Although New Jersey will predominate with six of the ten members of the new incoming national executive board, delegates to the Order Sons of Zion twenty-fifth annual convention at the concluding session here late last night elected four New Yorkers as supreme officers and for the first time gave representation to the South, West and Middle West.
The two leading offices went to Newark lawyers, Joseph Kraemer, being re-elected by acclamation as Nazi or Grandmaster and Harry A. Pine also of Newark as first vice-grandmaster.
OTHER REELECTIONS
Louis Myers of New York was re-elected Sgan Sheini or second vice grandmaster. Heinrich Abramowitz of the Bronx was elected Maskir or grand secretary, to hold the office as dollar-a-year man. Louis Rimsky, also of New York, was re-elected by acclamation as Gisbor or grand treasurer and Isaac Allen, of New York, former grandmaster was chosen counsel to the Order. Dr. Solomon Neumann, chief medical examiner, was unanimously renamed to that office.
Six of the ten members of the national executive board will come from Newark and Bloomfield. These are Louis Weiss, William Dubin, Mrs. Fannie Kahn, Jacob I. Kaplan, Dr. J. L. Solomon, Max Harmelin and Louis Schluger.
Dr. Harris J. Levine of the Bronx was the “high man” elected to the executive board, receiving 104 votes. Benjamin Fein of Brooklyn and I. Posnansky of New York, were elected to the board and Samuel Stuckgold, auditor for the Order, will be a member ex-officio. Regional executive members chosen are L. J. Gordon of Norfolk, Virginia; L. J. Rosen, of Philadelphia, and Louis Y. Borkon, of Pittsburgh.
THANKED FOR ADVICE
The convention unanimously adopted resolutions thanking Louis Myers, its second vice grandmaster, and Stuckgold for their advice in financial matters affecting the Order, and Harry Grayer, retiring counsel to the Order for his co-operation.
Jacob I. Kaplan, retiring grand secretary, reported that during the past two years, “we endeavored to practise such economy, that as a consequence thereof, we reduced our deficit by a total of no less than $4,600.” He also declared the insurance fund has passed the $325,000 mark.
A resolution which the convention ordered tabled ought to have the Order authorize the formation of a private corporation under its auspices, and as a sort of holding company, seek to purchase land and settle Jewish families thereon.
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