icl: r SPANISH ALLIANCE See Page 2 Latest Deadline in the State DaitiF j 12 PARTLY CLOUDY & WARMER PARTLY CLOUDY & WARMER VOL. LXI, No. 18-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1951 FOUR PAGES FOVT.iR PAGES.i~ihi Abdullah Killed EnteringMosque Assassination of King of Jordan Brings About New Eastern Crisis JERUSALEM-(o)-King Abdullah of Jordan, a power in the war and peace councils of the Arab world, was shot yesterday by an assassin in the section of Jerusalem he brought under his sway in the war with Israel. The Middle East, already in turmoil from oil and religious issues, thus faced a new crisis. THE 69-YEAR-OLD monarch was slain at the holiest of the holy Moslem shrines within his realm, at the entrance to the imposing Mosque of Omar, an ancient pile that raises its minarets over the dome Recess Korean Armistice * * * * * * * * * Col trols Bill Passed by House .. .. . All. 40 Moody Says U.S., Russia Now at War INDIANAPOLIS - (R) - U. S. Senator Blair Moody (D-Mich.) declared last night that "we are at war with Russia" and said we would make a colossal error to conclude the National Emergency with the end of the Korean fight- ing. The former Washington news- paperman, appointed to succeed the late Arthur H. Vandenberg, was principal speaker at a biennial state convention banquet of Hoo- sier Yousg Democrats. M * THERE IS A danger, he said, of a secret return to isolationism in Congress. "The one basic incontroverti- ble fact," said Senator Moody, "is that we are at war with Rus- sia and have been for several years." Then he added: Now that it has been quite clearly established - whether the cease-fire negotiations ultimately succeed or not-that our Joint Chiefs of Staff were right when they predicted that the Reds could not stand up against the sort of punishment that American men and American weapons were deal- ing out to them, that they would sue for peace, the question comes: "CAN WE TREAT the Korean conflict as an isolated incident? Can we consider its end-if it is now to end-as a conclusion of our national emergency? Dare we go on about our business-as-usual and relaxation-as-usual in a na- tion unworried and unthreatened? If we do that, we shall be mak- ing one of the colossal errors of history." Senator Moody said the "great question" is whether "this strange new kind of war nurtured in the Klemlin is to turn into a global atomic war, or whether in the end we are to be able to force a change of policy in the Kremlin by dem- onstrating to them an attack on the United States or its allies would be suicide." Df the rock from which Koranic scripture says Mohammed rose to heaven on a white horse. The assasin was killed on the spot by Abdullah's bodyguard. Informed British sources identi- fied the assassin as Mustafa Sha- kir and said he was a known ter- rorist who had contacts in the past with the exiled former Mufti of Jerusalem, now living in Cairo. President Truman sent a mes- sage of sympathy to Prince Tal- al, son of the Jordan King. Mr. Truman said in his mes- sage: "I have been deeply moved to learn of the sudden and tragic death of your father, King Abdul- lah. His name will live as one of the great personages in the his- tory of the Arab peoples." * * * THE VIGOROUS, bearded king, 5 feet 4 tall, had been at odds with his Arab neighbor monarchs from time to time over the years. Ab- dullah was a First World War ally of Lawrence of Arabia and a pro- tege of Winston Churchill on the checkerboard of Mid-East politics. The Jordan radio in Abdul- lah's capital, Amman, announc- ed his 35-year-old second son, Emir (Prince) Naif was immedi-' ately named regent to rule over the 300,000 Jordan subjects. The Jordan rule also includes Old Jerusalem and a slice of Pal- estine won by Abdullah's British- supported Arab Legion in the war against the Israelis in the late 1940s. * a * ABDULLAH'S ELDEST s on, Emir Tallal, 40, was replaced tem- porarily in the line of succession because of a nervous or mental, ailment The radio said Emir Naif had taken the oath as regent in parlia- nent at Amman, a dusty little capital more than 1,000 years older than Christ. Abdullah's assassination was the second involving Jordan within a week. Riad El Solh, Lebanon's ex-pre- mier and strong man in the wars for Lebanese independence, was slain in Amman after a visit and inner last weekend with Abdul-{ ah. The three assassins were dentified as semi-Fascist Syrian- lebanese nationalists who stalked El Solh to Abdullah's capital. One was killed by an Arab Legion of- ficer, another killed himself and ;he third escaped. One of Abdullah's last acts was i speech condemning the assassi- nation as a political instrument. Billion Dollar Floods Still Uncontrolled Mississippi Sets 107-Year Record By The Associated Press The muddy Missouri rammed it biggest flood crest in more than a century to within a few miles o the swollen Mississippi last night leaving behind at least 27 deac and a billion dollars in damages. It battered down dike after dike as it completed its paralyzing jour- ney across the state from Kansa City, which