(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Deborah Polovinchik, a Jewish girl of Charkov, was ordered by the Soviet criminal court to apologize and to pay the costs of the trial, for calling a non-Zionist a Zionist.
Abraham Danziger, a resident of Charkov, brought the suit claiming that by terming a Zionist, Miss Polovinchik had insulted him.
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