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Detroit * More Arrests Promised in Big Roundup
By United Press DETROIT, Nov. 10— Authorities] promised more arrests today in|
the motor city’s first major crack-|
down on union-busting terrorism) fn the wake of a Senate crime! committee investigation of labor violence here.
Seven mien were seized by police]
when an investigation of gam-
bling in industrial plants turned|
up an “organized plan” to intimidate workers from forming or joining a union.
One of those arrested was
Augustino Orlando, 25, son-in-law) of ex-convict Santo (Sam) Per-!| rone, who figured prominently in|
Kefauver Committee hearings on strike breaking at the Detroit Michigan Stove Co. and headcracking at the Briggs Manufacturing Co.
Follows Pattern
All of those arrested were released on $1000 bond by Recorder’'s Judge George Murphy. Their hearings were set for Nov. 15. In a written statement following the arrests, Wayne County Prosecutor Gerald K. O'Brien declared: “It has been ascertained that there was, and is, an organized plan of operation on the part of certain persons to prevent employees in some plants from either joining a union or forming & union ‘of their own choice. “The organized plan follows a pattern of outright threats, intimidation and use of coercive measures.” ‘Find Big Push’ The alleged plot came to light while a special police squad was| checking reports that widespread gambling, chiefly the numbers racket and horse betting, was allowed to flourish in Detroit's motor industry. “The crime committee estimated the annual “take” as several hundred million dollars in the Ford plants alone. ‘CIO United Auto Workers’
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Kiwanians' Gift Gives Boys Lift At County Center
A new kind of teaching has § been launched at the Marion | |County Juvenile Center.
With the gift of $1000 in sho {equipment by the Downtown | { Kiwanis Club, the Center has | started regular wood-shop courses | {under the instruction of a Board | {of Education teacher. Tim Blakley, chairman of the | Boys and Girls Committee of the | Kiwanians, said the club hoped the training would help head some {of the boys at the Center “toward | {a productive life as a craftsman.” | “If we can install that idea in| just a few boys, our project will (be a success,” he said. | Included in the gift are two mechanical saws, a drill press and a number of hand tools. { Under the instruction of John G. Metzker, a seminary student at Butler University, the boys’ get! from four to six hours of stop training each week. One boy who previously had | been unable to fit into any Center || program has displayed his first interest in the wood shop.
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NEWEST PYLE SCHOLARS—Selection of these Indiana University journalism students as Ernie Pyle scholars brings to 42 the number who received grants from the $50,000 fund established in 1945 at the alma mater. of the war correspondept”Ti=his memory. Seated, left to right: James P. McNeile, South Bend, and John R. Miles, New Castle. Sthnding: Kenneth E. Bergmann, Oak Park, Ill.; Robert J. Longood, Crafton, Pa.; G. Robert Averett and Thomas C. Balow, both of Michigan City: Pow R. Lamb > and Scott R. Schmedel, N. Manchester. Not shown is Robert Wilcox, rovidence, R. I.
officials said the union-busting
Soin, san, of Be Soe Mysteries Haunt Crawford County
Detroit Michigan Stove. The UAW charged that for six weeks “hoodlums” have been beating workers, slashing tires
By ANDY OLOFSON and some jewelry belonging to
Times Staff Writer bn : the murdered pair. i pe OR IL ENGLISH, Ind, Nov. 10—Deep in the murky depths gate Police believe they were!
effort to get them to desert their of nearby Mitchell Creek Valley lie the answers to a long victims of a gambler-land slaying, |
local union, which recently won series of mysteries that have puzzled law enforcement offi- but once again there is no positive] 3 Seliestive bargaining election cials. proof. The case still is listed] It was reported a “final big Everyone in this topsy-turvy- RR Badokved push” was set for Monday to land South Indiana county read- : ha " Matter of Chates |} such things around here. The awild territory surrounding
its share of unexplained ey sence supersti this hillside-perched city is made) |crimes. tious close-mouthed attitude to order for hiding incriminating) | But further than that, no one local citizens has stymied pracc evidence. Parts of the roller Report on Little Eva will say. When asked for details tically every investigation. coaster wilderness probably have BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 10 (UP) OF any of the mysteries, local cit- i test SX ambies he the not been visited by human beings —Mrs. Eva Peron was reported /izens look around uneasily and tne three one-room Gy of in years. Discovery of any mur“clam up.” in nearby Johnson Township. der evidence probably would be As one old-timer put it: “Sonny, Officials are satisfied the fires JUSt a matter of chance. rs 1 these } rn : Ppeas t But even if a local hunter hap-|| ’ or "by whom” are just two more pened to stumble across some] unanswered questions to embellish tell-tale signs, there is no definite! {the mystery saga of Mitchell jndication that such would be {Creek Valley. reported to officials. If past history repeats itself, The “see no evil, tell no ew ithe solution never will be ob- tradition is that firmly entrenched! tained. in this territory. It is in this hilly wilderness Some day Mitchell Creek Valley |
that no fewer than eight un- may yield its secrets, but there is! solved murders occurred in one no indication that it will be soon. |
square mile in the early part of 0 FDR Relics Offered
this century. Then as now, all questioning by i law enforcement officers was met NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (UP)— |with the universal shrug of the Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt today of-| {shouldery. fered for sale 1450 items for the) Perhaps the personal collection of the late]
most celebrated mystery in the history of Craw-(Erotident and his family. !
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Fry, president and treasurer of ipa, the stove company could not be reached for comment.
and weakness” following the ma-|
{jor operation she underwent last with all these killings, disappearoll wy g pe were deliberately set. But “why”
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em SUNDAY, NOV. 1, 1951
| Oatis’ Kin Told to Pray For Release
God.” That's what Kasenkina told Bill Oatis’ first cousin here yesterday. She talked for an hour’ with Robert Oatis and his wife, who made a special trip from Marion to ask if she had any suggestions that might lead to the liberation of the Hoosier newman imprisoned by the Czech Communists.
# =n o SHE also conferred with Royal | Dickens, exalted ruler of the Elks {in Marion, just back from Wash|ington where he delivered to the | White House a petition signed by | 11,000 persons demanding the re{lease of Mr, Oatis. As for Communist thought con- | trol, Madam Kasenkina said in | her broken English: “Everybody |in Russia who has thinks (who 3 . Ray | expresses thoughts of freedom) z | goes to prison.” ‘AN | She delayed her departure for PROJECT "A"—Tim Blakley and John Metzker inspect a |Bloomington to see the Oatises ‘and Mr. Dickens.
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; J Messamore, who is now in At-
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| Doris Sturgeon, mother of {Thomas Vandiver,, has heard nothing from hep son. Officials are convinced the trio was slain, but no trace of the {bodies has been found despite widespread excavation on Messamore’s farm. Without the “corpus delicti” there can be no official conclusions of homicide. | $3200 Ignored | Another famous slaying mys- | tery to get its start in the wilds of Crawford County was the November, 1945, double slaying of 33-year-old George Tyson and 22-year-old Ethel Sparks, both of E. St. Louis, Ill. . Their mutilated bodies were found buried in a shallow grave in a cornfield near Rockport—20 miles east of where it is believed | they were slain. Tucked in the brassiere of . the young woman was $3200 in cash. However, officials feel sure the pair was tortured and then killed , *% fig ,, {in a barn on the Ransburg farm ny Ez, {near Sulphur, a small town in
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