Detroit Will Launch Local and U. J. C. Drive for $600,000 Quota May 11

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Detroit’s United Jewish Campaign for $600,000 will commence on May 11. David A. Brown addressed more than 600 workers who will canvass the city for the campaign. $170,000 of this sum is to go for the next three years for the United Hebrew Schools of Detroit, who joined with the United Jewish Campaign in a combined drive.

Henry Wineman is the chairman of the local drive, assisted by a staff which includes such local leaders as Nathan Gross, Harry Z. Brown, Jerome Freud, Adolph Finsterwald and Morris Friedberg. Serving on the board are Judge Harry B. Keidan, Judge Charles C. Simons, Leo M. Butzel, Fred M. Butzel, and William Friedman.

Two hundred women attended a luncheon conference of the Women’s Division of the United Jewish Campaign of New York, at the Hotel Biltmore, where final plans were made for the coming drive in New York City. Twenty committees were formed.

Mrs. Henry Moskowitz presided.

Mrs. Alexander Kohut, President of the International Council of Jewish Women and honorary vice-chairman of the American Council of Jewish Women, was the principal speaker.

Miss Irma May also addressed the conference.

New York Police Commissioner, George V. McLaughlin, has renewed the order which former Police Commissioner Enright issued, prohibiting the parking of automobiles, wagons and pushcarts within 100 feet of a synagogue from Friday sundown to Saturday night and during holiday services. All congregations have been notified regarding this order. The renewal of this order was brought about by the Sabbath Alliance of America.

A recent issue of the “Novi Mir” of Moscow, publishes a number of hitherto unpublished letters written by Tolstoy to his friend, the philosopher Nikolai Strakov.

They include a letter dated 1884, in which Tolstoy asks Strakov to intervene with the authorities on behalf of Professor Lazar Minor, now of Moscow University.