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DETROIT FREE PRESS Saturday, Feb. 3. 1951 If Th WAnna Quizzed Again Mazroff -Convicted as Plotter Pal Also Guilty in Blackmail Scheme Hoodlum Dave Mazroff discovered that extortion is no laughing matter. He was found guilty Friday on conspiracy charges growing out of an attempt to extort $10,000 from by Kefauver Assistants Wertheimer Faces Grilling in Nevada For the second time in two weeks, Anthony J. D'Anna, mysterious figure in Detroit's Italian-American colony, was questioned for'Ziz hours Friday night by Kefauver Crime Committee HAIL swim em mm May Cull a Unit if Iiw tf I A I I imui iift i BILLY ROSE 'It's time I was quitting' Billy Rose, Kept Busy Relaxing, Visits City BY NORMAN KEN YON Free Press Staff Writer A new and relaxed Billy Rose arrived in Detroit Friday with some advice for human dynamos.

ANTHONY J. D'ANNA Voice heard in hall 4 CONFESS Crumb Trail Leads Police to Culprits A trail of apple cores and cookie crumbs led police straight to the hangout of four culprits. Police were called after the Shurly School, 20830 Acacia, had been entered. Officers found that a box of apples and several boxes of cookies had been taken from the cafeteria. CRUISING THE neighborhood, they found apple cores and cookie crumbs around a shack in a vacant field.

"Whose swell clubhouse is this?" they asked. Four full tummied youngsters proudly claimed possession. Two were 12 and two were 13. They confessed the theft and were turned over to juvenile authorities. They were later released to their parents.

Dinner Planned MONROE Monroe County 4-H Club leaders will be honored at dinner Tuesday. Convention Hall Put Up for Sale Convention Hall is up for sale. The asking price is "in the neighborhood of $1,500,000," according to Robert F. Grindley, business manager and one of the principal owners of the hall. Grindley, whose family has owned the property bounded by Canfield, Cass, Forest and Woodward for more than 30 years, gave no specific reason for the sale.

"WE HAVE operated Conven tion Hall for so long that we thought it was time someone else carried the ball," he said. The building has been a Detroit landmark for more than 25 years. Over that period, the hall has played host to scores of exhibitions, from the Better Health Baby Contest to huge auto shows. With a ground-floor gross area 263,787 square feet, the hall is said to have the greatest street-level exhibition space of any building in the country. When the Grindley family first acquired the property, it was the site of the old Detroit Athletic Club building.

A LARGE portion of the land was used as a football field by Central High School, then located near by. Work" on the present Convention Hall was begun in 1922. Traffic Jail Gets 4 More 3-Time Offender Handed 90 Days Four more traffic violators went the House of Correction. Pete Lewis, 22, of 9613 Cardoni, drew 90 days for reckless driving. served two 10-day terms previously.

Ten-day terms for reckless driving went to Glenn L. Snell, 26, of 41541 Nine Mile, Northville, and John D. Chaffee, 34, of Wyandotte. Albert L. Carter, 31, of 5735 Stanton, received 10 days for drunk driving.

by Still Just Of Your THE Home Builder Found Guilty of Larceny Accused of Failing to Fulfill Promise Arthur L. DeJordy, 42, of 29504 Cambridge, Garden City, was convicted in the court of Circuit Judge George B. Murphy on a charge of larceny by conversion. He was accused by Mr. and Mrs.

Earl T. Hayter, of 6641 Appoline, of accepting $2,700 from them in 1947 as down payment on a home he was to build for them in Dearborn. He failed to build the home or return their money, they said. Held since last June 1 in the County Jail in lieu of 510,000 bond, DeJordy was returned there to await sentence. The prosecutor's office said there were more than 40 other complaints against DeJordy.

Repairman Held in Home Theft A television repairman, William Shaffer, 23, of 14044 Dacosta, was held Friday in connection with the theft of $125 from a home where he had repaired a television set. Mrs. Barbara Klema, 29, of 8309 Kentucky, reported to police that a small bank containing the money was missing after Shaffer left her home. Day in Michigan BY DONALD F. SCHRAM Too Many Questions Late to His Oicn Fire Onion King Crowned Soapy Dilemma Ever since The Day in Mich igan reported that the Michigan State Library in Lansing would answer questions by mail free, the library has been swamped with queries.

