2 6- —THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, April 13, 1951

Obituaries

KATIE ROSENTHAL, 86, 11501
Petoskey, died April 5. Services
were at Lewis Brothers, with
Rabbi Wohlgelernter officiating.
Interment, Clover Hill Park
Cemetery. Survived by her son,
Ben Rollins; sisters, Mrs. Max
Silverman and Mrs. Irving
Bernstein; b r o t h e r, Ben B.
Schwartz; t w o grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren.
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WILLIAM WEISS, 12143 Santa
Rosa, died March 31. Services
were at Kaufman Chapel with
Rabbi Fram and Cantor Tulman
officiating. He leaves his wife,
Helen; son, Herbert; daughter,
Lila; and sister, Mrs. Laura
Schwartz, of Newark, N.J. In-
terment, Beth El Memorial Park.
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IDA RABINOWITZ, of Toledo,
0., - died April 3. Services were
at Kaufman Chapel with Rabbi
Sperka and Cantor Adler of-
ficiating. She leaves five sons,
Louis, Morris and Robbie Rob-
bins, of Toledo, Charles Rabin-
owitz, of Toledo, and Isadore
Rabinowitz, of Dalton, Ga.; and
a daughter, Mrs. Fred Wernick
of Fostoria, 0. Interment, Bnai
David Cemetery.
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PAUL MARIENTHAL, 4037
Cortland, died April 3. Services
were at Kaufman Chapel with
Rabbi Hershman and Cantor
Sonenklar officiating. He leaves
his wife, Minnie; son, Leslie A.;
and brothers, Samuel and
Charles. Interment, Clover Hill
Park Cemetery.
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MORRIS M 0 N Y, 11374 W.
Martindale, died April 6. Ser-
vices were at Kaufman Chapel
with Rabbi Goldman and Can-
tor Sonenklar officiating. He
leaves his wife, Nelly; sons, Mil-
ton and Marvin; daughter, Mrs.
Marshall Gootson; and sister,
Mrs. Alex Green. Interment,
MaChpelah Cemetery,

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Cancer research in Israel does
not sound like sport news, but
it is when a leading sports figure
turns over $10,000 to help it
along. The Runyon fund desig-
nated boxing champ Sugar Ray
Robinson to deliver a check for
the $10,000 to Israel. Similar
checks are going to England, Ire-
land, France, Sc Aland and Nor-
way.

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The family of the late Hyman
Gottlieb announces the unveil-
ing of a monuinent • in his
memory at 1 p.m., Sunday, April
15, at Machpelah Cemetery. Rel-
atives and friendS are asked to
attend.

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Greenberg's Rise to Fame;
Sokolsky Urges `Buddy' Made Good by
Anti-Reds Reject Swinging at Anti-Semite

Hits Anti-Semite Tactics:

MORRIS KRAMER, 3329 Cal-
vert, died April 4. Services were
at Kaufman Chapel with Rabbi
Rabinowitz and Cantor Adler
officiating. He leaves four sons,
Hymen, Meyer, of Los Angeles,
Jack and S a in u e 1; and two
daughters, Mrs. Hyman Wasser
and Mrs. Lee Lenhoff. Inter-
ment, Bnai David Cemetery.
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•ABRAHAM GOLDSMITH, 9617
Petoskey, died April 4. Services
were at Kaufman Chapel with
Rabbi Stollman, Rabbi Levin
and Cantor Sonenklar officiat-
ing. He leaves three sons, David,
Harry and Henry; five daugh-
ters, Mrs. Jack Greenberg, Mrs.
Raymond Berman, Mrs. A. J.
Blumenau, Mrs. Louis Schwartz
and Miss Esther Goldsmith; and
a sister, Mrs. Eva Levy. Inter-
ment, Machpelah Cemetery.
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JACOB FEINBERG, 2309 W.
Philadelphia, died April 2. Ser-
vices were at Kaufman Chapel
with Rabbi Gorrelick officiating.
He leaves two sons and a sis-
ter, Mrs. Rose Shapiro, of New
Y o r k. Interment, Machpelah
Cemetery.
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SARAH WILDBAUM. 76, 5505
Second, died April 3. Services
were at Hebrew Benevolent So-
ciety. Rabbi Wohlgelernter of-
ficiated. Survived by her sons,
Martin, Barney and Philip
Donon; sister, Rebecca Brenner;
and brother, Fred Gold.
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HARRY EHRLICH, 56, 1930 W.
Philadelphia, died April 2. Rabbi
I. Stollman officiated. Survived
by his sister, Pearl Ring; and
nephew Abraham Szpiro. Serv-
ices were at Hebrew Benevolent
Society.
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ANNA MIHALY, 80, 1923 W.
Euclid, died April 4. Services
were at Hebrew Benevolent So-
ciety. Rabbi Lehrman officiated.
Survived by her h u s b a n d,
Adolph; daughter, Frieda Einzig;
sons, Dave Lorenz, Karoy Law-
rence, Edward Lawrence and
Carl Lawrence; sister, Adel
Greenblatt; six grandchildren
and five great grandchildren.
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SADIE WEBERMAN, 56, 2236
W.. Philadelphia, died April 5.
Services were at Hebrew Bene-
volent Society. Rabbi Siegel of-
ficiated. Survived by her hus-
band, Julius; sons, Harry and
Herbert; daughters, Ruth Blum-
berg, Betty Silverman and Fran-
ces Weberman; brothers, Isidore
Sperling and Reuben Sobel; and
two grandchildren.•

