Page Twenty-Eight

Autographed by Eisenhower

General Signs Sgt. Arnold- s
Letter to His Mother Here

Philip Arnolds Have Three Sons in U. S. Armed Forces;
S/Sgt. David Back from S. America; Newton
Enlists in Navy on 17th Birthday

With the recent enlistment of
their youngest son, Newton, 17,
into the Navy, Mr. a n d Mrs.

Sgt. Daniel

S/Sgt. David

Philip Arnold of 2909 W. Phila-
delphia, now have three sons in
service, one
overseas and the
eldest recently
returned f r o m
two years over-
seas.
Among the
many interest-
ing letters from
Supply Sgt.
Daniel, who will
be 21 on Jan. 1,
Sm. Newton w a s a recent
letter from somewhere in France,
where he is connected with the
Nir‘h Air Force. The letter to
Daniel's mother bore the auto-
graph of Gen. Dwight Eisen-
hower.
In that letter also were photo-
graphs of Daniel, one in which
he is shown in the background
behind Gen. Eisenhower and an-
other high ranking officer. The

M-Sgt. Jim Coleman

Was in 12 Countries

letter did not mention the loca-
tion.
Sgt. Daniel has been in service
almost two years and has been
overseas. about a yea r. He
trained at Chilecothe, Mo., and
South Carolina. A graduate of
Central High in 1941, he went to
Detroit Tech on an athletic
scholarship.
He was regarded as one of the
best high school and collegiate
basketball players in the city.
He attended the United Hebrew
Schools and as a student at Tem-
ple Israel was a noted singer in
the Temple's choir.
His older brother, S/Sgt.
David, now 28, has been in serv-
ice over three years and trained
at Chanute Field, Ill., as a
weather observer—a duty which
he performed while in South
America for two years.
S/Sgt. David has been back
in the U. S. for six months and
is stationed at Fort Wayne, Ind.
He was graduated from Central
High in 1932, the same year in
which he received his diploma
from the Temple Beth El High
School, where he won high
honors. He also attended Detroit
Tech. He enlisted a day before
Pearl Harbor. He formerly op-
erated the cigar stand in the
Tuller Hotel.
Newton has been in service
three months, stationed at Great
Lakes. He left Central high in
his junior year. During the Holy-
day services at Great Lakes
Newton saw a Sefer Torah
brought from Germany in 1937.

Lehman's Son Gets
Posthumous Award

MITCHEL FIETAi'-L.

Overseas 32 Months; Back
—The late Lt. Peter G. Lehman,
in Detroit, Serving With
son of Herbert H. Lehman, for-
Army Map Service
mer Governor of New York and

M/Sgt. Jimmy Coleman has
travelled the seven seas during
the course of his service in the
army. Since his induction in
1940, he has visited the follow-
ing,, countries: Persia, Iran, Ara-
bia', Tibet, Afganistan, India,
Burma, Assam, F.
China, Ceylon,
Java and Aus-
tralia.
Overseas 3 2
months with the
Army Air Corp
as a gunner on
a B-24 and as
a scout and
mapman with
the combat en- K.,
gineers, he hasM/Sgt. Coleman
flown 122,000 miles.
M/Sgt. Coleman, who at pre-
Sent is stationed in Detroit with
the Army Map Service in the
Federal Bldg., has just been re-
turned from the C. B. I. front.
He is now engaged in teaching
topographical map work to
Wayne University students.
Son of. Mrs. Mollie Coleman of
1975 Pingree, M/Sgt. Coleman is
remembered here for his . boxing
career.
His brother, Jules, a chief petty
officer in the Navy, is a teacher
of commando tactics and physi-
.K1 conditioning.

Additional Servicemen's News
On Pages 25, 26

Or

Friday, October 27, I 944

TI-LE JEWISH NEWS

director general of the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration, was posthumous-
ly awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross. Lehman was cited
"for accomplishing fifty combat
missions over Europe." He was
killed on March 31 during ma-
neuvers over England.

Capt. Shapiro Buried
With Military Honors

.

