Friday, November 16, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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LET ER,
lox
Pegs
Nye
Bnai Moshe Sisterhood Send Russia Old Books, UNRRA Speaker Plea
Plans Chanukah Dinner
(Continued from page 1)
Many of these operations are
are alive today who would other- done without anaesthetics since
wise be dead.
themes was the highlight of the
there just isn't enough to go
"And the people know it and around.
evening. He was not done justice
Dear Editor:
are grateful," he continued.
STILL CHEERFUL.
Music is the one branch in to,—(musically speaking) by the
"Wherever we went, the people
Jewish cultural life which is other participants; not well pre-
In the face of all this pain and
saw the sign on our car of
grossly neglected. Every effort pared amateur stuff, therefore
suffering, the Russians are still
UNNRA
and
stopped
us
not
convincing
and
uninspiring.
to
pour
to cultivate and further Jewish
out their thanks. Individuals, or- cheerful. And they feel an over-
Jewish music will have to be
music is to be welcomed. It,
ganizations and churches of every whelming gratitude to this coun-
therefore, was gratifyin g that a presented more artistically, if it
kind and descriptions have sent try. English is a compulsory sub-
crowd of considerable size turned is to command respect and at-
ject in all Russian schools from
glowing letters of gratitude,
tract
the
attention
of
the
music
out to attend the debut of the
the
third grade on.
loving
public.
NO WAR WITH U. S.
first musical presentation of the
"This is the generation that we
Eugene
Franzhlau
newly founded Hashofar "society
"A Russian war with the United will deal with in twenty years,"
for the advancement of Jewish
States is impossible,' he went sad Gruliow. "And
they love
music" recently in the lecture
on. "Every package the people America."
hall of the Institute of Arts.
MRS.
MORRIS
ROSENBERG
there
get
is
marked
with
signs
Dear Editor:
"After the last war," he con-
bearing the American flag and
However, the procedure of this
tinued,
"there were hordes of
The
entire
membership
of
the
Some
weeks
ago,
you
published
organization, was a shinin g ex-
the inscription 'To our brave Rus-
wild children roaming the coun-
ample how often Jewish audi- an editorial in which you de- Sisterhood of the Congregation sian allies from their American
try, robbing and murdering. Af-
ences are taken advantage of, at scribed the need for clean, de- Bnai Moshe is concentrating on friends.' The women all know it.
the
Chanukah
Victory
Dinner
to
ter
this war this will not be a
cent,
entertaining
films
for
Jewish concerts. The evening was
The children all know it. The
devoted to Lazare Saminsky and youngsters in Detroit. It may be held on Dec. 2. This is the local press has publicized it. problem. Huge orphanages are es-
tablished to handle all displaced
his music. Mr. Saminsky was the please you to know that very sole fund-raising project for the Everyone is aware of where these children.
lecturer, his theme—"Jewish mu- soon, there will be opportunity society. The recently elected life giving supplies come from."
for youngsters to see just such Rabbi Eliezer A. Levi will
"Another problem is that of
sic today and its ancient films.
Gruliow explained why recon- mines. Millions of these mines
be the guest speaker at this din-
sources,"
Charles P. Nathanson and ner. Arrangements of details are struction was going so slowly. were placed all over Russia and
Lazare Saminsky is an emi-
Louis J. Cohen, attorneys in being handled by a committee In the first place, it is all being children are continually stepping
nent "Hebrew Co m pose r',
Detroit for many years, have headed by Mrs. Louis Kepes and done by women and children work- on them and having their arms
steeped in the ancient melodies
been
appointed distributors for Mrs. Morris Rosenberg. Addi- literally with their bare hands, and legs torn off. This will
of Israel. The customers, how-
be
the State of Michigan of Planet tional members assisting on this They go over the ruins saving a problem for ten years to
ever, learned very little from him
come,"
Pictures produced by Planet Pic- committee are: Mesdames A. every brick, every charred piece added Gruliow.
about Jewish music today. His
tures Inc. of Hollywood.
Beck, J. Grossman, R. Hirsch, A. of timber, every bent and twisted
very scholarly twenty minute
Friedman,
B. F. Goldman, A. nail. Every man with any pro- GREATEST NEED BOOKS
These pictures are all full
talk, would make a very fine in-
Despite the desperate need for
fessional knowledge of building
Kling
and
E.
