3t, 194 Compiled By Independent Jewish Press Service LISTENING POST By DANNY RASKIN "I'VE JUST BEGUN" 'Iris face was grim, fingers tense, as overhead they soared. :4 Japanese plane fell to sea—the Lexington boy had scored. A bitter cry arose from his lips, As he whirled the gun around, "I've just begun, ya' dirty rats —," but a bullet nzuffled his sound. Ile - clutched his chest, fell to his knees, as hot blood stained his hands. But he wasn't done, "I've just be- guns muttered the lad from the Texas sands. Be pulled himself up, aimed again, and weakly pulled the trigger. A column cf smoke rose in the t • sky, then his body began to quiver. The attack soon ended, enemy I beaten, and his crew mates ran to his aid. Bis blood-stained fingers still gripped the trigger, as his bud- dies showered praise. But there was no answer from the grim smiling lips, as his head rested on the gun. He had died just after his second blast, and after "I've just be- gun." • • • —D. R. HERE 'N THERE . . . Franklin Hills Country Club's older youth set extends invite to formal af- fair, Aug. 15 . . . Band unnamed to date, but a prominent one is expected, says Al Lowenstein .. . Zionist Youth Council and A.Z.A. are working with Metropolitan Detroit Youth Council in latter's salvage drive . . . Those Fun and Game Nights at the Jewish Cen- ter every Wednesday arc really worth your interest . . . Sub- Senior Council still sponsors danc- ing in the auditorium on Thurs- day eves . . . Avukah reports its' Outdoor Record Party at Rouge Park last Saturday a big success . . . A.Z.A. 63 is agent for the sale of War Savings Bonds and Stamps . . . Buys them out of its treasury and sells 'em to mem- bers, their families and friends ('course that doesn't mean that anyone else can't buy them). SERVICE SCENE . . . Joe Hoot- e.,r left for service after return- ing from a Pacific Coast honey- moon with the former Joyce Yancher (other half of the "hand- some twins," Max Shulak, leaves soon) ... Pvt. Sam Wander hello's from Ft. George Wright with the one about the Major walking up to a rookie (in an oversized uni- form) and gruffly asking him why Our Own News Brevities Jewish Youth's The Joint Distribution Com- mittee has just issued a list of 238 names of Jews from the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Esthonia, who now are refugees in Siberia. In ad- dition to the names, the list gives the cities of origin of the refugees. Anyone seeking information as to the whereabouts of rel- atives or friends who resided in these countries may check the list which is available at the offices of The Jewish News, 2114 Penobscot Bldg., from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. daily except Saturday and Sunday. he doesn't stand at attention, and the recruit answering, "I am standing at attention, sir. It's only my uniform that's at ease" . . . Pvt. Morris Chudler is in Pearl Harbor and Pvt. Harold H. Sitron is elsewhere in Hawaii .. . Corp. Max Cheifer, 6 feet 4 inches, entered the army weighing only 165 lbs., and his family almost didn't recognize him when he furloughed last week . . . He weighs 210 now! . . . Pvt. Art Braiker joined Staff Sgt. Dave Schwartz in Australia. * * • ABOUT PEOPLE . . . Dave Becker tells us that he captured a rhumba contest at Barrons in South Haven recently . . . Jewish Center youths label Joe Brown, colored maintenance man, "the swellest guy ever," and we heart- ily agree . . . Two-year daddy Sidney Jacobs says "It's the ber- ries," and enthusiastically recom- mends it . . . What has happened to Morton Rosen and his Lonely Hearts Club? . . . Add Aliza Jacobson to our list of Girl Fri- days . .. Speaking of clubs, 'tis said that Helen Raimi may head the newly formed Gossipers and Liars' Club. • • • WHERE THEY ARE . P.F.C. Lloyd I. Edelstein . . . Hdq. Batt. Field Artillery, Camp Forest, Tenn. . . . Pvt. Harold H. Sitron . . . 31st Bomber Squadron (H), A.P.O. 953, care of Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. . . . Pvt. Charles Steinberg, 29th Bombard- ment Group, 6th Bombardier Squadron, Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho . . . Pvt. Morris Chudler . . . 