THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Twelve

Jews in Uniform. The Sgt. Did K.P.

Detroiter Heads
Pharmacy at Army
Base in Midwest

Back in the States after serv-
ing in the Pacific war zone,
T/Sgt. Alfred E. Berkowitz, a
former Detroit druggist, has been
placed in charge
of the pharma-
cy at the Glen-
nan General
Hospital at Ok-
mulgee, Okla.
Assisting him
are four other
college g r a du-
ates who have
an aggregate to-
tal of 53 years T/Sgt. Berkowitz
of experience in this field.
T/Sgt. Berkowitz, in service
over 30 months, has received
praise of medical officers and
men for the efficiency of his staff
in preparing capsules, dermatol-
ogical ointments, powders, sup-
positories and other medical
needs.
Last April, while overseas,
T/Sgt. Berkowitz mailed his fa-
ther, Isidore Berkowitz of 3734
Cortland, a "letter of apprecia-
tion" which he received from
Headquarters Service Command
and signed- by Brig. Gen. R. E. S.
Williamson. The letter cited his
voluntary donation of blood to
an officer,

Kabeck Promoted
to Staff Sergeant

Sgt. Gerald Kabeck has been
promoted to Staff Sergeant, his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Kabeck of 10237 McQuade, were
notified last 7 –"".-
week.

S/Sgt. Kabeck,
26, stationed at
Augusta, Ga., i
a graduate of
Central High
and of Detroit
Institute of
Technology,
where he com-
pleted a course Sgt. Kabeck
in accountancy. He completed
two years in the armed forces on
Dec. 27.

Pvt. Morris K. Rosen
Wounded in Action

Pvt. Morris K. Rosen has been
wounded in action in Italy, ac-
cording to a telegram from the
War Depart-
m e n t, recently
received by Mrs.
Libbie Rosen of
1674 Pingree
Ave. The nature
of his injury is
as yet unknown,
he h a s written
home from a
general hospital
in- North Africa
where he is be-
ing confined.
In service nine Pvt. Rosen
months, Pvt. Rosen was station-
ed at Ft. Custer and Camp Rob-
inson, Ark., before leaving for
embarkation, three months ago.
He is with the infantry and has
received a medal for marksman-
ship. A graduate of Northern
High, he is 28 years old and was
formerly a member of the Can-
Ameers. He is married to the
former Clare Kopelove.

Jewish Nurse-Soldier
Is Awarded Red Star

I Hashomer Hatzair
Leader, A. Ross,
An Army Pilot

Now a Second Lieutenant,
Detroiter Due Home
This Sunday

Alexander (Elchanan) Ross,
who was one of the outstanding
leaders in the Hashomer Hatzair
movement here, has completed
his course as
Pilot at the
Army Air Base
at Altus, Okla.,
with the rank of
Second Lieuten-
ant, his parents,
Mr. and Mr s.
Morris Ross of
4211 Tuxedo
Ave. were in-
formed this
Lt. Ross
Lt. Ross is a graduate of Cass
High School and Wayne Univer-
sity. He has had national recog-
nition for leadership in Hasho-
mer Hatzair.
He is expected home on leave
this Sunday.
His brother, Cadet Terry Ross,
is stationed at the Army Air
Base at Carbondale, Ill.

Overseas Hero Gets
Honorable Discharge

By BEN SAMUEL

Friday, 'January 7, 1944

Refugee Gives Life
In Action in Italy.

(This column is based on information
supplied by the National Jewish Wel-
fare Board,)

Pvt. Ernest Lilienstein has paid
his debt to America for giving
A sergeant major did K. P. at him a haven from persecution.
Newport News, Va., recently— His family was helped to start
and voluntarily, at that.
Sgt. Maj. Izzy Tabachneck was
one of the many Jewish soldiers
who gave up their furloughs on
Christmas Day so that their
Christian comrades at Newport
News—as in other camps and
bases throughout the country—
could have the holiday off.
"When we were given time off
to observe the Jewish holidays,"
says Tabachneck, "I made all
the Jewish boys promise they
would help the Christian boys
celebrate the Christmas. So. on
Dec. 25, all men of Jewish faith
filled the mess hall posts in dif-
ferent parts of our command,
enabling our Gentile brothers to
enjoy the Christmas."
The sergeant major himself
wound up peeling spuds in the
kitchen.
"What a riding I will have to
take now from the privates," he
ERNEST LILIENSTEIN
says. "You see, I'm the guy
who puts them on K. P.!"
life anew here by the National
* * *
Refugee Service, whose work is
KADDISH
financed by the United Jewish
Ella Logan, the populars sing- Appeal. Private Lilienstein has
er, is down in North Africa been killed fighting the Germans
these days, singing for the boys. in Italy, but not before he had
When she left this country she what he wanted—"a crack at the
was accompanied by her friend Nazis."
Eadie Delaney.
Now, Ella is Scotch and Eadie
is Irish, as it happens, was wid-
owed recently. Her husband
died in action in North Africa.
His name was Edelstein.
A non-Jew, Sgt. Philip R.
When Eadie arrived in Africa,
she was eager to find the ceme- Guthrie, serving with an army
tery where her husband is bur- medical unit somewhere in the
ied. Ella agreed to help in the Pacific, has the distinction of hav-
search. Together they set out ing made two contributions in
hunting for the place, and
eventually found the right cem-
etery.
There, amid crosses, a Star of
David marked Edelstein's rest-
ing place.
And standing before that
grave, as a light rain fell, and
lighting streaked a across a
scowling sky, Ella, the Scotch
girl, Eadie, the Irish girl, and a
certain Jewish chaplain stood
together recently and recited
Kaddish, the Hebrew prayer for
the dead.

