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Fort Lauderdale News 0 Buyers come up and see some of Mae West's life W. vM Federal jurors hear tape of Hastings-Borders talk Thursday, Jan. 20, 1983 mhm Section 0 Two pieces of Mae West's jewelry Grandmother oimd stabbed, to death: iv her shadow. I used to kid her because she wouldn't let the exterminator in. That's how careful she was.

She used to say to me, 'Henry, I get my own bottle and "She was very ordinary, very plain and very nice. I don't think she had an enemy in the world. Her children, her grandchildren, that was her life," Weinberger said. On a typical day, Mrs. Lesser would get op early, start up her old Buick, pick up her grandchildren at her daughter's Plantation home and drive them to school, he said.

returned with some fish and a box of chocolate-nut cookies. The news sent Mrs. Weinberger to Bennett Community Hospital with a high blood pressure reading. She was listed in stable condition. "Who could -do something like that," asked Henry Weinberger, 74, who sat alone in his kitchen Wednesday night, worrying about his hospitalized wife and mourning his neighbor.

"She was so careful not to let anybody in," he said of Mrs. Lesser, a neighbor and friend of nine years. "She was afraid of to find a possible motive," Butler said. Also supporting that theory were reports about the viciousness of the attack. Neither Butler nor the Medical Examiner's Office would publicly confirm reports that Mrs.

Lesser had suffered several dozen stab wounds. Mrs. Lesser's friend, identified only as Ethel, found the body about 11:20 a.m. She and the building's many elderly residents, took the news hard. Ceil Weinberger, who played canasta with Mrs.

Lesser and Ethel, had spent the morning in Hollywood with her husband, Henry. They heard of the death when they in her Polynesian Gardens condominium, in the 400 block of Northwest 68th Avenue, sometime before 1 a.m. Wednesday, said a Plantation detective who asked not to be identified. The well-kept, well-furnished, second-floor apartment was not ransacked, so police are operating under the theory that Mrs. Lesser was not attacked by a robber or burglar, said police Capt.

Eton Butler, the detective bureau supervisor. "Right now, it doesn't appear to be a robbery or burglary. The apartment was very clean. We. have people out ing her friends and relatives today trying By Jennifer L.

Schenker and Jack Brennan Suff Writer The two Plantation widows met weekly to play canasta, but they also had a daily arrangement. If the curtains weren't open, Ethel was supposed to check on Ruth. The curtains were drawn Wednesday morning. Ethel checked. She found her friend, Ruth Lesser, an "ordinary" grandmother, dead In the master bedroom of her condominum.

Police said she was murdered. Mrs. Lesser, in her late 50s, suffered multiple stab wounds over her while 4 rim- "WwM8.Tr: I -rl" "Ill ll. Pot best nets 10 in LMP i I i ft 4 fi I 4 5" i v. 7' "This is the lar- gest single seizure in our history.

I am not aware of any other agency making as many arrests at one single location." Sgt. Brace Rohrer i -a aaw-tf Suff photo by DAVID MURRAY JR. Kotaro Shiraishi would like daughter, Nobuko, to attend a supplemental class to prepare her for competitive Japanese schools. By Neil Santaniello Staff Writer LIGHTHOUSE POINT Police seized more than 11,000 pounds of marijuana shortly after midnight Wednesday, ending a three-month investigation that began with an anonymous tip. "This is the largest single seizure in our history," said Lighthouse Police Sgt.

Brace Rohrer, who headed the Lighthouse Point police special response team making the seizure. Ten men were charged with possession and trafficking of narcotics, police Among them i was Lighthouse Point resident William Wickett, who gained notoriety just last week when a settlement gave the Deerfield Beach police department $788,000 consficated from the trunk of his car last November. Others charged were: Tony L. Roscoe, 36, of Miami; Curtis Man-nix, 32, of Boca Raton; Jack Wei-ner, 62, of Lighthouse Point; Robert Cronin, SO, of Jensen Beach, William H. Duncan, 44, of Lilburn, and Ronald Zell, 34; William Ruby, 41; Mark Littlefield, 26, and Frederick Littlefield, 30, all of Fort Lauderdale.

