Jewish Land Settlers Get Credits from Soviet Government Committee

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

The sum of 165,000 roubles for credit purposes for Jewish settlers was allocated by the Comzet, the governmental department for settling Jews on the land.

The sum of 250,000 roubles was allotted for credits for 500 of the poorest families who have registered for settlement on the land in the Krivoyrog district during the current year: 120,000 roubles for credits to the Jewish land settlers in White Russia, and 25,000 roubles for Jewish land settlement among the Caucasian mountain Jews. Two hundred thousand roubles have been placed in reserve for providing credits for the autumn settlers in the Crimea and Ukraine. Seventy thousand roubles have up to the present been provided for land settlement in the Saalsk district.

SYNAGOGUE COUNCIL AGAINST HAKOAH GAME ON SATURDAY

The Synagogue Council of America, representing all Jewish religious bodies, issued a protest against the Hakoah soccer game on Saturday. The statement issued by the Syangogue Council read:

“Representatives of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the United Synagogue of America, the Rabbinical Assembly, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations. the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Rabbinical Council of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, in conference assembled, having learned with deep regret that Hakoah is arranging football games for the Jewish Sabbath. unanimously protest against this desecration of this holy day and call upon Hakoah as an all-Jewish team to maintain the traditional sanctity of the day.”

BREVITIES

An appeal was sent to Governor Smith to veto the Truman-Winters Bill seeking to close barber shops on Sunday. The appeal was drafted by Carlyle B. Haynes, president of the Greater New Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists and president of the Greater New York Book and Bible House, on the grounds of religious liberty.

In his appeal to the Governor Mr. Haynes declares the Truman-Winters bill to be in violation of the principles of religious liberty, and to constitute discriminatory class legislative.

Jews. Seventh-Day Adventists and Seventh-Day Baptists are able to carry forward their ### worship on the seventh day of the week undisturbed by open barber shops which are engaged in the active mark of bartering all day upon the day of worship of these religionists. It cannot, therefore, be contended that the act of sharing a man’s face, or cutting his hair. Is in itself a disturbance of religious worship? Mr. Haynes stated in his letter.

Adolph Lewiston, chairman of the program committee for the music festival to be given at Madison Square Garden May 25 in aid of the $1,000,000 campaign for the Yeshirs Col### entertained sixty leaders of the movement as his guests at ### at the Bankers Club yesterday.