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1- Richmond and Vicinity Fair and continued warm Thursday. PALLADIUM The Palladium-Item Receftrt Associated Press and International New Service Leased Wire Reports. AND SUN-TELEGRAM 118 No. 132 Palladium Established 1831. Consolidated wilt) Sun-Telegram 1907 and with Item 11W9 Richmond, Thursday, June 3, 1948 Indiana Final Edition Single Copy 5 Cents I Item fills 4 Nazi Doctors, 3 Others Executed; Think Dr.

Brandt Visited In County Resume Fighting On All Fronts, Troops Are Told Claim Directive To Stop Shooting Due To Misunderstanding Dry Spell Hurts Crops In County; No Rain Sighted Only Scattered Light Showers Predicted; Rain Absent 17 Days Western College Senior Class To Hear Dr. Bell OXFORD. Dr. Bernard Id-dings Bell, author, lecturer and educator, will speak at the ninety-third annual commencement at Western College for Women on Tuesday, June 8, at 10:30 a. m.

in Kumler Memorial chapel. Born in Dayton, Dr. Bell attended the University of Chicago. He was dean of the cathedral in Fond du Lac. at the age of 26, then during World War I he served as organizing aide to the senior chaplain at the Great Lakes Naval station.

it 1 I hirty Comic Books Banned From Stands Committee Also To Send Protests To Distributors And Publishers By Martha E. Elliott Thirty comic books have been banned from sale on local newsstands. This action was taken Wednesday morning at a meeting of the Citizens committee at the county probation office. The committee was an outgrowth of a wave of protest against the local publishers of comic books are concerned over the widespread criticism which has been leveled at the type of material which is being distributed. He expressed the opinion that there is little doubt that publishers will clean up their books.

Some of the banned comic books are distributed locally by the American News company in Mun-cie. A spokesman for the company said Wednesday noon, the manager would have to send the IS the Drandts as it appears in 1 (AP Wirephotor Dr. Karl Brandt was he in Wayne county in 1923? Forest Fires Rage Through Ontario TORONTO, AP) Gigantic forest fires in northern Ontario roared across more than 125.000 acres Wednesday, destroying rich timber, killing wildlife and endangering lumber camps. Biggest danger spot in the lake- studded north was the Mississagi provincial forest, at one point only 35 miles northeast of Sault Ste. Marie.

Two huge fires, one covering almost 50.000 acres, astride the unfinished Chapleau-Blind river road and another sweeping over 40.000 acres farther south, now are only about 10 miles apart. A 70-mile single front will be established if the two fires are linked. Anti-Red Bill Foes Picket White House WASHINGTON, CAP) -White House Wednesday The was picketed by 3,169 marchers who are opposed to the Mundt-Nixon anti-Communist bill and who want civil rights legislation. Marching four abreast, the pickets slowly moved the two blocks in front of the White House, and then back again. Towering over all the others was singer Paul Robeson, who helped organize the movement.

Robeson told the Senate Judiciary committee last Saturday he would rather go to jail than answer a question as to whether he is a Communist. Many of the marchers wore buttons saying "Henry Wallace for President." They carried signs reading: "Defeat the Mundt Bill," "Pass the Anti-Lynching Bill, the FEPC and the Anti-Poll Tax Bills," and "Full and Adequate Hearings On Mundt Bill." The crowd marched orderly and without incident. They once started to chant, "Jim Crow must go" but White House police quickly stopped that because it is against the regulations to chant. Thereafter many of the marchers put handkerchiefs over their mouths, as a sign that they were being gagged. The number of marchers, 3,169, was supplied by a secret man who counted them.

The demonstrators also held mass meetings and buttonholed members of the congress. Meanwhile, the leadership of the Congress of Industrial Organizations United Auto Workers, which also opposed the Mundt-Nixon bill, sent a telegram to Capitol hill accusing Henry Wallace of trying to "provoke" the congress into passing the bill. Most of the protesters came down on three special trams from New York. But backers of the demonstration said that delegates came from as far south as Mis sissippi and as far west as Chi cago. 5 Youths Accused Of Torturing Boy GASTONIA, N.

CAP) Mrs. Cordelia Cash Wednesday swore out warrants charging five youths with torturing her 13-year-old son. Mrs. Cash told police the quintet tied her son, Gasby Phillips, in a swing Wednesday morning, built a fire beneath him, and pushed him to and fro above the blaze. The ages of the boys for whom warrants were issued range in age from 15 to 17 years old.

