Bnai Brith District No. 6 Elevates Two Detroiters Mrs. Solovich Elected Head of the Women's 'Auxiliary; Yudkoff Named Vice-President. as Frankel Succeeds Rabbi Folkman • Page Severs THE JEWISH. NEWS Friday, July 30, 1943 Harry A. Frankel of Peoria, Ill., civic leader and welfare worker, was elected president of District Grand Lodge No. 6 of Bnai Brith, at the convention held in Milwaukee last week. Mr. Frankel was a member of the sponsoring committee which supervised the purchase of the new Hillel Foundation building at Ann Arbor. He succeeds to the presidency Rabbi Hillel Honor Keys Awarded To 'NI' Students, Civilians Aided by NRS, He Now Downs German Planes 18 ,Fled Froni Europe in 1940, Residents of Bnai Brith District No. 6 to Receive Awards; Names to Be Inscribed on Special Plaque for Distinguished Service He's a Citizen - , Active as Aerial Gunner The Student Council of the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan an- nounced this week the winners of Hillel Honor Keys and the students whose names are to be inscribed on the Hillel Honor Plaque. Rabbi Jehudah M. Cohen, di- rector of the Foundation, also announced the names of 18 resi- dents of District No. 6 of Bnai Brith who are to receive Hillel Honor Keys and whose names are to be inscribed on a special Hillel Honor Plaque for "distin- guish'ed service to the U. of M. Foundation." Adult winners of keys include Harry Kaufman, Mrs. Martha Levey, Mrs. Samuel Levy, Sam- uel Levy and Osias Zwerdling, of Ann Arbor; Mrs. B. C. Bolo- tin, Mrs. Martin Gerber and Mrs. Albert Schneider, of Chicago; Mrs. Samuel S. Aaron, Irwin I. Cohn, Aaron Droock, Abe Kasle, Herman Osnos, Mrs. Herman Prady, Mrs. Saul Rosenman, Mrs. Louis Schostak and Louis H. Schostak, of Detroit; . and Harry A. Frankel of Peoria, Ill. ' At a United States bomber sta- tion in England, Waist Gunner Sgt. Eric Neuhaus, .20, formerly of Vienna, is hard at work shoot- ing down Nazi planes. A few years ago he was assisted by the National Refugee Service in learning the machinist' trade which stood him in good stead when he joined the Army. Eric started his war against the Nazis when, at 13, he and a number of others roamed the Austrian and Czecho-Slovak countryside clubbing unsuspect- ing German sentries. An American citizen, being among 250 aliens in the American forces in England naturalized under the provisions of the Sec- ond War Powers Act of 1942, Sgt. Neuhaus came to the United' States early in 1940 after work- ing his way throtigh the south of Europe and Palestine for three years. In New York, where he was reunited with his parents, he set about finding work. He paid a visit to the National Refugee Service, where he was Student Winners enabled to take the necessary courses for the machinist trade. Civilian s t u dents receiving Then NRS assisted him to re- Hillel Honor Keys include Grace settle for a time in 'Wisconsin Freudberg, Washington; E l y s e where he continued -to work. Gitlow, New York City; Syril Green, Utica, N. Y.; Charlotte to War." One project, sponsored Kaufman, Ann Arbor; Norm by Aleph' Zadik Aleph' and the Schwartz, Waukegan, Ill.; Netta Bnai Brith Vocational Service Siegel of Cle-ireland; J. Louis Bureau, aims to niobilize Jewish Singer, Hart, Mich.; Donna high school youth for the victory Weiss, Grand Rapids; Shirley farm- volunteer camps where the Winokur, Watervliet, Mich., and young people will help relieve Elise Zeme, Detroit. the far labor shortage. Students who have left the The second new war service' campus to serve in the army and project was announced by Dr. A. navy include Albert M. Cohen, L. Sachar, national director of Detroit; Herbert Edelhertz, New the Hillel Foundations, when he York; Herbert Levin, Detroit; reported that the Hillel. Founda- Paul Mishkin, Brooklyn, N. Y.; tions and Counselorships have ac- Samuel Rosen, North Chicago; cepted the responsibility of pro- Dan L. Seiden, Chicago; Lewis viding for the spiritual and wel- fare needs - of Jewish men and women in uniform who have been assigned to college campuses for technical military a n d naval MICHIGAN'S LARGEST training. FLORSHEIM DEALER FLOISHEIM That Bnai Brith is helping to et. combat the enemy on the psy- chological front too was empha- sized by Max Kroloff,- assistant national director of the Bnai 2231-35 Woodward Next to Fox Theatre Open Evenings Brith. Anti-Defamation League, another participant in the semi- nar. Pointing out that through the A. D. L., Bnai Brith is serving in the - front line trenches in the battle of ideas,. Kroloff said that the League's war on anti-Semit- ism and other un-American activ- ities is a part of the offensive against the common foe. Jerome a Folkman of Grand€ Rapids. Harry Yudkoff of Detroit was elected second vice-president of District No. 6. Samuel