Jewish Diamond Aces:
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Sightless Children Chant 4 Questions
Friday, April 27, 1951
Ginsberg Rogoviii and Abrams
Given Serious Consideration
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(Copyright, 1951. American Jewish Press. All rights reserved),
By HAROLD U. RIBALOW
The 1951 baseball season be-
gan with two Jewish stars in
the lineups of two of the clubs
and with five potential starters
on four other clubs. The statis-
CAL ABRAMS
tics are not overwhelming, but
the players may, during the
course of the season, win plenty
of headlines and play important
roles in the major league pen-
nant races.
MYRON JOE GINSBERG
Apart from Sid Gordon of
the Boston Braves and Al Rosen
of the Cleveland Indians, the
following Jewish athletes are in
the .process:f making the grade:
Cal Abrams of the Brook-
lyn Dodgers; Sid Schacht of
the St. Louis Browns, Mary
Rotblatt of the Chicago White
Sox; Joe Ginsberg and Saul
Rogovin of the Detroit Tigers.
The case of Cal Abrams is a
highly peculiar one. There are
many players known as minor
leaguers, even when they man-
age to pile up heavy batting
averages wherever they play. But
most of these men are sluggers
who find that the big leagues
are a trifle too slick for them.
Abrams, however, is not a slug-
ger. He is a keen batsman, one
who doesn't hit a long ball but
has never hit under .327 in any
league outside of the majors and
has gone as high as the top
.340's. This is his last whirl with
Brooklyn and many astute base-
_ ball men are wondering why the
_Dodgers haven't given him more
of a trial up to now. • He was a
spring sensation a while back
and failed in the first week of the
season to get more than one
base hit. He was quickly .re-
turned to the minors where he
again belabored the pitchers.
This year he came back to the
Dodgers with little publicity, but
gradually his fielding ability,
his persistence in getting on
base and his general all-around
play won him a new chance. He
may yet get a real chance to
play this year.
Sid Schacht came to the
Browns last year, literally out of
nowhere and stuck with the club
most of the year as a relief
pitcher. He is being generously
used this season, for the Browns
are even worse than they were
and pitchers are sorely needed.
Maw Rotblatt, a brilliant,
promising left-hander, pitched
impressively to win his first
start of the season for the
White Sox and, on the basis of
Marv's college and minor league
career, he is a real corner. Last
year he -won more than 20 games
in a fast minor league and the
fact that he started the second
game of the season for his new
manager, Paul Richards, is a
sign that he is considered to be
a key man on the squad.
Two other Jews in the
majors may some day combine
to form a strong battery for
the Tigers, one of the best
clubs in the American League.
Saul Rogovin, a tall fast-ball
pitcher, started well last year
and then succumbed to a sore
arm. If he recovers his health,
he has a chance to win a reg-
ular job with the Tigers. With
Buffalo he showed that he
could overpower the batters
and if you are fast, your
speed remains with you no
matter where you throw the
ball, be it a minor or major
league park.
Joe Ginsberg is now having
his second crack at a regular
catching job with the Tigers.
He is a wonderfully adept
receiver and for a boy in his
early twenties, he promises to
develop into a real good
catcher. But, so far, he has
been unable to hit major
league pitching with any regu-
larity. Last yea:Red Rolfe gave
him generous chances to win
the first-string catching job.
He didn't do it. This year he
opened as the starting mask
and mitt man. He certainly
has his team mates rooting for
him, inasmuch as Detroit,
with strong catching, may be
a factor in the current pen-
nant race.
It is a good guess to predict
that Rotblatt and Ginsberg will
hang around all season.
If Abrams get to play regu-
larly, the chances are that he,
too, will be in the lineup at the
end of the year. Rogovin and
Schacht will probably return to
the minor league clubs. Rogovin,
if he regains form, may surprise.
Agudas Israel Parley
Issues Protest Against
Conscript of Orthodox
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—An Agudas
Israel national conference here
protested against the govern-
ment's insistence on the con-
scription of Orthodox women.
Rabbi I. M. Lewin, Minister
for Social Welfare and leader of
the organization, told delegates
that Parliament has no author-
ity to conscript orthodox women.
