Organize BB Lodge in Honor of Centennial
Poet Williams Calls Jews 'a Shylock Race'
NEW YORK, (AJP) — Inter- definite opinion, Wilkins repeat-
viewed on John Wingate's ed his accusation.
"Night Beat" TV show, poet
"The Jews," he said, "take
William Carlos Williams charg- financial advantage of their cli-
ed that all Jews represented a ents . . . they are a race to
"Shylock race." When Wingate, themselves." Williams was all
somewhat taken aback, asked praise for anti-Semite Ezra
Williams whether this was his Pound.
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Forming the nucleous of a new Bnai
Brith lodge, being organized in honor of
100 years of Bnai Brith activity in Mich-
igan are these young men, pictured, left to
right (top row) : Dr. Ellsworth Levine,
Leslie Abramson, Douglas Frazien, Robert
Steinberg, vice-president; Irving Halpern,
president; Dr. Samuel Inwald, Hanley Gur-
win, Dennis Aaron, secretary; Sid Levine,
Bob Wartell, Milton Weinstein, past pres-
ident of ' Pisgah Lodge and the Detroit
Council of Bnai Brith who is the group's
sponsor, Aubrey Meyerson and Harry Katz,
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Council president; (bottom row) Bud
Cha•lip, Irving Blum, Nat Levine, Al
Aston, Dr. George Bean, Harold Lynn, Bob
Gaberman, Harvey Tenrien, membership
chairman. Not present are Allen Krass,
Carmi Slomovitz, David - Denn, Sheldon
Levin, Max Caplan, Phil Bitker and Arnold
Schaefer. Plans are now being made for
a charter installation dinner-dance. The
new group, which expects to be chartered
in 60 days, urges all young men to contact
any of the officers ,,or the Bnai Brith of-
fice, WO. 3-7838, for details.
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Charge Accounts, Invited
Olympic Medalist, Agnes Keleti, to Vie in Maccabiad
By SAM MILLER
(Copyright, 1957, JTA, Inc.) ,
heroic Raoul Wallenberg.
soon after the return of Krieger
Agnes went into hiding. Wit h from Israel, plans will be made
the aid of "Aryan" identific a- for the formation of a perma-
tion papers, she found employ - nent Detroit committee for
ment as maid and as a factor y Sports in Israel, to insure that
hand until the end of the Hi t-
qualified Detroiters in the fu-
ler nightmare.
The sports writers took not e ture are assured of participa-
of her for the first time whe n tion in the Maccabiah Games.
she emerged as winner of th e
1947 Central European Gym
nastics Meet held in Ljubljana •
From 1948 to 1955, she wo n
the Hungarian women's gym
nastics title each year.
Picked to participate in the
London Olympics of 1948, she
could not compete because she
was temporarily disabled
through an accident.
By 1952, when the next
Olympic Games were held in
Helsinki, she attained first
place and a gold medal in the
floor exercises. Two years later
in Rome, she secured the
women's world championship
both on the uneven bars and in
the team exercises with port-
able apparatus.
The Maccabi World Union
hastened to extend a warm in-
vitation.
* *
MUNICH—When athletes from
two dozen countries parade into
the modern stadium at Ramat
Gan Sunday to open the Fifth
Maccabiah, the greatest • prize
winning champion of all the
Olympic Games will march in
the ranks of the Israel team.
She is Agnes Keleti, a pretty
Jewish sports star from Hun-
gary who last year in Mel-
bourne amassed four gold and
two silver medals, an unpre-
cedented total in Olympic rec-
ords.
Of the four individual exer-
cises in which the world's best
gymnasts compete, the judges
ruled her supreme in three
categories — on the balance
beam, on the uneven bars and
in the floor exercises.
She also was among the six
girls who won the gold medal
In team drill. In the combined
exercises, she qualified for one
of her silver medals, the other
being bestowed by virtue of
her part in achieving second
place for Hungary in the wo-
men's team championship. -
She is an avowed Jew and
had been a prewar member of
a famed Jewish athletics club
— V. A. C. ("Vivo Athletikai
Club") in her native Budapest.,
Her father, Franz Klein, a '
small scale commercial canner,
had been dragged off a Buda-
Byron Krieger, current three-
pest street car and taken
straight to a railroad cattle car weapon fencing champion of
destined for Auschwitz where Michigan and a member of the
he perished in the gas cham- 1952 and 1956 U.S.• Olympic
bers.
Teams, left this week for Israel,
His wife and Agnes' sister v - here he will be Detroit's only
escaped the Nazi extermination representative in the 5th World
apparatus because mother and Maccabiah Games.
daughter found refuge in one
While Detroit was to have
of the "Swedish_ houses" estab- been represented by basketball
lished in Budapest by the star Ralph Goldstein and swim-
mer Barry Shapiro, who re-
cently won the Junior AAU
championship in the breast-
stroke, in addition to Krieger,
insufficient funds were raised
here to send the other two
athletes.
According to Herman Fish-
man, who was only recently
FOR
named to the U.S. Committee
for Sports in Israel, there was
insufficient time and prepara-
tion to secure the $4,500 to send
all three athletes. Krieger, him-
LUXE
self, raised most of the funds
to qualify for the trip, Fish-
man said.
The 10,000-mile round trip
WINES
to Israel will bring Krieger's
foreign travels in sports com-
petition to over 62,000 miles. He
has competed previously or di-
rected tournaments in Austra-.
lia, Finland, Buenos Aires,
Caracas and Guatemala City.
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