Jewish Charities of Chicago to Raise $1,605,000

Alfred K. Stern, chairman of the campaign by the Jewish Charities of Chicago to raise $1,605,000, announced the names of the members of the general committee who will assist him in the drive.

They are Max Adler, Mrs. Samuel Alschuler, Barney Balaban, James H. Becker, B. E. Bensinger, Herman Black, L. E. Block, L. Lewis Cohen, Abel Davis, Max Epstein, Barnett Faroll, Harry M. Fisher, Washington Flexner, Milton S. Florsheim, Leonard S. Florsheim, A. Eichard Frank, Hugo M. Friend, E. L. Glaser, Maurice Goldblatt, Solomon Goldman, Samuel A. Goldsmith, Max M. Grossman, William A. Hirsh, Harry I. Hoffman, Louis M. Katz, Edward Katzinger, Sol Kline, Hyman N. Kohn, Paul R. Kuhn, L. B. Kuppenheimer, Henry R. Levy, Philip A. Lieber, Herbert A. Loeb, Alfred C. Meyer, George Pick, B. J. Rosenthal, Charles Rubens, A. K. Selz, Hugo Sonnenschein, Mrs. Frederick Spiegel, Modie J. Spiegel, Samuel B. Steele, Jules C. Stein, Samuel D. Stoll, Henry H. Straus, Henry H. Strauss, Samuel J. T. Straus, Charles B. Stumes, Frank L. Sulzberger, Fred Uhlmann, Leo F. Wormser.

Mr. Epstein will be chairman of the trades and professions division for the campaign. His co-chairmen will be Messers Katz, Friend, Goldblatt, Sulzberger, H. H. Straus and Block.

Mrs. Alschuler is in charge of the women’s division of the forthcoming campaign. She and her committee of nineteen women will begin work immediately to enlist all the Jewish women in Chicago and the suburbs. It is the aim of the Women’s division to enroll a group of several thousand active workers to present the message of the Jewish Charities of Chicago to every Jewish family in the city and its suburbs.