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0 Egypt Issues Warning Against Delivery of Munitions to Zionists' Ay th# Associated Press CAIRO, May 18.—The Egyp tian government warned today that it “cannot tolerate” deliv ery of munitions and war sup plies to Zionists in Palestine. Continued attempts to do so may prove dangerous, It said. A statement by the Defence Min istry, copies of which it said were sent to all powers, reported that ships carrying war equipment and munitions for "Zionist terrorist gangs" still are arriving at Palestine ports and warned “all concerned” of the dangers involved. Lvdda Junction Reported. The Arab Higher Executive office here said it monitored a broadcast from Beirut, Lebanon, announcing a junction of Egyptian and Trans jordan troops at Lydda, 20 miles southeast of Tel Aviv. There was no confirmation. Pre vious reports, Sunday night, had Egyptian columns moving up the coast from the south within 30 miles of Tel Aviv. Reliable sources here reported that a small force of Saudi Arabian troops has arrived in Egypt by air to join the Egyptian army in Pal estine. Previously, there has been scant word as to the part Saudi Arabia, one of the biggest of the Arab League states, intended to play in the fight. Arab forces claimed new victories over the Jews today both in the north and south of Palestine. While ground commanders said they had blasted their way into the heart of Israel, Egypt, Syria and Iraq all claimed air successes in the mounting war. Tiberias Shelled. ; A Damascus dispatch said the Egyptian airforce had bombed Tel Aviv for the third straight day, starting numerous fires with high explosive and incendiary bombs. An Iraqi army communique from Baghdad said "our planes bombed effectively and with heavy bombs j the villages of Kaisher, Beit Yusuf | and Ajda” in the northeastern j sector. Arabs declared earlier that the Egyptian army's advance into Pales ■ tine from the south has brought j them to within 30 miles of Tel Aviv, j An Iraqui army dispatch from the north said King Abdullah per-, sonally directed Iraqui infantry and! artillery attacks yesterday, which resulted in the capture of the Jew ish settlement of Naharayim and the Gesher police post in Northern Palestine. 250 Tons of Goods Going j To Israel Seized by Egypt ALEXANDRIA. Egypt, May 18.— Egyptian authorities today confis cated 250 tons of goods they said were en route to the Jewish state of Israel aboard the Norwegian ves sel Nordkyn. The Nordkyn arrived this morning from the United States, also carry ing a cargo for Alexandria. The! confiscated goods were reported to include automobiles, machinery, oil, iron, tin and canned food. Israel (Continued From First Page.) were said to have dug in along Ma millar road and St. Julian's Way. The report said the Arabs held a number of Stern Gang members captive. Jews were reported holding the Italian hospital and to have penetrated an Arab school. The British said Archdeacon Angus Campbell Machines, wounded in the leg Sunday, was in unsatis-, factory condition. It said efforts to get Red Cross aid to him had failed. Mr. Machines has represented the Church of England in Palestine and Trans-Jordan since 1943. Hagana said there was heavy! fighting near the Jaffa and Damas cus gates in Jerusalem. It added, * that Arab forces attacked a branch * of the Hadassah Hospital killing a physician, one nurse, a patient and wounding several others. The Armenian patriarch of the old city of Jerusalem complained that, Arabs had invaded the patri archate against his protests. Responsibility for Legion Disclaimed by Britain LONDON, May 18 UP).—Britain1 disclaimed responsibility today for the activities of King Abdullah's! British - trained, British - officered Arab Legion in the Arab-Jewishj struggle for supremacy in Palestine, j A Foreign Office spokesman told1 .newsmen the affairs of the Legion - are "not a matter of concern to - Britain since her surrender of the - League of Nations mandate in the Holy Land Saturday. The spokesman sidestepped spe cific questions on the legion, which received a grant of £2.000,000 < $8. 000.0001 a year from the British treasury under a treaty signed early this year. The Foreign Office would not disclose its position on John Glubb Pasha, brigadier commanding the legion. Glubb is a permanent major in the British reserves but is over age and not subject to Brit ish call for active service. Auto Workers i Continued From First Page ! ^ action to enforce the penal provi - sions of the State legislation." Hearing Set for Friday. «1 The union, which contends the .law does not apply in the Chrysler ; strike, since several plants affected aie outside Michigan, went at once before Circuit Judge Theodore J.j Richter. On the UAW claim that the law | Is unconstitutional, he granted a temporary, injunction restraining, such an investigation