30—THE JEWISH NEWS
Obituaries
MAX STITMAN, 77, of 2016
Taylor, died March 27. Funeral
services were held at the Hebrew
Benevolent Society. Rabbi Max
Wohlgelernter officiated. He is
survived by a brother in New
York, and a nephew, Charles
Stitman.
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LOUIS LEBOW, 48, formerly
of Detroit, died at Bellaire, Ill.,
March 28. Funeral services were
held at the Hebrew Benevolent
Society, with interment at West-
wood Cemetery. Rabbi Joseph
Rabinowitz officiated. He is
survived by his wife, Ida; sons,
Jerry and Norman; a daughter,
Dinah; two brothers, and one
sister.
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THELMA KATZ, 37, formerly
of Detroit, died at Danville, Ill.,
March 28. Funeral services were
held at the Hebrew Benevolent
Society. Rabbi Jacob Segal offici-
ated. She 'is survived by her
husband, Isadore; sons, Norman
and Barry; four brothers, and
one sister.
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LOUIS ARNKOFF, 2605 Sturte-
vant, died March 28. Services
were held at Kaufman Chapel
with Rabbi Leon Fram, Rabbi
Joshua Sperka and Cantor H.
Adler officiating. He is survived
by his wife, Ida; three ,sons, Dr.
Harry of Pontiac, Dr. Morris of
Chicago and Isadore; a daughter,
Mrs. George M. Stutz; three sis-
ters. Mrs. Abraham Cohen, Mrs.
Nathan Vinacow and Mrs. Sam
Bussell. Interment, ClcVer Hill
Park Cemetery.
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FENTON KURTZ, 3350 Tyler,
died April 1. Services were held
at Kaufman Chapel, with Rabbi
Joshua Sperka officiating. He is
survived by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. William Kurtz; a brother,
Sheldon; his grandparents, Mrs.
Ida Kurtz and Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Solomon. Interment, Machpelah
Cemetery.
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RUTH EINSTANDIG, 3325
Tuxedo, died April 2. Services
were held at Kaufman Chapel.
with Rabbi Morris Adler and
Cantor J. Shoenklar officiating.
She is survived by her husband,
Newton S.; her mother, Mrs. Rose
Lublin; two brothers,, Carl and
Leo -Lublin. Interment, Clover
Hill Park Cemetery.
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MARC and MARCIE EIN-
STANDING, 3325 Tuxedo, died'
April 2. They leave their father,
Newton S.Afgrandparents, Mrs.
Rose Lublin and Mr. and Mrs.
M. Einstandig. Services were held
at Kaufman Chapel with Rabbi
Morris Adler and Cantor J. Son-
enklar officiating. Interment,
Clover Hill Park Cemetery.
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ABE SHAPIRO, 65, of 1930 W.
Philadelphia, died March 29.
Funeral services were held at
the Hebrew Benevolent Society.
He is survived by his sons, Hy-
man, Julius and Harry; a daugh-
tter, Pauline; four grandchildren,
and one sister.
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MRS. SARAH SIEGEL, 77, of
Funeral services were held at the
Hebrew Benevolent Society, with
interment at Ahavath Achim
Cemetery. Rabbi Joseph Rabino-
witz officiated. She is survived
by her sons, Morris and Frank; a
daughter, Mrs. Nathan Bell;
seven grandchildren, and four
great-grandchildren.
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Funeral services f o r Pfc.
JOSEPH SPITZER will be held
at the chapel of the Hebrew
Benevolent Society, Sunday.
April 10, at 10 a.m. Military
honors will be paid by the Jewish
War Veterans. Pfc. Spitzer died
in action Dec. 26, 1944, at the age
of 20. He was a' graduate of
Cass Technical High School. He
was the recipient of a Purple
Heart Medal. In addition to his
seccular education he was a
graduate of United Hebrew
Schools. Interment in the vet-
erans' section of the Hebrew
Memorial Park. Rabbi Morris
Adler and Cantor J. H. Sonenklar
will officiate at the funeral serv-
ice.
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Friday, April 8, 1949
1VIAURICE BERENSON, 62, of
2550 Calvert, died March 29.
Funeral services were held at
Lewis Bros., with Dr. B. Benedict
Glazer officiating. Burial, Mach-
pelah Cemetery. He leaves his
wife, Flora; a daughter, Mrs.
Harvey Rothstein: a brother,
Barney of Cleveland, and sisters,
Mrs. Bessie Kopel of Boston and
Mrs. Rose Roberts. "
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BARNEY FREEDMAN, 60, of
Ypsilanti, Mich., died March 28.
Funeral services were held at
Lewis Bros. with interment at
Mt. Sinai Memorial Park. He
leaves a niece, Jeanette Freed-
man of Brooklyn.
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MRS. ROSE CROOGLOFF, 49,
of 2014 W. Euclid, died Sunday.
