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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Tsvo Detroiters
On Percy Jones
Purim Concert
Wayne University Scene
By Frank Beckman
"A person with imaginative gen- over the river to enable heavy
ius plus a seemingly infinite am- vehicle and armor reinforcements
ount of energy to display it in to follow up the infantry. Dave
practical use" would be a good
dictionary definition for cute Ruth is alive to tell about it, but several
Driker, business manager of the of his buddies fell in this under-
taking. Only a heavy smoke screen
Wayne U. CUllegian.
protected the 247th Engr. Combat
Just turned voting age, Miss
Driker tends to pass praise for Bn. from the heavy German fire,
the phenomenal jump in the pa- and Dave attests that from Nor-
per's advertising to the capable mandy on D-Day plus four, to
members of her staff. Considering Maastricht, Holland, and on thru
the fact that the Collegian's ad- the Bulge, this was the most dan-
vertisemehts have multiplied four- gerous of his expeditions.
fold under her leadership, we feel
A Liberal Arts student, he is
that there is sufficient commend- the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
ation for all.
Lieberman, 3349 Monterey Ave.
When Ruth, daughter of Mr.
a a a
and Mrs. Charles Driker, of 3275
Back in 1942 newspapers car-
Leslie Ave., entered Wayne upon
graduation from Central High ried eight-column banner head-
School, she had a yen to make lines proclaiming the first Amer-
use of that imaginative ability ican daylight raid on the Euro-
through the advertising medium. pean continent. They couldn't, at
She felt that work on the school that time, however, tell of the
newspaper was the best way of great amount of work and plan-
doing that. Both she and the ning that went Into the attack.
Collegian have benefited from her
Twenty-six-year-old Jack Rou-
BETTY KOWALSKY
decision. The Spring Fashion Sup- man, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Rou-
Betty Kowa!sky, young Detroit plement, put out in coordination Man, 2744 Gladstone, can fill in
concert pianist, will share spot- with such nationally-famous mag- what reporters were unable to
light honors with Drora Selesny, azines as Vogue, Esquire and Ma- mention. He was an armored flight
soprano interpreter of Palestinian demoiselle, attests to the superior chief with the 97th Heavy Bom-
and Yiddish folk songs, at a Pu- work of the staff, one of the few bardment Group in England when
the country which participates
rim concert party to be held on in
the Yanks first soared the chan-
in this sort of enterprise.
March 19 at the YWCA Building,
nel, and he still recalls the vigil
With
one
year
left
at
Wayne,
Battle Creek, under the auspices
he kept waiting for the fliers to
of the Battle Creek Community Miss Driker looks forward to return from this Initial bombing.
for the entertainment of veterans graduation time. She would like
Later Jack joined an air crew
and personnel at Percy Jones to go into advertising, public rela-
tions, or fashion promotion work, as a S/Sgt. armored gunner, and
Hospital.
and if her college record Is any participated in the invasions of
criterion, this ambitious individ- Africa, Sicily and Italy. He has
ual should really go places. That's one FW-190 to his credit, bagging
one prediction we feel safe in it while returning from a raid on
making.
Bucharest.
* *
A Specialized Education Senior,
All of the 550 students of Yesh- VETERANS .
Jack plans to receive his Doctor's
ivath Beth Yehudah — in both
Rookie GIs, going through the Degree in Educational Psychology
the afternoon and day schools — rigors of basic training had a at Wayne before furthering his
will meet in the main synagogue prwdetermined fear of the needle- studies at Columbia University,
and in the assembly rooms of the wielding medic. In combat, it was
*
Dexter-Cortland center for the ob- different. The medic was his best
PERTINENT POINTS ..
servance of Purim, Saturday eve- friend.
ning and Sunday. The Megillah
Lucia Stevens and Jeity, Sklar
Harry Green, 24-year-old son of
(Book of Esther) will be read on Mr. and Mrs. D. Green, 3274 Wav- have been accepted as apprentices
both occasions, and traditional re- erly Ave., wore the Red Cross arm by the Wayne U. Broadcasting
freshments served. Gifts will be band with a 103rd Infantry Divi- Guild. . . Gerry Manko has been
exchanged in compliance with the sion Collecting Hospital in Eu-
"MishMach Monos" provisions, and rope. He saw the wounded as they appointed to the Sophomore
contributions made for needy Jews came streaming in from the front, Board. . . Bernice Fishman is Lo-
in Europe and Palestine in ac- and he watched the trucks carry cal Advertising Manager of the
cordance with the law of "Mato- many of them to military ceme- Collegian. . . Leonard Baruch was
nos Lo-Evyonim." Songs, plays teries. He saw the worst of war, one of the four Junior Class mem-
bers chosen for the Tower Guard,
and skits will also be presented by and now that he
is back in mufti, men's activities honor society. .
the various classes. A detailed he wants to forget
about it.
