Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 2

2 Friday, Oct. 8. 1965 IRE NEWS BRIEFS from Everywhere Betty Grable Divorces LAS VEGAS, Nev. marriage of movie queen Betty Grable and bandleader Harry James, begun 22 years ago with a five minute wedding ceremony, ended here yesterday in a 10 minute divorce. Miss Grable, kiffbwn as the girl with the million' dollar legs during the peak of her movie career in the 1940s, was granted ap uncontested divorce by distngiJMge John Mowbray.

She charged extreme cruelty. James, a renowned trumpet player whose orchestra was one of the most popular during the big-band era, is currently in California. The blonde actress, still stunning at 48, has been rehearsing here for her opening in in December at the Riviera Hotel. Miss Grable and James, 49, have maintained a home in the Paradise Palms section of Las Vegas the past several years but recently had seldom been seen together in public. They were wed here in 1943 by a Baptist minister in a five minute ceremony in the Little Church of the West.

They had one day honeymoon, then returned to Hollywood where both were working on films. Miss Grable became a leading box office attraction and during World War II. Betty Wage Bill Dead WASHINGTON (AP) A bill to increase the minium wage and extend its coverage is dead tor the year. Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee decided yesterday not to press for action. Dies Of Injuries SACRAMENTO (API Richard L.

Soto, 21. of Hayward, died yesterday in Sutter General Hospital of injuries suffered in a dive last month into a shallow creek near Placerville. Rabid Bat Found SANTA BARBARA (API County Health Officer Joseph T. Nardo reports that a third case of rabies discovered in a bat in the last nine years has been reported here. Dr.

Nardo said the dead bat was found by a kitten and carried home here. Kenton Arrested LOS ANGELES (AP) Bandleader Stan Kenton escaped injury but was arrested after his sports car crashed and overturned last night on the San Diego Freeway. He was booked on suspicion of drunken driving. Cave Sealed MEDINA, Ohio (AP) Demolition teams have spared the cave in which Morris Baetzold, 15. was trapped for hours, although the most dangerous portion of the cave has been sealed off.

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Traffic Death CONCORD (AP) William Murdock, 22, of Oakley was killed today in a collision of cars on a curve of California 24 in Concord. Capsule Fixed LA JOLLA (AP) The personnel transfer capsule that will bring the Sealab aquanauts to the surface Sunday has been checked out and repaired. Crews brought the capsule to the surface Thursday to replace a defective power cable and modify a communications circuit. Parker At Mayo LOS ANGELES (AP)-Police Chief William H. Parker was at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota today, preparing for a delicate artery operation undergo next week.

Parker, 63, said the outcome of the operation will determine whether retire as chief of one of the top police organizations. Boats Missing TOKYO (AP) Six Japanese fishing boats with about 200 crewmen were reported missing today in the South Pacific after mighty Typhoon Carmen raked the area Tuesday and Wednes-1 day. Road Deaths CHICAGO accidents in the nation in August killed 4.740 persons, about 2 per cent below the 4,840 fatalities reported in August last year, the National Safety Council said today. Flu Rise Seen ATLANTA, Ga. (AP)-Health foffocials have said influenza cases may rise nationwide this winter, but a spokesman says no serious outbreaks are expected.

Coin Shortage GOLETA (AP) Spokesmen for a Santa Barbara County bank report that because of the coin shortage they are paying $5 extra for every $500 worth of dimes. A bank officer, who asked not to be identified, said the purchases are made regularly from coin collectors in the area. Russ Admit Lunar Shot Was A Flop MOSCOW (UPI Soviet I Union admitted today it had failed again in an attempt to make first soft land! ing on the moon. The official news agency Tass, breaking a day long silence on the fate of Luna 7. said: operations necessary for a soft landing were fulfilled during the approach to the moon.

