Egyptian Gives Daughter
Permission to Marry King
By WALTER COLLINS
World Copyright, 1950, br United Preu)
Cairo. Eevot. Jan. 21 U.B Narriman Sadek, 16-year-old Egyp
tian girl whose engagement allegedly was broken by King Farouk,
never was formally engaged to Egyptian Economist aaKi nasnem,
never loved him and didn't even know what love and marriage
was all about.
Color Television Forrest W. Killy, 27-year-old electrician,
demonstrates an adapter he built tor $4.30 so he can have
color television in his Roselle, N. J., home. The device is a
round platter with alternate patches of red, green and blue.
Whirled at high speed in front of the TV viewing tube, the
colors blend into a true picture, Killy says. And, he adds,
"anybody can do it." (AP Wirephoto)
Young Electrician Amazes
TV Tycoons by His Color Rig
Roselle. N. J.. Jan. 21 W) A 27-year-old electrician tossed to
gether $4.30 worth of parts and took a peek at color television.
The feat made him what broadcasters list as the only private
person in the country watching color television today.
Forrest W. Killy says it's easy. He assembled an old electric
- motor, two slats of wood and
some colored cellophane.
Startled officials of the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System, on
whose color TV principles Killy
based his adapter, said they were
amazed at "the utter simplicity"
of his device.
The mechanism consists main
ly of slats of the colored cello
phane mounted in the shape of
a round platter with alternate
red, green and blue patches.
When the platter rotates at
high speed In front of the TV
viewing tube, the colors blend
into a true picture.
"Anybody can do it," Killy
says. "All the technical stuff
you need is to know how to
hook up an adapter switch and
regulate the speed of the color
wheel." .
Eckner Still
Likes Dirigible
Konstanz, Germany, Jan. 21
U.PJ Dr. Hugo Eckner, whose
dirigible Hindenburg blew up in
1937 with a loss of 36 lives, still
believes that dirigibles make the
Ideal luxury liners of the air. .
The 81-year-old zeppelin ex
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could provide the aerial counter
parts of Britain's famed luxury
ocean liners, Queen Elizabeth
and Queen Mary.
"They remain the ideal peace
time vehicles for long-distance
voyages in full comfort, and for
expeditions to deserts and polar
regions where landings might
have to be made at any time and
on any spot," he said in an interview.
"I am convinced that airship
(dirigible) flight service will be
a profitable business for long
range non-stop flights. The trav
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lack of speed, will find far more
comfort for such long flights,
which could range from New
York to Capetown, South Africa,
for example."
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Meeting Next Tuesday
Salem Council of Church Wo
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New officers announced for
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Lowmiller, vice president: Mrs.
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Mrs. Mock Hostess "
Lafayette S eve r a 1 women
met at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd Mock for a Stanley party,
with Mr. and Mrs. Oliver John
son, demonstrators. Several con
tests and prizes were given. Mrs.
ffnrlr wae nrocantpri with a set
of knives as a hostess gift. A
c-uffct luncheon was served.
Those present were: Mrs. Cora
Mock, Mrs. E. C. Hills, Mrs.
Franson, Mrs. Grace Henry, Mrs;
Ed Cole, Mrs. Lloyd McElroy,
Mrs. Howard Hills, Mrs. Ethel
Johnson, Mrs. Cyrus Warren
Mrs. Ed Bryan, Mrs. Gordon
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Albany Names
First Citizen
Albany Robert Longfellow,
32, member of the Albany Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce since
1945 and a 1950 vice president
of that organization, was named
as Albany's "Junior First Citi
zen" at the annual announce
ment banquet held as a part of
National Junior Chamber of
Commerce Week.
Longfellow was selected Al
bany's outstanding young man
of 1949 by an undisclosed com
mittee of Albany citizens for his
activities in community work
Also honored were Dave
White and Larry - Allen, Key
Award winners selected by the
Jaycee members in a balloting
as having done the most for the
club in 1949. .
Longfellow's achievements for
the past year included vice-president
of the Timber Carnival,
Jaycee board member, chairman
of the Jaycee scrapbook that re
ceived first place in the nation,
co-chairman of the annual Jay
cee golf tournament, and was in
charge of soliciting more than
$16,000 in donated merchandise
for the Memorial Stadium "ac
tion auction," October 25. He is
married and has two daughters.
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states, by U.S. weather bureau
records, with an average annual
rainfall of 55.11 inches.
Her father contemplated an
engagement between Narriman
and Hashem but called it off
when she told him: "I don't want
to marry him. I have no feeling
for him."
That was the version of the
recent story of the alleged ro
mance of King Farouk as told
to the United Press in an exclu
sive interview by the girl's
father, Hussein Fahmy Sadek
Bey. He is former secretary
general in the Egyptian ministry
of communications.
The father said King Farouk
had "absolutely nothing" to do
with his decision to abandon
plans to engage his daughter to
Hashem and that his daughter
never had seen Farouk until
after the plan for her to become
Hashem's fiancee was broken.
As to the girl's future wheth
er she still may become en
gaged to Farouk and maybe be
come queen of Egypt Sadek
said:
"She Is free and always was
free to marry another man. 1
want my daughter to be happy
If destiny decides that Narri
man shall eventually be mar
ried to our king, that will be
the acme of her happiness and
it will be an honor for us all."
