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The suffering from famine and want which the Jewish population in Bessarabia is now undergoing is further aggravated by floods in the area resulting from the melting snows, according to reports arriving here. One casualty, that of a Jewish driver travelling near the town of Bender, was reported.
Fifty thousand inhabitants are threatened with loss of their homes as the melting snows flow into the lower regions throughout Bessarabia.
The lower sections near Kishineff are flooded. The villages Romanovka and Tshimishlia, in the district of Bender, which has a dense Jewish population, are completely isolated. Water has risen to the height of two meters. The organization of rescue parties to take the dwellers from the houses was necessary. The local fire brigades were unable to cope with the calamity.
The Jewish driver, who was travelling (Continued on Page 4)
TO PROPOSE TAX FOR BESSARABIAN RELIEF
A voluntary tax of organizations affiliated with the American Jewish Congress and organizations represented at the relief conference to be held on Sunday, is expected to be adopted as the means of raising relief funds for the famine-stricken Jewish population of Bessarabia, it was declared in the call sent out for the relief conference at Pythian Temple, New York City on Sunday afternoon and evening.
A joint appeal to all Jewish organizations to participate in the conference was sent out over the signatures of Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress; Bennett E. Siegelstein, president of the United Roumanian Jews of America; and Morris Cooper, chairman of the Bessarabian Relief Committee. Six hundred organizations, it was declared, are expected to attend.
Dr. Wise, Abraham Cahan, Judge Gustave Hartman, Rev. Z. H. Masliansky. Abraham Goldberg, Max Silverstein, Grand Master of the Independent Order Brith Abraham; former Congressman Nathan D. Perlman and Rabbi M. S. Margolies are the speakers announced.
The drive to secure $100,000 for the erection of a synagogue for the Ohav Zodok congregation, Wilkes Barre, Pa., was formally launched last week at a dinner at the Eagles Home. The site was purchased by the congregation at a cost of $47,500.
Twenty-five Young Israel synagogue organizations in New York will hold their annual reception at the Level Club on Saturday, March 30th. The event will be in the form of a Purim celebration.
A testimonial dinner to Assemblyman Maurice Bloch will be given on April 3 at the Hotel Commodore, New York City. Mr. Bloch will be the guest of businessmen of Yorkville. Senator Wagner is honorary chairman of the committee, and Lieut-Governor Lehman is honorary vice-chairman.
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