by Mr. Black.) A hearing was set for Friday. UAW and General Motors spokes- : men went back to the bargaining table today to try to find a solution to the union's wage demands before. T. A, Johnstone, acting head of mu or pari time courses for veterans entitled to subsistance under Gi Bill SPANISH EXCLUSIVELY CUSSES FORMING NOW • Conversation and Writing • For Foreign Service ^ For College Examinations • Commercial Spanish SANZ SPANISH SCHOOL 1128 Conw. Ave. RE. 1513 ISRAEL PROCLAMATION SIGNED—Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (left), pictured as he signed the document proclaiming the new Jewish state of Israel in Tel Aviv, Palestine. At right is Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok. Man in center is not identified. The signing ceremonies followed Britain's surrender of her 25-year mandate over the Holy Land. —AP Wirephoto via radio from London. Senator Bridges Hits U. S. Foreign Policy, Points to Palestine By tht Associated Press PHILADELPHIA. May 18.—Sen ator Bridges, Republican, of New Hampshire sharply criticized Amer ica’s foreign policy yesterday and asserted, “this country is at the crossroads and we are playing for keeps.” He told a meeting of the Repub lican women of Pennsylvania this country’s foreign policy “is not bi partisan as represented” and only a few Republicans have been con sulted about it. “The policy on Palestine has been a shocking thing,” he declared. “The United States’ has changed its mind three times on Palestine. President Truman has never fol lowed through on anything.” The chairman of the Senate Ap propriations Committee said the United States must maintain a stable position in the face of un settled conditions throughout the world. “If we go bankrupt there is n» other country we can turn to. Russia is spinning a web and her agents reach out into our own Gov ernment. They are a great danger and a threat. We don’t want any thing but peace, and it is up to us to see that we have it.” He criticized the dismantling pro gram in Germany and explained that two of the things needed for rehabilitation of that country—the glass and soap factories—had been given to the Russians. Arabs Use Cannon in Jerusalem; Legion Holds Central Palestine U. N. Truce UnitTries Again for Restoration Of Cease-Fire Order (The following pooled dispatch on the fighting in Jerusalem was ' received today through United States Navy communications. It j is the combined work of Asso- I dated Press Correspondent Car ter L. Davidson and other Ameri- [ can and British correspondents in Jerusalem.) By the Associated Press JERUSALEM. May 17 (Delayed). —The Arabs cannonaded the cen tral thoroughfares of New Jerusalem today, killing two and injuring 33 Jews. Both sides consolidated their positions inside the walled old city. With no indications beyond a surmise that the Arabs and Jews w-ere staking everything on taking or holding the clustered houses be tween the Zion Gate and the Wail ing Wall enclosure, the United Na tions Truce Commission made another move to restore the cease fire convention. Assisted by consuls of other West ern powers, including Italy, and by the Franciscan ecclesiastical head, the Security Council's peace makers established contact with both sides in a new- truce effort. The Arabs stated, according to a Jewish Agency spokesman, that they are ready to refrain from using mortars to obviate damaging the Holy Land places, but would not accept a cease-fire. The Jew-s said' they could only agree to a full cease-fire, but refused the proposal to eliminate mortars, on the ground that they must be allowed every means of defense. Settlement Evacuated. Tire stalemate continues: Tire Jewish settlement of Neve! Yaacov, 5 miles north of Jerusalem, was "safely evacuated last night,’’ the agency official said. A large building used 15 years ago as a museum by the Palestine Brit ish administration, and the adjoin ing premises, including the Polish consulate general, were blown up by the Jews last night. They allegedly had beeri used as snipers' nests. In the adjoining Murara quarter, Jewish forces advanced another two streets and captured the Swedish mission school. Some 1.300 Jews in the southeast corner of Jerusalem's old city are threatened with annihilation as the reinforced Arab units press their attack, which is endangering the world's most sacred religious struct ures. Hagana Lines Breached. In continuing frontal assaults last night and early today, the Arab volunteer army units breached Ha gana lines at two points, forcing the UAW workers employed by the Na tion's biggest car producer, said yes teiday the GM employes "probably”! would not work beyond May 28, unless a wage settlement is reached. The union, which closed General Motors plants for 113 days in a strike for wage increases two years ago, now is asking the corporation to pay 25 cents more per