Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1924, Page 7

JEWISH CONVENTION DETAILS PLANNED Committee of 200 Will Meet Tues- day Preparatory to Consump- tive Aid Session. CO-OPERATION IS LAUDED Chairman Sherby Says All Sections Give Hearty Support. With the opening of the twentieth annual convention of the Jewish Con- sumptives’ Rellef So slightly more than two weeks distant, mem- bars of the local committee of 200 of the city's leading Jews Tuesday night will put the finishing touche on plans designed to make the conclave the most beneficial of the kind ever held in this country. The meeting Tuesday night will be held at the Eighth Street Temple and each of the more than a dozen committee chair- men w tendance. Harry Sherby, chairman of the con- vention ommittee, voiced his faction last night over the hearted co-operation of the commun hington. every se fessional men . reformed, ad- vanced and conservative, is working With spirit to make the convention a sreat su 5 Dr. Simon to Participate. Dr. Abram Simon, bi of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, will take a prominent part in the con- vention. Dr. Simon was the spok. n the delegation which w °d at the Capitol Friday, w Senator Royal S. Copeland of N York vitation to speak and also volun- atement to pres ishments of the relief society, stitution twenty vears ago has con- o pted tubercular cases in »s, regardless of creed, with- accepting fee of any kind t was made by Chairman last night that practically authority on the subject of in the country has ttendance at the confer- A gratifying response has also received, he added, from mem- cabinet and Congri X Sherby urged that all W residents attend the public meeting to be held Sunday aft- . at the Hotel Wash- when there will be a sym- posium on tuberculosis and a number of motion picture reels shown. Dr. Hillkowitz to Preside. r. illkowitz, president of , will preside at the convention. Dr. Hill- -r with Dr. Chaim D. who was in Washington thi e the founders of the ins and both have held their nt office for twenty consecutive S. L. Genes of New York of the society, di rector of T s de- voting his ti and night to the development of the four-day conven- tion program Following is the personnel of the local committee of 200: Harry Sherby, general chairman; vice chairmen,” Lee Baumgarten, R. B. Behrend, Isaac Gans, Fred S. Gich- ner. Charles A, Goldsmith, Harry Hahn, Jacob Heckman, Sol Herzog, Paul Himmelfarb, H. Jeffrey, Rabbi J. T. Loeb, Simon Lyon, William Rosen- dorf, Morris Stein, Sidney W. St 3 Joseph L. Tepper, Joseph A. Wilner, Alexander Wolf. Dr. Abram Simon, chairman execu- tive committee; Morris Garfinkle, treasurer; Mrs. William Le: re- cording secretary; H. Kur, financial ladies’ reception commit- A. Goldsmith, hon- Mrs. Morris Wittlin, . Vice chairman: Mrs. er Dodek, Mrs. George Goldberg, s Isidore Kahn, Mrs. Alex Koplin, nes Lansburgh, Mrs Henry Oxenburg, Mrs. William_Rosendorf, Mrs. Harry Sherby, Mrs. Julius Weinberg. Many Others or List. Committee: Mrs, B. pril, Simon Atlas, Mrs David = A Mrs. icher, Mrs. William man, David, Edelson, M Farber, Mrs. J. Feldman, Felstein, Mrs. Isidore Mrs. Henry Garfinkle, Mrs Hyman Garfinkle, Mrs. Isidore Hers! field, Mrs. Henry Hirsh, Mrs. Falk Harmel, Mrs. Miss Carrie Hart Y Jirs. B Kandel %3 ra Sam Krucoff, Mrs. Stani burgh, Mrs. H. Levy, Mre Levy, Mrs. Harrv Lewis, Mrs, Maurice Phillip Milsto e, Mrs. rs. H. Periman, Mrs. !es Rosenthal, Mrs. irs. Max_Rosenfeld, enberg, Mrs M. Mrs. Jacob Silverberg, M. Schrei- ber, N - Sentel Sperling, Mrs. A ris Stein, ) Wolf Ulman, Mrs. Harry Viner, Ju Reception Committee. Maurice Mazo, chairman; R. Aron- son, Simon Atlas, Isadore Freund, L. Goldman, S. V. Gusack, Paul bbi M. A. Horwitz, Pasternak, hal, w. A Morris Mayor Dodek, M. Dreebin, Joseph Freedman, Phil Friedlander, B. Garfinkel, Ernest Gichner, Henry Hirsh, M. H Tacob Hinkel, Benjamin Jeweler, B. Kaplan, Henry Katzman, B. Kot: I _ Krik- stein, Dr. . _Kraskin, Hyman M. Benjamin' Madden, Needle, M. Y. ) X e foma Breld, . Offenberg, Fred Peltzman, Max Rhoade, Dr. fjex Rosenbloom. Ma. M. Shapiro, Al Scheffermen, Spiegler, Stein, Sam ; Stern, Max . Isaac Teppe William Tash, W man, David Wiener, Julius H. Wolpe, Leonard N. Zisman, Bdward Zupnik. Entertainment committee—Morris Cafritz, chairman: Louis Dinowitz, Nathan_Edelson, Morris Fleishman, Louis E. Luria, H. Nelson, Henry Oxenberg, Wililam _Rosendorf, H. Schneider, Charles J. Stein, Harry Viner, Alex J. Berlin, Aaron Cohen, Philip . B. Coopérsmith, Samuel Farber, Max