FrIclay, October E. i f44

T H E JEWISH NEWS

Page Six

Workers, Organizations
Enlisted for War Chest

Jewish Center
Activities

Members of Detroit Service Group, Local Societies Mobil-
ized for Campaign; Jewish Leaders Hold Key
Senior Lounge to Open
With Tea on Oct. 22
Positions in Community Effort

Hundreds of men . and women who are affiliated with
the Detroit Service Group of the Jewish Welfare Federation
and dozens of Detroit organizations are already enlisted in
the army of wTorkers in beh,lf of the War Chest of Metro-
politan. Detroit.
The annual War Chest drive will start on Oct. 25 and

The Senior Lounge of the
Jewish Community Center will
open for the season with a tea
on Oct. 22. Thereafter, every
evening the Lounge will be open
from 8. to 11 p. in., Monday
through Thursday, and Sunday
afternoon.
The Lounge will be available
for adults to play cards, chess,
checkers, listen to recordings or
the radio, read or write letters.
:,. * *
First Holiday Hop of
Season Sunday Evening
Phil Brestoff and his Michigan
Theater Orchestra will be fea-
tured ' at • the first Holiday Hop
of the season at the Jewish Com-
munity Center this Sunday.
The dance, to begin at 9 p. m.
will be a post-Sukkoth affair.
Admission for Center members
is 75c and $1 for non-members,
including tax.
Estelle Starr and Ben Britman,
co-chairmen of the affair, - are
assisted by Beatrice Bortman,
Joseph Kwaselow, Norma Appel,
B ernie e Friedland, Charlotte
G reenber g, Alan Mittleman,
Danny Raskin, Francis and
Sara Rotman, Ruth Sobel, Dr.
Milton White, Morris Kamen,
Morris BuCkzeiger. Rose Brooks
Levine is in charge of decora-.
tions. Refreshments will be
available. throughout the eve-
ning.
* * *
Prof. McFarland, Addes
Symposium. Speakers Oct.. 19
A symposium on the Wagner,
Murray, Dingell -Bill will be
held *at the Jewish Community
Center next Thursday, at 8:45
p. m., at the auditorium, under
the auspices' of the Business and
Professional Discussion Group.
Speakers will be Prof. 'Edward
McFarland of Wayne University
and George Addes of the UAW-
CIO. The public is invited.
* * *
Mothers' Clubs Meetings
Woodward' Study _Club will
hold election *of officers next
Wednesday at 1:30 p. m., • in the
Intermediate Lounge of the
Jewish Community Center.
Davison Mothers' Club's first
meeting of the season will be
held next Thursday at 8:30 p.
in., at Workmen's Circle Edu-
cational Center, Linwood at
Burlingame.
* *
Film Program Wednesday
Films dealing with Nazi Ger-
many will • be shown at the Jew-
ish . Community. Center next
Wednesday at 8:45' p. m. Film
programs -are held in the Adult
Lounge and are open • to the
public, free of charge.

