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3 THE WEATHER STORY BAY AREA Fair tonight and tomorrow with 1 1 1 1 1 change in temperature. Low from 44 to 52. North to northwest winds. 8 to 18 m.p.h. low humidity arid excellent visibility.

7 CIRCULATION 273-2323 MAIN OFFICE 273-2000 Branch Offices in Classified Section ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY Y. 18T4 OAKLANO, CALIFORNIA $2.25 A MONTH 10 DAILY, 2Sf SUNDAY MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1965 VOL NO. 46 Fidhfi 2 Girls Hif ng on Singer Nat King Cole Dies at 45 Scattered Killed by 1 Viet Fronts Veering Gar Recording Star Fails to Rally After Lung Surgery SANTA MONICA (AP) Singer Nat King) Cole, who 27 Actions by Enemy Break Period of Lull SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) Fighting has resumed underwent surgery for removal of a cancerous lung tumor Jan. 25, died today. He was 45.

Sino-Soviet Differences Unresolved By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foraign Naws Analyst Differences between Red China Cole, whose rich voice and bright piano style had made him one of the most popular musicians, was hospitalized last Dec. 8 for what was described as a respiratory ailment. I on scattered fronts in Viet Nam after a comparative lull. II anI nn Cmiiat TTninn in a onm. I aiiu 11 iv uuvicv iiivi i a twin wg lf mon Viet Nam pohcy remain, enemy actjons during the despite a deluge of propaganda 24 hours, most fit them in th denouncing the United States.

northern part of the country. There is no evidence that! inree Ui- Ropier crew- iihr cMa nf ih JJinwSnviPl I men were reported injurea in crash. controversy has budged on basic a issues dividing the two big Com-! 1 Americans were reponea At first it was thought he was recovering well, T)ut a spokesman at St. John's Hospital said his condition took a sharp turn for the worse last week. The first hint of Cole's illness came when he, cut short an engagement at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, complaining of a respiratory ailment.

The gravity of his illness became more apparent when he was unable to star in the first popular music concert at Los Angeles' new music center on Tnese developments emerged today as Soviet Premier Kosy SUSAN MARIE ASHWORTH Pair Struck 4 From Behind Alongside Road Two 44-year-old girls were struck from behind by a car and killed last night as they pushed their bicycles alongside Arroyo Road in Livermore. The two, both freshmen at Livermore High School, were dead on arrival at Valley Memorial Hospital. Highway Patrolmen said Susan Marie Ashworth, of 3844 Stanford Way, and Sheran Lee Neuenschwander, of 3832 Stanford Way, both Livermore, were pushing their bikes north on Arroyo near Marina St. when they were struck by a car driven by Gregory R. Hall, 17, of 1285 Lillian Livermore.

Hall told officers he veered off the road onto the shoulder where the girls were walking to avoid hitting an oncoming car. NOT CITED He was not cited. The accident is still under investigation. Susan was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Robert W. Ashworth, and Sheran the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Charles "Neuenschwander, Both fathers are employed by the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, patrolmen said.

Earlier yesterday three men died in freeway accidents in Oakland and San Francisco. was hit in the back by metal fragments while searching for 50 Vietnamese who disappeared Saturday after a Viet Cong attack in Binh Dinh Province. In Quang Ngai Province, 330 miles northeast of Saigon, the gin returned to Moscow from a ten-year solidarity mission to the principal Communist Asian Dec. 11. At Hanoi, Peking and the j- -I 1 J'' WIDOW, 5 SURVIVE Cole leaves his widow, Maria; North Korea capital of Pyongyang, Kosygin stressed Communist unity and, in the case of North Viet Nam, pledged Soviet assistance in the country's "de daughters Carol, 19, Natalierl4, and twins Casey and Timolin, and his adopted son, Nat Kelly, China Soon? LONDON (UPI) Communist China may test a second nuclear device "very it was learned today.

