A $50,000 fund to establish research fellowships in the name of Judah P. Benjamin was contributed to the Harvard Law School $5,000,000 Endowment Fund, William M. Powell, national chairman of the Endowment Fund, announced. The name of the donor was not made public.
Judah P. Benjamin was Senator from Louisiana before the Civil War. He refused an appointment to the Supreme Court, and held three posts in Jefferson Davis’s Cabinet in the days of the Confederacy. After the surrender of General Lee, he fled. penniless, to exile in England, and before his death rose to prominence in practice at the bar of that country.
JEWISH COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES
A drive for $35,000 for a maintenance fund for the seven Viddish elementary schools in Philadelphia will be inaugurated Saturday evening with a banquet at the Hotel Walton.
Three hundred men and women under the leadership of M. Katz will carry on the drive which is to continue until March 6th.
The speakers at the dinner will be M. Katz and Professor Hyim Fineman. The campaign officers are M. Katz, Chairman. J. B. Mitchell, co Chairman, and L. Creskoff, Treasurer.
The Congregation Ahavath Chesed of Jacksonville, Fla., has purchased a site for a new synagogue.
The present synagogue of the cougregation is located in the heart of the business district. When the old temple is sold a new one will be erected on the property purchased, according to the plans announced.
At present the site is occupied by a threestory brick residence. This building will be converted into a Sabbath school with rooms for other religious organizations of the congregation.
BREVITIES
Funeral services for Justice Moses Herrman of the Court of Special Sessions, who died on Monday, were held in Temple Beth-El. Dr. Samuel Schulman officiated. A eulogy was delivered by Special Sessions Justice Frederick Kernochan.
About 500 associates and friends attended the ceremony. The honorary pallbearers included Special Sessions Justices Kernochan, Arthut C. Salmon, Joseph D. Kelly. A. V. B. Voorhees, James J. Mclnerney, William T. Fetherston, Daniel A. Direnzo, Henry W. Herbert, Charles P. Coldwell and former Justice of Special Sessions Joseph F. Moss.
Others present included General Sessions Judges Otto A. Rosalsky and Max Levine. Supreme Court Justice Isidor Wasservogel, General Sessions Judge Cornelius F. Collins. James F. Egan, Secretary of Tammany Hall; Ely Rosenberg, President of the Crimlnal Bar Association; Assistant District Attorney Harold W. Hastings, former United States Court Justice; Edward L. Garvan, Magistrate Morris Gottlieb. Frank Briarly, former Magistrate Henry W. Unger. Assemblyman F. L. Hackenburg of the 14th Assembly District and Frank Smith. Chief Clerk of the Court of Special Sessions.
Interment was in Beth-El Cemetery. Brook. lyn. N. Y.
The Lankford “Sunday blue law” bill for the District of Columbia, which was the background of the Blanton-Bloom encounter on Wednesday, was bjocked in the House District Committee after Mr. Blanton reported that the subcommittee favored it by a vote of 4 to 1. Representative Underhill of Massachusetts opposed it and Representative Reid of Illinois tried to have it recommitted to the subcommittee, but a sharp discussion occurred and Representative Bowman of West Vir-ginia forced an adjournment.
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