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THE EVENING STAR
Washington, D C.
THraSDAT. OCTOBER 29, 1933
Agency 'Set to Go'
To Give Economic
Help to Israel
By Garnett D. Horner
Foreign Operations Adminis
tration officials said today they
were “all set to go” in supplying
economic aid to Israel under a
$26-million grant that quickly
lollowed Israeli agreement to co
operate with the United Nations
to solve a Jordan River dispute.
President Eisenhower was “de
lighted” and other administra
tion officials breathed sighs of
relief at the smoothing over of
an international crisis that had
threatened domestic political re
percussions in New York.
' Secretary of State Dulles an
nounced the $26-million grant to
Israel late yesterday, just eight
days after he had confirmed that
the program was being held up
because Israel was defying a
United Nations agent’s decision
about Jordan River develop
ment.
Suspended for Month.
Actually, officials made clear,
the Israeli aid program had been
suspended for about a month.
The suspension followed a
finding on September 23 by Gen.
Vagn Bennike, chief of staff of
the U. N. group supervising the
Israeli-Arab armistice, that an
Israeli power project on the
Jordan River jeopardized Syria’s
Interests.
Mr. Dulles recalled in a state
ment yesterday that Gen. Ben
nike asked Israel to stop work
on this project “pending some j
arrangement which would insure
in its conformity with the Israel- ■
Syria armistice agreement,” and
that Israel “did not meet Gen.
Bennike’s request.”
Israel agreed Tuesday, how
ever, to stop the work in the j
demilitarized zone between Israel
and Syria pending consideration
of the matter by the U. N. Se
curity Council.
Assured of Co-operation.
Mr. Dulles also noted—and a
State Department spokesman
called special attention to this
portion of his statement—that
Israel’s spokesman assured the
Council his government “would
in the future co-operate with
the council’s efforts to reach a
solution, taking account of all
legitimate interests.”
Mr. Dulles concluded that
American policy “to support the
United Nations truce supervision
organization m this matter has
thus been realized and the im
pediment to the present grant of
economic aid to Israel has been
removed ”
The Secretary announced he ,
was recommending to President |
Eisenhower that Israel be granted 1
approximately $26 million for the
first six months of the current
fiscal year. Gen. Eisenhower’s
appoval was a foregone conclu
sion, since he had told a news
conference earlier that it had
been decided to resume aid to
Israel.
Previously Earmarked.
Mr. Dulles said the $26 million
figure was the amount which
previously had been tentatively
earmarked for Israel in agree
ment with FOA Director Harold 1
Stassen. FOA officials said they
were in position to go forward
immediately with procurement
of various supplies to be shipped
to Israel under the program since
detailed plans for portion of the I
program had been worked out j
before the recent suspension. ]
Mr. Dulles said programs for
economic aid to Israel’s Arab
neighbors also are “in an ad
vanced state of formulation, and
it is expected that some of them
can shortly be announced.”
Agent Can't Give Away
20,000 Tons otßulter
ly the Associated Press
LONDON. Oct. 29.—R. C.
Bruce reported today he is hav- .
ing a tough time trying to get
butter-short Britain to take 1
20.000 tons of the stuff from the
United States as a gift.
Mr. Bruce said he represents
the New York firm of Coastwise
International. Inc., which is act
ing as agent for the United
States Government in giving
away surplus butter stocks
acquired under a price support
program.
He told reporters the British
Red Cross and the Women's
Voluntary Services, a charitable
organization, both turned the
gift down because they could not
afford the shipping and han
dling charge of 4 pence (about
a nickel> a pound.
Mr. Bruce said he still hopes
the government Food Ministry
will take the butter off his
hands. With 20,000 tons the
ministry could supply the whole
country for three weeks with the
present weekly ration of 4 ounces
a head.
"The ministry is studying the
matter.” said a spokesman.
Suicide Ruled in Death
Os Weather Bureau Aide
The death of Robert C. Al
dredge, chief Weather Bureau
librarian, was ruled a suicide yes
terday by Dr. A. Magruder Mac-
Donald, District coroner.