W. Leib of Detroit and Abe Roman of Bay City were elected members of the general committee of the dis- trict. - Mrs. Solovich Elected A distinct honor went to an- other Detroiter in the election of Mrs. Charles D. Solovich as president of Women's Grand Lodge No. 6. Mrs. Solovich also was selected one Of the repre sentatives to the Women's •Su- preme Council of Bnai Brith. Mrs. Solovich is past president of Women's Auxiliary No. 122 of Pisgah Lodge and _past president of Michigan Women's. Council of Bnai Brith. Mrs. Samuel Aaron, past presi- dent of Pisgah Auxiliary, was elected a member of the general MRS. CHARLES D. SOLOVICH committee of District No. 6 Wo- nounced :that 430., recreational fa- men's Auxiliary. - cilities for the armed forces have Mrs. Monsky's Address been furnished by Bnai Brith in The American Jewish Confer- 37 states at Army camps, air ba- ence must bring unity in the ses, coast guard stations and American Jewish community and other military and naval installa- must find some basis of agree- tions. ment between the diverse groups 'Bnai Brith also is serving 29 constituting that • community, naval vessels with recreational Henry Monsky, president of Bnai material, it was reported, through Brith and chairman of the execu- its serve-a-ship program. tive committee of the Conference, Panelists were Royal Agne, which he called into being through the Pittsburgh Confer- Midwest area director of the ence, said at a victory dinner of American Red Cross; William C. the 75th anniversary convention. Fitzgibbon - of the Treasury De- Emphasizing that the sole ob- partment; Charles H. Louer, Dis- jective of the Conference is to trict 6 war service chairman; arrive at some common program Mrs. Aaron Osri, war service of action to deal with post-war chairman of the Women's Grand Jewish problems, Mr. Monsky Lodge. Robert Lurie, National said that the ' Conference cannot War Service Director, served as be dogmatic, doctrinaire or intol- moderator, while Bert C. Broude, erant of the views of different District 6 member of the national viewpoints. He predicted the suc- war service committee, presided. Dedicate Service Flag cess of the Conference because of At a memorial service for Bnai "the awareness of the grave re- sponsibility that rests upon every Brith war heroes, Maurice Bis- delegate." gyer, national secretary, dedi- cated a service flag in honor of Pact on Palestine He also predicted that a basis the 3,268 District 6 members in of agreement on Palestine will be the armed forces. He reported arrived at the Conference. Urg- that 79 memberS of Bnai Brith, ing the delegates to strive for A. Z. A. and Hillel Foundations that which is achievable, Monsky have died, that 15 are missing in asserted that the Conference "will action and 12 are prisoners of not be a propaganda conference war. Nationally, the Bnai Brith but an attempt to synthesize the service record is more than 17,- fundamentals of all viewpoints." 000, he added. Two new nationwide Bnai Doubling their quota of $10,- 000,000, District 6 and Women's Brith war service projects were Grand Lodge No. 6 sold $20,207,- announced during a convention 110 in War Bonds in a district- symposium on "Bnai Brith Goes wide campaign that closed on the eve of the convention. During the WE ARE NOW ISSUING convention itself $120,000 worth more was sold, including $11,800 subscribed by the Supreme Lodge. In a letter to the convention, Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau paid tribute to Bnai Brith's War Bond drive as "an outstanding success." War Service Fund A quota of $40,000, $25,000 by the men and $15,000 by the wom- en, was accepted in the new na- ALL THESE HAZARDS FULLY COVERED tional Bnai Brith war service Fire and lightning damage fund. A resolution calling for the Tornado, cyclone, windstorm and hail continuance of morale-building Burglary, theft, larceny and holdup service to men and women in uni- Riots, strikes and civil commotion form even • after the war was Aircraft and motor vehicle damage unanimously adopted Smoke and smudge damage Rabbi Folkman, in his presi- Mysterious disappearance dential message, recommended Transportation hazards that Bnai Brith give thought to Water damage the advisability of creating a Collapse of building Bnai Brith university as "a school Malicious damage of the liberal arts • and sciences Spilling of liquids open to all American students Earthquake Explosion regardless of race, creed or social For Information Duststorms background," and as a place Phone or Write Floods where exiled and homeless scho- lars driven out of European cen- ters of learning "may continue to make contributions to the in- tellectual and scientific glory and progress of the United States." 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