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3 Litt Brothers
Out of Service

Mr. and Mrs. Abe Litt of 11340
Dexter celebrated the return of
their three sons from service in

Left to Right: LT. WILLIAM
LITT and Sgt. BERNARD LITT

the U. S. Army with a party at
Jericho Temple on March 3.
Their eldest son, Cpl. David
Litt, was in service in the AAF
ground forces for 38 months and
spent a great • • •
deal of time at
the training
field at Green-
wood, Miss.,
where he was a
plane crew chief.
Before being dis-
charged he was
an instructor at
Keesler Field,
First Lt. Wil- Cpl. David Litt
Liam Litt was discharged last
month after 43 months of ser-
vice including 14 months in the
Philippine Islands. He took part
in the invasion of Southern Lu-
zon. He was graduated in 1942
from Detroit Institute of Techno-
logy.
The youngest of the brothers,
Sgt. Bernard Litt, was discharg-
ed last month after 35 months of
service, including 14 months in
the Philippines. He, too, was
graduated from Detroit Institute
of Technology, in 1943.
William and Bernard were re-
united for a short time last sum-
mer on Leyte Island.

Lt. Col. Greenbaum
Discharged; Handled
District Termination
Col. Quinton Adams, chief

of
the Detroit Ordnance District,
announces that Lt. Col. Ervin
Greenbaum, 2043 Glynn Court,
left for Fort Sheridan, Illinois,
Separation Center, on March 4
to be separated from the service.
Col. Greenbaum entered the
District in November 1940 with
the grade of Captain. After
numerous assignments he was
appointed contract terminations
assistant to the Chief of the In-
dustrial Division at a time when
there were no specific regula-
tions concerning settlement of
terminated contracts. He suc-
cessfully developed procedures
that were used in handling the
district's termination load of 4,000
cases involving $4,500,000,000. In
effecting these 'procedures he also
developed a termination training
program involving 3,000 District
personnel and 2,500 Contractors.
Many of Col. Greenbaum's ter-
mination ideas are used by other
districts and became al part of
official termination procedures set
up by Washington. In addition,
Col. Greenbaum was a visiting
faculty member of the contract
termination courses given at the
Army Industrial College at the
Judge Advocate General's School.
For two and one half years
preceding his entry to military
duty, Col. Greenbaum was di-
re6tor and chief engineer of
Michigan State Public Works
Commission and public works en-
gineer of Michigan State High-
way Department.

Bernard Zeff Back at College
Bernard I. Zeff, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Abe Zeff, 3557 Montclair,
has been disCharged from the
army after 3142 years' service in
the Pacific theater, and has re-
turned to Mt. Pleasant to resume
his studies at Central. Michigan
College.

Friday, March 15, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

Iden AMVETS Post
Is Organized Here -

Equality Club Aids
JWB - USO Activities

On Feb. 20, the American Vet-
erans of World War II (AMVETS)
charter for the Captain Ruben
Iden Post No. 47 was received
from national headquarters.
AMVETS, largest veterans or-
ganization. in America, derives its
membership exclusively from
honorably discharged veterans of
World War II.
During the past three months
the growth of this hustling group
has been phenomenal. From one
small Detroit post with 12 mem-
bers, AMVETS increased to 62
posts with more than 7000 mem-
bers all over Michigan.
Gov. Kelly placed AMVETS
on the $50,000,000 trust fund
board.
Captain Ruben Iden Post is
named in honor of the 24 year
old Jewish Marine Commander
of a dive bomber squadron who
was shot down over the Solo-
mon Islands on Sept. 20, 1942,
while on a mission.
This Post will hold a member-
ship meeting next Tuesday, 8:30
p. m., at 3361 Glendale. For in-
formation call Art Becker, TY.
6-5225, or' Leo Greenberg, MA.
3298.

Equality Club has maintained
an active program of USO-JWB
service. The desire to help the
needy was the basic principle
which motivated
that group's or-
,g• a n i zation 25
years ago. They
endowed a room
at the Los An-
g e l e s Sanitor-
ium, a n d have
participated in-
tensively in
drives which in-
Mrs. Berkowitz c lude d: War
Chest, Red Cross, Youth Aliyah,
Jewish National Fund, Mo'os
Chitim, Hadassah and Russian
Relief.
Mrs. Betty Berkowitz is presi-
dent and Mrs. Dora Berkowitz,
USO chairman. Other officers
include Mesdames Bessie Os-
trow, Jennie Jaffee, Rose Kar-
now, Yetta Tucker, Minnie
Bloom, Alice Gallant and Emma
Peck.

