(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The death sentence imposed on M. Dembowski, Jewish capmaker of Keidany, by the Kovno court martial was commuted to 20 years imprisonment.
Dembowski was sentenced on the charge of being a Communist.
Capt. Albert Simmons, prominent in Jewish commercial affairs in Hartford, Conn. and chairman of the board of directors of Mt. Sinai Hospital of Hartford was elected executive vice-president of the Hartford Republican Club at a special meeting held this week. Captain Simmons has been an active worker in the Republican party and at various times has directed the activities of his party in his district. He resigned the office of a member of the Republican State Committee when elected to the Board of Assessors for Hartford. During the war he served in France where he received his army commission.
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