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Friday, February 16, 1962 THE MODESTO BEE Vladimir Sokoloff, 71, Character Actor, Dies HOLLYWOOD AP -ter an actor and director Vladimir Sokoloff, who once from as, 1914 to 1937. He began estimated that he had por- der Stanislavsky, his acting apprenticeship unstage name trayed 35 nationalities during of the creator of the "Methhis 50 year acting career, is od" school, dead of a stroke.at 71. Sokoloff later said he did The Russian born perform- not approve of this type of er, once a pupil of the famed acting for Americans. Stanislavsky, in his sleep true West Hollywood home Stanislavsky's Constantine name in was yesterday. Alexeev.

His method called. The veteran actor for actors to lose character themselves was the last of what completely in their portrayals. wood called "the classic Eu- Sokoloff once told a newsman that if Stanislavsky were Sokoloff was associated, alive, his favorites would inwith the Moscow Arts Thea- (clude of the socalled none practitioners of The Method. Sokoloff added: "His favorites--and I know they would be would be Frederic March, Alec Guinness, Julie Harris, Michael Redgrave, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud and Ralph Rich- lardson." Submergence Of Self Of Marlon Brando's adoption of the method, Sokoloff said: "Brando, while a great actor, allows his own personality to dominate the role, Stan(islavsky always insisted that the actor submerge himself in the role." Prior to Stanislavsky's death in 1938, Sokoloff asked him to name the greatest actOT, of the time. "He said Walter Hustonand I agreed with him," Sokoloff related.

After leaving the Soviet Union, Sokoloff joined Max. Reinhardt. Success on Broadway led to his movie debut in The Life Of Emile Zola. He had other parts in For Whom The Bell Tolls, Juarez, Royal Scandal, Baron Of Arizona, Macao, Two Smart People, Back To Bataan and many others. Katangans Ease Way For Accord By Dennis Neeld ELISABETHVILLE, KatanThe Katanga Assembly today toned down its conditions for accepting the Kitona agreement and ending the province's secession.

The legislators in an obviously conciliatory gesture omitted all reference to the United Nations and raised fresh hopes that differences between the Leopoldville and Elisabethville authorities can be settled by peaceful negotiations. Enhances Chances Assembly President Charles Mutaka issued a communique embodying the terms of a resolution passed before the assembly broke up yesterday. It greatly toned down conditions of an earlier motion and considerably enhanced chances of agreement between Katanga and the Leopoldville government. The new resolution says the Kitona agreement will serve as a basis for discussion to settle the Congo conflict and insists that settlement must be reached by peaceful negotiations "as soon as possible." The resolution calls on the central government of Premier Cyrille Adoula to guarantee it will take no action against civil and military officials who have served Katanga during its 18 months of independence. It also demands that officials hostile to the Katanga authorities should not be sent here in any administrative capacity.

Ann Harding Is Fair After Twice Fainting In Play DETROIT A Veteran actress Ann Harding is under hospital treatment after her collapse last night while appearing in a new play at the Shubert Theater. Her condition this morning is listed as fair. Miss Harding, 57, fainted in her dressing room during the intermission of the two act play but was revived and completed the final act. She collapsed again at the close of the play, however and was unable to answer the curtain call. Her ailment was diagnosed by hospital physicians as gas.tro-enteritis, an inflamation of the lining of the stomach and intestines.

June UN Session UNITED NATIONS, NYP--Twenty two African and Asian countries proposed yesterday that the United General Assembly resume its current session early next June to end Belgium's trusteeship over on July 1st. Heavy Snow To Fall In Continued from A-1. slides block the road. County Road Commissioner Glen H. Hock also advised motorists not to use the Red Hills Road between Chinese Camp and La Grange Road.

He said water in the dips Bank Robber Is Sentenced To 30 Years SAN FRANCISCO Thomas N. Lindsay, 27 of Red Wood City, San Mateo County, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for two east bay bank holdups. United States District Judge Albert C. Wollenberg, before sentencing Lindsay, denied a motion for a new trial by his court appointed attorney, Lin B. Densmore, who contended the court erred in admitting certain evidence.

