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Tbe^oa magnate succumbed to a heart attack after a gradual decline in hurith at Us heavily guarded home at Guildford, out**de Loodon.

(fctty *t death t(Moved that of another of t|*» world's richest men, Howard Hughes, oh April S; Distribution of Hughes' estate still ha» not been determined since more than 39 alleged wills have shown up.

Getty's death was announce! by his longtime personal assistant; Noel Bram-btetf* who said the body would be taken to California for burial—a journey that Getty longed to make for health reasons but could not because of the pressure of business and a phobia against flying.

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Bramblett said the wMwiKild be filed for probate soon. Its contents were foreshadowed in Getty's forthcoming ^utobiogmphy, "*As I See i t , " excerpts of which were published in a newspaper here .last month.

In the hoc* Getty said he had made adequate financial provisions for his three sons and 15 grandchildren and "my will made long ago provides clearly and unequivocally that the bulk of my personal fortune shall be left to charity for what I believe will give the maximum benefit to

the greatest possible number of people." In his autobiography Getty said he was

'among the dozen richest private in­dividuals in the world" and that his per­sonal wealth was ".certainly above $1 billion.*

The vast additional sums of the Getty clan are mostly "in the ground/' he said — meaning oil reserves.

Getty, who ran a $5,000 stake from his father into $1 million in his 20s and then into sums only rivaled by Arab oil rulers, had been ill for some time with a form of shaking palsy aggravated by successive winter bouts of bronchitis.

A year ago be told visitors to his 1,000-acre estate, Sutton Place, with its attack dogs, security guards and barred gates, that be could no longer stand the rigors of the English winter. He intended to spend several months a year in California, where he was anxious to see the $25 million museum he had built on his Malibu estate.

But he wanted to be on the scene as

president to look after the Getty Oil Company's big stake in North Sea oil, and so he made the decision to remain in England for what he said would be just one more winter.

Getty's main heirs under the family trust, the Sarah C. Getty Trust, are his three sons, Ronald, 45, Gordon, 42, and Paul, 41. His favorite son, George, the one he wanted to succeed him as head of the empire, died of an overdose of barbiturates in 1973 — a stunning shock to his father.

Among the grandchildren is J. Paul Getty III, who was kidnaped in Italy three years ago. Getty refused to pay the ransom of $1.5 million until the abductors am­putated the boy's ear four months later and sent it to a Rome newspaper.

Getty V/SLS married five times and con­ceded he was not a good marital risk. He described his marriage career succinctly: "Five marriages, five divorces, five failures."

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Dam break leaves unbounded losses

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (UPI) — Clusters of rattlesnakes Sunday menaced rescue workers searching for a long list of missing persons in the devastation left behind by flood waters from the collapse of controversial Teton Dam.

Gov. Cecil D. Andrus said there might be "a tremendous loss of life.'1 Authorities said at least four persons were confirmed dead as a result of the huge wave that swept away about 7,000 homes when the earth-fill dam, as high as a 30-story building, burst on Saturday.

At Rexburg, the hardest hit town, 40 persons were treated in hospitals for injuries.

About 35,000 persons were forced to flee their homes. Included on the long list of missing persons still being checked by authorities was a Boy Scout troop which had been camped near the dam.

About 1,000 farms were reported flooded with 10 per cent of their livestock killed. Horses and cattle were swept away trying to outrace the onrushing floodwaters,

The governor's office estimated damage at *5by million In Madison County alone. President Ford declared the stricken region a disaster area, qualifying it for federal recovery funds.

The waters from the newly built 310-foot-high dam, which was 75 per cent complete, cut a swath down the center of Rexburg, ripped up houses, tipped trailers, washed^ cars down a highway, swept away livestock and left huge mud deposits. At least three bridges were destroyed and three major. roads swamped.

A second dam in the upper Snake River Valley burst Sunday, pouring

flood waters into an irrigation canal, but authorities said *they were diverting the waters to elimi* nate a potential threat to homes of 10,000 to 15,000 persons on the east side of Idaho Falls.

Civil Defense Director Jerry Wadsworth of Idaho Falls, with a population of 40,000, said the Grant Diversion Dam on the Snake river eight miles north of town broke from the pressure of water and debris, loosing into the Idaho Canal waters from Saturday's dam burst 40 miles north of Idaho Falls.

In Idaho Falls sandbags protected the main parts of the city, but water topped the banks of the Snake River by about four.feet upstream.

Some farms directly below the Teton Dam were covered with 10-15 feet of gravel from the earth-filled structure. During the night the waters backed up behind the dam

chewed it away until only about half was left.

A concrete powerhouse just below the Teton dam was washed away completly by the raging waters that officials described as a "tidal wave/'

Flood waters receded from a high of 10 feet in Rexburg to about a foot Sunday.

The small town of Sugar City was "completely wiped out," said Keith Walker, Madison County com­mission chairman.

Walker said the flood, spewing a torrent of muddy water from the new, controversial earth-fill dam which foes said w^s earthquake-prone, created a lake of disaster 10 by 25 miles at the high water mark Saturday. He refused to say how many persons were reported missing, but a UPI reporter who saw the list said it was long.

