Rare Illness Fatal to 3 1/2-Year-Old

The death this week of little
Adrienne Sue Sandberg, three
and a half-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sand-
berg, of 16880 Monte Vista,
brought sadness to all who
knew the cheerful youngster.
Yet, in her passing, there is
the knowledge that the rare
disease which brought about
her death is being studied so
that other children' may some
day be cured of its dangers.
Although little Adrienne suc-
cumbed from aspiratory pneu-
monia; that was but a by-pro-
duct of her affliction, which
doctors have termed dysauto-
nomia.
Adrienne, like the two other
.youngsters in Detroit who are
known to have dysautonomia,
\ had the conditiOn from child-
hood. It is a hereditary disease,
reportedly most predominant
among Jewish people.
Dysautonomia, so named be-
cause it indicates a mis-func-
tioning of the autonomic (or
secondary) nervous system, was
discovered quite by accident in
Babies Hospital in New York,
when two children in the hos-
pital at the same time, failed
to produce tears while crying.
The inability to produce

Urge AAA to Drop
Prejudied Hotels

NEW YORK (JTA) — The
American Automobile Associa-
tion has been asked by the
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai "Brith to withdraw its
"AAA seal Of approval" from
hotels, resorts and motels which
deny accommodations to Jewish
guests, • it .was announced by
Henry Schultz, ADL national
chairman.
Charging that "many individ-
uals - of Jewish faith, - relying
upon AAA listings and recom-
mendations, have been subject-
ed to humiliation and embar-
rassment," Schultz said hi a
letter that the AAA, which has
more than 3,000;000 motorists
enrolled in its state and regional
affiliates, "should lend an ex-
pressive and vigorous voice to
the efforts being made against
discrimination by hotels."
A similar ADL request was
made _q year ago, but the as-
sociation refused to.take action
then. Its policy is to authorize
places of public accommodation
to display and advertise the
AAA shield provided their gen-
eral appearance, cleanliness,
convenience and quality of
service meet the 'association's
standards.
Schultz cited a recent ADL
survey which showed that three
of every ten AAA-approved
places in the State of Michigan
barred - Jewish guestS. "The
juxtaposition of the AAA sym-
bol with religious discrimina-
tion inevitably taints. your great
association," he told the AAA.
He said that two AAA affiliates,
the Automobile Club of New
York, and the Connecticut
Motor Club, support ADL's
view; both groups have gone
on record condemning religious
bias by hotels and resorts.

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Mrs: Leffert Heads
Women of Technion

Mrs. Herman J. Leffert, of
New York, has accepted chair-
manship of the National Wo-
men's Division
of the Ameri--'
c a n Technion
Society, it was
announced b y
David Rose,
society pres-
ident. Through
existing units :
of the Women's ,-.•
division a n d
additional ones
Mrs.. Leffert
to be formed,
Mrs. Leffert will coordinate a
nation-wide program to increase
maintenance of Technion and to
aid in the Society's capital funds
drive.

tears, or only enough to,moisten
the eyes slightly is the most
identifiable sympton. Since the
disease affects the nervous sys-
tem which controls the auto-
- matic and reflex actions, such
functions as swallowing, body
temperature, blood pressure
and heart rate are affected,
sometimes leading to vomiting
attacks, unaccountable high fe-
v -_rs and skinblotching.
One of the prime dangers is
the non-recognition of symp-
toms. It is unusual for a child
with dysautonomia to die, but
special care must be exercised,
specifically congestion of food
or liquid in the lung which
can lead to pneumonia.
Less than 10.0 people—many
of them grown-ups—are known
to have this afflicition, yet so
little is known about it that
sometimes youngsters with the
- disease are treated as retarded,
since their reflexes are slower
and they consequently learn to
act slower. Once past five, the
chances of survival are said to
be much better.
Mr. and Mrs. Sandberg have
requested that gifts to the
family take the form of con-
tributions to Dysautonomia As-
sociation, Inc., 1201 Elder, New
York 72, N. Y., the organization
which is providing for research
into the disease.
The Foundation was organ-
ized in 1954, and it was only a
short time after this that dys-
autonomia was introduced into
the medical dictionary. -
A chapter of the organization
was recently founded in Chica-
go, and the Sandbergs seek to
start one in Detroit.
Funeral services for Adrienne
were held at Menorah Funeral
Chapel, on.. Puritan. Besides
her parents, she is survived by
a brother, Philip, 7, and by, her
grandparents ; Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Markowitz and Mrs. Rifka
Sandberg.

