22—THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, February 10, 1950 Obituaries ROSE KAPLAN, 76, of 17586 Parkside, died Feb. 2. Funeral services were held at Lewis Bros. Rabbi Joshua Sperka and Cantor Hyman Adler officiated. Survived by daughters, Mrs. Samuel A. Sklar and Mrs. Leon A. Katzin. Interment, Turover Cemetery. * * * GEORGE WEINGARDEN, 56, of 1458 Glynn Ct., a World War I veteran and native lAtroiter, died Feb. 2. Services were held at Lewis Bros. Rabbi Leon Fram officiated. Survived by wife, Clara; son, Herbert; daughters Mrs. Albert Dicken and Roberta; brother Simon; sisters, Mrs. Mor- ris Hochman, Mrs. Louis Len- hoff, Mrs. E. Burton Wolf, Mrs. -Meyer Levens, Mrs. A. Irving -Hirschman; and 2 grandchildren. * *_ * , Phri r.,R ALLAN FRANK, , 17 ..day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Frank of 18296 Meyers Rd. died Feb. 1. Services __were held at Lewis Bros. Rabbi Sidney Akselrad officiated. In addition to his parents he is survived by a brother, John . Mark. Interment, Clover Hill Park Cemetery. * * * MRS. FANNIE SHAPIRO, 69, of 11728 Dexter, died Jan. 31. Fun- - eral services were held at He- brew Benevolent Society with in- terment at the Cemetery of Tur- over Aid Society. Rabbis Stoll- man and Bakst officiated. Sur- vived by her daughters, Mrs. Rose Kagan, Sonya Love, Mrs. Sam Nelson, brothers, Israel and Abe Glass. * -* JACK FELDMAN, 36, of 2317 Glendale, died Feb. 2. Funeral services were held at Hebrew Benevolent% Society. Rabbi Leo Goldman officiated. Survived by his wife, Esther, children, Anna and Joe, mother, Mrs. Eva Feld- man, sisters, Mrs. Annette Kun- ick and Mrs. Helen Albert. * * * MRS. DORA EICHNER, 64, of 15724 Woodingham Dr., died Feb. 5. Funeral services were held at Hebrew Benevolent Society. Rab- bi Isaac Stollman officiated. Survived by her son, Joseph, daughter, Mrs. Ruth Stein, 4 grandchildren and one sister. 5-, 5 5 MORRIS SHERMAN. 66, of 3711 Webb, died Feb. 5. Funeral services were held at Hebrew Benevolent Society. Rabbi Isaac Stollman officiated. Survived by his wife, Sarah, daughters, Mrs. Betty ,Holtzman, Mrs. Esther Ross, 5 grandchildren, 1 brother. * * * SAMUEL L. MERSON, 2903 Elmhurst died Feb. 1. Services were held at the Kaufman Chapel with Rabbi Adler and Cantor Sonenklar officiating. He leaves His wife, Ruby;- brother, Louis; sisters, Mrs. Lester Kol- ber, Mrs. John Hecht, Mrs. Syl- via Morris, Mrs. B. Zammatoroa, Mrs. R. Hesse, and Toby Merson. Interment, Machpelah. ELLEN GAIL KARBAL, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mich- ael Karbal of 19317 Robson, died Feb. 1. Services were held at the Kaufman Chapel with Rabbi Ad- ler and Cantor Sonenklar offi- ciating. She also leaves her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Will- iam Karbal and Mr. and Mrs. M. Fein. Interment, Clover Hill Park. * * * ANNIE SCHIFF, 2669 Monte- rey, died Feb. 5. Services were held at- the Kaufman Chapel with Rabbi Segal and Cantor Fenakel officiating. She leaves three sons, Jacob, Robert and David of Calif.; daughter, Mrs. Max Reisman; brother, Louis Mendelson; sisters, of new York, Mrs. Eva Waldinger, Mrs. Gab- riel Kershner and Mrs. Joe Rub- enfeld. Interment, Mt. Sinai Cemetery. * • * MOLLIE WEINBERG, 13641 Dexter, died Feb. 5. Services were held at Kaufman Chapel with Rabbis Adler, Peiman' of Sagi- naw and Cantor Sonenklar offi- ciating. She leaves her husband, Samttel; son, M a x M. Way- burn; daughter, Mrs. Joseph P. Kassel of Saginaw, three sisters, Mrs. Pearl Amernik, Mrs. Sarah Schenkman of Brooklyn and Mrs. Mendel Schenk of Baltimore. In- terment, Clover Hill Park. * * * DR. MARCUS ROBINSON VAN BAALEN, 67, of 360 Lodge Dr.', died Jan. 30: Burial -was at Evergreen Cemetery. He was a member of Union Lodge, Wayne County Medical Society and Temple Beth El. He had practiced in Detroit 47 years. A son, Joseph M., of Chicago, survives. Israelis To Tighten Belts As New Food Controls Hit People JERUSALEM -- (JTA) — The Israel man-in-the-street is due to take another notch in his belt. Dr. - Dov Joseph, Minister for Supply' and Rationing, an- nounced that additional controls will be placed on food produc- tion throughout the country. The Minister revealed that ne- gotiations are being conducted with the United States for the export to Israel of low-priced food. The Minister also reported that the Israel Government in- tends to increase the amount of agricultural- land in this coun- try, which is used for direct food production. The Ministry of Agriculture* announced that there will be a continued and ample supply of potatoes in Israel this year; that 23,000 dunams of land have been put under potato cultivation, 10 times the present potato area. Plans also are being worked out to restore the country's olive groves for the purpose of in- creasing olive production. A herd of 700 cattle arrived Society to Publish here from the United States. They were purchased from funds