will continue through Nov. 104
for a quota of. $8,250,000.
The drive received impetus at I
a luncheon meeting of 400 work-
ers on Oct. .5 at the Stotler:
The campaign's objectives were
outlined by Benjamin 5 E. Young,
campaign manager; Frank D.
Eamon, president of the W a r
Chest; George W. Healy Jr., Four Classes in 4 Different
Branches of UHS Will Fin-
domestic director of the Office
of War Information, and 'Walter
ish Next Month
-
C. taidlow, campaign manager.
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Leaders of Campaign
The fall graduation exercises
Henry WinemA. is vice-chair- of the United Hebrew Schools
man of the drive and Fred M. will be held early in November,
Butzel is vice-president of the Bernard -. Isaacs, supeintendent,
announces.
Detroit War Chest.
Four classes in four different
David M. Idzal and Seymour
Simons are members of the cam- branches will be graduated from
paign program committee of the .elementary seven-year course
tvhich Basil Walters, executive prescribed by the schools. These
director of the - John Knight boys and girls have completed a
newspapers, is chairman, . and thorough study of the Chumosh,
whose other members are Char- the Five Books of Moses, the
les A. Hughes and Arthur. Kerrip. earlier prophets, elementary He-
In 500 places throughout De- brew literature, Jewish history
troit and its suburbs meetings and Jewish customs . and cere-
of Community War Chest solici- monials.
Feigenson brothers, who have
tors will be held simultaneously
Friday, Oct. 20. - They will be been awarding the gold medal to
held in school auditoriums, the highest student in each
church halls, community centers school,. will this year give. War
and private homes; but all will Bonds instead. Other prizes . will
be united by means of a radio be given, as heretofore, by the
broadcast over station WWJ at Kvutzah Ivrith and by the UHS
Women's Auxiliary.
1:45 p. m.
' Classes for Beginners
Mr. Young will give an .ad-1
dress at this time which will be
Registration of new - pupils is
heard at the 500 meetings. A now in progress- in all branches
dramatization of the work of and arrangements have been
Community War Chest agencies made for the opening of classes
will also be featured on the for beginners and advanced stu-
broadcast.
dents. Each-. branch has also a
Train Solicitors
Bar Mitzvah class where boys of
The purpose of this large Bar Mitzvah age are prepared for
number of meetings is to give the Haftorah, Bar Mitzvah cere-
the zone captains an opportunity mony and everything pertaining
to train the solicitors in their to this religious observance.
The preschool, whiCh meets in
neighborhood . for their special
the Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg. each
task in the drive.
During. the week of Oct. 9 the morning from 10 to 12, also has
. zone captains *were trained - by made provision for the opening
the 18 area chairmen who had of an additional. class for four-
received their instruction from year-olds.
Simchath Torah was cele-
several top-notch Detroit sales-
men. The solicitors' training brated in all branches. The chil-
course was prepared under the dren took part in the Hokofoth
direction of Frank R. Pierce, (processions), and sang Simchath
General Motors executive, and Torah songs. Refreshments were
will De given on Oct. 20 at these served to the children. - •
Eighteentli annual Education
zone meetings to everyone who
volunteered to solicit for the Month of the United Hebrew
drive.. :Anyone can volunteer by Schools, the purpose of which is
to remind parents of. their obli-
calling COlumbia 1600.
gations • to send their children to
one of the branches of the
schools, will be concluded soon.
Interesting Programs
A number of interesting pro-
grams were sponsored during
this month's observanee as a
means of propogating the values
of Jewish cultural efforts.
NEW YORK..--L-Dr._ Adolph S.
Last Saturday evening, a brief
Oko, editor of the Contemporary radio talk, in Yiddish, was deliv-
Jewish Record, former librarian ered over station ''WJLB, Alt-
. of Hebrew Union College, Cin- man's Hour, by Joseph Haggai, a
cinnati,' died - on Oct. 3, at the member of the staff of the
age of 61, after a brief illness.
United Hebrew Schools. Sunday
. Born in Kharkov, Russia, he morning, Joseph Colten, an
became interested in the .panthe- alumnus of the school and a
ism of Spinoza at the age of 15, member of the board of the
while a student" in Germany, United Hebrew Schools,- was the
and he became recognized as an speaker.
outstanding authority on Spinoza.
Saturday evening, Oct. 14, Mr.
He came to this country at Solomon Kasdan will . be the
the age of 19, worked at the old Speaker on Altman's. Hour.
Astor Library and came to He- ' The Hebrew Teachers' Organi-
brew Union College library in zation of the United Hebrew
1906. He often traveled to Schools are ready with the pub-
Europe to purchase rare relics. lication of a Parent-Teachers
Bulletin, in Yiddish and in Eng-
lish. The bulletin contains infor-
mation about the schools, and
many excellent articles on the
problem of education of our •chil-
dren in the United StateS. This
LONDON (JPS)—The former bulletin will be mailed to all: the
Lord Mayor of London, Sir members of the schools,: as well
Samuel Joseph, died here at the as to the parents of pupils at-
age of 56. He was Lord Mayor tending the school.
in 1942-43. In the first World
CARD OF THANKS
War he served as captain with
The family of the late Mina
the Royal Irish Regiment.
Labowitch wishes to thank their
Samuel Hoffenstein's b o o k, relatives and friends for the
"Hippodrome," - has been pur- many kindnesses shown them
during their recent bereavement.
chased for screenization.

Fall G raduation
To Mark Close of
Education Month

.

Dr. A. S. Oko, Editor
of Jewish Record,
Dies after Illness

Sir Samuel Joseph,
Former Mayor, Dies

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Organizations to Mobilize
For W ar Chest This Sunday

Butzel Calls Conference at Jewish Home for Aged; Ellmann
to Preside; Joseph Bernstein to be One
of the Speakers

The Jewish organizations of Detroit will be mobilized
for the War Chest drive at a meeting to be held at 10:30
Sunday morning at the Jewish Home for Aged.
Local organizations have combined in convening this
meeting upon call issued by Fred M. Butzel, vice-president
of the War Chest.
James I. Ellmann, chairman of the Jewish section of the
treasury gifts division of the campaign, will preside at Sun-
day's conference. Joseph Bernstein will be one of the
speakers.
All organizations are urged to send delegations to this
-
conference.