Phillips.
troduction to a lecture on "Jew- length features on 16 millimeter
Mrs. I. E. Goodman, president is made a foreman. But men are clothing, food, hospital supplies
film,
non-inflammable.
They
will
ish music today" in an audi-
of the Sisterhood, together with sadly absent. Only the sick and and the like, perhaps the great-
torium of some School of Music. be available for schools, syna-
gogues, hospitals and private the Board of Directors, will serve men over forty have returned. est need is English language
Alas, for any lecturer on "Jew'
homes. The first picture to be as hostesses at the reception to This is due to the slowness of books. The Nazis stripped the li-
ish music today" not to mention shown
braries bare. Part they took back
here follows the line sug- be held on Monday evening, Nov. transportation.
contemporaries like Solomon
to Germany. Part they destroyed
gested by your editorial. It is 19, honoring Rabbi Levi and his 29,000,000 CASUALTIES
Golub, Leo Low, Michael Gel-
called "Jeep Herders" and is a wife.
It is also due to an estimated in order to smash Slavic culture.
bart, Zanvel Zilberts, Lazar western showing cowboys using
twenty
million casualties. Under Part they used for fuel in the
Weiner or the late Jacob Schaef-
jeeps instead of horses. The pic- Winokur Post Parties
the
scorched
earth policy, the absence of wood or coal and the
er is beyond comprehension and
ture is packed with action and
Russians destroyed forty thousand little that remained the Russians
defies reality.
comedy but there is no drinking, P. J. Hospital Veterans miles of railroad so completely themselves used for fuel to save
Now, a word about the musi- no gambling, no love scenes. No
On Nov. 3, the post was host they have to be entirely rebuilt. themselves from freezing to
cal features of the evening. Sa-
one in the picture gets killed to 25 hospitalized war veterans All the coal and steel mines were death.
minsky the composer fared well
and there is no shooting at all. from the Percy Jones hospital at flooded or dynamited except one
"Everywhere I went," said Gru-
at the hands of Henry Siegel,
A formal prevue will be shown Battle Creek. The post arranged mine. In this are piled the bodies liow, "from Stalingrad and Len-
whose fine rendition of three shortly.
for transportation of these vet- of three thousand miners who re- ingrad to the smallest town, they
violin compositions on Jewish
erans from Battle Creek to Ann fused to work
Planet Pictures Inc.
for the Nazis. The asked for English language books
A rbor, where they attended the
women miners have worn only when I inquired what their great-
innesota - Michigan football ?lothing contributed by Americans est need was. Even in one large
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ame, after which a social func- to UNRRA. They have no others. area where they had one movie
on took place at one of the
By CHARLES BENSON
Medical supplies are also ob- seating three hundrd to provide
J ewish sorority houses.
tained only from the United entertainment for eight million
WASHINGTON — Over th e put to its deadly work in British
The post will hold its first an- States. There are a million am- people, they still asked for books.
desk of a Washing reporte r and American laboratories is ac- Q n uol party "A Nite at the Latin putees in Russia and there is 'We want to know about your
streams a ceaseless flow of bu 1- knowledged. But limiting family
uarte•" at the Latin Quarter hardly enough supplies for them. wonderful country and your won-
letins, pamphlets, reports an d responsibility to Great Britain on E. Grand Blvd., on Monday, Thousands of men who have
derful people from books in their
news handouts. A little carefu and the United States is rejected Dec. 3.
stumps for arms have had the own language,' they said.
dredging will sometimes haul i n on the face of the evidence, when
The proceeds to be raised are bones of their arms split down
"Books are tremendous morale
number of items which, seem half a dozen other nationalities to be used for the rehabilitation the middle so that the skin grows
builders," he concluded. "With
ingly unrelated, nevertheless ti e made invaluable contribution to fund for helping out needy war
around each end, forming a kind them, we can do a
tremendous
in when placed one next to th e knowledge of the atom.
veterans and their families. Tick- of hook. Eventually they get a
other.
ets may be secured by calling kind of muscular control so that service not only to the Russians
A striking pictorial presenta-
now but to the cause of cement-
The atom bomb probably oc- ion of the war crimes indictment the Jewish War Veterans head- they can use these hooks.