Six Books in 1950 allocated from the U. S. $100,- PHILADELPHIA, Pa. —Judge 000,000 loan. This is the second Louis E. Levinthal, president of shipment of choice cattle to ar- The Jewish Publication Society rive from the U. S. of America, and Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, chairman of the publi- Peron Shuts Anti-Semitic cation committee, announce that the society will publish six Newspaper's Outlet new books as its 1950 program. BUENOS AIRES—(JTA)—The The titles selected for 1950 printing plant of the important are: "The Testament of the Lost Catholic daily newspaper, , "El Son" by Soma Morgenstern, Pueblo," was ordered closed by translated by Jacob Sloan, in the authorities because it print- collaboration with Maurice ed the anti-Semitic newspaper, "Fortaleza," which has been Samuel. "The Court Jews: A Contribu- banned. Publication of "Fortaleza" was tion to the Period of Absolutism in Central Europe," by Selma declared illegal after the paper Stern, translated by Ralph criticized the Peron administra- tion, charging the government Weiman. -"Proverbs," with commentary with displaying pro-Jewish sen- timents. "Fortaleza" is the organ by Julius H. Greenstone. "The Jews of Charleston: A of the anti-Semitic group, Ali- History of An American Jewish anza Libertadora Nacionalista, Community," by Charles Rezni- the outlawing of which has koff, with the collaboration of been repeatedly urged by Jew- Uriah Z. Engelman. ish leaders here. "Man Is Not Alone," by Abra- CARD OF THANKS . ham J. Heschel. The family of the late Lee The 52nd volume of the Amer- ican Jewish Year Book. Gladstone wishes to thank their friends and relatives for the General John J. Pershing was many kindnesses shown them once Governor of the Philip- during their recent bereave- ment. pines. • • Rabbinical Council Plans 'Torah Tour' To Revive Judaism BOSTON (JTA)—Rabbi Israel Tabak, president of the Rabbin- ical Coundil of America, at the Council's two-day conference, declared that the primary task facing the American Rabbinate today is "to fight assimilation and its threat to our existence." Rabbi Tabak also urged for- mation of a "unified authority for religious questions to be set_ up in Israel as a step in bring- ing about organization in reli- gious Jewish life." The Rabbinical Council, rep-. resenting more than 400 Ameri- can-trained Or- thodox Rabbis, has launched a nation - wide "Torah Tour." In a radio broadcast from the meeting Rabbi Meir Fel-. -man of Brook- lyn, chairman of RABBI TABAK the conference, explained that the tour will take leading Rabbis into urban and rural areas to clarify the teach- ings of traditional Judaism. The 2-day conference also formulated plans to help foster establishment of a central reli- gious authority in Jerusalem for world Jewry, with power to - de- cide on all religious questions of law, and to intensify a program to urge Jews in this country to be on guard against the spread of intermarriage and assimila- tion. Principal speakers at the ses- sion were Rabbi Oscar Z. Fas- man, president' of the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago, and Dr. Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, editor, and the only woman par- ticipant. Senator Thomas Asks Religious Cooperation Elbert D. Thomas, United States Senator from Utah, ad- dressed a recent meeting of the Institute for Religious and Social Studies of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Senator Thomas trac- ed his own American spiritual autobiography and urged all religious faiths to cooperate in "establishing a just and mer- ciful society." Seated, left to right, at the speakers' table are CHARLES AB RAMS, visiting profesor of land eco- nomics and housing, the New School for Social Research; LOUIS FINKELSTEIN, Solo- mon Schechter professor of theology and president of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America; SENATOR THOMAS. Turkish Government Puts Teachers on Payroll ISTANBUL, (JTA)—The Turk- ish government will henceforth pay the salaries of Turkish lan- guage teachers employed in Jew- ish and other minority schools in ' this country. Teachers of Turkish history and geography will also be put on the govern- ment payroll. Under the new plan, the six Jewish schools in Turkey will receive an estimated $25,000 annual collection. Israel Attache Visits Odessa MOSCOW—(JTA)—Col. Israel Barnea, Israel military attache here, returned from. Odessa af- ter visiting the Soviet port city on the Black Sea for three days. This was his first trip outside Moscow since his arrival in the USSR in October to join the Israel Legation staff. On the Record By NATHAN ZIPRIN (Copyright, 1950, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, Inc.) From Many Corners The merger of the Hebrew University and the Weizmann In- stitute of Science is limited, at least for the present, only to joint fund raising and cooperation on the scientific