davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Smyrna times., 1942-12-10


Dear Mother and All:
l received your letter, and was
very much pleased to hear from
you.
We are still stationed at Hillsboro.
1 have heard that we might be
moved next week, but this is not
assured. Living out here is not so
bad as one might expect After
all, in the Army, we soon become
accustomed to these different
changes.
1 went out to a movie last night
and saw pretty good show. At
ter the picture, stopped off for a
visit to the U.S.O. These U.S.O.
folks are really swell in the way
they treat the boys. The ladies at
tached to this organization just
can't seem to do enough for the
Service men. The American Leg
ion out here has also opened up a
Canteen for us. 1t is a real nice
place, something to be appreciated
by all the boys. I will close now
with my love to all.
Your son,
Arthur.
Sgt. Arthur E. Sylvester
Co. G, 18TH M. p. B. N.
Freeman Avenue Armory
Cincinnati, Ohio
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Sports Data

Seymour Greenberg, tennis ace
who keeps on winning, is taking
special work in radio at North
western University as a member
of the Army Air Corps. His sports
career seems to be over for the
duration. Izzy Bells, who for
years and years has been collect
ing tennis trophies, won another
when he took the West Jerseys
open tennis championship. It was
his second title within seven days.
He has too many to list on ten
pages. . Benny Isaacs, British
bantamweight, lost a tough bout
to Jim Brady, British Empire ban
tam king. Danny Bartfield, East
Side lightweight, licked Morris
Ref in a comeback bout.
Morris Sigel, Texas wrestling
promoter, has been offering the
grunt-and-groan fans some razzIe
dazzle shows. Charlie Rose, for
35 years fight manager and for
mer featherweight contender, was
eulogized in Ring magazine for his
great work in his field. Decorated
by the American and French
Governments in the last war,
Charlie is seeking service again.
He manages Bill Poland, Jewish
heavy, who will be sketched in a
Lurie column one of these days.
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But do you not know, Don Ye-
huda, that this Columbus has a
fantastic idea? He says that the
world is round, and that he NAV
find the east by going west. Is that
not a grotesque idea ? To find one
thing, you go in the opposite dir
ectionw
may, nay, Don CASTELAR,. Me-
thinks there indeed lies our great
consolation. Did not our great
Maimonides teach that the earth
was round and if a thing is round,
there is no end. There is no end
and no beginning. Canst thou take
ball and say, where is the end?
On a rounded object, every part
is beginning and an end, and the
end is also the beginning.
Therefore, Don CASTELAR,, I
don't despair and hopefully look
to Him, who, as our sages have
said, is Infinite, that he hath no
end and no beginning. Verify, Don
CASTELAR,, I am much intrigued by
this thought that one may go west
to find the east"
We may be quite certain, never
theless, that the more literal
minded saw no great visions, pin
ned no great hopes on the depart
ure of Columbus taking place the
same day as they were leaving,
Notwithstanding the fact that soon
many of the Spanish Jews were to
become pioneers in South Amer
lea.
We, too, of this generation, in
days equally dark as theirs per-
chance see little Of the light "be-
hind the clouds" of the immediate
situation. We see the explosions
and massacres of the Jews going
on in many SPANS today. We see
the enemy again almost at the
gates of Palestine as they were on
Tisha Bah two thousand years
ago, and many of us ask ourselves:
'Ts it the end?"
But there is no end. The earth
is round. That's what America
proved to the world.
Tisha Bah is day of mourning
But it is more than that. It teaches
us never to say die. 1t teaches us
that this is a round world, that
we may even go to the East by
going West, that there is an in
finite number of ways of achiev-
ing a purpose. Will it be reckoned
blasphemous, therefore, to say
that Tisha Bah is also a day OF
joy?
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Wedding to be
Sunday Event

Miss Adele Batter, daughter of
Mrs. Gusta Batter, will become
the bride Sunday afternoon of
Hans Wilk in a home ceremony
to be held in the brides home at
213O Gilmore st. Only members of
the immediate family will be pres
ent. Rev. B. Safer will officiate.
A reception for friends of the
young couple and the family will
be held at six o'clock. There will
be open house, and everyone wish
ing to greet the newly-weds are
cordially invited to attend.
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Jews I'm UNIFORM
BY BEN SAMUEL

