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LESSER URY, world-famous sculp
tor, whose works are in the possession
of the foremost museums, died at the
age of 69. Born in Poland, he came
to Germany as a youth, gaining fame
early with his drawings and paint
ings. He later went in for sculpture.
ARCHBISHOP EDWARD J. HAN
NA has been awarded the 1931 medal
of the American Hebrew for his ef
forts in promoting good will between
Christian and Jew in America. Arch
bishop Hanna, who is 71 years old,
characterized the award as “one ol
the most signal honors to have come
to me in my life”. He participated
in a seminar on good will recently held
at Berkeley, Calif. He has also ad
dressed various meetings designed to
promote interracial good will.
EUGENE MEYER, Governor of the
Federal Reserve Board, has been
awarded the Montclair Yale Bowl,
which is annually conferred upon that
alumnus of Yale “who has made his
‘Y’ his life.” Meyer was graduated
from Yale University.
DAVID B. HEXTER, of New York
City, was awarded the Sears prize,
which is given annually to the student'
at the Harvard Law School perform
ing the most brilliant work in his
class. The award comprises a medal
and $500. During his first year, Hex-
ter established an average mark of
HO, which is considered exceptionally
high. The highest average on record
is 87, which was achieved only by
Louis D. Brandeis, now the Supreme
Court Justice.
JOSEPH SAMUEL and ISAAC AL-
FANDORI have been appointed by
King Alexander to carry out the five
year plan for Yugoslavian industry
which was recently adopted.
PROF. OTTO WARBURG, noted
biochemist, has been awarded the 1931
Nobel Prize in medicine. Warburg,
who is head of the department of bi
ology at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institu
te for Biology in Berlin, has devoted
most of his scientific research to the
field of botany. In more recent years,
he has specialized in the chemistry of
living cells. The Nobel prize was
given to him for research in cancer.
ERNEST BLOCH, noted composer,
has completed, the score for the Sab
bath liturgy on which he has been
working for the past year, according
to a statement by his daughter, Lu-
cienne Bloch, who has returned from
Switzerland where her father has been
working on the musical setting for
the synagogual service. The work
was commissioned by Felix and Ger
ald Warburg. Arranged for two
groups, the music calls for a small
orchestra in the first group, and a
large orchestra and chorus in (the
second.
MORRIS KANTOR, of New York,
was conferred the Frank G. Logan
award of $2,500 for the best painting
submitted in the annual exhibition at
the Chicago Art Institute. His prize
winning painting is called “The
Haunted House”. The first prize for
the best piece of sculpture submitted
to the exhibition was won by William
Zorach, also of New York, with a
large sculpture of “Mother and
Child”.
WILLIAM S. RICH, Newark phil
anthropist, died of heart disease at
the age of 81. He came to the United
States when he was 16 years old and,
after various business adventures en
tered the jewelry field, where he be
came wealthy. He was known for his
large anonymous gifts to the poor.
He was director of numerous Jewish
charitable institutions. On his 80th
birthday he donated $50,000 to the
Temple B’nai Abraham.
LEOPOLD JACOB GREENBERG,
editor of the London Jewish Chronicle,
and one of the world’s best known
Jewish newspapermen, died at the
age of 70. Mr. Greenberg was one
of the pioneers of the Zionist
movement in England and gave great
encouragement to Theodore Herzl.
Although a fervent advocate of poli
tical Zionism, he was in favor of the
acceptance of the British offer of
Uganda as a Jewish place of coloniza
tion. It was through his influence
that the British government in Egypt
offered El Arish as a point of Jewish
settlement. Both projects were turned
down by the Zionists.
DIEGO RIVERA, Mexican Jewish
artist, will be featured in a one-man
exhibition at the Museum of Modern
Art, which has extended the same
courtesy to only one other artist,
Henri Matisse. Rivera’s arrival in
New York coincided with his 45th
birthday. He will paint a series of
frescoes specially for his new exhi
bition. These are to reflect phases
of American life which interest him
most.
MRS. REBEKAH KOHUT, noted
Jewish communal worker of New York
City, has been appointed to represent
the public on the New York State
Joint Legislative Committee on Un
employment, according to an an
nouncement by Assemblyman William
Marcy, chairman of the committee.
JOHN BERTRAM OAKES, son of
the late George Ochs-Oakes, editor of
C urrent History, was announced joint
winner of the Freshman First Honor
Prize at Princeton University, almost
simultaneously with the publication of
the news of the death of his father.
The award is made annually by the
graduate council of Princeton to the
Preshman attaining the highest aca
demic standing.
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