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NEW YORK—(AJP) — George
E. Sokolsky, a leading right
wing Jewish anti - Communist
and newspaper columnist, urged
all "real fighters against Com-
munism' to reject anti-Semitic
attempts to link Jews and
Communism.
The appeal was made in an
article, "The New Anti-Semi-
tism," in the "Freeman," a fort-
nightly magazine which report-
edly receives subsidization from
Alfred Kohlberg, national chair-
man of the American Jewish
League Against Communism.
Sokolsky is a member of the
board of the anti-Communist
League,
The April 9 issue, in which the
Sokolsky article appeared, car-
ried a note on its masthead that
it incorporated "Plain Talk."
"Plain Talk" was edited be-
fore its dissolution by Isaac
Don Levine, another right-wing
anti - Communist. Levine was
reportedly forced out of the
editorship of the magazine after
he attacked Merwin Hart, no-
torious anti-Semite, who later
bragged he had forced Levine
out. Hart has for years peddled
the line that "some" Jews and
Zionists are engaged in a Marx-
ist conspiracy against the
Christian world,
Sokolsky's attack . was aimed
at "Common Sense," a weekly
hate-sheet published in Union,,
N. J., by Conde McGinley, an-
other professional anti-Semite.
McGinley has been peddling
the line that "Jews are Marx-
ists." Sokolsky labeled t h e
propaganda theme "the new
anti-Semitism."
Sokolsky devoted most of the
article to factually demolishing
a typical collection of charges
that the Marshall plan was
written by a Jewish Communist
named "Louis Lorwin," that
George C. Marshall was Secre-
tary of Defense in name only
because he was a guest at a
dinner in New York to celebrate
the birthday of Chaim Weiz-
mann, "Yiddish president of
Israel," and similar anti-Semitic
stereotypes.
S o k of s k y apparently was
keenly disturbed by what ap-
peared to be his first contact
with the fact that' the lineup
of fighters against Communism
includes professional hate ped-
dlers who carry on the age-old
fight against Jews by seeking to
deflect popular hatred of Corn-
munism against them.
"I appeal personally to real
fighters against.Communism to
denounce this paper, "Common
Sense," Sokolsky said. One of
the supporters of the anti 2Jew-
ish sheet is . Benjamin Freed-
man, notorious pro,Arab and
friend of the. Mufti.
Explaining that he did not
know McGinley and that "in my
anti Communist associations,
which go back to 1917, I have
never come across his name un-
til I saw it in his newspaper,"
Sokolsky credited the hate-
peddler with possibly being
"well-intentioned in his opposi-
tion to Communism."
Sokolsky added that McGinley
was "singularly ill - informed,
particularly when he associates
Zionism with Communism."

A public banquet was tendered
by the government of the prov-
ince of Saskatchewan to FRED
MANDEL, a -Jewish refugee who
settled in Saskatoon a decade
ago and in the words of_ . a gov-
einnient -SpokeSniaii, Since
;Made a tremendous contribution
to the cultural and business life
of the community,"

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By HAROLD U. RIBALOW

(Copyright, 1951, American Jewish Press. All rights reserved).

