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Show 2A The Salt Lake Tribune Monday, February 7, 1983 Oil Sellers Trial for Groucho Estate Pits Companion, Bank By Judith Cummings New York Times Writer More than five LOS ANGELES after Groucho Marxs death, years the battle over his estate is still being fought, in a jury trial in which Erin Fleming, the companion of the comedians last seven years, is being sued by the bank that is the executor of Marxs will. former ShakeThe spearean actress, who took the witness stand several days last week, was admonished several times by the court for angry remarks about the Bank of America. The trial, over which Judge Jacqueline Weiss is presiding in Superior Court in Santa Monica, is weighing the banks civil lawsuit charging that Miss Fleming bilked the enfee- - Tighten Their Belts bled Marx of $427,000. The bank is also seeking $500,000 punitive damages. Marx died in August 1977 at the age of 86. Witnesses for the bank have testified that Miss Fleming used drugs, threats and physical force to coerce and deceive the comedian into giving her money, automobiles and the means to acquire two houses. The bank says these assets should revert to the estate. Miss Flemings lawyer, David has said he will produce witnesses, including people in show business, who will say that Miss Fleming was good for Marx personally and professionally. Miss Fleming says she is entitled to any prop- Continued From Page One able to make payments on the huge $83 billion debt. Thousands of businesses have shut down because of the financial squeeze, and more than 1.2 million Mexicans have lost their jobs since the crisis struck in August The flood of undocumented Mexican aliens across the U.S. border has swelled -in January, 83,811 illegal aliens were reported apprehended, up from Sa-bi- h, 57,386 in erty she accrued because she His countrys oil production dropped from 2.4 million barrels a day in 1979 to as low as 1.5 million last year. More than $18 billion in oil revenues had been projected for 1982, but that estimate had to be cut back to $13 billion. Because of reduced government subsidies, Venezuelans must now pay 88 cents for a gallon of premium which gasoline, up from 31 cents had been one of the few bargains in d their country. Rigs May Roll Again Soon, Say Officials high-price- ECUADOR Associated Life on the Road MIAMI Marilyn Manuta, 58, pulls a shopping cart, filled with all she owns in life, through a street in the downtown area The hard times, and higher gasoline prices, touched off five days of rioting in Quito last October. Though Ecuadors daily oil output holds steady at about 220,000 barrels, it has lost almost $1 million a day in revenues because of price decreases. When President Osvaldo Hurtado cut government subsidies on gasoline, doubling the price of a gallon of regular to 47 cents, angry Ecuadorans took to the streets. He rolled back the price to 34 cents. Press Laserphoto hard Sunday morning. She has been on economic times for the last 20 years, but thinks last two years have been the worst. York-to-Chica- - Associated Press Writer PENSACOLA, battle again and again. The Japanese did sink one Lexington, also a carrier, on May 8, 1942, in - Neither nor time could Fla. ka- the Battle of the Coral Sea. mikazes, torpedoes sink the ship the Japanese called When they heard about it, 23,000 The Blue Ghost workers at the Fore River Shipyard Some top brass have tried to get it in Quincy, Mass. only 20 miles retired, but the USS Lexington is from Lexington, Mass. still part of the Navy and marks its Navy Secretary Frank 40th anniversary this month. Knox. They urged that a new carrier The Lexington is the Navys oldest they were building be christened as active aircraft carrier, now used the new Lexington. Fifth Navy Vessel strictly for training pilots. Its home port is the Pensacola Naval Air Four months later, a year ahead Station. of schedule, that ship slid down the Although not a glamour job, its a ways as the fifth Navy vessel named after the battle where the shot busy one. The Lexington has recorded 426,000 landings, a world record. heard round the world was fired. Most of them have been in the trainOn Feb. 17, 1943, the Lexington ing role the ship has filled for the was commissioned and proceeded to last 20 years. avenge the death of its predecessor. It sank or damaged more than a milOperating Carriers If we weren't in operation all of lion tons of Japanese shipping and these landings would have to be destroyed 1,039 enemy aircraft bedone by the fleet operating carriers, fore sailing into Tokyo harbor at the wars end. which would be much more costly, said the skipper, Capt. James W. Im very sentimental about that Ryan of Billings, Mont. ship, says Jay F. Haney, a Deltona, The Lexington does its job with a Fla., retiree. He worked in one of the crew of 1,500 men and women, while Lexingtons four boiler rooms dura fleet carrier has up to 5,000 crew ing the war, and survived two attacks. members. A Japanese In a crisis, Ryan believes the LexBetty bomber dropped the torpedo that struck the ington could be pressed into service as a floating base for light attack Lexington Dec. 4, 1943, causing the age carrier ship to list 5 feet to starboard. But it planes, but the pre-jcannot handle the Navys hottest kept going. On Nov. 4, 1944, a Divine Wind fighters, the F-- 4 Phantoms and 4 Tomcats. suicide pilot flew his Zeke fighter into the carriers control island, killIn 1978, the Defense Department announced the Lexington would be ing 