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July 30, 1943
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
SUB-CHASER
VSTRICTLYCONFIDENTIAL„,
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By A. LEVAMAN
by Phineas J. Bit-on
Editor's Note—The following heart-warming true account of a
young Jewish boy in Soviet Russia who was determined to
LISTEN HERE:
going to play in a musical called
do his part in the battle against the Nazis was featured in the
Warning to some Jewish groups "Bright Lights," the same role
0 COMPLIMENTARY
Russian press recently, which cited the youth as one of the
in this country: Don't let your- _ that is hers i real life.
hundreds of thousands of Jews who are participating in the
selves become entangled with cer- ABOUT PEOPLE:
CIRCUS
Soviet war effort.
tain elements who, playing on
TICKETS
Albert D. Lasker, who retired
your sensibilities, try to push from the advertising business
I first saw him on the assembly the mine sweeper, but eventually
with EXTRA
through anti-Soviet propaganda some months ago to devote his
line in a small arms factory where the vessel came to Sevastopol.
with appeals to Polish-Jewish toy- energies and talents to his coun-
U.S.
WAR
alty . . . The Bnai
he was busy assembling the parts Some time during the heroic siege
Brith i Anti- try, is particularly interested in
BONDS
Defamation League will be inter- the development of aviation . . .
that go into a sub-machine gun. of that city he transferred to a
Until Aug. 7
ested to know that the govern- He is s i aid to have spent $10,000
While I was watching rapid, submarine chaser. But now he
at Retail Stores Only!
ment of the USSR has prohibited on the dinner he recently gave
WaS a full-fledged fighting man,
(left movements, Younse Ritter, and
the showing of "The Merchant to help launch the new Walt Dis-
of Venice," for the same reason ney film "Victory Through A. '
die superintendent of the factory, operations
the Crimean coast.
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that causes good will organza- Power" . . . Our annual report
gave me a brief history of the During the battle for Sevastopol
tions here to prefer Shylock's on our favorite child prodigy: Gifts to North End Clinic young man and why his shop- he was struck by a shell splinter
c mates had nicknamed him "Sub- and was evacuated from the city
absence from the American stage Conducting the Philharmonic Sym-
. . . Lieutenant-Colonel Itzik phony Orchestra sat the Lewisohn
on board a hospital ship.
In honor of the 60th birthday Chaser",
Feller and Prof. Solomon M ik- Stadium not long ago was young of Clarence Enggass, Mr. and
Quite by chance he learned of
The youth, whose name was
hoels, Soviet Jewish delegation Lorin Maazel, who is a veteran Mrs.
Abraham
Srere;
in honor
of Misha Svedlin, was born in Odes- the whereabouts of his family,
the Bar
Mitzvah
of Sheldon
Schol-
now in this country, have deli- symphonic maestro although his
sa of a Jewish family. His father and when he recovered he went
nitely accepted an invitation from Bar Mitzvah lies only a couple nicfl, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Poi- ran a bookshop and from early to join them in the village on
Mexico, and will visit our South- of months behind him . .. G. Kol- lak; in memory of Harry Brown, _childhood the boy lived in a liter- the Volga to which they had been
ern neighbor sonic time before tanowski, the great blindfold Mr. and Mrs. Meyer L. Prentis, trig atmosphere. He deVeloped a evacuated. He intended as soon
September.
chess player, will make an at- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hamburger; passion for books on travel and as he had visited with his family
WAR ECHOES:
tempt next winter to break the in memory of Samuel Suitt, Mr. adventure and would spend whole to attempt to join the crew of
Why, they're asking along world's record for simultaneous and Mrs. Herman Marks; in mem- days on the waterfront striking one of the warships of the Volga
Broadway, is the Italian penin- blindfold playing . . . He will ory of Herman Himelhoch, Mr. up acquaintances with sailors and fleet.
However, events turned out
sula shaped like a boot? . . . take on 35 chess boards at one and Mrs. Herman Marks, Mr. and pilots and learning to distinguish
Because, answer the smart guys, rind the same time . . . From Mrs. Joseh Hartman, Mrs. Mon- ships by their sirens—and con- much differently than he had ex-
that makes it easier for the Al- Hollywood come reports that Ben roe Rosenfield, Mr. and Mrs. Mey- stantly dreaming of making a pected. While visiting his family
he took on a job in the machine
lies to give Mussolini the biggest Bernie, who's been a pretty sick er L. Prentis, Mrs. Albert Kahn, trip around the world.
