The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 20

20 Jrcrr.il, WMmingten, Del. Wednesday, February 9, 197? Political Plans Of City Blacks pur Guessin 1 7 insurance executive who organized Monday's meeting. An unknown factor in the situation is the position of Howard H. Brown, the director of Community Action of Greater Wilmington, who is believed to have political aspirations. Brown is making no overt moves, however, because his job is restricted by the Hatch Act It prohibits federal employes from actively participating in partisan politics.

However, bumper stickers boosting him as the "working class" candidate for mayor have appeared throughout the city. BROWN was listed as one of four men who had Smalls call the Monday night meeting. The others were City Councilman James H. Sills D-At large, Municipal Court Judge Leonard L. Williams, and State Sen; Herman H.

Hollo-way Sr. By NORM LOCKMAN According to sources who attended a private strategy session of black leaders Monday night at-Kent Manor Inn, plans are being laid for a concerted bipartisan effort to gain black political power in Wilmington. Speculation about the plans range from an attempt to upset the existing Democratic city machine to a coalition between black politicians and Republicans. The handful of people forming the nucleus of the movement are close-lipped about their plans, but yesterday one of them scoffed at both speculative possibilities, calling them "way off base." ANOTHER has downgraded the possibility of a third party effort as a tool to be used only as a last resort-Whatever the plans are, they are to be soon announced according to Lester Smalls, an Staff Phofo by Pat Crow Chief Injured HnrkpMin Fire Chief M. Fred Rooer is carried lo an ambulance after lie fell through an open Mairwell while fighting a fire early today.

The Maze partly destroyed a 910,000 one-story, ranch-T'nion Road near Corner Ketrh. Rnscr wan taken to the Possum Park Fmerjjeney Center for treatment and then trans-Possum Park Kinerpenry Center for treatment and then transferred to Memorial Division where he was admitted with a frac ture of the right leg near the hip. Hockessin was joined In fighN ing the fire by Mill Creek and Aetna Hose, Hook and Ladder Fire Companies. Patrolling police spotted the blaze and firemen were called at 2:12 this morning. Raymond Harrington, deputy state fire marshal, is investigating.

Cause of the fire still is undetermined. Firemen estimated the damage at more than $12,000. Roser's condition is listed fair. Victim Busy, Theft Case Dropped I The jCampaige I Trail Charges of burglary and grand larceny were dropped yesterday in Superior Court at the request of the prosecutor when the victim could not appear. Names in the News Nun Heads NYC Schools; Calls Self an Educator First All but Brown attended.

Brown would not comment today on his absence. The black political movement was dramatically spotlighted by Sills, who boycotted a Democratic organization-sponsored meeting Monday night. Sills chose to attend the Kent Manor Inn meeting rather than join his Democratic councilmen in a broadcast rebutting Mayor Harry G. Haskell recent "state of the city" address. HIS action antagonized his colleagues and disrupted plans by Democratic leaders to slate Sills as their nominee for City Council president.

Sills, who would not comment on the meeting of the black forces, is expected to play a leading role in the city's black political movement. Williams said that "no one should draw any conclusions" from his at the meet-. ing. His name was promoted by friends two months ago as a prospective candidate for mayor, but he declined to support the move. Meanwhile, Council President William J.

McClafferty Jr. called on Sills to apologize for standing up his Democratic colleagues. Sills was scheduled as one of three Democratic spokesmen on the special broadcast, and i unannounced absence caused McClafferty to fumble for words at the end. McCLAFFERTY told the radio audience Sills was supposed to speak, but had not arrived, asked if anyone knew where he was, speculated that he Jiad car trouble, then signed off. McClafferty complained yesterday that Sills "did not have the common decency to contact the other councilmen as to his intentions." Sills said last night ha in- tends to respond to the criticism at tomorrow night council meeting.

Surrender Expected In Shooting One of three men sought for questioning in Saturday's mo-, torcycle gang shootout in Mar-shallton was expected to sur- render to state police today. Det. Sgt. Sewell Scott, head-' ing the investigation, said he learned late last night from John Duffy, a West Chester, attorney, that efforts were being made to have a man known only as "Red Dev- il" from the Lansdowne area, give himself up. The others still at large, but for whom warrants have been issued, are James (Tiny Tim) Campbell, about 25, of.

Cedar- tree Lane, Greentree, and Robert (Fat Cat) Connell, about 28, from the Newark area. Police noted that "Tiny Tim" is about 6 feet 6 and weights 300 pounds. Meanwhile, last night an es- timated 200 members of the Pagans motorcycle gang, dressed in their group "col- ors," paid their last tribute to slain Pagan Boyd D. (Curly) Lewis. return to England to regain my senses.

Yes, I'm going to New York with John and we will both testify before the grand jury investigating the whole affair and of our relationship with Clifford Irving. I will tell the truth and all I hope is that what I say will not harm or injure Clifford in any way. Because knowing this man as I do I cannot believe the book is faki. I believe it is authentic. I would dearly like to think the book is authentic -and that Clifford will prove to the world it is.

