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Page Six J. W. B. Sees Service in Two Wars 11 I s < 'MmjjMgrjc. : J M i A typical Jewish Welfare Board “hut" erected during the last war to provide for the recreational needs of servicemen. The YMCA and the Knights of Columbus, as can be seen by the organisational insignia atop the building, shared apace in this particular JWB center, located In Toledo, Ohio. wikQ ET*Yrl | This was a camp-wide championship chess and checkers tournament, which took place in a Jewish Welfare Beard Hut at a Southern mill ♦ . -ntcnment in ISIS. JEWS In UNIFORM BY BEN SAMUEL “Presumed Lost in Action!”: i On March 24, following the great* 1 est naval battle of the war, with Japanese forces in the Java Sea, the Destroyer Pillsbury headed for Australia through the Bali Strait —and has not been heard from since. The Jewish Welfare Board’s De ’ partment of War Records reports that the Pillsbury’s Chief Engineer was young Lieutenant Howard P. Fischer, JJ. S. N., who graduated ' §|ml K • '■ 1 SS •■ ljll‘ JH |r Ipjjtg :> - : LET’S ELECT FRANK T. CANNON OUR COUNTY SOLICITOR He is an experienced criminal law yer. Let’s elect a County Solicitor who can serve the people of Du val County now. i (Paid Political Advertisement) ■ | from the Annapolis Naval Acad ■ omy before he was 21 and in the last few years had seen most of the Far East, and even visited the Emperor of Japan. Lieutenant Fischer took the en trance examination for Annapolis when he was a student at Town send Harris High School. He passed with a high mark and set tled down to the hard task of be coming a naval officer. In 1938, at the age of 20, he received his ensign commission, having nar rowly escaped becoming a movie star in the meantime. When scenes for the motion pic ture “Shipmates Forever’’ were being filmed at .Annapolis, he was invited to join the cast. He ex plained that he had come to the Academy to become, a naval of ficer. Howard’s first assignment upon graduation was to the naval base in Quincey, Calif., and not in Hollywood. He sailed from the Pacific Coast to New York City on the Wichita. In Ne’.v York, a qualified engineer, he taught en gineering to midshipmen, until, in 1939, he was transferred to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Soon r forwards he was stationed on a destroyer which patrolled the coast. A transfer to the Pensacola ; air base followed. He had been | there four monthhs when his ; mother, who lives in New York, received a telegram asking her to meet him at the airport at once— he was leaving for the China Seas. Howard arrived in the Far East in November, 1940. He saw Shanghai, Singapore, Yokohama* and even had an opportunity to ■ visit the Emperor of Japan. The ! Emperor didn't say anything to Howard about his war plans, but • . m V ■ ’ THE SOUTHERN JEWISH WEEKLY | Board Narks 25th Anniversary At 3 Day Session ..—■- m w I The National Jewish Welfare Board celebrates its 25th anniver sary at the Hotel Commodore, New York City, on April 18 through April 20, commemorating a quarter century of service in war and in j peace. The Board was formed in April, 1917, three days after the United States entered the war. With it j were associated nineteen national Jewish societies, all working to gether to provide for the spiritual and recreational needs o.t the 250,000 servicemen of Jewish faith in the nation’s fighting forces. When the Board observed its first anniversary, thousands of congratu latory messages poured in, includ ing cables from Gen. John J. Persh ing and Marshall Foch, and a telegram from Woodrow Wilson. In the two decades of peace which followed, the JWB became the parent organization of Jewish community centers throughout the country. Fifteen additional national organizations affiliated themselves with the Board. Youth programs were instituted, new community centers were opened, and Jewish community life in America was strengthened and expanded. When the United States took up arms in the present war, President Roosevelt urged the formation of a group to minister to the