Page Sixteen DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE At Military Ball of JWV Our Athletes 6 Jews Bid for Berths in Major League By FRANK Friday, March 5, 1945 BULLETIN BECKMAN NOW THAT spring training is under way, it might be well to take a quick glance at major league camps to see what Jewish players are most likely to be retained by Various clubs. Come open- ing day, the following men probably will be wearing big- Beckman time garb: Sid Gordon, New York Giants; Cal Abrams, Brooklyn; Cy Block, Chicago Cubs; Marvin Rutner, Philadelphia Athletics; and Al Rosen and Hank Greenberg, Cleveland. • • • Greenberg Story HERE'S MORE on the Green- berg-Philadelphia story as told by Earle Mack, assistant mana- ger of the Athletics. "We thought sure we had him until ha phoned me one evening and said he had decided not to play any more," Mack said. "I was mighty puzzled when L got word that Hank was headed for Cleveland. "He told us at the December meeting he had a bid from Bill Veeck, but left us with the im- pression he would rather work for dad. Leaders of veterans organizations as well as local and state officials were guests at the fifth annual military ball of the Michigan Department, Jewish War Veterans, last Saturday at Ma- sonic Temple. Some of them were, left to right, Arthur J. Madar, Michigan commander of AMVETS; Maurice Hordelove, JWV department commander; Mayor Van Antwerp; and Arthur Clarke, Michigan commander of American Legion, Their Blood Used by Nazis La unch IIJA * • $25,000 Offer "APPARENTLY he's a fellow who changes his mind just like that. Mack, made an offer of abetter than $25,000" to Greenberg. In defense, Hank said he was misquoted by Mack in regard to retirement. He -added that he was not re- ceptive to the Athletics' offer be- cause there was little chance of his moving up to a front office job with that team. • • • Correction. Please CORRECTION: The basketball team of the Pfc.. Joseph L. Bale Post, Jewish War Veterans, de- feated the strong Parks-MacMi- chael and Lawrence Tech Frosh aggregations. We mentioned in- correctly last week that the vets were beaten by these quintets. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Karp and their 16-year-old daughter Celina were among the Jews in German labor camps whose blood was taken regularly for wounded Nazis, thereby refut- ing the Nazis' own theory of Jewish inferiority. Mrs. Karp and her daughter were first sent to Auschwitz and later re- united .with Mr. Karp in a forced labor camp. With the help of United Service for New Americans the family recently joined relatives in Des Moines. Detroit Guest More on Palestine BEN BAGDADE, president of the Amateur Skating Union and manager of the U. S. Olympic speed-skating team, gives us ad- ditional information on Pales- tine's withdrawal from the win- ter games. "When I arrived at St. Moritz (Switzerland)," Bagdade said, "I learned that the Palestine team had dropped out because Lebanon had protested against its parti- cipation. • • Talked to Minister Finally Defeated' IT HAPPENED. The Cincin- nati Jewish Center basketball team finally lost a game. After chalking up 12 consecu- tive victories, the Centerites were defeated by an inter-city rival. However, the Jewish lads went on to capture their next 12 con- tests and also the Queen City AAU crown. states, Dr. Sam Krohn, chair- man, said. Highlight of the institute will be a dance March 27 at Shaarey Zedek. "A Night in Tel Aviv" will be the theme. Sponsoring groups include Wayne University IZFA, Masa- da-Junior Hadassah and Young Judea. For reservations call TO. 8-6190. • • • Haifa Chapter • "I talked to the Lebanese min- ister and he denied that he had anything to do with it. He later changed his story, saying that he wasn't the only one responsible. "He asked: 'How can we ac- cept them (the Palestinians) when they are not even a na- tion?' "Being the only Jew there," Bagdade said, "I wasn't able to press the subject." • • • JWV YOLA LEE . • • Institute to Bring IZFA President Mrs. Alex Zuckman will be the fifth speaker in Haifa Chap- ter's lecture series on "Inside Palestine." She will discuss "Political Parties in the Yishuv" at a meet- ing Monday. Hostesses will be Mesdames Samuel Barr, Mrs. Sanford Bennett and Mrs. Sey- mour Kraus. Ip response to the immediate need for cash support to aid the Jews of Palestine, a delegation from the chapter turned over its 1948 contribution of $500 to the Allied Jewish Campaign this week,* in advance of solicitation. • • • Jabotinsky Circle Young Zionists .Due at Parley March 26 A review of the present po- litical situation in connection with the the recent U. S. decla- ration on Palestine will be given at a meeting of the newly-or- ganized Jabotinsky Circle at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, in the home of