Franck Quits Detroit Post
To Direct Brooklyn Council

Sings Lead Role
in GI Musical

Resigns as Executive Director after Five Years to Take Over
Directorship of Central Representative Body in
World's Largest - Jewish Community

After five and one-half years
as executive director of the Jewish
Community Council of Detroit,
Isaac Franck has resigned to

ISAAC FRANCK

accept the executive directorship
of the Brooklyn Jewish Commun-
ity Council, the central represent-
ative body in the world's largest
Jewish community. It is now corn-
posed of 1,000 organizations and
seven district community councils

which cover the entire borough
of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Before accepting the executive
directorship of Detroit's Jewish
Community Council in March,
1941, Mr. Franck served as educa-
tional director of the Jewish
Center. He came here after serv-
ice as director of the Jewish Com-
munity of Manchester, N. H.; as
director of clubs and adult edu-
cation in the Jewish Center of
Port Chester, N. Y., and a num-
ber of years in the field of
elementary and high school Heb-
rew education.
While in Detroit, he also was
on the faculty of the government
department of Wayne University.
During Mr. Franck's tenure of
office in the Community Council,
the number of the CoUncil's affi-
liated organizations grew from
170 to 229. The staff of the Com-
munity Council in this period was
expanded to include an internal
relations director, a research dir-
ector, three secretarial workers
and a fact-finding department.
The Community Council's Exe-
cutive Committee has authorized
a personnel committee, under the
chairmanship of James I. Ell-
rnann. to engage a successor as
soon as possible.

olunteers Needed for USO Work;
Groups Continue JWB Activities

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USO Branch of the Jewish Wel-
fare Board is in need of volun-
teers to give small house parties
for servicemen.
These parties can be arranged
on a small scale for six men and
six hostesses. Refreshments need
not be elaborate.
With enlistments and the draft
continuing, servicemen come to
the USO.
Plans also are being made for
entertainments at Percy Jones
Convalescent Hospital.
Those who would like to offer
assistance in these programs call
Mrs. Carolyn Berendt, MA. 8400.
Societies Aid USO
Detroit Jewish organizations
continue to participate in the
USO-JWB program.
The following groups and their
chairmen sponsored USO activi-
ties hi June and July:
Mondays at the Downtown USO
Canteen:.
Home Relief, Mrs. Chas. Harris;
Neuearten Medical Aid Society,
Mrs. Sarah Gale; Massada Pion-
eer Wbinen, Mrs. J. J. Karbal;
David Horodoker, Mrs. I. A. Law-
ton: Aesculapian Ladies Aux., Mrs.
Asher Smith; Council of Mothers
Club, Mrs. Dinah Robins; Detroit
Chapter of Hadassah, Mrs. Chas.
Gitlin; Women's Division of the

145 Shanghai Refugees,
Mostly Rabbis, Students,
Dock in San Francisco

110

Friday, July 26, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

Pale Eight

The first substantial group of
refugees to reach the United
States from Shanghai since the
war, has• arrived in San Francisco
aboard the SS General Meigs,
which brought 143 European Jews
who had been stranded for years
in the Chinese seaport, where
they fled to escape Nazi persecut-
ion.
The majority of the group were
rabbis and rabbinical students on
their way to Yeshivas in the
United States and Canada. Other
Jewish refugees were rejoining
close kin from whom they had
been separated for many years.
Twenty-six of the rabbinical
scholars. originally from Poland.
proceeded to New York in a special
Pullman chartered by The Na-
tional Refugee Service. They will
be guests of the Lubovicher Yes-
hiva in Brooklyn, with which NRS
has cooperated in the project.
Another 9 of the rabbinical group
were scheduled to go to the Mirer
*Yeshiva in New York, while a
third group of 58, including wives
and children, were destined to the
Mit•ar Yeshiva in Montreal.

Jewish Welfare Federation, Mrs.
Helen Ring.
Wednesdays at the Jewish Com-
munity Center:
Primrose Benevolent Club, Mrs.
Max Vitenson; General Smoke
Fish Co., A. Wineman; Sisters of
Zion Mizrachi, Mrs. A. Nosan-
chuck; Kadimah Club, Mrs. Olga
Lewis; Keshenever Service Group
Louis Bassin; Detroit Lodge, Bnai
Brith Aux., Mrs. Irene Kaploe;
Young Women's Mizrachi, Mrs.
Phillip Schreiber; Mozerer Pro-
gressive Verein, L. Lipshitz.

