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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Wins Stalin Prize

Our Athletes

II, 'HANK BECKMAN

A HEADLINE In a recent Wil-
liamsport (Pa.) newspaper blared
out this succinct information:
"JOE GINSBERG HERO AS TI-
GERS DEFEAT UTICA AND
DEADLOCK FOR FIRST."
Myron (Joe)
Ginsberg is the
Detroit boy we
told you about
a few weeks
ago. He was in
spring training
with Buffalo
then and was so
impressive that
great things
were predicted
of him.
Paul Richards, Buffalo manager,
said Ginsberg was only two years
away from becoming a major
league catcher. The pilot felt,
however, that 20-year-old Joe
would be far better off playing
regularly at Williamsport than'
sparodically with the Bisons.

• • •

NOW TO GET BACK to the
headline.
Williamsport was trailing Uti-
ca, 4 to 2, with two out in the
last half of the ninth inning.
Rases were loaded and Ginsberg
was the hatter. Taking a solid
toehold, Joe connecte'd and sent
the apple sailing far into the
outer gardens. •
The wallop was good for a
triple, clearing the bases and
giving the Detroit Tiger farm
club a victory.
• •

NEEDLESS TO SAY, Myron
was a mighty happy boy. But he
wasn't nearly as joyous as a cou-
ple of his most ardent followers
right here in Detroit.
They are the Tiger scout, Wish
Egan, and Myron's father, Joe.
Egan, who incidentally signed
Ginsberg to a professional con-
tract, calls the 'ex-Cooley High
School student "the apple of my
eye." Corning from Egan, who
has discovered more than his
share of big league timber, that's
a real compliment.
• • •
JOE SR. HAS everyone in De-
troit's Corktown talking about his
son. The elder Ginsberg owns a
tavern on Michigan avenue and,
of course, has plenty of ,listeners.
That Joe Sr. is an effective pub-
lic relations man is evident. Par-
adoxically enough, the hero of
Irish Corktown Is now a lad
named Ginsberg.

• • •

PROF. MARK DULTSIN, one
of the leading Jewish medical
scientists in Russia, has been
awarded a Stalin prize for de-
veloping a new method of ob-
taining dry blood plasma and
dry blood serums. (World News)
Service).

JWV

Broadcast

By TM, PERRY P. BURNSTINE

THE DEPARTMENT WILL
sponsor the annual "I Am an
American Day" program at 8 p.
m., Sunday at headquarters, 8212
Twelfth street, with Detroit Post
135, David Kay commander, as
host.
Rabbi Morris Adler, department
chaplain, will deliver the main ad-
dress.
• • •

GRAND RAPIDS POST 252, Jo-
seph Saltzman, commander, will
be formally installed June 14.
Seventy-one veterans will be last!
tuted.

By TYLER BROOKE
HOLLYWOOD — Something Is
happening in Hollywood which,
if continued, presages grave dan-
ger not only to the movie capitol,
but also to the entire nation. I'm
referring to the suggestion of
"thought control" inherent in the
follOwing excerpt culled from a
column in Daily Variety, a local
trade journal:
"RKO stenos, members of ire
OEIU (Office Employees Inter-
national Union), are berling be-
cause a petition they circulated
asking for an investigation of
members thought to be un-
American disappeared complete-
ly after the document reached
the hands of a pinkish secre-
tary to a producer of the same
f ragrance.
"According to the by-laws of
the OEIU such a petition was
legal but now the signers arc
afraid the pinkish' secretary has
pinched the list in order to put
the blacklist slug on the gals
who are unfriendly to the leftist
cause. This secretary is often
seen chatting with Hans Eisler .
RICO composer, who is the
brother of Gerhard, now in al-
• ble with the U. S. Congress ..."
(Emphasis mine—TB.)
An objective look at that last
sentence is quite enough to give
cold chills to any thinking person.
First, it is irresponsble journalism
— rumor - mongering — at best; sec-
ond, it is the sort of insidious
subtlety that foreshadows a
"thought control" policy which
can lead only to the most vicious
repressive measures.
It is precisely the type of gen-
eralization used so successfully in
Germany prior to, and during, the
Hitler regime when to be "seen
chatting with" alleged Commun-
ists meant a quick, deadly visit by
the Gestapo.

HOLLYWOOD IS ABOUT to be
subjected to a witch-hunt and red-
herring fest which, from all Indi-
cations, would warns Der (erst-
while) Fuehrer's heart, assuming
he'd had one. One of the co-
sponsors Is none other than Con-
gressman John E. .Rankin (ex-
cuse the expression), whose con-
tinued and open anti-Semitism in
Congress, under the guise of
"Americanism," so closely resem-
bles the technique of the Nazi-
Fascists.
Surely, it is no coincidence that
the road has been cleared ahead
of the projected Hollywood putsch,
by the Thomas-Rankin Un-Ameri-
can Activities Committee, through
a documented statement made by
Rankin himself, to-wit:. , . "fully
75 per cent of the members of the
Communist party in this country
are Jews."
It is said that memories are
short, but it is doubtful that they
are so short as to disregard the
parallel between Rankin's asser-
tion and the historical events
leading to the establishment of
Fascism in Germany.
However, the person who sees
no danger in the Jew-Commun-
ist myth needs to have his head
examined, for it is only a step
from there to the curtailment
of civil liberties for all minori-
ties—and eventually for every
living being in America, except-
ing of course, the native Fascist
breed.
•
SHOULD RANKIN or his co-
horts appear in Hollywood to point
an accusing finger at all who are
"seen chatting with" alleged Reds,
it naturally follows that the same,
finger will point at all "seen chat-
ting with" Jews. How can this
be avoided when Rankin's own
dictum is such that most Com-
munists are Jews?
Moreover, if Jews are so labeled

