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2 Part II Monday, July 27, 1981 CosAngele Stones OBITUARIES Soviet Ruse Started Airlift to W. Berlin Dealer Helped FBI Mafioso Had Own Idea of 'Car Wash' Maj. Gea Alexander G. Kotikov had a celebrated career as a Soviet military leader. But it will be his deceit that will be rememberd in the West As Soviet commandant of postwar Berlin, Kotikov tried laboriously but unsuccessfully to wrest the western half of that city from British, French and American control.

Thwarted politically, he then used a ruse to cut off the German capital for 18 months in what began as the Berlin Blockade and ended as the largest peacetime airlift in history. Born In Village Born in the Russian village of Ba-kino, Kotikov was drafted into the army in 1924. He rose from enlisted man to major general. During World War II, he helped lead the Russian armies that captured Warsaw and Berlin. A year after the war's end he was made Soviet commandant in the occupied German capital where he served on the four-power Kom-mandatura which governed the city.

Initially relations between the western allies in Berlin were cordial but disagreements soon arose over free elections, monetary policy, and trade-union relations. As relations soured, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin had Kotikov veto many Kommandatura decisions which by earlier agreement had to pass unanimously. The Kommandatura became innefective. Finally in May of 1948, Kotikov told his western colleagues that rails and roads connecting Berlin with the West needed "repair" and that, temporarily, no allied traffic could travel on them. Cut off from most supply routes, it appeared that either the Allies would have to vacate the city or the West Berliners there would starve.

However, a third course of action was taken. Director John Huston, left, producer Ray Stark, production designer Dale Hennesy and director of photography Richard Moore on the just-completed set of "Annie" being filmed by Columbia. Patron Returned 'La Scala West' to Period of Glory Student Said Freud Erred Over One Final Analysis 1 cr if Set Designer Turned Reality Into Illusion "Set designers," filmmaker Rene Clair wrote, "are the Romantic poets of the screen, those make-up artists of reality who blend the real world where we thought we lived with the world of illusion." Perhaps no greater accolade could be paid to Dale Hennesy, Academy Award-winning set designer, whose plywood-and-plaster cities, imitation streets and futuristic worlds remain only in the memories of movie-goers. As set and production designer for nearly two dozen films, Hennesy was responsible for the creation of such memorable sets as the interior of the human body in "Fantastic Voyage" (for which he won his Academy Award), the giant-proportioned structures in the 1976 remake of "King Kong," the futuristic landscape in "Logan's Run," and the anatomical exaggerations of Woody Allen's "Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Sex and Were Afraid to Ask." Unique Credit Of his work with Allen on "Sex," Hennesy once jokingly introduced himself in a speech to the Production Designers Guild as "having the dubious honor of being the man who developed the largest breast ever seen on film a 20-foot-high mammary made out of plastic swimming pool lining." Son of one of the key designers and layout artists for Walt Disney's "Snow White" and "Pinocchio," Hennesy got his start in motion pictures as an illustrator at Twentieth Century-Fox working on "The King and "What made Dale a consumate set designer," a colleague remarked, "was that he had a healthy background as an artist. Not only could he articulate the look he wanted, but he could sit down and dr3w it." Heniiesy's first credit as designer was "Under the Yum Yum Tree" starring Jack Lemmon.

Among his other credits were "Dirty Harry," "Sleeper," "Slither," "Young Frankenstein," "Who'll Stop the Rain" and "The Competition." Hennesy died in Encino July 20 after a heart attack. He was 54. At the time of his death he was working on John Huston's film version of "Annie." His contribution included a $1 -million reproduction of a New York city tenement row. -JEFF GLASS As one of Sigmund Freud's first student-patients, he was also one of the few to establish a close relationship with the father of psychoanalysis. But despite his admiration for Freud, Abram Kardiner; co-founder of the first American psychoanalytic training school, came to criticize the father of psychoanalysis over Freud's concepts that Oedipal impulses drove mankind toward homosexuality.

"I think Freud got into a blind alley with latent homosexuality," he once said, "The concept of unconscious homosexuality as a therapeutic tool is misleading. It makes the patient address himself to a non-existent state of affairs and augments his sense of helplessness, thereby confirming his feeling that he cannot direct his own life." Kardiner, who graduated from Cornell Medical School, had completed a psychiatric residency at He was, he told the Mafia messenger, an unlikely choice for the assignment Louis E. Peters was the best friend of the chief of police in Lodi, where he operated a successful car dealership. He also was an active member of the committee to elect Atty. Gen.

Evelle J. Younger governor of California. But the man insisted and told Peters that his political affiliations were not important What the man wanted was Peters' dealership. After some prodding he admitted the reason he was willing to pay $2 million for a business barely worth half that was that it was not his money. To 'Launder' Money The financing was to come from Mafia chieftain Joseph Bonanno who wanted Peters' car agency as the first in a chain where illegally obtained money could be "washed" through legitimate businesses.