Marvin Hoffrichter
Back From France
In Surprise Visit

Tragedy Stalks in Belgium

Returns for Rosh Hashanah;
Gone 38 Months; Brother
Now in N. Guinea

Well Knovin Detroiter Describes Touching Scenes Which
Followed Yom Kippur Services; Tells How Germans
Broke Up Jewish Families

Aroused by a telephone call
at 6 a. m. on the morning of
Rosh Hashanah, Mr. and Mrs. D.
Hoffrichter of 3201 Gladstone
were thrilled to learn that their
son, RM 3/c Marvin L. Hoffrich-
ter, had returned for a 30-day
leave. He arrived home from
New York two days later. His

European Jewry's tragedy, depicted in letters arriving from
servicemen who are now living witnesses of the miseries to which
the Nazis had subjected their kinsmen, is now daily being exposed
to the light of day so that the entire civilized world may at last
recognize the terrible plight of4;
Israel.
they were never heard from
The most touching description again."
of a Belgian Jewish community
In his touching letter to Mr.
is told in letters which ar- Jacobs, which proves to be a most
rived a few days ago from Capt. stirring appeal for the Allied
Richard B.
Jewish Campaign and the War
Kramer to his
Chest, he writes:
mother, Mrs.
First Service in 4 Years
Mildred Krarrier;
"The Jewish Chaplain of the
to his sister, Mrs.
IX Tactical Air Command, Rabbi
Bessie Barris,
Robert Marcus, formerly with
and to Herman
the Boycott Committee in the
Jacobs, execu-
states, asked me to conduct Yom
tive director of
Kippur services and to preach
the Jewish Com-
for that portion of the Army Air
munity Center.
Forces that were in Belgium. He
Capt. Kramer, „.,_
was going • back to France. A
a former mem- Capt. Kramer
dance hall was engaged—the lo-
ber of the staff of the Jewish cal synagogue having been de-
Community Center, is the son of stroyed during the occupation.
the late Morris Krammer, who We were ,to have joint serviceS,
was among the outstanding lead- with those Belgian Jews that had
ers in the Jewish National Work- finally come out of hiding. We
ers Alliance and Detroit's corre- must have had close to 300 of
spondent of the Jewish Morning our boys present, with a lesser
Journal of New York.
number of `Juifs.' This was the
first service that had been held
Families Broken Up
His letters describe the services in four years.
"As I stood on the bimah-
he conducted on Yom Kippur and
his experiences with Jewish chil- the bandstand made sanctimoni-
dren in the Belgian community. ous with a table and a candle
"There wasn't a single family stuck in a beer bottle—I • looked
present who had all of its mem- at the faces of the people, and all
bers at the service," he wrote to I could see was a complexity of
his mother. "The Germans had emotions on the faces of each.
a habit of breaking up all fam- The whisky glasses which glist-
ilies—sometimes they took the ened on the bar at the other end
father, or the mother, or both, of the room attracted me for a
and when the children were taken moment too. We had no Sefer
Torah—and there were scarcely
books to - go around. All we had
were willing hearts and pleading
eyes. After the service was over
—and I had briefly discussed
Parents to
The Wortlaw,144eviess-r- of Jewish
Life—I mingled with the crowd.
Personal Targets
"Everyone that I talked to had
Now in France, He Describes his personal tragedy—each feel-
Holyday Services, Plight
ing that his loss was greater than
that of his neighbor. Nowhere
of Homeless Children
was there a family that had been
left intact.
- Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Stash-
"One woman, with tears in her
efsky of 2926 Richton Ave. have eyes, embraced me as if I were
received a very interesting re- hers—scarcely permitting me to
quest from their son, Pfc. Jerome breathe—and told me of the loss
somewhere in France. Since of her husband and her four
sons. I'm afraid she cried her
servicemen are forbidden to keep eyes out.
diaries, he has asked that his
"A little girl of 10 approached
parents save his letters in order me, tugged my sleeve and asked
that he may have them to com- Capitain. Americaine? I replied,
Oui, whereupon she too hugged
pile upon his return.
me until I never thought she
Pfc. Stashefsky describes the would let go. I asked her where
outdoor Rosh Hashanah services her parents were. She turned
which he attended and express- her head aside. One of the spec-
es disappointment at having been tators finally motioned with his
unable to be
hand, and said, Les Boches!
Paris for the
Shoshanah burst into. bitter tears
holyday. He
—wailing with a cry that seemed
tells also of the
to summarize all of the tragedieS
heart - breaking
of everyone present. What could
sights which
I do? I found myself turning
greet the Amer-
around, and wiping my eyes—
ican soldiers as
which were beginning to cloud
they march into':
up.
t h e devastated:.
Importance of Jewish Funds
towns.
"You know, when people.would
In one letter
write concerning the tragedies
Pfc. Stash efskyPf c. Stashefsky which had befallen ou-r people in
writes, "Once I passed a house Europe, and discuss glibly the
where there stood three small way each dollar given to the Al-
children. As long as I live I will lied Jewish Campaign. was di-
never forget the bewildered look vided, I would not assent. Per-
upon their faces. Their parents haps I might increase my pledge
had been killed and they had or might become more active in
strayed back to their former my role as a worker. But, never,
home in a daze. There they stood never, did I appreciate what was
watching the passing army, and going on over here. You can't
you know the Yank, he wants a unless you've seen it. I have seen
wave of the hand or a smile, but the German torture chambers. I
they just couldn't. They just have seen the medieval methods
stared blankly as the vehicles which were applied to the exter-
thundered by".
mination of a whole people. There
Pfc. Stashefsky, a violinist, is much work -Co be done here.
was concertmaster of the Cen- The people need food. They need
tral High School orchestra. Up- clothes. And from a psychiatric
on being graduated from Cen- point of view, I'm afraid they've
tral, he was employed as the got some neuroses that haven't
manager of an office in a defense made the book yet. •
"Am enclosing the Star of
plant.
Inducted on March 15, 1942, he David souvenir which the Jews of
was sent to Ft. Sheridan, Ill. for Belgium were forced to wear. It
one week and from there to Ft. differs from that of Germany and
Jackson, S. C. He went overseas France inasmuch as it has only
on Jan. 25, 1944 and remained in the letter J. The others spelled
England for 6 months. He went the name out, Juif or Jood,;.,to re-
to France about a week after D move any doubt. The Oeigium
Day. With the Signal Corp, he Gauleiter apparently at pted
to dignify the identific
worL's in the headquarters.

