Non-Jewish officials of the City of Detroit and of the County of Wayne on Friday registered their protest against the outrages committed against Jews in Germany and called upon the United States Government to intercede in behalf of the sufferers.
A petition to this effect, circulated by Register of Deeds Harold Stoll, was signed by County Clerk Elmer B. O’Hara, County Coroners Edmund J. Knobloch and Albert H. Hughes, County Sheriff Thomas C. Wilcox, H. J. Herbst, assistant city treasurer, Norman H. Hill, secretary to Mayor Frank Murphy.
A conference of 149 Jewish organizations decided to hold a monster protest meeting against the outrages in Germany on Wednesday evening, March 29, at the Armory.
Paul McNutt of Indiana is to be the principal speaker at the Chicago protest meeting this evening at the Auditorium Theatre, the largest in the city. It is expected the meeting will be addressed by Governor Henry Horner, Acting-Mayor of Chicago, Frank J. Corr, U. S. Senators James Hamilton Lewis and William H. Dieterich. Rabbi Salomon Goldman will preside, while Rabbis Ephrain Epstein and Gerson B. Levi will lead the invocation and prayer.
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