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Friday, June 16, 1972 Wife gets 2 months, pleads for husband Ask the Globe Names, faces in the news 2V2 years, fined $10,000 fe yit Irving gets Associated Press NEW YORK Clifford Irving, pleading for leniency and on the verge of tears, was sentenced today 2M years in prison and a $10,000 fine on Federal conspiracy and grand larceny charges for selling McGraw-Hill Inc. a faked Howard Hughes autobiography for $750,000. US District Court Judge John M. Cannella imposed a two-year suspended sentence and two months in jail on Irving's wife Edith, 36, who posed as "Helga R. Hughes" to cash checks meant for the billionaire recluse Hughes.

"I will stay with him," Mrs. Irving proclaimed, begging the judge not to "split us up." She said, "Our lives have been wrecked We must go home to Spain. I ask for your mercy and to let us go home to start again." Irving began his plea by asking the judge to consider "justice and mercy." The 41 -year-old author said in a sometimes barely audible voice, "As look back, I seemed to have turned my back on everything I have lived for. I put my wife in terrible jeopardy. I know what she did and why she did it.

She trusted me, and I abused that trust." Subsequently, in state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Martinis let Irving and his wife off without further punishment provided they dis- BEFORE SENTENCING and Mrs. Clifford Irving arrive at the Federal Court in New York this morning where they were sentenced in connection with the spurious "autobiography" of Howard Hughes. (AP) FDA asks ban on cancer World chess champion Boris Spassky said today in Moscow his American challenger Bobby Fischer seemed to be showing signs of persecution mania in recent about Fischer's past allegations that Soviet chess master's had ganged up against him, Spassky said Fischer's recent statements had given a strange impression. "It seemed to me Fischer has acquired a sort of persecution mania and the impression is that he thinks Soviet players want to play a mean trick on him," he said. "On my part, I never had such thoughts and will never aave them." The 35-year-old Russian world champion leaves next Wednesday to defend his title against Fischer in Iceland.

The championship starts on July 2. US Presidential envoy John B. Connally arrived in Canberra tonight from Honolulu for a five-day tour of Australia. Connally will have talks Saturday with Prime Minister William McJHahon, treasurer Billy Sneddon and senior ministers. Connally said he would discuss President Nixon's Moscow visit, the US domestic and international economic scene, and restructuring the international monetary fund and its implications for Australia.

Frank Sinatra has decided not to take the starring role in the movie "The Little Prince." Sinatra's European business representative said last night in London that the retired singer had been in the city to discuss the film role but had decided against it. Denying a London newspaper report that Sinatra had begun rehearsals for the movie, the representative said: "Frank has not rehearsed. He will not be making the picture. He has left town." John P. Mohr, a top aide to the late J.

Edgar Hoover, retired today from his job as assistant to the director of the FBI. Asking that his retirement be effective by the end of the month, Mohr, 62, cited personal reasons for stepping down after almost 33 years with the agency. Since Hoover's death about two months ago, most of the men who advised him during most of the years he was director have resigned or retired. Novelist-Taylor Caldwell has applied for a license in Buffalo to marry real estate developer William Everett Stancell, 72, Jacksonville, Fla. Miss Caldwell, widow of Marcus Re-back, met Stancell on a round-the-'world cruise this spring.

She is the author of 30 novels, many of them best sellers. Sen. Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.) has been admitted to a hospital in Helena, Mont, after complaining of discomfort during a plane flight from Washington. Metcalf's wife, Donna, said yesterday the 69-year-old senator's condition was not serious. She said he did not feel well during the flight and when the plane landed, he decided to see a physician.

Vice Adm. William P. Mack, until recently commander of the US 7th Fleet in the Pacific, takes over today as the 47th superintendent of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Adm. Mack, 57, headed the 7th Fleet during its most intensive combat operations of the Vietnam war.

One of his final duties in Southeast Asia was directing the mining of Haiphong Harbor. ASK THE GLOBE gets answert, Hok.es problems, cuts red tape. Phoni ISS-J515 cny ime or urite Ask tht Glebe, Boston Globe, Boston, Mass. 62107. The column is in the Evening Globe and Sunday Globe Magazine.

So long ago that I don't re-member the exact date I ordered a. rape and slack set from Greenland Studios in Miami. I charged it to my BankAmericard. I have been billed, and paid the bill. I've paid for merchandise 1 never received.

A.S., Woburn. A Dorothy Adams of Greenland Studios has promised to contact you directly. Who was the whistler who made the recording of "Heartaches" famous? H.H., Boston. A Elmo Tanner. Tid Weems and his orchestra made two recordings of "Heartaches," one in 1932 and another in 1937.

In 1947 a disc jockey in Charlotte, N.C. played the old recording by Weems in Which Elmo Tanner did a whistling chDrus. It caught on, and reissued, soli about three million records. For years I have had to hunt each month for m.v bill from Boston Gas. It is thrown in the hallway with 20 others and by the time I locate it, you should see the condition it is in.

