Charged with the manufacture of false kashruth labels, August Woolf, a young German of Maspeth, Long Island, will be tried in Ridgewood Court this morning. Woolf was arrested late Wednesday night by George Ringler, inspector of the State Department of Agriculture and Markets. He is now at liberty on $500 bail. According to the Kashruth Association of New York, which made the complaint, Woolf manufactured plombes, leg bands which are placed on kosher poultry, bearing the name of the Association.
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