%Find out why,' officials urge -BOISE, idaho-tUPI) — Two top federal officials Sunday called—

both for federal and independent state investigations into the Teton Dam disaster. ^

Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Gilbert G. Stamm and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Jack Horton told a press con­ference they concurred with Idaho Gov. Cecil D. Andrus* recom­mendation that an independent investigation be launched.

They said the cause of the dam's collapse would have to be determined through investigations.

"We haven*t been to the site yet," Horton said. "Our mission here is to undertake an immediate investigation."

Reporters asked when the problem at the dam site first was detected and questioned the two officials about the alleged time lapse between detection and notification of the public.

"Our information is that early reports did reach the radios in sufficient time to warn residents,"Horton said.

Killings erupt again during Syrian peace

End of an era House Speaker Carl Al­bert, 30-year represen­tative from Oklahoma, will retire at the end of fheyear.J\he Democrat is 68. (UPD

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BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — Fierce fighting broke out between pro-Syrian and antiSyrian Moslems in the capital Sunday while most of the country enjoyed a Syrianimposed peace.

The 12,000 Syrian army regulars occupying north and east Lebanon beid their positions and made no attempt tonadvance on leftist and Palestinian strongholds in the central mountains.-

Members of rhfcj leftist and Palestinian factions, split over whether to welcome the Syrian intervention or fight it, battled throughout the day in western and southern Beirut with rockets, machine guns and mortars, killing about 32 persons and wounding 47.

Some of those injured were Palestinian refugees hi: by shrapnel irom rockets which plowed through tin-roofed shacks

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The running clashes were touched off late Saturday when members of the radical Arab Liberation Front tried to prevent a patrol of the Syrian controlled Saiqa guerrillas from replacing anti-Damascus wall graffiti with slogans praising the Syrian in­vasion.

The Syrian troops stationed in the eastern Bekaa valley made no move to push west from their forward pOSrOCKkS IS the Mount Lebanon foothms about 30 miles east of Beirut Reports from the now-quiet mountain front around leftist-heid Aintourah said rumors that the Syrians had begun ad* vasczng the tortious six miles from their outpost at Tarshish to the > f i s : lines were aotrue

Political soarces c Beirut said they expected the leftists to with­draw from Aintourah "soon* as part of a general agreement w;th Da chasms to hart the Syrian ad­vance The rtght-wirg PhaUaxgtst radsc *lsc reported "the Pa.estm-ar. resistance movement .s about x take a aecisxw x wrti-sraw ra force* trzzi thetr oospore - tbe =tocr.ta:n area

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Key primaries spur candidates United Press International The presidential primary

campaign got down to the nitty gritty Sunday with all seven major candidates in both parties on the road or on the air.

In frantic search for every single convention delegate available among the 540 Democrats and 331 Republicans being chosen Tuesday in the New Jersey, Ohio and California primaries, issues cropped up — from President Ford talking about busing, to Jimmy Carter and Morris Udall talking about rrueiear weapons, to George Wallace condemning full em-pJoyment legislation as "a com­plete blueprint for socialization."

The California primary seemed to be the prize oi two of the states governors, Ronald Reagan and Edmund G. Brown, and New Jersey was seen as the preserve of Ford and Carter, with a possible Democratic challenge from an uncommitted siate

Most of the attenoor. was on Ohio, where Carter, the Demo­cratic favorite, was endorsed by the Cleveland Plain Deaier and where Udall said he would be finished by a ioss.

Ford and Reagar. were cart-pa.gr. -tg ~- Oh;c the Pres^der.; first having gone tc New Jersey

weekend, Reagan getting 37 new delegates in Louisiana, Virginia and Colorado to Ford's 1 in Virginia. There were two Louisiana and one Virginia uncommitted delegates chosen. Carter picked up 3 new delegates in Kansas, to Udall's 1 and three uncommitted.

In Minnesota Sunday, Hubert Humphrey was expected to get the remaining 26 delegates to give him

52 of the states 65 delegates, with the other 13 uncommitted but for their senator if he decides to run.

Before the Minnesota balloting, the Democratic delegate race stood like this: Carter 911, Udall 306. Henry Jackson 248. Wallace 168, others 286.5 and uncommitted 395.5

Ford still led Reagan in the GOP delegate battle 823 to 690 with 136 uncommitted.

Egypt, Syria break ties CAIRO. Egypt (UPI) — Egyp­

tian riot troops Sunday guarded the Syrian embassy, whose diplomats have been ordered home in the policy dispute that has strained to the breaking point relations be­tween the two former Middle East war allies.

A large van with about two dozen helmeted soldiers carrying shields znd clubs parked outside the embassy in residential Zamalek

Reporters were barred from entering the compound, where Syrian diplomats and staff members prepmrt^ to leave "for

their safety" by late Monday, as directed by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry

The Ministry also ordered Egypt's dtpk>mat»c mission in Damascus, the target of violent protests Saturday, to return home

The moves feii a step short of severing diplomatic ties altoge­ther

Cairo charged the outbreak rr. Damascus, in whVch offices were burned ar>d eight officials were held hostage at knifepoint for a brief period was headed z:

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