Friday, August 20, 1943
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Eight
Round Table Radio Talks
Help Promote Brotherhood
War Hero Is Guest
of Relatives Here
The Detroit Round Table of Catholics, Jews and Protes-
tants has made considerable use of the radio in promoting
its program of brotherhood among all religious faiths in the
state of Michigan.
In addition to the regular Sunday night program broad-
cast over Station CKLW from 10:15 to 10:30, other programs
of Africa while trying to save a
German soldier who had been
hit, Pfc. William Helfand of
Bronx, N. Y., is : in Detroit visit-
ing his aunt and uncle, Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Fish of 3344 _Bur-
lingame Ave.
It was during a fierce battle at
Alcatar, just outside of Tunis,
while the Americans were at-
tacking a hill, that Pfc. Helfand,
attached as company aid man in
the medical department of the
First Army, saw the German ly-
ing in the open field. He crawled
out to bring him back, but was
spotted and fired upon by a Ger-
man machine gun nest. Wound-
ed in the side and the right side
of his face shot away by the
fragment of an 88 mm. shell, he
managed to retain consciousness
until picked up by a jeep.
After leaving an evacuation
hospital and a clearing station,
he was taken to three' general
hospitals in Africa and a hospital
in Stanton Island, N. Y., before
being sent to the Walter Reid
Hospital in Washington, D. C.,
where he is still a patient. Seven
operations have been performed
on his face with a bone" being.
grafted from his hip and trans-
ferred to his jaw and cheek.
Save a scar, his• facial appear-
ance looks unaltered.
The horrible memory of see-
ing a Polish soldier, with whom
he was walking side by side, de-
capitated by a shell, lingers in
mind.
In the Army three years, Pfc.
Helfand is 26 years old and was
overseas a year. He has received
the Purple Heart and wears a
decoration around his shoulder
which was given the First Di-
vision in the last war by the
French. Of this honor, he says,
"The First Division earned it in
the last - war, but this time,
they've really earned it!" Rib-
bons on his chest include Ameri-
can Theater lof War, Before
Pearl. Harbor, African CamPlign,
Purple' Heart and Good Conduct.
Sieff Refutes Charges Placed
In Congressional Record
Pfc. Helfand 'Came Through'
After Harrowing Exper-
Leaders of Catholics, Jews and Protestants Augment Reg-
Noted British Industrialist and Jewish Leader Denies
ience at Alcatar
ular Weekly Broadcasts Over WXYZ With Special
Assertions Made in Congress That He is
Program on WWJ on Aug. 6
A Foreign Propagandist in U. S.
Wounded during the invasion
are frequently arranged.
On Aug. 6, Station WWJ pro-
vided use of its facilities for such
a broadcast. The participants,
whose photograph appears on
the first page of this issue of The
Jewish News, were Rev. John Q.
Mayne, executive secretary of
the Detroit Round Table; the
Very Rev. Monsignor Edward J.
Hickey, Chancellor of the Ro-
man Catholic Archdiocese of De-
troit; Rabbi Leon Fram of Tern-
ple Israel; Rev. Ellworth Smith,
Civilian Chaplain for War Emer-
gency Service of the Detroit
Council of Churches.
Discuss Churches
Harold True was the an-
nouncer. George W. Stalk, regu-
lar announcer of the Victory
Round Table Program sponsored
by the J. L. Hudson Co., which
Ago"' was turned over on Aug. 6 to the
Detroit Round Table, was on his
vacation.
This panel of speakers discuss-
ed the theme "What the
Churches Are Doing in the
War."
Mr. Mayne explained the pur-
poses of the Detroit Round Table
and the National Conference of
Christians and Jews, its parent
organization, to create under-
standing, co-operation and good-
will among the three faiths. He
stressed the good-will program
in the Detroit High Schools, in
which more than 20,000 students
in 16 high schOols this spring
heard ministers, priests and
rabbis speak from a common
platform on a Common theme,
"The World We Want to Live
In," and witnessed the film of
the National Conference of
Christians and JeWs .of
- -same
sae
name; ,
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Migrant Workers" -
Mr. Smith told of the 'wolie beL'
ing-done in the trailer" parks a rid -
the new defense centers - on he-
half. of the migrant worker,S W'flo
have come-to--Detroit:-----
Monsignor Hickey told of the
changes that had come to Detroit
during his _lifetime, and stressed
Hillel Fetes
IL S. Army Unit
At Reception
Servicemen, Facuity Mem-
bers, Officers Attend
Event in Ann Arbor
the need for increased under-
standing and goodwill between
groups.
