European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes january 1978 dome is snowed under a Lone in the lower stands by the collapsed dome of the auditorium of Post College in the  domed roof of the audillo rim collapsed under the weight of accumulated Snow in the woke of the new York array worst snowfall of the the building was empty Al the time of the there Here no photo Veteran film comic Jack Oakie Dies Hollywood up Moon laced Jack the Happy comedian who made millions laugh in Nuon pictures As he played second fiddle to the top personalities in show died at a Hospital monday after complaining of stomach was admitted to Northridge Hospital in the suburban san Fernando Valley Al complaining of severe abdominal a Hospital spokesman he died five hours apparently of aortic which is a swelling of a major Oakie lived in Northridge with his Wile Oakie always considered his characterization of Benito Mussolini in Charlie Chap Lins the great dictator the High Point of his dancer on Broadway Oakie began his career on Broadway in 1s25 As a dancer in a George Cohan pro Little Nelly he appeared in artists and models and other stage productions and toured the vaudeville Cir Cuit with Lulu in 1927 be went to Hollywood and met director Wesley buggies at a Ruggles put him to work immediately in finders keepers starring Laura then Paramount signed him to appear opposite Bow in the Freeti in Oakie was with Paramount for nine years and appeared in Many of the big musicals of he was Crew with breaking in Many film including blog Lanny Lily George Burns and Grade Maurice Chevalier and Alice he also starred with dark Gable and Lumetta Young in Ira mortar raid wounds 6 British troops near Border Belfast up provisional Irish Republican army guerrillas wounded six British soldiers with a mortar attack on an army Camp at South near the Irish Republic at least two Sheila fired from a wooded Hill overlooking the one of the most heavily guarded in Northern landed near living quarters in the army spokesmen said most of the men were injured by flying debris and shrapnel from the exploding none was seriously Jack Oakle Call of the he was bom Lewis Delaney Offield in on the family moved to when he was the name Oakie was tagged on him by friends when he entered show business be cause they knew he had lived in he added Jack As a first name but never legally changed from the family moved to Kansas City and then to new York where his first Jab was As a Telephone clerk in a brokerage but too much clowning around brought recommendation from friends that he enter show oakle9 Hollywood career included scores of he co starred with Faye and Betty Crable in tin pan with Shirley Temple in Young people and with other greats such As Lucille june Dan John Richard Arlen and Joan he married actress Vanila Varden in 1536 and a dozen years later she was killed when an air plane in which she was a Pas Senger crashed near mount a Las minute hitch in studio commitments kept Oakie from boarding the same Oakie went into sem retirement in 1961 but he still made occasional appearances in character roles in films and on Televik he and his second wife Victoria made their Home in a baronial Bouse on a ranch in the san Fernando the couple frequently attended parties and other events in Hollywood and his familiar booming laugh kept guests anti abortionist protest draws thousands to Washington api behind banners saying March for thousands of antiabortion demonstrators walked past the while House and up to the Capitol monday to push for a constitutional amendment outlawing some chanted no Compromise As they walked along carrying homemade were coming from All Over the United states were going to show them we Ray Loebker of told a he said three busloads had come from a group of women from said they All had to borrow Coats for the cold of Washington the demonstrators gathered on the Snow covered Ellipse behind the White House in cold but sunny Nellie president of March far told them that a group had held a meeting earlier monday with some while House they she but she added that the group got really no answers from the White House about helping hem with their Many of the demonstrators earned red roses As a Symbol of life and some rang Little handheld Bells la toll for they some 300 of the demonstrators staged an Al night Vigil at the White House to protest the supreme courts abortion there were no injuries in the derailment and Chessie officials said they were investigating the Antisubmarine planes grounded following crash Washington up the Navy has temporarily suspended night operations of a beet of 90 planes following s crash an Antisubmarine aircraft in North Caroll the action was taken after preliminary findings of the aircraft  watch is looking into the crash of the Navy flights by that Model and the e2b and c2a have been suspended toxic spill forces 100 to flee Homes up eight can of a Chessie system train derailed near Baden spilling some Gallons of a toxic chemical and causing the evacuation of about 100 people from their Chessie officials said extreme cold weather apparently prevented the chem pc from vaporizing but residents living near the Accident site were ordered from their Homes As a Ary officials were concerned that the Chemi which is used in the manufacture of might soak into the ground and contaminate the water in nearby Point some 40 Miles Northwest of the stale capital of formed paddle but the Snow covered ground was Frozen and officials said most of the chemical formed puddles on top of the work Crews brought in peat Moss to soak of the chemical so it could be As a precautionary the cites water Plant was temporarily shut Down and tests were being conducted on the the eight can Wen part of an