Here and There

As Reported by Correspondents of The Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Utica, N. Y.—Judge H. Myron Lewis, Associate City Judge for the past ten years, has been re-elected for another term. Judge Lewis is the president of the Utica Jewish Community Council.

Baltimore, Md.—Robert Benjamin and Louis Setlen, well-known in Jewish circles in Baltimore, were appointed as Deputy Collectors of Internal Revenue

Hartford, Conn.—A testimonial dinner in recognition of twenty-five years service to the Zionist cause, will be tendered Samuel Hoffenberg, president of the Connecticut regional Zionist organization and member of the national board of the Zionist Organization of American. Dr. George H. Cohen is chairman of the dinner committee.

Baltimore, Md.—The twenty-fifth anniversary of the service of Rev. Jacob Schuman as cantor of the Eutaw Place Temple was observed with special services in the temple. Dr. William Rosenau, rabbi of the congregation, spoke on “The Cantorate and the Synagogue.”

Lansing, Mich.—Rabbi Herman Price, formerly of Fort Wayne, Ind., has assumed the post here of rabbi of Congregation Shaarey Zedek.

Johnstown, Pa.—Rabbi Abram M. Granowitz has been chosen as rabbi of the Beth Zion Temple of Johnstown. Rabbi Granowitz is a graduate of the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York.

Cleveland, Ohio—Louis S. Bing, Jr., was elected to the presidency of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Cleveland. He succeeds Sol Reinthal. Mr. Bing has been very active in Federation affairs for many years.

Yonkers, N. Y.—Detective Abraham Beck, first and only Jewish member of the Yonkers police force, will retire after completing 25 years’ service on the force.

Albany, N. Y.—At a meeting of the board of directors of the Albany Jewish Community Center, Rabbi S. Z. Baum, who recently resigned as rabbi of Congregation Sons of Abraham, was unanimously elected president of the Center. The retiring president, Leonard S. Waldman, was elected honorary president and will continue as a member of the board of directors.

Cleveland, O.—Ezra Z. Shapiro, president of the Zionist region of Ohio, was appointed City Law Director by the newly-elected Mayor, Harry L. Davis. Mr. Shapiro is the first Jewish head of the Law department of the city of Cleveland.

Baltimore, Md.—Adolf Hitler’s assertion that he desires peace was sharply attacked by Dr. Arthur O. Lovejoy, professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, who claimed that the German Chancellor’s pretensions were not credible, in the light of the evidence.