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17 Fifteen Cents 21, 1950 On Guard for mils? The Royal Road to Romance in Near East Runs in Circles eadly Mines Lost in Debris of Wrecked New Jersey Port Disputed Battle for BY WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press Writer In the lands of the shah and the pharaoh, royal romance has become complicated. When a writer runs up against such a situation, he straightens it out for his customers with a brief synopsis, like this: The cast of characters: KING FAROUK, 30, is determined to continue the male line of his dynasty, and is said to be preparing to marry NARRIMAN SADEK, 17 and pretty, who, since she was 11 years old and until Farouk saw her, had been the fiancee of ZAKI HASHEM, good-looking young economist. Meanwhile, FATHIA, 19, sister of Farouk, has been married in the United States to KIAD GHALI, 31, a Coptic Christian and a commoner, who was secretary and adviser to QUEEN MOTHER NAZLI. mother of Farouk.

She blessed the marriage, but Farouk, angry, vented his wrath on Nazli, Fathia and FAIKA, 23, another princess sister of the King. She was married in the United States to FOUAD SADEK, a Moslem commoner, no relation to Narriman. Another sister of the King, FAWZIA, is the divorced wife of THE SHAH OF IRAN, who divorced Fawzia at the same time Farouk divorced EX-QUEEN FARIDA. Farida and Farouk had no sons. Neither did the Shah and Fawzia.

But Farouk had three daughters, FERIAL FAWZIA and FARIDA. This left as heir-apparent to the Egyptian throne the uncle of the King, PRINCE MOHAMMED ALY, 74, who now is being denounced by the QUEEN MOTHER as a schemer. The Shah of Iran meanwhile has his own troubles. His half-sister FATEMEH, has been married to a blond, handsome American, VINCENT LEE HILLYER, of California. Meanwhile, the Shah's ex-wife Fawzia is married again to ISMAIL SHIRINE BEY, a diplomat and distant relative.

i Ki cf -5 v. lU i 'T I- A A -v. I i it 1 v.y ,3 CT''itN 69 3 61 57 54 SUNDAY, MAY Truce Ends Union Fight on DSR Operations Back on Normal Basis DSR operations were back to normal Saturday following a disruption caused by a jurisdictional the dispute. A SYSTEM WIDE strike of transportation operators loomed Friday after Mayor Cobo ordered the suspension of operators who refused to follow procedures laid down by the management. Service on several major lines was delayed late Friday when trouble flared between Division 26 streetcar and bus operators union and Local 214, an office workers' unit.

The operators refused to accept strips of tickets, change and transfers from members of the office workers' union. WALTER STANLEY, business agent of Division 26. declared the (operators were seekine to take under jurisdiction of Local 214. The strike threat was voiced by Patrick Mclntyre, Division 26 president. But Mclntyre promised there there would be no more trouble pending the resumption of negotiations with the DSR management Monday.

Every Man Likes a boat. The majority don't own one because they think the price of a good boat is beyond their reach. Before you make up your mind, read the "Boats for Sale" ads in today's Free Press Want Ad Section. You will find boats for sale at all prices. It is easy to place a Free Press Want Ad.

Just Dial WO 2-9400 and say, "Charge It." i I i Over a Century As the husky work-horses-turned-thoroughbreds raced down the American side, the Atomic jumped out of the pack and plunged into a four-length lead at the half mile. She was never headed. The real drama of the contest lay in the race within a race between the giant 130-foot Roen HI and the little Oregon. Black smoke spouted from the coal-burning Oregon's funnel as Capt. Miller tied down the safety valve, striving to pass Capt.

Jacob-sen's craft. A CACAPHONY of whistles and shouts came from the Roen III and the pugnacious Jacobsen as he warned off Capt. Miller. 55 Killed, 39 Injured in Mine Blast Disaster Strikes Pit in Germany GELSENKTRCHEN, Germany (VP) An explosion ripped through the Dahlbusch coal mine near here, killing 55 miners and injuring 39. That was the official when all miners who had been working in the deep seam had been accounted for by rescue squads.

MORE THAN 300 miners were at work when the blast, attributed to a gas accumulation known as firedamp, occurred. Officials said many men had died instantly from terrible burns while others suffocated. Many of the injured were severely burned. It was Western Germany's worst coal-mine accident since the Grim-berg disaster of 1946, in which 433 died. Legislature Approves Bond Plan Budget Slashed by 14 Million BY HUB M.

