Dr. Klein Builds 42-Bed Convalescent
Hospital to Care for City's Chronically Ill
JW 3 7 Leaders Meet with Truman
Dr. William Klein announced this week that he has begun construction on a new 42-bed
convalescent hospital, with a strictly kosher kitchen, located on Linwood, one block south of Oak-
man Boulevard. The above is the architect's drawing of the new hospital, being constructed by
Thomas-Wilson Co.
To be known as the Villa-Zion Hospital, the new construction is an outgrowth of the pres-
ent hospital at 1876 E. Grand Blvd., conducted by Dr. 'Klein. Requests for a more central location
and many applications for entry in the hospital induced Dr. Klein to build a larger structure, to
care for the chronically ill.
Dr. Klein announces that the new building will be conducted on the same line as the present
hospital, on a strictly kosher basis, with 24-hour nursing care, complete laboratory facilities, a
dining room for ambulatory patients and recreational facilities. Dr. Klein also plans to introduce
occupational therapy as part of a rehabilitation program, under expert medical supervision.
Additional information may be secured by calling Dr. Klein, WA. 1-4440 or TO. 8-2882.
Acheson Fears Prague
Purge k JuSt Beginning
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Secre-
tary of State Dean Acheson said
that it is not yet clear what
'consequences "the anti-Israel,
anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish as-
pects" of the Prague trial may
have for. Jews in Czechoslova-
kia and in other satellite coun-
tries of Eastern Europe.
Acheson described the trial as
"an elaborate pretense with in-
numerable false charges; forced
testimony and induced confes-
sionS." He said the trial was
designed by Moscow to terrorize
satellite regimes into greater
exertions and predicted that
such trials would be repeated
"whenever it is deemed neces-
sary to teach the lessons of ut-
ter unquestioning dependence
upon the Kremlin and unswerv-
ing and unsuccessful compliance
with its purposes."
`The Dreidel Hero'
■ •••••••••••• ■•■■■ •11
Coach Holman to Fight. Survey Explains Rise
Suspension from CCNY In English Weeklies,
Fall of Yiddish Press
•••••• ■ •••111110.
.—International Photo
NAT HOLMAN, shown with his
wife, Ruth, as they returned
from Europe, told reporters that
14 will defend himself against
charges that he was indirectly
connected in a basketball "fix"
involving members of his City
College of New York cage squad.
The coach said he would fight
his suspension from CCNY.
Timed for Hanukah, Bloch
Publishing Co. has issued the
charming story for children,
"The Dreidel Hero and How He
Earned His Letters," written and
illustrated by Sharon L. Ross.
The "hero" of the story, a
small dreidel named David, was
required to do something im-
portant to earn his letters—re- Israeli Captain Denies
ferring, of course, to the Nun, Ship Scuttling Threat
Gimmel, Heh, Shin on the tra-
ditional dreidel used in the Han-
MONTREAL, (JTA) — Capt.
ukah games. David, living in a Adam Graetz, who left the ves-
forest, heard a cry for help. It sel Abraham Graetz aboard a
was a sparrow, entangled in a tug off Halifax last week, has
cluster of vines. The young drei- denied that he was removed be-
del, spun his way to the victim, cause he sent irresponsible mes-
cut the vines and released the sages to the Israel Ministry of
bird.
Communications, conducted a
Later, when a fire broke out reign of terror aboard the vessel
in the forest, David the Dreidel and threatened to scuttle the
sought the sparrow's help and ship.
was flown to town to bring the
Capt. Graetz, who said he left
fire-fighters to the scene. But his command to join his father,
the people were in their homes H. R. Graetz here because his
celebrating Hanukah. So David father was ill, blamed the re-
undertook himself to sound the ports of irregular conduct on his
alarm by pulling the cord of the part on a Tel Aviv newspaper.
fire bell, and the forest was He told a press conference that
saved.
it was "likely" that he would re-
The sparrow stayed in town sume command of the vessel.
to tell about David's heroism,
According to earlier reports,
The mayor awarded him a he- the 24-year-old ship captain was
ro's ribbon, he was awarded taken ashore at Halifax, Nova
the letters, which stand for the Scotia, on orders from his fath-
words, Nes Godol Hoyo Shorn— er, one of the owners of the
meaning "a great miracle was vessel, and was charged by port
performed then," he and his authorities as being mentally
family were honored and all ill.
ends happily in this nice story
. The messages Capt. Graetz is
for children.
accused of sending were said to
have
demanded that Premier
Israel Tourist Director
David Ben-Gurion appoint his
Here to Arrange Visits
father to the vacant post of
NEW YORK, (JTA) —Amos Minister of Communications. •
Irron, director general of the De-
Abraham Epstein Dead
partment of Tourism of the Is-
rael Ministry of Trade and In-
NEW
YORK, (JTA)—Abraham
dustry, arrived here on a short
Epstein,
noted American Hebrew
visit to promote tourism in the
writer, died of a heart attack.
new state during 1953.
He was '70. Born in Slutzk,
He told reporters that during Russia, he came to the United
his stay in the United States he States about 30 years ago. His
will discuss problems confront- Hebrew books were published
ing prospective American tour- in New York and Tel Aviv.
ists to Israel, and will assist
travel agents a•nd organizations
in the planning of their 1953
tows.,
THE JEWISH NEWS-17
Friday, December 19, 1952
An analysis of the present sta-
tus of the Jewish Press in
Ameria with comparative circu-
lations between Yiddish and
English - Jewish newspapers is
presented in the latest issue of
"Crrent Jewish • Thought," a
digest of periodicals issued every
other month by the Jewish In-
formation Bureau, Bernard G.
