Kasmers Have Two Girls
And a Son in the Service

Li. Fanny Kasmer Scheduled
For Overseas Duty as
An Army Nurse

When Lt. Fanny B. Kasmer
leaves soon for • an overseas post
from her present embarkation
point, she will carry with her
the knowledge that her parents
are proud to know that two
daughters and a son are in active
service.
Lt. Kasmer, a member of the
Army. Nursing Corps, is the
daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Joe
Kasmer of 3253 W. Grand Ave.
In June, 1943, she was graduated
as a Registered Nurse from
Mother Cabrini Hospital, Chi-

cago, and also studied at Child-
ren's Hospital, Louisville, Ky:
Enlisting on March 2, she was
stationed for nearly three months
at Camp McCoy, Wisc., and in
May was sent to Percy Jones Hos-
pital, Battle Creek.
Before leaving for her point
of embarkation, Lt. Kasmer was
home this week on a three-day
leave.
The Kasmers' son, Pvt. Ed-
ward, has been in service over a
year and now is fighting with
the American forces in France.
Their other daughter, Ruth, is
a Cadet Nurse and is serving with
the U. S. Cadet Nursing Corps.
She is stationed at the Mother
Cabrini Hospital in Chicago.

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Stanley C. Klein
Is Raised to Rank
Of Lieutenant S. G.

Max Winers' Sons
Serving Overseas

' Stanley C. Klein, the only son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Klein of
18068 Wisconsin Ave., has been
promoted from Lieutenant (j.g.)
to Lieutenant Senior Grade U.S.
‹1;1\1.. R. He went
to Central High
School and is a
graduate of the
,Pharmacy
School of Wayne
Univers-
ity. While i n
.:, College he was
.affiliated with
Gamma Kappa
;;Chi Fraternity.
Lt. (s.g.) Klein He is a member
of Perfection Lodge 486, F. &
A. M.
He enlisted in the Naval Re-
serve in 'July, 1941, and began
active duty Jan. 22, 1942, on the
U. S. S. Prairie State in New
York City. He received his com-
mission as Ensign in May, 1942.
A year later, in May, 1943, he
was promoted to Lieutenant
( j g).
Klein has seen action on the
Atlantic Ocean and at present is
stationed in the Southwest Pa-
cific as Commander of a Mine
Sweeper. In civilian life he was
a Registered Pharmacist. He is
now 26 years old.

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Mr. and Mrs. Max Winer of
9378 Broadstreet have two sons -
in service, both overseas.
T/Sgt. Sam Winer, having

Pfc. M. Winer T/Sgt. S. Winer

completed 50 missions, at present
is serving as an instructor in
England. As a Radio Gunner in
the Eighth Air Force, he was
awarded the ' Air Medal, Oak
Leaf Clusters and the Disting-
uished Flying Cross for extra-
ordinary achievement against
enemy planes while his Fortress
was raiding Europe.
His brother, Pfc. Maurice Win-
er, is attached to the 107th Med-
ical Battalion, Red Arrow Di-
vision. He has been - serving in
New Guinea for the past two
and. a half years.
Both brothers hope to be home
on furloughs before long.

S-Sgt. M. Globerman
Gets DFC, Air Medal

Woronow Stationed
At Pearl Harbor's
Naval Post Office

. Of the two years he has- been

in active service, Second Class

Petty Officer Samuel Woronow
lia l s spent 19
months overseas.
At present, he
is assigned to
duty at the Post
Office Of t h e
Naval Air Sta-
tion in Pearl
Harbor.
A native De-
troiter and a
graduate. of
Northern High S. Woronow
it School, 2/C P/O Woronow was
a Post Office employe in Detroit
before entering the Navy.
Mrs. Woronow is the former
Lauretta Pearl. They were mar-
ried in November, 1936.

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Friday, September i, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Sixteen

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Will Publish Names
Of Jews Having DSC

The Bureau of War Records of
the - National Jewish Welfare
Board is planning to close -the
collection of names of Jewish
men who have received the Dis-
tinguished Service Cross, for
publication in a special booklet.
The office • of the local War
Records Bureau of the Jewish
Welfare Board is doing all it pos-
sibly can to assure that the list,
which will be publithied by the
national office, should include
the names of all servicemen from
Detzuit who received this award.

Members of the Jewish com-
munity are urged to advise the
office of the Bureau of War Rec-
ords, 8904 Woodward Ave., De-
troit 2, of any serviceman from
Detroit who has received this
distinction.

