Nathan Straus and Sons Give $25,000 to Allied Drive

A contribution of $25,000 from Nathan Straus and his sons Nathan Straus, Jr., and Hugh Grant Straus, through the Nathan Straus Foundation, was announced yesterday by James N. Rosenberg, chairman of the New York Allied Jewish Campaign. Ten thousand dollars of this sum is to be credited to the Brooklyn section of the campaign.

Nathan Straus is a national honorary chairman of the Allied Jewish Campaign. He has been one of the most generous contributors in all of the campaigns to raise funds for warstricken East European Jewry since 1914, and one of the leaders in the efforts to ameliorate their lot. He is also one of the most liberal supporters of the effort to rebuild Palestine as a Jewish Homeland, and a generous contributor to Hadassah, the women’s Zionist organization of America, to whom he and his late wife recently presented two buildings, one in Jerusalem, and another in Tel Aviv, Palestine, as centers for its medical and sanitary work in the Holy Land.

Nathan Straus, Jr. is one of the chairmen for Manhattan, and Hugh Grant Straus is actively identified with the business and philanthropic interests of Brooklyn. Last fall the Straus family gave $75,000 to the Palestine Emergency Fund for the relief of Jewish sufferers from the Arab uprising there last August.

Other contributions anounced yesterday were: $2,500 by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Levy, $1,500 by Dr. Frank Levander, $1,000 by A. Adelberg, Henry J. Bernheim, Samuel M. Kaplan, Julian Clarence Levi and Mrs. Albert A. Levi, Mrs. Marcus Loew and Abraham Siegel.

The Bronx section of the New York Allied Jewish Campaign formally opened the uptown drive for $100,000 toward the $2,500,000 city quota at a dinner in the Concourse Plaza last night, with more than 500 guests attending. County Judge Albert Cohn, chairman of the Bronx committee; Dr. Nathan Krass of Temple Emanu-El, and Jonah J. Gold-stein. spoke.