Friday, March 15, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Ten

League of Women's Organizations
Inaugurates JDC's 'SOS' Drive

The War Efforts Board of the
League of Jewish Women's Or-
ganizations met at breakfast on
Wednesday, March 13, in the
Jewish Community Center, to
consider plans for the forthcom-
ing Allied Jewish Campaign.
Isidore. Sonnenblick addressed
the women on behalf of the
S.O.S. Drive of the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee.
Isidore Sobeloff discussed the
three-fold program of the United
Jewish Appeal and Detroit's plan
through the $2,000,000 Allied
Jewish Campaign to further that
program.
Mrs. Maurice Klein and Mrs.
Abraham Cooper, chairmen of
the Women's Organizations Corn-

JWB Purim Party Junior Service

mittee of the Women's Division
of Jewish Welfare Federation,
urged that presidents devote one
full meeting of each organiza-
tion to the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign and offered the services of
the speakers' bureau to help
arrange a program.
Mrs. Helen Singer, chairman
of the workers' committee of the
Women's Division, made a plea
for workers.
Mrs. Carl Schiller, a member
of Mrs. Singer's committee and
chairman of the war efforts
board of the League, promised
the full cooperation of the
women's organizations in supply-
ing workers and making con-
tributions.

Inter-Faith Good Will

Christian Woman in Belgium
Cares for Baltnek's Grave

One of the most touching
stories of the war is recorded.
in the death in action, in Bel-
gium of S/Sgt. Lewis C. Baltuck,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Baltuck
of 319 Waverly, Highland Park,
the visits paid to his grave by
his brother, Capt. Harry Bal-
tuck, and the "adoption" of his
grave by Mme. Y. Lebichot Josse
of Fosses, Belgique, a Christian
woman.
S/Sgt. Baltuck was the first
Highland Park boy to die on
German soil on Sept. 20, 1944.

Mrs. Perley to Speak
At Dessert Luncheon
Of Women's ORT Here

A dessert luncheon and book
review will be sponsored by the
Women's ORT Division at 1 p.
Monday at the Jewish Center,
Mrs. Maie Clements Perley,
author and lecturer, will make a
return appearance and will dis-
cuss "Current Books and Best
Sellers." Born and educated in
England, Mrs. Perley resided for
15 years in Australia where she
wrote the novel "Not by Bread
Alone."
Her husband, Capt. Perley, a
U. S. Army Chaplain, now is
stationed at Iwo Jima.
Mrs. Joseph Fenton will in-
troduce the speaker. Mrs. Wil-
liam Grahm, president of De-
troit Women's ORT and national
vice-president of ORT, will
preside.

300 Cities Give Supplies

For SOS Overseas Relief

More than 300 cities now are
participating in the nationwide
SOS Collection of .Supplies for
Overseas Survivors, the Joint
Distribution committees emer-
gency project to raise 20,000,000
additional pounds of supplies to
supplement its relief program.
The third and most recent SOS
shipment which left for Yugo-
slavia last week, consisted of
more than 8,000 cans of assort-
ed . soups, 5,000 • cans of fruit
juices and 9,100 cans of condens-
ed milk, more than 4,000 pounds
of packaged dried foods and ce-
reals, 40,000 pounds of used
clothing and 15 cases of shoes.

A graduate of Highland Park
High School, he attended H. P.
Junior College at the time of
his induction on March 13, 1943.
He landed overseas in January,
1944, participated in the Nor-
mandy invasion and served in
Belgium and Holland before be-
ing sent to Germany. He was
19.
Majored in Languages
Capt. Baltuck, 32, served with
the civil affairs finance division
and later was with the Ameri-
can Military Government. He
served in England, France, North
Africa, Italy and Germany. He
is a • graduate of Highland Park
High and Junior College, has
the degrees of B. A. and M. A.
in languages from the University.
of Michigan, and attended Duke,
Boston and Paris Universities.
Going to Belgium, in company
with an army Chaplain, to find
his brother's grave, Capt. Baltuck
befriended Mme. Josse of 23 Rue
de Bruxilles, Fosses, Belgium.
He purchased flowers for his
brother's grave and the Chris-
tian woman immediately took
an interest in the family, began
caring for the grave and has
been corresponding with Mrs.
Baltuck.
Family Sends Packages
Capt. Baltuck visited his broth-
er's grave the day before Memor-
ial Day, 1945, again in December,
and visited with the Josse. fam-
ily. He returned to this coun-
try in February and is on ter-
minal leave until April 17.
The Baltucks have been send-
ing packages to the Josse family
and their correspondence is a
touching expression of inter-
faith friendship.
Mrs. Baltuck, who has been
active in Red Cross work and.
other war efforts, was awarded
the "Good Neighbor Orchid"
from Hollywood on Nov. 6, 1945,
but she has no knowledge of how
the information was sent there
regarding her activities.

