The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1919-08-20


years rabbi of Temple Emanuel of
Dallas, has resigned and will leave
Dallas. Or. Grccnburg has not yet
announced his plans.
A conference OF all Jewish relief or
canizations of the world will be held
in Paris during the month Of October
Or November TO work On plans for
uniform methods Of relief by which
all waste might be eliminated. At the
same time conference for regulating
emigration will also De held in Paris
Fourteen of the grandchildren of
Mrs. Frieda KatZ. of Hartford Conn.
who has just observed The 1OGth ami
versary of her birth, fought in the
\ World War. None were killed. She
| las five children. fifty-four grand
children and twenty-five eat-grand
children. Mrs. Katz came to this coun.
l try from Russia at the age Of seven
J ty-s.x. sixty members Of the family
{, attended the reunion recently.
u
b viii il be an American business
Man for Our President in 1922 The
Z question forms the title of Il first page
Article that appeared in the feature
section OF last weeks Cleveland Plain
> beLcath this tile. Two of the nine
are Bernard y. Iiaruch, Of New York.
aud Julius Itosenwald, of Chicago.
| At n recent meeting Of Superior and
Circuit Court judges Joseph II. Bar
nett was reelected jury commissioners.
Of Cock county. III. He has served in
this capacity for nine years.
Mr.. NJ. Slanblum, one If the best
known members OF the Jewish coinmu-
rity OF Fort Worth. Texas. has sold
out hi; business interests and is to
devote himself 10 doing good. MIR.
Shnnblum has established an office il:
the basement of AhaNaih Sholoni
Synagog.i and will supcrintcnd the col
lection of old clothes and wearing ap'
parcl Of every description, and send il
to the war-stricken zones IN Europe.
! Lewis Strauss. who has been secrc-
I tary to Herbert Hoover in the latter's
I work us director Of American Relic!
Administration in Europe, has beer.
al Of la lar
I of Leopold by the Belgian government.
The Legislature OF Illinois has pass
cd II law providing thai school hooks
shall lie furnished TO pupils of the
public schools. The law =iso provides
| that no books furnished under this
act shall contain any matter of II
,,ectariun or dcnominational char
actcr.
j. ii. Etlinger. associate professor
Of mathematics at the University of
| Texas has recently been awarded the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy by
Harvard University. Professor Fl
linger is very active in the affairs
of the Texas Jewry, being one of the
trustees of the congregation at Aus
tin.
Attorney Alfred Mack has been ap'
pointed by Mayor Calvin of Cine IL
natl. o.. a member of the Board of the
University Trustees to fill the uncS'
rired term of DIR. Walter CRIES.. who
has resigned. Mr.. Mack was for two
years president of the Plum street
congregation and his father, the late
Henry Mack, was for many years a
member of the Cincinnati Board OF
Education and was chairman of the
committee under whose supervision the
Public Library was built.
NJ. Gabriel Valens formerly inter
prefer to the French COnsulate-Gen-
cral at Tunis "a post in which he
succeeded his father,) has died at the
great age of one hundred and four.
He belonged to family which. long
before the establishment of the pro-
tcctOrate in Tunis. had rendered SER
vices to France. One of his ancestors
devoted himself. between the years
1890 and 1912, to the repatriation Of
thousands of prisoners of the French
war.
/ President Wilson has sent to the
Senate the nomination of Mr.. Moses
Kaufman for postmaster at Lexington
/ Ky. Mr.. Kaufman. who is the present
incumbent. having been appointed in
1915. was for many years president OF