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THE JEWISH NEWS
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Weekly Bellew of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
See Also faagq.
PALESTINE
AMERICA
Sgt. Sylvia Schwartz of :Brooklyn, Cpl. Rhoda
Braunstein and Pvt. First Class Constance
Goldberg of the Bronx, all members of the
Womans' Army Corps overseas, are among 11
New York girls now operating telephone
switchboards in Paris, the War Department re-
ports. Their contingent of Wacs. was flown to
Normandy shortly after allied positions there
were secured.
Wac Technical Sgt. Thelma Steinberg of New
York City, now stationed in Italy, haS been
promoted to first sergeant of a communications
company.
Being a mandated territory. Palestine has
not been invited to the International Business
Conference to open in Rye. N. Y., Nov. 10,
under the auspices of the Chamber of Com-
merce of the United States, the American Sec-
tion of the International Chamber of Corn-.
merce, the National Foreign Trade Council and
the National Association of Manufacturers. Her
neighbors, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria are
in receipt of invitations. A spokesman for the
conference, explaining the basis on which in-
vitations have been issued, conceded that is
was anomalous that Palestine, industrially the
most progressive country in the Near East,
should not be directly represented. The country
will be represented through the mandatory
power.
Zion's Herald, 121-year-old Methodist weekly
published in Boston, is embarking on a fight
to uproot racial intolerance and bigotry, its
new editor, Emory Stevens Bucke, announced.
Mr. Bucke, pastor of the Methodist ChurCh at
Hyde Park, Mass., is active in the inter-faith
goodwill • movement • in his community and
nearby Dorchester and Mattapan, Dorchester
was the scene months back of anti-Semitic
attacks by hoodlums on the Jewish community
center and on Jewish youngsters.
Less than 10 seconds after Chaplain Dudley
Weinberg, formerly of Memphis, had told them
about the needs of the Jews in Europe, the
Jewish soldiers at Headquarters Base F in the
Pacific War Theater had spontaneously or-
ganized a campaign Which raised $2,000 for
the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Over-
seas Needs and Palestine.
Jews in Palestine have been receiving letters
of late from relatives in liberated Poland and
in the Baltic states asking for assistance in
reaching Palestine.
Five American ambulances shipped last July
by the American Red Mogen Dovid for Pales-
tine have arrived in Tel Aviv. A second group
of five ambulances was shipped last week.
Louis Lipsky is president of the American Red
Mogen Dovid, which conducts the campaign in
the U. S. on behalf of the Palestine agency.
Palestine is about to resume its economic
ties with Sweden after a suspension since 'the.
outbreak of' the war in Europe.
OVERSEAS
At an Inter-Scandinavian Jewish Congress
held in Stockholm it was decided to found a
section of the World Jewish Congress. Prof.
Marcus Ehrenpreis, rabbi and leader of the
Mosaic congregation in Stockholm, who presid-
ed, expressed profound gratitude to the King,
government and people of Sweden for the ef-
fective help given defenseless Jews in many
countries. He also thanked Finland for not
yielding to Nazi pressure, but preserving the •
rights and freedom of the Jews in that country.
Dr. Neville Goodman, British deputy director
of the UNRRA European health committee, has
arrived in Sweden for a 10-day study of the
care of refugees in Sweden. He will confer
with Swedish authorities about postwar relief.
Elated by the liberation of 15 towns in Car-
patho-Ruthenia, a densely populated Jewish
area in pre-war Czechoslovakia, Czech Jewish
refugees here cabled greeting to Dr. Eduard
Benes, president of the Czechoslovak govern-
ment-in-exile. and to Marshal Stalin. The
towns were liberated in joint action by the
Red and Czech armies.
Bishop Signorelli of Turin and 40 others
have been sent to a concentration camp in
Germany on GeStapo charges that they had
"conspired to hide Jews and smuggle them
across the Allied lines," according to informa-
tion that has just been received here through
underground sources.
All Jews surviving in Hungary, whose total
is placed at no more than 200,000, face intern-
ment in refugee and forced labor camps in ac-
cordance with the German-Hungarian agree-
ment.
I Ehrlich Named
United Nations
Marvin Fortgang, who will cel- Legion Director
Wolfson Awarded
Bronze Star for
Heroism in France
Fortang Promoted
In Belgium; Brother
Stationed in N. Guinea
ebrate his 23rd birthday on Nov.
UNL Organized fo Assist
Vets of WoNd War 2
in U. S., Canada
H. FOrtgang
M. Fortgang
6, has been promoted to corporal.
At present he is serving in
Belgium, after having been in
England a year and having
fought on French soil.
Cpl. Fortgang, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Fortgang of 2670
Gladstone, is attached to Squad-
ron Headquarters.
His brother, Harold, is a cor-
poral stationed with . a hospital
unit somewhere in New Guinea.
Local Groups Aid
USO, Welfare Board
4
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Local organizations continue to
render services to the USO and
to the Jewish Welfare Board.
. T h e • following organizations
served at the USO during the
past four weeks: Council of
Jewish Women, Temple Beth El
Sisterhood, Neugarten Medical
Aid, Ladies' Galician Society.