- Obituaries

MRS. JENNY ARONSSOI\r
68, of 2725 W. Boston, died
Tuesday. Funeral services were
held at Kaufman Chapel Thurs-
day. Surviving are her son,
Karl; and two brothers, Leopold
and Herman G. Tusritz,"of Goth-
enburg, Sweden, Mrs. Arons-
son's birthplace. Her husband
was a brother of Maurice and
Martin Aronsson. Mrs. Arons-
son was active in the Detroit
Opera Association.
* * *

ELIE GURWITZ, 2633 Tux-
edo, died Feb. 17. Services at
Menorah Funeral Chapel, on
Puritan. He leaves three sisters,
Rose Bakst, Ethel Goldberg and
Mrs. Zalmen Kamen, of Wind-
sor; and two brothers, Julius
and Joe Horowitz, both of New
York.
* • *

RALPH A. FISHMAN, 19720
Cranbrook, died Feb. 12. Serv-
ices at Ira Kaufman Chapel. He
leaves his wife, Catherine M.;
a son, Gordon; two brothers and-
five sisters.
* * *

MORRIS FINEMAN, 2537
Highland, died Feb. 17. Services.
at Ira Kaufman Chapel. He
leaves his wife, -Bertha; a son,
Harold; a daughter, Mrs. Max
Honeyman; and six grandchil-
dren.'
• • *
JORDAN B. DREWS, 4299
Cortland, died Feb. 17. Services
at Ira Kaufman Chapel. He
leaves his wife, Annette; a
daughter, Susan; father, Meyer;
mother, Mrs. Ella Davis; and a
brother.
* * *
BEN J. SOLOMON, 826 Beck-
er, Hammond, Ind., died Feb.
13. Services at Hebrew Memorial
Chapel. Survived by his wife,
Minnie; a son, Harry Jay; a
daughter, Harriett Judith;- moth-
er, Mrs. Ida Solomon;' and '. six
sisters.
* * *
CELIA TURCHIN, 2708 Tyler,
died Feb. 16. Services at Hebrew
In loving memory of `our be- Memorial Chapel. Survived by-
loved mother and wife, Anna a son, Larry; a daughter, Mrs.
Hack, who passed away on -Ernest Singer; and a brother.
* * *
March 1, 1953.
Sadly missed and always re-
NATHAN ARONOFF, 19505
membered by her husband and Monte Vista, died Feb. 16. Serv-
children.
ices at Hebrew Memorial Chap-
* * *
el. Survived by his wife, Yetta;
In loving memory of our dear two sons, Leonard, of Battle
brother, Louis Kaplan, who Creek, and Jack, of Azusa,
passed away on Feb. 24, 1950.
Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. How-
Sadly missed and always re- ard Savin; and eight grandchil-
membered by -his sisters and dren.
brothers, Mrs. Edward Lichten-
* * *
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stein, Mrs. Jack Rubin, Mrs.
FERDINAND FISHER, 19184
Jack Rocklin, Mr. Nathan Kap- Indiana, died Feb. 18. Services
lan and Mr. Jack. Kaplan.
at Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
* * *
In cherished memory of Survived by his wife, Rose; and
Abraham Rubin, our beloved two daughters, Judith Sharon
father and grandfather, who and Marilyn. .
* * *
passed away on Feb. 22, 1953.
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JACOB
VARSHAVSKY,
Sadly missed and always re-
membered by his sons, Max Winder, died Feb. 18. Services
Morris and Yechiel Rubin; his at Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
daughter, Mrs. Morris Gordon; Survived by two sisters, M.
Silberstein, of Israel, and A.
and his five grandchildren.
* * *
Zoobitsky, of Melbourne, Aus-
In loving memory of our be- tralia.
• * •
loved father, Joseph (Yossel)
Velick, who left us Feb. 18,
ISRAEL COHEN, 3378 Elm-
1943 (13 days in Adar I) and hurst, died Feb. 20. Services at
in cherished memory of our Hebrew Memorial Chapel. Sur-
brother, Casper C. (Chap) Vel• vived by his wife, Rose; two
ick, who left us March 18, 1949 daughters, Mrs. Irving Man-
(17 days in Adar).
heimer and Mrs. Bernard Hoff-
Sadly missed by Alex and man; two brothers, two sisters
Ida Velick.
and six grandchildren.
* * *
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In loving memory of our dear
JEANETTE
M O D I E F SKY,
mother, Sonia Sherman, aged
54, who passed away on Feb. 11501 Petoskey, died - Feb. 20.
22, 1943 (seven days in Adar). Servites at Hebrew Memorial
In our hearts, your memory Chapel. She leaves two sons,
Jack Horton, of Cleveland, 0.,
lingers on.
Sadly missed by her children, and Gilbert Madden, of London,
Mrs. Esther Rachleif, Mrs. Dor- Ont.; a daughter, Mrs. Daniel
othy Bodner, Morrie, Abe and Rossof; a sister, eight grand-
children and seven great grand-
Jack Sherman.
children.
* * *
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In loving memory of my
LILLIAN BURNSTEIN, 19744
dear son and our dear brother,
Sgt. Milton S. Cohen, who died . Sorrento, died Feb. 19. Services
in the service of his country, at Ira' Kaufman Chapel. She
leaves two sons, Burton and
on March 4, 1945.
Sadly missed by his mother, David; three daughters, Mrs.
Mrs. Frank Cohen, his brothers, Sallan Lurie, Mrs. Nat Rosen-:
Sidney and Herman and his berg and Mrs. Norman Bazell;
and nine grandchildren. "
sister, Mrs. Harold Black.

