friday, - Argus* 7, 1942

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Eleven

Bert "Yank" Levy
Teachgs Toughness
Born of Experience

Ford Hopes Peace
Our Film Folk
Will Come for All In Lighter Vein
By HELEN ZIGMOND
Races and Creeds The Week's Best Stories

Adventurous Jewish Guer-
rilla Fighter Instructs
Squads of U. S. Troops

Auto Magnate Gives Views
PRICE: TWO OY-OYS
of Postwar Period on
David was accepted—and his
79th Birthday
first steps were in the direction

By PAUL B. GREENE

"The life of a guerrilla fighter
s exhausting—physically, men-
ally and nervously — lonely,
)erilous, hard in every way. The
fuerrilla must sometimes work
n isolation, must lurk in the
,hadows and take terrifying
• sks in broad daylight."
That's how Bert "Yank" Levy,
world's foremost expert on guer-
• lla fighting, defines his craft, a
:kill which has saved Yugo-
.lavia for the United Nations-
mly because of the 250,000 train-
rd, savage guerrilla warriors; a
rade in war which has made the
lussian guerrillas the most
eared battalions in the heroic
led Army; a type of warfare
hich has made possible resist-
tnce to the Nazis in such small
ands as Greece and Norway, in
,uch outposts as Crete and Java.
The man who is teaching Am-
nicans how to battle the Axis
' with as few weapons as possible,
ith as many ingenious devices
the human brain can create,
a 120-pound, black haired,
ustached Jew, born in Hamil-
on, Ontario, in 1897.
CHOOLED IN HARD KNOCKS
, But Yank Levy's active life-
eally began in 1916, when he
of a job as a stoker in the
erchant service. Before that
to he just grew up in Cleve-
and and attended public school
nd a couple of years' worth of
ight high school. "My real
•ucation." he declares after the
ashion of many self-made men,
was in the school of hard
• ocks. After his sailoring—to
hich he later returned—Yank
ught in Palestine and Trans-
rdan during the First World

as. Not satisfied with that bit

f soldiering, Yank took part in
few revolutions down Mexico
ay, and then did some gun-
tinning in Nicaragua. In 1937
e decided to join up with the
•yalists in Spain—the first men
ho fought Hitler in Europe—
d quickly became an officer
the machine-gun company of
e British Battalion. He was
ptured by Franco's troops and
nt six months in Fascist pris-
-ns.
Through with "foreign" wars,
vy returned to Great Britain
nd became an instructor of the
itish Home Guards. For more
an 15 months he talked and
ed about guerrilla fighting.
e is proud of the 2.000,000
ome Guards in Great Britain.
e says they will help turn the
de if the Germans should ever
ecide to invade England.
S "GUERRILLA" WARFARE
For those to whom guerrilla
rfare is new, unknown and
terious, a perusal of "Guer-
a Warfare," Levy's opus on
hat some bright adjective-
'tten phrase-maker has term-
"the art of unmodified mur-
r," is in order. In this slim
-olume Levy pours out his guts.
it he includes all the know-
•ge he has picked up of guer . -
a warfare. He tells about
uerrilla heroes from the days
'f William The Conqueror to the
oment when the Russian' goer-
as began to torture and halt
Nazis. It is with consider-
`,ble military skill that he ex-
lair's the fighting theories of
wrence of Arabia, one of the
. p-notch guerrilla experts, of
c,iddell Hart and of many more
•uerrilla men. That Levy is ex-
mely. well-read is indicated by
' liberal references to books
aling with his particular phase
f war. He turns to Ernest Hem-
ay's "For Whom the Bell
•lls" to point out guerrilla meth-
in fighting north of Madrid;
e . refers to Edgar Snow's
orched Earth" to stress Chi-
ese guerrilla methods; E. O'Mal-
y's "Army Without Banners"
Denis Reitz' "Commando"
re other volumes to which Levy
udes.
Yank Levy lays doiwn the law