Discharged From Navy

The following have been dis-
charged from naval service at
the U. S. Naval Personnel Sep-
aration Center, Great Lakes, Ill.
RT1c Isaac Abromovitz, 2247
Gladstone.
S3cm Sidney Frumkin, 35662
Richton.
Lt. (jg) Edward N. Rosenthal,
16844 Parkside.
Lt. (jg) Marshall A. Silver,
1633 Longfellow.
Lt. (jg) William J. Stern, 2226
Dime Bank Bldg.
CM3c Harry Portnoy, 3315
Webb.

H. J. Gorman Discharged;
Kept Kashruth in Camp

Serve-A-Camp Group
Luncheon on Mar. 26

The Serve-A-Camp group of
the Detroit Army and Navy
Committee is planning a lunch-
eon for all local organizations at
11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 26,
at the Jewish Center.
Mrs. Delia I. Meyers, chair-
man of the project, states that
the purpose of the luncheon is
to remind organizations that
overseas needs for the articles
and foodstuffs which Serve-A-
CSmp is shipping regularly boys
in the Pacific Islands are still
urgent.
Mrs. Ethel Sandelman, who
was in charge of Serve-A-Camp
luncheon last year, has agreed
to look after arrangements this
year with the help of her com-
mittee and in consultation with"
Mesdames Joseph Falk and Dan-
iel Krouse.

Herman J. Gorman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Sol Gorman of La-
Salle Blvd., has been released
from service in the army. He
entered a c ti ye
service upon his
graduation from
Central High
School in May,
1943, and 'parti-
cipated in t h e
North African,
Italian and An-
z i o Beachhead
invasions. • H e
. J. Gorman was hospitalized
at Anzio for frozen feet.
Herman, deeply religious, man-
aged to secure kosher food at
camp, and wore his Tefilin at
services whenever that was pos-
sible, while he was stationed at
Camp Walter, Texas.

Clark Issues Orders
To Guard Minorities

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — At-
torney Gen. Clark has issued a
directive to all U. S. attorneys to
protect the civil rights of
minorities "to the full extent and
intent of the Constitution and of
statutory provisions."
Pointing out increasing symp-
toms of intolerance, he instructed
attorneys to "devote special at-
tention and investigation to
protection of all Americans in
their civil liberties, regardless of
race or color.
"Civil rights of minorities in
this country were never under
greater threat than at this time,"
he said. "It is my purpose to
protect human rights and civil
liberties, wherever they are in-
fringed, to the full extent and
intent of the Constitution and of
statutory provisions."

Dr. Feldman Ends

5 Years' Service

Detroiter Rose to Lt. Col.;
Was First Local Doctor to
Land on Foreign Soil

After serving with the army
medical corps for more than five
years, Lt. Col. N. .L. Feldman
has returned home and is now
re-establishing his offices on
Wyoming and Marygrove Dr. He
,
and his family
temporarily are
residing at 2976
Tuxedo.
D r. Feldman
was the f ir st
army doctor
from Detroit to
set foot on for-
eign soil, in Sep-
tember 1941.
Lt. Col. Feldman Upon h i s re-
turn from foreign service he was
placed in charge of all WAAC
wards, medical and surgical, at
Fort Devens, Mass. He later be-
came chief of medical service
and was on the teaching staff of
the Nurses Basic Training Cen-
ter. He was promoted chief sur-
geon of the Army Service Force
Training Center (ASFTC) at
Fort Devens. •

He was transferred in 1944 to
West Roxbury General Hospital,
Boston, Mass., and was placed on
the surgical staff, doing general
surgery until his discharge.

Cpl. Goldstein Discharged

Cpl. Phillip Goldstein,, son of
Mr. and .. Mrs, Louis Goldstein,
husband of the former Ceil Ger-
son and father of Harry, has
been released from active duty
with the U. S. army after five
years of service. He was honored
at a reception given by his fam-
ily. He is now in the scrap busi-
ness at 565 Illinois.

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