leisure time needs of American soldiers, and the Jewish Welfare Board, in cooperation with five agencies of other faiths, helped found the United Service Organisations. Today, through the USO, the Board is engaged in another pro ject of spiritual guidance and rec reational assistance for American servicemen. To camp areas here and overseas, it has sent scores of field workers Charged with the task of maintaining morale among a new generation of fighting men. AV ! there was signs of war prepara tions everywhere, he reported, toward was amazed at the num er of swastikas and photographs f Hitler all over Singapore. He •ensed the growing tension in the :ast, and wrote home that “the -runs are going to boom.” On December SI, J9lO, Howard •as ordered to Manila. Here he vas stationed, first on the U. S. S. Barker, then on the Pillsbury, as ; Chief Engineer. Soon afterwards : the guns began booming. The | Pillsbury participated in the four ; major Far Eastern Sea battles, j until its disappearance on March 24. Fischer’s mother is Mrs. Frances Fischer, a New York lawyer. * * * J. W. B. Worker prisoner in Tokio: Up to the time of Manila's fall, Morton I. Netzorg, Jewish Welfare Board worker in the Philippines, was working night and day with the American sol diers, getting first aid to the wounded, evacuating families, pro viding for the needs of service men. Following Pearl .Harbor, Netzorg was sent emergency i funds by the Board to carry on his work. When Manila fell to , the Japs the Board lost contact with him. The other day, Net i zorg’s name appeared in the list i of 1500 American prisoners taken i by the Japanese in Manila, i 6 6 6 > An Addition to The Democratic i Forces: Has anyone seen Lieut i enant Samuel A. Goldblith of i Lowell, Massachusetts? He’s sta , tioned with Uncle Sam’s forces » somewhere in the Far East—last • word received from him was in . December, when he was known to - be in the Philippines. If you run ; across Lieutenant Goldblith, please , tell him something new has been 1 added to the number of things he i is fighting for. A few weeks 1 ago he became the father of a : young man named Errol David In m 2, the Jewish Welfare Board, now a member agency of the ÜBO operatea 95 buildings and units such as the one above to provide for the recreational needs of a new generation of American soldiers. This is the spacious Army and Navy Service Center maintained by the Board in the Panama Canal Zone, now serving as a USO club and occupied by the Red Cross, as well as by the local defense and civilian protective agencies. Wim- IwSpaas MWKW W _ £3 | , \ ** - } flu) ' $ |k. K « bbbih h* ■ j&gggfrt SrJHaMH U '■:/ x; |l||S , 1 G ' u wmC - ♦ « They still have checker tournaments, but in the considerably brighter ■ atmosphere of the 1942 variety of Jewish Welfare Board' recreation center, soldiers relax and read, while a-pretty USO hostess entertains i tne«* v ten i«e*rd*nt*> Goldblith. Errol, and his mother, Diana Goldblith, just v.ant Pop to know that everything is O. K. back in Lowell and that his new dependant is depending on him to smash the Axis. ** * 1 | | Sexagenarian Private: Sixty-' one year old Private Ernest C. Newman, stationed at Camp Crow ; der, Mo., is indignant. ; When he enlisted recently at j Houston, Texas, Private Newman ! intended to go on fighting where 'he had left off in the first World War, of which -he is a veteran. | The army, however, wouldn’t even let him have a gun. “They’re trying to make a clerk out of me,” he growled, "but that ain’t going to work. I’m a soldier ! ■ Candidate For J DUVAL COUNTY a a Experienced - Dependable * Capable ..... ....'• *;, ' 1 a Your vote and support j will be appreciated » A ■ a Subject to democratic primaries, May 5, 19*2 t " | (Paid Political Adv.) T— • • _ and I’m not going to be happy unless I get into action.” All right, you kids. Move over and let Private Newman into that trench. Wanna win, don’t you? | Re-Elect I James T. Etheredge School Board District No. 2 (Paid Political Adv.) i HE3BEBHHBBBHBHBBH9HI ; - - '• T’ - f Friday, April 17, 194 j