Senator Jacob Caplan, one of Connecticut’s outstanding Jews, died here at his home yesterday after a year’s illness, Senator Caplan, who was 52 years old, was elected to the State Senate in 1931 and reelected in 1933. In the present Legislature he was a member of many important committees.
Born in Russia Senator Caplan came to this country at the age of four. As a boy he sold papers on the Yale campus where he was later to graduate from law school. Founder of the Jewish Home for Children in this city, Senator Caplan was a leading figure here in Jewish philanthropy.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at the Jewish Home for Children, with burial in B’nai Jacob Cemetery, Westville. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Fannie Kornish Caplan, two sons, a brother and two sisters.
PING PONG TOURNEY AT "Y"
Entrants tonight in the first annual New York State men’s table tennis championship at the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A., include Marcus Schussheim, former national champion; Sidney Heitner, present national title holder; Sol Schiff, Manhattan champion, and Seymour Solomon, runner-up to Heitner in the last national tourney. The contest ends tomorrow night.
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