Mr. Aldredge. 48, was found
slumped in a chair at his desk
Tuesday with a bullet wound in
his right temple. He died an
hour later at Emergency Hos
pital.
Police said Mr. Aldredge had
been asked to resign and was
told that he faced suspension
pending a “routine” Commerce
Department investigation of his
job.
A 7.65-mm. German Maliser
found lying beside the chair in
which Mr. Aldredge shot himself
was checked by ballistics experts
at the Federal Bureau of Inves
tigation and was found to have
no connection with previous pol
ice cases. Lt. Lawrence Hartnett,
of the homicide squad said.
HOBBY SHOW AT EMERGENCY—A crocheted bride has her veil adjusted by Miss Nell Arm
strong of 2016 Thirty-second street S.E. at Em ergency Hospital’s first hobby show. Miss Arm
strong’s hobby is fine needlework. • —Star Staff Photo.
Churchill Wins Test
On Trieste, Now Plans
Five-Power Parley
ly th* Associated Press
LONDON, Oct. 29.—Britain’s
Conservative government stud
ied preliminary arrangements
for a five-power conference on
Trieste today after winning a
House of Commons vote of ap
proval for its handling of the
explosive issue.
Despite opposition charges of
bungling. Prime Minister
Churchill’s forces captured a 28-
vote majority on the ballot, tak
en last night at the close of a
lengthy debate. The vote was
296 to 268.
Foreign Minister Anthony
Eden told the House that the
most hopeful methods of dealing
with the bitter Italian-Yugoslav
dispute over the free territory
was a conference of the two dis
putants with France, Britain
and the United States.
Mr. Eden declared, however,
that Britain would stick by the
British-United States decision
to withdraw their occupation
troops from the territory’s Zone
A and turn it over to Italy.
Yugoslavia’s president, Marshal
Tito, whose forces occupy Tri
este’s Zone B, has threatened to
march troops into Zone A the
minute the Italians move in.
Opposition Laborlte spokes
men charged that in announcing
this plan, the two Western allies
had blundered to the point that
an armed fight might take place
between Italy and Yugoslavia
over possession of the strategic
Adriatic territory.
Montgomery Man Found
Shot to Death in Auto
The body of a 41-year-old in
surance man was found in the
front seat of his car near Rock
ville, Md„ yesterday with a bul
let wound in his head.
The dead man was John D.
Rice, a resident of this area
for about 12 years, according
to Montgomery County police.
Dr. Frank J. Broschart, coun
ty medical examiner, issued a
certificate of suicide.
Mr. Rice apparently had been
dead since Tuesday night. Dr.
Broschart said. A 22-caliber
rifle was clasped in his hands,
police reported.
The dead man was a native of
Big Stone Gap, Va.
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Sharks 1 Teeth Included in Show
By Emergency Hospital Staff
What the staff of Emergency
Hospital does in its spare time
went on exhibit yesterday.
The hospital’s first hobby show
was scheduled to continue
through today in the nurses’
home.
One nurse, for a hobby, makes
puppets, then dresses them up
to fit the characters of a story.
Another, Mrs. Gertrude Bux
baum, collects sharks’ teeth from
the shores of Chesapeake Bay.
A surgeon, Dr. William Lyons,
entered a model of a two-masted
schooner rigged with thin thread.
Building the ship must have been
quite an operation.
Another surgeon. Dr. Harry
Fish, turned in an example of
his handiwork. He relaxes in
his spare time by tooling leather
into fancy patterns.
First of Its Kind.
The hobby show is the first
of its kind in Washington. Al
most everybody in the hospital’s
“family”—even the child of a
nurse—entered something.
The X-ray men, Doctors
Henry Spencer and Edgar S.
McPeak, entered their favorite
hobby and took first prize in the
horticulture class. They raise
orchids.
The hospital’s chief dietician
admitted her only hobby was
raising a cat. So Mrs. Helen
Boyle entered Minnie, who judg
ing from her appearance, gets
the right cat food.
The collections include stamps,
paintings, marionettes, needle
work and even a couple of fish
in an aquarium.
