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I Assassin JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Apr. 9 (AP)-Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, an uncompromising architect of South Africa's white supremacy policies, was shot and wounded today by a middle-aged white man. Blood streamed from his head. Three shots were fired. Two hit the prime minister.

One pierced his right cheek, went through the roof of his mouth and fractured the right upper jaw. The other entered the right ear. Physicians announced tonight there was no injury to the brain and that Verwoerd's general condition, described as wholly conscious and able to talk. The need for removal of the bullets is not urgent, medical bulletin said, and specialists will decide when an operation should be The husky blond prime minister, 58, became a target, apparently of a .22 caliber pistol, as he sat with his wife on a platform at the Union Exposition to watch a parade of cattle. A bullet struck him under the right eye.

The South African radio said he second shot pierced his cheek. With blood dripping from the right side his head and his mouth, he fell into the arms of his wife. She wept as she comforted him. SOUTH AFRICA Page Two FINAL SPORTS NEWS Boston Evening Globe Res. U.S.

Pat. Off. 1960, Globe Newspaper Co. BOSTON DAILY APRIL 9, 1960 VOL. CLXXVII 10 PA CENTS CLEARING COLD IN TONIGHT'S GLOBE Cool Bridge 3 Problem 9 Tonight Comics Radio-TV 9 Fair Crane Sports 8 Sunday Cross- 9 Star Gazer 8 (Full Deaths 6 Theaters 10 report on back page.) Editorial 4 Twistagram 8 Norwegian Royalty Passes Up Wedding Armstrong- Jones' Second Best Man A Leading Doctor By IAN GLENDAY Margaret.

In contrast to the LONDON, Apr. 9 (Reuters) short, light prospective -A leading London bridegroom, the doctor is tall nerve and dark. doctor was named best man BEST MAN today for the wedding next month of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. Dr. Roger W.

Gilliatt, 37, was picked to replace wealthy Jeremy Fry, who decided against taking part in the May 6- wedding at Westminster Abbey. An announcement issued at Clarence House, home of W. Gilliatt. NEW BEST MAN -Dr. Roger Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, said that "Mr.

Antony Armstrong-Jones has asked Dr. Roger William Gilliatt to be his best man at his wedding. Dr. Gilliatt has gladly accepted." Gilliatt, a married man, has known society photographer Armstrong-Jones for about six years but only recently met London Asks: Slight, Snub Or Boycott? By WM. H.

STONEMAN LONDON, Apr. 9 (CDN)Arrangements for the wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones in Westminster Abbey May 6 have received another jolt. It was announced in Oslo today that no member of the Norwegian royal family will attend. The king himself let it be known that he has a "previous engagement" -attending 200th anniversary celebrations of the Norwegian Society of Science at Trondheim. view of the fact that Olav a grandson of King Edward VII of England, through his mother, Queen Maud, it had been assumed that he would attend what is for him really a family occasion.

ROYALTY Page Two Incurable Optimist Apr. (UPI)-Lance Cpl EDINBURGH, Scotland, Tony Ronald, an Army cook who announced his. coming marriage yesterday, said he baked his wedding cake a year ago and has been keeping it ready. Frozen, we hope! Boating Leader Again in March, and for the second time in three months, The Globe carried more boating advertising than both other Bos, The ton newspapers combined, Boston: almost 6000 lines more. Globe you'll Globe Month find in Classified.

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Elmer L. Prescott, 42, of Shiretown Dedham, was killed in West Roxbury when his car hit a tree on Turtle Pond Parkway at 3 a.m. Prescott was taken to Faulkner Hospital and pronounced dead. The accident happened near Bald Knob rd. In Groveland, just after midnight, Edward Bergeron, 16, of Washington Haverhill, died after a two-car collision.

He was a passenger in a car driven by Raymond Rosatone, 20, of Pilgrim Haverhill. Rosatone and passengers Robert Kaputi, 20, of Wilson and Robert Sturk, 18, of Priscilla both Haverhill, were injured. Their car collision with a machine driven by Frank E. Hamel, 64, of Plum Island, Newburyport. Hamel, operator of a Haverhill record hop, was driving two patrons home.