Lt. C. Kaufman
Reported Missing
Since April 15

Get Posthumous Thanks

Harry Donosskys Were Last
Hosts to Lt. E. R. Spiegleman

about the people who treated

A most touching incident in-
Saw Service in 34 Missions volving
posthumous thanks to him so well was that they had a
Over C-B-I Front; Wins
Detroiters for their hospitality to very lovely daughter. I would
servicemen during last Passover appreciate any information that
DFC, Air Medal

Second Lt. Charles Kaufman,
son of Mrs. Mildred K. Cowan,
16255 Cherrylawn, and William
Kaufman, an at-
torney in The
Barium Tower,
has been report-
ed missing since
April 15, 1944.
Lt. Kaufman, a
Navigator - Pilot,
w a s graduate&
from Central
High School and
received his B.A.
from Wayne
Lt. Kaufnian
University.
He enlisted in June, 1942, as
an air cadet, and was commis-
sioned at Pueblo, Colo. In Nov.,
1943, he was sent to New Delhi,
India, and served on the China-
Burma-India front.
He had completed 34 missions
and was to have been decorated
with the DiAtinguished Flying
Cross and the Air Medal for hav-
ing flown 200 hours while ex-
posed to enemy fire and for hav-
ing totaled 100 hours of heavy
bombardment missions.
The War Department, in a corn-
munication to Lt. Kaufman's
mother, praises him for his de-
votion to duty and for his hero-
ism. These medals are to be pre-
sented to his mother.
Sgt. Sidney Fisher, a chiro-
practor in the medical corps sta-
tioned in England, is , the husband
of Lt. Katifinan'S sister, Helen.

Pfc, David Frank
Back in U. S. After
30 Months Overseas

After serving overseas for two
and . a half years, Pfc. David
Frank was returned to the United
States and was
home on a 21-
day furlough.
He is the on of
Mr. a n d' Mrs.
Benjamin Frank
of Hazel wood
Ave.
A former stu-
dent of Wayne
Univ ersity, he
w a s employed
with the Gas Co. Pfc. D. Frank
before entering active service
and was a musician.
Serving with the 41st Infantry
Division, he participated in the
campaigns at Papau and at Hol-
landia in Dutch New Guinea.
While home on his furlough, a
reception was given in his honor
by his wife's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Sobelman of 18017
Griggs . Ave.
Pfc. and Mrs. Frank are leav-
ing for . Miami, Fla., where he
will be stationed indefinitely.

Staff .Sgt. Max • Globerman,
son of Mrs. Sarah Globerman
of 3834 Elmhurst Ave., has re-
t u r n e d from 7. 1:•"'',"--"''
overseas for a
21-day furlough.
Attached to the
Ninth Air Force
in England
Gunner Glober
man, a veteran
of 77 missions
over the conti-
nent, has served
in the Silver
Globerman
Streak's Marau-
der Group. He was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross and
the Air Medal with nine Oak
Leaf Clusters.
Sgt. Globerman and his broth-
er, Pvt. Irving, met in England
after being separated for two
years. Pvt. Irving Globerman
has been in France since the
invasion.
Sgt. Globerman, who will re-
Mrs. Pauline Sherman Slutzky
art for duty in Florida after of 3276 Oakman Blvd has re-
his furlough, has been in the ceived word of the promotion of
army since January, 1942, and
::her husband,
received his training in Florida.
Capt. Joteph
•
tzky, to the
rank of Major.
M a j. Slutzky,
son of Mr. and
Mrs. Louls Slut-
zky, is a gradu-
ate of Cass Tech-
Mr. and Mrs. Charles . Green-
nical High
berg .of 3203 Fenkell -Ave. were
School, Wa y n e
notified that their son, Pvt: Jo-
Univ e r sity
seph Greenberg, 22, of the Ca-
nadian Army, was injured in Major Slutzky School of Lib-
France on Aug. 9. The injury was eral Arts and Wayne University
College. of Medicine. He was at
to his eyes.
Pvt. Greenberg enlisted in Oc- Eloise Hospital from 1940 to
tober, 1942, and went overseas 1942.
Maj. Slutzky, whose brother,
two weeks after the invasion.
His brother, Troop Sgt. Major Gilbert, is fighting on Saipan, en-
Carl, is with the paratroopers. tered the army June 20, 1942, as
Another brother, Irving, is over- First Lieutenant and was promot-
seas with the infantry. His young ed to Captain in February, 1943.
brother, Frank, 17, is serving He is a member of Phi Lambda
with the Michigan State Troops. Kappa Fraternity.

