A summary of dispatches printed in late editions of yesterday’s Jewish Daily Bulletin.
Percy S. Straus, president of R. H. Macy and Company, and Arthur Lehman, of Lehman Brothers, have accepted the honorary chairmanship of the Trades Council of the Greater New York Campaign of the United Jewish Appeal, it was announced yesterday by I. Edwin Goldwasser, Nathan Straus Jr., and Ira M. Younker, chairman of the New York City drive. The campaign to raise $1,200,000, representing New York’s share of the $3,000,000 fund which American Jewry is being asked to contribute for aid of Jews of Germany, will be officially launched at the Hotel Commodore on Sunday evening, May 13.
Dr. Abraham Coralnik, an editor of The Day, was elected chairman of the non-sectarian committee for the defense of Stavsky, Rosenblatt and Achemeier at a meeting yesterday.
The committee is seeking a fund of $10,000 which will be used in strengthening the defense of three Zionist Revisionists, Abraham Stavsky, Aba Achemeier and Zvi Rosenblatt, now being tried in Jerusalem for the murder of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff. The fund appeal is to be nation-wide.
A resolution requesting Secretary of State Hull to make public all the facts concerning treaty renewal negotiations between the United States and Germany was passed at a mass meeting last night sponsored by the Jewish Political Club, Inc., at the Great Central Palace, 96 Clinton street.
Zionism is the only solution to the Jewish problem George Z. Medalie said in an address at a mass meeting held by District 14 of the Zionist Organization at the Brooklyn Jewish Center, 667 Eastern parkway, last night.
“The Jew who turns aside from his personal affairs for a moment to survey the bonds in which his brethren live is instantly shaken from his indifference,” Mr. Medalie said. “The terror and desolation are overwhelming. Germany, of course, is the center of our interest,” he declared.
More than 3,000 persons crowded into the State Armory here tonight to listen to speakers representing all faiths vigorously attack racial prejudice and commend Jews for their military and economic services to the United States
The mass meeting, one of the largest outpourings of Jewish war veterans ever held in Westchester County, was preceded by a parade through the principal streets of the city of 1,500 veterans and nine bands. While they paraded, police threw a strong guard around the entire business district of the city to prevent a scheduled Nazi meeting which failed to materialize.
A report here from government circles states that High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope today approved a new schedule that will permit the issuance of 5,500 immigration certificates, including 400 for women, during the next six months.
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