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THE JEWISH NEWS

Gen. Rose's Death in Action
Severe Loss, Stimson Says

Slain Jewish General Served Brilliantly in Mexican Border
War, First World War and Throughout Africa, Sicily,
France and Germany; Called Great Leader

By ROBERT S. GAMZEY
(Editor Intermountain Jewish News, Denver)

Special to the Independent Jewish Press Service

DENVER (JPS)—Denver Jewry paid homage to the 'late Maj.
Gen. Maurice B. Rose, the daring . leader of the Third Armored
"Spearhead" division of the First Army, at special memorial serv-
ices on the last day of Passover at the Beth Midrash Hagodol Syna-
gogue.
Rabbi C. H. Kauvar, who years back conducted Bat' Mitzvah
services for the general, spoke of the deep sense of loyalty that the
military hero had for American idea
ls of freedom and for the Jew-
ish cause. Cantor Aaron Turner chanted the "El Moleh Rachamim"
for the departed. More than 500 persons paid tribute at the services.
Gen Rose was the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Rose of 1111
E, 20th Ave., long-time members of the congregation:
Aged Father Speaks to All People
Informed by - General Quade and other high-ranking army of
Eters of his son's death, the Rev. Rose said:
"It is well that since this had to be, it happened in the week of
Passover. As Jehovah said, 'When-.I see the blood, I will pass over
you,' he spoke not only to the Jews but to all peoples, to the
Gentiles, to Americans, to Germans. When I see the sacrifice blood,
I will pass over you.
And so, may Jehovah accept tilts sacrifice, and see the blood
and pass over all peoples for their sins, -this Passover time. For
my son's sake.
"The Jewish people have demonstrated their love of liberty
and freedom for all peoples since the days of Abraham, Isaac and
Joseph, and I am proud that they are still demonstrating it in the
wars of the world, this "Passover time—in the deeds and the death
of my son."
His Deeds Reflected Glory Upon His People
The entire Jewish community was shocked at news of 'the
general's death. It had gloried in the. exploits of this brave soldier
who by his victories and his personal exploits reflected glory upon
his people.
- Gen.- Rose was born in Middletown, Conn., Nov. 26, 1899. He
came to Denver as a child with his parents, and attended Whittier
school, the B. M. H. Hebrew school and East High. •
Many prominent Denver Jewish businessmen recall hirri as a
childhood playmate. Maurice was shy, retiring and, because of
his good looks, the idol of the girls.
When the Mexican border trouble flared in 1916, the youth
interrupted his studies at Colorado University and joined the First
Colorado Cavalry on the Mexican border. He was later sent to Of-
ficer Training SChool at Camp Funston, was commissioned a Second
Lieutenant at 21, and went overseas with the 89th. Division.
Became Career Officer Between Wars
He fought in the Argonne, Chateau Thierry and other famous
World 'War I battles, and emerged with a captaincy and a battle
wound.
Between wars, he became a career'officer, once commanded
the Citizen's Military Training Camp at Fort Logan, and rose to the
eminence of a tank expert and chief of staff o f the newly organized
armored division at Ft. Benning, Ga., in 1941. He led the division
through the North African campaign, taking Bizerte: and handing
unconditional surrender terms to German Gen. Krause.
General Rose's division was a big factor in the Sicilian cam-
paign; capturing Palermo.
In the invasion of France, Gen. Rose figured in the strategic
Falaise breakthrough, led his armored division from the Seine
river to the Seigfrie line, liberating many French, Belgium and
German towns.
He was awarded - the Distinguished Service medal, the French
Legion of Honor, and many other decorations.
Surviving him, besides his parents and his wife, are a four year
old son, Maurice Frederick, and a brother, Arnold.

Gen. Rose's Death Was "Severe Loss", Says Stimson
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The death of Gen. Maurice Rose, who
was killed by a young •German soldier after he had been captured,
was described this week • by Secretary of War Stimson as "a severe
loss. - No one was more skillful in directing the operations of an
armored column," Stimson added, "he was a leader who inspired
enthusiasm and confidence."
The War Department said that he "was killed by enemy action
while leading his division in spear-heading the advance of the
troops in Gerinany." He was the commander of the Third Armored
Division .which was the first to enter Cologne..
Gen. Rose entered the Army as a private in 1916 after he was
graduated from the University of Colorado and went to France as a
second lieutenant in 1917.. He was a colonel at the time he went
overseas in 1942 at the head of the Third Armored Division which
was also the first unit to break into Metz. Gen: Rose was awarded
the Purple Heart in World War I and held three Silver Stars—
one of which he won in the last war—and the Distinguished Serv-
ice Cross.

A Symbol of nth Century Ideals of U. S.
; DENVER (JTA)—In a radio memorial. program for Gen. Rose ;
Rabbi Herbert Friedman. of Temple Emanuel said "General Rose
was a symbol, eombining the 20th century vision of the Jew with
the 2,0th century ideals of Americablending both into the figure
of an active fighter for democracy." Mayor Ben Stapleton of
Denver said justice must be done and the Nazis punished for the
General's Murder.

