Sons of Zion Hold Convention

The convention of the Order of the Sons of Zion closed here this evening, after adopting a number of resolutions. Among them were resolutions to start a drive for members to endorse the work of Young Judea, to create a Jewish conservatory in Palestine in memory of the fallen Jewish soldiers there, to support the campaign of the Jewish workers for a Palestine workers’ bank, to tax every member of the Order five cents per annum for the American Jewish Congress, to undertake a quota of fifty thousand dollars for the National Fund for 1924, to help Ussischkin when he comes here to make a drive for the National Fund, to elect delegates to the Zionist Convention in Pittsburg, and to use their influence to bring about the opening of a branch of the Jewish Colonial Trust in New York.

The following officers were elected: Nathan Chasan, Nasi, Sol. Fried land and Louis Hochberg, Vice-Presidents, Max Fenwick, Treasurer, Jacob Ish Kishor, Secretary, Dr. Solomon Newman, Chief Medical Examiner, S. Weinstein. Councellor. The following seventeen were elected members of the Executive: David Podolsky, H. J. Abramson, Max Luria, Louis Rinsky, Rev. N. Abramson, Meyer Herbst, J. Mechania, all of New York; M. Litwin, B. Find, A. N. Alterman, H. Milgram, Rev. Hein, all of Brooklyn; Louis Sosin, Perty Amboy, S. W. Flax, Cambridge, Charles Sobel, Newark, S. Finestone, Norfolk, I. Wolf, Bronx.