7 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Congregational News TEMPLE BETH EL NOTES. 1 SHAAREY ZEDEK NOTES - Sabbath Services. Sabbath services will be held as usual this week, at 10 o'clock, Rabbi Franklin officiating. The solo for this week will be rendered by Miss Myra Cohen. Services will be con- ducted throughout the summer. Red Cross Sewing. The ladies of the congregation con- tinue to meet in the parlors of the Temple each Tuesday to sew for the Red Cross Society. All are urged to assist. Saturday morning services begin at 9 o'clock. Rabbi A. M. Hershman will deliver his weekly sermon, beginning at 10 o'clock. WAR RELIEF COMMITTEE CO- OPERATES WITH MISSION TO EGYPT. To Open Negotiations With Turkey for Relief of Jews in Near East. inumommummimml FOR SUMMER WEAR t mart We have on hand a very exclusive assort- ment of goods for . ExchiPalm Beach and Silk Suits $15.00 and up Come and see for yourself at FLINT B'NAI B'RITH RECEIVES CONGRATULATIONS FROM WAR COUNCIL FOR RED CROSS GIFT. Flint, Mich.—The local lodge of B'nai B'rith honored itself and Flint Jewry by setting a precedent and a standard by coming forward as the first of all fraternal organizations of this city with its pledge of $500 to the Red Cross fund. The following telegram of congratulation from the war council at Washington was sent: "Benjamin F. Wiener, Flint, Mich. —The members of the War Council arc glad to accord special recognition to the Independent Order B'nai B'rith of Flint, Mich., for their patriotic and generous spirit. We congratulate your splendid society for its admirable spirit of sacrifice and service.—Daniel A. Reid, secretary of War Council." The announcement by the State De- partment of the purpose of the mis- sion on which Ex-Ambasador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau and Pro- fessor Felix Frankfurter of the Har- vard Law School, now assistant to Secretary of War Baker, are about to depart for Egypt, has occasioned great stimulus to the work of Jewish war relief. The fact that Mr. Morgenthau JEWISH JUDGE "TEMPERS JUS- TICE WITH MERCY." is actually to visit Egypt and will en- deavor to establish direct communi- Chicago, Ill.—Judge Joseph Sab- cation with the Jews of Palestine, caused the Joint Distribution Com- ath, who recently was compelled to mittee of the Funds for Jewish War sentence a prisoner to hang, succeed- Sufferers, representing all war relief ed in raising enough funds to allow undertaken by the Jews of America, the man to carry his case to the Su- to hold a conference with Mr. Mor- preme Court. The story came out when the Su- genthau, with the object of discussing how best to alleviate the condition of preme Court handed down a decision the 8,000 Jews, many of them Ameri- reversing Judge Sabath and granting can citizens, expelled from Jaffa. The a new trial to the prisoner. • "All my life," said the judge, "I had Joint Distribution Committee in de- ciding to give Mr. Morgenthau un- dreaded the prospect of being called limited authority to act in behalf of upon to sentence a man to death. It the War Relief Committees here, at was my first murder case. But under the same time, determined to place the finding of the jury I had no alter- at his disposal as large a sum as may native. I wanted him . to have -the be required and which will be ex- benefit of a Supreme Court ruling. I had the state's attorney's office fur pended at his discretion. The Joint Distribution Committee nish a certificate of the evidence and has been sending $45,000 per month induced several friends to finance the to Palestine for a very long time and appeal." Judge Sabath favors a law provid- recently' voted an extra appropriation of $50,000 to be forwarded at once to ing for county or state aid for pen- assist the people who had been ex- niless persons to make appeals where capital punishment has been ordered. pelled from their homes. Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee; Louis CHICAGO JEWS TO ENTER- Marshall, chairman of the American TAIN EMISSARIES OF REV- Jewish Relief Committee; Jacob H. OLUTIONARY RUSSIA. Schiff; Judge Julian W. Mack, Dr. Washington=Chicago will have the Cyrus Adler; Rabbi M. Z. Margolies; opportunity of entertaining the Rus- Rabbi Nathan Krass; Dr. Stephen S. sian Commission which is in this \Vise; Miss Harriet B. Lowenstein; country bearing the new republic's Leon Kamaiky, chairman of the Cen- war pledge to the United States. tral Relief Committee; Alexander The invitation was presented to Kahn, chairman of the People's Relief Ambassador Boris Bakhmetieff and Committee, and Albert Lucas, secre- the commissioners by a committee tary of the Joint Distribution Com- from Chicago consisting of Judge mittee, were among those who dis- Fisher, Dr. H. A. Frankel, I. T. Fein- cussed the matter. with Mr. Morgen- gold, Nathan N. 'Kaplan and Morris than. Berg. They went to the State De- Explaining the situation at this time, partment on last Saturday morning, Mr. Lucas, speaking for the committee accompanied by Congressman Adolph yesterday, said: J. Sabath of Chicago, by whom they "It has been . impossible, since the were presented to Assistant Secretary dispatch many months ago, of the Breckenridge Long. J. Caffery of the cruiser De's Moines and collier Caesar State Department presented them to with medicines and supplies for the commission. Jews of Syria and Palestine, and the Ambassador Bakhmetieff expressed which have never been delivered, due his appreciation of the invitation. He to the international complications, to talked with the committee nearly an provide the needed relief. It is be- hour on his delightful impression of lieved that Mr. Morgenthau and Prof. the sentiment in this country toward Frankfurther will be enabled, from the new-republic, .particularly of the Egypt, to open negotiations with the Russian Jews. He was optimistic re- Turkish government , which will result garding the future of Russia. in securing permission to forward food and : other supplies to the Jews of Jaffa, Jerusalem and elsewhere. It ed steps will be taken at once to raise is hoped that they will be able to re- it here. It is known that Jews through- establish the Jews expelled from Jaffa out the United States will be impelled and elsewhere in their homes, and to to give with greater alacrity because accomplish this a very large sum will of the knowledge that Mr. Morgen- be needed. This money will come than and Prof. Frankfurter are to go from the $10,000,000 fund the Jews of to Egypt on-this mission. It is hoped - America are now engaged in raising that permission may be granted them as their contribution for 1917 toward to visit the stricken territories under war relief, and if a larger sum is need- Turkish domination, in spite of the fact that the United States is engaged CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS in war with Germany, as the mission, according to the announcement of the TO RENT—A well furnished room, State Department, is entirely a hu- with 'or without board, suitable for manitarian one and has no war or po- lady or gentleman, in refined Jewish litical significance. home. 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