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'A i PRESS-TELEGRAM (PM CaMU Sd. IS tl PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Court AivardsBirch9 ortune toP earl MPdr' fc 0 5-V C.A-2 INDEPENDENT AM "rrmvr. -p 1 iUit: "'-CP- kS ft -A- (Combine News Services) Pearl Choate the ex-convict nurse who mar- 4 $30 Million The wife of millionaire auto lease executive R. Lee lie K'eHeywid' heThUifiarsd for divorce, seeking a siuuo of an estimated 630. million in community property.

I ff. r' 1 1 FANCIFUL HEADGEAR was the order at carni- val party on the SS Independence where Na- tional Governors Conference-is being held. At ft left are Gov. and Mrs. George Romney of Michigan.

Gov. Ronald Reagan (right) wears" floppy straw hat with feather and eagle imprint -P WfcwHd v. A PEARL BIRCH Wins Millions in Court JFK FANTASY Accused mass slayer Robert Benjamin Smith be-gp to have fantasies of violence about the time of President' John F. Kennedys assassination, defense psychiatrist testified Thursday at Phoenix. Dr.

Elaine J. Knutsen of Sonoma, Calif said Kenpe- dy was Smiths hero, "this seemed to be 4the pint where Robert started to identify with the doer, she said. "He read all he could about Lee Harvey Oswald end he began having fantasies of violence." Smith wanted to go to Kennedys funeral, but his parents were "too busy. OU LUCKY Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the late President John F. Kennedy and a former U.S.

senator, turns actor today for the "Batman television series. Salinger will portray "Lucky the world's most successful defense attorney," in a segment of the show scheduled to be aired in December. As "Lucky Pierre," Salinger, with a huge rabbit foot on a chain around his waist, will defend in court actor Cesar Romero, portraying "The Joker, and singer Eartha Kitt, portraying "The Cat-woman. ANOTHER Wealthy industrialist Howard Hughes was recommended Thursday for another Nevada gambling license this one at The Castaways on the Las Ve gas Strip. A state board endorsed Hughes bid to buy The Castaways from Ben Jaffa for undisclosed price.

National 'r. ft ft 'ii ft ft i Embarrassed Demos Still Seek vYiet Test Combined News Services 28 States Challenge Wage Law WASHINGTON Twenty-eight states brought to the Supreme Court Thursday their fight against extension of the federal wage-hour law to an estimated 4.65 million employes of public schools and hospitals. The court will announce in a few weeks whether it will hear the case. In passing the extension in-1966, Can- grass relied on Its consitutional power to regulate terstate commerce. But the states -said operation of schools and hospitals is not commerce and the law impinges on states Texas and Maryland, speaking for the group, called the issue "monumental in the area rtf federal-state relations.

Wind, Snow Lash 6 States Strong, odd winds whipped across parts of the Northeast and northern plains Thursday and blowing snow cut visibility to less than a mile at Saranac Lake, N.Y. Some snow was mixed with rain in western sections' of ew York and Pennsylvania. Strong winds blew across Montana and Wyoming and the western Dakotas behind a fast moving cold, front. Freeze warnings were posted for the Carolmas; Ohio and the Vir-ginias, International ST. THOMAS, Vi Red-faced Democratic gover -j nors, their tie-line to the White House made public, reasserted Thursday-their intention to- press their Republican colleagues for a vote of Confi-.

J' dence in the Vietnamese policy of President Johnson, Gov. John B. Cennally of Texas said the Democratic Hoc would ignore the fact that its Vietnam proposal was defeated in the resolutions committee anjl would 5 try to bring it directly on the floor of the closing con-11 ferende session aboard the Independence- I dart aft hoWtaany 'votes if gets," the Texan de- dared. 1 dont think this Is a partisan issue-" As for the propriety of California Gov. Reagans ob-J tabling the White House cable asking Vietnam support, and releasing it, Connaljy observed: "Every man has to live with his own ethics and morality.

1 dont read oth- -5 er peoples mail and messages. The floating national governors conference arrived Thursday morning at St Thomas after three days of steaming from New tl The Aew York Times Service said the best evidence on' the misdirected White House cable was that Reagans communications director, Lyn Nofziger, accidentally picked up a copy while he was gathering cable repots to the governor on California peace protests in the ships radio shack. Nofziger could not resist the temp- to fluster the Democratic opposition byjeakbig SKSSk lM. MIGUEL ASTURIAS EPIC PRIZE Guatemalan writer Ml-guel Angel Asturias was honored on hie 68th birthday Thursday with the 1SS7 Nobel Prize in literature for 'his epic novels about Jhe troubles of the poor to his Asturias, now Guatemala's ambassador to France, wu a winner last year of a Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Utaion. He is the first Nobel literature laureate from Latin America eiBse Chilean poetess Gabriels Mistral in 1945.