The warrants charge assault. Police said young Phillips, a son of Mrs. Cash by a previous marriage, was not badly burned but that his clothes were scorched and that he had suffered fright and shock. sale of lurid comic books. Deputy Prosecutor John M.

Harlan had recommended the ban of 30 books after several weeks of study by both Mr. Harlan and the committee. The list was unanimously accepted. Those books banned Include Black Terror, Blue Beetle or Crime Never Pays; Crime Punishment, Desperado, Dynamic Comics, Exposed Crime Cases, Murder Incorporated, Outlaws, Rancer Comics, Real Clue, Super- Mystery Comics, Top Secrets, True Crime, Two-Gun Kid, Zoot. Uncensored Detective, Jo-Jo Congo King, Manhunt, Namora, The Sea Beauty, Beauty Parade, Cartoon Humor, Fantasy, Joker, Screwball, Snap, Wink, Women in Crime, Green Hornet Fights Crime, Guilty True Crime Cases and Headline Comics.

More Can Be Added The committee stressed that the list will be flexible. As more books are found to be "objectionable they will be added to the list. Also when those books which have been banned are cleaned up they may be removed from the list. Mr. Harlan said the action of the committee "will be backed by prosecution if necessary." He quoted the 1905 Indiana law under which the books were banned.

The law reads: "It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale, or to print or publish, or to bring into this state for the purpose of selling, giving away or otherwise disposing of, or to circulate in any way, any paper, book or periodical the chief feature or characteristic of which is the record or commission of crime or the display by cut or illustration of crimes committed or of the acts or pictures of criminals, desperadoes, or of men or women In lewd and unbecoming positions or improper dress." The law further states that any person guilty of any violation of this section "shall be fined not less than $10 or more than $200, to which may be added imprisonment In the county jail not exceeding 90 days." Police To Back Program Police Chief Lucas Rohe said his department would "back the action." Harry Voyles, representing the Voyles News agency which distributes some of the books here said he considered the list "a fair one." He assured the committee that his agency would co-operate in removing the books from local newsstands. It will take about a week. Mr. Voyles serves approximately 90 dealers in Richmond and surrounding area. His company is preparing bulletins of the banned books for all his dealers.

He distributes comic books in New Castle, Winchester, Union City, Cambridge City, Hagerstown, Greensfork, Centerville, Milton, Dublin, Lewisville, Spiceland, Fountain City, Lynn, West Manchester, Ohio, Eldorado, New Madison, New Paris and Greenville. Mr. Voyles said he believes the the Overbeck guest book. Is this the Dr. Karl Brandt of Berlin, Germanv, who visited in Cambridge City" in 1929? There is a possibility that it could have been.

In 1929, a Dr. Karl Brandt and Mrs. nrnrtt ttenrf th inrfina State fair. There they saw an exhibit of pottery made by the Over- beck sisters of Cambridge City When coming through the eastern section of Indiana on Sept. 1.

they stopped at the Overbeck home and visited their studios. While there, they signed the guest book. In an interview several days ago. Miss Mary Overbeck, the surviving member of the famous four Overbeck sisters, said she had often wondered if this Dr. Brandt was the same one who later became Hitler's physician.

She was interviewed by a Palladium-Item reporter. She said Wednesday that the memory of the Brandts was rather hazy. However, she said she remembered Dr. Brandt as of medium height, rather slender, with medium brown hair, and that he had no moustache or beard. Miss Overbeck said he had no particular characteristic which would help to identify him now.

"The most distinct thing I remember." she said, "was that he crouched when he walked." She also thought he might have been in his late twenties then, but she was not certain. She remembered that he told her during his visit that they had friends in Berlin by the name of Overbeck and that they would tell them about her and ask them to write her. Miss Overbeck said she never heard from the friends or the Brandts after that. She kept a constant lookout during the war when it was indicated that Dr. Brandt was Hitler's physician, in the hopes of finding something which might identify him as her 1929 visitor.

She believes that the only way to determine for certain if this is the man is by identifying the signature in her book with some document which might be found in Germany. A picture of Dr. Brandt, received by The Palladium-Item Wednesday via Associated Press wirephoto from Chicago, was taken to Cambridge City by a reporter to see if Miss Overbeck might Je able to identify it. strengths after that. Those who favored the bill said it will cut down the total number of men that may have to be drafted.

