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BULLETIN

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1TT ORNEY GENERAL Toni C.

Clark and W. Stuart Syming-
ton, Secretary of the Air Forces,
will be amorg the speakers at
the 53rd annual encampment of
the Jewish War Veterans of the
United States, Brig. Gen. Julius
Klein, national JWV commander,
announced.

By FRANK BECKMAN

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WE RAN ACROSS a story by
Jesse Abramson in the New
York Herald Tribune which we
thought inter-
esting enough
to be repeated
in almost its
entirety.
Sent from
London,it
reads as fol-
lows:
"One of
New York's
finest, a cop-
Beckman per with B.S.
and M.A. degrees, citations for
nabbing armed robbers bare-
handed, plus a shiny Olympic
gold medal in his pocket, was
received by King George VI of
England in Buckingham Palace
today (Aug. 4).
"Fortunately, Henry Witten-
berg, police sergeant attached to
the 26th precinct in Manhattan's
Riverside Drive neighborhood,
does not shake hands left-hand-
ed with Kings of England when
he meets them, for the new
Olympic light heavyweight (191)
champion, crowned last night in
Earl's Court, greeted the King
with a separation of the left
stern() clavicular articulation—
between the 'collarbone and the
breastbone.

• • •

The convention will be held
Sept. 14-19 at the Concord Hotel,
Kiamesha Lake, N. Y. More than
3,000 del'-gates are expected.
• • •

PLANS FOR a donor luncheon
to take place Nov. 17 at the Hotel
Book Cadillac will be discussed
at a meeting of the Lt. Eli Le ')
Auxiliary, Tuesday at the hew
of Frieda Shifman, 3225 Curt-
land avenue.
• • •

GIFTS WERE presented to 50
patients of Percy Jones Hospital
by the Detroit Post No. 135 and
its women's auxiliary in a cere-
mony Tuesday at Red Cross
Headquarters.

ot') by Jai k lirgelnum

Shown is the Jewish Center's varsity softball team, division champions of the City Recrea-
tion Class B League. Winner of 21 out of 23 games, the Center squad will compete in the

Midwest Jewish Center tournament at Cincinnati. It will also seek added honors in the city
playoffs at 7 p.m., Monday, at Jayne Field. Top row, left , to right., Coach Maurice Stotzky,
Al Berlin, Harold Phillips, Abe Parness, Lew Gold, Sol Iwrey and Meyer Fleishman. Bot-
tom row, left to right, Sigmund Brodie, Bill Litt, Bob Roth, Ben Stein, Joe Gantz, manager,
and Bobby Litt, mascot.

Sets Up Fund for Veterans

Israeli to Teach
at Dropsie College

Diagnoses In jury

"OUR HENRY diagnosed the
injury himself for he knows the
names of every bone in the hu-
man body. Ile suffered this
painful injury halfway through
his final 15-minute bout that
brought him his title against
Stoekli of Switzerland:
"'I was in a defensive posi-
tion, underneath on all fours, at
the seven-minute mark when
Stoekli barred my forearm.
"'I felt something snap and
a sharp pain. I thought I was
hurt, but I did not realize I was
hurt as badly as I was. I won a
split-decision. The way I figured
it I had more takedowns and
reverses, but the Swiss was
fresher and more aggressive.'
• • •

• • •

Press Favored
Creation of State

200 Newspapers
in ADL's Survey

EDITORIAL SYMPATHY

PROF. EDWIN SAMUEL,

principal and founder of the

Middle East College of Public
Administration in Jerusalem,

will arrive in the U. S. in mid-

Mrs. Ida S. Latz of Los Angeles as shown during one of her
frequent visits to disabled veterans at the Veterans Admin-
istration's Birmingham Hospital, Van Nuys, Calif. She has
established the Ida S. Latz Foundation to "provide aid
supplementary to the assistance by governmental agencies."
The Jewish War Veterans has been appointed the agency to
carry out the program of the foundation. JWV was selected
after Mrs. Latz consulted Judge Benjamin J. Scheinman,
Justice of the California Supreme Court.

