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 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS BASEL (JTA) — The main office of the Israel Invest- ment Authority for Europe, moved from Zurich to the Hague, will be headed by Avraham Gutt. MOST WILL AGREE It frequently happens that the best garden is the one that is put up in cans. QUIST TYPEWRITER CO. INC. 1717 STEPHENSON HWY. 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