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Pic. J. Steinberg
Is Reported Killed

GM 2-c Getter
Tells of Pals of
Different Faiths

Pfc. Joseph Steinberg, 31, has
been reported killed in France
on Aug. 9.. He
originally w a s His Gun Between Catholic
reported m i s s-
and Baptist Pals Aboard
ing.
Carrier in Pacific
Pfc. Steinberg
entered service
A veteran of every major bat-
on June 14, 1941
tle against the Japs, GM 2/c
and had been JacObGeller has returned on his
overseas. 11
months.. His
wife, the former
•- Yetta Wolman,
Pfc. J.- Steinbergresides at 2745
Cortland. His Mother is Mrs.
Jennie Steinberg of Chicago.

Plc. L. Saferstein
Given Bronze Medal

Mrs. Sadie • Pechensky Safer-
stein of 2299 Clairmount, has
received word that her husband,
Pfc. Louis Saf-
erstein, was
a wafcled the
Bronze Star Me-
dal for heroism
in France, on
Aug. 19.
Pfc. Saferstein,
on of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Saf-
erstein of 2709
Tuxedo, entered
service Feb. 10, Pfc. Saferstein
1941. He has been overseas since
May, 1942. He served in Iceland
for 16 months.
His brother, Al, is also in ser-
vice, and is now somewhere in
the South Pacific.

Service Wives to Meet
At Center on Jan. 11 •

Friday, December 29, PTO

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Kay, Rabbi Sperka Nathan Hochman
Greek Royalists !Leon
To Give Report Jan. 3
Killed in Action
Abducting Jews, ' On World Congress
S/Sgt. Nathan Hochman, 1
Leon Kay, president of the De-
Is EAM's Charge troit
Chapter of the American whose mother, the late*. "Mr

Jewish Congress, and Rabbi J. S.
Sperka, who were the Detroit
delegates at the World Jewish
Congress sessions in Atlantic City,
will report on the deliberations
there at a special meeting of the
local Congress on Wednesday,
Jan. 3, at Congregational Bnai
Moshe, Dexter and Lawrence.
The resolutions adopted at the
World Jewish Congress sessions
will be discussed at this meeting
and plans will be made for exten-
sive programs for the-, year 1945.

ATHENS, (JTA) — An armed
royalist organization which goes
under the name of "X" is charged
in the EAM newspaper "Free
Greece" with \committing anti-
Semitic acts.

The paper says that members
of the "X" -broke into the homes
of two Jewish families, named
Erheit and Cohen, • in the Kolo,.
naki district of Athens and car.
vied away all - members of bOth
families. According to the report,
the homes were then loOted.
Kolonak is the Park Avenue of
Athens.

New 'Eternal Light'
Series Starts Jan. 7

Producer Jesse Lasky, who re-
cently terminated his contractual
agreement with Warners, had
made Billy Rose an offer to pro-
duce a film based on the life of
the big little shoWinen. The pic-
ture would be Lasky's first on his
new independent production unit.

Open up the cold blockade in your nc l
with fast-acting Penetro Nose Droi
Breathe freer, easier, almost instant i i
they cool, soothe and shrink swoll l
nasal membranes. Caution: Use only
directed. Generous bottle 25c, 50e. G

PENETRO NOSE DROP,

GM 2/c GELLER

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Let Us- Make
The Year 1945.
A Year of Action
For Just Causes!

ewish History,
too, is being made!

History is being recorded in blood and in

—

Brady Branch of the United
Hebrew Schools, located in the
•Brady Public School; Joy Road
and Lawton,_ is forming an addi-
tional class for beginners.
-
Parents . of children in the Joy
Road district al urged to avail
themselves of this opportunity to
register their children in the He-
brew School.
The children of the branch
were given a Hanukah party by
the Parent-Teachers' G r o u p..
Presents were given to pupils for
good attendance.
Officers of the P.-T. Group are:
Mrs. M. Merton, .presicient; Mrs.
_H. • Hirshorn,i"secretary; Mrs.
Nathan, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. A. Appel, treasurer; Mrs. L.
Dressler, hospitality; N. Stein-
gold, chairman prize committee.
Morris Plafkin is principal of the
Brady Branch.

