Supreme Court Orders Retrial for Anti-semite

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Herr Cerny, editor of the anti-Semitic German newspaper, “Voelkischer Beobachter,” will again be tried for libelling the Jewish community of Nassau by an order of the Supreme Court which set aside the verdict of acquittal.

The “Voelkischer Beobachter” asserted that the Jews of Nassau had caused the French occupation authorities to prohibit the holding of a German convention. A libel suit was instituted against the editor.

The establishment of a small home for girl graduates of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. along the same lines as the Corner House maintained by the institution, for boys is entemplanted in the immediate future, according to an announcement yesterday by Judge Samuel Strasbourger, president of the asylum, in his report at the 105th annual meeting of the organization. Judge Strasourger announced that a committee under the leadership of Mrs. Joseph Stroock is in charge of the project.

Other speakers on the program include Dr. Louis I. Harris, Health Commissioner; Charles H. Tuttle, United States Attorney; and Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, who from 1905 to 1920 was director of the asylum, and who now is executive director of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.

The institution last year provided homes for 803 children in the building proper and 410 children at individual foster homes through the boarding-out department.

The institution, according to the report of Julius Loeb, its treasurer, spent $602,014,17 in 1927, of which $170,512,37 was contributed by the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies. Toward operation in 1928, Federation has made a budgetary allotment of $159,548.