(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
The Department of Agricultural Colonization of the Palestine Zionist Executive has a number of irrigation and water supply works under consideration which it is hoped will be carried out in the near future with the Keren Hayesod funds at the disposal of the Department.
The plans include the irrigation of 900 dunams of land at Dagania and Kinnereth, a small irrigation scheme at Nahaliel, the Yemenite suburb of Hederah; a similar small scheme for irrigation in the girls’ training farm at Hederah; and water supply works at Shaaraim, the Yemenite suburb of Rehoboth.
Irrigation works are now in progress at Magdiel and Nahlat Jehuda.
Isaac Gimbel, President of Gimbel Brothers, was the guest of honor at a dinner in Philadelphia, marking the eighty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the firm and celebrating the opening of the new Gimbel store in Philadelphia.
Governors Smith of New York and Fisher of Pennsylvania, Mayors Walker of New York and Kendrick of Philadelphia and Father Francis P. Duffy of New York were present.
It was Mr. Gimbel’s first public speech, although he is seventy-one.
Besides the President, there were present among the members of the Gimbel family, Bernard F. Gimbel, Ellis Gimbel, Jr., Louis S. Gimbel, Sr., and Lee Adam Gimbel of the New York Broadway store: Frederick A. Gimbel of Saks-Herald Square, Adam L. and Louis Gimbel, Jr., of Saks-Fifth Avenue; J. Oscar Greenwald, son of a daughter of Adam Gimbel, who directs the Milwaukee store: Ellis A. Gimbel, Charles Gimbel, Daniel Gimbel, Richard Gimbel, Benedict Gimbel, Jr., and Nathan Hamburger, a son of the founder’s adopted son, all of Philadelphia.
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