The weapon Is likely to be a hydrogen bomb. The Peking regime was understood to be accelerating its nuclear weapons program, in- fense." PEACE THEME But then he expressed the key S. Cole, who played his first professional dates with a 14-piece orchestra that earned a total of 8150 a night, never really meant to be a singer at all. point in the whole complex, am- himiruia hiictnp nf Snvut lntr- is: vention in the Vietnamese crisis: I clud'n8 some form of delivery Critics and fans responded I n's communique also sYem wildly to Cole warm, smoky Communist China detonated voice and natural, inimitable eaiiea tor a relaxation oi international tensions and a continua- its first atomic device last October. Experts said the blast style In personal appearances Critics called his voice husky, showed Peking was further ad i tion of peaceful coexistence with 1 the West, which is one of the fo-! cal points of Peking's quarrel with Moscow.

hoarse, furry, sugar-cured and WASHINGTON IN REDISCOVERED CANVAS About $5,000 worth of work and it will be as good as new y.C. Art Treosyire By CARL IRVING vanced in atomic development than had been known. Dussy-wulow textured. NEUENSCHWANDER SHERAN Whatever It was. his fans So far as the domestic politics loved" It, and Cole's recordings of "Mona Lisa," "Ballerina." i in the Soviet Union is con- "Nature Boy," "Unforgetta ble "Too Youne" and "Christ BERKELEY A priceless, gigan- ory), goes on display this week ai Charles Walker, 27, of 10607 Russet and Joseph Smith, 23r of S36 Grand San Jose, were killed when Walker's car slammed into an abutment on the Nimiti Freeway in Oakland.

The Highway Patrol said Walker was driving south about 90 miles per hour when he lost control of the car near the 23rd Avenue overpass. the U.C. art gallery. Viet Cong killed 18 government troops, wounded 30 and captured five. The Communists poured mortar shells into a government outpost in Quang Tin Province, killing seven defenders and wounding 12.

Near Da Nang, 80 miles south of the northern border, two anti- mas Song" ultimately raised his average annual Income to half a Edgewater Hotel in Sale Deal jcerned. It Is significant that Kosygin, who represents the I economic administrators, was I greeted at the Moscow airport I by Leonid Brezhnev, who rep-: resents the party hierarchy as First Secretary. HARMONY AT TOP million dollars. RAGS TO RICHES Cole's rise to the pinnacle of Both men were pronounced success had in it the elements of a bad Hollywood movie: the tic painting of a wild battle scene, -jwith George Washington riding to the rescue, has been discovered under some dripping steam pipes in a University of California basement. The 23 by 13 foot canvas, painted 100 years ago by the same artist who did "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (which every schoolboy has indelibly imprinted on his me ra If the U.S.

Government doesn't try to snatch it away for the Capitol in Washington, D.C., it will occupy a place of honor at the future U.C. art center, according to the discoverer Prof. Herschel Chipp. Dr. Chipp, who Is In charge of the U.C.

art collection, has had an inkling that the rousing, romantic de- Cootinaed Page CoL 1 This would indicate that, as yet, there is no split between the two leaders a possibility that always is inherent in the Soviet problem of succession to fame plot. But it was true. Born March 17, 1919, In Ala-' Transwestern Hotels, including the Edgewater Inn Garden Hotel in Oakland, will be sold to Nordon under an agreement announced today by officials of the two companies. Hotel assets to be sold to Nordon are owned by Mr. and Mrs.

governmcot demonstrations broke out today, possibly inspired by the Communist Viet Cong. Troops fired Into one of the demonstrations. Reports said that about 2,000 demonstrators demanded an end to air and artillery attacks on populated areas and attempted to storm the office of the dis trict chief at Thang Binh, about 20 miles south of Da Nang. In Saigon, Vietnamese leaders appeared ready to announce the formation of a new dvilian government with Dr. Pban Huy dead at Highland Hospital.

WRONG-WAY CRASH Postman Wilbert Mayfield SheariUs, 37, of 1308 Market was southbound on the James Lick Freeway in San Francisco when he crossed over into the opposite lanes near Third St. His auto smashed head-on into one driven by Daniel H. Taylor, of 2658 Sheldon Drive, Richmond. Shearills died three hours later at Mission Emergency Hospital. Taylor was treated for wrist and ankle fractures, but his two passengers were unhurt.

