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National News
Jewish Fraternity Wins
Honor
Raleigh, N. C.—The Theta Phi Fra
ternity, a Jewish organization at
North Carolina State College, was
awarded the scholarship cup at the
Scholarship Day exercises held re
cently, for making the highest aver
age scholastically of all the fraterni
ties in the college. The surprising
feature of the fraternity is that it
won the Scholarship Cup in the first
year of its existence. Its members
are, Hyman Shachtman, Greensboro,
N. C.; I. S. Klieger, Brooklyn, N. Y.;
Leroy P. London, Baltimore, Mary
land; Stanley L. Seligson, Raleigh,
N. C.; Paul J. Seligson, Raleigh, N.
C.; Louis L. Belgrade, New London,
Conn.; Dan S. Epstein, Portland,
Maine; and Frank M. Kline, Raleigh,
N. C.
College, New York University, the
Union Theological Seminary and other
colleges. A joint letter from the or
ganizations to the President of C C
N. Y. describes the suspension as a
“flagrant violation of the principles of
academic freedom.”
$200,000 Prizes in Guggen
heim Awards
New York, N. Y.—More than $200,-
000 in the form of eighty-five fellow,
ships are being distributed this week
by the John Simon Guggenheim Me
morial P'oundation as part of its an
nual awards to aid deserving literary
and artistic talents. Most of the fel
lows will go to Europe for study.
Others will do work in Latin Amer
ica, Asia, Africa and the South Seas
The list includes 16 women and 2 ne
groes.
Lehman Wins Without
Opposition
Williamstown, Mass. — When the
other alumni heard that Lt. Gov. Her
bert H. Lehman of New York State
is a candidate for the position of trus
tee of Williams College to succeed to
the post made vacant by a death, they
all withdrew their candidacies. The
ballots for election carry only Leh
man’s name, so that he will be elected
without opposition. Lehman is of the
class of 1899.
Believes Jew Discovered
America 3,000 Years
Ago
New York, N. Y.—A theory that a
Palestinian Jew discovered America
8,000 years ago is elaborated upon by
A. Hyatt Verill, noted archeologist, in
a feature article appearing in the New
York Sunday World. Mr. Verrill bases
his theory on Indian legends and on
descriptions of a man who is suppos
ed to have come over here three mil-
lenia ago.
Kaufman Offered Siam Post
Washington, D. C. — David Kauf
man of Towanda, Pa., former Minis
ter to Bolivia, has been offered the
post in Siam by President Hoover.
Mr. Kaufman, who spent several
years in Bolivia, resigned because of
ill health.
Start $100,000 Texas Col
ony Campaign
San Antonio, Texas—A campaign
to raise $100,000 in the State of Texas
for the establishment of a colony to
be known as Nachlath, Texas, in Pal
estine was launched here with a mass
meeting addressed by Rabbi H. Ra
phael Gold, of Dallas. In answer to
his appeal one hundred certificates of
$25 each were subscribed.
Suspension of Jewish Com
munist Student Protested
New York, N. Y.—The suspension
of Max Weiss, sophomore at the Col
lege of the City of New York, after
his arrest for distributing Communist
leaflets has been protested by six stu
dent organizations representing stu
dents of Columbia University, Vassar
Jewish Marriage Agents
Incorporate
New York, N. Y. — For the first
time in history Jewish shadchanim, or
marriage brokers, have organized to
protect their business from outsiders
This became known when the Marri
age Brokers’ Association of the Unit
ed States received approval from Su
preme Court Justice Philip McCook
to incorporate under the laws of the
State of New York. The Association
will seek to have the State Legisla
ture pass certain measures to protect
the shadchan business from “racke
teers” and from the unwillingness to
pay of disappointed lovers.
Jewish Congress To Act On
Exiled Jews
New York, N. Y. — The Russian
Committee of the American Jewish
Congress is making plans to inter
vene on behalf of the reported exiling
to Siberia and Central Asia by the
Soviet Government of ninety Jews,
members of Zionist youth organiza
tions. It is planned to appeal to high
government officials to intercede in
the case of these Jews, who are
charged with having belonged to il
legal organizations.
)r. Wise Says Anti-Jewish
Boycott Tightening
Providence, R. I.—That there is *
vert but nevertheless strong anti
wish boycott in the business and in-
strial world of the United States
is the assertion made by Dr. Ste
en S. Wise in the course of an ad-
ess here. He stated that what had
ce been a haphazard discrimination
s increased into a systematized ef-
rt to keep Jewish employes out o
e economic world. Tens of thou-
nds of Jewish unemployed are
a min the r-nnntrv because they are
Report 3,500 New Immi
grants Into Palestine
New York, N. Y.—About 3,500 Jew
ish immigrants entered Pales:
ing 1929, it has been announced b _
Allied Jewish Campaign, whit,
states that during January. -
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