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14 THE .SOUTHERN ISRAELITE In The Li melight WILLIAMS Construction Co. Reel Rock Building ATLANTA, GEORGIA A. C. Woolley & Co. grain—HAY 203 Spring St., S. W. WA. 8428 ATLANTA UNITED STATES TOBACCO CO. Represented by L. M. ETHEREDGE Peters Bldg. ATLANTA, GA. Model Smoking Tobacco Dill’s Best LIFE & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY OF TENNESSEE N. A. HUNTER, District Manager OFFICES 1058 Hurt Building ATLANTA, GA. Service a Certainty—Ask Our Customers. JAckson 4437 Bohler & Shackleford, Inc. Complete Automobile Service 21-23 Baker Street, N. W. Open Day and Night JESSE M. BOHLER T. A. (Shack) SHACKLEFORD ATLANTA MILAM COMPANY GUY L. WENTWORTH Manager ALTO BODY and FENDER REPAIRING 17 Piedmont Ave., N. E. WA. 8970 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. LOANS ON INDORSEMENT 510000 » ‘>-000.00 Loaned .. « , Y„, SOSHFRS SKi,On, Y,.u OUTHERN SAMNGS & INVESTMENT CO tlanta Trust Company Building When you Tra / to CHICAC ) Centrally focited' S a rooms with bath, cir i water, bed-head read, and Servidor. Garage , lt ‘jl MORRISON HOTEL Madison and Clark Streets CHICAGO THE ST. 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