Each DP Arriving in U. S.
Has His Own Unique Story
Weak Year for Jewish Athletes
Al Rosen Is Only Big Name;
College Quotas Showing Up
By HERSCHEL S. STEINHARDT
By HASKELL COHEN
(Copyright, 1950. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
For more than five years ships carrying Jewish dis-
placed persons have been arriving regularly on the East,
West, and Gulf coasts of the United States. The survivors
of Bergen Belsen, Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald have
been arrivinc, from the European DP camps, the Orient, and
b
other out-of-the-way
places of the earth.
Who are the displaced seeking a new life in America?
A DP ship docking recently with several hundred Jewish
DPs, and a total of 1,228 DPs of all faiths, offers a typical
picture.
volunteer worker on the pier, a
member of a local section of the
National Council of Jewish
Women, escorts the family to
the train. You know that the
family will make a good ad-
justment when the father
proudly says: "All I want from
America is work to support my
family."
As you are about to leave,
you recognize a young man in
a leather jacket who came to
the United States on the first
ship. Now he is waiting for his
fiancee, a girl from his home
town of Lodz. They had become
engaged in a DP camp shortly
before he was to leave for the
United States. You wish him
good luck and he grins happily.
At last he has found a place he
can call . "home."
You feel good in your heart.
This is just one of the many
ships that have brought sur-
vivors of Nazism to haven here.
You have seen their faces and
you are glad that some of them
have come to wandering's end.
(Copyright, 1950, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
The sport year 5710 can be recorded as a good one but
not a great one so far as records, conquests and development
of Jewish athletes is concerned.
Last year, we contended the lot of Jewish athletes
wasn't a good one. It wasn't then, and wasn't during the
year just concluded.
The fact remains that boxing,°
once dominated by Jewish pu-
After a few years of compara-
gilists, doesn't offer much in the tive seclusion, Jewish baseball
line of star performers. College 'players are beginning to make
football players are almost nil their presence felt again in the
while basketball, once the "Jew Major Leagues here. Foremost
boy's game" has seen the Jew- among the newcomers during
ish boy give ground. There is the past year is Al Rosen, Cleve-
little doubt in our mind that land Indians third baseman,
many colleges are employing who bids fair to become the
quota systems so far as Jewish home run hitting sensation of
athletes are concerned.
the American League during the
The holding of the Jewish next five or six years.
Rogovin Falls Down
Olympics in Israel during the
Sukkot Festival late this month
Another newcomer, Sol Rogo-
undoubtedly will create the im- vin, almost made the grade
pression that there are a multi- this year with the Detroit Tig-
tude of Jewish athletes all over ers as a pitcher. Sid Gordon of
the world. It's true we have the Boston Braves continues to
numbers but the top flight boys perform in sterling major league
of yester year are missing.
fashion and already has hit his
hundredth home run as a Na-
tional Leaguer. Myron Ginsberg
started the current baseball year
with the Detroit Tigers as the
third string catcher, but a series
of bad hick incidents kept him
out of the lineup most of the
By MEYER KLONSBY
season and he's back in the mi-
(Copyright, 1950, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
nors.
Two internationally-famous aeronautical experts, one a
The big news of the basket-
British-Jewish scientist, the other, an American-Jewish savant, ball year was the double win-
are now joining forces to aid in the establishment of a new aero- ning feat accomplished by the
nautical engineering department at the Haifa Technion.
City College Beavers in captur-
The American is Dr. Theodore von Karman, 70-year-old form- ing both the NIT and the NCAA
er Professor of Aeronautics and director of the Guggenheim Aero- tournament. • With such Jewish
nautics Laboratory at the California Institute , of Technology. Dr. stalwarts as Ed Roman, Al Roth,
von Karman, a refugee from Hitler's expanding empire, arrived Herb Cohen, Irwin Dambrot,
in this country in 1930. He will serve in an advisory capacity to Norm Mager, and Ron Nadell,
the Beavers came out of a mid-
the Technion's faculty board.
season slump to glide through
His British colleague, brilliant, 47-year-old aerodynamicist, both collegiate post-season
Dr. Sydney Goldstein, served until recently as chairman of the tourneys.
British Aeronautical Research Council and as professor of applied
Good Track Performances
mathematics at Manchester University.
No records were set by Jewish
In the United States this summer to lecture at the Univer- performers in track and field,
sity of Michigan, California Institute of Technology, Maryland but several came to the fore
Institute of Fluid Mechanics and other leading American institu- with sterling performances.
tions, Dr. Goldstein will depart after Rosh Hashanah to take up
Vic Frank of Yale was the na-
residence in Israel, where he will assume his duties as professor of tion's .outstanding discus throw-
applied mathematics at the Technion, and in the capacity of dean, er having set a new mark of 171
feet at the IC4A meet at Ran-
plan, build and staff the new Aeronautics Department.
The new Aeronuatics Department, rounding out the Tech- dall's Island Stadium in May.
nion's five other branches for civil, mechanical, electrical, chemi- Dr. Steve Seymour of the Los
cal engineering and architecture, which in addition to the Haifa Angeles AC was still the na-
Institute's Junior College known as the Technion High School, and tion's best javelin thrower hold-
the Nautical School, have brought it the appellation, the "M.I.T., ing the record of 248 feet.
