(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Professor Charles Bartel, vice-premier of the Pilsudski cabinet, received Meer Grossman, director of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in London, and discussed with him Jewish conditions in Poland.
Prior to Mr. Grossman’s departure for England he visited the provinces and made a study of the Jewish situation in the country. Mr. Grossman took steps to extend the service of the Polish branch of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, instituting a direct Jewish news service to the Polish press.
N.Y. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEE DISAVOWS PART IN MRS. STETSON’S ATTACKS
A disavowal of any part in the anti-Jewish attacks carried on by Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson over the radio and through the mails was made by the Christian Science Committee on Publication for the State of New York in a letter addressed to the “Jewish Daily Bulletin.” by Edgar G. Gyger.
Mr. Gyger takes exception to the headline of the report: “Christian Scientists Conduct Anti-Jewish propaganda Through Radio and Mail” and states that Mrs. August E. Stetson “to whom you refer as a ‘director’ of station WHAP is in no way connected with the Christian Science movement, having been ex-communicated from The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., in November. 1909.”
Mr. Gyger further declares that “the broadcasting over station WHAP by Franklin Ford is not authorized by the religious movement founded by Mary Baker Eddy, no more are attacks on other religions or religionists.”
The Christian Science churches in Greater New York which are branches of the Mother Church do not broadcast from station WHAP but from station WMCA, Mr. Gyger states.
The report of Mrs. Stetson’s anti-Jewish attacks through radio and mail published in the “Jewish Daily Bulletin” of March 7, specifically stated that Mrs. Stetson “who was a disciple of Mary Baker Eddy, represents a seceding wing of the church.”
DE LA PENHA CONTINUES LABRADOR CLAIM AFTER PRIVY COUNCIL DECISION
Rev. Isaac De La Penha, cantor of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation of Montreal, Can., is preparing to uphold before Newfoundland courts his claim to a huge grant on the Atlantic coast ceded to an ancestor in 1697, by William of Orange.
All that is necessary for the suit to be entered at St. John’s, Newfoundland, is possession of certified copies of a number of ancient documents, Sol Eliasoph, counsel for the cantor, explained, emphasizing, “the judgment of the privy council awarded Labrador to Newfoundland merely means that we shall transfer our claim from the province of Quebec to Newfoundland. Our claim and our rights are in no way affected by the judgment.”
In four countries, searches for the essential documents are in progress Eliasoph added. Already he has his hands on the original grant of November 1, 1697, by which William of Orange granted to Joseph De La Penha that section of what is now known as Labrador, lying between the 60th degree of longitude and the 55th degree of latitude. That area is east of a line running north and south from Hopedale, on the seacoast, includes Hamilton Inlet and Lake Melville, and its southern boundary cuts the Atlantic shore a little above Cape St. Lewis.
The grant included certain feudal provisions, one being payment of ten gold pieces. Eliasoph has traced some one in London able to locate a document showing that the ten gold pieces were paid. There is another document by which it is proven that on the death of the original tenant, William of Orange, transferred the grant to Daniel De La Penha, son of Joseph De La Penha.
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