Why can't Boston Gas put a stamp on my bill so the mailman can put in my mail box where it belongs? O.J., Boston A You are now on the mailing list with stamp. WALLY BRUNER We lived in Cincinnati some i years ago. Did Wally Bruner of tele- vision's "What My Line" ever work for radio station WLW there? M.A., Mattapan. A Bruner's first job in televi- sion was weatherman at WTTV in Bloomington, Indiana when he was a student at Indiana University. After that he worked at radio and televi- sion stations in Indiana, Illinois and i Arizona.

He was a sales executive at WLW-I in Indianapolis from 1959 to I 1961. I Indiana's Senator Vance Hartke brought Bruner to Washington to co-j manage his campaign in 1964. He stayed on as a congressional and White House correspondent for ABC News. From 1967, until he became I host for "What's My Bruner was a contract performer for the UPI News Service and was heard on 480 i radio stations. What portion of Washington, D.C.

is below sea level? I had an ar- 1 gument about this with a retired US i Army Colonel who said that no part I was below sea level. H.C., Alton, N.H. A That US Army Colonel was right. The major part of the city is at sea level with higher ground to the i north rising to an elevation of 420 fee. i I ordered three cigarette lighters from Martin Marketing Toronto, Canada in February.

Delivery was promised in 10 days. It is now more than ten weeks since my check was cashed. Is there actually a Martin Marketing Do they intend to fill my order? Will my money be refunded? R.H.. Win-throp. A We asked your three ques-j tions by mail.

Martin Marketing re-I plied by mail. "Dear Sir. We regret to say that our company has gone bankrupt as we hardly had enough money to pur-i chase lighters to satisfy our custom-. ers. Yours sincerely, J.R.

Martin." Ask the Globe' will study every Inquiry, but it isn't possible to an-wer or acknowledge every one. They will be chosen for general interest and shared with all readers of the Evening Globe and the Sunday Globe, When applicable, give speifie details, locations, time, etc. to I charge their Federal sentences. However, Irvings researcher on the fake autobiography, Richard Sus-kind, rceived six months in jail for conspiracy and grand larceny. He could have gotten eight years.

Suss-kind was not named in the Federal indictment. spite of these advantages, studies have shown DES to be a carcinogen, and the law does not allow residues of a carcinogen in meat." In addition to studies showing that laboratory animals fed the drug developed cancer, medical researchers have reported finding vaginal cancer among a small number of young women whose mothers took the compound to avoid spontaneous miscarriages during pregnancy. Edwards said FDA hopes to learn in a public hearing when additional Price panel bids FOOD PRICES Continued from Page 1 prices and rationing, two routes the Nixon Administration wants to avoid, sources said. McEnroe said retail food chains did not want another situation like February when the food chains were called in to meet Connally. He said it probably wouldn't change the situation.

As for any possible action that the Price Commission would take, he to heal itself tain major control over the policies and practices of health care in the nation. In recent months, however, the medical giant has been bombed from within and left reeling and stunned. The bomber was the AMA president himself, Dr. Wesly W. Hall of Keno, who says the organization is mismanaged by the board of directors, no longer represents the grass roots of American doctors and needs some drastic changes.

Never has the organization been so bitterly assailed by one in a position to know operations from within. The result, one top official says, has been "a disaster." "We are a house divided," he said, "and now we must try to put it together again." Thus the AMA convention beginning Sunday in San Francisco becomes one of the most critical in its history. Dr. Hall will be making his final address as president and indications are he will relentlessly pursue the reforms he urged in his speech at the AMA's recent midwinter convention. At that time, he threw away the text prepared for him by professional speech writers at AMA headquarters and proceeded to tick off the deficiencies in the hierarchy.

He said there was a morale problem among employes and many had resigned. "If you think for one moment that 535 N. Dearborn St. (Chicago address of AMA national headquar- Cannella said Mrs. Irving must surrender Monday, but he delayed the writer's surrender date until Aug.

28, allowing him to provide for the couple's two small children. The Irvings pleaded guilty on March 13 to conspiracy and the government dropped a mail fraud 1 causing beef controls, could be imposed, the consequences of withholding all beef livers, the environmental effect of a ban, the availability of alternative growth drugs, the possibility of using DES as an implant rather than feed additives, and the likely results of more sensitive DES testing methods. The Agriculture Department reported, meantime, it has found DES residues in livers of 39 red meat animals slaughtered this year, 1.9 percent of all animals tested, compared with .5 percent all of last year. avert meat hike said: "Any control system other than the one we have now would just be disastrous." He said he saw no precipitous action by the Price Commission against food and meat prices. McEnroe conceded that food chains might decide to absorb an increasing amount of the higher wholesale food costs because of possible pressure from the government or for public relations reasons.

