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“YOUR FAMILY”
They are everything to you—you are providing for
them, but have you thought how much a good photo
graph means—in happiness to them?
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WW Market Street Opposite Post Office
New GROUND FLOOR Studio
KNOXVILLE, TENN.
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Phones:
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KNOXVILLE, TENN.
PRESIDENT HOOVER
To his huge fund-raising efforts in
behalf of the starving abroad and in
behalf of organized religion in Ameri
ca, David A. Brown has added the
task of succoring starving Orientals,
as Chairman of the China Famine Re
lief Board of Directors. In the latter
capacity, Mr. Brown conferred with
President Herbert C. Hoover on Mon-
ANI) DAVID A. BROWN
day, April 8th, at the White House,
and with others of the Relief Board.
As chairman of the United Jewish
campaign, Mr. Brown has already di
rected the raising of more than $14,-
000,000. He is also the chairman of
the Board of Finance of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations.
Mr. Brown is a resident of Detroit.
LEADERS CALLED TO HELP
JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE
Leaders of American Jewry are
called upon to meet to consider the
present situation of the Jews in East
ern Europe and to review the progress
in the work of the United Jewish
Campaign and the Joint Distribution
Committee.
It is expected that as a result of
this conference there will be speedily
attained the collection of the remain
ing $4,000,000 which is outstanding
throughout the United States and
Canada and which is needed by the
Joint Distribution Committee to com
plete the obligations it has already
assumed. Of the $10,700,000 pledged,
over $14,250,000, as of April 1st, has
reached the Joint Distribution Com
mittee, the announcement states.
Mr. Brown announced that the con
ference, which will open on Saturday
evening, May 11th, and continue
through Sunday, May 12th, will, at
its opening sessions, receive reports
of the results of various campaign
efforts that have been conducted
throughout the country. Chairmen of
local drives will report on the prog
ress of the collection of money pledged
m their respective districts. Men and
women, who since the last conference
have \isited Eastern Europe and other
lands in which the Joint Distribution
Committee has carried on its work,
will give eye-witness accounts of the
progress which has been made in the
huge task of economic rehabilitation
that American Jewry has sponsored.
Others will present more recent as
pects of conditions abroad, detailing
the economic situation that has arisen
during the winter that has just ended.
VATICAN TO SEND PAPAL
NUNCIO TO JERUSALEM,
BERLIN HEARS
Berlin (J. T. A.).—The return of
temporal power to the Vatican will be
marked by the creation of the post of
Papal Nuncio in Jerusalem, it is re
ported today in the press here in des
patches from Rome.
Monsignor Valey was slated for the
post and the construction of a resi
dence for the Papal delegate has al
ready been started, according to the
reports. Jerusalem will then see for
the first time in many centuries the
yellow and white Papal flag. The crea
tion of the post was necessary, it is
emphasized, in order to open a chan
nel for the solution of the difficult
questions engaging the Vatican and
England, and to provide for the Cath
olic church the status of a temporal
power.
HELENA MAYER WINS EURO
PEAN FENCING CHAMPIONSHIP
Berlin (J. T. A.)—Miss Helena
Mayer, daughter of an Offenbach
Jewish physician, won the European
fencing championship at the tourna
ment just concluded at Naples.
Miss Mayer held the championship
for Germany. This is the first time
since the war that Germany has held
the championship.
HEINS
JEWELERS
OPTICIANS
Knoxville, Tenn.