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People OMAHA WORLD HERALD Wednesday April 15 1992 Manuscript Offers Look At Assassin New York (AP) a manuscript by John Wilkes Booth that offers insights into the pro slavery state of mind four years before he assassinated Abraham Lincoln has been discovered at a club founded bv Rnnt h'c hrnf ah In the rambling manuscript writ ten as a speech the Maryland bom actor refers to himself as Northern and says he will with all my heart and soul even if not man to back me for equal rights and justice for the South as well as the But elsewhere in the manuscript Booth said South Carolina the first secessionist state fighting in a just cause with God Himself upon their Ufi also said that secessionist senti ment resulted from but the constant agitation of the slavery ques and that slaveholding was "a right according to the thought blacks were fine ex cept the ones that are said Robert Giroux editor and publisher of arrar Straus Giroux and head of thEdwin Booth library at the Play ersClub will must have been the prevailing psychology of the whole South that if they do their work and are no trouble that Giroux said Monday talk ing about his work on the manu message and history Booth wrote the pages in Philadel phia in December 1860 a month after election and just after South Carolina left the union name does not appear in the manuscript The manuscript was part of the papers left to the Players Club by brother Edwin an actor who founded the club in 1888 The Players Club is a hangout for actors and professionals that still occupies the Gramercy Park house Edwin left it The existence was known for some years but Giroux said he undertook to make a close study of it after he was appointed head of the library Nothing in the 14 sewn together pages scrawled in heavy black ink explicitly identifies John Wilkes Booth as the author But Giroux said the handwriting clearly is and authorship is also affirmed by a covering note written by Edwin Booth that says: was found (long after his death) among some old play books and clothes left by JWB in my think the JWB manuscript is a fascinating said David Her bert Donald a Harvard historian who is writing a Lincoln biography "The speech is revealing both of views on the secession crisis and of his disorderly incoherent state of mind in this time of great emotional Booth shot Lincoln as the president attended the theater in Washington on April 14 1865 The Associated Press Ik Human After All Acting has been good to Arnold Schwarzenegger Maybe too good The former world class bodybuilder had trouble pulling a tag off a jacket Tuesday during a presentation in Jack son Miss Schwarzenegger received the jacket from Mississippi Gov Kirk ordice left during an appearance in Jackson Miss to promote President physical fitness program Helmsley Appeal Denied Prison Next New York (AP) ormer hotelqtieen Leona Helmsley said Tuesday she was prepared to serve the four year prison term she received for tax evasion now that it has been upheld by an appeals court Mrs Helmsley had been ordered to today tax day to afederal prison hospital in Kentucky accept the judgment and prepared to abide by the Mrs Helmsley said through publicistHoward Rubenstein Earlier Tuesday the 2nd US Cir cuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected arguments from Mrs lawyers that the sentence should be reversed Her lawyers said the sentence may have been fair when imposed in 1989 but the decline in her health since then has turned it into a virtual life sentence arguing not that the origi nal sentence was wrong but that circumstances have said defense attorney Alan Dershowitz He asked the appeals court to allow Mrs Helmsley to do community service work instead of going to jail But prosecutors argued that the 71 year old former hotel queen re mains an active woman and allowing her to avoid prison would make a mockery of the law end has said Mark Hellerer an assistant US attorney Mrs Helmsley was convicted in 1989 of evading $17 million in taxes by billing personal expenses such as renovations on a mansion in Green wich Conn to companies the Helmsleys owned She has remained free on $25 million bail but the appeals of her conviction ran out in ebruary when the US Supreme Court refused to hear the case Her lawyers have argued that the stress of