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Page 12 The Southern Israelite ITALIAN KING AND MEMBERS OF ROYALTY VISIT SYNAGOGUE Rome (J. T. A.)—King Victor Emmanuel accompanied members of the Royal Family on a visit to Rodic where he inspected the Jewish quarter and the Synagogue Chalon. The King received a Jewish deputation and ex pressed his admiration for the Rab binical College as an important cen ter of Jewish culture. SOVIET GOVERNMENT PLANS METAL INDUSTRY CENTER IN HOMEL Jewish Workers to Benefit From Pro ject Involving 54,000,000 Rouble Investment in Five A ears CATHOLICS, PROTESTANTS AND JEWS JOIN IN WORK FOR PEACE IN GERMANY Berlin (J. T. A.)—Catholics, Prot estants and Jews in Germany joined hands to work for world peace with the establishment there of a German branch of the Federation for W’orld Peace through the churches. The appeal issued by the German branch bears the signatures of Pro fessor Albert Einstein, Oscar Wasser- mann, and Rabbi Leo Bneek, head of the B’nai B’rith in Germany, repre senting German Jewry and the signa tures of Protestant and Catholic leaders. Moscow—(J. T. A.)—New oppor tunities for employing Jewish work ers are expected to result from the establishment in Homel of a metal industry center, if the plans of the Soviet Government, just approved, are carried into operation. According to the project, 54,000,000 roubles are to be invested during the next five years for the erection in Homel of 28 new factories. Eleven thousand workers would be employed. One of the factories is to be a trac tor plant. Other plants are to manu facture glass, matches and paper. It is stated that like in Kirch, the Jew ish workers in White Russia are to be aided in entering the industry. 1 MERCHANDISE! How important it is now, (hiring the summer months to trade at the A&P where fresh foods are always assured! UUEAT Atlantic & Pacific Ttt CO. UNITED SYNAGOGUE CLOSES CONVENTION WITH ELEC TION OF OFFICERS Adopts Resolutions Welcoming Agency; Favoring Hebrew in High Schools New York—-(J. T. A.)—With the installation by Dr. Elias L. Solomon of Nathan Levy of New York as presi dent to succeed S. Herbert Golden, the seventeenth annual convention of the United Synagogue of America ended yesterday at the Astor Hotel. The convention began Sunday with joint sessions of the United Synagogue of America, the Women’s League and the Young People’s League. Approximate ly 800 delegates were present from synagogues and communities through out the country. Other officers re-elected were Dr. Elias L. Solomon, Honorary Presi dent; Professor Louis Ginsberg, Dr. C. E. Hillel Kauver, Dr. Jacob Kohn and Hon. II. P. Koppleman, vice-pres idents; Sol. Mutterperl, recording sec retary; Rabbi Charles I. Hoffman, cor responding secretary and Rabbi Samuel M. Cohen, executive director. An executive council was chosen for one year. The Women’s League of the United Synagogue conducted its sessions sim ultaneously with those of the parent organization. At the close of the ses sions yesterday afternoon, the New York Branch of the Women’s League was host to the visiting delegates at a luncheon given at the Manhattan Square Hotel under the chairmanship of Mrs. Eva Levy, president of the New York Branch. Resolutions expressing gratification on the consummation of the Jewish Agency to bring a unified effort to the rebuilding of the Jewish Homeland in Palestine were adopted at the clos ing session of the main body. Other resolutions adopted were those oppos ing any calendar reform involving a “wandering” Sabbath; endorsing the program of the Jewish Committee cn Scouting; offering co-operation with national and international organiza tions engaged in safeguarding the tra ditional Sabbath; expressing a desire to co-operate actively with all other organizations seeking to educate Jew ish children; voting appreciation to the National Broadcasting Company for courtesies extended to the United Synagogue and the Women’s League in the broadcasting of weekly pro grams through its stations and ex pressing appreciation to the Anglo- Jewish, Yiddish and metropolitan press for assistance in spreading in formation about the work of the Unit ed Synagogue. The convention also adopted a reso lution favoring steps to promote the introduction of Hebrew as a choice of language in the high schools of the United States and favoring recogni tion of Hebrew by various college en try boards and boards of regents. The resolution also voted to co-operate with all organizations working in this direction. One of the most important decisions of the convention was to organize a National United Synagogues Member ship to be formed on an individual basis. No effort has heretofore been made to organize an individual mem bership on a national basis among the members of the 250 synagogues which are affiliated with the zation. Another outstanding feature of the convention was the organization of * National Session of Men’s Clubs to co-ordinate the religious, social, cul tural and recreational activities of the various affiliated men’s clubs. The first session of this new body was held Monday afternoon and the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: Edward C. Weinrib, president, and Jesse Bienfeld and Abraham j' Jellinoff, vice-presidents. Those named to the executive council were Abraham Hackman, Rabbi Lichten stein, Samuel Goodfriend, Isaac Gold berg, Irving Waldman, Louis Soli, Abraham Reback, Rabbi Alexander Basell, Rabbi Joseph Miller, A. A. Leonard, A. J. Wasserman, William Schimmel, Rabbi L. J. Haas, Lewis Goldberg and Louis Katz. Among the other speakers at the Monday afternoon session were Rabbi Charles I. Hoffman, of Newark, who dwelt on the United Synagogue Re corder and other publications of the organization; Rabbi Jesse Bienenfeld, of Syracuse, who discussed the rela tionship Of the United Synagogue and the individual synagogue and Rabbi Simon Greenberg, of Philadelphia, who spoke on the subject of the Unit ed Synagogue and its district branches. In accepting the office of president, Mr. Levy called upon enthusiastic co operation of all members in carrying out the enlarged program of the or ganization and in raising the balance of the $500,000 needed to carry out the expansion program for the next three years. He commended S. Her bert Golden upon his guidance for the past tw r o years and said he hoped to be able to continue the good work of his predecessor. HUNGARIAN JEWISH WHO’S WHO CAUSES INSULT TO MANY NOTA BLES DENYING JEWISH ORIGIN Affected Personages to File Libel Suits Budapest (J. T. A.)—Much conster nation and indignation were display in the upper stratum of Hungarian society, as well as in some Jewish yr cles, because of the publication o first edition of an Hungarian Je* 1 encyclopedia, a sort of “Who s W 0 Hungarian Jewry.” The editors committed the tion of including in these encyclop*” not only the Hungarian Jews openly profess their Judaism bu those who are prominent in s( * . and are in the habit of denying faith or origin. Thus, th * 'Li eludes many prominent b> personages, some of whom be on the nobility. taa\ “CO®' Some of these personages ie . promised” by the disclosure o Jewish origin, are issuing cen ’‘ a Y n fS threaten to institute court PJ oce 1 ^ for the withdrawal of the editio first to file a suit of libel " aS orgam- Weszley of the University ° ^ pest. He demanded satisfaction ^ editors, since he is, he asser s, way of Jewish origin.