14,charged with Unlawful Entry, Are to Be Deported

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Fourteen Jews, including three women, are threatened with deportation on the ground of unlawful entry into the United States. They were taken to Gloucester, N. J., from Key West, Florida. They asserted that they were being brought over from Cuba by smugglers when a United States government patrol ship spied the smugglers’ boat and gave chase. The smugglers, they declared, bored holes in the bottom of the boat in an attempt to drown the passengers, but the United States patrol cutter reached them in time to save their lives.

A representative of the Hias has left for Washington, D. C., to investigate the case.

The Jewish National Welfare Fund of Oakland, Calif., supporting fifty-five national and international Jewish philanthropies, will hold its annual campaign from May 6 to May 18.

Lionel Wachs is President of the Fund and A. S. Lavenson is the Chairman of the 1927 Campaign. Jacob Simon will direct the drive.

Former Municipal Court Justice Benjamin Marvin at one time Commissioner of Public Works, of Queens, has accepted the chairmanship of the $250,000 building drive for a new Jewish Community Center to be erected in Jamaica.

The drive is to start February 27 and continue for one week. The new center is to replace the present inadequate structure at Flushing near Hillside Avenue, Jamaica.

Dr. Philip R. Goldstein of the Jewish Welfare Board will be the director of the campaign. Harry Sirkin is president of the Jamaica Jewish Center. Reuben Cooperstein will be the treasurer of the drive.

A women’s division under the leadership of Mrs. J. Moss has been formed.