suffered the heaviest blow from flood waters that poured down off the Kansas plains last week. WITH ITS dike-smashing blows, the untameable Missouri flattened our for miles across the country- side. At points it was five miles wide. Its crest passed St. Charles, Mo., the last town of any size be- tween it and its juncture with the Mississippi, yesterday and was expected to push the Missis- sippi up to 40.5 feet here by mid- night. That would be the highest mark for the river since 1844. Most of St. Louis, on high ground, was out of the flood dan- ger zone. But precautions were tak- en here against a water shortage and contamination of the sip-1ly Even as the Missouri neared its tumultuous rendezvous with the Mississippi, the 300 residents of West Alton at the juncture refused to leave their homes in the face of crumbling levees. Water stood three-feet in some of the houses. The Coast Guard stood by ready for rescue work. Thousands of additional acres were flooded there as most of the dikes went out. Already nearly 60,- 000 acres were out in that area. Altogether 1,500,00 acres of crop- land has been inundated between Kansas City and here. MEANWHILE, R. H. Musser, Re- gional Director for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service in the upper Mississippi, estimated agricultural damage in Missouri from the flood will exceed $100,000,000. Dramatic battles against the churning flood waters still were being fought from Jefferson City east to St. Louis. At New Haven, a town of 1,000 about 50 miles west of here, a ter- rific fight was being waged to save the business district. All the towns- people have joined in the struggle against the river. MEANWHILE, IN Washington, Chief of Army Engineer, Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick told a Senate sub- committee that a flood control project already planned would have cost less than one-third of the possible billion dollars in dam- age caused by the flood in the past week. While he said he didn't want to make a prediction, he added, "It looks like this is a billion dollar flood." He said losses already had been conservately estimated at $875,000,000 with more to come around St. Louis. Pick said that planned flood- control projects estimated to cost $300,000,000 "would have enabled us to keep the flood waters of the Kansas River and its tributaries under control." Semi-Victory Won By Administration WASHINGTON-(')-The House early today passed a new eco- nomic controls bill with Administration forces dramatically snatching partial victory in a sudden and unexpected reversal of past defeats. Final passage came on a rollcall vote of 323 to 92. THE BILL, which extends controls in modified form for one year, now goes to a Senate-House conference to settle conflicts in the sep- Oarately passed versions. Substandard Housing rW orld News Roundup By The Associated Press HONG KONG - The Peiping radio announced yesterday seizure July 18 of all property of three American oil companies in Red China. The companies were Standard! Vacuum, Caltex, Ltd., and Chung Mei Cathay Oil Co. WASHINGTON-The Senate Crime Committee said yesterday a witness in its probe of Atlantic City gambling had become the target of a death threat. It promptly enlisted the aid of the FBI. The witness, Francis L. Smith, appeared before the committee shortly after disclosure of the warning that he would be "rub- bed out" if he testified. The Senate has already passed an eight-month extension. It differs in many respects from the House bill. Weary legislators staggered from the floor following passage -at 12:05 a.m., after 14 solid hours of gruelling see-saw battle in the fi- nal showdown. The House had been in contin- uous session since 10 a.m. yester- day. A LAST-MINUTE Republican motion to send the bill back to committee for further study was defeated by a vote of 299 to 117. It was made by Rep. Cole (R-Kan) a top leader in the anti-Adminis- tration bloc. Although it also suffered se- vere setbacks in the showdown voting, the Administration suc- ceeded in beating: 1. An amendment forbidding price ceilings unless they permit- ted businessmen to make a "rea sonable profit" on every line of goods they handle. 2. An amendment denying the I NEW YORK--International fi- Administration power to impose nancier Serge Rubinstein, accused n of would deprive meat of swindling millions from inves- processors of a profit on any line tors, was acquitted yesterday on of meat. charges of mail fraud and Securi- 3. Another amendment "freez- SUBSTANDARD HOUSING-These two pictures of servicemen's housing are part of the interim report on substandard housing and rent gouging of military personnel by the preparedness sub- committee of the Senate committee on armed services. At top is "The Bor," a tiny shack in the Camp Breckinridge, Ky., area. Divided into two rooms, it rents for $20 a month to a sergeant, his wife and child. At bottom is the "Bottle House," constructed of whiskey bottles, beer cans, oil cans and mortar. A corporal and his family of three pay $20 a month rent. Japanese