• Ptige Six
THE JEWISH NEWS
HAPPY REUNION
Eliminates Hazards of Navigation!
Center JWB Brunch Is Occa-
sion for Reunion of Seaman
and Corporal
`A Great Advancement in Navigation', Officials of Sperry
Gyroscope Corp. Declare; Detroiter Commanded
Sub-Chaser in Pacific; Now Home
A great. contribution toward navigation has been developed by
David Jassy who invented and perfected a new type of instrument
after discovering, while a command officer and navigator in the
U. S. Navy, the need for a more
accurate device to aid in pilot- seconds, it can be set at the bear-
ing ships. ing wanted and then "ride" into
The Sperry Gyroscope Corp. the one desired.
Jassy's invention eliminates
has patented the device in
Jassy's name and royalties al- much of the difficulty and inac-
ready are being curacy which the instrument now
paid to him. used at times has a tendency to
They are calling be when taking bearings on
it, "Marvelous!" distant objects.
Among its vast capabilities are
"A great ad-
vancement in also to obtain approximate loca-
n avigation!" tion of stars, exact zenith of stars,
While in New a known star and is an extreme
York, he was usefulness in locating Venus in
taken out and day-time. All these are import-
ant to a navigator.
feted by officials
Four Years In Service
of the corpora-
Although only 27, Jassy has
tion, who praised
Lt. Jassy
the instrument. crammed a lot of life into his
A cross-hair telescope, the new short span. Since • presiding
device serves the purpose of an over the graduating class at
Alidale Self Synchronus Bearing Northwestern High, he has at-
Indicator and was invented prim- tended the Universities of Mich-
arily for use aboard smaller igan, Illinois, Notre Dame, North-
vessels. It will, however, be western and Miami. He spent
installed in every type of ship four years in service and held
the distinction for two years of
and possibly in airplanes.
being commanding officer of a
Many Advantages
sub-chaser on convoy duty in the
Although many advantages lie South Pacific while only a lieu-
in its ability to obtain altitudes tenant (j.g.)
and location of various stars, the
Jassy received his discharge
mechanism has its chief value recently as a full lieutenant.
in piloting. Errors are eliminat-
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
ed due to change of course and, Henry Jassy of 19416 Gloucester
rather than the standard method Dr. and now in the commercial
of taking bearings every few financing business with his father.
Navy planes are still searching
for the patrol bomber on which
Lt. Joseph Edelman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Sol B.
Edelman of 2250
S. LaSalle Gar-
dens, was report-
ed missing, Dec.
7.
Mr. and Mrs.
Edelman and Lt.
Edelman's wife,
Lorraine Joyce,
have not given
up hope that the
Lt. Edelman ship will be
found and their son and husband
alive.
Part of Patrol Bomber Squad-
ron 122, the plane was last re-
ported over Sitka, Alaska, Nov.
30, on a flight from Kodiak to
Seattle.
Lt. Edelman enlisted four years
ago. He is a graduate of the Uni-
versity of Michigan.
Max Prohow Home
After 3 1/2 Yrs. in Army
Pvt. Max Prohow, discharged
from the Army in November, is
now home with his wife, the for-
mer Esther Sil-
verman, and
their son, Philip,
at 9441 Holmur.
He is the son of
Mrs. Mollie Pro-
how of 2629 Haz-
elwood.
Inducted Mar.
19, 1942, Pvt.
Prohow served
in North Africa,
' Naples, Foggia,
Max Prohow Rome, Arno,
Southern France, the Rhineland
and Central Europe.
He holds the Victory Medal,
American Theater Ribbon, Euro-
pean, African and Middle Eastern
Theater ribbon with one silver
battle star, bronze service arrow-
head, four overseas service bars,
one service stripe and the good
conduct medal.
Hold Memorial Services
For Cpl. Sampson Dec. 19
Memorial services will be held
Wednesday, Dec. 19, for the late
Cpl. William (Sonny) Sampson,
at Bnai David, 14th and Elm-
hurst.
A. and M. Cohen
Back Home After
4 Years in Service
New JWV National Commander
Chelsea Boys Meet
Here After 6 Years
Ex-Navy Officer David Jassy
Commended for Invention
Continue Search
For Lt. Edelman
Friday, December 14, 1945
'Hi, Seymour!" yelled S 1/c
Meyer Hootstein, and - everybody
in the USO lounge in the Jewish
Center looked up startled from
their Sunday morning brunch
plates.
"Well, I'll be .
