Headquarters of the Allied Jewish Campaign announced yesterday that Lieut. Gov. Lehman will be one of the speakers at its national conference in Washington, which begins on Saturday night and will extend through Sunday.
The Lieutenant Governor is one of the honorary chairmen of the Allied Jewish Campaign, a vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, and a member of the administrative committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Both of these organizations are beneficiaries of the Allied Jewish Campaign. He has notified the officers of the campaign that he will leave Albany on Saturday night, and address the Sunday morning session of the conference, at the Hotel Washington.
Other speakers will be Judge Horace Stern of Philadelphia, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, Felix M. Warburg, Paul Baerwald, David M. Bressler, Morris Rothenberg, Judge William M. Lewis, Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist Organization of America; Mrs. Robert Szold, president of Hadassah; Dr. Cyrus Adler, James N. Rosenberg, Dr. Lee K. Frankel, and James Marshall.
Announcement was also made that the following had consented to serve as honorary chairmen of the Allied Jewish Campaign: Dr. Cyrus Adler, Philadelphia; James H. Becker, Chicago; Louis J. Borinstein, Indianapolis; Howard S. Cullman, New York; Jacob Epstein, Baltimore; Hon. Harry M. Fisher, Chicago; Bernard Flexner, New York; Dr. Lee K. Frankel, New York; Rabbi James G. Heller, Cincinnati; J. K. Hexter, Dallas; Harold Hirsch, Atlanta; Alexander Kahn, New York; Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, New York; Albert H. Lieberman, Philadelphia; Rabbi M. S. Margolies, New York; Dr. Julian Morgenstern, Cincinnati; Hon. Otto A. Rosalsky, New York; Ben Selling, Portland, Ore.; Hon. M. C. Sloss, San Francisco, and Peter Wiernik, New York.
The number of Jewish leaders in all parts of the country, who have notified the campaign officers that they will attend the conference next Saturday night and Sunday, is in excess of 600, it was stated at headquarters yesterday.
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