Sever### Jews are named on the three ticke### chosen in the Circuit Court Judiciary race, with election on June 5, in Cook County today. Three sitting Jewish judges are on the Democratic ticket. They are Judge Harry M. Fisher, Judge Michael Feinberg and Judge Hugo M. Friend, Benjamin P. Epstein was also placed on the Democratic ticket.
Both Judges Fisher and Feinberg were recommended for retirement by the Chicago Bar Association, which disapproved of their judicial record. On the Republican ticket appear the names of Samuel Golan and Former Judge Samuel Heller On the People’s Judiciary ticket is the name of Samuel A. Aronfeld.
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