Feldman, B. Futrovsky, . Futrovsky, Hyman Goldman, Jacob Grits, Morris' Gumanick, Morris Her~ son, H. L. Hodes, C. H. Honigman, Max ~Kamerow, 'S. Kaminsky, H. Kiavans, Louis Cohen. Fred S. Kogod, Sam Krucoff, Harris Levy, Isaac Levy, israel Lubin, Harry Maren, Max Miler, Louis Mirman, Joseph Ornstein, Nathan Plotnick, Ben Rachlin, M. J. Raine, A. Schu- macher, Max Simon, Samuel § Nat M 5, D Weinberg. Regist mmittee—Mrs. William Bass, chairman; Mrs. Stanley Lans- burgh, Dr. Joseph Norman, Miss Flor- ence Luber, William Rabinowitz. Luncheon committee—Samuel Far- ber, chairman: Morris Garfinkle, B. Kotz, Harris Levy, Rev. A. Sheffer- man. +"Conveyance committee—Benjamin Brooks, Alex J. Berlin, Aaron Cohen, Myer Chidakel, Benj. Futrovsky. Morris Gumenick, Morris Herson, H. , Harry Maren, D. Weinber; Printing_committee—Morris J. S verman, chalrman; George W. Levy, 1sidor Mintz Committee on badges—Joseph L. Tepper, chairman; William M. Sgehs, Matrice Narcisenfeld. v Hotel Committee—B. Danzansky, chairman; S. Freedman, A. Tash, Max Sugar. Program_committee—L. _Spegler, chairman; Hyman Levy, M. Offenber, Al Shefferman, David Wiener. Decorations committee—Charles A. Goldsmith, chairman; Mrs. Simon At- Jas ,Mrs. Louis Dinowitz, Miss Ger- truda Garfinkle, Miss Minnie Hutt, DR. PHILIP HILLKOWITZ, President of the Jewixh Consump- tives Relief Society, who will pre- side nt the sesxlons of the twentieth | annual convention, which convenes here May 30, for a four-day con COAST GUARD TESTS APPLICANTS JUNE 16 Temporary Appointments to In- crease Force for War on Rum Smuggling. June 16 has been set as the date for examinations for appointment of 149 temporary commissioned officers and warrant officers, by the Coast Guard, increasing the organization by about half for the war against rum- smuggling. Enlistment of the 2,245 enlisted men needed under the program has already started, was announced at head- quarters yesterday, and recruiting sta- tions throughout the country are now cam gning for men. xceptional advantages,” it is an- nounced offi will be offered to men previous Navy service s of pay in the Coast Guard said, “are the same as in the and all previous service in the v or Coast Guard may be counted for The appointment or en- in the Coast Guard of any ber of the Naval Reserve Force not prejudice his status in the Naval Reserve Force when his service |in the Coast Guard shall have been | terminated, and such Coast Guard Serv- ice may be counted s service in the Naval Reserve Force." The new officers, it is explained, will be “all around Coast Guard men in every sense of the word, and assigned to duty in one of the numerous fields i in which the Coast Guard is - MEXICO IS SILENT ON PORT BLOCKADE Warren Says U. S. Shipping Is Protected by Treaty—Dispute Over Frontera. Br the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 10.—The Mex- fcan government has not replied to the representations of the United States against the blockade of Fron- tera, Charles B. Warren, the Amer- ican ambassador, told newspaper cor- respondents today. He expressed the opinion, however, that American ship- ping could not be interfered with under the provisions of the treaties which he had discussed with the for- eign office. Mr. Warren declined to talk about the progress of the negotiations for a loan to Mexico by American bank ers, but admitted that a second in- vitation to the representatives of New York bankers to come to Mexico City was sent May 5. Regarding the seizure of several American-owned cattle ranches in the state of Sonora, notice of which was published recently in the Official Gazette, he said he was gathering information so as to be able to take up the seizures with the Mexican government. The properties include semi-arid grazing lands covering nearly a million acres. DEFENDED BY CONSUL. American Ship Master Complained of Attack. NORFOLK, Va., May 10.