(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
Twenty thousand people visited the Wailing Wall during this Passover week, it is stated. Excellent order prevailed, although there were large crowds of pedestrians in the Old City on the occasion of the Easter and Nebi Musa holidays.
The Klan candidate in the election for mayor of Monlgomery, Ala., was defeated.
William A. Gunter, for the past twelve years mayor of the city, was re-elected to the office over J. Johnson Moore, the Klan’s candidate. Moore’s campaign was championed by Bibb Graves, Governor of Alabama, who went into office four months ago. The vote was more than two to one in Gunter’s favor.
Ralph Jonas was elected President of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce for the third year at the annual meeting Monday night. His election was unanimous, as was the election of the other officers, including William K. Swartz as Treasurer.
Rabbi Solomon Foster of Newark, was unanimously elected president of the Clergy Club of that city.
The object of the club, as set forth in the constitution, is “the promotion of the principles of equality, fraternity and mutual good will among the members.”
Rabbi Foster is the initiator of the movement for the organization of the Club.
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