For several weeks this cor
respondent tried many times to
talk with Sadek to get his ver
sion of the recent reports about
his daughter. Sadek finally
consented to an interview.
"I had hoped to keep silent
about this most personal and
intimate family matter," Sadek
said, speaking in perfect English.
"But in view of the way certain
foreign papers and news agen
cies commented about my daugh
ter and myself, I feel compelled
to make a full and complete
statement to the United Press.
The stories about which Sadek
made his statement had said his
daughter Narriman, was engag
ed to Hashem at the time Farouk
met her.
When Farouk met Narriman,
the stories went, he allegedly
ordered the engagement broken
so that he might make her his
bride. Hashem left Egypt ear
lier this month to return to the
United States. Here he resign
ed a post with the United Na
tions.
Sadek said today that those
dispatches were not only factu
ally wrong but showed little
knowledge of Egyptian customs
in such matters.
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Here is Sadek's version of
what happened as told to this
correspondent:
"My daughter never was of
ficially engaged to Hashem. The
agreement whereby my daugh
ter was to have become engaged
to him was cancelled by me be
cause Narriman did not can
for him. This cancellation had
absolutely nothing to do with
Farouk, who my daughter had
never seen until after the en
gagement was broken.
Neither my daughter nor any
members of my family had ever
heard of Saki Hashem until
early in November, 1949.
On October 25, 1949, I fell
ill and my specialist suspected
coronary thrombosis as well as
a liver ailment.
"Consequently I felt that I
must try to get my daughter set
tled she is our only child, we
being a family of three, includ
ing my wife.
Narriman is an old-fashioned
girl who never has gone out to
dances or clubs. Her chief form
of amusement is going to the
cinema with me. She was 16
on October 25, 1949.
One day about the beginning
of November a distant acquaint
ance of the family told me he
knew of a certain Saki Hashem
who was on leave in Cairo from
the United States and who want
ed to get married.
"I made inquiries about him,
and found he had a good reputa
tion and was regarded as a man
of intellect. Around the middle
of November I told my acquain
ance I would like to see Hashem
So he came to my house. He
made a good impression upon
me.
"He said he was in a hurry to
get married as he was due to
leave for the United States early
in December. That was the
first time Narriman saw Hash
"Our Oriental traditions do
not allow our children to dis
obey their parents' wishes re
garding marriage, and we are a
conservative family. I told my
daughter she was shortly to be
come engaged to Hashem.
From then on, Narriman was
a changed girl. She always was
crying, and became very de
spondent. Eventually I asked
my wife, 'isn't the girl happy?'
My wife and her sister then
spoke to Narriman and got the
impression she did not know
what love and marriage was all
about, and that she had no par
ticular feeling for Hashem.
"Eventually one morning
asked Narriman point blank:
" 'Do you wish to marry Hash
em? Don't be shy. Give me
frank answer.'
"Narriman replied, 'No,
don't want to marry him. I
have no feeling for him."
"That was on December 2. I
cancelled the reception that was
to be held incidentally, quite a
small affair and not the big
thing that the foreign papers
have said it was to be, for we
are an ordinary middle class
family.
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Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, Jan. 21, 1950 3
"It may well be that she'll
need some rocks of reasonable
size to help her digest her
meals," he added.
The operation was believed
to be the first on a full grown
crocodile.
CleotoGet Rock Diet
Cincinnati, O., Jan. 21 0J.R) A diet of selected rocks, but no
bottles, may be necessary to get Cleopatra back in good physical
condition, zoo officials said today.
Cleopatra, the Cincinnati zoo's 11-foot crocodile, was reported
'resting comfortably" after undergoing a 40-minute operation
n the zoo's reptile house. Inv-
the course of the operation, Dr.
Carl A. Pleuger, veterinarian,
removed six soft drink bottles,
39 stones, three marbles, two
bullets, a whistle and a toy ele
phant in Cleo's stomach.
The possibility of Cleo need
ing rocks in her diet was
brought up by Dr. Kenneth E.
Caster, professor of paleontolo
gy at the University of Cincinnati.
"Cleopatra is the descendant
of the prehistoric dinosaurs and
this type of reptile has no teeth
for chewing food," Dr. Caster
said. "Grinding action in the
stomach, aided by rocks and
pebbles, chews the food for the
animal, just like the gizzard of
a chicken."
Dr. Pleuger said he noted
during the operation that the
crocodile's stomach indicated no
ill effects from the foreign ob
jects he removed.
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Too Much for Cleo Dr. Carl Pleuger pauses after complet
ing "operation bottle" on Cleo, the Cincinnati zoo's bottle and
stone swallowing crocodile. On the towel in foreground are
some of the six bottles, 30 stones and assorted sundries re
moved from Cleo. (Acme Telephoto)
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Detroit, Jan. 20 U.R) It was all right, Mrs. George Bur
gess told the judge, when her husband ran around with
other women.
But when he started beating the dog every time he got
mad at her, that was just too much, she said in a divorce
suit.
Circuit Judge Lila Neuenfelt issued a temporary order
restraining Burgess, 68, from molesting the dog.
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'I then went to see Hashem's
father and told him my daughter
was too young to marry and
that I could not consent to her
marriage."
This correspondent then ques
tioned Sadek to attempt to clar
ify outstanding point.
'Did you ever receive orders
or instructions directly or indi
rectly to give your daughter to
the king?"
"None whatever," he said,
repeat, none whatever."
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