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THE DESERT SUN, Palm Desert News Roundup Joe DiMaggio's first wife is dead CATHEDRAL CITY Funeral services are pending for Cathedral City resident Dorothy Arnold Peck, first wife of New York Yankee's baseball legend, Joe DiMaggio. Mrs. Peck died Tuesday at La Gloria Clinic in Ensenada, Mexico. She was 66. The book, "Joe DiMaggio: An Informal Biography," by George De Gregorio makes several references to the then Mrs.

DiMaggio. Born on Nov. 21, 1917, in Duluth, she left her hometown to seek a career in show business. Her stage name was Dorothy Arnoldine Olson. She sang in New York nightclubs and had a movie contract with Universal Studios.

She met DiMaggio while making a movie in the Bronx at Biograph Studios. After courting for almost two years, they were married in San Francisco at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul on Nov. 19, 1939. He was 24 and she was 21. They had a son, Joseph Paul DiMaggio who currently lives in Walnut Creek.

DiMaggio was serving in the Army Air Force when they divorced in 1944. She later married George Schubert, a stockbroker. "Joltin' Joe" later married another legend, movie star Marilyn Monroe in 1954. The marriage lasted less than one year. Mrs.

Peck was married to Ralph Peck of Cathedral City at the time of her death. She and Peck owned Charcoal Charlie's restaurant in Palm Springs for 12 years. She is survived by her husband and son; and by her sisters, Joyce Hadley of Bloomington, and Irene Sullivan of Palm Desert. Crash kills man INDIO One man was killed and three others, including a child, were injured in a fiery head-on collision on Indio Boulevard here Friday night. The 7:15 p.m.

crash occurred near Madison Avenue and authorities still did not have the names of the victims three hours later. According to the California Highway Patrol, the fatality was the driver of a car that was struck by a van containing two people, after the van crossed the center divider. The injured child was a passenger in the car. The two in the van also were injured. Passers-by extinguished the fire.

Hit-run reported MECCA A local woman underwent surgery Friday night at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs for major injuries she suffered when struck by a pickup truck here on Highway 111. The truck fled the scene. The California Highway Patrol said the accident 5:30 p.m. accident occurred when Barbara McCardle, 40, stopped her car in the southbound lane of the highway, near Avenue 68, and got out. The oncoming truck hit her and then fled south, authorities said.

A hospital spokesman said the woman's condition was not immediately available. The CHP said the woman sustained back and head injuries and possibly two broken legs. They added Ms. McCardle was drinking when the accident occurred. The suspect truck was described as a light colored early 1960s GMC or Chevrolet.

Diabetic ordered to trial in deaths RIVERSIDE (AP) A diabetic whose low blood sugar may have contributed to a freeway accident that killed an off-duty policeman and two children was ordered to stand trail on manslaughter charges. John Washington, 54, of Los Angeles was bound over for Superior Court arraignment Nov. 26 following a preliminary hearing Friday, said Deputy District Attorney Danuta W. Tuszynska. Ms.

Tuszynska said the defense would claim Washington suffered an adverse reaction to an insulin injection and was unconscious when his brown Cadillac swerved out of the northbound lanes of Interstate 15 and collided with a southbound vehicle driven by Anaheim police Sgt. Roy Records. Springs, November 17, 1984 PEACE (82 MARCH resident Jef- ing that shirt from a March zoned front Union. More than Russian. march, wear- PEACE ACTIVIST Palm Springs frey H.

Gale displays a T-shirt 1982 peace rally in the Soviet 800,000 Russians took part in the Alec Barinholtz Sun Photo with "Peace March 82" emblaand back in both English and Kept historic letter Palm Springs man recalls Svetlana co communication ation By NADINE RIVERA Desert Sun Staff Writer PALM SPRINGS A Palm Springs man went to his bank safety deposit box Friday to take out a letter, which was of historic value in 1971 when he received it, but has gained a greater value now. The hand-written, one-page note was written by Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Peters, who has Related story, see Page A-8 returned to her homeland after a 17-year residency in the U.S. Mrs. Peters wrote the letter April 27, 1971, to Jeffrey H. Gale, who at that time was assistant editor of the San Francisco Jewish Bulletin.

Since then Gale has returned to Palm Springs. Gale got the letter from Mrs. Peters after he requested an interview with her on the plight of the Jewish people forced to remain in Russia. Although the interview with Mrs. Peters, who had defected from her native land, was denied, Mrs.

