Now a Sign-Soon a Nurses Residence Researcher Asserts Samuel Doctors Mark 430,000 Needy Jews
by JDC in '64
Orientals in Israel `Double Nachas' Here Aided
More than 430,000 needy Jews in
30 countries received some form
Less Cancer-Prone
of assistance from the Joint Dis-
c
j
tribution Committee during 1964,
LONDON (JTA) — Studies of
it was disclosed in the agency's
susceptiblity to cancer among Jews
annual report. This represents an
of European and Oriental origins
increase of some 20,000 over 1963.
in Israel were referred to here
Among those aided were nearly
by Prof. Peter Beaconsfield when
93,000 in Israel, 89,000 in Europe
he disclosed a new biochemical
and over 64,000 in the Moslem
approach to the understanding and
countries.
inhibiting the mechanism of can-
The report was prepared by
cer.
Moses A. Leavitt, JDC executive
Prof. Beaconsfield, formerly a
vice-chairman, before his death on
special research fellow of the U.S.
A sign has been put up where the Lindenbaum Nurses
June
21.
Health
and
now
a
of
Institute
Residence will stand at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical
visiting professor at the Charing
Mr. Leavitt warned of "harder
Center. Three Detroiters paying a visit to the site are Rabbi and
days ahead." He noted that the
Cross Hospital Medical School
Mrs. Morris Adler (right) and Mrs. Rose Schiller, leader of the
here, said that the new approach
JDC, which had been receiving
Hadassah Spring Tour (center). With them are Lucien Harris,
centers on the search for a drug
nearly one-quarter of its finances
director of public relations of Hadassah in Israel; and a member
capable of blocking the over-
from the Conference on Jewish
of the Henrietta Szold-Hadassah School of Nursing teaching staff,
active nature of an enzyme or
Material Claims Against Germany,
MR. AND MRS. DOCTOR
Nurse Elkin.
could no longer count on those
chemical initiator in cancer
* * *
In honor of their 16th wedding funds. The grants, which averaged
patients.
JERUSALEM—There is only a their financial ability.
anniversary, former Detroiters about $7 million annually for the
Prof.
Beaconsfield
then
cited
Harry and Reva Lindenbaum
sign where the Lindenbaum nurses
Israel, where he said medically Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Doctor flew past eleven years, ended in 1964.
residence is to be built, but con- determined they would honor the well-documented
here for the wedding of their
of di-
struction is expected to start soon. memory of their parents in some verse geographic people
eldest grandson, Murray Pitt, son
origins live
The sign, at the Hadassah- suitable way in Israel as soon as
of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Pitt, to
Music the Stein-Way
under similar enviromental con-
Hebrew University Medical Cen- an opportunity presented itself.
Ina Carol Gold.
ditions.
One
of
the
problems
facing
Ha-
ter, notes that the residence is to
DICK STEIN
Samuel and Anna Doctor were
It has already been determined married in Russia in January 1905.
be built with the aid of Detroiters dassah has been the provision of
& ORCHESTRA
by
Israeli
public
health
authori-
Harry and Reva Lindenbaum in accommodation for graduate, un-
Mr. Doctor came to the United
married nurses, and Hadassah de- ties that Jews from Middle Eastern States in 1912, and his wife and
memory of their parents.
The parents of the Lindenbaums cided that a residence should be countries were less likely to die two children, Sara and Arthur,
were poor people who came to provided for them. The funds for from cancer than Jews from followed in 1925. A third child,
Detroit many years ago. Harry this all-important building a r e Europe. No explanation of this Mrs. Herman (Ada) Bohm, was
BALLROOM
Lindenbaum's father was a teacher being donated by the Lindenbaums fact had been made.
born in Detroit.
Prof. Beaconsfield asserted that
of Hebrew. Although they had in memory of their parents and
Mr. Doctor was in the grocery
little means, the parents supported work on the Nurses' Residence is the Oriental Jews belong to ethnic buhiness in Hamtramck for more
BY
groups
known
to
have
a
deficiency
Zionist causes to the utmost of to start in the near future.
than 35 years. He and his wife
of the enzyme believed to be in- retired three years ago to live in
strumental in producing cancer California, where his son Arthur
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also resides.
The deficiency occurs mainly in
The couple has eight grand-
deals with the Leo Frank case in males and is transmitted by a gene children.
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Want ads get quick results!
(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)
Georgia. No doubt the book will found in females. This genetic
Prime Minister Eshkol has been be a best seller. The Frank case peculiarity, according to the medi-
made an Admiral of the fleet of is one instance where truth is cal scholar, is mostly found in
racial groups that originated a-
stranger than fiction.
the great State of Nebraska.
