United States Stages Show off Force
In Hopes off Averting War in Mid -East
Washington (U.RJ The Unit
ed States today staged a show
. of military and diplomatic force
in hopes of averting a major
conflict in Jordan that could
draw this country into a Mid-
. east war.
As the powerful U.S. 6th Fleet
steamed under secret orders to
ward the eastern Mediterranean,
urgent diplomatic warnings were
sent to Israel and Arab countries
not to capitalize on Jordan's in
ternal throes.
Long-standing American fears
that Jordan's neighbors might
try to carve up the tiny Mid
East kingdom in event of its
internal breakup were revived
by the Jordan government crisis
. and maneuverings of Syria,
Egypt and other Mid-East na-
. tions.
. Fleet 'Calming Influence
Although the 6th Fleet is one
' of the most powerful afloat,
equipped with ultra-modern
weapons and presumably atomic
arms, its movement does not im
ply U. S. armed involvement in
the Mid-East. Rather, officials
said, it is being sent as a "calm
ing" influence and to evacuate
U. S. citizens from the area if
necessary.
Leaders of Congress
ened. Democrats and Republi
cans who conferred with Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
at the State Department Thurs
day, or by telephone at their
homes, were told there is "no
alarm as cf now" that large
scale fighting will break out in
the Mid-East.
Senate Republican Leader
William F. Knowland (Calif.)
who met with Dulles Thursday,
said congressional leaders prob
ably will meet early next week
with administration officials un
less there is need for an emer
gency meeting before then. Con
gress is due to return from its
Easter recess Monday.
Adm. Arthur W. Radford,
chairman of the joint chiefs of
staff, left on a three-week fly
ing tour of Latin America Thurs
day night saying as he departed,
"Normally I would not leave if
things were very, very serious." r
But Sen. Mike Mansfield (D
Mont.), the acting Senate Demo
cratic leader, said in a grave
and carefully-worded statement
that events are "building up to
a showdown in Jordan" and "it
is quite possible that this coun
try will become involved if
events are not brought under
control."
". . . All the ingredients of a
major war are incorporated into
the Middle East area," he said.
Back Stairs: Ike May Extend Vacation
BY MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press White House Writer
Agusta, Ga. (U.R) Backstairs
at the spring White House:
If the good weather holds
down here in Georgia, Presi
dent Eisenhower may extend his
spring vacation into next week.
The expectation had been that
he would return to Washington
next Sunday, but the word from
the heavily-guarded Augusta Na
tional Golf Club where Ike and
Mamie are having a holiday is
that the President may stay after
Sunday.
The President is somewhat be
mused, even a little astonished at
were! the loral comDlinatinns invnlvpH
placed on stand-by notice that in his visit. His' staff and ao
they would be summoned quick- companying reporters and photo
ly if the Jordan situation wors-1 graphers live at the Bon Air
Amended Key District
Bill Recommended by
Education Committee
Salem (U.R) The controver
sial key district bill was unani
mously voted to the floor of the
House late Thursday with the
favorable recommendation of
the House Education Committee
It was substantially changed
from the Senate version of the
bill so as to be more acceptable
to Portland and eastern Oregon,
Senate bill 64, which already
has passed the upper House, calls
for a new method of distributing
to school districts money from
the state basic school support
fund.
Expected To Work
House Education . Chairman
Joe Rogers, Independence Demo
crat, said the new formula would
work no matter how much of a
raise was made in the basic
school support; fund.
"This bill has been amended
so it won't hurt any school dis
trict badly," Rogers added. Pur
pose of the bill is to equalize
costs of education throughout the
state.
The House Education Commit
tee held more than a half-dozen
hearings on the bill before the
chief objections to it were re
moved. At the last hearing. Rep.
John Mosser, Portland Republi
can, amended the bill so that
would be based on 50 per cent
assessed valuation and 50 per
cent key district millage.
In the original Senate bill, dis
tribution of money would have
been based on the ability of
school districts to meet educa
tion standards set by Portland,
the key district.
The amended bill would go
into effect at the start of the
next school year.
The State Department of Edu
cation has estimated that if basic
school support were raised to
$90, Portland would lose about
$900,000 a year under the
amended bill. It would have lost
some $2,750,000 in state aid un
der the Senate version of the
bill.
Another important piece of
school legislation providing text
books to private and parochial
schools even though they are
conditionally standard schools
by State Department of Educa
tion regulations, passed the
House with only seven negative
votes.
At present, both standard and
conditionally standard public
schools receive free textbooks,
but conditionally standard pri
vate schools do not.
The bill now goes to the gov-j
Hotel not far from the golf club,
One of the hotel's chief sources
of income in conventions. And
a big one is coming up Sunday
a district gathering of Rotary
Club members, 800 of 'em.
They're booked into the Bon
Air and the manager, Ralph
Breshears, is in a jam. The White
House party, including press,
radio, pictures and television
and the President's own person
nel, takes up about 60 rooms.
If the President remains here
beyond Sunday, Breshears has
a problem of placating Rotar
ians with confirmed reserva
tions, or giving the boot to some
of his best paying customers, the
group from Washington.
