Friday, January 28, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
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JWB Opens USO Lounge
At the Community Center
Extension of Jewish Welfare Board's - Activities Marked
By Dedication of Completely Furnished
Project; Rabin Welcomed
Extension of Jewish Welfare Board activities here
through the efforts of the Detroit Army and Navy Commit-
tee was marked by the opening, on Sunday, of the new USO
Lounge on the second floor of the Jewish Community Center.
Completely furnished, with arrangements for dancing,
lounaing facilities and numerous entertainment projects, the
USO 6 Lounge will be serviced by
the committees functioning in be- voted by the United Jewish
half of the Army and Navy Com- Charities, of which Judge Wil-
mittee, of which Samuel H. Ru- liam Friedman is president,
biner is chairman.
from the Hannah Schloss Trust
The official opening of the USO Fund. Judge Friedman has an-
Lounge began with a brunch on nounced that the servicemen's
Sunday before noon for the sen- room at the Jewish Center will
ior hostesses which are rendering be known as the Hannah Schloss
services at the Downtown USO.
Lounge.
Mrs. Krolik Chairman
The lounge was decorated by
Mrs. Julian H. Krolik is chair- a committee under the chair-
man of the committee on hos- manship of Mrs. Oscar Zemon
tesses, and under her supervision and Mrs. Edward Quint.
nearly 400 girls have been Phillip H. Rabin-, new area di-
trained to assist in rendering rector for the JWB, was official-
hospitality to visiting service- ly welcomed to Detroit at Fri-
day's meeting.
men in Detroit.
Reports on Jewish Welfare
Cainp Custer Report
activities in the Detroit and
An interesting report on activ
Michigan areas were submitted ities in the Battle Creek area, for
Friday at a luncheon meeting of servicemen • at Camp Custer and
the. - Army and Navy executive other army posts in that area,-
committee. Mr. Rubiner pre- was presented at this meeting by
sided.
Samuel Kurzon, Army-Navy ser-
vice director for the Camp Custer
Hannah Schloss Lounge
Mrs. Samuel R. Glogower, area. Mr. Kurzon said that more
president of the Jewish Com- than 1,000 Jewish servicemen are
munity Center and a vice-chair- at present stationed at Camp
man of the JWB Army-Navy Custer alone, and that during
Committee, reported on the the Holy Days 1,800 question-
plans • that had been completed naires were distributed among
for the opening of the USO Jewish servicemen at camp at
that time. .
Lounge.
He reported that the special
Funds for the lounge were
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problem of providing services for
married men in the Army is be-
ing tackled by bringing wives for
visits and by providing housing
facilities and entertainments for
them. He indicated that despite
the fact that there are only 35
Jewish families in Battle Creek,
they are. rendering all possible
services to uphold the morale of
the soldiers.
Reports were submitted at Fri-
day's meeting by Mrs. Krolik,
for the hostesses committee; Mrs.
A. H. Brodie, chairman of food
committee; Rabbis Leon Fram
and M. J. Wohlgelernter, who
outlined the program that is be-
ing followec: to provide religious
services for the men at the camps
and in supplying inductees with
prayer books, Bibles and other
J.W.B. material before they leave
for camps, at. the railroad sta-
tions.
Fred M. Butzel, chairman of
the state committee of the Jew-
ish Welfare Board, reported on
activities that are being carried
on in camps throughout Michi-
gan.
Myron A. Keys, chairman of
the war records committee, re-
ported on the extensive activities
now being conducted to compile
a complete list of all Jews in
service.
The effort of the Detroit Army
and Navy Committee of the Jew-
ish Welfare Board to compile
the record of Jewish men and
women in the service is being
widely commended. Numerous
letters and telephone calls are
being received by the committee
endorsing its plans and offering
it assistance in its work.
Typical of the letters received
is the following from Cpl. Ber-
nard Whiteman of 3788 Glynn
Court:
"I have just received my copy
of the Jewish News and in the
first hasty perusal saw your
plan for listing all Jewish men
in the service. As well as pro-
viding statistics to prove to the
community that Jews participate
in this war to their fullest ex-
tent, it certainly does all t h e
other things you plan for it to
provide: lift the morale of the
folks at home; provide contact
for men in service and, in the
wider scope, become part of the
analysis of the Jewish participa-
tion for the war throughout the
U. S. and the whole world.
"The plan is much more sensi-\
ble if carried on as a concerted.'
effort of all agencies, rather than
to have various organizationsi
t h r ow out miscellaneous and
often erroneous facts.