In 1936, when he was still a shop where I first saw him and
hotfoot in history . . . The in- man, is improving and on the road Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Neiman; in
vasion of Sicily didn't catch Hol- to recovery . . . But Marine Ser- memory of Samuel Newman, Mr. youngster—hardly in his teens— had remained despite the freely
lywood unprepared . . . With geant Barney Ross is still more and Mrs. Charles Hamburger; in lie stowed away in the hold of expressed opinion of his co-work-
uncanny foresight the movie mo- or less under the weather, largely memory of Mrs. Jennie Israly, a ship hoping to get to Abyssinia ers that he wouldn't stick at it.
guls had already sent to Africa because that piece of Japanese Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hamburg- to form guerilla detachments to The factory superintendent, him-
special prints of American films shrapnel is still buried in his leg. er, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kraft; fight the Italians. However, he self, didn't think that Misha,
in memory of Mrs. Etta Jacobs, was discovered by the crew and who by then had already been
with Italian titles superimposed WEEKLY GIGGLE:
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Neiman; in
. . . A new war book will soon
Leonard Lyons likes. to tell the memory of Mrs. Kramer, Mr. and was sent home. dubbed "Sub-Chaser" by his shop-
The coming war to his native mates, would stay in the factory
be published, the work of Lieu- story of the Berliner who went
tenant E. J. Kahn, Jr., who calls to the Gestapo and confessed that Mrs. Alfred Loewenstein; in me- soil turned the mind of young more than a fortnight before leav-
mory
of
Mrs.
Honora
011esheim-
Misha into other channels. ing for the front—but lie re-
it "G. I. Jungle" . . . In it hells he had smuggled a large amount
When his family was being 'named.
of Army experiences in the South of, gold currency into Switzerland er, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Weisman,
Pacific war theater . . . Kahn's . He 'offered to get the money Miss Edith Heavenrich; contri- evacuated from Odessa, he suc-
At the time I visited the fac-
first book on military writ- back into Germany, but explained, bution from Miss Emma Butzel. ceeded in slipping away from the tory, lie was a fast, efficient
ship on which they were to travel worker, more adept than most of
ten when was still a private, was "It's in a vault in Basle . . .
and remained in the besieged the other workers.
titled "In the Army," you'll re- The man who has the key won't
city. As he had made many
As the shift ended and work-
member.
relinquish it unless he gets the
Is There an Answer?
friends among the seamen, he was ers began to stream from the fac-
password from me personally" ...
ORGANIZATIONAL ITEMS:
able to get onto a mine-sweeper. toryi • I stopped young Sverdlin
'Tis said that Rabbi Abba Hil- So the Gestapo sent him to Basle What is fear, and hate, and hun-
Here he did all sorts of work, and began to talk to him. He was
get'??
lel Silver's candidacy for the pres- with a stormtrooper guarding him,
helping the mechanics, the elec-
idency of the Zionist Organization and the two of them met the man What is death and blood and trician and the gun crews. The quite willing to speak at length
of most of his adventures, but
thunder?
of America is gaining new sup- who held the key to the vault
crew soon became accustomed to when the conversation turned to-
porters daily . . . If this keeps . ...f'And now," urged the guard, Where is God and all that's good? having him around and the com- ward naval engagements, the boy
up, Rabbi Silver and Rabbi Israel "What's the word?" . . . The Why don't men do as they know standing officer of the small yes- frowned and became reticent.
Goldstein will both be candidates word," said the Berliner, tippiim
they should?
sets made a place for him in his
"I know why you're talking to
at the ZOA convention—and the his hat, "is Goodbye."
Why must there be all the tur- own quarters.
me," he said at last. "They all,"
moil?
race will be very close . . . The
The commander warned Mishit gesturing at the other workers
Rev. Richard Evans, who has been Hebrew Schools to Be
How long before it all will spoil? that he must never come up on who were passing by, "think that
When again can people live,
visiting a number of communi-
deck during an engagement with I am sure to go away. I am the
ties in the interest of Zionism, Closed During August
To love and pray and speak and enemy vessels. However, it was "Sub-Chaser".
give?
has achieved such remarkable
literally impossible for the boy
"Well, let them think what
The United Hebrew schools
success with non-Zionist groups
to obey this order when he heard they want," he continued, "I
will
be
closed
for
vacation
dur-
The Captain frowned and gazed the sound of action above decks. am staying put. I'm making
that he will be one of next sea-
directly at
son's busiest lecturers on Zionist ing the month of August, and
He would dash upstairs and act tommy-guns and I know what
subjects . . . Note to organiza- will reopen on Wednesday, Sep- This boy whose mind was so at as an ammunition carrier for th? arms mean to the man at the
bat,
tions: Abe Allen, who for five tember 1.
Parents are urged most earn- Then looked into his clear blue vessel's gun crews. When there front. At Sevastapol I saw how
years served the New York City
were no aircraft or Nazi ships our men reacted to getting good
eyes,
United Jewish Appeal campaign estly to have their children re-
to battle Misha would assist the guns. Do you believe me?"
as its publicity director and who turn immediately after vacation And what he said was no surprise; crew in their work of sweeping
"Sure, I believe you," I re-
on
September
1,
at
which
time
He said, "My boy, it's war,
is conceded to be one of the
up mines.
lied, struck by the passion with
best Jewish public relations sessions will be held in the morn- And I'll tell you what we're
After the fall of Odessa, which lie spoke, and took his
ing according to the summer
fighting for;
minds, is now on the loose.
Misha made many ports on hoard Land and shook it warmly.
schedule.
