Friday, December I I 1942
Jewish Center
Activities
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Palestine
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Page Seventeen
Albert Kahn, World's Great
Master Builder, Dies at 73
ever before. In Palestine the re-
settlement has advanced from the
status of a hopeful experiment
to that of a heartening reality, Trail of Industrial Monuments to Genius and Ability of
INTERMEDIATE HANUKAH
while in Europe the position of
Widely Loved Detroiter Spreads Across 5 Continents;
DANCE THIS SATURDAY
the Jews has deteriorated to an
Willow Run, Russian Development Among Them
Intermediate Council of the appalling degree. Millions of up-
rooted
and
homeless
Jews
will
Jewish Community Center is
The Master Builder passed on to his reward Tuesday.
presenting a Hanukah dance this strive to reconstruct their lives
"Master of concrete and steel, master of space and
Saturday evening. Features will anew in their ancestral home
be dance music by Rudy Ross when the hour of deliverance ,time, standing today at the forefront of our profession in
rneeting.the colossal demands of a government in its hour
and the staging of several social will come."
of need"—that was the tribute paid to Albert Kahn, the
mixers and group dances. Admis-
"World Planning Must be on
world's greatest .industrial architect, in a citation given
sion charges are 12c for members
Offensive Lines"—Weizmann
only last September by the Am-
and 17c for non-members, tax in-
cluded.
NEW YORK--In his address erican Institute of Architects.
Ford Willow Run Bomber plant.
* * *
He was 73 when he died.
at the banquet of the United
Other lasting monuments to the
HANUKAH PROGRAM AT
Palestine Appeal conference Sun-
Awarded Many Honors
great builder are the Detroit
day evening, at the Biltmore, Dr.
CENTER'S "JUNIOR FUN"
Honors came his way aplenty. (Chrysler) Tank Arsenal, Na-
Chaim Weizmann, president of Besides the most recent citation tional Bank Building, General
Swimming is open to Junior
the Jewish Agency for Palestine from the leaders in his profes- Motors, Detroit News, Detroit
boys and girls who are at least and of the World Zionist Organ-
4 feet 1 inch tall, at the Jewish ization, declared that "our con- sion, he had received at various Athletic Club, Fisher, Free Press,
as well as the huge Wright Aero-
Community Center, Sundays, 4 to ception of the future is circum-
nautical Plant in Cincinnati, the
4:30 p. m. The boys and girls who scribed by defensive thinking
naval bases at Midway, Honolulu
wish to use the swimming pool and strategy. He stated in part:.
and Alaska. His buildings have
must be full members of the Cen-
"For three long years the free
blazed new trails over five cont-
ter and must attend• the regular peoples have lived in the valley
inents.
Junior Sunday Fun program from of darkness—of bitter war, filled
In 1928- the Soviet government
2 to 4 o'clock. In addition to with heartbreaking defeats and
appointed him to direct its great
swimming the Sunday Fun in- disappointments—fighting a cour-
industrialization program, and
cludes dramatics, music, story- ageous, delaying defensive. Now
his achievement there never has
telling, arts and crafts and games. we • have approached the era of
been surpassed, in the opinion of
The Sunday Fun program on the offensive. We may already
his profession. Never before had
Dec. 13 will be in the form of a have crossed the bridge of anx-
stIch immense buildings been
Hanukah party. There will be a ious days of preparation and pro-
raised so fast or so well. Mdre
special program, games and re- duction. The legions of the Unit-
than 500 Kahn-constructed build-
freshments. Miss Florence Lip- ed Nations are taking the field
ings were designed and built
to attack.
schutz is in charge.
from Kiev to Yatutsk.
* * *
Thinking in the Offensive
He leaves his wife, Ernestine
MOTHERS CLUBS
Krolik Kahn, one son, Major
"As we stand on the threshold
Edgar A. Kahn; three daughters,
The Council of Mothers' Clubs of the great offensive for free-
Mrs. Harry Winston, Mrs. Ed-
is cooperating with the Social dom, we must consider its im-
ward E. Rothman and Mrs. Mar-
Service Employees Union (CIO) plications for the democratic
tin L. Butzel; and two brothers,
in surveying the Jewish neigh- ideals which we are struggling
Louis and Felix Kahn of Sari
borhoods for the purpose of de- to preserve. In an era of de-
ALBERT KAHN
Francisco, Calif.
termining whether there is a fensive operations, our horizon
The body lay in state at the
is
naturally
limited
by
the
urgent
times the French Legion of Hon-
need for "day-care Centers."
chapel of the William R. Hamil-
necessity of saving what we have,
Mothers of Detroit, who would of maintaining the status quo. or, an LL.D. degre from the Uni- ton Ca., and private services were
like to work if their children Our conception of the future is versity of Michigan and many held at the residence, 208 Mack
are cared for, should register circumscribed by defensive think- other awards recognizing his Ave., Thursday afternoon.
with the Mothers' Club, or con- ing and strategy. But in taking ability and busines acumen.
