Schwartzbard Kin Show Documents of Family’s Sufferings Under Petlura

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

New documents for the Paris court which will try Sholom Schwartzbard, slayer of Petlura, were forwarded by the Schwartzbard family living in Odessa.

The thirty-five documents forwarded through official channels reveal the fact that more than ten households of the Schwartzbard family perished or otherwise suffered from the pogroms during the Petlura regime. Many of the Schwartzbard family were killed, wounded and robbed, and the women violated.

The documents concern only six branches of the Schwartzbard family who suffered most, living in Balta, Goloskov, Krivoyo-Oziero, Tchwelnik and Savron.

Only one class of entering students will be admitted to the Hebrew Union College School for Teachers in New York City for the coming Spring Semester of 1927, owing to the overcrowded condition of the School caused by the exceptionally large registration in the Fall.

The class will be limited to fifty students and will meet on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Registration will begin on January 10th.

Registration will be at the Administrative office of the School, 140 West 42nd Street, and at Temple Emanu-El, 5th Avenue and 43rd Street, New York.

The School offers a two years course of study leading to a certificate of qualification to teach in the Reform Religious Schools of New York City and its vicinity.

The School also announced that the popular series of Sunday afternoon lectures entitled “Jewish Educational Forums”, which was begun last year will be continued this year, commencing February 20th.

BREVITIES

The Society for Jewish Culture, 1 Union Square, New York, has called a conference of leading Jewish artists for Saturday evening, January 8th, at the Hotel Pennsylvania. The purpose of the conference is to arrange for an exhibition of the works of the artists, under the auspices of the Society. It is planned to make this a travelling exhibition to be displayed in a number of cities throughout the country.

The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and the Merchant Ladies’ Garment Association, representing the jobbers controlling 75 per cent of the industry, agreed yesterday on the draft of a contract to replace the one which expired previous to the recent strike.

The draft was drawn up at a conference at the office of Samuel Blumberg, counsel for the jobbers. Representing the jobbers were Joseph Engel, president of the jobbers’ association, and Mr. Blumberg. Representatives of the union were Morris Sigman, president of the I. L. G. W. U.: Salvatore Ninto, vice-president, and Mirris Hiilquit, attorney.

The contract provides for renewal of the old agreement obligating the jobbers to have their work done in union shops only and includes a provision intended to strengthen the responsibility of the jobbers for union standards.

With the new agreement the garment industry will be once more 100 per cent unionized.

Charles Zimmerman, Communist member of the deposed joint board, issued a statement that his organization would not recognize any agreement between the International and the dress jobbers and manufacturers.

A step toward replacing the tenements of New York’s congested areas with modern apartment dwellings has been taken, according to an announcement by Alexander M. Bing. President of the City Housing Corporation. Mr. Bing said the corporation had asked brokers to find and purchase a suitable block, either on the lower west side or, preferably, on the lower east side.

The plan is to replace the present dingy structures with buildings of five or six stories, the approximate cost to be $2,500,000. The corporation’s plans are in response to the program of the State Housing Board.

Valued at more than $200,000, a painting by Authony Van Dyck purchased recently by Jacob Epstein, Baltimore philanthropist, has been placed on view in the Baltimore Museum of Art. The picture was brought from the art collecti?n of the Duke of Newcastle, of Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, England. The canvas is entitled “Rinaldo and Armida.”

Miss Florence N. Levy has resigned as director of the Baltimore Museum of Art after four years of service.

During the directorship of Miss Levy, approximately 131,000 persens visited the galleries and 423 pieces of art have been acquired by purchase or gift. Miss Levy was the first directory of the museum, which began to function in February, 1923.

A memorial meeting to pay tribute to the late Achad Ha’am will be held today under the auspices of the Agudath Hamorim, the Hebrew Teachers’ Organization, in the hall of the Hias Building.

Dr. Chaim Tschernowitz, Dr. Nisson Touroff. S. B. Maximon. I. Z. Frishberg and Dr. J. T. Helman will address the meeting.