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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE.

Our AiIlledem

3 Jews Win
Points for U.S.
at Olympics

B. B. Gift to Isiael on Display

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Seymour Second

DR. STEVE SEYMOUR of Los
Angeles captured the No. 2 spot
in the javelin toss with a heave
of 221 feet, 71/2 inches, about
seven feet less than the winning
effort of Finland's Kaj Rauta-
vaara.
Dr. Seymour was one of the
Americans who later went on to
'Prague to compete in the four-
nation (Finland, Czechoslovakia,
Italy and U.S.) track and field
meet, walking off with his spe-
cialty with a throw of 232 feet,
11 inches.

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Squabble Arises

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In announcing his candidacy, ill
Dorfman has pledged to put the
JWV on a sound business basis.
He is a successful merchant and
manufacturer who is the directing
head of four industrial and busi-
ness enterprises,
In 1947 and 1948 he was gen-
eral chairman of the St. Paul
United Jewish Fund campaigns,
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Newcomers

A BRUNCH was held by the
Lt. Eli Levin Auxiliary at the
home of Rose Cantor, proceeds
of which went for the donor
luncheon of the Michigan De-
partment, Nov. 17 at the Hotel
Book .Cadillac.
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These jeeps contributed by the Rabbi Mandel Zager Lodge and, Chapter of Bnai Brith to the
Aid to the People of Israel Drive are on display at a gas station at Dexter and Davison.
Assisting the campaign are, left to right, Herman Schneider, co-chairman; Irving Lipson,
financial secretary; Sidney Ershel, chairman; Maxwell Lowe, lodge president; Edward Levites,
co-owner of the station; and Leo Polk, lodge chairman.

Have You a Home for Me?

by Moshe Sneh held a mass ral-
ly in Tel Aviv on the occasion
of the arrival of Soviet envoy
Yershov. Sneh, who is involved
in the dispute over the Palmach,
which Ben Gurion has asked to
be dissolved, called for closer
cooperation between Israel and
the Soviets.
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN, 28
year old American-Jewish con-
ductor, rejected an offer of co-
directorship with Serge Kousse-
vitsky of the Boston symphony
orchestra in order to accept an
appointment as conductor of the
Tel Aviv Philharmonic. This will
not be Bernstein's first appear-
ance in Israel.. He appeared there
successfully as composer, as con-
ductor and soloist, last year.

Food for the heart is important; too, for little refugee chil-
dren like this one who are coming to cities like Detroit after
their arrival in this country. The Jewish Social Service
Bureau is seeking foster homes for new American children,
where they can receive some of the loving care they missed
during the war years. A monthly fee is paid to cover the
children's expenses. Foster parents are asked to give them
the security and affection of a home. If you are interested
In being a foster parent for a little boy or girl, call Grace
Polansky at the Jewish Social Service Bureau,. TR. 2-4080.

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Materials for Israel' Fight
Ends With Unity Program

