News Brief

The investigation into the Hungarian counterfeiting plot was extended to Czechoslakian territory. Officials of the Hungarian police searched the houses of leaders of the Hungarian Christian Party in Carpatho-Russia. Important documents in connection with the plot were found in the home of Mr. Arky, chairman of the Christian Party, who was arrested.

The right of Representative Nathan D. Perlman, Republican, of the Fourteenth New York district, to a seat in this Congress will be investigated by the House Committee on Elections No. 1.

Mr. Perlman’s election is challenged by Dr. William I. Sirovich, the Democratic candidate in 1921. He charges irregularities in the count of ballots and other illegal practices.

Funeral services were held Friday for Mrs. Hannah Bierhoff, oldest member of the Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, New York. Rabbi Israel Goldstein traced the career of Mrs. Bierhoff from the time of her joining the congregation, seventy years ago, until her death on Wednesday at the age of 95.

Benjamin Winter acquired the residence of Mrs. Henry White, at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-second Street, New York. He is reported to have paid $3,750,000 for the three-story building, the northerly one of the “Twin Vanderbilt” houses. General Cornelius Vanderbilt, brother of Mrs. White, lives in the other “twin” house.

Directly opposite the White dwelling is the former W. K. Vanderbilt house, which Mr. Winter acquired several months ago for $3,000,000, as a location for a thirty-five-story commercial building.

Two hundred and five thousand dollars was bequeathed to the Dorothy Drey Sommers Shelter Home and $25,000 to the Jewish Hospital by the will of David Sommers, philanthropist, who died in St. Louis last week. The remainder of the estate, estimated at two million dollars, was divided among the relatives. During his lifetime Mr. Sommers maintained the Dorothy Drey Shelter Home.