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THE JEWISH NEWS

Death Ends a Brilliant Future

World Cruise Ends After Five Years

Sgt. M. S. Cohen
Killed in Action
Word has been re v ived by
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cohen, 2985

Pvt. Tandem, Major League
Prospect, Killed at Leyte

Frank Faudem, only son of
Mrs. Bessie Faudem of 2235 W.
Boston Blvd., and the late Sol
Faudem, was destined for: a
great future in major league
baseball. Prior to Jan. 11. 1943,
when he was inducted into the
U. S. Army, he was under con-
tract with the Detroit Tigers.
But destiny willed it otherwise,
and his career ended on the
battlefield.
His wife, Mrs. Lydia Faudem
of 9261 Wildemere, has been in-
formed that he was killed in ac-
tion on Leyte, Jan. 12, 1945.
Born in Detroit, July 9, 1921,
the late Pvt. Faudem was an out-
standing athlete while a student'

Friday, April 13, 1945

at Central high. He won All-
City honors in baseball before
being signed by . "Wish" Egan,
Tiger Scout, for what was cer-
taM to be _a major baseball car-
eer.
He was married Dec. 23,
1943, in Columbus, Ga., while
stationed at Fort Henning, Ga.
A four-month-old d a u g h t e r,
Sherry Beth, whom he had never
seen, survive.
Pvt. Faudem was with the
77th Infantry Division of the
Sixth Army and fought through
the South Pacific campaigns be-
fore Leyte. He also participated
in the invasion of Guam.

