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TROOPS SWOOP ON TEL-AVIV
New Year Round-Up Of Suspected Extremists
Terrorists Voice Defiance
Jerusalem, Jan. 1.
Sixth Airborne Division #Red Devils" troops flood- ed into he Jewish city of Tel-Aviv in a pre- dawn swoop today to round up suspected ex- tremists among the city's 200,000 population. The New Year's day move at 5 a.m. was directly primarily at that section of Tel-Aviv known as the "Yemenite Vineyard" and may have re- sulted from discoveries made during the two- day searchings in Jewish coastal villages for the perpetrators of Sunday's floggings of four British soldiers..
EISENHOWER SAYS "NO"
Afiami, Fla., Jan. 11 General Dwight Eisen- hower today denied a report that he told friends he would Fun for the
the presidency if the "people of the country want me." In recent press confer- eneca, General Eisenhower had told, newamen he would not discis the presidency United Press.
Their Last
New Year
Party
a
Britain's
Bill To
Franco
London, Dec. 31. Early in the New Year Britain will pre sent to the Spanish Gov ernment a bill running. into some millions of It was known yesterday that them they were returned 10
sterling for damage. the authorities were partícular- their homes but those who
caused to British pro- ly anxious to capture Yemenite could not satisfy the police members of Irgun Zvai Leumi's | were sent to brigadë headquar
perty during the, Span- so-called "Black Squad."
tors for further screening
ish civil war, the For-1 Police cars were summoned About one in every ten under-
eign Office spokesman hurriedly to the Yemenite ser- going second questioning was
stated in London today. tion and, using loudspeakers. Being detained.---United Press.
Manila, Jan. 2
He added that the Spanish proclaimed martial law and
Night Attacks
A prominent Filipino, motion nation was held responsible for curfew in the area while troops
Jerusalem, Jan, 1.
pleture actor and two others the damage caused by both sides. started screening the residents.
six The Jewish terrorist organi- were killed outright and in the chi war to British pro Life in the remainder of Tel-sation, Irgun Zvai Leumi, de- seriously
wounded when aperty and that a bli would be Aviv was normal. Mayor Israelclared in a broadcast tonight caravan of civilian jeeps en presented by Britain regardless Rokah said: "I have no idea of
what on its secret radio transmitter, route to a New Year's celebra-lof
Government was in what is going on in this town. "Voice of the Fighting Zion". tion was fired upbn by un-power in Madrid. It looks like partial action "Night attacks against British own assailants with machine- In the circumstances, the ac- against the Yemenite section of
caunt will be charged to General the city. I was not consulted Army transport in Palestine guns, 19 miles north of here..
will be resumed."-Reuter,
Among the wounded was Franco's Government. through nor asked for cooperation. still do not know what is being
Young couple and their eight-Mc. Douglas Howard, Charge year-old daughter. done. Things happen without
Asked why there had been such notice in the New Year."
considerable delay in presenting
The troops, who left their barracks several hours after the New Year had arrived in the Holy Land, appeared to be instructed perfectly in their duties and carried them out methodically.
Doctors Present
1
The soldiers entered build- ings and herded the occupants of each building into one room and guarded them while other troope searched to make sure no one was hiding. Doctors were present to examine any An- valids.
Then the persons from each Cecorted to building were
they
"screening posts" where were required to prove their identity. If the police cleared
Police Fire On Crowd
Signs Of Torture
d'Affaires..
Jerusalem, Jan. 1.
Police investigators said the Moshe Sandia, Jewish youth who disappeared mysteriously party, in five jeeps, were rali- ja bilt for damage since the last week in Jerusalem, called ing along the highway when Spanish Civil War ended in 1939, at the Tel-Aviv police station they were met by a hail of the Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday and said that he had bullets from roadside thickets. that the delay was due to the fact escaped from a "terrorist trial" The police blamed the attack that. Britain had in the mean- held in a Moslem cemetery near on a Hukbalahap band which while engaged in fighting the "Tel-Aviv. He showed signs of is believed to have mistaken Second World War.
severe injuries and torture, and the civilian jeeps for a detach- The claim is understood to fa- was admitted to hospital.-Reu- ment military police.Associat-clude damage to British shipping
ed Press.
ter.
Smuts Receives The
Order Of Merit
London, Jan. 1
Among those whose names appeared in the New Year Honours List today was General Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, who received the Order of Merit, membership of which is limited to 24.
of
as well as to properly actually inside Spain The Foreign Office spokesman refused to give an estimate of the sum involved.- Reuter.
Stepney Says Spare The Synagogues
!! London, Jan. 1. The Municipal Council at the London East End dockside dis trict of Stepney tonight urged The former American Ambas- Mr. Fred Kershaw, member
the British Home Secretary to |sador, Mr. John G. Winant, be-the Labour Party for over 40 secure synagogues against out- comes an honorary member of years; and Sir Ernest Simon, ruges. the order.
former Liberal Member of Parlia- In a resolution moved by Mr. The new Viscounts are the ment.
