The Denver Jewish news., 1919-07-30
Interesting Items

was appointed by the Governor OF
Michigan sole representative of the
State at the Pan-Anlerican Congress
which recently concluded its sessions
at Washington, ID. c. Mr.. Rosenberg
was chosen for this, missien because
OF his long experience with South
American conditions and Knowledge of
the trade possibilities there thru his
connection with the consular service
Of the government at Brazil and Spain.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
Daniel J. Tobin, treasurer. head of the
Transfers Union, have gone TO Eu-
rope to represent ting American Fed.
crntion Of Labor ut the Amsterdam III
ternational Trade Union Congress,
which convened OH July %.
The Baltimore, Md, Jewish com
Inunity has raised $35OOOO for new
Hebrew Orphan asylum.
| Mark Hyman, of New York. lawyer.
antitrust prosecutor and assistant to
Charles +. Hughes in the aircraft in
yestiGation, has been appointed gen.
er1il counsel for the United States
Shipping Board. Mr.. Hyman succeeds
Sherman l.. Mhipple Of Boston. who
resigned to return to private prlc-
tice.
All the Jewish secondary schools in
Russia are to he nationalized by the
Polsheyik Commissary for Jewish At.
f,,irs. 1t is feared that only Yiddisl,
will be permitted in the curriculum,
and that Hebrew will be banished alto
Gether.
Under the will Of the South Seas
trader. Captain julius Friedman. the
Hebrew Home for the Aged at San
Francisco, Cal, has been granted the
title to over x1,OOO.OOO worth of prop
erty, The captain died in 1900. and
during the years of litigation that fol-
lowed the estate increased in value to
over S2,OOO.OOO.
Harold c. Krauskopf, the oldest son
Of Rev. DIR. Joseph Krauskopf, who I'M
til recently was cashier of the State
tank of Philadelphia. has been elect
ell president of that Institution.
Under the provisions or the will o.
Jesse w. Lilienthal. of San Francisco
are the following charitable bequests /:
| Federation of Jewish Charities. S3.-
900; Associated Charities, $500; As
sociation for the Study and Prevention
Of Tuberculosis, $1,000; Boys md
girls Aid society, $1,OU0; Recreation
League, $1,000; Young Mems Hebrew
Association, $3.50; Union II American
Hebrew Congregations, $3.50; Proba !
tion Committee of Juvenile Court.
$3.50; Youths Directory, $500; the
Girls Club. $1,000; Childrcn's Hos
pital. $3.50; San Francisco Boy Scouts. |
81 900.
Wharton. Texas, u community which |
las but thirty Jewish families has
maintained II congregation and rabbi |
for u number of years, and is now |
| about to erect a synagog. They have
a Bnai Birth lodge, a Zionist and /
Hadassah society and osersubscribed I
their quota to the Jewish War Relief /
Fund and the Palestine Restoration
fund. Rabbi j. Keilin is in Charge of
the Congregation, and Mr.. Ben Davis |
Is its president.
1t is II matter for pride on the Part
Of all that the first monument to an i'll
tlividuul in California was erected in
honor Of IL brave young Jewish boy
who gave his life for an ideal. They
said the.Jewish boys would not fight.
and Lo! their names are found at the
head of the hero list.-B. b. Messen-
ger
Irwin Bethman of St Louis has beenSf
appointed u member of the Board OF
Cliidren's Guardians by Mayor Kiel.