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Moves Mid-East Closer to a War

By Scripps-Howard Newspapers - WASHINGTON, July 21-—The last safety valve holding explosive Middle Eastern situation under control may have gone with assassination of King Abdullah of “Jordan, - ? It moves that whole area closer to war. Abdullah favored settlement between Arab countries and Israel. He supported Britain in its oil controversy with Iran. With his death, both Iraq and Egypt may try to annex Jordan. Fighting could start on any one of

these issues.

. Britain's military base in Jordan also has been placed in jeopardy. It's only secure foothold Britain has had in Middle East since political rumblings in Egypt and Iraq have endangered bases in those countries. Prince Talal, heir-apparent to the throne, is antiBritish. He's in Europe being treated for a nervous ailment. Prince Naif, second son who has assumed regency, is an unknown quantity. Jordan Parliament has

bitter anti-Israel, anti-British elements which have been

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” THOUGH Abdullah's kingdom, with the population of Inidanapolis, is no larger than he's ‘been potent throughout Ara world; has constantly heen a moderating

‘Influence. Hashimite dynasty,

which he represented, once ruled’ Arabia, and Abdullah dreamed of uniting Jordan, Syria and Iraq in one kingdom. A nephew, 12-year-old Feisal, is King of Iraq. Britain made a throne for Abdullah by separating Jordan from Palestine while it held a League of Nations mandate there. He was paid a British subsidy, was supported by British-trained army. All in recognition of Abdullah's part in freeing the Arab states from Ottoman Empire during World War I.

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Harriman to London? W. Averell Harriman may go to London to carry on peace talks at high British levels. : So far his exploration of Iranian oil crisis has been confined to the Iranian side—and

signs of willingness to reopen :

talks with the British, within the framework of the national-

- {zation law, have appeared.

Mr. Harriman seems to be up against British willingness to~ let Iran stew in its own juice till political upheaval makes Tehran more amenable, but that includes risk that next government might be even harder to talk to—might be Communist. : Chance are Mr, Harriman will try to persuade the British to go halfway on stop-gap arrangements for oil exports, and also to make better offer for permanent settlement. First is most pressing. Experts say Iranian oil industry may be ruined unless temporary agreement’ is reached in a few weeks, ” ”

» DiSalle Won't Quit Price Boss Michael DiSalle won't quit, no matter what kind of price control bill comes out of Senate-House conference committee. ” ”

” We Pay Freigh South Korean government collects on every ton we move over their national railway. T's costing us between $5 and $10 million monthly to get arms, ammunition to frontline troops. We pay freight charges, rent freight cars ‘and locomotives, buy fuel, maintain and repair roadbeds, provide big part of the crews, and send “locomotives to Japan monthly to be rebuilt. Only hospital trains -go free. . Army estimates it's costing £10.000 a day to keep 15-car press train south of Kaesong during cease-fire negotiations. ” ” o

Watches Oatis Case

President Truman is hot under the collar about the Bil Oatis case his aides say, and is checking daily with the State Department on what's being done to get release of the American newsman, Thi administration warns against a leak on department moves, saying these may hurt Mr. Oatis’ chances. Meanwhile, the House Rules Committee is set to act fast if it gets a resolution threatening diplomatic and commercial break with Czechoslovakia if Mr. Oatis is not released. The House Foreign Af-

fairs Committee has to act °

first. Rules Committee members of bhoth™ parties favor strong action. Note: Foreign newsmen—including Russian—are under no restraint in the U, 8. The State Department issues permits for those wanting to come here. Tt even intercedes with press galleries of Congress to get thém accredited. Then it forgets them, lets them go where

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Promised Recess HOUSE MEMBERS are "being promised a six weeks’ recess if they'll speed action on appropriations bills, Leaders are talking about letting members go home Aug. 15 and stay tM Oct. 1, while the slower moving Senate plods along. 8. »

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power to cut off. federal funds to any state opening up lists, This week the Senate voted 38-30 to reverse 1939 decision ——pressured’ by Sen. William

Jenner of Indiana, where state .

legislature: has voted down secrecy, is in danger of los-

ing federal aid. Senate-House -

conferees still have.-to act. They killed the Jenner plan once this year, when the ap-. propriation bill was up, but may not be able to do it this time, aa /

Increase to Stand?