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FRICTION WAS engendered
at the Olympiad when Henry
Laskau and Fred Sharaga were
disqualified from the 10,000-me-
ter walk for not .following Euro-
pean rules. Both leveled blasts
at the judges' rulings.
The only victory of the Jewish
contingent went to Henry Wit-
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tenberg, New York detective,
who was crowned the light- after a long illness at 68.
Hirshbein will be remembered
heavyweight wrestling king.
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in Yiddish literature primarily
for his dramas which introduced
for the first time Jewish farm
THE PFC. JOSEPH L. Bale life on the stage.
Post, Jewish War Veterans, is
Both his plays and prose, were
certainly basketball conscious.
permeated with a lyricism which
Last year, the vets molded an was a distinctive feature of his
aggregation that was good talent. He belonged to the
enough to win the champion- younger and modern Yiddish
ships of the . City Class A Rec- writers who had advanced upon
reation League and the Jewish the old Yiddish classicists who
Center Major League.
wrote only about the old ghetto,
This season, the post plans to Chassidism, religious and nation-
sponsor three teams, one in both alistic topics.
the Class A and B Recreation
His heroes were modern Jew-
Leagues and a third in the Cen- ish men and women, farmers,
ter's loop,
workers, intellectuals, who lived
in a modern world and faced
modern issues. Because of that,
he was not very popular in re-
OUTSTANDING additions to
cent years of the rise of Jewish
the Bale roster will be Sam
nationalism and neo-religion.
Lieberman, former all-state and
The last years of his life,
Lawrence Tech center, and Abe
Hirshbein lived practically in se-
Parness, erstwhile captain of the
clusion and was little heard of.
Wayne University quintet. Lieb-
He will be remembered, how-
erman stands 6 feet, 6 inches.
ever, not only for his' consider-
Those returning from the 1947-
able talent, but still more as a
!8 squad will include Danny
gentle and lovable personality, a
Arnold, Eli Kaplansky, Ted
man of great refinement in his
Bale, Ben Weinberg, Obbie
life as well as in his writing.
Friedman, Bernie Schneider and
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Murray Weiss.
THE ELECTION campaigns
Practice will start early in Oc-
are under way in Israel. The
tober.
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more vociferous organizations,

Ambitious Plans

ST. PAUL, MINN. (Special)—
Meyer Dorfman, civic and
communal leader here, has ac-
cepted the draft of the Fifth Re-
gion and agreed to become a can-
didate for national commander
of the Jewish War Veterans at
the annual convention Sept. 14-
19 at Kiamesha Lake, N. Y. Har-
ry Madison of Detroit is his
campaign chairman.
A meTnber of the JWV's na-
tional executive committee and
its policy and budget commit-
tees, Dorfman would succeed
Brig. Gen. Julius Klein, now na-
tional commander.

tSla.ktt.

RABBI MA

Mondschein Fails

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NEW YORK University's Irv-
ing Mondschein was a disap-
pointment in the decathlon as
he finished far down in eighth
position with 6,715 points. Win-
ner Bob Mathias of California
totaled 7,139.
Another who failed to qualify
was. Vic Frank, star Yale Uni-
versity football player, who
whirled the discuss a short 139
feet, 91/2 inches, far less than the
required 150 feet, 11 inches.
Frank fouled on his other two
attempts.

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HERE IS A roundup of the
exploits of Amercan-Jewish
athletes in the Olympic Games.
In the swim-
ming depart.
ment, Suzanne
Zimmerman of
Portland, Ore.,
broke the old
Olympic record
for the 100-
meter back
stroke with a
time of 1:16,
but had to be
content w ith
second place as Denmark's Kar-
en Harup covered the distance
in 1:14.4.
A second U. S. mermaid, Car-
ol Pence, Purdue . University
sophomore, came in seventh in
the preliminary heat of the 200-
meter breast stroke, which elim-
inated her from further compe-
tition.

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Friday, August 27, MI

Stern and Irgun, fired their
opening guns. A mass Stern
group meeting in Jerusalem
urged the transfer of army of
Israel headquarters to the Holy
City.
Meantime, Menahem Beigin,
opening the Irgun campaign,
predicted the dissidents will poll
one-third of all the votes cast.
The main plank of his program
will be an all-out attack on "the
left dictatorship" of the Mapai.
Some of the _left parties, led

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A SOCIAL MEETING will be
held by the Yetz-Cohen Ladies
Auxiliary Monday at the home of
Sadie Levin, 15721 Parkside ave-
nue.

Norma Lewis Thanks
Contributors to DP's

Norma T. Lewis, chairman of
SOS and Adopt a Family Over-
seas work of the Louis Marshall
Lodge Business and Professional
Women, reports that she has re-
ceived letters of thanks from two
families which the group adopt-
ed.

Miss Lewis expresses her gra-
titude to all members of the
organization who responded gen-
erously to her appeals for food,
clothing and money to assist
European refugees.

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