The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Kynaston Studd, has given his consent for a reception to be held at the Mansion House at an early date, when a certificate of the inscription in the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund will be presented to his predecessor in office, Sir Charles Batho and Mr. H. Davenport and Mr. F. D. Green, Sheriffs of the City of London. The inscription, of which the certificates are to be presented, was effected at the banquet held last July at the Guildhall in aid of the Balfour Forest Fund.
A letter from the Mayor of Tel Aviv conveying greetings in the name of the township and the inhabitants of the first city of the new Palestine will also be presented to the present Lord Mayor.
The Balfour Forest Fund Dinner was the first occasion in the history of the City of London in which the Guildhall was placed by the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London at the disposal of the Anglo-Jewish community as such.
The funeral of David Gideon, well-known turiman and one of Tammany’s oldest members, who died Saturday at the age of 83, was held Monday. Dr. Isaac Landman of Temple Israel. Far Rockaway, officiated. Burial was in Union Field Cemetery, Cypress Hills, L. I.
Isaac Liberman, who died in New York Feb. 4, left bequests aggregating $25,500 to nine religious institutions and hospitals. After legacies amounting to $34,500 to four relatives and a friend, three children share the balance of the estate of more than $1,000,000.
Charitable bequests of $25,500 each were made to the New York Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies and Montefiore Hospital by the late Bethold Hochschild, whose estate was set at $6,716,375. The residue estate was divided equally among his three children, Walter, Harold E. and Gertrude, of 565 West End Avenue, New York.
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