hour. Of that amount, the UAW has stip ulated, 10 cents hourly could go into a pension plan. Two Groups Vote to Strike. Meanwhile, in Columbus, Ohio, 1,000 UAW employes at the Fisher Body-Ternstedt plant here voted yesterday to strike, Jim Desmond, UAW subregional representative, announced. Mr. Desmond said results of the balloting will be sent to the exec- i utive board at Detroit for approval. The union. Mr. Desmond said, is laying the groundwork for a passible stoppage throughout General Motors. UAW employes at the Cleveland Fisher Body Division plant voted Sunday to strike Sunday. They also are awaiting executive board action, j The strike vote issue is a 25-cent hourly wage increase nationally. Jews to withdraw further into their exposed and tiny corner of the old city. Jewish officials admit "the situation is very precarious.” Hagana and Irgun Zvai Leumi began a furious assault to rescue their beleaguered colleagues and were reported ready to blow a hole in the massive stone wall if nec essary. Hagana, which now virtually con trols Jerusalem except for the old city, pressed a furious attack from all angles. Food convoys to the old city, for merly protected by British armored cars, have not run since the battle of Jerusalem began four days ago. Food supplies inside are sufficient, but ammunition is running short for the defenders. The Jews are backed against a wall and have two flanks exposed. Strategically, their situation is un tenable. For four days, they have indured continuous fire. Rumors of a Jewish surrender here have been denied by Hagana and Jewish Agency officials. Highway still Closed. Hagana field headquarters in the Bab el Wad Gorge area, where the fight for the highway linking Jerus alem and Tel Aviv Is on, was visit ed yesterday. The road is still closed. But the Jews have cap tured all the bloody, war-littered mountain pass in eight days of fierce fighting. The Arabs have been driven off the surrounding hills and back into villages 5 miles east of the highway itself. The Jews also captured the villages of Deir Ayyub and La true. But the Arabs regrouped and lashed again at the road in the Latrun area, where the road was not cut. The Jews have erected their own road block in Bab el Wad to protect their military installations there and have mined the blocks. The bitter, hardened Hagana troops, most of them from Tel Aviv and coastal communities, are con fident they will open the road to traffic. Grimly they declare there will be a bloody battle before they do. They are dug in on the hills wheie the Arabs once sat in am bush. 20 Red Leaders Freed. Reports from Bethlehem said the Arabs have released 20 Communist leaders imprisoned there. The water shortage is the gravest problem in Jerusalem. The resi dents are amused with the new postmaster's general announcement from Tel Aviv that every home in the new state should have a tele phone as well as electricity and in ning water. Most of Jerusalem now does not have these utilities. many people 01 central Jerusalem slept in basement bunkers, fearing Arab artillery fire, but no shells fell in the new city during the night hours. The barrage was resumed in daylight, however. The snipers' war continued. Jew ish Sharpshooters made a noisy firing range of the cemetery of Mamillah, in the heart of Jerusalem. Chips flew from tombstones as bul lets struck. Snipers operated from peepholes in a security wall along King George Avenue. Forces Stretched Thin. The Jewish Agency admitted that Hagana forces were stretched to the utmost because fighting is dispersed throughout Palestine.. The presence of Arab forces on every frontier is drawing Hagana forces into defensive positions and sapping the strength from offensive operations. Trips made to various front line defenses around Jerusalem disclosed excellent networks of trenches have been dug. It appears that many Jews and Arabs are fighting around the perimeter of Jerusalem. Mast of the outskirts are now held by the Arabs. Thrilling All-Expense Motor Coach Tours Enjoy Historic Trips Hie Nation-Wide Gray Line Wayt ALL-DAY TOUR SKYLINE DRIVE Tours on Tuesday?, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Moot seenic ond historic tour in the U. S. See Skyline Caverns, Skyline Drive, Shenandoah * etionol Pork. Luncheon stop at Skyline Terroce. L%ive 9:30 a.m. . 9-hour trip. Fore includes taxes, admit •ions .. " 2-DAY TOUR WILLIAMSBURG, VA. Tours stort Wednesdays, Saturdays. Visit Williamsburg and Historic Colonial Virginia. Travel via famous Skyline Drive* Visit Montcello, THomas Jefferson's Home; stay overnght in Richmond. See Williamsburg’s famous re stored buildings ond gardens. Return via Fredericksburg, leave 8:00 a m. Fare includes Hotel, _. meals, taxes, admission and guide fees. Reservations necessory. See Yoor Travel Agent or caR District 0600 ■ For Reservation* m THE GRAY LINE AIR COOLED COACHES—RECLINING SEATS—ACCOMMODATIONS ASSURE* Outposts Five Miles From Holy City on North and South By Daniel De Luce Associated Press Foreign Correspondent RAMALLAH, Palestine, May 18.