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Sangh Shea tectom, sae Re y a Sister From U. S. Visits G runer \ | In Cell Before Making Appeal | “ i Mrs. Friedman Seeks To See Cunningham On Commutation 7 by the Associoted Press serra | Feb. 14—Mrs. of mcaster, re Nisited her brother, t Belaj@runer, in his death cel today but re ed to make pu lic the subject or result of ner conversation with the aa demned man, whose plig ines increased Palestine’s bitter . ; | siete. Freidman, who few ere ifrom America to try to 5a e her ibrother from the gallows, 58: on |ner arrival yesterday that she Ww ue |e to ccavince Gruner that should make @ direct appeal te the —— Meanwhile, Hagana, Jewish under-' growid organization, stated ip a broade:st over its secret radio that: it was responsible for the explosioiis- in Haifa harbor early yesterday - which sank ® government fisheries barge and damaged a military land- | ing craft. “This sabotage,” the announcer: said. ‘was designed to show Ha- gana’s unwillingness to tolerate de- portation of uncertified immigrants from the shores of their homeland, as was done with more than 600 from the ship La Negev a few days ago.- We express our satisfaction with the fact the operation was carried out without casualties, which was according to plan.” . This was Hagana’s first reported sabotage since the demolition of the Allenby Bridge, connecting Palestine and Trans-Jordan, across the River Jordan, last June. At that time, the organization said the blast was to show the “British can- not maintain Palestine as a military base, without the consent of the Jewish defense organizatior.” fle MRS. HELEN FRIEDMAN. Mr. Mr. Pennington ..... Me Quins Tamm.... Mr. Ni eee MAJ. GEN.G.H.A. MACMILLA . New commander of British troops in Palestine. ' ~—AP Wirephoto. : —A. P, Phoigy | Palestine 1 : (Continued From First Page.) ~ / . eS ee eee ; . Privy Council, British equivalent of _« gai the United States Supreme Court. “s . , @ member rgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish underground’ érgan- a ization, was condemned to die after u being convicted of participation in a R. 2 raid on a Ramat Gan police station 4° ~~ last May. He has refused to recog-; Cy nize British authority in the Holy ' “-) ‘Land by taking an appeal, but law- yers acted for him at the direction of an uncle, Frank Gruner of St. Petersburg, Fla.. and New York. , The execution has been postponed by official order. Mrs. Friedman also applied for an audience with High Commis- sioner Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham to appeal for commutation of the! a sentence. . . : At an extraordinary meeting today,| the Executive Committee of the ae General Federation of Jewish Labor . (Histadruth) declared in a resolution | te. o ,that “in fact martial law is already ey ‘working in Palestine, although it is " inot formally imposed.” - The resolution, protesting recent ‘Jarge-scale military measures, said ithat through evictions of civilians from their homes and other such acts, economic harm had been caused to many people known to be in- : nocent of membership in or sym- ; Pathy with any terrorist org-niza- ° ae on. 7. ; : +) } I 1 o FEB 25 1947 Clipped from WASHINGTON EVENING StA-To 2-Bh-F 2. . ‘ a ~ an a ELE To ETE FIT AE OT NMS ERY