Founder’s Day at the Dropsic College, of which Dr. Cyrus Adler is president, will be celebrated Wednesday, March 6, at the college building.
Dr. Adler, Dr. Ephraim A. Speiser and Dr. A. A. Neuman will be the speakers.
Six unidentified men braved smoke and flames Friday night and saved the Holy Scrolls when fire swept the Congregation Ohel Moshe Chevra Chailim Synagogue, at Willoughby and Tompkins Avenues, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The building, valued at $500,000, was wrecked. The damage was estimated at more than $100,000. The blaze, believed to have been caused by an overheated furnace, had gained great headway when discovered by the six men, who had attended a late meeting and were waiting for a trolley car near by.
They broke down the front door, groping their way through dense smoke and with debris falling around them, took the Torah from the Ark. They were near collapse when they reached the street.
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