Pianist a Real McCoy Reporter
Sgt. Morton Sultan, Impressario,'
Gives Camp Bond Drive Good start
•
—U. S. Army Signal Corps Photo
Sgt. Morton Sultan, a member of the 1620 Headquarters and
Service company, gets the Camp McCoy Fifth War Loan drive off
to a flying start with purchases of $1,200 in bonds. Capt. Lottie A.
Whitesel, left, post bond officer in charge of the campaign, con-
gratulates Sultan on his purchases.
CAMP McCOY, Wis. — (Spe-
cial to The Jewish News)—
They're calling Sgt. Morton Sul-
tan 2532 Chicago Blvd., Detroit,
"impressario" these days at Camp
McCoy, where he is assigned to
the post special services office
and helps direct entertainment
for the entire cast.
Sultan, who recently gave the
camp's war bond drive a flying
start via his purchase of $1,200
in bonds recently, rates tops as
an entertainer as well. He gained
renown as a concert pianist be-
fore entering the armed services
and has since played before hun-
dreds of audiences—both civilian
and military.
A pupil of Artur Schnabel,
noted teacher of some of the
world's leading virtuosi, Sultan
has captivated audiences here
with his technique, his musical
knowledge and his stage per-
sonality.
He has been busy behind the
scenes, too, preparing radio
shows, stage and novelty per-
formances, organizing USO re-
vues and all-soldier productions.
Recently he wrote radio scripts
for weekly shows over Station
WKBH, LaCrosse. lie inaugurat-
ed a series of "At Your Service"
shows at the camp's service club
and participates in the shows
himself, both as a pianist and
comedian. Audiences have aver-
aged close to 1,000 per perform-
ance.
In addition to his other duties
he is also a reporter for the camp
newspaper, The Real McCoy.
Lt, R. L. Brasch,
Missing on Raid,
A Nazi Prisoner
JWB Aide Named
Recruiting
in East .
Bombardier Safe and Well,
War Dept. Informs Kin
of Detroiter
Almost one month to the day
*of his disappearance on a bomb-
ing mission over Germany, the
family of Lt. Robert L. Brasch
received the glad
tidings from th'e
war department
that he is alive
and well in a
Nazi prison
camp.
Son of Mr. and
Mrs. I. Brasch of
Detroit and Mi-
ami, Fla., Lt.
-.Brasch f a il el
Lt. Brasch to return to his
base in England
on his 29th mission on May 13.
Notification of his safety was
received by his brother, A. R.
Brasch, 18706 Northlawn, on
Wednesday, June 21, who in
turn informed Robert's wife,
Sonya, who resides at 3375
Fullerton Ave.
Lt. Brasch, following his 28th
mission, received the Distin-
guished Flying Cross to add to
his Air Medal and four oak leaf
clusters for expert bombing of
enemy targets.
- A graduate of Northern high,
Lt. Brasch went overseas last
November. He enlisted in Jan-
uary, 1942. He is a former De-
troit advertising man:
In honor of Lt. Brasch, a fam-
ily Red Cross Fund has been
started and a sizable sum already
has been raised, under the chair-
manship of Mrs. Esther Feintuch,
his aunt.
Member of Bnai Brith
Will Enter West Point
Announcement was made at a
meeting of Henry. Weiss Lodge
No. 165, Bnai Brith, in New York,
that George Levenback, son of
Mr. and 11t.s. Louis Levenback of
New York, an active member of
the Lodge, is to enter the U. S.
Military. Academy at West Point
with the July 1 class.
Friday, June 30, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Sixteen
Sgt. M. Margolis Fights Sharks and Japs
Spreads Good Will IA. Kristall, Injured Over Truk, -
Sgt. Morris Margolis, son of
Mrs. Bessie Margolis. of 2660
Hazelwood Ave., is being hailed
as a good will ambassador who
has made friends for the Jewish
people n Australia.
Inducted in the •Army in 1940,
he soon was discharged but was
recalled for active service. From
his first post in Louisiana, he
was sent to , Australia with the
32nd (Red. Arrow) Division.
When he received - his ser-
geant's stripes, he was made pur-
chasing agent for •the American
Center Exchange in Melbourne,
Australia.
Recently, Hon. P. J. Clarey,
president of the Australian Coun-
cil of Trade Unions, arrived in
this country and brought regards
from Sgt. Margolis whom he
called "Machel," the nickname
with- which he is affectionately
referred to by Jews and non-
Jews, at home and abroad. Mr.
Clarey, although crippled and
must resort to two crutches,
made it a point to see "Machel's"
relatives here.
