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Violence Seen
if British Hang
Jewish Youths

FOLLOW UN

Refugees Herded Off to Cyprus

AFL Cl
Favors L4,11
by Stratton

WASHINGTON, (JTA) —Wil-
liam Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor,
and former eme Court Jus-
tice 0 en . Roberts strongly
supporte Stratton Bill, pro-
viding for the admittance to fie
U.S. of 400,000 DP'S over a four-
JERUSALEM (Special)—Tension hangs like a menac- year period, at hearings on the
ing cloud over Palestine following the British announcement measure by the House Sub-Com-
this week that three of the five Jewish youths convicted by mittee on Immigration.
a military tribunal on charges of participating in the recent
The AFL president urged that
Acre prison break were sentenced to hang.
the U.S. take the lead in "opening
The verdict came at a time when the United Nations its doors to the displaced per-
has appealed to all parties in. the Palestine dispute to main- sons, unless we are to make a
tain peace during the inquiry on Palestine.
Reliable sources believe that Irgun .Zvai Leumi will mockery of the principles for
attempt reprisals if the British carry out their sentence. which we fought in World War
II."
The men convicted were members of the Irgun.'
He said that even if the entire
Sentenced to death were Meir Nakar, 23, a shoemaker;
current
quotas and all unused
a
diamond
cut-
22,
Jacob Weiss, '
Eight hundred Jewish refugees are transferred from the -notor
quotas from the war years were
ter and veteljap of the Czech un-
ship Ilainaapil Ha'Alonil to a British vessel at Half* foe ins-
set
aside
for
the
DP's
from
each
derground riming the Nazi occu-
shipment to the Cyprus transit camp, where they'll awab..neir
country, this would be far less
turn to enter Palestine. The ship believed originally to have been
pation, and Absolom Habib, 20,
than necessary for the refugee
the "San Miguel" or the "Herot" aroused much interest because
a student at Hebrew University.
/it was for superior to any used hitherto.
groups.
Nakar and Habib served in the
"It is obvious that if we are
Sen. Wagner Urges
B itish army during the war.
to offer sanctuary to the displaced
GET 15 YEARS
Publication of Data
refugees of Europe, we must
The other two defendants, Na-
enact emergency legislation which
hum Zitterbaum and Amnon Mk-
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Sena- will temporarily waive the pres-
haloft. were sentenced to 15 years'
ent quota restrictions," he added.
imprisonment on the charge of tor Robert F. Wagner of New
Green was questioned closely
called
on
the
wearing British uniforms.
York this week
Austria, U.S. Army -
by Rep. Ed. Gossett, Texas Dem-
They were also convicted on State Department to publish the ocrat, on the posSible detrimental
Turn Heads to Pleas
charges of carrying and discharg-
material it possesses on the ex- effect that the immigration 'of
ing firearms. The court ruled that
ATLANTIC CITY (Special)—
year
would
have
persons
a
his col- 100,000
they were to be detained "at His Mufti of Jerusalem and
VIENNA, (JTA)—Frantic ef- Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of
on the unemployment problem.
Excellency's pleasure" on both laboration with the Axis during
The AFL leader replied that it forts by the JDC to secure as- the American Jewish Congress,
counts. the war.
would have such little effect, in sistance for the 2,400 Jewish ref- predicted at the 60th annual con-
Zitterbaum and Mikhaloff were
Such publication, he said. view of the fact that over half
vention of the Independent Or-
ugees from Eastern Europe who der Brith Abraham that a Jew-
spared from the gallows when would help the United Nations in
(Continued on page 15)
are living here in unsuitable ish state will be seen in Palestine
the British were unable to prove reaching a decision on Palestine
quarters without adequate cloth- by the end of 1947 unless the
them to be 18 years of age, the "and will help to determine our
Education Leader
minimum age for h'inging in course of action in the Middle
ing and food have so tar been British "sabotage" the report of
Palestine.
unsuccessful, because of the lack the UN's committee on Pales-
East."
tine.
UN HEARING
In a letter to Secretary of
of cooperation by the authorities
"America is committed to a
At .,he first public hearing of
State
George
C.-„Marshall,
Sena-
concerned.
solution of the Palestine prob-
the UN inquiry committee Tues-
tor Wagner said he considers
The JDC informed the Austri- tern," Rabbi Wise said. . "It is
day. Moshe Shertok, political
chief of the Jewish Agency, de- most urgent" the publication by
an government, the U.S. military for the President to make Attlee
the department of documents re-
and Bevin feel that they must
clared that political cooperation vealing the Mufti's "role in the
authorities, UNRRA and the In-
accept such a report of the Unit-
between Jews and Arabs would
tergovernmental Committee on ed Nations committee; which will
be impossible in an independent extermination of the Jews," and
