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126 No. 130 38 Pages Seven Cents d) rp IP IM- hi 1 1 1 1 1 6 VJ L3 Dri iver LJ Jk LJ LJ LJ v-j LJ 7F1 yfT Suspended By liiglis Ke-Ei ects Deni Gover, nor frHE ADVENTURES OF NASIB HAMEL Agent Rushed Grand Jury Opens Probe of Ecorse Voting Suburb Cancels Meeting Of Election- Commission ith 2 Muskie Gets Handy Victory 2nd Democrat Wins Race for Congress Other Political Stories on Pages 6 and 7 Free Pref Wire Service PORTLAND, Me. Maine, long deemed a Republican fortress, Monday returned its Democratic Governor to a second term. The Democrats also captured at least one of the State's three House seats in Washington. Boyish looKIng Gov.

Edmund S. Muskie, 42, trounced GOP House Speaker Willis A. Trafton to become the first Democratic Governor to be re-elected in a presidential year at least since the Civil War. In 595 of 630 precincts, Muskie had 156,716 votes to Trafton's BY WILLIAM F. CIUPMAN and TOM CRAIG Free Preii Staff Writer Circuit Judge Theodore R.

Bohn, graft grand juror, Monday sent two new investigators, furnished him by Secretary of State James M. Hare, into the probe of vote fraud charges in Ecorse. Bohn said that he will subpena Ecorse registration and election records for the last several years. He did not say how many years he would go back or when he will order the records brought in. a.

Demetrios Koutsimbas Shaves Raw He Hopes to Win Pay By a Close Shave Discharged Worker Seeks $1,300 in Jobless Benefits Demetrios Koutsimbas, 31, had to shave off a four-day growth of whiskers Monday without shaving cream to prove his right to $1,300 in unemployment compensation In One Day This is the last chapter in an exciting story by a young narcotics agent, who assumed the name of Nasib Hamel to smash worldwide dope operations. Here is his story as told to two Cleveland Tress reporters. BY AGENT As Told to Bus Bergen and Kay DeCrane "If you ever cause me trouble I'll kill you like a These were almost the first words spoken to me by Fajli Beden-Oglu. I had no cause to doubt he meant what he said. For one thing he had a pistol aimed at my head as he spat out his threat.

For another I knew that Fazli, shaggy haired, heavily mustached, was one of the really tough characters in the Turkish opium smuggling business. I am very happy he never had the opportunity after I did cause him trouble- to carry out his threat. So you may know more of Fazli Beden-Oglu, let's" go back to the days after the mountain top laboratory incident about which you read. Word of that raid and the untimely end of Mehmet Ozyurek had swept through Turkey and my days as "Abdullah, the Arab dope smuggler from North Africa," were ended. I FLEW FROM Izmir back to Istanbul.

There I received new orders from District 17 in Roma "You have been Nasib Hamel, the American gangster. "You have been Abdullah, the Arab. "You now will be known as Antonio, the wealthy Italian opium buyer." So that was it. As "Antonio from Italy" I made the rounds of the coffee houses, the card and dice rooms of Istanbul. My complexion and features made it unnecessary for me to disguise myself.

The Italian language is as easy for me as Turkish, Arabic, Spanish or French. In a coffee house I met a tall, skinny, nervous Turk named Yasha, who was to be the key that opened the door to success in this latest assignment. Yasha was a man who for a commission lined up purchasers' for the opium smugglers who. operated back in the Turkish mountains. LIKE ALL traffickers in dope, Yasha was greedy.

In addition he was tubercular. Knowing perhaps that he had not long to live he let his greed overcome caution He was so impressed with the money I flashed at him and the prospects of big commissions for himself that he went overboard in vouching for me to the opium dealers. I told him I wanted to place an order for 300 kilos of opium. He said it could be arranged for $4,500. Then he asked me for $40 in expense money to go into the mountains to arrange a meeting with the supplier.