'Franklin Forgery'
Being Circulated
Through the Mail

DPs in One Austrian
Town of 8,000 Come
From 15 Countries

VIENNA (JTA) — A graphic ex-
ample of the extent of the dis-
placement of Europeans and other
nationals in the backwash of war,
almost 15 months after VE-Day,

is revealed in a community of only
8,000 population in Salzburg prov-
ince, when 1.123 DPs are shelt-
ered. Most of them are Jews.
A census discloses that the na-
tions represented by these refu-
gees include Brazil, Denmark,
Germany, France, The Nether-
lands, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary,
Vatican City, Lithuania, Poland,
Romania, Russia, Switzerland and
Czechoslovakia.

to you, who

are anxiously

awaiting our

'MILDRED MANTELL BRASCH

A new GI musical fantasy, Poco
Poeta which will be presented at
the Shubert-Lafayette Theater
Aug. 4 to 10, will be featured by
the appearance of Mildred Man-
tell Brasch in the leading female
role of "Nedda." She will be heard
in the evening performances on
Aug. 5 and 9, and in the matinees
Aug. 7 and 10.
A well known Detroit soprano,
she has appeared on many De-
troit concert programs and radio
productions. Poco Poco, athe out-
growth of an outstandingly suc-
cessful Army Air Forces musical
organization, is an all-Detroit
production with cast, chorus and
ballet of 125 persons. It is based
on the story and music of Pagli-
acci, with interpolated novelty
ballet directed by Ivan Kostin.
Stuart F. Piggins, who was in
charge of the Air Forces musical
entertainment, is musical director
of the show. The music will be
provided by an orchestra Of 30
pieces from the Detroit Sym-
phony.
The company plans to make an
extensive tour of leading Ameri-
can cities following the Detroit
premiere. Later, it is planned to
establish a school for opera here,
primarily for the benefit of ex-
servicemen and women.
- Tickets for Poco Poco are now
available at the box office of the
Shubert-Lafayette or the offices
of the Detroit Veterans Opera,
1016 Charlevoix Bldg,

New Type of Un-American
Propaganda Received Here
by Morris Spitzer

The outrageous "Franklin for-
gery," which misquotes Benjamin
Franklin and attacks the Jews of
America, again is being circulated
here.
This slanderous forgery, which
has been repudiated by the Frank-
lin Institute and leading histor-
ians, is being circulated on post
cards from Los Angeles. One of
the cards was addressed this week
to the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America, 707 Ham-
mond Bldg., Detroit. After "quot-
ing" the forgery, the card from
Los • Angeles asks for a national
vote to compel all Jews to leave
the U. S. by 1948.
This new type of un-American
propaganda is signed "Interna-
tional Science Committee." It con-
cludes with the stupid charge:
"The Jews still sponsor low wages
for the Gentiles, and, remember
this: Jews from birth to death
are anti-Gentile."
The anti-Semitic card was turn-
ed over to The Jewish News by
Morris Spitzer, manager of the
Detroit Joint Board of the Amal-
gamated Clothing Workers of
America. In the meantime word
reaches us that similar cards haVe
been received in other cities, in-
eluding• Chicago and New York.

Expects 110.000 Polish
Jevvs Will Flee To U. S. Zone
BERLIN, (JTA)—A high-rank-
ing U. S. military observer, just
returned from Poland, has sub-
mitted a report stating that 170.-
000 of the 200,000 Jews in that
country can be expected to move
to the American zone in Ger-
many .

Discharged from Navy

The following have been dis-
charged from naval service at the
U. S. Naval Personnel Separation
Center, Great Lakes, Ill.:
Lt. C. H. Altshuler, 19171 Monte
Vista.
Sic Milton Greenberg, 3784
Tuxedo.
S2c Ralph M. Grossbart, 3380
Monterey.
EM3c Norman R. Jacobs, 2202
Elmhurst.
Flc Sol H. Jacobson, 3732
Duane.
Sic Jerome S. Klein, 3743 Roch-
ester.
Sic B. Rosenbaum, 3212 Cort-
land.
ETM3c Ronald M. Rothstein,
18652 Santa Barbara.
Sic Louis Segel, 2022 Hazel-
wood.
Sic Harry Weintraub, 2631
Sturtevant.
S2c Milton P. Krowitz, 19353
Pennington.
SP3c Joseph N. Epel, 3019 Pin-
gree.
Slc Melvin M. Shapiro, 18625
Wildemere.
S2c Alfred W. Kohn, 2490
Taylod.
SK3c Irving Cohen, 3317 Wav-
erly.

Lehman Named Director
of Theological Seminary

Herbert H. Lehman, former di-
rector-general of the United Na-
tions Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration and for 10 years
governor of New York, has con-
sented to serve as a member of
the board of directors of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America.
In 1941 Mr. Lehman received
an honorary degree of Doctor of
Letters from the Seminary.

opening .

HARRY COHEN
President

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