Page Sixteen
Friday, May 12, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Joseph Rosenberg Help Compile Servicemen's
Capt. I. L. 'Red' Haron Home Is Reported Dead Record: Send Questionaires
To JWB Army-Navy Committee
After 50 Bombing Missions
Machinist's Mate First Oast
Musician-Navigator on Leave
Capt. Irving L. Haron, who School, he attended Wayne Uni-
was well known in Detroit as versity for nearly four years.
"Red" Haron, director of his He plays the violin and saxo-
own orchestra, is home on three phone.
weeks' leave after completing
Capt. Haron has two other
50 bombinV .. ...
brothers in service, 2nd Lt.
missions o v e r.
Percy H. Haron and 1st Lt.
enemy terri-
Daniel Haron.
tory.
Stationed at Ft. Meade
Capt. Haron,
Lt. Percy H. Haron, 34, who
28, son of Mr.
is stationed with the Army
and Mrs. Max
G round Forces at Fort Mead,
Haron of 2727
Md., has been in active service
Taylor Ave.,
since June, 1942. He is a grad-
enlisted in the
uate of Eastern High School.
Air C orps, as
He was married in August, 1943,
a Navigator, in Capt. Haron
to the former Bess Holland.
January, 1942. After studying- at
Lt. Daniel Haron, 26, was the
the University of Miami, Coral
Gables, Fla., he was commis- first of the brothers to enlist.
sioned a Second Lieutenant in He has been in active service
July, 1942. Six months later he since February, 1941. He was
was advanced to First Lieuten- commissioned 2nd Lieutenant
ant, and in December, 1943, he in August, 1942, at Camp Lee,
Virginia, and was advanced to
was promoted to Captain.
the rank of 1st Lieutenant in
Overseas 20 Months
October, 1943. He is in the Air
Returning last week from Force and is stationed at the
Italy, Capt. Haron h a d been Navigation School at San Mar-
cos, Tex.
There is one other brother,
Harry, and two sisters, Mrs.
Meyer Blackman and Miss Flor-
ence Haron.
Capt. Spiegel Hurt in
Odd Accident in Italy
First Lt.
Second Lt.
Percy H. Haron Daniel Haron
overseas for 20 months. He has
been in England, was one of the
first men to arrive in North
Africa and was on active service
in Sicily and Italy.
Among the awards he h a s
received in active service are
the Air Medal, Four Bronze Oak
Leaf Clusters and one Silver
Leaf Cluster.
A graduate of Eastern High
Meyers, Schreibman
Among Casualties
Among the casualties reported
this week are the names of S/Sgt.
-Morris Meyers and Pvt. Harry
Schreibman. Both are considered
dead.
S/Sgt. Meyers, 25, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Max Meyers of 1B141
Linwood, was reported missing
aboard an England-bound bomb-
er which left the North American
mainland on June 21, 1943, and
failed to reach its destination.
Pvt. Schreibman, whose sister,
Mrs. Grace Alkon, formerly lived
at 2222 Clairmount, was reported
missing March 24, 1943, in the
North Atlantic.
Many Groups Assist
Serv-a-Camp Project
Capt. Robert J. Spiegel of De-
troit had the misfortune of be-
ing oddly put out of action on
the battleline at Cassino, Italy,
after participating in three ma-
jor engagements.
He tripped over a crowbar
while inspecting troops during a
blackout and broke his leg in
two places. He is being attended
by friends from Detroit in the
Wayne University Base Hospital,
back of the front lines..
Capt. Spiegel, 31, was born in
Chicago. After studying at Ann
Arbor he ob- . • .. ..........................
tamed his de- •
gree at North-
western Univer-
s i t y, Evanston,
Ill. A buyer at
People's Outfit-
ting Co., he en=
tered the army
as a second
lieutenant, May
24, 1941, and Capt. Spiegel
was stationed at Fort Wayne. He
went overseas in July, 1942, as a
member of the quartermaster's
division.
