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rOUHTEEW MEbrORD (OREGON) MAIL TJIIBUHK ' Thurtday. August I. 1958 SWAMPED BY TICKET REQUESTS, Paul Butler (center), Democratic National Com mittee chairman and aides hold files full of requests for seats that cannot be filled. Oth ers are Jack Christie (left) and J. L. Reinsch, convention manager. (Intentatimal) Young Mother Advises American Girls: Never Take a Moslem for Your Husband New York U.R) A 27-year-old California mother who fled with her baby from her Moslem husband in Iraq arrived in New York today with some advice for American girls. "Never marry a Moslem," said Mrs. Helen Subbagh, Palo Alto, who arrived by plane with her 22-month-old son, Paul. She was forced to leave Iraq with no belongings other than the clothes on her back. "Women in Iraq get no respect whatever," the tired - looking young mother said. "My hus band Abdul tried to make me live like an Arab woman. When he got angry I would get slugged, shoved, spit at and cursed at." Consul Was Ailacksd Mrs. Subbagh told of how she could no longer take the treat ment that to her appeared stand ard in Baghdad and of how she escaped after a four-day running legal and physical battle in which the American consul in Baghdad was attacked by an Arab mob because he tried to protect her. Mrs. Subbagh' was finally able to get her husband to surrender their son to her, as a court had Yets Insurance To Be Reinstated Soon World War II and post Korea veterans who lost their five-year term GI insurance since July 23, 1933, because they failed to pay either or both of the last two monthly premiums will be given opportunity to reinstate the poli cies under a new law, according to S. T. Brannock. officer in charge of the VA office in Med ford. Brannock said VA is checking records for the cases and will send each former policy holder a reinstatement application. He asked veterans not to write or make inquiries for about a ; month to avoid delay in the checking process. The law which permits vet erans to reinstate the term poli cies is the Survivor Benefits act signed by the President Aug. 1. The GI insurance affected by the law consists of the five-year term policies of National Ser vice Life insurance, whether of the convertible World War II type or the nonconvertible post Korea type. Under the new law. the re quirement is relaxed to the ex ' tent that the five-year term of ' any policy which has lapsed be ' cause of failure to pay either or both of the last two monthly : premiums is automatically re ' newed for another five-year term and the policy then may be reinstated by meeting cer ; tain requirements. The provision of the new law '. was made retroactive to July 23, . 1953, and thereby affects any ; five-year NSLI policy which has lapsed at the expiration of the . term since that date, Brannock isaid. ordered. Then she flew to Rome, where she arrived penniless. Consular officials there gave her clothes for herself and the baby and arranged her trans portation home. She said today that her ro mance, begun in Seattle, where her husband was a student, turned into a nightmare after he took her home to Baghdad. "I was expected to walk in my bare feet, to sit on the floor, to eat with my bare hands, and cook on the floor," Mrs. Sub bagh said. "In Iraq, the men marry for one reason only to have a slave." Legality of Marriag Mrs. Subbagh said she was unsure now whether her marri age is valid. Her husband said at the time they were married in a Methodist church that he was a Christian, but she found on her arrival in Iraq he was still a Moslem. "I don't think the church would hav performed the cere mony had they known he was really a Moslem," she said. "I'm not sure the marriage was legal." Mrs. Subbagh, who left this morning by plane for Palo Alto, said that in the 10 months she spent in Irak she lost 25 pounds. She said she hopes to get a job as a bookkeeper, which she was before her marriage. Mrs. Subbagh will live with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. John stone until she can find an apartment. Rogue River Flood Damages Estimated To Be 34,048,500 Portland (U.P.) Preliminary figures released by Col. Jackson Graham. Portland district en gineer, show that floods of De cember, 1955, caused damages totaling $17,996,600 in Western Oregon. Col. Graham said the sum mary of damages is subject to change before appearing in a fi nal report. However, changes which might be made, he said, would not materially alter the general picture of devastation and loss represented by the dol lar value. . The damage figures were com piled from surveys made by Army Engineer crews on the Willamette, Umpqua. Rogue, Co quille and other coastal streams. Private damages accounted for 83 per cent of the total, or $14,935,800. Public damage came to $3,060,800 or 17 per cent. Agriculture interests, with a loss of $8,700,800, were the big gest losers. Total damages in the Willam ette river were $8,667,900. Of Ed Sullivan May Leave Hospital on Saturday Derby, Conn. (U.R! Ed Sulli van's doctor has set Saturday as the probable day the televis ion master of ceremonies will be able to leave the hospital. Dr. Edward Harvey Jr. has already given the 53-year-old Sullivan, who is recuperating from injuries suffered in an auto mobile accident, permission to resume dictating his newspaper column. Revolt in Ecuador Said To Be Crushed Quito, Ecuador U.R Out going President Jose M. Velasco Ibarra's administration said to day it has crushed the revolt that flared Tuesday in Portoviejo and has chased the rebels into the hills. that figure, $5,803,500 were be low Albany and $2,864,400 above Albany. Total flood damages on the Rogue river were $4,048,500; on the Coquille $2,596,800; on the Umpqua $2,143,200; and on other coastal streams, $540,200. Actual Height of Ml. Rainier Due To Be Known Soon Longmire, . Wash. U.R) It's going to be about another week before the Pacific Northwest knows just where its highest peak ranks with other moun tains in the United States. Two surveyors were flown by helicopter to the crest of Mr. Rainier yesterday with equip ment to take a new measure ment of the lofty peak. For 43 years the mountain has been considered third high est in continental United States, at 14,408 feet. But the measure ment was made in 1913 by out dated methods. Validity Doubted Since then several have doubted the validity of the measurements and the argu ments have raged over the true height of Mt. Rainier. If it can gain 88 feet in the current sur vey, it will be the nation's high est, more than California's Mt. Whitney at 14,495 feet A noon day heat wave pre vented the helicopter from reaching the two surveyors at the scheduled pickup time yes terday and they were left on the mountain top until evening when temperatures cooled enough for the helicopter once again to climb to the crest. . The two surveryors, Jack Lyon and.Toivo Nelson, of the U.S.