(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Gittel Rips, sixteen year old daughter of Mendel Rip the only Jewish resident in the village of Markowa, Eastern Galicia, was kidnapped yesterday by peasants of the neighborhood.
It was disclosed that efforts were made by certain peasant leaders to persuade the girl to embrace Christianity. When these efforts failed, a host of peasants surrounded Rips house and carried off the girl by force. The police attempted to ascertain the whereabouts of the kidnapped girl, but have not succeeded. It is believed that the kidnappers lodged their victim in a convent.
Health Commissioner Louis I. Harris Congressman William W. Cohen, Maurice P. Davidson and Rabbi Nathan Krass addressed a dinner-conference of the Metropolitan lodges of the Independent Order of B’nai Brith, held at the Hotel Newton.
The meeting which was held under the auspices of the Metropolitan Conference of the B’nai Brith was participated in by the presidents and other officers of the B’nai Brith lodges of Greater New York and the woman’s auxiliaries. L. E. Schlechter, president of the conference, presided. Sidney G. Kusworm of Dayton, Ohio, a member of the Executive Committee of the I. O. B. B. and Dr. Boris D. Bogen, national director of its Wider Scope Committee, outlined the work of the Hillel Foundations in the universities of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, California and Wisconsin, and the work of the Order’s Anti-Defamation League. Committees were named by the lodges to participate in the Wider Scope Committee’s Campaign.
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