—The Fort of Frontera, Tabasco, Mexico, has been closed to international traffic ce last December, when trouble in that vicinity began, and those at- tempting to deal with the rebels are considered smugglers and treated as such, Angel Casarin, jr, Mexican consul at this port, said today in commenting upon reports brought to Norfolk yesterday by Capt. F. C. Hudgins of an allgred attack last Sunday on his ship, the Gaston, by a craft believed to be a Mexican federal gunboat. “When some of our Qorts were closed because of the trouDles” (the revolution), Mr. Casarin said, “many of the masters of steamers that used to call at such ports frequently stop- ped their calls, showing that they desired to obey the law issued by a friendly foreign country. Those who do not obey the law should expect to receive its punishment not only in Mexico, but anywhere else.” Accuned of Smuggling. “Capt. Hudgins, in his statement.” the consul continued, “says that when Frontera was in the hands of the rebels no effort was made to molest the Gaston or her crew, which would indicate that Capt. Hudgins had been dealing ith the rebels and, conse- quently, "was treated as a smuggler by the federal authorities.” The ~Gaston, according to Capt. Hudgins, had put in at Frontera for a cargo of bananas for Norfolk when she was ordered out of Mexican waters by the gunboat. The vessel is operated by South Gate Forward- ing and Storage Company of Norfolk and is used in fruit trade between orfolk, Honduras and Mexico. — e Mrs. Joseph Kaminsky, Miss Mamie Levy, Mrs. Morris Levy, Miss Helen Stein. Committee on music—Mrs. L. B. Schioss, chairman; Mrs. Samuel Kor- man, vice chairman; Mrs. Herman Shapiro. Committee on speakers—Isidore Hershfield, chairman; R, B. Behrend, Joseph A. Wilner, Committee on banquet—Morris Witt- lin, chairman. Morris Garfinkle, vice chairman. Publicity committee—Benjamin Mei- man, chairman; and Max Rhoade, vice chajrman. Medical advisory committee—Dr. Harry S. Lewis, chairman; Dr. N. Norman Smiler vice chairman; Dr. Harry A. Spigel, secretary; Dr. Edwin B. Behrend, Dr. Harry S. Bernton, Dr. M. I Bierman, Dr. E. A. Cafritz, Dr. Ralph Cohen, Dr. Melville B. Fisher, Dr. H. Hertzberg, Dr. Harry M. Kauf- man, Dr. J. Kotz, Dr. Edward Lewis, Dr. Lester Newman, Dr. Benjamin Newhouse, Dr. I A. Peltzman, Dr. Samuel Saks, Dr. M. A. Selinger, Dr. H. D. Shapiro and Dr. Irving . Shorell 2 S. L. GENES, Field secretary of the Jewish Con- sumptives Relief Society and director of the convention to be held here May 30 to June Z. PARIS INDIFFERENT ON ELECTION EVE (Continued from First Page.) allied war debt, no%issues directly or indirectly affecting the United States are anywhere up for consideration. It is generally believed that the heads of most of the prominent tickets and the best known members of the outgoing chamber will be returned by operation of the proportional repre- senting principle. Therefore, the new chamber is most likely to contain most of the former leaders, such as former Premier Briand, Deputy Her- riot, the Socialist leader; Louis Loucheur, former minister for the devastated regions; Leon Daudet, the Royalist leader; Deputy Cachin,’ the Communist, and Deputy Mandel,’ for- mer Clemenceau supporter, even if |« their followers lower down on the lists are ruled out because they have not obtained the electoral quotient. Joan of Arc Day. The only formal ceremony tomor- row will be at 9:30 in the morning in connection with Joan of Arc day, when the Minister of the Interior M. do Selves, in the name of the govern- ment, will lay a floral offering at the foot of the equestrian statue of the Maid of Orleans, in the Place de Ri- 1i, just opposite the war-time head- ters of the American Red Cross. government has reversed its for- )n not to participate, and two battalions of infantry, a squ. of cavalry and a battery of 7o's will be lined up to render honors to the warrior maid. France's two former presidents, Loubet and Fallieres, have remained throughout the campaign utterly in- different to the outcome of the bal- loting, although the former has just issued a hot denial that he has au- thorized any candidate to use his name for backing. FRENCH CAMPAIGN DULL. BY WILLIAM BIRD. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, May 10.—Georges Clemen- ceau was asked by a reporter who traveled all the way from Paris to his little scacoast bungalow what he thought about Germany’s elections last Sunday and France's elections tomorrow. The Tiger replied: “My flower garden is doing wonder- is year. Look at these gera- M. Clemenceau is the one leader who might have made tomororw's elections interesting, and he might have produced a decisive result. “As it is, it is probable that they will be as indecisive as were Germany’s elec- tions last week, and England’s a few weeks ago. In any case, Europe is in for an era of_conference and compromise. Germany’'s new reichstag is faced with the bitter duty of swallowing the experts reportand enacting legis- lation which the Dawes plan calls for concerning establishment of a new bank and a new industrial and trans- portation combines. 