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. * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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, 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. 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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. "And Ye Shall Be Comforted" BOULEVARP at EDISON TYler 7-4520 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. * * * •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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * .* 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.• Monument Unveilings 'Jewish Diamond Aces': Jew-Red 'Link' 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," Cemetery Memorials Lowest "Prices for Highest Quality Granite and Outstanding Designs DETROIT MONUMENT WORKS 2744 %V. Davison cor. Lawton TO. 8-6923 TO. 8 7523 - 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. 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