Our Athletes

By FRANK BECKMAN

A SHORT ITEM by the Udited
Press last week revealed that
Andy Cohen, former New York
Giant's second baseman, had been
signed as a scout by the Boston
Braves.
Andy wasn't much of a baseball
hotshot during
his playing
days. He was
discovered b y
the fabulous
John McGraw,
manager of the
Giants, whose
b 1 g ambition
was to plant a
Jewish star in
Beckman Polo Grounds
and sit back and listen to the
merry clinking of the turnstiles.
Cohen wasn't the answer to Mc-
Graw's prayers. But he did show
the way to a galaxy of Jewish
players who have since worn big
league uniforms.
They include Hank Greenberg,
Goody Rosen, Morrie Arnovich,
Phil Weintraub, Harry Danning,
Sid Gordon, Alike Schemer, Har-
ry Eisenstat mid Harry Feld-
man.
Should Cohen, in his scouting
role, discover •another Greenberg
and plant him in Boston's park,
sports writers would again be
able to dip into McGraw legends...
and they could use the word
"ironic" quite freely.
• • •
CHARLES SIMONS won the re-
cent Jewish Center table tennis
championship by defeating Victor
Weden in the finals. Simons drop-
ped the first two games before
rallying for the title. Sixteen mem-
bers participated, including two
girls.

• • •

Former University of Michigan
athlete Lou Levine has been
named coach of the Canton Jew-
ish Center team in the Mid-west
Jewish basketball league. Pitts-
burgh, Akron, Youngstown and
Cincinnati are also in the loop.
• • •
ONE OF THE standouts on the
New York Knickerbockers, who
will match basketball skills with
the Detroit Falcons Jan. 4 at
Olympia, is Sidney Hertzberg.

Friday} December 6, p

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Peg. Sixteen

Senate Group
Blasts Slander
of Jewish DP's

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Senate war investigating comrriit-
tee voted down a proposed in-
quiry into U. S. military govern-
ment activities in Germany which
had been urged by Republican
members of the committee follow-
ing a report by George Meader,
committee counsel, suggesting cur-
tailment or discontinuance of
American aid to European ref-
ugees and displaced persons.
The committee vote was strictly
along party lines with the Demo-
crats outvoting the Republicans
six to four.
A vigorous attempt is being made
by the Republicans to have the
report published in full.
'UNFIT' CHARGE MADE
Meader, who made his report
folThwing a two-week visit to Ger-
many, said the displaced Jews
were not fit material for immigra-
tion to the United States and that
they were lazy and unwilling to
work. He also charged that Jew-
ish groups in America were or-
ganizing the movement of dis-
placed Jews into the American
zone of Germany.
Senator Kilgore of West Virginia,
chairman of the committee, in a
letter to members, sharply at-
tacked the reliability of the report
as based on "impressions" and not
"facts."
The section of the report deal-
ing with displaced persons in gen-
eral and the Jewish DP's in par-
ticular was criticized by Kilgore
as casting discredit upon their
feelings and motivations. He said
it also discredited "humanitarian,
religious and racial groups in the
United States who sympathize with
the plight of these unfortunate hu-
man beings."
DOUBTS PERSECUTION
The report, he continued, in
dealing with the minority of the
DP's, those of Jewish religion,
questions whether they have been
subject to persecution.
Kilgore charged unquestioning
acceptance in the report of opin-
ions of persons lacking first-hand
knowledge who assert that "pres-
sure" Trom groups in this country
has permitted DP's to remain in
camps in Germany.

New Compromise Plan for Palestine
•
Is Disavowed by London Officials

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up a messenger carrying a $28,-
000 payroll for the Polish emigre
army. A 15 minute gun battle took
place on the steps of Barclay's
Bank. One of the extremists was
killed and the gunman who grab-
bed the money bag dropped the
loot when he suffered wounds.
A half hour later six armed men
carried a wounded accomplice into
the Hadassah Hospital, forced a
surgeon to perform an operation
and then carried off their com-
rade, who was described by the
doctor to be in a serious condi-
tion.

• • •

Tommies in Panic
as Shooting Flares

JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Panicky
British police and soldiers unable
to distinguish friend from foe
opened fire on each other in the
darkened streets of Jerusalem dur-
ing a wild shooting fray which
lasted 45 minutes following a
series of mine explosions and ma-
chine-gun and grenade attacks by
the Stern gang against police
headquarters and other govern-
ment buildings in the heavily for-
tified center of the city.
The attacks are believed to have
been an attempt by the Sternists
to capture the bristling citadel.
Six hundred and fifty persons
were screened and 62 were de-
tained.

The only casualties caused by
the Sternites were two British
constables who suffered from shock
when a land mine went off near
their billet. The blind gun-battle
between the Tommies and police
however, resulted in the wounding
of a five year-old child, a young
girl, who were struck by stray
bullets, and a constable whose
foot was grazed, apparently by his
own shot.
PANIC SPREADS

The shooting began at about
7:30 p.m. after an attack on a
police billet at the corner of Jaffa
Road and the Street of the Proph-
ets. Panic spread to all parts of
the city where police and troops
sprayed the streets indiscriminate-
ly with pistol, rifle and machine-
gun fire, much of it striking hous-
es. Terrified residents fled indoors
and bolted shutters.
Motor traffic was halted, buses
were abandoned in the middle of
the streets, and frightened pas-
sengers huddled in doorways for
shelter. A curfew was imposed on
Jewish quarters at 9:30 p. in., the
all-clear sounded at 11 p.m., and
the curfew was lifted in the morn-
ing.
The Sternite's attack was pre-
ceded by a mine explosion near
Jaffa Gate. Later 10 mines were
located near Damascus Gate and
six on the Prophets Street.
Four soldiers were killed and

another was seriously we
when the- jeep they were tra
in Was blown up by a mine 1
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv highw,
kilometers from Jerusalem.
Two 13-year-old Jewish
were wounded by a Britisl
stable who opened fire on th
in which they were riding
the Yemin Moshe quarter of
aalem, when it failed to ob
order to halt.

