News Brief

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

One of the Cuzist students at Jassy University named Chineu, sent a complaint to the Public Prosecutor that Professor Rescanu shot at him with intent to kill. The Public Prosecutor came to the University today and questioned several students who were with Chineu at the time. He also questioned Professor Rescanu.

Professor Rescanu published an open letter explaining what happened: “On March 29th,” he writes, “while I was delivering my lecture, I was attacked by a group of young men armed with sticks, who broke open the door of my laboratory. In order to frighten them off I fired into the air and thely left me alone. I am sure that only by this action was the laboratory saved from being wrecked. I have been Professor at the College for five years. I have succeeded in establishing for Jassy Univerysity the finest laboratory in the country, and I cannot believe that these young men represent the feelings of the students in the University.”

Lectures have been stopped at all the colleges of the university and the authorities have taken strict measures to prevent any further disturbances. Military patrols have been placed in all the main streets.

The Jewish cemetery at Jassy has been broken into and a number of gravestones have been demolished. The police are conducting investigations.

The Ford grocery stores probably will not yield the secret of their profitable operation upon a small margin to the Michigan Retail Dealers’ Association, it was indicated yesterday.

David A. Brown, President of the General Necessities Corporation, who presided at the meeting of the retailers recently when Ford announced through the manager of his stores that the commissary would stop sales to the public, said yesterday he could make no progress looking to the inspection of the Ford grocery store system that had been promised the retailers.

“Since promising to show us their books, Ford officials have switched around and given us to understand we could not see them,” Mr. Brown said. “The Ford Company has nothing original in its commissary system, and we are convinced its business methods in this particular are not sound. We believe they are losing thousands of dollars.”

At a meeting today the retailers will decide on what further action is to be taken in the Ford matter.

According to a compilation made by the Chicago “Daily News”, Julius Rosenwald, head of the mail order house of Sears, Roebuck & Co., heads a list of the ten wealthiest Chicagoans, with a fortune of $110,000,000. The other nine are:

William Wrigley, Jr., $50,000,000; Richard T. Crane, Jr., $50,000,000; Samuel Insull, $50,000,000; Marshall Field, 3d, $50,000,000; Louis F. Swift, $30,000,000; John J. Mitchell, $30,000,000; Frank D. Sout, $25,000,000; John B. Thompson, $15,000,000 and James A .Patten, $12,000,000.

Seven of the men listed above started with nothing and were self-made.

The $600,000 United Hospital Fund, collected in the annual appeal for free medical aid to the city’s poor, was distributed by Mayor Walker to the fifty-five hospitals providing this medical attention, at a meeting in his office at City Hall Tuesday.

The largest amount, $57,580.67, went to Mt. Sinai, where the largest number arte attended in the hospital’s free department.

Beth Israel Hospital received $12,346.75, the Hospital for Joint Diseases $14,279.23, Lebanon $10,796.16, Jewish Maternity Hospital, $3,173.97 and the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital $14,217.85.