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November 18, 1938
The Southern Israelite
Worldwide News
Page Five
HONOR STUDENT
v>u York, N. Y.—The Jewish
cr a’ on schedule for the six
period beginning Oct. 1
mat there shall be no re
tire number of certifi-
ie Youth Aliyah com-
voungsters from Central
spite of recent changes
nmigration schedule to
More than 1400 children
dv been graduated from
;;5 agricultural coopera-
three trade centers, and
"'the^e- "5% have chos e n to re-
the soil as farmers.
formerly associated with the
Kleinkunstbuhne. which was dis-
hfss R,X. lenna a u fter th e Ansch-
cvf i Ba cking the group are
Sholem Asch. Albert Einstein
John Haynes Holmes, Elmer Rice’
Blanche Yukra and Fannie Hurst!
( h e I s e a. Mass.—An unusual
designed to prevent poss-
. understanding between
I Italians in the United
had speakers, both Jewish
an. disclaiming the recent
anti-Semitic laws of Italy, and em-
) the friendship of the two
n America. A mixed au
dience of over six hundred ap
plauded every reference to Italian-
goodwill. The Italian
speakers expressed their disap
pointment in Mussolini’s anti-
i acts and said their people
m America could never approve
these steps.
New York, N. Y.—Pledging
$25,000 toward the $250,000 need-
id to construct a temple of religion
1 faiths at the New York,
s Fair, John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., speaking at a luncheon called
o inaugurate the drive, said that
the United States would never
give its allegiance to a religious
faith that was narrow, intolerant,
insincere or dirisive. “It will give
ts allegiance only to that faith,
that exalts truth, justice and love
it all men as revealed in God,”
he said.
New York, N. Y.—A Refugee
Artists Theatre, which will pre-
first production here in
January, * is been organized by
; of exiled Vienna actors,
CuhV ,an t ’ ■ Cuba—Modification of
Luba s stringent immigration re- 1
gulations to permit the entry of
, refUgeCS fr,,m Germany
v d tt l r k 3S approved this week
by the Cuban cabinet in adopting '
a proposal by Foreign Minister
Juan Remes. A special decree in
corporating the text of the amend-
ed regulations will be issued by
President Laredo Bru. In antici
pation of the decree, the immigra
tion authorities agreed to permit
the 21 German Jews deported
from Mexico to remain here per-
manently on the guarantee of the
Committee for German Jews that
the refugees would not become
public charges.
and Sol Coronswet. The consti
tutional committee consists of
Rabbi Yampol, Julius Stillman,
Sam Arkovitz and Sol Corenswet.
Miami. Fla.—A budget of $65,-
150 has been set as the 1939 goal
for the Greater Miami Federation
of Jewish Welfare Funds. Among
recipients oT the money raised will
be the Hebrew Orphans Home at
Atlanta, Ga.
The board of directors, com
prising 36 directors at large and
one representative from each of
the 23 adult organizations in the
Miami area, accepted unanimously
the budget report made by M. J.
Kopelowitz, then voted him to a
position on the executive commit
tee.
Baron de Hirsch Meyer, chair
man of the 1939 campaign, has
prepared preliminary plans for the
drive and is recruiting workers.
West New York. N. J.—The New
Jersey law of 1934 providing a
jail sentence or fine for spreading
propaganda tending to incite racial
or religious hatred was invoked for
the first time when Ferdinand
Hepperle, 46-year old Guttenberg
printer and member of the Ger.
man-American Bund, was arrest
ed on a charge of being in posses
sion of stickers bearing pictures
caricaturing Jews and slogans
reading “Vote Gentile—Buy Gen
tile.” Taken before Acting Po
lice Recorder Lawrence Lazoni,
Hepperle was held in $3,000 bail
for the Hudson County Grand
Jury. Police who arrested him
found in his printshop engravings
from which the stickers were
printed in his shop.
directors, musicians and writers, 1 ment.
Amsterdam, II o I I a n d—Two j
hundred Jewish children from
Germany will be admitted to Hoi- i
land, it was announced this week I
in an official government state-1
Baton Rouge, La.—Mary Jane
Forgotson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. G. Forgotson of
Alexandria, I,a. t has received
a $50 eash prize from the
Louisiana State University
chapter or Phi Kappa Phi,
international honor society,
for the liigest rating of 2,692
freshmen at LSU last year.
Miss Forgotson, 18, is now a
sophomore in the College of
Arts and Sciences.
Warsaw, Poland—Five Jews, one
more than last year, among the
■140 candidates for the Sejm, low
er house of the Polish Parliament,
were elected in this week’s ballot
ing. The successful Jewish ( n-
didates were Emil Sommers ‘in
of Lemberg, Ignace Schwartz-
stein of Cracow, Leib Minczberg
of Lodz and Jacob Trockenheim
and Simon Zcideman of Warsaw.
New Y’ork, N. —John W.
Smith, former Managing Editor of
the Broklyn Daily Eagle, was ap
pointed Executive Director-of the
newly formed American Jewish
Federation to Combat Commun
ism and Fascism, Inc.
Miami, Fla.—Leonard Rose, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rose, has
been signed to a contract with the
NBC symphony orchestra ns a
cello soloist. He is teacher at the
ChatzinofT Institute in New York
City.
Ten years ago, when Mr. Ros'd
came from Baltimore to join the
University of Miami symphony
orchestra, Leonard became a pupil
of Walter Grossman. Later he
won a $10,1)00 scholarship in Phila
delphia and studied under Felix
Salmond until his recent gradua
tion.
Gainesville. Fla.—Joe Mizrahi,
of Jacksonville, president of Tau
Epsilon Phi, has been appointed
publicity director of the intra
mural department at the Universi
ty of Florida. Max Baer, of Pen
sacola, is associate editor of the
Florida Review. Earl Barrack of
Miami has been initiated into Phi
Eta Sigma, freshman scholastic
fraternity.
New York. N. Y.—The newly
elected administrative committee
of the American Jewish Congress,
comprising representatives of
Jewish committees from all sec
tions of the country, will meet in
its first session Dec. 4 in New York.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Chair
man of the committee and Baruch
Zuckerman, both of whom have
been summoned back to Europe
because of the developments in
the Palestinian situation, will re
turn to the United States for the
meeting.
Nashville, Tcnn.—Members of
the K. K. A. I. congregation have
formed a Chevra Kadisha, electing
M. Grossman as president. Other
officers are M. Roskind, ice-pres
ident; Julius Stillman, treasurer
and Max Levine secretary. A com
mittee to aid the officers in case
of death will consist of Messrs.
Swillman, List, Miller, Golden,
Nussbnum, Lefkowitz, Weingarten,
Cooper and Rabbi Yampol.
A committee to aid needy indi
viduals is composed of Max Le
vine, Sol Corenswet. The membeg-
nnd Sol Corenswet. The member
ship committee will include Bud
Schwartz, Julius Stillman, J. Wolf
New Kosher
Restaurant
A strictly kosher restaurant
will be opened at 409 Washington
Street, S. W. by Mrs. Abe Grude,
long a resident of Atlanta, Sun
day morning, Nov. 20. The res
taurant will be open for inspec
tion Saturday and Mrs. Grude in
vites her friends and those inter
ested in her services to go through
the kitchen and dining rooms.
The establishment includes two
private dining rooms which will
oe available for card parties and
meetings. More than 200 people
can be accomodated in the public
and private dining rooms.
Besides catering to weddings,
bar mitzvahs and, club parties,
Mrs. Grude will offer a special
service: Chicken soup, made fresh
daily for babies and invalids. It
I will be available in sterilized jars.
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