For the first time in many
West Point and Annapolis of Israel," will be built with the active years, no Jewish boy even ap-
sponsorship of the Government of Israel.
proached all American football
Dr. van Karman's interest in Israel is of
honors. Jerry Faske of Iowa was
long standing. Last year the American Technion
the outstanding back and is the
Society of which he is a sponsor, announced
only Jewish ball player among
that a special wind tunnel, part of the project-
500 deScribed in the Stanley
ed Aeronautics Department in Haifa, would be
Woodward's Who's Who in
named in his honor.
Sports.
Dr. Goldstein expects to have students from
Generally speaking, tennis has
the area extending "from Greece to India" at-
been a closed field for JeWish
tending the Technion. He feels that the entire
project for an Aeronautical Laboratory has de-
performers. This past season has
fense implications but a strong defense for
proved a pleasant surprise with
Israel will allow the new State to get on with
so many young fellows coming
"the important and constructive details of Dr. Goldstein
up and showing splendid pos-
peace." Already, he points out, the airport at Lydda is the biggest sibilities. Possibly the best of
in the Middle East. This air center will continue to expand.
the newcomers is Dick Savitt,
The Technion, Israel's only Institute of Technology, by adding the sensation of the Eastern
an Aeronautical Lab, is taking on an even bigger job than the one seaboard. Vic Siexas is another
it has now, that of supplying the engineers and other technicians who gives prbmise of becoming
to staff Israel's "biggest must," a stable and diversified industry. future Davis Cub Timber.
Its The Air Age In Israel
Technion Trains Engineers
It's the last stop on their freedom road. Port and dock
workers of United Service for New Americans speed through
the last formalities for newly-arrived displaced Jews before
the newcomers proceed to communities throughout the U. S.
The newcomers include a young couple who married in
a DP camp after liberation and are immigrating with their
infant child; a father and son who hid out with the "under-
ground ;" a young woman who owes her life to her "Nordic"
appearance; a young man who
was one of the "skeletons" there confused. You ask the
found by American GI's in the newcomers whether they have
concentration camps; a young any personal valuables to de-
ster whose parents—before they clare, such as rings, diamonds,
were killed—had left him with or jewelry?
a Christian family, and a doctor
The immigrants understand.
who was permitted to live.
Without a moment's hesitation,
Children Come First
they pull up their sleeves and
The first to disembark are un- show the tattooed numbers on
accompanied children who are their forearms. "We are from
taken to a shelter maintained Auschwitz. We have nothing to
by the European-Jewish Chil- declare but our lives."
The customs inspector is deep-
dren's Aid, an affiliate of United
Service. These children have rel- ly touched. "Hearing about what
atives in America in most cases, these people went through over-
and the EJCA will see them to seas is one thing, but seeing
their destination and supervise them here is another," he re-
marks.
their resettlement.
There is a family group of
As the youngsters wait on the
pier, the older children act as five. They had been in Russia
big brother or sister. You see during the war and have ar-
that some still have the "hunt- rived u n der USNA agency as-
ed" fear in their eyes and hesi- surance destined for Texas. The
tate to ask questions. The ice is father, a shoemaker, asks you
broken when a reporter asks a questions. How far is Texas?
youngster why his head is band- Has it a nice climate? Can they
see America through the win-
aged.
dows of their train? Later, a
The boy tells I -.
he was
beaten by Germanr] in Bremen.
A dozen of his iriends were
forced to remain behind because
they, too, were beaten. When
asked about the American troops
in that area, the boy shrugs his
shoulders: "There are many
Nazis .. "
A reporter approaches you.
"Say, I thought these DPs didn't
have anything. Here's a man
who has 16 pieces of baggage."
Rabbi Brings Torahs
You check the belongings of
the bearded man and talk to
him in Yiddish. The man is a
rabbi. He's bringing Sefer Tor-
ahs and religious books he saved
from the Nazis.
A group of three refugees are
having some difficulties with a
Herb is sure that world-wide learning
custom's inspector. The inspect-
is the first defense of peace.
or wants to know whether they
And that men must know their neigh-
have any personal valuables to
bors if world battles are to cease.
But, alas, in many countries that have
declare. However, they do not
felt the scourge of war,
understand English and stand
HOPEFUL HERBERT
BY KAULEE
.
6
THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 8, 1950
—
All the finest schools were leveled.
teachers perished by the score.
We must
zbv".9L'a
teach
Our own
young people
L /NES'ell
To be top-notch
Neighbors.
too—
For if you
That's why Herbert is so happy that
UNESCO's' on the scene,
Working for the spread of knowledge
and the free exchange between
Men of every creed and nation
who can help the world io see
That the better life we're after
must be built on unity.
United Nations Educational. Scientific
and Cultural Organization
...
Work for the U.N.,
Herbie sees UNESCO's program
brings new promise and new hope.
With each school that it's rebuilding
and each borrowed microscope:
And each well-attended conference,
giving scholars far and near
Opportunities to gather
and discuss the, facts they hear.
The U.N.
Can work for you]