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Friday July 27, I945

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

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cable him: "Cut out this non-
sense and make my check out
properly" • • • . In case you've
been wondering how she man-
age d to live in relative peace
during the Nazi occupation of
France. you should know that it
was all due to a French gendar-
merie captain, who did a little
expert finagling with her identi-
fication pass and his report on
her (which should have been sent
to the Nazis, but wasn't)
Recently, after the liberation:
the captain told her why: "I
thought you were too old to go
to a concentration camp" .. . .
TIDBITS . •
Jack Skirball, the movie produc-
ing ex-rabbi, may invade Broad-
way again next season, for Franz
Werfel has promised him first
reading of the new play he's
working on . . . . The play has
a postwar theme . . . . Another
Kurt Weill musical is expected on
the Great White Way this year,
with a book by Maxwell Ander-
son . • . . It rhould be some-
thing—and that means something
good . . . . Among the actors
whom Broadway may see during
the coming season are those vet-
eran matinee idols, Francis Led-

erer and Joseph Schildkraut .
Schildkraut, we understand, is a
little annoyed with the Holly-
wood masterminds who didn't
give him the title role in the film
version of "Uncle Harry," the
hit in which he was starred on
Broadway a couple of years ago
. . . . If you're interested in the
theatre or are planning to carve
out a career in that field, don't
miss Harold Clurman's fascinat-
ing history of the Group Thea-
tre, "The Fervent Years" . . . .
GOLDWYN TALE . . .
Leonard Lyons tells it, and it
concerns the occasion den Sam
Goldwyn offered Jascha lleifetz
$25,000 to appear in a film ...
The violinist countered with a
demand for $100,000 . . . . So
businessman Goldwyn tried to
show him the error of his ways
. . . "Listen," he said, "there
are other things to consider be-
sides immediate money . . . .
"Here's what I mean: How much
do you get for one concert
now?" . . . . "$6,000 a night,"
replied Heifetz • . . . Goldwyn
blinked, but wasn't at all dum-
founded . . . . "Work in my
picture," he came back, "and
you'll start getting nine thou-
sand dollars a night" . . . .

OUR CAPITAL LETTER

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Congress strained and pulled be-
fore it emerged with the moth-
eaten but life-saving compromise
giving t h e Fair Employment
Practices Committee (FEPC) a
mere $250,000 with which to
operate through next June.
The thousand of wires and let-
ters which poured into Congres-
sional offices from FEPC sup-
porters throughout the country
combined with able leadership in
the House, rescued the wartime
agency from the quick death
which its bitter southern oppo-
nents had planned. A vote of
thanks is due particularly to a
dogged group of Representatives,
marshalled by Representative
Vito Marcantonio, and including
Representatives Mary Norton of
New Jersey, sponsor of a bill for
a permanent FEPC, Emanuel
Celler of New York, Hugh De
Lacy of Washington, George

Bender of Ohio and Frank Hook
of Michigan.

Public pressure, having effect-
ed this partial success, should
now be applied even more strong-
ly to secure enactment of a per-
manent FEPC. A petition to
bring the bill for such an agency
to the House floor for debate
needs seventy more signatures.
The chances for passage of the
bill are considered good, once it
escapes from the southern stran-
glehold.

If enough of you tell your
congressman you want him to
sign the petition, and that then
you want him to vote for the bill,
he'll sign, and he'll vote. Like
the store-owner Who recently
called his staff together and sug-
gested that perhaps the time
was approaching when it would
be well to remember that the cus-
tomer is sometimes right.

N. Y. Seminary Rabbinical Student, 19,
Elected President of National A. Z. A.

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Arthur
Gilbert, 19, rabbinical student at
the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America, was eletced grand
aleph godol or president of Aleph
Zadek Aleph, Bnai Brith's organi-
zation for boys of high school age,
at the close of its war service
conference, which replaced the
22nd annual national convention,
at the National Farm School.
Gilbert, a member of Frank-
ford AZA Chapter, Philadelphia,
thus becomes the head of the
largest organization of Jewish
boys in the United States.
Other new officers chosen were:
Harry Brenner, Etz Chaim Chap-
ter, Minneapolis, grand aleph
S'gan or vice-president; Beryt
Weinstein, Jacksonville, F 1 a .,
grand aleph mazkir, or secretary;
and Harold Rhein, A. L. Sachar
Chapter, Chicago, the retiring
grand aleph godol, junior member
of the linai Brith Youth Commis-
sion, governing body of the Bnai
Brith Youth Organization. Gilbert
will also serve as a member of
the BIS Youth Commission.
The Sam Beber Award, given
to the boy voted as the year's
ideal AZA member, was won by
Harry
. , Brenner, the new vice
president.