He said that 36 priests froth
the Detroit area are now serving
as chaplains in the armed forces,
and Mr. Smith stated that a sim-
ilar number of Protestant pas-
tors had gone into service.
Rabbi Fram said that five
Jewish chaplains had been
drawn from this community. The
USO was praised as a channel of
co-operative endeavor. The Jew-
ish Welfare Board was praised
for the excellence of its work.
Chaplains' Sacrifice
Rabbi Fram closed the pro-
gram with a • reference to his
friend, Rabbi Alex Goode, who
was lost at sea when the troop-
ship on which he was serving as
chaplain was torpedoed. On this
occasion, three chaplains, . a
Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew,
gave their life-belts to soldiers
who lacked them on the torpe-
doed ship, and were last seen
praying together as the ship
went down.
The Sunday night broadcasts
on Station CKLW feature promi-
nent women of the Catholic,
Jewish and Protestant faiths.
Rev. Mayne is the chairman. Re-
cently, guests on this program
included Mrs. Samuel Aaron of
Pisgah Auxiliary of Bnai Brith;
Mrs. 'John C. Hopp, president of
the Sisterhood of Temple Beth
El, Mrs. Bayre Levin, president
of the Temple Israel Sisterhood,
and Mrs. Charles A. Smith, pres-
ident of the Sisterhood of Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek.
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Congress Women
To Meet on Sept. 8
At Shaarey Zedek
Rabbi Adler to Address First
Meeting of Season; List
Activities for Year
.
Detroit Women's Division of
American Jewish Congress will
hold the, opening meeting of the
season at the Shaarey Zedek,
Wednesday, Sept. ,8,. at 1:45 p. m.
Rabbi Morris Adler of Con-
gregation Shaarey • Zedek, one
of the Detroit delegates to the
American Jewish Conference,
will be the guest speaker. .His
subject will be "The Congress
P7rograth for World Jewry."
_ An .interpretation of- the 4ocal
and national program of the
Wonien's Division for the corn-
ing year will be outlined by the
vice-presidents, Mrs. Max Dush-
kin, Mrs. ,Irving Dworman, Mrs.
Abe Katzman and Mrs. Samuel
Green. Mrs. Morris Weingarten,
newly elected president, will pre-
side.
Vito to Be Soloist
With NBC ,Orchestra .
'= A performance of .internation- .
al musical interest will be the
American - pretniere of Reinhold
Gliere's Concerto for Harp and
Orchestra to be played by the
NBC Symphony, • with. Edward
Vito as harp soloist, on the GM
Symphony . of the Air's all-Rus-
sian program Sunday, Aug. 22.
(5 to 6 p. m., EWT).
' Orchestral • transcriptions by
Frank Black, conductor of two
Preludes '•by the. late, beloVed
Rachmaninoff, and the brilliant
Polovetzian Dances from Boro-
din's "Prince Igor," orchestrated
by Rimsky-Korsakov, are other
works listed. fOr performance:
Rachmaninoff will be represent-
'ed by his famous Prelude in C
Sharp Minor and the -G Minor
Prelude.
One :of . the most outstanding
social events of the summer took
plate at the Briai Brith Hillel
FoOndation at the University of
Mithigan last Sunday, Aug. 15. A
reception was held in honor of
Co. A, 3651 Service Unit of the
U. S. Army. Co. A gave a concert
at Hill Auditorium, attended by
The Term "Israeli'
approximately 4,000.
Applied to Judaism
The reception followed the con-
Israel was ' the nanie given
cert and attracted 2,000 people, Hugo Blumenthal,
Jacob after wrestling with the
consisting of service men, stu-
angel (Gen. 32:29) and was aP-
dents and townspeople, was pres- Sinai Hospital
plied as the collective name of
ent at the Foundation for the
the 12 tribes. It is used in Jewish
occasion. Among those present Official, Dies
liturgy as applying to the *hole .
were Lt. George Spence;' com-
manding 'officer of CO: A; Capt. NEW YORK (JPS) — Hugo people and was adopted after
R. E. Cassidy, commanding of- Blumenthal, prominent philan- 1B60 as a form of appelafron
similar to the term Jew.
ficer of several-'naval
sfa-: thropist and an 'official of Mount
toned • at .0 M:; Maj. Sarni:A Sinai Hospital • for more than 40
BROTHERS
Green and - Capt:3LOUIS Tyrolei:;
died here' at 81.