- Geological service, will spend the next week computing their calculations. T r i a n g u lation shots were taken simultaneously at a radio signal from four points yester day in the operations to deter mine once and for all the true height of ML Rainier. Zoo Chimp Bites Hand That Feeds It Atlanta (U.R) A 200-pound chimpanzee bit off the thumb of 7-year-old Freddie Porter who was feeding the beast popcorn at the Grant Park Zoo Wednes day. Zoo officials said the boy climbed a low fence designed to keep spectators at a safe dis tance in order to give the pop corn to the zoo's temperamental chimp, Marie, who has repeated ly tried to attack visitors. The boy was treated at a hospital. Rockslide Causes Wreck Near Madras Madras (U.R) Seven cars of a Spokane, Portland and Se attle freight train, bound from Bend to Wishram, Wash., were swept from the Oregon trunk railroad by a rockslide about 6 p.m. yesterday. Three transients were riding one of the cars swept off the tracks but it was believed they were not injured. Service on the line was re stored at 9 a.m. today at the slide scene 35 miles north of here in the Deschutes river canyon, three miles south of South Junc tion. Rock sliding down a steep cliff on the upper side of the track hit the train about 15 cars behind the engine. Five cars were swept 200 to 300 feet down a steep grade and two others were left on the right of way with one twisted across the track and the other lying at the brink of the canyon. All seven cars were loaded. One contained new autos; the others carried coal, canned goods and glassware. SAFETY FIRST Mystic, Conn. U.R) Firemen had an easy time dousing a blaze at the home of Albert Pot ter. He apparently had dropped a lighted cigarette into a pile of clothes in his bathtub. State Department Stands By Ban oh Newsmen to Red China Washington (U.R) The State Department today stood by its ban against newsmen traveling to Red China despite a flurry of protests from newspaper and news agency executives. Spokesmen for the depart ment refused to discuss the mat ter today except to say there has been no change in the ban. Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles and his aides were studying the requests for rever sal of the State Department stand. But officials said private ly that Dulles is unlikely to change his decision. They said he realized -when the decision was made that news agencies and newspapers would not like it, but Dulles nevertheless felt he had made the right decision and would stick by it. Newsmen Invited The question came up earlier this week when Communist China invited 15 American newsmen to visit the country for a month beginning at the end of August. The State Department said in a formal statement it could not allow any Americans, including reporters, to go to the Chinese mainland as long as the Com munists hold U.S. citizens "as po litical hostages." The department warned that anyone violating the ban would be subject to up to two years imprisonment and a $5,000 fine or both. Other Protests Other protests came from Ar thur Hayes Sulzberger, presi dent and publisher of the New York Times; Frank J. Starzel, general manager of the Asso ciated Press; Edwin Canham, ed itor of the Christian Science Monitor; Herbert Brucker, ed itor of the Hartford, Conn., Con rant and chairman of the Free dom of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors: William H. Heath, editor of the Haverill. Mass.. Gazette and president of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors; the National Broadcasting Co., and the Co lumbia Broadcasting System. Hotel Man Bound, Gagged by Bandit Portland (U.R) The elderly operator of the Ockley hotel here was bound and gagged by a gun man early today and $60 in cash was taken from the cash drawer. Frank M. Rutherman, 73, told police a holdup man in his early thirties tied him and stuffed a gag in his mouth after taking the cash. The bandit also cut the telephone wires. Rutherman was discovered by a guest a short time later lying behind the hotel desk. British Hang Three '. Killers in Cyprus Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) Brit ish authorities hanged three terror-killers in the prison here be fore dawn today, and Greek speaking natives retaliated by calling a "general strike." Greek shops were the activi ties principally affected by the protest strike. Food shops re mained open, as required by laws, but most other stores in the native quarters of Cyprus shut their doors. AD FOR HUSBAND Houston, Tex. (U.R) Vida Hutto still thinks it pays to ad vertise. A pretty stenographer, Vida, 22, advertised for a hus band and got fired for her trou ble. But she said today she isn't at all discouraged. "It's all part of the battle," she said. "Besides, my telephone rang all last night with prospects wanting to know more details." Her demands: "He has to be fairly handsome, a Protestant, dependable, like to fish and earn at least $400 a month." the Telephone number: Hillcrest 2-3788. Law Banning Indecent Literature Challenged Salem U.R) Constitu tionality of an Oregon law ban ning indecent literature has been attacked in Marion county Circuit Court by a Salem maga zine distributor. Claude Cummings, recently indicted by a county grand jury for selling indecent literature, said the law fails to set up criteria for judging literature sold in the state. In a demurrer to his indict ment yesterday, Cummings alleged the facts of his distri buting magazines and paper back books did not constitute a crime. Cummings and another dis tributor were indicted follow ing a recent four-day grand jury investigation. Judge George Duncan said a date for oral arguments would be set Aug. 20. Normal, HI (U.R) A prank ster has been inviting persons to appear at speech classes of Illi nois State Normal University as guest lecturers for non-existent classes. For deep down enjoyment raw M, Petri California TOKAY PURE GRAPE WINE flTII WINl CO.. IAN MANCItCO. CAllt. Crater Beverage Company Milton Berle, Wife Plan Trip To Paris Hollywood (U.R) Comedian Milton Berle and his wife, Ruth, have been issued passports for a two-month business trip and vacation in Paris. 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