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206 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1971 uter Outsmarted Gomp Gypsy Rose Lee's Maternity Secret In Bullseye Landin HHP 1 Ml) j)nM4MM 'WKWIWWf FIGURES IN A LONG-KEPT SECRET Otto Preminger, Erik Kirkland and Gypsy Rose Lee LONDON (AP) -Movie producer Otto Prem-inger disclosed a 26 year old secret today: He is the father of a son born to stripper Gypsy Rose Lee in 1944. "It was supposed to have been kept a secret but suddenly people began asking me about it so I guess I may as well admit it," he said in an interview. The son, Erik Kirkland, now works for Preminger's film company as casting editor. Preminger, married with two children, said he expected his legal adoption of Erik to be completed in the next two weeks. "My wife likes him, my two- children like him, we all like him and there are tio problems," he said.

'He calls me Otto." Asked why he and Gypsy never married, Preminger replied: "She didn't want to. She was only interested in having the baby. She was a very independent woman way ahead of her time. "Nowadays, with women's liberation, it's quite usual for a woman to have a child without wanting to marry the father. Gypsy Rose Lee was ahead of her time." Laos Fog Grounds U.S.

Jets CIA Base Is Endangered SAIGON (UPI) Bad weather closed in on the big U.S.-South Vietnamese operation today, grounding jets at the Khe Sanh airport. Some U.S. helicopters, flying og and low 1 apparently strayed into' Laos. In Vientiane, a Laotian spokesman denied any South Vietnamese troops had en tered Laos, but he reported a Commumst offensive rolling south from the Plain of Jars is menacing Long Cheng, nerve center for Central Intelligence Agency operations in Laos. UPI Pulitzer prize winning photographer i Sakai reported from Khe Sanh that he saw U.S.

and South Vietnamese Chinook and Huey copters flying westward from Khe Sanh toward Laos, about five miles away. Weather He said the copter sling-loads barely cleared the tree-tops as they shuttled supplies near or across the border in support of the massive ground operation. Sakai said American copter crewmen told him they had crossed into Laos and had been forced by weather and other conditions to spend the night there. But he said the crewmen seemed vague about the exact location where they had spent the night. A spokesman for the U.S.

Command in Saigon said, "I know of no ARVN forces operating in Laos." He said a U.S. jet fired two Shrike missiles yesterday at a missile Turn to Page 10, Col. 1 wilt 7 A TRIPLET CRATIR A COUPLE OF LUNAR STAR FINAL STOCKS' SPORTS DAILY 15c SURFACE STROLLS AP Phota astronauts and their families to the White House for dinner upon their return and to Ca mp David for a weekend. Shepard, the old pro of U.S. astronauts grounded for six years by ear trouble walked with a slow, cautious gait at first.

Science Lab But soon Shepard and Mitchell were hopping over the surface like kangaroos on man's first excursion into the hilly uplands that scientists believe may hold the key to the secrets of the moon's creation. They were deploying a $25 million, atomic-powered scientific observatory on tfle Turn to Page 4, Col. 1 gered by the firm's bankruptcy and receivership. Most of the company's aircraft activities will apparently be taken over by the British government. Qvale, a sportsman who paid half a million dollars in 1964 for the race horse The Scoundrel, was out on the ski slopes today at Sun Valley, Idaho, and unavailable for direct comment.

But Andrew Regalia, general manager here of Qvale's British Motor Cars Distribu. tors, largest of itskiml in the country, confirmed reports of efforts by -Turn to Page II, Col. 1 I'CONE CtATERfc-A ir iff, 4 i i walk; dotted line shows tomorrow's lengthier tour SU 1-2424 AP Photos when someone greeted Otto and said, 'This must be your "After that we just said, 'What are we Kirkland Kirkland said his mother told him of Preminger when he was about 17. At the time of the birth, Miss Lee was separated from her former husband, Alexander Kirkland a. writer, but Kirkland's name appeared on the birth certificate as the father.

"She asked me not to say anything until either I met him (Preminger) by chance or he approached me," Kirkland said. "Now I feel as if I've come out from under a cloud," he said. Tahoe Ski Cable Slip Injures 5 TAHOE CITY (AP) -Five persons were injured, three of them seriously, when a cable was derailed on a chair lift at the Squaw Valley State Recreation Area. Officials at Tahoe-Truckee Hospital said Raymond Beat tie of Temple City suffered a back injury and Harlen Dunn of Pasadena had a head injury. A spokesman for the Placer County Sheriff's office said a cable derailed on the lift at the Emigrant Gap ski area.

Ten persons were reported on board the lift at the time. Five were injured In the fall. A spokesman for the ski area said the cable for the chair lift slipped from the tower support. The lift was relatively low at the time, the spokesman said. Witnesses reported most of those who were hurt were thrown from their chairs as they bobbed up and down on the slack cable.

4 HOUSTON (UPI) Alan and Edgar Mitchell outsmarted a balky computer for a bulls-eye landing today, bounded through sticky moon dust to set up a science lab, then crawled back into their lunar lander. They moved around on the moon for 4 hours, 34 minutes. They unfurled Old Glory, hopped like kangaroos near the silver and gold Apollo 14 moonship Antares, and sent back to earth the first color television shots of the moon. Their dramatic moon landing was America's third. Long Way "It's been a long way, but we're here," said Shepard, first U.S.

man in space a decade ago, as he stepped off a ladder and became the fifth man on the moon. He landed at 6:54 a.m. PST. Mitchell jumped to the rough, crater-pocked surface of Fra Mauro Valley five minutes later. "It great to be coming down," he said.

