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December 15, 1950 - Image 20

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1950-12-15

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' The Story of a Man Who
Couldn't Hake a Mistake

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NEW YORK, (AJP)—The little
sage who rose, like his name,
from the Lower East Side's pov-
erty-stricken sidewalks to the
heights of a million dollars—and
then some—placed aside his
trusted typewriter last week and
called quits to the penning of a
column which appeared regular-
ly since 1946 in more than 2500
newspapers throughout t h e
world.
Failing health and the heavy
responsibilities of administrat-
ing a virtual show business,em-
pire, little Billy
Rose announced,
teamed up to
cause the liter-
ary cancellation.
Rose's column
had not ap-
peared for two
weeks, prior to
t h e announce-
ment, while he
was undergoing
Billy Rose
an operation.

Boat" star's trademark in later
years. •

After seven months, Rose
sold His nighterie at a $50,-
000 profit.. In succeeding years,
Rose opened one club after
another. They were gigantic
money-makers. It was about
this time that the Jewish
showman began to dabble
seriously in song writing.

His first hit was "Barney
Google," the zany ditty that sold
1,000,000 copies. Since then Rose
has penned more than 400 songs
50 of which were smash hits,
But Rose's most famous pro-
duction arid pet project is his
famous Diamo nd Horseshoe
night club which, along with
Radio City Music Hall, is the
undisputed tourist draw in
Gotham. He was paid $175,000
by a leading movie company for
the use of the name as a film
title.
Writing columns, however,
came as a> unexpected sideline.
"Pitching Horseshoes," On April 1, 1946, Rose started -a
Rose's column, was another in series of paid advertisements
a string of amazing successes for his Diamond Horseshoe about
since the former Lower East "life, art, etc." They ran as ads
Shier gained national prothi-
for ab9ut one month and then
nenee as a -4:outh by copping were printed by .the now defunct
the national title of speed PM. The column, like - most
shorthand writers. Under the
everything the almost magical
guidance of John Robert Rose concerns hinfiself with, was
Gregg, founder of the gystem, a fantastic overnight success.

3

Rose did 200 words a minute.
Gregg immediately termed
him the "finest natural short-
hand writer" he had ever en-
countered.

Later he switched to t h e
Herald Tribune, then the
Daily News. Syndicates began
bidding 'for his pieces. Finally,
the weekly sheets begged for
permission to run "Pitching
Horseshoes," and farmers out
in Iowa and deep Kansas read
about Rose's uncle on the low-
er. East Side.

Through his column millions
read tales concerning the first
waves of Jewish immigrants who
set up residency on the side-
walks of New York. The hard-
ships, humor and grit of the
Recently Rose's column told
immigrants supplied themes for of ,a former East Sider who was
many of Rose's down-to-earth stationed in Korea with a Ma-
strikingly w a r m, human col- rine outfit. The kid, reported
umns. Other "Horseshoe" pieces Rosé, had survived a serious
dealt with the little man in the done-for gun"wound because he
street, the grocer; the copeven had fasted Yom Kippur and his
stomach was empty when the
the bookie.
Readers were never quite cer- bullets of a make-believe-dead
tain what the inimitable Billy Korean Red found their mark.
Millions in the United States,
Rose would write about next.
Editors were equally befuddled. England, Australia, Israel, Ja-
Both were certain that whatever pan, Mexico and elsewhere
the subject matter—it would be smiled as they read Rose's
"Horseshoe" account of how the
good.
Behind the typewriter keys corporal, son of .a New York
which formed the simple words -rabbi, had cheated death at the
with the slam-bang impact was hands of t h e Communists by
the man "Who's Who" terms "a .observing his faith under battle
producer of spectacles." But conditions. More important, they
Billy Rose cannot be -categoriz- read how he had leaped at. the
ed—except perhaps as one of the play-dead Communist soldier.
greatest legends of our ,time.
with a bayonet and placed his
Rose started in show business life in the balance to save The
with a mere $4,000 investment. life' of the detachment's com-
In seven months his Back Stage, manding officer. It' was a typi-
Club, an upstairs speakeasy on cally well-written Rose column.
56th Street in New York City,
A quiet dresser and a chain
became the popular hangout for smoker of all brands of cigar-
show people, social registerites ettes, Rose has a pet charity, a
and newspapermen.
Yeshiva in upstate New York
On any night of the week near his country estate. Often
tables were filled with such When editors of the large "na,
well-known.s as Walter Winchell, tional • magazines phone the
Al 'Jolson, William Rhinelander show magnate and request he
Stewart, Arnold R,othstein, So- write a special piece or solicit
phie Tucker, Mark Hellinger, permission to reprint a particu-
and Harry Thaw. Rose hired a lar "Horseshoe" column, Billy
sultry blues singer—an unknown replies, "sure; if , you send the
named Helen Morgan=and ask. check to the Yeshiva in Mount
ed her to sit on the piano be- Kisco!" They do.
cause the room was WO crowd,
ed. The pose becanie the "Show

