'age Sixteen
Bur Athletes
Grahiner's
Post Never
to Be filled
By FRANK BECKMAN
'IV WAS A great little guy.
I have no plans for re-
?lacing him and there isn't any-
aody who could."
With these words, President
Bill Veeck of the Cleveland In-
dians made it
known that the
vacancy in the
Tribe's f ront
Ace, caused
by the death
Oct. 24 of
Harry Grabi-
ner, will never
be filled.
The fabgous
tale of Mr.
Beckman
Grabiner,
whose body rests in Chicago's
Rosehill Cemetery, is of the
Horatio Alger variety.
In his over 40 years in base-
oall, first with the Chicago White
Sox and later with the Indians,
Mr. Grabiner rose from score-
card boy to vice-president, sec-
retary and general manager of
the Sox.
DETROIT JEWISH
CHRONICLE
Metropolitan Club Gift to Israel
Members of the Jewish Metropolitan Club are shown with the truck they contributed to Bnai
Brith's Aid to Israel drive. L. to r., in front of vehicle, Nathan Cohen, Mrs. Morris Miller,
secretary; Philip Liner, trustee; Esther Gershenoff, vice-president; Morris Miller, president, (at
wheel); William Winnick; Sam Schwartz, Aid to Israel chairman; Mrs. Schwartz; Mrs. Winnick,
Mrs. Nathan Resnick, Laura Hotter, Mrs. Benjamin Dicken and Joseph Ginsburg. In truck
are Jerome Liner, Sol Sherman, William Brand, Benjamin Dicken, Harry Leven, I. Shapero,
Sam Gershenoff, I. Ashepa and unidentified man.
Elected Again
One of the Best
• • •
Strange Cheer
RELATIVES, OF Jewish heroes
who lost their lives in World
War II are urged to send photo-
graphs and biographical sketches
of the men to Samuel J. Rhodes,
preFident of the JWV Memorial
Association, in care of
JV. V headquarters, 914 Charle-
voix Bldg.
It is planned to have a memor-
ial room in the new building
honoring the Detroit war dead.
• • •
A MEETING of the Yetz-Co-
hen Ladies Auxiliary is planned
for 8:30 p. m., Monday, in the
home of Thelma Vova, 3330 Cal.
vert avenue. Prospective meni.
hers are invited.
• • •
REPRESENTATIVES of all
posts and auxiliaries met recently
to formulate plans for the annual
military ball, Feb. 19 at Masonic
Temple. Harold Padolsky, de-
partment junior vice-commander,
is chairman.
• • •
HARRY T. MADISON of De-
troit was named at the national
JWV convention to fill the unex-
pired term of Meyer Dorfman,
new national commander, as a
member of the fifth region's na-
tional executive committee.
Madison, past commander of
the Michigan department, will
serve for two years.
Federation Sifts
Independent Units
HE WAS ONLY 13 when he
entered the Chicago organiza-
tion, climbing steadily for 41
fears until his switch, along with
Veeck, to Cleveland.
At the age of 57 and as vice-
oresident of the Indians, Mr.
Grabiner was third among
kmerican League executives
from the point of service.
Survivors include his daugh-
ter, former stage and screen
actress known as June Travis;
his son-in-law and a brother, Jo-
3eph, all of Chicago.
YIP ! ! !
Harry Bittman, a Denver,
Colo., tailor`, had a brilliant ad-
vertising scheme.
He offered a free suit to any-
me who could pick the win-
ners of all 10 girl games selected
each wefic by him. He chose
the contests he thought would
be most difficult to prognosticate.
Everything went along well.
Nobody could master the Bitt-
man puzzle, and the city was
all, agog over the contest.
But then the roof fell in. Last
weekend, 427 Denverites came
up with perfect cards.
Rather than declare bank-
ruptcy, Bittman decided to keep
his promise. Since he has a
small shop, he figures it will
take him two and a half months
to fill the order. The estimated
cost: $22,000.
JWV
BULLETIN
• • •
Father of Actress
• * •
Sew, I'm Wrong
Friday, November 12, 1918
Report Aids Givers
to Determine Gifts
BENJAMIN BAGDADE of De-
troit was reelected president
of the U.S. Amateur Skating
Union at the body's annual
meeting in Milwaukee. Bag-
dade was in charge of Ameri-
can speed-skaters at the Olym-
pic games
Joseph Holtzman
Given DSR Post
Joseph Holtz man, popular
builder and communal worker,
was sworn in Monday as a mem-
ber of the street railway com-
mission that runs the DSR. He
was appointed by Mayor Van
Antwerp.
Holtzman has been active in
Allied Jewish Campaign efforts
for many, years. Last year, he
took - a—frip to Europe and Pal-
estine with Louis Berry to see
at first hand the type of work
he was supporting so loyally
back home.
He was so moved that he
spent many a night on his re-
turn recounting to groups what
he had seen and urging support
for the drive.
Holtzman lives at 18635 Oak
drive and is a partner in the
firm of Holtzman and Silverman,
1711 National Bank Bldg.
IT WILL SEEM strange to
Jewish ears to hear the cry,
"Rah, rah, rah, Yeshiva U,"•but
that seems to be in the offing.