There ing Russo-American friendship
quarters
on
Twelfth
St.
cupies first place on any list of has been prepared and distribut-
are almost no artificial limbs. in the years to come."
leading events. Representative ed among our armed forces by
Chet Holifield of California did a the same branch of the army
little research on those responsi- which publishes "Army Talks," Women's Service Club
ble for discovery of atomic the- the Information and Education Buys Chair for P. J.
ory and bomb, and came up with Division. Their recent weekly
At an open meeting of the
a doubleheader, "To those," he newsmap shows a shattered swas- Detroit Women's Service Club
said, "who fancy this to be an tika carrying the photographs of Tuesday, Nov. 6, a wheel chair
American secret discovered by the twenty-four indicted Nazi was purchased for the disabled
the work of American scientists war criminals. The four counts veterans at the Percy Jones hos-
only," please take note of a list of the indictment are quoted: the - nital A christmas hospital show-
which includes Germans, a Dane, common plan or conspiracy, er will be given at Lachar's on
French, Russian and English sci- crimes against peace, war crimes, Thursday, Dec. 6. Admission is
entists, as well as an Italian-born crimes against humanity. Prom- by gift for a serviceman.
and a Hungarian-born American, inently pictured are the four
Admonishing what he called "su- judges to preside at the Nurem-
perpatriots" not to assume that burg trial, representing the Unit-
The Victory Bonds
"American-born people have the ed States, Great Britain, U. S.
V
monopoly on brains," the Con- S. R. and France. The reverse
ON THE OCEAN at 7th ST.
you buy today
gressman wagged a finger at side of the map carries a large
723 OCEAN DRIVE
pay
off 2 WAYS
those who "make a fetish of transparent globe. Under the
MIAMI BEACH
their ancestry," He asked them heading, "The World We'll Live
It's doubly satisfying to buy
kindly to observe what happened In," we are reminded "that a
bonds in America's great
to the Japanese, a people "af- better world does not come au-
Victory Loan. First, Victory
flicted with ancestor worship."
Bonds buy security. They're
tomatically. To build a strong
the world's best investment—
A month earlier a United democracy, to have prosperity.
you get back S4 for every S3
States Army publication, "Army and to keep the peace, we and
you invest in "E" Bonds at
Talks." published a factual arti- other nations must work for
maturity. They're handy as
cle, "How We Won the Atomic them — together — constantly."
ready cash.
Race," and started it off with the
History classes, study groups,
Second, Victory Eonds buy
record of non-British and non- community and civic associations
DIRECTLY ON THE OCEAN
peace of mind. You'll know
American scientists. Leading their that are working toward a
In the Heart of All Activities
that you are continuing to do
list was Dr. Lise Meitner, a Ger- stronger democracy, can secure New, fireproof, heated rooms—each with bath
your share to help speed our
man and a Jewess. She figured copies of the newsmap from the and shower. FREE solarium, Parking lot,
Patio and specious lobby. Many social ac.
wounded back to health7to
also in Representative Holifield's Government Printing Office in tivilies.
Advance reservations suggested.
bring our fighting men back
list. Her picture is used to illus- Washington at nominal cost.
home again.
trate the army article. The can-
The boys and girls of school
t ion under the picture reads: age who study the map might go
"The atom might never have ex- from classes to the mo-
ploded if this woman had not dis- vies to see a short film, "The
covered the mathematical key to House I Live In." in which Frank
, ecret of atom's nucleus. D Lise Sinatra talks and sings on how
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convenience • 100 Roo - rs
scaping from Kaiser Wilhelm in our own land. Produced by 100
Baths. American
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and
Institute in Berlin."
RKO Radio Pictures, the film
European Plan ____*
Dietary Laws Strict
The army author, in severely may be the forerunner of an ly Obse•ved.
factual style, punctures former RKO series dealing with social
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Prime Minister Winston Church- and economic questions, and
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ill's assertion that it was "Brit- starring. among others, Bing
'h and American science (which) Crosby, Danny Kaye and Bob
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outpaced all German efforts." Hope, who are reported to be
That the atom was exploded and interested in films of this type.
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New Pictures
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