THE JEWISH NEWS
March 27, 1942
PHINEAS J. BIRONS
modern mechanized units are in
use.
THIS AND THAT
The largest matzah ever baked
has just been produced by the
Manischewitz Company — and in
the shape of a V (for Victory) to .
by Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
boot . . . It's four feet tall, and
eight per cent — are Jews, have represents the first change in
WAR ECHOES
Ambassador Lawrence F. Stein- been unearthed by Winchell.
matzah shape in many decades,
hardt, whose appointment to his
George Jessel is a very disap- since the old - fashioned round
matzah gave way to the modern
new Ankara post entrusts him with
a most delicate diplomatic mission, pointed man, because his applica- square variety . . Just to show
succeeded in making himself -per- tion for Navy service was rejected that they mean it, the Manische-
sona very much grata with the on physical grounds . . . But witz people are also cooking up a
Turkish government even before George, after all, is no chicken, special batch of matzah perforated
leaving this country to take up his being well over 40.
in the dot-dot-dot-dash code V for
Songstress Dinah Shore will be Victory.
duties . . . It was Steinhardt who
The most interesting aspect of a
arranged for the lend-lease ship- working for Uncle Sam now . .
ment of American pursuit planes She's going on a Defense Bond recent experiment in mass hypno-
to Turkey, which had been unable sales tour.
tism on the student body of New
Cellist Emanuel Feuermann, who York's Yeshiva College lies in its
to acquire these aircraft in any
recently completed some trio and failure in a certain point • . . Al-
other way.
One of the few Jewish generals quartet Victor recordings with though ordered to eat bacon while
in the British army is Frederick such artists as Jascha Heifetz and in their trance, all of these very
H. Kisch, who as Colonel Mach Artur Rubinstein, was a tremend- Orthodox students refused to do so.
was the chairman of the Jewish ous hit at Fort Riley, Kan., the ABOUT PEOPLE
Agency Executive from 1923 to other day, when he interrupted his
The first official function which
1931 .. . General Kisch is with the concert tour to give a free recital Dr. Chaim Weizmann will attend
general staff, and is. considered an before the soldiers of the Cavalry in this country, some time in April.
Replacement Training Center, the will be a conference of all Zionist
authority on desert warfare.
Reports that the Japanese have only camp in the country where parties, climaxed by a great dinner
captured and killed China's Gen- both the old-fashioned horse and in his honor.
eral Ma-Ma, the former Moishe
Cohen of Manchester, indicate that
our Chinese allies have lost their
Jewish military leader ... But fate
has sent them another Jewish aide,
this time in the person of slim,
pretty young Ottilie Wang, who
THE STORE OF PRECIOUS POSSESSIONS
was a medical student in her na-
tive Germany till Hitler's oppres-
sion forced her to leave . . She
married a Chinese fellow student,
and for the past several years has
been working day and night in the
military hospitals of the Chinese
army .. . A widow now, her hue-.
band having been killed in battle,
Ottilie is continuing with her work
. . . But no Florence Nightingale is
she—instead, she is considered one
of the Chinese army's most skillful
surgeon...
WAR NEWS
Statistics showing that the first
75 recipients of the Distingediihed
Flying Cross in this war among
American forces, six pilots—that hi ,
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March was a busy month on the
community calendar.
The Women's Division of the Al-
lied Jewish Campaign launched its
drive and the workers had occasion
to hear several outstanding speak-
ers—Jay Alien, noted correspond-
ent, and Judge Anna Moskowitz
Kross of New York topping the list
of those who called the women of
the community to action. "As the
women go, so do the men; is De-
troit's experience in the Allied Jew-
ish Carnpaign, and there is confi-
dence in the ranks that the Wom-
en's Division, under the chaireaaa-
ship of Mrs. H. C. Broder, wiU
again exceed its quot.....
The Strume tragedy—Dr. Chaim
Weizmann called it "an unspeak-
able outrage"—in an outrage in
London—was mourned at a public
meeting at the Shaarey Zedek oci
Sunday. Congressman John D.
Dingell, staunch defender of Jew-
ish rights, was the principal
speaker, others on the program be-
ing Rabbi Morris Adler, president
of the Zionist Organization of De-
troit; Lawrence W. Crohn. presi-
dent of the Zionist Council of De-
troit which arranged the meeting;
Benjamin M. Laikin, Detroit Poate
Zion leader; Jacob Rycua, spokes-
man. for the Zionist Youth Coun-
cil; Mrs. Max Frank, president of
Hadassah; Philip Slomovitz, who '
presided.
A distinct honor was accorded
Morris L. Schaver, for 12 years the
chairman of the Gewerkshaften-
the Palestine Labor Campaign
when a dinner was tendered him,
at the Workmen's Education Cen-
ter on Linwood Ave., on March S.
Mr. Schaver was installed as prowl-.
dent of the Arlazaroff branch of
the Jewish National Workers.' Al-
liance (Farband) on that occasion.
David Sislin was toastmaster. ,
Speakers included Harry Schumer,
William Hordes,: Philip Sintnovity
and others.
The 'United Hebrew Schools
launched an educational program, ,
under the direction of the schools'
Committee on Educational Woe-.
oration, of which Rabbi Morris.
Adler is chairman The first of a
series of symposia, on March 17, on
the subject "Jewish Education in
War Time," presented as speakers
Rabbi Adler, Rabbi Nahum Schul-
man of Windsor, Mrs. Joseph. H.
Ehrlich, Philip Slomovita and Ber-
nard Isaacs, superintendent _ofthe
schools.
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