Senator Nathan Straus, Jr., was host at a luncheon at the Aldine Club to a group of New York journalists and the Hakoah players, the all Jewish team of Vienna who arrived for their second annual tour of the U. S. Dr. Novack and Dr. Schmidt, Consul-General of Czechoslovakia and Vice-Consul of Austria, respectively, Dr. Henry Moskowitz and Congressman W. W. Cohen welcomed the Hakoah players. Senator Straus declared that the Hakoah program was bringing athletic training to thousands of Jewish boys and girls and was the greatest single factor in the physical development of the Jewish youth of East Europe, to which purpose the financial proceeds of the American matches will be devoted.
Senator Straus presented Dr. Spiegler, the President of the World Maccabbees (the Jewish Youth organization), Dr. Otto Bauer, the trainer of Hakoah, Dr. Maurice Vanderweghe, Abraham Tuvim and Mrs. Rosenberg. Dr. Henry Moskowitz praised Senator Nathan Straus and Nathan Straus, Sr., for the encouragement they are giving to the Hakoah movement. He declared that the Strauses in sponsoring the Hakoah team in the United States were making it possible for the development of a robust, athletic Jewish youth. Dr. Schmidt, the Austrian Vice-Consul, declared that the Austrian Government viewed with approval and admiration the accomplishments of the Hakoah in Austria and abroad.
Samuel J. Bloomingdale will serve as treasurer of the campaign for $1,500,000 which is to be undertaken in behalf of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, it was announced by Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the association. The fund is to be raised for the erection of an eleven-story addition to the present Y.M.H.A. building at Fifty-second Street and Lexington Avenue, New York.
Nineteen hundred Jewish men in the army and navy service and disabled veterans, located at army posts, naval stations, and government hospitals, unable to avail themselves of the furlough granted by the Army and Navy Departments of the United States. were provided for by the Jewish Welfare Board during Passover week. Seder Services were held, Passover supplies distributed, and prayer books sent out throughout the United States and outlying territories, including Ancon in the Panama Canal Zone, Honolulu, Manila, Portau-Prince, Haiti, and Tientsin, China.
Bernard Miller has been elected chairman of the United Palestine Appeal campaign in Newark, N. J. Michael Hollander will be honorary chairman of the drive which, it is expected, will be started early in Jane. Meyer S. Mintz will direct the drive.
A massmeeting for the United Palestine Appeal was held in Jersey City, N. J. and was attended by more than 1,700 persons. Sir Alfred T. Davies and Joseph Barondess were the principal speakers. The campaign proper for $30,000 will open May 15. Harry Goldowsky is honorary chairman and A. J. Goldstein chairman of the campaign.
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