Peters said afterward that he was inwardly outraged but agreed to cooperate with Bonanno while refusing to sell his dealership. Shortly after that 1977 meeting, Peters went to the FBI, which asked him to serve as an informant. Peters declined, because he would have been paid for information and didn't want it to appear that he was a Mafia member trying to save his own skin. What he did agree to become was an undercover agent. Three years later Bonanno (Joe Bananas) was convicted of a felony for the first time in his gangland career.

Taped Conversations In September, 1980, when FBI Director William H. Webster gave Peters, 48, a plaque of appreciation, Peters disclosed publicly how he was wired with a recording device and taped conversations with hoodlums for two years. He said that to protect his wife from violence he divorced her in 1978, remarrying her only after Bonanno was convicted of interfering in a grand jury investigation of the laundering scheme. (Bonanno's five-year prison term and $10,000 fine is under appeal. Peters also disclosed that he went through the three-year ordeal knowing that he had an inoperable brain cancer.

"I would do it over again," he said then. But Peters didn't have the opportunity. He died of cancer July 20 in St. Joseph's Hospital in Lodi. -DANNY C.

PORTER Associated Press Louis E. Peters in 1979 Adventure and Lured Nurse to During World War Lulu White Howell spent more than a year as a Red Cross nurse in the French countryside, working only a few miles from the trenches. "It was a hard life," she recalled years later. "We could hear the sounds of the guns. We lived in barracks and used outside latrines.

There was no provision for our transportation, so anyplace we wanted to go we had to walk." Even getting to the war area was dangerous, she said. "We carried 4,000 boys over on the boat I was on. We had a lot of boys get sick before we even got there. We lost three boys and two of the girls who were nurses. It was the flu.

They didn't know how to combat it, you know." 'Chance to See the World Lulu White was 27 when she left her Iowa farm family to help American fighting men. She didn't really go because of patriotism, she admitted: "I just thought of it more as an adventure. A chance to see the world. My parents thought I was Associated Press Gen. Alexander Kotikov in 1950 American and British planes airlifted 2.34 million tons of food and coal 110 miles inside the Soviet occupation zone to hungry and cold West Berliners.

On Sept. 30, 1949, Stalin lifted the blockade and allied rail and road traffic was once again allowed into Berlin. After his Berlin assignment, Kotikov held a series of high posts in the Soviet air force. He won severa! decorations including the Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner and medals for heroism during World War II. The Soviet Defense Ministry newspaper Red Star said last week that he had died after a long illness, without reporting when or where.

He was 79. -JONATHAN MANX Manhattan State Hospital in 1921 when he was accepted by Freud as a student-patient in Vienna. The six-month apprenticeship included an analysis of Kardiner by Freud. He published a memoir about the experience, "My Analysis with Freud," in 1977. Years later Kardiner told an interviewer that Freud singled him out for special attention because during his $10-an-hour sessions "I told a very interesting story and I did not argue with his interpretation of its events." In 1930, Kardiner was among the co-founders of the New York Psychiatric Institute, the first of its kind in the United States.

He was a clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in the 1950s and served as director of the Psychoanalytic Clinic between 1955 and 1957. Kardiner died July 20 at his home in Easton, Conn. He was 89. -DANA KENNEDY leg, jaw and other injuries, and Dean was killed instantly. The driver of the other car was not injured.

Wuetherich later sued the Dean estate for $100,000 claiming that the actor was driving at an "extremely high speed" when the crash occurred. The outcome of that suit could not be determined. Wuetherich died July 21 when his sedan skidded on a wet road and smashed into a wall as he was driving to his home here, 54 miles northeast of Stuttgart. Underworld In New York City on July 24 of undetermined causes. John Livingston, 62, a founder of the California Academic Senate and recipient of the California State Colleges Distinguished Teachers Award in 1966.

Livingston, most recently a government professor at California State University, Sacramento, was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War and published several articles advocating disarmament. In Sacramento on July 22 of cancer. Mary Margaret Chappellett, 70, World War II chairman of volunteer services for the Los Angeles chapter of the American Red Cross and an active clubwoman for the 20 years she lived here. Born Mary Fairbanks, she was a niece of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks Sr. She was the widow of Henri Chappellet, public relations official for Lockheed Corp.

In Atlanta on July 22 of undetermined causes. Survivor of James Dean Crash Carol Fox, credited with restoring Chicago's pre-Depression operatic glory to its present pre-eminence, is dead. The co-founder and general manager of the Chicago Lyric Opera for 26 years was 55. Miss Fox built the company, sometimes called "La Scala West" into one of international dimensions, producing more than 100 different operas and featuring such operatic greats as Maria Callas. who made her American debut there in 1954.

