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Page 26 The Southern Israelite m i? J't 1 T I Ilf * * -i-i i i i ’■'♦■I M Hotel Farragut Direction ROBERT K. MEYER . I i * . i j i I »{ * • 4 FAHKAGUT OPERATING CO. PROPRIETORS 300 Rooms Each Willi Individual Rath KNOXVILLE, TENN. niifinimnntin»4<**”" rrrrTrrrrrrfmTT* Peerless La undry Company minnuilll FRANK M. HOUSER, (irnrrnl Munugcr Corner Commerce anti Central KNOXVILLE, TENN. “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? Knaffl & Brakebell 1 : Photographer* in Your Town WW Market Street Opposite Post Office New GROUND FLOOR Studio KNOXVILLE, TENN. KNOXVILLE GLASS COMPANY GLASS If It's Glass—We Have It Phones: Hemlock — 1511 — Main 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.