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Sharon of TV note) won title

of "Miss AZA" . .. Howard Ru-

gress . . . unless, by next year,
the ABC eliminates - it's "Cau-
casian Clause" . which openly
prevents Negroes from bowling
in ABC sanctioned leagues.
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LOUIS GROSS walked out of
Circuit Judge Thomas F. Ma-
her's courtroom a free man . .
granted his freedom in a trial
that lasted only seven minutes
. . . after he had spent over 16
.years of a life sentence in Jack-
son State Prison . . . for a mur-
der which', it was generally
agreed upon, he had been
framed and- wrongly convicted
of . . . It was a great victory
for Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka,
Jewish prison chaplain, and
head of Cong. Bnai David in
Detroit . . . Rabbi Sperka was
the man first responsible for the
re-opening of the case . . . and
worked endlessly against the
miscarriage of justice . . . Old
Folks Home purchased Talmudic
sketches which, framed, were
hung up in corridors.
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bin, president of hiking group,
told of walkers being disbanded
"because it was getting too hard
to persuade passing motorists to
pick us up and give us a lift!"
. . . One of most disastrous fires
in community broke out on Dex-
ter . . . claiming lives of two
firemen and leaving families
destitute . . . Recording of "Vag-
abond Refugee" by Mickey Woolf
and Cantor Hy Adler was imme-
diate hit . . . The passing of
Seymour Simons was mourned
by everyone, young and old .. .
The composer of such hits as
"All of Me," "Honey" ancf"Whis-
pering" had endeared himself in
BEST BET . . FOR NEW
local hearts for his civic leader-
YEAR'S EVE . . To usher in
ship.

1950 . . Big party celebration
* * *
at Bel-Aire Terrace Room . .
UNANIMOUS MOVEMENT
to all, young and old . . .
afoot to make Lou Berry chair- open
Starts at 10 p. m. ... Artie Fields
man of Allied Jewish Campaign and
his orchestra for melodies
is fore-runner of his later ac- . . . and
Sammy Woolf as mas-
ceptance of honored post . . . ter - of - ceremonies for evening
Leo Dressler and Dr. Milt Lap- . . . Table or no table . be
pin win State Handball Doubles sure and be there!

Championship for third straight
year . . . Max Osnos barely
misses listening to own broad-
cast from Israel . • . Was heard
in Detroit on Sunday . .. after
being made an hour before he
left Tel AviV . . . and flown to
WWJ . . . Osnos arrived in New
York on Monday morning . . .
Louis Marshall Lodge Bnai Brith
initiates plans to have its own
Blood Bank.
* * *
ESTELLE WEIN was winner
of column's Annual Beauty Con-
test . . Among her, many
awards was a complete course
at the Patricia Stevens School
of Modeling . . . Mischa Kottler,
after one of his radio broadcasts
o'er WXYZ, was waylaid by
woman who gushed, "Oh, Mr.
Kottler, that last selection you
played was wonderful. May I
_ask who was the composer?" ...
The pianist told her it was Mo-
zart .... "Wonderful," the lady
burbled, "and is he composing
at present?" . . -"No," Kottler
answered, "he is decomposing."
. . . We paid our first visit to
Jackson State Prison • . . to at-
tend Passover Seder held for
Jewish inmates . • It was a
grand experience . . . Dr. Isaac
Ralevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of
Israel, was guest of honor at
Allied Jewish CaMpaign meet-
ing . .. and so religious that he
will not eat. out • . . A refriger-
ator is set up in his hotel room
by Henry Wineman and People's
Outfitting Company . . The
once chief rabbi of Dublin was
met at airport by police escort
composed entirely of Irish cops
. . . who requested detail as .a
blessing.

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INVESTIGATION OF com-
munity butchers by Jewish
Community Council brought let-
ter to column telling about
frozen kosher meat being dis-
covered in Chicago . . Sample
is sent to the Council . . . for
study in case butchers don't co-
operate with price and other
demands.

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PATE KNOCKED ON the door

of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Pearl ...
The barrister and his wife,
Mary, had reservations for Room
439 on the ill-fated Noronic .. .
but was forced to cancel them
'when couple of law cases came
up suddenly in court . . . Every-
one on "D" deck perished . . .
including couple who were
"lucky" to get last minute reser-
vations . . . and were in Room
439 . . Talk was that Bnai
Brith will cancel affiliations
with the American Bowling Con-

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Happy New Year, folks!

