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Egyptians 30 Miles From Tel Aviv Alter Drive Into Palestine By tW« Associated Press CAIRO, May 17.—The Arab Higher Executive Committee said today Egyptian troops have driven within 30 miles of Tel Aviv after an advance of at least 34 miles into Palestine. The office said also the Jewish Agency has authorized the surren der of Jews in the old city of Jeru salem to the Arab volunteer com mand. The “conditions of surrender ’ pro vide that the Jews give up their arms, that men be considered pris oners of war and that women and children be handed over to the In ternational Red Cross, it said. Power Station Seized. The office, quoting a communique from the Middle East broadcasting sation, said Syrian and Ira^i troops have joined forces in the Samakh area at the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee. The town, re ported captured by the Syrians, is two and a half miles inside Pales tine from both Syria and Trans jordan. The Arabs claimed also to have seized the Rutenburg power station at the confluence of the Yarmuk and Jordan Rivers. King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan asserted the sta tion supplied two-thirds of Jewish industry in Palestine. Arab volun teers were reported to have cap tured the Lydda airport, inside Is rael territory less than 10 miles from Tel Aviv, and another strip at the Qalandiya Jewish colony. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ah med Khashaba Pasha said his gov ernment has received no official notification about recognition of “When any such notification reaches us, the Egyptian govern ment will base its reply on interna tional law,” he said. Ship Cargoes Confiscated. Egyptian authorities confiscated cargoes of three European ships at Alexandria, declaring they contained contraband for Palestine. They also seized 105 rifles aboard the S. S. Memnon, flying the Egyptian flag en route from England to Beirut. Tlie Syria government at Damas cus banned all night flights across Syria and confined daylight air traffic to corridors. The precau tions against bombings affected eight weekly flights of Pan Ameri can and Transworld Airlines. Of ficials of the American concerns conferred with Syrian authorities on schedule changes. Syria closed her border to civilian traffic and required foreigners to get police permission to travel to Beirut. Reporters were barred from highways near the southern border. Military sources at Damascus said Arab forces are •‘pouring" into Pal estine across the Jordan. Syria and Iraqi columns were reported de ploying for possible drives up the western shore of the Sea of Galilee and westward through the Beisan Valley Logical Base for Drive. Lebanese troops and Arab volun teers, supported by Syrian planes, claimed yictories at Harawai and Malakia villages in northern Pal estine. Army officers said Malakia is a logical base for a drive 10 miles south against Safad, which Jewish forces captured recently. Port authorities at Alexandria took 1,500 tons of machinery, acids, iron bars and pipes from the Nor wegian ship Vigeid, which they said was en route to Palestine from Lon don and Antwerp. The Italian ship Arfia was disgorged of 376 tons of iron, cotton and woolen goods, ma chinery and ammunition. The Richard Borchard, flying the British flag en route from Italy to Palestine, lost 1,300 tons of miscellaneous goods. A reliable source said the Saudi Arabia government had agreed that lour C-47 transport planes, seized in ; Egypt from Trans World while en1 route for delivery to Saudi Arabia, would be regarded as having been delivered to Saudi Arabia herself. The story of the Palestine war of five Arab nations against the new, Jewish state was told in official communiques and other reports from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Trans Jordan and Iraq. An official Arab military source in Amman. Trans-Jordan's capital, said the Egyptian army yesterday occupied Ei Majdal in the southern Palestine coastal belt. El Majdal Is about 30 miles north of the Egyptian-Palestine border,! 14 miles beyond Gaza, in territory j earmarked for Palestine Arabs under the United Nations partition I plan. It is less than 10 miles below j Jewish-claimed territory and less than 30 miles from Tel Aviv. A Damascus dispatch told of Arab activity on all sides of the Sea of Galilee which is surrounded by ter ritory assigned to the Jews. Settlements Are Shelled. On the eastern shore, a Syrian j army communique said, Nureib was! < ncircled, shelled and bombed from j the air. To the south, below Samakh, the j Jewish settlements of Masada and LOST. IMLRIC AN LFGION TAST CMDR.'S pin with chip diamond lost Wednesday eve. Reward. NA. 5700. —17 CHANGE Pl'RSE. lady’s, small, contain ing keys, change and silver rosary. <n Monday evening. 