Rabbi J. L. Zlotnik, executive director of the Zionist Organization of Canada, sailed this week for Europe on the “Megantic.” He will attend the World Jewish National Fund Conference at Zurich on July 22 and the 16th World Zionist Congress.
Two other Canadian delegates to the Congress, A. J. Freiman, of Ottawa, President of the Zionist Organization of Canada, and Max Heppner, of Winnipeg, vice-president of the Zionist Organization of Canada, are sailing from New York on July 16, on the “Berengaria.”
Joseph Weiss, treasurer of the Flatbush division, United Palestine Appeal, who was elected delegate to the Zionist Congress, sailed on the “Majestic” on July 10. He will also go to Palestine, to investigate conditions there in connection with an enterprise he is planing to establish in Palestine.
Maurice W. Levy, Kansas pioneer, died in West End, N. J., at the age of 83. He came to the United States in 1856 at the age of 11. He went to Calafornia by sailboat. He was a pioneer in the Arkansas Valley at Wichita. He was president of the Wichita National Bank and was chairman of the Republican State Central Committee for some years. He also served as president of the Wichita School Board. Funeral services were held Sunday at Riverside Memorial Chapel and interment was at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Mr. Levy is survived by his widow and three sons.
Harris Botwinik of New Haven, Conn., died in that city on Friday at the age of 57. He was president of the Hebrew Institute and vice-president of the Jewish Home for Children. Mr. Botwinik came to the United States from Minsk at the age of 16.
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