J. M. Mathis, 2083 Gladsone ave- nue. Interested Herzlian Zion- ists are invited. Launching the $250,000,000 campaign of the 1948 United Jewish Appeal, Julius Fligel- man, left, of Los Angeles, who was co-chairman of the UJA delegation which has just re- turned from a tour of Europe and Palestine, shares the plat- form with Henry Morgenthau Jr., UJA general chairman, at national conference in - Wash- ington. CHARLES I. SC HOTTLAND, executive director of the Jewish Var Veterans, will be guest speaker at the installa- tion and past commanders' ban- quet of the Lawrence H. Jones Post, Sunday evening at the Lee Plaza Hotel. Schottland, who will come here from New York, was a lieutenant colonel in the army. He was on Gen. Eisenhower's staff as chief of section of the Displaced Persons branch in charge of planning for the care of the 6,500,000 DP's uncovered by the American and British armies in Germany. From September to Decem. sir i ber, 1945, he was assistant di- rector of UNNRA for Germany as assistant to Gen. Sir Freder- ick Morgan and was decorated by France, Czechoslovakia and Poland for his services in con- nection with the repatriation of • nationals of these countries. • • • IN AN EFFORT to make for better community relations be- tween members of all veterans and patriotic organizations, the Michigan Ladies Auxiliary will sponsor a dessert luncheon, March 29 at Kern's auditorium. Initial plans were made at a meeting last Saturday in the home of Mrs. Arlene Rhodes, co-chairman. Assisting Mrs. Rhodes on the luncheon committee are Ruth Schreiber, co-chairman; Mrs. Elizabeth Shapero, department president; Mrs. Rose Cowan, hospitality chairman; and. Mrs. Helen Kogan, Mrs. Dorothy Brown, Mrs. Birdie Rosenberg, MI's. Rose Cantor, Mrs. Louba Lupiloff and Marian Slavin. • • * MEMBERS OF the Pfc. Jo- seph L. Bale Post will enter- tain their auxiliary and repre- sentatives of all allied veterans groups at an open social meet- ing at 8:30 p.m., Thursday, in the Northwest Hebrew Congre- gation. Movies of the Michigan-South- ern California Rose Bowl game will be shown. • • ,• THE GINSBERG - Rosenberg Post was sponsor of a brunch for members and their friends at 11 a.m., Sunday, at 4260 Waver- ' ly avenue. Ben Desenberg was in charge.. Tabashnik Heads Arab Labor Chiefs . - Furniture Section Pledge Aid to Jews The furniture section of the Mercantile Division of the 1948 in Cable to Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign has an- nounced offiCers for this year's drive. Louis Tabashnik is chair- man. Members of the board of gov- ernors are Charles Abramson, Charles I. Hassey, Emil Edelson, LaWrence L. Kaplan, Samuel Kohlenberg, Edward T. Lichtig, Herman Mathias, Morton J. New- lander, Ray Redlich, Louis Rob- inson, Irving Ruby, Joseph Schwartz, Alex Sklar, James L. Stein, Max M. Trager and Harry Weingarten. 11 Detroiters Named to the Board of USNA NEW YORK — Twelve com- munity leaders in two Michigan cities ha've been elected to the board of directors for 1948 of United Service for New Ameri- cans. They are: Dr. William Haber of Ann Arbor and the following Detroiters: Mrs. Samuel R. Glogower, Mrs. Rose Lipson, Miss Henrietta Robinson, Mrs. Herbert Smith, Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, Fred M. Butzel, Julian Krolik, Judge T. C. Levin, Isidore Sobeloff, Abe Srere and Henry Wineman. The hope that two independent states will be established in Pal- estine "based on cooperation of Arab and Jewish workers" was voiced by Arab leaders in a cable received today by the National Committee for Labor Palestine. The cable, a reply to greeting5"V from Detroit labor unions, wax, signed by Mustafa el Abdallah and Bishara el Issa, leaders of the Palestine Labor League, a trade union movement of over 5,000 Arab workers that has cooperated with Histadrut, the General Fed- eration of Jewish Labor, for 20 years. Congress Party to Honor Wise The annual Purim ball of th% Detroit Section, American Jewish Congress, will honor Rabbi Steph- en S. Wise on the occasion of his 74th birthday, Mrs. Ann Parker, chairman, announced. Scheduled for March 20 at the Northwest Hebrew Congregation, the affair will feature Milt Carr and his orchestra. Moe Kesner will be master of ceremonies. For tickets call Mrs. H. Kaminer. Yola Lee, national president of the Intercollegiate Zionist Federation of America, will be a guest at the annual midwest Zionist Youth Institute to be held here the weekend of March The Joint Distribution Com- About 103,000 Jews were helped 26. mittee's child-care program pro- to full or partial self-support In She will be among the 200 Chronicle Social and Club vides for 138,000 out of Europe's the last year through JDC-sup- leaders expected from four News deadline is noon Monday. 182,000 Jewish children. ported reconstruction activities.