Sgt. Robert Weinberg
So of Jewish Radio
Hour Director Returns

Sgt. Robert Weinberg, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Weinberg, director
of the Jewish Hour, station
W.J.B.K., has just returned home
after spending two years overseas.
Sgt. 'Weinberg is a radio tech-
nician in the U. S. Army Air
Corps. The last two years he
was stationed in Africa, Aden,
Arabia, and more recently in
Recife, Brezil. Sgt. Weinberg was
able to visit with the Jewish com-
munity, made up of 200 families
in Recife, Brazil. He found even
the younger generation well ver-
sed in the Yiddish a lnguag.
e Sgt.
Weinberg trained at Scot t Field,
Kelly
Field, and Lowry Field be-
fore
g„ing,
overseas.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Weinberg,
3279 Fullerton will hold open
house this Sunday, July 29, 1945
for all their friends.

Bnai Brith Hlllel
Foundation Hears
Professor Throop

Prof. Palmer Throop of the
History Department of the Uni-
versity of Michigan delivered a
sermon at the Sabbath Eve Ser-
vices Friday, July 27, at the
Bnai Brith Ilillel Foundation at
the University of Michigan. Prof.
fliroop's topic was "Judaism and
the Hellenic Tradition."
Religious services were con-
ducted by Rabbi Jehudah M. Co-
hen, Director of the Foundation.
Ile was assisted by two Univer-
sity students, Eugene Malitz A-S
of Detroit, and Benson Jaffee of
Cleveland, Ohio.
In his sermon Prof. Throop
discussed Philo the Jew and his
contributions to Jewish thought.
Prof. Throop stressed the con-
tinuity of the idea of the pat-
ronage of learning in the Jewish
tradition, and presented the the-
sis that this continuity was as-
sured because of the intellectual
contributions of Jewish scholars
during this period.
Services were followed by a
social hour. The Friday Night
Social Committee, under the di-
rection of Shirley Ann Cohen of
Detroit and Katharine Sharfman
of Worcester, Mass., were in
charge of arrangements for the
evening.
The Foundation will hold its
annual summer picnic at the Sa-
line Valley Farms on Sunday,
July 29.
The picnic is traditionally an
all-day affair, with refreshments,
games and swimming. University
students, Army and Navy train-
ees and Bnai Brith members are
among those who will attend this
function.
Betty Friedlander and Kathe-
rine Sharfman, Student Dieectors
from Brooklyn, N. Y., and Wor-
cester, Mass., respectively, are in
charge of the affair.

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PROF. EINSTEIN

Congress Parley

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books, held as hostages."
"These were the fortunate
books. The others went up in
flames, in the devouring fire of
Nazi brutality. Tossed into these
same flames were the learned
sages who taught out of these
books, the students who once
clutched them with the eager-
ness of the eager disciple, the
very walls that housed and shel-
tered them—lives, precious man-
uscripts and buildings--all sac-
rificed to the Nazi Moloch."

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magnitude and gravity," declared
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of
the congress. "Although the anti-
Jewish legislation has been abro-
gated, and the Jews have been
restored to full and unequivocal
equality, a host of problems are
still unsolved.
"Indemnification f o r private
property destroyed or stolen from
Jews by the Nazis or their satel-
lites, and reparation for damages
to Jewish communitw property;
relief and rehabilitation of the
surviving Jews and the recon-
struction of their community life
culturally and spiritually; the
plight of stateless and unrepat-
riable refugees, many of them
still in camps—all these are prob-
lems requiring immediate ac-
t onDng:T'et'lli
i;gd1:te France,
Delegates are expected from
England,
Belgium, Hol-
land, Italy, Sweden and Switzer-
land. The executive committee of
the World Jewish Congress will
be represented by Dr. Wise, Dr.
Nahum Goldmann, Dr. A. Leon
Kubowitzki, Dr. Mich Tartako-
wer and Baruch Zuckerman. •