He promised to return in three days. At this point I wasn't sure who was going to turn out to be the better con man, Yasha or me. Although not certain I would ever see him again, I gave him the $40. Arrests My confidence in yasna was restored when promptly three days later I received a message from him at my hotel in Istanbul. "Go to the Lyla Palace Hotel in Corum and wait." HAVING LEARNED the wisdom of a policeman serving a3 chauffeur, I went to the Director of National Police in Turkey and obtained the services of a new driver.

Two days later, while I was washing in my hotel room in Corum, two men burst into our unlocked room. The spokesman announced he was Fazli Beden-Oglu. He Turn to Page 2, Column 1 You'll Find: Accused of Helping Another Horse Win BY K. T. THOMPSON Free Press Staff Writer Racing Driver Duane Hoose, 32, of Northville, was suspended indefinitely Monday night for allegedly assisting another driver to win a race at Northville Downs Aug.

2. State Racing Commissioner James H. Inglis suspended Hoose and ordered continued investigation into alleged racing shenanigans at the Northville track. HOOSE WAS suspended when he reportedly confessed that he had "held back the field" to permit Driver Foy Funderburk' to win with Cherry Adam. Hoose's horse, Miss M.

Direct, finished" second. Hoose reportedly confessed when confronted with a tape recording of his conversation concerning the Aug. 2 race. The recording was made when a special investigator secreted a microphone in his quarters. Reportedly, the tape recording involved the-names of a number I of owners and drivers.

SAM REEVES, owner of Miss M. Direct, was questioned for more than an hour by Inglis and Wilbur De Young, assistant attorney general. Reeves and all other drivers in the questioned race will be quizzed further Tuesday at a confirmation of the hearing in the office of Hazel Park Raceway. The drivers in the race were Jack Williams, Mel Stump, Eddie Barne3, Jack Aldrieh, Don Hall and William Jones. REPORTEDLY, Inglis will inquire into reports that Hoose and Reeves bet on Cherry Adam and purchased a $50 win ticket for Funderburk.

Funderburk denied knowledge of Hoose's actions and said he had received no win ticket. The information was ferreted out by a. special investigator put on the case Aug. 3, day after the race in question, when rumors were circulated that something was amiss in the Aug. 2 program.

Planes Battle Fire Started By AF Jet SAN DIEGO, (JP) Fire-fighting planes flew Monday into the battle against a timber and brush fire started by crashing Air Force jet plane Saturday. A coast guard helicopter rescued the jet's pilot as he fell from exhaustion after running for an hour ahead of the blaze. THE UNITED STATES Forest Service said seven of the flying tankers used for the first time in Southern California Sunday to help control an 850-acre fire near La Crescenta were sent to the plane-started blaze 50 miles northeast of here. It had blackened 5,500 acres in a sweep from Pine Mountain through a stretch of the Cleveland National Forest to Mesa Grande, small village south of Lake Henshaw. oee page 29! Win your share of the big U.S.

3 GAME! benefits. He'll have to wait a few weeks to find out if it was worth the trouble. Koutsimbas, of 5S52 Fourth, was fired May 15 from his job at Burroughs Corp. for allegedly shaving on company time. KOUTSIMBAS CLAIMED he was fired because of hi3 activities as an organizer for the UAW.

And anyway, he claimed, he was shaving on his lunch hour not on company time. The case came before Albert W. Haynes, a referee for the Michigan Unemployment Security Commission. since Burroughs opposed Koutsimbas' eligibility for 26 weeks of unemployment benefits. A Burroughs plant-protection man said he knew Koutsimbas was shaving because he saw him with Jather on his face.

"That couldn't be true," Koutsimbas said. "I never use lather. Nothing but hot water and a razor." Haynes and the Burroughs officials expressed disbelief. So Koutsimbas offered to demonstrate. The interested parties adjourned to a nearby washroom wher? Koutsimbas whisked off a four-day growth of beard sans lather with hardly a nick.

Haynes said he'd hand down his ruling in several weeks. A Big Hit LONDON (JP) The American musical Kismet brought down the house Monday night at the famous Old Stoll Thea-Fifteen persons were slightly hurt when part of the ceiling hit them. STORM KILLS As the vote fraud probe rolled forward, the Ecorse City Clerk Patrick B. Trondle called off a scheduled meeting of the Ecorse Election Commission. He said he had "failed to get any word from the office of Director of Elections Robert M.