The military budget now being acted on is in addition to about $3,000,000,000 which the congress already has voted the services to buy aircraft. All told, outright defense costs will soar to around in the coming fiscal year as the United States military establishment is built up to back American foreisr'n policy in the "cold war" against (communism, After the house acts, the senate must vote. Congressional leaders have nmmisAH thesu meaitr get top priority and predict paa- ft SI twkfitrjk Via rtlan nwl vra- ment June 19. The $10,196,672,250 funds for the army, navy and air force are $505,000,000 more than the service-: are spending this j'ear. and more than three times as much as the regular 1941 military budg- The committee cut 6.1 per cent.

i I The extended dry weather has not yet done any severe damage to farm crops in the Richmond district, county agents reported Wednesday. However, as farmers patiently waited on the seventeenth dry day for a drenching rain to revive thirsty crops, the Weather bureau at Indianapolis said the dry threat will continue for at least another five days. Another week without a good rain will be a definite threat to the already dry crops, the district county agents said. The Weather bureau's five-day forecast Includes only scattered light showers. Though rainfall for May was above normal, according to William Armbruster at the Richmond Water Works pumping station, it all came during the first half of the month.

The volunteer weather observer said the last rain fell locally May 16. Rain Was Above Normal Total rainfall for the month was 3.81 inches, twenty-four hundredths above the 3.57 normal for the month of May, he said. The lack of rain is preventing the germination of newly planted corn and is retarding the growth of corn that is already up. Though farmers have been cultipacking their fields to hold in the moisture, some fields "just don't have the moisture to bring the newly-planted corn up," said Preble County Agent C. C.

Bowen. "Oats are not growing right and pastures will be going down if we do not have some rain within another week," he added. County Agents Herschel Whit- ham and Keith Jewell of Wayne and Union counties reported that late-planted corn is not coming up yet. Oats need rain badly but pastures and hay crops are in not too bad shape, they said. D.

R. Troyes, Fayette county agent, said some pastures in his county are beginning to dry out. Though corn has not been damaged yet, he said, another week without rain would definitely retard growth of the crop. Wheat has headed out and the crop "has been made," he added. There will be lighter hay crops.

as a result of the dryness, said Farm Agent L. E. Husted of Ran dolph county. "But -nothing else has been hurt yet to the extent that some ram will not bring it back," he said. Tomato Plants Hurt The dry weather is a menace to tomato plants.

Husted and Henry County Agent W. G. Smith said it is particularly hard on plants recently set and those that now are being put out. Randolph and Henry counties are heavy tomato grow ers. The plants from direct seeding, of which there are a good many, are in good shape, the two agents said.

Not only are farmers looking for a sky of rain-filled clouds, but city gardeners too are watching their home plots get drier by the day. They report wilting tomato plants and corn and beans that refuse to grow. While May was a normal month in total rainfall and in temperature, something of a record was set in the number of consecutive clear days. Weather Observer Armbruster said the last 14 days of the month were clear. He said a check of his records back five years revealed no number of consecutive clear days equalling this.

Average temperature for the month was 58.8 degrees. The hot test day was May 11 when the mercury climbed to 84 degrees and the coolest temperature was 34. This was recorded on May 8. Engineer Injured MUNCIE, (AP) M. J.

Mon- ahan, 57 years old, Lima. Ohio, an engineer for the Nickel Plate railroad, was injured Wednesday when a locomotive and seven freight cars were derailed and damaged here. Hospital attendants said he had suffered possible rib frac tures. TV 7-- This is the signature of LANDSBERG. Germany, (AP) Four German doctors and three SS (Elite guard) officers were hanged Wednesday for killing and maiming thousands of people in medical experiments on Nazi concentration camp inmates.

General Karl Brandt, 43 years old, top medical officer of the Nazi state and Adolf Hitler's personal physician, was among those executed. He was the only one who scorned religious aid at the scaffold. It took 62 minutes to complete the executions. The men died on two black gallows erected in the courtyard of the prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf" while confined after his 1923 Munich putsch. The men were convicted last Aug.