Norman Moskovitch is on the
schedule of these programs has
A senior, Harry is pursuing a AVC membership committee.
been worked out by the members
of the faculty with pupils and pre-dental course at Wayne. He
parents notified as to the exact plans to further his studies at the
time and place of their respective University of Detroit next year.
a. ♦ •
group meetings. In addition, the
entire staff will have its tradi-
The Roer River in Germany is
tional Purim evening on Sunday. normally so narrow that one can
almost broad-jump it. Yet this
miniature stream held up the Al-
Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, spirit-
lied advance for weeks when the ual leader of one of New York's
Krauts demolished the dams eon- largest orthodox synagogues, who
trolling its waters.
recently returned from a seven-
Wayne University Freshman month survey of conditions in Eu-
Arrangements have been com-
rope for the Jewish Welfare
pleted for the Purim Party of the Dave Liederman was huddled in Board, and Louis Sobel, assistant
Young People's Congregation of a foxhole lining its banks, when secretary of the Joint Distribution
Mishkan Israel Synagogue, to be General "Ike" gave the "go" sig- Committee, will address a city-
.held on Saturday, March 16, In nal for the initial crossing. His wide rally of the Allied Jewish
41.e social hall of the Synagogue. job was to help build a bridge Campaign on Sunday afternoon,
March 24, at Central High School,
Linwood and Tuxedo.
All Jewish organizations in De-
troit were asked to urge their
members to attend the city-wide
rally by David J. Cohen, Detroit
attorney and president of Congre-
gation Bnal David, who is chair-
man of the Praesidium.
Plans for the rally, at which
campaign leaders will speak on
the urgent need for support of the
$2,000,000 drive of the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign, were drawn at a
meeting of the Advisory Council
of the Jewish Federation Organi-
zation Division, held Sunday, Mar.
10.
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Friday, March 15, 1945
Henry Monsky Addresses '
Bnai Brith. Gathering Here
Before an overflow audience at
the Hotel Statler last Wednesday
evening, Henry Monsky, national
president of Bnai Brith presented
an inspiring picture of the hopes
and aspirations of the Jewish peo-
ple in Palestine.
Mr. Monsky presented a charter
to the Rabbi Zager Lodge, newly
organized in Detroit and summed
up the work of Bnal Brith on the
national and international scene.
Excorciating the anti-Zionists
who had appeared before the An-
glo-American Inquiry Commission
to testify, Monsky reiterated his
own certainty that Palestine was
the only place for Jews from Eu-
ropean Displaced Persons Camps
to go.
"They want rehabilitation, not
just food and clothing," he said.
And they should go to Palestine
as a matter of right. People talk
of Jews who are in Palestine ille-
gally. That is nonsense. The only
illegal thing about it all is • the
keeping of Jews out of that coun-
try."
Discussing the future of Jews,
he said, "Let us not be too pes-
simistic about the future. Our
cause is a righteous one and a
righteous cause, while it may be
retarded, cannot be frustrated."
Monsky wound ue, his talk in a
burst of oratory with a passionate
appeal for unity among Jews. His
last words were a quotation from
Dr. Leo Baeck who had been told
by an anti-Zionist that there was
room for Jews in Russia, New
Zealand, Australia and the United
States. Dr. Baeck's reply was a
question.
"Have you got the visas in your
pocket?" he asked.
"We know what we want," he
quoted a famous Jewish refugee
as saying. ''If you can't help us,
at least don't obstruct us."
Ezra Scores in
Clothing Drive
Close to a ton of clothing li is
been readied for overseas ship.
ment to Poland by the Ezra, Wo-
men's Division of the Federation
of Polish Jews. President Rose
Sharkey announced at a meeting
held recently at the home of Mrs.
M. Garnick, 3344 Elmhurst. Mrs,
A. Michelson is chairman of th ,.
drive.
To Give Purim
Party March 20
The Jewish Women's European
Welfare Organization will sponsor
a Purim Party on Wednesday,
March 20, at 8:30 p.m., at the Bnai
Moshe Synagogue. Mrs. Pleskoff
and Mrs. Seder are chairman and
co-chairman, respectively,
Beth Yehudah to
Listen to Megillah
Lookstein to Talk
At Rally Mar. 24
Mishkan Israel
To Hold Party
Announcing
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Choice
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Junior Service
Group Now Has
New Directors
A new Board of Directors of the
Junior Service Group of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation was elect-
ed last Sunday at a meeting at
which Rabbi Ellezer A. Levi of
Congregation Brut' Moshe placed
squarely before American Jewry
the responsibility for the survival
of Europe's stricken Jewish sur-
vivors.
The new Board met on Wednes-
day and mapped out a campaign
plan designed to assure fullest
participation In the forthcoming
drive of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign by every young man and
woman in the Jewish community
of Detroit.
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