THE JEWISH NEWS

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Broadcast From Rome

NBC to Carry First Program
From Liberated City July 23

Broadcast From Reopened Synagogue of Rome Being
Arranged by Ralph Howard; Will be Presented Under
Auspices of American Jewish Committee

NEW YORK—The first Jewish
broadcast from Nazi-held terri-
tory liberated by the Allies will
be heard exclusively over the
NBC network in a special pro-
gram from the Synagogue of
Rome Sunday, July 23 (1:15-
1:30 p.m., EWT).
It will be the first Jewish
broadcast from Italy since the
advent of Fan:sm. The program
is presented under the auspices
of the American Jewish Com-
mittee in observance of the fast
day of Tisha b'ab.
The Synagogue of Rome was
ordered closed by the Germans
Sept. 9, 1943. It was re-opened
June 16, 1944, with the libera-

Zion's Red

tion of Rome, and the first
service was held in the presence
of Jewish citizens of the Holy
City as well as Allied soldiers
of Jewish faith. Ariton Zolli,
Chief Rabbi of Italy, conducted
the services
services_ in which Chaplain
Morris N.
of. the U. S.
Army, also participated..
Arrangements for this. special
broadcast are being made by
Ralph Howard, NBC correspond-
ent with the AMerican Fifth
Army in Italy. While details
have not been completed, it is
expected the program will pre-
sent a widely known rabbi con-
ducting the service with appro-
priate. Jewish music.

Mogen Dovid

MerCy Organization Works
Like American Red Cross

By LEO M. GLASSIVIAN
The full • story of Palestipe's
contribution to the United Na-
tions war effort probably will
not be told until after the war.
When that story is told one of its
most significant phases will be

Friday, July 7, 1944

Lt. Norman Blum,
Reported Missing,
Prisoner of Nazis

Pfc. Schechter
Killed at Biak

Charnas Brothers
Become Captains

Parents Receive Air Medal
Before First Report; -2
Brothers in Service

Detroit • Boy Was Veteran of
. 28 Months' Action. in
New Guinea

Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Charnas
of 3345 Glendale Ave. point with
pride to the advancement of two
sons to the rank of Captain in
the U. S. Army.
The two brothers—George and
Sidney—are well known here.
They and their sister, Miss Es-
ther Charnas, received their
Jewish education in the United
Hebrew Schools and have been

Pfc. Herman Schechter, 26, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schech-
ter, of 3216 Burlingame, was
killed in action on June 8 off the
coast of New Guinea, his parents
were informed recently by the
War Department.
Veteran jungle fighter, Pfc.
Schechter was wounded fatally
while attacking Jap positions at
Biak. Previously he had received
the Purple - Heart for wounds
suffered in New Guinea on July
26, 1943.
A native Detroiter, a graduate
of Central high, he had been
overseas 28 months. Before. his •
enlistment in October, 1941, he
had been employed by his
Father.
Besides his parents he is sur-
vived by two brothers, both in
Cie service, S/Sgt. Samuel, 28,
member of an anti-aircraft ba-
tallion station in England, and
Pvt. Joseph, 32, an infantryman
at Camp Fannin, Tex. They also
were graduated from Central
high.

Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Blum
of 1467 Taylor Ave. have been
informed that their son, Lt. Nor-
man H. Blum, previously report-
••-••-••
ed missing, is
-
•
now a German
prisoner of war.
- Just before the
first notice
reached them,
the Blurris re-
ceived his Air
Medal which
their son sent
from England.
Lt. Blum has
Lt. Blum 'been in active
service with the air force since
August, 1942. He is a graduate of
Western High and attended
Wayne University.
Two brothers,. Pvt. Edward
Blum and Pvt. Leonard Blum,
are in active service. The former
is also overseas.

Lt. Goldberg Aids
Wounded Soldiers
On Invasion Coast

the Palestine Government, the
various municipalities and lead-
ing civic, labor and religious or-
ganizations of the country, as
well. as of the International Red Detroit Nurse Is Mentioned
Cross, the British, Jugoslav,
In News Story as Serving
Czechoslovakian and other Red

