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Friday, September 14, 1945

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Twenty

'Adopt' Bar Mitzvah

Capt. Green Describes Aid
Given Buchenwald Survivor

Capt. Weinstein's
Bravery on Iwo
Rates Bronze Star

Lt. Kaufman Freed from Jap Prison

Missing Since April 1944,
17 .4 Day Brings Liberation

Among the thousands of Am-
Contacts Cut-off Platoons
erican soldiers liberated from
to Enable Troops to
Japanese prisons since V-J day,
Move Into Gap
many of them officially reported

as missing in action and given
Bravery on Iwo Jma on Feb. 19 up for dead since the early days
has earned for Capt. William J. of the war, is Lt. Charles Kauf-
man, son of Mrs. Mildred Cowan,
Weinstein the Bronze Star.
16255 Cherrylawn, and William
For previous services, Capt. Kaufman, 248 Josephine.
Weinstein holds the Purple Heart
Lt. Kaufman, 24, was reported
completing 3 4
and the Gold
missions in the
Star, for wounds
China - Burma-
received on Sai-
I n di a theater.
pan. He is also
His assignments
a veteran of the
before he was
Marshal Islands
reported miss-
and Tinian cam-
ing were over
paigns.
Burma, Thailand
Shortly after
and the Anda-
the landings of
man islands as
The Bar Mitzvah in Wetzlar, Germany (center) with a group of his the assault com-
navigator in e
well-wishers. Capt. Meyer H. Green of Detroit is on the extreme left. panies on Iwo
Jima, a gap of Capt. Weinstein B-24 Liberator Lt. Kaufman
Unusually interesting stories The American GIs arranged for about a 125 yards developed be-
from overseas reveal that groups his Bar Mitzvah celebration, tween the two assault companies.
of American soldiers are "adopt- and the remnants of the Jewish When the rescue companies land-
ing" orphaned European chil- population of Wetzlar, Germany ed they spread out. With the
dren who have had the misfor- —most of them half-Jews—par- radios destroyed, keeping contact
tune of losing their parents dur- ticipated in the ceremony.
among the component parts be-
At the services preceding a came very difficult.
ing the Nazi era of murder.
The latest report of an "adop- modest banquet arranged for
Sgt. Harry Lin, son of Mr. and
Capt. Weinstein, in the face of
tion" comes from Capt. Meyer this boy, the 13-year-old lad re-
Mrs. Barnet Lin of Hazelwood
intense
enemy
shelling,
volun-
called
with
tears
in
his
eyes
the
H. Green, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ave., was deco-
Louis A. Green of 2525 Taylor, memories of his parents, Capt. teered to move into their area. rated with the
By
crawling
from
shell
to
shell
who describes how a Polish- Green. writes.
Air Medal.
The accompanying photograph hole, he made contact with the
Jewish lad was being cared for
He received a
various
platoons,
directing
the
is
one
of
a
number
taken
at
the
Ger-
in
battalion
by an AAA
men into the reserve area. From citation for
Bar
Mitzvah
celebration.
They
many.
meritori-
This lad was found in the are now in possession of Capt. this point, the company com- ous achievement
mander
was
able
to
lead
them
Buchenwald concentration camp. Green's parents.
into the gap, thereby sustaining in aerial flights
the lines of the assault companies. in the Southwest
Pacific a r e a,
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph from April ,13 to
Weinstein, Capt. Weinstein is June 18, 1945.
the husband of the former Evelyn
Sgt. Lin
A graduate of
Ross, of 2744 Burlingame. They Central High School, he had his
Typical • Story is That of have two children, Patricia Diane training at Gulfport Field, Miss.,
and Michael Allan.
M/Sgt. Kirschbaum Who
and Shepard Field, Texas. He has
one sister, Ida.
Found Father's Grave

bomber. For this dangerous task,
he received the Distinguished
Flying Cross and Air Medal,
which were presented to his
mother.
Lt. Kaufman was liberated
from a prison camp near Yoko-
homa, scene of some of the heay-
iest American bombings in the
Jap mainland. He was shot down
on his 27th mission over Burma.
He had flown more than 200
hours in combat duty.
A graduate of Central High
and Wayne University, where he
received his B. A., Lt. Kaufman
enlisted in the air force as an
air cadet in June, 1942, and re-
ceived his commission at Pueblo,
Colo. In November, 1943, he was
sent to New Delhi, India.
Lt. Kaufman's father is an at•
torney in the Barium Tower.

