Promotion of seven Army and Navy chaplains of the Jewish faith to higher rank and an increase in the number of Jewish chaplains on active duty to sixty-four were announced today by Dr. David de Sola Pool, chairman of the Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities of the National Jewish Welfare Board.
Six Army chaplains were elevated from lieutenant to captain, and one Navy chaplain, H. Cerf Straus, of Alexandria, La., was named a lieutenant commander. Of the sixty-four chaplains now on active duty, fifty-eight are in the Army and six in the Navy.
The first American Jewish chaplain to reach Britain with the American armed forces is Earl Stone, formerly assistant rabbi of a Chicago temple.
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