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TIMES-ADVOCATE. ESCONDIDO. TUESDAY, IUNE 23, 1981 A-3 Churchill, FDR suckered Stalin for autograph NEW YORK (AP) A ruble note signed at the 1945 Yalta Conference by Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin has been auctioned for $5,000 to a private collector from Minnesota. The same collector also paid $700 for a rare letter by New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater, who mysteriously disappeared in 1930.

The Yalta autographs were obtained by Harry L. Hopkins, Roosevelts special assistant, for his teen- age son, Robert. In a note attached to the ruble, the young Robert said he watched from a distance as President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill signed it (the ruble) without hesitation. Marshal Stalin balked, however, obviously He said Roosevelt had to make up a tall tale to convince Stalin to sign the banknote: President Roosevelt explained to him that the Short Snorter Club was made up of people who had flown the Atlantic Ocean and that it took two who had made the trip to bring in a new member. Marshal Stalin pointed out that he had never flown the Atlantic and therefore was not eligible to join.

President Roosevelt said that he was taking it upon himself to waive that requirement in this instance. After a lengthy pause and with obvious reluctance, Marshal Stalin signed. The absentee bidder at Sotheby Parke Bemets auction yesterday of Printed and Manuscript Americana was Chnsiopner raye ot Mankato, Minn. In a telephone interview from his home, Faye said he was thrilled to be the successful bidder of the two items because, although he collects an assortment of articles, these are the first two autographs I ever purchased. The ruble banknote, worth $6.50 at todays exchange rate and $10 in 1945, is a rare 20th-century autograph because it is believed to be the only document bearing the signatures of me tnree dignitaries, said Jerry E.

Patterson, head of Sothebys 84th Street Gallery for books, coins and stamps. The three-page Crater letter is the last known ever written by the judge and the only Crater autograph to ever come to auction, according to Peter Mallary, who heads Sothebys Book Department. Its pre-sale value had been estimated from $700 to $1,000. The undated handwritten letter, marked confidential, was found shortly after the judges disappearance on Aug. 6, 1930.

He was last seen stepping into a Manhattan taxicab. It says in part: The following money is due me from the persons named. Get in touch with them for they will surely pay their debts. It concludes: Am very weary, Love, Joe. This is all confidential.

The Sotheby catalogue describes the letter as a farewell note and may well have been prepared for Judge Craters wife before his celebrated disappearance. TTC3H OTATO TTE3G NvirnoH TTC3GLJ.nCLP U.S., Mexico sign joint trade, commerce pact WASHINGTON (AP) The United States and Mexico signed an agreement today establishing a joint commission on commerce and trade to expand the two nations ties. The co-chairmen of the commission for the United States are Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige and presidential trade representative Bill Brock. For Mexico, Commerce Secretary Jorge de la Vega was designated chairman. The commission grew out of President Reagans talks two weeks ago with Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo.

In a statement at the signing ceremony, Baldrige said the commission begins a process that I anticipate will be instrumental in creating a new trading environment. I hope it will support our mutual economic goals and contribute to closer ties between our two countries. Rainier search barred LONGMIRE, Wash. (AP) Mountaineers stmied by bad weather early today suspended the search for the bodies of 11 climbers engulfed in a massive icefall on Mount Rainier, say-: ing the weather made their task physically impossible. Twelve experienced mountain rescue workers ly probed the frozen rubble at the scene of the accident last night, more than 36 hours after tons of ice roared across Ingraham Glacier as a climbing party took a break during a trip to the mountains summit.

They found nothing. Absolutely nothing, said Rick Kirschner, a National Park Service ranger. The ice blocks were still there, and snow had drifted in up to two to three, feet. Reagan reported 'livid' WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan was described as rather livid yesterday at a report that the Democratic-controlled House might not deliver a tax-cut bill to him before late September. Reagan has said repeatedly, and as recently as last Friday, that Speaker Thomas P.

