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Evening star., 1951-07-22

British Minister Alec Kirkbride,
which may delay or even ex-
clude his return to assume the
throne.
Tallal's young brother, Prince
Naif, yesterday named regent,
is described by his enemies as a
playboy and more pliable than
the impetuous Tallal.
Ferment among Jordan's half
refugee population is aggra-
waited by Communist literature
smuggled across from Israeli
Communist headquarters in Tel
Aviv and the Arab Red center
in Nazareth. both in Israel. This
literature has steadily aimed at
toppling all Arab royalty, par
ticularly Abdullah, and replac-
ing them with Cominform- type
popular democracies.
Abdullah's death may cause
Jordan to accept the United
Nations plan for international
lizing Jerusalem, which Abdul
lah rejected. Many Palestinians
believe Abdullah played into
Israeli hands by baking at in
ternationalizing the Holy City
which the Israelis. in defiance
of the United Nations, are grad
ually Transforming into their
capital.
AS big as Israel in population.
but more than four times as
much in territory, the Jordan
kingdom is feeling the economic
pinch worse. having only $13
million British loan in addition
to U. N. refugee aid.
Abdullah in death also left
unfinished his case before the
U. N. Security Council against
Israel for diverting the waters
of the Jordan away from Jor-
dams struggling refugee settle
ments.
(chicaso Daily News Foreign Service
Evening star., 1951-07-22
Jordan King RuIedWith Desert Sense
By John Roderick


PARIS-King Abdullah ruled his Arab kingdom of Jordan
with rough sort of desert democracy the
shrewdness of a horse trader
Though he King, he thought like the wry lean
visaged BedonS who squat around thousand camp fires
the scrbby deserts He locked his palace door against
the poorest of his subjects His personal in the
fullest sense.
little with cose-cropped gray hair and sparkling
eyes, Abduah lived the simple frugal life of the
loved When he invited guests dinner their plates
filled with lavish Arab delcacies But usually con-
tanned the simplest fare.
He early for in special the palace
Visitors who wanted to him had to up just early
catch him after he had finished This
day when he was freest and willing people
Though he leaned heavily Britain support of his
Aran Legion his friendship for the United
one young American Consul Wells Staber represented
the United States in for years. largely
responsible for this attitude
Correspondents who met Abduah during
war found him endowed with complete frankness and
sense Of hurnor He frank often embarrassed
ministers He frequently made press conferences
which would have made headlines except fact that
hared cabinet members able persuade that
the story shouldn't be sent.
There were anecdotes surrounding the Kings
sonal touch One of these told how through
streets OF Amman day. pied wearing the black
veil which ancient Mosem law requires.
Abdulah got out of the royal walked up
and said to her.:
Madam, your veil is too thin thicker at once"
ASSOCIATED
Evening star., 1951-07-22
By Roymond P. Brondt

Dan Able Kimball, who is about
to take over as Secretary of the
Navy. is 55-year-old human dy-
namo who never had time, in the
field of formal education, to get
past the second year of high
school.
1t is a big job he will be holding
down - the civilian directorship
of an organization with a capital
investment of more than $75 bill
lion and a personnel force of one
million uniformed men and wom-
en-, not to mention ABS, 900 civilian
workers. In money terms alone
the Navy has more physical as
sets than the country's 10 largest
corporations rolled into one. It's
inventory of more than two mil
lion movable items is valued at
$12 billion.
Evening star., 1951-07-22
Coor for Better Narcotics Controls Brings Out Variety of Usabe Ideas
Wide Disagreement Prevails Over
Effectiveness of Public Education

Bureau seems doubtful. Some
cities have increased the size of
their squads and others have es-
tablished narcotics squads where
there were none before.
5. Better institutions for treat
ment OF addicts:: This has become
particularly pressing with respect
to young people, who must either
be confined with older addicts-
often repeaters-in Federal hos
pitfalls, or sent to penal institu-
Itions. But expenditures again
become stumbling block.
Forced Cure Proposed
The Narcotics Bureau has pro-
posed a law which would provide
for forced cure of addicts. This
would work particularly well, they
say. with young people in whom
the drug habit has not become
firmly established. But again
more hospitals would be needed
6. Public education: There is
wide disagreement on this point
Some schools already are teaching
pupils the dangers of narcotics.
Such program has been in effect
in District schools for the past
year.
Narcotics Bureau officials fear
such programs may do more harm
than good. They say they may
induce weaker pupils to try mar
coticS for a thrill"
District Commissioner F. Joseph
.Donohue believes that teachers
and parents should be given in
formation about narcotics, so they
can recognize the first symptoms
of drug-taking or addiction.
Drug experts say the big job e1
controlling illegal drugs would be
greatly aided by the proposals
which have been made. But they
know it will be a long and diff
cult struggle to get them into
effect.
Evening star., 1951-07-22
Difficulties Crop Up in Curling Troffic
And Furnishing the Dope PeddIers
BY Jack Jonas