level . . . The press was not invited to the session at which the disclosure was made at the insistence of Professor Einstein . . . On the day the story broke President Truman announced approval of the hydrogen bomb ... Einstein was reluctant to face newspapermen lest he be questioned by reporters on his attitude toward the new instrument of death -. • .The American Friends of the Hebrew University will continue functioning . . . But it will not raise funds. Look for an early announcement disclosing the merger of the Palestine Economic Corporation with the London body of the same name . .. Jewish financial circles here were quite pleased with the news that Israel was embarking on a strong policy aimed at attracting private -investors from abroad . . . However, some deplored the fact that they had not been consulted on the promulgation of the new regulations. . Sixty eight Jews are running for Parliament in the forthcom- . ing British elections . . . Most of them, 38, are on the slate of the Labor Party, 10 on the Liberal Party ticket, nine are Com- munists, five on the Conservative ticket and six on various smaller parties. It Could Have Happened A story is going the rounds that Mayor O'Dwyer of New York always carries with him a yarmulke ... The reason is quite simple . . He so frequently is called to attend Jewish functions bf all kinds that he can't risk embarrassment . . . Recently, the story goes, the Mayor was invited to attend a function at a Reform synagogue . . . Before entering the edifice O'Dwyer slipped on his yarmulke ...Realizing he was the only person not bareheaded in the synagogue, the Mayor humorously asked "am I the sole Jew among so many goyim?" . . . The rabbi smiled and told the Mayor this was a Reform synagogue . . . Gesticulating with his hands, like a fighter throwing in the sponge, the Mayor replied: "I have a goy head and don't understand all that, all I know. is one must put on a skullcap on entering a synagogue." One generally associates an opera director with harmony .. . But by engaging Kirsten Flagstad the manager of the Metropoli- tan Opera, Joseph Bing, has struck a discordant note whose de- tection requires no musical ear ... Why in the world he recalled a woman who was denounced by fellow Norwegians when she left the U. S. for Norway immediately upon Hitler's penetration into her native country is a question only Bing can answer- • . . True she is a great interpreter of Wagner, but an artist who sang for the Nazis and the Quislings of her country has no place on the stage of the Met . . . Her husband, member of the Quisling Party in Norway eras to have been placed on trial by the Norwegian Government . .. His death in 1945 prevented a public hearing. In 1947 Kirsten Flagstad returned to this country but she received a cold reception . . . No artist can claim immunity by reason of art . . . Even the greatest of artists doesn't live in a vacuum. Jewish Communists to Purge Zionism In Cominform States; Sabotage Israel TEL AVIV (JTA)—A series of resolutions. aimed at intensify- ing the fight against Zionism was adopted at a conference of Jewish - Communist leaders from East European countries held early in January in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia, it was learned here. The five-day conference was attended by experts on Jewish affairs from Moscow, headed by Professor V. B. Lutzky, notor- ious for his attacks on Zionism and Israel in the Soviet press and at public lectures in the USSR. The resolutions adopted urged the waging of a "bitter war to the end" against Zion- ism in all Cominform countries. As a result of this confer- ence, special broadcasts will be launched in Yiddish from Buda- pest and Bucharest radio sta- tions appealing to Jews in Hun- gary and Romania "to boycott Zionist agents and oppose their propaganda for emigration to Israel." The Communist Party of Israel was promised at the conference "better support" on the condition that it purge its MONUMENTS By Karl C. Berg 1 Owner r Max Wrotslaysky Monument Works h Distinctive Monuments Reasonably Priced 3201 JOY ROAD Corner Wildemere TYler 6-0196 Fla ranks of "nationalist and Tito- ist elements." 'The conference suggested that the activities of the Communist party in Israel be devoted pri- marily to the spreading of prop- aganda among the Arabs in the Jewish•state and to the estab- lishment of contact with the underground Communist groups in Lebanon and Syria. The Communists in Israel have also been urged by the conference to intensify their subversive activi- ties, including demonstrations, parades and strikes. BETH EL MEMORIAL PARK OFFERS JEWISH FAMILIES THE FINEST BURIAL PLOTS AT MODERATE PRICES ON EXTENDED TERMS One of America's newest and most beautiful ceme- teries, dedicated to the service of Detroit Jews. Beth El Memorial Park 28120 WEST SIX MILE ROAD Between Inkster and Middlebelt For Information Call Mr. Segall at TR. 5-8530