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Show LBJ Observes Lincoln's Birthday WASHINGTON AP President Johnson observed observ-ed the 155th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln s birth by urging "let us now get on with his work or giving full freedom and opportunity to all Americans. Ameri-cans. SYDNEY, Australia AP An Australian Navy spokesman said Wednesday there was little hope left for the 79 crewmen listed as missing after the push-button destroyer Voyager plunged to the bottom. bot-tom. Calling the disaster shocking, 'Prime Minister Sir Robert Mezzies ordered, a top-level judicial investigation investi-gation of the collision: in which the navy s flagship the 20,000-ton aircraft carrier Melbourne, sliced the 3,500-ton Voyager in two. '-. . By GERALD I. MILLER VATICAN CITY AP -Pope Paul VI called on priests of the Roman Catholic Church this ; Asn Wednesday to fight lewdness and spiritual contusion contus-ion in today's world. His forehead marked with the gray ash cross for the start of Lent, the pontiff said that if an-tireligious an-tireligious ideas should prevail "it would be tne ruin of freedom and perhaps of prosperity. PHILADELPHIA AP -The first John F Kennedy Kenn-edy half dollars were struck Tuesday in Americas mints in Philadelphia and Denver. : About 90 million will be made this; year with first distribution late next month or, -early April after 26 million have been stamped out. i n ANGELES AP A trio of defense attorneys shouted publicity hoax Tuesday at the Frank Sinatra Jr kidnaping trial, then the government produced f wi nessP wgho identified one defendant as buyer of a gun allegedly used in the abduction. Mrs Gladys Towles Root, pounsel for defendant John Kerwin, 42, told jurors evidence will show the kidnaping was staged with young Sinatra's "consent and cooperation." .i ' 1 FAIRFIELD, IDAHO AP The';-glamorous, 23-year 23-year marriage of industrialist. Henry Ford II and his socialite wife Anne, ended in. divorce Wednesday. Wednes-day. " ji c Dist Judge Charles Scoggin granted Mrs Ford t a divorce from her 45 - year-old husband on the ground of mental anguish. The proceedings lasted 20 minutes. Ford grandson of the late Henry Ford, has been linked Romantically with Italian-born Mana Christina VeUore Austin, divorced wife of a British navy officer. |