TreatySigning Planned for- September alks COMMUnists Gain Delav UntilJuly 25 Decision Ends EighthSession MUNSAN, Korea -()--Crucial armistice conferences at Kaesong were recessed today until July 25 at the request of the Coinmunists. This following official announce- ment was released: "The conferees recessed this morning at 11:03 a.m. (8:03 p.m. yesterday, Ann Arbor Timex. At 11:30 a.m. the conference recon- vened. At 11:38 a.m. the meeting ended. Admiral- Joy stated, the Communist delegation asked for a recess until 25 July and Ad- miral Joy agreed to this request." In Tokyo, General Headquarters distributed this official release and then asked that it be "killed." A few minutes later, after con- siderable pressure from news agen- cies, the kill order was lifted. * * * EARLIER dispatches told of United Nations delegates leaving by helicopter for Kaesong and the crucial armistice meeting with the Reds. War or peace in Korea seemed to hinge on one issue-a Com- munist demand for agreement now on the question of with- drawing foreign troops from the mountainous, ravaged peninsula. The Allies have insisted this question is political and cannot be a condition for a military cease- fire. It was the eighth meeting of the Allied and Red delegations. Yesterday's session was postponed after flooded streams prevented the UN-five member group from reaching Kaesong. by jeeps. A motor convoy left for Kae- song with other personnel of the Allied delegation, including cor- respondents. Swollen creeks along the 15-mile road had subsided. AN ALLIED source said "there is no great reason for optimism" on the possibility of settling the issue of withdrawnig troops from Korea. Even if this issue is solved, it will not mean a cease-fire, but merely an agreement on what sub- jects to discuss in seeking a cease- fire. In Washington, Secretary of State Acheson made it clear that United Nations troops would remain in Korea "until a gen- uine peace has been firmly es- tablished . .. He addeds "The size of the United Nations forces remaining in Korea will depend upon circumstances and, particularly, upon the faithfulness with which an armistice is carried out." THE EIGHTH sesson of the talks might well be the make-or- break meeting, it was thought. An Allied spokesman has said either an agenda would be completed or there would be "an air of finality about disagreement." The Communists claim that only by withdrawing all foreign troops can peace be guaranteed. The Allies claim that question is purely political and has no place in present talks on a military level. Since July 10, five-man teams of Red and Allied negotiators have sought to agree on an agen- do-the skeleton framework for future discussions on how to stop the fighting after 56 weeks of war. The fact that only the one issue remained suggested agreement on such other agenda subjects as: when a cease-fire would go into effect; setting up of a buffer zone; exchanging prisoners; and inspec- tion behind each other's lines. * *p * MEANWHILE, the Korean war was weathered in Friday. Rains cut sharply into air operations, Bombers, sighting targets by radar through heavy clouds, attacked railroad yards in North Korea but were unable to observe results. The biggest ground action re- ported was between attacking Al- ties Law violations. THE GLASSY STARE: Businessman Blinks as Pigeon Dions Pince-,Nez FLORENCE, Italy-Rosa Man- cini, identified as a niece of the late Fascist Dictator Benito Mus- solini, last night was sentenced to a year and seven months in prison and fined 37,000 lire ($59) for cir- culating forged Allied currency. Hohenzollern Heir IsDead HECHINGEN, Germany-Crown Prince Friederich Wilhelm, frus- trated eldest son of Kaiser Wil- helm II of World War I, died yes- terday at his little villa-far re- moved from the Berlin palace he hoped to occupy as emperor of a new Imperial Germany. The heir-apparent of Germany's last Kaiser died after a long ill- ness, within sight of an 80-room Hohenzollern Castle he lacked the money to live in. He was 69. A specialist listed arterial sclero- sis as the cause of death. A great grandson of England's Queen Victoria, Wilhelm lived out two of the most destructive wars in history and two shattering Ger- man defeats. One of the hardest blows of his life came in the battle of Verdun, in World War I. Marshal Henri Phillippe Petain, now a dying old man, declared "they shall not pass" and the Germans, nominally under the Crown Prince's com- mand, did not. The Crown Prince came to the French zone recently to live in seclusion after the Russians occu- pied the vast Hohenzollern es- tates in Brandenburg at the end of World War IT. A Prussian flag-a black spread eagle on a white background- fluttered at half mast over the lonely villa. ing price and wage ceilings for 120 days, except on farm prod- ucts and rents. Administration men had said this freeze, by preventing the cor- rection of "inequities," would deal the whole control system a death blow. Backers of the freeze said, on the other hand, that it meant a real halt to inflation, pendingI study of