News Brief

Work on additional building facilities for the Y. M. H. A.-Y. W. H. A., made possible through a gift by Mark C. Steinberg, well known St. Louis broker, has begun. The gift of Mr. Steinberg was $100,000.

The original building was opened in January, 1927. The wing will consist of a new gymnasium, four hand ball courts and a boy scout room. St. Louis “Y” membership totals 4,000.

The Jewish Federation of St. Louis is planning a campaign to raise $600,000. Of this sum we are told a half million is to go for the annual maintenance of the Federation, and $100,000 to cover an accumulated deficit. Julius Glaser is President of the Federation, and Ferdinand S. Bach, Secretary.

For a number of years, St. Louis Jews have discussed the merger of several of the Reform Temples. It is agreed that if the four Temples could be combined into two, a more intensive Jewish work with the new generation would result. The death of Dr. Leon Harrison has brought these discussions of merger forward more actively and intensively. Leo C. Fuller is Chairman of a joint committee of Temple Israel and Temple Shaare Emeth.

Washington University has added the study of Hebrew to its curriculum both in the day classes and in the evening extension classes by the acquisition of Dr. David Reiss as a member of the faculty. Dr. Reiss is directing head of the Jewish educational work sponsored by the Federation of Jewish Charities. He has been in the city about three years and is responsible for a decided forward movement in the educational field in the Southwest.

Colonel Herbert H. Lehman, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, and Mrs. Lehman were the guests of honor at a dinner given Sunday night by nearly one hundred members of the Unity Club at their clubhouse, Bedford Avenue and Dean Street, Brooklyn. Albert Conway, Democratic candidate for Attorney-General, and Senator Royal S. Copeland were also guests.

Politics were barred from all addresses. The speakers were Senator Copeland, Mr. Conway, Colonel Lehman, John H. McCooey, Democratic leader of Kings County; Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May and Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn. Benjamin C. Ribman, president of the Unity Club, was toastmaster.

Funeral services for the late Otto E. Dryfoos, a trustee and associate treasurer of Temple Emanu-El, New York, will be held this morning at Temple Emanu-El. Mr. Dryfoos was 69.

A native of Germany, Mr. Dryfoos came to New York as a youth and soon afterward started a hosiery and underwear business that he developed into one of the most important concerns in business, Mr. Dryfoos retired in 1926 and the firm was dissolved.

For many years before its merger with Temple Emanu-El, Mr. Dryfoos had been treasurer and a trustee of Temple Beth-El, and had served as chairman of its Committee on Religious Schools, Mr. Dryfoos had been a supporter of nearly every important philanthropic movement in the city.

The funeral of Joseph Rosenbaum, of Uniontown, Pa., who died in Cumberland, Md., was held in Uniontown on Friday.

Mr. Rosenbaum, who was 65. was honorary president and member of the Board of Trustees of Temple Israel of Uniontown. He relinquished the active presidency of the congregation about two years ago, after having held the position for thirteen years. At the time of his death he was president of the Union town Lodge, Independent Order B’nai B’rith, an office he had also held on previous occasions. He was a leading member of the Adelphia Club, local Jewish social organization.