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TA. 2960. after 7 p.m ED BUXTON KEYTAINER. keys, house f and letter box key. "*' ■* Call AD. 0616. —————I.in HIM———— | BRITISH TROOPS EVACUATE HAIFA—A barge crowded with British soldiers is shown as it pulled away from Haifa to embark May 12 on the evacuation ship Samaria (left background) as the 31-year-old mandate over Palestine neared expiration. Today the invasion armies of five Arab nations hammered at Israel, the new Jewish state proclaimed when the British sur rendered their mandate. —AP Wirephotos via radio from London. | Sarajulean were shelled, and a camp near Samakh was occupied. On the western shore, said an other report from Damascus, an Iraqui motorized force was attack ing Tiberias across from Nuqeib. Fadl tribal warriors with Syrian armored support were on the move to the Lake Hule Valley near Pales tine's northernmost tip, the Damas cus dispatch said, and across the country a combined Syrian and Lebanese force was going in from Lebanon. The U. N. allotted the northern coast to the Arabs. A Cairo military communique said last night the Egyptian air force had destroyed four transit depots and a pier in three raids on the Tel Aviv waterfront. Raids Ruin Airport Other air raids, it claimed, ruined the airport of Petah Tiqva east of Tel Aviv, scored hits on two planes on the Aqir Field southeast of Lyd da and inflicted heavy damage on Jewish strongholds between Gaza and Beersheba. The communique said the Egyp tian loss of life had been insignifi cant in proportion to the scope of the operations. A communique of Trans-Jordan’s Arab Legion, put out in Amman, said the volunteer Arab liberation army Saturday took Qalandiya col ony and the airports near there and Lydda. Gen. Sir Alan Gordon Cunning ham, British high commissioner, took off from Qalandiya airport Friday on his way out of Palestine. The Lydda airport is Just inside Jewish territory, less than 10 miles east of Tel Aviv. It once was Pales tine's main international airfield. Late Palestine dispatches have re ported it stripped of most equip ment. The communique said the legion was moving into Palestine as plan ned and had captured Jewish. Kefar Etzion, Naureen. Baysun, Rifodina and Sacara south of Bethlehem. Part of the legion already was in Palestine on police duty with the British before British rule ended Friday midnight. Three hundred prisoners were taken, the communique said. Eighty six of the. women and children, were handed over to the Red Cross in Jerusalem and the rest, males, were interned, it added. (The Jewish army, Hagana, previously had reported the fall of Kefar Etzion and nearby colo nies and charged an Arab mas sacre.) The Government banned night (7 p.m.-to-5 a.m.i flights over Egypt, evidently to guard against any Jewish air raids, and undertook searches of foreign ships and planes. | A United States Air Force C-54 Sky-master flying from Europe to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, was held here momentarily for Defense Ministry inspection yesterday. The Defense Ministry was au thorized by the council of ministers \ to > call up reserve officers and all: sol'diers released from the army in the last five years. Jerusalem (Continued From First Page.) officials of the American, French ana Belgian Consulates, and the International Red Cross are work ing desperately and often danger ously to arrange a “cease-fire" order for the beleaguered Holy City. Truce Talks Considered The Jews have agreed to a cease fire order to arrange truce talks, but the Arabs at noon today (Sun day) still awaited approval from King Abdullah in Amman, capital of Trans-Jordan. The Jewish agency yesterday agreed to a modified form of an International Red Cross plan to make Jerusalem a neutral security or “hospital” zone. But Arab lead ers said they had referred the whole question to King Abdullah. Up to noon today they had received no answer. Abdullah, as commander in chief of all Arab regular and irregular forces in Palestine, agreed to a truce in Jerusalem last Friday on condition that Jews stay at then positions and attempt no further advances. But the word got back to Jerusalem to the Jewish Hagana defense army. Hagana already was overrunning the town. Hagerstown Elks Win Meet BALTIMORE. May 17 (/P).—j Hagerstown Lodge 378 of the Elks ’ won a tri-State ritual champion ship contest held in Baltimore yes terday. WHY NOT? It costs bo more to park at the Capital Garage New York Avenue between 13th end 14th Dr. Chaim Weizmann Accepts Presidency of Israel Council Scientist, 73, Now Sick in New York, Humble at Choice Ey th« Associated Press NEW YORK, May 17.