CASS THE

DETROIT TOWN HALL
October 20, 11 A. M.
DOROTHY THOMPSON
"OUR. WORLD TODAY"

KAI'

Single Tickets, 90c to $1.80 (tax included) —

POLISH OPERA
I n 4 Acts by
S. MONIUSZKO
With Stars: Ladis Kiepura, Maria Sokil and Others

SUN., OCT. 22

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8 P.M. MASONIC TEMPLE

Tickets on Sale
Hotel Detroiter

Saturday
PREMIERE! .* First
presentation of

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WORLD'S LARGEST

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:

Detroit's Most Lavish Music Extravaganza

SATURDAY
SOLOISTS

Jeanette
MacDonald
Heifetz
Marjorie Lawrence
Alex. - Brailowsky
Dorothy Maynor
Rurok's Ballet
Mischa. Elman
Rudolf Serkin
Josef }Lotman
Robert Casadesus
Zino - Francescata
Simon Ba:rere
Kerstin .Thorberg
Hardesty Johnson
'Claudio Arran
Larry Adler -
Donald Dame
Josef Gingold .
dascha Scwarzaman
Seymour Lipkin

THURSDAY
SOLOISTS

Fritz Kreisler-
Heifetz -
Marjorie Lawrence
Helen • Traubel-
Mischa Elman
Alex. Kipnis
Hurok's Ballet
Rudolf Serkin
. Witold Malcuzynski
Alex Brailowsky
Egon - Petri
Kayba Garbousova
Kerstin Thorborg
Hardesty Johnson
Claudio Arrau
Carroll . Glenn.
Goorges Miquelle
Josef Gingold

3 Great and Popular Favorites

BRAHMS CHAUSSON

Symphony .
No. 1
in C Minor

Poem for
Violin and
Orchestra

RAVEL

2nd Suite from
Daphnis
and Chloe

Gigantic Concert Spectacle, Stirring

KARL KRUEGER, Detroit's distinguished and
very popular. American-horn conductor.

.Program -Open. Weekly • _('oast-to-Coast Radio
Broadcast via. The Mutual Broadcasting Systeni

But hearing- the program over the radio cannot
compare with listening to it in beautiful Ma-
sonic Temple Auditorium. Come one, :come all.
Doctor, lawyer. merchant, chief . . . the baker,
the butcher, the candlestick maker. . . your
. folks of all ages*
friends, your neighbors .
. they will all
and from all walks of life .
be represented. From office. store and factory
these concerts will be -the most talked about
events on the season's musical calendar. Don't -
miss them.

SEASON TICKETS to the Saturday Series,
which save you 20% may be lyought any time
prior to opening concert date Oct. 21. Telephone
COlumbia 4870 for reservation,

THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION SERIES: All
seats available on a season ticket basis have
sold for months. Occasionally, however., due to
cancellations. season tickets to the Thursday
evening series, may be had by telephoning
COlumbia 4870.

Masonic Temple—Saturday, October 21.
8:30 p.m. (SHARP, account broadcast)

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA •

KARL - KRUEGER, Music Director . Phone COlumbia 4870

NOTE: Due to wartime conditions and emergencies, dress is optional.
.A business suit or informal dress is as much in order as is a "tux,"
'`talls" or evening gown.

To Holders of the

BLUE and WHITE JNF BOXES

Give a pleasant reception to the volunteer workers
who will visit your homes to collect the contents of
your boxes.

The more money your box contains, the greater your
contribution toward the redemption of the soil of
Palestine.

Thank you for your co-operation.

WILLIAM HORDES,
President, Jewish National
Fund Council of Detroit.

MRS. A. TWERSKY,
Chairman, Box Committee

Volunteer workers and box-holders are asje'd to call
the Jewish National Fund Office, II 608 Dexter,
TO. 8-8658.

Boxholders are asked to cooperate with volunteer workers to complete
the box clearance in the shortest possible time, in - order that all wo•k:.
ers may be able to give full time to the War Chest. The Jewish Na-
tional Fund is a beneficiary of the War Chest, through the United
Jewish Appeal, one of the 55 local, national and overseas agencies of
the Allied Jewish Campaign.

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