Martha Mitchell, 57, Dies Continued From Page I, Col. 3 who was Mr. Mitchell's body- guard before he became chief Administration, urging its of- Of Bone-Marrow Cancer of security for President Nix- ficials "to tell it the way it on's re-election campaign. Mr. NYTimes JUN 1 1976 really is." It was not unusual for Mis. McCord said Mrs. Mitchell was By JOIIN T. McQUISTON . Mitchell to telephone a reporter "basically" kidnapped in 1972 Martha Mitchell, the out- late at night and tell what was to keep her ignorant of the spoken estranged wife of for-. on her mind. In one such call Watergate break-in. mer Attorney General John N. to The New York Times in At the time the Watergate 'scandal brake with the 'break-in Mitchell, died early yesterday March 1973, she said that she and burglary of the Democratic at the Memorial Sloane-Ketter. thought somebody was trying national headquarters at the ing Cancer Center. She was 57 to make her husband "the goat" for the Watergate scan- Watergate office and apart- years old. dal and that she was "not going ment complex in Washington, Her physician, Dr. Klaus to let that happen." Mr. Mitchell was Mr. Nixon's Mayer, attributed her death to national campaign manager; He Mrs. Mitchell insisted that had resigned as Attorney Gen- multiple myeloma—a rare type the scandal originated at the eral to assume the campaign. of malignancy that attacks bane White House and that President Nixon was to blame. However, post, a post he was later forced marrow—complicated by hem- 'tti give 'up because of the scan- her sometimes burlesque -use of dal: orrhage and terminal bronchial the telephone and the press pneumonia. reduced her credibility. In subsequent trials, be was Mrs. Mitchell had suffered When the former Attorney acquitted in New York of al- from the malignancy since General was on trial in New leged influence peddling, but York City in March -1974 for convicted in Washington of early 1975 or before and had perjury and conspiracy to ob- been unconscious since her hos- alleged influence peddling, Mrk. Mitchell repeated her conteff- struct justice. He was disbarred pitalization Sunday following a ton that her husband had been from practicing law in New cardiac arrest, according to Dr. "framed" and that some day York State. Mayer, who is director of the ilssociated Press she would document the Water- 4 Too: Aides Convicted blood bank and hematology lab- Martha 111!.tchell gate scandal in a book—a book Mr. Mitchell was one of four Nixon, Administration officials oratory of the cancer center. • that has never been published. 1 ' Who -were convicted on Jan. 1, None of Mrs. Mitchell's fam- views were widely reported by During one of her Watergate 1975, of all counts in the . ily was present at her death. the press, had ru led the staid interviews, Mrs. Mitchell charged that the White House, Watergate colter-up trial. The ' Her son, C. Ray Jennings, who Nixon. Administration both be- in an effort to discredit her, others were Ii. R Haldeman, had been in close touch with fore and after the exposure of had spread "lies" and "rumors John D. Ehrlichman and Robert . her, was out of town and could the Watergate sc ndal. galore" about her that suggest- C. Mardian. The three-month not be reached yesterday, Dr. As a Southern conservative, ed she had been in an insane, trial culminated the principal asylum. • investigation and prosecution Mayer said. Mr. Mitchell had she enjoyed critic zing liberals, of • persons responsible for the been apprised of her condition urged "discipline' for Vietnam Mrs. Mitchell had complained political scandal. but did. not come to the lies- war protesters a d. suggested i that on the weekend the Water- On Aug. 9, 1974, President gate break-in was discovered in Nixon, facing impeachment pital because she was uncon- that the America press might I June 1972, she was being held scious and because he might be suppressed if i continued to charges in the House for his as a "political prisoner" at the part in the Watergate cover-up, have been in the way in the reveal Governm nt secrets. Newport Inn at Newport Beach, resigned. A-month later, he was intensive care unit, said Dr. When the Wate gate scandal Calif. She had also contended pardoned by his successor, Mayer, who added that Mr. broke, she did n t hesitate to that she had been given injec- President Ford. tions and held in her room Mitchell had been "very con- turn her barbs qn the Nixon against her will by , The Mitchells' 14-room Fifth cerned." I a security Avenue apartment was expen- Mrs. Mitchell, whose candid Continued on Pag 28, Column 3 sively decorated and comfor- This was later confirmed by table, but it eventually became James W. McCord Jr., a con- a place of confinement During Acted Watergate conspirator the height of the public interest

V in Watergate and Mr. Mitchell's and taught trials, the mood was,bitter. school in Mobile, Ala. She quit liour. after hour, Mr. Mitch- after a year, saying she "de ell's chauffeur-bodyguard stood spised it." at the living-room curtains, During 'World War II, she peering down on zewsmen in married Clyde, W. Jennings, a parked cars ,on the ,street be- businessman, but the marriage low. Mrs. Mitchell would tell ended in divorce. The couple visitors in the summer of 1973, a few months before their sepa- had a ,son, C. Ray Jennings, ration, "Four year ago we had now 28 years old, who during the last several months has everythitv,, and now we have nothing: been caring fcir her and serving In May 1976, Mrs, Mitchell on occasion as her spokesman. won a judgnient of $36,000 in She met Mr. Mitchell in New back alimony from Mr. Mitchell York Cit in 1954, and married in the New York Supreme him in 1957. They hada daugh- Court in . lustice ter, Marty, now 14 years old. Manuel pomezt in making . the Mr. Mitchell won custody of her judgment, said the former At- in another highly publicized torney General had submitted court battle after their separa- no proof that his finances were tion. "as pretarious as he contends." It was in the mid-1960's that The public first learned that the Mitchells became friends Mrs Mitchell was ill of cancer with the Nixons. Both Mr. irf October 1975, when she was Mitchell and Mr. Nixon were hospitalized in Washington for then with the same Wall Street treatment of a bone ,marrow law firm. disea4e that her doctor de- Mrs. Mitchell, a Presbyterian, scribed as a "type of malignan- often went to the Marble Colle- cy." The disease was later de- giate Church and praised its fined as myeloma, a pastor, the Rev. Norman Vin- - rare form cent Peale. of bone cancer thatejs always fatali -most frequently attacking The funeral and burial are the tialiris, Spine and ril?s. scheduled for Thursday morning Mrs. Mitchell had suffered in Pine Bluff, Ark. fractures of the ribsOvertebrae and a femur. She was released 75-Foot Flag Is Flown in January 1976 after two NORWALK, Ohio, May 31 months of chemotherapy at the (AP) — Norwalk Veterans of Sloan-Kettering Institute for Foreign Wars Post 2743 Cancer Research, but was re- showed its colors today with admitted in May to the Hospital what members contend is one• for Special Surgery for treat- of the largest flags ever flown. ment of a broken arm suffered The 13-star flag, fashioned for 'in a fall at her Fifth Avenue a specially built, 160-foot apartment. Doctors said she tower, measures 46 by 75 had progressed from a wheel- feet. It weighs 94 pounds and chair to a walker. will get additional support Mrs. Mitchell was born from a helium-filled balloon Martha' Elizabeth Beall on Sept. floating above. 2, 1918, in Pine Bluff, Ark, She 'attended the University of Arkansas, graduated from the