Mrs. Weinseilf e
Dies at Age of (

Mrs. Miriam Weisenfeld,
2698 Sturtevant avenue, diet
28 after a prolonged Hines:
Services were held at
Shel Emes with interment
Beth Abraham Cemetery,
Joseph Thumin and Isaac
man officiated.
Surviving are seven son:
bert, Meyer, Nathan, Louis, 1
Samuel and David; and two c
ters, Dorothy and Sue;
grandchildren and two g
grandchildren.
Mrs. Weisenfeld was a in
of Congregation Beth Abr
Yeshivah Beth Yehudah an
shivath Chachmey Lublin.

Stork Baby Service
Starts Radio Progra:

Stork Baby Service is spy
ing a weekly radio progra
11:30 p.m. on Mondays over C
Problems on baby care at
cussed on "Stork Baby Tim

Mother Goose
`Prejudice' Cited

(Continued from page 3)

in current life Is the sense of
brotherhood among infants. I
have seen white children play
with black ones in school. Oh,
Mother Goose, you, in your old
age, should know better than
to hand a little child a flag of
special indentity. •
But otherwise you were all right
in the Jewish kindergarten, Moth-
er Goose. I liked the way the chil-
dren were being taught the reli-
gious approach to the fact of their
being Jewish. That's the main way
toward being Jewish, isn't it?

• • •

SIDNEY IIERTZBERG
Hertzberg was born in . Brook-
lyn 24 years ago. He was all-
scholastic choice at Tilden High
School in 1939 and all-metropolitan
selection at City College during
1941-42.
He was a member of the La-
vender five, semi-finalist in the
1942 National Invitation tourney,
and is the holder of professional
single game scoring mark of 37
points.
Hertzberg, who stands six feet
and weighs 180 lbs., was a tech-
nical sergeant in the Army before
his discharge Feb. 7, 1948, after
four years of service.
• • •
ON SUNDAY the Louis Mar-
shall Lodge Bnai Brith Bowling
League will play host to 60 Toledo
Bnal Brith keglers.
Shining trophies will be at stake
when the local men square off at
1 p.m. against the Ohio invaders.
The contests will be held at the
Lucky Strike Bowling Alleys.
This will be the first in a series
of home and home affairs between
the two lodges.
Following the bowling session,
a banquet will be held at the
Belcrest Hotel under the super-
' vision of Morton J. Bechek.
Aaron Rosenberg will entertain
with Yiddish humor.
Irving L. Gilbert and Erwin
Stein are co-chairmen.

RELIGION TAUGHT
WHEN THEY WERE given milk
WHEN
kids said the blessing for
the abundance that God gives. (A
lot of the politicians in Israel have
quite forgotten that God is the
charter member of the Jewish
party).
The children had been taught
the religious words of thankful-
ness even for an ice cream cone.
They knew another Mother Goose
jingle.
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
Hurry and polish the candlestick.
Polish it fast and polish it bright,
Make it shine for Friday night.
Congratulations on this teach-
ing Mother Goose. This is the re-
ligious loveliness of being Jewish,
not any flag waving, not an edu-
cation for separate nationalism or
racism. This was the dazzling
beauty of candles burning on Fri-
day night and of the Sabbath bride
sitting luminous at the table. This
was the fullness of Judaism in
the beauty of its religious conno-
tation.

SOCCER FOOTBALL fans will
get a treat next May. The famous
Hapoel team of Palestine is slated
to make a tour of the United
States, which means one of the
world's best arrays of talent will
enter New York harbor.
This all-Jewish aggregation will
play six games in the U. S. with
an option of two more.

I.

NOT THIS—Too small a
lamp shade looks as ridiculous
as a pill-box hat on an other-
wise stylish stout. Inefficient,
too, for only a tiny area is
lighted. The moral: Lamp
shades with flaring sides are
better than straight-sided ones.

..... am moo

2.

NOR THIS—The smart-
est Hattie Carnegie creation is
ruined if your slip is showing.
And the same is true of your
lamp bulbs. They're not only
unsightly—their glare can tire
eyes and brain—even cause
headaches or harmful eyestrain.

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3,

NOR THIS—One gloom-
bug can spoil any party. Don't
let your lamp shades be fune-
real or depressing. They can
affect your entire room. Outfit
your lamps with light-colored
shades, preferably those with
white linings.

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6.

4.

CERTAINLY NOT THISI
Do your lamp shades bulge at
the seams? They're flashy and
garish—hard on the eyes and
on the nerves. Make sure that
your lamp bulbs aren't too big
for their shade.

5.

GOOD HEAVENS, NOI
Like any lady with self-respect,
a lamp bulb wants to be per-
fectly groomed—immaculately
dressed. Keep bulbs, shades
and reflector bowls free of
light-stealing dust and grime.

MO 11.1

IT'S SO EASY
TO BE SURE —

Your eyes' best friend is the
"Light-Meter", a scientific in-
strument that tells the quan-
tity of your lighting. With it,
your Edison Home Service Ad-
visor can quickly check over
your lamps and fixtures ... if
necessary show how your light-
ing can be easier on the eyes.
Arrange for a Home Service
Advisor to call on you tos1.1y.

The DETROIT EDISON Co.