Release of the Consumer Price Index for May, scheduled next week, may also have some impact in holding back a retail price rise, he said. after year of ters) has a thousand hearts that beat as one, you may take my word for it that it isn't true." Membership in the AMA is dropping, he said. Finances are in bad shape. Advertising has dropped in AMA publications. Credibility is being lost not only with the public but with the profession.

The craggy-faced, 65-year-old surgeon went on to indict the AMA as having no attraction for young doctors, for tolerating inefficiency and for playing cut-throat politics at the top. The policy-making House of Delegates is organized in a way that prevents young doctors from getting into it, he said. Members must first go through indoctrination by a series of lesser positions in state delegations and national committees before they reach a position of influence. As a result there is no delegate under age 40, says Hall. Hall says he has talked to a thousand of physicians, community leaders, government officials, hospital administrators and others in health care.

"Frankly, I am disturbed by what I hear and see and I am more convinced than ever that we need a basic review of our organizational structure. Our house of medicine is in need of some repair." He calls for a return to the AMA's basic objectives of, "promoting the science and art of medicine and the betterment of public health, "Many are fearful we are getting off course," he says. "We have been placing more and more emphasis on legislation and politics and relatively charge. Mrs. Irving still faces extradition on Swiss forgery and embezzlement charges.

The Irvings pleaded guilty on March 13 after months of insisting that the book was genuine. Mrs. Irving still faces Swiss charges of forgery and embezzlement of $650,000. hormone Edwards said last year he was prepared to take further action against the drug if violations continued but hoped they would not as the result of new regulations this year increasing from four days to seven days withdrawal from animals before marketing and mandatory certification by livestock producers that animals are free of the drug. Edwards said he hoped that proposed ban would elicit requests for a public hearing which he said would "provide a procedure for us to carefully consder whether it appropriate to withdraw approval of DES, to institute new and more effective restrictions to reduce the illegal residues, or to take 'other appropriate action." "FDA is committed to eliminating DES residues from the meat supply in this country," he said.

"At the same time, we have not yet concluded that withdrawal of approval for DES is the appropriate course of action." Expresing concern over the fourfold increase in DES contamination this year, Richard Lyng, asistant secretary of agriculture, said: "We are hopeful that some means can be developed to provide a continued use of DES and at the same time provide for absolute safety to consumers." dissent less on scientific and medical education." The nature of Hall's criticism was perhaps less stunning than the fact that it was he who made it. He had always been believed to be a partyijwheelhorse, faithful to the AMA, right or wrong. He had come up through the ranks, served a total of 24 years as a member of the House of Delegates, a member and then chairman of the board of trustees and finally as president. He was picked over three other candidates, one a liberal, because it was believed that he represented conservatism and wouldn't rock the boat. His defection could not have come at a worse time for those seeking AMA solidarity.

A number of doctors had been angered several months before by a decision to raise dues $40 a year to $110. In addition, a legal opinion in New York held that it was not mandatory for doctors to belong to the AMA in order to belong to their local medical society. i As a result, the AMA lost 8000 of its 26,000 New York members, a severe blow not only to its prestige but to its pocketbook. Other states have followed New York's action. Now the AMA represents about two-thirds of eligible physicians as compared to three-fourths in 1961.

While bracing itself for one more Hall speech Sunday, the establish ment believes it will come out of San Francisco united once again for the fight against the big foe those who want a compulsory universal government health insurance plan. Associated Press WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration said today it will propose a ban on the widely used livestock growth hormone DES, which causes cancer, as a means of opening the question to a public hearing. The announcement was coupled with an Agriculture Department disclosure that it has found 15 more cases of illegal disthylstilbestrol in cattle, raising the rate to nearly four times that of last year despite tighter restrictions. "It is apparent that additional action must be taken," FDA Comr. Charles C.

Edwards said. "It is equally apparent that any action with such major consumer impact must be taken only after the most careful consideration of all scientific information and regulatory alternatives." DES is fed to an estimated 90 percent of the nation's beef cattle to speed growth in weight gaining. Economists have estimated that the ban on the additive would raise consumer beef prices about $3.85 per person annually. "DES clearly is a useful and effective product," Edwards said. "Furthermore, we are convinced that it is safe when used as directed.

In AMA hopes By Arthur J. Snider Chicago Daily News In its 125-year history, the American Medical Association has never lacked for enemies. Its wealth, authority and resistance to liberal change have made it the continuing target of reformers. It is criticized as a self-serving trade union interested only in making money Tor its members, as a conservative mossback insensitive to the health needs of the times and, by placard-carrying pickets, as the "American Murderers' Assn." But a united front always has enabled the world's largest organization of doctors to withstand the slings and arrows of foes and main- DR. WESLEY HALL AMA's No.

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