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U. S. Steel Sales to Near East
Threaten -Haifa Oil Line's Life
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
David Ben-Gurion
Due to Return to
Israel Leadership
Direct Jewish News Teletype Wires from JTA and
Special Correspondents
Histadrut Fights Disease:A
Yeme-
nite woman being examined for trachoma by a doctor_ of
Kupat Holim, Histadrut Medical Service, at a reception center
near Athlit. The dread eye diSease of the East must alWays be
guatcled against in view of the steady influx of Near East
migrants to the Jewish State.
Contrary to a United Press report
on Wednesday morning that Pinhas
Rosen, Minister of Justice and head of
the Progressive Party, had succeeded
in forming a new coalition government
to be headed by David-Ben-Gurion, the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported to
The Jewish News at noon on Wednes-
day that Mr. Rosen had returned his
mandate to President Chaim Weizmann
and that his efforts at reorganizing the
government had failed.
From all indications, however, Mr.
Ben-Gurion soon will be back at the
helm of Israel's government and the
crisis is due to be solved within a few
days.
Upon receiving the report from Dr.
Rosen that he had failed to bridge
divergencies between parties, he was
thanked by President Weizmann who
made plans to receive leaders of other
pa-rties during-the mining few days for
further consultations on the situation.
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As Old As Bnai. Brith: As Bnai Brith
observes its 107th anniversary, birthday candles are lit by
HARRY GANN, who recently celebrated his own 107th birth-
day at the Hebrew Home for Aged in Washington, D. C.,
where he is a life member of Bnai Brith's Argo Lodge. With
-him is one of- the youngest members of Bnai Brith's family,
-SAM SLONIN, 16, a member of Wilner Chapter-of AZ,A in
the Nation's Capital.
Minister of Justice Rosen had attempted
to effect a compromise between Premier
Ben-• Gurion'S Labor Party and the religious
bloc on issues which precipitated the crisis
betwetn the coalition partners, with the
objective of establishing a stable govern-
ment and thereby eliminating the need for
new parliamentary elections. Dr. Rosen told
a press conference c in Jerusalem on Tues-
day' that he was unable to state whether or
not the situation had become worse since
the orthodox , group was standing film on
its religious demands. If his efforts fail—
as they are reported to have failed on We&
nesday morning—he said he would be un-
able to continue with his negotiations.
Members of the Mapai political com-
mittee and parliamentary group met in a
four-hour session Tuesday night to con-
sider the situation. It was disclosed by
spokesmen for the group that the meeting
had adopted a final provision on the Cab-
Met crisis reaffirming the coalition's pro-
gram of March, 1949, as well as recent
decisions on economic policy announced to
the Knesset.
Mapai asserted that unless a stable
government is established by next week
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WASHINGTON — An American steel
shipment is on its way to the Near East for
the construction of an oil pipeline which
will by-pass the Haifa refineries and permit
oil from the fields of Iraq to flow to the
eastern Mediterranean without passing
through Israel territory, the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency learned Tuesday. The line
would duplicate facilities presently terminat-
ing in Haifa.
This shipment, the existence of which
was admitted by the Commerce Department -
only after repeated inquiries by the JTA will
aid the Arab economic boycott of the Jewish
state. Completion of the new line would
practically kill all hopes of ever reopening
the existing pipeline to Haifa and would
have a disastrous effect on the future opera-
tions of the Haifa refineries, now operating
at one-thirthcapacity because of the boycott.
Although the Commerce Department
originally denied the fact that American steel
was enroute to the Near East, State De-
partment sources and officials of the Con-
solidated. Western Steel Corporation of
Maywood, Calif., admitted to the JTA that
the first shipment left Long Beach, Calif., on.
Sept. 27 aboard the S. S. Middlesex Trader.
The shipment was covered by a Commerce
Department license issued to the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey, according to of-.
ficials of. Western _Consolidated Steel. '
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When the Commerce Department changed
its story it admitted that 15,000 tons of steel had
already_ been shipped. Other government sources
said that other Commerce Department licenses
will eventually cover the export of 50,000 tons
of steel for the construction of a 30-inch pipeline
from the Kirkuk fields of Iraq to Banias, Syria—
a total of 555 miles. Allocation of steel for the
projected Near Eastern pipeline means that the
United States—the only manufacturer of this
size pipe—is committed to the export of 190,000
tons of steel needed to complete the project.
State Department sources said -the U. S. de-
sires that the flow of Arab oil be expedited to At-.
lantic pact countries. This indicates approval
for the project despite Arab refusal to resume
the flow of oil through the Haifa line.
Texas oil men nave pointed out that the steel
involved in the proposed duplicate line would
make possible the drilling of 4,800 oil wells in
this country. It might also be used, they said,
for the completion of the West Texas-California
pipeline for which steel allocations have been
held up since the outbreak of the Korean war . -
Sources indicated that the arrangements for
the pipe line were made with the Iraq Petroleuni
Co., Standard Oil of New Jersey and Socony
Vacuum, French interests, and Shell Oil.
Largest Jewish Assembly in History of U.S. Opens Today
Hon.. Abba Eban
Eliezer Kaplan
Leon Keyserling
The most important and representative assembly of Jews to be held
in the United States in the past decade, opens today •at the Statler Hotel
in Washington, D. C. More than 1,000 delegates, representing the leader-
ship of 42 national Jewish organizations and more than 500 Jewish corn-
munities throughout the country are participating in the National Plan-
ning Conference for Israel and Jewish Rehabilitation.
Evidence of the importance which the Government of Israel attaches
•to the Washington meeting is the fact that despite the present political
crisis, both Finance Minister. Eliezer Kaplan and Labor Minister Golda
Hon. John W. Snyder
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Hon. Golda Myerson
Myerson have made a special trip here to participate in the National Plan-
ning Conference. The other leaders from Israel who will address the meet-
ing are Ambassador Abba Eban ; Berl Locker, chairman, and Levi Echkol,
treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal.
Joining with the Israeli leaders in the deliberations will be some of
American's most distinguished personalities, including John W. Snyder,
United States Secretary of the Treasury, and Leon Keyserling, chairman
of President Truman's Council of Economic. Advisers.