THAT TEMPORARY ' pay increase of $360 to $400 a year for postal workers may be made permanent. Congress limited it fo two years, and planned to see at that time whether it was still needed—or whether more was needed. But it's been found that employees retiring during the two-year period could not count the increase as base pay in figuring pensions if it were temporary. So the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee will take another look: One member, Rep. Robert J. Corbett (R. Pa.) says there)s an even chance it will make the increase permanent. =” 5 ” PY SEN. CLINTON P. ANDERSON (D. N.'M.) will head a senatorial campaign committee for Democrats again next vear, as he did in 1950. It will break a precedent, since New Mexico will be electing a Senator, The rule has been to pick a man from a state where there's no contest. Sen. Denniz Chevez, who'll be seeking reelection in New Mexico, has approved.

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Steel Production

STEEL production may be increased by 400,000 or 500,000 tons in fourth quarter of this year, if scrap drive, now under way, succeeds. Half of any increase will go to meet military requirements. Rest will be available for nondefense production. ” » » SENATE Crime Committee, due to end hearings Aug. 15 and then spend two weeks writing final report, has added ilttle to interstate crime and racket pattern during its latest phases. Plans to investigate sports, particularly boxing and horse racing, have been dropped. The report probably will deal with discoveries on drug straffic. The committee's dramatization, via television, of results of drug addiction, proved most sensational development in recent weeks.

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On the Inside

HE RETURN of Russia's

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Jacob Malik to the United

States ‘after a vacation remains undecided. Malik claims that New York weather aggravates a chronic heart condition. He would prefer a new assignment where temperatures are less changeable. » » ” TRAN’S decision to send ground troops to Korea stems from the country’s fear that it may be forced to call upon the United Nations for armed support. The Iranians are equally afraid of the Russians and the British, : Iran, “@ke a lot of other countries, realizes now that the United Nations may be slow to help those countries that have sat back and failed to particl-

~ pate in the Korean war. ”

» » PASSENGERS in British planes wilk fly with their backs to the pilot as soon as new designs have been adopted and built—in- about five years. Studies of crashes have convinced the British that passengers facing the tail of the machine would have a much better chance of surviving a crash,

. ” » ¥ THE cost of living in France

: went up 18 per cent between

1950, and May, 1951, according to French statistics. The same figures show the inersase In Britain to be 6.50 per cent, in Switzerland 4 per cent, ‘and in Western Germany 8 per cent.

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published June 7 in Die Zeit, a Hamburg, Germany, weekly, showing the signing of the Soviet-Chinese mutual aid pact in February, 1950. The lower picture is a painting reported as having been "copied" from the photograph. The artist, so the Times correspondent

says, won a Stalinist prize for realism. Now, get a load of this: A. I. Mikoyan, fourth from the left in the u

per photograph, stands at

the extreme left in the painting. Mikéyan, as a matter of fact, was kicked out as minister of foreign trade in 1949. Four comradas, The Times correspondent adds, appear in the painting who weren't in the photograph at all. Some realism.

World Report—

U.S.Keeps Wary Eye on World Hot Spots Kick Up New Troubles Should

Compiled from the Wire Services

The surprise Red delay in Korean armistice talks sent American strategists on a new hunt today for indications of what the Communists are up to in Korea and elsewhere in Asia, the Middle East and. Europe. pel The four-day break in the Kaesong talks was received in official Washington quarters

with rising suspidion and alertness fo6r new Communist strategy. Opinion wag withheld on whether the Chinese and North Koreans will allaw the talks to fail completely on their demands for withdrawal of foreign troops from” Korea. But official quarters let it be known plainly that t nited States would not back mn on that point. When the talks started experts anticipated the negotiations would be long and perhaps filled with dangerous pitfalls. This attitude traces to previous negotiations with the Communists and their ability to mesh trickery with highsounding intentions.

