Sir Joseph Buveen Establishes Fund for British Artists

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Sir Joseph Buveen, famous anglo-Jewish art dealer, announced today the establishment of an annual fund of £1,000 for the purpose of purchasing the paintings of contemporary British artists.

Sir Joseph recently wrote to Prime Minister Baldwin asking the support of the government for promising young British artists.

He hopes leading Englishmen will follow his example and will establish a permanent fund for promising young British artists, Sir Joseph declared.

BREVITIES

A resolution to bestow American citizenship upon the aliens among the crew of the steamer President Roosevelt. which rescued twenty-five men from the steamer Antinoe, was introduced in the House by Congressman {SPAN}###{/SPAN} manuel Celler.

At the extraordinary session of the Leningrad Communist party, Gregory Zinovief, the head of the Communist International, failed to regain his membership in the Presidrum. Whereas his rivals, Stalin, Bukharin, Kalinin, Rykoff. Dzer. zhinsky, Tomsky and Voroshiloff, were unammously elected. an Associated Press despatch from Moscow stated.

Political observers see an indication that Zinovieff may fail to retain the Presidency of the International when that organization holds its next session.

Like Trotsky before him, Zinovieff, at the last meeting of the All Russian Communist Party in Moscow, was disavowed polincally by the leaders of the party because of his “heresies,” the despatch stated.

Pouliney Bigelow, lecturer and auther. who. in his recem book, “Seventy Summers,” likened H. G. Wells to a “prosperous stock broker,” is starting suit in London against the British novelist for $50,000 on a charge of slander.

The suit arises, Mr. Bigelow explained, our of an article in the London “Daily Express” credited to Mr. Wells which Mr. Wells, describing his meeting with Mr. Bigelow, described him as a “bore.”

In his book, “Seventy Summers,” Mr. Bigelow threatened American Jews with “a bloody housecleaning.”