The alarming increase of drug
addiction, particularly among
teen-agerS, has brought clamol
for somebody to do something
about it in hurry.
Those who have seen the
dangers and studied the problem
know what should be done. Get
ting it done, so far, has been a
long, losing battle. But with the
illegal trade in narcotics brought
forcefully before the public by dis
closures to the Senate Crime In
vestigating Committee, a new
hope has arisen that the battle
may yet be won.
In the loud public demand for
retribution against dope peddlerS
who prey on young people. many
proposals have been made. The
difficulties are countless. But
some progress has begun to be
felt. Federal authorities believe.
Dirksen Advocates Deoth
Plans advanced for curbing the
use of drugs include sitter penal
ties for peddlers, tighter interna-
tional controls, tighter border
controls, increased Federal and
local police forces. better institu-
tions for treatment of addicts,
forced cure for addictS and a pro-
gram of public education.
At first glance, these seem
simple solutions. easy to accom-
plish. But what are their chances?
l. Sitter penalties for peddlers:
The most drastic proposal has
come in the form of bill intro
duced by Senator Dirksen, Repub-
lican, of Illinois, calling for the
death penalty for those who
peddle drugs to young people.
Despite an aroused public, this
measure seems destined to meet
heavy opposition. There is a re-
Evening star., 1951-07-22
By George Weller

TEHERAN.-Fiercely repudi-
ating their colonial past, Islam
nationalists are pistol-purging
Middle Eastern governments of
all leaders who seem to fetter
them to the great powers.
Jordan King Abdullah's mur-
der follows closely the assassi-
nations of former Premier Riaq
Solh of Lebanon this month in
the Jordan capital of Amman,
and Trans pro-Western Premier
Ali Razmara, killed in February.
What seems a callous murder
to Western eyes is a gallant
blow against foreign tyranny
and domestic treason to thou
sands of restless Moslems.
RaZmara, who fell first, was
guilty" in the fanatics view,
of trying to make a deal with
the British governments Anglo
Iranian Oil Co., selling out total
naturalization.
Solh, in a secret accord with
Syria's pro-French former die
tator, Hosni Zaim, betrayed and
executed the Christian Arab
leader. Antoine Saadeh. Zaim
died before firing squad two
years ago and Solh before an
assassins gun-both guilty of
having sacrificed Saadeh's plan
of uniting the Syrian and Leb-
anese republics to their own
French sympathies.
Accused os Appeoser
Abdullah, raised by Britain
from minor desert Emir to be-
come the subsidized ruler of the
Hashemite kingdom of Jordan,
died guilty" of being a British
puppet and appeaser of Israel.
Abdullah's death in Jerusalem
Evening star., 1951-07-22

the worlds medicinal needs for a
year.
In Italy. heroin still is manu-
featured legally in four plants.
At the insistence Of the United
States, Italy's production was cut
in half a year ago. Narcotics
men here hope that Italy can be
induced to cut production again
or halt it entirely.
In several Far East and Middle
East countries. the use of drugs
is accepted, and there are few
laws controlling them. In these
over-the-counter countries, sail
ors can buy drugs at low prices
and sell them for big profits in
the United States.
8. Tighter border control: This
lis a nearly hopeless task. The
customs men usually can check
the larger shipments of illegal
drugs, but small amounts are al
most impossible to detect. Heroin
valued at $4,000 can be Smuggled
in a package about rs the size of
Ia pack Of cigarettes.
Policing Costs Money
During World War II, with its
broad travel restrictions and
thorough control of shipping
smuggling of drugs dropped to a
new low. But in peacetime, with
more people in international
travel, smuggling Is again a prob
lem.
The customs men say that even
by using the entire Army and
Navy, everybody arriving by ship
or crossing borders couldn't be
searched for contraband. An in
crease in their staff, they add
would help.
4. Increase In Federal and local
narcotics squads: This was recon-
mended by the Kefauver COM
lmittee. But with Congress In an
economy mood. any boost in the
budget for the Federal Narcotics
Evening star., 1951-07-22

