Mrs. Warburg Sets Up Adler Scholarship at Seminary

Establishment of a Cyrus Adler Scholarship by Mrs. Felix M. Warburg was announced today by the Jewish Theological Seminary. Mrs. Warburg donated $10,000, the income of which is to be awarded each year to the outstanding student of the graduating class of the Rabbinical Department, “who comes closest to the all-around human being that Cyrus Adler was.” Mrs. Warburg made the gift on the 70th anniversary of the late Felix M. Warburg.

The first of a fleet of 200 mobile field kitchens to be contributed for British civilian aid through the Jewish Section of the Interfaith Committee to Aid the Democracies was presented yesterday to Frederick W. Gehle, chairman of the Fund Raising Division of the British War Relief Society. The kitchen, which is to bear the name of the late Ambassador Lord Lothian, was presented by Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, chairman of the British Section of the World Jewish Congress at ceremonies at the offices of the American Jewish Congress.

The unit cost $2,000 and can feed 500 persons at a time. The effort to secure this fleet was launched on Dec. 29 at a conference called by the American Jewish Congress. Last night a Continuations Committee, authorized by this conference, met at the Hotel Astor to plan a nation-wide effort to secure this fleet under the direction of the Jewish Section of the Interfaith Committee.

In accepting the presentation Gehle said: “It seems to me a singularly moving and significant thing that precisely those who have special reasons to know what it is to be the victims of persecution should have been the first to commemorate the spokesman of a great democracy…It will be a great pleasure for us to undertake the transportation of these kitchens and I can give you the assurance that they will play a part of inestimable value in meeting the needs of the population in the bombed areas of Great Britain.”