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Dei Moines Sunday Register Apr. 9, 1972 -i-A Abrams: 'Enemy Has Made Mistake Gridiron Club Twits Self On Issue of Women's Lib BETTY BLYTHE DEAD AT 78 LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (AP) From Tht Rnifter't Wtifiinlo Burttiv Betty Blythe, a veteran of 116 movies including the silent WASHINGTON, D.C. The Gridiron Club tossed barbs at Republicans over the ITT affair and at Democrats scrambling to be president, but also twitted itself over the issue of female liberation at the club's annual dinner here Saturday night. classic Queen of For the first time in 55 years.

INDUUHINA Continued from Page One able immediately, the command said. Radio Station Hit Earlier, other Communist-led forces shelled and attacked a radio relay station on Nui Ba Den mountain six miles northeast of Tay Ninh City and 55 miles northwest of Saieon a xn capital of Tarn Ky along the populous coastal lowlands. U.S. fighter-bombers flew more than 100 strikes north of Saigon. B52 bombers joined the battle for the first time after the South Vietnamese commander, Lt.

Gen. Nguyen Van Minh, held an emergency meeting with Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, the U.S. com-mander, and urged more American support.

"The North Vietnamese are going with their maximum ef 49 6.xS- it them? What can have possessed them? I can not fathom what the sweet things meant! Rudy, old friend, why can't a woman be more like a man?" Presidential candidates were has died after a long illness. She was 78. Miss Blythe, who earned $1 million a year in the 1920s at the peak of her career, created a ret vi On nomination day. Do not forsake me, oh, my leader, Please let me stay! On the busing issue, the club members sang, to the tune of "June Is Busting Out All Over:" "Kids ore busin' out all over All over the suburbs and in town. Moms and pops are really fussin' 'Bout the rulin' on forced busin', Wonderin' if this mess will ever settle down." Clark Mollenhoff, chief of The Register's1 Washington Bureau, and Richard Wilson, former bureau chief who is a columnist for The Register and Tribune Syndicate, are members of the Gridiron Club.

Among Iowans at the dinner were Dr. John Scarlett, dean of the Drake University Law School, and Dr. Charles Edwards, former Des Moines surgeon and now riead of the Food and Drug Administration. BETTY BLYTHE fort in an attempt to destroy depicted wearing white robes and halos, to the music of "The Saints Go Marching In:" tne bourn Vietnamese army, Abrams said in Saigon. Hanoi has committed more than 100,000 troops to the current all-out offensive, which "will turn out to be an even bigger miscalculation than stir when she appeared as Sheba wearing nothing but ropes of pearls.

Born Elizabeth Slaughter in Los Angeles, her career began on the stage in 1916 and lasted until 1960. "There were umpteen saints in number, At the start of this great race; Only two will reach the' finish 'Cause the rest won't stand the pace." manned by U.S. signalmen land South Vietnamese militia -troops. The U.S. Command, revising ian earlier report of only four Americans wounded, said two were killed and four were founded.

The Saigon Command iaid its forces suffered two killed and six wounded. Eighteen enemy were reported killed. The U.S. Command said the B52 was hit by a surface-to-; air missile Sunday while on a i mission along the demilita- rized zone (DMZ). It landed safely at Da Nang Air Base, I 100 miles south of the DMZ, ici, nuiaitio aaiu 111 an view.

She died Friday night at the Motion Picture Country House And Mr. Agnew was depicted singing, to the tune of "High and Hospital here. Funeral 3 services are planned Wednes women were among the 500 persons at the dinner, noted for its satire of Washington political life. Two women members of Congress Representatives Martha Griffiths Mich.) and Margaret Heckler Mass.) addressed the 50-member all-male club and the audience. Among the other female guests were Representatives Leonor Sullivan Mo.) and Edith Green Mrs.

Alice Roosevelt Long-worth, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt; Mrs. Barbara Tuchman, historian; Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; Mrs. Helen Bentley, chairman of the Federal Maritime Com-mission, and Mrs. Mary Brooks, director of the Mint. The club's last previous female guest at the annual spring affair back in 1917 was Representative Jeanette Rankin of Montana, who voted against U.S.

entry into World War I. With songs and skits attuned to a presidential election year, the Democrats were depicted in convention at Florida's Disney World, with Mickey Mouse Larry O'Brien (national chairman) trying to maintain order over a huge cast of candidates ranging Noon:" "Do not forsake me Richard Nixon, ft day afternoon. The stock market crash of 1929 wiped out the finances she had acquired through films and land transactions earlier in the decade. "Won't Work" The enemy, Abrams continued, "has throwTi in the kitchen sink. But in my opinion the offensive won't work.

I think it will turn out to be a big mistake a terrible, horrible thing. "When all is said and done, it will just be a lot of unnecessary bloodletting." Sees 'Diversion KEY BISCAYNE, FLA. (AP) Tuesday, Apr. 1 1 L. sj inrvujjii I Saturday, Apr.