Sunday - morning breakfasts
were provided at the USO-JWB
Lounge at the Jewish Center by
House of Shelter Ladies' Auxil-
iary, Zedakah Club, Hebrew
Ladies' Aid Society.
Bnai Moshe Men's Club and
groups of individuals participated
in parties arranged for service-
men by the Great Lakes Club,
The regular Friday night Oneg
Shabbat and religious services
continue at Romulus Air Base.
Organizations which provided re-
freshments included Hebrew La-
dies' Aid, Bnai Brith Pisgah Aux-
iliary, Jewish National Fund
Ladies' Auxiliary, Infants' Serv-
ice Group.
The Serve-a-Camp project waa
assisted by Home Relief Society
and Detroit Chapter of Women's
:Division of American Jewish
Congress.
Appointment of Henry Ehrlich
as director of membership has
been announced this week by
supreme headquarters of the
United Nations Legion - World
War II Veterans, it was an-
nounced by Herbert Lane, com-
mander. Mr. Ehrlich wilt be
aided by two assistants, one
from the United States and one
from Canada.
This move was made because
of Mr. Ehrlich's goodwill among
both Canadian and American
vets.
World War II vets seeking in-
formation may contact Mr.
Ehrlich by calling RA. 4365 or
write to the United Nations Le-
gion, 2535 Barium Tower, De-
troit 6. Nathan Goldstein is ex-
ecutive director.
The main purpose of UNL is to
bring about an everlasting co-
operation, unity and friendly
relationship among the Allied
vets of World War II and to
further the efforts of an enduring
peace.
T/4 Marvin Wolfson, with a
field artillery unit in Germany,
has been awarded the Bronze
Star medal for meritorious serv-
ice on July 29,
while fighting in
France.
Stationed o n e
mile west of
„Notre Dame de
Cenilly his unit
was resisting on-
coming enemy
forces. T/4 Wolf-
son, disregarding
his o w n safety,
T/4 Wolfson continued to aid
at the Fire Direction Center
which was firing against the
enemy. This action prevented the
Germans from pushing through.
Wolfson, 27, is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jacob Wolfson of 2611
Tuxedo. A graduate of Yonkers
High, he was employed by the
General Motors Corp., while at-
tending night claSses at the High-
land Park Drafting School. 'In-
ducted on Dec. 9, 1942, he has not
been home since..
He was sent to the University
of Kentucky for special training
and was shipped to England in
May, 1943. He was with the in-
vasion troops on D-Day.
Friday, November 3, 1944
`Cards for Fighters'
Donations Listed
Numerous additional contribu-
tions were received this week for
the `Cards for Fighters" fund
sponsored by The Jewish News
and the Altman Jewish Radio
Hours broadcast on Station
WJLB.
Cpl. Spitzer Safe;
In Hawaii Hospital
A stirring letter in which he
tells the value of a Hebrew edu-
cation has been received by
Mrs. Doris Krause, 17131 • North-
lawn, from her brother, Marine
Cpl. Louis Spitzer, and read be-
fore the United Hebrew Schools
Women's Auxiliary on Oct. 25.
Cpl. Spitzer, who participated
in the Saipan invasion, is re-
covering in •a hospital, in Hawaii
after fellow marines rescued
him. He had been reported miss-
ing in action.
In his letter he wrote: "I've
heard it said that religion begins
in a fox hole. How true this is. I
did plenty of praying. I recited
anything and everything in
Hebrew that I could remember
from my studies in the Hebrew
schools . . . Many of our Jewish
boys died in that battle • . I
saw plenty of Mogen Dovids in
the cemetery."
Contributions were received
this week from the following:
Mrs. William Greenstein, Mrs.
David Morris, M. Appelblatt,
Herman Kevin, Ann Fox-Burns,
Mrs. Louis Cohen, Mrs. Sarah
Burnstein, Morris Gatz, Mrs. B.
Stern, Mrs. Rose Schwartz, Rose
Diehl, Mrs. Rose Turbow, Mrs.
Zeff, Mrs. Albert Ziskind, J.
Rabinowitz, H. Fogelman, Mrs.
Eva Brody, A. Brody, Mrs. Best-
erman, Mrs. Weintraub, Benja-
min Zucker, John H. Moss, Rose
Adler, Joe Gendeloff, Sam Suro-
vich, Mrs. Fishman, Sam Cohen,
Max Kaplan.
Pvt. Stuart Kominars
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schumer,
Visiting
Parents Here
who sent $5, helped secure sev-
eral gifts for the fund.
Pvt. Stuart Kominars, son of
The sum of $10 was received Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kominars of
from Mrs. Levine of 1308 Penn- 11311 Mark Twain, is home on
sylvania, Miami Beach, Fla.
a two-week furlough. Stationed
with the Air Corps at DeRidder
Nazi Loot $26,400,000,000
Field, Louisiana, he is assigned
LONDON, (JPS)—Twenty-six in special service work, one of
billion, four hundred million dol- his duties being to present pro-
lars, much of it representing grams for the field via the public
holdings of Jews, were extorted address system. A brother, Pvt.
by Germany from occupied coun- Harold, is stationed in Arizona.
tries in the form of "occupation
costs" and unpaid goods up till
Additional Servicemen's News
Aug. 31, the Ministry of Econ-
omic Warfare disclosed here.
on Pages 22, 24
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