Beginning at noon Wednesday, Lighhouse Point police officers, aided by U.S. Customs officials and Vice Presidential task force officials, staked out a SS-foot yacht after it left drydock at 2631 NE 48th St. on Jan. 13, said Lighthouse Point police Sgt. David Nuce.

The boat. The Jersey Lilly was unloaded at 12:05 a.m. by 10 men. The police moved in minutes later, seizing 250 bales of suspected marijuana with an estimated street value of $3 million, Nuce said. Lighthouse police were alerted nese seek own school up a to the yacht after they received an "anonymous tip from a neighbor" who reportedly saw the boat being unloaded one night, Nuce said.

The suspects were not armed, though "two or three handguns" were found inside the house where the yacht was being unloaded, Nuce said. Four of the suspects tried to hide; one behind a wall of bales, another in a small room in the house, another underneath the bed, and another by jumping over a fence, Nuce said. "I am not aware of any other agency making as many arrests at one single location," Rohrer said. Wickett, 36, was stopped Nov. 5 by Deerfield Beach police and cited for an illegal turn and not having a valid driver's license.

A search of his trunk turned up $1,083,000 in cash. Deerfield Beach charged that a state law gave them the right to seize property used or intended for use in the commission of a felony. In an out of court settlement, Wickett's lawyers agreed to give $788,000 of the confiscated money to the police "From fourth grade on up, nearly all children go to school until 3:30 p.m., then attend between three to four hours of supplemental schools, to prepare for the exams," Mrs. Youngblood said. "The competition begins almost at nursery school." Even so, as many as one in 10 students fail the entrance exams, she said.

Shiraishi, who left Japan 14 years ago, has lived in South Florida for the past four years with his wife, and children, Tomoko, 14, and Nobuko, 10, who both attend Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale. If he returns to Japan in the next two years, he would face a difficult choice in determining Tomo-ko's educational future, Shiraishi admitted. Please see JAPANESE, 4B years, it is very, very difficult for them to fit back Children in Japan take entrance exams not only for admission to universities but for promotion to the nation's top high schools. Overpopulation during the past 20 years has stiffened competition among students. "Right now, we can only open Saturday, as a supplemental class," Shiraishi said.

is not enough, but our main concern is that the children learn as much as they can of the language." Supplemental classes are nothing new to Japanese schoolchildren, said Agnes blood (nee Takako Miyazaki), S3, a teacher of Japanese at Florida International University who left her homeland in 1949. 1 By Michael Romano si Suff Writer Separated from their homeland by an alien culture and half a world, Broward's small Japanese community hopes to bridge the gap in April with a school of their own. These transplants from the Orient, many on temporary corporate assignment, consider it essential that their Children receive once-a-week samplings of the regimented Nihongo Gakko, or Japanese school. "Our system is totally different more difficult, more competitive. The language itself is much more difficult," noted Kotaro Shiraishi, 43, vice president of a Fort Lauderdale import-export firm.

"When you take a child from the Japanese school for several Bigamist 6tired of being henpecked' Quite by accident, Mrs. Anderson heard several weeks after her husband left that a friend of her beautician's would soon be married to a man with a background similar to Anderson's. Mrs. Anderson went to the Broward County Courthouse and there found a marriage license. It showed that Anderson on Aug.

22, 1980, had married Miriam Carol Foerstner, SO, of Pompano Beach. She reported the second marriage to the Broward State Attorney's Office. Anderson was arrested on bigamy charges in December 1980, posted bond and then disappeared until he was arrested in August 1982 for never appearing for trial. He has been held without bond at the county jail since. "Its pretty clear-cut.

He was married to two ladies at once," Ms. Hoague told Circuit Judge Barry J. Stone. Assistant Public Defender Doug McNeill, who represented Anderson, asked the judge to sentence him to time served and release him without imposing a probationary period. "I view this as a less serious offense than i most other third-degree felonies," McNeill said.