Montgomery." Montgomery said he had been invited to a meeting by Trondle but had called the clerk and told him he couldn't make it. The meeting was planned to discuss the situation in the city, Montgomery said. He said he had also talked to Bonn and offered the services of his department. The grand juror indicated, Montgomery said, that he preferred to have his own investigators go into the situation for the time being and would ask for help later if it is needed. The widespread voting Ir- regularities in Ecorse were re vealed Sunday by the Free Press, BOHN EXPRESSED particular interest iiK charges that voters were brought into Ecorse at last November elections ana mat residents of River Rouge and Southwest Detroit were imported by the administration of Mayor William W.

Voisine to vote. Ecorse officialdom, notably Clerk Trondle, were inclined to discount the evidence of vacant lot registration, votes by persons unknown at their registered address and votes by persons living outside the city. Trondle blamed such votes on "clerical errors" and "vote inaccuracies." But there were such instances to explain as: The vote of a man registered Eighth whose wife said hej moved four or five years ago and has lived in River Rouge for more than a year. The votes of a man and wife registered at another address on Turi. to Page 2, Column 2 Airport Gets Odd Requests LONDON (U.R) London Airport received these two letters from prospective passengers last week: "As I am expecting a baby when I am due to be flying, will it be possible to, have it in the plane?" inquired one.

The other asked, "Will you please see I have a window seat behind the propellers so I can make sure they are working?" 15 Americans, seven in Korea. TYPHOON EMMA, once 600 miles wide with 155 mph center winds, wrought millions of dollars worth of property damage to buildings, ruined vital crops on Okinawa and left thousands of Okinawans homeless. It pounded Japan w'ith 15 to 22 inches of rain Sunday and Monday, flooding 4,300 houses and thousa: ds of acres of valuable rice paddies. It swallowed up 54 ships in Japanese waters and several others off South Korea, Coast Guard officials said. Why 'Nate' Was Listed As Dead Addresses, Records On Voting 3Iixed Up Nathaniel Tucker, 39, of 3950 Seventeenth, Ecorse, isn't dead.

He was "very much shocked to read of his death in the Free Press," he said with a grin Monday afternoon. It all boils down to a confusion in addresses and voting records by the living Nathaniel and one who died June 2, 1955, in Wayne County General Hospital. ACCORDING to a certified death certificate, the man who died was Nathaniel Tucker, 65, of 2784 Twelfth. Actually, that man lived in the basement at 3784 Twelfth in Ecorse, which is in the 13th Precinct. There is no 2784.

To add to the confusion, the living Nathaniel Tucker resided for a number of years in the Visger Inn at 399 Visger at the corner of Twelfth, a half block from the elder Tucker. They were not acquainted. More than twtr years ago he, his wife, Margaret, and two children, moved to the address on Seventeentn wnicn is in the 11th Precinct. But they didn't bother -to change their voting address. He said he and his wife went to Miller School to vote last November and used the old address when they talked to the election worker.

There another error apparently occurred. The living Nathaniel's vote was registered as having been ca6t by a man registered there as Nathan Tucker, as the dead man generally was known. In its exposure of widespread irregularities in voting procedures at last November's election, the Free Press identified the living Nathaniel as being dead. Nathaniel is very much alive, and bounces off to work daily. Female Tigers Aren't Ladies CINCINNATI (Jp) Two tigresses Monday mauled and chewed to death a fully grown male tiger in a fight that lasted from 20 to 30 minutes in the outdoor grotto at the Cincinnati Zoo.

Zoo officials did not witness the fight, and they do not know what started the junglelike fight among the three big cats. Quake Felt SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (JP) A strong earthquake was felt throughout the country Monday but there were no reports of injury or damage. 110,838. Muskie was polling more than 24,000 votes stronger In this election than he did in 1954 when he defeated Republican Gov. Burton M.

Cross. Muskie's final margin over Cross was 22,375 votes. Democratic State Chairman Frank M. Coffin, 37, edged State Senator James L. Reid, Republican, for the Second District seat Rep.