Funeral services were held Tues-
day at Chesed shel Emes. Sur-
viving are her husband, Max;
a daughter, Mrs. Adele Gold-
stein; a son, Arnold, and her
father,' Joseph Glazier.
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LOUIS GROSSMAN, 57, of
3002 Rochester, died Sunday at
Veterans Administration Hospiatl
in Dearborn. Funeral services
were held Tuesday at Lewis Bros.
Burial, Machpelah. Born in Odes-
sa, Russia, he lived here for 45
years. He was a veteran of World
War I, served in the Argonne
and was past chaplain of Detroit
Chapter of Veterans of Foreign
Wars. He was affiliated with the
Chrysler- Corp. planning depart-
ment for 25 years. Surviving are
a brother, Arthur of Lake City,
Fla.; four sisters, Mrs. Roy R.
Selling of Detroit, Mrs. Marian
Soltz, Mrs. Bertha Stern and Mrs.
Edward Mendelsohn of Miami
Beach, Fla.
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FENTON, KURTZ, 7-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Kurtz, 3350 Tyler, died April 1,
following an operation at Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Ser-
vices were held April 3 at Kauf-
man Chapel. In addition to his
parents, he leaves a brother,
Sheldon.
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Wage Increases
Would Hurt State,
Ben Gurion States
Dr. Morey D. Miro, of 150 W.
Euclid, 41-year-old medical di-
rector of Sam's, Inc., died March
30 in Rochester, Minn., after a
month's illness.
He had been associated with
Sam's for 13 years, while there
achieving recognition for his
work in helping to establish one
of the first medical health benefit
plans in any retail organization
in the country.
He is survived by his wife,
Marion; his mother, Mrs. Samuel
11/Iiro; a brother, David, and sis-
ters, Mrs. Shirley Golden, Mrs.
Mynn Hiesler and Mrs. Lillian
Weisberg.
A lifelong Detroiter, he was a
graduate of the Detroit College
of Medicine.
Funeral services were held at
Lewis Bros. Burial was at Mach-
pelah Cemetery.
Abraham Lichtenstein Dies
Abraham Lichtenstein, retired
hide and tallow dealer, who was
active in many Jewish organiza-
tions and was known for his piety
and liberality, died at Mt. Car-
mel Hospital on Thursday, March
31. Funeral services were held
Friday, April 1, at Lewis Bros.
Rabbi Isaac Stollman officiated.
Interment was in Machpelah
Cemetery.
Surviving are two sons, Jack
and Ben Stone; two daughters,
Mrs. Adolph Smilo of Los Ange-
les and Mrs. Seymour Ravid; 25
grandchildren and 13 grandchil r
dren.
"ELISHEVA" DIES
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—"Elisheva,"
well-known Hebrew poetess, died
in Tiberias at the age of 60. Yel-
izevta Ivanovna Zhirkova, which
was her real name, was a Russian
Christian who came to Palestine
during the' early 1920's and later
adopted the Jewish faith. Among
her best-known works is the
"Song of Kinnereth," which was
set to music.
By BENNETT CERF
FRIEND of financier Bernard Baruch spoke so often
_Lk about his love for hunting that Baruch finally invited
him to his South Carolina plantation for a turkey shoot.
The friend tramped the
field fo'r two days, shooting
madly, but failed to hit a
single turkey.
TEL AVIV (Palcor) — Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion told
a delegation of building workers
that a "heavy financial burden"
would be placed on the State if
the wage raises demanded by
workers were granted now. He
called on all workers to cooper-
ate with the governmefit in the
struggle against the high cost of
living and inflation.
. Ben Gurion told the delegation
that 50,000 additional building
workers will be needed in the
immediate future to help carry
out the construction of 10,000
housing units for new immi-
grants at a cost of '$18,000,000.
Mr. Baruch made no com-
ment. The next morning, how-
ever, the friend was ambling
along a path near the play-
house when he saw a well-fed
gobbler _sitting motionless in a
tree. He crept up close to the
turkey and fired pointblank. He
was overjoyed when the turkey
fell at his feet. It was only
when he picked it up to stuff
into his bag that he noticed a
card tied around the turkey's
neck. The card read. "With the compliments of Bernard Baruch?'
Israel has concluded barter
trade agreements with seven
European countries and Tur-
key, the Department of Trade
and Industry announced. The
Countries are France, Belgium,
Czechoslovakia, Austria, Yugo-
slavia, Bulgaria and Finland.
Under the terms of the agree-
ments Israel will export cut
diamonds, • fruit juices, false
teeth, textiles and chemicals in
exchange for timber, electrical
appliances, typewriters, motors,
yarns, building materials and
straw.
Milton Sperling tells about a tough little lad in the gashouse dis-
trict who poured a pan of water on a passerby, and shouted a number
of interesting four-letter words at him. The infuriated passerby
yelled up. "Come down here and I will beat the tar out of you."
