
lions to Henrietta Malkiel, form-
of 10,000 men—comparable to an ministry of foreign affairs.
to the w•']1 filed Monday in Pro- LITERARY FOOTNOTES
er European representative of
army of 10,000,000 here. Accord-
bate Court. Approximately $42,•-
Sophie Tucker, whose "Life of Vanity Fair, on her marriage to
ing to Grigg, the Jewish fighting
000 in special bequests also was a Red Hot Mama" is soon to ap- Nelson Poynter . . . The former
listed.
forces will be more than half
pear as a magazine serial, re _ Edith Sharin, the blonde eyeful
that figure—a rather larger pro- Theater Guild Discusses
The entire estate was estimated cently cancelled a $15 , 000 night whom visitors to the New York
portion of their demands than the Plans with Manager of . ...
5 , . 11. Freud died Aug. club engagement to entertain grat- N% orld s I. air Palestine Pavilion
Zionists are accustomed to getting
11. He resided at 655 Balfour is at Army camps ... Alien Kan- will remember as one of its most
from the British. However, the Hebrew Actors' Union
Rd., Grosse Pointe Park.
del, whose "Rabbi Burns" created decorative features, informs that
Committee for a Jewish Army
One-third of the estate, after a sensation in Jewish circles a her husband. Milwaukee's I),.
talks of 100,000 fighting men to
Reuben Guskin of New York special bequests, was left to Mrs. decade ago, and who since ,_
then Leonard Markson, is a Naval lieu-
be drawn from the 800,000 Jews City, manager of the Hebrew Act- Freud, and the remaining two- has been busy in Hollywood, pro- tenant now.
of the Near East—o• the equiva- ors' Union, spent several days in thirds was divided equally among deicing such successful scripts as I N
F0 It 51 A T I 0 N MINE
lent of an American army of more Detroit last wk
the sisters, Mrs. Marie F. Siegel, "City for Conquest," is preparing
week as th
Did you know that S. A. Lowy_
16,000,000 men.
e guest 610 Boston Blvd. \V.; 511.s. Jose- a collection of short stories about sky, the Soviet Union's Elmer
As important to the future of the Jewish Theater Guild of phine F. Roffman of Cincinnati, the film capital, to be calks] "This Davis, was born the on of a
strength of the Jewish community Detroit. At a special fleeting of O•, and Mrs. Carrie F. Fantle, Side of clamor"
. . . Maurice poverty-stricken niehimed? . . •
in Palestine as the number of its the executive board, at which 901 Boston Blvd. W., and the Zolotow, svhose pieces
on Broadway That the original name of Georges
fighting men is the method of Aaron Rosenberg., chairman, pre- brother, Marcus L. Freud of bake celebrities have been appettring Mandel, the French Jewish sttites-
their organization. Now in the sided, Orton.
in the Saturday Evening Post, man who was a member of the
a committee consisting of
Special bequests included $10,- has prepared a history of Man- Reynaud Cabinet at the time of
51ax Holtzman, 13. M. Laikin and 000 as a trust fund to his law hattan's night clubs for the Amer- the collapse of France, was Jero.
SEGAL
Harry Weinberg discussed with Partner, Oscar A. Markus, to pro- icon Mercury . . . If you think Imam Rothchild, and not . Roth-
Mr. Guskin details of bringing vide college
educations for de- radio dramas are made to be heard schild, as is commonly believed?
to Detroit those actors and direct- serving. students $2,000 to Temple
(Continued from Page 4)
------ - - - - ---- -
-- --
ors who can project the finest type Beth El as a memorial to his
Ile seemed a Christian who was of theater only. The sentiment Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leopold
accepting literally the injunction was unanimous in not yielding on Freud; $5,000 to the Jewish Old
to take up the cross in the like- the point of quality and there was Folks Home as another memorial
mess of Jesus, to take into his even strong sentiment favoring to his parents; $3,000 to Harper
own body and heart and mind temporary postponement of the Hospital to endow a private coon;
Natural Beauty
the affliction of fellowmen.
