Page Nineteen

THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, September 12, 1947

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Federation Women's Division
Annual Meeting on October 8

Council Urges Meeting of PTA
To Clear Winterhalter Incident

The office of the Jewish Community Council has received
The Women's Division of the president of the DivisioR, was
many calls concerning the statement appearing in a Detroit
Jewish Welfare Federation of De- elected last year to a second term
paper attributed to Miss Evelyn Booth, principle of the
troit, which recently rounded out which expires at the October
Winterhalter School, that parents in the area were of a "low
its year's program by enrolling
meeting over which she will pre-
a record high total of 10,000 wo-
class type." The remarks were alleged to have been made in
side.
men contributors to the Allied
connection with a small accident at the Winterhalter School,
Invitations are being issued to
Jewish Campaign, will launch
in which some plaster fell in a t.,-,
its 1947-48 activities at an annual all women contributors, and the
kindergarten classroom slightly with any parents who have any
meeting and luncheon, featuring meeting is open to all women in
injuring a few children.
doubts in their minds as to her
a "Community Harvest Festival,"
Miss Booth, in a statement to
i own attitude and with regard to
at Hotel Statler, Wednesday, Oct. the community.
the Jewish Community Councl
the entire
8.
which she repeated to the press, the facts concerning
Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner, chair-
categorically denied having made incident. We strongly urge any
man of the program committee,
the remarks attributed to her. parents who are concerned about
has delegated Mrs. Harry Lands-
Moreover, Miss Booth indicates the situation to call Miss Booth
man to prepare a dramatic se-
that she has been on the best of
and
quence which will be presented CLEVELAND — The appoint-
terms with, and thinks highly of, arrange
at the Winterhalter
School
an appointment.
under the joint direction of Miss ment of Rabbi Isaac L.- Hechtman,
groups.
MRS. BERNARD WERTHAN is all religious and racial
Pearl Devenov• and Mrs. Joseph —
religious - Zionist
zu -year - old
It should be pointed out that a • The Jewish Community Coun-
Fenton. Other members of the leader who recently arrived in chairman of he u H ome number of calls i have been re- ! cil has been informed by the
program committee include:
the "United States after more than ' for Convalescent Children, the ceived by the Jewish Community school administration that the
Mesdames Jack Berger, Milton six years internment in a Shang- first in Tennessee, which was Council from both Christians and ' Winterhalter School -has one of
Donor, Max Dushkin, Stanley hai ghetto, as executive director opened this week by the Nash- Jews in support of Miss Booth. ' the best intercultural education
Fleischakar, Seymour J. Frank, of the central states region of the ville section of the National , indicating that she has always programs in the Detroit school
H. J. L. Frank, Samuel R. Glow- Mizrachi Organization of Ameri- Council o{ jewish Women. Mrs. gone out of her way to promote system. and that the school has
gower, Harry Jacobson, Harry L. ca was announced by Rabbi . Joseph M. We;t of Deirsit is good will in her classrooms, as been used as a model in this
Jones, Julian H. Krolik, Leonard Isaac Stollman of Detroit, presi- national president of the counc,'. well as through her Parent- respect.
The Jewish Community Council
T: Lewis. Maurice Pearlman, dent of the region.
Teachers Association.
Jewish Community Council staff will be grateful to any mem-
Alexander W. Sanders, Jacob
From his newly-opened offices
The
bers of the community who have
Shreier, Nate S. Shapero, Walter in Cleveland, Rabbi Hechtman ' Detroiter's Letter Says
suggestion that a
has made the
the Parents-Teachers any further information on this
L. Field, Samuel Green, Sidney this week will launch an intensive Arabs, Jews Want None
meeting
of
matter and would be pleased to
Kalt. Royal Mass. Jerome Morton drive to enlist at least 10,000 new
of the area be called discuss the situation with anyone
i
As sociation
and Miss Julia Klein. members in the Mizrachi Organ- of Alleged Antagonism
in order to provide Miss Booth an 1..,- ho feels that further clarifica-
