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Sets Huddle On So. Africa Crisis Wounded Verwoerd | BR. Setting For New Musical [Reported Recovering Caphivatoe Mary, Rodgers
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By MORRIS W. ROSENBERG NEW YORK (#)—The adventures sofa’ credit card vacationer in
By LYNN HEINZERLING JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP)—With rine Minister Hendrik Verwoerd apparently out of danger from head wounds, South Africa’s cabinet will meet today to
Puérte.Rico will be the theme of Mary Rodgers’ comedy. Miss
second
Rodgers,
musical
daughter
of
famed Broadway:composer Rich-| . ard Rodgers, starfed in her father’s successful footsteps last year by writing
the music
discuss
4
The
for the hit show
contemplation
last
Fall
the
credit
internationally card
spreading
system.
nist
probabilities
and
team
improbabili- | -
joined
with
her
in
in
_ Cig
Harbld Prince. and Robert’ Grif producers
of
‘Wesf~
Side
Story,” | ‘“Damyankees,” ‘The Pajama Game,” and the ‘current hit “Fiorello;’ agreed:to. produce *“€arte Blanche.” Albert. and Frances Hackett, Pulitzer prize-winning authors of the» play
“Diary
Of
Ann
Frank,”
are’ already at work on the story. Miss © gers’ partner, Marshall Baker, will write the lyrics and she will compose the music. “2 "Fer A Good Fling
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Why:
{
set.
the
story
in
Puerto
-
Rico?ao, “Ta eur story conferences about the oe, iss Rodgers explains, t
“we
‘deci
that
go to some
the
hero.
should
vacation resort where
he could have a good fling on the :
.
ie
credit
card.
Someone
Puerte, Rico.- Harold
(a
suggested
Prince
had
‘been there and he liked the idea. .
“Last
month
we
(See MUSICAL,
went Page
down. to 21)
MARY
“By
BOB
BONE
in automobile accidents in Puerto Rico over the weekend. All of these were on Saturday, the 100th day of the year, and brought the highway death toll up to 98 since the year began. 3 In a spectacular. crash early
| |
Saturday
morning,
two teenagers
were-killed and two injured,when the car in: which they ‘were Tit
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AP
RODGERS name
with
an
island
NEW YORK (AP) — An estimatéd 15,000 New Yorkers of Puerta; Rican
background
yesterday
theme
said:
Rican
civic
marchers
hats
and
bands
arranged groups.
crisis
and
the
situa-
assassination Saturday. a swift
and
possibly
secret
Intervention
Cries Mount” LONDON that felled
(AP) — Hendrick
The shots Verwoer ‘
rang around Western Europe yesterday, raising fears of 32
imminent
wore
“jibaro”
were paced
by
the
in the rear seats of con-
vertibles.
wife at the reviewing stand. Mayor Wagner, Congressmen
:straw
bongo
+
Victor Anfuso .and Alfred Santangelo, Tammany Hall’s leader, Carmine G. De Sapio, Queens -| Borough President John T. Clancy and
General
Sessions
Judge
Sa-
muel Pierce also viewed the parade from the reviewing stand. Across the street from the stand,
a band
of
30
members
of
Local 802, American Federation of Musicians, greeted many of were killed instantly. |-the marching units with marches Now ‘‘out of danger,” accordCaribbean airs. ing to hospital authorities, are the andNearly 60 organizations took two injured: Roberto Suarez Mipart in the parade, many of them randa and Fernando Cros Hernan- representing Puerto Rican comdez, both 15. 7) munities. |” According to police, the lateGovernor. Mufioz Marin told an model powder-blue Chevrolet convertible was moving east on Ash- estimated 20,000 persons ata rally ford Ave. at a “high rate of speed’ in “Central Park afterward that at about 3:25 a.m. Saturday. Sud- the only way the New Yorkers of ‘young’ Suarez, the driver, Puerto Rican extraction. can_im-
themselves
Bee
TRAFFIC,
Page 21)
is through
their votes.
a community
“Further
special
There
is no
any immediate. _ Police were
Mujfioz Marin, who stood with his
of the
further
treat-
tional
catastrophe
in
South
intervention.
Huge
resting.