Liberated From Bilibid,
Pfc. Blau Relates Ruse

Leslie, of the death of their son,
Sgt. Milton S. Cohen, 22, who
was killed while
bizi his second
mission over
France on March
4. -He had been
basecl in Eng-
I and and had
be e n overseas
since January;
A graduate of
Northern High,
he was attend-
ing Wayne Uni-
Sgt. Cohen versity at the
time of his induction on April 1,
1943. He had been stationed at
various camps throughout the
States and was a radio operator
at the Dyersburg Army Air
Field, Tenn., before being ship-
ped.
He is survived by two brothers,
Herman, who received a medical
To indicate "how deeply stir- Bimah. I delivered a brief ad- discharge after having served in
red are the hidden tendencies of dress. The youth thanked us Italy, and Sidney, and a 'sister,
men's spirits," Capt. Morris after the service. I am sure that Edith.
Adler, Shaarey Zedek rabbi on it will be a psychological mile-
leave, now serving as Chaplain stone in his Jewish develop-
in the Philippines, sends The ment."
Chaplain Adler, listing the
Jews News an interesting story
about a 25-year-old Navy man Jewish servicemen. from Detroit
who asked the Jewish Chaplains at his post, states that "as you
i
see we have a Minyan of Anshei
to mark his Bar Mitzvah.
The services were arranged at Detroit."
Among those he lists are Mil- Wounded on Luzon, Feb. 8,
the Philippines post by Chaplain
Adler, Chaplain Silver a n d ton Lebowitz, Jacob Keidan, Leon
News of Mother's. Death
another Detroiter, Chaplain Al- Burg, Maj. M. L. Falick, Philip
Unknown. to Him
bert Gordon, who was there for Belinsky, Howard Kopel, , Capt.
Morton Helper, Max Schubiner,
a few days.
Pfc. Arthur C. Becker, 27, in
"It being Thursday," Capt. Jack Landsberg, Dr. Benjamin
Adler wrote, "we read the Torah B. Stamel and Dr. Hyman Her- service since the summer of
and called the youth to the bert Cohen.
1942, had been looking forward
to his first furlough which was
to have reunited him with his
Meyerson Brothers
M. A.
family after a separation of more
Germany
than two years. That reunion
Philippines
will be touched with tragedy, for,
It became known this week
unknown to him, Pfc. Becker's
that Sgt. Morton A. Silverman,
The two sons of Mr. and Mi.s. mother passed away on Jan. 30,
22, who was first reported miss-
ing, had been killed on Sept. 14, Sam Meyerson, of 3710 Richton after a prolonged illness.
while fighting Ave. are fighting in opposite
A graduate of Northern High
with an am-
he attended the
phibious unit in
Detroit Institute
Germany.
of Technology
The son of Mr.
and became the
and Mrs. Meyer
institution's
Silverman, 2901
track coach. An
Grand, he had
accomplished'
been graduated
athlete, he was
from Central
active in athletic
High and was a
circles. Always
student at the
interested in
' Detroit Institute
politics, he ran
Pfc. Meyerson for councilman Pfc. Becker
Sgt. Silverman of • Technology Cpl. Meyerson
while working part time for the parts of the world. Cpl. Irving, and for the office of state sen-
A. and P. Co. He entered serv- 25, is in the Pacific area and Pfc. ator, on the democratic ticket.
ice on March 15, .1943, and was Leon,- 19 is somewhere in Ger-
A foreman in the Wing De-
stationed . at Camp Robinson, many.
partment at the Willow Run
Ark., before being sent overseas
Cpl. Meyerson, a Central High Bomber Plant, he volunteered
in September of that' year. From graduate, had been employed as for the Rangers when he re-
England he had been sent to a butcher before entering service ceived word.that his cousin, Capt.
France and on to Germany.
on Jan. 22, 1942. Having been Ruben Iden, had been killed. He
In addition to his- parents he) stationed at various camps was sent overseas to the Pacific
is survived by a sister, Eileen.
throughout the States, he was at area in December, 1942, five
Ft. Lewis, Wash. prior to being months after entering service.
sent overseas in September, First sent to Pearl Harbor, he
1943. He has served in Australia, fought in New Britain. He is
New Guinea and the Dutch - East with the 40th Ranger Division
Surprise
ILdies. Attached to the medical which paved the way for the re-
corps, he now is at Manila in the turn to Luzon.
For
Pfc. Becker, who was wound-
Philippines. • He is married to
the former Lee. Fineman who re- ed on ,Luzon on Feb: 8, is in a
' When friends of Mr. and Mrs. sides on Pingree Ave. •
hospital recovering from a
Harry Adelman. of 3360 Tuxedo
Pfc. Meyerson, also a Central wound , of the shoulder and a
called to tell them they had read graduate, is with the Infantry. nerve in ..ury which has caused
about their son, Cpl. Norman He has been overseas since the tem-. Crary paralysis of his
Adelman receiving the Distin- March 5, having been sent there arm. He is somewhere in the
guished Flying Cross, it was a after being assigned to Camp Netherland East Indies, but hopes
big surprise to them. He hadn't Luis Obispo; Cal. He distinguish- to be returned to the States soon.
mentioned it in his letters. The ed himself as a sharp shooter He had been in line for a fur-
---only thing he
having received a medal - for lough when he was wounded.
did write, was
Pfc. Becker, who killed nine
marksmanship.
that he was en-
Both servicemen received their Japs, is the recipient of the Pur-
gaged in secret
Jewish education at the Shalom ple Heart and has been recom-
work.
mended for the Silver Star.
Aleichem Schule.
Cpl. Adelman
Well known in Jewish youth
• is in the ground
groups, he had been affiliated
Pvt.
Greenbaum
Visits
crew with the
-nth many Jewish organizations.
c o mmunication
Family on Furlough
He is the son of Harry Becker,
system at a base
1937- Virginia Pk, of the Becker
From Army Hospital
in India, where
Bros. Printing Co.
he has been for
Pvt. Arnold Greenbaum, hus-
20 months. Last Cpl. Adelman
band of the former Ruth Glasser
year, his unit received a Presi- and son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bernard M. Blase Leaves
dential Citation. He is 21, a grad- S. Greenbaum, of 2969 Webb, is For the Maritime Service-
uate of Central High and attend- spending a 21-day furlough with
Bernard M. Blase, son of Mr.
ed Wayne University before leav his wife and parents.
and
Mrs. Julius Blase, of 133 E.
ing for service two years ago.
Wounded in Germany while
Their only other son, Pvt. Har- fighting with. Gen. Hodges' First Webster, Ferndale, Mich., left on
vey Adelman, i being • trans- army, he is receiving treatment April 2 for the Maritime Service,
ferred from Camp Fannin, Tex., at .Wakeman General Hospital, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, N. Y.
He was a second semester pre-
to Ft: Benning, • Ga., to attend Camp Atterbtiry, Ind.
an advanced Radio school. He was
Greenbaum has been. in service dental student at the time he was
graduated from Central high and thre
e years and overseas . .one Called for duty.
entered service on Dec, 7, .1 ,941. year... He fought at Aachen and
He is a former member of was wounded when his- unit ad- Additional Servicemen's News
DeMolay..,
7
, vanced. :after taking that city.
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On Pa ge I 4
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Feigned Insanity to Escape Death at Hands -of Jap; Joined
Army in Manila in 1940 as War Brewed; Saw
Service. on Bataan and Corregidor