Henry Ford, once responsible
for "The International Jew,"
which he has since repudiated
vigorously, hopes the postwar
period will mean peace and se-
curity for "all races and creeds."
He reiterated this view to an
Associated Press correspondent
on his 79th birthday.
"Unless something of that kind
comes out of the present war
this tragic human slaughter will
have been only a dress rehearsal
for another and more terrible
conflict as soon as another gen-

of his neighborhood jeweler, to
buy an engagement ring. He
looked at a few, picked one out
and asked the price.
"This one is exactly one hund-
red dollars,' he was told.
David grunted with an "Oy-
oy." The jeweler did not com-
ment. But when David fingered
a few more and then asked the
price of another ring, the jeweler
informed him:
"Two oy-oys."
* • •

eration can be duped by the THE ARAB AND HIS RUGS
The story is told about the
small group of individuals who
famous Jewish sculptor, Jo
precipitate wars," Ford said.
Davidson, that when he was in
Cairo he was approached by an
Arab who offered several rugs
for sale. Davidson refused to
buy.
"They are good, I made them
"The Plow that Broke the myself, and They are cheap," the
Plains," a film epic of the spolia- Arab told him.
"Go away, they smell," the
tion of the great American plains.
will be featured Monday even- sculptor replied.
Whereupon the Arab, indicat-
ing, Aug. 10, at the Jewish Com-
munity Center, on the weekly ing anger and objecting to what
Monday evening movie program. appeared to be an insult to him.
The movies are presented, weath- laid the rugs on the ground,
er permitting, in the outdoor stretched himself to his full
courtyard of the Center, Wood- height, and said:
ward at Holbrook.
"Sir. these rugs do not smell.
The secondary documentary It is I."

Movie of American
Plains to Be Shown

sound film to be shown the same
evening is "Valley Town," a film
about technological unemploy-
ment, with a musical background

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FAMILY VARIATIONS
Mrs. Selby was introduced to

Mrs. Levy at the bridge table.
by Marc Blitzstein,.
Mrs. Levy: "Are you related
Monday evening's program will
to the Selbys of Sydney?"
be the seventh presentation of
Mrs. Selby: "No. The Syd-
documentary sound films at the
ney Selbys are Silberbergs,
Center. The final showing will be
while we were Silversteins."
held Aug. 17.
* * *

Gerard Is Elected
Advisory Chairman
Of Anti-Nazi League

Former Ambassador to Ger-
many James W. Gerard has been
elected honorary president and
chairman of the advisory board
of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi
League. Mr. Gerard, together
with the late Samuel Untermyer,
was one of the original founders
of the League in 1933.
Rabbi Leon Fram of Temple
Israel was re-elected a vice-presi-
dent.

for guerrilla

warriors: "Know
your own territory, and know

it both by day and by night."
He then goes on to tell of the
value of knowing each ridge,
every factory, every landmark,
all the strong buildings, the blind
sides of edifices.
HIS "DO'S" AND "DON'T'S"
Yank has coined phrases which
tellingly describe the job and

difficulties of guerrillas. "Invis-
ibility is the guerrilla's fortress.
The only one he can hope for . .
A guerrilla . . must be a dim
but sinister shadow, a mosquito
in a darkened tent that stings
first here, then there, his victims
unable to trap him." These
turns of phrase reveal that Levy
can write as well as lecture, as
well as fight.

CARDOZO'S CANDOR
Meeting Justice Cardozo. short-
ly after the latter's elevation to
the Supreme Court, a friend

said: "It is a great joy to every
one that the appointment went
to a man of your intelligence and
honesty."
Justice Cardozo bowed and
said quietly: "I am a great deal
surer of the second man than I
am of the first."

THE SULTAN AND THE
MONKEY
Many centuries ago there rul-
ed in Turkey a Sultan who own-

wind. Watch the animals in the
fields, so that you may get hints
as to the `,environment . Carry
silent equii,ment. Watch land-
scapes carefully. Rest whenever
possible. Eat whenever you can.

