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Arab Masonic Leader, Friendly to Jews, Dies

October 14, 1932
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Shoukry Houry, Grandmaster of the Palestine Mason Lodge, died suddenly yesterday at the age of fifty-five.

Houry was well known for his friendliness to the Jews and could converse with them in the Hebrew language.

Funeral services were held for him this afternoon. Sixty percent of the participants in the funeral services were Jews.

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