Evening star., 1946-11-26
|Morgenfhau Services
Arranged tomorrow
In New York City
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-Funeral
services will be held tomorrow at
Temple Emanuel here for Henry
Morgenthau, sr., former Arnbassa-
dor to Turkey, who died of q
cerebral hemorrhage yesterday at
the age Of 90.
Rabbi Samuel Fl. Goldenson OF
/ Temple Emanuel will conduct the
services. DR.. Raymond B. Fosdick,
president of the Rockefeller Foun-
dation, also will participate. Burial
will be private.
Mr.. Morgenthau, father of Henry
Morgenthau, jr.. former Secretary
of the Treasury, was Ambassador
to Turkey from 1913 to 1916.
/ Death was due to a cerebral hem
orrhage. He became seriously III a
week ago yesterday.
A native of Mannheim, Germany
Mr.. Morgenthau came to the United
States in 1865. He was associated
tfor many years with New York
| law firm.
His son and three daughters, Mrs.
Mortimer j. Fox Of Peekskill, N. Y;
Mrs. Paul Lester Weiner and Mrs.
John Knight, both Of New York,
were at the bedside. A family
spokesman said the former diplo-
mats wife was "ill and was not at
home when her husband died"
Appointed by Wilson.
Mr.. Morgenthau was chairman Of
the Finance Committee Of the DEM
ocratic National Committee in Pres
ident Wilson's first presidential
campaign in 1912 and was named
Ambassador to Turkey the follow
ing year.
1t was tough assignment. Tur-
key was in the midst Of a nation
alist campaign in which The Young
Turk" movement made the rights
of foreigners major issue. Then
Turkey entered World War I in 1914
on the side of the Central Powers
and Mr.. Morgenthau, as represent
ative of a neutral power, looked
after affairs of nine warning ma
tions.
In 1928 the League of Nations ap-
pointed him to head commission
to supervise rehabilitation Of 1,000,-
900 Greek refugees in Asia Minor.
Passed Up Assignment.
Nominated in March, 1920, as
Ambassador to Mexico, he never
took the Office because the Senate
decided against sending an envoy
until Mexican internal affairs were
stabilized.
In political retirement after the
Wilson administration, Mr.. Morgen-
thau emerged briefly in 1888 when
President Franklin Roosevelt named
him to the American delegation at
the International Wheat Confer
ference in Geneva and London.
Mr.. Morgenthau terminated his
diplomatic duties in 1916 to resume
his post with the Democratic
National Committee in the second
Wilson campaign, but he did not
relinquish his interest in the Near
East. He was one Of the chief work.
ers in the Near East Relief move
ment and was constantly in demand
as speaker on the problems Of Asia
Minor.
On Polish Inquiry.
In 1918 he was named as the per-
sonal representative of President
Wilson to inquire into the condition
of Jews in Poland, an investigation
requested by the government headed
by Ignace Paderewski, noted pianist.
The commission, which included
Brig. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, u. S. A.,
and Homer n. johnson, Cleveland,
reported that excesses Of Polish SOL
diers resulted from anti-Semitic
prejudices, but that they were not
countenanced by the Paderewski
government.
Mr.. Morgenthau's 20 years OF pro-
fessional life laid the foundation for
considerable fortune. His speciality
of real estate law put him in touch
with property Developments at a
period when New York City was ex-
panding rapidly and finally in 1899
he gave up law work to organize
and become president of the Cen
tral Realty Bond & Trust Co., which
in 1905 merged with the Lawyers
Title 81 Insurance Trust Co. He
also became interested in several
large realty and construction COM
nanies which undertook q number