THURSDAY. APRIL 25. 1957
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April 24 (/P) —Egypt made public here today its plan to clamp complete
utrol on Suez Canal operations and toll money.
is York the United Nations Security Council scheduled a meeting on the Suez
at the request of the United States,
r nounced Egyptian plan provides some latitude
may arise in operating the 103-,
[mile waterway the Egyptians,
nationalized last July 26.
The Egyptian memorandum
promised uninterrupted naviga
tion for all nations—with some
reservations—and proposed set
ting up a fund of one-fourth of
all tolls to develop the canal.
Egypt to Get Tolls
Egypt will collect all tolls, the
memorandum said, and the Egyp
tian government will take five
per cent in royalties.
The Egyptian announcement
and responsible Egyptian officials
insisted that the document will
have the force of an international
treaty registered with the United
Nations.
The memorandum was issued
just before the Security Council
in New York scheduled its Fri
day session.
Within Convention Limits
The Egyptian statement saidj
use of the canal would be “with-!
in the limits and in accordance!
with-the provisions” of the 1888
Constantinople convention. This
provides unhindered access to the
canal for ships of all nations in
war and peace; but Egypt bars
Israeli ships under a convention
that the 1948 state of war with
Israel still exists under the 1949
armistice.
At the UN in New York an
Egyptian delegation spokesman
said Israel “definitely” will be
barred,
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Discuss Fall
Of Hussein
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AUGUSTA, Ga., April 24 (.^P) —
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
and Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles today discussed the
crisis in Jordan as the eight-day
old government of Premier Hus
sein Khalidi resigned.
They declared they regard that
nation’s “independence and integ
rity as vital.”
Warning to Commuists
Their view of the situation
seemed to amount to a warning
against any Communist aggres
sion in that Mideast area, and
came after mobs rioted in Am
man, Jordan, and drove Khalidi’s
Cabinet into urgent session.
Resignation., of Khalidi’s gov
ernment and acceptance by King
Hussein was announced by two
Cabinet ministers.
Jordan’s yoyng King Hussein
blamed his country’s troubles on
“international communism and its
followers” in an interview with
American newsmen.
Talks by Phone
Eisenhower, mixing work and
vacation here, talked by telephone
to Dulles, who was in Washing
ton.
Their view that the independ
ence and integrity of Jordan is
vital was reported to newsmen by
.White House’ press secretary
James C. Hagerty.
And Hagerty took pains to point
out that part of the language they
used was taken from the Mideast
resolution which Congress re
cently approved..
• Hagerty replied “Not to my
knowledge” when asked whether
Jordan has requested U.S. aid.
Asked then whether Eisen
hower or Dulles have detected
“signs of Communist activities in
connection with the Jordan dis
pute, Hagerty said “no, I think
that would be unfair to say.”
Finn War Leader
Makes Comeback
In Socialist Party
HELSINKI, Finland, April 24
(JP) Vaino Tanner, Finland’s
wartime strong man made a sen
sational political comeback today
nosing out Premier K. A. Fager
holm for leadership of the power
ful Socialist party.
The Russians had made it clear
in advance they would be out of
sympathy with the choice. In spite
of such warnings, a party cau
cus elected the strong-willed elder
statesman by a 95-94 vote.
Tanner, 76, often has been de
scribed as the Finnish leader most
hated by the Russians. In a trial
staged on Russia’s insistence, he
was sentenced after the end of
World War II to 5 Vi years at hard
labor as being “corresponsible”
for Finland’s participation on Ger
many’s side in the war.
Finnish official sources said
that according to Finnish prac
tice it would be “l§gical” if Tan
ner assumed a key position in the
Finnish Cabinet. Finland is now
ruled by a Socialist-Agrarian
coalition Cabinet headed by Fag
erholm.
Tanner was premier in 1926-27.
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Corresponds to Plan
In the main, the document ap
pears to correspond closely to the
plan President Gamal Abdel Nas
ser presented to UN Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold sev
eral weeks ago.
The biggest concessions by Nas
ser appear to be in the realm of
arbitrating disputes. But Nasser
has given little ground, if any,
on operation and management.
Clark Labelled
'6O Possibility
WASHINGTON, April 24 (£*—
Pennsylvania’s junior U.S. Sen
ator, Joseph S. Clark, might as
well get used to the idea that his
name will be discussed for
the 1960 Democratic presidential
nomination, the Saturday Eve
ning Post said today.
The magazine said Clark still
insists that he has no ambition of
rising higher in the political
world.
However, the Post added, are
two major reasons why Clark’s
name will be considered for the
Democratic presidential nod—he
is a proven vote getter and there
are few other candidates of top
caliber.
Clomp
Suez
in arbitration disputes that
Senate Body
Hears Story
Of Blonde
WASHINGTON, April 24' (JP)—
i V/ith the reliability of a star wit
ness at stake, the Senate Rackets
Committee drew completely con
tradictory stories today from a
blonde prostitute and a nervous,
indicted Portland, Ore., deputy
sheriff.
Mrs. Kathleen Lucille Cooper
Weeks, a 25-year-old honey
blonde in a clinging white dress,
swore she signed a false affidavit
hurling dope and prostitution
charges at Portland Racketeer
James B. (Big Jim) Elkins be
cause Deputy Sheriff George
Minielly threatened her.