Moscow’s New Note

The feeling persists in Washington that the Communists may strike again in Korea after using the talks to win strategic delays. Fear of this increased when reports arrived telling of the Communist request for a four-day recess. But this was balanced a little by Moscow's new emphasis on the need of and the possibilities for better EastWest relations. If Moscow's attitude finds proof in performance, then the Communists might yield on the troop issue when they get their strategy pulled together next week. Suspicion attached to Red intentions in global strategy also centers on intelligence reports describing new Commu-~ nist military activity along China’s borders with non-Com-munist areas in southeast Asia. One report warns of the possibility of new trouble in Burma. Red China recently has get up an army headquarters 35 miles from the border at Toachen in the area near the Burma Road.

Could: Push on Burma

From there, Red Troops would be in a position to push into Burma or to supply and

train Communists inside Bur-

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Chinese activity continues near the Indo-China border where an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 Red troops are stationed. : Air field and other military construction is reported humming in China opposite Formosa.

Officials also feel that ‘the crisis in Iran and the assassination of King Abdullah of Jordan are subject to close scrutiny. to see if the Kremlin will choose to gamble and make trouble for the future. And all this is being placed against the background knowledge that Russia still regards Germany as the higgest prize in Soviet efforts to expand Communist domination.

. no THE CRACK British-offi-cered Arab Legion, 15000 strong, canceled all leaves to-

civil war or invasion from beyond its borders, broadcast a warning that “evil elements” would be dealt with summarily.

Middle East observers here believed that only Britain's impressive influence in Jordan *has prevented the outbreak of civil war there, with possible

** invasion by Syria, Iraq or

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CONFIDENTIAL reports from Teheran lead British officials to hope that the Shah of Iran may be able to help in settling his country’s oil dispute with Britain. These reports say the Shah has been too worried about his health to take a hand in politics. Now that doctors have determined that he is not =suffering from a malignant disease, as he feared, he is reported to be “a new man.” The Shah is understood to regard Premier Mossadegh a wild man, It is believed the Shah will attempt to ease out Mossadegh and to supplant him with a man whose identity is smecret,

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BRITAIN forbade British Atomic Scientist Dr. Eric H. % 8. Burhop to make a planned “friendship visit” to Moscow. It also announced it had suspended an official of its own Foreign Office. A Foreign Office announcement declined to reveal the names of the men -— both of whom had their passports cancelled as a “precautionary measure’—but Dr. Burhop tonight confirmed he was the scientist involved. Dr. Burhop, scientist at London University who worked on the atomie bomb in the United States during the war, said he was “incensed.”

A story going the rounds in western Europe says one Prague resident refused to join the general outery against a new Stalin statue in a public square of Prague. “Why not?” he said, “It will give us shade in summer, shelter in winter, and an opportunity to the birds to speak for all of us.”

ADM. FORREST SHERMAN, Chief of U. 8, Naval operations, arrived at Malta by air from London to confer with Adm. Robert Carney, Southern European Commander of the .. North Atlantic Defense Forces. ” ” ”

WASHINGTON officials revealed the government is making “slow but steady” progress in its investigation, ordered by Preaident Truman, of the mysterious and controversial “China Lobby.” Mr. Truman ordered the investigation last month while the Senate was investigating his ouster of Gen, Douglas MacArthur. ah No deadline apparently has been set on the inquiry. The soutstanding faet about the lobby to date is its vagueness. » » »

® MIGRANT labor treaty ne-

gotiators “overcame all basic differences” on a pact that will send ahout 300,000 Mexican farm hands to the States this year. U, 8. authorities will transport the workers to reception centers in the United States, where they will be hired under contract. adh t

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French-speaking members of the Royal Canadian Air Force,

learning English at Toronto, .

had orders to read the newspapers for practice but to skip the sports pages. Chief instructor W. C. Goddard explained: “Sports writers don’t exactly use English.” <

world of gold braid and cornerstone layings to which he sentenced himself when he married Princess Elizabeth.