And what of the two of us now? Who can say? Only time will tell. seeing the men brought to justice," Walker stated. There were two previous postponements in the trial, Walker said, once at the defense's request and once at the state's. Walker said he saw little point in asking Judge Vincent A. Bifferato to grant a third delay.

The defendant, William A. Harmon, 30, of the 1000 block W. 3rd was accused, along with Theodore Demby, 19, of the 800 block Allen Court of smashing a plate glass window at Cohen's store and taking $200 worth of stereo equipment, on the night of Sept. 15. POLICEMEN In the area the store's bWglar alarm and chased two men for four blocks before catching them at 5th and West Sts.

The testimony of the policemen in court yesterday was not sufficient alone to convict the because they did not see the apprehended men in the act of stealing The policemen also were unable to testify to the value of the equipment; stolen, as re- quired to establish grand lar-' ceny, Walker said. Cohen said police got him out of bed on the night of the burglary and made him sign warrants for. the suspects and that he went to Municipal Court to testify as to the value of the property. THIS testimony should have been passed to Superior Court or he should have been allowed to. make a deposition, Cohen said.

WALKER said depositions are not permitted in criminal cases. He said he had to sub-. poena Cohen to come in for and tried to subpoena him for the trial but could not find him. Other than saying the case is now a matter for discussion only between him and Walker, Cohen declined further comment at this time. Demby, the second suspect, was scheduled to go to trial with Harmon, but he pleaded guilty to the burglary charge and the state dropped the grand larceny charge against illO '(lii il i' Mum Fire Deputy Atty.

Gen. Kent Walker said this morning he was forced to make the request because the victim, Seymour C. Cohen of Harris Jewelers, 501 N. Market wife and I don't want to be a diplomat and neither one of us could conceive of living any X'ma van Pallandl 'It's sheer fantasy' If this affair had not got into the world headlines, I know my affair with Clifford, however indiscreet it was, would still be a secret today. There is nothing I can do.

What damage has been done, has been done, but I fervently hope it will not break his marriage to his wife Edith because I know they are very happy together. IT was 7'i years ago In Ibiza when we found ourselves in a small beach party together. Clifford -r I'd read several of his books and knew him by reputation was in the party and we discovered we both lived on the island. Massachusetts Compiled from Dispatches The names of three Republicans and 12 Democrats, including Gov. George C.

Wallace of Alabama, will appear on the ballot in Massachusetts' April 25 presidential primary. Secretary of State John F. X. Davoren released the list yesterday and said he had received word from Wallace that the governor will seek the Democratic nomination and will not run. on a third party ticket, at least as far as Massachusetts is concerned.

All delegates to the national conventions are bound to vote for either the Republican or Democratic contenders Who win the Massachusetts primary. Davoren said he would not place the name of comedian Pat Paulsen on the Republican ballot. Muskie The "Edmund S. Muskie Invitational Cribbige Tournament" will start in Manchester, N.H., next week with championship playoffs Feb. 19-29.

Muskie, D-Maine, will take time out from his presidential campaign to play the winner of the citywide competition. Meanwhile, Muskie, today proposed a five-point program for creating jobs, saying No. 1 priority must be to get America back to a full-employment Humphrey Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, campaigning for the March 14 Florida Democratic presidential primary, denied yesterday that he threatened to withdraw from the race because of dissatisfaction with his campaign staff.

"The last thing I'd ever do when I think I have the best chance of my life is to pull out of the campaign," said Humphrey. "Let's lay it on the line, Hubert Humphrey isn't pulling out, Hubert Humphrey is pulling ahead." McGovern Sen. George S. McGovern, "today outlined a seven-point health program which he said "could save as many as 100,000 lives per year." McGovern said emergency health care throughout the nation is "shockingly inadequate." Compiled from Dispatches Sister Elinor Ford, the 41-year-old Dominican nun named as chief administrator of parochial schools in the New York Archdiocese, is the first woman ever to head a major Roman Catholic school system in the United Slates. But Sister Elinor, who takes over her new post Feb.

22, prefers to see herself as a professional educator rather than as a woman. Although she is concerned with the financial pressures that beset the Catholic schools in New York, she said yesterday her main goal is to develop an "environment whereby the children will be able to, make choices." Sister Elinor replaces Msgr. Edward Connors who was named pastor of the Harts-dale, N.Y. parish of the Sacred Heart. Kurt Waldheim, secretary-general of the United Nations, says he plans to visit Moscow and Peking and eventually "the capitals of all member states" in the world organization.

California.Gov. Ronald Reagan says rumors that President Nixon might appoint him an ambassador nr to another diplomatic post are "something out of thin air." "No. 1, Mrs. Reagan does not want to be a diplomat's "indicated to me that he didn't want to WALKER added that Cohen said he was informed of the trial only at 10:45 the night before and had a business place but in California," he said at a Capitol news conference yesterday. Country and Western singer Roger Miller told an Oklahoma legislative committee yesterday he supports a proposal to ban the sale of amphetamines because the measure might "keep somebody form getting into the same snakepit I got into." Miller said he "fought a seven-year bout with amphetamines, then decided three years ago to kick the habit.