Mr.. Kimball was promoted
from Navy Undersecretary to Sec
retary after Francis P. Matthews
finally accepted President Tru-
mans offer to name him American
Ambassador to Ireland. The switch
will mean a change in tempo for
the Navy.
Mr.. Kimball is an energetic,
happy-natured. gregarious business
executive who makes quick deci-
Sions to get things done; Mr.. Mat
thews, Nebraska lawyer turned
flnancier. is on the shy side, with
"a preference for the background
except in Roman Catholic and
humanitarian activities. The re-
tlring secretary will be more at
home in the American Embassy in
Dublin than he was at the Penta-
gon; Kimball will be in his natural
Evening star., 1951-07-22

luctance to be too free with the
death penalty. And by the time
the bill is up for consideration,
the public ciamor may have died
down.
Heavy Prison Terms
More likely to succeed are iden-
tical bills introduced in the House
and Senate setting heavier prison
terms for dope peddlers. Both
call for sentences of two to five
years for first offenders, five to
10 for second offenders and 10 to
20 for subsequent offenses. Meth
er would permit probation for Sec
Iond and subsequent offenses.
The House already has approved
its measure. The Senate measure
has strong support. 1t seems GER
tain that heavier sentences will
be approved-although perhaps
not in The precise formula of the
present bill.
Narcotics Commissioner Harry
]. Anslinger has stressed the value
of heavier sentences. He said that
where Judges impose long prison
terms on peddlers, other peddlers
abandon that area. One disad-
vantage which has been pointed
out is chat tougher and Shrewder
criminals, unawed by the prospect
of prison, may move into the drug
trade.
2. Tighter international control:
This is the biggest headache fac
ing Federal agents. They point
out that if there are no drugs
available from abroad, there would
be no control problem. Heroin is
not manufactured in the United
States. Two synthetic drugs
which may outdate morphine are
now being tested in the Nations
hospitals and research centers.
They were created by Hitler's
scientists.
Evening star., 1951-07-22

element bossing the civilian side
of the Navy.
AS Undersecretary, Mr.. Kim
ball served as operating vice pres
ident of a governmental operation
with global ramifications. While
the Secretary is more concerned
with higher policy, the Undersec-
Iretary devotes most of his time to
administration, the budget, legis-
Ilative matters and personnel. Mr..
Kimball. with two years expert
ence as Undersecretary, will be in
IA position to supervise much more
closely than Mr.. Matthews did.
In his Office in the Pentagon,
surrounded by valuable naval
pictures assembled by former Un-
Idersecretary w. John Kenney,
Mr.. Kimball appears to be taking
his promotion in easy-going
stride. He is 6 feet 3 inches tall
and weighs 212 pounds stripped
His deep voice is in keeping with
his size. His blue-gray eyes go
with his ready smile.
II was born in st. Louis" he
says. land you can't throw a stone
there without hitting one of my
kinfolk.
my grandfather, a steamboat
captain, had lived in Hannibal.
My grandmother went to school
with Mark Twain. My father
was an insurance man and my
mother. Mary Able. was born in
Memphis.
II got my early schooling in
Pittsburgh and Texas and came
back to st. Louis to enter high
school. During the Civil War my
grandfather was one of the few
steamboat captains to have the
run of the Mississippi River and
he brought cotton. up north for
the Unionists. We had a claim of
100000 against the Government
for unpaid cotton and Speaker
Champ Clark tried to get the
money for us. When we thought
everything was all right and we
were going to be rich, Congress
passed legislation outlawing all
such claims.
Hod to Quit School
Things weren't going SO well
for us in st. Louis, so we moved to
Los Angeles when was is years
old. I had to quit high school
during my second year. I had
played center on the football team
/ was a skinny fellow then.
Il went to work in an electric
automobile garage. In 1917 I en-
listed in the Army Air Force. jim
my Doolittle and I were in the
same squadron. We were com.
missioned second lieutenants the
same day. I came out of the Arm,
Air Force In 1919 as a first lieu
Itenant."
The Doolittle friendship lastee
through the years. When Mr.
Evening star., 1951-07-22
Abduahs Murder Is Third Pistol Purqe of Leaders by Arabs