20 in the first of a series of trials conducted at Nuernberg by United States war crimes courts. Several died protesting their innocence and complaining against the American system of justice. Speech Cut Short Brandt made a final speech so long that after he ignored admonitions to cut it short the black hood was thrown over his face in mid sentence. Joachim Murgowsky, 42 years old. chief SS hygienist.

shouted defiantly from the scaffold: "I die as a German officer sentenced by a brutal enemy ana conscious I never committed the crimes charged against me." Karl Gebhardt, 50, special phy-sicianof Heinrich Himmler and head SS surgeon said: "I die without bitterness but regret there is still injustice in the Gebhardt formerly was president of the German Red Cross. Others executed were: Wolfram Sievers, SS colonel and director of the Military Re search institute. Victor Brack, SS colonel and chief administrative officer under Martin Bormann. Waldemar Hoven. chief medical officer at Buchenwald.

Rudolf Brandt, adjutant to Himmler and chief of the SS Hygienic institute. Five other defendants convicted at the trial were sentenced to life imprisonment. Four received lesser prison terms. Seven were acquitted. Experiments Listed The doomed men were accused of participating in experiments in which: victims were frozen to see how much cold they could stand.

Lungs were collapsed in high alti tude tests. Pieces of bone, muscle or nerves were cut out and transplanted, permanently mutilating the victims. Thousands were sterilized by surgery. X-ray or drugs. Many were fed experimental poisons, shot with poisoned bullets.

burned with poison gas or infected with deadly diseases. General Brandt, the top med ical officer of the Nazi state, was the first to die. He once boasted: "There is one German the Americans will never hang." "It is no shame to stand on this scaffold," he cried. "I served my i fatherland as others before me," Other groups helping the Lions club with the playground project, long a dream of this community, are the Hollansburg Congregational-Christian church, the Beech Grove Church of the Brethren, the Cedar Grove Church of the Brethren, the American Legion post, the Friendly circle, and the Hollansburg-Glen Karn Merchants' association. A band concert is scheduled immediately preceding the sale and refreshments will be sold on the sale grounds.

council action, which was taken without a vote. However, Russia and the Soviet Ukraine announced they abstained from approving the instructions to the mediator. Soviet sources said 'this was done because they had abstained from approving appointment of the mediator in the recent special united nations assembly on Palestine. The instructions to Bernadotte were signed by the June council chairman, Faris El Khoury of Syria, before El Khoury arose from the table. As he left the crowded chamber El Khoury told reporters the order already was on its way.

of CaIHO. (AD The Israeli government revoked its ceasefire order Wednesday night. It ordered its troops to resume fighting on all fronts in Pales- i. Une nere bombin artillery and infantry attacks were re ported in a half-dozen sectors. The Jewish government said the order which, it claimed, caused its soldiers to' withhold all unprovoked fire since 5 p.

m. Cc. s. Tuesday, was issued under a misunderstanding. The united nations Security council asked Arabs and Jews to notify it by 5 p.

Tuesday, whether they would abide by "a united nations appeal for a four-week truce. The Jews said they mistook this dead line, and accert- ied it, as the actual time for cras-! ing fire. The Arabs the united I nations had not set a specific dead line for halting the three-week-old war and, apparently, did not slacken their fighting pace. The Jews, under their earlier misapprehension, bitterly accused the Arabs of violating the surposect order. At Lake Success, the Security council late Wednesday instructed its Palestine mediator to et a cease-fire time and suggested it begin within three days.

Meanwhile, both sides reported I major battles were in progress irt me tioiy jLna. The Egyptian defense ministry said Wednesday night in a communique that Egyptian infantry attacked a heavily fortified Jewish stronghold in the Necba arra, 30 miles jtouthrast of Tel Aviv, and occupied a "large number of positions there." The Jews counterattacked in the strongest such thrust vet experienced by the Arabs in the coastal plain, the communique said. Arab infantry and artillery and Egyptian planes smashed the counterattack, it addd, and 'the enemy retreated in disorder. Jewish casualties were reported heavy. An Amman dispatch said a column of several hundred Jews struck 18 miles into Trans-Jordan before King Abdullah's Arab legionnaires and allied Arab planes killed 40 and beat them back in a battle that lasted until noon Wednesday.

The Arabs moved more troops toward the battle area. Motorized Iraqi infantry streamed through Amman to the cheers of thousands of Abdullah's subjects. The were moved along the main highway to Palestine. Arab commanders continued building up their 40-rmIe line north and west of Jerusalem with guns and fresh men. This front is aimed at Tel Aviv, capital of Israel.