"We Jews — the scholars, the
men of business, the men in the
prifessions, the men of the soil
and the men of labor—all of us
have a sacred duty to perform—
we must preserve our Jewish cul-
ture, we must train new leaders,
teachers and rabbis, to fill the
gaps torn in the ranks of our
people. That is why we of the
Jewish Institute of Religion have
embarked upon this program of
expansion, a program designed
to provide for the training not
only of teachers and rabbis, but
also of Jewish leaders of com-
munal service and for any adult
who understands the need for
learning the culture and prob-
lems of his people, There is no
more fitting memorial to the five
million of our brethren who were
slaughtered in Europe than the
preservation of those Jewish
ideals for which they were de-
stroyed."

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Charles G. Oakman, city con-
troller and candidate for the Com-
mon Council, comes of a family
long known for its record of serv-
ice to Detroit and Michigan. By
birth, education, and lifelong resi-
dence, his roots are in this city.
Public service has become a hab-
it with Charles Oakman. For the
last six years he has devoted his
foil time to city government, serv-
ing first as executive secretary to
Mayor Jeffries and for the last
four years as controller.
Mr. Oakman passes upon all
requests for supplies, personnel,
and for all expenditures submit-
ted by each city department. Thus
he has become intimately acquaint-
ed with the problems, operations,
and detail of all phases of De-
troit's government. Beside super-
vising the preparation and execu-
tion of the annual budget, he has
been charged with the administra-
tion of bond issues and other ma-
jo• financing programs.

Daniel Berman, of Rabian
Chapter, Paterson, N. J., was
crowned the national Jewish boys
oratory champion when he won
the national AZA oratorical con-
test. The winning orator, who
survived 552 local contests, 19
regional contests and seven Dis-
trict competitions, spoke on "The
World I Want to Live In" for his
prepared oration. His extempor-
aneous subject was entitled "The
Problem of the Re-Education of
the German People."
The AZA conference chose as
the subject for its 1945-46 ora-
torical contest the theme: "'The
Road to Jewish Survival."
A highlight of the conference
was a memorial service in honor
of the more than 200 AZA mem-
bers who have been killed in the
war. The guest speaker was Sid-
BUCHAREST (WNS) — The
ney G.Kusworm, member of the
Bnai Brith Youth Commission and Rumanian Government has made
chairman of Bnai Brith's Ameri- a grant of 600,000,000 to Jewish
canism Commission.
community schools for the cur-
rent year, it was revealed here
by the Ministry of Education,
which simultaneously disclosed
that 15,000,000 lei had already
Bass-Luckoff, Detroit advertis- been paid out.
At the same time the Ministry
ing agency, announces the open-
ing of an associate office in Hol- of Education declared that the
lywood, California, on or about Jewish schools have been granted
full autonomy in curricula and
September 1.
"'With V-E Day behind us and holiday matters.
the spotlight once again on post-
victory expansion, we have def- Mendelson's Resort
initely decided to center our ex-
pansion efforts on the West Offers Relaxation
Coast." So declared Louis Bass,
Located just a short one-half
president of the, agency, in mak- block from the shores of beauti-
ing the announcement. "The de- ful Lake Michigan, in the heart
mand for our type of services on of the resort city of South Haven,
the West Coast has steadily in- stands Mendelson's Atlantic Re-
creased, and we consider the pos- sort.
sibilities so great in this area
Here amidst an atmosphere of
that I have decided to supervise gaiety and relaxation, you may
personally the activities of the enjoy the manifold pleasures of
the famous Michigan resort. Near-
California office."
Detroit will continue to be the by are all the sport facilities, in-
main production office of Bass- cluding an eighteen hole golf
Luckoff even though it is planned course, tennis, horseback riding,
that the Western office will have boating and bicycling. Dancing
complete departments for devel- nightly on the open-air potio is a
oping newspaper, magazine, di- special Mendelson attraction. Or
rect-mail, radio and billboard cam- just a few blocks away is the
paigns. Special attention will also famous North Shore Pavilion.
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