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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
April 7, 1944
stronger. The envoy from the now. It had been worth losing a
Capt. Merle M. Fenton THREE PEOPLE
J. D. C. got into touch with his leg during that cold crossing of
On April 18 the Neugarten
brother in Chicago. The brother the Pyrenees, when his limbs had
AND A PRAYER
Medical Aid will honor its paid- Writes from W. Africa
wired the necessary transporta- frozen, to escape the hell of
up members with a luncheon
tion funds. Passage was arranged Nazi gas and torture chamber:;.
By ABA R. ZELDIN
In a recent letter received by
to be held at the Scarab Club. An
by the J. D. C. office in Lisbon. It had been worth it to find
unusual and interesting program Dr. Ruth Berkman, now associ-
Hirsch wondered whether his
All this Hirsch learned later, out that there were people who
is planned to follow the lunch- ated with Captain Meryl M. Fen-
wife had the same sudden when he and his wife spent their came to you in your distress and
eon.
few hours on European soil who lifted you out of the pit
thought that he had had. Under last
after they had debarked from from where there seemed to he
his gray-white eyebrows he look- the Madrid-Lisbon train. The boat no rescue.
ed at her, up there in the wom- was ready to cast off.
en's gallery. She smiled to him;
Then again wood—this time
as always it was principally with cool—the touch of the rail over- He Could Wait Until Tomorro w
Ten-year old Friedrich w :ts
her eyes.
looking a gray foamy sea that
Hirsch gripped the brown oak swept rushingly back to where idling outside the small Sw i.
of the pulpit. It was his first he had just escaped from . . .
See PRAYER—Page 7
alijah, his first calling up to
The alijah came to an end.
the reading of the Torah, in at Hirsch vigorously said the ap-
Stile .ipart meals
least two years. What made the, propriate prayer. With equal
honor even more pleasurable was vigor he stepped around to the
that it was Passover.
other side of the pulpit to make
It was the feel of the wood room for the next person being
that had promoted that thought. called up.
Funny, Hirsch concluded, how
Again he felt the comforting
the physical aspects of one's ex-
periences remained stuck like touch of wood—the wood of his
slivers in the skin of memory. crutch that held up a leg am-
That's it, just like slivers. Sliv- putated just below the knee. He
the final analysis values follow
ers were wood, weren't they. no longer felt any pain, or even In
tents. Fixed rents are down—so
And it seemed as if wood . . . inconvenience. He was just happy
prices. Buy now—the Armistice
may ring sooner than you think
It was exactly a year ago
See Mr. Bedford for Facts and Fig-
the second day of Pesach. Hirsch
ures.
had been given an alijah then,
Passover Greetings!
8 apt. Modern 2 rms. New slut.,
too, but a somewhat different
stoker. Bent E3600 ton-
one. Then he wasn't standing
pay electric, only $234000. Tet
Term
an
$6,,000.
among his people in solemn wor-
Frank Fishman
ship. His hands weren't gripping
Clrrui
It s."&
t. 11:a o t y h. $ S 30 t;t1k 1 7r.
13
34:4a oirl: 3" r R t;'t
Operator of
a pulpit. Instead, the palms were
top stoves. Cheap rents $5900. $11,-
turned inward on the desk of
000 cash to mtg.
CAPTAIN MERYL M. FENTON the police commissioner in Ma-
HOTEL
SAVARINE
dose estate. 22 aids. elevator tiled
drid. Hirsch had come to ask for
halls new refrig. Cheap rents $10,-
ton, the captain writes as fol- a time-extension to remain in
000 payments. $250. Only $15,000
East Jefferson at Lenox
lows:
terms $15,000. See this.
Spain a little longer. When he
"Dakar, West Africa. and his wife, to escape Laval's
Excellent Facilities for
Big 21 apt. Beauty. Secure location.
"Being in Africa, away from deportations of Jews to Poland,
24 tiled run parlors. Itettt $16,500
Parties, Banquets, Weddings
my family and friends, gives one had escaped from France a
Payments $100. Snap $70,000. Term.
$25,000.
plenty of time for reflection de- month ago, they had been among
Dancing
and
Entertainment
spite our busy schedule. And the lucky ones—they were ar-
$10,000 down. 13 alt s. 5 stores.
1,010.Y. New refrig. new stoves nee
Nightly in Our Famous
when I say busy schedule I am rested, as was every refugee
carpets painted walls. Itent $10,000.
speaking literally.
crossing over into Spain, but
FIESTA BAR
1103IER WAIMEN & CMIP.tNY
"There is so much to be thank- they were not detained for long.
