(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The law providinging for the election of a Legislative Council for Transjordania was approved by Lord Plumer, the High Commissioner.
The Legislative Council will be composed of fifteen members, including three Christians and one Circasian.
A “Liberty Bell pilgrimage” under the joint auspices of the Jewish Education Association of New York of which Israel Unterberg is president, and of the Associated Talmud Torahs of Philadelphia with Louis E. Levinthal, President, will be undertaken by pupils of the Talmud Torahs and other Jewish religious schools of New York and Philadelphia.
Exercises will be held in Independence Square, Philadelphia. A feature of the celebration both in New York and Philadelphia will be the presentation of a Hebrew translation of the Declaration of Independence, inscribed on a parchment scroll, to the Mayors of New York and Philadelphia.
The chairman of the New York committee is Jonah J. Goldstein of the Jewish Education Association.
Funeral services will be held today for Louis Newman, who died on Sunday at his home in Brooklyn, New York.
Mr. Newman served as a member of the Board of Education, was one of the organizers of the Citizens’ Trust Company, later merged with the Manufacturers’ Trust Company, and was a director of the Shirt Manufacturers’ Association of Greater New York. He was an organizer and served as treasurer of the Brooklyn Jewish Memorial Hospital and was formerly president of the Unity Club of Brooklyn.
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