Wednesday, June 13, 1973
THE SUMMER DAILY
Page Nine
Medium-Tarzan star
alive in another world-T_,
By LUCINDA L. FRANKS
NEW YORK (UPI) - British
medium Margaret Staves, a
plumnp pigeon-like woman who
was flown in from London for
the event, sank into a labored
trance, jerked and moaned. Then
she grabbed for the nearest
hand, announced she had made
contact, and said "he speaks and
is alive in another world."
Tears rolled down the cheeks
of Zan Barker, widow of the late
Lex Barker, star of Hollywood's
Tarzan movies. She who wore a
attack May 10. Zan and son Alex-
tinder gathered together their
close friends in the Waldorf As-
toria Monday for a television
seance to call up his spirit.
Surrounding Miss Staves in the
hotel suite, lined with velvet
chairs and silk wallpaper, were
Hollywood parapsychologists and
several friends, including actress
Joan Fontaine and New Y o r k
socialite, Pat Uchitel, both of
whom had expressed shock at
Barker's sudden death. M i s s
Staves gave his widow personal
"I speak of love and a life beyond... there
is forgiveness here . . . I speak of deep regret
and heartache . . .'
-ghost of Lex Barker?
cinema buffs for his daring rope-
swings through the jungle, last
January wrote a secret sealed
mesage along with three other
movie stars with spiritualist lean-
ings - Rhonda Fleming, Arlene
Dahl, and Robert Cumings -- and
had them deposited in a bank
v ault.
The three then signed agree-
ments whereby each would at-
tempt to contact mediums at se-
ances one month after their
deaths to transmit the messages.
STAVES, however, said although
she could see the message,
which was written in a large
looped scrawl, she could only
make ot a few words,
The newspaper National En-
quirer, which sponsored the ex-
periment and the seance, said it
would take several days to re-
trieve Barker'shmessage from
the vault and check to see if the
words mentioned by Miss Staves .
corresponded.
Barker's family and friends,
however, did not seem to care
whether they matched or not.
"It's enough that we seem to have
perhaps spoken with him," said
Miss Uchitel. "Since his death,
we have dreamt of him con-
stantly. We knew that he wanted
to speak to us."
white pants suit and fingered an
old smoking jacket belonging to
her husband to help Miss Staves
in her efforts to reach him. "Is
he happy?" she asked hesitant-
ly.
"HE IS HAPPY," said M i s s
Staves, her face flushed. "He
says, 'I speak of love and a life
beond . . . there is forgive-
ness here .. .Ispeak of deep
regret and heartache."
The bronzed muscular actor,
54, collapsed and died of a heart
messages purportedly from Bar-
ker and a set of instructions
to his son Alexander, a restaur-
ant owner.
HER VOICE was so soft, it
could hardly be heard among the
audience of reporters and TV
cameramen who strained to catch
her words. At one point the clat-
tering of a collapsing camera
stand and a sneezing fit by a local
reporter threatened to interrupt
her trance.
Barker, who is remembered by
Sailor foun innocent on
charge of sabotaging ship
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - A
military court yesterday found
sailor Patrick Chenoweth, 21, in-
nocent of charges that he sabo-
taged the aircraft carrier Rang-
er by throwing a tool and metal
bolts into the ship's gears to
prevent the carrier from sail-
ing to Vietnam last year.
The five - man court-martial
board deliberated three hours
before returning its verdict after
a six-day trial at Treasure Is-
land. It was the first time since
World War II that a serviceman
was charged with wartime sabo-
tage.
"THE COURT in closed ses-
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sion by secret ballot has found
you not guilty of the specifica-
tions," Cmdr. Richard C. V. Mon-
tag, president of the board, an-
nounced to the Puyallup, Wash.,
Navy fireman.
The verdict was returned an
hour after the board had resum-
ed deliberations. It deliberated
two hours Monday after closing
arguments.
Chenoweth was accused of
throwing a metal paint scraper
and two 12-inch bolts into a re-
duction gear of the Ranger in
July, 1972, causing more than
$900,000 damage and delaying
the ship's departure for four
months.
Premier Giulio Andreotti
Ita lian prem ier quits,
government resigns
ROME UP) - Premier Giulio Andretti yesterday resigned his cen-
trist coalition government.
He presented his resignation to President Giovanni Leone at the
Quirinal Palace after a meeting with his ministers.
HE QUIT two days after his Christian Democrat party ended a
national convention calling for efforts to replace the government with
a renewed center-left coalition with the Marxist-oriented Socialists.
The Christian Democrat congress made clear Italy's dominant
party decided to sack Andreotti's one-year-old government to seek a
coalition that may command a bigger majority in Parliament.
Andreotti's razor-thin majority suffered 13 defeats in secret
ballots in parliament, mainly owing to rebellious left-wingers in the
premier's own party.
The Republican party, a small but vital partner in Andretti's
coalition, withdrew two weeks ago, leaving the government in a freeze
pending the results of the Christian Democrat congress.
THE NEXT GOVERNMENT will be Italy's 35th since 1943.
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