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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER IV, 1955 PAGE SIXTEEN Odds Favor Arms Sale Rejection WASHINOTON Ml The odds of U. S. law and foreign policy are strongly against approval ' of IRC qUlUIL V. UV'J" , " " J . ... of weapons which Israel is asking- . ,. How. much armament' she may be permitted to buy under cash terms -required by law has not vet been decided. That matter is under study by ofilci'als ot the Treasury, State and Defense departments.- Officials raid they ex pected no precipitate decision. Secretary of Defense Wilson told liis news conference yesterday his department will "carry out promptly" whatever decision is reached by Pi esident . Elsenhower and the state Department. He said he had not yei, seen the list of re quested arms, wnich Israeli Am bassador Abba Eban presented to the State Department yesterday. The total cost, kinds and amounts of arms asked by Israel was a closely held secret. But the total was known to run Into the tens of -millions of dollars and to - cover antitank, antiaircraft and tubmarine killing equipment. . Eban would say only that his itemized list was in "msrseaiy lesser quantity" than Egypt's re sorted so million dollar deal with r Communist Czechoslovakia for 100 to 200 MIG15 Jet planes, a like number of heavy tanks and six submarines along with assorted ar tillery and ammunition. No sooner had Israel submitted her list yesterday than Egyptian Ambassador . Aiimea Hussein ar rived at the State, Department, to protest,- . , 1 - This icountry has gone no far ther 'thus far than . to promise "sympathetic consideration" of any arms: request Israel might make. . , . Israel Is eligible 1o receive-U.S. military equipment under the 1848 Mutual Defense Assistance Act. But, the specified terms, to which Israel agreed in 1853, are cash on the barrelhead.. Since 1852 about a million dollars in military goods, principally radios, and ether signal equipment, nave been sold by the United States to. Israel. She. Is not now eligible for free arms under this country's foreign aid program. Eban's appeal mphaslzed- -Is rael would like a deal which would provide weapons at "a most len ient' consideration of credit and price" .; , .. Egypt Turns Up Hose To UN Plan JERUSALEM Iff Sources close io uie israeu government said to, day Egypt has rejected U. N. pro posals for. easing tension around Ibe EI Aula .demilitarised zone. Israel has -not yet given a for mal reply to tne proposals made early this month by u. N. Sec retary General Dag Hammarskjold but: a, spokesman last week said the' Israeli government would sup port them. Tension in the demilitarized zone along the Negev-Slnai desert bor der area flared two weeks ago into Ihe bloodiest fighting since the end of the Palestine War. MaJ.,Oen. E. L. M. Burns, U.N. chief truce supervisor, returned from Cairo early this week but made no. announcement on the out come of his talks with Egyptian leaders. .... Details of the U. N. proposals have never been announced. '. The diplomatic correspondent of t lie. English-language, Jerusalem Post, whose articles 'often closely reflect the government view, said today the U. N, plan included: 1. Completion of the marking of the Stnal-Ncgev frontier. 2. ; Further withdrawal of military forces of both sides, in effect broadening the buffer zone. 3. A general return to the cease fire and zone conditions of the 1948 armistice. That agreement provided a whol ly demilitarised triangle 14 miles long and four miles deep on the Israeli side of Palestine's old International- frontier and a "defense rone" of limited site and guard posts on the Egyptian zone. . Previous reports have said the Israelis were willing to withdraw their troops from the tone, but in ' slst on keeping police In the area where many Israelis have settled. Egypt was said to have objected to any plan for keeping Israeli police In the zone, charging they were troops In disguise and a ma jor factor la recent border out Weyerhaeuser To Vote Split TACOMA I.H Stockholders of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. will vote Dec. 2 whether to split each of the company's 6.250.000 common slock into four shares. The plan was announced Wednes day by J. P. Weyerhaeuser Jr., Tacoma, president of the company. The stock has a par value ol $25 and the new shares would have a Par value of 17.60 each. The stock Is selling for approximately $iso on the market. Directors voted to pav a fourth quarter dividend of 83 cents a share and a year-end extra divi dend ot sl.60. 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