(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
The trial of the anti-Semitic priest Gregorescu, the director of the Teachers’ Seminary, has just been concluded in Edinetz. After the murder of the Jewish student. David Falik. Gregorescu organized an anti-Jewish demonstration of his pupils in sympathy with Falik’s murderer. The Jewish Deputy, Gendrick, of Bessarabia, drew the Government’s attention to this anti-Semitic demonstration after which the Seminary was closed and Gregoreseu put on trial.
The investigation commission which conducted the trial against Gregorescu, after several days of deliberation, declared Gregorescu innocem. Gregorescu has already been reinstated and the Seminary reopened.
The anti-Semitic paper “Cutivintul” in commenting on this trial writes: “The Roumanian patriots Bodruga (the anti-Semitic headmaster of a Secondary school in Kishineff who was dismissed because he forced Jewish pupils to go to church instread of the synagogue on the auniversary of the declaration of Roumanian Independence) and Gregorescu are the martyrs of the Roumaman nation in Bessarabia. Czarist Russia under pressure from abroad has given to the Jews the Moldavian land of Bessarabia. As a result of that, a class of Jewish farmers has been established in Bessarabia who are so insolent and strong that they do not hesitate to use revolvers and knives–all the robbers and murderers in Bessarabia are Jews in order to terrorize the Roumanian population. What does General Rishcanu. the new Governor of Bessarabia, intend to do against this murderous Jewish element?”
The Jewish Division of the New York Public Labrary announces that the number of leaders who visited its teading room during the year 1926 was 41.329. an increase of 4.685 over the preceding year. They consulted 123.845 volumes. in addition to numerous magazines and newspapers which are currently received in the Division.
BREVITIES
Construction of a new Metropolitan Opera House in New York City is a certainty, according to a statement made by Otto H. Kahn, Chairman of the directors of the Metropolitan Opera Company, that directors of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, owners of the existing Metropolitan Opera House, had voted unanimously for the project.
Max I. Pinausky is the first Jew to be elevated to the bench in Maine, He will become the judge of the Municipal Court in Portland the end of this month. Gov. Ralph O. Brewster has extended the nomination, and the Council will coufirm this appointment next Friday in Augusta.
Mr. Pinansky organized the Maine B’nai Brith in several different sections and is president of the Maine Zionist Association.
Four men suspected of having shot into a crowd of cloak makers, injuring Samuel Cohen, were arrested on Wednesday. Magistrate Renaud in Jefierson Market Court held the men without bail for examination on Friday, charged with assanh and violating the Sullivan law.
The men deseribed themselves as Max Nichter, 28. loan broker. 120 Ridge Street; Samuel Ober. 26. chaufter. 184 South Second Street. Brooklyn: Michael Friedman, 28, garment worker. 173 Monroe Street. and Harry Goldman. 38. salesman. 22 Clinton Street.
Judge Rosalsky in General Sessions reduced the terms of from two and a half to five years in prison imposed last week on Samuel Cohen. 1380 Washington Av., and Nathan Lenz, 1765 Plaza Avenue. Brons, to a maxtmum of one year in the penitentiary after the men promised to pay medical bills incurred by lrving Vlock. a garment manufacturer, whom they assaulted. and also to make restirution for the goods they destroyed.
Sentence was modified after former Assistant District Attorney Samuel Markewich said “the two men heeded the advice of Left Wing and Communist leaders who couducted the recent cloak strike and who,” he said, “drilled their followers in the slogan that “might makes right.”
Morris Sigman. President of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, said that the deposed Left Wing and Communist leaders were provoking disorders in the strike zone and giving the impression that a strike was still being waged. He declared that the garment strike ended in December when the. international took charge of the situation, and that the employers’ associations had recognized the international as the head of the garment makers’ affairs.
Solomon Shapiro. sixty. founder of the dry goods firm Levinson amp; Shapiro, New York City, who began his career in New York at the age of fourteen as a peddler, died suddenly on Tuesday.
He was born in Russia and came to this country when a boy. After working as a peddler he worked as a furrier until 1890, when he and Morris Levinson started their dry goods frim, He was connected with numerous charitable institutions, including the Deborah Jewish Consumptive Relief Society, of which his wife was the founder and president and he a director, He was one of the founders of the Zosler Relief Society and a director of Daughters of Jacob. Daughters of Israel. Montefiore Home, and was a member of Institutional Synagogue, Harlem Day and Night Nursery, and the Grand Street Boys’ Association.
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