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IN ATLANTA - - - AT AM.
QUALITY SERVICE STORES
CLIFF M. AVERETT,
INC.
Sales - Service - Parts
Buirk and Pontiac
COLUMBUS, GA.
Columbus Fender and
Body Works
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FIRST CLASS BODY, FENDER
AND RADIATOR REPAIRING
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Windshield and Door Glass,
Tops and Trimming
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Phone 3439 1420-22 First Ave.
Columbus, Ga.
GKO. C.
WOODRUFF
CO.
INC.
Real Knlalc - Imturance
Rental*
Columbus, Ga.
Shop at —
S. H. Kress & Co.
5-10 and 25 Cent
Stores
Columbus, Ga.
Good Things ft Eat at
CRAIG'S BAKERY, Inc.
903 Hamilton Ave. Phone 414
COLUMBUS. GA.
NATIONAL AND FOREIGN
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New York, N. Y.—The American Jew
ish Congress may come out in support of
the anti-Germany economic boycott it be
came known here, when Dr. Joseph Ten-
nenhaum, chairman of the Congress’ na
tional executive committee, sent out ques-
tionnaires to key people in Jewish com
munities throughout the country asking
for their reaction to the boycott. The
answers to the questionnaires from indi
vidual Jews and Jewish organizations will
guide the executive committee at its spe
cial session on Sunday, August 6, when
the boycott question will loom large on the
agenda.
Chicago.—Aaron Sapiro, a pioneer in
cooperative marking and the man who
sued Henry Ford for $1,000,000 as a re
sult of the automobile manufacturer’s no
torious anti-Semitic campaign in the Dear
born Independent, has been indicted, to
gether with 23 other persons by a Fed
eral Grand Jury as the result of a long
investigation into trade rackets. The in
dictment charges conspiracy to stifle trade
by bombings, sluggings, strikes and other
forms of intimidation in the cleaning and
dyeing, laundry and beverage industries
of Chicago. In 1927 Mr. Sapiro was
awarded the Gottheil Medal of the Zeta
Beta Tan Fraternity for distinguished
service to American Jewry.
New York, N. Y.—United States Sena
tor Wagner, of New York, who is of
German descent, will make a personal in
vestigation of the case of Walter Orloff,
the Jewish medical student from Brook
lyn, who has been arrested in Germany
on the alleged charge of Communist ac
tivity. Senator Wagner, who is on his
way to Europe, informed Orloff’s father
that he has communicated with IT. S.
Ambassador Dodd.
New York, N. Y.—A plan devised by
the Markets’ Commissioner of New York
to raise $1,000,000 a year in additional
revenue for the city of New York by a
municipal tax on kosher food products
has been endorsed by ten rabbis repre
senting 24 downtown congregations. Dr.
Leon Adler, spokesman for the rabbis,
declared that racketeers had been trying
to organize kosher food dealers at the
rate of $72 a year. The proposed tax
plan to be presented to the board of
aldermen shortly calls for a graduated
tax scale. Manufacturers would pay
$200 annually; wholesalers, $100; jobbers,
$50; packers, $50; retailers, $10; and
vehicles, $5.00.
New York, N. Y.—At a meeting of the
board of directors of the Joint Distribu
tion Committee, Paul Baerwald was re
elected president and the following other
officers chosen: Felix M. Warburg, hon
orary vice-chairman; Marco F. Heilman,
treasurer; William A. Koshland, asso
ciate treasurer; H. B. L. Goldstein, con
troller; and Joseph C. Hyman, secretary.
The following were elected to the execu
tive committee: Dr. Cyrus Adler, Paul
Baerwald, David M. Brcssler, David A.
Brown, Harry Fischel, Bernard Flexner,
Alexander Kahn, Governor Lehman, Sol
omon Lowenstein, James Marshall, Mr.
Rosenberg, B. O. Vladeck, Mr. Warburg,
Peter Wiernick and .Rabbi Jonah B.
Wise.
