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THE DETROIT JEWISH-NEWS

62- Friday, August 1, 1981

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Playwright Paddy Chayefsky,
Won 3 Academy Awards

Phillip Chapnick, Zionist VP, Aided
Public Relations, Cultural Programs

Phillip Chapnick, vice
president of Detroit District
of the Zionist Organization
of America, for many years
a leader in congregational
and cultural functions, died
Monday after a brief illness.
He was 67.
Mr. Chapnick was a top
activist in. Zionist ranks
here. He was active in the
administration of the
Zionist Cultural Center and
membership enrollment
programs. He was active in

Munich
Mastermind
Wounded

NEW YORK — Palesti-
nian terrorist leader
Mohammed Daoud Odeh,
known as Abu Daoud and
believed to be the master-
mind behind the killing of
11 Israeli athletes at the
Munich Olympic Games in
1972, was shot and criti-
cally wounded at a Warsaw,
Poland hotel on Saturday.
Israel denied Palestine
Liberation Organization
claims that it was responsi-
ble for the attack on Daoud.
There was speculation
that Daoud was in Warsaw
in connection with the ar-
rest of two heavily-armed
PLO terrorists in Austria.
SourceF. believed the PLO
was trying to assassinate
Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat :;,.rho had been
scheduled to meet with Au-
stria:7. ''hancellor Bruno
KreisK) after Sadat com-
pletes his U.S. visit this
week.

public relations in clarify-
ing Israel's defensive posi-
tion in the Middle East.
Born in Poland, Mr.
Chapnick lived 60 year in
Detroit. He was a past
president of the former Beth
Aaron men's club, past
president of the former Beth
Aaron synagogue and was

NEW YORK — Veteran
actor Melvyn Douglas, win-
ner of two Academy
Awards, a Tony and an
Emmy, died Aug. 4 at age
80.
Born Melvyn Edouard
Hesselberg, Mr. Douglas
won an Oscar for best sup-
porting performance in
1963 for his role in "Hud"
and in 1979 for his role in
"Being There." He received
a Tony award for best sup-
porting performance in the
Broadway play "The Best
Man" and an Emmy for best
actor in 1968 for his role in
"Do Not Go Gentle Into
That Good Night."
He appeared in many
movies with some of Hol-
lywood's top actresses. He
achieved acclaim in 1955,
when he appeared on
Broadway as Clarence Dar-
row in "Inherit the Wind."
On Broadway he ap-
peared in numerous
productions, among
them: "Time Out for
Ginger," `!The Gang's All
Here," "Two Blind Mice,"
"The Bird Cage," "Glad
Tidings," "Waltz of the
Toreadors" and "Spof-
ford."

