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Friday, May 7, 1948
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Page Sixteen
J W V
Aid Children of Veterans
Our Athletes
BULLETIN
Sid Gordon
Playing Like
House on Fire
NEW OFFICERS of the Lt.
Raymond Bloch Ladies Aux-
iliary will be installed by Mrs.
Elizabeth Shapero, department
president, at 8 p.m., Tuesday at
Bnai David. Mrs. Birdie Rosen-
berg, department chief of staff,
will be mistress of ceremonies.
Taking office will be Natalie
Victor, president; Natalie Lankin
and Fay Linden, vice-presidents;
Shirley Rubinoff and Fay Brick-
ner, secretaries; and Julie Bloch,
treasurer.
By FRANK BECKMAN
SID GORDON is playing like a
house on fire for the New
York Giants. His hitting is
nothing short
of phenomenal,
and his field-
ing, as usual,
is par excel-
lent.
Last year,
the 29-year-old
°utile' d e r -
third - baseman
compiled a .273
average with
Beckman 119 hits in 437
times at bat, including 13 hom-
ers, eight triples and 19 doubles.
This season, he is well over
the .300 mark and has already
knocked out three home runs.
A native of Brooklyn, Sid
broke into organized baseball in
1938 with Milford. He later
spent one year with Clinton and
three with Jersey City before
making the grade as a Giant.
His lifetime major league bat-
ting average stands at .272.
• • •
ELECTION AND installation of
officers of the Lawrence H. Jones
Ladies Auxiliary will take place
at 1 p.m., Wednesday in the
home of Mrs. Harry Schaeffer,
3296 Webb avenue.
A theater party, "Movie Nile
for Aid to Palestine," will
sponsored by the auxiliary, M
d5y at the Palmer Park Theatie.4'
• • •
A MEETING of the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Pfc. Joseph L.
Bale Post will be held at 8:30
p.m., Thursday in the Northwest
Hebrew Congregation, Bess Lev-
in, president, announced.
• •
• • •
New Rook Out
IN American
JEW
"THE
Sports," by lIarold U. Ribalow,
is just off the press.
writes full-length
Ribalow
stories about such baseball fig-
ures as Hank Greenberg, Harry
Danning, Morrie Arnovich,
Goody Rosen, Andy Cohen, Moe
Berg, Al Schacht, Dolly Stark
(the umpire) and Gordon.
A long chapter on boxing
deals with the late Benny Leon-
ard, Barney Ross, -Al Singosjoe
Choynski and others.
For football there are Sid
Luckman, Marshall Goldberg
and Benny Friedman. Biogra-
phies are also written on Her-
man Barron, the golfer; Eman-
uel Lasker, the chess master;
Sidney Franklin, the bull-fight-
er; and Nat Holman and Harry
Boykoff of basketball fame.
• • •
Gold Star Wives have joined with the Ladies Auxiliary of the Robert Rafelson Post, Jewish
veterans.
program to provide medical aid for children of World War II
War Veterans, in a
rs. Lillian
Leaders in the project are, left to right, Mrs. Rosanne Agree, auxiliary president; M
Perlman, auxiliary medical chairman; Mrs. Al:la Romanelli, president of the Gold Star Wives;
and Mrs. Ruth Franks, Gold Star secretary.
Alive and Together Again
In Movie for UJA
ALCPOPPY chairmen of JWV
posts and auxiliaries will meet
May 15 at the home of Philip
Cantor, 9237 Wildemere avenue.
Mrs. Faye Taitelbauin is head of
the auxiliary committee. Cantor
is chairman of the posts' com-
mittee.
• • •
LILLIAN FELD will be in-
stalled as president of the Lt.
Eli Levin Ladies Auxiliary, Tues-
day in the home of Mrs. Rose
Cantor, 9237 Wildemere avenue.
Other officers are Sue Wein-
garden and Emma Peck, vice-
presidents; Esther Singerman,
treasurer; Ruth Goldschere, con-
ductress; Rose Shapson, guard;
Clara Breitman, chaplain; and
Rose Cantor, secretary.
Also taking office will be Ger-
trude Hoberman and Bernice
Cash, membership chairmen.