The Spiegels have a daughter,
Bobette, age 4.
Capt. Spiegel has been over-
seas 22 months, and has also
seen action in Sicily and Africa.
He entered the Army in May,
1941. He was promoted to cap-
tain April 8.
Mrs. Spiegel, the daughter of
State Supreme Court Justice and
Mrs. Henry M. Butzel, Nlives at
18417 Monica Ave.
Serv-a-Camp project of the De-
troit Army and Navy Committee
of the Jewish Welfare Board was
assisted by the following organ- U. S. Navy Chaplains
izations during the first week in Arrive in Palestine
May:
JERUSALEM, (Palcor)-Cap-
Beth Abraham Free Loan,
European Jewish Women's Wel- tain Robert Workman, Chief
fare Organization, Eva Prenz- Chaplain of the U. S. Navy, ac-
lauer Maternity Aid, Hebrew companied by Lt. Commander
Ladies' Aid and Chodorkover Joshua Goldberg, formerly Rabbi
in Astoria, Long Island, and
Chabna Progressive Society.
Bnai Brith Pisgah Lodge and Commander John R. Boslet,
Pontiac Temple Beth Jacob Sis- Catholic Chaplain, arrived here
terhood sent food packages to and were the guests of honor at
a reception tendered jointly by
Fort Brady and Fort Custer.
the Association of Jewish Jour-
Montefiore Lodge served an nalists and the press department
May 1 at the Downtown USO.
of the Vaad Leumi, Jewish Na-
For information regarding USO tional Council. On a special
services, call Miss Fineman, MA mission for the Navy Depart-
8400.
ment, they covered 2,000 miles
of the Caribbean and Middle
LT. BERNARD A. WERBE has East areas.
been advanced to First Lieuten-
ant. He is stationed at Greens-
Sarnoff in Overseas
boro, N. C., and is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Alex Werbe of 2074 Post With the A.E.F.
Atkinson.
* * *
LONDON (JPS)-David Sar-
DR. BEN C. ROSS has been noff, president of the Radio Cor-
promoted from Captain to Major. poration of America, commission-
Major Ross entered the Army ed a colonel with the U. S. Army,
Air Corps in May, 1942, and has has been appointed to the com-
been overseas 18 months. He is munications branch of the Public
a veteran of four campaigns: Relations Office at Supreme
North Africa, Pantelleria, Sicily Headquarters of the Allied Ex-
and Italy where he is now sta- peditionary Force, it was an-
tioned.
nounced here..
Was Chairman of Detroit
Habonim Organization
Joseph Rosenberg, Motor Ma :,
chinist's Mate First C 1 a s s,
USNR, is dead as a result of
drowning which occurred on
May 2, his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Rosenberg of 1975
Pingree were notified this week
by Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs,
Chief of Naval Personnel, Wash-
ington, D. C.
In a telegram dated May 5,
Vice Admiral Jacobs expressed
the Navy De-
partment's re-
grets and stat-
ed: "His remains
were not recov-
ered. If further
information is
received you
will be n°.0/fled
promptly. T h e
Na vy, Depart-
M/M Rosenberg ment extends to
you its sincerest sympathy in
your great loss."
M/M Rosenberg was chairman
of the Habonim Organization of
Detroit, the labor Zionist youth
movement, prior to his enlist-
ment two years ago. He was 20
years old.
Won Scholarship
An excellent student, he won
a year's scholarship at Lawrence
Institute of Technology. He was
graduated from Wilbur Wright
Vocational School on Feb. 10,
1942, receiving a B-plus average
for three years, and his teacher,
F. C. Gordon, recommended him
"for any available scholarship"
because of his outstanding record.
The last time M/M Rosenberg
wrote to his parents, his letter
was dated April 26.
He is survived, besides h i s
parents, by his sister, Helen
Ritter, whose husband, Jack
Ritter, is in service and is sta-
tioned at Fort Sheridan.