INDEPENDENCE DAY IN A BOMBER
OVER GERMANY: Staff Sergeant Chester
Davis, of Brooklyn, N. Y. really celebrated July
18th in style this year. He spent the day in
United States Army bomber, lingering over
German airdrOmes while the bombs fell.
There much excitement on President
Street, Brooklyn, the following morning, when
Mrs. Rose Davis opened the newspaper and found
her boys name listed with the first group of
American airmen ever to visit Hitler from the
sky of his home continent.
Mrs. Davis remembers her 24-year old son
frecEled face kid who spent his childhood
brOOding about airplanes and building plane
models until one day his picture landed on the
front page of a New York newspaper, ANNOUNCE
ing him the winner of a medal in a model
building contest. Then after he graduated from
Haaren High School, Manhattan, Chester en-
listed in the Army Air Corps. That was six years
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ago.
"He wanted it," said his wild
owed mother, as tears filled her
eyes. "He showed he wanted to do
the right thing so I wasn't again
st it."
Chester's first big project after
the United States entered the war
was to put through $13 phone
call from Spokane, Wash, where
he was stationed at the time, to
his mother in Brooklyn. Following
which Mrs. Davis promptly board
ed a train to the West Coast. She
spent two wonderful weeks with
him in Spokane. Shortly afterwards
he was sent to Fort Dix, and
thence to England.
The Sergeant's second letter
since his arrival overseas came a
few weeks ago. In it, he admitted
an attack of inconsistencies, but
observed that "yOu can't beat this
army life" He also reported that
he is still taking courses and that
''it seems Pm going to spend the
rest of my life going to school,"
According to his brother
Emanuel. Chester's job during
flights is to take charge if he
RADIO, and to maintain contact a.
mong four plane at time. Chester
by the way, is married man, and
the father of 16 months old baby
girl. His wife and daughter live
in Los Angles.
FATHER AND SON: Harry
D. Henshel, National Chairman of
the Jewish Welfare Boards Ath-
letic Committee, and Director of
the New York Y. M. H. A., is now
a Major in the United States
Army Air Corps. Major Henshel
joins his son, Harry B. Henshel,
who, in the course of years
army service. has won steady pro-
motion from buck private to mis-
present rank of second lieutenant.
Major HenSheI'S civilian career
has ranged from the operation of
a distilIery company, to the direc-
ton of a radio station (WOV, III
New York;. He started out as a
law court stenOgrapher. Later he
became the owner of a successful
direct-maiI service. He was once
secretary to the President of the
Erie Railroad.
Henshel helped arrange cam
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OLD STORY

Arthur KOeStler wrote "D1a-
logue with DEATH" his new book
while he was in a Franco prison
in Spain, but his jailers never
knew that the diary they allowed
him to keep was the old double
talk. Told to write only mice
things" in his diary, kOestler
says: 81 wOrded it in the style II
Uncle BERTHE Observation-Disclosures
Auntie telegram. If at night ten
prisoners were shot, 1 wrote "A
woke at ten, bad Dreams When
he got out of Jail he translated
his diary into normal speech.
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EVENTS OF INTEREST TO MEN IN UNIFORM