Minielly loudly denounced
this turnabout testimony as
"the greatest hoax'ever pushed
onto the American public."
A third witness, Mrs. Mary
Childress, supported Mrs. Weeks’
story.
Chairman John L. McClellan
(D.-Ark.) referred the conflicting
testimony—some of it obviously
perjured—to the Justice Depart
ment for ‘‘appropriate action.”
"I'm getting a little tired of
this committee being imposed
upon by liars." he declared.
Elkins gave key testimony in
the committee’s public study r.t
allegations that high officials of
the Teamsters Union in Seattle,
Wash., tried to muscle in on vice
and gambling in Portland," with
the help of city and county offi
cials in Portland. As the chief
accuser, Elkins’ credibility is im
portant.
Minielly said he believes Mrs.
Weeks and Mrs. Childress,
switched stories because Oregon’s
Dept. Atty. Gen. Arthur Kaplan
threatened them with perjury
charges unless they did. Minielly
called Kaplan ‘‘a mental case.”
Immediate Approval
Urged for Shortway
HAZLETON, Pa.. April 24 UP)
—Federal and state leaders have
been urged by the Northeast
Pennsylvania Industrial Develop
ment Commission to approve im
meditely the proposed Sharon-
Stroudsburg Expressv/ay.
Victor H. Diehm, PIDC presi
dent, said a resolution had been
forwarded to federal and state
authorities demanding that the
proposed Keystone Shortway be
placed on the federal interstate
and national defense highway
system.
New Pressures Mount
For Big 4 Arms Talks
LONDON, April 24 (>P) —Pressures were building up to
night for a new Big Four summit conference on ways to halt
the nuclear arms race and try to set the world on the path
toward peace.
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin’s Easter letter to Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan was
seen as a possible prelude to a
Soviet proposal for a meeting of
Bulganin, Macmillan, President
Dwight D. Eisenhower and French
Premier Guy Mollet.
The letter appeared also as a
lever to move the British leader!
to visit Moscow soon.
The pressures, which flowed
primarily out of the perils of the
Middle East situation, came from
some Asian members of the Brit
ish Commonwealth and had the
backing of influential groups in
the ruling Conservative and the
opposition Socialist parties in
Britain..
Powers Favor Idea
Several world powers were
known to favor the idea because
of their concern about the un
remitting East-West nuclear arms
race.
Bulganin appealed to Macmil
lan to join in patching up British-
Soviet relations and building
peace between East and West.
Letter Perhaps Serious
After a preliminary study, the
Macmillan government viewed
Bulganin’s letter as being partly
propagandist in motive and per
haps partly a serious approach
for a world settlement.
Some Western experts believe
that* the Soviets—despite their
test-blasting of five nuclear weap
ons in 20 days—may be genuinely
alarmed at the mounting pace of
the nuclear race. The Soviets are
fearful of H-bomb war, Bulganin
frankly confessed.
Senators Ask
For Oil Inquiry
HARRISBURG, April 24 UP) —
Four Democratic senators tonight
called for an investigation into
what they said appeared to be a
‘‘price fixing conspiracy” among
oil companies operating in Penn
sylvania.
The lawmakers called for the
“thorough and intensive study”
in a resolution criticizing a re
cently enacted law which will
cut a penny a gallon off the state
gasoline tax May 31.
The law reduces the tax to five
cents a gallon. The sixth penny
had been levied to finance emer
gency flood repairs to roads and
bridges. The Republican-controll
ed Legislature backed the mea
sure reducing the tax and Gov.
Leader signed it three weeks ago.
The resolution called the re
duction “unwaranted” and said
it necessitated a drastic reduc-
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PAGE THREE
House Group
Approves Plan
On Gambling
HARRISBURG, April 24 MV-
The House Law and Order Com
mittee tonight approved a plan to
authorize statewide referenda on
the questions of legalizing bingo,
raffles, lotteries and betting at
horse race tracks in Pennsyl
vania.
Chairman Naugle (R.-Somerset)
said “substantial majority” in the
committee voted to send the mea
sure to the floor. He declined to
give the exact figure.
“It’s a decision that has been
hanging fire for several sessions,”
he told a newsman. “Let the peo
ple decide the issue once and for
all.”
The surprise move came as the
Senate fixed Monday for a floor
vote on a separate bill to allow a
statewide vote on whether bet
ting at horse race tracks should
be legalized in the Common
wealth.
The House legislation, intro
duced by Rep. Jones (R-Mont
gomery) two weeks ago, also
; would allow a statewide vote on
the question of legalizing educa
tional, . recreational and cultural
activities on Sunday afternoon
and evenings.
Sp@ed Record Set
By Guided Missile
WASHINGTON. April 24 (/P)—
A missile launched from the Pat
rick Air Force Base in Florida
was reported today to have
reached a speed of 9240 miles an
hour, the fastest ever.
It was an Xl7 missile, made by
Lockheed, strictly a research
item and not designed as a wea
pon in itself. The Pentagon would
not confirm the reports^
The highest speed heretofore
reported for a test missile was
8000 miles an hour.
Speed tests of the 3-stage Xl7
have been conducted as a part
of research into the heat prob
lem encountered when the nose
cone of a ballistic missile re-en
ters the earth’s atmosphere after
arching into space.
tion in the appropriation to Penn
sylvania local governments in
the amount of $11,300,000.”