He also contested the govern-
ment's right to demand that all
land be worked, including land
which orthodox agriculture
groups decided will lie fallow in
line with the Biblical injunction
to rest the land every seven
years.
Unique Passover
Services in USSR
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Israel and Korea
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TOKYO, (JTA) — Jewish men
and women in the American
armed forces fighting in Korea
took . part in Passover services
in Pusan, Seoul and Taegu,
while Protestant and Catholic
soldiers joined the Jews in Pass-
over celebrations in field hos-
pitals and wherever the cele-
brations could be held under
battle conditions.
The services were conducted
by four Jewish chaplains with
supplies furnished by the Na-
tional Jewish Welfare Board.
Passover services were held for
Jewish servicemen in the U.S.
armed forces stationed in Japan.
The four Jewish chaplains
who officiated in Korea are Mil-
ton Rosen, Carson Goodman,
George Vida and Oscar M. Lif-
shutz. A Catholic priest and a
Protestant chaplain participated
in the Seder conducted by Chap-
lain Lifshutz at one of the field
hospitals. Lt. Gen. James A.
Van Fleet, commander of the
Eighth Army, issued a Passover
message of greetings to all the
Jews serving under him in the
United Nations forces.
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Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Jews
throughout Israel observed Pass-
over with many of them mak-
ing pilgrimages from all parts of
the country to Jerusalem to
Mount Zion.
At the Lydda airport, Jews
brought over from Iraq were en-
tertained at a Seder specially
arranged for t h e newcomers
under the gaily decorated han-
gar. The traditional function
Was conducted by a rabbi who
arrived in the same aircraft
with the immigrants.
Permission for 20 members of
the ancient sect of Samaritans
to enter Jordan territory from
Israel for their traditional Pass-
over sacrifices on Mt. Gerisim
was denied by the Jordanian
authorities. The Samaritans had
asked for permission more than
a month ago.
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Moscow Services
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Jews in
Moscow celebrated Passover in
traditional services at the Cen-
tral Synagogue there, the New
York Times reported in a dis-
patch from the Soviet capital.
The report said that services
were conducted by Cantor Bar-
kan. Matzoth were eaten in Or-
thodox Jewish homes, the cor-
respondent reported.
The congregation in the Mos-
cow synagogue, the correspon-
dent said, appeared to be a
representative cross-section of
the Jewish populace, y 6 u n g,
middle-aged and some elderly
bearded Jews. There were a
number of women, many of
them smartly dressed, in the
gallery, which runs around three
sides of the temple. The charge
d'affaires of the Israeli Legation
Lev Argaman, and the second
secretary of the legation, Arie
Aroch, occupied seats on a plat-
form to the left of the central
altar, the report said.
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Seder in Germany
MUNICH (JTA)—United States
High Commissioner John P. Mc-
Cloy attended a Seder given for
American Jewish personnel sta-
tioned here. The services were
performed by Army Chaplain
Hersh Livazer.
State Appeals Freeing
Of Pelley in Indiana
—American Jewish Press photo
Peter Barnett, 9, of Cedarhurst, L. I. (left) and Peter Stayer,
9, of New York City, chant the four questions at the annual seder
for blind children. The Hagadah is in Braille for the sightless
children, who invited 20 non-Jewish blind children as their guests.
In the center is Rabbi 1Valter Duckrat, who conducted the unique
service.
JDC Settles 175,000 Jews in 1950;
400,000 Dependent on Aid This Year
Despite critical emigration
emergencies, which forced cur-
tailment of relief and recon-
struction programs in certain
areas, the Joint Distribution
Committee aided 450,000 Jews
overseas during 1950, the agen-
cy's annual report reveals.
Because these emigration
crises o c c u r r e d in Romania,
Poland, Iran, Iraq and other
areas where JDC had little or
no permanent program, however,
an estimated 400,000 men, wo-
men and children are still de-
pendent on JDC's aid during the
coming year, the report indi-
cates.