1t will make many wry faces in doing so, for the conservatives were elected on a plat- form calling for rejection of the re- port, but American gold is in the balance against Nationalist pride, and gold, as every one knows, is an ex- tremely heavy metal. As a matter of fact, conservative opinion in Germany is heartily in favor of the experts plan. The op- position it comes from noisy Militarists, land owners and the old nobility, whereas the true Conserva- tives in Germany are manufacturers and business men who ardently de- sire a working agreement ~with France and even favor making serious efforts to pay roparations, realizing that such payments ts the Dawes report itself points out, mean a tre- mendous development Gt German in- stry and export trade. e thermore, Ceven the Militarists themselves will hardly, on second thought, have any real resistance to acceptance of the report, because they know a war of revenge is impossible without possession of the Ruhr mines and steel works, and that the Ruhr will not be relinquished by the French until the reparations question is set- tled. Guarantees for France. Tt is considered likely here that an inter-allied conference will be called, probably at Brussels in June, at which the question will be what guarantee of security France is to receive in exchange for abandonment of occupation of the Ruhr and by that time Germany's legislation exe- cuting the experts’ recommendations will be well under way. Senator Lodge’s new world court proposal was received with extreme- ly mild interest in Europe, where the general belief is that it is meant for home consumption only and will be forgotten after the campaign. How- ever, if by any chance it goes through, there will be no hesitation about joining it. The European powers al- ready belong to one world court, but they would have no objection to join- ing another. M. Clemenceau will perhaps even send it a bunch of flowers. (Copyright, 1924.) 300 RUSSIANS FACE SENTENCES OF DEATH By the Associated Press. LENINGRAD, May 10.—The Soviet government is confronted with an un- usual number of trials for espionage, theft, murder and counter-revolution beginning Monday. Nearly 300 in- dicted persons, many of them former judges, lawyers and army officers, Wwill be placed on trial for these of- fenses before the supreme civil tri- bunal, the supreme military tribunal and the supreme war transport tri- bunal, the membes of which are com- ing especially to Leningrad from Mos- cow. Most of the accused will be put to death if they are convicted. The first Eroup to go on trial will consist of forty-two men, of whom eighteen are Jjudges or court investigators accused of corruption and bribety in the dis- charge of their official duties. The second batch of 110 persons includes the wife of Gen. Dashkoff, and a num- ber of officers and Soviet officials ac- cused of counter-revolutionary activ- ities. A third category embraces 100 former officials and employes of the Northwestern Railway charged with bribery and corruption. METHODISTS URGED |~ TO PUT ASIDE WAR s Seck New World in Own Souls,|® Not Battlefields, Bishop Tells Laymen. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 10.— Two thousand Methodist laymen gathered here today for the Methodist men's convention, held in conjunction with the gen- eral conference by the educational center. This atternoon Bishop Fran- cls McConnell of Pittsburg, ad- dressed them on ducation and Christian Experience,” and Sherwood Bddy, the lecturer and writer, spoke on “The Present Challenge of the World Situation.” Tonight they heard some old fashioned religion from Dr. George Elllott of Detroit and Bishop Edwin H. Hughes of Malden. “The Methodist today must cast his thoughts outward to the conditions of soclety around him,” said Bishop Mc- Connell. “We are’ trying, or ought to be, to make over modern life so as to give spiritual interest the right of way. “The world won't be very far to- ward belng fit for human souls until Wwe get away from this war business. There has been too much of the mili- tary hero. We must make a place for a new kind of hero, and the thoughts ©Of our youth must be turned away from war into another direction.” “Things have gone ahead faster than. folks,” sald Dr. Eiliott, whose subject was “The Minister and the Modern World.” “We ghan't go ahead much unless we can apply the word progress to humanity as well as we have to machinery. “The great gov- ernment of the world is not the one We vote for on election day, but a new Jerusalem. Christians ' belong to an unseen kingdom, and its laws are written on human hearts.” Religion of Fatherhood. Bishop Hughes, speaking on “Re- liflon and Home Life," (ojd the lag- men that parenthood was a revela- tion of the religious experience. “Why is it,” he asked, “that when the minute & minister begins to give religion in terms of fatherhood peo- ple stick up their noses and say he is heritical? God Almighty comes to the home in the experience of father- hood, and in it begins to reveal the true religious experience.” Tomorrow, the second and last day of the convention, United States Sen- ator Simeon D. 