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April 10, 1942

THE JEWISH NEWS

Hails Heroism of Jewish Boys
Jewish Soldiers In The War

Bayer and Nagler Corp. Sabbota Safe
Join U. S. Navy In Phillipine Fight
As Petty Officers While in the Philippines, Gen-

B

U. S. Senator arbour Lauds
Military Record and
Patriotism

e'ral MacArthur and his men
Pvt. Eimer Ras-
Among the Detroit Jewish men carved an impressive niche in Am-
kin, son of Mr.
erican history by their heroic stand
and Mrs. Emil who volunteered for service in the

Raskin of Nor-
mandy Ave., is
attending an air-
plane mechanic
school at Cha-
nute Field, Ill.
Before enlisting
three months ago,

NEWARK, N. J. (JTA) — The
record made by the boys of Jewish
faith in the last World War' is un-
questionably one of heroism and
bravery," Senator Warren Barbour
declared this week at Seder which
was held at the Newark, New Jer-
PVT. ELMER
sey, Y.M.HA. in honor of 250 sol-
RASKIN Pvt. Raskin, a
diers of Jewish origin who returned
member of the Phi Alpha frater-
home for the Passover services from
nity, and graduate of Central High,
many army camps throughout the

attended the University of Detroit,
United States.
where he was majoring in dentis-
"The record proves that the Jew-
try.
ish boy makes a good soldier," Sen-
• • •
ator Barbcur further said. By pro-
Pvt. Sol Cohen, -
•
portion of population the Jews
son of Mr. and
should have numbered about 3 per
Mrs. Isadore Co-
cent of America's total armed forces
hen, of 3225 Col-
in World War I. Actually, they con-
lingwood Ave.
tributed between four and five per
Graduate ac-
cent, or a third above their normal
countant of
share. Two factors account for this:
Wayne Univer-
one was the fact that the draft
sity, was called to
system operated more effectively
the services Feb.
in the urban areas where the pro-
18, 1942. Now is
- portion of Jews was greatest; the
stationed at
other and most significant factor
Camp Rcbinson, PVT.SOL COHEN
was the large number of Jewish
Arkansas.
volunteers. The records show that
• • •
there were from 30,000 to 40,000
. Corp. George G.
Jewish volunteers, cr 18 per cent of
Ferman, son of
the Jewish contingent. Of the total
of 250.000 Jews in the American
Mrs. Rose Fer-
service, 190,000 were in the army,
man of 746 Col-
25.000 in the navy, 14,000 in the
lingwood Ave., is
Marine Corps and 21,000 in other
stationed with
branches.
the personnel de-
"That magnificent record speaks
for itself but you must be prepared
partment of the
for the same baseless insinuations,
`125th infantry
. .
the myths that always spring up

at times such as these. The United
States is being flooded by propa-
ganda anti-democratic and anti-
Semitic. Much of this is false and
cannot be overcome by weeds or
figures. It is this type of propagan-
da which the international gang-
ster dictators used to sow seeds of
disunity. We have only to think of
Poland, France and other enslaved
countries of Europe today. • We must
have courage and faith in each
other."

,
CORP. GEORGE Cali fornia. Be-

C. FERMAN fore leaving for
service, Corp. Ferman held the po-
sition of assistant advertising man-
ager of all the Sears-Roebuck

stores in Detroit. He is a graduate
of Central High.
• • •

Through an error in makeup last
week, two pictures appeared in this
column with the wrong identifica-
tions. They were Irving Schulist,
who is attending the Yeoman's
School in Toledo, 0., and Private
Milton Millen, who recently was
graduated from a class in engineer-
ing at Fort Knox. The cut lines
Continued from Page 3)
were transposed by mistake—no,
t wasn't the age-old army and
also appeals for intensified finan-
navy "feud", just a printer trying
cial support by the Yishuv of the t
o make a deadline.
dependence of the volunteers, "thu
discharging a debt of honor to the
servicemen."
The manifesto states that addi-
tional fund-raising efforts in this
connection will include a special
campaign among the Jewish manu-
facturers and factory workers un-
der the slogan "Industry Helps the
Soldier." Under this scheme indus-
trial workers will contribute their
NEW YORK—Edward M. M.
overtime wages for a total of four Warburg, noted Jewish philanthro-
days salary per year. Ernployers pist who has enlisted in the army
will pay double the overtime wages as a private, tack the occasion of
ES their own equal contribution.
his induction to issue an appeal to
The Manufacturers' Association and
the Histadruth (General Jewish

PALESTINE

Warburg Joining
Army, Asks Jews
To Help Russia

Federation of Labor) have jointly
undertaken to support this special
fund-raising scheme, which will
begin on April 1st.
‘6 The manifesto concludes: "Let
the response of the Yishuv be wor-
thy of our great mission and the
gravity of the hour."