Edward Truhan. 38, of 1144 Terrebone Drive. Walnut Creek, a geologist for the Bechtel Engineering was killed yesterday In a two-car freeway collision south of San Jose. I James Stockman of Santa Rosa and valued at $10 million, in-j elude the Edgewater Inn. Ma-i nna Hotel in Long Beach as well as operation of facilities at Corte Madera, San Francisco power but Is one tnat has not yet eventuated.

That there is not yet any real evldenc of a major military response by either Red China or the Soviet Union was confirmed today by the AP dispatch from Washington. The Communist Chinese could intervene In Viet Nam, as they did in Korea, but U.S. officials Insist there are now no overt signs of such action and London reports of massing troops on the border are discounted. The Chinese could send into Viet Nam land forces but the North Vietnamese already have some 400,000 soldiers that they have not yet thrown Into the je Chinese could send into Viet Nam land forces but the Vietnamese already have lome 400,000 soldiers that they Shave not yet thrown Into the 1,000 March for Vote Registration bama to a Baptist preacher and a musically-inclined mother, Nathaniel Adams Coles was raised in Chicago, where his father was minister of the First Baptist church. Young Nat took to music early, picking out "Yes, We Have No Bananas" on the church piano at the age of 4.

A he grew older he played the piano and organ for church services. Cole came to Long Ecach, in 1937 with a dying revue, "Shuffle Along." He was 18. and deckled to stay in California. He dropped the final from his name nd began tickling ivories In dives for $5 a night or less. It was in such a divo that a soggy barfly one night jammed a paper crown on the young pi Stanford Dean Quits Under Fire Quat, a former foreign minister, as its head.

Li. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, South Met Nam's strong man, also was exoected to announce a 20- and Long Beach. According to the announcement, it Is anticipated that Stockman, a- former Shell Oil Co. executive, will become president of Nordon and Harry C.

Long, current Nordon president, will be named vice president in the voter registration campaign member advisory council, in-began a month ago, was admit- eluding sis military officers, to ted to the hospital Friday, suf- serve as a temporary legislative SELMA. Ala. (AP) Nearly 1 .000 Negroes converged on the Dallas County Courthouse today In a protest of slow voter registration, and the two leaders STANFORD UT Stanford University announced tnday that fering from chest pains. arm of the government. His wife, a passenger in his His physician said CUrk, 43.

In report! no overt ains a broken elbow. oil 'nd as Pcr- Dean of Women Lucille A. KY car. suffered a was kept tn the hospital for rest conflicL" Chinese intent to Intervene in a and observation. Peking has succeeded in in- big way in Vt Nam.

S. offi- Tk- rmtw nart snirmff an ancnr chorus of de-; cials declined today in Washing-. leave of absence and that the a Cll Hl development by Nordon of addi- anist head and burbled. ir. war.in ij-nrr ivjie leading the demortrtor.

Km hi irtf i louuui, Liorm, fting ire mm- Registrars is convening today nunciatton of the United States' ton to rule out the poalWUty for the tast lime this month to for Its air striker that this could happen later. (stood on the ouUide of the courthouse lor-fctrf tn. receive voter applications. Violent proles is nave orcurrea i iney suwtesiea coua we me Reds some tfme to dode In Vienna. London.

Paru. Ja Sheriff Jam- G. Clark jj parje mil first watcncl from a window lRjVfn the Nefroes since the otltct. drive beean Jan. It was Francisco.

According to police Brown Continued Tage 2, CoL 1 resignation had been accepted. The dean, who made her request effective Immediately, became the center of a controversy Feb. 4 when the student Stanford Daily linked her to an unpublished lS-page report which allegedly criticized classroom morality. The student newspaper said that in the report the dean of women "attributed some of the Sale of the hotel assets by the Slockmani will Involve an exchange of stock, it was reported. what reaction, if any, Jo take beyond striking bark wtfh words, as they have done.

Secretary of State Deaa Rusk, CofttiaoH Page 2, Col. I karta, and even Montreal; but, while there was some damage to American property, the purport of the dernonstra- Ceotiimed Page Coi. 1 handed to officers of the Dallas County Voters League Sunday Continued faje $, Cot. 4 ivoin mi itcx oeas as ine re-tTocs called tor a final, massive push to d'wonstratj thtir discontent with the tare of vot jcTTTTi i rrrm rl WHERE TO FIND IT Astrology 13 Auntllsie ftridga 13 Classified Ads 22 Comics 20 i tt United Seeks Oakland-LA. Air Fare Cut A plan to reduce jet commuter fares between Oakland and Los Anceles announced today by United Air Lines.