Non-Jewish Soldier
Aids United Appeal

Cpl. Marvin L. Weisberg, hero
of Guadalcanal and New Geor-
gia, son of Mr. and Mrs. Her-
man Weisberg of 3521 "Oakman
Blvd., returned home on Dec.
20 after a year's service overseas,
as a surgical technician.
Having suffer-
ed a damaged
eardrum, C p 1 .
Weisberg h a s
been honorably
discharged from
the Army and
he plans to re-
sume his studies
at Wayne Uni-
versity.
Participating in
the two overseas
campaigns, Cpl.
Weisberg c o n - Cpl. Weisberg
(Copyright, 1944, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
tracted malaria and his illness
is a contributing factor to his
having been discharged.
Born in Detroit, Aug. 10, 1922,
SGT. PHILIP R. GUTHRIE
Cpl. _Weisberg was graduated
from Central High School. He
one year to the United Jewish
was a junior pre-medical student
Appeal for Refugees, Overseas
at University of Michigan at the
Needs and Palestine.
time of his enlistment Oct. 15,
Deeply moved by the plight of
1942.
Jewish refugee children, Sgt.
Guthrie sent another $25 money
order to the UJA recently to fur-
ther the work of . rescue and re-
settlement carried on by the
Joint Distribution Committee,
United Palestine Appeal and Na-
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Lt. Col.
tional Refugee Service. Earlier
Ben Sternberg, 29, has been
in 1943 he had sent $25, express-
awarded the Distinguished Serv-
ing the view that it was his ob-
ice Cross—an award seccmd in
ligation as a Christian to help al-
importance only to the Congres-
leviate Jewish suffering and
sional Medal of Honor—for lead-
homelessness.
ing a successful fight against 200
German tanks during which he
CARD OF THANKS
ignored all personal risk and ex-
The family of the late Rose
posed himself to severe machine-
Kessler wishes to thank their
gun, mortar and artillery fire in
many relatives and friends for
a treeless terrain, it was reported
the kindnesses shown them dur-
this week by the Jewish Welfare
ing their recent bereavement.
Board.
Lt. Hubert Monsky, member of
the Omaha Bnai Brith and son of
Henry Monsky, president of Bnai
Made to Measure and
Brith, to whom fell the honor
Ready to Wear
of being the pilot who completed
the 10,000th Atlantic crossing by
aircraft of the joint transatlantic
Ferry Command of the U. S.
Army Air Force and the RAF.

Lt. Monsky Pilots
/0,000th Warplane

Jewish Lt. Colonel
Awarded the DSC

Jewish Commission's Report
Following Tour Revealed
by Jewish Congree

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A report
on the situation of the Jews in
Transnistria, the section of the
occupied 'Ukraine administered
by Rumania, was made public
here this week by the World Jew-
ish Congress on the basis of of-
ficial findings of a Jewish corn-
mission which toured Trans-
nistria.
Emphasizing that of the 185,000
Jews who were deported by the
Rumanian authorities from Bes-
sarabia and Bukovina to Trans-
nistria, only 65,000 have survived,
the World Jewish Congress says
that "there is some hope of a
definite improvement" of the
Jewish situation in Transnistria. ,
The Jewish commission was per-
mitted by the Governor of Trans-
nistria, Prof. Alexianu, to visit
some of the 101 localities where
lie deportees were "permitted"
to settle.
The commission found thou-
sands of deported Rumanian Jews
in the ghettos of Crasna, Mog-
hilev-Podolsk, Jaruga, Copaigor-
od, Shargorod, Balta, Bershad
and other localities. All these
cities have hundreds of Jewish
orphans. The report of the com-
mission estimates that there are
in Transnistria about 8,000 Jew-
ish orphans, at least 5,000 of
whom have lost both parents.

Refuses to Take Oath
Before Jewish Judge

CHICAGO, (JTA) — Charged
by federal officials with sending
them threatening • letters, Wil-
helm Starr, a former member of
the German-American "Bund,"
refused to take an oath before
Judge Oscar Kaplan when ar-
raigned here. "I shall take no
oath before a Jew," he declared.
He was released in $2,000 bail
and sent to a mental hospital for
observation.
The former "Bund" member, a
house painter, began to address
threatening letters to the author-
ities after Federal Judge Camp-
bell ordered revocation of the
American citizenship of. his wife,
now interned in a camp for
enemy aliens. Mrs. Starr stated
in court that "Hitler is more
powerful and more important
than God."

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MOSCOW (JPS) — The Red
Star, one of the great military
awards of the Soviet Union, was
pinned on Beilke Golub, a Jew-
ish nurse from the city of Mozir,
who added active combat to her
duties as a nurse assigned to
partisan groups in White Russia.
In the citation, mention is made
One of the members of His-
both of her heroism in combat tadrut—Palestine Jewish Feder-
and in carrying 140 wounded
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guerillas to safety.
as PATS, the Palestine equiva-
Harry Revel received a bronze lent of WACs. Histadrut's activi-
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Third of 185,000
Jews Still Alive
In Transnistria

LONDON (JPS-Palcor) — A
proposal for the transfer from
Palestine to neighboring coun-
tries of those Arabs who may so
desire, has been made by the
liberal newspaper, Manchester
Guardian, in an editorial reiterat-
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