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GAFFNEY MANUFACTURING CO. ♦ GAFFNEY, SOUTH CAROLINA Bucharest—Premier Ian G. Duca, who has succeeded in forming a purely Lib eral cabinet, has announced his intention of suppressing the Anti-Semitic League of Professor Cuza and its ally, the Iron Guard, both of which have been respons ible for recent anti-Jewish outrages. He has already suppressed the Calendaral, organ of the Roumanian Nazis. It has been revealed that M. (yoga, leader of the Roumanian Nazis, was barred from the ne\v cabinet because he refused to break off his relations with Hitler and to discontinue his reactionary policy. New York—A financial grant to the Hebrew University by the Italian govern ment to establish a chair in romance languages and literature with special em phasis on Italian has just been made, ac cording to word received by Dr. A. S. VV. Rosenbach, president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University. Phi* is the first grant by any government to the Hebrew University. Announcement was also made of the establishment of a chair in agrarian economics, sponsored by the Jewish National Fund. Jersey City—For criminally libelling Samuel Untermyer in a series of pamph lets full of anti-Jewish material and pro- Nazi propaganda, the Rev. Francis Gross of Perth Amboy, an unfrocked minister of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, was in dicted by the Hudson County Grand Jury. I’he pamphlets and their contents were called to Mr. Untermyer’s attention by J. George Fredman, former national com mander of the Jewish War Veterans, who is a prominent Jersey City attorney. Mr. Fredman acted as counsel for Mr. Unter myer, with whom he is associated in the American League for Defense of Jewish Rights. The grand jury found numerous passages in one pamphlet that reflected on Mr. Untermyer’s reputation and that were malicious. Saloniki—Because the Greek govern ment has decided to proclaim Yom Kip- pur a legal holiday the anti-Semitic press has renewed its anti-Jewish agitation and charges that this is new evidence that the Jews are the real rulers of the coun try. I*he agitation became so menacing that Governor Dragainis of Saloniki was obliged to issue a public statement that Jews have nothing to do with the plan to make Yom Kippur a legal holiday. He pointed out that the question was raised by the Chamber of Commerce. Marion Manufacturing Co. MARION, N. C. * PP'iidc Print Cloths J. P. STEVENS & CO, Selling Agents 44 LEONARD STREET NEW YORK CITY MONAGHAN MILLS Berlin—Professor Arthur Wolf Mayer, one of the outstanding surgeons of Ger many, who had been a leader in the persecution of Jewish physicians since the advent of the Nazi regime, shot and killed himself and his wife in his home when he discovered that the Nazi officials had uncovered evidence which showed that he was descended from Jews on his mother’s side. Dr. Meyer was the surgeon who performed the operation of Gene Tun- ney’s wife in Italy four years ago. New York—Ancient tablets in archaic Hebrew discovered three years ago by French archeologists at Ras Shamra, on the coast of Syria, contain writings dat ing from 1400 B.C., nearly 600 years be fore the earliest known Hebrew writings, and show remarkable resemblances to passages from the Old Testament, in some instances being almost verbatim with the Biblical text, according to Sir Charles Marston, British archeologist, who announced the decipherment of the tab lets by French scholars. The writing on the tablets refers to sacrifices mentioned in the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Num bers and Deuteronomy and contain forty definite links with Mosaic Code. Victor Monaghan Company EXECUTIVE OFFICES Greenville, S. C. T HS SOUTHERN ISRAELITE * [>71