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...Ruislip, England, who asserts that he is the son of 83-year-old Sir Basil Zaharoff, European munitions tycoon (TIME, Oct. 16), filed claims in London and Paris to compel Sir Basil, now lying ill in his Paris home, to recognize him. He asserted that Sir Basil was Russian-born, submitted an affidavit from the town council of Vilkomir, Lithuania (formerly part of Russia), and marriage and birth certificates establishing that one Manel Sahar married a Russian girl named Haia Elka Karollinski, had a son named Haim Manelevich Sahar. The marriage was dissolved in 1877 and both parents remarried.* Hyman...
Died. Dr. Leo Motzkin, 66, Russian-born Zionist leader, chairman of the League of Nations Committee of Jewish Delegations, president of last summer's World Congress of Zionists: of heart disease; in Paris...
Died. Rose ("Rose of the Ghetto") Pastor Stokes, 53, famed U. S. radical labor leader; of cancer; in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As a child (Russian-born) she worked in U. S. sweatshops. Later, a labor reformer, she met and married James Graham Phelps Stokes, socialite philanthropist, who divorced her 20 years later. She led many a strike, received but did not serve a 10-year sentence on a Wartime espionage charge...
...hard-boiled Red finally admits. Albert Bein, author of this vital, brilliantly cast play, is no stranger to reform schools. He spent five years in one, lost a leg trying to escape. Poems which he wrote while imprisoned were praised by Clarence Darrow, Zona Gale. Russian-born, he is now 29. In 1930 he wrote a book called Love In Chicago under the pseudonym of Charles Walt, combined Christian names of his favorite authors-Dickens and Whitman. Author Bein's anonymity was assumed to save his brother, a Chicago architect, embarrassment. In 1930 he also wrote Youth In Hell...
...refused to promise to bear arms for the U. S.-prime requisite-because he believes that the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact has effectively outlawed war (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week Alien Beale's application was finally refused. He was doubtless aware that in Lima, Ohio last month, Russian-born Professor John Klassen of Bluffton College was granted citizenship upon his promise to serve the U. S. as a noncombatant; that the judge who granted it did so contrary to the U. S. Supreme Court's well-known ruling, with the express hope of getting the matter reviewed...