Daily News from New York, New York • 99

DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1966 4C Tagged as Mate Too Mild, Me Wild a. Me Issues (Continued from pogo 2) By ALFRED ALBELLI Denving his wife's charge that he has refused for three years to fulfill his husbandly duties, millionaire executive Morten Leeman cf told the Supreme Court, "I can only say to her that I am ready, willing and a j'e come home!" V. i This plea to Mrs. Lea Leeman. now in Los Angeles, -was part of Leeman's opposition to Lea's request for a separation.

$1,000 a mo-th temporary alimony, $1,000 a month support for their two daughters, and $25,000 counsel fees. She charged cruel and inhuman treatment, contending that her husband, who owns one quarter interest in the $20 million Ambassador Factors 1430 Broadway, beat her, bit her fingers, and once broke her hand. In papers filed for Leeman by his attorney. Barton G. Rudnick, in Supreme Court in Westchester, the husband denied this and entered a defense of abandonment by the wife.

Denies the Charge "Jly wife is a beautiful woman, Leeman stated. I love her. Aye, the merchandise is most attractive in my eyes. The mark-Dp is too high. Her demands for more an! more money have been increasing' in intensity as well as in cmoutits "My wife claims we have not had sex for three years.

Leeman continued. "This is untruthful. I am human. My body has certain needs. My wife is still a most beautiful woman.

Since last April she has refused to return home." Yesterday Jjstce John J. Dillon dented Lea's motion for alimony, and ordered Leeman to pay her a month for support of the girls, providing; she returns here with them so that the fa'ther can have visiting rights. p. embarrassing crisis, and Vaughn wouldn't be flying to Africa posthaste if it wasn't. The Peace Corps program in Nigeria is fantastically large compared with operations in other "host countries.

On the chartered plane carrying Vaughn there are 80 more volunteers for Nigerian posts. These SO are not going to Nigeria as strike breakers, but to bring corps strength in that country to over 700. Only India, with 1,000 Peace Corps volunteers, has such a sizable contingent of young Americans. What exactly is wrong with Peace Corps morale in Nigeria? As Congressmen get the picture from complaining mothers and fathers and from the young people themselves there is general and also specific unhappiness. In general, the volunteers think they should have a voice in some of the decisions of the Washington-based Peace Corps bureaucracy.

Specifically, there is first the matter of the closed hostels. All six of these rented establishments in Nigeria have been shut down. They provided inexpensive accommodations for traveling or vacationing volunteers and also suitable location for corps get-togethers to discuss common problems and break the thread of loneliness in a foreign land. Cutback in Wheels Cats Them to Quick Then there has been the morale-shattering order from Washington to reduce the number of bicycles, motorcycles and scooters for corps use to and from job assignments. As a result it is a Jot harder to get around to see the country and spend a social evening with colleagues of either sex.

In addition, the "bush telegraph has Wen spreading rumors cf other economy cutbacks. The top living allowance of $149 monthly was supposed to have been cut to $128, etc. The Peace Corps here has ready answers to all of these complaints. They make some sense, but it is clear that no one bothered to transmit this intelligence to the volunteers themselves, who should have been the first to know the whys and wherefors. The explanation for closing the hostels and a decision to phase out all Peace Corps hostels abroad has to do with an incident concerning a dog in Bangkok.

It seems that this dog, a puppy, owner unknown, made his bed in the Bangkok Hostel. The mongrel developed rabies. It was considered vital to locate and inform all persons who had bedded down in the hostel any night in the previous week (at 40 cents a head). It turned out that the cheap Bangkok accommodations had been used by a lot of other Americans than those with the Peace Corps insignia mostly youngsters traveling on a shoestring. As it was never intended that the hostels should be used as a global string of dormitories for Americans short of dollars, the decision was made to get the Peace Corps out of the hotel business.

Too Many Accidents on Two-Wfeeel Vehicles There was also a sound reason advanced for getting rid of some of the Peace Corps bikes and scooters. There were too many accidents. In Nigeria alone in 1964-65 a total of 85 volunteers had been injured, two fatally, while on two-wheel vehicles. The "bush telegraph" report of a cut in living allowances was described as just a rumor. There had been no cutback as yet, although it had been considered because there was a problem with natives, like teachers, engaged in the same type of work as the volunteers.

If a "host country teacher, for example, is paid only $130 a month, he or she resents having a teaching American in the next village pulling down $140 a month in living allowance alone. Especially when on top of that the corps volunteer is also paid $75 a month, which sum is put to his credit in a bank back home in the U.S.A. The Peace Corps clearly has done a lousy job in presenting its case to American mothers and their boys and girls in Nigeria and elsewhere. We received a letter from one distressed mother who identified herself as Isabelle Schneider of New York. She has a child In Nigeria.