A certificate signed by the Gov-
Many Jews came to positions of round the shores of the Eastern
From LONDON, ENGLAND
ernor of Nebraska was presented prominence in Georgia. The first Mediterranean. * * *
to him by members of the Bnai Governor of Georgia was a Jew,
Brith, which recently held its David Emanuel; and, even in much Commons Cites Low Rate
convention in Israel.
later days, around the time of of Cervical Cancer in Jews
"Distinctive Styling in Music
Kentucky used to make every- Leo Frank, the people of Savannah
LONDON (JTA)—The question
one colonels, but it had its state continually re-elected a Jew, Her-
to your Individual Taste"
militia. But Nebraska has no fleet. man Myers, as Mayor. And more of the relatively low rate of inci-
dence
of
cervical
cancer
among
No state has any navy, but it surprising still, the Chief of Police
doesn't really matter. As Gilbert of Savannah for many years was Jewish women was raised in the
'House of Commons Tuesday when
and Sullivan long ago pointed out, a Jew, named Garfinkel.
William Shepherd, Conservative
its best for an admiral to steer
Georgia is one state where the MP, asked Health Minister Ken-
When you care enough to remember .
clear of the water:
Jews came in at the very found- neth Robinson if he had evidence
"Stick close to your desk
ing. It is true some of the other of such a disparity in the incidence
And never go to sea
settlers were averse to their rate between Jewish and other
And you will become the head
admission, but Olethorpe, the women.
Of the Queen's navee."
founder, took the side of the
Citing the view of a Newcastle
Nebraska is a great state. There Jews and John Wesley, the great professor on the question, Shep-
the Pawnees and Cheyennes- founder of Methodism, who had herd asked the health minister to
by HERMAN JAFFEE
his troubles in Georgia, seemed make any information on the mat-
roamed.
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rather
pleased
with
the
Jews
he
It is the state from which the
ter known to the public.
Weddings • Bar Mitzvahs • Home Portraits
Great Commoner, William Jen- met there.
In his reply, Robinson said that,
nings Bryan emerged, to run three
while there was no conclusive evi-
times for President of the United Brooklyn Girl, 14, Wins dence available at the moment,
States.
`various studies have shown that
Bryan was thinking no doubt of Trip to Israel in Barton Jewish women have a markedly
the people of Nebraska when, at
lower incidence rate than others."
the great convention in 1896, he Creative Writing Contest
He said there were indications
made the speech which so elec-
NEW YORK—Esther Yageil, 14, that male circumcision may be a
trified all and told how the peo- of Brooklyn won top honors in the factor. He noted that death from
ple "had made the desert to 17th annual Barton's creative writ- cancer of the uterine cervix in 1961
GRAND OPENING SPECIALS 291b.
blossom like the rose . . . and ing contest with an essay about her was one one per 100,000 com-
how the peoples' voices there grandfather, a victim of Auschwitz pared with 10.5 per 100,000 for
BEGINNING MONDAY, JULY 26th
mingled with the voices of the whom she had never met.
England and Wales.
birds!"
Her literary efforts earned her
Jews have played their part in a round-trip to Israel for two Health Dept. Launches
the development of Nebraska too; aboard Alitalia Airlines jet with
probably the most notable Jewish European stopover privileges. Her Citywide Immunization
family there were the Rosewaters. winning entry was in the category
Edward Rosewater was the of "The one person in all Jewish Drive Against Disease
founder of the great Nebraska history—past or present—I'd most
Local health officials are ser-
Cream or
' newspaper, The Omaha Bee. As want to meet."
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iously concerned about the danger-
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a member of the territorial legis-
Jar
ously
low
levels
of
immunization
She is a student at the Beth
lature, he introduced the bill for
against
diphtheria,
tetanus,
polio,
1/2coGa
rt.l.
a state school system. In his early Jacob -E s t h e r Schoenfeld High whooping cough and small pox in
37C
years, he had been a telegrapher School in Brooklyn which received many areas of Detroit.
a
$100
grant
for
its
scholarship
and, in the Civil War, served with
Dr. John J. Hanlon, Detroit
Pkg.
in recognition of her having
the Union Army in that capacity. fund
health commissioner, has request-
bested
entries
from
almost
1,000
He is said to have put Lincoln's other schools.
ed assistance from newspapers,
WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF
Emancipation Proclamation on the
television and radio in publicizing
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'Slibovitz Comes With It . . . and urging Detroiters to see their
COUPON '
By BENNETT CERF
Book on the Frank Case
physicians now for protection
With This Ad and
A
seductive
young
siren
from
a
against
these
diseases.
is
due
soon
from
Another book
All Detroiters may obtain a free
Harry Golden. He is very prolific night club chorus line suddenly
Any Purchase
but not quite as much as Dr. added to her equipment a very brochure including details on the
Rosenstreich, the new rector of big, very authentic, very expensive dangers of these crippling diseases,
the Hebrew University in Jeru- diamond ring. "It IS a beauty," recommended immunization sched-
All Specials and offer good Monday, July 26 thru Aug. 2.
salem who, I understand, is pub- she agreed with admiring cohorts, ules for children and adults and
lishing four books this year. One "but I'm afraid it carries the Slibo- the importance of immunization.
The brochure is available on
is coming out in the United States, vitz curse." "That's one curse I
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Holland. His works deal with wardrobe mistress. "What is it?" ment.
The
siren
eyed
her
ring
sorrow-
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Harry Golden's book will be fully and explained, "Slibovitz
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