AMMAN, Jordan, Dec. 10--The government has claimed the discovery of a new plot to smuggle Egyptian arms into Jordan.

A patrol reported seizing 1,000 rounds of Egyptian ammunition, other military equipment and two camels hidden in a cave in the southern part of the country. One man was arrested. He was described as an armed Arab from Egyptian-governed Gaza.

This is the third attempt at smuggling arms from the United Arab Republic reported by the Jordanian authorities since last July.

Strike Hits N.Y. Newspapers

NEW YORK, Dec. 10--A renewed strike of delivery men swept New York newsstands clear of newspapers yesterday and forced the Daily News to suspend publication of its first Thursday morning edition.

Picket lines of strikers posed a threat to continued operation of all nine of the city's big dailies. They employ more than 20,000 persons and have a combined payroll of over two million dollars a week.

Alabama Action 'Reprehensible'

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10--President Eisenhower has termed it a sad, reprehensible thing for Alabama officials to defy the federal government over voting registration records of Negroes.

"What I am pleading for, and what I would like to get help in pleading for throughout the country, is respect for law," Eisenhower told a news conference yesterday.

Pasternak Honored In Absentia

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10--Soviet poet-novelist Boris Pasternak, an absent winner, was honored along with seven attending in person at the 1958 Nobel awards ceremony Wednesay in Stockholm's Concert Hall.

Secretary Anders Oesterling of the Royal Swedish Academy paid tribute to Pasternak, the author of the anti-Communist novel "Doctor Zhivago" who was forced by Soviet pressure to turn down the literature prize.