.

Discuss Auto School
For Israel at Regional
_Zionist Meeting, Jan. 7

Morris M. Jacobs, president of
, the. Michigan Region of the Zi-
• onist Organization of America,
has announced an important ex-
, ecutive board meeting on Jan.
ri at the Belorest Hotel.'.
Plans for the Michigan Re-
am* gion's Automotive Training
School in Israel will be present-
ed for adoption and implementa-
.tion. Though in blueprint stage,
the Region's project has alreadY
met with enthusiastic response
throughout ,the 11 Zionist . dis-
tricts in the state.
The Michigan Region's project
has peen approved by the ZOA
National Heaquarters, and ex-
pert advice has been promised
by several leaders in the auto-
motive field.
Reservations 'may be made for
the luncheon which will precede
the meeting by calling Jules Do-
neson, regional director, WOod-
ward 5-1484.



20---THE JEWISH NEWS

Anti-Nazi Leader Warns of New
Dangers to World from Stalinism

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Friday, December 15, 1950,

Wyn Garden Sings
At Conference of
Landsmanschaf ten

.

Wyn Garden, young Detroit
soprano, will be guest artist at
the conference on community
services,
sponsored by lands-
,.
manschaften of
7Detroit under
,auspices of the
'Jewish Welfare
Federation at
a 1 p.m., Sunday,
41in the auditori-
urn of the Wood-
ward Jewish
Center. Accom-
panist for Miss
Garden will be
Wyn Garden Vivian Kozenn.,
Alex Belkin, chairman or the
Landsmanschaft Section of the
Allied Jewish Campaign, will
preside until a chairman is
chosen. Others who will partici-
pate include Samuel H. Rubiner,
Federation president; Isidore
Sobeloff, Federation executive
director, who will discuss "How
Federation Serves the Com-
munity," and William Avrunin,
secretary of the Jewish Hospital
Association, who will speak on
"Two Major Cancerns-_--the Jew-
ish Hospital Sand Care of the
Aged."
Other speakers at the confer-
ence will be Albert Elazer, as-
sociate superintendent of the
United Hebrew Schools, whose
topic is "Jewish Education in
Detroit," and Leon Kay, past
president of the Zionist Organi-
zation 'of Detroit, who will
cuss "Israel: Philanthropy, In-
vestments, Loans and Bonds."
Joseph Heideman_, • chairman,
and Morris Malin, co-chairman,
of the promotion and confer-
ence attendance m m i t t e e,
have extended invitations to so-
cieties to send delegates to the
conference. All landsmanschaf-
ten members are invited.,

JWF Division Plans
`Community Clinics'

The .41.950-51 series of "Com-
munity Clinics" will be launch-
ed by the Women's Division of
the Jewish Welfare Federation
on Dec. 19, ' The new series is
designed to give women an op-
portunity to meet with their
neighbors to-learn how the Jew-
ish community is organized to
provide its present , services and
to discuss additional services
are needed.
Among Division members who
have agreed to hold Community
Clinics at their homes are Mes-
dameis Frank Berman, Julian
Lefkowitz, Irwin Leviant, Bur-
ton LeVine, Jack Medvia, Hairy
Shefman, Arnold Stone, Leonard
Weinberg and, George W_ein-
garden. ,
The clinics area. planned under
the' chairmanship of Mrs. Alex-
ander W. Sanders. Her - vice-
c hair ma is ...Mrs. Isidore
Sobeloff.