Mrs. Abraham Cooper, chair- ization, and will seek to intensify
opp ortunity for explaining pre-.
man of the committee on nomin- the campaign of the Mizrachi
Writing from Palestine to his cisely what happened and at the tion is required.
(See Editorial on Tage 9)
ations, will present the report of Education and Expansion Fund parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph same time permit the parents to
her committee. the remaining which is already in progress Haggai of 3375 Collingwood. secure any information they may
members of which are: Mesdames throughout the region.
Jeremiah Haggai describes al- desire. While the calling of such i
The Fall term in RUSSIAN
•
leged Arab-Jewish "incidents" as a meeting is presently under con- LANGUAGE will start at North-
I. Irving Bittker, Lewis B. Dan-
part of an organized plan to i sideration by educational authori- ern High School and Chadsey
iels, Max Goldsmith, Oscar Ze- •
Mizrachi Launches Drive arouse
antagonism between the ties, Miss Booth indicates that she High School on Sept. 15, the
mon. Leon Zechman and Louis
two groups, although, he adds, would be very happy to meet ' Board of Education announces.
Zlatkin.
For 50,000 Members
the Palestine government denies
Mrs Sally L Brown, chairman r- - - ---
any such plan.
of the committee on constitution,
will present an amendment to
"Both Arabs and Jews have
the constitution designed to add
. made it pretty manifest that they
additional directors to the board.
don't want any communal riot-
Other members of the committee
ing, not now, at any rate," Hag-
are: Mesdames David Cooper, I.
gai writes. "And what has hap-
E. Goodman, Eliazer A. Levi and
pened so far has been localized.
Miss Edith Heavenrich.
If the trouble continues to sub-
The Women's Division which
side, or remains localized, until
was organized for campaign pur-
it subsides, we'll have averted a
poses in 1939 has grown from a
catastrophe."
small auxiliary of 1,500 contrib-
As an example, he cites the
utors. whose gifts totaled less
following incident: "On Friday,
than $40,000, to its present unpre-
Aug. 15, an Arab agitator in the
cedented numerical strength and
Haifa port area tried to incite
to a level of giving far in excess
Arab workers there on the basis
of $400,000. Actual figures and
of the stabbings, reprisals and
facts on the campaign growth
counter-reprisals that had been
and on the development of a
taking place at Tel Aviv and
year-round program will be sub-
Jaffa. His Arab compatriots beat
mitted at the annual meeting.
him up good and proper and
In February, 1946. the Women's
threw him out."
Division was constituted as a
permanent organization with a RABBI ISRAEL E. FREEDMAN
continuing relationship to the NEW YORK, N. Y. — An all-
Federation and its community out effort to enroll 50.000 new
Holiday Greetings
planning functions as well as in members in the Mizrachi Organ-
behalf of its original campaign ization of America was launched
work.
throughout the nation this week
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich. first ! : under the personal supervision of
Rabbi Israel E. Friedman, newly
appointed director of the nation-
al membership committee of
8346 LINWOOD
America Mizrachi.

Mizrachi Appoints
Rabbi Hechtman

HAPPY

NEW

YEAR

Maurice Stotzky
Named to Center
Health Ed Staff

11.

Herman Jacobs, executive di-
rector of the Jewish Community
Center. announces the appoint-
ment of Maurice Stotzky, 29, as
assistant to Sam
Levy. the Cen-
ter's health edu-
cation director.
Stotzky w i 1 1
be in charge of
physical educa-
t i o n program-
ming for jun-
iors and inter-
mediates,
a n d
will officiate a
the Center' smanrice Stotzky
basketball league games during
the '47-'48 season.
At present, Stotzky is serving
as a senior health education
teacher at the Clara Barton
School, and has completed work
for his master's degree at Wayne
University.
As an undergraduate at Wayne
University where he received his
BS degree in 1943. Stotzky was
active on the track and cross-
country teams, awl was director
of swimming at the Northwestern
YMCA. In the summer of 1940,
Stotzky served as director of
athletics at Camp Habonjm, the
Center's day camp..
He entered the Army in 1943,
serving as a physical training in-
structor at Amarillo, Tex., and
later entered rehabilitation work
at Selfridge Field. He was dis-

charged in 1946.

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