An emergency conference to decide on steps to be taken in behalf of Jewish refugees marooned on the ice-locked Danube River has been called for tomorrow night at the Hotel Astor by the American Friends of a Jewish Palestine. Invitations have been extended to all organizations to send representatives to the conference.
The organization, of which H.L. Schwamm is chairman, announced receipt of a cable from Bucharest reporting that the Rumanian Government has successfully intervened with the German authorities for the return of some 1,800 refugees marooned on barges in the Danube port of Sulina. The United Press, meanwhile, reported that 18 refugees on Danube barges had died of exposure and hunger, and that two babies were born on the vessels.
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