Alan E. Schwartz
Sgt. Harry Lin
Is Commissioned
Gets Air Medal Ensign at Harvard

Qen. H. H. Arnold U. S. Soldiers Seek
Through N. R. S.
Heads Movement Kin
To Defeat Bilbo

Air Force Chief Supporting
Collins in Primaries
in Mississippi

WASHINGTON, (JPS) — A
movement among Mississippians
to retire Senator Theodore Bil-
bo by running against him, in
the primaries next year, former
Congressman Ross A. Collins, is
reportedly supported by Gen. H.
H. Arnold, AAF chief, who has
been privately telling Mississip-
pians that Bilbo's tactics are de-
feating the aims for which this
war was fought and has openly
praised - f o r mer Congressman
Ross,
In a speech at a public gather-
ing he credited Collins with hav-
' ing helped convince, Congress of
the need to mechanize the U. S.
army and produce heaVy • bom-
bers. Collins, for many years a
fnember of the House of Repre-
sentatives, a staunch supporter
of the late President Roosevelt
and a progressive in his views
on race and religion, ran for the
Senate in 1941 but lost in a three
cornered fight won by Bilbo.
Persons familiar with the po-
litical scene, in Mississippi are of
the opinion that this time his
chances are favorable. Collins'
great pawn is his contention that
Mississipians can get what they
have wanted so long, the estab-
lishment of industries in their
state, provided Bilbo is retired
and the state's reputation thus
. rehabilitated.

Jewish Vets Using
Free Classified Ads

Discharged Jewish service-
men are taking advantage of
The Jewish News offer to pub-
lish their Homes and Jobs
Wanted advertisements with-
out charge in our Classified
columns.
Both Jobs Wanted and
Homes Wanted advertisements
may be submitted to The Jew-
ish News by returned service
men at our office, 2114 Penob-
scot Bldg., merely by showing
the discharge papers.
The Jewish News sincerely
hopes that this new service to
the community will prove
helpful to discharged service-
men.

Hundreds of American sol-
diers are attempting, while sta-
tioned in Europe, to trace rela-

Chaplain Adler Jews in U.S. Zone
Sent to Japan • Protest Order to
Word was received here this Return to Poland

week that Capt. Morris Adler,
who was stationed as a Chaplain
with the U. S. Army in the
Philippines, has been sent to
Japan and is now attached to
Gen. MacArthur's Army of Oc-
cupation.
Chaplain Adler is on leave
from his post as associate rabbi
of Congregation Shaarey Zedek.

M/SGT. JOS. KIRSCHBAUM

tives with whom they have lost
contact due to the war, Joseph
E. Beck, executive director of
the National Refugee Service,
revealed.
Typical of the many requests
by the National Refugee Service
is that of M/Sgt. Joseph Kirsch-
baum. Recently he found his
father's grave in Paris. How-
ever, he has had no word as to
the fate of his mother and two
sisters whom he had last seen
in Paris in 1940. Writing a let-
ter to his uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. J. Pinz of New York
City, he said that he hoped that
they would get in touch with the
organization in New York that
would help him locate his
family. "Unfortunately I am in
no position to look for my be-
loved ones. I really don't know
where to start looking," he
wrote.
M/Sgt. Kirschbaum, who is a
refugee from Austria, received
the Bronze Star for his work at
the front as a combat infantry-
man and interpreter.
The National Refugee Service
receives its funds from the
United Jewish Appeal. In De-
troit its income is derived from
the Allied Jewish Campaigns
through the War Chest.