Now John G. Lorenz, assistant state librarian, wants a correction. What he meant to say was that any public library in Michigan would answer questions for free, and the State Library will help out with any that stick the other librarians. Lorenz gives some samples of the tough questions that have been sent in: How many watts does it take to heat water for the average family of five for one day? If you had a 50-quart barrel of vinegar and took out a quart every day and added a quart of water every day, how much vinegar would be left in 50 days? WALTER (Smitty) Schmidt, volunteer fireman at Utica, didn't hear the alarm when it sounded at 6 a. m.

Friday. Chief Ed Stadler and other volunteers had finished quelling a blaze in a gasoline station before Schmidt reported. The fire was at Schmidt's own gas station. ONION KING of Michigan for 1950 was Peter L. Brink, 31, of Grant.

He raised a crop of 1,030 bushels per acre and received an award at the annual Muck Soil Farmers' banquet at Michigan State College Friday. Brink attended the muck soil short course at the college in 1949. TLOODMOBILE of the Red Cross set a record at Sturgis Thursday, collecting 228 pints for the highest total in a single day since the bloodmobile began operations six years ago. Part of the blood goes to Korea; the rest will be used in Sturgis. REPAIRS on a broken water main made it necessary to turn off the water supply in Olivet a few hours every night.

After a Grand Rapids basketball team played Olivet College, two offi cials of the game were late for the shower room in the college gymnasium. Marvin Bylsma and Gene Browne, Grand Rapids, got wet and well soaped, but when it came to the rinse, there wasn't a drop of water. Frank Ham, Olivet coach, came to their rescue with a pailful drawn from pipes still filled. DAN REPPERT of Adrian, off for an ice-fishing expedition, remembered to take fishing gear, bait, mittens, and fuel for the stove in his fishing shanty. Then he shivered for an hour while he speared three pike through the ice of Wampler's Lake.

He had forgotten to bring a match. PYTHIANS of Hillsdale, chartered in 1883, own their own home at last. They have purchased the former Bacon School from the Salvation Army. High Temperature end Areas of Precipitation Expected Saturday Lou Creekmur, Detroit Lions star tackle. In his trial before Recorder's Judge Frank Mazroff contended that the blackmail plot was all a "practical joke." But the jury, composed of five women and seven men, failed to see the humor in it and convicted him.

CHARLES R. JONES, 23, of 13225 Santa Rosa, a co-defendant, also was found guilty. Each faces a maximum sentence of five years, a $10,000 fine or both. They will be sentenced Feb. 9.

A third defendant, Mrs. Jean Kuhn, 27, of 320 Belmont, faces trial when she recovers from an illness. The trio is accused of hatching the extortion plot after an acquaintance, Miss Lucille Gen-off, 19, told them that she had been raped by the football player. On the witness stand, Miss Gen-off, a night club dancer who lived with Mrs. Kuhn, admitted she had submitted willingly to Creekmur.

THE GUILTY verdict failed to dampen Mazroff's spirits in court. He jested with reporters and shook hands with Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Rashid. A self-styled "educated rac keteer," Mazroff has served two terms on felony convictions. He once was a suspect the 1945 murder of State Senator Warren G. Hooper.

Mazroff was an associate of gangster Mike Selik, who was the best man at his wedding. Selik, who jumped bond in Mich igan while facing a term of 20 to 40 years, was arrested Friday in New York after more than two years as a fugitive. STUCK Helping Hand Slaps Him into Jail John Appling. 28, of 9563 Car-doni, will give up trying to be a good Samaritan. He saw a car stuck in the snow at Woodland and Cardoni.

A man was trying to push it free. Appling prepared to give assistance. THEN HE NOTICED it was a police cruiser with three policemen inside. So he pulled two mutuel slips from his pocket, tore them up and tossed them to the breeze. This caught the attention of Patrolman Ervil Goolsby.

Appling was convicted by Recorder's Judge O. Z. Ide of engaging in an illegal occupation. He paid a $75 fine. Ex-Sailor Acquitted of Theft Count Mt.

