Jack London's Daughter Divorced

OAKLAND, Cal., Feb 11. -- Joan London Abbott, daughter of the late Jack London, author, has obtained a divorce from Park Abbott and the custody of their three-year-old son, Park London Abbott. The differences arose over Mrs. Abbott's desire to retain the name London and give her child that name, according to the complaint.

SUES FORMER JOAN LONDON

California Professor Asks Divorce From Author's Daughter.

LOS ANGELES, March 28 (AP) -- Joan London Malamuth, daughter of the late Jack London, was sued for divorce here today by Charles Malamuth, Assistant Professor in Slavic Languages at the University of California.

Mr. Malamuth complained that his wife preferred to follow her father's footsteps as a writer rather than do the family cooking.

Mrs. Malamuth, now lecturing in New York, was married to Mr. Malamuth three days after her divorce from her first husband, Park Abbott, in December 1925.

Obituary

OAKLAND, Calif., January 20, (UPI) -- Joan London Miller, daughter of Jack London, the American novelist, and widow of Charles Miller, a stone worker, died Monday after an illness of two months. She was 70 years old.

Mrs. Miller, who lived in nearby Pleasant Hill, often spoke at rallies for Cesar Chavez and his farm workers. She had graduated from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mrs. Miller followed her father's inclination for Socialist party politics and was an unsuccessful candidate for the State Assembly in 1936 on the Socialist ticket. She also followed her father's profession and published her first novel, "Sylvia Coventry," when she was 26.

In 1938, she compiled Jack London's biography entitled "Jack London and His Times," and published a new book, "So Shall You Reap" written with Henry Anderson, about farm-labor problems.