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entertainment production
unit. After World War I he
had many jobs including
that of a reporter and ap-
peared with repertory and
stock companies, among
them Jessie Bonstelle's
troupe in Detroit.
He made his Broadway
debut in 1928 in "A Free
Soul." He later appeared in
"Tonight or Never," a hit
play in which he met his fu-
ture wife Helen Gahagan,
former California represen-
tative.
After World War II, he
co-produced "Call Me
Mister" on Broadway.
Eleanor Roosevelt
named him director of
the Arts Council of the
wartime Office of Civi-
lian Defense.
He was a leading figure in
Albert Soufrine
the Screen Actors Guild and
Albert H. Soufrine, a he and his wife were in the
chartered accountant and forefront of campaigns ad-
trustee in bankruptcy, died vocating human rights and
championed liberal causes.
Aug. 2 at age 64.
Born in Toronto, Mr.
Soufrine lived 35 years in
Detroit. He was a member of Etta Levin
Etta Levin, a member of
Cong. Shaarey Zedek,
Chartered Accountants of Jewish women's and com-
Ontario and the Windsor munal organizations, died
Bnai Brith Lodge. He was in Aug. 4 at age 81.
Born in Baltimore, Md.,
practice for 40 years.
He leaves his wife, Shir- Mrs. Levin lived 60 years in
ley; a son, Ronald; a daugh- Detroit. She was a member
ter, Mrs. Stephen (Joanee) of Tikvah Chapter of Bnai
Hurwitz; his mother, Mrs. Brith, Hannah Schloss Old
Morris (Ann) Soufrine of Timers and Sinai Hospital
Windsor; and four grand- Guild.
She leaves a son, Newton;
children.
two grandchildren, Miriam
Coopersmith and Phyllis
Ben Fishman
Benjamin Fishman, who Ekelman; and three great-
for many years was active in grandchildren.
communal organizations
both in Detroit and Los Shirley Sher
Angeles, Calif., died Aug. 1.
Shirley A. Sher, a
He was 80.
member of Temple Beth Is-
He is survived by his wife, rael in Jackson, a member
Ida; a son, Paul Freeman of of its sisterhood and a
California; two daughters, teacher in its Sunday
Mrs. Mickey (Janette) school, died July 21. She
Shapiro and Mrs. Irwin
41.
(Dorothy) Brown, both of wag
Mrs. Sher also was a
California; four sisters, teacher in the Jackson Pub-
Pauline Max of Southfield,
Schools.
Ida Sorkowitz of Oak Park, lic She
is survive& by her
Ethel Weisblatt of South- husband, David H.; a son,
field and Tillie Brown of Marc; and a brother, Dr.
Oak Park; nine Henry Burko of Milwaukee,
grandchildren and one- Wis. Interment Jackson.
great-grandchild.

His film credits include:
"I Never Sang for My
Father," for which he won
an Oscar nomination for
best actor; "Mr. Blandings
Builds His Dream House,"
"The Americanization of
Emily," "The Seduction of
Joe Tynan" and "Tell Me a
Riddle." Last spring he
completed a film, "Ghost
Story," in which he co-stars
with three actors whom he
affectionatly described as
"other old guys" — Fred As-
taire, Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr., and John Houseman.
In World War I, Mr.
Douglas served as a medical
orderly attached to the
Army. He enlisted in the
Army in World War II and
headed an Army

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Chapnick was a real estate
salesman.
He is survived by a son,
Robert J.; a daughter, Mrs.
Louis (Madeline) Bassin; a
brother, Dr. Henry; two sis-
ters, Mrs. Fay Weindling
and Mrs. Norman (Rose)
Broder of Skokie, Ill.; and
three grandchildren.

Actor Melvyn Douglas Dies at 80

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instrumental in the forma-
tion of Cong. Beth Achim.
He was president of
Keidan Lodge of Bnai
Brith and was a volun-
teer at Borman Hall and
Sinai Hospital.
He was a probation officer
for Oakland County. Mr.

ZIP

NEW YORK — Playw-
right and screenwriter
Paddy Chayefsky died
Saturday at age 58.
Author of the play
"Marty," which in its film
version won him an
Academy Award, Mr.
Chayefsky won a second sc-
reen award in 1971 for his
film "The Hospital." A third
Academy Award was given
to him for his "Network"
film screenplay in 1976.
Among his other stories
and screenplays included
"As Young as You Feel" in
1951, "The Catered Affair"
in 1956, "The Bachelor
Party" in 1957, "The God-
dess" in 1958, "Middle of the
Night" • in 1959, "The
Americanization of Emily"
in 1964 and "Altered
States" in 1979.
Mr. Chayefsky's real
first name was Sidney,
but he changed it during
his Army service when he
acquired the name after
asking to be excused

Lula Stiebel, a member of
Jewish communal organ-
izations, died Aug. 4 at age
85.
Born in Lapeer, Mrs.
Stiebel was a member of
Temple Beth El and its sis-
terhood and the National
Council of Jewish Women.
She leaves a son, Hart; a
sister, Mrs. Sidney (Vera)
Newman; two
grandchildren and one
great-grandchild.