GEORGE Free Press Staff Writer LANSING In the final hours of its special session the Michigan Legislature approved a measure to speed up expressway construction in Detroit. The House vote was 87 to 0. The plan proposed by Mayor Cobo will enable the City to complete in four years construction that otherwise would not be finished until 1964. BONDS UP to $100,000,000 Will be issued jointly by the City, Wayne County and the State to be repaid out of future gasoline and weight taxes. The Mayor's plan was enacted after long delay.

Some outstate legislators had bottled up the bill in an effort to pressure Cobo into supporting proposed increases in gasoline taxes. Cobo stood firm. Quick completion of the Ford and Lodge expressways is expected to go far in relieving Detroit's traffic congestion. Neanns approval late Saturdav was a proposed $65,000,000 bond issue for tuberculosis and mental hospitals. This measure would go on the November ballot.

The House struck out a Senate provision to pay off the bonus with proceeds of the intangibles tax. This point remained to be settled. SMOTHERED BY a House vote was a proposed constitutional amendment to reapportion the Legislature. It was so drafted as to restrict Wayne's legislative delegation to seven senators and 25 representatives. The biggest fight of the session ended when the Republican-drafted economy program was adopted despite a last-minute personal plea by Gov.

Williams. Williams appeared before the House to protest that the 322,675 appropriation measure would cripple needed State services. His spending program totaled $73,000,000 more. In a two-hour floor fight Dem ocratic amendments to the budget bin were beaten down. The final vote was 71 to 20.

The appropriation trims spending $14,000,000 below this year's level. THE ONLY CHANGES in the bill were made by the Ways and Means Committee and are acceptable to the Senate. Thus ended one of the loneest buderet strug gles in recent history. Both houses voted immediate effect. In his last-minute appeal, Williams abandoned the corporation tax he had proposed.

He said he would accept an alternative adjustment of cor poration franchise fees which would yield only $6,000,000 extra a year. Even that proposal is dead in the Senate, although passed by the House. The Governor said th Repub lican economy program would possibly cripple State services in hospitals, prisons and aid to veterans in homestead tax exemptions. The Republican leaders denied Williams' charges. Williams claimed it would be necessary to close wards in tubercular hospitals, reduce food allowances in prisons and other institutions, and abandon forward-looking programs such as the sex-deviate studies, neuropsychi-Turn to Page 10, Column 5 On Inside Pages SECTION A Weather Map 5 SECTION Town Crier 1 Wilson 7 White 5 SECTION Amusement 8-9 Financial 10-11 Living 1-7 Music 9 Picture 12 SECTION Society 1-20 Travel 17-19 SECTION Classified 5-12 Sport 1-4 Books Brady Bridga Crosby Crossword Editorials Horoscope Lippmann Radio Rose Ruark Sullivan TV 7 7 8 6 8 4 6 5 6 6 7 7 6 TO CALL, THE FREE PRESS: WOODWARD 2-890 For Want A Call WOODWARD 2-9460 Now, the story in detail: Only a couple of years ago there were the good old days, when everybody was calm and everybody was happy.

King Farouk was married to the daughter of a high and ennobled official. A woman of fabled beauty, her name was Sarinaz Zulfikar. Far- I ouk changed it to Farida mean-1 ing peerless because it is the custom of the Egyptian royal family to have names beginning with the letter The Shah of Iran, for his part, was married to Fawzia, beauteous sister of Farouk. THE OTHER Egyptian princesses were unmarried. Narriman ATOMIC CROSSES LINE AS ROEN III (LEFT) AND OREGON FIGHT IT OUT Roen took second in gala tug race.

(Other pictures, Section Page 12.) Canadian Tug Atomic Wins Race of Work Horses of Great Lakes Second At one time only four feet separated the gunwales of the two tugs. Capt. Jacobsen replied by demanding every ounce of power. Tempers flared after the race when Jacobsen charged skullduggery on the part of the Oregon's commander. Capt.

Miller, as the men stood nose to nose, challenged the indignant Dane to a return match. DIRE PREDICTIONS were made as to the outcome of next year's race. Wagers for heavy sums were bandied about but none was accepted. Meanwhile, boats along the river set up a din of whistle blowing. Through it all, the Detroit fire tug Harry C.

