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CLUBMAN ONCE RODE WITH COSSACKS Count Tolstoi Dies in City DETROIT fKEE PKti.S ednesdav. June 10. 5t Enjoy The Fun Of Playing The World's Finest Organ Meged Racket Chiefs Mum hout Chicago-Area Vice I i i s' i of the Vnndotejra member. Club. Ell URLiTZ by the Senate Rackets Cnmnnt-' te to get them to talk.

L'sing the fifth amendment as WASHINGTON A reputed cniettain of the Chicago underworld and an alleged keeper of a Oovise of prostitution all efforts '1 iies.iav His wife is his only survivor. The body will be in the William R. Hamilton Co. Chapel. 0975 Cass, through Wednesday evemng.

Auto Kills Boy oil Wav SM00.0VHI in a five-year span out of a SI 0.3(10 investment in illegal pinball deiees. Gifts from Lakeside Specialty. Duffy went to Metro Holovaehka. Lake County pro secutor: Sheriff Jack West: Mayor Walter Jeorse of East Chicago, and several rther officials IN TESTIMONY Holovaehka denied getting anv monev from racketeers or labor unions. he ackno'vledged he may have received the S30n worth ot gifts he was listed as having received from Lakeside in 1P56." Spjvh'ps for Count Cyril Tol-oi.

64. prominent Detroit clubman and retired broker, will be held in the family borne iso Iewiston Road. Grosse Pointe-farms, at 2:30 m. Burial will be at Eimvood1 Cemetery. He died Mondav msht in Henry P'ord after an operation for a brain tumor several weeks Born in Russia, at tbe summer palace of the Czar in the pame family that included novelist Leo Tolstoi, the Count had lived in the United State? 2S years.

He was an American citizen. UK WAS educated at Imperialist Russia's "West rjnint" Corps des Pages, and was an officer in the Horse Guards of the Imperial Army, In the Bolshevik revolution. he joined the Cossacks to fight the Reds and later became liaison officer for the British Expeditionary Forces in Russia until the evacuation to Turkey at the end of ne revolution. Holder of a title that wa granted under Peter the ireat in the early 1700's. the Count trained steeplechase horses, He was married in New York in 1929 to Gwendolyn Currie, daughter of a prominent Detroit family.

It was a second marriape for both. His first marriage to Eleanor McCormick. of Seattle, was annulled. Her marriage to Wesson Seyburn. of Grosse Pointe, ended in divorce.

The Count and his wife lied for two years in Paris and then returned to the Currie home in (irosse Pointe farms. The Count was a shield. Sam (Moony) Gian-canna and John "Formosa refused to answer any questions about gambling and vice in County. near Chicago. Giancanna has been named as hehind-t he-scene director of rackets in that area.

COMMITTEE investigator Fieri Salinger said Giancanna reported 5520. 00O in income in 1P50-1957. Another committee investigator said Formosa's tax icturns leflect an income of sil 4.000 from the M. fr J. Mote! in Gary in lf5.Vlf.".

Karlier in the day, several witnesses connected with the Lakeside Specialty Co, an East Chicago Ind. i coin-nrachinc Count Cyril Tolstoi From Class A nine-year-old Linrn'n Park hoy was injured fatailv Tuesday by an auto as he raced Supervisor I MARTIN J. HSCHER-Services will be Friday morning for I Mr. Fischer, 75. a resident of jHamtramck 70 years, who died Monday nigrht in Grace Hosm-tai.

He lived at 2215 Yemans, Hamtra-mck. Services will be at a.m. in the. R. G.

and G. R. Harris Funeral Home. 14751 W. M.C-Xichols.

and at in St. John1 the Evangelist Roman Catholic: Church. 2238 E. Grand Blvd. A former employe of the Goe-bie B'Twing Fischer is survived by his wife, Catherine: three daughters Mrs.

Irene Gassam. of Highland Park: Mrs. Pearl Vorgitbh. of Livonia, and Mrs. Catherine Abraham, of Dc-itroit eight grandchildren, -and three great-grandchildren.

