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Arsonists Hre Britain's Imperial War Museum LONDON (AP) Scotland Yard detectives poked through a mass of charred wreckage today trying to determine if protesters against the Vietnam set fire to Britain's Imperial War Museum. Fire burned out the 120-foot dome of the museum Sunday night, but an official said most of the priceless collection from the two world wars was saved. Officials said the fire was the BEA BENADERET DIES Bea Benaderet, star of tht television (tries, "Petticoat Junction," died Sunday at Good Samaritan Hotpial In Holywood. Sht was 62. A spokcman laid tht dltd of pneumonia and a relapse from triahntnt for cancer of tht lung.

(AP Wirtpheto) Pneumonia, Cancer Kills 'Petticoat Junction' Star HOLLYWOOD (AP) Bea Benaderet, matriarch of television's "Petticoat Junction," is dead at victim of pneumonia and lung cancer. The blonde, brown-eyed actress was starting her sixth season playing Kate Bradley. She had filmed five episodes for the current run when she was forced to return to the hospital Sept. 26. The vivacious performer underwent radiation treatment last year at the Stanford Medical Clinic in Palo Alto for a lung tumor.

Upon her release, Miss Benaderet told a newsmen, while recuperating, at Palm "Every day is beautiful to me I feel fine, better than I have felt in years." Agnew Assets Total $100,000 ANNAPOLIS (AP) A spokesman for Gov. Spiro T. Agnew says the Republican vice presidential nominee has assets totaling about $100,000 which will be listed in a detailed statement now being prepared. The spokesman said Saturday Agnew disclosed his worth "several weeks ago" and the detailed report was being prepared at the request of a newspaper. The reiteration came after F.

O'Brien, Democrat ic national chairman, said Ag new had not revealed his per sonal financial statement. work of an arsonist and was started by two incendiary bombs, one hidden in the dome and the other thrown through ground-floor window. Leaflets circulated in London last week urged demonstrators to make grenades and firebombs and assemble for a massive anti-Vietnam protest Oct. 27. But Scotland Yard said investigations so far showed no connection between the leaflets and the museum fire.

The museum's huge copper sheathed dome was wrecked by the blaze that erupted after an explosion before midnight. Firemen battled the flames in a scene watched by thousands of bystanders and reminiscent ot the wartime blitz. Two firemen were injured. Despite the damage, the museum was reopened to the public today while detectives and fingerprint experts worked inside. The dome was still smol- Dowking of the museum staff said the reading room of the museums $600,000 library was badly damaged but fewer than 100 books were charred.

The ground floor bomb near the documents room that houses the 1938 "Peace in our time" agreement that Neville Chamberlain brought back from Munich and theGerman surren- er document that ended the urouean War in Neither as damaged. The museum, opened in 1920 King George in the build- og that once housed the lunatic sylum known as Bedlam, is a avorite spot for schoolboys as ell as military scholars. Its ollection included tanks, air raft, 4,500 small arms, uni orms of many nations, four million photographs and 25 mil on feet of film recording the mpact of war since 1914. Its galleries have more than ,000 paintings, drawing and culptures depicting scenes var. In other rooms are a Ger nan one-man submarine, an human torpedo and the ifle carried by Lawrence krabia in the desert.

She died Sunday in Good Samaritan Hospital in Los An- eles. Prior to top casting as the uick-tongued mother in "Petti- oat's" Hooterville, Miss Benad- ret was Blanche Morton, wife fastidious Harry ext door neighbors in the long un of the "George Burns and Jracie Allen Show." In this part, she excelled in repartee. Another vehicle, "The Sever Hillbillies," featured her as cousin Pearl of the first year of that show. Then the creator of the Hillbeillies Paul i chose her as the operator of the Shady Rest Hotel in his "Petti coat Junction." Much of her early success de rived from her talent at dialect She was a part of the vocal cast of the TV cartoon show, Flintstones," and playec many other roles on radio and elevision. She was Gertrude Gearshift, spoke Brooklynese, telephone operator on the "Jack Benny Amber Lip cott on "My Friend Irma;" the maid, Gloria, on "The Adven of Ozzie and Eve Goodwin on "The Great Jildersleeve" and Mrs.

Car- itairs on "Fibber McGee and Molly." A public funeral is planned. She leaves her husband, sound technician Gene Twombley; a daughter, Margaret Kilfoil, 20; a son, Jack, 27, and a granddaughter. The family home is at suburban Studio Hv. Tydings Asks Rail System Airport Link WASHINGTON (AP) High speed rail system linking Na tional, Dulles and Friendshii airports has been suggested bj Sen. Joseph D.

Tydings, D-Md Tydings made the proposal in a letter to the Department Transportation, urging that it substituted for a proposed ex The Maryland Democrat sai the Federal Aviation Agency wa considering a recommendatio to expand National Airport a a cost of $152 million. "This is about 50 to 100 time the cost to the government the rail link I have suggested, Tydings said. "Moreover, th proposed expansion of Nationa will do nothing to reduce groun traffic congestion near the Wash ag facilities." Agnew Releases State Funds For Health ANNAPOLIS Spiro Agnew says local governmen officials ought to have more ad isory responsibility in working ut federal grants-in-aid pro rams. Agnew also announced ove he weekend that he was releas ng $1.1 million in fund or local health departments. Regarding federal aid pro Tarns, the Republican vici residential candidate calta ederal grants "solutions roblems which are the ultimat esponsibility of the local offi ials." The governor announced th elease of state funds "to main ain health services that hav een affected by the freeze xpenditures imposed in June a he height of the state's financr risis." The governor Imposed th pending cutback by halting em ployment for vacancies whic would normally be filled on th payroll.

"Despite the financial crisis, jaid Agnew, "we must continu provide vital services espe ally in the area of health our citizens. Restoration of the. funds will avert a possible clo ng of clinics and a reduction lealth services at the loc evel." There was no indication low the money would be otted. Approves Law Firms For Bond Sales BALTIMORE (AP) Atty. Sen.

Francis B. Burcb here is "nothing wrong, illegal unethical" about hiring three firms to represent Mary- nd in the sale of $220 million orth of bridge and tunnel Kinds. The three Baltimore law firms Feinblatt Rothman; 'Conor and Sweeney, and eorge W. McManus Jr. are eported to be politically well onnected and include promi ent Democrats.

"I suppose this could be. called atronage, but patronage is a act of life," Burch said during le weekend. "There is nothing wrong, il igal or unethical, as long as it not excessive or injurious." Burch, a Democrat, said fees or bond counsel are figured at cents for every $1,000 and the rms will share about $80,000 or their work. "Actually," aid, "I was able to negotiate fee that is approximately 20 with the three Former Army Chief Of Staff Dies WASHINGTON (AP) Ge John L. Hines, former Arm Chief of Staff, died of pneum nia Sunday night in Walter He Army Hospital.

Hines, 100, the oldest living graduate of tl U.S. Military Academy at We traffic congestion uic Ington-Baltimore area airports, Point. He was chief of sta to increase the use of exist- from 1924 to 1926 and retired Ui Ul if, ty IHAW Amrimil PrtM Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) Members of the Students for a Democratic Society, saying they intend to "destroy the myth of American democracy," are Banning a nationwide itudent strike and big city demonstra- jons coinciding with the Nov. 5 presidential election.

er cent less irms The syndicate of underwriters juying the bonds also had a ocal counsel, the Baltimore inn of Buckmaster, White, Nin del Clarke. George W. White principal partner in the irm, is Gov. Spiro T. Agnew's ampaign manager.

Del. Charles A. Docter, was the first time a syndicate of underwriters had a local coun el. "This looks like a bit of lega eatherbedding and bipartisan baring of the pie," he said. A spokesman for the syndicate aid selection of the firm nothing to do with White's con nection with Agnew.

itudmtRodkob Plan Violence Bia Cities On Election Day Ancient Gold Refinery Uncovered CAMBRIDGE, Mail, (AP) A workshop where King Croesus lad his gold refined has been discovered at Sardis, Turkey members of an American ar cheological expedition. -The find, announced by Harvard University, was a refinery where pure gold was extracted and treated the time When- Croesus, the last king of Lydia in Asia Minor, made Sar dis a byword for wealth in Iroduced the system of coinage into the marts of the civilized world. The workshop was uncovered on the Pactolus Torrent, which according to the historian Hero dotus, was famous in antiquitj for its gold-bearing sands. Croesus reigned from 560 B.C to 546 B.C. The scientists, representing ft.

jwucvci, me auiciiuaia, Montgomery, said last week this Harvard, Cornell, and other uni versities, excavated the area inch by inch, recovering numer ous tiny bits of refined gold- droplets, foil and gold leaf exhi biting traces of processing anc working. They also recoverec fragments of crucibles, How pipe nozzles, and other gold working apparatus. Join Newest Bridal Chain! Own Your Own BRIDAL SHOP AN OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITY If you live in the Wsynesboro, Greencastle, Hagerstown Area and If you are Interested In a bridal business of your very own without Investment and If you can qualify as follows: Genuine Sincerity, outstanding personality, refined character, mature woman. Rural or suburban location preferred. YOUR TRAINING AT OUR IXPENSII Send Complete Resume BEVERLY BRIDALS R.D.

No. I lex lit Dover, 17115 after 41 years in the Army. tte wdlctl today to work out Mid there will iTsD? Mtiontf coWil at a weekend conference on the Uni- ertUy of Colorado campus. The SDS' objective, said one officer, Tim McCarthy, "is not so much to disrupt the election, Hit to show the fraudulent nature of the election. We're going destroy the myth of Amerian democracy." Besides calling for "a national trike of high school and college tudents on Nov.

4 and 5" and or "large militant SDS regional emonstrations in major cities," the resolution adopted Sunlay: "elections are a raud because they foster the il- usion that people have demo- ratic power over the major institutions of society. In fact ails, courts, schools, factories, he army, and the election proc ess itself are controlled by a ruling class." immediate withdrawal of U.S.. troops from Viet nam. 'We support the people's war in Vietnam," the resolution aid. "We support people's lib eration struggles throughout the world." for an end to "rac sm," adding: "We affirm the right of black people to defenc and liberate themselves by any means necessary.

We demam that the police be disarmed." Bemardine Dohrn, one eight or ten" presidential campaign draws to a close. She New York, Milwaukee, Boston, Chicago, Washington and lot Angeles, but said no firm sites had icen selected. Another resolution adopted by the conference, attended times by upwards to 1,000 SOS members and nonmembers, jromised stepped up efforts to organize SDS chapters in high schools. As council delegates from chapters across the nation departed the Colorado campus, a controversy lingered over the SDS' treatment of reporters and photographers covering the weekend sessions. Television cameramen, newspaper photographers and radio newsmen with tape, recorders were bodily ejected from a student union building meeting hall in.

a brief shouting and shoving match with SDS members-Saturday. they feared a repeat of the scuffle, university officials agreed- to SDS demands that cameras and tape recorders be barred from the meetings. GOT. John Love, saying he deplored the situation created on the campus by the SDS, called for the university to re-examine its policies toward such groups as SDS. The SDS responded Sunday by adopting a motion to censure Love for his views.

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