life behind bars could kill Mrs Helmsley whose ailments in clude hardening of the arteries and severe high blood pressure They maintained that separating Mrs Helmsley from her ailing hus band Harry Helmsley would kill him as well In court papers Monday Mrs lawyers also said her status as "a notorious widely re viled vastly wealthy New York puts her at greater danger for ity and abusive by other inmates Dershowitz also had asked the appeals court to allow her to remain with her husband until April 27 when the Passover holiday is concluded The Associated Press BB 4 jKr UJj JhSI immmiiImii 4 Mrs Helmsley accept the judg ment and prepared to abide by the Novelist King Bolsters und for Pediatrics Unit Bangor Maine (AP) Author Ste phen King and his wife Tabitha said they will give $750000 for a hospital pediatrics unit but in three install ments to encourage others to give too The Kings donated $250000 to East ern Maine Medical Center Monday and said write checks for the rest as the fund raisers reach their goal of $55 million King said he was confident of good will of the community which never seems to fail no matter how hard times get" King a Maine native who lives in Bangor is the author of blockbuster thrillers such as Dead and Enriched by his novels and their resulting movies King shares his wealth His philanthropy helped build a Little League baseball field maintain the University of Maine swim team and support political candidates Short Story Award Is Birthday Present Jackson Miss (AP) Writer Eu dora Welty celebrated her 83rd birthday and was celebrated in turn as winner of the $25000 Rea Award for the Short Story was amazed It came out of the blue Ms Welty said from her Jackson home Monday the day the Dungannon oundation announced the prize in New York delighted How could I not Ms tales of small town Mis sissippi characters brought her acclaim within years of her first published story of a Traveling in 1936 Past accolades include the Pu litzer Prize the National Medal for Literature and the Presidential Medal of reedom The Rea Award was established in 1986 by book and art collector Michael Rea in 1986 Previous winners were Cynthia Orick Robert Coover Donald Barthelme Tobias Wolff Joyce Carol Oates and Paul Bowles hjj? The Associated Press Kin Has Daughter Princess Yasmin daughter in law of4 the late former shah of Iran Mo hammed Reza Pahlavi is a new moth er She holds her daughter Princess Noor who was bom April 3 in Washing ton The hospital room was symbolical ly declared part of Iran because the child could not be bom on Iranian territory Also there to applaud career were Jane onda Harry Belafontex Audrey Hepburn Roger Moore violin ist Isaac Stem and novelist Carlos uentes Peck who made his film debut in the 1944 of acted on his convictions fighting anti Semitism in' and racism in "To Kill a Mockingbird" ilm Society Honors Peck New York (AP) Gregory Peck was rewarded for a lifetime of movie star dom by a tribute at the Lincoln Center ilmScKiety time I think about Gregory Peck I know certain things do last love does not go away friendship Liza Minnelli said Monday at the cere mony honoring the 76 year old Peck adore this man always did always Charities Receive $15000 rom Dinkins New York (AP) Mayor David Dinkins apparently stung by criticism: last year for giving less than $500 to charity and most of it cast off clothes unzipped his wallet and advised quibblers to button their lips The largesse was Monday when he released his 1991 tax records showing he gave $15000 religious artistic and educational causes including his own CARRIAGE TRADE INTEGRITY QUALITY COURTESY VALUE STYLE DISCOVER THE DIERENCE AT DILLARD'S SHOP TODAY 10 AM 9 PM BEI IBB By Arrow 1 7 THE TAILORED features OUR EXCLUSIVE DRESS SHIR 1 1 PrBi nBH I gBBL fsa IvJIfljaKuB vBn AMwiOrSw I jgSKSR JOOgy Bk i X' Our Carriage Trade by Arrow dress shirr in 60 pina cotton and 40 polyester has all the tailored touches you prefer including exact sleeve lengths Available in white blue ecru and pink ull cut in sizes 15 Dress Shirts b' ind It Only At crossroads oak view council bluffs Box Plcat Button Down Collar Button Through Cross Stitched Sleeve Placket Button ront Chest Single Needle Pocket Tailoring Locker Loop Extra Buttons Top used Collar Double Sleeve And Cuff Pleats Edge Stitched 18 Stitches To Yoke Seam The Inch I I.