Jerusalem Alerted to Air Attack Following Explosions; Egyptians Evacuate Hebron Area

Jerusalem was alerted to air attack at 7:40 P.M. tonight, It was announced here. (A Reuters report in London, emanating from Tel Aviv, declared that several explosions were heard in Jerusalem today, but that no immediate explanation for the blasts was available. The dispatch added that police cars were racing through the city.)

Egyptian troops, cut off by the capture of Beersheba by Israeli troops in recently-ended hostilities, were being evacuated today under the supervision of a mixed armistice commission, it was announced here today. One hundred trucks carrying the Egyptians from the Hebron area, south of Jerusalem, began passing through Israeli lines on the way to Gaza. The evacuation is slated to be completed by Tuesday.

The largest parade in the history of May Day in Palestine took place today in Tel Aviv with workers from all Histadrut-affiliated unions participating. Golda Myerson, Minister of labor, addressed the huge rally, which include Arab workers and members of the Fighters Party, formerly the Stern Group. No newspapers appeared in this city and factories all over the country were closed.

A serious split has occurred in the Fighters. A rightest group under Dr. Israel Sheib has withdrawn from the party following the decision of Nathan Friedman Yellin, former Sternist chief, and other members of the party to affiliate with the Histadrut. It is expected that some of the Sheib group will join the Irgun-sponsored Herut Party.

U.S. Ambassador James G. McDonald praised and compared Israeli democracy with that of the U.S. at a meeting here of the Israeli Journalists Association. Other speakers at the affair were Dr. Israel Goldstein, Jewish Agency treasurer, Hillel Rogoff, editor of the Hew York Daily Forward, and Edward Norman, president of -the American Fund for Palestinian Institutions.