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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. • * * 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. * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. I 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. " * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. . 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." * 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. •••• 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. 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