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Oldest (32 years) and largest (400) of orthodox rabbi groups, the Agudath Harabonim (Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U. S. and Canada), met in Lakewood, N. J. last week to tackle money matters. Rabbis' salaries were running in arrears. For charities and schools there was a serious lack of ready cash. The Union voted to solve its financial problem by levying a tax on that cornerstone of orthodox Jewish life, the kosher slaughterhouse. It figured that if it could collect ½? on every pound of kosher meat sold. it could raise $1,000,000 or more in one year...
...Francisco exulted last week, a town in New Jersey mourned. That town was Lakewood (pop. 5,000). Jewish winter resort, known for good Jersey applejack, for the beer at its Elks Club, for John D. Rockefeller's estate there (which he seldom uses). Lakewood was "town" for the Lakehurst Naval Air Station five miles away. It thrived on the station's $500,000 annual payroll, and on the visitations of newshawks and sightseers, all of which are now lost to Sunnyvale. Lakewood hoped that the evil day might be deferred by luring the Macon to Lakehurst for inspection...
...damaged but whole. His contract expired in 1924 and he left Navy employ following bitter controversies with high officers over airship practice. Three years ago he formed a company to build and sell "air yachts" (four-passenger blimps) for $10,000 each. The scheme failed. Currently he lives at Lakewood, N. J., frequently breaks into print as an oracle on airship matters. Last week he had a chance to augment his meagre finances by reporting the Lakehurst inquiry for Hearst's International News Service. Yet he said he would donate the proceeds to a fund for the families...
Elmer R. Best of Cheviot, Charles J. Forbes of Madison, Walter W. Jeffers of Worthington, Millard L. Kaplan of Cincinnati, Melvin Levy of Cleveland, John W. Teegarden of Dayton, Robert M. Terrall of Lakewood...
...Lakewood. N. J.. walking down a dark road arm in arm, talking and laughing because they had just met again after 40 years. Hermann Schnaar and Hugo Nerp were run down and killed by an automobile containing two Polish girls from Brooklyn...