Clemens Jury Out Only 20 Minutes Special to the Free Preti MT. CLEMENS Jack Erskine, 26, former sailor, was acquitted Friday on a charge of robbery un armed. The jury was out 20 min- utes. Erskine was accused of robbing a Selfridge Field Air Force private and a Mt. Clemens school teacher of $25 on the night of Nov.

12. ERSKINE DENIED the charge. His claim that he was in a Port Huron tavern that night was sup- ported by a bartender and a police man. Missing GI on Death List Detroit Private Added to War Toll A Detroit soldier, previously re ported missing, was listed by the Defense Department as killed in I Korea. Named on the latest casualty list was Pvt.

Cecil J. McCreary, son of Mrs. Dorothy Ross, of 2621 Vermont. Reported wounded was 1st Lt. Frank J.

Barnes, husband of Mrs. Marilyn B. Barnes, of Manistique. U.S. Temperatures (31 Hour Kndrd at 8 P.

Official Government Figures MICHIGAN 16 5 Jackson 4 -10 5 -13 Lansine 7-4 11-2 Marquette 19 -ll Alrna Battle Crk. Cadillac Calumet 5 -zi Muskegon 17 6 6 Sacinaw 9 6 -17 9. S. Marie 13 -10 8-6 Trav. City 15 5 DETROIT Escanaba I'lint Grd.

Kamds 8 MIDWEST Bipmarck 20 4 Indianapolis 8 -19 Chicago 14 -15 Kansas City 28 I Cincinnati 7 15 Milwaukee 9 19 Cleveland 3-5 Paul 14 -19 Pes Moines 21 12 Omana 30 4 Duluth 11 -19 EAST Boston 31 26 Philadelphia 28 22 New York 30 -'5 Washington 26 19 SOUTH Atlanta 24 8 Miami fll 4 Jacksonville 42 26 N. Orleans 33 19 Memphis 20 -11 St. Louis 28-7 WEST 4 Phoenix -IS. Lake City A'buquerjue 27 Denver 44 Ft. Worth 35 Los Angeles 70 Okla.

City 39 1 1 34 10 38 33 3 3 S. Francisco 53 Seattle 47 Detroit sunrise sets. of to I 6 3, 1 'f I II 2 Grandsons Get Bulk of Sales Estate Murray W. Sales, millionaire industrialist who died Saturday, left the bulk of his estate to two grandsons. Outright bequests to other relatives, servants, friends and institutions totaled more than $140,000.

The will was filed in probate Friday. Judge Thomas C. Murphy named the Detroit Trust Co. as special administrator. A hearing was set for March 8.

THE BULK of the estate was set up in trust for the grandsons. Carter Sales, 20, and Murray William Sales, 18. The will stipulated that the youths begin receiving income from the estate immediately. They will receive one third of the bulk at age 38, another third at 45 and the remainder at 50. Other bequests gave a sister, Mrs.

Maud Grainger, a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Virginia W. Cole, $10,000, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles V. Sales, FTVE OF Mr.

Sales' were to be given a servants total of $26,000. Cottage Hospital, of Grosse Pointe, was scheduled for the Grosse Pointe Woods Presbyterian Church, $5,000, and the Yondotega Club, $1,000. Another $1,000 was to go to Mrs. Lawrence Buhl, of Grosse Tointe, "as a token of our friendship and in recognition of her thoughtfulnesn of me." Mr. Sales, 85, was co-founder of a wholesale plumbing firm.

Bandits Get 109 Two holdup men got $109 at Mitz's Variety Store, 8611 W. Eight Mile, late Friday, the owner, Solomon Mitz, 62, of 2341 Richton, told police. One-third a month and 30-day charge accounts invited investigators. Meantime, a committee spokesman announced that Mert Wert-heimer, former big-time gambler in Detroit, will be called to testify when the Senate committee conducts investigations in Los Angeles and San Francisco. WHILE D'ANNA was being questioned his shrill voice could be heard out in the corridor in the Federal building.

D'Anna is owner of the Superior Motor Sales, a Wyandotte Ford, Agency, and a director of the Down River Federal Savings and Loan Association. He refused comment after the lengthy session. W. D. Amis, chief investigator for the Kefauver Committee, also refused to comment.

