The fifteenth anniversary of the New York Council of the Pioneer Women’s Organization for Palestine was celebrated today with a luncheon at the Hotel Astor, attended by about 1,000 persons, who heard speakers stress the necessity of intensifying aid to women war refugees arriving in the Holy Land and a message from Mayor LaGuardia paying tribute to the organization’s role in the "fine progress being made by the Jewish people in Palestine."
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