News Brief

When the new Budget Year begins on April 1st, the Palestine Railway Administration will take under consideration the Jewish demand to provide employment for Jewish labor in railway works, Lieut. Col. G. M. Campigli, Acting General Manager of the Palestine Railway Administration stated yesterday in reply to a Jewish labor delegation which he received at Haifa.

The delegation, which consisted of J. Ben-Zvi and David Cohen, urged that Jewish labor in Palestine should be given opportunities for employment in railway works. Lieut. Col. Campigli replied that they were now nearly at the end of the Budget Year and could make no new arrangements, but would certainly consider the question when the new Budget Year commenced.

BREVITIES

Morris J. Hirsch, who was head of the law firm of Hirsch, Sherman & Limburg when he died on Nov. 10, 1925, left an estate appraised at $1,358,936.

Mr. Hirsch gave the residuary estate in equal shares to his sons. Waller H. and Steven J. Hirsch, who received $630,468 each. Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo of the Court of Appeals and Jacob Meyer received $10,000 each.

Charitable bequests consisted of $5.000 each to Mount Sinai Hospital, Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, $2,000 each to the United Hebrew Charities, Eisman Day Nursery, Hebrew Technical School for Girls and Association to Promote Proper Housing for Girls, and $500 each to Presbyterian and St. Luke hospitals, Boy Scout Foundation and New York Association for the Blind.

Suspension of the unemployment insurance fund in the cloak industry occurred on Thursday. The fund, established nearly three years ago, was made up of contributions of employers and employes for the benefit of workers unemployed beyond a certain period.

Suspension followed all attack by the Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers, Inc. Following the ending of the cloakmakers’ strike last November, the Industrial Council, made up of inside manufacturers, criticized the apparent inability of the union to compel all manufacturers to make payments to the fund.

Dr. George B. Raiziss, professor of Chemotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine is responsible for the discovery of a new antiseptic, Metaphen. This discovery was announced by Dr. Raiziss at a lecture before the Philadelphia Division of the American Chemical Society.

Metaphen, which is a compound of mercury, may develop into a cure for septicemia, tuberculosis and influenza. Dr. Raiziss declared. The new compound, he said, is the strongest antiseptic known to chemists and in addition is the most powerful organic compound known.