Born in Chicago on June 15, 1926, and graduated from the Girls Latin School there, Miss Fox went to Italy to study music and drama. For two two years she studied under tenor Giovanni Martinelli in Rome and, after appearing in some minor amateur roles, returned to Chicago. Started Theater in 1952 With seed money from her father, she founded the Lyric Theater of Chicago in 1952. The first performance of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at the Civic Opera House in 1954 was such a success that the Lyric presented its a full season later that year. Miss Fox returned to Europe to sign leading singers, many of whom had not performed in American opera houses before.

Among them were Tito Gobbi, Giuletta Simionato, Giuseppe di Stefano and Callas, who made a spectacular debut as "Norma." Many critics believe those early years produced some of the greatest moments in American opera. Sopranos Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf first heard American applause in Chicago. Poet Survived From Times Wire Services RALEIGH, N.C. The teacher, poet and writer best known as the creator of Mordecai Jones, the roguish "Flim-Flam Man" died July 23 at a hospital here. Guy Owen was 56 and died after a long bout with cancer that had kept him from his English classrooms at North Carolina State University.

Although Owens wrote dozens of articles, poems and short stories, the comic adventures of the elderly Not Patriotism Battlefields crazy." Returning home after the war, Mrs. Howell recalled, she had no thought of marriage. "I liked my career. I like it real well." But she changed her mind after meeting Will Howell, a dental supply salesman. They were married in 1919 and moved that year to Modjeska Canyon, where they built a cabin.

Today Modjeska is well-populated by those who love its rustic charm. One Big Open Room' In 1919, however, the Howells were among the first to move in. "When we built it, it was really just one big open room," Mrs. Howell said. Indoor plumbing wasn't added until the 1940s.

When the United States entered World War II, Mrs. Howell volunteered again. By then she was 54, and she was turned down because of her age. "I wanted to be part of the action," she said. Recalling her mother-in-law's activities, Phyllis Howell, who lived next door with Lulu White Howell's Associated Press Carol Fox in 1980 In the 1960s, the Lyric moved toward balancing the familiar with the unfamiliar by presenting premiers of Berg's "Wozzeck," Ravel's "L'Heure Espagnole" and Prokofiev's "Angel of Fire." The repertoire remained, however, mostly Italian.

Recently production costs soared and the company entered the 1981 season with a deficit, reducing its offerings from seven operas to five. In January Miss Fox retired due to ill health and reported disputes with the board over the company's dire financial situation. She died July 21 of a heart attack. JANE GALBRAITH by 4ged Rogue swindler in the 1965 novel, "The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man," remained his most revered work. George C.

Scott helped ensure Mordecai Jones' immortality in a 1967 film in which he played the title role and later said the engaging villain was his favorite character. Owen also wrote "Season of Fear," his first work, and "Journey for Joedel," which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1970. Lot Angeles Times Lulu White Howell son, Robert, said simply, "She was a liberated lady." Mrs. Howell, 93, died July 23 at her Modjeska Canyon home. -LIZMcGUINNESS Passings Early Researcher in Stereo; Lawyer, Confidant for From Times Wire Services KUPFERZELL, West Germany The mechanic who sat next to James Dean when the young film star was killed in a head-on crash in 1955 was himself killed in a car accident last week.

Rolf Wuetherich, then 27, was accompanying the 24-year-old star of "East of Eden" and "Giant" to a weekend of sports car racing in Salinas, when Dean's Porsche Spider 550 and a car driven by a Tulare man collided head-on east of Paso Robles. Wuetherich suffered a broken brothers, Ralph and John; gambler Mickey Cohen, to whom he once lent $22,500, and Chicago syndicate leader Anthony (Big Tuna) Accar-do. One of the stories often told about Bieber was that of his serving as a pallbearer for a bookmaker who had been shot to death. Bieber went from the funeral to court, where he appeared as defense lawyer for a suspect in the killing. In Chicago on July 22.

Garlel Hauge, 67, international banker and former economic adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. From 1971 until his retirement in 1979 Hauge was chairman of the board of Manufacturers Hanover Trust the nation's fourth-largest bank and its parent company, Manufactures Hanover Corp. A member of Eisenhower's 1952 campaign staff, Hauge was appointed his special assistant for economic affairs after Eisenhower was elected. He served at the White House until 1958, leaving to join Hanover.

Harvey Fletcher, 96, whose studies under Robert A. Milliken in isolating electrons in 1910 led to Milliken's receiving a Nobel Prize and whose work with conductor Leopold Stokowski in the late 1930s gave rise to stereophonic sound. A professor emeritus of physics at Brigham Young University, Fletcher was the first president of the Acoustical Society of America and Thomas A. Edison was its first honorary member. In 1916 Fletcher joined Western Electric engineering department (later to become Bell Telephone Laboratories) and helped develop some of the first hearing aids.

Edison was an early customer. He also worked on the development of sound movies and television before going to BYU in 1952. In Provo, Utah on July 23. George R. Bleber, 76, defense lawyer for and confidant of some of the nation's most infamous criminals.

His clients included Al Capone's.