D'Anna directs the operations. of a new-car haulaway outfit. It was believed that some of the questioning centered on this topic, since his firm transports cars from the Ford Rouge plant to various parts of the country. SUCH OPERATIONS have been investigated by the Kefauver Committee since it was learned that Joe Adonis, a New York gang figure, is involved in the business. Adonis is not known to have made any Detroit connections.

Others questioned Friday were Ahmed Abass, Dearborn mutuels operator, and John R. Scott and Sam Madorsky; reputed Mt. Clemens gamblers. Wertheimer operates the River side Hotel in Reno, a fabulous gambling joint. A SPOKESMAN for the com mittee said that Wertheimer also has "Cleveland connections." Once a Cheboygan haberdasher.

Wertheimer 35 years ago moved into Detroit where he established big-time gambling joints that ran unmolested. He became wealthy But the civic heat put on him during the administration of Gov. Frank Murphy finally chased him to Reno. UAW Asks U.S. to Pay Men Idled A proposal for Federal subsidies for workers laid off because of shifts from civilian to defense production became an official part of the UAW (CIO) program Friday.

AT GRAND RIVER in Book Tower Garage SI 1 Arrived Brand New Spring Shipment Favorite White MANHATTAN Shirts! BLAMES 'OTHER WOMAN' Settling back on a divan in the presidential suite of the Hotel Book-C a i 1 1 a he suggested: "Slow down, boys, while there still is time. You may be missing something that really counts." THEN, REVERTING to the Rose touch, he said: "Girls now are 100 light years prettier than they used to be. They brush their teeth and watch their calories." The diminutive Mr. Big of show business was in Detroit to "meet some of the folks." He also was busy carrying out a doctor's order to "take it easy or else." HE HAS dropped his night club and his popular syndicated column, which appeared in the Free Press. Friday afternoon, he visited the Hudson Motor Car Co.

factory. At present, he spends most of his time producing a weekly television show which is sponsored by Hudson. It appears on WXYZ-TV. Saturday night Rose will attend a Players Club production of one of his TV plays and the Press Photographers Ball. Asked if he lookea with regret upon the closing of his Diamond Horseshoe with its gorgeous girls, Rose retorted: "I'm 51, you know, and I've been in the saloon business for 28 years.

It was time to quit." THE BODIES were discovered at the Sunnyside Trailer Camp, on Packard Road, Thursday night. S. E. Keenan, manager of the camp, called police after seeing no activity at the trailer for two days. The pair, described by Keenan as "one of the nicest couples I knew," had lived there three years.

Neighbors reported hearing them quarreling early Tuesday night. Police said the slaying took place early Wednesday. Three bullets entered Maran der's body while two slugs pierced his wife's chest. Mrs. Marander, who was expecting her first child in May, worked at an Ann Arbor department store until two months ago.

A plunge to degrees below zero is expected by a day morn ing, the Weather Bureau said. The high will be 20. No further snow is expected, however, until Sunday. The wind will be moderate to fresh hwesterly and skies will be partly cloudy, the Bureau said. A low pressure area coming out of Canada will bring Sunday's snow.

Temperature Figure Show Average for Area Denote Wind Flow Snow tvMvMj and low in Inches Mother-to-Be Slays Husband and Herself Special to the Free Pre ANN ARBOR An expectant mother, brooding over her husband's attentions to another woman, shot him to death and then killed herself. Found slain in his trailer home midway between Ann Arbor DUKE and Ypsilanti was Leon Marander, 23. $395 Only A few feet away lay the body of his wife, 25-year-old Mary Alice. Next to her was a .38 caliber revolver. A letter written to Marander's employer supplied a motive for the murder-suicide.

THE YOUNG wife had addressed a letter to Fred Ireland, assistant manager of United Airlines at Willow Run Airport where Marander worked as a ticket agent. It said: "For me there is no one but Leon and never will be. He is my whole life. "Without him I can't go on. I know I do wrong, forgive me." The letter allegedly named Elizabeth Bellman, described as a telephone operator at the airport, as the other woman.

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