A delegation representing the Argentine Jewish organization, Proker, which assists the Jewish colonization project in Bira-Bidjan, has arrived in Moscow.
The delegation, consisting of nine members, includes representatives of the Jewish colonists in Argentine. They will visit Crimea, the Ukraine and White Russia.
Jacob Barnett. 62 years old, of 606 South Dallas Avenue, Pittsburgh. Pa., was stricken with a heart attack Sunday aboard a ferryboat at West Twenty-third Street, New York, and died before medical aid could be obtained.
Mr. Barnett was on his way to visit his brother in Lithuania when he was stricken.
He left Pittsburgh Saturday night for New York. He is survived by a wife, Rebecca Barnett, and five sons, Benjamin. Frank, Charles and Harold Barnett of Pittsburgh and William Barnett of Beaver, Pa., and one daughter, Augusta, of Pittsburgh.
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