The drive to aid German refugees will be launched in Washington Heights tonight at the first rally of campaign workers in that area at the Paramount Mansion, 601 West 183rd street, at St. Nicholas avenue.
Nathan Straus Jr., a co-chairman of the New York United Jewish Appeal; Judge Benjamin E. Greenspan, honorary chairman of the Washington Heights campaign committee, and Charles A. Cowen are among the speakers who will take part in tonight’s conference.
The officers of the Washington Heights group include the following: honorary chairman, Benjamin E. Greenspan; chairman, Samuel R. Rosenberg; chairman Women’s Division, Miriam Faitt; chairman for Inwood, Louis E. Berman; chairman executive committee, Charles Marks; treasurer, Morris Heller; secretary, Fannie Goldsmith; vice-chairmen, Rabbis Philip R. Alstat, Asher Brachman, I. L. Bril, Aaron Eisemen, J. L. Hahn, J. M. Lawn, Z. H. Lederberg, Harold H. Mashioff, Max Schenk and B. A. Tintner; executive committee, S. A. Berman, Robert Bernstein, Abraham S. Bursky, David J. Cohen, Isidore Faitt, Alexander F. Falk, Charles Felber, Max Gasner, Abraham J. Gellinoff, Henry Gotthelf, Louis I. Harris, Charles Horowitz, Lew Haas, Elias Jacobs, Leon Kellman, Monroe Levy, Emanuel Linhardt, Louis Mendschein, Jacob D. Morrison, Harold Pescovitz, Hyman Reit, Irving Rossman, Benjamin F. Schreiber, Samuel Solender, Henry Ziskin, George Steinman and George Van Gelder.
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