ONeill had solemnly pledged to deliver a tax bill to the presidents desk before the long congressional recess in August. Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan said yesterday the president is determined to get a bill passed this summer even if it means Congress staying in session during the dog days of a Washington summer. White House strategists have said privately that failure to complete work on the bulk of the administrations economic program before the recess could prove fatal to the early momentum Reagans legislative initiatives have enjoyed. Nazi's citizenship to go CLEVELAND (AP) A federal judge today ruled that John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian-born autoworker accused of covering up Nazi war atrocities, must be stripped of his U.S.

citizenship for concealing his past to immigration officials. In issuing the order, U.S. District Judge Frank Battisti also dismissed a defense request for a new trial. In a 44-page opinion, Battisti said, the defendants certificate of naturalization must be canceled as it was procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresenta-: tion. Demjanjuk, 61, was accused by the government of conceal-; ing his service as a Nazi death camp guard during World War when he applied to enter the United States.

During a five-week trial, government prosecutors contended that Demjanjuk was really Ivan the Terrible, a notoriously cruel guard who served at Nazi death camps at Treblinka and Sobibor, Poland. Air controller forecast WASHINGTON (AP) The president of the air traffic controllers union predicts his 14,800 members will ratify a new contract that falls far short of what they sought. A tentative contract agreement was reached in the pre-' dawn hours yesterday, just two hours before the controllers scheduled a strike that could have crippled the nations air transport system at the start of the summer travel season. Were glad its over, said Robert E. Poli, president of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization.

I am pleased with the agreement, and I dont believe Ill have any trouble selling it to the members. Poli said copies of the contract and ballots will be sent to members next week and that the full ratification process should take about two weeks. Parts of the contract dealing with pay, fringe benefits and some working conditions also must be approved by Congress because the controllers are federal employees. Associated Press Photo ranging in age from 3 to 82, took the oath of allegiance. An immigration official said the mass cere-money was necessary because of a large backlog of qualified applicants.

The largest groups of immigrants were from the Philippines, Korea and Mexico. GRANDSTANDING CITIZENS Cuban refugee Loures Curro waves an American flag during naturalization ceremonies yesterday for nearly 10,000 immigrants in Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum. As the judge presided from the 50-yard line, 9,700 people, Begin: U.S. knew of Iraq nuke plans JERUSALEM (AP) Prime Minister Menachem Begin told an Israeli parliamentary committee he has a U.S. document showing the United States knew of Iraqi plans to build atomic bombs, a senior official said today.

The official, who insisted on not being identified, said Begin disclosed the top-secret documents existence to the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee at a briefing yesterday. The United States endorsed a United Nations resolution condemning Israel for the attack and U.S. officials have said they had no evidence that Iraq planned to use the reactor in connection with atomic bomb production. Sinn Fein calls for march on Belfast BELFAST, Northern Ireland Members of the Irish Republican Army, in a letter smuggled out of prison, are calling on -their supporters to march on Belfast by the tens of thousands Sunday to support the IRA hunger strike. Sinn Fein, the legal political arm of the outlawed IRAs Provisional Wing, said the letter was signed by 450 inmates at the Maze prison outside Belfast and the womens jail in Armagh.

A seventh IRA member in the Maze, 27-year-old Michael James Devine, joined the prison fast yesterday, British authorities said. Pope recovering from pleurisy ROME (AP) Pope John Paul Hs fever is subsiding as he recovers from an attack of pleurisy, the Vatican says. The preliminary tests following his admission to Gemelli Hospital have demonstrated the regression of this pulmonary affliction, the Vatican said yesterday. -His fever is going down. Other tests are being made.

When these lare completed, a medical bulletin will be issued by the popes attending physicians. Socialists settle with communists PARIS (AP) President Francois Mitterrands Socialist Party, which won a decisive victory in the parliamentary elections, reached an agreement early today with the Communist Party on Communist cooperation with the government, officials reported. Officials from both parties refused to say, however, if Communists would be appointed to the new government that Socialist Premier Pierre Mauroy was expected to name later in the day. Tass assails Pole reform movement MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet government fired a new press salvo today at the reform movement in Poland, continuing a campaign to influence the Polish Communist Party congress next month. A long commentary in Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper, accused the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of fomenting fear and mistrust in Poland.

