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THE JEWISH NEWS

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

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OVERSEAS

The award of the Distinguished Flying
Cross to Lt. Murray J. Shubin, the fighter
pilot whose "extraordinary heroism" at
Guadalcanal, was praised by the War De-
partment several months ago, was reported
by the Jewish Welfare Board's Bureau of
War Records. Lt. Shubin, who is 26 and
comes from Pittsburgh, has more than 120
hours of combat and bomber escort mis-
sions to his credit in the South Pacific and
has accounted for at least eight enemy
planes.
Asking "every American Jewish family"
to "write and thank Eire's great leader,"
Walter Winchell reported in his syndicated
column that Premier de Valera of Eire
had succeeded in making Hitler pay for
the restoration of a synagogue in Dublin
which had been bombed and destroyed by
the Luftwaffe several months ago. ,....n.e fa-
mous columnist quoted the story from The
Irish Echo. He noted that De Valera had
promised the Jews of Ireland "that their
lives and property would be protected by
the government against the acts of any
enemy of the country."
In deference to the religious sentiments
of the Jewish citizens, the El Paso City
Council voted to postpone until Oct. 23 a
referendum which had been scheduled for
Oct. 9, Yom Kippur.
The record sum of $515,000 has been
raised thus far for the 1943 United Pales-
tine Appeal in Canada, it was announced
by Rabbi Jesse Schwartz, national execu-
tive director of the Zionist Organization
of Canada.
President Roosevelt was requested to
reopen the case of Private Alton Levy,
Bronx youth, who was found guilty by a
court-martial of having slandered his
superior officer and having made mis-
leading statements about treatment of
Negro troops.

LETTER BOX

A Word to Parents With
Sons Overseas

Editor, The Jewish News:

We received a note the other
day from one of the Windsor
boys • stationed in England. The
letter—a very touching one—be-
gan with a salutation in Hebrew
—"May .you be inscribed for a
good year . • ." And then, this
chap went on to tell that he, in
company with a group of other
Windsor lads, had arranged to
spend Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur in one of the tradition-
laden London synagogues.

Unusual attendance at the High Holy
Day services, with record numbers of
worshippers crowding the synagogues. of
Hungary to capacity, was reported by the
Hungarian press.
The relentless arrest and deportation of
the Danish Jews continues despite the
manifold protests to Germany from all
sources, according to advices reaching
England. Four hundred additional depor-
tations from Copenhagen to points un-
known were reported. The Gestapo con-
tinued raiding Jewish homes. Hospitals,
sanitariums and churches, too, were
searched for Jews who might be hiding in
them. Converts to Christianity, of Jewish
origin, as well as wives and children of
mixed marriages were apprehended and
will be deported as Jews. The prison in
Copenhagen now holds 370 Jews, largely
professionals, who are awaiting deporta-
tion.
The German correspondent of the Trib-
une de Geneve writes that he has ascer-
tained that Leon Blum, former premier of
the French Republic, and Georges Mandel,
former Minister of Interior, are now in-
terned in Germany and are in good health.
There had been re c ent rumors of the death
of Mandel in a: Nazi prison.
Two Jewish studenth, Leo Fried, 20, and
Hans Aaten, 23, have been sentenced to
death by a Nazi tribunal in Holland. They
were accused of sabotage.
All Rumanian Jews born in 1926 have
been ordered to report for induction into
the forced labor corps.
The Government of the Uzbekistan Re-
public has conferred high honors on Prof.
Solomon Michoels and a number of other
distinguished artists of the Moscow State
Theater for the performances which they
gave in the Uzbekistan theaters during the
past two years.

he was strarving for "a Yiddish
vort.""
Now that leads us to what -we
consider a worthwhile idea. In
your next letter to your boy,
instead of just telling that cousin
Rose became engaged, or that
you hope he enjoyed the two
comfort-boxes you sent, why not
add a little post-script that would
run along these lines: "Dear Son:
I attended services last Shabbos
(or last Friday evening, or -morn-
ing, or whatever the case may
be) td pray for your safe return.
I know that you don't get the
chance to 'daaven' as often as
you'd like, so I'm doing a little
pinch-hitting for you.".
Maybe your sergeant or pilot-
officer will get a bigger thrill
out of that than he would from
a dozen bars of chocolate. Try it,
sometime: you won't be sorry.
BENJAMIN GRONER,
Rabbi Shaar Hashomayim
Synag6gue, 1 Windsor.

While we were reading the
letter. a peculiar misgiving seem-
ed to beset us. Here was a boy
who didn't have a word to say
about the weather, about the
sort of food he was being served,
about the people he met, about Expert on Scandinavia
his duties or his problems. He Speaks at Cass Town Hall
was hungry for a bit of spiritual
Helen Nelson Englund, leading -
inspiration, so he simply wrote authority on Scandinavian coun-
that he was going to Shul. He tries and director of the Amer--
didn't have to go; as a matter can-Scandinavian Society, is the
of fact, we could think of a speaker for the Detroit Town
dozen valid reasons why, per- Hall at the Cass Theater, on Fri-
haps, he need not have gone. day morning, Oct. 29, at 11
But he went—he went because o'clock.

