I4—THE JEWISH NEWS

Jewish Congress Aids Victims of Lebanese

Friday, August 13, 1948

Jews in Sports

By HASKELL COHEN

(Copyright, 1948, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)

Abe Saperstein is back in the
news with his scouting for the
Cleveland Indians. As a result of
Abe's salesmanship the Indians
have acquired ancient Satchel
Paige to bolster their sagging
,mound staff. Abe, major domo in
charge of colored baseball,
brought in several colored hurl-
ers to the Cleveland club and
when they didn't show too much,
Abe insisted on giving Satchel
a chance. Paige, •way over 40
years old, hurled against Manag-
en Lou BOudreau in a secret prac-
tice session and convinced . the
young skipper that he • still had
a lot on the ball. Shortly after
Paige was signed the Indians
lined up an outfielder by the
name of Smith from the colored
Cleveland Buckeye nine. Now if
Shown aboard the U. S. passenger ship Marinee Carp as she docked in New York recently are Abe can only line up a few Jew-
ish ball players for • the Tribe,
some of the men (mostly Americans and a few Palestinians) who were taken off the vessel en route _to
everything will be hunky dory.
Israel and jailed in Beirut.
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Secretary of State Marshall has advised Congressman Arthur Klein of New York that charges
On the recent eastern invasion
of anti-Semitism against U. S. Consular officials in Beirut are under investigation. The American Jew- of the St. Louis Cardinals Tony.
ish Congress has provided legal aid for the Americans involved and is demanding State Department Kaufman, third base coach• of
action to obtain indemnities for the men from the Lebanese government.
the Redbirds, spoke for three
days concerning the throwing
arm of Sid Gordon.
UAHC Launches $2,500
"I always thought Jack Lohrke
owned the best arm in the league
Prize Novel Contest
today," Kaufmann said, during
Announcement of the establish-
the recent four game series in
ment by Alexander Frieder, CM-
Dr. Oscar I. Janowsky's "The Jewish spiritual-cultural group, three days at the Polo Grounds,
cinnati, of the Corrine R. Frieder JWB Survey," the monumental and that the primary emphasis of "but Gordon's got him beat."
Literary Award, Offering a prize report 'which incorporates the its program is upon Jewish con- • When Kaufmann' was at Roch-
of $2,500 for the best novel in schc4rly efforts of the committee tent. Non-Jewish membership is ester and Gordon at Jersey City
English, "on some phase of Jew- which studied the work, functions highly desirable, particularly for in the International League, the
ish life," has been made by the and roles of the National Jewish the promotion of intercultural first thing Kaufman wrote in his
Union of American Hebrew Con- Welfare Doard, has • been pub- understanding. But the presence report on Gordon was:
lished by the Dial Press *id is of non-Jews must not divert the
"The best throwing arm I have
available also from JWB, 145 E. Center from its distinctive pur- ever seen, good hit with fair
32nd St., New York 18.
pose. To abandon the Jewish em- speed."
The mass of valuable informa- phasis because of non-Jewish
According to Kaufmann, the
tion which Dr. • Janowsky, pro- participation as members would- throw that convinced him that
fessor of history
be to sacrifice the very reason for Gordon possessed the best whip
at the City 'Col-
the existence of the institution as in the league was one Sid made
lege of New
a Jewish agency."
the last time the Giants were in
York, has gath-
This is one instance . of inde- St. Louis. • .
ered for this
pendence and fearlessness with
"The ball was about two feet
work, and his
which Prof. Janowsky approached off the ground when it passed
conclusions rep-
his task. His book of more than behind the pitcher's box," Kauf-
resent more than
500 pages includes, in addition to mann said. "When Johnny Mize
a JWB survey..
the statistics and the author's stretched for the throw it land-
It is, in reality,
preface, a forward by .Frank L. ed in his glove letter high, such
William McFee Lewis Browne
study of Ameri-
Weil, president of the National was the force behind the ball."
gregations, oldest organized Jew- can Jewry, of
Jewish Welfare Board, and the
What makes Gordon's throw-
ish religious body in America. reactions for Dr. Janowsky
report of the JWB Survey Com-
Believed to be a contest of uni- Jewish thinking and actions in mission by Prof. Salo Baron, ing all the more impressive,"
que scope in the field of Jewish this country, of the problems of chairman. The various portions of Kaufmann added, "is that he can
letters, the manuscripts submit- Jewish learning and Center the book deal with the commis- unleash the throw at full speed
without winding up. Most of the
ted will be judged by a jury cf activities.
sion's recommendations, JWB's
outstanding f i g ur es including
Advocating cooperation by evolution and historical back- infielders with good arms have
Fannie Hurst, internationally not- Centers with schools and syna- ground, the Jewish Center field, to rear back, wind up and then
• ed novelist, playwrig' t and short- gogues, Dr. Janowsky's great functions of the Centers and JWB. let go.
* * *.
story writer; Lewis Browne, work, which includes numerous
Recommendations for Jewish
Oscar; Salenger, Chicago law-
widely read popular historian, factual statistical tables, recom-
blographer and novelist; William mends "the utmost joint plan- Centers include emphasis on yer who boUght the Milwaukee
McFee, distinguished novelist and ning" of adult educational activi- Jewish content, integration into franchise and later sold it, is
literary critic; Louis Rittenberg, ties. A very important issue, total American community with having 'trouble with stockholders
which has plagued Center leaders emphasis on Jewish issues and in Sacramento. He is prexy of
for many years, with regard to democratic ideals, cooperation the west ,coast club. He has given
non-Jewish participation in their with synagogues and observance Yubi Separovich, general man-
work, is summarized as follows: of Sabbaths and holidays, co- ager, a four-week option to buy
"Membership and participation operation with schools and com- him out and the Pacific Coast
League, meanwhile, has stepped
in the Jewish Center should be munity organizations.
open to all inhabitants of the local
in and authorized President Clar-
community without distinction as
PRAGUE. (JTA)—An Israeli ence Rowland to protect the.
to race, color or creed. However, commercial mission here will League's interests in Sacramento.
it should be clear that the Jewish probably purchase within the
Separovich said Salenger had
Center is an agency maintained next few days a $1,000,000 sup- never paid him for his 600 shares
for the specialized needs of the ply of sugar.
of stock and that Oscar owns

