Edgar Kaufman Dies

Obituaries

ANNA LIPSCHITZ, 2978 W. MORRIS LEVINE, 19372 Santa
Grand, died April 18. Services :Barbara. died April. 10. Services
at Hebrew Memorial Chapel. at Ira Kaufman Chapel. He
Survived by her husband, Hy- leaves his wife, Gertrude, three
man; four sons, Joseph Lipschitz daughters, Mrs, Irving Zeitlin.
and Charles, Harry and Bern- of Israel, and Shirley and San-
ard Linton; seven daughters, dra Levine, and a grandchild.
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Mrs. David Axelrod, Mrs. Charles
Friedenberg, Mrs. Sam Levine,
YETTA DORF, 11501 Petoskey,
Mrs. Maurice Broad, Mrs. Hersch died April 12. Services at Hebrew
Myers, Mrs. James Roberts and Memorial Chapel Survived by a
Mrs. Louis Fink; a brother, two son, Chaim Shlomo, of Romania;
sisters and 17 grandchildren.
four daughters, Mrs. Helen Lin-
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der, Mrs. Anna Newmark, of
LAZAR MILLER, of Chicago, Los Angeles, Calif., Mrs. Morris
Ill., died March 16.. Services Leider and Mrs. Emanuel Schey;
and interment in Chicago. He a sister, 13 grandchildren; and
leaves his wife, Pearl; a son. three great grandchildren.
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David; two daughters, Ada and
Mrs. Fred Bond, of Detroit; a
LENA DORA FOGEL, 17418
grandchild and a great grand- Monica, died April 12. Services
at Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
child.
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Survived by five daughters, Mrs.
LILLIE J. EPPS, a former De- Casper Brown, Mrs.. Frank York,
troiter, died April 15, in Los Mrs. Julius Klempner, Mrs..
Angeles, Calif. Services at Ira Isaac Kurtz and Mrs. Edward
Kaufman Chapel. She leaves a Newman; three sisters and seven
son, Bernard S., of Beverly Hills; grandchildren.
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a daughter, Mrs. Marc Graham,
Jr., of Encino, Calif.; and four
DAVID JACOBS, 20520 Meyers,
died April 14. Services at Hebrew
grandchildren.
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Memorial Chapel.. Survived by
RACHEL JOSEPH, 822 Mili- four sons, Philip, Sam, Harry
tary„ died April 15. Services at and Gerald; four daughters, Mrs.
Ira Kaufman Chapel. She leaves Sam Davis, Mrs.. William Adel-
four brothers, Samuel L., Abra- berg, Mrs. William Yaras and
ham J., of Grayling, Louis, of Mrs.. Simon Morris; 15 grand-
Sarasota, Fla., and Henry; and children.
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three sisters, Mrs. Ida J. Hoffer,
of Petoskey, and Mrs. Harry
AARON BROWN, 11331 Dexter,
Fredman and Margaret, of Mil- died April 13. Services at Hebrew
Memorial Chapel. Survived by
waukee.
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three sons, Joseph, Louis and
DORA FIDLER LEVINE, 19361 Jacob; three daughters, Mrs.
Kentucky, died April 18. Services Mollie Rosenfeld, Mrs.. Bertha
at Ira Kaufman Chapel. She Greenspan and Mrs. Clem Koss;
leaves her husband, Samuel; a brother; 11 grandchildren and
four sons, Henry, Isadore, Carl 12 great grandchildren.
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and Herman; nine grandchild-
SAMUEL ROBINSON, 9311 N.
ren and a great grandchild.
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Martindale, died April 15. Serv-
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FLORENCE MARKSON, of ices at Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
Alexandria, Ont., died April 17. Survived by his wife, Frances;
Services at Ira Kaufman Chapel. two daughters, Ilene and Gloria;
She leaves her husband, David; a brother and a sister.
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a. daughter, Mrs. Seymour Kat-
Mrs. MOLLIE BOYER, a former
zer, of Detroit; mother, Mrs.
Jennie Jacobof, of New York; Detroiter, died April 12, in Chi-
cago, Ill. Services and interment
and a sister.
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in Chicago. She leaves five
FANNIE HOMONOFF COHEN, daughters, Mrs. Rose Winer, of
3232 Elmhurst, died April 18. Detroit; Mrs. Nettie Swartz, of
Services at Ira Kaufman Chapel. Harvey, Ill.; Mrs. Sally Kaplan,
She leaves three nieces, Mrs. Mrs. Gertrude Bailes and Mrs.
Rose Katt, Mrs. Jack Sief and Freida 'Fein, - all of East Chicago,
Ind.; a son, Sidney Boyer, of
Mrs. Louis Miller.
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Chicago; nine grandchildren and
EDWARD BELINSON, 16160 four great grandchildren.
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Lawton, died April 13. Services
at Ira Kaufman Chapel. He
SAMUEL MENDELSOHN, 20651
leaves his wife, Bessie; a son, Stratford, died April 13. Services
Dr. Louis, of Jacksonville, Ill.; a at HaMilton Chapel. He leaves
daughter', Mrs. Harry R. Helman; his wife, Blanche.
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a sister and three grand chil-
dren.
SAMUEL J. EPSTEIN, a De-
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troiter for 40 years, died April
MOLLIE FINK, 4373 Glendale, 13, in Miami Beach, Fla. Services
died April 12. Services at Ira and interment in Miami. He
Kaufman Chapel. She leaves her leaves a daughter, Mrs. R. Min-
husband Sol; two sons, David den, of Sherman Oaks, Calif.;
and .Jack; a daughter, Beatrice and three grandchildren.
Fink; a brother and a grand-
child.
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HERMAN KESSELL, 25500
Dundee, Huntington Woods, died
April 12. Services at Ira Kauf-
In loving memory of Pvt. Mel-
Man Chapel. He leaves his wife,
Dorothy; a daughter, Julie vin Sapperstein who passed
Beth; two brothers and three away on April 17, 1945.
You are always in our thoughts
sisters.
No matter where we go.