JWV Leaders' Son
Lost Over Bahamas
Flight Officer Allen Cantor
Reported Missing With
Crew of 10 Men
Flight Officer Allen Cantor,
Liberator bomber co-pilot, is
missing on a flight from Nassau
Island, his parents, Mr. - and Mrs.
Philip Cantor of 9237 Wilde-
mere Ave. have
••A ''',been informed.
F/O Cantor,
who is 20, is
one of .a crew
of 10 who have
been missing
since June 21
while returning
from a round
trip training
WAC
mission f r o m
F/O Cantor Charleston, S. C.,
Advisor
to Nassau, in the Bahama Islands.
A graduate of Northern High
School, class of January, 1943,
F/O Cantor was well known
among t h e younger element
here. He has two sisters, Joyce,
18, and Marsha, 7.
His parents are among the
leading figures in the ranks of
the Jewish War Veterans of the
- United States, his father being
a veteran of World War I. Mr.
Cantor is a past commander of
Eli Levin Post. of JWV, and a
member • of Pittinger Post 119
of the American Legion and is
a national committeeman of the
Jewish War Veterans.
Mrs. Cantor is past president
of Eli Levin Post Women's Aux-
iliary 230, past president of the
Auxiliary of Pittinger Lodge of
MRS. A. R. BACHRACH
American Legion and is t h e
present senior vice-president of
Mrs. Alfred R. Bachrach, chair- Department of Michigan Wom-
man of the Women's Division for en's Auxiliaries of JWV.
the National Jewish Welfare
Board, was named recently by
the Army as one of a group of Cpl. Moss Visits Home
14 outstanding women to serve After 29 Months' Duty
as a Civilian Advisory Commit-
tee on WAC recruiting for the In South Pacific Area
Second Service Command, cover-
Cpl. Martin J. Moss, son of Mr.
ing New York, New Jersey, Dela-
ware and Eastern Pennsylvania. and Mrs. F. Moss of 1956 Pin-
The appointment was announ- gree, returned to the United
ced by Maj. Gen. T. A. Terry, States for a 21-
commanding general of the Se- day furlough
cond Ser.vice Command, at a after 29 months
meeting in the Waldorf Astoria in the South Pa-
Totel. In establishing the com- cific. Upon con-
mittee, General Terry outlined cluding his fur-
the Army's need for "many thou- lough he will
report at Camp
sands more WAC enlistees."
Similar groups of prominent Butner, N. C.,
women are being organized at f or reassign-
the request of the War Depart- ment.
C p I. Moss&
ment throughout the country.
Cpl. Moss
worked as a per-
sonnel clerk at battalion head-
Defeatist Literature
quarters for the past two years.
Laid to Nazi Prisoners
CORSICANA, Tex., (JPS) — He had undergone several ;bomb-
New evidence to support the ing attacks, and during one raid
charge that Nazi war prisoners spent six hours in a foxhole.
For participation in the North-
were "coddled" in U. S. camps,
was revealed here by Sheriff Cap ern Solomons campaign, he re-
Curington -s,vhc reported that he ceived the battle star. In March,
had traced to Nazi war prisoners 1942, he was in Australia for sev-
at Mexia, Tex., defeatist pamph- eral days.
lets containing fictitious reports
A graduate of Central High
of tremendous Allied invasion School, Cpl. Moss worked as a
tosses. The pamphlets were sign- salesman for R. J. Reynolds To-
ed by an alleged "American So- bacco Co. before his induction
viet Committee."
June 9, 1941,
Describes Exciting Experience
First Lt. Nathan Kristall, who
was home on sick leave last week,
after receiving severe injuries
when his plane was shot down
by a Zero in a flight over Truk,
not only had to
go through the
e x p eriences of
fighting the Japs
but was also in
a battle with
sharks before he
and his corn-
rades were saved
by a U. S. Navy
Flying Boat.
Two months
Lt. Kristall ago, after shoot-
ing down five Zeros, Lt. Kristall
and seven others who survived
in this plane battle over Truk,
were hit and seriously injured.
They were revived when they
fell into the cold water. But
when they got into their life
rafts,' they met with the second
enemy—the sharks.
Fight- Sharks with Oars
For 35 minutes they warded
off the sharks with their oars.
Their guns were lost with the
other equipment. "But," explain-
ed Nathan, "they were as fright-
Prays With Troops
Before Invasion
Arthur and Herman Carry
On for Brother Who Served
In the Last War
Pfc. Arthur Fealk, . 24, .son of
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Fealk .of
4021 Duane, figured in the news
a few days ago, in the report sent
Pfc. A. Fealk Pvt. H. Fealk
to the Detroit News from Eng-
land by John M. Carlisle.
