The annual citations of honor of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association were awarded at a dinner last night to Laurence Steinhardt, United States Ambassador to Turkey, and Hank Greenberg, Detroit baseball star, now a sergeant of infantry at Fort Dix, N. J. Former Supreme Court Justice Joseph M. Proskauer and Frank L. Weil, president of the National Jewish Welfare Board, made the presentations.
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