BIG ARMS SEIZURE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22624, 29 April 1948, Page 5

BIG ARMS SEIZURE

NEW YORK STORE DESTINED FOR JEWS ZIONISTS' HOARD (10 a.m.) NEW YORK. April 28. A huge quantity of arms and ammunition, believed to be destined for Palestine, was found last night in a city warehouse. The police .reported that two men had been arrested. They said they had seized more rifles, bayonets and bullets than “we would ever be able to get into the police station.” The police said the arms and aramunition was found wrapped in packages addressed to individuals in Palestine. They identified the arrested men as Joseph Untermeyer, aged 19, a student, and Isaiah Warsaw, aged 30, a watchmaker’s-apprentice, both of New York. The raid was made after the discovery earlier of six rifles in a freight elevator in the building. The police called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation after the arms were discovered. The store included at least 100 rifles, 100 revolvers and a few hand grenades and knives, ammunition and bayonets. The building was occupied by a fur trading firm. The police quoted the two men ■ as saying that they were members of the Zionist Youth Movement. They were using the building to pack food and '.yj clothing for Palestine with the per- : mission of a member of the firm who is at present in Paris attending a * Zionist meeting. .... J . __