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...Bitterest Blow." On the beach at Kfar Vitkin, 20 miles north of Tel Aviv, waited slight, sharp-eyed Menachim Beigin and a force of his bully boys, to help unload. But Haganah, now Israel's official army, was waiting too, with orders to stop them. Result: a short, sharp civil war of Jew against Jew, which Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week described as "the bitterest blow...
...terrorists got part of their arms ashore at Kfar Vitkin. But in the fight they lost six killed, 20 wounded, while Haganah suffered two dead, three wounded. Beigin boarded the ship, ordered it southward. At midnight the Altalena rammed on to the beach at Tel Aviv for another attempt. When noon came, an assault boat with a few steel-helmeted Irgunists ventured toward the beach, and despite Haganah fire set up a small beachhead. But when Haganah turned mortar fire on the Altalena, and smoke began to pour out amidships, the rest of the Irgunists jumped over the sides, swam...
Isadore E. Vitkin...
...National Shawmut Bank of Boston team, winning a one-sided, seven inning game by the score of 13-2. Young and Strong, pitching for the seconds, held the visitors to three hits. Fast work by the Crimson fielders and steady work at the bat by Lucas, Bancroft, and Vitkin provided the other ingredients necessary for a decisive victory...
Second Team.--Chase, 2b.; Dickson, c.f.; Lucas, r.f.; Bancroft, 1b.; Keegan, c.; Kerr, l.f.; Vitkin, s.s.; Ross, 3b.; Blair...