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126 No. 148 24 Pages Seven Cents SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1956 On Guard for 125 Years Against Voisine, Gillman at Trial IT J3 Lziry i.mu.uiUiii i i iii.nnm i iniiiiiiiiiiii j.iJt;i.;.i-i...;j i. .1. i.iimiuii iiji. 1.

1.... mini minim n'i 1 1 1 1 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtm irjnwwm (r f'- mK'irA i I 4 I I i This Was the Scene as Voisine (Dark Glasses) and 17 of His Associates Were Arraigned Friday Afternoon on Graft Grand Jury Indictments. Voisine Ilad Lost Ilis Jaunty Smile. Ford Lists Price Hikes For 1957 List of 18 Indicted Trilck to Describe Payoffs in Ecorse Report He Has Received Immunity from Arrest Stevenson Gives His School Plans Includes Federal Aid, Savs Cost aV Would Be Within Reason Adlat, Wallace pass but don't speak. Page 5.

Frre Prrsa Wire Service Ford Motor Co. announced: its suggested list prices onj 1957 cars Friday night, 'dis- closing a $93 addition for the; V-8 engine and increases rang-j ing from $53 to $104 on 80 per cent of its models. i MILWAUKEE Adlai E. Stevenson Friday night Increases on the others will range from $1 to $11. i proposed a three-point program, including Federal aid, to meet the "very grave danger" posed by the "crisis" in American education.

meet the teacher BY KALPn NELSOX tee Pret.ii Stp.f Writer Russell R. Trilck, 49-year-old Downriver gambling king, will appear as a State witness against two of the Ecorse officials named Friday in the Graft Grand Jury indictments, the Free Press learned. A confidential source named the two men after he became alarmed when first reports from the Grand Jury indicated that Trilck had joined William Montry in informing on all of the 31 persons indicted or sought on warrants. The source noted that Trilck's decision "to talk" did not involve any of his underworld associates but only two Ecorse officials. and help shortage.

The average suggested list price increase on all models, due to higher material and finished goods costs, will be 2.9 per cent, R. S. McNamara, Ford Motor Co. vice president and Ford Division general manager, said. Sueeested list prices on six- The Democratic Presidential nominee outlined his views in a national television speech.

Stevenson advocated these three steps: Development of a national 3 A close study of whether the nation should adopt a program of loans or scholarships for college students. cylinder Ford cars range, from educational policy to co-ordinate efforts, to solve school problems. 2 Fedpral aid to schools, to finance school construction STEVENSON" said he was aware such programs "don't SI, 685 for the Business luaor in the Custom series, an increase come iree or even cheap. Free Press Probe Nets 31 Warrants Ecorsc Clique Faeing Bribe, Gambling Charges BY WILLIAM F. CHAPMAN AND TOM CRAIG Frre Ir Staff Writer Ecorse Mayor William W.

Voisine and 30 of his government-by-larceny clique were indicted by the Graft Grand Jury Friday for conspiracy to violate State gambling laws and for extorting and accepting bribes from gamblers. Eighteen of them were immediately arrested, and were arraigned Friday afternoon before Grosse Pointe Justice of the Peace Douglas L. Paterson. The 18 were released on bond at 4:15 p.m. Date for their court examination was tentatively set for Oct.

8. AMONG THE 18 were: The Ecorse Mayor, the purchasing agent, city controller, personnel director, two councilmen, all four members of the police and fire commission, three police inspectors including a former chief of police two Ecorse businessmen and two notorious Downriver gamblers. One of the police commissioners Irving Steffes, 44, of x4572 Monroe, Ecorse is a Wayne County deputy sheriff. Sheriff Andrew C. Baird suspended Steffes immediately upon learning of his indictment.

The suspension will last "until he has his day in court," Baird said. One of the rouncilmf indicted Francis Labadie, 47, of 61 Labadie, Ecorse is mayor pro-tem and has been a math instructor at Ecorse High School for the last 28 years. Maximum penalty for the conspiracy charge is five years in prison or $10,000 fine. In Ecorse, a city hall clerk said: "Who's left to run the city?" Judge Theodore R. Bohn, the grand juror, said there was more to come more indictments in Ecorse, some charging crimes other than gambling.

