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22 Pill l-Mon, Nov. 19. 1979 OBITUARIES Cos Angeles (Junes Catholic Worker Editor Took Vow Nina G. Anderton Dies; Only Thefts Marred Parties jj fs VffV. V4 A I Maj.

Gen. Ernest Harmon, when he was commanding the constabulary forces in Germany in 1946. The unit was charged after end of war with detecting any pockets of German resistance. With him was his pilot, left, Capt. Robert Hoffman before two left on inspection tour.

AP Photo Ten to 20 persons always sat down at the table when Nina G. Anderton gave an intimate dinner. For her annual party, though, no fewer than 300 showed up for cocktails, a buffet and dancing. For the opening of the desert season every year, she would invite several hundred persons to the El Mira-mar in Palm Springs to take part in her program to raise money for charity. Her picture often appeared in newspaper society sections.

Usually she was shown with some entertainer like Hugh O' Brian, Jeanette MacDo-nald or Rhonda Fleming arranging some charity affair. Friends said she even introduced the permanent wave into the United States from France in the 1920s. Robbers and burglars took nearly $500,000 in jewelry and furs from her in four forays at the secluded Bel-Air home she once maintained. Of this amount, a thief known as the "Blue Book Raffles" got $360,000 in jewelry. Mrs.

Anderton, who died last Monday at the age of 76, always did things in the grand manner, her friends said. They described her as a gracious lady who, although she lived a luxurious life, always had a place in her heart for spastic children, orphans and the patients at the City of Hope Medical Center. For 40 years she was a tireless worker for such charitable events as the Ruby Ball and the horse show benefiting the City of Hope. Mrs. Anderton's wealth, friends said, came from the Maanexit Spinning Co.

of Webster, which she inherited from her first husband, Raymond Anderton. After Anderton died, she married Richard Winans. She also outlived him. After the third looting of her Bel-Air home by three masked robbers during a dinner party in 1959, Mrs. Anderton threatened to leave Los Angeles.

"If I can't even sit down for a quiet dinner with friends without this sort of thing happening, what's the use of staying in such a city?" she cried. But she stayed on at her Bel-Air home until burglars broke in and took 13 of her furs in 1967. A short time later, she moved into a Wilshire Blvd. high-rise apartment in Westwood. Leading Tank Commander of War Dies Gen.

Harmon Led "Hell on Wheels' Division at Battle of Bulge discovered that the Nazis were trying to carve a hole in Allied lines. Harmon, whose division had just completed a 100-mile march from Germany with many damaged tanks, engaged the German armored column for four critical days, destroying most of its tanks and sending it back 10 miles. For his efforts, say newspaper accounts of the time, he was "chewed out" and threatened with court-martial by Montgomery, who accused Harmon of trying to upstage him. The field marshal, later, however, realized, what the Von Rundstedt forces could have done to his plans and sent Harmon his congratulations. Harmon, a native of Massachusetts, was the only man in World War II to be awarded the Distinguished Service From Timet Wirt Strvlcn WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, general credited with knocking out more German tanks and taking more prisoners than any other World War II European commander has died in this small Vermont town.

Maj. Gen. Ernest Harmon was 85. He commanded the "Hell on Wheels" 1st Armored Division (later reclassified the 2nd Armored Division) through campaigns in Tunisia, Italy and Germany. During the Battle of the Bulge, in December, 1944, his division was the first to sniff out a German counterof-fensive near the Belgian town of Celles.

Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery had set up an attack to intercept the forces of Field Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt But Harmon of Poverty at 17 Pram Timtt Wirt Strvlcn NEW YORK-Stanley Vishnewski was only 17 when he opted for a life of poverty. Born in Brooklyn of Lithuanian-American parents, he chose, shortly after graduating from high school, to become the first volunteer at the then fledgling Catholic Worker Movement headquarters in New York City. The movement had been started in 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Those two envisioned it as a loose-knit association of liberals who would take a vow of poverty similar to some sacred orders and assist the destitute on the Bowery.

