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Friday, February I I, 1944

THE 'JEWISH NEWS

Jews in Uniform

A. Arnold Agree Now Recalls Playing

Second Lieutenant

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A.
Arnold Agree, son of Charles N.
Agree, of Detroit, was awarded
the gold bars of an AAF Second
Lieutenant Jan. 27 at the grad-
uation of the Army Air Forces
Training Command School at
Yale University, held in the
Sterling Law Building before a
large audience of classmates and
friends.
Rated as a Technical Officer
in Communications, Lt. Agree is
now prepared to assume duties
with tactical units of the Army
Air Forces, according to Col.
Raymond J. Reeves, commanding
officer. His training has included
study in the use and operation
of transmitters, receivers, the ra-
dio compass, radio and wire
equipment and portable ground
stations. For two weeks prior
to graduation the new officer
has been trained under simu-
lated battle conditions, from
sleeping in a plane to working
on its wireless system at night
with the aid of black-out lan-
terns.
Lt. Agree will shortly be as-
signed to a tactical unit where
he will be in charge of main-
taining the communications of
his outfit. He will head a group
of enlisted men specialists.
* * *
Cpl. William Isenberg, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Isenberg of
1949 Taylor Ave., is stationed
with the Transportation Corps at
Fort Slocum,
New Rochelle,
N. Y., as Chem-
ical Warfare
and First A i d
Instructor. He
has been in
service since
Aug. 3, 1942.

Born in Detroti
30 y ears' ago,
Cpl. Isenberg is a Northern
High School graduate . and stud-
ied at Wayne University pre-
law school. He was engaged in
government work for four years
as an investigator for the Secret
Service in the Alcohol Tax Unit.
He is a fingerprint expert.
On April 17, 1943, he was mar-
ried to Miss Sarah Fishman.
j Mrs. Isenberg is making her
home with her husband. Both
were here last week, during
Cpl. Isenberg's furlough.
* * *
-Lt. A. Arnold Agree spent the
last week-end with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Agree,
and has returned to his post at
the Boca Raton Club, Boca Ra-
tan, Fla.
* * *
Dr. Jack R. Greenberg, 15743
W. 7 Mile Road, has been pro-
moted from First Lieutenant to
Captain.
* * *
Maj. Samuel S. Altshuler, 1126
Bishop Rd., Grosse Pointe Park,
former member of the staffs of
Harper Hospital and William
Seymour Hospital at Eloise, has
been appointed chief ,sof medical
service of the Army Fletcher
General Hospital, Cambridge, 0.
He has served as assistant chief
of the hospital since it opened
last May. Commissioned Oct. 8,
1942, Maj. Altshuler trained
at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., and
then at William Beaumont Gen-
eral Hospital, El Paso, Tex.

Two Jews Best
Soviet Snipers

MOSCOW (JPS)—Jacob Ka-
bak, an actor of the Yiddish
theater in Odessa, now serving
with the Red Army, and Sgt.
Grischa Feldman, were described
as among the ace snipers in the
ranks of the Red Army, in cita-
tions given here.
Capt. Vladimir Goldstein is
praised by the Soviet press for
bringing to safety a number of.
Soviet • conveys and successfully
warding off enemy attacks at sea.
The Jews of Biro Bidjan are
reported to have sent another big
transport of gifts to the Red
Army at the front.

Soldier in Ukrainia
During Last War

While World War I raged in
Europe, Meyer Siegel played sol-
dier in the streets of Ukrainia
as a little boy, and —proudly
marched along with the big sol-
diers, his little gun over his

Pfc. Isadore Zaas
Killed In Action

Dr. Bardin Speaks
at Junior Hadassah
Luncheon on Feb. 20

Louis Zaas, of 3774 Boston
Blvd., received word on Tuesday
that his son, Pfc. Isadore Zaas,
was killed in active service at
Saidor, New Guinea, on Feb. 2.
Pfc. Zaas was a member of the
32nd Division. He had been over-
seas for two years.

Dr. Shlomo Bardin, national
A new term in the Jewish
chairman of the American Zion- Community Center Art School
ist Youth Commission and dir- already has started, it is an-
ector of Brandeis Camp Insti- nounced by Mrs. David B. Werbe,
of the Art School committee.
tute, will be the guest speaker Classes for adults are held Sun-
day mornings and Tuesday eve-
nings.
Fees for a four-month semes-
ter are $7.50 for Center mem-
bers and $10 for non-members;
for four sessions, $2.50 for Cen-
ter members, $3.50 for non-mem-
bers.
An elementary class for chil-
dren is held on Tuesday and
Thursday afternoons, 4 to 6 p. m.
The same rates apply for the
children's classes.
Leon Makielski is the instruc-
tor in the advanced school. Stan-
ley Twardowicz instructs the
elementary class.
Registrations are now being
taken at the Center, Woodward
at Holbrook. For information,
call MA. 8400. -

