Four thousand men and women, Jewish and non-Jewish, attended the protest meeting held here last evening, while an audience of one million listened in to the impassioned addresses broadcast over station KWK.
Protection, safety and fair treatment for the Jews were the keynotes sounded by a group of distinguished speakers including Governor Harry S. Caulfield of Missouri, Senator Harry B. Hawes, Senator Edwin Meisner, Congressman John S. Cochran, former Congressman Nathan Frank, M. S. Slonism, Leon Gelman and Mendel Fisher. Professor Gustav Klausner presided. A message was read from Mayor Victor J. Miller.
The people of America will demand justice for the Jew was the assertion made by Governor Caulfield. Senator Hawes and Mayor Miller were among the contributors to the emergency fund raised at the meeting.
Twenty thousand dollars for the Palestine Emergency Fund was raised last night at a meeting of the United Jewish Organizations of Borough Park in Temple Beth El; $14,000, the donation of various congregations of Borough Park and $6,000 individual subscriptions.
The sum of ten thousand dollars was raised at a meeting last night of the Palestine Emergency Fund Committee of Brownsville and East New York, at the Thomas Jefferson High School which was attended by 2,000 persons.
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