• • •
VETERANS HAVING problems
regarding their reemployment
rights are requested by the De-
partment of Labor to contact the
nearest local office of the Michi-
gan State Employment Service.
• • •
Goody Released
INCIDENTALLY, ROSEN, for-
merly of the New York Giants
and Brooklyn Dodgers, has been
released by the Toronto Maple
Leafs, the team with which he
played last year.
Goody is a well-established
restaurateur in Toronto, his
hometown.
GLENN FORD, film idol, is one
of the top personalities of the
entertainment world who are
contributing their services to
the United Jewish Appeal. Ile
• • •
3 Veterans Rack
THREE VETERANS from
last year's squad, Jerry Schumer,
Sidney Rubinstein and Ray
Franklin, form the nucleus of
the Central High golf team. New-
comers are Milt Green, Jerry
Ilalperin and Dick Mann.
• • •
Team Won Honors
Mrs. Mala Kiejzman, left, had not seen or heard from her
daughter Dina since the dark days when they were inmates
at Auschwitz„ They were united recently at a reception center
of United Service for New Americans. Dina had since been
married to Szmul Weizenfeld and had given birth to a daugh-
ter, shown above. Contributions to the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign furnish funds for reunions such as this.
`SOS Baby'
stars in the movie, "Make It
Real," which dramatizes' the
plight of Jewish children in
Europe. The UJA is supported
in Detroit by the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign.
Chant Kol Nidre in Movie
WHILE IN THE navy at Bain-
bridge, Md., Emanuel Ratner,
the Community Center's new
swimming instructor, coached a
team that won the Fifth Naval
District championship and placed
second in the South Atlantic
AAU meet.
Salenger Expands
THE GRAND RAPIDS entry
in the new Class A Central
baseball League is controlled by
Oscar Salenger. owner of the
Sacramento Solons, and managed
by Milt Galatzer, former Cleve-
land outfielder.
Robert Shulman, eight-year-
old pianist, has been chosen for
membership at Interlochen,
Mich., for the summer session.
Robert has been studying for
the past two years with Julius
Chajes, director of music at the
Center.
• • •
A HOSPITAL party for pa-
tients at the Dearborn Veterans
Hospital will be staged Tuesday
by the Ladies Auxiliary, Charles
and Aaron Kogan Post. A buffet
supper is planned for May 16,
with proceeds earmarked for the
Yishuv. For information call
TY. 6-7249.
• • •
RESERVATIONS may nt 2e
-
made with Lillian Fink and
die Rosenberg, chairmen, for the
testimonial tea honoring Eliza-
beth Shapero, cutgoing depart-
• • •
Interlochen Accepts •
Young Robert Shulman
THE THIRD annual dinner-
dance of the Robert Rafelson
Post will take place Wednesday
evening at Club Bali.
Words and music to a special
song honoring the memory of
Robert Rafelson will be intro-
duced. A floor show will be
presented.
The committee in charge in-
cludes George Agree, Sid Mann,
Jack Langer, Phil Rothschild and
Bernie Gourwitz. Tickets may
be obtained by calling Agree,
UN. 4-8369.
ment president.
The affair is scheduled for May
18 at the home of Ceil Orley,
19405 Warrington drive. The
cnairmen may be reached at TO.
8-3159 or HO. 8928.
This five-day-old Jewish in-
fant in a DP camp near Mu-
nich, Germany, is clad from
head to toe in an SOS lay-
ette. Knitting groups and sew-
ing circles have sprung up all
over Detroit to aid SOS, whose
program supplements that of
the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee.
Rosenwald Post Fetes
State Home Residents
These 10 boys of the children's chorus of the West Adams
Jewish Community Center, Los Alhgeles, are shown chanting
the Kol Nidre with Danny Thomas in a scene from the MGM
film, "Big City." The film is a story of a foundling adopted
by an Irish policeman, a Protestant minister and a Cantor.
A Passover party was given at
the Lapeer State Home by the
Rosenwald Post, American Le-
gion, under the supervision of
Mrs. Sadie Morrison, Mrs. Mary
Rabbi
Bader and Mrs. D. Lewis.
Herman Rosenwasser officiated.