Mayor James J. Walker, Senator Royal S. Copeland, Mrs. Alfred E. Smith and Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia, have accepted the honorary chairmanship of the dinner being tendered the Hakoah soccer team at the Hotel Pennsylvania on June 1, on the eve of the team’s departure from the United States.
Many prominent Jewish citizens have joined a committee to make the banquet a noteworthy gathering and an adequate expression of New York Jewry’s appreciation of the Hakoah.
The Committee which will tender the dinner has been enlarged by the members of the reception committees in New York, Brooklyn, Newark, N. J., Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis. Among them are:
New York: Hon. James J. Walker, Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, Hon. Joseph McKee, Mrs. Sidney Borg, Col. Herbert H. Lehman, Mrs. John L. Buckley, Paul Block, Hon, William Collins, Hon. James A. Farley, Hon. Dr. Sylvester Gruszka, Walter F. Hagan, Charles Heaslip, Arthur Hirshler, Dr. Max Kraus, Mrs. Anna Moskowitz Kross, Mrs. Irving Lehman, Joe LeBlang, Dr. Randolph G. Manning. Mrs. Timothy J. Mara, Hon. Martin McCue, W. O. McGeehan, Timothy J. Mara, Hon. Julius Miller, Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, Paul Neumann, Curtis A. Peters, Mrs. Joseph M. Proskauer, Mrs. John Enos Quinn, Victor Ridder, Mrs. Samuel Roseman, Hon. George Schmidt, Benjamin Schrieber, Hon. Jacob Strahl, Hon. Bernard Shientag. Manny Strauss, Mrs. Irving Stroock. Ella T. Sullivan, Sol Tekulsky, Frederick Warburg.
Brooklyn: Nathan Agar, Herman S. Bachrach, Morris Baird, Samuel Barnett, Bernard Bloch, Max Blumberg, Jacob H. Cohen, Adolph Feldblum, Hon. Alexander H. Geismar. Jacob Goell, Charles Goell, Louis Gold, Jack Gumpert, Ralph Jonas, Walter Kraslow, Dr. Joseph Krimsky, Simon H. Kugel. Hon. Edward Lazansky, Aaron W. Levy, Aaron J. Levy. Hon. Harry E. Lewis. Charles I. Mandell. Hon. Mitchell May, Major Benjamin Namm, Herman Neaderland, Julius Nelson, Hon. Algernon I. Nova, I. Parshelsky, Louis Rayvid. Benjamin Ribman, Levi Rokeach, Jacob Rosen, P. H. Rosenberg, Samuel Rottenberg. Morris Salzman, Meier Steinbrink, Nathan Strauss, Milton Seitz.
Philadelphia: Jules Mastbaum; Newark. N. J.: Louis V. Aronson, Harry Goldowsky, Albert Hollander. Samuel I. Kessler, J. I. Kislak. Nathan Kussy. Comm. A. Pieskel. Mayor Thomas M. Raymond. Michael A. Stavitsky; Chicago: James H. Becker, Fred Bernstein, Hon. Adolph Sabath; St. Louis: Hon. A. B. Frey and A. Waldheim.
Jacob Rabinovitz, Boston merchant and Zionist, was tendered a dinner on the eve of his departure for Palestine. Two hundred and fifty persons attended the dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Rabinovitz will spend several months in Palestine.
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