47 crewmen and injuring 127. retired in 1984, but in 1981 the carriI cant relive that, said Haney, er won a reprieve until 1989 at the who was part of a damage control earliest. party. It's too sad. In between those attacks, the LexFirst Cruise I think it will be around maybe ington led the biggest naval air viclonger than that, said Ryan, who tory of the war, the Mariannas Turmade his first cruise as a young pilot key Shoot on June 19, 1944. The on the Lexington. Japanese lost two carriers and more than 300 planes, including six shot and crew members throughRyan down by one Lexington pilot, Lt. Al40 out its years have called the carrier "The Lady Lex." During World exander Vraciu. Only 23 American War II, Tokyo Rose, the Japanese planes were lost. radio propagandist, called the ship Returned to Service "The Blue Ghost. After World War II, the Lexington The Japanese had reported it sunk was mothballed, then refitted and several times, only to see the Lexreturned to service cruising the Pahull steam cific in 1955, at the height of the Cold ington with its blue-gra- y et F-1- r I By James R. King Associated Press Writer A fire that AUSTIN, Texas erupted in a sea of flames burned through an apartment in the century-state Capitol before dawn old Sunday, killing a guest of the lieutenant governor and injuring six firemen and a policeman. Kate Hobby, the lieutenant governors daughter, escaped from the apartment without injury, as did a couple who take care of her show horses. Fire officials said the cause would not be known for days, but they said they suspected it started in an electrical applicance in a den of the apartment. Gov. Mark White, awakened by sirens in the neighborhood, rushed from the Governors Mansion to the Capitol across the street and helped carry oxygen bottles to firemen battling the blaze. Horse Trainer Dies The dead man was identified as Matt Hansen, 23, a horse trainer from New Caney, Texas. He was one of four people who had been sleeping in the apartment that Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby kept on the three-bedroo- m Marks 40th Birthday Lady Lex into Fire in State Capitol Kills 1, Injures 7 Chief NEW ORLEANS (UPI) Justice Warren Burger called Sunday for a major change in the federal judicial system, asking Congress to create a new appeals court to tackle some of the Supreme Courts legal overload. Burger, arguing the quality of American justice is at stake and denying he was crying wolf, recommended setting up a temporary panel of judges to settle conflicting rulings among the 11 circuit courts of appeals, and perhaps some disputes over federal statutes. The proposal, in a speech to the American Bar Associations annual midwinter meeting, was the first time Burger has endorsed such a major change to limit the courts a topic that seven of case burden the nine justices have spoken about publicly since last summer. None agree on a solution. Any fundamental changes in structure and jurisdiction will provide a solution that will maintain the historic posture of the Supreme Court, will ensure proper time for reflection, preserve the traditional quality of decisions, and avoid a or of breakdown of the system some of the justices, Burger said in remarks prepared for delivery to 3,000 ABA members. foul-talkin- By Bill Kaczor Lieutenant Governors Apartment Burger Calls For Court To Ease Load court-appoint- 9 1982. VENEZUELA The abundance of another era has come to an end, President Luis Her.rera Campins announced to fellow Venezuelans last fall. revived his career. $2.6 Million Estate The comedians total estate is estimated at more than $2.6 million. It was the center of a bitter conservatorship battle in 1977 that pitted his three children against Miss Fleming. His will left the bulk of his estate to the children, Arthur, Miriam and Melinda. He left Miss Fleming $150,000 and a partnership in the company that handles his movies Continued From Page One and old television shows. storms had been keeping drivers off In the trial, which began Jan. 20, the road in some areas and said, deMiss Fleming has tussled with a pending on the weather it may be courtroom bailiff, denounced the the middle of the week until we see a proceeding as a kangaroo court, substantial increase. and has been described by her lawHe said a major factor in persuad- yer as severely mentally ill. The ing drivers to return to work was trial has sometimes been halted bean increase in law enforcement accause she was absent or unable to tivities by various governors, par- testify. Miss Fleming has filed a counterticularly in the crucial New corridor. suit charging that the bank brought on her mental condition through the But Independent Truckers Associof the 1977 legal fight and ation spokesman Bill Martin, also in strain stress leading up to the current trial. Washington, disputed Blanks She said of the lawyer for the assessment. bank, J. Brin Schulman, Mr. Brin Schuiman is an assassin, and he We still see very strong support, Martin said. Traffic is down, judgmurdered Groucho Marx. She said the lawyer hastened Marxs death ing from our reports from state police, toll booths, and produce by starting the conservatorship promarkets. ceedings, which began a few months before he died. The victim of the Ohio shooting, Sabih said Schulman had accused Scott R. Poss, of Menomonee Falls, Miss Fleming of putting on an act Wis., was recovering in intensive care Sunday following surgery at St. of bizarre behavior to help her lawsuit against the bank. Sabih, in reCharles