THE JEWISH NEWS

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The Fruits of Victory

Lt. Woll Returns

Palestinians in U. S. Army
Rejoicing Over War's End

For Reassignment

Friday, June F, 1 945

`Report on a Military Situation'

Seek More Playing Cards
For GIs at Percy Jones

Courage and determination
such as that displayed by Lt.
Sgt. Heyman, Former Detroiter who Moved to Palestine Louis Woll has won the victory
for us on the European front and Milton Hirschfield Discovers Wounded Soldiers Lining Up
With Family 12 Years Ago, in Service; Brother Is
to Use Cards; His Campaign Brings Results; The Jewish
will speed the
Doctor at Hadassah Hospital
inevitable day of
News Sends 510 Decks from Readers' Donations
victory in the
Among the Jewish servicemen stationed with the U. S. Army in
Pacific. A f ter
A shipment of 510 decks of playing cards to servicemen at
the Middle and Near East are American Jews who formerly lived
escaping the Percy Jones General Army Hcspital, Battle Creek, Mich., will be
and studied in Palestine for a number of years,
Sgt. Maurice I. Heyman, a na--.>
Nazis and hiding made next week by The Jewish News.
These cards were purchased with funds contributed by readers
tine Detroiter, 22, who left for
out with the of The
Jewish News.
Yugoslav Parti-
Palestine with his family 12
Miltop C. Hirschfield, head of
sans when his the sales management firm with that you are keeping for some
years ago, writes enthusiastical-
Liberator bomb- offices at 1008 Transportation special company?" Could there
ly from his post, somewhere in
er was forced Bldg., arranged for the delivery be any more "special company"
Egypt, to his uncle and aunt, Mr.
d own, he re- of the playing cards as part of a than those unfortunate lads in
and Mrs. Samuel N. Heyman of
Lt. L. Well turned to h i s
4031 Glendale Ave., of the _great
campaign he had undertaken Percy Jones who have to wait in
outfit, but refused to be sent during the past few weeks.
line to get a deck of cards?
rejoicing over
Capt. Peter A. Martin Tells home. Prefering to return to duty,
the complete de-
"Right now while it is fresh on
There is an interesting story
he flew another complete tour back of Mr. Hirschfield's cam- your mind, please scrape together
feat of the Nazi-
Distressing St o r y of
with the 15th Air Force based paign to secure playing cards all the cards that you feel that
Fascist forces .
Nazi Barbarism
in Italy.
In the U. S.
for the convelescent servicemen. you can spare and mail them to
Army for two
the writer who will see that they
A Military Situation
On
May
19,
he
returned
to
this
Capt. Peter A. Martin, divi-
and a half
After a recent visit to Percy get to Percy Jones at the first
country
after
16
months
over-
sion psychiatrist with the 104th
years, Sgt. Hey-
Jones, Mr. Hirschfield prepared possible moment. Call up a
(Timberwolf) infantry division seas. At the culmination of his a "Special Report on a Military couple of friends and tell them
man. son of Mr.
30-day
leave,
he
will
report
since its activation in September,
and Mrs. Leo
to Santa Ana, Calif., for reas- Situation" which he mailed to a about this report and make your-
1942, and overseas since Septem- signment.
Heyman of
large number of friends through- self a committee of one to help
ber, 1944, writes of his impres-
hon L e Zio
out the state. In this "report" he this worthy undertaking.
sions of the incredible Nazi hor-
Lt. Woll, son of Mr. and Mrs. wrote:
Palestine, well Sgt. Heyman
"With every brand new deck
rors
upon
viewing
the
Nord-
Joseph Woll of 12160 Dexter
known former Detroiters, studied
"In going through one of the of cards you will please place
in the Tel Aviv Gymnasium. hausen Concentration Camp aft- Blvd., is a member of the ex- wards, I saw two GIs playing your card and some grateful
Prior to entering active service er its liberation by his division. clusive Flying Boot Club com- cards . . . one was propped up hero will acknowledge . . . but
posed of fliers who have been in bed . . . (a land mine had only with new decks, please.
he Was purchasing agent at the He states:
"I do not believe the people shot down and recovered. He has blown off his legs) and the other,
famous Camp Telvinsky, near
Deep Interest Shown
Tel Aviv, which became one of in America can or ever will ap- the Purple Heart and several with one useable arm, was sitting
The response he received to
the most popular resorts for the preciate the miseries these peo- other medals.
on the bed. Around the bed was this appeal was an indication of
ple have been subjected to. If
GIs on furlough.
gathered a crowd of possibly 12 the deep interest that exists in
A
graduate
of
Central
High,
An able violinist, Sgt. Heyman the Jewish people could see he studied optometry at the Chi- or 15 other patients . . . all terrib- the heart of all Americans in the
