Evening star., 1947-02-02
Jewish Terrorist
Hanging Reported
Sef for tuesday
BY the Associated Press


barricades and merged with poll
to form heavy street patrols
to 10 men today as rumors spres
that Dow Bella Gruner, convictt
member of the Jewish undergrour
would go to the galloWs on Tuesda
Some Jewish quarters in the eli
were divided into 12-mile-squal
pens by triple barbed wire rolls.
A reliable informant said tn
Palestine government had infornle'
Jewish Agency leaders that II th
tall .bushy-haired Hungarian Jev
hangs Palestine would be piace'
under 24-hour curfew. II any W.,
lence occurs, as has been threateiieo
. by Irgun Zvai Leumi, the lniuG.
ground group, martial law wiz w
imposed on some parts OF tlie 'o ouis
try, the Jewish leaders were toiu
Gruner, clad in the dyed req over
alls of a condemned man, sat IN MS
cell in a Jerusalem jail with the
draft of an appeal for permission te
take his case to higher court still
unsigned. He was sentenced to
death January 2 for an attack on
q police station nine months before
Appeal Deadline Set.
ATTORNEYS for Gruner, who be-
came an underground expert by
dodging Hitler's men, said he did
not want to appeal. 1t was under
stood the Palestine government had
given him until tomorrow to decide
Tension mounted because OF
Gruner's stand since most observ-
ers believe that his hanging would
result in Irgun zvai Leumi's max
ing good its previous threat OF
Immediate reaction" to his eXecu-
ton.
The Rehavia quarter, containing
the Jewish Agency and other jew
ish national offices, was heavily
fortified during the day.
Spot identity checks were made
throughout Jerusalem all day.
Road-blocks manned by Bren car
riers and tommy gunners were es-
tablished on all roads leading into
the city.
One reliable informant said a
Jewish Agency leader was informed
by Gen. Sir. Alan Cunningham, the
Palestine high commissioner, that
curfew and martial law might be
necessary because the Agency had
failed to take its own steps to
curb terrorism"
Gen, Cunningham received Isaac
Herzog, chief rabbi of Palestine,
tonight an hour after the rabbi
was reported to have visited Gruner
in Jerusalem prison.
Asylum Reported Offered.
1t was reported also, without con-
firmation, that King Abdullah of
Transjordan had offered an asylum
in his country to as many British
wives and children as wish to go
there rather than voyage to. Great
Britain. The Palestine government
Friday ordered all British depend
ents to leave the. Holy Land by
next Tuesday.
AS Jewish leaders met to discuss
developments, one report said
Hagana, the armed force Of the
Jewish resistance movement, had
been put ION the alert for a
possible move against terrorist
groups.
Work patrols from the British
Army turned out at dawn In rain
and mud to restring barbed-Wire
barricades and renew defense install
lations. Blocks of flats in Jerusalem
used previously as officers clubs
were made more secure by barTi-
cades, indicating they were being
taken over as compounds. An en-
tire 30-house section in Jerusalems S
Katamon quarter was surrounded
with a double thickness of barbed
wire, presumably for use as a prin-
cipal compound for government Of
flcials who have been, ordered into
security camps.
The military held high-level con-
ferences ostensibly to discuss meas
ures to be undertaken, to maintain
order. Police and soldiers searched
40 cafes in Jerusalem this morning
and detained 20 persons for ques-
tioning without incident.
Evacuation Protests Continue.
Meanwhile, housewives, business
men and government officials con-
tinued to protest the action of the
Palestine government yesterday in
ordering the evacuation to Britain
by Tuesday of all British women
and children and some noneSsen-
tial civilians.
Wives of Palestine police officers
were given the option of staying
with their husbands, if the latter
agreed. The women, banded to-
gether in the Sarona encampment
at Tel Aviv, declared "We stay
Wives of British soldiers who
moved into married officers quar-
ters" last night learned they would
follow the civilian wives to the
United Kingdom.
Evacuation operations Will pc IN
charge of the army, and every effort
will be taken to safeguard the COM
fort of the evacuees.
Informants at the LYDIA airdrome
said 40 Dakotas were due Monday
to aid in evacuation directly to Eng
land.
1900 Americans in Palestine.
American diplomatic officials
stressed there was no necessity OF
evacuating the approximately 4,90(
American civilians in Palestine since
there is apparently no danger to
nationals other than British sub
jects.
CThe United States State De-
partment said in Washington to-
day that any American can leave
Palestine who wants to do so, and
no special steps for evacuation
are necessary
Some Americans were leaving
however, among them Mrs. Johr
Keegan, wife of a Transworld air.
line official, and her children. Mum.
erous families of American oil mer
in Haifa and Jerusalem were plan.
ming trips to Lebanon, Cyprus OF
Egypt,