Commissioner of Public Welfare, Bird S. Coler, yesterday confirmed the report current that Dr. Mortimer D. Jones, medical superintendent of Kings County Hospital, suspended on charges of anti-Jewish discrimination that were substantiated in the report of Commissioner of Accounts, Higgins, had been reinstated to his position.
Dr. Jones was suspended by a special order issued on February 8 by Commissioner Coler. The commissioner explained yesterday that there was a misunderstanding with regard to Dr. Jones’ status. He was merely given time to prepare a report in reply to the statements made in the report of the Commissioner of Accounts.
The Alliance of Women’s Clubs of Brooklyn, it was reportd asked for the reinstatement of Dr. Jones. On Feb, 1, Mayor Walker, in commenting upon the findings of the Commissioner of Accounts, was reported as having intimated to the Welfare Commissioner that certain suspensions and transfers in the personnel of the Kings County Hospital would be necessary.
HIAS REPRESENTATIVE SAILS FOR ARGENTINE
Aaron Benjamin, honorary secretary of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, sailed on the SS. Southern Cross for Buenos Aires. At Buenos Aires, Mr. Benjamin will join Dr. Louis Oungre of the Jewish Colonization Association and Dr. Myron Kreinin of the Emigdirect, and the three will proceed to many points of South America for the purpose of studying the immigration possibilities for Jews from middle Europe.
In addition to a study of economic conditions, the committee intends enlarging the work of local organizations and establishing shelters, employment bureaus and schools which will offer language and trade courses for Jewish immigrants. This is part of the campaign undertaken more than a year ago by Hias and the Jewish Colonization Association with a view of settling Jewish families who cannot remain in Europe and cannot come into the United States because of the immigration quota restrictions.
Carl Schermer, prominent merchant of Seattle, Wash., died suddenly last week. Mr. Schermer went to Seattle in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush. He had been active in local Jewish and communal affairs for many years.
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