(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A request to release eleven chalutzim, young Polish Jews on their way to Palestine, held in prison here, was made to the Roumanian Ministry of War by representatives of the Jewish community of Czernowitz.
A group of twelve Chalutzim were sentenced by the Roumanian court to two months imprisonment for crossing the Roumanian border without passports. One of the Chalutzim died in the jail in Jassy several days ago. The others are seriously ill because of the unsanitary conditions and the hard labor to which they are subjected.
The delegation of the Jewish community here urged the Minister of War to release the eleven Chalutzim in order that they may proceed to Palestine.
BREVITIES
Jesse H. Brown, Chicago lawyer, was elected president of the newly-formed Sovereign Club in Chicago. The organization has just been formed by sixty young Jewish men here. It is planned to erect their own building in the Loop district. Betram B. Moss, of the Chicago “Daily News,” was named vice-president; Alfred Stern, secretary; Samuel Zamen, treasurer, and the following directors: Howard Mayer of the Chicago “American”; Marshall Schwimmer, Lester Furth, William Stein, Sidney Westerfeld, David Milgrim and Maurice Fisher.
The annual Benefit Performance of the University Settlement Society will be held on Sunday evening. April 25th, at the Klaw Theatre. New York Stars from the Broad-way plays as well as from Keith and Loew Circuits will appear. A special event will be an exhibition by the children of the Settlement’s “Interpretative Dancing Class.”
The Settlement House, at the corner of Eldridge and Rivington Streets, in one of the most congested neighborhoods of the city, was the first social settlement in American and is now one of the foremost in the world.
Camp Tioronda at Mount Beacon, N. Y., is the summer home of the University Settlement. Last summer 1,000 children were accommodated at the camp.
Funds from Sunday’s performance will go toward the erection of additional dormitories at the camp to accommodate 1,500 children.
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