.", Cpl. Sey-
mour Freedman couldn't say
much, for Meyer Hootstein
grabbed him in a tight and de-
lighted armlock embrace, and
neither soldier nor sailor could
speak until the shock of the
initial surprise wore off a bit.
This reporter immediately be-
came curious, and sensed a story,
for very little tenderness is wast-
ed between the army and navy in
the normal course of relationship
between the two service branches.
What developed was that Sey-
mour and Meyer had not seen
each other for six years since
both attended Hebrew school in
Chelsea, Mass., and celebrated
.a&
JWB SWIM AT CENTER
each other's Bar Mitzvah a week
apart.
In the interim a lot of water
Brothers DiScharged About
has passed under sailor Meyer
Same Time, to Enter
ship's prow in the watery wastes
Business Together
of the vast Pacific, seeing action
MAJ. MAXWELL COHEN of Boston (left), a veteran of two World
Wars, succeeds ARCHIE H. GREENBERG of Brooklyn as National
Commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the U. S. Major Cohen,
a member of the J. W. V. since 1922, was called for active duty in
eight months before Pearl Harbor. He is the first veteran of the
second World War to head a major veterans organization.
JWV Military Ball
Committee to Meet
The military ball committee of
the State Department of Michi-
gan of the Jewish War Veterans
will meet Sunday evening at
their auditorium, 8212 12th St.
All veteran members and those
of the auxiliary have been invit-
ed. Details will be given regard-
ing the military ball scheduled
for Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Ma-
sonic Temple.
Lt. Eli Levin Post No. 230 of
the Jewish War Veterans on Dec.
4 was addressed by Edward
Greenwald of the F.B.I. on the
topic, "Your F.B.I."
Lawrence H. Jones Post 190 of
Jewish War Veterans on Dec. 11
heard an address by Rev. Ernest
Arthur, state director of the Peo-
ple's Institute of Applied Re-
ligion, on the subject "Democ-
racy, Fascism and the Veteran."
Mlawer Aux. Plans
Semansky Memorial
Fund to Aid DPs
The thrill of one son's home-
coming was further enhanced for
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cohen of
4280 Pasadena, by the news that
another had been discharged.
Lt. Abraham Cohen has re-
turned after four years in service,
three with a military mission
with the Caribbean Defense Com-
mand in San Jose, Costa Rica, the
Canal Zone, Panama and Lima,
Peru. At present, he is on an in-
active status, having accepted a
commission in the. Officer Reserve
Corps.
T/Sgt. Morton Cohen has re-
ceived his discharge, also after
serving four years. He was sta-
tioned 17 months as chief pharm-
acist aboard the hospital ship,
Larkspur, on which he returned
more than 5,000 American pa-
tients during crossings from Me-
diterranean ports to hospitals in
England and France.
Following brief rests., they will
enter the drug business together.
Refugee, Now. GI, Pleads
For Chance for Others
A plea for homeless, uprooted
Jewish children in Europe, to
have the . same chance that was
given to him to come to the U. S.,
was voiced by Pfc. Louis Maier,
a GI with the American Army in
Europe, in a letter to European-
Jewish Children's Aid, affiliated
with the National Refugee Serv-
ice. Five years ago, Pfc. Maier,
then 16, and his sister Agatha,
then 12, were among the young-
sters rescued from Europe by the
EJCA and placed in foster homes
in the U, S. under its auspices.
As a medical aid man on the
morning of Feb. 24, T/5 David
Meyers distinguished himself dur-
ing an attack on
a German city
with a great act
of heroism for
which he was
awarded the
Bronze Star
Medal.
Enemy ma-
chine gun fire
was coming
from two pill-
T/5 Meyers boxes and snip-
er fire from less than 200 yards
away. Then a PFC attached to
the platoon, Meyers, noticing the
plight of his comrades, rushed in-
to the- open under direct enemy
observation and opened fire, and
proceeded to administer aid to
the wounded.
Wounded, Carries On
Wounded, he continued on with
his work as best he could, drag-
ging comrades from the exposed
crest of a hill. Only after he was
satisfied that all the men in his
vicinity had been treated did he
stop administering aid.
"His determination, out-
standing devotion to duty
and fellow men, and exemp-
lary courage saved the lives .
of many of the men of Com-
pany 'F', the citation reads."
When Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mey-
ers, now of Los Angeles, received
the notification they "cried like
babies." He is 21, but they re-
member when he enlisted with-
out their consent on his 18th
birthday. During the years he
never mentioned his war experi-
ences, let alone the act of hero-
ism.