For 39 years Mr. Kahn was
tact the Mothers' Club worker the offensive the scope of our
daily between 10:30 and 12:30 thinking with regard to the post- engineer to the Packard Motor
Co. For 34 years he served the
at MAdison 8400.
war world must extend far be- Ford company as architect,' and
N
The week's Mothers' Clubs cal- yond the point of merely hold- for 18 years was architect for the
ing what we have. The building Chrysler Corporation During his
endar follows: .
Young Women's Study Club, of a new world and not merely lifetime he built or supervised 4
Sunday, Pearl Harbor party at the salvaging of the old has the construction of an estimated
home of Mrs. S. Firestone, 16134 become the all-important driv- $2,000,000,000 of industrial build-
Northlawn; Davison -0 a k m a n ing force of the armies of libera- ings alone.
Club, Tuesday, 8 p. m., at Law- tion. More than any other peo-
Designed Willow Run
ton at Tyler; Parkside Study ples, the Jews hope for the crea-
One of his recent achievements
tion
of
a
post-war
world
which
that attracted the attention of
Club, Wednesday, 1:30 p. m., at
Parkside Talmud Torah; Wood- will throw off the injustices and the entire world, and especially
that of the barbarian who now
Ward Club, Wednesday, 1:3Q p.m., inequalities of the old order.
Freedom from Oppression
rules Germany, the land in which
at Jewish Center; Center Club,
"The firmly rooted structure Mr. Kahn vvas born, was the
Wednesday, 8 D. m., at Jewish
Serving
Center; Twelfth Street Club, which has ben built up in Pales-
Thursday, 8 p. m., at 9125 12th tine constitutes a solid' founda-
Always the Best in
tion for the future and the one
St.
Swedish Smorgasbord
great rock of hope for the Jewish
Motion Picture
people in the post-war world.
Entertainment
Twenty-five years of achieve-
at its best!
ment under the Balfour Declara-
tion are but the first phase of the
historic endeavor to which we
have dedicated ourselves. Out of
the anguish and sorrow of this
1014 E. Jefferson
world-embracing war must come
the right and opportunity for the
Jewish people to re-establish
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their Commonwealth on their
3 Doors So. of Grand Blvd.
ancestral soil—a Commonwealth
that will give anchorage, security
and freedom to millions who
have been tossed about like flot-
New Year's
sam and jetsam in the turbulent
Reservations
sea of the world's troubles. In
regaining their homes, Jews will
Should Be
Yours For
regain their dignity and honor
Made Early
as a free people working in con-
cert with other free peoples and
in friendship and loyal coopera-
from
tion with their Arab neighbors
for a truly new world order
Joe Freedman
which will know neither oppres-
William Boesky
sor nor oppressed."
Louis Freedman
CORRECTION
Del Parker_
The
photograph
of Mrs. Rae . K.
Sammy Sofferin's
Roy Swartz
Schoenberg, national leader of
Jack Ross
the Ladies' Auxiliaries of Jewish
War Veterans, was inadvertently
Skeeter Palmer
used with the story about Mrs.
Washington Boulevard
and all the employees
Hilda Goldberg, Detroit J.W.V.
At State St.
Auxiliary
leader.
We
regret
the
of the
error.
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OBITUARY
Mrs. Hannah Abramsohn,
Detroit resident for 57 year,,
died on Sunday at the age of 78.
Funeral services were held Mon-
day at Lewis Bros. and burial
was in Machpelah Cemetery.
Rabbi Morris Adler and Cantor
J. H. Sonenklar officiated.
Mrs. Abramsohn was the
widow of the late Louis Abram-
sohn. She is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. Joe Harris, Mrs.
Maurice Aronsson and Mrs. Louis
Shapiro; three sons, Sol, Max and
George; 13 grandchildren and one
great grandchild.
* * *
Myer C. Brown, for 30 years
a prominent attorney here, died
Tuesday at the age of 54. His
sole survivor is his wife, Dr.
Boudana Sherman.
* * *
Sarah Nerenberg of 555 Har-
mon died Nov. • 30. She is sur-
vived by two sons, Morris and
Hyman, and a brother, Jacob
Kligman of Washington. Funeral
services were conducted by Ira
Kaufman.
* * *
Sam Scheinfield of 3324 Cie-
thents died Dec. 1. He is sur-
vived by wife Sylvia; two daugh
ters, Anna and Mrs. Harold Sar-
ko, and a son Harry A.
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