16041847, Casual Detachment, 18th Air Base Group, A.P.O. 959, care of Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. STAMP OUT THE AXIS WITH BONDS OUR DUTY Louis E. Spiegler, attorney and communal leader of Washington, D. C., has been appointed as gen- eral counsel and representative of the Hebrew Sheltering and AMERICA: Catholic, Protesi- ant and Jewish leaders are co- operating in the production of books illustrated in "comic" style in order to bring modern youth closer to the Bible • . . Former Magistrate Benjamin Greenspan issued a statement in defense of William Griffin, on the ground that he was a friend of the Jews and had always fought Hitlerism. • • • OVERSEAS and PALESTINE: During the monfh ending July 20, there were 1,870 Jewish vol- unteers for service with the Brit- ish Army . . . To save Jewish children from Rumania and Hun- gary, 270 permits for their immi- gration into Palestine were dis- patched by the Jewish Agency for Palestine . . A league for Soviet Russia has been formed in Jerusalem to link Russia and Palestine Jewry more closely in the war and afterwards .. . Pal- estine Jews have been in the worst of the tug-of-war battles centering around El Alamein on the Egyptian coast . . The 20 years that have passed since the League of Nations ratified the Palestine Mandate were reviewed in editorials appearing in the He- brew press . . . Because the homes of all deported Jews now belong to Germans who had been bombed out of their own houses by the RAF, according to the Nazis, all non-Jews found looting these homes will be shot . . . Despite declarations of lead- ers of the Polish Government-in- Exile denouncing anti-Semitism, the Endek Party continued its Jew-baiting with an attack on the two Jewish representatives on the Polish National Council . . . Paris has created a style form and appearance of the Ma- gen David on the dresses of French women .. . A Bulgarian edict compels all Jews over the age of six to wear the Magen David . . . Six hundred Jews a day are being deported from Holland, and huge numbers of Jews from occupied France, to ghettos in Poland and Nazi-oc- cupied Russia . . . The Ruman- ian government has decreed the confiscation of the property of all Jewish kehilloth. LOUIS E. SPIEGLER Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in the nation's capital, where the society maintains a special office dealing with cases affecting the welfare of Jewish immigrants and refugees. A graduate of Georgetown University Law School, Mr. Spiegler is a member of the Bar in the District of Columbia and in California, and is eligible to practice. before the U. S. Supreme Court. Quiz Box THE ANSWERS To Questions 'On Page 7 1. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Leviticus 19:18. 2. "The Lord is my shep- herd; I shall not want." 3. "Am I my brother's keep- er?" Genesis 4:9. 4. "For dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return." 5. "Whither thou goest I will go; and where thou lodg- est I will lodge; thy people shall be my people and thy God my God." Psalms 19:2. 6. "A land flowing with milk and honey." Exodus 3:8. 7. "Wine that maketh glad the heart of man." Psalms 104:15. 8. "A wise son maketh a glad father." Proverbs 10:1. 9. "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." Psalms 14:1. 10. "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth." Deuteronomy 19:21. "PALESTINE DANCES" Palestine's folk dances beautifully portrayed in "Pales tine Dances," as delineated b Corinne Chochem and Murie Roth, in the volume published b Behrman's Jewish Book House 1261 Broadway, 'Tew York. drawings are by Moses Soyer the splendid photographs John Mills, Jr. To see these Pal estinian dances is to witness rebirth of a people. The songs the reborn people are included this interesting book, as well the accompanying music. CAROL'S FLOWER SHOP OBITUARY "SAY IT WITH FLOWERS" Flowers For All Oicasions 12131 Twelfth Street, Corner Richton Ben Stocker, Prop. TO. 6-9864 WE DELIVER Harry Weston, 40 years old, as- sistant manager of the Gratiot district of Metropolitan Life In- surance Co., died last Friday in Ann Arbor after a year's illness. 1. MARGOLIS Meating Detroit for lf. Century Funeral services were held Sun- day, Rabbi Harold N. Rosenthal KOSHER MEAT & officiating. 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