Why all these people endure the
LADIES' CORNER:
It is very important that chil-
things you mentioned,
"Queen of the Jukebox" is the
new title bestowed on canary dren should attend classes the It's because they're looking for- Eye-Witness Reports of Liquidation of Polish
- ward to a new dimension;
Dinah Shore, since her Bluebird month prior to the High Holy
record sales have broken all sales Days, because during this period When democracy will outwin all, Ghettos in Official Publication of Polish Govt.
records for feminine singers of a good deal of time is devoted And mighty as he thinks he is,
LONDON. (WNS) —Dziennik for 16 hours. Hundreds were as-
Hitler will fall,
popular songs . . . Dinah may to the study of the High Holy
also be called a doll, as a new Day prayers and the various cus- And that is what we're fighting Polski, official organ of the Polish phyxiated from the chloride of
for,
Government-in-Exile, devoted sev- lime that had been sprinkled on
cut-out book for the youngest toms connected with these im-
And that's why, my boy, we must era) columns this week to eye- the floor of the cars. When the
generation is now featuring portant holidays.
Through the courtesy of Wal-
have war,
witness reports of the liquidation trains eventually reached Belzec,
"Dinah Dolls" . . . Other titles
held by Miss Shore include that ter 0. Briggs of the Detroit Until all men have lost the craze of large ghettos in Poland.
in southern Poland, where a cen-
"In the city of Sandomierz," in trail ghetto had been established,
of the Army's Number One Baseball company, the students For strength and power and stu-
pid daze,
the Lublin district of central Po- only 300 of the several thousand
Sweetheart and of Blues Singer of the United Hebrew schools
No. One . . . All of which re- were invited to see the Philadel- And then and only then can we , land, one report states, "Ukrain- deportees were still alive.
ian detachments of the Nazi S.S.
minds us to report to you that phia-Detroit baseball game which have peace."
"In Radom the ghetto was
troops broke into the ghetto at strewn with the bodies of so
Eddie Cantor, who sponsored will be played on Tuesday, Aug.
17.
About
600
students
will
re-
—Janice Marilyn Fisher.
4 o'clock in the morning one day many murdered Jews that it re-
Dinah's radio debut way back
last winter and dragged the Jews quired two days to clear tha
when, is now recruiting WACS ceive tickets for this game.
This
is
one
of
the
several
re-
from their homes to the street, streets, this report says. Hundreds
for his Uncle Sam . . . Eddie
where they shot 200. Hundreds of of other Radom Jews were killed
says that the Army, having heard creational projects sponsored by
others were herded in front of as they were being marched to
about his five daughters, decided the United Hebrew schools for
the local cathedral where they the railroad yards to entrain in
that its feminine branch was the the children (luring the summer
were kept for hours in tempera- freight cars, when a group of
place where he could best co- months.
tures that ranged around freez- drunken S.S. men opened fire on
operate . . . Renee Carroll,
ing. By afternoon of that day them with automatics.
Broadway's most famous hat- Delicious Kellogg Recipe
many of the older and weaker
check girl—she's the (laughter of
"In the town of Majdenek,
Throughout Norway the "Rs- persons had died from exposure where the Nazis established a
an East Side rabbi—is going to
ALL-BRAN SPICE MUFFINS
;ings" know who will be shot next and the Nazis ordered the ghetto ghetto• for the Jews of Lublin
land on the other side of the
2 cups Kellogg's All-Bran
by the Nazi firing squads. They police to remove their bodies. and also a concentration camp,
footlights next season . . . She's
1/2 cup light molasses
do not know why they will be shot
,'The remaining Jews— both about 3,000 Jews died from lack
but they know that names of all men and women—were then or- of food and mistreatment and
11/2 cups milk
4:1-110-CI-O-CHinitiCH>1:1-CKECHX:Facti
loyal Norwegians, or "Jiissings," tiered to undress and were loaded their clothes were stripped from
1 egg
are contained in lists of future vic- into sealed freight cars. Two them for use by the Germans,"
1 cup flour
tims compiled by the Nazi terror- trainloads of Jews were taken according to the final account
1 /2 teaspoon salt
ists and their quisling jackals.
1 teaspoon soda
All of them know that the day of to a siding several miles from appearing in the Polish govern-
11/2 teaspoons cinnamon
liberation is not for them. They the city where they were left went newspaper.
% teaspoon ginger
15 thin slices raw apple
Window Shade Co.
or other fruit
cinnamon and sugar mixture
WINDOW SHADES
Add All-Bran to molasses and
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minutes. Beat egg and add to
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first mixture. Sift flour, salt.
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soda and spices together and
combine with All-Bran mixture.
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Fill greased muffin pans two-
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thirds full. Dip apple slices in
cinnamon-sugar mixture and place know that quisling and his storm
VENETIAN BLINDS
on top. Bake in moderately hot troopers will shoot every man and
Drapery Hardware
oven (400 deg. F.) about 20 every woman on the list when the
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minutes.
United Nations invade Norway.
l'ree Estimates Varnished
Compare the deeds of these Nor-
Yield: 15 muffins (21/2 inches
wegian patriots with your own war
in diameter).
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