Third-degree felonies, which include bigamy, are punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000. "I am sure there are many people in this community who view this as a very serious offense," said Stone before imposing probation. If probation is violated. Stone could impose the maximum sentence. Please see BIGAMIST, 4B "People in the future have a right to know the defendant has a record of this nature," said Prosecutor Kathleen Hoague.

"The thing the women (former wives) are concerned about is that this will happen to someone else." Anderson's first known Florida marriage was to 45-year-old Claire Lemcke, a divorcee he met at a Fort Lauderdale Parents without Partners session in June 1979 and married the next month. Then, one day in June 1980, Anderson left for work and never returned. His bride wai left with the mortgage payments on a house in Boca Raton he had convinced her to buy, $2,000 in credit card charges and $700 less in their savings account The Boca Raton Academy school teacher said she had to get two additional jobs to pay the bills. By Kathleen Pellegrino Staff Writer Andy 'Anderson shook his head and nonchalantly submitted to fingerprints. Bigamy, he said, can happen to anyone.

"I did what a lot of men would like to do. I went to work and never went home. I was tired of being henpecked Anderson, 45, told bailffs who were taking his fingerprints and the judge who had just sentenced him in Broward Circuit Court. Anderson had been in the county jail since Aug. 11 awaiting trial on a charge of bigamy.

But Wednesday, when his trial was to begin, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to time served and 18 months probation. He will also have a record showing that he was found guilty of the charge. Si. 'J Andy Anderson 2 men arrested, charged in shooting Ui inside today U.S. judge restrains sale of bogus boat merchandise A Miami-based boat-products manufacturer has won a temporary restraining order against a Fort Lauderdale marine store that reportedly has been selling counterfeit merchandise bearing the manufacturer's trademark.

Perko one of the nation's largest makers of brass marine products, got the order against the Nautical Emporium, 1364 SE 17th as well as against Massachusetts and Miami stores. Story page 8 Local digest 3 Deaths 6 By Scott G. Campbell and Jack Brennan Staff Writer POMPANO BEACH Police arrested two men early this morning in connection with the kidnapping, rape, rubbery and attempted murder of a 22-year-old Pompano Beach woman. Arrested were Henry Charles Ross, 21, of the 300 block of Northwest 14th Street, and Willie Lee Murray, 22, of the 200 block of Northwest Seventh race, both of Pompano Beach. Both were charged with attempted murder, armed robbery, sexual battery, kidnaping, grand theft auto and possession of a weapon during the commission of a felony.

Thaj were being held with About 11:45 p.m. Wednesday, a Pompano Beach police officer spotted the car near the 700 block of Hammondville Road. Ross and Lee fled into a wooded area after seeing the officer, police said. Police set up a perimeter around the area and called in a Broward Sheriff's Office helicopter. Using an infrared scope, the sheriffs deputy spotted one man hiding behind a bush.

K-9 officer Gary Bader, using his dog, went to the location and found Ross. Ross told police his accomplice was Murray and told them where Murray could be found. He was arrested in the 100 block of Northwest Seventh Avenue as he was knocking on the door to a second floor apartment, said. The suspects then drove her to the 700 block of North Deerfield Avenue, where they robbed her of some cash and jewelry, police said. Murray then walked her from the car, saying he wouldn't hurt her, took her to a heavily wooded park there and shot her in the head, police said.

The men then drove away and left her for dead, police said. The victim staggered about 50 yards and screamed, "Help me" to a passerby who called the police. Deerfield Beach police notified Pompano Beach police of the crime. Cummings said the victim described the suspects and told police that theywere still driving her Datsun auto. out bond in the Broward County Jail.

The woman was in serious condition today in North Broward Hospital after being shot in the head. Deerfield Beach police Lt. Dan Cummings said she was able to talk to detectives and give them information that led to the arrest of the suspects. "That is amazing, with a gunshot wound to the head," Cummings said. About 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday the woman was washing her car at a self-service car wash at 200 East Atlantic Boulevard. The men forced her at gunpoint to get into her car and then drove her to the 300 block of Northwest Fourth Street in Deerfield Beach, wljere ititey raped her, police said..