Government Prevents Warsaw Kehillah Aid to Political Prisoners

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

A decision of the Kehillah Executive to include in its budget an amount to support political prisoners will be overruled by the Government Commissioner, it was learned today.

At the last session of the Executive, a resolution introduced by the Poale Zion included in the budget for 1928 an item of 10,000 Zlotys to aid the political prisoners. The governmental commissioner objected to this item, declaring that the support of political prisoners is outside of the Kehillah’s sphere of activity. This decision can also be viewed as an anti-state move, he declared, adding that he will annul the provision.

ALTMAN FOUNDATION GIVES $50,000 GIFT TO FEDERATION

A gift of $50,000 from the Altman Foundation was made to the New York Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies. Announcement of the gift was made in a letter from Col. Michael Friedsam, president of the Foundation, to Sol M. Stroock, president of the Federation.

Col. Friedsam, in announcing the gift, wrote: “It seemed to us, considering the circumstances of this present campaign, that it would be desirable to make this special gift and we do it with the realization that there is no organization better equipped to use it more effectively or for a finer purpose.”

ADVOCATES MONUMENT TO LATE OSCAR STRAUS

The erection of a monument to the late Oscar S. Straus is advocated by “The Jewish Tribune,” New York weekly, as a result of a canvass conducted among its readers to select the Jew who by his services to America deserves to be honored with a statue.

Others who were suggested were: Nathan Straus, Haym Salomon, the Unknown Jewish Soldier, Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis. Judah P. Benjamin, Louis Marshall, Dr. Stenhen S. Wise, David Lubin, of California, Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals Benjamin N. Cardozo. Otto H. Kahn. Julius Rosenwald and Henry Morgenthau.

Nathan J. Miller, formerly bend of the Stock Exchange firm of Miller & Co., died in Paris in his forty-fourth year. Mr. Niller was prominent in various Jewish charities and was a founder of the university settlements in New York.