Kendall saluted the winner with five soaring spouts of water. As rival crews shouted good-natured jeers, Capt. McQueen accepted the winner's trophy and a kiss from Miss Connie Taylor, Queen of the International Tugboat Race. Presenting the trophy was President Harry Baxter of the Sports Guild. WINNER OF the keg of beer as the last finishing "pickle boat" was Capt.

Tom Chandler's Maco. It trailed the leader by about one half mile. Capt. McQueen, owner of the 600-horsepower Atomic, ascribed his entry's victory to the work of Capt. Jacob Penner and Chief Engineer John Goodchild.

He said the tug was running at about 14 knots to cover the 2.82-mile course in about 12 minutes. SPONSORS OF the race' were the Detroit Marine Historical Society and the Propeller Club. Trophies were donated by the Sports Guild and Mrs. George Genthe, and her daughter, Mrs. William England, in memory of the late William England, a fleet engineer of the Wyandotte Trans portation Co.

200,000 See Arms on Parade Unity Show Hailed by Record Crowd BY FRED TEW Free Press Staff Writer The Arsenal of Democracy shook a big fist Saturday. And 200,000 Detroiters cheered and applauded the fist symbol of unified armed forces "Teamed for Defense." The fist, of course, was a parade marking Detroit's observance of the Nation's first Armed Forces Day. IT WAS THE biggest parade of armed might in Detroit's history, according to Charles T. Fisher, general chairman for Metropolitan Detroit ceremonies Fisher is president of the National Bank of Detroit. It attracted more spectators than any other military parade, Police Supt.

Edwin Morgan said. He estimatei that more than 30,000 persons crowded in front of City Hall, where the marchers passed a reviewing stand. It was there that all the drama of the mile-and-a-quarter march from Peterboro down Woodward was centered. THE TIMING was perfect. No sooner had Gen.

Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force chief of staff; Mayor Cobo and other of ficials taken their places in the reviewing stand than six F-86 Sabres flashed overhead, their jets streaming black smoke. Then out of the Woodward canyon into the sunlight of the square came from Police Mounted Division. The horses pranced and their coats glistened. The silver badges of their riders sparkled. "EYES RIGHT!" was the shouted command.

Gen. Vandenberg, ramrod straight, snapped a salute. The formal reviewing was on! The parade did more than its advance publicity had promised. The idea behind it was to show unified armed strength by discarding separate Army Day, Navy Day and Air Force Day celebrations and combining them into one gigantic observance. That unity was impressively demonstrated by the thousands of Turn to Page 10, Column 4 Marva Louis Weds Chicago Physician CHICAGO () Marva Trotter Louis, ex-wife of retired heavyweight champion Joe Louis, and Dr.

Albert Lee Spaulding, a Chicago physician, were married, Saturday night. Mrs. Lbuis, 34, is a fashion expert. Dr. Spaulding specializes in internal medicine and is on the Staff of Provident Hospital.

THE CHICAGO Herald-American said their romance began some months ago, and quoted Marva as saying: I'm really in loVe." She and Louis married in 1935. She first sued for divorce in 1941 but a reconciliation followed. They were divorced in 1945 but re married the following year. Marva obtained her second divorce in Mexico in February, 1949. The Louis have two children, Jacqueline, 7, and Joe, 3..

Not Cricket! LONDON (JP) A ticket taker at a London subway station, found one of his customers apparently had ridden the trains on tickets to an English Australia cricket match played in 1921. Troops Hunt Explosives and Bodies Death Toll Put at 27; Damage $20,000,000 SOUTH AMBOY, N. Y. (U.R) Mines hurled into the sky by the explosion of four ammunition barges made part of this shattered town a booby trap. While State Police and soldiers barred everyone from the danger area, the search went on for 23 stevedores who are missing and believed dead.

In addition to the missing, four bodies of blast victims were in the morgue. Some 352 persons were recovering from injuries. Property damage was estimated as high as $20,000,000. An official Coast Guard Board of Inquiry conducted a preliminary investigation. It was told that 9,000 cases of antipersonnel and antitank mines and 2,000 boxes of dynamite had gone up in the blast.

DEMOLITION experts warned that some of the mines were "alive and -dangerous," and would blow up if stepped on or handled. They urged adults not to touch "suspicious objects" and told parents to keep their children at home. The demolition crew combed an area within a half-mile radius of the point of the explosion. The mines were pitched into the air by a terrific explosion Friday night. The antipersonnel mines, used in wartime to blow up enemy troops were being unloaded from 12 railroad freight cars onto four barges for transfer to a freighter in the harbor.