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Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

PALESTINE

Inclusion, in an International Bill of
Rights, of provisions to "protect and further
the rights and .liberties of the individual and of
racial, religious and cultural groups, especially
those uprooted by war and oppression," was
called for by the Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America, the Synagogue Council of
America and the National Catholic Welfare
Conference in joint recommendations, to the
forthcoming United Nations Security Confer-
ence at San Francisco.
All Arab pressures, "of which Ibri Saud
exerts the greatest," will be directed, at the
forthcoming United Nations security confer-
ence at San Francisco, to "discouraging the
friends of the Jewish National Home (in Pal-
estine) and of broadened immigration," Blair
Bolles, of the 'Washington Bureau of the news-
paper PM, reports . . . Ibn Saud's "chief dip-
lomatic weapon is the prophecy of a reign of
terror and massacre if the Arabs are irked by
a greater Jewish settlement in Palestine. This
picture of a bloody future has had some ef-
fect in shaping the current U. S. and British
policies of caution toward Palestine," Mr. -
Bolles reports: However, "from the diplomatic
- point of•view, the position of the Arabs is far
weaker today than it was in 1939 when the
British brought out the White Paper."
Arab political leaders are reportedly
studying a, proposal to form an Arab equiv-
alent of the Jewish Agency for Palestine to
devote itself "to the defense" and development
of all forms of Arab interest in Palestine, ac-
cording to a- Cairo dispatch to the New York

• Racial stereotypes in popular, light fiction
appearing in nationally circulated magazines
are fostering racial bigotry, according to a
survey of stage plays, advertising copy, comic
cartoon books and magazines, made for the
Writer's War Board by the Bureau of Ap-
plied Social Research of Columbia University.
One hundred and eighty-five short stories
from popular magazines from the pre-war year
of 1937 and the war year of 1943, were ana-
lyzed. The most common racial stereotype
found in the -short stories are "the lazy Negro,
the wily Jew, the pugnacious Irishman and"
gangsterish Italian."
U. S. Army authorities in Germany have
been asked by the • Department of Justice to ar-
rest Donald Day, former Chicago Tribune cor-
respondent; who in broadcasts over the -Berlin
radio urged. Americans to fight Roosevelt,
Churchill, Stalin and the Jew's instead of the
Nazis.
The U. S. 6th Armored Division, the As-
sociated Press reports, liberated 900 Jewish
women between the ages of 16 and 35 who had
-been deported from Hungary for slave labor
in the Siegenheim area in Germany. They
reported that girls unable to work were cre-
mated with the dead.

A new issue of preference shares to the
value of $800,000 was placed on sale in behalf
of Koor Ltd., industrial concern of Solel
Boneh which is the construction co-operative
of the Histraduth, Jewish Palestine's Fed-
eration of Labor. The sale was closed almost
immediately as offers surpassed the quota by
$600,000.
Fifty-five vocational courses under 57
teachers, with 703 students, have so far been
initiated by the Vocational Training Commit-
tee of the Jewish Agency's Trade and In-
dustry Department with the assistance of
Keren Hayesod (Palestine "Foundation Fund)
fdnds, it is announced. Twenty-five courses
are in Tel Aviv, 24 in Haifa, and two each in
Jerusalem, ,Givath Brenner and Yagur. •
Metal and wood-working, welding, electrical
mechanics, weaving, drawing, radio technique,
practical chemistry, galvano-technique, ortho:
pedic bootmaking, e'diamond-polishing, me-
chanics, and engineering are among the trades
taught in these courses. -
"March of Time" cameramen now in Pal-
estine are reported to have agreed to prepare
three shorts for the Keren Hayesod (Palestine
Foundation Fund). The film shorts will be
intended primarily for showing in the United
States. "March of Time" has also filmed the
training of the recruits for the Jewish Brigade
Group at its primary training depot somewhere
in Palestine.
Twenty-five young men, among the first
released from the Atlith Clearance camp, 's it
of a group of some 900 Jewish refugees who
arrived in Palestine last week, enlisted with
the Jewish Brigade.
Construction by the Jewish Agency of
950 new dwellings for recent arrivals is now
under way in- various parts of the country.
Most of the new housing, however, is con-
centrated in the Tel Aviv, Haifa and Sharon
vicinities. The construction of an additional
400 dwellings will begin this month. 40 ►

OVERSEAS

The French radio has increased its Arabic
broadcasts, of late, making numerous anti-
Zionist remarks in order to curry favor with
the Arab in a diplomatic match of wits against
Britain. In a broadcast in connection with the
Pan-Arab Conference it is reported that the
speaker attacked the Jews.
A new method by Prof. Kalman Kotlar of
Moscow will, it is believed, save thousands of
cattle: His device consists of a vaccination
given the mother in her- seventh month to
immunize her against- infectious diseases.
A Danish worker who reportedly escaped
from a German slave labor camp -at Stuthof,
near Danzig, told a Correspondent of the Stock-.
holm newspaper Dagennyheter that some 300
Danish Jews are kept in segregation at the
camp and are being starved to death.

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