— Trans-Jordan Arab legionnaires are strongly established in Central Palestine after three days of me thodical operations, almost without 1 firing a shot. • Ramallah, In the heart«of that portion of Palestine marked Arab by the United Nations par I tit.ion plan, is 10 miles northwest of Jerusalem and 15 miles west of the Trans-Jordan border.) Legion outposts are within 5 miles of Jerusalem on the north and south. In a pocket-size country like this,! legion guns defending Arab terri tory need' to move forward only 6 or 8 miles to bring the outskirts of Tel Aviv, temporary capital of Is rael, within range. ropuiauon juonani. In excitable Arab towns such as Hebron, Ramallah and Nablus, the appearance of the Legion in force lilted the population from gloom to jubilation. Hundreds of military age men once again are brandishing rifles and racing about the country in trucks, singing war songs. These are irregulars, or "stragglers,” as they are called in Arabic, and it is not hard to understand why they have been so ineffective in the guerrilla warfare against the Jew’s since December. , The Arab in a well-trained, well outfitted force like the Legion is an entirely different sort of fighting man. The irregulars for months had been trying to wrest from Jewish Irgun Xvai Leumi Qghters the set tlement of Neve Yaacov. 5 miles north of Jerusalem. But the first glimpse Irgun had of the Legion occupying Kalandiya airfield re sulted in the Jews’ immediate aban donment of Neve Yaacov. It was given up without a final fight. Certainly, the irregulars had not been exerting any great pres sure. irregulars in Jerusalem. The helter-skelter shelling of Je rusalem reported during the week end was a performance solely of irregulars. But it is confirmed that the Arab irregulars lost almost all their Jerusalem positions except within the w'alls of the old city. The Arabs, strongly holding the old city, still have some 1,500 Jews penned up there. Apparently reli able news from Jerusalem is that the rest of it is in the hands of the Jews. There Is a report that the Jews within the old city walls sent word to King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan, urging his legion to accept their surrender, since they reared to give themselves up to the irregulars. However, Abdullah is reported to have replied that since his legion is not inside Jerusalem, it cannot ac cept such a surrender. Thus the strangest situation of this undeclared war finds the old city of the Jews beseiged by Arab irregulars who in turn are sur rounded by Jews outside the old city walls, and the Jews in turn are surrounded by Arab irregulars and regulars outside the city limits. Baltimore Police Clear Two in Reuther Case By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, May 18.—Capt. of Detectives Henry J. Kriss said to day he had advised Detroit police that two men arrested here ap parently had nothing to do with the shooting last month of Walter Reuther, president of the CIO United Automobile Workers. Capt. Kriss said the two would be held pending Detroit's reply to his message outling the circumstances of their arrest and the results of questioning. Acting on a "tip.” Baltimore de tectives picked up the pair yesterday and docketed them as "held for in vestigation. suspected of assault and shooting." Capt. Kriss said the men were: reported to have arrived here on i April 22, two days after the union, chief was wounded by a shotgun blast fired through the kitchen j window of his home. He said thei two had been employed in a Chrysler plant before leaving Michigan. They gave their ages as 27 and 39, and their occupations as auto fac tory worker and machinist, respe* tively. Capt. Kriss said they had no visible means of support since their arrival here. Both said they were married and gave addresses in Hamtramck, Mich., a Detroit suburb. The Detroit shooting shattered Mr. Reuther's right arm and wounded him in the chest. Since then Detroit police have questioned dozens of persons in an effort to establish a motive. Hyattsville PTA to Elect Officers of the Hyattsville High School Parent-Teacher Association will be elected at a meeting at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the school audi torium. American motion pictures now attract 67 per cent of the box office receipts in Havana. Cuba. Payments on your home art made easy by renting a room. Renting a room is made easy by advertising In The Star. Call National 5000. Open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. ' Try spreading your bread with Hellmarm’s Real Mayon naiae. Just a little bit of this delicious real mayonnaise goes a long, long way. And the flavor is really swell on bread and sandwiches. T In salads, sauces, soups, and spreads, you just can’t improve on the flavor of Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise. It’s tope. Smooth, rich, and satisfying! HELLMANN'S rfZeat | /ILupiouuAO I Belgium and Ukraine Join Call for Firm Action on Palestine ly the Associated Press LAKE SUCCESS, May 18.