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Boys’ Club, Athletic Field Memorial to Bobbie Franks

September 19, 1929
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A bequest of $100,000 left by the late Jacob Franks, who died here last year, is to go to the American Boys’ Commonwealth as a memorial to Bobbie Franks, for whose death Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold are now serving life sentences in Joliet Penitentiary. Mr. Franks left instructions in his will for the $100,000 memorial to his son.

A part of the sum will be devoted to erecting a clubhouse and an athletic field to be called the Robert Franks Memorial Field.

Rabbi Max Drob, of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, Philadelphia, for the past year and a half, will shortly leave his post to become the leader of the Grand Concourse Center of Israel, on the Grand Concourse, in West Bronx, New York.

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