"Please accept my best wishes
for a complete success in your
compilation — a n d more — myl
services, if you need them."
Dutch Professors Held
For Defending Jews
WASHINGTON (JPS) — Fiftyl
hostages, including three profes-1
sors of Leyden University who.
came to the defense of the JewS,
have been seized by German au-
thorities in occupied Holland in
reprisal for the shooting of a
Dutch Nazi official on Jan. 3,
according to a dispatch from
Netherlands sources in Londoa
and reported to the OWI.
The professors were said to bei
Rudolph P. Cleveringa, Henry
Pieter Blok and Paul Christiaan.4
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Questionnaire for information regarding servicemen being compiled by
Bureau of War Records of Jewish Welfare Board. Relatives and friends of
servicemen are asked to clip this questionnaire, fill it out and address it to
BUREAU OF WAR RECORDS
JEWISH WELFARE BOARD
8904 Woodward Avenue, Detroit 2, Mich.
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Date
Name
20 Years Ago
Home Address
Street
Birthplace
Birth Date
Serial No.
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(C:)pyright, 1944. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
JERUSALEM—Lisan, Jerusalem Arab newspaper, has
published an article in praise of Nathan Straus ; American
philanthropist, who recently arrived in Palestine for a tour.
Mr. Straus' coming, according to Lisan, has created as much
stir among the Arabs as among the Jews, all peoples bene-
fitting by his benefactions in Palestine, chief of which are
pure milk stations and large contributions to the medical
faculties of the - country, both of which are under the direction
of Hadassah, American Women's Zionist Organization.
BERLIN—The People's Court in Nuernberg has sen-
tenced to prison the National Socialists, Graf and Hofer, to
two years and a half year, respectively. They were charged
with having taken part in the attempted Hitler-Ludendorf
putch and with wounding and robbing a Jew.
MOSCOW—Fifteen hundred Jewish workers yesterday
attended a special meeting here following the death of Premier
Lenin. The meeting was too small to admit several thousand
more who waited outside. The addresses of the speakers were
received with tears and many women became hysterical. The
Jewish community in Moscow has called a special meeting to
consider in what form it might participate in the funeral.
CLEVELAND—Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama,
candidate for the Democratic nomination for Presidency, will
ask that his party adopt an anti-Ku Klux Klan plank at the
convention in New York in June, he said in an address before
the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.
BERLIN—Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, a member of the
Catholic Party,- told a Jewish Telegraphic Agency representa-
tive this week that the central German government would
oppose any efforts to "exploit the distress of the German
people for anti-Semitic agitation." He added that all Catholic
circles repudiate the nationalist movement, which tends to
divide the people.
MOSCOW—A special judicial body has been formed by
the government to review the Beilis case which was decided
in 1912. Mendel Beilis, who is now in the U. S. was charged
with ritual murder in a trial that attracted world-wide atten-
tion. The government has ordered the review at the request
of one of Beilis' attorneys, who says that he has uncovered
evidence completely clearing his client. •
BUENOS AIRES—The Jewish Colonization Association re-
ports that 1,098 Jews entered Argentina as immigrants during
November, 1923. Most of the immigrants came from Poland.
Employment was found for many of the refugees on the farms
in the JCA settlements.
NEW YORK—The proposed Johnson immigration bill,
which sets up entry quotas on the basis of 1890 when there
was relatively little Jewish immigration, was assailed here by
Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish Committee,
addressing the New York State Bar Association. The Johnson
bill, Mr. Marshall said, "looks as if it were dictated by the
Ku Klux Klan."
JERUSALEM—Palestine Jews have decided not to send
a delegation to Amman where representatives of Arab coun-
tries have been conferring with King Hussein of Hedjas with
regard to the proposed Pan-Arab Federation and the Anglo-
Arab treaty.
Army-Navy Committee Praised
For Compiling Servicemen's Record
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