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THE ARGUS Page 10 Fremont Newark. California Saturday, January 17, 1970 UPI TMCplutO MIDWAY, BOTTOM PHOTO, AFTER FACELIFT Carrier enters shipyard in upper photo Mighty lady Midway readies for sea after four-year facelift SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-A mighty lady of the sea is stir- ring to life after a four-year $202 million face-lifting. The aircraft carrier USS Midway is longer, wider and more comfortable than when she retired for a reconstruc- lion-period Feb. 15,1966. She's also a more efficient, deadlier ship of war.

The Midway, named for the 1 battle of Midway in World War II, was first launched on March 20, 1945 at Newport News, Va. It's the second car' rier of that name. The Midi way renamed the St. Lo, was sunk in the battle of Samar, Oct. 25, 1944.

The new Midway will be re- commissioned Jan. 31, 1970. That's when the ship's crew takes- responsibility of CVA41 away from the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard. The ship and her commanding officer, Capt. Eugene J.

Carroll, are about ready for the changeover. 'CANT WAIT' "I -can't wait to get the workers off a the mess cleaned up and get out to sea where we 'can sweep the dust off," Capt. Carroll said. Midway probably won't actually get to sea until early summer when she'll undergo a shakedown cruise with her entire crew, including the air wing. The cruise will prepare the ship for fleet exercises the later part of the year.

The ship will be based in Alameda, and almost certainly will join operations of the coast of Viet. nam. A recommissioning day nears, approximately 2,100 workers are busy giving the ship a final checkout and finishing up the hundreds of projects needed to put her back on the sea. Shipyard commander, Capt. L.B.

Mayer, said her $202 million price-tag included govern- t-furnished equipment and monies for design and outfitting the carrier. Mayer said the Midway was originally scheduled to be in the yards 28 months. "The buildup in Southeast Asia affected the work," he said. "Ships on the line needing repairs'come first." Mayer said a costly fire on the carrier Oriskany was the biggest single setback. 'DIVERTED' "It set us back considerably," Mayer' said.

"We diverted manpower and equipment designated for the Midway." Boarding from the dock, the flattop blends into a mass of cranes, trucks, generators and other dockside equipment. Inside, thousands of cables and lines streched into every a and wound through hatches and down ladders. Along the deck edge on each side of the hanger deck is a large four-point suspension aluminum elevator capable of handling 100,000 pound loads, or a fully loaded fighter plane. An additional elevator ordnance use was added during the shipyard work. Capt.

Can-oil said the addition brought more safety and speed in moving ordnance supplies. The conventional propulsion system consists of 12 boilers a a of putting out 200,000 plus horsepower, more than any modern carrier except the nuclear vessels. The ship's cruising speed is 30 knots, or about 35 mph. TAKES A LOT It also takes a lot to keep the lady cool. Five 300-ton air conditioners were added for this purpose.

Providing for crew comfort was an important criterion during reconstruction. Removal of a center elevator added extra living space. The ship now has lockers and'bunks for 4,300 men. On old Midway crewmen often had to sleep on desks or in their work spaces and live out of seabags because of the cramped quarters. The eating facilities have also been improved.

The 14,000 meals served daily will be divided between a forward and aft mess facility. The aft will serve full meals and the forward mess will serve sandwiches. 50 FEET LONGER The four-inch armor-plated flight deck was extended 50- feet longer, to 99-feet, giving it the capability of a 310-foot landing from the time a pilot hits the arresting gear until he stops. "This enables us to handle the fastest, newest planes the Navy now has or expects to operate in the next 10-15 years," Capt. Carroll said.

"You can hit and get off safely if the plane doesn't catch the arresting gear. In the old days you'd hit down and if your landing gear didn't catch you ended up in the barricades." Candidate's presidential Chances in Mexico slim MEXICO CITY (UPI) Efrain GonMles Morfin speaks seven languages. In none of them" would he be given a chance of winning the Mexican presidency. He is running against a party which has maintained an iron grip on the presidential palace for 40 years. His oppo- nent was a promient cabinet i member when Gonzalez Morfin was an obscure congressman.

And he is starting his campaign two months late. 1 Gonzalez Morfin and his Na- 1 tional Action party (PAN) are opposing the overwhelming power of the party of Revolutionary Institutions (PRI) and its candidate, former Interior i Secretary Luis Echeverria. a Morfin said recently there was "no other possibility change in Mexi- I unless the PRI was chal- lenged in elections next July to succeed President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, six-yen term ends Dec. 1970. STRATEGISTS Many Pan strategists had urged Gonzalez Morfin to withdraw to protest disputed local elections In the states of Mexico and Yucatan.

Pan lost and accused the PRI of widespread ((regularities. The spender, pipe-smoking lawyer will open his campaign Jan. 4 or 5. Echeverria started touring the nation by bus Nov. 16.