New Detroiters
To Hear Viennese

Writer on Program

Cpl. Siegel

Pfc. Siegel

shoulders. Now, in another war,
he has another gun—somewhere
on an island in the Pacific, fight-
ing for another country — his
America.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sie-
gel, of 3224 Richton Ave., Cpl.
Meyer Siegel, 30, is a graduate
of Northern High and has been
in service 13 months. He was
stationed with the Signal Corps
and was at Fort Ord, Calif., be-
fore leaving for overseas. He
is married to the former Betty
Tonkin.
A brother, Pfc. Albert Siegel,
21, is stationed at the Medical
Depot in St. Louis, where he is
training as an X-ray technician
to repair hospital equipment. He
has been in service eight months.
He was graduated from Cass
High. He is engaged to Adeline
Selman.
* * *
Second Lt. Louis Fogel, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Max Fogel, 2551
W. Euclid, is home on leave,
before taking up undisclosed
duties. He enlisted as a private
July, 1942, after attending Mich-
igan University. He graduated
from Antiaircraft A r tiller y
School, Camp Davis, North Car-
olina.
Fogel's brother, Harry, who
likewise enlisted as a private, is
now a first lieutenant at Camp
Mills, New' Jersey.
Another brother, Jack, is en-
gaged in confidential work for
the Navy.
* * *
Dr. George Charnas, who is
stationed with the Dental Corps
at Camp Mackall, N. C., has
been promoted from First Lieu-
tenant to Captain. Capt. and
Mrs. Charnas (Mildred R. Feld --
man) reside in Southern Pines,
North Carolina.
* * *
Jack Cranis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis H. Cranis of 2556 W.
Philadelphia Ave., has been in
active service since December,
1942. Last week's issue errone-
ously gave the year as 1943.
* * *
Cpl. Irving Goldstein, 30,
brother of Max Goldstein, 3326
Rochester Ave., was wounded in
action in New Guinea Jan. 11.
He entered the army three years
ago and has been overseas 18
months.

Page Thirteen

The New Detroiters, an organ-
ization of former German and
Austrian citizens, will present an
evening of music and poetry in
the main auditorium of the Jew-
ish Community Center, Satur-
day, Feb. 19, at 8:45 p. m.
Alfred Farau, Viennese lectur-
er and writer, who lives in New
York, will read some of his
poetry which he wrote during
his imprisonment in the concen-
tration camp, Dachau.
Participants in the musical,
part of the program will be Mar-
guerite Kozenn, dramatic so-
prano; Julius Chajes, director of
music at the Jewish Community
Center and Temple Beth El; Hen-
ry Siegl, violinist, and Jascha
Schwarzman, cellist, both of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Fred M. Butzel will be chair-
man. Mrs. Sidney Weisman is
chairman of the program com-
mittee and Paul Cohen is chair-
man of the publicity and tickets
committee. The program has
been arranged by Mrs. Alice
Schwab, director of recreation
for the New Detroiters.
Tickets may be purchased at
the office of the Jewish Com-
munity Center.

Kvutzah Hamisha Asar
Celebration Saturday

Hamisha Asar b'Shevat will be
celebrated by Kvutzah Ivrith,
the Hebrew cultural group, on
Saturday evening, Feb. 12. .
The program will be sponsored
by lady members of the Kvut-
zah. All talks, readings, recita-
tions, playlets and songs will. be
given by the lady members. The
committee in charge consists of
Mrs. Ruth Ticktin Chanin, Mrs.
Yoniana Mathis and Miss Zelda
Rosenthal. Other participants
will be Mrs. Irving B. Acker-
man, Drora Salesny, Mrs. Solo-
mon Kasdan and Miriam Gold.
A feature of the program will be
a group of Palestinian songs by
Mrs. Morris Plafkin, accompa-
nied on the piano by Bella Gold-
berg. The program is open to
the public.. There is no admis-
sion.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

Annual Yeshivah
Month

to Devote
Radio Time to Aid
Chesed Shel Emes

Altman

DR. SHLOMO BARDIN

at the annual' luncheon of Jun-
ior Hadassah, on Feb. 20, at the
Book Cadillac Hotel.

On Saturday, Feb. 12, 8:30 to
10 p. m., Hyman Altman's Jew-
ish Hour, over Station WJLB,
will devote the entire period to
the membership drive of the
Hebrew Benevolent Society —
Chesed Shel Emes. The names
of those becoming members dur-
The monthly meeting of Jun- ing this broadcast will be an-
ior Hadassah will be held next nounced on the program.
Those who have assisted the
Sunday at the Shaarey Zedek.
Mrs. Lawrence Crohn will be Chesed Shel Ernes by contribut-
the guest speaker. Refreshments ing to bazaars, picnics, moon-
lights and balls, are urged to
will be served.
continue their support by sub-
scribing as members.
Isadore Sosnick is chairman of
the membership drive commit-
tee.

A former resident of Palestine
where he assisted in founding
educational institutions and the
Haifa Nautical School, his topic
will be "Palestine's Challenge to
American Zionist Youth Leader-
ship."

Klutznick Remains
President of AZA

WASHINGTON, D. C.—Philip
M. Klutznick, of Omaha, Neb.,
was re-elected _president of the
Supreme Advisory Council of
Aleph Zadik Aleph, the govern-
ing body of the Bnai Brith youth
organiaztion, the nation's largest
Jewish boys organiaztion, Feb.
10 at the close of its annual
meeting. Mr. Klutznick is assist-
ant national administrator of the
National Housing Agency.

British Zionist Group
Re-elects Weizmann

LONDON (JTA) —Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, president of t h e
World Zionist Organization and
president of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, w a s re-elected
president of the British Zionist
Federation at the closing session
of the three-day annual conven-
tion of the organization.

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Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
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The unit is a Palestine Camou-
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