Shelling Creates
Blood Shortage

TEL AVIV — An im-
mediate blood drive was
called for by Prof. Arieh
Harell, president of Magen
David Adorn (MDA), Is-
rael's emergency medical
service to replenish stocks
badly depleted in the shel-
ling and rocket attacks on
Kiryat Shmona, Nahariya
and other Lebanese border
towns.

from KP duty to attend
mass. He served in an in-
fantry division.
After returning from the
service, he worked in his
uncle's print shop and later
began writing short stories
and dramas for radio and
television.
Among his Broadway
productions were: "Middle
of the Night," "The 10th
Man," "Gideon" and "The
Passion of Josef D" — a play
about Stalin. Prior to his
death he had been workin
on a political play about the
Alger Hiss trial.
He was a member of many
entertainment industry
associations, among them
the New Dramatists Corn-
mittee, Dramatists Guild,
Writers Guild of America,
Screen Writers Guild, Sc-
reen Actors Guild and
American Guild of Variety
Artists. He was the reci-
pient of a Cannes Golden
Palm award.

Deborah Schmier Dies at 57,
Active in Groups, Charities

Springer
Deborah
Schmier, active in Jewish
women's organizations and
philanthropies, died Aug. 4
at age 57.

David Orzuch,
Folksblat Editor

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)
— David Orzuch, former
editor of the now defunct
Yiddish daily Folksblat in
Uruguay, has died in Mon-
tevideo at age 72.
Born in Vilna, Lithuania,
he and his brother, the late
Moizes Orzuch, founded the
Folksblat after they settled
in Montevideo in 1931.
During the first 15 years
of its existence the news-
paper successfully fended
off an onslaught against it
by the powerful Jewish
Communists who at that
time owned a Yiddish daily,
"Unzer Fraint," and com-
munal institutions which
included a bank, medical
center, school and a cemet-
ery.
At one time there were
three Yiddish dailies in
Montevideo, two Zionist
oriented and one Corn-
munist. Now there is only
one weekly published in
Spanish which serves a
Jewish population of some
48,000.

A native Detroiter, Mrs.
Schmier was a graduate of
Central. High School in
1941. She attended the
University of Michigan and
was graduated from Wayne
State University, where she
was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa honorary, in 1966.
She was the former trea-
surer of the National Coun-
cil of Jewish Women,
member of the board of trus-
tees of Temple Beth El,
board member of The Or-
chards Children's Service,
member of the Founders
Society of the Detroit Insti-
tute of Arts and the Arc-
hives of American Art.

She was a patron of the
Detroit Symphony Or-
chestra and was active in
the Women's Division of
the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration. She aided the
neutron therapy pro-
gram at Harper-Grace
Hospitals.
She leaves her husband,
Allan; two sons, James and
David of Los Angeles, Calif.;
a daughter, Mrs. Robert
(Bonnie) Weinstein; and
three grandchildren.

Paris Shootout
Involves Israelis

PARIS(JTA) — An Israeli
was shot to death and an-
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Yit- other seriously wounded
zhak Shubinsky, a pioneer early Tuesday morning in
of the Israel automobile in- the center of Paris. Police
dustry, died,at his home in believe the shooting br(
Haifa last week. He was 68 out as a result of Isra
gang warfare and are look-
years old.
Mr. Shubinsky, born in ing for five other men, be-
Poland, came to Israel at lieved to be Israeli, and sus-
age 18. An importer- pected of having taken part
exporter when the was in the shootout in a cafe
established in 1948, he near the Paris opera.
The dead man is Zion At-
founded the first firm in Is-
rael manufacturing cars tias, 29, born in Meknes and
from imported engines fit- who police said had entered
ted to locally-produced France with a Moroccan
passport. The wounded man
fiberglass bodies.
His cars sold well for some is Joseph Attias, 28, also
years until he sold out his born in Meknes, and be-
interest to foreign inves- lieved to be a distant rela-
tive of the dead man.
tors.

Y. Shubinsky