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The Southern Israelite Page 11 In The Limelight i?Xii a * * » k“k 'k~X fcXgXtf* A H. HERRMANN, well-knowm L w i«h philanthropist of Vienna, was L 8 rded the gold medal for the Aus trian Republic for the promotion of Austrian industrial interests in the Bnited States. Mr. Herrmann was ■l/hly honored by the Jewish com munity of Vienna for the honor that Bras bestowed on him. I MISS HENRIETTA SZOLD, only % man member of the Palestine Zion- t Executive and founder of Hadas- jh, the Women’s Zionist Organization f America, sailed on the lie He ranee, for London, where she will t , n fer with I)r. Chaim Weizmann, resident of the World Zionist Organ isation and of the Jewish Agency ^Luncil, before proceeding to Pales- t le. In Jerusalem Miss Szold will re- Hume her duties as director of erfuca- t in and health on the Executive. HON. ALFRED M. COHEN, Chair- ian of the Board of Governors of the lebrew Union College, was presented ith a gold-mounted plaque by the Bard and the faculty at a dinner in honor at the Cincinnati Club in ncinnati. Mr. Ludwig Vogelstein, Chairman of the Executive Board of Union of American Hebrew’ Con gregations and a member of the Col lege board, delivered the principal ad- Iress of the evening. MAURICE BLOCK, former Presi- |ent of District No. 1 of the Inde- •ndent Order of B’nai B’rith, Demo cratic leader of the New York State Esembly and high in the councils of immany Hall, died suddenly in New irk following an appendicitis opera- 1; m. Mr. Block was long prominent- identified with Jewish affairs, de ling most of his time to the B’nai B’rith. DR. BERKOWITZ, prominent mem- r uf the Hadassah’s physicians group was fired on and seriously wounded [bile making one of his customary trips to patients. Dr. Berkowitz acted ks an unofficial Jewish ambassador to the remotely removed and primitive JArab communities, and had given his Hst years to the healing of the Arabs Bn those sections. .CONGRESSMAN DICKSTEIN, of |NYw ^ork, at the opening of the regu- Bar session of the 71st Congress, in troduced five bills representing the jminimum immigration relief vhich CAROL DAVILA, Roumanian Min ister to the United States, highly praised the late Maurice Blank, the Jewish banker of Roumania, w’ho was generally known as the Rothschild of Roumania. Mr. Davila declared that “with the death of Maurice Blank, one of the greatest personalities of Rou manian finance and a grand and im posing figure has disappeared.” ’ NATHAN STRAUS, one of Ameri ca’s foremost Jews, at the conclusion of his speech at the convention of the Organized Jewish Workers in Pales tine held in New York, received an im mense ovation from the delegates. Plans were formulated to raise a fund of $500,000 by mobilizing 100,000 sub scribers. niiiiwgrauon renei wnicn jshould be adopted by Congress at this Isession. Two of the bills provide res pectively for family visas, and an ex- Itension of the legalization of resi- I ence for aliens who entered the coun- | r > unlawfully. The three remaining I 1 s P r °vided for the granting of non quota status to husband, wife and par- pnt.s of American citizens. PROF. ALBERT EINSTEIN when, | an b°norary degree was conferred up- , r m recentl y, declared: “If my the- ° r> r ^lativity is proven successful, w iB claim me as a German | ai \ r ranee W’ill declare that I am a ci- zen of the w’orld. Should my theory . r ‘” e Un true, France will say that I arr ‘ a German and Germany will de- are ^hat I am a Jew.” LOUIS LIPSKY, President of the Zionist Organization of America, at the second annual conference of the New York Region, voiced encourage ment to keep alive the ideal of Zion ism and to forward the work of the organization by strengthening the district units in relation to the region al groups. Mr. Lipsky also urged that the individual members of the organi zation keep alive the ideals of ‘‘Pal estine for the Jews.” DR. BEN M. SELEKMAN, of Bos ton, was elected Director of the Fed erated Jewish Charities of that city at the conclusion of a recent charity drive. A great gathering of over 1500 Jews, among them the most prominent in the community, was present at the largest charity mass meeting ever held in Boston to hear the appeal of the Associated Jewish Philanthropies on behalf of its $900,000 campaign. CHARLES L. SANGER, prominent Dallas business man and civic leader, died recently. He was the son of the late Samuel Sanger, a Texas pioneer, and a founder of the Sanger Bros, stores in Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco and Wichita, of which he was for many years general manager. He was also the first president of the Kessler Plan Association, an organization for civic improvement in Dallas. MICHAEL, the boy King of Rou mania, received Nahum Sokolow, the veteran Zionist leader on a visit there. Sokolow presented his Majesty with a book of pictures about Palestine. The Regent Council of Roumania also re ceived Sokolow in a half hour audi ence in which there was a discussion of Zionism and Palestine. RABBI JACOB NIETO, for the last 37 year Rabbi of the Shearith Israel Congregation of San Francisco, was chosen Rabbi Emeritus by his congre gation. He will get his full salary all of next year and an annuity for life. 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