To help publicize their cause they started a newspaper, the Catholic Worker, which now has a national circulation of 95,000 and continues to sell for one cent. Young Vishnewski became one of its first editors. Over the years he wrote and lectured about the movement, which by. then included stress on personal responsibility for social reform and an end to all wars. The Catholic Worker Movement gained national notoriety in 1965 when one of its young members, Roger LaPorte, 22, burned himself to death in front of the United Nations Building to protest the Vietnam war.

Other workers were arrested throughout the war for burning their draft cards or staging other antiwar protests. Vishnewski, 63, died Wednesday of a heart attack at one of the Catholic Worker shelters on the Lower East Side where he had worked and lived the past 46 years. His Many Stories Were a 'Hazard' Congressional Writer Never Kept Copies Front Tlmn Wirt Strvlcn WASHINGTON The journalist whose 32 years of covering the House of Representatives resulted in so many stories "that he never kept copies because they would create a fire hazard" has died of cancer. William F. Arbogast, 71, died at home in the suburb of Alexandria, Va.

Arbogast began covering the House in 1941. On his retirement from the Associated Press June 30, 1973, he called his assignment "the best beat in town." He had been head of the AP House staff since 1944. Arbogast was on familiar terms with five Speakers and other congressional leaders of both parties. Especially close to the late Sam Ray-burn, he regularly sat in on Ray-burn's "board of education" sessions, when the congressional chiefs gathered at the end of the day to gossip and plan strategy over a friendly glass of bourbon. Lyndon B.

Johnson was a regular attendant when he was Senate leader, and it was from the "board of education" that Harry Truman was called to learn that Franklin D. Roosevelt had died and he was President. Arbogast once told a Speaker who asked him for a copy of one of his stories that he never kept copies "because they would create a fire hazard at home." What he called the saddest assignment of his life was to go to Dallas in 1962 when Rayburn was hospitalized with terminal cancer. He was first with the story of Rayburn's death after the longest career as Speaker in history. Arbogast who died Tuesday, served as chairman of the Standing Committee of Correspondents, which administers the congressional press Author Laid 'Miracles' to Fragments From Planets Daccmnc Writer Helped Close Devil's Island; ra55in95 Official of World Church Council Medal four times and the Legion of Merit three.

A career Army officer, he served in France during World War I with the only horse regiment to see combat and then became commanding general of the 2nd Armored. Immediately after VE Day he was named to command the mechanized constabulary charged with putting down any pockets of resistance still left in Germany. Harmon, who was called the "foremost tank commander" of the war by Gen. Omar Bradley, closed out his Army career in 1947 as deputy commander of all U.S. Army ground troops.

In 1950 he took over as president of Norwich University in Northfield, and served there for 15 years. He died Tuesday. Book Club Editor Influenced Tastes tor 25 Years From Timtt Wirt Strvlcn NEW YORK Ralph Thompson, who for 25 years influenced the literary tastes of thousands of Book-of-the-Month Club subscribers, has died of cancer of age 75. Thompson, who joined the book club in 1951 as an editor and took on the added task of secretary in 1956, died Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital here. His work at the club included staff supervision, assigning books for review, screening works for the editorial board and overseeing club publications.

Born in West Orange, N.J., Thompson was educated at Dartmouth and began by teaching English and literature. Before joining the book club he was an associate editor of Current History, published by The New York Times, reviewed books for the Times in the 1930s and 1940s, was a contributing editor of Time magazine, and Ful-bright Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield in England. "Ralph was an erudite man with an enormous range of knowledge, He was severe, tough and literate and we all recognized him as a real pro," said John K. Hutchens, a Thompson colleague at Book-of-the-Month Club. From Tlmts Wirt PRINCETON, N.J.-The Soviet-born writer who devoted his life to combining theories of science, the Bible, mythology and Sigmund Freud into a hypothesis that involved colliding planets, died Saturday.

Immanuel Velikovsky, author of "Worlds of Collision" was 84. Basically, he theorized that a fragment of the planet Jupiter later identified as Venus andor Mars twice touched the earth around 1500 B.C. as it careened through the universe. As a result, Velikovsky said, the earth's rotation was interruped, causing a series of geological catastro-phies. He attributed such Biblical miracles as the parting of the Red Sea or Joshua seeing the sun stand still not to divine intervention but to these "natural" factors.

