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He also presented to the U.S. Gov- ernment a statute of Jefferson. which today stands in the Capitol. In 1960, at Norfolk, Va., the Navy dedicated its first permanent Jew- ish chapel. It is named the Com- modore Levy Chapel. 442400000000 martialled six times but always restored to rank, and he died a Commodore. then the highest rank in the Navy. It is hard to imagine how anyone At the age of ten, young Uriah could lead a more varied life than ran away to be a cabin boy. He did Uriah Phillips Levy. was master vi a sailing vessel be- He was born in Philadelphia in fore he was 20. A mutiny left him 1792 and he died in New York in alone and penniless in a foreign 1862. In the years between, he land. Somehow he managed to was a sailor before the mast and return home, accuse the mutineers, an officer on merchant vessels and and have them convicted of in the U. S. Nayy. He was court- mutiny. When the War of 1812 broke out, he was commissioned a sailing Best Wishes for a Happy Passover To Our Customers master in the U. S. Navy. He was finally captured by the English and Friends and was held, with his crew, a , ABSO-CLEAN prisoner of war in England for 16 months. CHEMICAL CO. In 1816, he was made sailing 17325 LAMONT master on the Franklin 74. His FO 6-3820 — FO 6-3821 enemies accused him of failing in his duty. He was courtmartialled and dropped from the lists as Passover Greetings to captain. But Levy fought back, Our Friends and Customers and so impressed a court of in- quiry that he was restored to his rank. Advance Glass Co. In the Navy, Levy met with 15725 Livernois double prejudice, as a Jew and as UN 4-4974 a sailor promoted from the ranks. He said his troubles were due neither to his humble beginnings nor to his fiery temper, but to Passover Greetings the fact that he had remained loyal to the faith of Israel. 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