Prof. Janowsky's JWB Survey Issued
As Major Study of American Jewry

LIVES OF OUR TIMES

Alex Frieder
Fannie Hurst
encyclopedist; author and editor
of "Liberal Judaism," official
organ of the Union of American
HebrewCongregations.
The Frieder Award Committee
is Composed of Lester A. Jaf..7e,
Cincinnati, head of the board of
governors, : Hebrew Union Col-
lege, chairman; Frank L. Weil,
president, National Jewish Wel-
fare Board;•Rabbi Jacob J. Wein-
stein, spiritual leader, K..A .M.
Congregation; Chicago; Eldon
-. S.
Lazrus, communal leader. New
Orleans; Aaron W. Davis, Nevr
York, in addition to Mr. Frie-ler.
Particulars about the Frieder
Award, the winner of which will
be the beneficiary of royalties
from many collateral snirces,
may be, obtained by writing to
the Alexander Frieder Award
Committee, 3 E. 65th Sr. New
York 21, N.Y: . Going into im-
mediate effect, the prize novel
contest will close on April 1. 1949.

BUDAPEST, (JTA)—There are
nearly three Jewish women for
every two •Jewish men in Buda-
pest, statistics released here dis-
closed.

SO

. BUENOS AIRES, (37A) Jew-
ish leaders here believe that at
least 80 percent of the Argentine
United Jewish Appeal campaign
for 50,000,000 pesos ($12,500,000)
will be achieved before the drive
ends this month. Extraordinary
measures are being instituted to
guarantee the success of this first
united campaign for overseas re-
lief and Israeli needs.
Special tribunals will be estab-
lished to apply moral sanctions
against Jews who do hot contrib-
ute to the appeal. Persons who do
not contribute will not receive a
speCial card without which the
may not attend any social or cul-
tural activity of the Jewish com-
munity. The Chevra Kadisha, th
largest and most powerful Jew
ish fraternal and burial society i
Argentina, has threatened that
Jews who do not aid the DPs an
Israel will not be buried in Jew-
ish cemeteries.
_ Contributions are fixed by lo-
cal committees - at two percent o
the assets of businessmen and in-
dustrialists and half-a-month'
salary for workers.

