(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Two students wearing swastika badges went along the market place in Leer on Friday and made insulting remarks to a number of Jewish cattle dealers and molested them. A fight followed, in which several farmers took the part of the students. One student and one farmer were seriously wounded. The Jewish cattle dealers, Jacob de Leuw, Jonas de Vries, Adolf de Vries, Hermann de Vries, Moses de Vries, Isaac de Vries, Siegfried Landsberg, Max Hirschberg, Benjamin de Levie, Benno de Levie, Simon Sachs, and Peter Gelder, were summoned on a charge of breach of the peace. Moses de Vries, Benjamin de Levie, Simon Sachs, and Peter Gelder were acquitted. The others were sentenced to terms of imprisonment from three to seven months. Jacob de Leuw was in addition fined 400 Marks and Adolf de Vries 500 Marks.
Early erection of a building for the Jewish Community Center of Harrisburg. Pa. was indicated by Paul Goldblatt, exectutive secretary, who announced that a committee has been selected to raise a fund of $150,000 for construction purposes.
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