(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Ilie Mendelsohn, who was unseated in the Roumanian Senate to which he was elected as the representative of the Jassy Chamber of Commerce, will again run for election on September 6. Mr. Mendelsohn was disqualified as a Senator, it was stated, because his name was given differently on the election ticket than it appears on his birth certificate. In the September elections he will run under the name on his birth certificate, which is Syn Mendel.
The disqualification of Mr. Mendelsohn with this excuse caused resentment in many Jewish quarters in Roumania and it is felt that his reelection is a question of prestige. Many leaders of the Jewish community in Jassy have enlisted in the campaign to secure his reelection.
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