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Man of the Week

Attorneys Slate
Eisenhower Aide

Beached Refugees Dance in Zion

Rabbinical Body
to Convene Here

Orthodox Leaders
to Meet April 28

Will Hear Colonel
at Campaign Dinner

Th e Chronicle congratulates
Charles N. Agree, president of
Charles N. Agree, Inc., Archi-
tects and communal !fader, on
the occasion of his 50th birth-
day today, Friday, April 18. Born
in Stamford, Conn., Agree came
to Detroit in 1909 with his par-
ents. He attended the University
of Michigan and Detroit Insti-
tute of Technology and served in
In the Arm during World War
I. Married, he Is the father of
one son, Alexander, 24, a stu-
dent at the University of Mich-
igan, and a daughter, Marjorie
Joyce, 21, a student at UCLA.
Ile is president of the Fresh Air
Society in which he has been
active for many years.

Iliehli-hting an active week for
I, - Professional division of the
'flied Jewish Campaign will be
he address by Col. Bernard
r'ernstein, at the attorney's an-
:aril dinner at 6 p.m. Wednesday,
April 23 in the Book Cadillac
Hot el.
Attorney for the United States
Treasury Department trom 1932
to 1942, Bernstein took part in all
liti-ation relating to the govern-
^nos 'old and monetary policies
in in all international financial
arrangements entered into by tie:
Treasury. During World War II,
he served on Gen. Eisenhower's,
staff as a legal and financial ad-
viser.
Martin L. Butzel and Harry
Platt are chairmen for the dinner
while Abe Satovsky is campaign
chairman of the attorney's section.
Other professional division acti-
vities will be the dentists' brunch-
eon, at 12 noon, Sunday, at the
Jewish Community Center. Dr.
Martin Naimark is chairman of
the group, assisted by Dr. Peter
M. Bernstein, Theodore Glass, Dr.
Henry J. Goodman, Dr. Joseph
Goodstein, Dr. Milton S. Marx
and Dr. David Seligson.
The accountants section will
meet at 11 am.. Sunday at the
Jewish Community Center under
the chairmanship of Arthur F.
Purdy.

Over 200 Leaders
Here for Zionist
Youth Conference

Troubleshooter

More than 200 delegates from
Ohio. West Virginia, Kentucky
and Michigan are in Detroit for
the three-day Zionist Youth In-
stitute April 18, 19 and 20.
The institute, first meeting of
its kind to be held here, is spon-
sored jointly by the Masada, IZFA,
Junior Hadassah and Senior Ju-
dea groups.
Dr. Shlomo Bardin, director of
the American Zionist Youth Com-
mission, will deliver the sermon
at Friday services at 8:15 p. m.
in Mali Moshe.

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DANCE SCHEDULED
A highlight of the meeting will
be a dance Saturday in the social
hall of Bnai Moshe.
In honor of the institute, the
Junior Congregation of Shaarey
Zedek will conduct services in the
main auditorium Saturday morn-
ing. Rabbi Adler will speak on
"Implications of Zionism for
American Jewish Life."
Following the services, Philip
Slomovitz will deliver the main
address at a luncheon.
PUBLIC IS WELCOME
Saturday afternoon will be de-
voted to discussion meetings on
four subjects related to Palestine.
The institute will conclude Sun-
day with a brunch and workshop
meetings at the Jewish Commu-
nity Center. The public is invited
to all discussions, sermons and
lectures.
Zionist leaders here as partici-
pants in the conference arc Max
Hellman. authority on Palestinian
music: Mrs. Ezra Shapiro, presi-
dent of the central states region
of Hadassah: and Milton Arm,
vice-president of Masada.

Congress Unit to Hear
Rs'port on Argentina

Mrs. Frank Bernstein will re-
port on conditions in Argentina
at a meeting of the commission
on law and social action of the
Detroit Women's Division, Atr er-
lean Jewish Congress, at 1:30 p.m
Wednesday in the home of Mrs.
Harold Nelson, 20236 Wakefield
avenue.

Sholem Aleichem Unit
to Ilear Book Review

Prof. Leo Kirschbaum of the
Wayne University English depart-
ment will review "Thieves in the
Night" by Arthur Koester at a
meeting of the women's division,
Sholem Alcichem Folk Institute.
nt 1 p.m. Saturday, April 19, in
the home of Mrs. Samuel Rosen
1411 Boston boulevard. Ethel Shorr
i; chairman of the division.

Flatow to Speak
to 3 Drive Units

April 18, 1947

Jewish refugees are shown dancing and singing at the Isdud army
camp as they await deportation to Cyprus. They were among the
000 survivors who left Italy on the Shabtai Luzinsky, evaded
British naval patrols and beached their ship on the deserted Pal-
estine coast near Gaza. Wearing U. S. Navy lifebelts, many swam
ashore but were finally rounded up by the British and sent to
the ea*.

Detroit will be host for the first
time to the Rabbinical Council
of America when it meets April
^8 to May . 2 at the Fort Wayne
Hotel for its annual convention.
The council is the national or-
ganization of younger orthodox
Rabbis. The theme of the conven-
tion will be "A revitalized or-
thodoxy- thinking and acting on
a national scale."
The rabbis are chiefly graduates
of Yeshiva University in New
York or the Hebrew Theological
College of Chicago. They minister
to 350 congregations in the United
States and Canada.
Chairman of the convention
committee is Rabbi Norman E.
Frimer, director of Hillel Founda-
tion at the University of Min-
nesota. Rabbis Max J. Wohlge-
lernter of Beth Tefilo Emanuel
and Benjamin Groner of Wind-
sor's Shaar Hashomayim are in
charge of local arrangements.