Dr. Raineer Hildebrand, anti::
Nazi German who was arrested
several times during the Hitler
regime and who now is on the
Communist blacklist, addressed
several group meetings in De-
troit this week and told of the
danger to democratic forces
from the Red regime that is im-
prisoning thousands of Rus-
sianF and others in concentra-
tion camps.
Speaking to a group of edu-
cators and community leaders
Monday evening at the home of
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Drews, 12500
Broadstreet, Dr. Hildebrand drew
a distinction between Commu-
nism and Stalinism. He painted
the latter as the world's major
danger comparable toy Nazism
and urged that all forces should
be mobilized for a "moral of-
fensive" against it.

Dr. Hildebrand, who was in-
troduced by Prof. George Lech-
ler of Wayne University, an an-
thropologist who fled Nazi Ger-
many after refusing to do Hit-
ler's bidding, described his ex-
periences in the resistance forces
in Germany during the• Hitler
regime. He said that as a half-
Jew his family had to manipu-
late quarter-Jew status for him
to save his life. He told of plans
that were made by his group _for
Rudolf Hess' flight to England
and of the price some had to
pay for it later.
Brought to this country by the
State 'Department, Dr. Hilde-
brand was invited to Detroit by
several university groups, in-
cluding Wayne Hillel Founda-
tion.



Protests Force Cancellation of -
Former Nazi Actor's Appearance

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewi6h News

BERLIN — Protests from the
Jewish community - and Many
Germans Monday night forced
the West Berlin authorities to
reverse an earlier ruling and bar
Werner Krauss, an actor who
performed in the Nazi-made
film, "Jevf Suess," from acting in
an Ibsen play here.
Krauss, who returned to the
Berlin stage in Ibsen's "John
Gabriel Borkman" last Friday
night, was greeted by heckling
from the audience and by pro-
test demonstrations over the
week-end. Several persons were
injured during the protest ral-
lies and Krauss is said to have
written Mayor Ernest Reuter
stating that he did not wish
to see any other people hurt on
his account. •
However, most observers here
agree that Mayor Reuter's latest
decision was taken because the
Jewish community and the Ber-
lin Student Association had
called a demonstration for Mon-
tlay evening. The rally, which
was later cancelled following the
imposition of the ban on Krauss,
was to be -held a few hundred
yards from the theaterNin which
the Ibsen play is being pre-
sented.

I Scheduled to address the
meeting was Franz Neumann,
chairman of the Berlin Social
Democratic Part y, of which
Mayor Renter is a member. Kurt
Schumacher, head of the West
German Social Democratic
Party, also denounced the mun-
icipality's earlier decision to
permit Krauss to continue in
the play. Da Hamburg Monday,
the Central Council of Jews of
Germany issued a statement
protesting Krauss' appearance
on the Berlin stage.

'I Am Guilty'
Raves Use Koch

An AP report from Augsburg,
Germany, reported this week
that use Koch,
"the Beast of.
Buchenwald," on
trial there for
cruel ty to in-
mates of concen-
tration camps
and for tattoo-
ing murdered
men and having.
1 ampshades
•.k.I. ► e "Beast" made out of
their skin, shrieked "I -am
a sinner!" She was taken to a
psychiatric. hospital ward.

British Arms Now
On Sale to Jsrael

No Separate Campaigns,
General !Zionists State

LONDON, (JTA)L--Israel may
now purchase all types of arms
in Britain except those in. short
supply, an authoritative Foreign
Office source 'stated. He assert-
ed that the principle that Is-
rael could buy arms had been
established and that details now
depend on negotiations between
Israel and the British Supply
Ministry.
Israel submitted to the Sup-
ply .Ministry some months ago
a list • of the arms sought here.
It . is expected that these nego-
tiations will, soon be resumed.

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A report
that the General Zionist party
may initiate a fund-raising cam-
paign of its own in the United
States in 1951 if it does not re-
ceive one percent of United
Jewish Appeal funds was denied
by Y. Kubowitzki, managing di-
rector of the General Zionist.
Constructive Fund, in a state-
ment to the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. The report was at-
tributed in the Hebrew press
here to Mr. Kubowitzki. z

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HURRY! THE ACCURSED
ONE WILL RETURN. WE
WILL TAKE HER TO OUR.
LEADER HAU MU5A

I sHouLDNir HAVE
LEFT AVIVA ALONE-
1 HOPE NOTHING'S
HAPPENED TO HER!

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