Densmore also. cited an article in a San Francisco during the trial, quoting Keith C. Sorenson, San Mateo County district attorney. The article quoted Sorenson as linking Lindsay with several sex attacks on girls and women in San Mateo County. Blasts Irresponsible Judge Wollenberg said the article "was the act of irresponsible people--Keith Sorenson, the district attorney (who) should have known better--and an irresponsible press." After Lindsay was removed from the court room, Judge Wollenberg called to the bench Densmore and Assistant US Attorney Frederick J.

Woelflen, who prosecuted Lindsay, and told them: "I don't believe this court should just sit by in connection with the publication of that article last Wednesday (February 7th). I wish you'd advise Mr. Sorenson that the court wants him to appear before this court next Tuesday February 20th at 10 AM." The judge gave no indica-. tion what he will say to Sorenson. He commented: "The evidence of guilt was beyond any question of reasonable doubt." Lindsay was convicted of the November 9th armed holdup of the Central Valley National Bank at Orinda, Contra Costa County, in which he got $3,792, and the November 15th armed robbery of the First Savings oan Association in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, in which he took $4,200.

Soggy LA Takes A New Drenching LOS ANGELES A A two day, 1.55 inch rainstorm wound up spectacularly early today traffic with a street flooding, clogging downpourjust like its lethal, 8.03 inch big brother that departed last Monday. Intermittent sunshine followed, and the weatherman predicted only occasional showers through tomorrow. A five day forecast says there is a chance of showers again about Tuesday. Later today, Governor Edmund G. Brown declared Los Angeles County a disaster area because of floods and storm damage and "the acute threat of continuing rainstorms." The governor's proclamations, effective immediately, makes the county eligible for state aid in cleanup operations and for federal aid funds.

County Supervisor Ernest Debs estimated yesterday that losses and expenses from the February 7th-12th storm exceeded $4 million. There were 26 deaths connected with itdrownings, traffic crashes, mud inundations, a woman struck by a falling tree. Continues Mountains Ice Jungle Forms On Kansas Farm A tangled mass of ice and debris still is spread across the Clyde Husted farm 10 although it has been the Kaw River's ice choked General Was Not Aware Of Files Until'52 McClatchy Newspapers Service FRESNO Major General Earle M. Jones of Fresno, state adjutant general from 1951 to 1960, says he has little knowledge of files on allegedly subversive organizations kept in the San Diego National Guard Armory. The files, some dating back to 1928, were seized early this week on the order of Major General Roderio Hill, the cur-, rent adjutant general, who said they "were used by unauthorized persons." Jones said he gave permission for the San Diego unit to store the files because he was told by a security section the files were important as reference material for law enforcement agencies and the security unit.

Personal Files "I never used the files, he said. "I wasn't aware of them until General (Ralph Van Deman died (in 1952)." "As I understand it they were his personal files accumulated over the years." An organization known as the San Diego Research Center has claimed ownership of the files and wants them back. Major General George Fisher of San Diego, a retired national guardsman, said the research center has a right to the files since they are private property. General Jones says he "never heard of the research center" but Fisher "knows as much about the situation as anyone." Singer's Wife Leaves Coma BURBANK, Los Angeles Co. A Barbara Diane has recovered full consciousness for the first time since she was rushed to a hospital Sunday, her doctor reports.

Dr. Abner Moss said the condition of the wife of Lindsay Crosby, crooner Bing's son, is "substantially improved" and returning to normal. Further tests to determine the nature of her illness are planned. Mrs. Crosby, 23, expects her second child in June.

