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King of Crisis-Torn Jordan Makes
Flying Visit to King Saud of Arabia
By ANGELO NATALE
AMMAN, Jordan UR—King Hus
sein returned to Jordan today af
ter a surprise flying visit to Sau
di Arabia’s King Saud.
Apparently the young monarch
wanted to find out what was said
in his neighbor’s conference Sat
urday with leaders of Egypt and
Syria, and to patch up any crack
the Syrian and Egyptian visitors
might have opened between him
and Saud.
Before taking off for Riyadh
yesterday, Hussein rejected a pre
vious government’s proposal for
diplomatic relations with the So
viet Union. The young ruler has
blamed his country’s current
troubles on international Com
munism, aided by Egyptian prop
aganda, and security forces have
been busy rounding up Commu
nist elements.
Almost a holiday mood prevailed
in Amman as the curfew was
lifted for eight hours, the longest
out-of-doors period since the re
striction and martial law were
ordered last Thursday. The gov
ernment announced the curfew
would be raised entirely if calm
continued.
Streets were jammed with traf
fic and stores packed with shop
pers laying in supplies for the
annual feast at the end of the
month marking the end of the
Moslem holy month of Ramadan.
The crowds showed no signs of
tension, and strong troop patrols
were almost the only evidence of
the bitter struggle between the
King and the leftists, Commu
nists and extreme Arab national
ists.
Immediately on his return, the
King went into conference at his
palace with leading government
officials.
MYSTERY WRITERS' CLUB
PICKS 'DRAM OF POISON'
AS BEST 1956 THRILLER
LOS ANGELES, UP)—1The Mys
tery Writers of America have
selected “A Dram of Poison” by
Charlotte Armstrong as the best
mystery novel of 1956
Miss Armstrong, who lives in
Glendale, Calif., was presented
with the Edgar award (after Ed
gar Allen Poe).
Interceptors Are
Doubleeliecking
Strange Aircraft
WASHINGTON W>>—The retired
-chief of the Air Defense Com
mand said today that since the
Middle East fighting every un
known aircraft over this country
is doubleehecked by interceptor
planes.
Retired Air Force Gen. Benja
min W. Chidlaw said this is done
“to make doubly sure that Ameri
<aa is not under surveillance or
attack.”
Writing in Planes, publication
of the Aircraft Industries Assn.,
Chidlaw said air defense inter
ceptors averages 15 to 18 “scram
bles” a day during February. Each
of these missions, he said, was to
intercept unknown aircraft later
identified as friendly.
“Such scrambles may cause
some lost sleep to citizens living
near interceptor bases because of
the noise of jet engines,” Chidlaw
said. “But the Sound is infinitely
more assuring than the scream of
a Russian nuclear bomb.”
Plan for One-Way Airline Traffic
Revealed by Engineers Working
On White House Air Safety Study
WASHINGTON, UP)—A plan for
one-way airlanes—with air traf
fic separated by speed and alti
tude—was made public yesterday
by engineers working on a White
House air safety study.
A report on all facets of the
study will be submitted to Presi
dent Eisenhower next month by
Edward P. Curtis, the President’s
special assistant for aviation fa
cilities planning.
Engineering aspects were de
. tailed at a briefing by Gordon
Bennett and James Anast, two of
the members of an engineering
advisory group assisting Curtis
in his survey.
They said the new plan calls
for a single system for air traffic
control for all types of aircraft,
military and civilian.
This system would be applied
first to traffic above 18,000 feet
and would later be extended to
cover flights at 10,000 feet or
even lower.
On heavily traveled airways,
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planes would be dispatched at 20
minute intervals along one-way
air corridors, according to their
speed. The plan would be put into
effect on a gradual basis.
Another Curtis advisory group,
on general aviation, showed that
65,000 privately owned planes
are now being flown by some 200
000 pilots. This group estimates
the general aviation fleet will to
tal 90,000 by 1976.
Bennett said the engineering
group believes supersonic airlin
ers are technically feasible. He
said they might operate at 1,300
miles an hour or better, at alti
tudes of 50,000 feet.
By 1975, he said, scheduled air
lines will be operating 1,700
transport planes, about 200 more
than at present.
But by 1965, he reported, the
number of military planes in op
eration will begin declining as the
Air Force lays greater emphasis
on missiles.
Nome May Be Site
Of 1958 American
Legion Convention
That Nome may be selected as
the place for the 1958 American
Legion convention was revealed
here today.
The disclosure was made by
Joe Briones, service officer of the
Alaska Department of the Ameri
can Legion.
Mr. Briones said that the 1958
convention is slated to be held in
some city in western Alaska and
that it might well be Nome. The
only other city that would make
a bid for the convention will be
Fairbanks.
The site for the convention and
the time is set by the department
al convention which is to.be held
in Sitka early in 1958.
Mr. Briones said the bid for
the convention must be presented
at the Sitka convention and will
probably require a community
wide cooperative effort embrac
ing the Chamber of Commerce,
service clubs, restaurants, hotels,
bars and stores.
The convention would last for
five days and would probably
bring an influx of about 150 vis
itors. Of course many of them
would come early and stay longer
than the five days of the con
v ntion.
Mr. Briones pointed out that
Nome has a glamorous gold rush
history and many of the dele
gates have at one time or another
expressed a desire to visit Nome.