In Memoriam

FRIEDRICH ECKSTEI N,
19372 Indiana, died Feb. 18.
Services at Ira Kaufman
Chapel. He leaves his wife,
Hedwig; and a sister, Mrs. Her-
man Steiner, of London, Eng-
land.

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U. S. Distributes -
$4,000,000 Fund to
Israeli Colleges

TEL AVIV — The United
States Government had decided
to distribute some 6,500,000
pounds—the counterpart of $4,-
000,000 accruing from the sale
of books and publications sold
in Israel under the American
media guaranty program — to
institutions of higher learning
in Israel, it was learned Tues-
day.
Announcement of the Ameri-
can plan was made here by
Bernard Katzen, special repre-
sentative of the State Depart-
ment. He said the money would
be donated as a gift to institu-
tions like the Hebrew Univer-
ty, Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv
Universities, Haifa Technion
and Weizmann Institute. He-
also voiced the hope that set-
tlements in Israel would accept
his suggestion to permit the
establishment of American cul-
tural centers there.

MI LEE HOLDENGRABER,
19190 Mendota, died Feb. 19.
Services at Ira Kaufman Chapel.
He leaves his wife, Freyda;
three daughters, Barbara J.,
Deborah H. and Carol Frances;
two brothers and three sisters.
* * *
ROBERT HITLER, 5821 W.
Outer Dr., died Feb. 20. Services
at Ira Kaufman Chapel. He
leaves his wife, Elsie; a son,
Morris; two brothers and-three
sisters.
* * *
MORRIS KERSNER, of Mil-
ford, Mass., died Feb. 10. He
leaves his wife, two daughters,
Mrs. Benjamin Gordon, of
Huntington Manor, Mich., and
Mrs. Joseph Smith, of Allston,
Mass.; two sons, Fred and $9,750,000 Raised for
Meyer, of Massachusetts; 13 Einstein Medical College
grandchildren and three great.
A total of $9,750,000 has been
grandchildren.
raised to date of the $13,000,000
required for construction and
Mrs. Leavitt Dies
equipment of the Albert . EM-
, NEW YORK (JTA) — Mrs. stein College of Medicine of
Fannie Leavitt, wife . of Moses Yeshiva University, it Was an-
A. Leavitt, executive vice-chair- nounced at a national report
man of the Joint Distribution meeting in Miami Beach.
Committee, died at Doctors'
Hospital, after a short . illness.
Mrs. Leavitt was chairman of
the overseas scholarship com-
mittee of the National Council
Lowest Prices for Highest Quality
of Jewish Women and was a
Granite and Outstanding Designs
former president of the New
England Region of Junior Ha-
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CEMETERY MEMORIALS

WORKS

Edmund Waterman Dies
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Ed-,
mund Waterman, ph.ilanthrO-
pist and Jewish community
leader, died Palm , Springs,
Calif. He was 74. A rOurider 61
the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith and of the Joint.
Defense Appeal, Mr. Waterman
served as head of the New
York area of the ADL and
was a national vice-chairman.
He was also active in the In-
stitute for Applied Biology
and served on government ad-
visory boards during both
World Wars.

Haifa Municipality Approves
$3 1 /2 Million Subway System

HAIFA (JTA)—The Haifa mu-
nicipality unainmously approved
a $3,500,000 subway project
which would link downtown
Haifa with. residential Mount
Carmel.
The contractors are the
French firm of Compagnie Dun-
querquoise d'Enterprises, which
has agreed to complete the job
within 30 months. It is esti-
mated that when the subway is
completed travel between the
business and residential areas
will take eight minutes, as
against the 30 minutes or more
it now consumes.

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Detroit Jewish News
Friday, February 24, 1956

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