Michigan GOPer May Ask No Recount DETROIT Republican Robert E. Waldron probably will not seek a recount in the close special election race he lost to Democrat Harold M. Ryan in the 14th congressional district Tuesday. Waldron, a state representative, indicated this yesterday after the official canvass increased state Senator Ryan's thin margin by three votes to a 747 total, More than 60,000 votes were cast. Engineers Will Meet The Modesto Engineers Club will meet at 7 o'clock tonight in the Hotel Covell Map along the road is so deep car.

in places it would stall a The state division of highways in Sonora reported highway crews have been clearing old logs, dynamite cans and other debris washed onto the highway. In the higher country of the county the snowfall was heavy for the last 24 hours. Pinecrest measured 20 inches of new snow, increasing its pack to 30 inches. Along Highway 108 chains are advisable at the bottom of the Twain Harte grade and required at Twain Harte, which received 2 inches snow. Further along the highway, Sugar Pine reported 7 inches of new snow; Long Barn, new and 15 inch total; Cold Springs, 19 and 30; Strawberry, 19 and 24; Bumblebee, 21 and 36; Cow Creek, 24 and 43, and Dodge Ridge, 15 bring the pack to 120 inches at the bottom of the slopes and 148 at the top.

Chains are required on Highway 120 15 miles east of Groveland. San Joaquin Is High The San Joaquin River reached a height of 42.3 feet this morning at the old Las Palmas Bridge. The flood stage is 45 feet. Modesto Irrigation District officials reported the Don Pedro Dam power plant began generating at full capaity today. The storage in the reservoir increased to 133,600 acre feet this morning.

This is more than 13 times the water in the dam two weeks ago. Nearly 13,000 second feet were flowing into the reservoir today. The Stanislaus River's flow dropped to less than half of yesterday's when foothill cloudbursts caused local flooding. The flow this morning was 2,700 acre feet. Oakdale Irrigation District officials said Melones Dam half filled, rising another seven feet yesterday.

The district is continuing to release 1,760 second feet in the Stanislaus River from the nearly full Tulloch Dam. Today's intermittent snow in the Sierra is expected become steady overnight. Stanislaus County, which will have variable cloudiness and showers through tonight, probably will have rain tomorrow. Some areas experienced thunderstorms yesterday along with the rain. Thunder, lightning and hail were reported in the San Francisco Bay area and in some mountain communities.

Plane Is Struck Lightning struck an American Airlines DC7 cargo airplane flying between Oakland and Portland, last night. It returned to the San Francisco International Airport. Lightning also struck a Berkeley power line and halted atom smashing activities at the University of California bevatron, cyclatron and the linear accelerator. Snow temporarily blocked Highways 40 and 50 for periods yesterday and early today. Highway 1, the coast route, was closed by slides.

Western Pacific Railroad Company trains were delayed up to 12 hours by rock and mud slides. Idaho Tallies Big Flood Loss POCATELLO, Idaho--ARestoring safe water supplies in four villages is the major task facing flood battered southeast Idaho today. The health authorities found water supplies contaminated at Soda Springs, Bancroft, Inkom and Lava Hot Springs. Governor Robert E. Smylie toured flood areas yesterday and estimated the damage at more than $15 million in a 16 county area.

"It is certainly Idaho's most expensive natural disaster in modern history," he said. Brown Favors San Diego For New Medical School SAN DIEGO A nor Edmund G. Brown said today there is an urgent need for more doctors in California and a new medical school should be located in San Diego. In a telegram to Dr. Clark Kerr, University of California president, and to Edwin W.

Pauley, board of regents chairman, Brown said: "In my opinion San Diego is the logical place for a new medical school. "Every study that has been made in California and elsewhere in the west shows that! 24 30 47 24 a 85540 of 3 13 NO to ca 10 30 is co ta 10 to 13 47 00 00 00 ta a. Co 24 3 10 13 30 Some 500 acres of Husted's 600 acre farm are covered miles northwest of Lawrence, more than two weeks since waters spread over the area. with the big ice chunks, feet. The ice flood cost and cattle.

