930 Jews Left Poland for Palestine During February

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Nine hundred and thirty Jewish emigrants left Poland for Palestine during the month of February, according to figures published by the Zionist Organization of Poland.

BREVITIES

The thirty-five alien members of the crew of the President Roosevelt addressed a letter of thanks to Representative Emanuel Celler. Democrat, of New York, for his bill to confer American citizenship on them.

“All signers of this letter were hoping a long time to become citizens of the United States,” the letter read.

Answering this letter, Mr. Celler said that “the American government would fall far short of your own code of duty and honor if it failed to accord you this recognition.”

The will of Miss Emeline Aaron, filed for probate in the Surrogate’s Court, New York, provides that the following charities are to share equally in the estate: Little Mothers’ Aid Association. Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor. Widowed Mothers’ Fund Association, Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society and Orphan Asylum, Educational Alliance, Montefiore Home and Hospital for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, Convalescent Home for Hebrew Children, Isabella Home, Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, New Rochelle, and Home for the Daughters of Jacob.

David J. Putterman, tenor, will give a recital of Jewish sacred and folk melodies at Town Hall on March 9.

Mr. Putterman is the only American born and the youngest Cantor in the world.

Mr. Putterman will be assisted by the Aryah Trio, which is composed of David A. Barnett, piauist, Effim Rosonoff, cellist and Max Weiser, violinist.

Mlle Maxa Nordau was honored by the Chicago Hadassah Chapter.

As a memorial to her parents, the late Jacob and Rosa Rossbach, Mrs. Herbert M. Limburg of New York City, has made a gift of a three-story building on Avenue A to be used as the home of the Jewish Children’s Clearing Bureau, it was announced by Herman W. Block, President of the organization. The building, three stories and basement, is valued at $73,000 and is to take the place of the present offices of the bureau.

Rabbi Moses Weinberg, Inc., began a Sherman law action in Federal court against several defendants whom he charges with seeking to obtain a monopoly of the manufacture, sale and distribution of matzoth, matzoth flour and other similar products. It is alleged that the plaintiff has built up a valuable good-will in the same business, that he has earned substantial profits, invested in the business large amounts of money and that he sells his products in foreign countries as well as in the United States.

The complaint says that the defendants control upward of 80 per cent of the manufacture and sale of the products named and that they have “conspired among themselves in an attempt to monopolize” the business “and to exclude and ruin all competitors.” Rebating also is charged. The plaintiff alleges he has lost many customers and has been damaged to the extent of $50,000. He asks for the threefold damages allowed under the Sherman law.

The defendants are: Horowitz Bros. & Margareten, Jnc. and B. Manischewitz Company.

Representative Sol Bloom of New York, will introduce a bill in the House authorizing a permanent industrial exhibition to celebrate the bicentennial of George Washington’s birth. The site suggested in the bill for the exhibition is Washington Marine Park. Brooklyn, N. Y. The building cost alone would be $100,000, Congressman Bloom declared.

“It was in Brooklyn that Washington fought the first battle of the war that set America free and it was the critical contest of that conflict.” Mr. Bloom said. “Washington and Brooklyn are thus inseparably linked, and it is quite fitting the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth should be celebrated there.”

Miss Lillian D. Wald was among the three professional social workers in New York to receive medals for the most Distinguished social service rendered the city by professional social workers during the last five years. Homer Folks and the Rev. Robert F. Keegan were the other recipients of the honor. Lilliam D. Wald is the founder of the Henry Street Settlement.

The medals were awarded by the “Better Times,” a social welfare magazine.

Simon Bamberger, Utah railroad builder and first non-Mormon to be elected to the Governorship of Utah, celebrated his 80th birthday in Salt Lake City. Hundreds of felicitations from all over the country were received by the octogenarian.

Lee I. Hecht has been reappointed a member of the Appeal Tax Court by Mayor Howard W. Jackson.

Mr. Heeht, who is an attorney, was first appointed by Mayor Jackson in October, 1923.