Waiting at the airport for his father was Prince Charles, who had been brought there by a nurse. The Duke carried a box of flowers he had brought for Elizabeth who waited for him at their home, Clarence House. on » »

AN AMATEUR DETECTIVE who helped convict a farmer for murdering his com-mon-law wife charged that the legal wife helped the farmer hide the body. Severin Anderson of Aurora, 8. D,, a trucker who likes to play detective, signed the complaint against Mrs. John Parker, whose husband is now serving a life term. John Parker lived with his victim for many years secretly marrying the other woman last fall about one month before the murder.

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FORMER MARSHAL HENRI PHILIPPE PETAIN is in a coma and almost totally paralyzed, doctors attending the 95 - year -old “traitor of Vichy” announced. Doctors said his pulse was go weak it was impossibla to count it. Earlier he was reported “sinking fast.”

A LITTLE WHITE-BEARD-ED MAN who said he's 104 years old and a Civil War veteran was on the verge death in Reno after hitchhiking 500 mlies from San Diego in blistering heat. J Ne. Royer, who's 5 feet tall and weighs 100 pounds, collapsed on a downtown street. He told doctors he was making “one last trip” to find his great-great-grandson. They said hope of finding his last living relative was keeping the old man alive, ” » .

PRINCE IGOR TROUBETSKOY said he would contest the Mexican divorce granted to Woolworth heiress Bar - bara Hutton if it is legally possible to do so. But he said he would not go to Mexico in person to fight the de‘gree which Miss Hutton won at a cost Miss Hutton of $100 in , . court fees in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Miss Hutton, in Paris, received news of her divroce with a sad and weary shrug. “I've forgotten what it's like to be free,” she said, “But what can one expect from life?” she asked. “It's "eruel.” >

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eral jobs have been ordered to appear Sept. 5 for arraignment. Judge Allen Cox said he did not expect the trails to begin until January. Edch of the 12 faces possible penalties up to seven years in prison and $4000 in_fines.

Mrs. Jean Gregory and son, John, 2.

SUITORS from many walks of life have come calling on Mrs. Jean Gregory, the 27-year-old Vicksburg divorcee who said she wanted a husband who does not drink, will love her three young children and pay her mother’s medical bills. She's received nearly 50 proposals or offers of help. The nicest caller so far, she said, was a man driving a Cadillac who didn't want to get married. He promised to send money for her cancer-stricken mother “with no strings attached.”

Gl Goings On

GI WHOSE throat was slashed by Communist captors in Korea spent last day of his hospital leave scouring New York for mother of slain buddy. Pvt, James M. York, voice gone, sought Mrs, F. Russo, mother of Cpl. Charles Russo, known fo Army buddies as “Corona.” Nickname led Pvt. York to believe pal lived in Corona, Queens, New York.

See Your Doctor

U. 8. Federal Trade Commission said Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, agreed to stop claiming its bed boards help correct certain ailments, » » ~ ATTEMPT BY 100 civilians to crash Air Force Squadron family picnic near Sacramento, C4). ended in riot, leaving seven persons Injured. Officers said rioters went “at it with knives and bottles with 14 deputy

sheriffs and several fire departments called in to quell them.

‘We'll Find Him’ Fresh erews dug frantically to reach miner trapped or bur-

fed 200 feet underground in mine cave-in. Believing he

“might be alive,” miners said: .

“We'll dig forever if we have to, to find him.”

Big Question

COLORABO STATE officials conferred today on action against warden ordering flogs of six convicts who said

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By THE TIMES STAFF HEAVY PRESSURE being applied around town contributions to both Republican and Democratic parties here will increase during next few weeks. he a3 Both political treasuries need cash b

for City election campaign and voluntary donations ar

slim so far.

So, workers in both parties are out beating bushes for cash with attendant charges and counter charges. A City Park Department employee's statement that he was asked to donate “20 per cent” of his salary under the threat of being fired, brought a hot denial from Mayor Bayt and Park Maintenance Supt. Charles Brown. -

“That's ridiculous,” retorted Mayor Bayt.