His father is financial secre-
tary of t h e Radomer Verein,
whose meeting last Monday
night was called off in tribute
to the memory of Joseph Rosen-
berg. •
Tribute by Uncle
M/M R o s e n b e r g's uncle,
Joshua Joyrich, wrote a poem
in tribute to his nephew which
closes with the following two
stanzas:
But we can't believe it to be true,
Miracles are known to have happened
before;
Just like Captain Kats, also you
May be spared. Oh, God, we'll thank
you evermore.
Your parents hope that not in vain
was your education, ,
And fervently anticipate ' further in-
formation
As to the whereabouts of their only
boy,
And trust you'll be found and turn
their sorrow into joy,
One of the builders of Kvutza
Kinneret at Chelsea, Mich., M/M
Rosenberg served as president of
Detroit Habonim for two years.
A tribute to his memory was
issued this week by Habonim,
through Esty Carson, Rosh
Machaneh.
Jewish War Vets to Hold
Memorial Services May 21
NEW YORK-The 49th annual
national memorial services of the
Jewish War Veterans of the U.
S. will be held Sunday, May
21, at Temple Emanu-El, Fifth
Avenue and 65th St., New
York. Services will be preced-
ed by a parade of metropolitan
posts, auxiliaries and youth
groups as well as units of allied
veteran groups, military and
civilian organizations.
The announcement of the serv-
ices and parade was made by
Archie H. Greenberg of Brook-
lyn, national commander.
Report Sgt. Shapero
Died In North Sea
" Sgt. Charles Shapero, who was
previously reported missing, is
now reported to have died in the
North Sea on March 23, 1943.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Shapero of 4065 Elmhurst Ave.,
he was 21 years old. -
His sister, Mrs. Pearl . Soffin of
4290 Webb Ave., announces that
he has been awarded the Purple
Heart posthmnously,
The record of servicemen com-
piled by the Detroit Army and
Navy Committee of the -Jewish
Welfare Board contains the
names of the - following Majors
in the U. S. Army:
Martin Max Alexander, Harry
E. August, Benjamin Henry Bad-
er, Paul D. Bromberg, Martin L.
Butzel, Alex S. Friedlaender,
Moses Michael Frohlich, Alfred
M. Glazer, Ervin Greenbaum,
Morton Hack, Edgar A. Kahn,
Louis S. Lipschutz, Harold N.
Lurya, Ralph A. Mayer, Maurice
Meyers, Samuel G. Reisman,
Harold Abraham Robinson,
Adolph A. Schmier, Oscar David
Schwartz, Hyman Saul Sugar,
Harry A. Topcik, Irving Louis
Turow, Max Weil, Raymond Win-
terfield.
The Jewish Welfare Board has
complete information • on these
men.
However, the J. W. B. also has
a list of the following Majors
about whom complete informa-
tion is lacking:
Michael Alpern, Sam S. Alt-
shuler, Alfred A. Blomberg,
Harold M. Dana, Nathaniel L.
Feldman, Jerome I. Hauser,
George Lachar, Louis L. Leland,
Oscar A. Markus, Solomon G.
Meyers, Pauline B. Muller, Carl
G. Seasward.
It is important that the Jewish
Welfare Board should have com-
plete information about men and
women in the armed forces.
Relatives and friends are called
upon to secure the questionaires
available at the office of the Jew-
ish Welfare Board at the Jewish
Community Center, 8904 Wood-
ward, and to supply the Army
and Navy Committee with the re-
quired information.
This is most important-in or-
der that the record of service-
men should be complete.
3 In Flint Family
In Active Service
Capt. Levi Back on
Sick Leave; First
S. Pacific Chaplain
An increasing number of fam-
ilies in Michigan report having
three or more brothers and in- Reunited With Family After
laws in service.
26 Months; Expected to
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Shapiro
Visit With Family Here
1443 Chevrolet
Ave., Flint
Capt. Eliezer A. Levi, who was
Mich., have two
the first Jewish Chaplain to serve
sons and a son-4-.
in-law in ser-
with the U. S. Army in the S.
vice.