Memorial Meeting
Next Wednesday for
Pvt.'•Norman Weiner

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on Evacuation Plane

According to a report by John
M. Carlisle, staff correspondent
of The Detroit News, Lt. Edna
Goldberg of Detroit is mentioned
as one of three army nurses
from the Detroit area tending
wounded Allied soldiers being
evacuated by transport plane
from the French coast to hos,
pitals in England.
Lt. Goldberg, a former Harper
Hospital nurse whose family re-
sides at 2005 Philadelphia Ave..
is quoted as saying "If we make
a dozen trips a day and work
24 hours a day, I don't care."
At the time Carlisle inter-
viewed the Detroit nurses, he
discovered it was their first trip
Red Mogen Dovid Ambulances at Tel'Aviv Headquarters
across the English Channel to
the beachhead, their first mis-
that of the Red Mogen David, Cross sections.
During the series of enemy air- sion for the Air Evacuation
Palestine's First Aid Agency.
Transport. They have been as-
It is only in recent months, raids • on Haifa and Tel Aviv, the signed to tend the wounded on
owing to the American appeal Red Mogen Dovid was responsi- C-47 evacuation planes.
on behalf of the Red Mogen ble for the saving of countless
David, that we have begun to lives.
learn about the outstanding
A striking fact about the Red Groups Sponsor JWB,
work of this organization. Many Mogen Dovid is that its first aid USO Projects Here
Americans have been pleasantly school is the only one of its kind
surprised to discover that such in the entire Near East. Many of
Kadimah Club sponsored the
an activity exists in the Holy
Sunday morning breakfast for
Land and were amazed that its
servicemen at the USO Lounge
important role in the scheme of
at the Jewish Community Center.
the United Nations' effort in the
A food package was sent to
Near East remains unpublicized.
Fort Brady by Bnai Brith Pis-
Actual Data
gah Lodge.
This role can be measured by
Detroit section of the Council
a glance at some of the bare fac-
of Jewish Women, Center Moth-.
tual data. Organized in 1930, the.
ers' Clubs and Infants' Service
Red Mogen David (known in
Group made a contribution to
Palestine as Magen David Adorn)
the Hawaiian Serve - a - Camp
has developed 28 first aid . sta-
project of JWB.
tions and hundreds of substa-
At the Monday afternoon treat
tions, which serve the more
for servicemen at the USO, spon-
thickly populated areas of Pal-
sored by Jewish Welfare Board,
estine but reach outlying sec-
members of Odessa Independent
tions of the country with the aid
Ladies' Club provided 600 sand-
of a flee of modern ambulances.
wiches. In the evening, members
Being the only service of this
of Jewish Consumptive Relief.
type in. Palestine, the Red Mogen
Society were hostesses.
Dovid was entrusted by the gov-
ernment at the outbreak of the
Chinese Nurse Urges
war with the task of organizing
the population for civilian de- Red Mogen Dovid Nurie Ready Palestine Upbuilding
for Action
fense and with the responsibility
NEW YORK—In a letter to a
of directing the rescue :work
New York girl, a Chinese-Jewish
the
thousands
of
young
men
and
during enemy bombings.
women graduated from this nurse on the staff of the Roths-
It has carried out its assign-
school
have joined various units ahild-Hadassah-University ' Hos-
ments with a personnel of 450
of the British armies in Pales- pital in Jerusalem, Palestine, ap-
skilled doctors and nurses, 4,000
peals to Jewish young women
trained first aiders and hundreds tine, Syria, Egypt,' and have seen of America "to work hard for
actual combat in Crete, Libya
of volunteed blood donors, •duly and North Africa.
the salvation of Palestine as the
typed and registered, and stand-
Jewish Homeland."
(Copyright, 1944, SAFS)
ing 'ready to serve at a mo-
The nurse, Miss Victoria Ab-
ment's notice through a ser-
raham, born in China, is the
Jewish
Cultural
Chair
ies of blood bank and transfus-
daughter of a Jewish mother
ion centers organized by the Established at N. Y. U.
and a Chinese father and was
Red Mogen Dovid.
brought up as a Jewess. She
Wins Praise
NEW YORK (JPS) — Official was graduated from the Ameri-
Owing to lack of adequate announcement of the establish- can High School for Girls in
equipment to meet the needs ment of a chair in Jewish culture Beirut, Syria, where she learned
of its expanded war time pro- was made by New York Univer- English, French and Arabic, and
gram, the Red Mogen Dovid has sity. Dr. Abraham I. Katch, lec- from the School of Nursing of
been handicapped in the per- turer in Hebrew and director of the American University in the
formance of its work, but this the activities of the Jewish Cul- same city. On; completion of her
has not prevented it from rend- ture Foundation on the campus, nursing training in 1941 s li e
ering a magnificent job which has has been named Associate Pro- joined the Hadassah hospital in
won the admiration and praise of fessor.
Palestine.

