Ritual Murder Accusation Absent This Year in Austria

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The ritual murder accusation, repeated in past years at every Passover season, was totally absent this year in the anti-Semitic press.

This was ascribed here to the gradual disappearance of the Hakenkreuzler movement which has taken a sharp downward turn since the retraction by Henry Ford of his anti-Semitic charges. The press organs of the Hakenkreuzlen movement are losing influence and ceasing publication.

Although business conditions in Vienna have recently improved some-was due to the influx of American tourists, a great section of the Jewish population of Vienna was in sore need of material assistance as the Passover season approached. Thousands of families applied for aid to the Vienna Kehillah. They were supplied with Matzos and Kosher foodstuffs.

Among the twenty-one members of the freshman class of Harvard College who have been awarded mid-year scholarships, are the following Jewish students:

Bernard Moses Newburg, Whitney scholarship. Solomon Eliazar Shershevsky. Hall scholarship; Nathaniel Samuels. scholarship of the Harvard Club of Chicago; Maxwell Arkush. Ernest Bertram Cohen and Theodore Cohen, Price Greenleaf scholarships.