They were Jean Valli, 17, of Water Newburyport, and Judith Rogers, 17, of Main Byfield. FIVE KILLED Page Two HuntRothstein's Poker Pals in Search for Clue Poker playing friends of Newton businessman Edward Rothstein who met with him in a Medford social club hours before he was shot to death, gangland-style, are to be questioned over the week-end, Essex County Dist. Atty. John P. S.

Burke said today. Burke hopes one the six men, with whom Rothstein enjoyed a poker game for small stakes, can supply some clue to his movements during the critical period just before he was murdered. Rothstein was in the club from 5 to 7:15 p.m. last Monday business and left there to keep a appointment with a mysterious client in Haverhill at 10 p.m. SLAYING Page Two 2d Polaris Sub Hailed as Best War Deterrent GROTON.

Apr. 9 (UPI) -Sen. Clinton P. Anderson today hailed the commissioning of the nation's second Polaris missile submarine as a symbol of "the one area of military technology where we now decisively lead the Soviet Union. The New Mexico Democrat, chairman of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee, made the statement in speech prepared for commissioning ceremonies of the U.S.S.

Patrick Henry. NEW SUB Page Two Believe It or Not GORIN, Apr. 9. (UPI) -British railways officials regretfully admitted to Mrs. Peter Lane yesterday they had lost what she had shipped by train--a horse.

Africa Premier Bail Set Suspects Bank Jobs Charged To Woman, 10 Men Eleven members of an alleged Greater Boston holdup gang, including an attractive blonde, were held in total bail of $1,025,000 in Malden District Court today. JOSEPH R. BRAZIL Charlestown JAMES MAHONEY Brookline EDWARD SULLIVAN GEORGE FIORE JERRY ZULLO East Boston WILLIAM BRADY FRANCIS FERRANDINI Canton JAMES GILBOY AMERICO SACRAMONE Everett Senate Votes Equal Voting Rights House To Pass Civil Rights Bill After Easter, Leaders Predict WASHINGTON, Apr. 9 proved Mar. 24.

The legisla- parliamentary delaying tac(UPI) -House leaders said to- tion primarily is designed to tics. day their members would ac- guarantee Negro voting rights cept the Senate civil rights in the South. Only chairman Howard W. bill and send it to the White The Senate vote capped Smith of the House House to be signed into law. eight weeks of election-year Rules Committee stood in the debate which at one point ran They aimed for a vote a week around the clock for way of.

speedy House action. or so after Easter. than more The Rules a week, excepting SunCommittee controls The Senate last night ap- day. All the "no" votes the flow of legislation to the were proved 71 to 18 a Civil Rights cast, by southerners chamber. who measure similar but not iden- fought against the bill to the CIVIL RIGHTS tical to a bill the House op- last minute with oratory and Page Two Man Weighs 320, Wife 250 Too Fat to Adopt Child, Couple Told LOS ANGELES, Apr.

9 (AP)-A couple who have been foster parents 1 to a baby since its birth nine months ago have been told they may not get to keep the child because they're too fat. They are Frank Sherman, who weighs 320 pounds and is 6 foot 3 tall, and his wife Bernice, 250 pounds and 5 foot 5. They appeared yesterday for adoption proceedings in Superior Court. The hearing was continued to July 22 after the county opposed their adopting the girl, Janet, because of health reasons. They Two other suspects implicated in yesterday's $1200, bullet splattered robbery of a Medford bank, face arraignment and bail of $100,000 each.

The total bail of $1,025,000 would be the largest ever ordered by a Massachusetts judge and compares with only $800,000 total set for the Brink's robbers. The 13, one of them wounded in a gun battle with police at the Hillside-Cambridge Cooperative Bank yesterday, were arrested in the greatest police roundup in 30 years. District Court Judge Louis H. Glaser ordered the $100,000 bail for the 10 men on request of Middlesex County Asst. Dist.