Heretofor, the school has con-
centrated almost solely on
studies. Recently, hovSever, an
athletic association was set up to
foster increased interest in
sports.
It will take quite a while for
the Yeshivah to build up suffi-
cient forces to compete success-
fully with other institutions of 30 Jewish Periodicals
similar enrollments. But that
will come if Rabbi Abraham Published in S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Af-
Avrech, chairman of the athletic
rica (World News Services) —
board, has his way.
• • •
There are no less than 30 Jew-
ish periodicals published in
Moffie Stars
South Africa.
HAL MOFFIE, Harvard half-
There are five weeklies: The
back, played one of the best Zionist Record of Johannesburg,
games of his collegiate career the Jewish Times and Jewish
as his Crimson eleven defeated Chronicle of Cape Town, the
Holy Cross, 20 to 13, a couple of Jewish Herald and African Jew-
Saturdays ago.
ish Newspaper, the latter pub-
He was instrumental in Har- lished in Yiddish. Eighteen pe-
vard's first score and broke up riodicals are published monthly.
a 7-7 deadlock in the late min-
utes of the second period with
Chronicle social and club news
an 89-yard touchdown run.
deadline is noon, Mondays.
Art Weiner, brilliant left end for undefeated University of
North Carolina, reaches high to haul in a pass. A product of
New Jersey, Weiner carries the ball quite frequently„ on an
end-around play. His rushing average is almost nine yards
per try, the best for his team. Ile is considered an outstand-
ing prospect for all-American selection.
L. A. Sanatorium Drive Goal
Is Raised to $150,000 Here
In view of the gigantic build-
ing program of the Los Angeles
Sanatorium, the Business Men's
Group of Detroit has raised its
campaign quota from $50,000 to
$150,000.
Ben Goldberg, financial secre-
tary, reported at a special meet-
ing last week that the pledges
of $1,000 from each of the
group's 27 members will defi-
nitely be fulfilled. The remain-
der must be collected from the
community at large.
recreation rooms, auditorium,
theater and chapel. Loud speak-
ers in every room will enable
patients to hear services.
CLASSES OFFERED
Beside its therapeutic treat-
ment, the sanatorium provides
outlets for convalescing patients
through classes in leather craft,
wood carving, glass etching,
paintingp sewing and knitting.
Courses also are offered in
algebra, music, history and lan-
guages, and religious services
RAPID GROWTII
are offered for all faiths.
The $7,215,000 expansion pro-
To contribute, contact Gold-
gram of the hospital is well un- berg or Nathan R. Epstein, presi-
der way, Goldberg said, with dent of the local committee.
over $2,500,000 already expend-
ed. An imposing new assembly
of buildings is fast sprouting up, Congress Youth Group
and improvements are constant-
ly being made on existing facil- to Hear 2 Speakers
ities.
The home of Harriet A. Le-
When completed, the sanatori- vine, 4077 Sturtevant avenue,
um will consist of the hub struc- will be the scene of an open
ture—a medical center—sur- membership meeting of the
rounded by six clusters of hos- Youth Division, American Jew-
pital wings.
ish Congress, at 7:30 p.m., Wed-
There will be research lab- nesday.
oratories, surgery and X-ray
Mrs. Arthur L. Robbins will
rooms, a laundry, central kit- review "A Mask for Provilege"
chen, dining room, nurses home, by Carey McWilliams. Samuel
resident physicians quarters.
Brown, regional director of AJC,
Also a personnel building, will also speak. Refreshments
power and maintenance plants, will be served.
The first of \ a series of infor-
mational reports to help big con-
tributors to the Allied Jewish
Campaign decide whether they
should give any money to inde-
pendent drives and how much
is being distributed by the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation.
The inaugural reports are de-
voted to four major national
Jewish hospitals for the treat.
ment of tuberculosis.
IN MIDST OF DRIE
One of them, the Los Angeles
Sanatorium, is in the midst of a
drive here to assist the building
program of the hospital. The oth-
ers are three Denver organiza-
tions offering help to consump-
tives.
The Federation pointed out
that distribution of its material
is not to be regarded either as
"an indorsement or disapproval
of the organization. Any deci-
sion to contribute in whatever
measure is in the last analysis
a personal responsibility."
INFORMATION SOUGHT
According to the Federation,
preparation of this material re-
sulted from requests by pros-
pective contributors for informa-
tion on agencies not part of the
Allied Jewish Campaign.
Copies of the statement, as
well as information about other
Jewish agencies, may be secured
on request at the Federation of-
fice in the Owen Bldg., 250 La-
fayette W., WO. 5-3939. Requests
should be directed to Ben Man-
delkorn, administrative assistant.
Edelman Reports
on UPA Session
UPA governing bodies will in-
clude community representatives
in the future, it was decided at
the UPA conference In Chicago,
Sol B. Edelman, a Detroit dele-
gate, reported. •
Edelman, named a member of
the •resolutions committee, dis-
closed the adoption of resolutions
changing the name of the UPA
to United Appeal for Israel and
confirming that the Jewish Agen-
cy would remain in charge of al•
locations of funds to Israel.
Other Detroit .delegates
eluded Morris Jacobs:Leon Kay,
Wolok. Wolok and S. Joseph