Peters did state some of her feelings about the Russian Jews in her note. Mrs. Peters wrote, "I've expressed very definitely my deepest sympathy with the Jewish people in the U.S.S.R. and with their rights to leave for Israel, their homeland. I am very glad to see that some progress has been reached since then possibly due to the protests all over the world." Gale believes that Mrs.

Peters' return to Russia came shortly after the re-election of Ronald Reagan as president and Margaret Thatcher as British prime minister because of the frustration she feels toward the current hard line the two leaders espouse toward the Soviets. "She's afraid we're on the verge of World War III," Gale said. Gale spent a month last summer in the U.S.S.R. with a group of 107 Americans on the Volga Peace Tour and returned with the conviction both the Soviet government and the Russian people want peace with the U.S. and that the American public needs to get a clearer picture of what life in the U.S.S.R.

is really like. "Most teen-agers there do aerobic dancing, speak English and know more about the American election than my daughters did," Gale said. There are 15 pizza parlors in Moscow, he added. "Most Americans don't know there's a Russian peace committee. We had rallies with them in public.

In March 1982, 800,000 Russians marched for peace," he said. "The Russian people are scared," he said. "They remember 20 million Russians died in World War II. Americans can't conceive what it would be like to have war on our own soil." At the present time, Gale is working hard to get the U.S. to initiate foreign relations which would lead to a nuclear freeze.

He feels that is the mandate Reagan received during the November election. 'At the Republican convention in Dallas, 70 percent of the delegates said they were for a nuclear freeze." Man convicted as Trailside Slayer sentenced to die in gas chamber By FELIX GUTIERREZ Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) A burly printer convicted of murdering two women in a redwood forest and charged with five other killings in the so-called Trailside Slayings was sentenced Friday to die in the gas chamber. "I must conclude with the prosecution that if ever there was a case for the death penalty, this is that case," Superior Court Judge Dion Morrow said in passing sentence on David Carpenter, 54. A jury recommended the death sentence in September, after Carpenter was convicted two months earlier of killing two young women in separate 1981 attacks along redwood park trails in Santa Cruz County, about 70 miles south of San Francisco. Morrow said the defense had failed to prove Carpenter's troubled childhood and psychological problems were mitigating circumstances in the killings.

Morrow also said he believed prosecution evidence that Carpenter had committed "crimes of violence" in the five Trailside Slayings for which he has been charged, but not arraigned, in Marin County, just north of San Francisco. Outside court, Marin County Deputy District Attorney John Posey said his office would arraign Carpenter "after he's brought to San Quentin." Morrow ordered Carpenter taken to the state prison within 10 days. The trial was moved to Los Angeles because of pretrial publicity. Posey, citing a five-year gap between the 1980 Marin County killings and the trial, said he would "try to keep the venue in Marin County." Defense attorney Larry Biggam cited what he called "frequent in the conduct of the trial and said, "I'm not confident the verdict will stand." Under California law, all death sentences are appealed automatically to the state Supreme Court. Carpenter, who previously had served 17 years in prison for attempted murder, rape, robbery and kidnapping, was convicted in July of murdering Ellen Marie Hansen and Heather Scaggs, both 20.

He also was convicted to rape Ms. Hansen and sen's companion, Steven A separate jury later tence. of raping Ms. Scaggs, trying trying to murder Ms. HanHaertle, then 20.

recommended the death sen- Biggam had contended that Carpenter should be spared the gas chamber because he had been an abused, speech-impaired child and was emotionally disturbed. But in the murders of both women, the jury found "that the circumstances in aggravation outweigh the circumstances in mitigation, and we impose the sentence of death." Town's residents react to death of Baby Fae BARSTOW (AP) Baby Fae's death touched many in this small desert community, where townspeople kept the secret of her parents' identities and watched with the rest of the world as the infant struggled to live. On Friday, Baby Fae's godmother remembered the infant that received a transplanted baboon's heart and lived with it almost three weeks. "I held her and everything," the godmother, who asked not to be identified, told the Desert Dispatch in Barstow. "That was my baby girl." The godmother praised the decision of Baby Fae's parents to permit the historic surgery Oct.

26. "She (the baby's mother) gave her Doublespeak award goes to State Dept. DETROIT (AP) When the U.S. State Department announced that it was officially replacing the word "killing" with "unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of life," the act did not escape the notice of English teachers. The National Council of Teachers of English, which is holding its annual convention here, on Friday presented the State Department with its 1984 Doublespeak Award.