Senator Warns
Against Slashing
Foreign Aid Funds
WASHINGTON, UP>—Sen. Ken
nedy (D-Mass) told the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce today that
meat-axe slashing of the foreign
aid budget could “cost, not save,
the taxpayers money.”
Foreign aid, he said, “is not
the grand economic handout that
some envision.”
Kennedy spoke at the first gen
eral session of the Chamber’s
three-day convention here. Ques
tions of government spending are
expected to get considerable dis
cussion, and perhaps some action
by resolution, during the meeting.
Kennedy told the chamber he
was not saying the foreign aid
budget was “sacred,” or that it
cannot “be usefully cut by Con
gress.”
But he reminded the business
men that nearly 90 percent goes
for military aid.
John S. Coleman of Detroit, the
Chamber president, called in an
opening address for Labor unions
to “quit trying to create an all
powerful monopoly in a country
that will not long tolerate monop
oly of any kind.”
Coleman said any “cleansing”
undertaken by organized Labor
should go beyond “sweeping out
racketeering and violence.” He
said unions should voluntarily
end the secondary boycott, which
he called a “ruthless labor black
jack,” and should recognize that
I right-to-work Laws “have a moral
i basis.”
Seating of Provisional Senators
And Road Funds Proposal Expected
To Be Deleted From Statehood Bill
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON UR—1The House
Territories Subcommittee today
planned to resume its considera
tion of possible amendments to
tions on the Alaska bill.,
The session is scheduled to be
followed by what Chairman
O’Brien said he hopes will be the
wrap-up to committee delibera
tion on the Alaska bill.
Altho its meetings will be
closed, the committee is under
stood still to be faced with a pos
sible two dozen amendments to
the measure.
At least two of these are ex
pected to be adoped with little if
any debate. One would delete a
section of the pending bill which
provides for the seating in the
Senate, upon Alaska’s admission
as a state, of “Senators” Ernest
Gruening and William Egan.
Along with Delegate Bartlett,
both have indicated they have no
desire to press for the seating
provision if its deletion would
make it possible to pick up state
hood votes among Republicans
who might be hesitant about ac
cepting the territory’s unofficial
choice of two Democrats.
Also expected to be deleted are
provisions of the bill which would
give Alaska some $78 million over
a 15-year period for road con
struction and maintenance to im
prove its highway transportation
I system.
The deletion of this section has
been recommended by the Bureau
of the Budget in view of action
by Congress last year to include
Alaska for the first time within
the Federal Highway Aid Act.
One of the major controversies
involves the proposals by Rep.
Pillon (R-NY) to limit Alaska’s
congressional representation to a'
single House member until the
proposed state’s population reach
es the average now represented
by each of the 96 senators.
Behind the move is Pillion's be
lief that it is unfair to big states
that an area such as Alaska, with
a population of between 200,000
and 250,000 should have the same
voice in the Senate as, for exam
ple, New York’s millions.
On the basis of present popula
tion count, Alaska would be with
out senatorial representation un
der Pillion’s proposal until its
population reached roughly 750,
000 persons. Not until it attained
a population of 1,500,000 persons
would it receive the two senators
now assured each state.
ALASKA AIR GENERAL
TRANSFERRED TO TEXAS
COLORADO SPRINGS, tfV—
The Air Force said today Brig.
Gen. T. Alan Bennett, commander
of the 11th Air Division in Alaska,
is being transferred to Air De
fense Command headquarters in
Colorado Springs.
Bennett will become deputy
chief of staff for materiel of the
defense command.
Butler Says Beck
Was ‘Coddled’
By Administration
WASHINGTON, (^—Democrat
ic National Chairman Paul Butler
says President Dave Beck of the
teamsters union was long “cod
dled” by the Eisenhower Admin
istration.
Describing Beck as a “friend
and confidant” of President Ei
senhower, Butler said yesterday
Beck was the only union leader
to have ready “entrance to the
White House” during Eisenhow
er’s tenure.
This was Butler’s reply when
he was asked during a television
interview (ABC College News
Conference) to comment on Ei
senhower’s call last week for leg
islation to safeguard union funds.
He said it was “high time” for
Eisenhower to act in the wake of
the Senate Racket Committee’s
allegations that Beck mishandled
some $300,000 in teamsters union
money.
Congressmen Now Determined
To Cut Eisenhower’s Budget
By JACK BELL •
WASHINGTON, UPV—The Sen-1
ate’s Democratic and Republican
leaders said today that 10 days
with the voters at home have
stiffened congressmen’s determin
ation to cut President Eisenhow
er’s spending budget.
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas, the Democratic leader,
said “never in my public career
have I seen such strong demands
for economy in government.”
Sen. Knowland of California,
the Republican leader, said that
in talks with members who have
returned from their home states
he has found “no dimunition in
interest in the country in the de
sire for economy.”
Johnson said he found “con
siderable concern” among the
people about business conditions.
He said the recent “bite” of in
come tax payments has strength
ened demands for slashing Eisen
hower’s $71.8 billion budget.
The statements of the two party
leaders, made to reporters as the
Senate was convening, threw cold
water on the hopes of Eisenhow
er’s advisers that Congress’ budg
et cutting ardor might have
cooled after 10 days of visits at
home with the voters.