"Come down," repeated the offending brat. "Are you crazy ? I
can't even walk yet."
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All the way from Norway comes the story of a famous novelist
who was invited to the preview of a new three-million-dollar motion
picture. "I like it," he said at the conclusion of the showing. "Who
wrote it ?" "You did," said the producer. "It's based on your last
book!" "I never would have known it," admitted the writer. "I think
it has the makings of a fine novel. May I use it ?" "I guess so,"
said the producer, "but you'll have to give us an option on the
film rights."
Copyright, 1949. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
Al Hamishmar, press organ of
the left wing Mapam, the United
Labor Party, declared that the
anti-Zionist policies adopted re-
cently in Romania and Hungary
"do not shake our faith in the
Soviet Union and the Peoples
Democracies." The paper warned
however, that these policies are
"harmful to the interests of those
countries and to socialism."
The paper feels that Israel has
a right to demand the free emi-
gration of Jews from Eastern
European countries and the con-
tinued operation of "progressive
Zionism' there. "We shall con-
tinue to fight against the present
misunderstanding", Al Hamish-
mar says.
Zelda Popkin Writes Another Good
Novel 'Walk Through the Valley'
Two full-length novels—"Small
Victory" and "The Journey
Home"—already have earned for
Zelda Poukin first rank reputa-
tion as a writer or great ability.
"Small Victory," the sensation-
al expose of continued Nazi prac-
tices even under the very nose of
an American military adminstra-
tion, was an eye-opener for those
who had complacently believed
that Hitlerism had ended with
the war. That book should have
had a much larger sale. But in
itself, it is evidence of a per-
petuated cancerous situation in
Sam's Medical Director, Joseph. A. Rosen Dies;
Dr. Morey Miro, Dies
Try and Stop Me
Colonization Leader
Germany.
The author wrote out of per-
NEW YORK—Dr. Joseph A.
Rosen, noted agronomist and sonal experiences. As a Red Cross
colonization authority who di- worker overseas, she studied con-
rected the resettlement of 250,000 ditions at, first hand. From the
Jews on farms in the Crimea and point of view of style and good
Ukraine after World War .1, died writing, she enriched the litera-
March 31 at his home here, 410 . ture of our time.
Riverside Drive. Death was at-
In a sense, her writing is im-
tributed to a stroke. He was 73 proving novel by novel. "Walk
years old.
Through the Valley" (published
As director of the American
by J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadel-
Jewish Joint Agricultural Cor-
poration (Agro-Joint) Dr. Rosen phia) proves it. It is a magnifi-
supervised farm settlement proj- cent work, the story of a very
ects in Russia in behalf of a quar- attractive middle-aged woman in
ter of a million Jews who had her first year of widowhood. How
Leen deprived of their citizen- does such a person, whose two
ship rights following the Russian children have left her—one with
revolution. From 1924 to 1937 he a- young husband in the army,
directed the administration of the son also about to be sent
some $16,000,000 funds provided overseas—fill the gaps in a life
to Agro-Joint by the American that was considered well lived
Jewish Joint Distribution Corn- before her husband died sudden-
mittee, major American agency ly of a heart attack?
aiding distressed Jews abroad.
Parents and children will
Dr. Rosen was also the dis- learn a great deal from the ex-
coverer of "Rosen rye," a new periences of Katherine Brewer
variety of winter rye, now grown as she is depicted by Zelda Pop-
all over the United States, par- kin. The sale of a hoirie, removal
titularly in Michigan, Minnesota to a small apartment, differences
and Wisconsin.
Prof. Isaac Markon Dies
LONDON (JTA)—Prof. Isaac
Markon, noted Orientalist and
author who formerly taught at
the Universities of Leningrad and
Minsk, died at the age of 74. He
reached England from Holland
after the Nazi invasion of the
Low countries in 1940. He had
made his home in Germany from
1926 to. 1948 following the 1917
revolution in Russian. In Russia,
he was active in numerous Jew-
ish groups, including the ORT,
and also edited a Jewish encyclo-
pedia published in Russian. He
was an authority on various
periods Of Jewish history and
wrote several definitive works on
the Karaites.
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from returning to her mother,
sisters and brother, the daugh-
ter's frankness in discussing the
family's financial affairs, a re-
, turn to the stage on which she
shone before marriage — these
and the appendices of expressed
thoughts that go through the
mind of a woman fighting des-
pair make "Walk Through the
Valley" stand out as a very good
novel.
The excellent style which
makes her completed works note-
worthy creates an anxiety to see
her forthcoming books—especi-
ally the one she is planning with
Israel as the locale. Zelda Pop-
kin, who recently returned from
, the Jewish State, can be expect-
ed to do an exceptionally good
job on the basis of her latest
travels. Lippincott publishers
have not erred in encouraging
this able writer.
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