The awards, named after the Big Brother governmental language described in George Orwell's "1984," are restricted to "misuses of language with more potential to cause harm than garden-variety jargon, gobbledegook or said William Lutz of Rutgers University, chairman of the council's Committee on Public Doublespeak. The committee's balloting was based on news reports from October 1983 through last month, Lutz said. He said the awards call attention to "dishonest and inhumane use of language." Second place honors went to Vice President George Bush for equating liberals with Nicaraguan leftists when he was admitting that he had misquoted presidential candidate Walter Mondale on the subject. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger won third place for comments he made after the removal of American troops from Lebanon to ships offshore. Weinberger was quoted by Lutz as saying: "Nothing has changed.

We are not leaving Lebanon. The Marines are being deployed two or three miles to the west." The State Department was cited "for announcing it will no longer use the word 'killing' in its official reports on the status of human rights in countries around the world," Lutz said. "Instead, the word 'killing' will be By JIM IRWIN Associated Press Writer replaced by the phrase 'unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of life," he said. The English teachers also cited the National Transportation Safety. Board for calling airplane crashes "controlled flights into terrain" in its investigation records.

The Pentagon also was recognized for calling peace "permanent pre-hostility," calling combat "violence processing," and for referring to civilian casualties in nuclear war as "collateral damage." The Pentagon also was cited for its description of the October 1983 invasion of 0 Grenada as a "predawn vertical insertion." Also recognized was Anthony Gliedman, commissioner of New York City's housing preservation and development program, for announcing a $300,000 plan to put decals over windows of abandoned rE tenements in the South Bronx to make them look occupied. "Percepin tion is reality," Lutz quoted Gliedsi man as saying. The committee presented ABC in television newsman Ted Koppel, bi moderator of the "Nightline" proOrwell no gram, with its 1984 George at Award for Distinguished Contribum tion to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. tr Koppel was honored for "contriWI buting to the common good through of his program's extensive analysis WI topical news." sh "The national audience, the citisa zens in this democracy, have bene- fited from his attempts to seek honesty and openness, clarity and in coherence, to raise the level of pub- an lic discourse," Lutz said. for Runner-up for the 1984 Orwell wt Award was Air Force Lt.

Col. sa' Thomas Murawaski, cited for his "pioneering efforts to combat governmentese through a 'Plain cia English' course, which has reached the more than one million people" in the official Navy Correspondence Manual. sol an SOI UCLA student kills self on campus LOS ANGELES (AP) A UCLA student reportedly despondent over his grades shot himself to death Friday on the University of California-Los Angeles campus, police said. The youth, identified as Roger Bloom, 21, from the Westchester section of Los Angeles, was found dead in bushes near Janss Steps, a main pedestrian thoroughfare on the sprawling campus, UCLA police Sgt. Karl Ross said.

"It wasn't in an area that would be easily observable by people walking by," Ross said. "It's definitely a suicide," Ross said of the shooting, which took place at about 10 0 a.m. "The body was discovered about 10 minutes later when friends became distraught that their friend wasn't around. They apparently knew he'd been contemplating suicide." Temperatures High Low Palm Springs. 75 48 (Humidity, 5 p.m...

Cathedral City 76 48 NA NA North Shore 80 50 La Quinta 82 48 Indian Wells 77 47 Palm Desert. 82 51 1000 Palms. 85 57 Desert Hot Springs 72 46 Rancho Mirage. 76 46 Mecca 72 45 77 46 Twentynine Palms. 71 38 Yucca Valley 65 33 60 45 WEATHER: Coachella Valley 345-3711 (Monday through Friday) SMOG: Coachella Valley (800) 242-4666 WIND: Coachella Valley and San Gorgonio Pass 345-2767 High, low, precipitation hours ending at 5 p.m.