EVENTS OF INTEREST TO MEN IN UNIFORM
Saturday, July 25 500 Third
Silver SITS.
Sunday, July 26, 1000 A. NIP NOOn-HOme Hospitality
invitation to dinner 1884, come to S11 w.
Duval Street.
$3.50 p M-NIOves at the USO Club 81 w. Duval
Street. JWB-YMCA
6P. M. 8 p. M.-Open House me Supper,
Jewish Center Srd Silver SITS.
Tuesday, July %, GAS p.
w. st.
Wednesday, July &c. 500 p. Mart skeching JWB
YMCA, YWCA. Sl1 w.
Thursday, July 80, 815 = Dance ArmOry.
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paign, over station WOW recently
the stations huge foreign-ancestry
audience to support the cause of
the United Nations. The Treas
ury Department made a special
award to WOW in the acknowl-
edgement of the campaigns sue
cess.
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Mrs. Yetta Hornstein of Savannah
Tor passing her nurses aid course
t.. Glad to hear that Max Weiss
is recouperating from his recent
operation. and the same for Itz
Greenoerg Mollye Nathan
mrs. Hyman) and her two little
daughters of Jesup, Ca, are visit
ors at Neptune Beach at the home
OF her mother Mrs. A. Pagan. :.
Inc Ira Stems are also enjoying
the Beaches this ummer. And
the Herbert Pankens are spending
their vacation there. Kathryn
Hackel MRS. CarD and baby son
were visitors in Darien. Ga. :.
Dave and Arlene Lipson and fam
NY were recent visitors of the I.
Llpsons in Springfield. Mrs.
Harry Sachs is feeling better after
her recent operation, we hear. .
Understand that Mrs. Barney
freedman is visiting in Boston. :.
Pat Hacked GIickstein has
lovely visitor from Chicago, Mrs.
MOllye Gumberg, who is a house
guest of the HackeIs at the Beach
Her husband is stationed with
Capt. Felix Glickstein at Hawaii
And comes word from there
that Felix has been made district
dental surgeon.
Congratulations to Sidney Berk
who has just been given his COM
mission as first Lieutenant
in the Army Air Corps
Morris Berk is spending his va
cation at Jacksonville Beach, we
see.
And speaking of the Beach.
if taken in, the spirit of an adven-
ture the dim-Out is lots of fun.
And then, the city children who
have had a horror of bIack-Outs
learn that they are just natural
things and nothing to be afraid
of. And there are great many
families who have moved out for
the summer. the ROlnd Krant-
yes, the Sam WittenS. the Harry
KatzeS, and the SimOnS, and many
others whom we have mentioned
from time to time.
The Flag has almost become
community center. Seen there
Tuesday night: Silverberg get
ting change at the counter -.
The A. Nabins taking it easy, and
Mrs. Nabin feeling better after her
recent illness. the Morris Will
son taking in the sights. Ben
Stein walking jauntilly along.
Morris Berk and Harry Blair
bowling. Mrs. Croft of Miami
Beach liking ours too. And her
daughter and son-in-law, the Her
bert Rosenbergs who are living
here now, bowling with the
Morris J. MoscovitzeS. We did
MT go up into the casino, but there
were probably host of our breth-
ern trying their luck.
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ne QlSCUNCAJ VI -
Columbus begins his journal of
J VOYAGE by saying that on the
4 on which the Jews were order
to depart from Spain, on that
me dav he sailed from the Span
b harbor.
We can well imagine what must
i've been the feelings of the Jews,
10 thousand years ago, when
lev saw that the enemy had tri
rnnhed in their native land and
hat they must become refugees
4 Id wanderers to unknown lands.
[anv undoubtedly wrung their
ands, saying: 'It is the end"
And in Tisha Bah in 1892 when
he Jews had to quit Spain, the
Nv must have been the same. We
an visualize the scene. All SPAIN
.ot only the Jews of Spain--was a.
og on that Tisha Bah. Two very
8gnificant events were taking
lace that day: the Jews were go
be- on a trip, and Columbus was
Ioing on trip. 1t is probable that
4 the two events the departure
4 the Jews was more talked a.
but among the Spaniards general
\. They had been an important
lement of the population, guam
itatively and qualitatively. And
here was even a material con-
Iteration that made the Jews de-
arturo of interest to the mass of
'paniards, for the Government
lad allowed those Selling Jewish
gliding a percentage of the loot.
The departure Of Columbus, on
he other hand could scarcely have
eceived the same attention. He
7as a theorist who had persuaded
he government to sponsor a du-
ious adventure. Yet it must also
ave been much discussed, and we
nay well imagine that among the
parish Jews there was particular
Y much discussion of the Columb-
IN adventure, for the Jews had
layed prominent part in furth-
ring the project. It had been a
ew, one of the confidants of Queen
ISABELLA, who retained his post in
er cabinet, even after the expul-
ion, who had persuaded the Queen
fter much hesitancy and first de-
lining to back the project of Col
mbus.
We may imagine Don CASTELAR,
nd Don Yehuda talking on that
ateful Tisha Bah in 1892.
1T is bad" replied Don Yehuda,
put let us not say the end"
AYE, we go, Don Yehuda, and
olumbus is off to China, and me-
links, the same ill fate must at
Fnd both him and ourselves. I
Far, by the way, Don Yehuda,
(at there are a number of our
Vn Hebrew brethren who are on
Is ships. At least, they have moth
e to lose, Don Yehuda, is it not
?"
I tell thee" replied Yehuda,
We are indeed cast upon sad days,
et let us not call it the end, nor,
pray thee, say that it is the end
F Columbus and his voyagers."
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Engagements
MTNKOVITZ FRIEDMAN

SYLVANIA, Ga.-Mr. and Mrs.
Hvman Minkovitz announce the
engagement of their only daugh-
ter. Emma, to Morton M. Fried
man. of Fort Knox, KY, formerly
of Madison, Ga. The ceremony is
to be a quiet noon affair at the
home of the bride on July 26.
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BIRTHS