Made
to 11/1eSnire. and
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both of the...2/filitary, .Government -Servingc 'aS":.president of the
heady to Wear
School; ...and 13,ill Sqw.yeri, prom-, .Mount•S.i.nai .School of Nursing
inent band leader and director of for 25.,.year, .;Mr. Blumenthal
the choir of Co. A.
was credited with raising it to a
Also attending were 19 Ag-:1 bL:reaffiog,.anong_ the nation's
Japanese faculty members;;Witli' nurses ' 4 •iffaiiiiiit...iiistAiippAs. An
their families: 1-
4 7annual..:•=lsi3Olarstii);: in fili.1;:name
Representing the Ar.vity-art " ar:O.• that of his wife is ::given to
Navy Committee of the".- JeWsish the nursing school graduate
,
,
w ere -Dr. " gait /Chosen to :advance in her
Welfare `, Board.
pro 7
Cohen, U. M. faculty_ niernbeiv:feSsiOn.
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and chairman of the itomniittee, -During the First World War
he
.
and
RA. -1214. •
Reuben Kahn JIIVR) 'helped"
to
organize
the 'Mot.mt
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repr esentative on tho-Aiiii Arbor •
nurses for 'Base Hospital
up 1244 Wash.
USO Council.
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The statement recently made by Israel Moses Sieff, noted
British industralists and Jewish leader, to the House of Rep-
resentatives sub-committee of the Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce, emphatically repudiates charges that
he is a foreign propagandist in this country.
Mr. Sieff has been attacked on the floor of Congress and
the Hearst preis. He is vice-chair-
man of Political and. Economic
Planning, a British organization.
and is the assistant managing dir-
ector of Marks & Spencer Ltd.,
which operates 236 stores in
England.
Refutes Charges
Of particular interest in Mf.
Sieff's statement is his refuta-
tion of charges introduced in the
Congresional Record on June 8,
1934, by the late Rep. McFadden
of Pennsylvania, who was known
as a rabid anti-Semite. Mr. Sieff
deals at length with the Mt-
Fadden charges and shows their.
fallacy. His statement declares:
"There is no truth whatever in
Mr. McFadden's statement that
this document (which was insert-
ed in Congressional Record) was
prepared under my direction. I
never saw it and knew nothing
ISRAEL M. SIEFF
about it until my attention was
called to it laSt week." (Mr. Sieff's
statement is dated July - 1, 1943).
Mr. Sieff points out that the
McFadden propaganda is trace-
Detroit's- Corninittee
of -Russian able to Goebbels. In England, he
.
War Relief, Miss Myrtle. PoWell, - States, the Goebbels propaganda
chairman, announces that _ the was spready by Oswald Mosele3•'s
fifth carload of clothing. for , the Blackshirts, the British Fascists.
Moseley is now in prison for
Soviet Union left DetrOit freight- treason.
yards- for an undisclosed Ameri-
Called Nazi Lies
can port_ op Aug. 12. The. 2,500th
Another
propagandist whose at-
watch given by Detroiters for
medical and army use in... RUssia tacks are refuted by Mr. Sieff is
Joseph P. Kamp, head of "Con-
was on its
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Stitutional Educational League,"
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-who, Mr: Sieff declares, "repub-
Rumanian ---Anierican Alliance lished these Nazi lies in a pham-
for Deniocracy, with headquart: phlet called 'Fawns in Am
_erica.' "
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"There is no basis in truth for
Highland; Rark, -this- Week:. an: "-any of the attacks upon me and
nounced; that carol , A.
'upon PEP," Mr..Sieff asserts in -
former .Rumanian---minister to ale - his factual statement.
U. S., .has beenr41:ioVed as lion
One of, the outstanding leaders
orary -• chairrnari:-.,because the or-
ganization does:not want to- give in British Zionism, :Mr. Sieff has
the impression 'that 'It is influ- participated in numerous Pales-,
enced -by foreign interest§ _United tine efforts.. He. has established
the Sieff. Institute in Rehoboth,
Rumanian Jews is one - Of-4he
Where
Dr. Chaim Weizmann and
ganizations:
this:
a group of his noted fellow- .
group
chemists are doing research work
and have contributed in .Solvin .-
Yudelevitz, Zionist Vet,
Many
. problems for the Allied ,
'Dies in Palestine at 80
forces in the Middle and Nedi
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—One of East.
the few' survivors among the .
In Detroit, a special committee
Bilu Pioneers of Palestine passed under the chairmariShip of Abra-
away this week in the death of ham Cooper asists' in finantink
David Yudelevitz, 80, who died the - Sieff Institute. -
at Rishon Le-Zion. One , of the
founders- of the colony of Zich-
ron Yaakov, he came to _Pales-
tine with the first „wave of Bilu
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engaged in teaching arid journal- .
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