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Oakland Tribunei
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A CCTO April 21, 1963 Jordan's PrGiYiiir INSIDE TODAY DRAMATIC SCENES AT EASTERN FIRES clUliS IN UAU KUW wn Prime. Minister Samir Eifai re- signed Saturday night in, tile, midst of popular demonstrations demanding that Jordan join the budding union of Egypt; Iraq and Syria. 3 4 A i' i I I i i WEEPING WOMEN WATCH HOUSES DISAPPEAR Staten Island homes 1 1 Iff Wrona Numbers. Fir, Some 200,000 Bay telephones soon will LXTJi Info the national direscC-3 tance dialing ystam-j tiplying ana extendiR" portunities for wrong ben. U.

$. Scientist Honortd--Dr. Roger Revelle, U.C deerrof research, will receive the National Academy oftSct-ences Agassiz Medal Monday. PS New Shrine Hospital Th American Shrlners are idl ing this area for a tito new hospital for thosfxJjo have been severely burned. Big Grocery AXTS known defense lnsfa(3 in Alameda supplies fc $146 million worth far-Sl military forces In the Piotlc area.

Technotoslcal Pearl A report sponsoredy the National Security Cbun-cil warns that the UJKEsV liberatefv a age technoll progress." PageSS Broadway Beat a ma critic Walter Kerr examines, a season of Broadway fail-; ures. Page 9 of El 'New Look Books are stilt, their stock In trade, but to-; day's libraries offer arv iu.ii iy i VI Wll IWI items and services. Page 1 of Family Life' Driving Dilemma Statistics show teen-age boys are; America's most dangerous group on the highways Lloyd Shearer explotf growing problem. i Page 4 of Parade Night Owl TVs Johnnyt Carsort looks back first year with the TonlflhT program. Page4ofTV4tad! 1 SHOP MONDAY: TILL9P.M,; Pretty Memorial rTo a Pretty Girl REFRIGERATOR IS SALVAGED FROM Sweeping blaze causes $1 million loss MAINE FIRE in Biddeford Warders Ransom Hostage With Transfer for Felons victs, Gerald Calssey, 28, Wayne Carlson, 21, and Nelson Wood, broke a window In the prison auditorium and headed for.

the wall. An officer spotted them and fired three shots in the air. The convicts ran back to the building grabbed Dennis and hauled him Into the auditorium wash room, holding makeshift knives at his throat Rioting began and extra police were called to help the guards, NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. UB Three mutinous convicts bargained with authorities for the life of hostage guard In riot-torn British Columbia Penitentiary Saturday and won quick transfer to other prisons In return for his release. The guard, Pat Dennis, was held at knifepoint with arms and back bound with wire during a night of wild rioting.

He was freed unharmed about 11 a.m. when the riot leaders King Hussein accepted Arab Police Open Fire on UAR Backers JERUSALEM, Israel (UPD- Police opened fire in the Jordanian sector of Jerusalem Saturday to break up crowds demonstrating In support of United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser. No one was reported hurt In the Jordanian sector but a stray bullet crossed the border and UAR Premier on Tour MOSCOW l-Aly Sabri, premier of the United Arab Republic, left Moscow for Peking late Saturday night Sabri Is slated to discuss the Chinese-Indian border conflict with Chinese Premier Chou En-Uu Earlier he met with Soviet Premier Khrushchev to deliver a personal message from UAR President Nasser. struck a 22-year-old Israeli woman, Haya Mahlab, as she sat in the courtyard of her home. She was wounded In the Tourists arriving through the frontier checkpost at the Man- delbaum Gate said there have been two days of demonstra tions In the Jordanian sector.

Other reports have said there has been a wave of such demonstrations in several Jordanian cities. Israel's President Feared Near Death JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector President Izhak Ben-Zvi was reported weaker early this morning from a grave stomach cancer condition which has spread to other organs. Ben-Zvi spent a quiet evening and then went to sleep, medical sources reported, but they held out no hope for his recovery and said the end may come In a few days "but It can happen at any hour." Prayers for, the 78-year-old president were recited In synagogues and his old-time friend, Premier David Ben-Gurion, sat for two hours at his bedside Saturday night. p3y 10.C3 ONLY uie resignation nuu luiai io conuuuo tu va. on a caretaker basis until a new government is formed.

