THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
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Congress Organization Nominates Eight
For Delegates
All Elements of Detroit Jews Represented—Plans Made for
Election of Four Men, June 10.
The Nomination Convention repre-
senting all Detroit organizations affili-
ated in the local Congress Committee
held a stirring session last Monday
evening, May 14th, 1917, at the Shaarey
Zedek Synagogue. The following
eight were the successful candidates
nominated to be placed on the ballot
whose eligibility is to be passed upon
by the Jewish voters of Detroit on
election day, June 10th, 1917: Rabbi
A. M. Hershman, Bernard Ginsburg,
David W. Simons, David Goldman,
George Avrunin, Dr. Whitehorn, G.
Biskin and M. Rosamovsky.
By applying to the chairman of the
Board of Elections, petition blanks
may be obtained to secure three hun-
dred or more names of voters for any
independent candidate other than
those chosen above by the Nomina-
tion Convention. These blanks must
be obtained and returned to the Board
of Election, before May 25th, with
names and addresses of not less than
three hundred petitioners subscribed.
The names of those nominated by
petition will be placed on the ballot
together with the eight chosen by
the Nomination Convention. Detroit
is allotted four representatives to the
American Jewish Congress. The four
receiving the highest number of votes
on June 10th, will represent Detroit.
The Nomination Convention elected
twenty-one on the Board of Elections.
Benjamin Robinson, secretary of the
Local Congress Committee, was elect-
ed chairman of the Board of Elections.
Any inquiries regarding the elections
should 1w addressed to Benjamin Rob-
inson, 221-222 Moffat Building.
Plans are being formulated relative
to the procedure at the election and
will be announced later. The secre-
tary of each organization must send
in at once to the Election Board the
names and addresses of its paying
members, otherwise they will be dis-
franchised.
PROMINENT NEW YORK JEWS
TO ATTEND CONGRESS.
MEMORIAL FOR SHOLEM ALEI-
CHEM.
NeW York.—Nominating conven-
tions for delegates to the American
Jewish Congress, which is to be held
at Washington on September 2, took
place yesterday in Manhattan, the
Bronx, and Brooklyn, and at each
representatives of Jewish societies
took part in large numbers. Women
were permitted to vote and to be
nominated as delegates. Among those
nominated were Henry Morgcnthau.
Nathan Straus, Mrs. Joseph Fels, Dr.
Stephen S. Wise, Dr. Joseph H. Sil-
verman, N. Taylor Phillips, Leon
Sanders, Judge Aaron J. Levy, Adolph
Lewisohn, Louis Lipsky, the Rev. H.
Maliansky, David Pinsky, Mrs. Rich-
ard Gottheil, and Isidore Hershfield.
New York.—The Manhattan Opera
House was packed to the limit of its
3,500 chairs and standing room for a
first memorial concert by admirers
of the late Silolem Aleichem, and a
popular tribute that recalled some
scenes of his life in New York. Among
the more serious numbers were songs
by the Cantors' Association of the
city.
There were readings, the first by
Abraham Tanncnholz, from works by
the famous writer. Fania Marinoff
read his story, If I Were Roths-
child," followed later by S. Golden-
burg with "The Orphan" and Leon
Blank in "There Are No Deaths." A
program of incidental music engaged
Mischa Levitzki in piano pieces by
Gluck, Liszt, and Chopin, Maurice
Dambois in 'cello music by Handel
and Sammartini, and Maximilian Pil-
zer in Bruch's "Kol Nidrei."
PROSECUTOR OF BEILIS AR-
RESTED.
Will Be Tried for False Conduct of
Infamous Ritual Murder Case.
Dispatches from Petrograd received
by the Jewish Daily Forward of New
York tell of the proposal of the new
Government to bring to trial former
Minister of Justice Shtchegloitoff, who
was instrumental in prosecuting Mondel
I3eilis, the shoemaker of Kiev, whose
trial on the charge that he participated
in a ritual murder horrified the world.
At the outbreak of the revolution
Shtchglovitoff was arrested with the
other Ministers of the former regime
the dispatch stated, and was confined
in the fortress of Sts. Peter and Paul in
Petrograd. It was decided this week
to try him on a charge of falsely prose-
cuting Beilis. For this purpose he was
transferred to the fortress at Kiev. and
will he tried in the same court in which
the shoemaker was defended by the
ablest lawyers. "The famous revolu-
tionist, Leo Deutsch, who arrived yes-
terday from New York, via London,"
the dispatch continues, "received a mag-
nificent welcome. He spoke, urging the
workmen and soldiers present to defend
the country and the new freedom. His
speech provoked the enthusiasm of al'
present."
COPENHAGEN. — The "Warsawer
Tageblatt," published by Lazar Kahan,
the well-known Lodz journalist, and ed-
ited by Nomberg, has ceased to appear.
Warsaw orthodox circles, however, are
issuing a new Yiddish daily called "DoS
Neuye Wort."
CHICAGO JEWS TO CELEBRATE
FREEDOM OF RUSSIAN
JEWS.
"Give MORE
Than
Your Share"
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To Hold Series of a Dozen Meetings
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Chicago.—Jews of Chicago will
celebrate the advent of Russia into
the family of democracies and the
emancipation of Russian Jews by a
series of a dozen mass meetings to
be held throughout the city next Sun-
day afternoon, concluding with a ban-
quet at the Hotel La• Salle.
Among those who will address the
various meetings are Leon Zolotkoff,
Judge Hugo Pam, Dr. Joseph Stolz,
Judge Harry M. Fisher, Dr. Gerson
B. Levi,•Peter Sissman, Philip Breg-
stone, Harris Horwich and Dr. A.
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