Dr. Lee K. Frankel, first vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, will continue for the coming year as Commissioner of the State Board of Charities.
The State Senate Confirmed Dr. Frankel’s re-appointment at its session yesterday.
Bequests totalling $11,500 were left to a number of organizations by the late Meyer L. Straus of Chicago, who died March 15. The beneficiaries are the Associated Jewish Charities of Chicago, the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, the Chicago Home for Working Mothers, the Chicago Home for Working Girls, the Miriam Home for Working Girls of the Miriam Home for Working Girls of Baltimore and the Federated Jewish Charities of Baltimore. The remainder of the estate of $525,000 went to the widow and daughters.
Plans for the forthcoming convention of the Deborah Jewish Consumptive Relief Society will be formulated at a meeting of the Board of Directors in Paterson, N. J., on March 27.
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