United has filed aa application with the California Public Utilities Commission and the problems wnirn occur among i freshmen to the salacimji ma- tenuis they study in frehman I irotiwora rum A losf 'Huclc Finn' Naps in Bandit Cave English and to the erottc approach adopted by many of the younger University President Wallace Sterling and the Academic Council executive committee Mid In a Joint statement released today that a special family committee had cmrtH a tudy of er registration, 1M PROCESSED Av(ut 100 Negroes lined up evly to regM and were being While they In line, tlhrr Jemomtra-tcrs met 4 a rhmh and walked fre The march, led by King, was rrfty. wlven Jh marchers reached the ciert-use. Deputy L. Crocker met King and told Urn be wanfj all entrants clear. and dVmcrstrsts i red.

They slood in a line. jT- inz quietly. Krg caJJed a "majrnifirmt mi is ts. A) I Ann Landers i Civil Aeronautics Board, Wash-j inginn, D. to reduce be 6 fare on its flights from Oakland Theaters ie the siatemnt attributed to tan Alln.

The sUtprrwnt jiid that no prrwn who had talked with the fian during prrparatin of the TxrX r.ire mnnlhs ag and San Franosco to Los An-j grles from 1H to 13 SO, effective April 1. vh.i. r. ftcm pusswrm love Werld of Women 17 tit wi the tAki "eiUVr that the cnera fw rvrr reg sun ts TTMf IRATURtS tH level of attention to sexual mat-! tw ters In English covims is ex- 'FAR, FAR TOO Continued Pae S. Ol.

ver7 6i' I. 'litfied with the registration pro- The fare reton was made possible, according to sales man-aeer Jack Dierssen. by "immediate and unprecedented public acceptance of United's 727 )rt commuter fiihlj mulling in constant hich load factori.M United carried over 2M.000 Mwrjrers on Its commute said, he "remrmberrd what daddy said about no wanderirg to the forest at nighL" He found the cave onre uvsi as a hideout by Claudius Smith, a horse thief a-vj murdVrtf hared on the green In Goshen, the rt of Orange Ovnty. It was kind of cold, Gr-g said, so be revered himself with leaves. The awrond grader said he siept fiu'uHy and -every once tn a whiie I'd sit ouUide and ju4 Joe at the morfl." i on of trm thildrm of Benne and Veror.tca Joonson, Mm.

Joiftson. aUed if Grfg woukl be 1n KborJ today, said: "You bet He can wart ti UH hi chums about his iM Vi the cave. I 46 Oakland Downtown. S9 TVXEPO PARK. Y.

(AP) Huck Firm and Tom Sawyer have nothirf on 7-)-ear-old Crrg Lo4 in the woods, the boy paric. Ha munched on wild winter green leaves and sper.t a night in the hideout cave of a RevoiuiKmary era highwayman. Greg'? drifted away from a party In Bear MouoUin-llammaa State Tark Saturday. More than 1 persons. arSJ Ly yondhounds S1! two Air Force helicac.tm, searched for the yowrgster.

Grrf was fwod Sutvlay moro-irg by a ftf ihbor, WJtbm Jan-pone. A.Vr be tecame lost. Crt I S3 43 i f. Downtown 41 Airport 57 Airport 57 tf mt Tnt a fai.is eot I endure," he sakt It far, far itoo slow The 19M Not I Pece Prizewinner left his SKk bed in AUanU; Ga fiew to Selma for today' dVmonitraUon. He ert to bd JUturday for treatment of a cold and exSautfKWt.

CUrk left a bocpilal to direct hi deities dririg tx drmorv jfliehts betwern Sept. 27, (whiPT! the flights were rated, and Jan. 30 of this year, he said. The fiigLts hd a k4 factor percentage nf ais oc- err (4 71 yt cmt stratjon The thcriff. who has more than 2,000 Negroea since Tne corrrprry said pecvd the rite reoVtioo to grnerate additional tiiSie in months comov-, CHWtCOMtCPAGtZ Co.

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