Gonzalez Morfin, 40, told an interviewer his party was fighting "a political system which the constitution" of 1917, which climaxed the Mexican Revolution. "The PAN wants the constitution followed as it was originally set up," he said. "For example, the PAN wants free elections with objective results and a true balance of power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government." DISTRIBUTION Gonzalez Morfin said the PAN was demanding "a better distribution of the national wealth and agricultural reform without i i a demagogy, which is a real problem in underdeveloped countries." "Another aspect of ur platform is freedom of conscience," he said. "There must be a balanced relationship between church and state. Special privileges must not be promoted for the church and there must be no religious discrimination." 0 birth control--which Echeverria takes the stand.that the state must prevent the deomogra- phic facts to the people without pressuring them to accept a certain solution.

It's a freedom he said. FOOTSTEPS Gonzalez Morfin is following the political footsteps of his a Manuel Gonzalez Luna, who founded the PAN in 1939 and was its presidential candidate in 1952. "I was always interested in politics and went with my father to PAN meetings when I was 11 years old," Gonzalez Morfin said. Educated in Mexico, the United States and Europe, the PAN standard be a speaks French, German, Latin, Greek and Hebrew in addition to Spanish and English. Gonzalez Morfin is a federal deputy from Mexico City, where he lives with his wife and four children.

He is leader of PAN's 19-man congressional delegation. The PAN candidate faces another obstacle, symbolic of his almost hopeless battle: the PRI's colors arc identical with those ofjthe national flag. Final recourse for 'Anastasia' in West German court hearing By ROY GUTMAN FRANKFURT, Germany I A a Anderson Manahan of Charlottesville, the woman who for half a century has tried to convince the world she is Anastasia, youngest daughter and heiress of Russia's last czar, brings he.r case to the West German Supreme Court on Monday. (Jan. 19).

The 69-year-old Mrs. Manahan she married former American history professor John E. Manahan just over a year ago--is to appear at the Karlsruhe Courthouse for an hour-long appeal hearing before five judges in what may be her final legal recourse. She first made her claim in February 1920 after being pulled from a Berlin Canal where she had attempted suicide. She claimed to be Grandduehess Anastasia, the only survior of the bloodbath in Ekaterinburg the night of July 17, 1918, in which Czar Nicholas II and the royal family were slain.

IMPOSTER Most of Europe's bluebloods labelled her an impos- ter. Germany's royal house of Hesse, from which came a i a Alexandra, Anastasia's mother, has fought her claim in courts since the 1930s. But the czar's own Romanoff family was split. Some refused to see her. Others welcomed her warmly.

The Danish royal house from which his mother came supported her financially for many years. jf 44 Romanoffs, 12 were willing to sign a statement in 1928 saying she could not be Anastasia. The other 32 abstained. That same year she went to the United States at the invitation of Princess Xenia Romanoff. She stayed until 1931, adopting during her visit the name "Anna Anderson" to escape reporters.

returning, she engaged Hamburg lawyer Kurt Vermehren who argued the Anastasia case through three courts without success. FOURTH TRIAL The fourth trial at the Hamburg State Court of Appeals lasted our years. The court established that one of the czar's children could have been rescued that night in July 1918 before Bolshevik guards dismembered the bodies, burned them and poured acid over them. But the practicability of a flight to Berlin via Bucharest, as Anna Anderson claimed to have mads, was judged improbable. The court said she also lacked traces of physical injury from the rifle butt and bullet massacre.

Her knowledge of Russian was insufficient, her perfect command German more than could be expected of Aanas- tasia, it said. Further, her memory of the time of the massacre was limited to generalities and her copious descriptions of people and places could have come from other sources, (he court decided. Yet it refused to accept the counterclaim of Duchess Barbara of Mecklenburg, representing the House of Hesse, that Anna Anderson is in reality Franziska born in obscurity to a Polish peasant family; Franziska disappeared in Berlin just as Anna Anderson came on the scene and members of the Schanzkowski family identi- fied Anna during the suit as their sister. Anna Anderson's story has a stage play starring Viveca Lindfors and a film starring Ingrid Bergman. Plus many books.

The small, frail old woman has in fad lived a secluded solitary life, suffering for erysipelas, an acute contagious skin disease. 20 YEARS She was a recluse for 20 years after World War II, living in a hut in a remote Black Forest hamlet guarded by four fierce Leonberge.r dogs. She-shunned the public-limelight and avoided court appearances. REAL IDENTITY She was sent to mental hospitals for extended periods on three occasions since 1922, including the Four Winds hospital in New York to which she was sent by the New York State Supreme Court. But no doctor has ever found her mentally ill.

If she is the Grand Duchess Anastasia, Mrs. Manahan is legally entitled to claim the fortune said to be more than $100 million which Czar Nicholas II deposited in a London bank for his daughters. She could count Prince Philip, husband of the reigning British queen, as one of her relatives. If Anna Anderson Manahan is not Anastasia, she may carry to her grave the mystery of her real identity. The West Carman Supreme Court cannot rule on her identity, a witnesses or take new evidence.

It can only decide whether the last trial was properly conducted and either demand a relrial or throw the case out. Mrs. Manahan's supreme court lawyer, Baron von Stackelberg, said the main appeal ground is that the court placed too heavy a burden of proof on Anna Anderson and enough on those who deny she is alleges 80 legal faults -exist in the earlier case. Von Siackelberg said he expects Mrs. Manahan and her- will be at the hearing, although their presence is not required.

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