The third Apollo 14 crew-man orbited the moon and spotted the lunar lander from about 70 miles above the surface. Shepard and Mitchell spent most of their nearly five-hour walk setting up scientific ex-periments which began beaming information on the moon and the solar wind back to earth. They will make another long walk to-morrow during their 33 hours moon visit. Late today ground controllers discovered a slight leak in Mitchell's spaccsuit "not dangerous but higher than we expected," said flight di- ple of the caliber of Penney's," Lurie said, discussing possible new tenants. The Examiner learned that retailers seriously interested in taking over the property include Gimbel's of New York, one of the traditional competitors of Macy's, which operates a store at O'Farrell and Stockton Streets.

Gimbel's operates nearly 30 department stores in New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Milwaukee and Madison, and their suburbs. I I's also owns Saks Fifth Avenue, which Turn to page 8. Col. 3 strength of a rifle bullet, went off.

They also collected two "small football-sized" rocks, 15 others the size of walnuts and some more moon dust. They climbed back into the lunar lander at 11:28 a.m. PST. They had a meal and a 10-hour rest period was scheduled to start about 1 p.m. Ground controllers radioed to the moonwalkers the congratulations of President Nixon.

Like millions of people all over the world, he said, he is an astronaut watcher today. "I wish the entire Apollo team well Godspeed," Nixon said, and invited the How to Clean Up On Dirty Movies By Robert Patterson The dirty movie business in San Francisco recently called "the smut capital of the world" in a national magazine has become a multi-million-dollar industry. She died last April at the age of 56. "Years ago I had an affair with her, in California," Preminger said. "On Dec.

11, 1944 I heard she was in a hospital in New York. I flew there. She told me she was having a child. "Since I was the father I offered to help her. But she said that she had no wish that the child should ever learn whp his true father was." In New York, Kirkland said in a telephone interview that he felt "wonderful" now that the secret was out.

"We got in the habit of keeping it secret," he said. "And one day we were walking down the street profit are escalating at breakneck pace. Another source states that the total grab has already reached $2 billion dollars annually as the market spreads and the film production proliferates. In San Francisco what was a cheapie, back-alley operation a year and a half ago is now a gilt-edged, -Turn to Page 19, Col. 4 EDITION Night Clubl 30-31 Obituaries 48 Shipping 59 Sports 51-56 Theaters 25-30 TV-Radio 49 Vital Statistics 49 Want Ads 39-48 Weather 49 Women Today tj DOUBLtT CRATf BLUEPRINT FOR Solid line is today's rector M.

Frank. Frank said the leak might cut 45 minutes off tomorrow's planned five-hour walk, but would not spoil plans for climbing a 400-foot crater. Lunar Dust "Nothing like being up to your armpits in lunar dust," Shepard joked as they pulled a rickshaw-like cart full of equipment across the valley in the lunar foothills. "Everything is going to be full of dust before long." The astronauts spent an hour "thumping" the moon's surface to create mini-quakes which were analyzed by the lab equipment. Fourteen of the 21 planned "thumps," each about the Jobless Total Riscs Again -6 Rale Examinar New Srvic WASHINGTON Unemployment in the nation rose in January by 780,000 to a total of 5.4 million jobless.

Cut the government called that an improvement over December and claimed it could signal a steady drop. The unemployment rate in both months hit heights not reached since the 1900-61 recession, the Labor Department reported today. The January rate, the department said, was 6 percent of the civilian labor force. That is the same rate that was announced for Decern- -Turn to Page Col. I ''wwi(m 1 Lurie's Plans for 5th-Market Store Rolls Royce Aid by S.F.

Dealer vale By William Flynn This estimate covers San Francisco alone in respect to theater admissions, releasing charges, and profits from films being made clandestinely in warehouses, lofts, private homes, and blinded store-front "studios." A reliable, authoritative source places the national take of the new industry at "more than five hundred million dollars as of the fall of 1970." The action and the IN THIS Bridge Business 56-59 City Printing 38 Comlci 36-37 Crossword Puzzle 37 Death Notices 48 Editorial .....31 Horoscope 38 Movies i i Kjell Qvale. the Norwegian-born San Franciscan who parlayed an imported MG into a multi-million dollar foreign car business, is seeking to form a British group to save the Rolls-Royce and Bentley autos from foreign control. Qvale's Jensen Motors, a British specialty firm that produces high erformance luxury cars, announced in London it is interested in keeping the marque in British hands. It was reported In Tndon that Qvale is attempting to raise the $18 million said to be the asking price for Rolls-Royce's car division, endan Financier Louis R. Lurie said today he will spend up to $2 million to modernize his building at the strategic corner of Fifth and Market Streets, which J.C.

Penney's is leaving. The work will be undertaken after BART construction is completed, within a year, and a direct entrance from the subway to the store basement is finished. 1 One of the keystones of downtown commercial activity, the building has been occupied for more than a decade by Penney's. "I'm talking to a lot of peo.