The fate of Rifai's government was sealed in a parliamentary debate In which 32 members in the CO-seat body rose and attacked his policies. Most of those opposing Rifai spoke favor of Jordan's ioining the proposed expanded "version of rresiaeni Gamal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic. King Hussein named Rifai's government less than a month ago in a move seen as maKina jotqm more favorably disposed toward the currents of Arab unity sweeping out "of the Cairo Talks of Egypt, Syria, and ILL EQUIPPED But speaker after speaker declared Rifai's covernment was ill equipped to deal with the problems of Arab unity. Troops ringed the Parliament Building during the debate. The government has called out desert troops and police earlier in the dav and ordered an emergency curfew in Jerusalem to queu ine pro-Nasser demonstrations.

Rifai told Parliament Israel was massing troops at the frontier line in the Jerusalem area, raising Jordanian fears that Israel might by to take advantage of any revolt inside Jordan. However, an Israeli spokesman called the reports of Israeli troops massing wholly unfounded. Jordan borden Iraq and Syria, two of the three regions set to make up the new Cairo-led federation' expected to come into being sometime this summer. But there are numerous obstacles to Jor dan's participation in the new fed' eration' under its present govern ment y- MAJOR QUESTION A major one is how a monarchy could fit in with the revolutionary republican regimes of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. There is also the long-standing enmity between Egypt's -Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein.

Cairo Radio often has exhorted Jordanians to overthrow their monarchy, and Hussein would be expected to be less than warm toward thhe Iraqi leaders who helped overthrow and kill his cousin. King Faisal II, in 1958, However, the youthful Hussein has shown a surprising ability to weather the storms of Middle East politics. It was under his prodding that Rifai's government made feeble gestures of friendship toward the Cairo unity talks. i TOUCH THAT DIAL! SO)-. burned (Story, Page 1) hopeful that others "will think it's a nice Idea" and.

help achieve the $600 objective. The school children them selves contributed $68 nickels, dimes and pennies toward the headed by Mrs. John Papadakisv Mrs. Quinn said, "We will dedicate the project May 25 at the school picnic." At that time the chalet and the surrounding play equipment will become known as the Diane Dobson Tot Lot WORK IN RAIN The nine workmen continued to hammer and saw through the light rain. Not a torrential rain that would create landslides and destruction, but a gentle rain to make things grow.

A red-jacketed little girl watched as the men put the final touches on the playhouse. She gazed silently, but her eyes shone in anticipation of the happiness it would bring her. DONT nan nun ei. ism TEmplbr 2 rOSv 1 I DO leave remote in your Zenith's rollabout lazy man's fits into the button to adjust volume, on Xi D.i.nr i mtallatlon t-oniuiueu iruiu rage i Ume to erect the playhouse. We got Interested In this proj- rt nnrf thmicrtit ft wniiM hm tice Idea," said one.

Bert Trubody, shop supervisor of maintenance and construction, said the effort the men have put Into the project has been wltn "loving care." THE NICEST THING "It's going to be one of the- nicest things we ve done and we think the neighborhood will enjoy it," said Trubody. The next step, he added, will 'be to design child-size furniture for the house. Included will be kitchen equipment, metal basket chairs, deck lounges, end table and room dividers. Benches and tables are being made, for a patio where the mothers can watch their children play, The tiny house overlooks the Bay a hillside part way up Redwood Road. It Is located In the Pinto recreation area ad joining Carl B.

Munck school $508 ON HAND The members of the P-TA at and other neighbors have contributed over $500 toward the playhouse and are German Leader At S.F. Parley A West German parliamentary leader, Fritz Erler of the Social Democratic Party, says the President of the United States should be left free to call the shots of a proposed multi-national nuclear force. "If there are many thinkers en the trigger, the aggressor will not be deterred," Erler told a conference in San Fran- Cisco called by the World Affairs Council of Northern Cali fornia. "He may gamble some small power will hold back 'There must be one leader and the leader must be the Presi dent of the United States. You cannot make war-by commit tees." 'Don't Want Presidency' Goldwater j.

TORRANCE (ffl Sen. Barry Goldwater declared flatly Satur day night that he doesn't want to he a candidate for President to 1964. don't want the job," said he Arizona Republican. also discussed the current GOP talk that he and New Jfork Gov. Nelson Rockefeller are the party's chief hopes for recapturing the White House next; year.

we're so hard up that we have only Rockefeller and Gold- water," he said, "we re In heQ of a shape." spoke before the Wives Club at the Harbor Gen eral Hospital. His daughter, Mrs. Thomas Ross, is the wife of a surgeon there. His blunt disavowal of Presi dential aspirations came In a question answer session after his talk. He added, however, that Presi dent Kennedy can be beaten In "And I didn't think so three months ago," he said.

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