Atty. Neil Colicchia and Medford police. The jurist served notice that the courts will give full support to a Metropolitan Police crackdown on organized crime, particularly a rash of bank robberies in recent months. All defendants pleaded innocent to a charge of armed robbery. The woman, who reportedly harbored one of the five men who staged yester- FRANCES KING Chelsea day's holdup, was charged as an accessory.

Their cases were continued until Monday, at the prosecution's request. The bag of suspects was large that the Medford police so prisoner facilities were overtaxed, and half of the prisoners were farmed out to Somerville, Malden and Boston for safe keeping over night. BANK HOLDUP Page Three 10-Year Separation Ended Portuguese Family of 25, Grandma Reunited Here A big Pan-American DC-7 touched down at Logan national Airport at 9:20 this morning, bringing 25 members of a family to reunion with their American relatives. The family of Mrs. Maria Figueredo of 45 Lyman Brockton, once cleared through Customs, joined in tearful, kissing greetings.

The 25 persons, all from Santa Maria, in the Azores, included three daughters, one son, son-in-law and daughters-in-law, as well as grandchildren of Mrs. Figueredo. It had taken seven years of immigration transactions for Mrs. Figueiredo and friends to get her children and grandchildren to this country. She hadn't seen her children since she left them in the Azores in 1950, shortly after her husband died there.

A native of Peabody, Mrs. Figueiredo had been taken back to the Azores as a child. There she married and had Cambridge Boy Hurt In Fall Off Tower A 6-year-old Cambridge boy suffered a possible fractured skull and hip last night when he fell from a tower tank at Portland and Burleigh East Cambridge. Police said that James M. Stewart, son of Mr.

and Mrs. John Stewart of 91 Elms, toppled 10 feet as he was climbing down from the top of the 75-foot tower. The tank, former property of Lever Brothers, is scheduled for demolition. Stewart and his playmates had scaled a ladder to the top and was descending when he slipped, police said. seven children.

She brought the three minor children with her when she returned to the States, but left the older ones, then married, in the Azores. More than 75 Figueiredos, their friends and admirers met the immigrant redos, husbands and offspring at Logan. Then, they all retreated to Mrs. Figueiredo's home at 45 Lyman Brockton, where Mother Figueiredo is preparing a huge family banquet. Pan-American's flight from Santa Maria usually stops at York, but the airline made a special concession to the Figueiredos by stopping at Boston.

According to an airline repe resentative, total fare for the 25 members of the family was $2500.95. The fares were divided according to ages-11 fares and one riding adult fares, 13 children's, half free. Some of Mrs. Figueiredo's grandchildren were old enough Ito require adult fares. Beverly's Latest Shoots Self As adopted another child four years ago without question.

"I don't know why they didn't bring this up Mrs. Sherman, 37, said sadly. The County Bureau of Adoptions', head doctor told judge the Shermans might not live to be good parents to the child. He said it was possible their weight could cause their. deaths within 15 years.

Their family physician, on the other hand, declared both are in good health and "could possibly outlive us all." "Just what does weight have to do with the way we bring our children?" commented Sherman. a truck driver. "It's just too silly to believe." Both said it wasn't a glandular matter; they like to eat. But since December, when doubts were first expressed about their weight, Sherman has lost 45 pounds and Mrs. Sherman 28.

"We hope to be in trim by July," said Mrs. Sherman. She's Really Busy LONDON, Apr. 9 (UPI)Alice Bromwich, 55, when told that teen -age boys had found 1000 pounds ($2800) in an unlocked trunk in a house she recently vacated, said: "I have not really found time to go back to get it." She Says "No" HOLLYWOOD, Apr. 9 (UPI) -A rejected suitor of Beverly Aadland's shot himself in the temple today after holding the gun at her head for more than an hour, police reported.

Sgt Clifford Dixon said the 17-year-old blond "protege" of the late -actor Errol Flynn sobbed to police: "He tried to shoot me, then he shot himself. He held gun to my head for about an hour and a half." SUITOR Page Two.