Friday, Jane 1, 1945

THE JEWISH

NEWS

Center Art School Holds Exhibition

A remarkable record of
achievement is revealed in the
annual Exhibition of Student
Work of the Art School of the
Jewish Community Center, which .
opened on Monday and which
will continue through June 11.
A total of 115 pictures, the
works of students in the adult and
junior divisions of the Center Art
School, are included in the dis-
play, in the Center Conference
Room.
The prize winners in the cur-
rent exhibition are:
Advanced class, Abe Lansky,
S. Rosen, Amy Ginson.
Elementary c 1 a s s, Moishe
Smith, Selma Arkin, Marjorie
Kuttnauer.
Impressive Works
Oils, water colors and chalks
of the adult group show increas-
ing variety of subject matter, and
an excellent tonality is noted on
many of the oils.
The works of the juniors are
truly impressive. The subjects
they cover include Jewish mat-
ters, comments on world affairs
and other titles, and they show
imagination and creative talent.
Many of the junior students this
year have some oils to their
credit in simple, direct and well
grounded results.
Jury of Awards
Included in the display are the
works of Moishe Smith, 16, who
received a prize at the Carnegie
Museum in Pittsburgh for best
work in Michigan from J. Lehm-
kuhl, president of U. S. Time
Corp. One of his pictures was
exhibited in the Michigan Artists
show at the Art Institute several
months ago.
The jury of awardS consisted
of J. Boorsman, Henry Bernstein,
Mrs. David Werbe and the in-
structors, Leon Makielski and
Stanley Twardowicz.
A representative attendance of
Detrditers viewed the exhibition
on the opening night, on Monday,
which was marked by a reception.

Streicher's Captor
Anxious to Prove
Jews Good Soldiers

Ma'j. Plitt Won 2 Silver Stars
For Heroism on D-Day;
Fought at Arnhem

Page Eleven

Yeshiva College
To Be Expanded
Into University

War Efforts Program
Of Congress Women
At Kern's, June 13

An Interesting

Painting Drawn

By I 6-Year-Old

Moishe SMith,

Which he Calls

"Across the

Street."

'The Raven'

is the Title

of this Painting

MRS. SAMUEL KATKIN

by S. Rosen.

The annual war efforts party
of Detroit Women's Division of
the American Jewish Congress
Will be held at Kern's Auditor-
ium on June 13 at 12:30 p. m.
Mrs. Sidney Sidell is chairman
and Mrs. - Saul LeVine co-chair-
man of the committee on ar-
rangements. Mrs. Samuel Kat-
kin is chairman in charge of
prizes.
A dessert luncheon will be
served and a dramatic skit will
be presented by Mrs. William
Gottesman.
Tickets may be purchased at
the door, or by calling Mrs. Sid-
ney Sidell, UN. 1-4184, or Mrs.
.Abe Katzman, UN. 1-7631.
Members elected to serve on
the board of directors for the
coming year are:

If is on Exhibit

at the

Jewish Center.

Union of Soviet Jewi
Seeks to Contact Kin

The Union of Russian Jews,
Inc. is in regular cable corn-
munication with the president of
the Moscow Jewish Community
for the purpose of tracing people
in Soviet Russia and establish-
ing contact between relatives in
Russia and the U. S. A.
The following Michigan resi-
dents have -received. cabled mes-
sages, which could not be trans-
mitted to them on account of in-
sufficient addresses:

Krasnoff, Polina • Solomonovna, nee
Spektor, from mother Kh. L. Spek-
tor.
Rimer, Itzik Mendelevich and Moi-
she Mendelevich, from brother, Rim-
er, Solomon Mendelevich, of Khar-
kow.
Barnett, Bella Mendelevna, from
brother, Rimer, Solomon Mendelevich,
of Kharkow.
Lepp, L. E., from mother Ostrovsk-
aya, Doba.
Narin, from mother Narinskaya,
Khasia.
Perelman, S., from Fraiman, Sura
Elievna, of Moscow.
Fridman, Sam, from Fraiman, Sura
Elievna, of Moscow.
Stetberg, Jack, from Menis, Zlata,
of Dubno.
Shiner, Leonhardt, a rabbi and law-
yer, from Yakubovich, Amalia Evge-
niavna, of Moscow.
Salzman, Abraham-Aron, from sis-
ter, Saltzman, Roza Leibovna of No-
vograd-Volynsk.
Krepki,Mania, from sister Saltz-
man, Roza. Leibovna of Novograd-
Volynsk.
Vyse (or Wyse or Wise), Gedali
Borisovich with wife Eva and son,
Boria; from sister Ubogaya, Mania
Borisovna, nee Weizengois, of Novo-
grad-Volynsk.
Menis, Michael, of Dubne, from
Menis Zlata, of Dubno.
Rogen, Sam, from brother, Munik
Yankel Shimshelevich.
Cohen, Jacob, born in Locha, near
Osmiany, Vilenk. Gub., father's name
Mendel, mother's name Sarah, from
brother, S. Kagan.

Education League
To Install Officers
Next Wednesday

Installation of officers of Youth
Education League will be held
next Wednesday at the Book
Cadillac Hotel. The date of June
11 was erroneously given last
week, and attention is called to
June 6 as the correct date for
this event. Mrs. L. Fried is in
charge of arrangements, assisted
by Mrs. H. Gordon and Mrs. B.
Tobin.
Youth Education League had
the distinction of being invited
last Monday to present its show,
"Amazons on Broadway," at
Percy Jones Hospital.
The show was written and pre-
pared by Mrs. J. Rosen and Mrs.
William Greenberg. Police Of-
ficers Potts and Anderson who
participated in th e play were
given leave by the Detroit Police
Department to play their parts at
the Percy Jones Hospital showing.

NEW. YORK, (JTA)—The fam-
Labovitz. Gets Seminary
ily of Maj. Henry Plitt, proud
Post In Philadelphia
of the fact ,that he was the cap-
NEW YORK (JPS) — Rabbi
tor of the notorious anti-Semite,
Jerome Labovitz, Executive Di-
Julius Streicher, told the Jewish
rector of the Jewish. Educational
Telegraphic Agency that the
Alliance of Savannah, Georgia,
twice-decorated and several times
has been appointed a member of
wounded major was especial-
the staff of the department of
ly anxious to show that the Jews
Field Activities and Community
are good fighters in order to
Service of the Jewish Theologi-
dispel the German propaganda
cal Seminary of America, Dr.
directed at minimizing Jewish
Louis Finkelstein, President of
heroism on the battlefront.
For further details write to the Seminary, announced here.
A member of the Inwood Union of Russian Jews, Inc., 55 He will be in charge of the region
Hebrew Congregation, Maj. Plitt 42 St., Rooms 952-954, 'New York, with Philadelphia •as head-
joined the Army in 1941. He was 18, N. Y.
quarters.
wounded last Fall at Arnheim,
Holland, and, -after three months
hospitalization, was sent home.
He returned overseas in March
declaring that he "just had to go
back."
The young officer is the holder
of two Silver Stars for gallantry
on D-Day and for his participa-
tion in the bloody -struggle at
Arnhem, where thousands of
British and American troops
' "Like an exciting movie of
were captured when their bridge-
Michigan's earliest days, in
head was wiped out by the
technicolor."
Germans.
"Thrilling entertainment' for
A product of the New York
every member of the family.'
public schools, Staunton Military
Academy and the University of
512 original, 8-color illustrations
Syracuse, he was graduated from
—colorful historical maps—com-
the St. Lawrence University Law
prehensive reading guide—other
School in 1940 and entered a law
novel features.
firm in New York.
The Major and three com-
Edited by Milo AL Clooife
panions were making a routine
check-up the Bavarian hills
about forty miles from Berchtes-
gaden when they spotted Streich-
er on the balcony of a Tyrolean
type house daubing at a canvas.
On Sale at all *
Maj. Plitt went without an inter-
preter and his faulty command
Book.stores and Newsstands
of the German language trapped
Streicher. Plitt tried to say: "You
look so much like' Streicher I
have a notion to take you."
GREYHOUND HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT
Streicher misunderstood and be-
Detroit 26, Michigan
1407 Washington Boulevard
lieved the officer recognized him.