His now-famous book was published in 1950 and has since appeared in 50 hard-cover editions with paperback sales in the millions of dollars. Velikovsky was immensely popular Nina G. Anderton in 1963. Times photo That was where she gave her final big party last May. Three hundred attended.

When a close friend of many years, Eldred (Bob) Meyer, asked her what was the occasion, Mrs. Anderton replied, "Just to see my friends." Mrs. Anderton was in ill health then, and she said goodby to most of her guests for the last time. She wanted no funeral services. Burial will be in the Anderton family plot in Providence, R.I.

Dick West Israeli Labor Leader From Rtuttrs JERUSALEM-Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, widow of Israel's second president, Izhak Ben-Zvi and a founder of the Israel labor movement, died here Friday. She was 93. Mrs. Ben-Zvi was born in Russia and emigrated to Israel (then Palestine) in 1908, where she taught at a high school while continuing to lay the foundation of the Israel Trades Union Federation. Her husband was Israel's president from 1952 until his death in 1963.

and worked at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In Mendocino County. Carol Ann Bortin, 33, who in January marked her birthday by taping with her husband and two children a program on how a family learns to cope with death. The segment was shown on television station KABC. In Anaheim of cancer.

Charles P. Summerall, 77, Army colonel and son of the former Army chief of staff. Summerall served in North Africa during World War II and was awarded the Silver Star. After retirement he taught military science at Harvard. In Belmont, Mass.

Louis C. Goad, 78, executive vice president of General Motors Corp. who was in charge of the body and assembly divisions of the nation's leading auto maker. During World War II he oversaw production of Wildcat fighters and Avenger torpedo-bombers for the Navy. In Detroit.

John W. Raker, 62, chairman of the Massachusetts General Hospital tumor clinic, the first hospital facility to study specific types of cancer. He was associated with the clinic, established in 1925, since 1957 and was its chairman since 1965. In Boston of undisclosed causes. Second at 56 when his old friend was singing on nationwide radio.

In 1926 he and Lionel Barrymore recorded 15 minutes of dialogue for a short film subject called "The Sea Captain." That film was shown on the same bill with "The Jazz Singer" as a sop to audiences who didn't think the single song by Al Jolson in the feature film constituted "talking motion pictures." But Belasco (who was not related to the producer David Belasco) found himself blacklisted for participating in the Actors Equity Strike of the late 1920s. Fortunately, his son Jack said last week, two young actors he had once groomed for bigger things had by then become successful directors. And so the onetime juvenile lead now found himself cast in small character parts in the films of W. S. Van Dyke and George Stevens.

He was alternately a policeman, butler or wigged barrister on the in more than two dozen films. By 1944 show business had lost its allure, his son said, and Belasco, who died Nov. 8, began selling land in the west portion of the city. He became one of the more successful realtors in the West Los Angeles-Culver City area and remained active until five years ago. Burt A.

Folkart SCHOLARLY RABBI KNOWN AS NEW TESTAMENT EXPERT Strvlcn with the public, but he also had many critics. "There is nothing we as historians can do about Dr. Velikovsky's work other than smile and go about our business," said Carl Kraeling, director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. Times science writer George Alexander, in a 1973 article on Velikovsky, once described him as being about as welcome among scientists as Bobby Riggs would be at a women's lib gathering. In 1974, at the annual meeting of the American for the Advancement of Science, Carl Sagan, an astronomy professor at Cornell University and well-known author, led a field of scientists who rejected his notions.

