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By FAY ZAGER
Name Plane for Him
There is a 'gold star in the
Letters from Bill's crew speak
window at the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard A. Pearl, at of him in glowing terms—that he
2696 Webb Avenue, in memory of was the spirit of the crew — he
them always a much needed
their only son, Cpl. William B. gave
Pearl, 20, killed in action at New laugh — he was a great radio-
Guinea. His death was recently man — he was their buddy —
they all loved him — and that he
confrrmed by . the war department. went down with his plane like
On the afternoon of Sept. 20,
1942, •Bill dashed into the house
and announced with all the pride
and joy of youth that he had just
passed the examination as an Air
Cadet. The fact that he was not
yet 18, that he would miss grad-
uating from high school the fol-
low ng January, did not matter.
Isis - country was at war and he
wanted to get into the fight. No-
thing could •stop him.
Bill left with his contingent in
February. 1943. Followed a course
of training in Florida, Ohio, Tex-
as, • Ar'zona and South Carolina.
In the end, he was assigned with
six other men as a radio operator
on a B-26, with the rank of cor-
poral,
for Pacific
L
On Oct. 18, 1944, his parents
received a letter from him from
Hamilton Field, California, that
he was leaving for overseas and.
"Do not worry about me. I will
be O. K., and I'll be back shortly,
you'll see." But that w'll never be.
He arrived in New Guinea on
CPL. WILLIAM B. PEARL
Oct. 22, 1944. He reached his 20th
birthday four days later on for-
eign soil, never to see his home- every true airman wants to go
land again. For on Nov. 10, 1944, — fighting and sending to the
on their third mission over Jap last, and their next plane will be
territory at Wewak, New Guinea, named "Our Bill."
When B•Il was in training in
their B-25 Bomber was shot down
in flames and crashed in the Pa- the Air Forces he was a Squad-
cific' Ocean. Bill was sending out ron Leader and basketball in-
distress signals to the last and structor. His training marks were
went' down with the plane. In re- high, and he graduated with hon-
sponse to his calls, the other six ors as a radio operator. His let-
members of his crew were later ters home are full of plans for
the future.
saved.
In a recent letter received by
Bill's parents, from Sgt. William
F. Pollock. stationed in India, an
In these days of stress it is
one of Bill's friends, he says:
very important to take care of
'"Bill was so serious. Much dif-
your health. Let us help you.
ferent from the other G.I.s of his
Fit the Heart of Downtown
age. I was amazed at so liberal
and democratic a mind in this
Charlevoix
young fellow. Still, with his seri-
ousness, he was full of life. I ad-
Health Club
mired his hearty laugh, his pleas-
ant disposition and winning smile.
and
He had a certain charm about
him I find hard to describe.
j "It was sort of a naivete to-
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JERUSALEM (WNS). — Dr.
William Filderman, president of
the Federation of Jewish Com-
munities in Romania and one of
the outstanding Jewish leaders in
that country, is under arrest in
Bucharest on the charge of having
supported fascism in Romania, ac-
cording to reports reaching here
from reliable sources in Europe.
Simultaneously it was disclosed
that Dr. Filderman would soon
he placed( on trial.
Dr. Filderman has been the tar-
get of numerous attacks in the
pro-Communist Romanian press.
Jewish circles here are much
perturbed by the report. But at
the same time they are reluctant
to commit themselves until the re-
port is erified by other sources.

The Ilalevy Singing Society is
starting a two month vacation
with a picnic on July 1 at Lola
Valley Park.
The 21st anniversary concert is
set for March 3, 1946, at the Scot-
tish Rite Cathedral. Igor Gorin
will be featured. He will also do
a number of songs with the choir.

Federation

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arrive at joint decisions on the
amount of funds required to
carry out the specific programs.
These would be recommended
— in an advisory way — to the
welfar e fends as minimum goals
for fund-raising and fund dis-
tribution.
Where joint decisions could
not be reached ,the committee
would advise the welfare funds