EDWARD M. M. WARBURG
the welfare' of the Jewish soldiers the American Jewish people to lend
and for the persecuted Jews in its full support to the Russian peo-
Nazi territory.
ple in their fight to rid the world
of Nazism.
PALESTINE CLOTHES
Warburg is a member of the
A cable dispatch received here
from ICuibyshev, Russia, reports national Board of Directors of Rus-
that the first consignment of sian War Relief, Inc.
clothes and medicaments collected
Characterizing Russia's campaign
from Palestinian Jewry by the as America's battle , and Judaism's
Committee for Polish-Jewish Relief battle, Warburg appealed that "it
here has arrived in Russia and is never be said of America and the
now being distributed among the Jewish people that we gave 'too

little and too /ate• "

40.

AMERICA: Dorothy Schiff Back-
er became the first woman publish-
er of a major American newspaper
when she took over full control of
the New York Post . . A Jewish
pilot in Australia had been downed
three times in air battles over Java
before escaping to Australia, where
he is now fighting, it was revealed
in Washington . . . Congressman
William Barry of New York warned
against anti-Semitism, calling it a.
weapon of America's enemies . . .
William Dudley Pelley, notorious
anti-Semite, was arrested on a se-
dition charge by the Justice De-
partment Eleven Jewish scholars
and artists won Guggenheim fel-
lowships . . . Norman Corwin, radio
writer, was awarded the "Pulitzer
Prize of the radio networks". the
Peabody award for his work dur.ng
1942 . . . Fritz Kuhn, German-
American Bund leader, will be
naturalized, it was stated by the
Attorney General's office . . "1 -1:e
F. B. I. tightened its curb on the
256,000 aliens in New York as police
in the metropolitan city checked up
on the past histories of aliens in
New York . . . 31 American cler,zy-
men appealed to the Archbishop of
Canterbury to intercede with the
British Government to admit hor.v7-
less Jews into Palestine . . The
Women's Division of the American
Jewish Congress presented a $250.-
000 check to the New York Stz,:e
Saving Defense Committee.
• - •

British Scandal in
Revisionist Circles

lerWillSpeaA ,

on or o ay

Mandell and
David Bernstein

Mr. Adler has had many colorful
and eventful experiences as a world
war newspaper correspondent, trav-
eler and lecturer. He was born in !
Vilno, Russia, in 1891. and received
his early education in Russian
schools. In 1907 he came to Ameri-
ca and was graduated from the
University of Wisconsin, majoring
in philisophy. In 1922 he joined the
staff of the Detroit News. In 1934
he made a trip around the world
and spent some time in China and
Japan. In 1937 he went to Europe
and visited Russia. Siberia. Italy
and Germany. He was in England
in September, 1939, when the pres-
ent war broke out.

Negotiations are now proceeding
with the Polish authorities for the
transfer to Palestine of children of
Polish-Jewish refugees now in
Russia, it was disclosed by the
Jewish Agency Executive here. Cer-
tificates for these children are to
be made available from the current
quota providing for the admission
into Palestine of three thousand
people.

.