Dime Blitz ('a. 0221
No Cover or Minimum Charge
ful for even if we are engaged Perhaps their American visas
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in a bloody and titanic struggle. had something to do with it.
The advances of medicine since But now, because of money diffi-
Pearl Harbor are almost unbe- culties, they had to wait, before
PASSOVER GREETINGS
lievable. Uncle Sam's low mor- they could use those visas. Would
tality rate, here and in other the police, Hirsch had come to
And Best Wishes To All!
theaters, is an everlasting trib- find out, extend the Spanish
ute to American medical science. transit visa for just a little
"If I can convey any message longer?
to my many friends back home,
EST. 1912
It was extended, Hirsch re-
with sons, husbands, brothers and called ruefully, in Miranda del
Holiday Plants of All Varieties
fathers in the service, it's this: Ebre, Spain's prison for foreign-
they are being well taken care ers who had entered the country
CADILLAC 2964
MAJESTIC BLDG. LOBBY
of. Even the most aggravated illegally. That had been a bitter
wound cases respond to immedi- blow. He had swayed slightly
ate treatment and it is a con- when the police official on the
stant source of satisfaction and other side of the desk made this
pleasure to see our servicemen unexpected announcement. He
completely recover from wounds had noticed, with the impersonal
i
and maladies that would have objectivity that overcomes peo-
cost their lives, without a doubt, ple during catastrophe, that the
(luring World War I.
wood of the desk was mottled
"There is one phase of meth- and warped near where his hand
Wishes the Jewish Community
cine, however, where greater quiveringly rested. It hadn't been
progress in handling and treat- treated against warping. Ho,
ment will lessen human misery, Hirsch, the craftsman, would
a Joyous Passover.
loss of loves and unlimited man- never have permitted that.
power wastage. I am speaking of
"And my wife?" Hirsch asked
malaria. Every effort is being the police official. "What will
exerted on research in this field, become of her?"
and if we can contribute any-
"She will be sent to the prison
thing at all to lessening the dis- at Gerona," he was told.
turbing influence of malaria, we
Then, when things were at
will feel more than compensated their blackest, when he was
Sincere Good Wishes for a Joyous Passover
for our efforts.
seared with consuming anxiety
"I wish you could see this about their being able to get out
country; there is a surprisingly of prison before the American
great amount of good business visas expired, a ray of hope be-
in evidence—I have seen several gan to shine. A representative
automobile dealer's showrooms of the "Joint"—The Joint Dis-
(now, of course, inactive), and tribution Committee, which de-
the buildings are much more rives its funds from the United
modern in architecture than Jewish Appeal, arrived one day
ours; although they still stick at Miranda. Hirsch, like many
to the old-fashioned open lifts others, poured out his troubles.
SEALTEST DAIRY PRODUCTS
and have no central heating—just He didn't dare even to hope. But
fireplaces.
that ray grew stronger and
3333 Grand River
TE. 1-70011
"But you should see the na-
tive population! They arc so
fantastically set in their . ways— and in her new association is
the ways of Biblical times and devoting her entire time to the
before. In fact, it seems incon- practice of allergy.
gruous to see a native plowing
with a team of donkey and
camel, using a forked stick as a
COMPANY
MADE O NLY
pEPSI•COLA
plow, in the shadow of a modern
LONG
ONG ISLAND CITY. NI'
building, a powerline or one of
,
AL.I.,Y o
Cw
our airports. It just doesn't seem
right. Sort of an anachronism.
"Some of the roadside scenes
I have witnessed could be taken
directly from the Bible, so closely
do they duplicate some of the plc-,
tures to which we have been ac
customed. The natives live, fo1` 4
the most part, in utterly un-
speakable poverty. Joseph's 'coatA
of many colors' would be a mile`
plaid compared with some c!
the weird combinations I he./
seen. They have no idea of sat
tation; great open sores on tlf
legs. Well, I just wish the pct
est American could see th0
He could count himself rich
comparison !"
Before Captain Meyrl M. Fl
ton entered the service, he
one of the city's outstanding
lergists. His offices are still II
cated at 1211 Eaton Tower a- .
just recently, Dr. Ruth Ber •
man became associated with h
staff. Dr. Berkman was former
associated with the Hospital fc
Women of Maryland, Baltimore
and Jean's Hospital, Philadelphia
NEUGARTEN MEDICAL AID
c
•
IF
Passover
Greetings
Preserve Your
Sense of Values
and
Best Wishes
HI
to
Detroit
Jewry
MAJESTIC FLOWER SHOP
A FRIEND
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DETROIT CREAMERY
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rault
Bottled by
of
Detroit