Now that the baseball season
is upon us, it is pleasant to be
able to recall that even though
there have been few Jewish dia-
mond stars, those few have been
top stars, one of them having
been a super-star, certainly good
enough to rank with any of to-
day's top players. More, there
have been Jewish diamond per-
sonalities who have made their
mark in the sport in non-active
roles. There have been a number
of Jewish owners, coaches, joke-
sters and even a star umpire.
There hasn't been much in the
way of quantity, but the quality
has been high.

Perhaps the greatest Jewish
player in history, with the
possible exception of Johnny
Kling, has been a huge, awk-
ward, lumbering, powerful
man named Henry Greenberg,
of Orthodox Jewish parents
who came from Romania to
the United States and watched
their boy become an Ameri-
can idol and, finally, a suave
general manager of a major
league club in Cleveland.

Hank Greenberg's career is too
well known to warrant any de-
tailed retelling. It is enough to
say that he twice won the Most
Valuable Player Award in the
American League; that he led
the Detroit Tigers to a couple
of memorable pennants; that he
hit 58 home runs in a single
season, a mark equalled by one
man and bettered only by Babe
Ruth; that he drove. in 183 runs
in a single year, one shy of the
American league record, and
that he ranks—now that his ca-
reer is over—as one of the hard-
est hitting, most dangerous of
right-handed batters in the his-
tory of baseball.

When Hank Greenberg went
into the- army early in the war,
he won the plaudits of the
entire American sporting
world. When he came out, he
led the Tigers to another flag.
When he was sold to Pitts-
burgh, the sporting writers
and fans were indignant. But
Hank swallowed his pride and
taught a young fellow how to
hit the long ball. That year
the young fellow made good.
His name was Ralph Kiner
who, to this day,, is grateful
to Hank Greenberg for making
him an authentic slugger.

Today Greenberg is a baseball
executive, married• to Caral Gim-
bel and the father of two fine
sons. His job is to help win a
flag, from the front office, for
the Cleveland Indians.
But Hank Greenberg, although
the greatest of .the modern-day
Jewish stars, was not the only
one. In 1935, when Hank won
the most valuable player award,
a quiet Jewish boy from Mississ-
ippi won the batting champion-
ship of the American League. He
was Charles "Buddy" Myer, who
played second base in the ma-
jors for 17 years, 15 of them
with the Washington Senators.
Buddy hit .349 in 1935 and there-

by won the acclaim which sel-
dom came his way in a career
which was always brilliant but
seldom colorful. His lifetime av-
erage, after nearly two decades
in the big-time, was .303, higher
by far than the life-time marks
of Joe Gordon and Bobby Doerr,
two of the second baggers al-
ways rated above him. The truth
is that in his day Buddy was
second only to the incomparable
Charlie Gehringer. No other sec-
ond baseman hit as well as Bud-
dy or was so. steady.

Myer was a quiet man who
seldom got into squabbles, but
he once was fined $100 for
fighting with Ben Chapman,
The story had it that Ben
Chapman, a • notorious baiter
of minority groups, said a
word too many to Myer and
the soft-spoken Buddy let
him have it—right on the jaw.

There have been, of course,
other baseball ._,cars, including
such morning glories—in the
sense that they played well for
no more than a half a season—
like Morris Arnovich of the
Phillies, Giants and Reds; Goody
Rosen of the Giants and Dodg-
ers; and such personalities like
Al Schacht, the "clown prince of
baseball" and Dolly Stark, a
first-rate umpire who was con-
stantly under barrage by the
players but who managed to be
an excellent arbiter; and such
owners as Judge Emil Fuchs,
Sidney Well and the Barney
Dreyfus family.

The only other player of real
stature was Harry Danning,
the New York Giants catcher
of a decade ago. Harry was a
Giant star who made the
grade only after. the passing
of John McGraw, who was at-
ways on the lookout for a
Jewish diamond ace for the
Polo Grounds: Harry made
good in Bill Terry's day, not
McGraw's, and he was for a
period of four years one of the
hardest hitting catchers in the
game.

In 1937 he finally shared the
catching chores with Gus Man-
cuso and from the4 on in, until
the army grabbed him, Harry
was an authentic power hitter
the man who caught the slants
of Carl Hubbell practically every
time the great southpaw went to
the mound. Harry was a real
.300 slugger and the man who
generally hit the long ball. His
playing days were over when he
came out of the army, but he
will be remembered as the best
JeWish player ever brought up
by the Giants, with the possible
exception of Sid Gordon—but •
that is a story that belongs to
the discussion of current stars, a
matter which will be under an-.
alysis in the final article in this
series.

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