Trofimov, Murderer of Jewish Worker in Pskov, to Be Tried on March 10

The trial of Trofimov, who murdered the Jewish worker Bolsheminikov in a Soviet factory in Pskov, will be held on March 10.

The director of the factory, Metalist, was discharged from his post and arrested for encouraging anti-Semitism. An investigation disclosed widespread anti-Semitism among Pskov Communists and members of the Comsomol. Communist youth organization. Several were expelled from the party in the general clean-up which is being made.

The trial of Volinetz and his associates, charged with anti-Semitic practices against Jewish workers in the construction of the Minsk university town, was begun on February 21. The defendants denied the charges. Witnesses, however, substantiated the accusation.

A group of re-emigrants from Palestine arrived in Odessa, according to a report published in the “Emes,” Communist Yiddish daily. The group will settle on the land near Eupatoria, the paper stated.

A suggestion that anti-Semitism be fought by means of the radio was put forward by the “Comsomolskaya Pravda,” organ of the Communist youth organization.

A former Petlura officer, Kuntzevich, was sentenced to two years imprisonment for persecution of Jewish workers in the paper factory in Kitaigorod of which he was the director.

Talmud, a Jewish student in the Odessa Chemical Technicum, was denied his diploma unless he consented to sign a paper to the effect that no anti-Semitism existed at the technicum.