The Swedish Academy of Letters said the $62,000 prize went to Asturias for "his highly colored writings rooted in si national Individ-, uality and Indian traditions." Asturias- has spoken out strongly against dictatorial oppression of Guatemalas native population, and one of his major works assails the U.S.-controlIed United Fruit holding it dominates the banana-producing Central American republic. Russia, in awarding Asturias the Lenin prize, cited him for works that "expose the American intervention against the Guatemalan Is', INDEPENDENT JZ3SJISV8. 'W'' -V producedtaJ964. ried 95-year-oid California multimillionaire, A. Otis Birch in 1966, wona court battle in Dallas Thursday to get title to Birch's estate.

Five California baptist Charitable institutions, contesting thc will. said they would appeal Ihiurv day's ruling -by probate Court Judge F. W. Bartlett. Bartlett upheld the validity of the handwritten will Birch made May 14.

1966. The aging millionaire and Pearl Choate, formerly the nurse to Birch ahd his first wife, were married in Okla- homa less than a month after the first Mrs. Birch died -at Breckenridge, Tex. ia Barietts ruling prohibited Pearl Choate Birch from becoming administrator of the estate, however. The probate Judge noted that Mrs.

Birch was disqualified from such positions since she served time in a Texas Prison for murdering one of her former husbands. The contesting religious orders- ell had received money from Birch. They sought to block the validity of the will, contending Birch was mentally incom-' petent when he penned it Birch died March 15 in' Dallas at the age of 96. NEW SAINT The Romah Catholic Church approved humble, 19th century priest as a saint Thursday. and began Judging whether two of its greatest 20th century figures Popes John XX1Q and Hus XII should have the mm recognition.

At an semipublic consistory, Pope Paul VI gathered prelates from the Vatican synod tb Ipprove the can- conization of Brother Ben ikje, who died in France 105 years ago. WJTNESSES The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders will hear testimony in Washington Monday from the Rev, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles. King has announced he will surrender in Birmingham, next week to start serving a five-day contempt sentence growing out of a civil rights demonstration.

VANISHES Bslcber, 27-year-old waiter in-heritedi'SS'miliion from his far a few days, said Ri-. chard Siple, Belchers boss at a Oearwater, restaurant i SHFS GOING back to Viet-' nsm next month, to enter tain troops again says I disc Jockey Chris Nod shown hew Ihtosday oa: visit to Seattle, -Georgiana Kelley, 49, charged her 70year-old husband of 27 years with extreme cruelty and alleged Kelley threatened to harm heron Oct. 7, two days before they separated. Kelley, owner of Les Kelley Leasing Col, is founder the Kelley Hue Book, the "bible" of the used car industry in determing resale values. Mrs.

Kelley demanded 17,000 a month for upkeep of the familys Bel Air estate. BERLIN CHIEF Kljn Srfieutz, a close I associate of Willy Brimdt, The German socialist leader, was elected, by the city parliament Thursday as the new governing mayor of The 41-year-old Social Democrat sue-, ceeded Mayor Heinrich Alberts whose administration', collapsed after only 10 months in office at the end pf September as a result of student unrest and growing domestic troubles. KARL'S BAG Shoe king Harry. Karl made second appearance before a federal grand Jury probing alleged cheating at the geverly Hills Friars Club. husband of actress Dabble Reynolds, carried a large suitcase into the chamber but, emerged 25 later without it.

Four other witnesses, including a Beverly Hills physician, Dr. Victor Lands, and James Houston, a retired realtor, brought the total number of witnesses to 65. 0.f r-1 -t. JAKE CHE Stokely. Carmichael, touting Africa and Asia, to friends for Black Power, said Thursday in Algiers he would follow the revolutionary footsteps of the late Ernesto (Che) Guevara.

"I hope that when my death comes it will be Him that of Che. SANTA ANA KARINA LAKEWOOD v'" l1' Storm Hits U.S. Ships, Halts Haiphong Raids SAIGON Heavy seas, high winds and driving rain kicked up by Typhoon (hula pounded coastal areas of North Vietnam this morning, keeping American bombers away from the port city of Haiphong for the first time in a week. U.S. Navy aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin were able to launch only a few iu- personic jet fighter-bombers on missions -into North Vietnam.

Damage reports frim the typhoon In North -Vietnams industrial Red River Valley through the Hai-phong-Hanoiirta were but the stojm could "cause as much havoc as American Air Force pipes from, land bases lh -South -Vietnam and jhailand destroyed pjirt pf a railroad northwest of Hanoi. On tha -s the cable. Michigan Gov. Romney said Thursday that the episode illustrated "the extent to which the admin-. Istration is trying to manipulate the (Vietnam) news to create a false impression.

Subversives Board Compromise Offered. i WASHINGTON r-Senate Democratic Leader Mike 2 Mansfield, Montana, proposed a compromise Thurs- day, in deadlock over continuing the Subvehive Ac- tiyitres-Xpntroi BoiKf wmtroversim panel would i be reaoivated condition iMctually conduct pro ceedings andhearings.by Dec. 31 1968.1f -it doesnXiL wbuld go put of existence the followiftlfune 30. Mans-' field hopes for a vote 6)3 V. 4 Approved ion merger of the.