One nurse has entered an
apple dessert she originated.
Race and Car Fire
Beat the Stork
Sy lh» Associated Press
DELTA, Mo.—Cletus N. Givens
sped toward the hospital at Cape
Girardeau, trying to beat the
stork. Then—
Fire broke out in the auto
mobile engine . . . firemen raced
to the scene . . . one grabbed an
extinguisher and worked on the
car .. . the others tenderly lifted
Mrs. Givens into the fire truck
and rushed on to the hospital.
Beat the stork, too.
One of the hospital’s internes
spent his summer as a first-aid
worker at the North Pole with
the Canadian Royal Air Force.
He made several photographs of
Eskimos.
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Big Three Reported
Urging U. N. Rebuke
Os Israel in Dispute
ly th* Associated Prau
UNITED NATIONS. N. Y., Oct.
29. The Western Big Three
were reported ready today to
urge a Security Council rebuke
against Israel for the recent bor
der killings in an adjoining Arab
village, and to call for more
United Nation “watchdogs” in
the troubled area.
Israel Chief Delegate Abba S.
Eban also served notice he in
tends to go over the whole Mid
dle East security /question before
the Council this afternoon. Mr.
Eban accused the' Arab states
last night of conniving to keep
up tension in Palestine.
Western sources said Britain,
France and the United States
would submit a resolution to the
Council this afternoon denounc
ing the armed Israeli raid on
the Jordan village of Kibya
which cost 53 Arab lives. They
said the resolution also would
call for more truce supervisors
in Palestine to guard the peace
along the Arab-Jewish borders.
Arms Embargo Studied.
Dispatches from London said
the Big Three were considering
also asking for an automatic
arms embargo against whichever
side the ’Council finds guilty of
violating the truce agreements,
in the future.
One U. N. source said if truce
violations were labeled formal
aggressions the embargo would
follow anyway.
The reported plan to increase
the truce supervisors brought
praise from the Arabs and sharp
criticism from Israel.
Syia’s Rafik Asha declared,
“Anything that would lead to
respect for the truce agreement
would be welcome.”
Mr. Eban said such a program
would be “bereft of statesman
ship and wisdom.”
Mr. Eban declared the Council
was discussing the entire threat
to peace in the Middle East and
suggested it would do well to
appeal to both sides to respect
the 1949 armistice agreements.
Disputea Bennike Report.
He took issue with the report
of Maj. Gen. Vagn Bennike.
chief U. N. truce supervisor,
that “well trained Israeli” sol
diers were involved in the Kibya
attack. The Israeli delegate
contended that the attack was
made by civilians and pointed
out that every one living in the
border settlements is “as well
armed as possible.” •
Gen. Bennike warned the
Council earlier this week that
tension in. Palestine was at the
breaking point and said that
unless the armistice agreements
were observed to the letter, full
scale shooting might start.
The Arabs praised Gen. Ben
nike’s report but expressed con
cern at his attitude that the
five-year-old armistice agreement
was outmoded. The Arabs oppose
replacing it with a permanent
settlement.
Tomorrow, the Council returns
to its hearing on Syria’s com
plaint that Israel’s hydroelectric
project to divert waters of the
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Arabs Hail Suspension.
Mr. Eban told the Council
Monday Israel would stop work
on the project while the Coun
cil was discussing the matter.
His announcement brought a
warm response from the Arabs
and was hailed as a move that
might ease the mounting ten
sion.
Mr. Eban had no comment to
make on the announcement that
United States aid to Israel is be
ing resumed as a result of the
latter’s agreement to halt work
on the project. But he labeled
“frivolous” the United States
pinpointing of the Syrian com
plaint as the reason for sus
pending aid in the first place.
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the Security Council, observers
speculated that the U. N.’s Spe
cial Political Committee might
knock off its agenda debate on
the plight of 800.000 Arab refu
gees displaced from Palestine
and dump the matter in the
Council’s lap.
These observers said the Coun
cil debate might develop into a
review of the Palestine armistice
agreements as a whole with a
view to trying to bring peace to
the Middle East.
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