15 Miss Blythe successfully made the transition from silent films to talkies and in 1938 was pre sented a special Academy Award for her contributions to WIREPHOTOS (AP) Meanwhile, South Vietnamese Marines escort a suspected North Vietnamese who, according to South Vietnamese intelligence officers, fired a flare to call in North Vietnamese artillery in Dong Ha. Reports of North Vietnamese the motion picture industry dur ing its pioneer days. She appeared opposite such actors as AI Jolson, Ramon Navarro, Lon Chaney, Buster Crabbe and George Arliss. Her later films include "Dis and the crew escaped injury, the Command said. Missiles have been fired at B52s in the past, but this is the first report of a hit.

Radio Hanoi claimed last week that two B52s were shot down, but the Command denied the report. The reserves marching to An Loc were an elite brigade of Palace guards. Bombers Diverted U.S. planes, including B52 Superfortresses, were recalled south of Da Nang. North Viet feelers to resume peace talks were characterized by a presidential spokesman Saturday as a diversionary tactic "to sug namese forces attacked a government base camp called West Vietnamese artillery and armored units attacked the villages and initial reports said 10 North Vietnamese soldiers were killed.

Fighting also spread to the gest that they are interested in about 35 miles south of the city. raeli," "The Dead End Kids," negotiation and that the United States is not." The base sits astride infiltration routes leading to the provincial "The Women," "The Helen Morgan Story," and "Women Be from Minnie Mouse Shirley Chi- hind Bars." sholm to Superstar Edward Miss Blythe was married to WAS DECOY CHUTE USED IN $500,000 HIJACKING? from other fronts to try to stop the drive on Saigon's northern approaches that has carried the late Paul Scardon, her director during early days at Vita-graph Studios. She is survived by a stepdaughter, Joan Piastro of New York City. Kennedy. President Nixon's Republicans were depicted organizing his re-election campaign in "San Clemente East" a Chinese villa, where, beneath pagoda arches, they enlisted the help of Chou En-Iai to placate GOP conservatives.

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might have been a parachute in the luggage. On the flight to Salt Lake City the crew was forced to stay in the cockpit while the gunman had the rest of the plane to himself. Never Seen Hearn said he never saw the man and he never came to the cockpit. "There was practically no verbal communication with him. About 90 per cent of his China -Sci I Delia 1 jacker also demanded and got bility the speedup would get back all the correspondence he progressively worse, he said.

invitations to dine with the Gridiron Club, the members naa sent to tne pilot. The pacemakers are lm- "He didn't leave anything on I planted by surgeons in the mus- the plane," said pilot Hearn. i cles of the chest wall to correct The man was armed with actuations where the heart Frltf 1 7iJ0 P.M. Saturday 5:30 P.M. communication was in written pistol and a hand grenade.

"He seemed calm and methodical. He knew what he was doing but sometimes he got a little upset when things messages," he said. Diane Surdam, 24, a stew sang a satiric rendering of the "Hymn to Him" from the musical "My Fair Lady:" "What in all of Heaven can have caused them to decline? The gracious invitations that we sent? What can have distressed said the skyjacker appeared to have an "excellent knowledge of flying and jumping procedures he had some knowledge of planes and may have been a pilot." He prepared his own flight plan which he gave the crew to follow on the trip from San Francisco to Salt Lake City. Hearn said the man also appeared to be familiar with the Utah terrain over which he jumped with $500,000 in ransom money. Erroneous Report North Vietnamese troops 20 miles deep into South Vietnam.

B52s struck enemy troop concentrations within four miles of the town. Other Communist-led forces redoubled their attacks in the Mekong Delta in the south. In the far north, enemy artillery units resumed shelling the Quang Tri combat base north of Hue just outside the provincial capital. It was the irst shelling the base since Jarly last week. Field reports caid 130-mm.

shells began falling on the base during the night. The Saigon Command said 11 South Vietnamese troops were weren't moving the way he Park Fair Shopping Center 1 0O E. Euclid Store Hours: Sun. 12-5 pumps irregularly or too weakly. The company will pay medical costs as well as supplying new units.

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Sturdam. The man carried the $500,000 loot in two medium-sized flight bags which weighed about 20 pounds each. Hearn said he was "95 per cent sure" the skyjacker jumped near Provo because about then there was a change in the plane's pressurization level indicating a door had been opened. Critical of Stories Hearn also said publication of other successful hijackings may have been responsible for what happened to the United plane. "Publicizing (these hijackings) makes it possible for others to analyze them and to repeat them," he said.

Yi Representative Seymour Hal-pern N.Y.) announced Saturday he has introduced legislation to ban the sale of the antidepressant drug Trofranil until it can be determined whether it can cause birth de- day afternoon. She said about 10 notes were sent to the captain altogether. Most of them were neatly typewritten but some were handprinted. The skyjacker wore gloves all the time he was on the plane. Before he bailed out through a rear door he had changed his attire, putting on an oxygen mask over his face and a towel over his head.

"Obviously he didn't want us to see what he looked like," she said. "The notes to the pilot contained what he wanted, what lormities. borne medical re wounded. It also was reported from the rjorth that a company of North Vietnamese troops had moved into two villages about 10 miles eest of Quang Tri City, along a doastal strip of sand dunes chilled the "Street Without Joy." Civilians Flee reports said the civilians fled when the North Vietnamese troops moved in. South searchers claim that babies have been born without arms roneous reports which at one time reported that the hijacker jumped over Nevada.

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