project rather than promoting an $15,000 to Markus to perpetuate
"What you are thinking of has inferior, second-rate theater.
the law firm of Freud, Markus
to do with the idea of a Christian
It appears that terms agree- and Stutz.
taking up the cross, like Jesus," able to both the Actors' Union
Another $5,000 was divided
and the Theater Guild may be among five friends, including $1,-
I suggested. "Isn't that so?"
Cr Northern Michigan
reached and word is now awaited 000 to his chauffeur, Howard Win-
He hadn't thought of it in that from New York confirming the stop.
• The Only Kosher Resort
Genial Hospitality
lig•it, he said, but it was a good agreement concluded here. A corn-
• In the Pine Forests of Northern Michigan
idea. Yes, it was something for mittee may be designated by the Book Display
• • Half-Mile Private Bathing Beach
on Nazi
z
christians to think about. Tak- executive board to visit New York
• Tennis, Golf, Boating. Fishing
Aims
a
at Local l Librarie
Lib
s
and work out details with the
• Private Playgrounds and Counsellor for Children
nig up the cross! He recalled experts involved.
that the preachers often give ser-
• If You Come by Greyhound Bus or Train—Stein's Will Meet
A display of books on Nazi
meanwhile the membership and ;isms
You in Traverse City.
of world enslavement are
1110/IS On that, but so few people
financIal campaigns are going for- 110W being
featured at the War
`et' take up the cross, except to ward and the several divisions
* OPEN THROUGH LABOR DAY *
set it on the backs of other pee_
Information Centers at the Main
working
in
the
campaign
report
and
Downtown
Libraries.
pie, to crucify them.
steady progress.
That's what was badly needed,
These two War Information
ON GRAND TRAVERSE BAY—OMENA, MICHIGAls
Centers have the latest informa-
he thought: Christians to take up
CALL MRS. KOMAROFF — UNIVERSITY 1.6172
the cross and feel in their own .. • That the Kodachrome process tion available on enlistment re-
bodies the pain of fellowmen. of color photography is the joint quirements
for the various
Chen they would have compassion, invention of Leopold Godowsky, branches of the armed forces,
1v ouldn '
t they? If there was aim- son of the famus piano virtuoso selective service, training courses
passion there would be none of and Leopold Damrosch Mannes, for war jobs, civilian defense vol-
man's inhumanity to man. ' son of violinist David Mannes and unteer work, rationing, rent con-
But how should he go about grandson of the noted conductor tiol, and price ceilings.
In response to popular demand,
hecoming a Jew? He was insist- Leopold Damrosch? . . . And that
rat. To become a Jew would be Judah Monis, first Instructor in compiled lists of eyesight require-
M s way of taking up the cross. Hebrew at Harvard University menu for the Army, Navy,
110 was glad I had suggested it. and author of the first Hebrew Marines, and Coast Guards have
Another
"But, sir," I replied, "you are grammar published in this coup- been made available.
; ■ most excellent Christian and I try, had to
baptizes] a Chris- much used compilation is the list-
IV( whin't
do a thing to deprive tian before he was permitted to ingf sources of information
the world even of only one good assume the Harvard post back in about Detroit day nurseries which
Kristian. The world is so badly 1722? . . . These are just a few will take (-are of the children of
in need of Christians. Please, sir, of the more startling items we've war workers.
The two War Information Cen-
a Christian. Perhaps, in picked out of the newly published
time',
time, Gentiles observing in you Volume Seven Of the Universal tors are open evenings. The tele--
the grandeur of being a Christian Jewish Encyclopedia, the reference phone number is Columbia 4365.
inaY go along with you and be work no Jewish home should be
Christians also."
without.
— BUY WAR BONDS!
k ,PC*4^Y

Stein's

Clover

i, 1:

Lodge

STEIN'S CLOVER LODGE

4

LEADER CARPET CLEAN 1
ea TYLER 5-840-

.