Born in the Vitebsk on June 10, 1895, Velikovsky studied economics, law, history, medicine, Hebrew, German, French, English and Latin. He came to the United States in 1939 and moved to Princeton in 1952. His other books included "Ages in Chaos" and "Oedipus and Akhnaton." was not in favor of Jews marrying outside their faith. But his paperback book "When a Jew and Christian Marry" tried nevertheless to enrich the mutual understanding of these marriage partners. Sandmel taught Jewish literature and thought at Vanderbilt University from 1949-52, when he joined the faculty of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

He retired last January to accept a three-year faculty appointment at the University of Chicago divinity school. Sandmel died one day before he was to have been given the 1979 Nicholas and Hedy Monk Brotherhood Award by the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. It was awarded posthumously. John Dart "Howard Rarig was totally committed to the school's well-being, advancement and education Grant Beglarian, dean of the USC School of Performing Arts, said last week. Before coming to USC Rarig was head of the music department at Eastern Michigan University, and chairman of the division of Fine Arts at Grinell College in Iowa.

He also was a past president of California Music Executives, where he played a major role in the Ford Foundation's contemporary music project. Jeff Glass Alexis Danan, 90, a French journalist whose series of articles in 1936 describing the conditions at Devil's Island eventually resulted in the closing of the prison. Although Danan's accounts of life in the French Guyana prison led to a worldwide outcry, the facility was not closed until 1947 because of World War II. In Paris. Warren A.

Quanbeck, 62, internationally known Lutheran theologian and a member of the governing committee of the World Council of Churches. Quanbeck, a professor at Luther-Northwestern Theological Seminaries in St. Paul, was a delegate-observer from the Lutheran World Federation to the Second Vatican Councils in Rome from 1963-65. In St. Paul of cancer.

Ernest (Tony) Vaccaro, 74, retired Associated Press correspondent who was standing on a Washington street corner on April 13, 1945, when Harry Truman was making his first trip to the White House as President. Truman stopped his limousine to give Vaccaro both a ride and the first interview Truman granted after succeeding Franklin D. Roosevelt. In New York. Lauriston C.

Marshall, 77, educator and nuclear physicist. He was a former faculty member at UC Berkeley Arthur J. B. Belasco, who started one career at age 12 carrying a spear at the old Burbank Theater in downtown Los Angeles and a second at age 56 selling real estate in what was then the barren flatlands of West Los Angeles has died at 91. Belasco was one of the last of an itinerant breed of actors who drove prairie schooners loaded with scenery to mining towns throughout the West.

There he and a few cohorts would set up that scenery in saloons or town halls, sell tickets, perform on a makeshift stage (probably Shakespeare because royalties were never a problem), sing a few popular songs at intermission and then load their wagon and drive to the next town. The reputation he thus established as a boy enabled him later to perform at the few legitimate theaters in this city shortly after the turn of the century. He shared the stage at the Morosco Theater on South Broadway with Marjorie Rambeau, Charlotte Greenwood, Eddie Cantor and Warner Baxter. He was a leading man for Maude Fulton and a Jewish merchant in the dramatic adaptation of the "Potash and Perlmutter" stories of Montague Glass. Later he was to be a dumb cop in the old Thin Man series with William Powell and Myrna Loy and a writer of vignettes for Nelson Eddy Actor Launched His First Career at 12, Samuel Sandmel had an unusual distinction.

He was an ordained rabbi who also was recognized as a leading New Testament scholar. Among his 17 books were recent titles such as "Judaism and Christian Beginnings" and "Anti-Semitism in the New Testament?" As general editor for the Oxford Study Edition of the New English Bible with Apocrypha, he headed an interfaith team of 29 scholars. But Sandmel, who died Nov. 4 at age 68 in Cincinnati, was also a much-sought speaker in the last two decades for Jewish-Christian dialogues and seminars, including those in Los Angeles. Like any rabbi faithful to his heritage and its continuance, Sandmel Director of USC's Music School Lauded for Department Growth mm (fan.

A A A Howard R. Rarig, director of the School of Music at USC and a devotee of contemporary music, died Wednesday of cancer at age 63. As an administrator Rarig was credited with modernizing and expanding the university's music department. During his eight-year tenure three major new facilities, including the award-winning Arnold Schoenberg Institute, were built Rarig also oversaw the reorganization of the USC Opera and expansion of studies in electronic music and group piano. Arthur Belasco plays butler in early Leslie Howard film, one of many parts he took after stage career.

Actress is unidentified..