COLD-STUFFED NOSE,

first leave since he enlisted in
June, 1942. His is a touching
story of three boys of different
faiths fighting side by side.
In telling of his first active en-
gagement, he says, "My gun was
between those of two of my best
friends, one a Baptist from the
South, another a Catholic and I
a Jew."
Geller, a graduate attorney
and veteran newspaperman, is
attached to a plane carrier arid
is the recipient of four Bronze
stars and one Silver star.
Geller is a native of Windsor
• and a graduate of the Detroit
College of Law. However, pre-
ferring newspapq work to law,
he operated as a representatiVe
of the Timets, the Windsor News
Co., and later' was associated
With the circulation departments
_of newspapers in Milwaukee,.
Boston and Chicago.
- He is spending his leave with
his sister, Mrs. Martin M. Cowan
of the Lee Plaza apartments.

The Service Wives of the Jew-
ish Community Center will hold
their next • meeting Thursday,
Jan. 11, at 8 p. m. Mrs. Frances
Markowitz, program chairman,
has planned an interesting pro,
gram.
SerVice Wives were organized
several months ago and now
have a membership of over 100
wives of men in service. The
group' projects include serving
at the USO, manning a War Bond
Booth, - homemaking projects,
participation in the Serve-A-
.Camp project, Red Cross and
Lt. Sidney Kaplan Home
other activities.
All wives of servicemen are After 19 Months Overseas
invited to join the club at the
next meeting.
First Lt. Sidney Kaplan is
home on a 21-day leave, alter
serving 19 months in Greenland.
Organizations Assist
He will report..on Jan. 7 at Col-
USO-JWB Activities
umbus, O., for reassignment.
Lt. and Mrs. Kaplan and son,
Organizations which have par- Howard Martin, are visiting with
ticipated in • USO and Jewish his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
Welfare Board activities in be- Kaplan of 2472 Glendale Ave.
half of servicemen's parties in-
Lt. Kaplan has two brothers in
dude the following:
service—Cpl. Samuel Kaplan,
Michigan Home Protective now in New Guinea, and Sgt.
Lodge, Kozon Horedoker Relief Barney Kaplan, who is stationed
Society, Congregation Bnai Moshe in India. A brother-in-law, Cpl.
Auxiliary, Keshenever Service Hy Koenigsberg, is in England,
Group, Zedakah Club, Vinitzer and another brother-in-law, Lt.
Society, Hebrew Ladies' Aid So- Bernard Stein, is awaiting as-
ciety and Bicur Cholem.
signment in the Air Corps.

Beginner's Class Formed
At Brady Branch of UHS

NEW YORK — Having ,com-
pleted its first 13 week cycle
describing important moments in
synagogue history, "The Eternal
Light" turns next to "Great Men
and Women in Jewry" starting
Sunday, Jan. 7, (NBC, 11 a. rn.,
EWT; WEAF, 12 noon, EWT).

Rebecca Hochman, paSsed .aw,
in May as a result of concern o
her son's, being shipped oversea
was killed in- action in German
on Nov. 17.
A graduate of Northwester
High, he was a pre-medical stuci
end at Wayne University at Oil
time of his induction into t}i
army in November, 1943. A for
mer student of the Chicago Co
servatory of Music, he receiv
his Hebrew education in the Uni
ed Hebrew Schools.
First stationed at Camp Elan
ing, Fla., he -was sent °Verse
in April and was attached to a
infantry division fighting in Gei

tears ... A world in travail calls for intelligent

H. W. Bennett Leaves

For Air Cadet Training

action to guarantee the perpetuation of jus-

Herman William Bennett, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bennett,
9297 N. Martindale, left on Dec.
20, for Mississippi to train as an
air. cadet.
A graduate of Central high and
the United Hebrew Schools, he
was a student at Wayne Univer-
sity, where he was prominent in
student activities. He had at-
tained the rank of major in the
ROTC.

lice • Jews are especially challenged to

Rabbi Groner to Speak
Jan. 5 at Bnai Moshe

- Rabbi Benjamin Groner of
Congregation Shaar Hashomay-
im, Windsor, will occupy the pul-
pit as guest speaker of Congre-
gation Bnai Moshe, at late Friday
evening services, Jan. 5. His
topic will be "How Free Can We
Expect To Be?"
Services begin at 8:15 and are
Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro conducted by Cantor David Katz-
Goldwyn Mayer studios, is suf- man. A social hour will follow,
ficiently recovered from his ac- with refreshments served by the
cident so that he is able to take Bnai Moshe Sisterhood. The pub-
walks daily.
lic is invited.

plans action programs courageously.

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