64 Granted Degrees
By Yeshiva College

NEW YORK—Sixty-four Bach-
elor of Arts degrees, five Doctor
o f Hebrew Literature degrees,
and ten religious teacher's diplo-
mas were awarded June 26 to
eradnates of Yeshiva College, the
Bernard Revel Graduate School,
and the Teachers Institute.
The Mordecai Ben David Award
of $1,000, given annually to a
"person of the Jewish faith for
American patriotism and note-
worthy achievement" was present-
ed posthumously to Pvt. Jerome
Robbins, a graduate of Yeshiva
College, class of '43. Pvt. Rob-
bins, 22. was killed in action in
December 1944. The award was
announced by Dr. Leo Jung, Pro-
fessor of Ethics, Yeshiva College,
and accepted by Mr. and Mrs. Sol
Robbins, 556 West 191 Street,
New York, parents of the soldier.
Doctor's degrees, in course,
were conferred upon: Rabbi Ger-
sion Appel, Worchester, Mass.;
Rabbi Moses Blech, Brooklyn, N.
Y‘; Rabbi Aaron Greenbaum.
Portland, Maine; Rabbi Isaac I
Nel-on. Fall River, Mass.; and
Rabbi Mordecai Stern, Richmond
Hill, N. Y.

Combined activities of the Aes-
culapians and the Ladies Auxil-
iary of the Aesculapians has re.
stilted in the establishme•it of a
Pharmacy Scholarship Fund at
Wayne University. Th.s fund,
which will be administercal by the
Wayne University Foundation on
a non-sectarian basis, will b e
available as loans and scholarship
grants for students enrolled at 01 9
Pharmacy College at Wayne.
At a luncheon held at \Valor/
County Medical Society Club-
rooms, a check for $1,000 was
presented to Gordon W. Kings.
bury, Secretary of the Founda-
tion and Dean Roland T. Laksy
of the Pharmacy College by a
Committee from the Aesculapians.
The committee consisted of Ben
Bavly, chairman of the Aes-nla:
plan Scholarship Fund; 11r. Leon
Katzin, co-chairman; Mr-. !Tarty
Pernick, chairman of the com-
mittee for the Aesculapian Lad;?s
Auxiliary; Mrs. Jennie Za gal,
president of the Ladies Auxil ary,
and Mrs. Asher Smith.
Albert Brooks, President of the
Aesculapian Pharmaceutical So-
ciety said that the present plan
is to have a fund of $2,000, most
of which is now pledged. It is
hoped to increase this fund sub-
stantially in the future,

Dewey Reaffirms
Support of Zionism

NEW YORK—Thomas E. Dew-
ey. of Ncw York. received a dele-
gation of the Mizrachi Zionists
and assured the Mizrachi leaders
of his continued support of the
Zionist aims. He also stated that
the time has come for the United
Nations to carry out the pledges
given to the Jewish people in Pal-
estine and he reaffirmed his sup-
port of a Jewish Commonwealth.
ABE SRERE
The governor declared that the
as t o the part of the agency's Jewish contribution to the war,
budget and program of work
particularly of Palestine Jewry,
which had been agreed upon (deserves greater recognition.

Goldenberg, president of the Min-
neapolis Federation for Jewish
Service, secretary, replacing the
late Elias Mayer of Chicago, and
Sylvan Gotshal, president of the
United Jewish Appeal of Greater
New York. assistant treasurer.
Abraham Srere, president of the
Detroit Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, was elected a director. Other
Detroiters on the board of direc-
tors are Henry Wineman and Ju-
lian Krolik.
In addition, an executive board
was created, consisting of the fol-
lowing officers: Sidney Hollander
of Baltimore, president; Stanley
C. Myers of Miami, William Ro-
senwald of Greenwich. Samuel S.
Schneierson of New York, David
M. Watchmaker of Boston, vice
president; Ira M. Younker of New
York, treasurer, Harold J. Golden-
berg of Minneapolis, secretary.
and H. L. Lurie. execut've direc-
tor, and the following directors:
William Shroder of Cincinnati,
Chairman of the Council Board.
David Shiman of Newark, Joseph
Goldstein of Rochester, Harris
Perlsteln of Chicago, Edward
Suisman of Hartford, Isidore So-
beloff of Detroit, and Leon Sun.
stein of Philadelphia.
To assist member agencie-, to
organize local services to meet
post-war needs, and to develop the
Jewish community in line Wth
changing conditions and post war
opportunities, the directors voted
to arrange a conference this sum-
mer of lay and professional fed-
eration leaders to explore possi-
bilities of cooperative planning of
policies and objectives.

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JERUSALEM (WNS)—Twelve
more persons arrested under the 1

d e f e n s e emergency regulations I
have been sent to the internment'
camp in the Sudan, where 268
Jewish terrorist suspects are al-

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and would present both sides of
the major items of difference.
The committee would not at-
tempt to establish local quotas.
The decisions reached by the
committee could be utilized by
th e member agencies which de-
sired to do so as a guide in de-
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