Jack Findling of Salt Lake City was elected president of the B’nai Brith District Grand Lodge No. 4 at the closing session of its sixty-ninth annual convention at the Hotel Utah which opened on Sunday.
The convention was welcomed by Hon. Louis Marcus, Mayor of Salt Lake City and the first Jews to hold that office.
Addresses were delivered by Lucius L. Solomon, first vice-president of the constitution grand lodge; Rabbi Samuel H. Gordon of Salt Lake City; Harry K. Wolff of San Francisco of the Anti-Defamation Committee.
Mrs. Rebecca Brown Tarlow of Portland, Oregon, won the first place in the five minute speaking contest on the future of the B’nai Brith in Judaism.
The district embraces eight western states.
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