“I don't

believe any city executive made such a threat in tha first place and if any such tactics are used in getting campaign money, I will investigate it personally. If an executive is guilty of any such pressure I'll recommend

his dismissal at once.” Donations are strictly voluntary, Mayof Bayt stressed. “In fact, we are suggesting that voluntary donations from City employees be limited to 1 per cent of their ~wages,” ‘he said. Mr. Brown said no employee in his‘ department is. being pressured to donate. “Many of them are donating about a dollar each here and there,” he said.

Republican organization is “accepting” donations from GOP workers at Statehouse and Courthouse on the basis of 2 per cent of their wages, » ” »

FIRST PEEK at City budget for next year's expenses looks as if Indianapolis taxpayers are in for jolt on 1952 tax bills. Rate may bounce up 12 to 15 cents, probably as high as $2.10 per $100 assessed property valuation just for the City government. Raises in other government units may push total tax load for City residents toward the $5 mark.

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Watch for Spies

War games are assuming

“atmosphere, of serious reality at Camp Atterbury long before

the maneuvers are scheduled to get under way at Ft. Bragg, N.C : Camp's 28th Division, due to be “maneuvering forces,” has heen alerted against “spies” from other Army units that will take role of “enemy aggressors.” Espionage incidents recently included attempt to get 28th’'s plans for maneuvers out of camp's safe. Also camp personnel has been alerted to watch for certain WAC from “enemy” camp who's suspected of spying on troops. Field radio statis recently disclosed “enemy” attempt to break into camp's radio waves for information. It's all part of buildup for sample of real warfare when troops go to North Carolina soon for war games, ~ ~ »

Hay Crop

GRASS GROWING in City streets is not just a gag. Gutters of streets where dirt has collected for months are growing crop of grass along some residential thoroughfares.

City Street Department reports crews have been too busy lately repairing streets to spend much time cleaning them. However, the gutters will be scooped clean in residential areas, starting in about 10 days, officials said.

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TIP to vacant lot owners: It'll be cheaper for you to cut out weeds and high grass off lots yourself. If you don't City Street Department will cut them for you, send you a bill. If. you don’t pay it, City will put a llen against property. Complaints have been made from several sections of City about high weeds, and grass

on vacant lots With hay fever

season approaching. . ” ” “

Noe Sale

” FIRE CHIEF FRANK McKINNEY, always alert for fine specimens of manhood for bis force of fire-fighters, approached a husky six-footer on the street: the.other day . . . asked him to join the Fire Dee partment. The prospective recruit declined, explaining he was busy playing professional football with Green Bay Packers at a salary four or five times more than a fireman's pay. “ Ld ”

LOT OF PEOPLE have been complaining about obnoxious fumes spewing from exhausts of engines in city busses . . . “strong enough to knock you out sometimes,” they say. Why can’t Indianapolis Rail» ways run exhaust pipes up to top of vehicles away from noses of pedestrians and mos torists?

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Railways officials wers ready with answer, They've already considered plan from all angles, they said, but It's just not workable. In the first place, they said, engineers could find no way of insulating exhaust pipe against danger of burning peopl® either inside or outside the bus. Secondly, running pipe up in the air would still leave fumes around area and wouldn't do enough good to justify the extra expense, they sald. You'll just continue getting a noseful of exhaust fumes whether you like it or not.

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ONE OF ARGUMENTS

raised last week for revising and modernizing Indiana's cen-tury-old Constitution was based upon requirement that all fines paid for overloaded trucks shall go to state's common school fund instead of to highway fund to help repair

road damage done by the trucks. Constitution provides that

all state fines and bond forfeitures be paid into the school fund, principal of which cannot be spent,

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RECENT REPORT of chain Jetter fad in which panties are sent through mail reminded local postal inspector of ane other kind of chain letter gimmick. . Tt was for the “Relief of Harassed Husbands.” After receiving chain letter, husband signs name at bottom and sends wife to sender at top of list. “If chain is unbroken,” let. ter promises, “you will get 1080 wives. Don’t break the chain. One man did and got his own wife back.”

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Woman admiring new-style sheared raccoon coat on luscious, blond model In downtown department store remarked: “They must of fed that raccoon eggs to get fur like that.” Man standing nearby remarked: “I wonder what they fed the model.”

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ONE OF WISE BOYS always looking for loophole to beat

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