Convalescing in Hospital
Meyers finally wrote his par-
ents from Madagan General Hos-
pital in Washington, where he is
now convalescing and instructing
in first aid, of his deed.
"If only peacetime associations
were like those I found with the
boys in service, when we were so
close to death, this war would
have been worth fighting for," he
wrote. "There were no preju-
dices, no greed or pettiness, but it
was all for one and one for all in
battle."
in Saipan, and Seymour too was
in the thick of combat in Hitler-
In tribute to the memory of
land, with both wondering what- Pvt. Jack Semansky, son of Mr.
ever became of the other, and re- and Mrs. Louis Semansky, who
membering their lovely child- died in action in Germany March
hood experiences they both
15, 1945, the La-
shared in the Hebrew school in
dies Auxiliary
Chelsea, Mass.
of the Mlawer
Umgegend Ver-
Now fate brought them togeth-
eM, of which
er at one of the Sunday morning
Mrs. Semansky
brunches and splash parties which
is a member,
the USO-JWB runs for service-
has set up the
men of all creeds in the Jewish
Jack Semansky
Center where Meyer Hootstein
Memorial Fund.
is a regular guest, and where
To honor the
Seymour happened to drop in by
deceased
s e r -
sheer accident and curiosity. Both
Seaman Meyer and Cpl. Seymour Pvt. Semansky viceman's mem-
are still in active service, the for- ory, parcels of food and clothing
mer being stationed in Dearborn, will be sent to displaced persons'
and the latter in Ft. Wayne, Ind. camps in Poland.
Those wishing to honor his
Thus a childhood attachment memory are asked to participate
has found maturer friendship in this fund.
thanks to the USO-JWB Detroit
Readers of The Jewish News
Army and Navy Committee's pro-
will recall that when Pvt. Se-
gram.
mansky's death was announced a
Christian pal wrote to his par-
Capt. J. B. Brenner Home ents,
telling how high Jack was
held in the estimation of his
After 33 Months in ETO
friends and offering himself for
After 33 months of service in adoption to fill the gap caused in
the ETO with the Military Police their lives.
Battalion which served with dis-
tinction in the Italian campaign, Dr. Steinhardt Back ;
Capt. Jack B. Brenner, son of Mr.
and Mrs. . Samuel Brenner of Overseas 25 Months
Clairmount Ave., has returned
Maj. Milton J. .Steinhardt Tulcensky Is Discharged;
home on a 90-day terminal leave.
(MC), who served 25 months Makes $100 Gift to UJA
He is a veteran of the Sicilian overseas, has returned to his
and Italian invasions, has served practice in Detroit.
The first act of Mr. and Mrs.
at Cassino, Anzio invasion of
Dr. Steinhardt joined the first
Southern France and 'subsequent- division in England, and landed Joseph Tulcensky, upon Mr. Tul-
ly in the drive through France in Normandy on D-Day, where censky's discharge from service,
and Germany and in last year's he received the Bronze Star for was to send $70 to The JeWish
campaign in the VoSges Moun- heroic achievment. He travelled News as final payment on their
tains.
with the First Division Clearing $100 contribution to the United
Jewish Appeal.
Since V-E Day Capt.. Brenner Co., through France, Belgium,
The Tulcenskys now reside at
Germany
and
Czechoslovakia.
was commander of B Co. of the
Among his many experiences, 3740 Glynn Court.
516th M. P. Bn. which was part
of the occupation forces of Ger- he had many narrow escapes at
many. For a short time before re- Caumont and the "Bulge," and Dr. N. H. Ketai Returns
turning home he was command- trips to the concentration camps From Service; Opens Office
ing officer of B. Co. of the 504th at Dacha - t and Nordhausen.
For several months following
Dr. Norbert H. Ketai, foot spe-
M. P. Bn., the unit with which he
V-E Day, he was medical direc- cialist and chiropodist, who has
trained as a private in Texas.
tor of a large camp at Ochsen- just: returned from service, has
A graduate of Northwestern furt, Bavaria, which contained opened offices at 12632 Dexter,
High School, he entered the army 5,000 German prisoners and 50 TO. 8-8439. He will hold open
as a private in July, 1941.
German doctors.
house Saturday evening, Dec. 22.
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Lt. A. Cohen Mgt. M. Cohen
T15 David Meyers,
Modest, Finally Tells
Parents of Heroism