Pacific, is back in this country
and is expected to visit in De-
Ensign
troit with his sister and brothers
Shapiro, 21M
-Mrs. Leo Weisenfeld, Abbe and
years old, w a
David Levi-when he secures sick
recently gradu-
ated from Mid- Ensign Shapiro leave after being examined at
shipman School, U.S.N.R., Co- Percy Jones Hospital in Battle
lumbia University, New York. Creek.
He was home on a 14-der- leave
After a separation of 26
and has returned to his post at months, Mrs. Levi and their three
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
children joined him in Battle
Creek last week.
In August, 1941, he left his
rabbinic post in AubUrn, N. Y.,
to become rabbi of the Eastern
Suburbs Synagogue in Sydney,.
Australia. After Pearl Harbor,
his family was evacuated and re-
turned to this country. He en-
listed in the U. S. Army as a
Chaplain in 1942, served in the
Guineas during the 1942-43 cam-
paigns and was the first Jewish
Chaplain in service there. Later
R 2/c Shapiro Sgt. Edelberg
he met many Detroiters, among
His brother, Arthur Shapiro, them Chaplain Albert Gordon.
23, was recently promoted to
He contracted jungle fever, was
Radioman, 2/c. He is stationed
in Kodiak, Alaska. He has been hospitalized in 1943, returned
later. for limited service and is
in Alaska since January, 1943.
now awaiting decision on the re-
Their brother-in-law Sgt. Nat sults of his medical examination
Edelberg is stationed at Brook- at Percy Jones Hospital. He re-
ley Field, Mobile, Ala. M r s . turned to this country April 19,
Edelberg is making her home landing in San Francisco.
with her parents in Flint.
Capt. Levi's sister, Mrs. Meyer
Rotenberg, was in Detroit. this
Lt. Paul Commissioned
week and addressed Young Israel
groups. Mrs. Rotenberg is a pro-
Pilot at Napier Field
fessor of physics at the University
Lt, Lawrence Paul, son of of Toronto and is a regular con-
Mr. and Mrs.. Harry A. Paul tributor to Jewish Standard of
• •• of 18630 Nor th - Toronto.
lawn Ave., was
commissioned a
Lieutenant Pilot
on April 15, at
Napier Field,
Dothan, Ala.,
specializing i n
fast pursuit
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) -
ships.
Of the 41,000 Palestine residents
A graduate of
serving with the military, naval
Lt. Paul E 1 o n College,
and security forces, 30,000 are
North Carolina, and of Central
Jews, it is reported by The Pal-
High School, Lt. Paul also
estine Post, only English-lan-
studied at Ludwig Military
guage daily in the country. By
Academy, Avon Park, Fla. He
the end of January, 1944, their
enlisted in 1942 from Lawrence
distribution among the services
Technical Institute where he had
was as follows: 32,060 Palestin-
nine more months to study to
ians are with the British forces,
receive his degree in aeronauti-
and 9,608 are with the local aux-
cal engineering.
iliary police services. The com-
During a furlough at home
munal distribution was as fol-
recently, before returning to
lows:
Napier Field, Lt. Paul's engage-
With the forces: 23,324 Jewish
ment was announced to Miss
Phyllis Rosenberg, daughter of men and women and 8,745 Arabs;
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Rosenberg with the auxiliary police-5,790
Jews and 3,818 Arabs. Of the
of Northlawn. Ave.
* * *
23,324 Jews in the British forces
MAJ. HENRY A. CHAPNICK, 930 are in the Royal Navy; 1,700
who was promoted from Captain are with the Royal Air Force;
while stationed at Fort Custer, 3,000 (women) are with the Aux-
has received an appointment to iliary Territoritorial Service; 450
specialize at the Mayo Clinic in are with the Women's Auxiliary
Rochester, Minn., where he has Air Force, and the remainder are
41,000 Palestinians
In Active Services
Include 30,000 Jews
been since April 1,
in the Army.