—Dr. Chaim Weizmann, 73-year-old scientist and statesman, today accepted election as the first president of the council of the government of Israel. Dr. Weizmann, who Is ill and un able to leave his apartment at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria here, said in a statement that he accepted the election "in a humble spirit” and that he was "deeply grateful.” The statement added that ‘‘I pray that the struggle forced upon us will speedily end and will be succeeded by an era of peace, de velopment and prosperity for the people of Israel and those who are waiting to join us in the construc tion and advancement of the new state. Regrets Absence From People. "I regret that at this moment I am not with our people, but my, thoughts and prayers are especially j with those who are bearing the brunt and sacrifice of Israel's de-, fense. "The future of Israel will not be unworthy of those who have fallen. Zion shall be redeemed in justice.” A spokesman said Dr. Weizmann is convalescing, but that it had not been determined by his physician when he would be able to leave his1 room. He has been in ill health since an eye operation in 1946. Dr. Weizmann was elected presi dent pf the 37-member council of government in Tel Aviv last night, which makes him, in effect, Israel’s chief executive. David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s prime minister, supported Dr. Weizmann. All members of the new govern ment except one are Palestinians, who automatically became citizens of Israel on formation of the new state. The exception is Dr. Weiz mann, a British subject. It is pre sumed here he will change his citi zenship. Life Devoted to Zionism. Dr. Weizmann, one of the out standing figures in world Jewry, is ’ credited with having played one of the major roles in the establish ment of the new Jew'ish state, hav-^ DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN. —AP Wirephoto. ing fought nearly all his life for Zion. His services to Great Britain dur ing the first World War are said to have been the basis for the Bal four Declaration of 1917, in which the British government pledged to provide a “natioijal home” for the Jew in Palestine after the war. A chemist, he is a past president of the World Zionist Organization, which was recognized by the League of Nations, in granting Britain a mandate over Palestine, as the supreme Jewish authority for the Holy Land. He was said to have been one of those chiefly respons ible for establishment of the man date. Long Headed Jewish Agency. He long served as president of the : Jewish Agency, official spokesman for Palestine' Jews. David Lloyd George, prime min ister of Great Britain in World War I, described Dr. Weizmann in 1934 as: “A self-sacrificing and incredibly patient worker for the great cause which claims his chief devotion. He has altered the map of the world and written his name, as that of a second Nehemiah, on the pages af history.” Dr. Weizmann was born on No vember 27, 1874, in the town of Motyli, near Pinsk, then in Czarist Russia, now in Eastern Poland. He studied in Pinsk and in Germany. He went to England in 1904, as a ecturer in biological chemistry at Manchester University. 4 House Members Ask End to Arms Embargo At Zionist Rally Here The United States should follow' through on its recognition of the new Palestine state of Israel by ex changing diplomatic representatives with the besieged Jewish republic and lifting the Middle East arms embargo so far as it is concerned. This plea was made last night by two Republican and two Democratic House members at a Shoreham Ho tel rally sponsored by the Washing ton Zionist Emergency Council. About 2,000 persons were on hand to celebrate establishment of the Jew-| ,sh homeland state. Senators Brewster, Republican, of j Maine, and McMahon, Democrat, of' Connecticut, also sent messages to' the gathering expressing their sup port of the views set forth by their colleagues on the House side. McCormack Warns Arabs. Representative McCormack, Dem ocrat, of Massachusetts, House minoiity leader, drew a burst of applause with a veiled threat to Arab League states whose armies now are menacing Israel. Mr. McCormack said the Arabs appeared to be preparing large scale acts of aggression against the new state, adding: “They had better think long before they carry out such acts.” "The new nation exists," Mr. Mc Cormack said. “It has received by our recognition status under inter national law. Aggressor nations had better realize that and appreciate what it means.” Praises Truman's Move. The Democratic leader praised President Truman for his prompt action in recognizing Israel. "Our recognition," he said, “has completely changed the status of nplttt Photo-Ofitt Strrict' REPRINTS OF BOOKS LETTERS ♦ FORMS COLOR WORK MAPS the new nation internationally and j will strengthen it internally.” Representatives Youngblood, Re publican, of Michigan; Holifleld, Democrat, of California, and Twy man, Republican, of Illinois, agreed with Mr. McCormack. All of them urged that the United States lift the arms embargo for the Jewish state, while retaining it as it applies to the “aggressor” Arab nations. Other speakers at the rally in cluded Eliahu Epstein, former chief of the Jewish Agency’s Washington | office, who now is Israel’s first emis sary here, and Maurice Friedman of the Zionist Emergency Council. Mae West Plays Piano LONDON, May 17 UP).