Morris Steinberg's Death Recalls
Difficulties He Had With Coughlin
Former Detroiter Morris
Steinberg, who gained na-
tional fame as patron of the
most significant tasks in
chess and checker sports-
manships and in arranging
numerous important chess
and checker contests, died
Aug. 2, in New York, where
he had been making his
home for the past 20 years,
at the age of 79. Private fun-
eral services were held last
Friday in New York.
Mr. Steinberg's name also
figures indelibly in the Fath-
er Charles E. Coughlin story.
Mr. Steinberg had been in
the printing business and he
was the printer of Coughlin's
Social Justice — until the
radio priest who gained no-
toriety as an anti-Semite
created business dificulties
for him.
The Steinberg family back-
ground is one of great com-
munity esteem. Besides his
wife, Lillian, Morris Stein-
berg is survived by his broth-
er, Myron, who heads one of
Michigan's most prominent
printing firms; a sister, Bess,
now residing in San Fran-
cisco, who has been active
in Hadassah and other move-
ments, and was secretary to
the late Blanche Hart in the
Jewish Social Service Bur-
eau, and his late sister, Jean-
nette Steinberg, was one of
Hadassah's most prominent
pioneers. The latter had as-
sisted the late Mrs. A. M.
Hershman and Mrs. Joseph
H. Ehrlich in organizing De-
troit Chapter of Hadassah
and had gained national rec-
ognition for her Zionist de-
votions.
During his residence in De-
troit, Mr. Steinberg was pres-
ident of the Millard Press
and of the White Color Card
Co. He was president of the
Detroit Chess and Checker
Club.
In New York he was pres-
ident of the Auto-Drive Safe-
ty Society and vice president
of the Manhattan Chess Club.
Locally he served on the
board of the Jewish Home
for the Aged and participated
in many philanthropic activi-
ties. He was one of the pion-
eerS in work for Zionism and
the United Palestine Appeal
here in the 1924s.
As president of the Chess
and Checker Club of Michi-
gan he took a deep interest
in Sammy Reshefsky. Julius
Rosenwald, the eminent phil-
anthorpist and organizer and
head of Sears and Roebuck,
helped bring Sammy, when
he was a mere lad of 10 or
11, to this country from Po-
land with his family. Mr.
Steinberg brought the Reh-
sfekys to Detroit and he be-
gpan to arrange chess exhi-
bition games for the young
boy.
It was Mr. Steinberg who
took Sammy to the YMCA
here for a chess contest
testants. Then there was a
against more than 20 con-
simultaneous game, a 1 s o
against more than 20 contest:
ants, at the Detroit News. •
Popularization of Sammy
Reshefsky may be primarily
ascribable to Morris Stein-
berg's interest in him.
Mr. Steinberg's sad rela-
tionship with Fr. Coughlin
are recorded in Prof. Sheldon
Marcus' book "Father Cough-
lin" published by little,
Brown & Co. last year. Dr.
Marcus quotes Morris Stein-
berg as having said, on May
4, 1970, about Coughlin: "He
was unscrupulous . . rare-
ly told the truth . . . corn-
pletely without conscience
try and for eventual settle-
ment in Detroit. (Morris is
presently in the toy manu-
facturing business in New
York).
"Marcus' note about Stein-
berg reads: "The May 2,
1938, issue of Social Justice
was not published, a fact
Father Coughlin attributed to
"publication difficulties."
Morris Steinberg, president,
and treasurer of Morris
Press, which was printing
this attractive version of So-
cial Justice, said that the
priest had told him that the
_printing of the magazine was
costing too much money and
that its ' publication would
have to be discontinued.
Steinberg knew that the cir-
culation of Social Justice was
declining, but he was upset
when he discovered that
Coughlin was negotiating
MORRIS STEINBERG
with Cuneo Press, the orig-
. . amoral. His only inter- inal printers of the journal,
est in people was in using to resume publication. Cough-
lin told Steinberg that he
them."
could no longer honor the
The Steinberg-Coughlin ex- contract he had signed with
periences were summarized Morris Press on Feb. 23,
by The Jewish News review- 1938, to print the magazine.
er of Prof. Marcus' "Father On the basis of this contract
Coughlin" who, in the review, Steinberg had spent a con-
July 8, 1973, stated:
siderable amount of money
The reference to Morris on expanding plant facilities
Steinberg is in a note, pages and in having additional em-
246-7. Detroiters will recall ployees. Faced with financial
that he was a member of a ruin, Steinberg brought a
very prominent family here. $200,000 suit against Cough-
His brother, Myron Stein- lin for breach of contract.
berg ,is a well known printer Coughlin's Social Justice
here. His sister, the late Publishing Co. promptly filed
Jeanette Steinberg, was a counter-suit for $200,000
among the outstanding lead- against Steinberg, also for
ers of Hadassah, locally and breach of contract. The legal
nationally. ,Morris Steinberg wrangle that followed was
worked closely with the late finally settled when the So-
Julius Rosenwald in bring- cial Justice Publishing Co.
ing the chess champion Sam- agreed to pay the Morris
my Reshevsky to this coun- Press $12,000.'