PITTSBURGH, (JTA) — Edgar
Jona . Kaufmann, president of
the Kaufmann Department
Store here and noted philan-
thropist inter-
ested in many
ewish, general
cultural and lo-
cal civic causes,
died last week-
end at P a lm
Springs, Califor-
nia, aged 69.
Among the
causes with
which Mr. Kauf-
mann had been
associated were
;the United
Kaufmann Jewish Fund
here, Irene Kaufmann Settle-
ment, Montefiore Hospital, Unit-
ed War Fund and Y. M. and
Y. W. H. A. He was president of
the Civic Light Opera Associa-
tion here and had contributed
$1,000,000 toward construction of
a new civic redevelopment plan
here.

In Memoriam

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EDWARD A. 'ELLIS, 9809 Dex-
ter, died April 13. Services at Ira
Kaufman Chapel. He leaves a
son, Ronald, a daughter, Mrs.
Julian Harris and a grandchild.
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PHILIP FOGEL, • 2924 Cle-
ments„ died April 9. Services at
Ira Kaufman Chapel. He leaves
his son, Larry Morris, a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Alvin Horowitz; a
brother, sister and four children.
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JENNIE 1:la-MERMAN, 17214
Prairie, died April 10. Services
and interment, Toledo, 0. She
leaves her husband, Harry; a
son, Alvin, two brothers, and a
sister.
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REBECCA MALDAVER, 5677
Oakman Blvd., died April 10.
Services at Ira Kaufman Chapel.
She leaves six sons, Oscar, Irv-
ing, Maurice and Frederick,. of
Detroit, and Leo and Louis, of
Toronto; a daughter, Mrs. Louis
Lightstone;14 grandchildren and
15 great grandchildren.

Always in our hearts
Because we loved you so.

Sadly missed by your mother,
dad and sister.

Solomon Libin Dead

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Solomon
Libin, pioneer Yiddish play-
wright and short story writer in
the United States, died here at
the age of 83. He wrote short
stories for the Arbeiter Zeitung
and Abendblatt and in 1897 be-
came a member of . the staff of
the Jewish Daily Forward, where
he remained until his retirement
three years ago.

