(Jewish Telegraphis Agency)
Three Communists, Cholodko, Stezenko and Ryabura, were excluded from the party for engaging in anti-Jewish propaganda.
During the elections to the Workers Cooperative in Bachmatsch, Crimea, the three distributed anti-Semitic pamphlets urging the workers to boycott the Jewish candidates.
Plans are now being prepared for the $30,000 synagogue which members of congregation Beth Israel of the Rio Grande Valley will erect in Mercedes, Texas.
The congregation is made up of residents of sixteen towns in the Valley section which are connected by the “seventy-five-mile Main Street” highway. Ninety-five members and their families, residing in Mission, McAllen, Weslaco, San Benito, Harlingen, Donna, Val Verde, Rio Grande City and other cities of the Valley, have been meeting every Friday night for spiritual worship in Mercedes, where the synagogue will be erected. Rabbi Daniel Harrison is rabbi of the congregation.
The annual convention of the Texas Zionist Association will be held in Galveston, April 15 and 16, it was announced following a meeting of the state executive committee, held in Tyler. Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist Organization of America, will address the convention.
Simultaneous with the Zionist convention, state conventions of the junior and sealor Hadassah and the young Judaea Club will be held.
Rabbi Abraham Bengis of Fort Worth is president of the Texas Zionist Association, and Mrs. Max Goot of San Antonio is state Hadassah president.
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