Evening star., 1948-05-24

TRUCK USED TO CARRY AW
Israel, after an air raid killed
ish forces also are reported to be
driving on Err Ramle and LYDIA
important transportation centers
southeast of Tel Aviv
The Arabs made claims of theil
own.
A Cairo newspaper dispatch said
Egyptian troops operating along
the Palestine coast had launched
an attack against a Jewish settle
ment about five miles north OF
Majdal. This would place the
Egyptians about % miles southeast
of Tel Aviv, the Israeli center, and
about miles south OF the coastal
area assigned the new state under
the United Nations partition plan.
Wasson Shot by Sniper.
A Syrian communique denied
Jewish claims that Israel's troops
had reoccupied Samakh on the
southern shore of the Sea of Cali
lee. The bulletin added that Syrian
artillery sank one vessel and de-
stroyed another on Galilee. 1t said
Syrian planes attacked Jewish set
Elements south of the sea.
In Amman the Arab high COM
mand said Egyptian planes in their
raids on Tel Aviv had bombed gas
oline depots, iron and oxygen plants
and the Skoda works in the south
ern section of the city.
Accounts from Jerusalem said
Mr.. Wasson was shot by a sniper
while returning from conference
of the United Nations Truce Com
mission which has been trying to
halt the Week-old JeWish-Arab
battle in the Holy City.
He was taken to the English Mis-
sion Hospital lHadassah where
Jewish surgeons operated in an at
tempt to save his life. They were
unable, however, to counteract the
shock effect of the bullet, which
penetrated his right shoulder and
passed through the lungs.
Burial in Jerusalem.
The State Department relayed
funeral plans from Vice Consul Will
liam C. Burdett at Jerusalem.
Mr.. Burdett said that in view of
Jerusalems regulations calling for
burial within "a hours after death:
1--WE have made arrangements for
funeral service and burial to be held
at 10 am. local Jerusalem tlme)
Monday. "a, by the Baptist minister
in the Catholic Rosary Convent
across from the American consulate
general: Burial will take place In
crypt temporarily"
AsState Department official said
the department may consider bring
ing Mr.. Wasson's body home later
The secretary of the Latin Patri-
archaic at Jerusalem said Passionlst
Father John Salah was fatally
wounded by Jewish machine-gun
fire Friday as he entered the Sisters
of Charity Church on the Mount OF
Olives to say mass.
Alarm Strikes Other Nations.
Alarm over the Middle East Sit
uation was reflected in other ma
tionS.
In Istanbul, Foreign Minister
Necmeddin Sadak said Turkey is
deeply fearful over the Palestine
situation and wants peace there
that will leave the Arabs masters
of their own destiny.
In Frankfurt, the United States
Air Force headquarters called OIL
the round -the-world flight OF three
B-29 Super Fortresses, which ar
rived here last week on the first
leg of the trip. officials said the
fight was postponed because Of
unsettled" conditions in countries
over which the bombers were
scheduled to fly.
In Washington. the State Depart
ment told Lebanese and other
Arab nations the United States
would take a serious view Of any
discrimination against American
citizens on grounds of race, creed or
color. They referred to the Leba-
nese interment of Al Americans
from, tho Marine Corn
The Lebanese reply said the
Americans, all Jews of military age,
along with q other passengers re-
moved from the ship, obviously were
intending to join elements of trou-
BILE and anarchy in Palestine"
A band of Jewish volunteers
boarded a battered old bus in Ziel-
sheim, Germany, last night. They
said they were leaving for Israel to
fight for the cause.
A similar exodus of Jews is re-
ported in dozens of Jewish camps in