Capt. Slutzky Gets
Army Promotion

Pvt. Joe Greenberg
Injured in France

Detroiters

was reported this week by Phil-
lip H. Rabin, area director of the
Jewish Welfare Board.
Mr. Rabin reported that one of
the hostesses of the Detroit. Army
and Navy Committee of the Jew-
ish Welfare Board brought a
touching letter to the local JWB
office at the Jewish Community
Center.

you could get for me a great
deal. I don't believe yet that
my dear brother is no longer

alive. He was such a wonderful
boy, but I guess there are mil-
lions of others suffering the same
feeling as we have, and I pray
this war will end soon so that
the rest of our boys will come
home safely. Thank you, for re-
membering us, and I can't tell
The Letter
you how sincerely I would appre-
Excerpts from this letter fol- ciate your efforts in obtaining the
low:
above information."
The Hosts
". . . The favor I. want to ask
This letter was written by the
of you is this. My brother was
in Detroit during Passover, and sister of Lt. Edwin R. Spiegle-
attended a Seder dinner with man of Denver, Colo. .
It has. now been established
some lovely people, He was sent
to their house through the Jew- that his hosts on Passover were
ish Welfare Board, and he en- Mr. and Mrs. Harry Donossky of
joyed, the dinner and the com- 2045 W. Philadelphia Ave. Miss
panionship of the people very Rose Donossky is the "very love-
much. It was his last Jewish ly daughter" referred to in the
-
meal, as he was killed April 26 letter.
The JWB program of provid-
on his way to Africa. My mother
ing hospitality for servicemen
has been trying to find out the
continues- to be one of the most
people's name who were so nice
important functions of the De-
to my brother in the last few
days of his life. I thought that troit Army and Navy Con:1131H-
perhaps you would be able to tee. Those who desire to have
servicemen as guests in `their
find out by going to the Jewish
homes for the coming holidays
Welfare Board. My brother was
with the Air -Transport Com- should communicate with the
mand, and I believe, picked up JeWish Welfare Board at the
his ship in Detroit. All he said Jewish Center, MA. 8400.

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Ensign B. Kosarin
Master of Russian,
Portuguese, Spanish

Ensign Basil Kosarin, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold A. Kosarin
of 17181 Pontchartrain Drive,
who received his commission in
February, is a master of Por-
tuguese, knows Spanish and Rus-
sian and is a good athlete.
Born in Russia — he will be
25 on Sept.
Ensign Kosarin
was brought by
his parents to
Brazil as an in-
fant. They lived
in Brazil for 12
years before
coming to t
United States.
Basil studied
4ifig
A
in t h e British-
American school Ensign Kosarin
in Rio de Janeiro. Coming to
New York in 1935, he entered
junior high, being far advanced
in his studies, and received the
largest number of honors at
Stuyvesant School, graduiating at
the age of 16. He received a
scholorship to Cornell, but en-
rolled in the University of Michi-
gan engineering college and
would have been graduated in
July, 1944.
He speaks Portuguese as flu-
ently as a native and speaks al-
cost equally as well in Russian
which he writes and reads.
He is at present. stationed at
Key West, Fla., where he is com-
pleting his course at the Fleet
Sound School.

Salute to JWB

USO Broadcast
Will be Given on
Saturday Night

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The Salute to the Jewish Wel-
fare Board will be given the
USO Service Serenade broadcast
from USO headquarters, from 6
to 6:30 p. m. this Saturday,
through the facilities of radio
station WXYZ.
F. Lee Johnston, public rela-
tions director of the USO, an-
nounces that the salute will be
given by Fr. Raymond S. Clancy,
executive vice-chairman of the
USO.

Sgt. Martin Cohen
Home From Africa

Sgt. Martin Cohen, 23, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Cohen of 2247
Taylor Ave., is home on leave
from North Af-
rica.
A graduate of
Northern High
School, Sgt. Co-
hen entered the
service in Feb-
ruary, 1943, • and
was with t h e
Tank Destroyers
during his basic
training. He
. earned his rat-
Sgt. Cohen ing overseas.
A brother, Pvt. Bertram, 19, is
in the Air Corps and is stationed
in Amarillo; Tex.
A brother-in-law, Capt. Harry
L. Friedman, who has been in
service four years, is stationed at
Mrs. Dorothy Goldberg has Camp Maxey, Tex.
been notified that her husband,
Pvt. Harry, is hospitalized in Eng-
land as a result
of head injuries.
He was seriously.
wounded - in ac-
tion in France
Mr. and Mrs. Max Lifsitz of
on July 26.
2610 Webb Ave. were notified
In a letter that their son,
written to h i s P v t. Mortimer,
wife, the 'former had been wound-
Dorothy Tennen- ed in France on
house, Pvt. Gold- June 17. Pvt.
berg praises the Lifsitz, whose
Pvt. H. GoldbergRed Cross in skull was grazed
these words: "The Red Cross and by a bullet, has
medics especially are doing a completely r e-
wonderful job and there are not covered and is
enough medals in the Quarter- back in action
master Division to repay all the with his unit. A
medics for their swell work."
graduate of Cen- Pvt, Lifsitz
Pvt. Goldberg is the son of Mr. tral High School, he is married
and Mrs. A. S. Goldberg of 2498 to the former Shirley Borock of

Wounded Detroiter
Praises Red Cross

Mortimer Lifsitz
Wounded in France

Clements Ave...,

2615 Webb Ave,.,