Mr. Carlisle described how
Fealk, with other servicemen,
were thrilled at the sound of the
word "Detroit."
Stationed somewhere in South-
ern England, Pfc. Fealk has been
in active service for two years.
He is married 'to the former
Betty Sherman of New York. He
is a graduate of Central High.
His brother, Pvt. Herman
Fealk, 29, a graduate of Northern
High, has been in the signal corps
since September, 1942. He is sta-
tioned in Hawaii. He is married
to the former Edith Schreiber,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Schreiber of Clements Ave.
Herman and Art Fealk are the
two youngest members of a fam-
ily of nine children. Their broth-
er and oldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Fealk, David, served
in World War I. David's son,
Leonard K., is stationed at Fort
Leonard Wood. Another grand-
son of the Samuel Fealks, Harold
Wasserman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Irving Wasserman, is stationed
at Fort Bragg, N. C.
Army Chaplain Talks
At Services in Rome
Asserting that "These are not
times for looking back," Chap-
lain Morris N. Kertzer, army
chaplain on duty in Rome, ad-
dressed a large congregation of
Rome residents of Jewish faith
on June 9, at a special. Sabbath
of Liberation service.
"On behalf of American Jew-
ry," Chaplain Kertzer declared,
"and in the name of all the
forces arrayed in the cause of
liberty and justice, I bring you
heartfelt greetings. The time for
words and speeches has not yet
arrived. The road of struggle
and sacrifice has not yet been
completely traversed. But on
this Shabbos
. of Liberation, we
to lead
.
Chaplain Mossman
Samuel Fealks'
Sons See Action
In 2 World Wars
erg..: . . .
ened as we were." The arrival
of the Navy Flying Boat ended
the second phase of the battle.
Lt. Kristall, who is. 27, partici-
pated in 25 missions. He received
the Purple Heart, the Air Medal
with one Oak Leaf Cluster and
the President's Citation for brav-
ery in action.
In active service since May 28,
1941, he was discharged from the
Army a week after Pearl Har-
bor but re-enlisted immediate-
ly in the Air Corps, as an Avia-
tion Cadet. He was commission-
ed a Second Lieutenant on May
15, 1943, and was advanced t3
First Lieutenant May 20,- 1944.
He was overseas, in the South-
west Pacific, for 17 months.
Born in New York
Born in New York, Lt. Kristall
spent 15 years in the Jewish Chil-
•dren's Home of Detroit, from the
ages of 3 to 17. He is a graduate
of Cass Technical High School
and studied for two years in the
Detroit Institute of - Technology.
He received his Jewish educa-
tion in the United Hebrew
Schools and the Shaarey Zedvk
Sunday School.
Husband of Detroiter Tells
His Experiences With
Troops in England
On the day of the Invasion,
a British port whence he saw
the movements of troops on the
way to crush Nazism in Nor-
mandy, Rabbi Sydney K. Moss-
man, chaplain with the U. S.
Army now assigned to serve the
spiritual needs of the servicemen
stationed in England, took time
out -to write his impressions to
Mrs. Mossman.
Describing the
firm determina-
tion of the arm-
ed forces to
carry on until
victory is ac7
complished, Lt.
Mossman wrote:
"They were
wonderful. No-
where did I find
fear or a desire
to retreat and
leave. Theirs was Lt. Mossman.'
the morale of a
victorious land.
"We prayed. Theirs was not the
prayer of the timid asking ever
for more and more. Theirs was
the prayer of men who prayed
for it was right that they should
pray . . .
"They chuckled and laughed at
everything and when for one
moment a certain man's name
was called and he didn't answer
immediately one of the others
shouted, 'Say fellow hurry up
or you'll miss the boat going
back home! . . .
"What I shall do now that most
of my work here is done I know
not, but I am happy that I was
in on the invasion. I am happy
_that in my own small way I
helped the men and prayed with
them and for them."
Lt. Mossman has been in Eng-
land since March. Before his en-
listment, 18 months ago, he held
a pulpit in Hammond, Ind. Mrs. -.
Mossman, the former Esther Et-
kin, is now membership and pub-
licity secretary of the Jewish
Community Center. They have
one daughter, Sharon. Aviva.
Last week Mrs. Mossman re-
ceived a beautiful Kiddush cup
which was presented to her husb-
and by a Jewish community in.
England as a token of apprecia-
tion for conducting Passover ser-
vices.
PFC. 'EDWARD I. ZACK of
15532 Normandy was home on a
three-week furlough after 30
months on overseas duty. He is
now stationed at Camp Butler,
North Carolina.
that arduous path which per-
suade us that the day of salva-.
on. tio4 4 approaching,"