She particularly objected to the closing of the Peace Corps hostels. She made an effective argument that they provided the only opportunity for volunteers to get together and "appease the loneliness and fulfill the hunger for companionship which is not afforded to them while living alone and isolated deep in the bush." Tots Who Disappeared Were Beaten, Say Cops Kim and Karyn Rahmer, the 3-year and 18-month-old sisters who disappeared from their mother's station wagon in Brooklyn Tuesday night and turned up two miles away, show signs of a beating, it was revealed last night. Mrs. Lea Leeman "Aye, the merchandise is most attractive." Canada Gives Slaying 2d Look The case of Steven Truscott, convicted at the age of Ottawa. Oct.

6 (Special) 14 of the sex murder of a 12-; year-old girl, was reenacted today before the Supreme Court of Canada to determine whether the boy was justly tried. because it was "felt to be accurate and fair." ft rated on a woman model how I.ynn b.ouse had been torn and knotted around hr nwt Elgin Brown, biochemist in the VI It was a difficult review for the nine black-robed justices, complicated by the passage of time seven years since Lynne Harper was sexually assaulted and strangled near her home in Clinton, Or.t. and such factors as an verzealous watchdog. Could Win New Trial But out of the hearing' could cone a new trial and freedom for Tr in r. 21.

whose case has bcoir.e a Canadian cause celebre. Truscott. too young then to testify in his own defense, was sentenced to be hanged in lt59 for the murder of Lynn, whose was und in the woois at the e-ljre of a Canadian air frce tae wht-e thy bth lived. It was tetrf'ed that Steven tor.k Lynn for a ride on his liyc'e the cf June when she diel and returned alone. Book to Review The death sentence was corn-i Ontario government crime laboratory, agreed under questioning that no hair blood from the vktim were found on Steven's clothes.

Steven's father, a non-commissioned officer in the Air Force, and his mother occupied special seats in the courtroom. The hearing was expected to take about two weeks. Grade Picked As Landmark The historic Gramercy Park area, Cracie Mansion and the triangular Flatiron Building were designated as city landmarks ves-terday by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Gramercy Park was praised as "an early instance of town planning and Gracie Mansion was described as a "remarkably distinguished example of federal architecture." Among the other buildings so designated by the commission were: The Low Memorial Library and St. Taul's Chapel at Columbia University, the Belnord Apartments at 225 W.

86th and the Edward Mooney Tlouse at 18 Bowery. The latter was built between 1785 and 1789 and is the only known town- house in Manhattan surviving from the Revolutionary era. Elliott Golden, chief assistant? mother, Mrs. Linda Rahmer, 24, Steven Trascott Hop after 7 ear in Jail was fixed at an hour or two after her supper the period when she was with Steven on the basis of examination of the contents of Lynn's stomach. Sharpe, medical director of the Ontario attorney general's crime laboratory, conceded under questioning by the defense that it was "awkward to establish time of death by this method.

A Toronto private detective. Jack Parish, testified that investigators were chased away from the scene twice by a watchdog when they tried to ride a bicycle over the course taken by Steven to time his movements. On the third try, he said, they got bv the watchdog and reported to the court culy on that test muted to life imprisonment, in accordance with Canadian custom, and Steven was in a federal prison at Kingston. when a book. "The Trial of Steven Truscott," ly Isabel LeBourdais, raised questions about his conviction.

The government asked the Supreme Court to render an opinion as to the justice of the trial. Truscott was brought to Ottawa to take the stand in his otrn defense when called by the court. Hi story to police, at the time of his trial, was that Lynn asked him to take her to a highway, nd the last time he saw he, she wa getting into a car. Ore of the first witnesses for the prosecution, Dr. Noble Sharp, eaid the time cf death Brooklyn District Attorney, said marks of violence were found on both children.

From police sources, it was learned that blood vessels under the skin on the cheeks of Kim had been ruptured, indicating hard slaps. Karyn has marks on the neck and throat, it was said. "A Break Today" A police source said the investigation was being pressed into possible abuse of the children. A "break in the case" is supposed to come. today.

The tots vanished from the of 123 Foster Brooklyn. It was parked in the Flatlands Shopping Center, Brooklyn. A massive police search followed. The children were found four hours later on marshy ground off Sea View Ave. near the Paerdegat Basin, Karyn weeping, Kim asleep.

Their father, Richard, 28, is a lithographer employed in Manhattan. Both children are still in Kings County Hospital, where they had been taken-after police found them. Their condition yesterday was described as good. supposedly locked autos of their.