Committee to Select
Wise Award Recipients

A panel of noted Americans,
under the chairmanship of
Federal Judge Simon H. Rifkind,
has accepted posts on a com-
mittee which will select the re-
cipients of the four Stephen S.
Wise Awards established by the
American Jewish Congress last
year, it is announced by Rabbi
Irving Miller, AJC president.
The awards, of $1,500 each,
are to be made annually for
outstanding service in four ma-
jor areas of Dr. Wise's interests:
the development of Israel; de-
fense of Jewish status through-
out the world; extension of civil
rights in the United States, and
the advancement O'f Jewish cul-
ture and learning.
Serving on the awards com-
mittee with Judge Rifkind will
be Dr. Abraham Sachar, presi-
dent of Brandeis University; Dr.
Abraham A. Neuman, president
of Dropsie College; Dr. Nelson
Glueck, president of Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion; Dr. Israel Gold-
stein; Professor Horace Kallen;
Roger Baldwin, American Civil
Liberties Union; Walter White,
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People,
and Bartley Crum. The awards
will be presented at a dinner
in. New York City March 16.

NO
COVER!

Dr. Leon A. Katzin
Heads A lpha Omega

Dr. Leon A. Katzin was in-
stalled as national president of
Alpha . Omega dental fraternity

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OLD FATHER TIM _ E packs up
his 365 days and prepares to
make way for the annual visit
of that little upstart in top hat
and diapers . . So, as we bid
him adieu, let's take a last quick
look back on some of the inner
doings Qf the community in 1949.
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SHARON SKLAR • (now Lyn

THE JEWISH NEWS-13

Friday, December 30, 1949

DR. LEON A. KATZIN

at the national convention at
Drake Hotel, Chicago.
Having served the nationally
both locally and nationally
in many capacities, Dr. Katzin
twice has been president of the
Michigan and Detroit groups.
He also served as national editor
of "Alpha Omegan," and in
many other official positions.
About 60 Detroit dentists and
their wives, members of the
local Alpha Omega chapter, are
this week attending the na-
tional convention in Chicago.

New China Grove Inn
Has U.S.-China Food

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Gala New Year's Eve
Scheduled at Bel-Aire

A gala New Year's Eve cele-
bration is scheduled to welcome
in 1950 at Bel-Aire Terrace
Room.
Artie Fields and his orchestra
will furnish the music. Sammy
Woolf, popular master-of-cer-
emonies, will head festivities.
Balloons, noisemakers, favors
and hats will be furnished.
The celebration, which begins
at 10 p.m., will be cabaret-style.
Those desiring a table are asked
to call Bel-Aire Terrace Room.

Detroit Wires Support
To Premier of Israel

Detroit Zionists' support of
the Israel government's move to
Jerusalem was transmitted to
Premier David Ben Gurion last
week as one of several hundred
wires and messages, affirming
his action. The messages were
sent through the American Zi-
onist Council.

Ring in the

(JTA) — Five
prizes of $500 each were award-
ed to three Yiddish and two He-
brew writers whose works were
selected as the best literary
works in Yiddish and Hebrew
published in the U. S. this year.
The Yiddish winners were: Jo-
seph Rolnick and H. Rosenblatt
for their books of poetry; and
Bezalel Sherman for his study
"Jews and Other Ethnic Groups
in the United States." The He-
brew winners were Harry Sack-
ler, for a volume of short stories,
"Rainbow in the Clouds"; and
Daniel Persky, for a book of
essays.

A few tickets are still available
for the Yiddish production of
"Anna Lucasta," to be presented
Sunday and Monday evenings,
Jan. 1 and 2, at Music Hall (Wil-
son Theater).
They may be reserved by call-
ing TA. 5-9899 or Abraham Litt-
man, WO. 2-5900.
Miriam Kressyn will star in
the title role, supported by a
large cast.

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Fauman, Goldie Goldstein, Ber-
nard Isaacs, Herman Jacobs,
Boris M. Joffe, Walter Klein,
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Rabbi Maurice Pekarsky of
Chicago will address the open-
ing sessions of the In-Service
Training Institute Saturday and
Sunday, Jan. 14 and 15, at the
Jewish Community Center, Har-
old Silver, chairman of the In-
stitute, announced.
The In-Service Training In-
stitute, sponsored by executive
directors of Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration member agencies, was
planned to give professional
staff members a better under-
standing of the background,
structure, program and philoso-
phy of organized Jewish com-
munity service.
Rabbi Pekarsky will open the
Institute at 8 p.m. Saturday, by
discussing the topic "The De-
velopment of the Jewish Com-
munity." He will also speak Sun-
day at 1 p.m., giving the par-
ticipants a bird's-eye view of
major developments in Jewish
history in the last 200 years,
with particular emphasis on cul-
tural patterns and ideological
trends.
Subjects for the subsequent
meetings, which will be held
every Monday- evening Jan. 23
through Feb. 20, will be "The
Jewish Community of Detroit;"
"Health and Welfare Services;"
"Education, Recreation and Cul-
tural Services;" "Community
Relations" and "Role of the
Professional in the Developing
Jewish Community."
LoCal agency staff members

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widest arrays of Cantonese deli-
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