Responding to the proclamation
by King George VI of a national
day of prayer in the British Em-
pire, Chief Rabbi Isaac Halevy
Herzog addressed the population
cf Palestine over the government
radio station.
The broadcast marked special
Passover services for the Yishuv as
the Chief Rabbi recited a specially
composed prayer for the success
of the arms of the United Nations,

News Brevities

against overwhelming odds.
II. S. Navy this week are two who
Through weeks of fierce fighting,
enlisted as Chief Petty officers— the men have become hardened, but
Carl Bayer and Gene Nagler.
have maintained a philosophical
attitude towards the war,
Both men were interviewed by
In a letter to his father, Israel
Lt. Cmdr. Gene Tunney and will
Sabbota of Hazel-
serve as physical education in-
wood Ave., Corp. --
structors in the Navy's physical fit-
Isadore Sabbota
ness program. They are now un-
wrote: "I am in
dergoing indoctrinal training at the
safe hands, and
Norfolk (Va.) Navy Training Sta-
with the help of
tion.
God will soon be
Bayer, 25, of 2515 Elmhurst, wan home unharmed.
prominence as a basketball and In these times we
baseball player at Wayne Univer- must not lose
sity. He was captain of the Tartar faith, but instead,
cage squad in his senior year, believe all the
1937-'38, and played second base on more. I am satis-
the varsity nine. Since gradua- fied whatever God Corp. Sabbota
tion in 1938 with a Bachelor of does, we must not question His
Science degree, Bayer has been ways. Don't worry about me. be-
teaching in Detroit, including the cause it makes me sad, when we
Longfellow, Washington and Hunter should be happy to be able to do !
schools.
our share for the rights of the
Bayer starred in prep days on the world."
Northern High School teams and
The letter ends with a phrase of
also captained the 1932 team. At his own composition which reads:
Wayne, he was named on the all- "V - - - —Victory for America
time all-star basketball team. His and the United Nations of the world
mother, Mrs. Bessie Bayer, resides who stand for freedom. We stand
in Los Angeles.
firm and united for the Bill of
During the past two seasons, Rights which gives to every man
Bayer played on the semi-pro cage the right of freedom with equal
squad of Harry Suffrin's and also rights of living." --
PALESTINE—Thirty-one yo_ilh-
coached the varsity basketball
Before leaving for service. CorT:
ful refugees arrived in Palestine. 21
squad at the Jewish Community
Sabbota graduated from Wayne 'U. of them coming from Australia and
Center.
and was to have entered law completing an oclys:,:--y that beer:
He is married to the former Betsy school. He has been in the army for
three years ago. the others coning
Rothschild, of Detroit.
a year.
from the Russian Far East . . . The
Nagler, 23, of 17550 Santa Rosa
Jewish Agency Executive reveal(d
Drive, was graduated from the Uni-
that negotiations are now proceed-
versity of Michigan in 1939 with a
ing with the Polish authorities for
Bachelor of Science degree. For
the transfer to Palestine of chil-
the past five months he has been
dren of Polish-Jewish refugees noes
a physical educaticn instructor at
in Russia.
Sidney-Hill's and previously served
• • •
as a physiotherapist in the Uni-
.LONDON (JPS) — A political
OVERSEAS—Jacob Hodess, editor
scandal which rocked England's ! of the New Judea. official publ:-
versity Hospital, Ann Arbor.
Jewry broke here as official Re- I cation of the World Zionist Organ-
visionist circles were accused of
ization, was reported gravely ill fol-
being subsidized by the Polish gov-
lowing a serious operation in Lon-
ernment-in-exile in the publication don . .
Bulgaria's governmental
of their newspaper mouthpiece—the commission asserted that Jews are
Jewish Standard. An emergency steadily being
ousted from business
committee of leading British Zion- concerns
in the land
ists has constituted itself a court
(Copyright, JPS)
Philip Adler, foreign correspond- of honor and suspended the presi-
ent and war commentator of the dent of the Revisionist organization
Detroit News, will discuss "The and the editor of the paper, Abra-
World Today" In an address which ham Abrahams. The Jewish Stand-
will highlight the regular meeting ard, under Abraham's administra-
of the Temple Israel Sisterhood, tion of Revisionist policy, was
Monday, April 13, at 1:30 p. m.. in , charged with supporting large-scale
the Jewish Community Center. Mrs . Jewish emigration from Poland
Bayre Levin, president, will be the after the present war, in return
Radio Commenators
chairman, and Rabbi Leon Frani for a subsidy from Polish govern-
will introduce the speaker. A social ment-in-exile officials.
Broadcast Weekly
hour will follow.

BRING POLISH
CHILDREN

HERZOG'S SPECIAL
PRAYER

:refugees from Poland.

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