—Bel gium and Soviet Ukraine joined with the United Stages and Russia! today in demanding firm United j Nations action to stop the war ini Palestine. None of the other members of the 11-nation Security Council was ready to debate the issue. Alexandre qprodi of France, this month’s Council president, said in view of this the Council would have to begin discussing “a series of questions which the United States proposed should be sent to the parties involved in the fighting. Tarasenko Echoes Gromyko. The specific proposal before the Council is an American resolution proposing that Jews and Arabs be ordered to stop their war within 36 hours after adoption of the reso lution. Vassily A. Tarasenko, delegate for the Soviet Ukraine, repeated ar guments made yesterday by Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko that the Council should act at once on the American proposal. "A fight is going on in Palestine.’’ Mr. Tarasenko said, "a fight which amounts to war.’’ The reluctance of the other del egates to debate the American pro posal indicated it may run into serious difficulties despite the rare instance of American-Soviet agree ment. „ The accord marked the first timej since last fall’s Assembly vote to partition Palestine that the two great powers have stood shoulder, to shoulder on the Holy Land prob lem. Adding to the sudden soli darity was Moscow's announcement of recognition for the new Jewish state of Israel. The United States took the same step last Friday. Austin Asks U. N. Order. Acting on last-minute instruc tions from Washington, American Delegate Warren R. Austin yester day demanded that the Security Council order the Jews and Arabs to issue a cease-fire and stand-fast directives to their troops. The over all orders would be effective within 36 hours after passage of the plan. Russia’s Andrei A. Gromyko agreed immediately. “The Security Council must take a decision to stop the war,” he said. Some delegations felt That the United States—as in the recognition of Israel—beat Russia to the punch by getting a stop-war resolution be fore the Council first. But major attention centered on how the Council is going to stop the fighting. The American plan in vokes the most powerful articles of the U. N. Charter. If the warring parties failed to comply, the Coun cil could invoke economic and diplo matic sanctions. Failing there, the Council could use its biggest stick— an international force. This prompted another question— what force? Alumni to Hold Dinner Washington area alumni of the Medical College of Virginia will meet for cocktails and dinner at ff:30 Thursday at the Washington Golf and Country Club, Dr. C. P. Rvland announced today. College officials and prominent alumni from other places will be on the program. r FAMOUS FOR T CHICKEN People tell us we’re tops in town for Southern Fried Chicken and Corn Sticks, served with ap petizer, relish, two vege tables, home-made buns, and beverage. $2.25 Dinner, 5 to 0 Luncheon, 12 to 2:30 Bar Beverages Cocktail Lounge The Parrot RESTAURANT It Connecticut Ave. at R St. i A 1 DEcatur 4051 A FREE PARKING Little Fib Helps Policeman Make Vice Case Arrest Pvt. Hammond A. Payne of the Vice Squad is not above a little j fib now and then while on duty,! Virginia M. Allman, 25, learned to, her regret in Municipal Court yes terday. Pvt. Payne was walking along the 600 block of N street N.W. early Sunday when Virginia, colored, who lives in that block, accosted him. “You’re a policeman, aren't you?” she asked the detective. “Are you kidding?” laughed Pvt. Payne, in mock surprise. “Well, at first I thought you looked just like that darned old Payne,” apologized Virginia. Continuing his story before Judge Walter J. Casey, the detective added that the woman solicited him for prostitution and led him to the front door of her home. There an acquaintance confirmed Virginias original fear and Pvt. Payne ar rested her. Judge Casey imposed a 60-day jail term. _ Soviet Second Power To Recognize Israel ly the Associated Press MOSCOW, May 18.—Russia is the second major world power to extend official recognition to the new Hebrew state of Israel. The United States announced recognition of Israel last week, only minutes after the new state came into existence. Guatemala fol lowed the United States. Russian Foreign Minister Molotov sent a note last night to Moshe Shertok, Foreign Minister of Israel’s provisional government, saying: “The government of the U. S. S. 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