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Show REFUGEE JEWS j GUESTS Of TARS I HONOLULU, Oct. 9 Sixty Qalldan Jews for years civilian prisoners of war in Russia, here en route home-aboard home-aboard the United States transport II. ffron. together with 1500 Czecho-loaks Czecho-loaks and about ninety Hungarian prisoners f war, celebrated Von Kip-1 pur, or the Feast of Atonement, in the-Honolulu the-Honolulu army and navy Y M. C. A. with Jewish s.illors from the United States navy as their hosts and spon-j ' so I S. Kobort Goldenbr-rg and William Co-' hen. naval reservists from Los Angeles : here on a prur tice erulse, wltli the j battleship squadron of the Pacific fleet, and Jacob Citron, regular navy-1 man. undertook the entertainment ofj I the exiles The three sailors raised a fund among themselves for the feast, which iwas to end the Atonement feast They tried to spend it at the Honolulu stores hut when the grocers learned their mission, they were loaded with good 'things and no payment taken. Then they lsltcd Major Coptic, commander of the Czechs aboard the Heffron in charge of the C alai I in prisoners and gave him their world every one of the Gallclan Jews would be returned aboard if permitted to come ashore for the feast. In a secluded room In the army and navy "T" the Gallclan repatriates observed ob-served their religious rlt.-s for the first time In years without an armed KUard at the door and when nlchtfall came sat down to the bountiful feast made I possible by their brothers In the faith from the y The Galielans, like the Hungarian 'prisoners aboard ihe Heffron, arrived in Honolulu destitute, but. as a result of the activities of several organisations and many Individuals, went away well stocked with lothlng and with not a little spending money In their pockets. |