An official welcome will be tendered Charles A. Levine, first trans-Atlantic airplane passenger, when he returns today on the steamer Leviathan.
Mr. Levine will be met down the bay, escorted up Broadway to City Hall and officially welcomed to the city by Mayor Walker.
This was announced by Grover A. Whalen, chairman of the Mayor’s Committee on Receptions and a committee composed of Judge Max S. Levine, President of the Grand Street Boys’ Association; Abraham Bernstein, Samuel Wechsler, Joseph Barondess, Samuel I. Hartman, Levine’s personal attorney; David Maier representing the Steuben Society, and Assemblyman William F. Brunner, representing the Chamber of Commerce of the Rockaways.
Following a conference called Friday by Grover A. Whalen, a radiogram was despatched to Charles A. Levine on board the Leviathan. The message read.
Charles A. Levine, United States liner Leviathan.
Mayor Walker will officially receive you at City Hall immediately upon your arrival in New York. Request has been made to the Treasury Department for permission for you to disembark at Quarantine, Steamer Macom will take you from Quarantine to Pier A and under police escort you will go from Pier A, Battery, to City Hall. The Mayor’s official reception will immediately follow in the Aldermanic Chamber.
Grover A. Whalen. A telegram was sent to the Treasury Department asking cooperation in arranging the reception. This communication read:
To Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury:
Mayor Walker of New York will officially receive Charles A. Levine, the first American passenger to fly across the Atlantic, who is to arrive on the steamship Leviathan Monday, Oct. 17, 1927. We respectfully request your permission to take Mr. Levine off at Quarantine, so that the reception plans may be carried out.
Grover A. Whalen. As soon as a reply had been received from Secretary Mellon through Ogden L. Mills, Under-Secretary of the Treasury, advising Mr. Whalen that the Collector of Customs had been instructed to comply with the request final details were announced.
The first four days of the drive for the Jewish National Welfare Fund in San Francisco brought in a total of $112,788. The quota for the city is $280,000.
The object of the National Welfare Fund is stated in the slogan, “One annual contribution-equitably distributed for Jewish world needs.” The campaign is national in scope and is carried forward independent of the Community Chest, which supports the Jewish, as well as all the other charitable agencies in this city.
Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel is director of the campaign. The campaign vice-presidents are Frederich Baruch, Jullen Hart, Edmond B. Levy, B. P. Lilienthal, Edward Livingstone, Marris Meyerfeld Jr., Edwin S. Newman, James B. Ransohoff, Robert A. Roos, Louis A. Schwabacher, Richard S. Shalnwald, Max Sommer and Leon M. Voorsanger.
Among the larger subscriptions reported yesterday were: Jonas Bloom, $10,000; A and Max Rosenberg, $5000; Mrs. Emma S. Koshland, $3,000.
Baba Mezia, Perek One, with punctuation, notes, clarifying essays in English, Hebrew questions regarding the Talmud and Rashi texts, and English annotations explaining the Mishnah, the Gemara, and Rashi, has just been released from the press.
Its authors are A. W. Steinbach, Instructor in the Talmud at the Baltimore Talmud Torah; Dr. Reuben Steinbach, of the Talmudical Academy of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary; and Rabbi Alex, Alan Steinbach, of Congregation Beth El, Norfolk, Va.
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