All Michigan is Talking about This

NEW MICHIGAN HISTORY

PICTURES

Mesdames S. P. Baker, Louis Bass,
Samuel Blondy, Lawrence Crohn,
Joseph Frenkel ,Arthur Gould, Sam
Herman, S. Katkin, Jacob Lattin, Lou
Levitt, S. Makman, M. Mathis, Al
Padover, Louis Seiton, S. Schorr, Jos-
hua Sperka, Phil Stellar, Joseph New-
man, S. Olshur, Albert Boesky, J. C.
Soloman, Morris Adler, Harry Stock-
er, Charles Weinberg, Irving Dwor-
man, Abe Rosenberg, J. Staub, Irv-
ing Lappin, Harry Rott, Albert Sil-
ber, Moe Perlis, Anna Falick, Wil-
liam Gottesman, Max Saidman.

The advisory board consists of
Mesdames , Nathan Spevakow,
Perry Burnstine, Morris Wein-
garten.

NEW YORK (JPS)—Plans for
the expansion of Yeshiva Col-;
lege into a Jewish university—
the first in America—and the
launching of a $5,000,000 endow-
ment and expansion drive to
make 4t possible were announc-
ed by Dr. Samuel Belkin, presi-
dent.
At present, Yeshiva College in-
cludes five interrelated schools,
with an enrollment of almost
1,000 students, "providing a fully
rounded curriculum in Jewish
and secular studies," he said.
The five schools are: Yeshiva
College, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary, Bernard
Revel Graduate School, Teach-
ers Institute, and Talmudical
Academy.
In disclosing his plans for ex-
pansion, Dr. Belkin said that
the college is planning to ex-
pand on the graduate level by
developing a Graduate School of
Community Administration and
Social Research, a Graduate
School of Education, and a
School for Adult Education. In
addition a Summer School for
Higher Jewish Education and
Community Leadership is to
open this summer.

Rep. Weiss to Receive
Catholic Alumni Award

PITTSBURGH — Congressman,
Samuel A. Weiss of Glassport,
Pa., a vice-president of Bnai
Brith's District Grand Lodge No.
3, will receive the annual meri-
torious service award of Duque-
sne University, a Catholic school,
given annually to a graduate who
has done the greatest service
for the university and the na-
tion in the previous year.
The first Jew to be ' voted the
award since its establishment 12
years ago, Rep. Weiss will re-
ceive the award at commence-
ment exercises on June. 3 from
Monsignor Raymond V. Kirk,
president of the university. The
award is a bronze plaque and
diploma.

Mark Hellinger will produce
the Will Rogers biographical
yarn at Warners and Michael
("Roughly Speaking") Curtis has
been handed the directional
chores. Mark already has a com-
pleted script of the Rogers story_
and v(Till start casting shortly.

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Annual Indoor Picnic

Given By

Berezniitzer Aid Society

SUNDAY (All Day) JUNE \ 3, '1945 —' nil??

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13326 LINWOOD, Cor. Davison
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Arranged by the children of the Arbeiter Ring. Farband and
Sholem Aleichem Schools, United Mittel Shule (high school)

M. HAAR, Director
Dan Frohman, Musical Director

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Graduation Exercises of United Jewish High School Students

Sunday Evening, June 3 — 8:30 o'clock

AT DURFEE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
LaSalle and Collingwood

Admission Cards Available at All Schools

Arbeiter Ring

Schools

School 1
Arbeiter Ring Center
11529 Linwood

School 2
8532 Linwood Ave.

Farband Folk
Schools

Sholem Aleichem
Schools

School 1
1912 Taylor Avenue
corner 12th Street

School 1
3754 Monterey
School 2
Brady Public School
2920 Joy Rd., 115, 121
School 3
Mac C lt110Ch Yublic
School

School 2
Thirkell Public School
7724 14th Ave.

School 3
12244 Dexter Blvd.
corner Cortland

13120 Wildemere„„,
Rooms. 110, 210

United Jewish High ‘School—Litermediate School Extension Conises

'11529 Linwood Avenue

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