The dinner in honor of Nathan Straus, Jr., tendered to him by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, will be held tonight at the Astor Hotel, with leaders in communal activity, business and politics present.
The function will also mark the launching of the nation-wide effort to raise funds for the maintenance of Jewish reconstruction activities in Palestine. A fund is being gathered to be presented to Mr. Straus in recognition of his services in the upbuilding of Palestine. The fund will be transferred by Mr. Straus to the Jewish Agency for its immigration, colonization, education and sanitation projects in Palestine.
The speakers at the dinner will include Mayor John P. O’Brien, Aldermanic President Joseph V. McKee, George MacDonald, George Gordon Battle, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Louis Lipsky, Morris Rothenberg, James Marshall and Abraham Goldberg. Grischa Goluboff, the boy violinist, will be the soloist.
Among those who will be present are Appeals Court Justice Irving Lehman, Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May, Judge Algernon I. Nova, Judge Otto Rosalsky, Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Manhattan Borough President Samuel Levy, Rabbi Samuel Schulman, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney, Corporation Counsel Arthur Hilly, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Curry, Commissioner of Public Works Marshall Ingram, Mrs. Anna Moskowitz Kross, Health Commissioner Shirley Wynne and Val O’Farrell.
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