Los Angeles to Build $1,500,000 Hospital

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

–By the decision of the Board of Trustees of the Kaspare Cohn Hospital, a $1,500,000 hospital building will be erected in Los Angeles within 1929.

Acting on the recommendation of its Building Committee, the Board of Trustees approved the preliminary plans, drawn by Claude Beelman, for a 300 bed hospital in addition to a School of Nursing, internes’ and resident physicians’ quarters, and an Outpatient Department.

The hospital will be erected on a site already acquired and will represent for building and equipment, an expenditure of one and a half million dollars. The site was purchased with part of the proceeds of the Building Fund Campaign conducted by the Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations in the Fall of 1924. In the campaign, subscriptions amounting to $800,000 were obtained, payable in five years. Part of this amount was used for the creation of the Jewish Orphans’ Home known as Vista del Mar, and for other building purposes. The cost of campaign and collection was $9,000 or a little over one percent. About $625,000 have already been collected from those who subscribed, though the entire period of collection has not yet expired.

At the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital it was decided that the name of the new hospital will be the Jewish Hospital of Los Angeles.

The Board of Trustees of the Hospital includes Arthur Asher, J. Y. Baruh, Alexander Brick, Aleck Brownstein. Dr. D. W. Edelman, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, Tom May, Ben R. Meyer and Emil Olcovich. I. Irving Lipsitch, Executive Director of the Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations is Secretary of the Board.

MORRIS ROTHENBERG FOR GOVERNOR SMITH

Morris Rothenberg in a statement released through the Democratic National Committee, declared his support of Governor Smith for the Presidency.

“In my judgment Governor Smith’s candidacy deserves the support of every forward looking citizen,” said Mr. Rothenberg. “Governor Smith’s mastery of governmental affairs, his extraordinary record in the field of social and welfare legislation, his deep sympathy with the co-operation in the problems of organized labor, his proved capacity for organized labor, his proved capacity for liberal and independent thought, his courage and his frankness in regard to the issues affecting the public is rrefutable evidence that his election as President of the United States would best serve the interests of the American people.”