'Fess of Ohlo will < on “A Rational Substitute for v and Bishop Robert E. Jones of New Orleans on “Inter-Racial Ad- justments.” Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania at the evening session will discuss “Making America Dry" Cigarettes and tobacco also came before the conference today for censure. John C. Craig of the north- ern Minnesota delegation proposed that the conference express its dis- approval of the use and sale of cigarettes, and to ask legislation in the matter from every state in the Union—also to debar from the faculties of the church’s institutions any professor addicted to smoking | them. ‘The resolution, and an amend- ment by Edwin R. Redhead of New York adding the word “tobacco,” were referred to the temperance com- mittee. The first period of the conference ended by adoption of a resolution to end the “call of the conferences.” This means that no new business may be introduced on the floor for the remainder of the conference, which will now* devote itself to the memorials reported by the standing committees. Greeting to Mrs. Harding. A message of greeting and sym- pathy to Mrs. Warren (. Harding, framed by Bishop William F. Ander- son of Cincinnati, was approved by a unanimous vote of the delegates. “The conference records its ever deepening gratitude for the valued services rendered by President Hard- ing to our country and to the world, the letter read in part. “Your fellow Methodists ®* ® ¢ share with you the sense of a deep sorrow in the death of your honored and greatly beloved husband, and pray that there may abide with you an ever deepening fel- lowship with the Father of Mercies and the God of all comfort.” A cablegram of thanks from the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church for the work of the church and its bishops in that country was read at the close of the morning ses- sion. The message declared that “Our church will never forget the samaritan service which Bishops Blake and Nuelson, Dr. Hartman and Hecker and your whole church have unselfishly rendered us. May this be the beginning of closer fellowship of our churches and nations.” A resolution, whose preamble con- demned the practice of lynching as against the Constitution and contrary cmocratic government, was also passed by the conference. Introduced by Rev. R G. Morris of North Caro- lina and indorsed by several negro delegutes, the resolution called for the “appointment by the board of bishops of a committee to present the conference’s attitude on the Dyer anti-lynching bill, now_before Con- gress, to President Cooldige, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representa- tives. g Prohibition again received the at- tention of the delegates, who passed a resolution asking Congress to de- feat the fifty-nine beer bills now pending, to place prohibition agents under the ci service, to deport aliens twice convicted of violating the prohibition and narcotic laws and to establish a federal enforce- ment bureau. Letter From Coolidge. A letter from President Coolidge to J. B. Hingley, secretary emeritus of the general conference, was made public at the conference today. It reads as follows: “I am glad to express to you, and through you to the general conference, my cordial sympathy with the work carried on by the board of confer- ence claimants for pensioning _re- tired preachers, their widows and or- phan children. “The churches of America have ren- dered generaus aid to distressed hu- manity in every part of the world, and I am sure that it needs no word of mine to call attention to the quiet and unselfish devotion of the min- isters of the church, often under dif- ficult circumstances and in the face of real privation. The work which you are doing is one which must en- list the sympathetic interest of all. “CALVIN COOLIDGE.” —of little space by using good judgment combined with an ar- tistic taste for decorating. Here and there in a house a little resting place can be made to suggest ease and invite comfort. 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