The Israeli hijh command aid the Jews military position was much better than two or thre days ago. Tuesday night Israeli troops drove within three miles of Jenin and four miles of Tulkarm, the Jews said. Both cities are anchors of the strategic Arab triangle in central Palestine. Fire DeStrOVS AutO Of Brookville Man BROOKVILLE. An automobile belonging to Jack Parsons, Rural Route i.

Brookville. was destroyed by fire Wednesday moraine. Th blaze occurred on Indiar.a-252. of Brookville. while Tarsons was ien route to his work here.

mated at several thousand dollars. Temperatures Yesterday 50; 4S; Noon. 79; 55. Do You Suffer From Dust Darkness? Lighting experts say dusty light bulbs give about' 20 per cent less light than clean ones. This definitely puts dusting in the "light work" class.

But whether you want hpht work or a man-sized full time job, it is easily available through Palladium-Item Want Ads. If a check of today's Help Wanted Notices doesn't turn up just what you want, contact the employer you are looking for by placing a Situation War.ted Ad in Palladium-Item. Phone 1121. House Passes Biggest Peacetime Budget For Army And Air Force list of objectionable books to their home office in New York for further action. The committee Voted to send letters to Harold Sinnott, president of the Independent Distributors of the Great Lakes region, protesting the sale of lurid books in this community.

The distributors and publishers will hold a convention July 6-7-8-9. Letters of protest also will be sent by Mayor Lester Meadows, Police Chief Rohe, and County Probation Officer Nora Holthouse. To Add Protests The committee urges any group or individuals Interested in supporting the program opposing the sale of objectionable books here to write Mr. Sinnott, 3 Beverley street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. "We are determined that the publishers and distributors know where we stand in this community," Rev.

O. B. Noren, chairman of the Citizens committee said. "This is not the end of our work. We will continue to study and make surveys of comic books on our newsstands.

Another meeting will be held in month or six weeks, so that we may report our findings." "In the meantime, we urge parents to co-operate with us in seeing that their children are supplied with more educational and worth-while reading material in place of comic books or other literature which is unfit for them," the Rev. Mr. Noren said. Interior Of Home Near Union City Damaged By Fire UNION CITY. Fire gutted the interior of Mr.

and Mrs. Dale Conklin's home at Bartonia, seven miles southwest of here, Tuesday night. Their six-room cement block house was badly damaged. According to reports, the fire started in a-log house in back of the Conklin home. It spread from there to the back porch and roof of the Conklin home.

Part of the household furniture was saved. The loss was covered only partially by insurance, Conklin said. The Lynn and Union City East Side Fire companies answered the call. Water was obtained from a near-by gravel pit. 4.

Palladium-Item Photo John Nigh the state. Although he is not talking, he probably would like the chance to apply his organizational program to the district. The Greenfield man, who made his first announcement that he would seek the Republican nomination as state treasurer in this newspaper, has filed his intention with the state organization. Given endorsement by the district organization "for any office to which you might aspire," Nigh now has sent letters to district delegates to the state convention asking their support. I ft 7" A fY 7 A Nigh In State Treasurer Race, Rbbbins May Be New Chairman Hollansburg Sale Proceeds To Go For Playground Items WASHINGTON, (AP) The biggest peacetime budget for the army and air force in American history sped through the house Wednesday and went to the senate.

Another record peacetime defense money bill, for the navy, is set for debate Thursday. Together the two total for spending during the fiscal year beginning July 1. The House Appropriations committee Wednesday approved both, and the house promptly followed through on one of the bills. It voted 348 to 2 for 6.509. 939.

000 for the army and air forces. The navy bill calls for another S3.686.733.250. Congressmen predict it, too, will roll through the house with ease. 2 Oppose The only two opposing votes Wednesday were cast by Representatives Marcantonio and Isac-son. both of the American Labor party.

New York. In another move dealing with aeiense, tne nouse eanesaay ap- proved a compromise bill to accept; women as regulars in the armed forces. The hotly-debated measure, finally passed 206 to 133, continues the Women's Army corps for one year to provide for a transition from the temporary wartime basis to a permanent peacetime program. The WAC bill already has passed the senate and now goes to the White House. It will allow the services to have 18.500 enlisted women and1 about 1.500 officers in the next two years and up! to 2 per cent of their authorized Drought Expected To Set '48 Heat Record Today INDIANAPOLIS, (AP) Indiana's 17-day drought just missed setting a 1948 heat record Wednesday and is expected to succeed Thursday.