further steps. IN AN EARLIER vote, the House plumped for relaxed credit curbs on new and used autos, household appliances and homes. It went further than the Admin- istration wanted in this direction. It agreed to permit auto pay- ments to be spread over 21 months, instead of 15 as at pres- ent. The down payment on new cars would be changed to 25 percent instead of one-third. The chamber decided to lower down payments on household ap- pliances, including television sets, to 15 percent from the present 25 percent. Payments c o u 1 d be spread ovcr 18 instead of 15 months, and trade-ins could apply toward the down payment. On homes, purchasers would be required to pay only 10 per cent down on homes costing up to $10,000 if -the House version is accepted by the Senate and signed by President Truman. Present down payments range from 10 per cent on homes costing less than $5,000 to 50 per cent on high-priced residences. ANTI-ADMINISTRATION vic- tories included: 1. A 234-183 vote to reaffirm an earlier decision to limit farm price rollbacks, including beef, to 10 per cent of the May 19 price. If enact- ed into law, this will ban two pro- jected beef price rollbacks of 4 12 WASHINGTON-UP)-The Uni- ted States today invited 50 na- tions, including Soviet Russia, to join in signing the Japanese peace treaty at a conference opening September 4 at San Francisco. Conspicuously missing from the1 invitation list were both the Com- munist and Nationalist govern- ments of China, and Italy. Also Disclose Plans For U.S. Air Bases in Spain LONDON--UP)-Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, U. S. Chief of Naval Op- erations, told British military leaders today of American plans for air and naval bases in Spain. The people of Britain appear sharply divided on the issue. Both the labor government and French, have denounced General- issimo Franco's regime as Fascist, and strongly oppose any close American ties with Spain. Much of the conservative press, while branding Franco a dicta- tor, has supported the American move. The labor press opposes it. In Paris, the French foreign of- fice said Franco's shakeup of his cabinet does not alter France's op- position to U. S. bases in Spain. The French, along with the Bri- tish, say that proposed U. S. bases omitted were South Korea and three new French-sponsored states of Indochina. C * RUSSIA, which has denounced both the proposed "peace of re- conciliation" and the manner in which the terms were worked out, is expected to refuse to sign. It is considered possible nevertheless that Moscow might send delegates to the conference to attack the' treaty. Japan will have the right aft- er the treaty goes into effect to make peace separately with the nations which fail to sign at San Francisco China was left out to avoid a showdown between the United States and Britain over whether the Nationalists or Communists should be invited. Italy, a late entrant in the World War II lineup against Ja- pan, was ignored because officials deemed it inappropriate for a for-j mer Axis partner to make peace on the same terms as the nations which began fighting at the time of Pearl Harbor. A "final text" of the treaty is to be issued August 13 after prospec- tive signers have had an additional opportunity to press for changes. President Truman today ap- pointed a 10-man delegation to represent the United States at the signing. Chief delegates are Sec- retary of State Acheson, Ambassa- dor John Foster Dulles, Republi- can adviser to the State Depart- ment who handled treaty negotia- tions, Senator Connally (D-Tex.) and Senator Wiley (R-Wis.). NEW YORK-OP)-There are all kinds of pigeons in New York- fat ones, thin ones, old ones, young ones, beggars and clowns. But there's never been a pigeon before like the one over on Broad- way. He wears glasses. That's right, glasses-the kind you wear to see better. HE SHOWED UP July 11 on the window sill of Selby L. Turner's seventh floor Broadway office. Selby, an insurance man, was dictating a letter. He stopped dic- tating, of course. He didn't say anything at first. There just didn't seem to be and'thing to say. Finally, he asked his secretary to please take a look out the win- dow and tell him what she saw. She said she saw a pigeon wear- ing glasses, "Thank god," was Selby's first reaction. "He doesn't wear them exactly where he would if pigeons wore glasses," Mrs. Cassano explained seriously. "He holds them in his beak. But in such a way that he can peer through them with his eyes." Red Students Raise Degrees MOSCOW-P-A great "sha- shlik scandal" broke in the Soviet Union. Certain officials, said the Gov- ernment newspaper Izvestia, have been exchanging the makings of shashlik for diplomas in a central Asian agricultural school - lambs for sheepskin, in effect. per cent each set for Aug. 1 and in Spain, with the assistance that Oct. 1. is bound to follow, will weaken the 2. A 249-167 vote to ban Federal mutual confidence of the Atlantic livestock marketing quotas. Pact partners. ON IRSA.Q-RUSSIA N BORDER: Cameron Heads Group Studying Kurdish Life i .