Penn- sylvahia and New York Centralrai)roads was approved Thursdjiyvby a special three-judge ferel court, which gave opponents 15 days to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court TM' Judges dismissed all complaints against the merger, hugest hi U.S. railrosd history Economy Stalls lii Senate WASHEINGTONVt Administration hi Thursday that the Senate will refuse to go ordering it House action orderintoat government In Saigon, thd U.S. said 177 Americans died last week and 977 were Wounded, sending the death total to the wounded to 88,502 and missing tQi284. But this did not reflect the more than 100 Americans known to have been killed since the repotting periqd Qo- ended last Saturday.

North Vietnamese and Viet W- battlefield deaths were down. to 160y South namese lost 163 Thailand, meanIrtinounced it was sending to battle a full division of troops, tacreas- Sktanla 'was fag its strength in Vietnam from 2,000 to about 20,000. Madrid-to one year in prte-''Radio Hanoi broadcast an article rejecting as "sheer on fined $166 foror- deception Secretary of State Dean Rusk's offer of a gnniring a farmers prateit bombing pause in return for peace talks. fa the. wake of tocr.lossof D-S- hydrogen bombs in PalomareS fa 1966.

The sentencing of 31-year- old Spanish noblewoman, comes as a potential embar- Rust Venus Pro Possibly: Destroyed MOSCOW The chief constructor of Venus 4 Was quoted by Izyestia Thuraday asying toe which parachuted recording instruments to Venus, ac-' cut by sn estimated $8 bUfkm to $8 billion. Sen. 2 Young of Jforth Dakota Republican on the ate Appropriations CcimmittN, said after an tail hearing on the House measure tat it Is so full of ani- tost I dont see how wbpud pass it as Page A-8.) -t WASHINGTON A biU that would five national holidays' an Mondays was approved Thursday bya i House judidary Nsubcommittee. The measure Would apply to Washingtons Birthday, Memorial Day, Independoice Day, Veterans Day ami Thanksgiving, and would affect in 1970. Another House group, 5 the Education and Labor Committee, voted to give gov ernors and mayors strong control over war on complished "aU the aims we bet for it.

The absence of rassment fo which rtsh official statements concerning the instrument desjres that the Falomares package raised speculatipn that it either crashed or 7Scddent be! forgotten. It Is burned after its descent A Soviet astronomer said not expected that the duch-Werlnesday that radio contact waa being maintained esswUl have to' serve the with instruments. But he has made no sentence ttatemtoi' bd all other evimice has indicated the con- VV trary-Afso Thursday: (1) Russia orbited Cosmos l83, its second Vtotte days, around the earth. (3) the U.S. solar oMeWatoiy QS04, orbiting 350 miles above Earth, performed ftawlessly monitoring sun spots radio-and X-iA missions.

(3) Cape Kennedy technicians huntedlorwfe lost slivers in the Saturn 5 rocket, trying to eliminate due more threat the scheduled November Utunch lh moonship On its first tert light, and (4) AmerkV probe made Its Venus flyby id a hjghly placed source said Russia has positioned shibs in the Atlantic ana pacific fa such way as to in rSylvania color TV swivel-console Buffums', popular swivel console lets'you move the. 295 sq. in. screen to view it test You get ea tuning and unsurpassed rei iabil ity encased in a beautihil cabinet of genuine walnut solids and veneers mS5 programs. the moon by.

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today. FJllAJet Explodes inTexas 0 BOWIE Tex: An F111A, the Air Force version of tbs controversial fighter-bomber that created a congressional furor while stm on the drawing, board, 2. exploded and crashed' Thursday night In north Texas. membersejectad SafclyrTheplaneronS of the first of dose the military, was the seconi i ash smee the impending ian. ipetails.

Page A-6.) Strike Snarls Bril LONDONA. strike by snowballed Thursday taght with tranpoit All Transport brakemen sudden-threatened Britain services between yedServiceJbei Englaitas second tofta between; were canoded. of morethmri a million. The trouble began when brakemen fa "British railway ylfrds they had been assigned after firemen yretp from tocomotivtetXThese duties taduded coupling of tween Londonfad Birmingham London and' Atadustridl. ml Commuter chaoshitaManch -V -f -jeJ'i" firrt motipf the plane was Hope Seen Talks DETROIT -5 V' Tl LONG BEACH PALOS VERDES -sr POMONA' NEWPORTCENTgR Workers, appeared closer to' reaching an agreement f- Thursday than at any time since Ford was dosed up by the nationwide strike 43 days The brighter out-'.

look whs toe opinion of most industry observers, 4' on the outside of. a news blackout that hatT lasted an unprecedented nine days: A it to 6 per centup fromb.5 per cent iV; 'v t' '--r 1. -'v- av. i i r- mtim.