I just got tired of falling down." King Gusta VI Adolf of Sweden, 89, has a cold, and court sources say his general condition is cause for anxiety. Pat Nixon say that when she visits a children's hospital in mainland China, she'd like to see a demonstration of acupuncture, the ancient Chinese needle treatment. The First' Lady said she hopes to bring a birthday present for daughter Tricia back from China. The Nixons' older daughter will be 26 on Feb. 21, the date the President and Mrs.

Nixon are to arrive in China. Evangelist Billy Graham says he plans to visit Attica (N.Y.) state prison, where 43 inmates and guards died in an insurrection last year. Graham told a news conference yesterday the inmates had in vited him after hearing him on the radio a few weeks ago. I was then living with my husband Frederik and our children. Ibiza is a small island and it has lots of social life and it'wasn't long before was bumping into Clifford at cocktail parties and other functions.

He became a family friend. It wasn't until last year that our friendship devejoped into any kind of relationship. Clifford was then married to Edith, his fourth wife, and my own marriage to Frederik had broken up. ONE night at my Chelsea home I got a call from Clifford saying he was coming to London and I invited him in to have dinner that same night with other friends. meeting which he could not miss or reschedule.

Cohen feels he has cooperated fully with the state in the case, and said, in fact, that he has been "fanatically interested i Ringo Starr says the Beatles Fan Club will close at the end of March. "We don't want to keep the Beatles myth going, since we are no longer together," Starr said yesterday in London. Chess Match Site Choice Due NEW YORK UPI) The World Federation of Chess will decide tomorrow where the world chess championship match between Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and Bobby Fischer of the' United States will be held, if the two grandmasters have not reached a decision by that time. Fischer and Spassky have been arguing over the match site for several months. Spas- sky, defending world title holder, wants it held in Iceland, Holland, France or Germany.

Fischer, the challenger, prefers Yugoslavia, Montreal or Buenos Aires. Col. Edward Edmonson, director of the U.S. Chess Federation said yesterday a binding site for the match would be made by Max Euwe, president of the World Federation. Rahman Eyes Russia MOSCOW (UPI) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, prime minister qf Bangladesh, will pay an official visit to the Soviet Union in early March, the news agency Tass said today.

During his stay, Clifford asked me if I would like to go on holiday with him to Nassau. We took the plane to New York the next morning it was Feb. 12 as far as I recall. When we got there, Clifford' announced a sudden change of plans. "Would you mind," he said, "if we went to Mexico instead?" Clifford then told me he had to go to Mexico to meet Howard Hughes, whose autobiography he was writing.

I had to return to London from Mexico after 3 days and on the previous day Clifford went out to arrange my air ticket back. He was gone between one Irving's Pal Nina Becomes Writer; Tells Her Version original letter he had received from Hughes granting him the rights to his biography. It looked perfectly Apparently he had known Clifford over a number of years and trusted and respected him. Clifford is the kind of man that a woman finds great warmth in and someone with whom there is tremendous communication. I stUl feel very close to him.

Uut when an American postal department investigator came to question me last week when I was holidaying in the Bahamas I was literally shaken. Suddenly the whole thing exploded around me. I had to He had been to New York to see the publishers, McGraw-Hill, and he told me that the serialization rights had been bought by Life magazine. Clifford had sworn me to secrecy about the whole thing. At the house we borrowed from a friend I cooked some steaks for Clifford and my manager, John Marshall, and over dinner Clifford told us of the strange meetings he had with Howard Hughes.

CLIFFORD told us of one secret meeting with Hughes in a parking lot and how cartridge tapes had been exchanged in some toilet somewhere. It all seemed so fantastic, and the author showed us the and a half to two hours. That is the only time when he went out alone for any such period. I have heard that 'in an affidavit Clifford has sworn that I was with him when he met Howard Hughes. I cannot believe Clifford would say such a thing because I certainly didn't meet Hughes at any time during our stay there.

But if Clifford aw Hughes in Mexico it could only have been during that two-hour period when he got my air ticket. LAST November, Clifford and I met again in Los Angeles. I picked him up at the airport and he was all aglow over his manuscript on Howard Hughes. Editor's Note The jblloW' ing story was written by Nina van Pallandt in collaboration with London Sunday Mirror writer Don Short. By NINA VAN PALLANDT For the London Sunday Mirror LONDON (AP) It's all getting a little bit like James Bond.

The events ef the past four days have been in a world of sheer fantasy. All I keep hearing are two names. One is Howard Hughes, the eccentric millionaire I've never met in my Jife. THE oiher is Clifford Irving, the name of a man I have loved and an author I still believe has pulled off the literary coup of the century..