THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, October 22, 1943

War Chest Workers Invited
To Hear Rep. Will Rogers

California Congressman to Address Meeting of Jewish
Welfare Federation and Detroit Service Group
at Temple Beth El on Sunday, Oct. 31

A call has been issued by Abraham Srere, president of
the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, urging workers
and contributors to the War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit
to reserve Sunday afternoon, Oct. 31, for the meeting which
wilt be addressed at the Brown Memorial Chapel of Temple
Beth El, at 3 p. m., by Rep. Will Rogers, Jr, of California.
The son of . the great American

humorist, Congressman Rogers
has recently returned from Eng-
land where he conferred with
leading government officials on
plans for the rescue of Jews
from Nazi-occupied Europe.
Shortly after Pearl Harbor Will
Rogers Jr. enlisted in the Army
and went through the regular in-
duction center to training camp.
After he served as a private for
two months he was sent to
officers' school and then was at-
tached to a Tank Destroyer Bat-
talion at Camp Hood, Texas.
While at Camp Hood, he was
elected to Congress.
Mr. Srere states in his an-
nouncement that advantage will
be take of the occasion of Rep.
Rogers' visit here to discuss the
Jewish" community's participation
in the approaching War Chest
campaign. Mr. Srere states in his
call to workers and contributors:
"We have invited Mr. Rogers
to come to Detroit, as the guest
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion and the Detroit Service
Group, so that he can tell us
about the prospects of rescuing
our brethern from Nazi-domin-
ated countries. In the light of
Mr. Rogers' first-hand knowledge
of the problem, we should like
you to share the opportunity of
meeting him and getting his
views on some of the plans for
rescuing and rehabilitating the
Jews of Europe."

Pontiac Hadassah
Picks Committees
For Coming Year

Committees for the coming
year were mobilized by Pontiac
Chapter of Hadassah at its meet-
ing at - Temple Beth Jacob.
The following appointments
were announced by Mrs. Morris
Kaplan, president:
Program, Mrs. Herman Sten-
buCk; educational, Mrs. Eric
Friedland; Honor Roll, Mrs. Jack
Wainger; membership, Mrs. Jacob
Meyer; hospitality, Mrs. Izidore
Goode; Youth Aliyah, Mrs. Irv-
ing Steinman; National Fund,
Mrs. Sam Cohen; publicity, Mrs.
Sidney Siegel; telephone, Mrs.
Harold Boss; child welfare, Mrs.
Gerald Walker.
Mrs. Friedland and Mrs. Julian
Levine read very enlightening
papers dealing with the meaning
of Hadassah and the magnitude
of its Work since its inception.
Plans are being made for the
creation of dramatic, choral and
study groups for the advance-
ment of Hadassah work in Pon-
tiac.

Noted Artists
To Exhibit Work

At the Center

Turover Dedicate
Honor Roll Monday

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Allied Jewish Campaign Leaders
Meet to Confer on Future Plans

Jewish War Veterans and
Mayor Jeffries to Par- .
ficipate in Program

Department of Michigan, Jew-
ish War Veterans, U. S. A., will
participate in the ceremonies for
the presentation of Colors and
dedication of the Honor Roll for
the Men in Service of the Tur-
over Aid Society, next Monday
evening at Jericho Temple.
Samuel J. Rhodes, department
commander, will deliver the ad-
dress and will be accompanied by
the Department of Michigan Drill
and Color Guard.of which Roy C.
Cohen is captain. •
The Honor Roll of the Turn-
over Aid 'Society will bear the
names of 62 of its members' sons
and daughters. Rubin Solomon,
president, with a son and daugh-
ter in the service, will accept the
colors. A committee, headed the
Sol Lumberg, -chairman of the
Turnover USO Committee; with
Isadore SosniCk,- JuliuS SChwartz,
Benjamin Grant, . Max. L. Roberts
and Herman Lichtmaii; is.•_in
charge of all arrangements..
Turover USO 'Coitimittee has'
sent 180 packages to its men-:aid
women in the service and
taken an active part - in the .Orga--
nization's . .drive to sell $100,000
in War: BondS to Turover rriem
bers:' : • • - S
Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, Jr.,
will also participate in the •flag
presentation ceremonies and will
deliver a non-political address.