sullies 1slam's holiest city after
Mecca, with the blood of Islam's
most ancient family derived
directly from Mohammed
through his daughter Fatima.
Such a terrible impiety could
be dared only by one of the
thousands of Palestinian Arabs
who have lost everything in Is
rael and hold Abdullah, Britain
and America jointly responsible.
Palestinian patriots like Alb
dullah's 21-year-old murderer
accuse the King, with good evi-
dence, of having tried to reach a
separate secret agreement with
the Israelis beside having re-
fused to sign the collective Sc
curity plank in the Arab League
pact. Abdullah's estranged mil
itary commander, Col. Abdullah
Tell, now fugitive in Egypt, has
revealed the compromising par
ticulars of Abdullah's effort at a
secret separate peace with Israel.
Refugees ResentfuI
Eight hundred thousand
ragged Arabs from Palestine,
more than half of them prey to
communism in Jordan's hope
le., refugee camps. believe that
Abdullah was trading off their
claim to recover their homes in
Israel in return for special
Jordanism trade corridor across
Israel to the Mediterranean
port of GAIA.
Harassed Abdullah's other
weakness toward the Arabs was
that he based his power on the
British governments subsidy to
the British -officered Arab Le-
gion.
Jordan under Abdullah has
been a knot in the British en-
circlement of the vital Suez
Canal zone, the others being
Evening star., 1951-07-22

AS a busy undersecretary he
has not had much time for serious
reading. He says his I. C. S.
course in electrical engineering
enables him to read blueprints,
and that the demands of his Of
flee require the reading of lengthy
official reports, several newspapers
and a couple Of news magazines.
OF the six volumes of naval his
tory of World War II. he has
found time to read only four
Now that he will have an under
secretary to take over many de-
tails Of administration, he hopes
to get current on this series.
tBy arrangement with the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch)
Evening star., 1951-07-22

Kimball was appointed Assistant
Navy Secretary for Air IN March
1949. he bet Doolittle, who had be-
come a lieutenant general. that
the Navy job was only tempo
rary' and that he would be back
in private business in a year.
IDoolittle was generous and gave
him a year and a half. After that
time had elapsed, ano Kimball
was Undersecretary, Gen. Doolit-
tile proposed that the money be
given to some worthy cause. The
worthy cause" selected was q
dinner at the F Street Club for
their intimate friends. The invi-
tations read that the guests were
welcome to see proof of a settle
ment of difference of opinions. -
Shortly thereafter. Mr.. Kimball
gave another dinner. The women
correspondents in the Capital were
burned up because they could not
ATTEND the annual dinner of the
White House Correspondents AS
sociation although they were ac-
credited to the White House and
paid the nominal dues. Big
hearted Dan jokingly offered to be
the host to an FEPC affair
by the Foundation for the Elimi-
nation Of Preferential Classifica-
tions." The feminine correspond
ents took him seriously and made
him president, vice-president,
secretary and treasurer of the
the dinner committees.
Tire Salesman Promoted
AS a small payment for the
Expensive dinner, they brought
neckties to their host. All the ties
were loud, and some were slyly
sexy.
When he returned to California
from the World War I army, Mr.
Kimball Joined the General Tire
and Rubber Co., as salesman
and signed up with the Interna
tional Correspondence School fol
course in electrical engineering
Within a year he became the Lo.
Angeles sales manager, and within
a few more years he was namee
sales manager for II Western
IStates. He came to Washington ii
November. 1941, as a vice presi
dent of the company, to see wha
1T could do in the war effor
which he knew was coming.
Mr.. Kimball was told that hi
company could best serve the wa
effort by going into the manufac'
Iture of rockets and guided mis-
lsiles. This was an entirely riev
field. not only for the compan.
but for almost every other bust
ness organization. A small. com.
Ipany. mostly composed of scien
fists, was at work on the assign
Iment when Mr.. Kimball took ever
in his breezy but efficient way.
. The result was the Aerojet En-
Evening star., 1951-07-22

At the forthcoming meeting of
the United Nations Economic and
Social Council, the United States
will propose a world conference to
bring opiate production down to
needs.
But Red China will be a
stumbling block. She is q major
Evening star., 1951-07-22

producer of opium, from which
morphine and heroin are derived.
Not being member of the U. NJ,
she is expected to pay little heed
to anything that is said in a U. N.
sponsored conference. At pres
ent, China is trying to unload 500
tons Of opium-enough to supply
Evening star., 1951-07-22