M. L. Hoffrichter Lt. Hoffrichter

parents had not seen him in
over three years and two months.
Petty. Officer Hoffrichter at-
tended Cass Tech before enlist-
ing in the navy at the age of 17
on June 30, 1941. In the naval
school at the time of the bomb-
ing of Pearl Harbor, he immed-
iately was sent overseas. He was
stationed at Ireland, Scotland,
England and from there went to
France where he participated in
the invasion.
Always interested in sports,
he managed the softball team for
one of the Red Cross clubs in
England. This club recently was
destroyed by a direct hit from a
Doodle-Bug.
During his stay in Detroit RM
3/c Hoffrichter has been enter-
tained by his many friends.
Another son, Lt. W. B. Hoff-
richter, 27, is somewhere in New
Guinea. Before enlisting in the
air corps in May 1942, he was
swimming coach at the Dallas,
Tex.„ , AthAti,spub_
bramPiOn swimmer, he start-
ed his career at the age of 13 at
Northwestern High School, and
swam for the Y.M.C.A., Detroit
Yacht Club, •Massanutton Acad-
emy of Woodstock, Va., and final-
ly swam for the University of
Texas. He is the possessor of
many medals and certificates.
In New Guinea for the past
17 months, he is an airplane dis-
patcher. His wife, Norma, re-
sides in Dallas, Tex., and is en-
gaged as an airways traffic con-
troller.
Both sons received their Jew-
ish education in the United He-
brew Schools.
Their mother is a Red Cross
worker and has been commend-
ed for her efforts and contribu-
tions on several occasions. She
recently donated eight defense
quilts which she herself made.

Dr. Arthur Shapiro, a Captain
in the U. S. Army, died on Oct.
14 in the Government Hospital in
Atlanta, Ga., of lucaemia. He
was 26 years old.
His body was brought to De-
troit by a military escort and he
was paid final military honors at Brother in
the funeral services at the Bnai
David Cemetery on Oct. 18. Serv-
One of two sons serving in the
ices were also held at Lewis U. S. Army, Pvt. Phillip Mar-
Bros. Rabbi Benjamin Groner of gules, was wounded in France on
Windsor officiated.
A graduate of the University of
Michigan College of Dentistry,
Capt. Shapiro was an all-around
athlete. He was a member of the
University of Michigan football
squad, played basketball and
baseball.
He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Sophie Slutsky; a sister,
Naomi Shapiro, a student at the
University of Michigan, and a
brother, William Shapiro of La-
S. Margules
P. Margules
peer, Mich.
July 26. Mrs. Esther Margules
of 1493 Lee Place has been noti-
fied. His brother, Saul, is a
.10!.•ivate in the medical corps.
Both servicemen were born in
Toledo. Pvt. Phillip, 22, a grad-
uate of Thomas Jefferson High
School of Brooklyn, N. Y., en-
listed on Nov. 28, 1942, while at-
tending Wayne University.
Wounded in France, he is now re-
cuperating in England.
Pvt. Saul Margules, 21, a Cen-
tral High school graduate, was
inducted while a student at
Wayne and was assigned to ASTP
at the University of Michigan.
Six months later he was trans-
ferred to the medical corps and
is stationed at Camp Polk, La.

Margules Wounded;
Service

Capt. Kramer's Letters Prove
Allied Drive's Importance

Pfc. J. Stashefsky
Asks
Save His Letters

