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Daily News from New York, New York • 67

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DAILY NEWS, WPNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1966 ihy fmB 3 toys Ml 'dd Sammv i MM I I I I -i r- rmrv a l. ,1 i i JVliami, April uri; a vaiuit toun juujje uiucieu iieavy weignt cuaiiipiuii Cassius Clay jailed today for contempt of court after the fighter twice failed to show up h.annin fn aottlo niviimpnts nvpr fllimonv anH IpphI fpp for hi a pv-wi fp Snnii 1U1 Mi? At Iirst juage jiaruiu opa ordered Clav. 23. arrested and Mm By MAGGIE BARTEL and DONALD SINGLETON Police in Paramus, said yesterday that it was almost certainly a friend of 18-year-old Janet jailed immediately to serve 39 days when he failed to show up at- a hearing. Son ji, 26, who won a divorce two and a half months ago was present.

Told to Get $50,000 Later the judge agreed to give Clay two more days of grace to come up with $50,000 to pay back alimony, legal fees and to cover future alimony. Spaet noted that Clay found time to appear on television, but -could not find time to come to court. Ducks on Alimony Sonji's lawyers said Clay has made no payments on the $1,250 monthlv alimony ordered by the Adams who beat, strangled and stabbed her to death Monday afternoon in her apartment ending her marriage of only 48 hours. Officials investigating the murder said they "could not discount a sex motive," and said the first full day of investigation had turned up complications of narcotics and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a hallucinogenic drug. Janet's bearded 24-year-old hus- band, Brian, and more than 30 others who had attended a reception party in the apartment at 329 E.

Midland Saturday night, were questioned by police ceremony Saturday afternoon by Mayor John D'Amico of nearby Washington Township. Among the guests at the wedding were Janet's foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E.

Thibault of 27 Broad Emerson, who took her in three years ago. Mrs. Thibault said Janet had met Brian only five weeks ago. On thenight of the wedding, Galda said the young couple had a reception party in their new and officers of the Bergen County prosecutor's office. All were released.

Cites the Evidence First Assistant Prosecutor Fred court and has not offered to pay any of her legal fees of $22,500, which the court directed him to pay. Her attorneys said they re-reived a check from Clay once, but it bounced. The judge signed a contempt order during an afternoon session after Clay had failed to appear at a hearing earlier in the day. He denied a motion to set bond. Spaet told Clay's lawyers he wouldn't have minded if Clay, a member of the Black Muslims, had simply showed up, with or with C.

Galda said evidence obtained in the three-room apartment over a two-car garage seemed to indi apartment. More than 30 young cate that Janet's attacker was lttOmMA mm a Cassius Clay and Sonji he's in trouble over her alimony people had attended, staying until early Sunday morning. Clues to Narcotics "There is some indication of out UK money. Miffed. Missed Lunch narcotics at the party," Galda said, "and we haven't discounted the use of LSD.

Hs said he did he had come in here with only $5,000, I would not have issued the contempt order." Clay divorced Sonji in Miami in (Continued on page 97. col. 3) said. "But it should have been done two days ago." "It isn't the money," the judge went on, the failure to show up at the hearing. That is the contemptuous part of it.

Even if not have information to indicate whether either Janet or Brian were narcotics users. someone known to her. The attractive girl's nude body was found on the floor of the bathroom, a 4-inch pair of scissors protruding from her chest. She had been strangled with one of her husband's neckties, and had been beaten brutally in an attempt to fight off her attacker, according to First Assistant Bergen County Medical Examiner Lawrence J. Denson.

Married Saturday Dr. Denson said there was no sign to indicate rape, but Galda said other evidence obtained in the house indicated the possibility that sex had been the motive for the killing. Galda said Janet and Brian had been married in a small private I Barnes to Aid Meter Probe "I gave up my lunch hour for this hearing," the judge Baid. Clay's attorneys offered the court two checks drawn on a Black Muslim account in a Chicago bank. Sonji's attorneys refused to accept the checks.