September to assume his du-
ties as a faculty member of
Dropsie College's new Insti-
tute for'lsrael and the Middle
East, It was announced by Dr.
Abraham A. Neumann, Drop-
sie president. Professor Sam-

uel is the son of Sir Herbert
Samuel, first British High

Commissioner for Palestine.

JDC Rebuilds Their' Young Lives

Navy Veteran

"WITTENBERG is a five-foot-
nine-inch swarthy brown-haired
chunk of brawn and brains,
strength and skill, 29 years old,
a Navy veteran, and father of
two.
"lie took up wrestling in col-
lege because he thought it
would strengthen his free-style
swimming on the Lavender
team. He has no professional
ambitions in wrestling, only in
his police career.
"'The way I feel now with
my aching shoulder I never
want to go to the mat again,'
said Olympic King Henry before
going off to meet King George
with nine other Americans se-
lected as representatives from
the United States Olympic
squad."

The auxiliary will meet at
8:30 p.m., Monday in the home
of Mrs. Eva Schiff, 2310 Glad-
stone avenue. A social period
will follow.

NEW YORK (WNS) — A
survey of 200 ,leading newspa-
pers from all sections of the
country, conducted by the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai
Brith, disclosed this week that
editorial opinion in the major-
ity of the nations' leading news-
papers supported the creation of
the new State of Israel.
Of those papers investigated,
the report revealed, 64 percent
favored the creation of the
Jewish State, 32 percent were
noncommittal and only four
percent were actually critical in
tone.

Never a Loser

"WITTENBERG'S amazing
`rassling' skill brought him
through without the full use of
his left arm and he's a left-
handed wrestler at that.
"Wittenberg won his six bouts
en route to the title, including
the fastest fall, of the tourna-
ment, 47 seconds, in pinning
Johnny Sullivan of Great Brit-
ain.
"Ile won three bouts by falls,
three by decisions, including
two split decisions. But he won
'em all and maintained the stu-
pendous record of never losing
a wrestling bout in tub nine.
years since he was graduated
from the City College of New
York.

J W V

Most editorials expressed sym-
pathy for Jewry's long struggle
for a Homeland and some lik-
ened Israel's independence to
the United State's Declaration
of Independence in 1776.
The survey also noted that
the newspapers voiced almost
the same percentage of appro-
val of President Truman's de
facto recognition of Israel. How.
ever, in this instance the unfa-
vorable comment expressed rose
to 19 percent, though it was not
directed toward Israel but cri-
ticized Mr. Truman's recogni.
tion as "a political device."

RANKIN OPPOSES

Analysis of congressional sen-
timent was based on • an examin-
ation of the Congressional Rec-
ord, Every senator who spoke
on the issue-19 in all—ex-
presed unqualified endorsement 1111,
of the new state,
In the House of Representa-
tives„ 17 congressmen likewise
voiced approval. Two legisla•
tors, prominent for their Jew-
baiting, were quick to express
their antagonism.
They were Rankin (D-Miss.)
and Gossett (D-Tex.). Two other
congressmen, Lawrence Smith
(R-Wis.) and Ross - Rizley (R-
Okla.) inserted unfriendly arti-
cles in the Congressional Rec-
ord.

10 Nazi War Criminals
Face Trial in Poland

Peeling potatoes for dinner is part of a day's work and play for 150 Jewish refugee boys and
girls in a children's center in France recently named in honor of former New York Gov, Her-
bert II. Lehman. At right, Louis Karmizik, 14, has
a chance to develop his talent for ceramic
painting after years in concentration camps. The home

Committee.

is maintained by the Joint Distribution

WARSAW (WNS)—Ten Nazi
war criminals. indicted by the
Polish government for crimes
against Jews, were extradited to
Poland this week by American
military government authorities
in the U.S. zone of Germany.
They will stand trial here shortly.