these
sights
they
would
really
ly injured.
has participated in entertain-
welfare of the servicemen.
know what we are fighting for. cago College of Optometry and
ments for American troops.
"I said to the Chaplain who
Large quantities of cards im-
completed
his
course
there
two
. His brother, Dr. Israel Heyman, One cannot conceive of these years after his enlistment in the was conducting m e around, mediately began pouring into Mr.
a graduate of the American Col- atrocities without having seen army.
"Those boys crowding around Hirschfield's office from the
that game are just like all other staffs of Himelhoch Bros. & Co,
lege in Beyrut, them. When one does see them
He entered active service in kibitzers." "Oh, no," the chaplain Campbell = Ewald Co., Maurice
is now house he feels like screaming from the
physician in pe- housetops so that everyone will March, 1942, and was commis- replied, "they are not like other Aronsson's Printing Co., the
sioned as a navigator nine months kibitzers, they are waiting their Standard Club, Safran Printing
diatrics at the know.
"About a hundred a day died later. He was sent to Italy in turn to get THAT deck of cards." Co., R. L. Polk Co., Curtis Pub-
Hadassah H o s-
"Can you imagine! Those fel- lishing Co., national magazines,
pital. He is on and they • were stacked under April, 1944.
call for service the stairs like cordwood. Later
His brother, Cpl. Harry Woll, lows who I thought to be mere advertising firms and numerous
they
were
not
even
moved
but
in the U. S.
also a graduate optometrist, is onlookers were really standing in others—indivaduals as well as
Arniy, but had left where they died—three to serving in that capacity at the line to WAIT FOR A DECK OF firms.
been requested a narrow cot. Those who are Menlo Park Hospital, California. CARDS, (and we kick when we
In addition, WJBK has arrang-•
have to wait around in the ed for spot announcements en-
to continue his still alive will not live long.
They
have
tuberculosis,
dysen-
butcher shop or in Sanders for a couraging support for Mr. Hirsch-
0titEl in t erneship
box of candy).
Dr. I. Heyman at the Hadassah tery or typhus. They are so Cpl. Friedman Earns
field's idea—as a public service.
Any Deck Will Do
Hospital prior to his appointment weak they cannot move. The Second Service Award
And The Jewish NeWs added
"Now I'll get to the point: As its available "cards for Fighters"
as house physician. He is now only food they had was a de-
cayed
horse,
and
of
that,
only
you are a card player you must fund for the purchase of playing
working with one of the world's
the neck and brains, for mag-
Cpl. Joseph H. Friedman, 25, have quite a few decks of good cards to be sent to Percy Jones
outstanding pediatricians.
gots
were
eating
the
rest
of
it."
now
in
Czecho-Slovakia,
has
re-
cards around the house that you through Mr. Hirschfield.
The Heyman family is among
Capt. Martin's wife and small ceived the Meritorious Service can spare for such a cause. As
the pioneer settlers in Nes Zionah,
Individuals and firms are urg-.
where they were among the first daughter, Arlene Carol, are liv- Award for his work with the long as the decks have 52 cards, ed to continue to send cards to
..,16th Field Hos- we want them . . . one deck or Mr. Milton C. Hirschfield, - 1008
to establish orange plantations. ing with Mrs. Martin's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Munch
pital. This is 50. How about those "new cards Transportation Bldg., Detroit 26.
of 2245 Atkinson Ave.
the second cita-
Mrs. Martin's two brothers are
tion which his
also in the army. Lt. Irving V.
unit has earned.
Munch is one of the few army
Cpl. Friedman,
officers on Adm. Nimitz's staff
son of Mr. and
in Guam, and Pvt. Arthur Mun-
Mrs. Morris
ch, who was inducted in Febru-
Friedman, 2429
Mr. and Mrs. David Hoffrichter
Citation Accompanying ary, is stationed in Texas.
E. Milwaukee, is of 3201 Gladstone were thrilled by the Yacht Club, where he was
formerly a swimmer. Mrs. Hoff-
Award Tells of Meritorious
graduate of by a telegram received on V-E
richter is an airway traffic con-
*.iOhio
College
of
Work Over France
day from their son, ..Lt. Wally B. troller at Ft. Worth, Tex.
Chiropody in
A brother, RM 3/c Marvin L.
Cpl. Friedman Cleveland a n d
Capt. George Friedman of the
Return to U. S. had been in practice before en-
who was home in September af-
26th Artillery Division has been
ter 32 months in Ireland, Scot-
tering service in July, 1941. His
awarded the Air Medal. The ci-
land, England and France, where
Sgt. Sidney Weiss, who was offices were together with those
tation accompanying the award a prisoner of war in Germany, is
he participated in the invasion,
of his brother, Dr. David Fried-