The Weather bureau said the I temperature reached 85 degrees here, one degree short of the mark 86 set May 10. The bureau fore cast a record 88 Thursday. Farmers whose young crops are burning up were given no new hope for rain Wednesday. The forecasters stood on Tuesday's extended forecast, no rain before the week end and then only extremely light showers. I i or $241,005,450 from the original! The Rural Fire department was budget asked for the naw.

and! called, but the fire had gained too 9 per cent, or $647,903,000 from I much headway to save the vehicle, the amount President Truman Jt is believed defective wiring was asked earlier this year for the responsible for the fire, army and air forces. i Many of the cuts, however, i na ma ae Estimated were aimed at civilian personnel, wimiuicu And the committee said morel FORT WAYNE. (AP) Fire money will be provided later if an1 smoke in the basement of the necessary. IJ. C.

Penney store here Tuesday "Alarming Menace" night caused damage to stock esti- By W. R. Emslie Entry of John Nigh of Greenfield into the race for the Republican nomination as state treasurer may return the Tenth district chairmanship to Wayne county. Nigh, who is director of the Indiana Department of Conservation, told this reporter prior to re-election as Tenth district chairman, that he would resign if he gained nomination for state office. At that meeting in New Castle early in May, it was apparent that Russell Robbins, Wayne county chairman, was one man who swung a lot of weight in the district organization.

Had Nigh not been in the race for re-election, Robbins could have gone in as district chairman without serious opposition. And if Nigh wins the Republican nomination as treasurer and then resigns as district chairman, chances are better than even that Robbins will be his successor, To Be Settled At Convention The first "if." that of Nigh's winning the state office nomination, will be settled a week from Friday at Indianapolis during the Republican state convention. The second, who will be his successor, will be settled sometime thereafter by Tenth district county chairmen and their vice-chairmen. In recent years Wayne county has had a number of district chairmanships, including Elmer Crull, Ed O'Neel, and John Brubaker. Robbins is an astute politician.

Politics is his recreation, just as golf is the recreation for many persons. Under his leadership, Wayne county probably has the tightest political organization In Security Council Tells Mediator To Establish Hour For Armistice Accepted By Jews, Arabs HOLLANSBURG. A tractor, other farm machinery and more livestock have been added to the list of items on the block for the community sale here June 5. Proceeds of the sale, sponsored by the local Lions club, will be used to purchase playground equipment. Other items previously listed tor sale include an improved plot of village real estate with a house, barn, sheds and household goods; two automobiles and a truck; mis cellaneous farm equipment and livestock.

There was no direct word to the council on that development but press dispatches from Tel Aviv said the Jews had no advices about the intentions of the Arabs. The Israeli said they reserved full freedom to continue fighting if nothing was heard. Major Aubrey S. Eban, representative of the Jewish Agency here, said after the council meeting that the Jews had canceled their third cease-fire and were fighting again. Eut they were committed to observing the council's four-week armistice whenever the mediator, Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, fixes the time.

There was no objection to the The money is to support an army and air force of 1,234.500 Th i reported Russian military strength of 4.000.000. which Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chief of the army staff, has called "an alarming menace to the security of the United States." The bill also gives the navy money to start work on the world's largest ship, a 65.000-ton aircraft carrier; one "killer ship" to combat submarines, two high-speed submarines, and two submarines of "an entirely new Russia is believed to have at least 250 submarines. The American mystery sub mystery marines were not described fur ther.

Money already approved, and separate from the current appropriations measures, provides the air force with funds to start work on what is planned as the world's largest air force. I i 1 LAKE SUCCESS, (AP) The Security council told the united nations' Palestine mediator Wednesday night to fix the hour for a four-week armistice accepted by Arabs and Jews. The council agreed this should be done as soon as possible. Warren R. Austin, United States delegate, and others suggested giving the mediator three days to impose the cease-fire order.

Instructions drafted by the unit ed nations secretariat and cabled to the Middle East set no time limit, however. Israeli forces in Palestine mean while cast aside their third cease fire order at sundown Wednesday..