New York, N. Y.—The eightieth birth
day of Philip Cowen, founder, and for
27 years publisher, of the American
Hebrew, was celebrated here, at
a testimonial dinner given by the Man
hattan Washington Lodge of the B’nai
B'rith of which Mr. Cowen has been a
member for half a century and secretary
for 25 years. It was Mr. Cowen who
made a special trip to Czarist Russia
in 1906 at the personal behest of Presi
dent Theodore Roosevelt who sought to
learn the causes of the great wave of im
migration from Eastern Europe.
New York, N. Y.—Charles Solomon,
Brooklyn attorney, and former member of
the New York state assembly, has been
named the Socialist candidate for mayor
of New York City at the coming fall
elections. Mr. Solomon, a former secre
tary to the late Congressman Meyer Lon
don, was one of the Socialist group in
the assembly expelled in 1919 for alleged
disloyalty during the World War. In
1920 he was reelected to the lower house
of the legislature.
SOUTHERN NOTES
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Registrations are being completed for
the sixth annual camp of the Jewish Edu
cational Alliance at Civitania, beginning
August 6. An unusual program of sports
and educational features has been ar
ranged, with competent persons to direct
the various activities. A weekly news
paper will be printed and religious serv
ices will be held regularly. The camp
is open to Girl Scouts and prospective
Scouts between the ages of 10 and 18.
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Montgomery, Alabama
Rabbi Eugene Blachschleger has ac
cepted the position of rabbi of Beth Or
Congregation, having been the assistant
to Rabbi E. N. Calisch at Beth Ahabah
Synagogue, Richmond, Va., for the past
four years.
Rabbi Blachschleger is a native of Cin
cinnati, Ohio. He obtained his rabbinical
degree at Hebrew Union College in 1927,
and his M.A. degree from the University
of Richmond iQ 1932. He is President of
the Religious School Teachers’ Association
of Virginia, Maryland and the District
of Columbia, and a member of the Cen
tral Conference of American Rabbis.
For two years previous to his stay at
Richmond he was assistant to Rabbi
Isaac Landman at Far Rockavvay, N. Y.
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Obituary
• Mr. Max Lowenstein, 50, passed away
suddenly in New York. The funeral was
held from the residence, Dr. David
Marx, officiating. Interment West View
Cemetery. He is survived by his widow ;
a daughter, Elizabeth Lowenstein, a son,
William Lowenstein,; sisters, Mrs. Simon
Rosenfeld and Mrs. Lois Strauss, of Cali
fornia and Mrs. Alex Eiseman, of New
York; brothers, Mr. Isaac Lowenstein and
Mr. Louis Lowenstein.
• Mrs. J. T. Moses, 84, passed away at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. E.
Wolff, at Scarsdale, N. Y., after an ex
tended illness. Mrs. Moses was also sur
vived by another daughter, Mrs. Cecil
Alexander, of Atlanta. Funeral services
and interment were held in Montgomery,
Ala., the old family home.
• Mr. Sigmund Scheuer passed away. In
terment Greenwood Cemetery. He is sur
vived by two daughters, Miss Marie
Scheuer and Mrs. I. W. Spielberger; two
sons, David and Louie Scheuer.
AILWAY EXPRESS
AGENCY
Incorporated
1225 Broadway
COLUMBUS, GA.
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BYRON VOWELL
AGENT
BUTLER BROS. CO.,
INC.
Exclusively Wholesale
AUTOMOTIVE EQUIPMENT
COLUMBUS, GA. TH0MASVILLE, GA.
Wheat Flower Shop
and
Wheat Drug Co
£
I ! I 6 Broad Street
COLUMBUS, GA.
Clean With —
Phillips Dry
Cleaning Co.
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2320 Wynnton Drive
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
Jfranfe &.
Food Department Store
WESTERN MEATS
FISH AND OYSTERS
STAPLE AND FANCY
GROCERIES
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1025-29 First Ave.
COLUMBUS, GA.
THE PLAZA CAFE
We Serve Regular Meals
Our Specialties
Western Steaks—Spanish. Chinese
Italian Dishes
COLUMBUS, GA.
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H. C. SMITH’
THREE GOOD DRUG STORES
§701 Third Ave Phone 281-96- §
= 1002 Broadway Phone 910-91 1|
| 1500 First Ave Phone 2967 ;
COLUMBUS, GA.
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