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Echoes of Steiger Case Reverberate in Polish Senate Commission

January 24, 1927
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

A delegation of the Club of Jewish Deputies called on Polish Minister of Education Debucki and conferred with him on the problems of the Jewish schools in the Republic.

In a press interview following the conference the Minister stated that he recognizes the full scope of the cultural demands of the Jewish population.

In the Budget Commission of the Polish Senate on Friday. Senator Ringel directed a question concerning the Steiger case to the Polish Minister of Justice. The Senator asked why Tadeusz Malina, the Lemberg District Attomey who was in charge of the Steiger investigation, had not left his position, notwithstanding the fact that his resignation was announced. The Senator also asked by the disciplinary investigation initiated against the other officials who were found responsible for falsification of the records of the investigation has not been completed.

The Minister of Justice replied that Malina himself had asked for the disciplinary investigation and for this reason he had not resigned.

The will of Lee Kohns, who died on Tuesday, leaves $57,500 to charities and public institutions. In the event that legacies to his wife and children or their descendants, who inherit the bulk of the estate, lapse, four-fifths of his estate is to be devoted to the study of cancer. The estate is worth about $3,000,000, it was said.

The Educational Alliance inherits $25,000, the United Hospital Fund. $5,000, and the Beth-El Sisterhood, $2,500. The executors of the will are given $25,000 to distribute to charity in accordance with wishes expressed by Mr. Kohns.

The contingent interest in the estate which is to be used to found the Lee Kohns Foundation. becomes effective only in the event that no descendants of the testator survive. In that event, one-fifth passes to Mrs. Irene Kohns Wise, a sister, and the other four-fifths is to be held in trust by the foundation to study the causes of cancer and to promote research for a cure.

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