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Vaudeville Comedian Joe Smith
Donates Historic UN Document

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Mr. and Mrs. Helen Blackstone are shown with vaudevil-
lian Joe Smith. center. The Blackstones presented to Cong.
Bnai Moshe on behalf of Smith a transcript of the original
Palestine partition voting chart.
* * *
Cong. Bnai,Moshe has received a transcript of the origi-
nal voting chart used by the United Nations in the Pales-
tine partition Resolution vote. Nov. 29. 1947.
Vaudeville comedian Joe Smith. 93. who now lives at the
Actor's Fund Home in Englewood, NJ., donated the tran-
script through Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Blackstone of Engle-
wood. Mrs. Blackstone is a former Detroiter and the
couple visited Bnai Moshe in May for the consecration of
their neice. Carol Mittledorf.
Smith was a guest at the UN on the day of the vote. He
and Charlie Dale formed one of vaudeville's longest play-
ing teams back in 1898, playing one-night shows in the re-
sorts in the Catskill Mountains.

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