An interesting tale told about
Joseph Jonas, the first Jewish
settler of Cincinnati, concerns
the Quaker woman who wanted
to study a "Jew." After thor-
oughly inspecting Jonas, she
amazedly exclaimed, "Well, thou
art no different to other people."

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Yriday, April 22, 1955 -

Retired Police Official,
Nathan Fineberg, Dies

Services for Nathan H. Fine-
berg, a retired detective lieuten-
ant in the Detroit Police De-
partment, were held last week
at Ira Kaufman Chapel. Mr.
Fineberg, '75, died April 12 at his
home, 13555 Twelfth.
the Police Department
in 1906, he retired in 1932 after
serving for four years as detec-
tive lieutenant. He had been
head of the department's emer-
gency Vehicle and riot squad in
1919.
Survivors include his wife,
Jane; a son, Harry; a daughter,
Mrs. Max Gealer; two brothers
and two sisters.

Monument Unveilings

Rabbl Wohlgelerriter ?x1111 of
ficiate, Relatives and friends are
asked to attend.
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The families of the late Sam
Schwartz and Mary Schwarta4,
The family of the late Isidore announce the double unveiling
Lifton announces the unveiling of monuments in their memor-
of a monument in his memory ies at 11:30 a.m., Sunday, May it.
at 11 a.m., Sunday, April 24, at at Machpelah Cemetery. Rabbi
Machpelah Cemetery. Rabbi I. Segal will officiate. Relatives
Stollman will officiate. Relatives and friends are asked to attend.
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and friends are asked to attend.
The family of the late John
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The family of the late Abra- Mandel Michiln announces the
ham Jacobson announces the unveiling of a monument in his
unveiling of a monument in his I memory at 12:30 p.m., Sunday ,
memory at 11 a.m., Sunday, April 24, at Beth Tefilo Emanuel
Cemetery, Woodward north of 8
April 24, at Machpelah Ceme- Mile
Rd. Rabbi Goldman will.
tery, on Woodward. Rabbi Fram
Relatives and friends
will officiate. Relatives and officiate.
are asked to attend,
friends are asked to attend..
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The family of. the late Joseph
The family of the late Adolph Klein announces the unveiling
Reifler announces the unveil- of a monument in his memory
ing of a monument in his me- at 12 noon, Sunday, May 1, at
mory at 2 p.m., Sunday, April I Machpelah Cemetery. RabbJ
24, at Machpelah Cemetery. Donin, will officiate. Relatives
Rabbi Halpern will officiate.
Relatives and friends are asked and friends are asked to attend.,

iLhnveiting announcements may be in
serted by mail or by calling The Jewish

News office, VE. 8-9364. Written an
nouncements must be acccmpanied by
the name and address of the person
making the insertion. There is a standard
charge of $2.00 for unveiling notices,
measuring an inch in depth.)

to attend.

