Polier to Address
Congress Chapter
Wednesday Night

Psychopath Jailed After Post Office
Probe Discovers Clue to His Identity

The Jewish Community Coun- from the army in World War II
cil announces that the anon- as a psycho-neurotic.
Samples of Skubik's mailings
ymous letter writer whose mail-
ings have been a source of revealed that each carried an
annoyance to many persons in erratic text interspersed with
the Jewish community during words of an obscene character,
the past year was apprehended many of them in the Polish
last week. Climaxing an inquiry language. One pattern of his
which was initiated by the operation was to annoy families
Council in cooperation with the recently bereaved with a mailing
postal authorities, the letter addressed to or written about
writer was identified as Stanley the deceased. His activities ex-
Skubik, Jr., 36, of 5110 St. Law- tended to mailings sent in the
name of Jewish individuals or
rence.
Post Office Inspector Earl A. organizations to leading figures
Barnhart, who was in charge of in American life.
the investigation, advised the
Council that Skubik had admit- Jewish Groups Unite
ted being the source of the mys-
terious mailings. It was esti- In Asking Congress
mated by the Post Office De- To Revise DP Laws
partment that during the past
WASHINGTON, (AJP) — In a
year Skubik had mailed between
3500 and 4000 postcards plus an precedent-setting united action
undetermined number of Bibles, aimed at liberalizing the flow of
prayer books, candles and vari- newcomers to
this country in
ous novelty items.
He has also admitted to pur- line with Ameri-
chasing a gross of Rosaries, c a n traditions,
which were mailed, at least in America's major
part, to Jewish residents of the Jewish organi-
community. When arrested zations b anded
Skubik had much of his para- together to Judge Rifkind
phernalia in his car together carry to a congressional com-
with a small mimeograph ma- mittee their strong opposition to
chine for turning out postcards; the revisions and restrictions in
stamps, telephone books which existing immigration laws.
Spokesman for the Jewish
he used for addresses, and other
groups will be Judge Simon Rif-
mailing equipment.
Skubik was apparently moti- kind, who is scheduled to ap-
vated by his belief that "Jews pear before a joint committee
were getting too much control of the House and Senate to out-
of the money" and that in some line the Jewish objections to the
way his activities would coun- proposed McCarran and Walter
teract this. He also expressed Omnnibus immigration b i 11,
the opinion to postal inspectors which would restrict the flow
that just before Easter his work of newcomers to America as well
was more timely because it as place certain qualifications
might forestall the spending of on DPs planning entry into the
"Christian money" in Jewish- ;United States.
owned stores.
Fudge Rifkind was expected
Skubik, who on two previousi- 'to) propose to the congressional
occasions was confined in local committee the pooling of un-
mental institutions, is presently used immigration quotas in such
a police prisoner in the psycho- a manner that if certain quotas
pathic ward of Receiving Hos- remain: unfilled, they may be
pital where he is undergoing filled with persons not within
psychiatric observation. If he that specific category. His pro-
is not committed for mental care posal, it was learned, is aimed
he faces government prosecu- at filling the full total of 154,-
tion on a charge of misusing 000 immigrants' entry set by the
the mails. He was discharged Government.

Jewish Mayors in Michigan

Norman H. Wiener of Albion

By IRVING I. KATZ

Norman H. Wiener was born
"Is Our Democracy on Trial?"
will be the subject of an address in Russia, May 12, 1891, and
by Shad Polier, chairman of the came to Three Rivers, Mich., in
1907. Three years later he moved
to Albion, Mich. In 1911, he
founded the Albion Iron & Metal
Company and in 1923 he organ-
ized the Norman H. Wiener Coal
Co. His other business connec-
tions were: Director of Deckor
Screw Co., president of Michigan
Inland Foundry Company, and
director of the Albion State
Bank.
From 1928 to 1930, Mr. Wiener

served as a member of the Al-
bion. City Council. In 1931, he
was elected Mayor of Albion and
held that honored position for
14 years.
In 1916, Mr. Wiener married
Rose Stone of Beloit, Wis., and
they were the parents of two
daughters. Mr. Wiener is still a
resident of Albion where he is
highly respected by his towns-
people.

THE JEWISH NEWS - 5.

Friday, .,'larch 23, 1951

Announcing Our INFORMAL

Commission on Law and Social
Action of the American Jewish
Congress and national v i c e-
president of that organization,
next Wednesday evening, at
Young Israel Youth Center,
12521 Dexter. Mr. Polier will
speak under the auspices of the
Business and Professional Chap-
ter of the Congress of which
William Cohen is president.
Mr. Polier was the principal
trial attorney for the National
Labor Relations Board from
1937 to 1939. He is at present
chairman of the executive com-
mittee of the New York State
Committee for Equality in Edu-
cation, which played a leading
role in the mobilization of pub-
lic opinion for the enactment
of the Quinn-Oliffe law by the
New York State Legislature this
year, barring discrimination by
colleges and universities in the
admission of students.
As a taxpayer he, together
with three Negro veterans, insti-
tuted a lawsuit against the Met-
ropolitan Life Insurance Com-
pany to enjoin its practice of
excluding Negroes from Stuyve-
sant Town. Ar appeal is being
taken to the U.S. Supreme Court
on this question.

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