Phil Piratin, M.P., during the Chairman of the International'
The other new Barons are Gen- niceting, the gathering express- Emergency Food Council, Mr. eral Sir Hastings Ismay: Sired "horror and indignation at Stanley Melbourne Bruce, and Geoffrey Lawrence, one of
the the burning of scrolls of law The police opened fire on anthe Lord High Chancellor of former Lords Justices of Appeal; at Heasden, Synagogue on the -armed
crowd of persons, Great Britain, Baron William Sir. Walter Thomas Layton, morning of December 30 follow- described as Communists, who Allen Jowilt.
economist and newspaper pru-ing similar outrages at Clapton attacked them. in" Ellaranhi vil- The eight new Barons Include prietor; and Sir. John Maffey, Synagogue."
Charles United Kingdom representative The Council was "deeply cen-
Calicut, Jan. 1.
lege, 35 miles from Cannanore,fcur Labourites,
Mr.
former Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation;
·
1:
cerned that so far there have
The British High Commissioner been no apprehensions or fur- in India, Mr. Terence Shone, be- ther developments arising from comes a Knight Commander of the first outrage."
in Madras Province, a reperi Dukes, former Trade Union Con- in Dublin.. reaching here said, today, aress Chairman; Mr. Garro Jones,
One police officer was wound- ed by a shot, but details of other casualties in the clash, which occurred last night, were not available
The report added that three police detachments
on were
routine patrol duty in the area of the village when a crowd at- tacked them and a skirmish followed.
This was the second succes- sive day on which clashes with the police had taken place in the neighbourhood. On Monday four people were killed and several were injured when the police fired on an armed crowd of about 500 people, alleged to have attacked constables-Reu-
ter.
Accused Of Neglect Of Children
London, Dec. 31. A mother, who with her hus- band was sccused of 18-treating and neglecting two of their three
U.S. Army Court Martial Changes?
Washington, Jan. 1.
decided to ask the new Congress The US. War Department has to approve extensive changes in the army court. martial system and at the same time will ask for amending the Articles of War, particularly the clause providing the death penalty for rape
The proposed changes, recom- mended by the American Bar As- zociation Committee, are intended to "democratise" the Rrmy courts. This will be accomplish-
the Order of St, Michael and St. The Council nino agreed by a George:
majority to ask the Home Se
The 38 new knighthoods in-cretary to "introduce immediate clude Professor Walter Norman legislation to forbid the propa Haworth, prominent atomicgation of organised racial research, and actor Ralph fascist activities by individuals Richardson-Reuter.
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President Truman signed an executive order, transferring the vast atomic resources of the nation and atomic bombs from the War De
five-civilian commission as partment to a from midnight (New York' time). Major-General Lesile Groves, use of atomic energy.
the whose guidance
There has never been such a
ed chiefly by opening membership under
of the courts to enlisted men in rabulous Manhattan Project" de- demonstration of the nation's stead of reserving. it wholly for officers. Courts martial will als veloped the atomic bomb, was desire and intent to use for be removed from the control of present, in the President's office advancement mankind's new dis- commanding officers,
and later shoook hands with Mr. Jcovery." Megapa tek The Judge Advocate's Office David Lilienthal, who heads the Mr. Lillenthal declared that the great plants and equipment are and not the commanding officers civilian commission,
Afterwards, Mr. Lilienthal told worth $2,250,000,000 and are would appoint the courts and re- View its findings. children girl aged six and a Military Law may be amended reporters: "Tonight at midnight scattered over 18 of America's. 48 boy aged four-told a London
He said that the biggest part when the to provide "unfitness discharge (December. 31) the people of the states. that magistrate today.
United States turn over to five mchildren returned from a court penalty for lesse civilians the most potent weapon of the work facing the commis
reserving dis-
is the development wartime Cheshire which they had been evacuated, honourable discharge for ex- of all Ume along with a chartersion
casex United directing that every effort be beneficial application of
made to promote the beneficial energy-Reuter. the boy locked "terribly frighten- ceptionally grave ed" and the girl did not look at Press.
1w9
ail well."
nursery,
ta
thus charges
William
The defendants wer
were Sydney Smith and his wife Mar Jorie
Mr. Smith, in evidence, said that when she spoke to the child- ren on their return from the nur sdry, the boy shook and trambled and would not answer, and the
I was just as bad.
duli. And could not
Mary was put on her vest or put on a shoe, or the up her shoelace. She. would bite her nails all day. She looked very frightened when she look the was eating and time to see if anyone was watch- ing her
H
Alan shook his he
head, all day
long. He did not seem to be able to walk, or stand, or to balance properly and his tongue wa1. banging out all the time
The case was adjourned. Thursday, -Reuter,
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