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The family of the late Sophia
Reiner announces the unveiling
of a monument in her memory
at 1 p.m., Sunday, April 24, at
Beth Abraham Cemetery. Rabbi
Halpern will officiate. Relatives
and friends are asked to attend.
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The family of the late Sarah
Ostrow announdes the unveiling
of a monument in her memory
at 11 a.m., Sunday, April 24, at
Hebrew Memorial Park Ceme-
tery. Rabbi Sperka will officiate.
Relatives and friends are asked
to attend.
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Mary Klegon and Freda Law-
British Tercentenary
rence announce the unveiling of
a monument in memory of their
To Include Pilgrimage mother,
the late Sarah (Mazur-
p.m., Sunday,
THE H A G U E, (JTA)—When ovsky) Maron, at 1
the Jews of Great Britain cele- May 1, at Northwest Hebrew Me-
brate next year the tercentenary i morial Park Cemetery, Six Mile
of the return of the Jews to I and Middlebelt. Rabbi Segal and
England in 1656 during the rulelCantor Fenakel will officiate.
of Oliver Cromwell, after an ex- Relatives and friends are asked
ile of more than 350 years, pil- to attend.
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grimage to the grave of Rabbi
The
family
of the late Isadore
Manassah Ben Israel may be a
Callow announces the unveiling
feature of the celebrations.
of a monument in his memory
Ben Israel, who negotiated
1:30 p.m., Sunday, May 1, at
the re-entry of the Jews with at
Hill Park Cemetery. Can-
Cromwell's emissaries and led Clover
tor
Sonenklar
will officiate. Re-
their return, is buried in the latives and friends
are asked to
Sephardic cemetery at Ouder-
kerk, on the Amstei River, not attend.
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far from Amsterdam.
The family of the late Pearl
Ben Israel, the son of Marra- Daniels announces the unveiling
nos, established the first Hebrew of a monument in her memory
printing press in Holland. He at 1 p.m., Sunday, May 1, at
was a friend and neighbor of Beth Yehudah Cemetery, 14 Mile
the great Dutch painter, Rem- and Gratiot. Relatives and
brandt, who did a portrait of friends are asked to attend.
him and illustrated a book he
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wrote.
The family of the late Morris
The Rembrandt illustrations of A. Greenberg announces the un-
this book were the subject of a veiling of a monument in his
lecture this week by Prof. Hans memory at 1 p.m., Sunday, April
Waal of Leyden State University. 24, at Hebrew Memorial Park
Cemetery. Rabbi Chinitz will of-
Lebanon Holds 3 Israelis ficiate. Relatives and friends are
asked to attend.
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TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The dis-
The family of the late David
appearance three days ago of
three young Israel settlers from Davis announces the unveiling
Gonan, a settlement in the of a monument in his memory
north of Israel, was cleared up at 12:30 p.m., Sunday, May 1,
when the Lebanese representa- at Chesed shel Emes Cemetery,
tives of the Israel - Lebanese
Mixed Armistice Commission re-
ported to the MAC the capture
of three Israel "soldiers" inside
Lebanese territory.
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The Israelis notified the MAC Granite and Outstanding Designs
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three men, who accidentally
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crossed the Lebanese frontier.
Two British RAF men were
arrested by Israel military police
when they crossed into Israel
from Jordan. The Britons are
stationed at the airbase at Ak-
aba, in Jordan.
A Jewish woman was wounded
and several cows were stolen by
Arab infiltrators from Jordan
who raided the Israel settlement
of Eshtae] in the Jerusalem
Corridor, a military spokesman
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announced. Israel has filed a
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complaint on the incident with
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the Jordan-Israel Mixed Armi-
stice Commission.

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State Proselyte Community
Strictly Celebrates Passover

WEST OLIVE, Mich., (JTA)--
proselyte community here„,
part of an organization of con-
verts to Judaism , celebrated
Passover in the manner of the
Samaritans, with the sacrifice of
lambs in strict adherence to Mo-
saic law.
The group, which held its 12th
annual meeting here, received a
special message from President
Itzhak Ben Zvi of - Israel i in
which he welcomed the converts
to the family of Israel and added
that he and other government
officials would welcome them _
whenever they decided to make a

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pilgrimage to Israel,

Playwriting Contest

A piaywriting contest, aimed

to encourage the writing and.

production of original plays on
Jewish life of the past or pres-
ent, has been announced by the
Jewish Community Drama Guild
of Montreal.
The -best three-act play will
receive a $300 (Canadian) cash
award, while the winning play
in. the one-act division will be
awarded $100 (Canadian).
The closing date of the con-
test is July 31.
All manuscripts are to be
mailed to, _ and further informa-
tion may be obtained from, the
Jewish Community Drama.
Guild, Post Office Box 56, Snow-
don Station, Montreal 29, Can,-
ada.

Bnai Brith Plane Spotters

Thousands of Bnai Brith men
and women will be recruited te
serve as airplane spotters and in
other capacities for the Ground
Observer Corps, it was an-
nounced by Col. Elliott A. Niles.
Boston industrialist and chair-
( man of the Bnai Brith National
Service Committee for the Arm-
ed Forces and Veterans (SCAFV)

Cemetery Memorials

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Only Jewish Chapel in
the Northwest district

largest. Jewish Chapel
in Detroit

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