Richards, director, 103 Park Ave.,
New York.
The growth of Jewish news-
papers in English language,
mostly weeklies, has been phe-
nomenal in the last 30 years, ac-
cording to this survey, and this
development was accompanied
by a corresponding decline in
the circulation of the Yiddish
dailies now published in New
York and previously also in
other large cities.
The influence_ of the English-
Jewish press is more apparent
outside of New York City where
only a few of the 130 odd pub-
lications circulate. These figures
include about 60 weeklies and 75
magazines.
The Yiddish press, on the
other hand, has been reduced
to four daily newspapers—all in
New York City. The survey es-
timates that with the disappear-
ance of once flourishing jour-
nals in Chicago, Philadelphia
and Cleveland and the suspen-
sion of out of town editions by
some of the New York Yiddish
dailies, that there are only about
300,000 readers of these Yiddish
newspapers left.
The gradual disuse of Yiddish
as a vernacular of Jews as a
medium of communication is
part of the process of a cultural
change that has been going on
among- foreign language speak-
ing groups in the United States
during the past 30 years. This
is reflected, says the survey, in
the tremendous rise in the cir-
culation "of all daily newspapers
printed in English—from 27,790,-
652 in 1920 to 54,017,983 in 1951.
The survey summarizes a
three-sided discussion which re-
cently took place between Philip
Slornovitz, editor of The Jewish
News of Detroit, who is also
president of the American As-
sociation of • English- Jewish
Newspapers, Reuben Fink, jour-
nalist and communal worker,
and Dr. A. A. Roback, college
lecturer a n d . writer of Cam-
bridge, Mass.
The cultural influence exerted
by two notable Jewish period-
icals in the United States, the
"Zukunft" Yiddish monthly
which recently reached its 60th
anniversary, and the "Hadoar"
Yiddish weekly which has been
issued for a period of 30 years
is also reviewed in this issue of
"Current Jewish Thought."
Mrs. Weizmann in New York
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Mrs. Vera
Weizmann, widow of the late
President Chaim Weizmann of
Israel, arrived here to attend
the memorial tribute to the late
President, sponsored by the
American Committee for the
Weizmann Institute of Science
f at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
JESSE MOSS, national commander of the Jewish War 'Veter-
ans from New York, confers with PRESIDENT TRUMAN at
the White House in regard to the significance of the recent
purge trial in Czechoslovakia. Looking on is BERNARD WEIT-
ZER (center) JWV legislative representative.
Col. Guy Dies; Archeologist
Conducted Israel Survey
Life Begins at 70
For Dr. Goldenson
For some life begins at 40. For
Dr. Samuel H. Goldenson, one of
the nation's most distinguished
rabbis, a new life
.began at '70. At
that age he
: became rab-
iai - emeritus
of New York's
Temple Emanu-
El, America's
most coveted
Jewish pulpit.
But instead of
retiring, Dr.
Goldenson chose
to devote part of
Goldenson each year to
traveling up and down the land
to spread the teachings of Re-
form Judaism.
An "alumnus" of a big city
pulpit, Dr. Goldenson has delib-
erately chosen to visit s m a 11
cities on his preaching tours.
There, congregational, c i v i c,
ministerial, collegiate, and serv-
ice club audiences are giVen a
sample of the fervor which
characterizes this rabbi who was
ordained at the Hebrew Union
Union College in 1904, headed
the Central Conference of Am-
erican Rabbis from 1933 to 1935,
and who magnetized congrega-
tions in the four temples he
served: Ada th Israel, Lexington,
Kentucky (1904-1906), Temple
Beth Emeth, Albany, New York
(1906-1918), •odef Shalom, Pitts-
burgh (1910-1934), and New
YOU Let
Can
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Col.
Philip L. Guy, prominent arche-
ologist and discoverer of King
SOlomon's stables, died at the
age of 67. Col. Guy was the son-
in-law of Elieter Ben Yehuda,
famed Hebrew Lexicographer.
One of the few Englishmen to
remain in Israel after the Pales-
tine Mandate was surrendered
by Britain, Col. Guy was direc-
tor of the British School of
Archeology from 1935-39. He al-
so served as dean of the Pales-
tine Board of Higher Studies and
as a member of the Palestine
Soil Conservation Board, both
before the end of the Mandate.
He served as director of the
Archeological Survey of Israel
from 1948 until his death.
Broido Heads Reform Drive
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Louis
Broido, New York Jewish phil-
anthropist and one of the lead-
ers of the United Jewish Appeal,
will head the 1953 campaign for
$2,265,000 to support the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions and the Hebrew Union.
College-Jewish Institute of Re-
ligion.
York's Emanu-El (1934-1948).
Dr. Goldenson's preaching
mission is Under the auspices of
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations. His 1952 itiner-
ary included the states of New
York, Pennsylvania and Michi-
gan.
Them Die?
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg have less than
a month to oblivion — unless the people act
now. With legal appeals exhausted, only
President Truman can grant executive clem-
ency. Why are these the first Amricans to
be executed for "conspiracy to treason" dur-
ing peacetime? On what evidence were they
found guilty? How does this case involve
YOU?
HEAR
B. Z. GOLDBERG
America's Foremost Jewish Journalist
Columnist for THE JEWISH DAY
Speak on
"THE TRUTH ABOUT
THE ROSENBERGS"
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 9 P. M.
Mayfair Catering Hall, 13305 Dexter_
Contribution 50c