Texas Fires Back At Bob Kennedy On Mexico War Continued from A-1. would have agreed with Kennedy but not now. diary of President Polk, Donald added, been discovered and there has been better research into internal Mexican affairs. Donald said the war. was "made almost inevitable" by American expansion and the fact that Mexicans would not negotiate long standing differences- -such as claims by US citizens vs Mexico, and boundary disputes.

Colonel John Bakeless, who was on the general staff in World War II, and who is a writer and historian, noted that General U. S. Grant also thought the war unjustified land said so in his memoirs. As for himself, Bakeless said: "The Mexican War, whether justified or not, was more or less inevitable. America was expanding.

I think myself the cruelty of the Alamo justified almost anything." In the siege of the Alamo (San Antonio) the Mexicans wiped out the entire garrison. At San Marino, historian Allan Nevins said he disagrees with Kennedy but says the attorney general's position is tenable. Gl Duty In Viet Nam Is Extended SAIGON, South Viet Nam -AP-Tours of duty in South Viet Nam for certain United States Army personnel serving in helicopter units have been extended to 18 months from six, an informed source said today. Technically, the men involved had been here on temporary' duty for a period of months. The extension reported probably applies only to key personnel in helicopter companies, such as the pilots themselves.

Not Cover All The informant emphasized a lengthened term will not apply to most of the estimated 4,000 servicemen now in South Viet Nam. About three quarters of the servicemen here are assigned on temporary duty, presumably to avoid advertising the United States military buildup to the three nation control commission, charged with reporting violations of the 1954 Geneva truce agreement. Continued Nevins: "It's one of those questions that will never be settled. The general view of historians used to be that it (the war) was wrong. More recently, however, historians have taken the opposite view." In his own opinion, Nevins said, "I think the war was justified." His principal grounds: "The refusal of Mexico to negotiate.

The Mexicans thought they were going to defeat the United States. They had an army that on paper was five times larger than ours. The principal reason they refused to was national pride." Nevins noted that historian Justin H. Smith takes the view, in his two volume work, The War With Mexico, published about 30 years ago, that Mexican provocation and intransigence made it impossible to avoid hostilities. Nevins said the same view is taken by Ray Allen Billington in his 1949 Westward Expansion in which he emphasized that President tried very hard for a peaceable settlement.

Nevins "The attorney general, of course, is quite entitled to his view, which is the old Massachusetts view the traditional view in Massachusetts." Generally Opposed Nevins said the war was generally opposed in Massachusetts because it was regarded as a Southern war aimed at acquiring more territory in which slavery would be practiced. Nevins said Abraham Lincoln also opposed the war, though it was supported in Illinois. Nevins said Lincoln even introduced a resolution in congress asking President Polk to say exactly where Mexicans infringed on US right. The resolution was defeated. "The preponderance of opinion now upholds the American side," Nevins concluded.

Governor Daniel, in additional comment, said. "I am glad that officials and citizens of Mexico today are among the best friends that Texas and the United States have. And that most of them understand the causes of these past conflicts." As a result of the Mexican the disputed Texas as War, the United States, got well as what is now Arizona, New Mexico, and a part of Colorado. The US also paid Mexico $15 million for these areas. Marriage Expert Lauds Red Morality Strides ST.

LOUIS, marriage counselor has said the western world has fallen behind the Soviet Union in social ethics and moral standards. Dr. David R. Mace, Madison, NJ, head of the American Association of Marriage Counselors, said the Soviet Union is adopting and putting into practice, the highest standards of sex morality, chastity and fidelity. "The Christian west is abandoning these standards rapidly," Mace told the convention of the National Council of Churches' division of Christian education.