LESSON 'LOAN PLAN I 1- i 1 hmie from S195 his fourth-grade AI) l.liTlSK.M When Your Doctor Says "Mineral Oil, -Get The Best, Demand- Only J. 11. JIMM ilclasses. 0 Frank L. Ricki refused on Fifth Amend one of four SIOC rjf children of Rudoiph and Rosaria ASJLk3 Rictti.

of 775 Mih. Lincoln Park. 'was dead on arrival at Peoples ment grounds to give the committee information. Committee I est i a or l.a-vern Duffy testified that Lakeside Specialty took in FAYS FOR EVERYTHING With Option To Buy llcrr'n hot You Celt Use of organ in your homft Private weeHy John R. Osbnrn.

member of community Hospital Lincoln GENTLY RELIEVES ORDINARY GT1 PATIOM i ne avne i. oumv Koarct oi 1 ir-. ENGINEER on (he go Supervisors and former clerk of River Rouge, died Tuesdav in Columbia Medical Hospital. lies MOHAWK on convenient AH lesion music moter'ol I 1 So' Mrs. Irene E.

Banks. 21, of Livernois. Detroit said Frank and anrther boy came from behind another autn as she drove on Fort at liarfield. AVOID DAYS OF INCONVENIENCE! We're speciathts in all kind of denfal plate repairs. schedules xoork done he's Oshorn.

62. lived at 2 Chest home the same day NATHAN McCLELLAN Mr, McClellan. 61. an employee! of the Detroit office of the Army Corps of Engineers, died Tuesday in his home a.t 17278 Bentlcr. i WURLIlZER 1 509 BROADWAY WO 2-3550 I 2931 Biddle WYANDOTTi Plop eri intormntirtn hnut the Wurlitaer.

Orion Uin ton" Finn Dental Me.np 3rd rrtJ'ihed ohii you wit Mn-murr. r.bJ-qc WO 3-6281 Opfn Pnily 9 p.m. Saturdoy 9 to 6 m. 4 nut. River Rouge.

He suffered a stroke last January. He was River Rouge's first reereation director and Kiver Rouge Higih Schools first athletie director and coarli. Born in Hnsston. X. Os-born u-as a nine-letter man at Albion College.

He taught at River Rouge High School 25 years, and in Taylor Township schools for twn. Frank was struck before she could stop, she said, and th other hoy ran away from the accident scene. The dead boy was a student at St. Henrv's School, Lincoln Park Patrolman John Tipler said Mrs. Banks was on '-ay to the Lincoln Park-Shopping Center.

She was not held. ORIGINAL DENTAL LABORATORIES Downtown nt Or. Circus Pork, ncro? from fye's He had lived in Detroit 45 years. Surviving" ar his wife. Ethel: a son.

Ross: a daughter, Mrs, Polly Jess, twn sisters, two brothers and seven grandchildren. Services will be at 2:00 m. 'Thursday the Harris Funeral Home. 14751 W. McNichols.

Burial will be in Roscland Park Cemeterv. 202A WoodwnrH Pcilv 9 3D Mm nd Wed. 1 30 to 8 39 A VETERAN of World War, Oshorn was also active the American Legion. i 1 He was ro-chairman of the River Rouge Good a' member of the Kiwanis Club and Epworth Methodist Church, and a Mason. He was secretary- treasurer of the Allied Veterans Council.

He is survived by his Lillian, a -brother, and two sisters. Nov! rS 'A Li ii "li Li J', 1 jt' C.L.VKK K. HAhLK A member of the legal department of Dow Chemical Mr. Baker. .14.

died Tuesday in Midland General Hospita-1. A native of N.Y., he was a graduate of the University, of Michigan and University of "Detroit Law School. Before joining Dow he was associated with the Traveler's' Insurance Co. in the Detroit Mid Midland offices. Surviving are wife.

Man' Jane: a son. Douglas Clark: a daughter. Nancy Clark: his mother. Mrs. Rov Abbey, a 'sister and a brother.

Ser ices will be p.m. Friday in the Edward Girr-bach Funeral Home, ing3 W. Jefferson. Fiver Knne, There will be a joint Masonic-Legion service in the funeral home Thursday evening. An-1 other military service will be1 conducted at Hie Michigan I Memorial Park.

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X. Y. K'reilerifk Rice. 71. retired president of Gin At textbook publislicrs: in Boston.

Karl I'tiKe. 5T. president of the t'ninri Starch and Refining in I rrf Ind. W'H'Iker. TP.

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