Friday. Apple Valley 63 42 Bakersfield 64 49 Barstow 70 42 Beaumont 60 45 Big Bear 61 25 Bishop 56 25 Blythe 76 50 Catalina 64 56 Culver City 62 52 Eureka 54 Fresno 52 Lancaster 47 LongBeach 49 LosAngeles 53 Marysville 59 49 Monrovia 60 48 Montebello 65 50 Monterey 58 51 Mt. Wilson 42 36 Needles 75 46 NewportBeach 52 Oakland 54 Ontario 59 46 Pasadena 57 48 PasoRobles 58 51 Riverside 60 48 RedBluff 55 46 RedwoodCity 64 52 Sacramento 66 53 Salinas 61 52 SanBernardino 60 50 SanGabriel 64 43 SanDiego 63 57 SanFrancisco 54 SanJose 61 50 Santana 62 49 SantaBarbara 61 53 SantaCruz 62 56 SantaMaria 64 49 ScintaMonica 66 52 Stockton 47 Tahoe Valley 28 Torrance 67 51 Yosemite Vly 45 37 The nation California Temperatures indicate previous day's high and overnight low. HI Lo Pre Otik Albany 48 42 cdy Albqrque 54 33 cir Amrio 51 30 coy Anchrge 28 cdy Ashvle 51 rn Atlanta 58 57 .05 cdy AtlantcCy 60 47 .03 cdy Austin 65 60 cdy Baitmr 56 45 cdy Bilings 43 27 cdy Birmnhm 62 49 ,17 mn Bismarck 15 cdy Boise 27 cdy Boston 60 48 .07 cir orl vel lio. mi on spa tee hol 9 Loi Dri wh we rec to the Sch Ma Ma Brwnsvle 86 Buffalo 35 Burlntn, V.

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57 43 cdy 40 51 .01 cdy 22 14 Canada cdy 31 rn 33 46 cdy Temperatures and weather condi32 tions from midnight to midnight on 41 clr previous day, 49 rn Calgary 37 21 cdy Ottawa 48 3859833 5.3 29 Edmonton 27 20 Montreal 45 2.4 cdy 36 sn Regina 20 10 chr Toronto 50 2.8 39 cdy Vancouver 44 33 Winnipeg 34 04 1,6 08 .04 Precipitation in millimeters. 19 cdy 26 cdy 32 sn The world 29 48 cdy 42 .02 cir 16 cdy HI Lo Wthr 73 clr Amsterdam 48 39 cdy 66 87 Athens 59 48 30 Bangkok 91 79 cir cdy 52 1.98 Beirut 72 57 rn 46 cdy Berlin 33 32 27 cdy rn Bogota 64 46 cdy 26 cdy Brussels 52 34 rn 44 cir B' Aires 81 64 clr 41 Cairo 75 59 clr 34 cdy 40 Calgary 36 16 cdy rn Caracas 81 68 24 sn Dublin 54 37 clr 19 Frankfurt 37 39 30 cdy Geneva 48 40 cdy 60 Havana 79 50 66 cdy cdy Helsinki 27 clr 54 HongKong 72 cir 15 Jerusalem 70 57 cir 34 cdy Jo'burg 55 50 22 cdy Kiev 21 21 sn Orlando 79 53 cdy Phidipha 59 43 cdy Phoenix 72 55 clr Pittsbrg 39 32 Prtind Me 55 36 clr Prtind 55 34 Provdnc 62 48 .06 clr Raigh 67 52 cdy Rapid Cy 48 18 cir Reno 46 30 Rchmnd 66 47 cdy St Louis 45 30 StPrbgimpa 80 52 cdy SaltLake City 50 35 mn San Antonio 65 65 1.57 edy San Juan PR 84 76 cdy St Ste Marie 32 28 .02 cdy Seattle 51 37 cdy Shrvprt 64 55 .10 Sioux Falls 51 19 cdy Spokane 36 30 cdy Syracuse 43 36 cdy Topeka 50 24 Tucson 62 49 Pr Oly resi Thu Pal Bekins executive out on bail after making threat LOS ANGELES (AP)- A moving company executive is free on $250,000 bail after promising to make no contact with Minneapolis financier Irwin I. Jacobs who he allegedly threatened to kill. Ronald Hartman, former vice president of the Bekins was released Friday by a U. S.

magistrate after undergoing three days of psychiatric tests. The 50-year-old Hartman was arrested last week on a complaint charging mail and wire fraud and interstate transportation of funds allegedly obtained by fraud and conspiracy. Federal authorities were alerted to the alleged scheme by Minstar, the Minneapolis-based corporation headed by Jacobs. tral Des clot wife ert; Cen Pro brot Cen Mar D.C. six Pali arra a chance to live." she said.

"She gave her a chance to make her life longer I just wish that I could have been there to let her know that I love her. She's got all the support in the world from us." Because Baby Fae was born in Barstow, her fight for life had a special impact in this town 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Jerry and Sharion Harris offered their cemetery plot for the infant's burial. "When we heard the news last night we just looked at each other and realized at the same time that it would be the best possible thing to do," the 50-year-old Harris said Friday. "We want her to rest.

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