The judge said he didn't blame them. Ed Jocko, a New York attorney for Clay, said he and the fighter flew from Now York to Chicago this morning, then to Miami just to get the checks for Sonji. Jocko said further he was willing to give the ex-model a check from his personal account. "There is no question you worked heroically," Judge Spaet Brian, who told police he last saw his bride at 8 A.M. Monday before going to his job as a construction worker on the new Mariott Hotel in Saddle Brook, Traffic Commissioner Henry 7 Nat H.

Hentel, who had lunch A. Barnes asserted yesterday N. was Questioned by prose cutor's detectives Monday night. When Brian arrived home from Manhattan restaurant, announced that the commissioner would appear the week of April 18 before a Queens grand jury investigating widespread parking meter thefts, in an effort to help its investigation. that there is no foolproof way of stopping parking meter looting.

"You can make it difficult," said. "But you can't stop it." Queens District Attorney work Monday, his bride's body (Continue on page 34, cel. 1) Bad Wants. Oty Mire Sharman thwm RHa'am By THEO WILSON For the past month, Sharman Douglas, pal of Princess Margaret and onetime girl friend of recently divorced Peter Lawford, has been working her blonde head off, for free, for Bud Palmer, the city's new commissioner of public events. And Palmer, after revealing this to THE NEWS yesterdaj', said he wants Sharmie put on the city payroll I J- i9 7t 'v as soon as possible.

around a zebra skin rug in front of his desk. "Step on it, everybody else does," Palmer told her. The skin was sent to him by a friend in Africa, but "our cat started chewing it up, everybody tripped on it, and my wife told me to get it out of our house," Palmer said. Positive Thinking He and Sharmie have some very positive ideas on how they are going to handle the job of greeting dignitaries here, handling public functions, and otherwise representing the Mayor and the city. "In Washington, Palmer explained, "they do things beautifully, and they have to handle their official functions with great dignity and in accordance with protocol.

We can't even try to compete, and we shouldn't. What we want to do is give our visitors something different something more informal, entertaining, yet with style." He said Mrs. Gandhi's visit was what he meant. Instead of taking He wouldn't say for how much. "Sharmie did a magnificent job for Indira Gandhi's visit here," Palmer said.

"She helped with the guest list, the invitations, the seating, the menu, the flowers, the wine, the greetings. "Nobody knows more about state functions, big dinners. She learned it all in London with her old man I mean her father." Sharmie's "old man" is industrialist Lewis Douglas, former ambassador to the -Court of St. James, whom she accompanied to London in 1947, when she was in her late teens. Buys Apartment Here The jobs Sharmie has held since then include public relations work in London, California and here for film companies, but yesterday she said: "I always wanted to do this kind of work, on a city leveL" She has bought an apartment on E.

63d St. She came into Palmer's office wearing a beautifully-cut dark blue suit, her blonde hair cut When Palmer, the 6 -foot -5 sports commentator and former York Knickerbocker basketball player was appointed in February, Mayor Lindsay told him he wanted him to bring "some class" to the department. Palmer said yesterday, that "within two seconds I was telephoning Sharmie and yelling: Sharmie has class, as is obvious from the fact that she was the one who persuaded Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon to visit the U.S. last year, and who was the official hostess and party-planner for the royal couple. Princess Meg doesn't pal around with just anybody.

Praise on Indira's Visit Yesterday, -in Palmer's 27th-floor office at 250 Broadway, overlooking City Hall, Sharmie said she thinks she was the one who honed first, after reading about is appointment. She has been operating strictly on a volunteer basis for Bud, who get $1 a year for the job, but she quit a public relations job here to do it, and Bud says ha is "negotiating with It (SEWS foto by Charles Payne) Shannrfft Doaglas at Bud Palmer's office yesterday; Sha carefully, stepped, Contiaued. mm page 34, col. J) C2trtHair ffaTer salary; short..

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