U.S. Aid to Israel Increased
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The House foreign affairs com-
mittee has voted to boost economic supporting assistance
for Israel to $250,000,000 for the next fiscal year, which
is $200,000,000 more than the Nixon administration had
asked.
The committee also voted to earmark $100,000,000 of
the $300,000,000 in foreign military sales credits as a grant
and to approve the administration's request for $250,006,000
in economic aid to Egypt.
California Students
Join Jerusalem Dig
JERUSALEM — Some 40
students from Ambassador
College in Pasedena, Calif.,
recently began working at
the archeological dig near
the Temple Mount in Jerusa-
lem under the direction of
Hebrew University archeo-
logist, Prof. Benjamin Mazar.
They constitute the largest
overseas contingent among
volunteers from many parts
of the world who are now
spending the summer digging
at one of the biggest archeo-
logical sites being excavated
in recent years.
Coinciding. with the arrival
of the California students, a
nine-member group repre-
senting Ambassador College,
headed by its President Her-
bert Armstrong, flew into
Israel to tour the site and
other archeological digs in
Israel which have been sup-
ported by Ambassador Col-
lege financially and with stu-
dent volunteers.
15 Friday, August 9, 1974
—
between the king, other Sau-
di Arabian leaders and
ARAMCO officials met with
U.S. government officials
after Faisal made his threat.
The propaganda and lobby-
ing campaign extended into
October, highlighted by a let-
ter to President Nixon which
apparently was not answered,
according to the testimony,
which also included a report
that confidential meetings on
the issue took place between
ARAMCO officials and Secre-
tary of State Henry Kissin-
ger at his request.
According to the testimony,
a staff investigator told the
senators at a closed hearing
in June that Congress would
have to decide on the pro-
priety of the ARAMCO effort
and that ARAMCO, "under
U.S. companies, is an instru-
ment of the Saudi Arabian
government in carrying out
Saudi orders in terms of in-
fluencing United States for-
eign policy."
The testimony data showed
that W.W. Messick, of Socal,
who is also ARAMCO's top
technical officer, testified
that the Arab oil embargo
imposed after the Yom. Kip-
pur War took the oil combine
"off the hook" because tech-
nical problems and delays
in delivery of equipment
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office of the Israel Invest-
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moved from Zurich to the
Hague, will be headed by
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— Col. Shaul Affek, military
attache of the Israel embas-
sy in Brazilia, was honored
with the Brazilian Military
Medal "Merito Santos Du-
mont," for "his personal
qualities and significant serv-
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Sen. Church said that the
American oil firms followed
Faisal's instructions "and
reported on their activities
to the king."
The Oct. 12 letter to Nixon
warned that "any actions by
the United States govern-
ment at this time in terms
of increased military aid to
Israel will have critical and
adverse effect on our rela-
tions with the moderate Arab
producing companies."
Jerome Levinson, the sub-
committees chief counsel,
said that while U.S. policy
became friendlier to the
Arabs, the subcommittee
probe did not find evidence
that the change was related
to the oil firms efforts to
carry out Faisal's orders.
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ARAMCO's Faisal-Inspired: Anti-Israel
Campaign Revealed in Senate Report
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The four American oil firms
comprising the huge Arabian-
American Oil Co. (ARAMCO)
undertook' a six months cam -
paign last year, under orders
from King Faisal of Saudi
Arabia, to diminish . United
States support of Israel, a
Senate subcommittee report-
ed Tuesday.
The Senate foreign rela-
tions subcommittee on multi-
national corporations said, in
releasing previously secret
testimony, that the campaign
was started in May, 1973, by
M_obi.J., Exxon, Texaco and
Standard Oil of California,
after Faisal threatened to
nationalize ARAMCO opera-
tions, if U.S. policy was not
changed.
One highly-publicized re-
sult, which drew a storm of
criticism and a retraction,
was a letter to employes and
stockholders of Standard Oil
of California from its chair-
man, Otto Miller, on July 26,
urging support for "the as-
pirations of the Arab
people." The letter was the
first time a major oil com-
pany took a public stand on
the Arab side of the Middle
East issue.
The Faisal threat report-
edly was made during a May
23, 1973, meeting in Geneva
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