Pfc. Sanford J. Blau, son of the late M. Martin Blau and Mrs.
Ruth Bubis, a prisoner of war in the Philippines for 33 months,
came last week wearing a fighting man's medals and scars of a
dreadful experience.
He spent 28 months in the psy- passing a note to the guard. They
chopathic section of Bilibid after beat me for three days to get
feigning insanity in the hope me to tell to whom the notes
that an oppor- were going. I didn't talk.
tunity to escape
Then , " •he continued, "they
might come his
gave me and the guard 24 days
way.
M solitary confinement. I lost
Blau was on
26 pounds and I'd rather not
world cruise as
talk about it."
war clouds ap-
Cooked Stolen Ducks
p r o a c h e d in
Later, Blau said another pris-
1940, and when
oner stole three ducks and he
the ship on
cooked them. They were caught
which he was
and were threatened with death,
•
working put in- ,-
but an American Navy doctor
to Manila in De- Pfc. Blau convinced the guards , that both
cember of that year, he enlisted men were insane and saved their
in the Army. lives.
Assigned to the Infantry, he
"We got away with a little ex-
was transferred to the air corps tra food through that insanity
but after. a few months went gag," .he added.
back into the infantry.
"The Japs ran around like mad
Eardrums Shattered
on the eve of our liberation," he
When Nichols Field was at- said.
"They didn't seem to
tacked by the Japs on Dec. 11, know what to do.
1941, his left eardrum was shat-
"On the morning of Feb. 4 of
tered by bomb concussions and this year, the American cavalry,
at Agaloma Bay in February his infantry and airborne units lib-
right ear drum was ruptured the crated us.
same way.
"My weight had dropped from
Retreating across Bataan - he 135 pounds to 90 pounds."
caught the last boat to Corregi-
He was shipped to San 'Fran-
dor, where he again was wound- cisco, then to Washington and
ed when the last stronghold fell flew into Cleveland, where his
on May 5, 1942.
mother now resides, Friday
Placed in a prison camp in a morning, April 6.
port area, Blau feared he would
Wears Purple Heart
be sent as a prisoner-laborer to In addition to the Purple
Japan and in August of 1942 Heart, Blau wears the Distin-
faked an appendicitis attack and guished Unit Badge with two
was operated upon. Surviving oak leaf clusters; the Philippine
the hasty operation, while still Defense and Liberation ribbons;
recovering he was sent to Pala- the Asiatic-Pacific theater rib-
waan, where he tried to make bon and two bronze stars and
an escape, was caught, and feign- the American Defense ribbon
ed insanity to prevent being with one bronre star.
killed.
"And don't forget the Good
Pretty Tough Going
Conduct ribbon," he laughed.
"I knew it was going to be "Incidentally, the Japs didn't
pretty tough,' ° he said, "but I give that one to me."
maintained the ruse and was
Pfc. Blau attended Central
shipped back to Bilibid and High School and lived in Detroit
placed in the psychopathic sec- with his parents until leaving on
tion. There were about 35 of his world cruise. He is now
us there. making his home with his moth-
"I had a good connection on er at 3622 Raymont Blvd., Uni-
the outside and got a Jap guard versity Heights, Cleveland. His
to smuggle notes out and money father died a few months after
in to me. One day I was caught he was reported lost.

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Chaplain Adler Marks Bar Mitzvah
For Sailor, 25, at Philippine Post

Pfc. A. C. Becker's
First Furlough to
Be Sad Reun on

Sgt.
Killed in

Silverman

Fighting in Reich
And in-

Cpl. Norm Adelman

Gets DFC,
Parents Here

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capt. Rom Gets
The Bronze Star

Paul Levine Killed
In Pacific Action

Official word from the U. S.
Fifth Army front in Northern
Italy has been received by rela-
tives here of the awarding of the
Bronze Star to
Capt. Jack Rom
for-meritorious
.
service in com-
bat.
Capt. Rom, 32,
a medical offi-
cer with a field
arti 11 e ry bat-
talion with the
8 8 t h division,
has been in serv-
Capt. Rom
ice since July,
1942. He went overseas in April
of 1943 with the 80th Station
Hospital and remained in North
Africa until last September.
Capt. Rom's wife, Thelma M.,
and their daughter, Rosalind
Joan, reside with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Meyer of 87 S.
Parke, Pontiac. His mother lives
at 3248. Sturtevant.
Before enlisting,' Capt. Rom
had offices in the Eaton Tower
and was a member of the Re-
ceiving Hospital staff and mem-
ber of the faculty of Wayne Uni-
versity College of Medicine.
He holds memberships in the
Wayne County Medical Society,
the Maimonides Medical Society,
Phi Lambda Kappa Medical
Fraternity and is a Fellow of the
American
College of Allergists
1
and an associate of the Americ
College of Physicians.
A graduate of Northern High
and Wayne University he also at-
tended the University of Mich-
igan. He was g member of Philo-
mathic, JewiSh Center. and • war -
active in • Allied Campaign.

News of the death of their son,
Fireman 1/c Paul Levine, 18,
was received this week by Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Levine, of 18027
Roselawn Ave.
Young Levine
enlisted in the-
Navy in April of
last year, leav-
ing his studies
at Cass Tech
high. Details of
his death were
lacking, except
to say that he
made the su-
F 1/c Levine preme sacrifice
in_. the Pacific.

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Cpl. Sol I. Rosenman
A Radar Instructor

Cpl. Sol I. Rosenman; 36, who.
.entered service in March, 1944,
is an instructor in Radar at Boca
Raton Army Air Field, Fla. His
wife and two children are resid-
ing in Miami.
With the AAF, he completed
the 18 week course in Radio Me-
chanics at Truax Field, Madison,
Wis., and the six week course in
Electronics at Chanute Field,
Rantoul, Ill.
A graduate of .Wayne Univers-
ity; he had taught mathematics
in the public: schools . and prior
to his induction :had owned and
operated two floral. -shops-- on
Second Blvd., and on -Livernois •
at Seven. Mile Rd Hi's, brother, •

Norman: - is managing ,the•See.onct •

Blvd. shop.--