NAMED LN THE indictments as co-conspirators, but not indicted, were William Montry, former president of the Ecorse police and fire commission whose confession of graft involved many of the others, and Russell Trilck, Downriver numbers czar. The failure to indict Trilck and Montry indicated that they were granted immunity from prosecution. Bohn and Joseph Sullivan, assistant attorney general as-Turn to Page 4, Column 1 of $90, to $2,402 for the Country Squire station wagon, an increase of $77. The 18 Ecorse citizens indicted by the Graft Grand Jury Friday are: WILLIAM W. VOISINE, 58, of 4000 High; Mayor.

WALTER CHASE. 55, of 36 W. Westf ield purchasing agent. JOHN BADER, 43, of 52 West Rockwood; personnel director and former purchasing agent. ALBERT BUD AT, 47, of 4222 High: councilman.

ANDREW J. COOK, 65, of 3799 Fourteenth; former bar owner. ROSCOE BOBO, 44. of 4132 Tenth: police inspector. JOSEF1I KOVALCHICK, 43, of 56 Ridge; hoodlum and gambler known as "Bookie Joe." NICK STROIA, 59, of 4071 High; director of weights and measures, former police commissioner.

IRVING STEFFES, 44, of 4572 Monroe; police commissioner and Wayne County deputy sheriff. PATRICK SLITTI, 45, of 4333 Tenth; police commissioner. PAUL SACHEXHEIM, 55, 28 W. Woodward; hoodlum and downriver gambler. GREELEY DUKES.

43, of 3744 Nineteenth; police commissioner. HARRY MONKS, 37, of 53 W. Westfield; police commissioner. ROOSEVELT LACKEY, 43. of Eighth; deputy chief of detectives.

FRANCIS LABADIE, 47, of 61 Labadie; councilman. ALVLV GILLMAN, 53, of 4544 Monroe; police inspector and former police chief. J. C. WALLS, 40, of 4030 Nineteenth; publisher of the Telegram, a Downriver Negro weekly newspaper.

WILLIAM JONES, 39, of 4297 Tenth; City controller. SUGGESTED list prices on options and accessories range from a reduction of $5.85 for Turn to Page 2, Column 5 fnfer fh orgeif fomiy eonfeif! Big prizes for snapshots? The Detroit Free Press Photographic Show "But i would say this, first, the cost of these programs are not nearly so large as their opponents will try to pretend." "Second, I think every dollar invested in a child's education will repaid with interest in his increased productivity as a member of the American society and economy. Indeed we cannot afford to be pennywise and people-foolish," he said. Stevenson said it was the basic assumption of his school program that all children be treated "as completely equal regardless of race, creed or color or economic condition." STEVENSON SAID the matter of education in America "to Fine Weather For Grid Fans Over Weekend A summery 76 degrees will TODAY'S PROGRAM: Saturday, September 29th "Trilck would have been a fool to pigeon on anyone of his gambling connections. There are ways he could be repaid," the source said.

The source named Mayor William Voisine and Yormer Police Chief Alvin Gillman as the men Trilck will testify against. Trilck will publicly admit paying off these two officials in the court trials, the source said. Interviewed in his home at 712 Buckingham, Lincoln Park, the gambler refused all comment. "I have been instructed by Judge Bohn not to talk to newspapermen," Trilck said. "Besides, I couldn't without violating the oath of secrecy." ALTHOUGH TRILCK would not talk, the Free Press source was able to fill in the details with the keen insight of a "guy who knows the score." The source admitted Trilck had received immunity in return for his story of the payoffs he made to Voisine and Gillman.

A veteran of two previous Grand Jury inqui- Turn to Page 4, Column 7 day and tomorrow is about as important a question as there is." He said he rated it "second greet Michigan football fans Saturday. It will be even hotter Sunday, with the mercury climbing to 80 degrees, the weatherman said. "Warm, windy and partly cloudy with no rain until Sunday night," he added. Meanwhile, the Detroit Health Department officially closed the "hayfever season" Friday by dropping the daily pollen count. The pollen count Friday was only one.

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Sullivan said the Free Pres3 "printed articles that were used by us as prime leads in our investigation. "It is my honest opinion that credit for the spade work that led to these grand jury indictments should go to the Free Press." Circuit Judge Theodore R. Bohn went on record Friday to credit the Free Press with the spade work that led to his Graft Grand Jury and its wholesale indictment of Ecorse officialdom. In crediting the Free Press investigation with uncovering a spider's nest of Downriver corruption, Bchn was joined by Joseph Sullivan, assistant attorney general assigned to the Grand Jury. "When no one else was interested in the Ecorse situation, the Free Press went in and did a job of spade work that created so much pressure it caused the conspiracy to crack," Bohn said.

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