Praises X-Ray Use

DR. JACOB SEGAL

Dr. Segal, new medical direc-
tor of the Los Angeles Sanator-
ium, says routine use of X-ray
in examination of millions of
selectees points the way to be
followed in the fight against tu-
berculosis. A national non-sec-
tarian institution for the care of
the indigent, the Sanatorium is
located at Duarte, Cal., and is
run by Jewish Consumptive and
Ex-Patients Relief Association.

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Friday, Octoter 22, 1943

Jews in Uniform

Detroiter Prints Note on Block-Buste
He Hopes to Deliver to Adolf Shortly

. One of the block-busters, of the one ton variety, soon - to b
dropped on Nazi Germany by a Detroit bombardier, will have a
local twist behin
it.
In the mail this
week is a picture
from Lt. Bob. Shan
showin'g him
kneeling alongside
the bomb he prom-
ises to deliver to
Hitler from Danny
Raskin, of the
Jewish News staff.
According to his
letter, Lt. Shan and
the crew of the
"Bobbie H" are taking personal care of the bomb. With the - inscrip-
tion, will be pasted a copy of a poem taken from the Jewish News
of Feb. 26 and written by Raskin at the request of the bombardiers.
at the Santa Ana Air Base in California.
Lt. Shan expects to deliver the bomb, soon, and it is hoped
that Hitler is around to receive it personally.

.

In Lighter Vein

The Week's Best Stories

"It Is Wonderful—
Only in America!"

Jerry Oppertheim
Back from Alaska
After Three Years

After working with the 93rd
Engineers Regiment helping tc
build the Alcan Highway, Chief
Warrant Officer Jerry Oppen-
heim, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Stone of 2960 Collingwood Ave.,
returned home on his first fur-
lough in three years.
His chest bedecked with rib-
bons, including- the Purple Heart,
received for being wounded in
action, Chief W/O Oppenheim
distributed souvenirs and exhib-
ited a personal. letter received
from his commanding officer for
his remarkable work on the high-
way through Alaska. He was in
Dutch Harbor when that battle
raged and also saw action in Kis-
ka and the Aleutians.
Chief W/O Oppenheim was
stationed at Ft. Sam Houston be-
fore going overseas. He was a
graduate of Durfee Interrnediate,
after which he continued his edu-
cation in Chicago.
*
*
Aviation Cadet Leonard W.
Alkon, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Alkon, has been promoted
to Regimental Commander.

One day Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
velt visited a charitable organi-
zation in Washington where refu-
gees are invited monthly to get
acquainted and discuss their mu-
tual problems.
At the -close of the session, the
First Lady stood in the receiving
line to be introduced to each
refugee by the presiding officer.
Mrs. Roosevelt noticed the fine
features and distinguished bear-
ing of one of the guests, an elder-
ly, scholarly-looking man, and
began to speculate upon his oc-
cupation. "Probably a member
of some profession," she finally
concluded.
Presently the man was intro-
duced. He inclined his head in
a courtly bow, and in well-modu-
lated but broken English ex-
claimed, "Mrs. Roosevelt, today
I waited on you at the Shoreham
Hotel." A look of pride and hap-
piness suffused his face, and he
added, "Only in America, would
such a thing be possible. It is
wonderful."
* *
GM Summer Symphony
"ODDS"
Ends Sunday; Winter
How odd
And not
Series to Open, Oct. 31
Of God
To spot
A program • of wide variety,
To choose
The purer
both in composer characteristics
The Jews
Fuehrer.
—Australian Forum. and music moods, has been se-
lected by Dr. Frank Black, con-
ductor, for the General Motors
Many Jews Reported
Symphony of the Air's final sum-
In Guerilla Forces
mer series program on Sunday,
Oct. 24 (NBC, 5:00 to 6:00 p. m.,
LONDON (JPS)—In a report EWT).
On the following Sunday, Oct.
broadcast by the pro-Nazi Croat
Radio, it was stated that many 31, the GM winter series will be
Jews were among the guerilla inaugurated with the entnent
forces which ousted the Nazis maestro, Arturo Toscanini, con-
from the city of Spalato. The ducting the NBC Symphony in
radio reported that these Jewish the first of six consecutive Sun-
guerillas, natives of Yugoslavia,- day programs. These will be fol-
Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and lowed by 12 concerts under the
Greece, fought desperately to baton of Leopold Stokowski and
win the city . and contributed a final six programs conducted
much to the victory.
by Toscanini.

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