his activities in the Iraqui revolt
Refugees concerning the plight of declare in favor of a Jewish state
unitary state of Palestine.
the refugees, the bulk of whom in Palestine."
Shertok gave facts and figures of 1941 and as an Axis agent
arrived from Romania in recent
on the Zionist effort in Palestine to since then.
weeks, and pointed out that the
"Because this material is of
guide the members in their tour
conditions under which they are
of the country. He said his ap- such unquestioned interest to the
compelled to live constitute a se-
pearance should not be regarded Congress and to the American
rious menace not only to the
as the opening of the Zionist case. people, and because the United
health of the refugees, but to the
Nations is now investigating the
ARAB BOYCOTT
Sunday will find workers of
community as a whole.
The 11 members of the com- Palestine question," said Wagner,
the Detroit Zionist District ring-
Austrian
government
re-
mittee sat at a mahogany horse- "I deem ;t most urgent that the
The
ing doorbells throughout the
Department of State should pub-
plied that it was unable to pro- Jewish community In a drive to
(Continued on page 15)
lish all the material it has in its
vide better accommodations for increase the Zionist membership
possessio:i regarding this impor-
the refugees. The U.S. army au- ranks.
Accepts Legal Post
tant matter."
thorities declared that they could
Dr. Abba Billet Silver, presi-
Under-Secretary of State Dean istICHAEL A. STAVITSKY, not be of assistance because of
dent of the Zionist Oreffization
Acheson said in August, 1946. former chairman of the wel- the War Department order bar-
that documents establishing col- fare council of Newark and ring from army aid all refugees of America, is calling upon Jews
throughout the country to sign
laboration of the ex-Mufti were former chairman of the New- arriving in Austria after April 12.
up and strengthen his hands in
being translated by the State De- ark Housing Authority, has
UNRRA and the Intergovern-
partment and would be published been named president of the mental Committee replied that the United Nations.
(See telegram no page 6)
at an opportune time as part of a American Association for Jew- they had to refer the matter to
Never before has the need for
collection of material on the Axis. ish Education.
their world headquarters.
more members been so impor-
tant, Morris M. Jacobs, president
Irgun Denies SeMling
of the Zionist Organization of
Mail-Bombs to Britons. Detroit, said.
Volunteers may help in the
ROME, (JTA)—The Irgun Zvai
Lenin( sent a statement to news- canvass, it was announced.
papers and press associations de- Workers will meet for breakfast
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A which Baruch served during nying that it was responsible for at 10 a.m. in the Rose Sittig
bronze bust of Bernard Baruch World War I.
the letter bombs sent to promi- Cohen Bldg., Lawton and Wa-
Declaring that Baruch 's record nent Britons.
verly avenues.
was presented to the National
War College by Herbert Bayard "will outlive this bronze," Swope
The
Itgun
charged
that
reports
Swope before a distinguished au- lauded his "sense of duty, wis- published in the press here, ac- Argentina 18th Nation
dience including Secretary of dom, experience, directness and cusing it of complicity in the at-
State George C. Marshall, Secre- integrity . . . qualities which tempted bombings, were a Brit - - to Join Ranks of IRO
tary of War Robert P. Patterson. forced his return to Washington ish provocation, aimed at per-
LAKE SUCCESS (JTA) — Ar-
through the call of President
suading the Italian authorities to gentina this week signed the con-
BEN HERZBERG, former As- Secretary of the Navy James For- Roosevelt."
stitution of the International Ref-
sistant United States Attorney restal, General Dwight D. Eisen-
Swope said that Baruch "was give British intelligence a' free
for the southern district of hower and Admiral Chester W. and still is, consumed by a pas- hand in combatting illegal immi- ugee Organization, becoming the
New York, has accepted chair- Nimitz, all of whom paid high sion for public service" and has gration from Germany and Ans- 18th nation to join the organiza-
tria of Palestine-bound migrants tion. Argentina has been as-
manship of the American Jew- tribute to Baruch.
The bust was presented in be- been "used freely by Presidents. and in halting the departure of signed 1.5 percent of Use IRO's
ish Committee's reconstituted
Secretaries
and
Governors,
deny-
150,000,000 budget.
blockade-runners.
committee on legal and civic half of the former members of ing himself to none."
Use War Industries Board on
affairs.

Irgunists Sentenced; Shertook Tells
UN Bi-National State Won't Work

State Dept. Asked
to Expose ex-Mufti

JDC Efforts to Aid
Refugees Rebuffed

Wise Forecasts
Jewish State
by End of 1947'

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or. Silver Urges
All to Join ZOA

War College is ,Presented Bust
of Bernard Baruch by Swope