PARIS, (JPS)—According to
reports here, Gen. Eisenhower's
headquarters have informed all
Polish nationals, Jews and non-
Jews, in the American zone of
Germany, that they soon would
be repatriated to Poland.
This has evoked consternation
among thousands of Polish Jews
who refuse to return. Their re-
luctance to return has grown as
a consequence of the recent po-
groms there. It is reported that
20,000 in Lublin Hold
Polish Jews in the American
Rites for Nazi Victims
zone have protested to the Am-
MOSCOW (JTA) —Twent y- erican authorities against repat-
thousand persons gathered in riations.
Lublin at ceremonies commemor-
ating the 2,000,000 persons, most Belgian Talmud Torahs
of them Jews, who were mur- Get Aid From JDC
dered by the Nazis in the Mai-
danek camp, the Warsaw radio
BRUSSELS—The Joint Dis-
reports. The broadcast disclosed tribution Committee reports that
that the furnaces and gas cham- a recent 100,000 franc grant ap-
bers have been converted into a propriated for Talmud Torahs
museum in which the relics of in Belgium has aided four in-
the victims are on view.
stitutions by giving each a
The Central Trade Unions Com- monthly contribution of 5,500
mission of Poland has adopted a francs for the next half year. The
resolution condemning the re- Talmud Torah in Brussels re-
cent anti-Jewish riots in Cracow ceived 7,000 francs and will • get
and demanding a purge of unde- 3,000 monthly, while the Talmud
sirable elements, according to a Torah in Antwerp was given
25,000 francs.
report from Warsaw.

Jewish News' Playing Cards for GIs
Earn Thanks of USO President

Acknowledging receipt of playing cards supplied to the
USO of Metropolitan Detroit by The Jewish News and its
readers, and expressing his thanks "on behalf of the service
men and women whom we serve," Henry Meyers, president
of Detroit USO, writes to the editor of The Jewish News
as follows:
"We acknowledge with thanks receipt of One gross
decks of playing cards to be distributed to men and women
in the armed services.
"We know of your fine efforts extended on behalf of
your readers and the generous contributions which made
the gifts possible. We assure you that all gifts of this
nature are appreciated by their recipients. Playing cards
help while away otherwise dull hours."
The Jewish News this week made a shipment of playing
cards to Hawaii through the Detroit Jewish Welfare Board's
Army and Navy Committee's Serve-a-Camp Committee.
Playing cards were provided for the USO-JWB Lounge
at the Jewish Center and are being sent to servicemen's
centers and veterans' hospitals.

Alan E. Schwartz, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Maurice H. Schwartz of
17545 Birchcrest Drive, was com-
missioned an Ensign at Harvard
University last week.
Prior to going to Harvard, En-
sign Allen took
his training at
Western College,
Kalamazoo,
Mich.
A graduate of
Cranbrook
School, Bloom-
field Hills, Mich.,
Ensign Schwartz
studied at the
University
of Michigan be-Ensign Schwartz
before his enlistment in the
Navy. He was on the U. of M.
freshman football squad.
At Cranbrook, he was captain
of the 1942-43 basketball team,
played center for two years for
the Cranbrook five and distin-
guished himself on the Cranbrook
football team.
His brother, Cyril, was' in the
Army for more than a year and
has been honorably discharged.
Ensign Schwartz, who will be
20 in December, will leave for
San Francisco on Sept. 20 and
from there will go overseas.

Friendly Social Club
Inscribes Lt. Pokart
In JNF Golden Book

Frendly Social- Club announc-
ed this week that the name of
the late Lt. Sidney Pokart has
been ins c ribed
in the Golden
Book of the<
Jewish Nationah
Fund.
Lt. Pokart, son
of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Pokart of
4203 W. Buena
Vista, was 21.
He died on Ok-
inawa on June 31A
while trying to Late Lt. Pokart
rescue another serviceman.
He had earned the purple
Heart and a special citation.

False Faces

By HARRY KOVNER
As I review Mankind's case
I suffer pangs of disgrace.
Man, a poor copy of God's grace
Masquerades in silks and lace.
His actions are selfish, base—
Of compassion, no trace.
His kiss a seprent's embrace.
His progress at a crab's pace.
He goes to church and prays,
Comes out of church and slays.
He is forever hungry for space.
To own the world, to grab, tc
amass.
The jungle is a fitting place
For the br:rtal inhuman race.
Where he may shed his falls(
face
And pursue to kill, hunt, trap
chase.