George Charnas Sidney Charnas
active in Jewish circles in De-.
troit.
Capt. George Charnas' promo-
tion was announced -in January.
Serving in the Dental Corps, he
is at present stationed at Camp
Butner, N. C. He was graduated
from the University of Detroit
School of Dentistry and prac-
ticed here until his entry in the
Army in May, 1943. He is mar-
ried to the former Mildred Feld-
man.
Capt. Sidney Charnas, a grad-
uate of the -Wayne University
College of Medicine, interned at
Eloise Hospital and was later
resident physician in orthopedics
Ellmann, Rhodes, Mrs. Iden, in Oklahoma City. • He entered
the Army in June, 1943, and
Barnett, Kaminer, Rev.
was sent to • England, where he
Rosenfeld on Program
is now stationed, in August. He
received his Captaincy in May,.
Zhitomir Verein of Detroit has
arranged for a memorial meeting
in tribute to Pvt. Norman Wein-
er, 21-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Weiner, members
of the society, of 3212 Monterey
Ave.
Pvt. Weiner
was •killed in
action s o m e- Historic Note Given Sister
where in Italy
for Safekeeping by The
on May 18. A
Jewish News
former Wayne
University • stu-
Excerpts from the historic let-
dent, he had
been in active ter to The Jewish News, written
service since by Pvt. Joe Megdell from Rome,
a week after he had entered the
April, 1943.
The Zhitomir first American
Pvt. Weiner memorial meet- troops to land
ing will be held at Jericho city with the
Temple on Wednesday evening, there upon the
July 12, and all are invited. defeat of the
Harry Kaminer will be chair- Nazi s, brought
man. The speakers will include interesting com-
ments from
the following:
many readers.
James I. Ellmann, president
Among the
of the Jewish Community Coun- first to call The
cil; Samuel J. Rhodes, command- Jewish News
er of the Jewish War Veterans was one of his Pvt. Megdell
of the State of Michigan; Ida sisters, Mrs. Asher Marder of
Iden, mother of Capt. Iden, one 2626 Cortland Ave., to whom the
of the first to be killed in this letter from Rome was presented
war; Morris Barnett, vice-pres- by the editor for safekeeping in
ident of the Chodorkover So- behalf of the family.
ciety.
Pvt. Megdell is the son of Mrs.
The El .Molei Rachamim will Bertha Megdell of Rochester, N.
be chanted by Rev. A. A. Rosen- Y., formerly of Detroit. He was
feld.
married to the former Eleanor
Lustgarten on May 28, 1939.
Megdell and their 14-
JWB Sponsors Religious Mrs.
months-old son, David,- are now
residing in Philadelphia.
Services at Romulus
In service since Aug. 20, 1943,
Arrangements have been made Pvt. Megdell 'has been overseas
to conduct services every Friday three months. He participated in
evening at Romulus Army Air the African campaign before go-
Base, beginning Aug. 11. These ing to Italy. Before entering the
services will be patterned after service he was a salesman at
the successful services held at Himelhoch's Shoe Department.
Selfridge Field.
Besides Mrs. Marder, Pvt.
Services will begin at 8 p. m., Megdell has five other sisters,
with a serviceman conducting, Mrs. Sam Swartz and -Mrs. M.
after which there will be an Shifman of Detroit, Mrs. Hy
Oneg Shabbat social hour. A Weiss of Houston, Tex,,
Mrs.
limited number of USO hostesses
and community representatives Louis Margolis and Mrs. Esther
Ruben of • Philadelphia, and a
will be invited.
• The first social evening will brother, Sol, of Miami Beach,
be sponsored by Temple Israel. Fla.

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Letter From Rome
By Pvt. Megdell
Brings Comments

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Refugees Flock to Get
Visas for Fort Ontario

A report from Bari, Italy,
states that hundreds of refugees
from Nazism are crowding the
offices . of the Allied Control
Commission in the hope of being
*selected among the 1,000 to be
sent for emergency refugee set-
tlement at Fort Ontario, N. X..

Word has been received that
NORMAN M. ROSS, husband of
Mrs, Harriette Ross, the farmer
Harriette Keeps, has been pro-
moted to the rank of Staff Ser-
geant. S/Sgt. Ross is the son of
Mr. and. Mrs. Harry Rosenblatt
of Boston Blvd. He is a Chief
Personnel Clerk stationed some-
where in England.

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