CAPT. WILLIAM GEFTMAN, a United States Marines muni- tions expert, said some of the mines had detonators attached, in violation of military practice. lie suggested that this might have caused the disaster. He said each mine was five times as explosive as a hand grenade. The force of the blast showered unexploded mines along the devastated water front.

Some were Pictures of blast. Section Page 12. found on the Toof of a six-story building. The Army and State Police ruled roof-tops, alleys and vacant lots "off limits" to civilians until de-Turn to Page 8, Column 4 Flood Eases at Winnipeg WINNIPEG, Man. (P) The flood-swollen Red River dropped half an inch in greater Winnipeg Saturday.

Bright sunshine raised hopes that the flood crest might now begin to ease off. The half-inch drop in the sluggish river's level itself was not enough to be significant, but coupled with reports of a steady drop at the point where the Red enters Canada from the United States it was at least mildly cheering. Nevertheless, danger to this great grain center persisted. Officials feared further breaks in weakened dikes. Baby Drowns in Post Hole Richard Kelsch, 14 months, drowned after falling into a water-filled hole his father had dug for a clothesline post.

His body was recovered face down in 11 inches of water after 'a search by neighbors and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Kelsch, of 6244 Garden Court, i Warren Township. Sadck was happily affianced to dispute between two AFL unions. Zaki Hashem, a young and promis-1 A week-end truce provided for ing economist with the United 'a status quo until union-manage-Nations.

ment negotiations are resumed The King had not yet set eyes Monday in an effort to iron out on the girl. Egypt's queen mother was traveling in the United States and being cured of a serious illness. The complications began Nov. 17, 1948. On that day two com muniques were issued.

One communique proclaimed that the 10-year union of King Farouk with 27-year-old Queen Farida was dissolved. The other proclaimed that the Persian climate endangered the health of Empress Fawzia, then 27, and that her nine-year union with the young Shah was dissolved. Farouk and Farida had three daughters. The Shah and Fawzia had one daughter. Neither royal couple had sons, a serious failing for royal couples in the lands of Araby.

BY JOHN GRIFFITH Free Fret. Staff Writer Things called suction and skullduggery will have rivermen talking for the next year. The tug Atomic of Amherst-burg, won the first International Tugboat Race on the Detroit River Saturday afternoon. Then, Capt. Ole Jacobsen, of the Roen III charged that he was held back from winning by the suction of another boat following closely in his wake.

"The Oregon wouldn't get away," said Capt. Jacobsen. "IT SLOWED ME down 10 to 15 propeller revolutions per minute by dogging my wash and forcing me to pull it along." John Roen, owner of the Roen III, promised: "I'll be back next year with a tug and I'll pull the Oregon across the line and still win the race." Even with all the bickering, there's joy in Amherstburg. While thousands watched, Capt. J.

Earl McQueen's fleet tug Atomic slogged under the Ambassador Bridge, the winner by 400 feet, to lay claim to the title of fastest tug on the Lakes. THE BATTLE for second place was hot. Running rail to rail from flag fall to finish were the black and fire-engine red Roen and Capt. Eric Miller's Oregon. Roen HI pounded home ahead by 20 feet.

Blue skies and a choppy, surface greeted the sturdy; snub-nosed contenders when they got off from a standing start at the Coast Guard base, foot of Mt. Elliott. The start was good when the cannon sounded. White water spouted from beneath the nine tug boat prows as their screws buried sterns deep in the water. THE ROEN III broke in front, followed by the Atomic, Oregon and B.

E. West, bunched together. THE SHAH, now 31, has theiover non-oneratine nersonnel now status of a highly eligible young bachelor. King Farouk, now 30, wispily bemustached and inclined to be a bit on the stoutish side, is reported in a mood to desert the ranks of'eligible young bachelors. Now come more complications: There was a girl and she was only 16 and she had hair of brown and satiny cheeks and eyes to melt a man of stone.

Since her 11th birthday she had been engaged to the Harvard-educated Hashem. They planned to be married, with a big social do in Cairo last Dec. 8, and everybody sighed over this storybook childhood sweethearts romance. Happily the 27-year-old Zaki and his bride-to-be addressed 500 invitations to the wedding. On Dec.

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