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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, August 7, 1942
War Bonds Guard Home Front
They Serve Uncle Sam
About the IVIen in the
Army, Navy and Marines
From the start, it was evident
that the two privates—Aaron
Mass, of Brooklyn, and Elmo Gior
dano, of Algiers, La., had done
their job well. Before many nights,
their buddies were sleeping easily
again, secure in the knowledge
that Mass and Girodano’s opera
tions in the field had put the en
emy permanently at bay.
And then one day came the or
der which constituted definite
evidence that the danger had been
averted
“Men,” the commanding officer
said, “those of you who wish can
sleep without nets tonight. We’ve
got those mosquitoes licked.”
And so they had. The poisoned
traps set by Mass and Giordano
in every possible breeding spot
near Camp Shelby, La., had rout
ed the enemy swarms of malaria-
bearing mosquitoes. And thanks
to the two privates, their buddies |
sleen these hot nights without !
mosquito nets.
• * *
Person To Person:
Telephone operators are noted 1
for their willingness to cooperate j
with company customers, but one
at Rosston, Okla., went all-out re
cently to complete a call from
Shirley, Mass. It happened that ,
Corp. Edwin Terbush, of Fort ]
\ Devens, whose home is the Okla-
I homa town, which has a popula
tion of 185 and six telephones—
won the weekly Shirley USO a-
ward in the quiz contest sponsored
i by Aaron Grodsky, Jewish Wei- '
fare Board representative in Shir
ley, the award being a telephone
oall home.
More Palestine Jews Cited ing men—all classes use the bicy-
For Heroism: cle. Riding in Tel Aviv is espe-
Five more Palestine Jews serv- daily convenient in view of the
ing in the R- A. F. have been cited fact that unlike Jerusalem the city
for their heroic exploits. They are has no steep inclines-
Corporals Pinhas Berlin, Hirsch- “Best Shoemaker in the
heimer and Robinson of Jerusa- World" Settled in Palestine:
lem; aircraftsmen Brandt of Kir-
yat Haim, and Teich of Tel Aviv, report :
A cable ^dispatch from Jerusa- Armed with
lem to the Palcor News Agency of men( jation
New York states that Palestine
The Palestine Post of Jerusalem
a letter of recom-
from the Duke of
Windsor stating that he was “the
Jews have been in the worst of the best shoemakcr in the world » a
battles centering around El Ala- Jewish artisan fied from vienna
mein on the Egyptian coast. Two at |he time of the Nazi invasion in
sections of a Jewish transport 1938 He had nothing more than
company with the British army the letter The industrial Promo-
have been serving in that sector tion Fund set up by the Palestine
from the very beginning of Gen- Foundation Fund< the Anglo-Pal-
eral Rommel’s push into Egypt. estine Bank flnd the Industrial
Entire Tel Aviv Family Bank, gave him his first loan. He
Joins Army: i started a small workshop in Tel
The entire Weitz family of Tel; Aviv, which today employs 35
Aviv are serving with the British hands.
I armed forces in the Middle East. Palestine Railway
[Sergeant Weitz and his son, an Revenue Doubled:
aircraftsman, are in the Royal Air i The Palestine Railways report a
Force. Privates Rosa and Ruth , gross revenue of 1,695,330 Pounds
Weitz. mother and daughter, en- sterling for 1941, almost double
listed together in the Auxiliary i the revenue of the preceding year.
Territorial Service (equivalent to, Passenger traffic yielded 616.000
the WAACS) when it was first or- Pounds Sterling against £245,000
ganized. jin 1940; freight income was 872,000
Naturalized Americans in Pounds Sterling, as against £300,-
Palestine Face Loss of 000 in the preceding year.
Citizenship: Not Enough P risoners for a
A dispatch from Palestine states Jail in Tel Aviv:
that unless thousands of naturali- | In response to a proposal made
By BEN SAMUEL
Return From The Sea:
Lashed by aa angry sea, an
American cargo Ship foundered
and sank during a storm off New
foundland recently. Back in Tole
do, Ohio, friends of First Class
Seaman Sheldon Smilack, who had
served on the ship, held memorial
services for him and other former
students of Scott High School. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Saul Smil
ack, attended. They said their only
regret was that they hadn’t seen
Sheldon since October, 1941, and
hadn’t had a chance to tell him
how proud they were of him.
A few days later, Sheldon Smil
ack returned to Toledo.
To friends who gasped: “We
thought you were dead," Sheldon
explained that he had been trans
ferred to the Naval Air Station in
Newfoundland a short time before
the wreck. Why all the fuss, he
wanted to know, when the Navy
Department hadn’t even sent out
official word that he was missing?
Recovered from the shock of seing
him again, neighbors assured him
he was looking fine, the picture
of health.
"Yea. but I feel like a ghost."
Sheldon said.
• • •
He’s Been At War With Axis
Since 1939:
Joseph Kopstein was at war with
the Axis two years before the
United States got around to it. The
13-year-old Atlantic City youth,
now an instructor in the Army
Parachute Division, at Fort Ben-
ning, Ga„ was in Palestine in 1939
when an Axis-inspired Arab re
volt flared.
In an ancient spot known as
“Hamitah,” a rebel nest was tak
ing a heavy toll of British troops.
Fifty Jewish boys headed by Kop
stein volunteered to take care of
that nest. They did. Three of the
boys were killed and several others
wounded. But the Arab fled and
bothered nobody in that sector
thereafter.