Mace said a new family code policy introduced in the Soviet Union in 1936 is just beginning to take effect. The Soviets have also intensified their training in ethics of the young, he said. some standing as high as nine Husted heavy losses in sheep AP Wirephoto Yank Cardinal Muench Dies In Rome At 72 By Frank Brutto VATICAN CITY- -The death of Aloisius Cardinal Muench, the third cardinal to die within 10 days, heightened expectations today that Pope John XXIII soon will call a consistory to replenish the college of cardinals. Vatican sources said the pope may raise the college's membership to a new all time high before Easter to bul- Cardinal Muench AP Wirephoto wark it for the heavy work of the Roman Catholic Church's Ecumenical Council opening October 11th. Cardinal Muench, 72, a Wisconsin born former bishop of Fargo, ND, and the only American cardinal in the Vatican Curia, died Rome's Salvador Mundi Hos- pital last night.

Burial In America The cardinal's body will lie in state in the hospital chapel until a solemn mass Sunday in St. Peter's Basilica. Pope John will attend. Then the body will be flown to Fargo for burial. Italian born Gaetano Cardinal Cicognani, also a member of the Vatican Curia, and Portuguese born, Teodosio Clemente Cardinal de Gouveia, archbishop of Lourenco Marques, died last week.

The three deaths reduced the number of cardinals to 77, eight below the high established by Pope John. Vatican sources said the expected consistory might be called to create 10 or 12 new princes of the church. Add To Numbers There also has been speculation that Pope John might increase the college's membership The to 100. Muench number of American cardinals to five: "Richard James Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston; James Francis Cardinal McIntyre, archbishop of Los Angeles; Albert Gregory Cardinal Meyer, archbishop of Chicago; Joseph Cardinal Ritter, archbishop of St. Louis, and Francis Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York.

Cardinal Muench had suffered from Parkinson's disease for several years. Last week complications set in. He appeared to rally for a time and last Friday received an unexpected visit from the pope. 10 13 Vladimir Sokoloff AP Wirephoto Rightist May Sue State Over File's Seizure SAN DIEGO AP The state's seizure of files on alleged subversive activities in Southern California sparked accusations and threat of a lawsuit today. Retired Major General George W.

Fisher demanded return of the files. He said they privately are owned and have been used for the state's benefit. He threatened to sue the state for 000 if they are not returned. Major General Roderic L. Hill, the adjutant general, personally took the files from a San Diego armory Tuesday.

He contended they are state property and said they will not be returned. The files were sealed and taken to the state bureau of criminal investigation and identification in Sacramento. Afraid Of Records Fisher, president of the San Diego Research Library which compiled the files, said that, since 1928, information on 150,000 to 200,000 individuals and organizations has been gathered--not all of a subversive nature. He said Governor Edmund G. Brown and Hill know the files do not belong to the state.

"They tried to do the same thing six months ago," Fisher said. "It would seem that somebody is afraid the records in there are detrimental to him." Hill called the removal a "protective move." He added: "We had information 1 there had been leaks from the files. I know of no specific instance of compromise but it was primarily a matter of concern that there would be mise. Anti Communist Group "It had been alleged these files were being used by unauthorized persons for purposes not in the best interests of the state." The San Diego Research Library anti Communist organization. Fisher described himself as "an anti Communist fighter for at least 30 years, dating back to the early 1930s." He said the files were started in 1928 by Major General Ralph Van Deman, a former army intelligence officer.

Van Deman died in 1952. Fisher said the information came from official government and congressional ports, exCommunists, newspaper articles and reports from volunteer informants. Popular Song Publisher Dies NEW YORK Louis Bernstein, president of the music publishing firm of Sha- piro, Bernstein and died yesterday in his home after a long illness. He was 83. Among the songs he published were: Sunny Side Of The Street, Wagon Wheels, School Days, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, My Melancholy Baby, The Prisoners Song, Exactly Like You, 10 13 30 10 13 30 13 ca co ca 10 13 47 a at a there is an urgent need for more doctors.

"California schools must treble their number of medical graduates by 1975 to care for our growing population. "This new medical school should concentrate on educating doctors and the University of California medical schools at Los Angeles and San Francisco could increase their attention to medical research problems." The text of the telegram was released by the office of State Senator Hugo Fisher (D) of San Diego County. AN.