Sudan, Cyrenaics, and Cyprus.
BY annual handouts of $9.8 mil
lion, $12 million and, this year,
$16.8 million. Britain has built
up the Spike-helmeted Arab Le-
Evening star., 1951-07-22

have refused to join "Abdullah's
Bedouins" led by the 54-year-
old British Brig. John B. Club.
Palestinians insist that the Le-
gion is colonial rather than Jor.
danian and is being increased
to serve as a possible expedi-
tionary force to protect Britain's
oil in Iraq and Iran.
Truman in the Picture
For the homeless thousands
Of PaleStinians whom Abdullah
generously aided, the late King
nevertheless was only atoning
for completely in the British
surrender of Palestine which in
turn, Arabs believe, resulted
from President Truman's pro-
Zionist pressure on Britain.
Abdullah's murder transfers
to the 16-year-old King Feisal
Of Iraq Britain's past hopes of
building on Abdullah a greater
Syria consisting of Jordan, Syria
and Iraq as a counterweight to
Egypt's control of the Suez.
forget Of Red PomphIets
Abdullah. beloved of desert
tribes east of the Jordan, as
much as he was disliked by
refugee West Jordanians. leaves
behind him a divided country
poor in land, crowded with
homeless and struggling to build
democracy under censorship
and illiteracy.
Jordan's stability is tempo
rarily secure by the personal
hold which Brig. Glubb Pasha
has over the Arab Legion and
the presence of one regiment of
British regulars at Akaba, on
the Red Sea.
But Crown Prince Tallal now
Is self-exiled in Europe after a
fierce dispute in April with
Evening star., 1951-07-22

gion to around 10000 men from
the 5000 it had when it was de-
feated in the Palestine war.
But the embittered Palestin-
ians. like Abdullah's murderer,
Evening star., 1951-07-22

gineering Corp, a subsidiary Of
General Tire. Mr.. Kimball was
made executive vice president.
Among it's other contributions was
JATO-jet assisted take off-for
naval carrier planes. JATO is
now used in civil aviation.
Mr.. Kimball was in and out
of Washington during the war
and postwar years. During these
visits he met John L. Sullivan,
then an assistant Treasury sec
retary and later Undersecretary
and Secretary of the Navy. Mr..
Sullivan is responsible for per-
.suading Mr.. Kimball to come di-
rectly into the Government. with
Mr.. Kimball insisting on cutting
all ties with General Tire. Other
intimate friends and golflng rivals
at Burning Tree Club are former
Defense Undersecretary Stephen
T. Early; R. F. C. Administrator
w. Stuart Symington of st. Louis.
former Secretary of Air; Clark
Clifford. former special counsel at
the White House, and Gen. Hoyt
IS. Vandenberg. Air Force Chief of
Staff. Their wagers at golf and
gin rummy are the talk Of this all
male club.
The new Secretary has almost
demoniac energy at work or play.
He arrives at his Office in the
Pentagon at am. and starts
digging into the paper work and
His associates say
Ihe is one Of the worlds fastest
readers, and that he can go
Through a voluminous and de-
tailed contract or military paper
i'm half the time needed by ordi-
nary persons. He uses the tele-
phone whenever possible. For the
more relaxed problems. he likes
to have guests in for luncheon in
small room off his main Office.
He has a private pilots license,
and on Government business he
flies whenever he can, sometimes
taking over the controls for a
while.
Shoots an 81
While Mr.. Kimball thought his
job in Washington was tenn
porary, Mrs. Kimball, whom he
married in 1925, kept their home
in Los Angeles. She has since
moved to Washington. The Kim
balls have no children.
The Secretary is more at home
on a golf course than at official
functions. His best score this
year was a profitable 50. He is
more notable for his spectacular
sport shirts and shorts, usually of
Hawaiian design. He is an in
veterate smoker of fine cigars
and. like President Truman, takes
his occasional bourbon with
lJanch water.
Evening star., 1951-07-22
Made q University in 1873

There are many people living to-
day who will recall the buildings
of Columbian University-for it
became university. by act of
Congress, approved March 8, 1873
and, indeed many recall it when
Evening star., 1951-03-11

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