Mr.. and Mrs. Holman Setter an
nounce the birth of a daughter,
on Thursday, July 9, in st. Vim
cents Hospital.
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Mrs. Rose Zim-
norman of Brook
Ign, N. Y. was a re-
cent visitor here. .
She liked Jax so
much that she will
return in the fall to
make it her home. i.
Congratulations to
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There Is No End
TISHA B'AB THOUGHTS
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Copyrighted 1912. Jewish Telegraphic Agenry, Inc

Tsha Bah is the day of the destruction of Jerusalem
hitch amounts in substance to the day of the Jews expulsion
am their homeland. Tisha BAb is also the day on which
LEWIS were expelled from SPAIN 1t also happens to be the
~ mi which Columbus set out his voyage which lead to
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DANCES.

DANCES.
Board of Economic Warfare.
Mayflower Hotel, 10 O'Clock tonight.
Illinois State Society, Wardman
Park Hotel. 9 o'clock tonight.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco
Theater, Madison place and Penn
sylvania avenue NV, 6 o'clock this
evening,
Recreational games, Roosevelt
Center. Thirteenth and Upshur
streets NV. 7:3O o'clock tonight.
Tennis instruction for men and
women, Mckinley Center. First and
T streets NE, 7:30 O'Clock tonight.
Ballroom dance class. Noes.
Women (USO), 7:30 o'clock tonight.
Ballroom and square dancing,
dramatic class. Central Center,
Thirteenth and Clifton streets NV,
o'clock tonight.
Women's Battalion dance, Bureau
of Engraving, Fourteenth and c
streets NV, o'clock tonight.
Dancing, refreshments, Friendship
House. o'clock tonight.
Open house, Emory Methodist
Church, 6lO4 Georgia avenue NV,
8 o'clock tonight.
Square dancing. refreshments.
First Congregations Church, Tenth
and G streets NV, $50 O'Clock to-
night.
FOR COLORED SERVICEMEN.
Games, skating, YWCA. 9Ol Rhode
Island avenue NV. tUSO), Phyllis
Wheatley, 7:30 O'Clock tonight.
Swimming, photography. games.
YMCA, 1916 Twelfth street NV, 8
O'Clock tonight.
Big Sing, Mount Olivet Lutheran
Church, 8 o'clock tonight,
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Two us. Naval Airmen
Receive Decorations
For Action in Pacific
Kentuckion, Oregonion
Rewarded for Heroism
Against japanese

=! the Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Nov. 81
Two ace flyers of the Nays Air
Forces. now on duty at the Jackson
vile Naval Air Station. were deco
rated yesterday for distinguished
action In battle against the Japa-
nese in the Pacific.
The Navy Cross was presented to
1t. David Render Berry, USNR, of
Greensboro, N Y, and the Distin-
guished Flying Cross to 1t Carl
Daniel Bauer of Portland, Greg, by
Capt, John D. Price, commandant
of the air station.
Cited in Midway Fight.
This was the second award for
1t Berry. For distinguished service
IN the Midway battle. he had re-
ceived the Navy Gold Star. The
Navy Cross was awarded him for his
heroic fighting at Tulagi Harbor
and in the Coral Sea battle.
1t. Berry was standout member
OF a bombing squadron which sank
or seriously damaged eight enemy
'CoSClo al uidSi r1diD CT anu an
enemy carrier in the Coral Sea. A
pilot in the neutrality patrol to Eng
land before the outbreak of hostili-
ties on December Z, the Kentuckian
participated in raids on the Mar
shall and Gilbert Islands. attacks on
Salamua and Lac, as well as the
other actions.
Spots Naval Units.
For heroism and extraordinary
achievement" 1t. Bauer was pre-
scented the Distinguished Flying
Cross in recognition of his invalu-
able aid in spotting retreating Japa-
nese naval units for his command
1t. Bauer lowered over the beaten
japanese forces in a huge patrol
bomber in spite of repeated attacks
by enemy aircraft and heavy anti
aircraft fire from the Jap vessels.
His courage and determination
and utter disregard for personal
safety were in keeping with the
highest traditions of the naval serv-
ice," the citation said.
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Three Killed, Three Hurt
In Army Plane Crash