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the love and tolerance of her
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That Irving Berlin's "Easter
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Makes its first film appearance
in "Holiday Inn."
HOLLYWOOD — While poli-
That Gertrude Niessen, singer,
ticians wrangle in Congress and was born on the "high C's''?
Parliament, our hitherto silent
Charlie gave voice to the wish
of thousands of thinking citizens:
A second front—NOW! Chaplin
spoke over an NBC wire from
Hollywood to a rally in Madison
Square Garden, New York. "Rus-
sia is fighting with her back to
the wall," he pleaded, "and that
wall is the Allies' strongest de-
fense. We cannot afford to lose
Russia . . . What are we waiting
for when she is in so desperate
a plight? . . ." Coincidentally
Elmer Davis' recently-issued
pamphlet describes the people of
Nazi-occupied countries as ready
to welcome and expedite a sec-
ond front wherever opened.
Hollywood producers! Here's
your chance of a life-time! Let's
have the most colossal, stupend-
•
ous, fabulous film ever, depict-
V
ing the gargantuan movement of
millions of B.E.F. and A.E.F.
crossing the Channel to Norway,
Holland, Belgium, Denmark,
France. An invincible armada!
Visionary? Perhaps . . . but a
goal to strive for. An irresistible
morale-builder. And it conceiv-
ably would serve a second pur-
pose—inoculate the Nazis with
some of their own terror germs
which they attempted to spread
with "Sieg im Westen" and oth-
ers of that bloody ilk.
*
A little Russian boy becomes
the hit tune of American patriot-
ism—Irving Berlin is the verse
and chorus of columnists these
days. He is pouring his life's
breath into "This Is the Army"
. .. and reaping millions for the
Army Reief Fund. Besides the
New York run, it will have a
road tour, a broadcast deal cal-
culated to net $10.000 a week,
a movie version, and even a
Decca album of the tunes. Ber-
lin's goal is $10,000,000 for the
fund!
Jack and Harry Warner de-
serve a hit of eulogizing. Their
purchase price of a quarter mil-
li.pn was considered magnani
mous . . then further increased
it by agreeing to split the profits
But later reversed their decision
. . . they would take NO profits
if Your Beer Dealer
from the film.
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Lauding Berlin, Alexander
Woollcott says, "He can neither
read music nor transcribe it—
ides in Bottles
he can only give birth to it."

* *
ed a remarkable monkey. The
beast could do everything but
Cineman: William Lasky, Jes-
talk. One day the Sultan called se's youngest, becomes an induc-
the heads of all religions before tee this month. That makes two
him and commanded them to o.: Lasky's sons in khaki. Garson
teach his monkey to talk. He Kanin is expected to soon leave
reminded the men of the mir- the OEM where he has been su-
acles they claimed for their sep- pervising training films. and go
arate religions, and ordered them back to the Army. This week
to perform one on his monkey it's Arthur Hornblow and Bub-
and make him talk. The pen- hies Schinasi. Story of the eight
alty for failure was to be death. Nazi saboteurs is already knead-
The various church heads were ed into Sammy Goldwyn's film
brought forward and one by one dough. Emil Ludwig wrote the
they failed and were decapitated. original and the scenario for
At last it was the turn of the Seymour Nebenzahl's production,
"The Hangman."
chief rabbi. With a cheerful
smile he declared that he could
perform the miracle very easily, Did-you-knotes:
That Hitler mentioned Anne
but only upon one condition, five
years in which to perform his Nichols' "Abie's Irish Rose" in
miracle. The overjoyed Sultan his "Mein Kampf"? She treasures
readily agreed. Friends thereup-
on asked the rabbi how he in-
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The Sultan can die, or I can
die, or the monkey can die!"

He offers, in his book, prosaic,
invaluable advice. You must
not forget to use the leaves of
trees; remember not to carry
anything that reflects light.
Learn how to walk so that you
always lift your feet clear off the
ground. Don't tip-toe; don't
slide your feet along the ground. 1. MARGOLIS
The side-crawl is useful; so is
Meating Detroit for
Century
the belly-crawl. Move with the
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