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Friday, September 11,1942
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Page Five
UNREST IN FRANCE
(Continued from Page 1)
for the hunted Jews and tries to
be helpful to them wherever pos
sible, it is emphasized in reports
from unoccupied France. The Bis-
shop of Tolouse issued a pastoral
letter condemning the arrests of
Jews and the “frightful things
which are happening in the con
centration camps.”
Serions Crisis Expected; Paris Ra
dio Attacks Pope for Defend
ing Jew’s
A serious crisis in the ranks of
the French Government is expect
ed to develop as a result of the
indignation throughout France at
the submission of the Vichy cabi
net to the Nazi demand for the de- j
portation of Jews from unoccupied j
France. The members of the Cab- '
inet held a special session at which
measures for speeding up the de
portation of Jews from unoccupied
France were discussed.
The Nazi-controlled Paris radio
broadcast a violent attack against
the Vatican for its intervention
with the Vichy Government re
garding the anti-Jewish persecu- ,
tions in France. At the same time, ;
Jews in unoccupied France were |
reported to be barricading them
selves in their homes or hiding on !
farms and in forests in order to
escape deportation to Nazi-held
territory.
Secretary Hull Wants
Strong Attitude
WASHINGTON. (JTA)—Secre
tary of State Cordell Hull express
ed a desire to take up in a “strong
and condemnatory manner” the
large-scale deportations of Jews
from unoccupied France. He ad
ded, however, that he would like
to get as full a statement of facts
as possible before doing so.
Asked about requests from Jew
ish organizations that he use his
good offices with the Vichy Gov
ernment to prevent the handing
over of more victims to Hitler,
Hull replied that such requests are
always welcome “but scarely ne
cessary in cases of wholesale in
human treatment as this is re
ported to be.”
SEASON'S GREETINGS
SOL B. EPLAN
4-H-l-l-H I III! : r- I-S-H-H-l-H-l-
Wishing You and Yours
A Happy and Prosperous
NEW YEAR
M. BAUM
Mrs. L. W. KAUFMAN
and
Rev. and Mrs. P.
BORSTEIN
Extend to their Friends. Rela
tives and Customers their Best
Wishes for a Very
HAPPY NEW YEAR
IVNAI B’RITII FURNISHING
COMPANY DAY ROOMS AT
POSTS THROUGHOUT COUN
TRY ON REQUEST OF RED
CROSS CAMP COUNCILS
Having made cooperation with
the In-Camp and Hospital Wel
fare and Recreational Service Pro
gram of the Red Cross one of its
major war service projects, B’nai
IVrith Is engaged in furnishing
and equipping company day rooms
at Army posts throughout the
country on the requests of Red
Cross Camp Councils.
(Top)—Mrs. Syivih Vcncr
(left), national women’s chairman
of this B’nal IVrith war service
project, working with members of
B’nai Il’rith women’s units in Los
Angeles in a special workshop and
storeroom set up to collect furni
ture, game equipment, sporting
goods and other furnishings, to
sew drapes and slip covers and to
repaint, revarnish and mend con
tributions.
(CENTER)—Officers and men
from Camp Haan, Riverside, Calif.,
help load furnishings from B’nai
IVrith workshop to equip company
day room.
(Bottom)—Men at Camp Haan
relaxing in homey and comfort
able daf> room furnished through
the efforts of B’nai B’rlth.
Except for a slightly maimed wing,
neither was the plane.
You just can’t keep a hero down.
WEDDING BELLS AT LAST:
A hero was rewarded by a cer
tificate which neither the War nor
Navy Department could have sup
plied. To come right out with it.
Lieutenant Harry Schreiber, re
cipient of the Order of the Purple
Heart for heroism and wounds re
ceived in action in the Philippines,
married his sweetheart, Rae
Sternberg, the other day in
Shreveport, La.
Rae and Harry had set their
wedding date for October 19, 1941.
Automobile accidents and wars in
tervened, however. After nearly a
year’s wait, they are now man
and wife.
The lieutenant and his former
bride-to-be set out in their car for
New Orleans last Labor Day, but
an accident occurred and Rae suf
fered a broken shoulder bone,
among other injuries. By the time
she was up and about, Lieutenant
Schreiber had been transferred
from his base in New Orleans to
Albuqerque, N. M. There still
would have been time, but the
Japs had other plans. Four days
before the October 19 wedding
date the Army had to send Schrei
ber to the Phlippines to deal with
the enemy. Harry had been a nav
igator for five years, and you can’t
spare men like that In wartime. In
Luzon, last December, his plane
was shot down and a bullet pierced
his right arm.