reads: "For meritorious achieve- now free and is in France await- man, a physician.
now is fighting in the Pacific
ment while participating in
area after having been in this
. ing transporta-
Overseas since January, 1942,
aerial flight
. country for five months.
tion to the U. S.,
over France,
according to two he has served with the medical
Luxembourg
letters which his corps in Egypt, England, France,
Belgium and Germany.
a n d Germany
wife has re-
during the per-
ceived from him
iod from N o v.
RM Hoffrichter Lt. Hoffrichter
since his liber- Sgt. Burstein Fighting
3, 1944 to April
ation.
Hoffrichter,
who is a patient at • - "Am well and safe. Will write
In Okinawa Campaign
11, 1945. While
A tail gunner
Beaumont General Hospital in El in detail. Happy Mother's Day".
serving as artil-
on a B-24 Lib-
Paso, Tex. Lt. Hoffrichter, who This cablegram, arriving on May
lery aerial ob-
Sgt. Sidney Burstein,- 27, is was returned to this country on 16, was the first news which Mrs.
erator stationed
server, Capt.
in Italy, his with the 184th infantry of the April 10, after 22 months over- Henrietta Herz of 2492 Clair-
Friedman per-
Sgt.
Weiss
plane
was shot Seventh division, fighting on seas, informed his parents that mount Ave., had ttir
Capt. Friedmanf or m e d
out- down over Moosbierbaum, Aus- Okinawa. Assigned to the med-
he and his wife were arriving received fr om
standing service in flying 35 sor- tria, last June 26.
ical corp s, he
h e r son; Pfc.
that evening for a visit.
ties for the purpose of front line
Heinz Leon
Sgt. Weiss is married to the has been over-
reconnaissance and adjustment,
Lt. Hoffrichter, a nationally Herz,- since he
former Anne Stoler who resides seas since July,
surveillance and registration of at 4257 Richton.
known swimmer, served as an had been report-
1943. He has par-
artillery fire on enemy installa-
airway dispatcher in New Guinea, ed missing on
ticipated in the
tions."
the Philippines and other Pacific Jan. 9, while
Kiska campaign,
bases. In January he contracted fightingin
in the invasion:
- A graduate of Central High, Jewish Chaplain Helps
a tropical disease; and after three France. His
of
the
Marshalh.
Niemoller
in
Naples
he was a Wayne student at the
months in a hospital, was sent cable was fol-
Islands, and re-
time of his induction three and
to the U. S. for hospitalization. lowed by a con-
NAPLES, (JTA)—Pastor Mar- ceived the
one half years ago. He has been tin Niemoller, who was liberated Bronze Star for
Pfc. Herz
Lt. Hoffrichter and his wife, firmation f r o m
overseas since August, 1944, and from a German concentration heroism on
who left on May 14, were enter- the Red Cross.
Sgt. Burstein
was promoted to captain six camp three weeks ago after eight Leyte.
Pfc. Herz, who was born on
tained by their many friends and
years of imprisonment, is being
Sgt. Burstein was employed by
June 19, 1925, in Saarbrucken,
months -ago.
shown around Naples by Maj.
Germany, is an only child and
Capt. Friedman was married Samuel Teitelbaum, a Jewish the Flint Baking Co. prior to his
Youth Groups Urged
induction in March, 1941. He is
was brought to Detroit at the age
to the former Harriet Gold on chaplain from St. Louis.
married to the former Zella
of 3. A graduate of Central High,
fo Fete GIs at Homes
Aug. 8, 1943. Mrs. Friedman
"We got acquainted naturally Traub, 404 Marquette, Durand,
he was attending Wayne Univer-
resides with her parents, Mr. enough, since we were billeted Mich. His mother, Mrs. Ida Bur-
sity prior to entering service in
Young people's organizations
January, 1944. He was sent over-
and Mrs. Leo Gold of 18480 Fair- at the same hotel," Major Teitel- stein resides at 18272 Santa Bar-
interested in entertaining ser-
baum said. "He's a friendly sort bara.
seas in October. In General
vicemen at small parties in
field Ave.
of man, but it's hard for him to
Patch's 7th Army, he had re-
A
brother,
Pfc.
David,
is
in
homes,
are
urged
to
call
Capt. Friedman's father-in-law realize that he is actually free
ceived his infantry training at
Germany.
Miss
Connie
Stein,
MA.
8400.
fought in World War I and is and can move about and talk with
Ft. Bragg, N. C. He possesses the
There is an increasing need
a member of the Jewish War anybody. He is getting a great
Sharpshooting Medal, the Ex-
for this type of entertainment
Veterans and of the Rosenwald thrill just going around with me
Additional Servicemen's
pert Infantryman's Badge and
in the USO-JWB program.
Post of the American Legion,
on casual sightseeing tours."
News on Page 14
the Combat Badge.

Detroiter Felt

Like Screaming
Over Atrocities

Capt. Friedman
Given Air Medal

Lt. W. B. Hoffrichter Back in States
After 22 Months; Brother in Pacific

Sgt. Weiss Liberated
Waits

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Pfc. Herz, Reported
Missing, Cables Home