U -9 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.