(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
The visit of a delegation of 30 Roumanian students from Cluj, members of the Roumanian anti-Semitic students’ organization, to the Y. M. C. A. students’ hostel here provoked a serious anti-Jewish disturbance at the hostel. The Roumanian students were wearing anti-Semitic badges and behaved in a manner which the Jewish and also the liberal students regarded as provocative and they made a demonstration against them. The warden of the hostel called in the police and two arrests were made. The warden also made some strongly anti-Semitic remarks and excluded from the hostel five Jewish students.
About 350 students attended a demonstration, at which a resolution was adopted demanding the readmission of the excluded students and the withdrawal by the warden of his anti-Jewish remarks. The warden’s reply was to expel the members of the deputation who brought him the resolution. He has now declared his intention to enforce a numerus clausus against Jewish members of the hostel.
Gertrude Weisberger, a fifteen year old Jewish girl, representing Dunmore High School, defeated seven boy orators, and was adjudged best in an inter-school elimination meeting of the Third National Oratorical Contest held in Scranton, Ps.
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