BY the Associated Press
FORT MYERS, Fla, Nov. 27.-
Three crewmen were killed and
three injured yesterday when an
Army plane from Page Field here
crashed at Eglin Field, near VAL
pariso. public relations officers at
Page Field announced.
The dead were listed as:
Second 1t. William w. Shappell
Rehoboth, Mass: Second 1t. Merlin
c, Vogelsang Houston, Tex. and
Staff Sergt. Robert C. Thompson,
North Carrollton, Miss.
The injured were Second 1t.
James E. Calver, Granite City, Ill,
who was critically hurt. and Staff
Sergts. Roy F. Radford of Iowa
Park, Tex. and Clarence R. Benson
of Danvers. Mimi, whose injuries
were not believed to be serious.
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She Is Miss
Iuella D E er,
who lives with
her mother, Mrs.
Flora Dever, at
1926 South Lynn
street, Arlington,
Va.
Il think if We
all get in this
thing it won't
last long, so here
I am. Marriage
can wait" she
said.
Miss D ev e r
has two brothers
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Arlington Woman Is First
Selected Here for SPARS

An employe of the Agriculture De-
partment is the first woman selected
here for the new women's reserve of
the Coast Guard-the SPARS.
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In the Army, Miss Dever.
Corpl. Everett Dever of the Air
Corps and Pvt Lotus Dever of the
Ordnance Motor Transport. She
isn't quite certain what her brothers
will think of this Navy business"
Miss Dever is in the Bureau of
Animal Industry Of the department.
She has been employed there Is
years.
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Bonds or hondage-was there ever
an easier choice: Get yours now.
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Africa War Seen Forcing Nozis
To Change Plans in Russia
Moj Eliot Discusses Possibility Of Reds
Exploiting Weaknesses Of Germans

way in the region of Elista, which
would also have to retire. Now the
purpose of the German advance to
EliSta was not, as some observers
apparently supposed to dash
through to the coast of the Caspian
Sea; it was rather to protect the
flank of the long German line Of
communications to Stalingrad by
way of the Rostov-Stalingrad rail-
way, which runs east of, and roughly
parallel to, the Don River.
A Russian advance westward in
the North Caucasus would immedi-
ately begin to give the Germans
anxiety as to the security of this
rail line. If such an advance were
pressed far enough, it would COM
pei general German withdrawal
from Stalingrad for the German
armies there could not possibly be
maintained without the use of this
rail line.
Germans Might Retire.
Moreover, such a westward ad-
vance would outflank the Maynch
River line and if it were able to gain
sufficient ground to threaten the
rail functions at Tikhoretsk and
Salsk, there would be nothing for
the Germans to do except to retire
completely behind the Don. Indeed,
there would be every probability
that great part of their forces in
the Taupe- -Novorossisk section would
be trapped, and the Maikop oil fields
would revert to Russian control.
OF course all this is at the mo-
ment in the realm of speculation.
A single Russian victory seems far
too slender a foundation on which
to build such hopes. Yet if the
Germans are going to prevent such
a Russian offensive, they have OBJ
viously got to reinforce very strongly
their armies in the North Caucasus.
To do this, they must draw troops
either from other parts of the Rus
sian front, or from their general
reserves.
The Russians appear to be keep
ing up their pressure on the Ger
man lines near Leningrad, and in
the Rzhev sector. Wherever Ger
man weakness appears. the Rus
slams are ready to exploit that
weakness.
These cannot be pleasant facts
for the German high command to
contemplate as it finds itself COM
PEELED to readjust all its plans to
face the new conditions created by
the Allied successes In Africa.
Copyright, 1912, by the New York
Tribune, Inc)
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ranean was dangerous to shipping
at any point eastward Of the Span
ish-French frontier. The import
was, apparently, that mines had
been laid or other hazards estab-
lished in the vicinity Of the French
Mediterranean Coast to hamper
shipping to Axis territory.
The Berlin radio told far diff
ferent version Of the first Tunisian
clashes from the one disclosed by
the Allies, claiming that IL Allied
tanks and 18 armored cars had been
destroyed and a railroad seized near
the Algerian border. The Italians
also placed the fighting as near the
Tunis-Algerian border" and claimed
to have the better of it.
Unconfirmed enemy reports also
described effective aerial blows. The
German radio said Axis planes
bombed two big merchantmen of
the Algerian coast and destroyed
planes and hangers on Allied air
fields near Algiers and Bone. The
German-controlled Paris radio said
that the Axis aerial shuttle route
between Sicily and Tunisia still was
open and operating.
The Brazzaville Radio repeated
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Mediterranean
Continued From First Page.)
to be about 80 miles both from
Tunis and Bizerte,- while their air
force struck desperately at the
Allies columns of men, armor and