Chief Inspector Michael J. Murphy of the Police: Department estimated a crowd of 150,000 per-
by Puerto
Some
for
examina-
tions were carried out today and they confirm good expectations. Doctor Verwoerd at present is
marched up Fifth Avenue in a ‘sons lined: Fifth Avenue along colorful parade honoring the ci- the parade route. There were many cries of ty’s Puerto Rican population. Many floats and~bands— in- “arriba,’’ as enthusiastic marchers cluding steel bands—took part in saluted the Governor of the ComRico, Luis the affair-which was the fifth an- monwealth of Puerto
nual parade
Pretoria
A bulletin igsued at Pretoria General Hospital late in the day
Puerto Rican Parade
~ -went out of control! on Ashford ‘Yost ‘control of the vehicles: ‘The car“trashed against an alu- telligent ‘use of Ave., struck a light pole and broke! minum light pile, and broke in} Speaking at dato ‘two pieces. H i f ves coming . to tival sponsored * ‘Funeral services wereeld yesPAX best, about» ten yards apart from ean Department terday for 17-year-olds:.;
Galia” and“Anget “E. Gateia ‘who
NaNa-
ment.
Photo
150,000 InN.Y. See ..- familiar
3 More Traffic Deaths Push Puerto Rico 1960 Toll To 98): Three more persons were killed
racial
from Johannesburg to a hospital. Africa and demands for ‘intern:
going to work on the show.
fith,
a man who “hates and Verwoerd is
‘|to talk to an aide, visited with his wife, then was transferred
ties of high life on credit. A talentpacked
identi-
tionalist Number One.” The 58-year-old South African Primé Minister was well enough
Immediate Support She quickly found ‘support for the idea of a musical comedy on
the
would-be..assassin,
friend as tionalists
of the risks and rewards of living on
deepening
fied in the press as David Pratt, a wealthy middle-aged white farmer, was described by a
“Carte Blanche,” grew out ‘of Miss ‘Rodgers’
nation’s
Officials yesterday also prepared arraignment of his assailant.
*“Onee Upon A Mattress.” The new show, already ‘entitled
i
the
tion arising-from his attempted
|
man
need
for
operation.” secretive about
seized
after
firing
two
shots from a small caliber pistol into Verwoerd’s head at range at a Johannesburg cultural
exposition
close agri-
Saturday.
The
Prime Minister had just defended his policy of strict segrega(See
RACIAL,
Page
21)
pictures
of
the
wounded
South African premier crumbling to the ground dominated newspaper
front
pages
tinent. Editorials. assassination gravity’of an tion. There play fired tions
across
the
con-
said the attempted had deepened the already tense situawas much headline
on the fact a white man the buliets with its implica‘of stirring unrest among
European minion. Br The
Plenienty
story
of
in
the
do-
thel shooting
was
told in thousands of words under massive black headlines, many unsympathetic to Verwoerd.
Dead Actor's Brother Denies ,
Beverly's Claim Of Suicide / HOLLYWOOD (#—William ciu, an aspiring actor who to follow
in the
late Errol
Stantried
Flynn’s
whose professional name is Shawn Tanner. He told the Associated
Press:
footsteps, died yesterday—about 24 hours after he shot himself in front of Beverly, Aadland, Flynn’s
“Why would Billy want to rape her? He and Beverly have been going together every night for six
last
weeks.
flame.
Beverly, a 17-year-old nightclub entertainer, told police® that Stanciu, 20, forced his way into her apartment at gunpoint and raped her early Saturday. She said he threatened to kill her, then sobbed: *J love you too much ...1 can’t kill you?”’ and shot himself in. the head. Police
said
lying across for bathing one
leg.
they
found
Stanciu
a bed, nude except trunks slipped over
Beverly
was
next
door,
in- where she had gone to call police. She wore a red housecoat and blue
“fes-
Everybody
in
town
knows
that.” Miss Aadland, who has been taken to Juvenile Halli, told authorities Stanciu asked to marry her and that she refused. “He told me that I had ruined his life—that he loved me, but I didn’t love him, and he was going to kill me,’’ Beverly sobbed. “That’s a pack of lies,” Kenneth
asserted. “‘Beverly asked Billy to marry
her
a
few
weeks
ago.”
Stanciu died in the General Hospital prison ward. He was booked on a rape charge Satur-
Her. story was bitterly denied day. Police listed the death as of ‘Labor’s. migra- | by the dead youth’s brother, Ken-. suicide and -said they have ne neth, 22, another would-be. actor plans at present for an: inquest. (See. ‘PARADE, Page ay
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