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-kZotSLmtUiZimt 5 Gabriel Heatter, 81, War Newscaster, Dies Gained Fame by Opening Programs With Remark, There's Good News Tonight' OM 10OTH ANNIVERSARY Yf A 1 Will Gabriel Heatter i Wirebet OUR TOOTH A SALE ENDS SATURDAY, APRIL 1ST! f. i 1 HURRY, SOME QUANTITIES LIMITED! I XX A V-3 SYSSAFM MIAMI BEACH Gabriel Heatter, who reassured a nation at war that there was still good news in the world, died Thursday at the age of 81. "He had been through five years of pain, suffering stroke after stroke," said his son-in-law, Ralph Daniels. "He always kept his mentality and not once did he complain. He was always looking for the brighter sidethat's the way he reported the news and the way he lived his life." Daniels, husband of Mr.

Heatter's only daughter, Maida. said the broadcaster died of pneumonia. Mr. Heatter, who used to open his radio broadcasts during World War II's dark days with "Ah, yes, there's good news tonight," began his regular radio career in 1933 with WMCA in New York after a debate against Socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomas fizzled and Mr. Heatter went on the air alone.

After graduation from New York University's law school in 1910, Mr. Heatter worked for the New York American and the Brooklyn Times before he switched to broadcasting. Eventually about 4o0 stations carried his broadcasts. His ad lib broadcast of the Bruno Hauptmann execution in 1936 kept one of the largest audiences in history next to the radio for 53 minutes. IS His fame reached its peak during World War II, when war camps overseas delayed taps until after his broadcasts.

He saved the news of lost battles and death counts for the final minutes of his program. "Bad news was so overwhelming then that I felt someone had to combat it, so I would search the news dispatches for just one gleam of hope," he said later. Mr. Heatter retired from his national nightly broadcasts on the Mutual network in 1961. His last broadcast, over a Miami radio station, was May 23, 1965.

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Funeral services for Hal Roach 53, pioneer of Hollywood-produced television shows, will be Monday at 11 a.m. at Calvary Mausoleum Chapel, 4201 Whittier Blvd. Mr. Roach died Wednesday at St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica, where he had been hospitalized for pneumonia.

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