Returning to the United States
in 1940, Kopstein tried to enUst in
the Army Air Corps, but color
zed Americans in Palestine return
to the United States by October 1,
at a recent session of the Munici
pal Council of Tel Aviv for the
blindness caused his rejection- Last
February, he tried the Parachute
Service and was all set for over
seas duty at the completion of his
training. But his superiors made
him an instructor and bade him
stay behind to teach others to
jump.
• • *
Four Of A Kind
There are some folks who glow
with pride when other folks, asR,
“And how’s your son, the lieuten
ant?"
But throw the same query at
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Michaels, of
New Haven, Conn., and this is the
answer you’ll get:
"Which one do you mean? Har
old, Arnold, Irving or Roy?”
For the Michaels have four boys
in the Army and all four are lieu
tenants. First Lieutenant Howard
Irving, Yale ’33, stationed at In
dian town Gap, Pa.; First Lieuten
ant Arnold Lester, Yale ’35, is in
the Infantry at Fort Meade, Md.;
Second Lieutenant Irving, Jr,
Pennsylvania '43 (he Joined before
graduation) is under Eastern
Coastal Defense Command, Fort
Adams, R. I, while Second Lieu
tenant Roy Arnold, Yale ’37, Los
Angeles School of Optometry, B.
S. and O. D„ is at Communications
School, Fort Benning, Ga. Before
entering college, all propped at
Culver Military Academy.
Howard,, the oldest, has four
children himself. But they’ll never
get to be lieutenants. They’re all
girls.
• • •
Mission Successfully
Completed:
Through culverts they crawled,
under buildings and beneath
bridges in search of enemy nests.
In the woods they set traps. There
were only two of them, two against
many, but their commanding offi
cer had given them a job to do
and it was up to them to do it.
When they return to camp that
night, grimy and fatigued, greet
ings from the other men were only
casual, although the entire camp
knew the significance of their mis
sion that day.
He put the call through and the j
Rosston operator .alone at the ex- j
change, had to close the exchange |
and tramp through the town to I
the Terbush home to ask the boy’s :
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Ter- j
bush, to go to the exchange and 1
complete the call. By the time the
call was put through, about 25
neighbors and friends "sat in”
while the soldier and his parents
talked
• • »
He’s No Lightweight Now:
It’s a Private Ruby Goldstein
now, but a decade and a half ago
he was the toast of New Yort&'s
East Side, a skinny, sallow-com
plected kid with dynamite in both
hands, and both eyes on the light
weight boxing championship of
the world. Ruby fought them all—
Sid Terris, Jimmy McLarin, Ace
Hudkins, but some how the title
eluded him. And when his hands
went bad, he deserted boxing al
together.
He's stationed at Fort Hamilton,
Brooklyn, where he is the official
referee for the weekly boxing
shows run there. Ruby’s put on
some poundage. He’s no longer a
lightweight. He won’t say what his
weight is today, but declares:
“Just say I’m hefty enough to
put some authority behind a bay
onet thrust.”
1942, they risk losing their United building of a jail in that city, May-
States citizenship under a Con- j or Rokach declared that the small
gressional law passed last year, number of Jewish prisoners did
The U. S. Consul General, Lowell
C. Pinkerton, has received a dele
gation of American citizens, head
ed by Dr. J. L. Magnes, President
of the Hebrew University, Mr. Ju-
j lius Simon, President of the Pales
tine Economic Corporation, and
not warrent the construction of a
prison.
The “lock-up” in the Northern
police station in Tel Aviv has cells
for 15 men and 4 women. Most of
the time these cells are vacant.
Palestine Exporters
Mr. Harry Viteles, to discuss all Association:
aspects of the situation. The Amer- Some 50 manufacturers, export-
ican Consul-General declared that ers and agents in Palestine have
<M£
BUCK
Os* luckoutoT Eytry Ten
you earn ibauM to Mina t
mte ILVNir bod-VtMpt /
he had, as yet, received no altern
ative instructions. Pending receipt
of new directions, American citi
zens must return before October
1st to retain their nationality.
Thousands of Americans in Pales
tine have petitioned for the defer
ment of the provision until the end
of the war. manly owing to travel
difficulties and the exorbitant
fares required to go back to the
United States at the present time.
Head of Egyptian
Jewry Dead:
Joseph Aslan Cattui Pasha, who
for the past 18 years served as
president of the Jewish community
of Cairo, died recently in that city.
The deceased, a former Egyptian
Minister of Finance, was elected
to the Egyptian Parliament in
1915; and in 1921 he was one of
the 32 members of the committee
which drew up the Egyptian con
stitution. He subsequently served
as Minister of Finance and Com
munications.
Manufacture and Sale of Ice
Cream Prohibited:
The manufacture and sale of ice
cream in Palestine has been pro- !
hibited by the Government as a
war measure to conserve milk and
sugar. Residents of Palestine will
still have water ices in all flavors
to refresh themselves during the
hot season.
10,000 Bicycle Riders
in Tel Aviv:
As the shortage of gasoline and
rubber grows more acute, ever
larger numbers of people in Pales
tine have taken to traveling on
bicycles. A recent census showed
that more than ten thousand bicy
cles have been registered in Tel
Aviv. Bearded milk distributors,
young boys, elderly women, work-
recently organized the Palestine
Exporters Association for the pur
pose of "providing unified solu
tions to the problems connected
with exports."
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