For Percy Jones
Veterans Tuesday New Board to Assist Drive

A new board of directors of Golding, Bluma Nagler, William
Fred
Butzel to Be Guest the Junior Service Group of the H. Pearl, Ruth Rabinowitz,
Jewish Welfare Federation was Harold Rosemont, Diana Rosen-
Speaker; Drora Selesny,
elected last Sunday at a meeting blatt, Edward A. Simon and
Kowalsky on Program

M.

The Detroit Army and Navy
Committee is cooperating - with
the Battle Creek community in
arranging a Purim concert-party
on the evening of March 19 for
t h e personnel
and veterans
stationed in the
Percy Jones
hospital. The
program and
dance will take
place at the
YWCA building,
Battle Creek.
Fred M. But-
zel, Michigan F. M. Butzel-
state chairman of the JWB.
Army and Navy Committee, will
talk on the subject, "The Mean-
ing of Purim Today."
The musical portion of . the
program will feature Drora Sel-
esn.y, young Detroit soprano and
interpreter of Palestinian and
Yiddish folksongs, in composi-
tions by G. F. Handel, Lazar
Weiner, Julius Chajes and Mana-
Zucca. Betty Kowalsky, Detroit
pianist, will play selections and
will accompany Miss Selesny.
A selected group of USO-JWB
hostesses will attend the party.
-Purim gift packages will be
distributed to bed patients and
convalescents at Percy Jones
through the courtesy of Prim-
rose Benevolent Society of which
Mrs. Irene Rodman is president,
and Mesdames May Vitenson
and Mary Dean, co-chairmen of
the USO activities. Neugarten
Medical Aid Society, of which
Mrs. Charles Aller is president
and Mrs. Samuel Gale is USO
chairman, will distribute 400
Lamantashen.

The Wilshire
Kosher Catering

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Relatives Sought Here

Anyone knowing the where-
abouts of the following is re-
quested to contact Mrs. Sue A.
Huffman of the Jewish Social
Service Bureau, 5737 Second, TR..
2-4080, Monday through Friday,
9 a. in. to 5 p. m.

Abram and Liba Leiserson, sought
by niece, Pola Srebrnik, nee Nissen-
baum, born 1905 in Warsaw. Poland.
1)0 1\1 :orris Steinberg. born 1894 in Lub-
chov, former address 9124 Cameron,
sought by brother Salomon Steinberg,
1898 in Sedlice.
Moses Stern, former address 547
Westminster, sought by Mendel and
fotek Stern.
Henry Goldfarb, sought by niece,
Fula Goldfarb, born 1916 in Lodz,
Poland, daughter of Noiech and Baile.
Mrs. Bertha Berger, former address
2210 Pingree, sought by Salomone
Gerber,
Zindel Swartz, born in Tuchin,
Poland, aged 50, presser by trade,
sought by Mose Swartz.
Pesach and Riwka Grushkin, tnee
Margolin), sought by nephew
Durtzin.

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Jewish Community in Vienna
To Hold First Election
VIENNA, (JTA)—For the first
time in eight years a free elec-
tion for the Vienna Jewish Com-
munity Council will be held here
on April 7, when the 36 members
of the Council will be chosen.

at which Rabbi Eliezer A. Levi
of Congregation Bnai Moshe
placed squarely before the
Jewish youth the responsibility
for the survival of Europe's
stricken Jewish survivors.
The new board met on Wed-
nesday and mapped out a cam-
paign plan designed to assure
fullest participation in the forth-
coming drive of the Allied Jewish
Campaign by every young man
and woman in the Jewish com-
munity of Detroit.
Elected. for a two-year term
were: Mrs. Max Chomsky,
Miriam Coggan, Sylvia Collins,
Al J. Etkin, Abe Friedman, Carol
Greenhouse, Richard B. Kramer,
Dr. Samuel Krohn, Goldie Levin-
stein, Sol J. Schwartz, Elaine
Shiffman, Aaron Sumetz and
Elise Zeme.
Elected for a one year term
were: Rose Amernick, Arthur C.
Becker, Ann Brooks, Donald
Farkus, Sylvia Firestone, Michael

Mr. Lattimore has just returned from an
assignment in Japan as a special advisor to the
State Department's reparation's mission where
he was able to probe deeply into all phases of the
situation.

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