Write to Legislators in Support
Palestinian Here
of FEPC Bill, Council Urges
for Hospital Drive
in FEPC bill. His action

FEPC legislation hackers warned sponsor
Baruch Levin, director of the
this week of possible failure of probably indicates that he intends National Sick Fund of Palestine,
the measure before the Michigan to do nothing. He has been active has arrived in Detroit to organize
legislature and rallied all men o: meanwhile, investigating alleged a committee for the current cam-
communists. Some people have paign to raise $1,000,000 for a
goodwill to its support.
"Nearly 180,000 voters signed thought that his activity in that memorial hospital in Tel Aviv.
the petitions for a law," George field has been a smokescreen to
Pressed by a critical shortage
Schermer, chairman of the Mich- cover his inactivity in FEPC and of facilities in Palestine, the com-
igan Council for Fair Employment ether matters.
mittee hopes to erect and equip a
"The Michigan Council does not 150-bed hospital. Today, Palestine
Legislation, pointed out, "but
when it was taken off the ballot like communists either. But our has one and one-half beds per
because of a technicality, they membership long ago recognized • 1 , 000 population, 75 percent below
gave up and have done nothing that 90 percent of the business the minimum facilities of the
more." of combating anti-democratic
United States.
forces lies in making democracy
The campaign was launched re
WRITE TO LEGISLATORS
work.
cently in New York by Miss
The Jewish Community Council
Helen
Hayes, screen, stage and
of Detroit is a member of the POSITIVE ACTION
"FEPC legislation is one of the radio star.
Michigan Council,
Schermer urged all Michigan specific ways that Michigan can
WOMEN'S SERVICE CLUB
citizens to let their state repre- demonstrate that the American
A meeting of the Detroit Wo-
sentatives and senators know that form of democracy is really alive
and strong. Actively supporting men's Service Club will be held
they want FEPC legislation.
"If the legislators were to get fair employment legislation is one Monday. Jean Martin is chairman
even a few thousand favorable of the specific things that loye‘l c,f the club's mother-daughter
letters and phone calls, they Americans can do to combat sub- banquet May 8 at Rosenberg's
Catering Co. and Esther Galin
would quickly go to work on a versive forces.
"Write to Gov. Sigler and your and Betty Kaplan are in charge
bill, Schermer predicted.
legislative representatives today." of the groups dinner-dance June R.
SIGLER IS SILENT
"Gov. Sigler has made no reply
to our recommendation that he

Seymour Lipkin
Named 'Conductor'
of Ohio Orchestra

Seymour Lipkin, 19-year-old son
of Dr. and •Mrs. Ezra Lipkin of
Webb avenue, has been awarded
a year's contract as "apprentice
conductor" with the Cleveland
Symphony Orchestra.
The post was created a year
ago to give talented young mu-
sicians under 25 the opportunity
to work with a major orchestra.
Seymoqr, a pianist. was chosen
after an audition. He is also win-
ner of a John Hancock scholar-
ship, which entitles him to spend
a summer in Tanglewood, Mass.,
and to serve as conductor of the
Berkshire Music Center Orches-
tra under Serge Koussevitzky.
Next month. Seymour will be
graduated with a Bachelor of
Music degree from the Curtis
Institute of Music in Philadelphia,
where he has been a scholarship
student since he was 11.
For the past six years. Sey-
mour studied piano under Rudolf
Serkin. During the war, he toured
Europe for the USO as accom-
panist to Jasch:i Heifetz.

Sidney Flatow, "troubleshooter"
for UNRRA, will be the principal
speaker at a bruncheon meeting
of the architects section of the
Allied Jewish Campaign at 12
noon Sunday, in the Jewish Com-
munity Center, at a dinner meet-
ing of the cleaners and dyers sec-
tion at 6:30 p. m. Monday, in
Hotel Statler; and at a dinner
meeting of the auto parts and
accessories section at 6:30 p. m.
Wednesday, at the Lee Plaza.
Flatow, as director of the Zeit-
sheini displaced persons camp,
earned international acclaim when
he cleaned up conditions in that
German DP center.
Co-chairmen for the architects'
bruncheon are George Goldberg,
Louis G. Redstone and Sol Saul-
son.
Arrangements for the cleaners
and dyers section dinner are in
charge of Harry Rosman, chair-
ODESSA AID SOCIETY
man; Michael Dashkin, Milton
The Odessa Progressive Aid So-
safer, Arnold Gross, Max Riss-
man, Arnold Rosman, and Sidney ciety will mark its 35th anniver-
sary at a banquet May 4.
Rosman, co-chairmen.

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QUALIFICATIONS . . .

2.

Must Appear at Shaarey Zedek, Saturday, April 19,
9 P.M. Sharp.
Must Enjoy Dancing to Smooth Foxtrots and Rythmic
Rhumbas. All Dance Music to be provided by
PHIL BRESTOFF and His Orchestra.

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