After being mistaken for Japs
by the natives and strafed by
Zero fighters from the air, Harry
and the rest of the crew were
taken to a village for treatment.
(Fortunately the misunderstand
ing with the Filipinos was cleared
up). Afterwards he was transfer
red to Australia, where he saw
action at Port Darwin and Mores
by.
Last week Miss Sternberg re
ceived a phone call from San
Francisco. Harry was back! A few
days later, a plane landed at the
Shreveport air field. Miss Stern
berg was waiting at the altar, in
(Continued on page eight)
Best Wishes of the
Season
Eli B. Kantor
and Family
They Serve Uncle Sam
About the Men in the
Army f Navy and Marines
By BEN SAMUEL
LEVIN’S IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
The news from “somewhere in
the South Pacific” tells of an at
tack on a Japanese cargo ship by
the American Flying Fortress,
Chief Seattle. The bombardier of
that plane is Sergeant Meyer
Levin, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The
plane’s pilot is Lieutenant Morris
N. Friedman, of Grand Forks, N.
D., and one of the crew of eight is
2nd Lieutenant Haskett Wexler of
Chicago.
It was Meyer Levin, who, as a
corporal, accompanied Captain
Colin Kelly on a formation flight
from the west coast to the Philip
pines before the United States was
at war, and who won the Distin
guished Flying Cross for his part
in that flight. He is also the Meyer
Levin who launched the bombs
GREETINGS .. .
TO MY MANY FRIENDS WHO HAVE AIDED
ME THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH IN MY SUB
SCRIPTION DRIVES FOR THE SOUTHERN
ISRAELITE, MY VERY BEST WISHES FOR THE
HOLIDAYS.
Gustav Oppenheimer
which sank the Japanese battle
ship Haruna, from a plane piloted
by Captain Colin Kelly, who lost
his life in the attack. Lieutenant
Friedman also was with Kelly and
and Levin on that famous flight to
the Philippines, receiving, in turn,
the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Moreover, Lieutenant Friedman
again distinguished himself as a
member of an army bomber com
mand operating in the Philippines
and Dutch East Indies, receiving
the Silver Star from the War De
partment for the heroism he dis
played there.
The crew of the Chief Seattle
think they sank that cargo ship—
they were flying too high to be
sure. Levin, who had been making
hit-and-run raids during the Bat
tle of Java as a matter of dally
routine, says that he isn’t sure
whether he sank any ships in those
raids but “I got one in the Coral
Sea Battle, or at least I got a
beautiful hit, though I suppose
I’ll never know whether she sank
or not." He describes the ship as
‘‘a big fat 12,000 ton two-stacker
passenger-cargo ship and we
found her,” he says, “right in the
center of the convoy. When I let
,go with a salve of bombs we were
up against the worst ack-ack fire
I’ve ever seen.”
On the way back to Australia,
the fortress ran into bad wether
and the captain ordered all hands ,
to bail out. “It was pitch dark,”
according to Levin, “and as I
floated down my chute cleared a
tree but I hit it and scraped off a
few branches before I finally made
a painful landing right on top of
a big ant hill.”
Levin ran into the navigator
somewhere, and with the help of
an Australian farmer they organ
ized a search party for the others.
“Before * night we found every
member of the crew,” Sergeant
Levin reports. “None was hurt.”
Season’s Greetings
MR. and MRS.
JACK POMERANTZ
SEASON’S GREETINGS
BRESSLER BROS.
INC.
330 Peters Street, S. W.
MAin 0839
Best Wishes of the Season
MR. and MRS. FRANK A.
CRASNOW and son
SAMUEL SPRINGER
CRASNOW
Wishing all our friends a
very happy and prosperous
NEW YEAR
MR. and Mrs. H. Mendel
Best Wishes for the
Holidays
MR. AND MRS.
M. J. MOLDOW
AND FAMILY
56 ATLANTA AVE., S. E.
SEASON’S GREETINGS
TO OUR FRIENDS
Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Lefkoff and Family
BEST WISHES OF THE SEASON
Siegel’s
Kosher Restaurant