Charles P. Nelson, Republican, is vacating. Republicans re-elected Rep. Clifford G. Mclntire in the Third District.

First District incumbent Rep. Robert Hale, a Republican, led James r. Oliver, a three-time GOT congressman who switched to the Demo crats. in the First District, with 132 of 156 precincts reporting, Ol- iver polled 45,408 votes to in-! cumbent Hale's 46.580. In 203 of 210 Second District precincts, Reid had 47 232 tr 50,059 for Coffin.

Incumbent Mclntire piled up 39,904 votes to Kenneth Col-bath's 26,068 with 255 of 264 precincts reported in the Third District. MUSKIE repeated in Mon day's first-in-the-nation election what he did two years ago in ousting the GOP from the Governor's chair for the first time in 20 years. Muskie was the only Democrat to win a major office in the 1954 elections but his upset of Gov. Cross was an admitted blow to Republican prestige. The last Democrat to turn the trick was Louis J.

Brann, who was re-elected Governor in 1934. Muskie, a 42-year-old lawyer, was opposed by a veteran politician who was four years his junior. Maine's election, regarded as a traditional "barometer" of American political sentiment, drew heavy voting all day. Adlal E. Stevenson, Democratic presidential nominee, commented: "Next to him (Muskie), I'm the happiest man in the country." Senator Estes Kefauver, the party's vice presidential candidate, who arrived in New York with Stevenson from an appearance in Albany, said Muskie "has done an outstanding job." MILLIONS west Honshu.

Its job was to help find the course of the typho by entering its storm center and dropping automatic dta-col)ecting instruments. Typhoon Emma's death toll included 34 in three in Okinawa including a United States military policeman, one in South Korea, six in the Philippines. It was blamed for the freak ocean current which drowned 11 United States Marines off Okinawa last Wednesday. The injured Included 130 in Japan, 58 in Okinawa including 1 Jacksonville Hotel Swept By Flames JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Fire burned 12 rooms on the seventh floor of the Seminole Hotel Monday night, and one guest was dead, apparently of a heart attack.

Firemen routed guests from the 250 rooms of the nine-story building in downtown Jacksonville and quickly brought the flames under control. SEVERAL guests were marooned momentarily on the seventh and eighth floors when blinding smoke made the corri dors impassable. They were saved by firemen ladders. First aid was given to several persons in the hotel lobby. Opera Company Flies to Africa MILAN (JP) The famed La Scala Opera Company is flying to South Africa in two groups for a series of performances during the Johannesburg Festival.

The first group flies Tuesday, the second a week later. Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" and Donizetti's "Elisir d'Amore" are on the program. Police Busy BRISTOL, England (U.R) Burglars opened a safe in a warehouse next door to a movie theater here Saturday. The theater was filled with policemen studying a film about safe breakers. 55, DAMAGE IN pressure inside typhoon Emma.

It was last heard from 200 miles northwest of Niigata, roughly halfway between the coasts of Japan and Siberia. The Air Force listed the plane missing an hour after its gasoline should have run out. It may have crash-landed somewhere in Japan with its communications knocked out by typhoon fringe winds of more than 50 miles an hour and heavy rain. Six officers and 10 airmen were board the plane, which was based on Tokota In south Silent Holdup Works for Thug LOS ANGELKS (Jp) A gunman got $500 in a holdup conducted entirely in sign language. He got the drop on market clerk Enrique Martinez, then motioned for him to summon proprietor Addy Gerst, 39, to open the safe.

"I didn't understand the sign language too well," Gerst said, "but that .45 automatic he had made everything clear." Dust Collectors Can Collect Money Is your attic piled to the rafters with furniture, outgrown clothing, toys, or whatever? You can get cash for these things you don't need by advertising with a Free Press Want Ad. You'll be delighted with the response from your low-ccst ad. And you'll be happy to have many extra dollars to spend as a result! Simply call WC 2-9400 and a friendly ad-taker will help yau word your ad. Say "chaige it." Or come to your drugstore Free Press Want Ad station. FREE PRESS WANT ADS 16 U.S.

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