More than 174,500 Jewish refu-
gees were emigrated by JDC last
year, with funds provided by the
United Jewish Appeal. Of this
number, the vast majority—
more than 162,000 were trans-
ported to Israel, with other em-
igrants going to the United
States, Canada, Australia, South
America and other lands.
In addition, tens of thousands
of Jews monthly received medi-
cal, welfare, rehabilitation and
reconstruction a s s is to n c e in
France, Hungary, North Africa,
Iran and other lands. Outstand-
ing achievement of the year, ac-
cording to the report, was the
expansion of JDC aid to aged,
ill and handicapped newcomers
in Israel, through the agency
known as Malben.
U.S. Educator is Named
To High Refugee Position
GENEAVA, (JTA) — James
Read, an American educator
currently attached to the office
of the United States High Com-
missioner for Germany, has been
named Deputy High Commis-
sioner for Refugees by UN High
Commissioner G. J. Van Heuven
Goe.dhart.
Among the other members of
the High Commissioner's staff
named in the announcement
were : Gustave Kullman, form-
erly Deputy High Commissioner
of the League of Nations Re-
fugee Organization, chief of the
Division of Protection; John
Alexander of Britain, executive
director for all other operations;
and Ugo Carusi, former U. S.
Commissioner of Immigration,
High Commissioner's represent-
ative in the United States.
Entitled "The Year of Emer-
gencies," the report discloses
that in 1950 JDC appropriated
$36,516,000 for its programs in 19
countries. Accounts of the agen-
cy's work are given by Edward
M. M. Warburg, JDC chairman
and general chairman of the
nationwide campaigns of the
United Jewish Appeal; Moses
A. Leavitt, JDC executive vice-
chairman; Judge Maurice Ber-
non, chairman of the JDC
National Council; and Dr. Joseph
J. Schwartz, JDC director-gen-
eral, now on leave to serve as
executive vice-chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal.
`Third Seder' Hears
Bond Issue Appeals
NEW YORK, (JTA) — More
than 5,000 representatives of la-
bor, business, Zionist and fra-
ternal organizations attendert
the Third Seder arranged by t1-.
Histadrut at the Hotels Waldorf
and Commodore.
The overflow audiences in
both hotels were addressed by
Dr. Dov Joseph, Israel's Minister
of Communications; Henry Mor-
genthau, Jr.; James G. McDon-
ald, former U. S. Ambassador in
Israel; Dr. Nahum Goldman;
Isaac Hamlin, general secretary
of the $10,000,000 Histadrut
campaign in the United States,
and others.
The speakers urged the au-
diences to support the Israel
bond drive and emphasized the
role of the Jewish State in in-
ternational affairs. Mr. McDon-
ald said that Americans can count
on Israel to resist aggression and
to line up behind the United
States. Mr. Morgenthau declared
that Israel is the most vigorous
stronghold of democracy in the
eastern Mediterranean:
Vermont Legislature Rejects
Governor's Bias Investigation
BOSTON, (JTA) — The Ver-
mont State Legislature has re-
jected pronosals made by Gov-
ernor Emerson in his inaugural
address for establishment of a
three man commission to inves-
tigate whether racial discrim-
ination existed in Vermont and
to recommend legislation to pre-
vent it.
Advertisers Organize for Campaign
INDIANAPOLIS, (JTA) — The
State Attorney General's office
filed an appeal in the Indiana
Supreme Court against a lower
10.01:0k-
court ruling that freed William
Dudley Pelley, leader of the
anti-Semetic Silver Shirt or-
ganization.
The action was taken at the
request of North Carolina au-
thorities seeking to extradite
Pelley to serve a suspended sen-
tence for stock fraud. Pelley was
released on sedition charges. He
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was re-arrested for ' extradition ' , s7,,
Printers' division leaders in the Allied Jewish Campaign in- but succeeded in obtaining his
Leaders in the advertising section of the Allied Jewish Cam-
clude (left to right) Hyman Safran, Frank A. Denison, Herman L. freedom on a habeas corpus paign, left to right: Leon S. Wayburn, Charles Rosen, Ben Gold-
Lewis, Jr., and Harvey Willeus.
stein and Fred Epps.
writ.
Guide Printers in Allied Campaign
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