• • •

THE DETROIT LADIES Aux-
iliary No. 135 will hold a dessert
luncheon at 1 p. m. Monday in the
home of Mrs. Grace Hart, 1656
Boston boulevard west. Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Shapero is chairman. Cards
and entertainment will be high-
lights. For reservations call TY.
6-7613.
• • •
HILDA GOLDBERG, senior
vice-president of Auxiliary No.
135, has been selected by the
Philip Morris Co. to appear on a
radio program over WXYZ to tell
of her experiences as social spon-
sor for at corps members sta-
tioned at Rotunda Barracks, Dear-
born, during the war.
• • •

"DOROTHY LAMOUR IS MY

FAVORITE BRUNETTE

AND CHESTERFIELD IS

MY FAVORITE CIGARETTE"

CURRENTLY STARRING IN

PARAMOUNT', ROMANTIC CONED'

"MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE"

THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS
were elected at the first election
of the Sholom Post at Congrega-
tion Shaarey Zedek: Hyman Saf-
ran, commander; Ralph Bernstein,
senior vice commander; Ben S.
Chinitz, junior vice-commander;
Harry Gruber, adjutant; Hubert
Sidlow, quartermaster; Jacob Kei-
dan, judge advocate; Rabbi Morris
Adler, post chaplain. Shalom Post
will he instituted and officers in-
stalled on June 5. Membership is
open to all veterans irrespective
of their congregational affiliations.
• • •

LT. RAYMOND ZUSSMAN Post
(Congressional Medal of Honor
Post) at its recent election ele-
vated the following: Julie R. San-
dler, commander; Lee Segal, sen-
BYRON KRIEGER
ior vice-commander; Leo E. Ber-
BYRON KRIEGER of Detroit lin, junior vice-commander; Wil-
liam
Rosen, judge advocate; Jack
Is brushing up for the national
fencing championship to be held Waxer, quartermaster; adjutant,
Sam L. Fischer; Edward Bunin.
in New York in June.
Former captain of the Wayne chaplain.
• • •
University varsity team, Krieger
ROBERT
RAFELSON
POST In-
captured the midwest foils toga
recently in Chicago. Ile also stalled these officers: Norman
Berkley, commander; George W.
placed second in the epee.
Byron, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Agree, senior vice - commander;
Krieger of Edison avenue,' was Phil Rothschild, junior vice-com-
one of three Detroit fencers se- mander; Charles Perlman, judge
advocate; Julius Greenberg, sur-
lected as a candidate for the geon; trustees, Nat Canvasser,
American Olympic squad.
Leslie Fleisher, Jack Langer, Sid-
In 1941 he was ranked fourth ney Solomon; Jack H. Langer, ad-
and fifth respectively among U. S. jutant.
competitors in the foil and saber.
• • •
a • •
THE DEPARTMENT WILL dis-
HARRY BOYKOFF, giant cen- tribute Poppies on May 22. Pro-
ter and captain of St. John's bas- ceeds will be used for rehabilita-
ketball team, has signed a con- tion and welfare work for Jewish
tract to play professionally for the War Veteran organizations. Vol-
Toledo Jeeps of the National Bas- unteers are asked to contact De-
ketball League. Boykoff will re- partment headquarters, TR. 1-8899,
or Rudolf Stein, TY. 5-6930.
•eelve $10,000 a year.

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Friday, May 16, 194,

in Rankin's mental cesspool, who
is to say that non-Jews (and non-
Reds, for that matter) are not?
Only Rankin, and to date he
hasn't said it.
So quite simply, the "thought
control" process begins to shape
up: Be wary with whom you're
seen chatting! Don't talk to any-
one suspected of being a Red!
Don't talk to anyone suspected of
being a Jew! Don't talk to any-
one suspected of being anyone!
Don't talk—period!
This is what can develop from
innocent sounding remarks so
casually dropped in trade journal
columns. It needs but a slight
push to start the "thought con-
trol" snowball rolling, and with
America's Rankins supplying the
impetus it is time to think of ap-
plying some head to melt the
snowball down — before Holly-
wood's cafes become the Munich
beer-halls of America.

(A W "Id New, Services roans's)

Davi(I-Horodoker Maps
Mother.-Daughter Affair

A Mother-Daughter affair is
planned by the David-Horodoke,
Juniors for May 26 at Rosenberg'
Catering and a card party for
May 29 at the Rose Sittig Cohen
Bldg.
For tickets and information call
Mrs. M. Stein, TO. 6-2788.
The following officers have been
elected by the group: Mesdames
J. Lawton, president; B. Dorehen,
vice-president; B. Chase, financial
secretary; A. Heiman, treasurer;
and M. Knoppow, recording and
corresponding secretary,

.

Haifa Continuing Drive
to Add to ZOA Ranks

A - project is being undertaken
by the Haifa Chapter, Zionist Or-
ganization of Detroit, to contact
members of the Jewish commit-
nity who were not signed up in
the recent drive for Zionist mem-
bers.
Dr. Bernard Weston, the group's
first vice-president and member-
ship chairman, will be in charge.
Dr. Louis L. Kazdan, Herman
Kazdan and Dr. Weston are lead-
ing in the city-wide campaign to
enlist new members.

