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February 17, 1927
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service

The Union of Roumanian Jews is an illegal organization, the Cuzist Deputy Paul Ilescu declared in Parliament.

The report of the military prosecution, Deputy Ilescu said, contains very grave statements proving that the Union of Roumanian Jews is in constant communication with similar organizations abroad. It has in its possession large sums of money which it receives regularly from the Jews abroad. He therefore demanded that the War Minister should publish all the documents relating to the search made by the military authorities in the building of the Union of Roumanian Jews.

Deputy Zelea Codreanu, leader of a faction of the anti-Semitic Christian League, demanded in Parliament that two Jews in Czernowitz whose names he gave, should be punished for having insulted the Christian religion. Deputy Codreanu further demanded that a third Jew in that city should also be punished for insulting the student Tudose Popescu, one of the leaders of the anti-Semitic students.

A fist fight occurred in the House Committee on the District of Columbia during the consideration of a bill providing that all places of amusement in Washington should be closed on Sunday.

Congressman Sol Bloom and Representative Tom L. Blanton of Texas, came to blows during the discussion.

Mr. Bloom is not a member of the House Committee considering the “blue law” bill but appeared at the hearing as an opponent of the measure.

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