Lipsky Out

Louis Lipsky, on the eve of the annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America, whose object is to rehabilitate the Hebrews in Palestine, last week withdrew as president. He wished to retire, Louis Lipsky asserted, "for the sake of harmony and peace." The day after he announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection, there emerged, in the form of a letter to Dr. Chaim Weizman, head of the World Zionist Organization, a report from the committee of judges who have been investigating charges of incompetence made against Louis Lipsky. The judges found that Louis Lipsky had been guilty of irregularities, excessions of authority, loose management and the like, as in the instance of endorsing a note for $2,000 to one Mrs. Dorothy E. Lefkowitz, the treasurer of some private firm. The report suggested that no one should lose confidence in the Zionist movement owing to Louis Lipsky's mismanagements, asserted that these have caused no monetary loss, urged that "no one responsible for the irregularities pointed out should be continued as an officer or a member of any committee of the Zionist Organization of America."