Hospital in Oregon to remove a bullet that lodged in his leg sponse, allowed his client to undergo after it penetrated his cab. Poss was a psychiatric examination. Results able to park the rig afterward and of the test, conducted by a doctor, were not disclosed, seek help. but Sabih told reporters the doctor Shots struck the radiators of two had described Miss Fleming as psyother trucks, and a bullet struck the chotic and severely mentally ill fuel filter of a fourth rig, the patrol but competent to testify. said. No arrests were made in the Still Free Country shootings, which occurred just west was a man that earned this If of Toledo. from Groucho, Sabih that money Independent drivers represent in an interview, they would less than 15 percent of the trucks on said We are still a free counthe nations highways, but they haul never sue. enammost of the fresh food, most of the try. If an old man becomes of a young woman who is carored household goods and half of the ing for him 24 hours a day, its a steel. sorry minimum, what she got The strike is opposed by the maMartha Brooks, a former cook in jority of the trucking industry, rep- the Marx household, testified for the resented by the American Trucking prosecution, describing Miss FlemAssociations, and also has failed to ing as a g bully who get the support of the Teamsters forced Marx back to performing union. when he was too ill. The cook quoted tax that has Marx as saying, I dont want to do it The federal truck-us- e angered the drivers doesnt take ef- at all, but I have to, and adding that fect until July 1985 for independent he feared shell leave me. truckers. (Copyright) Blue Ghost January War. In October 1962, the carrier was in the New York Shipyard for an overhaul when it was called to duty the event wont go unnoticed. Our celebration is that we are going to Mardi Gras for our 40th birthday, Ryan said. But the Lexington is scheduled to begin the return trip the day before Feb. 17. for the Cuban missile crisis. Later that year the Lexington finally reported to its new duty station in Pensacola. Ryan said no ceremonies are planned to commemorate the carriers commissioning, but added that The Blue Ghost will be at work on its 40th birthday. Farmworkers Slain by Unknown Gunmen - Two OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) farmworkers were killed and two others were wounded by gunshots fired from a car that drove up to a tomato field where a group of workers were gathered, police said iM Okr Sribnnr U3 South Mtn EirattWod udd DOi Affrii IV yry 237-- l7l, mominy by ted Comorartan. ten Lte City, Intel tel id. Kaarm-Trtt- ten L Oty, UMl POtTMAO-TE- : tend add m tern te Tte ten Ltew Trteund, l loud Mate, ten Laid City. 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Money Pouring In For Stricken Girl - A fund SAN FRANCISCO (AP) for a cancer-stricke- n girl has grown to $110,000, more than what the University of Minnesota Medical Center had said would be needed to begin treating her, her family says. The hospital had said it needed at least $100,000 before it could admit Rachel Escalabre. WHERE CAN YOU BUY AT A LOWER PRICE? For some unknown reason they were confronted by suspects in a large dark sedan, who opened fire on the group, Cottrell said. All the witnesses appear to be Mexican farmworkers. 5:30 NEW DUAL PITCH CORRECTION I IB I I UPS building, behind the Senate chamber. Fireman dragged Hansen out of the middle bedroom and tried in vain to revive him. Capitol Police Lt Dale Gentry said there were no visible bums on his body and he apparently died of smoke inhalation. Miss Hobby was asleep in another bedroom, and Hobby said she was saved by patrolman James Mitchell, who banged on her door. Another policeman, Joel Quintanilla, was overcome by smoke when a huge oak door to the apartment exploded because of intense heat and gas buildup. He was hospitalized in stable condition. Quintanilla was apparently trying to get in because he heard hollering and yelling in the apartment, said Hobby press aide Bob Cargill. Sea of Flames Miss Hobby described one room in the apartment as a sea of flames. A Hobby aide described the den as an inferno. The other two people in the apartment were James and Joan Waterman of New Caney, who take care of Miss Hobbys horses. They escaped through a back door. Officials did not estimate the dollar amount of damage, but several portraits were destroyed or damaged, and the back section of the apartment, which housed several antiques, was complete destruction, said Hobby. A corner of the Senate chambers was blackened, but Hobby said the Senate would meet there Monday The fire, discovered by policemen who guard the building on a basis, broke out about 5:30 a.m. Policemen were alerted when heat alarms indicated a fire in Zone 24 the apartment. The alarms are activated when the temperature rises above 135 degrees. ut p.m. Saturday as the workers gathered in the field near the San Luis V second floor of the historic domed Rey River, where many of them live in dug-oholes lined with cardboard, Officer Tom Cottrell said. Sunday. The shooting occurred about SAUDI ARABIA The Middle East oil giant is against economic shocks. Though its daily output stands at only 5 million barrels, half its 1981 peak, it still can lean back on a fund estimated at $170 rainy-da- y billion. There has been some impact, however. For the first time in recent memory, the Saudis posted a deficit in their trade with the United States in 1982. 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