— Alan Paul, British Broadcasting Corp. composer, disclosed today that Mae West has trimmed her fingernails— and learned to play the piano. He instructed her four or five times a week for three months while she was appearing in a London stage production. She sailed for New York last week. TREAT YOUR SWEETI Treat your sweet and your self to one of the most suc culent snacks into which you could ever sink your teeth— Hot Shoppe red raspberry ice cream cake! Rich ice cream is placed gently atop freshly baked cake then generously garnished with ripe roseate raspberries! It's flavorsome, it's toothsome, it’s terrific! HOT SHOPPES Red Raspberry Ice Cream Cake 25< Available at all times at all Hot Shoppes! fimwi Drivt-in HtttmOftmnH Israel Army Strikes 7 Miles Into Lebanon; Fall of Acre Expected By the Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel, May 17.— Israel’s army said today it has struck 7 miles into Lebanon and destroyed a strategic bridge. It declared also that the Arab city of Acre, 12 miles south of the Lebanese-Palestine frontier, “is expected to surrender at any mo ment.’’ Planes bomber Tel Aviv for the third successive day. The attack appeared aimed at the port area by a light or medium bomber and one other plane. At least 10 persons were killed from the air Saturday and yesterday. Moshe Shertok, Foreign Minister, acknowledged heavy Arab pressure in the northeast and south. The Egyptians were pressing into the Negeb, or southern dessert, and the Iraqi Army was striking in the Northern Jordan Valley, he said. Two-Day Battle at Narim. The Israelite Army, Hagana said 31 Egyptians had been killed in a two-day battle for Narim, southern most Jewish settlement in the Negeb, and 200 enemy soldiers had been killed and wounded at Malikya, near the Jewish state’s northeastern border with Lebanon. Acre, oia crusauers port iz miles below the Lebanese border, is just north of the coastal strip earmarked for Palestine Jews in the United Nations partition plan. Thousands of Arabs fled there from Haifa, across a bay, when Haifa fell to Hagana a few weeks before Israel came into being last Friday midnight. Hagana claims to have reached Ras en Naqura on the frontier to the north by by passing Acre. Hagana’s Upper Galilee radio sta tion, said a Haifa dispatch, an nounced last night that a striking Eorce had gone seven miles into Lebanon and destroyed a strategic Dridge over the Litany River at a cost of one man wounded. The army said the raid was in the Merj CJyun district. Eight Britons Reported Wounded. Tel Aviv was raided by Egyptian planes three times yesterday. Hagana said the Egyptian air force had machinegunned British ;roops, wounding eight, in southern Palestine Saturday. (Reliable London sources said last night one other soldier was killed.) Hagana also reported enemy air attacks on Tiberias and several nearby Jewish settlements along the Sea of Galilee in Northern Palestine, with some casualties. Saturday’s Tel Aviv air raids seemed to be aimed at the airport. Yesterday’s and today’s air assaults were on the waterfront and port installations. The raiders were fighters and light bombers. They bombed and machinegunned ground objectives. One of the two planes taking part In today's raid was a light or med ium bomber. No Jewish fighters went up to meet them, but Isralite military sources said anti-aircraft fire defl nitely had downed one. probably two and possibly three since the attacks started Saturday. Two Planes Believed Downed Hagana said two planes appeared to have been shot down. The Cairo radio was quoted as reporting a forced landing by another. The planes met more anti-air I craft fire, flew higher and caused ! less damage yesterday than Satur ! day. The Jewish army said build ings and homes suffered small dam age. Censorship prevented detailed reporting. Irgun Zvai Leumi, old Jewish un derground army, was disclosed to have joined the fighting for Israel. In a communique, it said it had begun attacking Er Ramie, Arab stronghold 10 miles southeast of Tel Aviv just outside the partition boundary. From Natanya, Jewish coastal city north of Tel Aviv, came a report that the Jews had beaten off an Arab attack on Deulim village, in Israelite territory between there and Arab Tulkarm. British Column Attacked. Hagana said Egyptian planes ma chine-gunned a British column in' Southern Palestine Saturday, and an hour later bombed a temporary Royal Air Force field in the same area, and eight British soldiers were wounded. The column was reported to have been traveling from Hebron to Rafa, on the Egyptian frontier. When a British officer asked his base for instructions, Hagana said, he was told to do nothing this time, but to ask again if a new raid took place. ii/umpeiem soures m ljonaon, i reporting one soldier killed and eight wounded, said the RAP airstrip was near Gaza.) A report emulated in Haifa that the Trans-Jordan Arab Legion had blown up the hydro-electric plant at the confluence of the Yarmuk and Jordan Rivers, supplying Jordan valley Jewish settlements. Haifa Jewish sources said the Jews had evacuated Samakh at the south end of the Sea of Galilee. Hagana’s Upper Galilee radio re ported Gesher, below Samakh, had turned down an Arab surrender ultimatum and subsequently been under air and artillery bombard ment. Tel Aviv was blacked out last night almost like wartime London. Business has gone on as usual throughout the air raids, which have not been on the central sec tion of the city. 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