Some operations, however, were not carried out in accordance with the program and need additional The Soviet announcement was one of the frankest admissions of failure on a space shot ever to be issued here. It marked the third time this year the Russians have been unsuccessful in trying for a vastly complex achievement of touching down gently on the treacherous surface of the moon with an instrument pack. Youth Dances To Be Discussed Future of the Mill Valley Youth Council dances will be discussed at a Monday 8 p.m. meeting of the parks and recreation commission, Don Dimitratos, parks and recreation director, said today. Dances were halted by Dimitratos after last dance when the director said they lacked supervision and chaperones.

Also on the agenda is a discussion of vandalism to the Muir Woods and Mount Tamalpais gravity car in Lytton Square. Orovitle Train Crash Kills Four OROVILLE (AP) A fiery headon crash inside a tunnel of I two private construction trains, last night killed four persons, deputies believe. Rescuers said they could see one body just inside the flaming tunnel entrance. They believed two men had crewed each train. The collision, 120 miles north-; east of San Francisco, appar- ently occurred when one train; not have survived.

The crash was between trains owned and operated by the Oro Dam Constructors, who are building the giant federal-state Oroville Dam. Each train normally hauled 40 cars filled with fill material a distance of five miles to the construction site. Deputies said apparently one train was fully loaded and the Actor Describes Fire Damage 'Othello' Plans Estimated $1'500 Mrs. Charles Davantes of 19 Actor Brock Peters told 150 Briarwood Drive, San Rafael, students meeting in Tamalpais I was frying potatoes for dinner High band box after last night when flaring grease caught fire and spread to kitchen cabinets near the stove. San Rafael firemen were called out at 5:38 p.m.

and arrived to find that Mrs. Davantes and failed to pull onto a spur line to allow the Other to pass through returning empty, the single-track tunnel. Both trains were working on the $200 million Oroville Dam Project. Butte County deputies said the tunnel was a sea of unpenetrable flames. Creosote- treated timbers fed the blaze.

They said anyone inside could Beautification Bill Approved By House The line was formerly owned by Western Pacific Railroad and the crash took place in what is known as the old Western Pacific tunnel. Oro Dam Constructors confirmed the crash involved their trains but declined further comment. school yesterday that he plans to do a musical based on It will be staged similar to Side as that show compared to and he said. Peters has been playing the lead in at a Palo Alto theater where Dan Caldwell, Tamalpais drama teacher, also has a role. Forum To Start College of philosophy forum for students and faculty will begin Thursday at 12:30 p.m.

in the college chemistry building when instructor Cornelius B. Weber reads a paper titled Our Common Man Be Made Mental Patients CHICAGO (UPI) The num- neighbors had extinguished the ber of psychiatric patients ad- blaze with garden hoses. The fire did damage estimated at $1,500 to cabinets, walls, counters and the floor near the stove, firemen reported. mitted to general hospitals is estimated to be as great as the number admitted to state and county mental hospitals, reports the American Hospital Assn. NWP Safety Record Best In Nation The Northwestern Pacific Railroad had the best safety record of railroads of its size in the United States during 1964.

The National Safety Council reported that the company had an average of 3.94 accidents to its employees for each million man-hours worked. WASHINGTON (AP) It took one of the roughest sessions of the year to do it, but the House passed President Johnson's highway beautification bill early today, soon after he entered Bethesda Naval Hospital for gall bladder surgery. Sitting until 12:51 a.m. the House held up the big party Johnson gave as a salute to Congress and delayed the departure for the hospital, but it passed the bill, 245 to 138. Voting for the bill were 219 Democrats and 26 Republicans.

Against it were 49 Democrats and 89 Republicans. At times raucous and angrily partisan, the long session stemmed from a reported Johnson request to House leaders that they finish up the bill so he could make a speech about it at the party. The members had been told the House would quit early Thursday and vote on the bill todav, and the late switch in plans made some Republicans angry. They think much of the bill, anyway. Using many delaying tactics available under the House rules, they stretched out consideration of the bill until the tempers of Democratic leaders frayed.

wonder the Republicans have controlled Congress only four years out of the last stormed Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana, the assistant Democratic leader. need a responsible minority desperately, but we have it. We have a frustrated Admiral In Hospital PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) Vice Adm. Paul Blackburn, commander of the U.S.

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