It charged the Western allies were instigating definite elements to commit anti-Soviet acts and attacks on the countrys links to its Warsaw Pact allies. I- The commentary also attacked West Germany, charging that -the Polish crisis has whetted the appetites of those who lay claims to East German lands. They are Already starting to think about how to go about a retailoring of Purope. L.A. group charges spying San Francisco and five other cities around the country.

No decision has been made on whether to air the commercial nationally, said Molly Granger of the Bernadette Talbot Advertising Agency here, which is handling the account. Critics have charged the Reagan children are making commercial use of the family name. First body exhumed LOS ANGELES (AP) After an extensive investigation into the causes of at least 26 suspicious hospital deaths, the Los Angeles County coroners office exhumed the first of perhaps many bodies to be unearthed, authorities said. The body of Isabelle T. Randall was exhumed yesterday from Green Hills Memorial Park in San Pedro, a Los Angeles area community.

Coroners officials said she died at 3 a.m., Feb. 17, at Centinela Hospital. Natural causes were listed on the death certificate, said Assistant County Coroner Riphard Reagan: Lotion helps SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Maureen Reagan, the presidents 40-year-old daughter, says she appeared for free in a television commercial for a mail-order acne lotion because it helped her chronic skin problems. In a telephone interview with the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday, she said the commercials are a test to determine if viewers are reluctant to buy Acnetatin lotion because of a Federal Trade Commission action against it in 1979. The FTC complaint said commercials featuring Pat Boone saying the lotion helped his daughter amounted to false advertising.

The company agreed to make restitution to purchasers but never admitted false advertising. Reagan does not mention her father directly in the commercial but says, Let me tell you, it certainly made my life easier during that frantic election campaign. The two-minute spot is being shown in LOS ANGELES (AP) A group concerned about the murders of black children in Atlanta has charged that a security agent attended its meetings as a spy for the Los Angeles school system and attempted to act as an agent provocateur. In a suit filed yesterday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, members of the Emergency Coalition for Atlanta Children said Ronald Hubbard, 29, a security agent for the Los Angeles Unified School District, infiltrated their meetings. Using the alias Mr.

Smith, Hubbard at one meeting urged the group to go out and kill white babies, according to an affidavit filed by one of the plaintiffs in the suit, Jai Barksdale. Hubbard yesterday admitted attending the groups April 17 meeting but denied he was working undercover for the school district. However, he refused to coment on the allegations he advocated violence against white children, or why he did not give his real name at that meeting. nrj pnnoo City's September mail ballot plans scrapped discount rapped SAN DIEGO An investigation into an energy discount given to San Diego Gas Electric Co. employees has led to the creation of union to protect the perquisites of utility company employees statewide.

The Public Utilities Commission is examin-t ing the 25 percent energy discount given! employees, claiming it leads to ener-: gy waste on their part. The PUC has also questioned the propriety; of using consumer money to subsidize a cafe-; teria, company store and monthly Council primaries because the suit, if successful, could endanger the elections legality. Hahn drops La Jolla deal LA JOLLA The Ernest M. Hahn Development Co. has dropped plans to locate its headquarters in the Torrey Pines Science Park here after a higher bid by Nucorp Energy Inc.

and a lawsuit by City Councilman Fred Schnaubelt complicated the otherwise simple land deal. The company will instead locate near Montgomery Field, a move it says is due to the delays caused by these recent developments. City Councilman Fred Schnaubelt had sued the city to stop the deal. The city manager had recommended the parcel be sold to Hahn for $1.6 million, under a city policy which encourages preferred businesses to locate there by offering them land at a reduced rate. Later, Nucorp offered $2.3 million for the site and the council decided to offer the land at public auction, with $2.3 million the minimum bid.

Schnaubelt said the Hahn decision shows that the citys policy of giving land incentives is unnecessary. SAN DIEGO Plans to use a mail ballot in the citys September primary election were scrapped yesterday by the San Diego City Council because it is being sued for using the new voting method in Mays convention center referendum. The mail ballot was considered a success by city officials after it saved the city $200,000 in election costs and produced a 60.7 percent turnout, one of the largest in city history. But a suit claiming the method is a violation of the secret ballot Ls set to go to trial July 31. City Clerk Ray Ortiz had recommended the method not be used in the upcoming school and.