Louis C. Harris, executive-editor
of the Augusta Chronicle
Herald, suggested in a column
last Sunday that the hotel might
borrow some tents from nearby
Fort Gordon and move the White
House party under canvas come
Sunday night.
Harris in an open letter to the
President, pleaded the case of
the hotel manager.
"What's he gonna do ,with the
White House boys Sunday
night?" Harris wrote the Pres
ident. "They occupy 60 rooms.
And, if he (the manager) follows
his heart and caters to them,
how's he going to placate a
bunch of irate Rotarians? He
may find himself a victim of the
Rotary wheel."
The hotel manager was deep
ly grateful for Harris' sympathy,
but he no sooner had read the
column than he began to hear
from members of the White
House party. Was this sort of an
implied invitation to Mr. Eisen
hower to move out of town so
his camp fellowers could make
room for a convention?
Harris vowed to the contrary.
He loves the President and thinks
his trips here have done a lot
for Augusta. He was merly hav
ing fun in print.
But in the meantime, the Pres
ident saw the column and began
to discuss it with his friends out
at the golf club. He was some
what, surprised that he, even by
implication, was in any way res
ponsible for the living conditions
of the people who move with
him.
distribution of school money ernor for signature
The situation, however well in
tentioned in, the' beginning, be
gan to get out of hand. Some
of the town's more prominent
citizens offered their spare bed
rooms. The Army was ready with
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But Breshears solved every
thing as the Rotarians were pack-1
ing and heading for Augusta. He
informed the White House that
it would be possible to "relocate"
some of the civic club members
and personally, he hoped Mr.
Eisenhower stayed here until
June. It has been in the SOs here
this week, but it really gets hot
in June.
Local Man Sentenced
To County Jail Term
Donald Babcock, 27, of 1427
Lawnridge drive, Medford, was
sentenced to six months in the
county jail today after pleading
guilty in district court to a
charge of petty larceny.
A previous charge against
Babcock, larceny in a building,
was dismissed by District Judge
James Main after a motion for
dismissal by District Attorney
Thomas Reeder.
Babcock's sentence was to be
suspended upon good behavior
after seven days.
John Fry, 70, Lake hotel, Med
ford, was given a six-month
county jail sentence Thursday
after pleading guilty in district
court to a charge of petty larceny.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The latest from Jordan as
this is written on Wednesday.
Violence broke loose today.
Mobs backing the anti-government
left-wing forces (that is,
mobs recruited and fired up by
Kremlin agents) surged through
the streets of Amman the tiny
capital of the tiny Jordanian
kingdom battling police and
screaming anti-Western slogans.
Jordan army tanks and troops
ringed the city and other troops
have moved in to keep the dem
onstrations from turning into a
revolt. A heavy guard has sur
rounded the palace of ' young
King Hussein, who is anti-communist.
AT the moment of writing this,
Joe Morris, UP correspond
ent, is crouched near a window
in the main cable office in Am
man dictating into the phone a
running account of the violence
brewing in the streets below.
He says:
"Through the half-closed steel
shutters I can see an Arab
soldier in combat uniform with
his face painted black an Arab
sign that they will shoot to kill.
I can see a fat agitator address
ing a crowd of at least a thou
sand from a balcony. He is de
manding the return of General
Ali Nuwah, the pro-communist
army chief who was fired by
King Hussein a couple of weeks
ago. .. . ' r '
"The crowd listens in silence,
then breaks into cheers and
chants, taking up the refrain:
DOWN WITH EISENHOWER
DOWN WITH THE EISEN
HOWER DOCTRINE."
T does it all mean?
means this:
In the little kingdom of Jor
dan presently the most strate
gic spot in the strategic Middle
East an effort is being made
by the Kremlin communists to
SET UP ANOTHER RUSSIAN
SATELLITE.
What is happening In Amman
is the spit and image of what
happened in Prague when the
communists made a Russian
satellite out of Czechoslovakia.
In estimating the importance of
what is going on, we must re
member that no satellite has
ever yet got out from under the
Russian heel once the Russian j
heel was firmly placed on the
satellite's neck.
Communism plays for keeps.
VirHY does Russia want another
" satellite in the Middle East
(Syria, to all intents and pur
poses, is already a Russian
satellite)?
The answer is simple:
Russia wants the Middle East
as a further step in her program
to conquer the world for com
munism. The Middle East has
GREAT strategic value.
ONE more question:
Why are WE so interested?
Again the answer is simple.
The basic purpose ,of 'the
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Chicago (U.R) A University
of Illinois professor of electri
cal engineering today discussed
the possibility of using sound
to treat cancer.
The professor, William J. Fry,
has found a way to pinpoint
beams of high frequency sound
so they destroy animal brain
tissue. He claims the sound can
be focused so accurately that it
kills nerve tissue but does not
touch neighboring vessels.
Fry's $00,000 machine now
will go to the University of Iowa,
where it will be tried on human
volunteers.
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offices at Republican and Demo
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blocks apart, were' looted the
same day.
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