Honor Memory of Jewish War Heroes in England

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Tribute to the memory of Jewish men in the British army and navy who were killed during the World War, was paid yesterday in connection with the Feast of Lights.

A wreath, in the shape of a Magen David, was laid on the cenotaph in Whitehall by Lt. Com. Duveen of the Royal Naval Vigilance Reserve. He was accompanied by representatives of the naval and army air force ex-service men. The wreath bore the in scription: “In memory of our Jewish comrades who paid the supreme sacrifice in the war, a tribute offered on the occasion of the Chanukah naval, military and air force service held at Bayswater Synagogue.”

BREVITIES

The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, through Morris Sigman, its president, issued an ultimatum to the Communist leaders of the New York Cloakmakers’ Union, which has been conducting the strike of 35,000 garment workers, “to get out and stay out,” as a condition of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union taking charge of the chaotic strike situation and “salvaging the wreck created by the Communists.”

The salvaging work in question refers to pending negotiations for agreements with the jobbers and contractors in the garment industry. Not until these agreements are signed will a normal situation be restored, as the agreement concluded by the union with the Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers takes care of only one-third of the workers concerned in the struggle.

The revolt against the Communist dictatorship in the New York Cloakmakers’ Union was launched at a Cooper Union meeting on Thursday night, in which 3,000 workers participated.

The Executive Council of the American Cloak and Suit Manufacturers’ Association early yesterday morning issued an order to its members canceling a previous order which had called for the closing of about 800 shops, employing approximately 20,000 garment workers.

The last order was issued following a meeting of the Council that came after the Executive Board of the Joint Board of the Cloakmakers’ Union had sent a message to the Manufacturers’ Association, uring further negotiations.

Twenty Jews have been named honorary vice-presidents of the P. J. Carr Memorial Christmas fund, the leading civic activity of Chicago, by means of which the poor are given help on Christmas. Among those named the Jacob L. Kesner, Oscar G. Mayer, Barney ###laban, Jacob M. Loeb, Maurice L. Rothschild, Alfred S. Austrian, Oscar G. Foreman, Michael Rosenberg, Harry Lubliner, George F. Liebrand, Charles Krutchkoff, Leo Strauss, U.S. Schwartz, Henry Paschen, Eugene Byfield, Nate Assher, Aaron Jones, Peter Schaefer, Adolph J. Sabath, Joseph A. Mendel.County Judge Albert Cohn will be the guest of honor at a banquet to be given by the Jewish community of the Bronx.

State Senator Benjamin Antin is chairman of the Sponsoring Committee. The dinner will be held December 21st at the Concourse Plaza.

Philip Wattenberg is treasurer of the committee.

The Missing Persons Bureau was notified of the disappearance last week of Dr. Morton Aarons of the staff of the Montefiore Home, Gun Hill Road and Bainbridge Avenue, the Bronx, N.Y.

The merging of the interests of the Schulte Retail Stores Corporation and the United Cigar Stores became known in Wall Street yesterday. The two companies will coordinate their operations through a third organization known as the Union and United Tobacco Corporation, which was chartered in Maryland early this year. This new company is to purchase half the stock of the Schulte Corporation and a substantial part of the United Cigar Stores Company stock.

JEWISH COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES

The Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn will extend its plant by the construction of two tenstory buildings at an estimated cost of between $2,250,000 and $2,500,000. One will be used as a home and training school for nurses. This will be more than double the hospital’s capacity.

The silver jubilee of the Women’s Auxiliary, celebrated at a meeting Monday afternoon, was the occasion at which the announcement of the building program was made for Joseph J. Baker, President of the hospital by Mrs. Nathan Straus, First Vice President of the auxiliary.

Nathan S. Jonas, President of the Manufacturers’ Trust Company, former President of the hospital and a leader in the organization of the hospital, addressed the gathering.

It would be necessary, he declared, to mortgage the property for $1,000,000 or $1,250,000.

Plans also have been made for a third new building, to be known as the Louria Memorial, in honor of the memory of the late Dr. Leon Louria, who was chief of the hospital staff of physicians. The basic endowment for this building was made by Dr. Louria and his wife before their deaths.

More than five hundred guests attended the first annual dinner given Saturday night at the Hotel Astor for the benefit of the Sisterhood of the Israel Orphan Asylum. Judge Gustave Hartman was toastmaster. Justice Thomas C. T. Crain, Mrs. Mary Freundlich, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Koenig and the Rev. Dr. Bernard Drachman were among those at the speakers’ table.

To inaugurate a campaignn to obtain 50,000 members for Hadassah, the women’s Zionist organization of America, congregations throughout the country will observe December 11 as “Hadassah Sabbath.”

In preparation for the membership drive, a corps of speakers are addressing women’s meetings from coast to coast. Mrs. Irma L. Lindheim, of New York City, national president of Hadassah, and Miss Rebecca G. Affachiner, field secretary, have the larger cities of the eastern states in their itinerary. Mrs. Archibald Silverman, of Providence, R. I., vice-president, is touring the western coast, and Mrs. Frieda Silbert Ullian, former vice-president of the Junior Hadassah, is addressing meetings in the middle west.

The new building of the Bethlehem, Pa., Jewish Community Center was officially dedicated on Sunday afternoon. with exercises which were attended by leading Jews of the Lehigh Valley. The new building was recently completed at a cost of $225,000.

The Mayor of Bethlehem, City Council, representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis and other clubs were present at the dedication exercises. Among the speakers were Judge Henry Stern, Judge William M. Lewis, Congressman Ben Golden and Arthur M. Lieberman of Philadelphia; Gustave A. Rogers, Judge Aaron Levy, and Judge Max S. Levine of New York and Julius Mastbaum of Philadelphia.

Half of Boston’s quota of $300,000 in the United Palestine Appeal has already been subscribed, it was announced by Jacob Rabinowitz, chairman of the drive. More money has already been realized for the Palestine campaign this year than in the campaign of last year. Max Shoolman, New England chairman, contributed $5,000, Nathan H. Gordon, $3,000. The campaign for $500,000 in New England is now under way.

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR RABBI ISAAC MOSES

Funeral services for Dr. Isaac S. Moses, rabbi emeritus of the Central Synagogue, New York, who died Friday, were held at the synagogue on Sunday. Dr. Moses was seventy-nine years old and was widely known as a scholar and the author of numerous prayer books for Reform congregations. The services were conducted by Rabbi Jonah B. Wise and eulogies were delivered by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, of the Free Synagogue, and Rabbi Nathan Krass, of Temple Emanu-El.

The honorary pall-bearers were Samuel B. Hamburger, Max Schallek, Joseph Steiner, Max Neuberger, Max Schwartz, August Lambert, Henry Weiss, George Kohut, D. Emil Klein, Gaza Paskus and Cantor Isadore Weinstock.

Among those at the services were Dr. Isaac Landesman of the Far Rockaway Synagogue, Henry Kantrowitz, Mrs. Alexander Kohut, William Loebel, Dr. Barnett Ellsworth, Charles E. Block and Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Schanzer. Burial was in Linden Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn.