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MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1959 20 PAGES PRICE 7 CENTS Relative Humidity 19 Wife Isn't Mother rrzir ires Quads But UM'U CI 0) Liberace Battles Writer's 'Smears' Propellor Hacks Body Of Swimmer V' Dr. Frank King, Dies At 79 Pioneer Surgeon And Area Resident Was Retired Dr. Frank A. Khig, one of southwestern Michigan's Ciro Bravata smiles and holds four cigars in front of incubators where his newborn quadruplets lay in East Orange, N. hospital Birth of the quads three boys and a girl also brought news that Bravata has "two-wife" trouble.

Iowa Youth Is Run Down Near Lakeside A manslaughter charge was au 1 Testifies In Libel Action Against London Paper BY HAL COOPER LONDON, June 8 (AP) American entertainer Liberace thorized by Berrien Prosecutor Pop Grins leading physicians and horticulturists, died Sunday at 4:29 Ronald Lange today against the driver of the speedboat that killed a 21-year-old Sioux City, la, youth near Lakeside Saturday. p. m. in Mercy hospital at the age of 79. denied in a British court today that he is homosexual.

Dr. King was admitted to tne At Troubles Prosecutor Lange said the war His denial came at the opening of a libel action against the daily Mirror and its columnist, William Neil Connor, who writes, under the pen name of Cassandra. The entertainer, whose full name rant charging Edward Kaminsky, 39, of Chicago in the death or Charles Thomas Conolly would be Issued today. hospital just four hours before his death, but he had been in falling health since his retirement from medical practice five years ago. Dr.

King practiced medicine in And Babies! v. is Wladziu Valentino Liberace, was Benton Harbor for 33 years. He also owned the picturesque Kingsdale Conolly, a student at Regis College in Denver, was killed instantly Saturday evening about 200 feet off the "beach at Lakeside in Lake Michigan while he was Has Two Families; They're A Problem asked by his lawyer, Gilbert Bey us: "Are you a homosexual?" "No sir," replied Liberace. "Have you ever indulged in homosexual practices? farm on Pipestone road, one of Berrien county's larger fruit farms, THE SON OF PIONEER, RESIDENTS of this community, the late Mr. and Mrs.

Alexander King, Dr. EAST ORANGE. N. June 8 A 23-foot Inboard speedboat (AP) Ciro Bravata' quadruplets and their mother are doing fine in "No sir, never In my life. East Orange General hospital.

driven by Kaminski ran the youth down in the water as Kaminski was pulling a water skier toward "What are your feeling about It?" King was born 1880, at the But the proud papa admits "I've gat "My feelings are the same as anyone else's I am against the family in New the beach to drop him off, accord York City. practice because it offends con ing to New Buffalo post state po lice. site of his present 2090 Pipestone road. He was married in 1904 at'Evans-ville, to Miss Clara Edith Chapel who died in 1927 as the result of an auto accident. Surviving this mar Bravata became the father of a vention and offends society." ft 1 girl three boys Saturday.

Sun THE BOAT PROPELLOR slashed day he admitted he was married to BEYFUS SAID the language use open Conolly's body from his chest by Connor in the Daily Mirror "meant and was intended to mean to his thigh. Trooper John Caster- riage are two sons and three daughters Dr. Frank King, Jr, Mrs. line said. that Liberace was a homosexual." Bravata talks to one "wife" Louise; 32, mother of the quads at bedside in hospital.

They're, not legally wed. Frederick Rahn and Robert King of another woman and had two children by her. "Oh, he's a fine one," moaned Bravata't wife, Grace, 38, as she lay in bed under sedation after hearing of the quads. Dr. Russell Vastine, of Buchanan, Gerald Gardiner, attorney for the I DR.

FRANK KING, SR. Benton Harbor; Mrs. Frederick Berrien county coroner, said Conol Mirror and Connor protested the Lathrop, Lancaster, and Mrs. line of questioning of Liberace. Julia MacDonald, Sarasota, Fla.

Two ly died Instantly of abdominal and thoracic evisceration with puncture of the chest and mediastinal shift. It's mutual." "There is no such suggestion and never has been anything of the But Bravata, 39, a railroad freight sons, George ana cnapei, preceaea However, Caponl said that under conductor, said the quads' mother. him in death. The body was taken to Smith fu L.xJ kind," Gardiner declared. Liberace testified that after Con: Louise Strohlein Bravata, knew all neral home In New Buffalo for Dr.

King was" married Dec. 6, 1928, a court order, Bravata was required to $40 monthly in support of Grace and their two children, a girl and the post mortem examination. to Miss Myrtle Bell, who survives. Mercy hospital. He held membership the Rotary club, tre American Red Cross, Eastern Star No.

319, Lake Shore Masonic Lodge No. 298 and the Calvin Britain Chapter," the council and the Malta Command- WLADZIU LIBERACE nor's acid comments had appeared In print, he played a date at Shef boy, now 13 and 12 years old. along he was married. "Louise, couldn't be Bravata said. fr-' Other survivors include 11 grand hi Grace, at her home in Hollls, children and three great-grandchil field.

The fatal accident occurred before he horrified eyes of Conolly's girl friend, 19-year-old Katha Ruth Geary, of Chi- Queens, New York City, said her "When I went on the stage, there dren. husband's support payments had AS FOR GRACE: have no desire to talk to her. never did. She's been giving me a hard time since were cries from the audience of 'queer', and fairy and such things ary Na 44 K.T. of the Masonic lodge and the DeWltt Clinton and been an on-again-off -again thing and that he owes her $90.

as 'Go home, he said. cago, who was standing on the beach. The victim was visiting at her grandmother's cottage in Lakeside for the weekend. Berrien county consistories. the first day I married her." "I suppose he's proud of himself "Did that upset you?" asked Bus Crashed Explodes; 16 Workers Die Bravata said his lawyer, Herman Caponl of New York, "has got the vV Services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.

m. in the Methodist Peace Temple of which Dr. King was a member. The Rev. Stanley Buck, D.D., will officiate.

Burial will be in Crystal Springs cemetery. The body will be taken to the Beyfus. with his picture in the paper, grinning with that other woman," she MODERN TIMES "Very much, sir, and it upset the case. said. audience, too, Liberace replied.

Miss Geary and the water skier, 29-year-old Edward Kuypers," of Chicago, pulled Conolly's body from the water and notified state police. Caponi said Bravata and the mother of the quads had never been would say a good many people' in BRAVATA, who" makes $115 a the audience were embarrassed at week as freight conductor of the hearing these comments." Klan Crosses Now Electric The accident occurred shortly be fore 7:30 pjn. church at 11 a. m. Wednesday to lie in state until the service.

Previous to that, friends may call at the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Louise have been living here for more than two years in a five-room apartment. married, that legal action the wife, Grace' had started never had been put on a court calendar and never "brought to termination." The only thing legal about the rparation, Caponl said, "is that Florin funeral home. KAMINSKI TOLD investigating He will be 40 years old on Father's The family has announced that officers he was unaware the boat Mexican Laborers Killed In Arizona The trial opened before a judge and a jury that included two women. The gallery was crowded With women and girls. They greeted the pianist with a chorus of "oh's and ahs" when' he arrived bareheaded and dapper in single-breasted blue day.

had struck Conolly. He said he did not see the youth In the water, ac contributions be made in Dr. King's name to the Mercy hospital remembrance fund. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, June 8 (AP) The fiery crosses of the cording to police. Kaminski was PHOENIX, June 8 (AP) highland clans of Scotland and the Sixteen farm laborers were killed INJURED IN MINE told of Conolly's death as he moored the speedboat at the marina in New southern klans of the United States DR.

KING WAS GRADUATED r-: Liberace is suing the Daily Mirror Buffalo. had one thing in common: They were expendable. It took a new one and Connor for articles pub and 32 others were injured when a crudely fashioned bus crashed into a tree and exploded near Phoenix today. State police said Kaminski was lished in 1956. every time.

from Benton Harbor high school and attended the University of Michigan for two years. He transferred to the University of Illinois where he received his degree in medicine. But the continuing racial tension as is- the vnnr.Tiav. TV rri. The highway patrol, which not taken into custody.

Officers who attempted to contact the boat driver Sunday learned he had re Blast Is Fatal To Man in areas affected by Negro residential shifts here has developed a more modern, economical approach. TISH COURTS, the libel sui! does not ask for a specific sum in damages. The amount, if any, will be turned to Chicago, police said. He interned at Garrett, The body of the victim was to be A group of men In Ku Klux Klan fixed by the jury. where he served as surgeon for the Baltimore Ohio railroad.

number of charred and crea- mated bodies in the twisted wreckage, listed these figures as official but said there may be more dead. All the victims were Mexican na returned to Sioux City, la, lor iu neral services. Beyius asserted Connor is as regalia set up a cross in a neighborhood where several Negroes have recently homes. One of them vicious and violent a writer as has ever been in the profession of jour then plugge dit In to a socket of a tionals. nalism in the city of London." Wife No.

2--Mrs. Grace Bravata, 38 collapses af t-er hearing Bra vato is father of quads by another woman. (AP Photos) Dr. King established practice in Benton Harbor in 1921. He was a member of the Berrien County Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical society and a former chief of staff at First Mail nearby house.

Many of the injured were re He quoted in court the offending articles, in part, as follows: The cross was Immediately lit up A young miner who formerly lived in the Benton Harbor area died Saturday from injuries he received in an Upper Peninsula iron mine explosion which killed five other men ported in serious condition with burns and broken bones. 'He is the summit of sex the by electric light bulbs. The highway patrol quoted the Delivered Binnacle of masculine, feminine and neuter. Everything that he, she and ilast Monday, driver, Nato Manuel Gloria, aa Death came in Stambaugh hos it can ever want. pital to Talcott (Buster) Shaver.

spoke to sad but kindly men on 1 saying he dozed at the wheel. Gloria said he had been feeling sleepy and was going to stop at an intersection 100 yards ahead to turn the driving over to his assistant. this newspaper who have met every celebrity arriving from the United By Missile Was Your Sunday Swim Can Expect More Of Same States for the past 30 years. "They all say that this deadly, Jr.r 23, after five-day battle for life. Shaver was Injured in what was described as "belching blast of gas in a mine owned by Inland Steel company near Iron River.

His death brought the total mine deaths at the Sherwood Iron Ore mine to six from the blast. THE DRIVER escaped serious In- winking sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, Package Fired To President Jury. The workers 'were en route from labor office at Mesa, Ariz, to 1 fruit-flavored, mincine, ice cream-covered heap of mother love has had the biggest reception and impact on the garlic fields at Tolleson, west Oil blobs 'which were discovered on local lake beaches of Phoenix. last winter will apparently be around at least until next London since Charlie Chaplin arriv Shaver's grandparents, Mr. and The truck, which had been con ed at the same station, Waterloo, on Mrs.

Dell Shaver, live at 1 US Col spring despite efforts to clean up the shoreline. Blazing War Film Jusf Puts Jimmy To Sleep WASHINGTON, June 8 (AP) The Postoffice department today announced the first successful mail delivery by guided missile. The missile, a Navy Regulus was launched by a U. S. submarine in the Atlantis and landed at the verted into a bus with sides and Sept.

12 1921. fax avenue, Benton Harbor. This is what Waiter P. Ad- "He reeks with emitic language a top, left baseline road, a main suburban thoroughfare just south nf tho Thfwniir pitv limits, nlowpd HIS PARENTS, former Benton that can only, make grown men long made available for bathers who ven. ture into the oily water.

Harbor residents, moved to Beech' ams, execntive secretary of the Michigan Water Resources commission told local resort owners in a letter. Tt seems Adams wrote, Adams letter was sent to Mrs. R. (Please turn to page 10)- wood, in the UP about eight auxiliary naval air station at May-port near Jacksonville, Fla. "Pork Chop Hill a blazing through a ditch, and smashed into a tree.

Patrolman said the head-on crash burst the vehicle's gas lines and B. Hornack of the Cedar Bluff motel and George Self ridge of Potta years ago. Shaver, Sr was a build' ing. contractor in Benton Harbor. Korean war movie, turned out to The submarine was the Barbero, JERRY LEWIS be a lullaby for a 12-year-old Ben "the oil which got onto the beach a missile-vessel, Survivors of Shaver include his caused aa explosion.

es and has been removed in most ton Harbor boy last night. The distance the missile travelled wife lone, a six-months-old daugh Mrs. Vivian Murnhv. 366 Lincoln cases got in ahead of the freeze-up ter; his parents: two brothers, Rob avenue, told Benton Harbor police ert and Delbert, both at homer two last winter. The submerged oil must have been trapped In the lake by was about 100 miles.

The cargo of 3,000 letters lnclud ed one addressed to President Ei her son, James, went to the State INDEX TO Contract Is Ten Million sisters. Miss Rochelle Shaver, at TALCOTT SHAVER theater early Sunday the shore Ice barrier of last winter. wattamie resort. It came at a time when bathers began eying some 30 miles of beach in Berrien drew some swimmers over the warm weekend. At Lions park, always a popular swimming spot, the newly instituted program of fee charg-f ing to non-St Joseph residents caused some oat of towners to turn away.

The oil blobs have tentatively senhower. wnen ne not yet returned home, and Mrs. Noduru Ay a be, Kal-aheo Kanai, Hawaii; and his grand If this conclusion is correct, you Other messages in the cargo, all are likely to be faced with the prob parents. i at 3:10 a.m, police started looking for him. An employe of the Brid-well Janitor Service found young Inside Pages SECTION ONE Funeral services are scheduled lor from Postmaster General Summer-field, were for members of the cabinet, members of Congress, justices Reds Wiiining PALERMO, Sicily, June 8 (AP) Silvio Millazzo, a Christian Demo HOLLYWOOD, June 8 (AP) lem of a second cleaning up of your shoreline next spring after late fall and early winter storms have put the rest of this mess on the beach." James: sound asleep in the theater.

Tuesday at 2 pjn. at the United Brethren church in Beechwood. Editorial Page of the Supreme Courtthe governors Vote Mon 8. Irene Forburger, Jeny Lewi has signed a 10-mlllion dollar contract which Paramount studios says is the 'biggest price paid in Hollywood for the exclusive serv of all American states and territor-i cratic rebel, and his supporters of He added: would not expect traced to a sunken oil barge near ies, and the postmasters; general of Attn. Master Masons.

Meet at Florin's Funeral Home, Tues. 1:30 to attend Funeral of Brother Evert Gary, Ind. that any cleaning undertaken now wiU appreciably reduce the spring ices of one star. Adams' letter said the attorney Fairplain School Board. Adv.

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Joseph News Page 3 Women's Section Pages 4. 5, 7. Obituaries Page 1 SECTION TWO Area Highlirhts Paire 1 Sports Page I Comics, TV. Radio Pase the otner nations wnicn are members of the universal postal union. The seven-year contract calls for Llndennan.

Signed Frank Randall, general's office Is giving its attention to the legal and recovery as the communist-led left were running far ahead of Christian Democrats today in early returns in Sicily's crucial legislative election. 1 Humphrey Insurance Agency moved ta 219 Mich. St, B. H. W.

M. Adv The missile was fired at 10:10 the comedian to make 14 pictures-seven by Paramount-York and seven by Jerry Lewis Product residue of 1960 that must be expected." ADAMS ADVISED buckets filled with kerosene or turpentine be pects of the situation, a. m. EDT and landed saiery at Plumbing Problems? Ph. WA 6-2884, Enterjxlss Cleaners FX VTA C-6905.

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