—

Egypt Recruits Moslem
SS Members for Fighting

V I E NN A (JTA) — Several
hundred former members of the
Nazi Prinz Eugen S. S. Division,
recruited by Egyptian authorities
in Austria as farm workers, im-
mediately upon their arrival i
Egypt joined the Arab Legion of
Transjordan and departed for
the Palestine front to fight
against the Jews, the Socialist
newspaper Welt Am Abend re
ported.
The newspaper charged that
Dr. Ismail Hassan, Egyptian rep-
resentative in Austria, toured the
U. S. zone several weeks ago and
succeeded in obtaining exit visas
for the several hundred, most o
whom were Bosnian Moslems
and held the rank of major in the
Prinz Eugen Division. The dis-
closure of the identity of the
men followed the capture of sev-
eral of them by the Israeli forces,
Welt Am Abend stated.

UN Press Officer Denies lie
Said Jews Snipe in Jerusalem
HAIFA, (Palcor) — Georg
Barnes, press officer of -
Mediator Count Bernadotte, fiat
ly denied a statement attribute
to him by the Associated Press to
the effect that Jews as well as
Arabs were sniping in Jerusalem.
According to AP, Barnes alleged-
ly made this statement to Azzam
Pasha, Secretary General of. th
Arab League. Barnes said he
never spoke to Azzam at any
time and "only shook hands with
him once."

only 630 of the 2,500 shares,
which does not come close to
giving him control of the club.
Separovich declares • he has not
made up his mind as to whether
he will exercise the option to buy
out Salenger, but he consulted
his attorney and the club's legal
staff.

♦ .d...d b. NORMAN'and SOL NODE.

LOOM

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WHEN HIS FAMILy MOVED TO SAN

'ORM% SHOWMAN, THEATRE
OWNER,PROMOTER,REAL ESTATE
OPERATOR, AND CONGRESSIONAL
REPRESENTATIVE OF ONE OF THE
WEALTHIEST_ DISTRICTS IN THE
COUNTRY ••• -
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'Moral' Sanctions' Planned
Against Argentine Jews
Who Do Not Give to UJA

FRANCISCO, HE GOT A JOB IN A
BRUSH FACTORY AT THE AGE OF
EIGHT/ HIS REMARKABLE MEMORY
SOON BROUGHT PROMOTION TO
BOOKKEEPER.

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RHODA B. SIMON

AFTER INVESTING HEAVILY IN VARIOUS
ENTERPRISES, BLOOM WAS READY TO RETIRE
AT THE AGE OF 19, INSTEAD, HE WAS
INVITED TO DIRECT THE MIDWAY AT THE
CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR IN 1893.

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POOR POLISH JEWISH ORTHO-
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YOUNGSTER GOT LITTLE SCHOOL-
ING AND HAD TO SELL NEWS-
PAPERS FOR A LIVING

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AT THE AGE OF 13 HE WORKED IN
THE BUSINESS OFFICE OF THE SAM
FRANCISCO CHRONICLE.Sooll
THEREAFTER THE YOUNGSTER BE-
CAME A THEATRE PUBLICITY AGENT

AND MADE A WEALTH OF CONTACTS.

$910 HE CAME TO NEW YORK AND WENT
INTO REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION.
DURING THESE YEARS, HE MADE MANY
POLITICAL FRIENDS. BLOOM WAS ELECTED
REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGRESS OM THE
DEMOCRATIC _TICKET IN 1923, AND HAS BON
REELECTED EVERY TERM SINCE.
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REMAINING IN CHICAGO, BLOOM BUILT
UP A CHAIN OF 80 MUSIC STORES,AND
MADE A FORTUNE PUBUSHING SHEET MUSIC.

IN 1939, HE BECAME CHAIRMAN OF THE FOREIGN
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, SINCE THEN HE HAS ACTIVELY
DEVOTED HIMSELF TO STIFLING REACTIONARY
MEASURES AND AIDING PROGRESSIVE CAUSES .. .

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KNOWN AS A LIBERAL LEGISLATOR AND
CLOSE FRIEND OF PRES . ROOSEVELT, BLOOM
ALSO RATES AS A STUDENT OF AMERICAN
HISTORY - PARTICULARLY OF THE GEORGE
WASHINGTON ERA AND OF THE CONST1-
TUTION

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