The works of Lillian Desow,
Harry Glassgold and George Van
Saake will be exhibited at the
Jewish Center beginning Sunday
evening, October 24. The ex-
hibit, which will be devoted to
oils and water colors by the
three artists, will be held in the
Adult Lounge, and will be open
to. the •public.
Van Saake, who is of Dutch
extraction, considers himself a
Michigan artist. Recently he
has devoted himself to portrait
painting, specializing in child-
ren's portraits.
Lillian Desow received her
early art training at Cass Tech-
nical High School, Jewish Com-
munity Center Art School, and
at Cranbrook Academy of Art,
where she had a scholarship for
the academic year 1939-1940.
Harry Glassgold came to De-
troit a number of years ago and
received much of his education
here. He has studied at the Art
Students' School in N. Y. and
at the N. Y. School of Fine and
Applied Art. In 1942 he received
the Albert Kahn Award for the
best water color in the Michi- Country's Outstanding Fives
gan Artists' Show.
Are to be Met; Games at
Mrs. Walter Laib is chairman
Hackett Field House
of the Art Appreciation Commit-
tee at the Jewish Community
Philip "Cincy" Sachs is man-
Center.
aging and coaching the new
Harry Suffrin basketball team,
sponsored by Harry Suffrin,
JWV, Auxiliary Give
prominent Detroit clothier.
125 Pints to Exceed
Celebrating his 25th year as
Blood Donor Quota
basketball coach and as manager
of 26 championship teams, Sachs
The Jewish War Veterans and last week 'commenced practice
the Ladies' Auxiliaries went over with his new team which in-
the top on the Blood Donor drive cludes a number of outstanding
last Thursday, Friday and Satur- players.
day, October 14, 15 and 16, when
Outstanding teams in t h e
more than 125 men and women
each contributed a pint of blood country are on the schedule.
Practice commenced last Sun-
to the Red Cross.
"It was gratifying," wrote E. day at Hackett Field House,
J. Steiner, Red Cross director, to Third and Pitkin, Highland Park,
Philip H. Halper, chairman of where all the games will be
the Blood Donor drive, "to have played on Sunday evenings.
Sachs is also managing basket-
so many donors from the Jewish
ball practice and classes at the
War Veterans."
. Interest was evidenced by the Jewish Community Center for
appearance of Mrs. Debbie Melt- boys 13 to 16 and 15 to 17, on
zer and Milton Gordon, both 10- Sunday afternoons. He also gives
time donors. Mrs. Meltzer has a basketball instructions at the
son, Lt. Jack Meltzer, in the Air Center on Mondays and Wednes-
Corps, stationed in the Alaskan days, 5 to 7.
area. Nine-time donors present
were: Mrs. Cora Leppan, Max
Goodman and Philip H. Helper.

Suffrin Sponsors
Basketball Team;
Sachs Manager

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Allied Jewish Campaign leaders who are actively partici-
pating in the War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit are shown
here in conference on future campaign plans. They met at the
Jewish Home for Aged last Sunday morning, immediately after
the Treasury Gifts conference.
JOSEPH BERNSTEIN and RABBI MORRIS ADLER, seat-
ed, are two of the co-chairmen of the organization's advisory
committee.
Standing, left to right: BEN B. FENTON, vice-chairman
of the Detroit Service Group; MISS ESTHER R. PRUSSIAN,
secretary of Detroit Service Group and liaison secretary with
Detroit War Chest; ABRAHAM J. LACHOVER, co-chairman
of organizations' advisory committee; IRVING W. BLUMBERG,
co-chairman of industrial division; HERMAN PEKARSKY,
acting executive director of Jewish Welfare Federation; JAMES
I. ELLMANN, president of Jewish Community Council, co-
chairman of organizations' advisory committee.

Council of Women
Parley, Nov. 7-11

sembling an important wartime
convention in the same city and
the same season of the year in
which the -organization was born
NEW YORK (WNS)—The Na- in 1893.
tional Council of Jewish Women
Earl G. Harrison, U. S. Corn-
will hold its 17th triennial Con- missioner of Immigration and
vention and observe its fiftieth Naturalization since July, 1942,
anniversary at the Drake Hotel, will be one of the principal
in Chicago, Nov. 7 to Nov, 11, as- speakers at the Convention.

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Jr. Hadassah Asks
Interested Groups
To Aid in Its Work

Junior Hadassah has extended
an invitation to all interested
groups and individuals to par-
ticipate in the organization's
work for Palestine. Junior Hadas-
sah projects include:
Support of Meier Shfeyah, the
Junior Hadassah colony in Pal-
estine; Pardess Anna, an orange
grove on which many refugee
children have been settled; work
for Jewish National Fund and
Youth Aliyah.
Groups interested in, support-
ing these projects are asked to
communicate with Miss Sybil
Rosengarten, 1944 Elmhurst, TO.
8-8535.
Rabbi Leon Fram addressed
the group on Oct. 19 on "False
Messiahs and Their Significance."
The lecture series is being con-
tinued for the entire season at
the Hadassah office, 9144 Lin-
wood.

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