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ft, Free Press Telephones A Mm Today's Chuckle (h er here they're called coffee breaks. In England they're called absent-teaism. To Place Want Ads For Home Delivery City News Desk Insurance Dept. All Other Call 222-6800 222-6300 222-6600 222-6470 222-6400 THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Sunday, January 27, 1974 Page 3, Section A 0 Crashed. Fireman DRUG WAR Restaurant Supply Firm Burns BY RONE TEMPEST AND MICHAEL GRAHAM Frt Prist Staff Wrltir A young Detroit firman ventured into a burning west side building Saturday afternoon and was crushed to death under a pile of grocery supplies when the floor collapsed beneath him.

The body of Terence McHugh, 30, a four-year veteran of Engine Co. 21 and the father; of two children, was found crushed and severely burned in the basement of Rambeau Products a restaurant supply firm at 9852 Twelfth after a routine count of men revealed he was missing. John Shpilia, chief of the Ninib BatftlJion who led the fight against the two alarm fire shortly after noon, said McHugh apparently entered the building after Slipilia had ordered the men to stay ouL, "He shouldn't have gone in there," said an obviously shaken Shpilia. "I gave orders to stay out but what are you going to do? These guys are all eager beavers and they go into buildings they shouldn't." McHugh, who returned from vacation Saturday and passed out cigars celebrating the birth of a new daughter, was known in the department as a "ffung ho" fire fighter who TIP Response Overwhelming The head of the Michigan State Police said Saturday that public response to the new Turn In Pushers (TIP) program has been "overwhelming," with more than 500 calls received in the first 10 days. The program, which pays Informants for tips leading to major drug seizures or to the prosecution of major dope dealers, was announced by the Michigan State Police Jan.

16. Bounties of up to $30,000 will be paid, the police said. "It's been overwhelming for our manpower," Col. John Plants, head of the state police, said Saturday. "We would like to run down all the information, but we have to sift down to decide which leads we should act on." HE SAID 22 Investigators are now working In the program and he has received assurances from the Legislature that additional manpower can be added if necessary.

He said it Is still too early to know how valuable all the information coming lr will be that some of the tips have been "very good." "We are getting Information which, If It checks out, will be admissible as evidence In court," he said. Plants said that the State Police had received fewer crank calls than anticipated and that people calling in "covered the whole spectrum of responses." "We've had people calling In to say their neighbors are molting pot," be said. we've had people calling In on FrM Prts Photo by JIMMY TAFOYA Firemen carry the body of Terence McIIugh from the building where he died the state's largest traffickers." PONTIAC SHOE STORE ROBBED ound 2 andit-Executioners Kill was often the nrst to go into a flaming building. "He just cooked up a batch of hash for us before ve came-' over here," said a stunned fire fighter, Gordon Pierce, a friend of McHugh's In Engine Co. 21.

"He was a gung ho fireman a very ambitious kid who was studying to be a registered nurse on the side. A lot of times in house fires he would run into the house first and yell out 'Hey Gordy come on McHugh, who firemen said was filling in for another fireman Saturday, was the first Detroit fire fighter to die while fighting a fire since. Thomas Killion was killed in a 1969 blaxe. He said state police Investigators already know the names of the area's suspected major drug peddlers but need evidence that can be used gainst them. The toll free telephone number is 1-800-292-2277.

Any tipster wbo does not want to give his name will be given a multi-digit number. On subsequent telephone calls, or when receiving his reward, the tipster can Identify himself by giving his number, police said. Calls have come In from all over the state, but, as expected, most have come from the Detroit metropolitan area, Plants said. The men shot the trio after they got the money was wounded by a bullet that grazed his head'Miss KesJing was shot in the back. The bullet narrowly missed her Bpine.

Wagner was killed by bullets in the head and back as he lay on the floor with his hands bound. Police did not release additional details of their investigation Saturday. dead when police arrived at Kinney Shoes, 1025 Perry. Jerry Vaught, 20, and Deborah Kesling, 20, were treated for injuries at Pontiac General Hospital and released, a hospital spokesman said. Addresses of the surviving youths are being withheld at the request of police and parents.

MEGGITT SAID TWO black males entered the store around 10:15 a.m. Saturday and pretended to shop for shoes. The men produced guns and tied up two of the employes in a back room, Meggitt said. Then they ordered the third to get them the store's $300 cash, kitty BY JIM SCHUTZE FrM Prtsi Stiff Wrltir Two bandits Saturday tied up three young employes of a Pontiac shoe store the only witnesses to a $300 robbery end then shot them execution style, killing one and wounding two, police said. "These people were shot to keep them from Identifying the gunmen," said Pontiac Police Capt.

Raymond Meggitt. "It was strictly an execution type shooting." No one witnessed the escape of the gunmen, Meggitt aaid. Ricky Wagner, 19, of 6127 Borrowy, Union Lake, was The Kesling girl's mother said after her daughter had been released from the hospital: "We thank the Lord that she's alive." NEIGHBORS said Saturday McHugh and his wife, Christine, 28, and their six- year-old son Timmy had lived for two years at 7270 Penrod Ancient Sea to Your Tracing That Costlv Gas i northwest A 1 Detroit. They said the couple had just recen-t 1 brought their Infant daughter home fromthe hospital. Shpilia said he could tell it was a dan- i McHugh "When I first came here, I worked 11, 12 hours a day, six days a veek.

Now that I become a big man, I work only 10 hours a day, six days a veek." Hatter Boasts A Good Head For Business companies trade crude oil with each other, and the oil that a company refines and sells as gasoline may be different from the product that actually came out of Its own oil field. WITH THE aid or a Mara-t spokesman who provided all the needed information except for prices, which he says are confidential we'll trace Joe Grish's gasoline. The tale begins near Cody, 1,450 miles from Detroit, where Marathon owns some oil wells and has arrangements to buy oil from wells that other people and companies own. The price Marathon pays for Cody crude oil Is "posted," which means that it's publicly disclosed and all the well owners receive the same rate. The posted price is expressed In terms of barrels each barrel has 42 gallons but we'll express prices in terms of gallons to keep things easier.

Marathon pays 11.4 cents a gallon for "old" crude oil, and 21.6 cents for "new" and "stripper" oil. There's that big price difference because there are federal price controls on "old" oil, but not on the other kinds. OLD OIL comes from wells which were producing more than 420 gallons a day before Jan. 1, 1973. New oil comes from wells' that went into production later than that, and stripper oil, by definition, is from a well producing less than 420 gallons a day.

Marathon won't say how much of its Cody crude oil is old oil, and how much is new Please turn to Page 11 Col. 1 gerous fire when he first arrived on the seen i shortly after noon. "The place was overstocked with can goods all over the second floor, the first floor and in the basement. I knew the floors wouldn't hold so I told the men to say out," Shpilia said. When the blaze was under control, Shpilia ordered a man count and came up two short.

"We accounted for one man but couldn't find Terence," he said. McHugh's body was found when firemen dug a trough under a huge pile of heavy cans Frt Prtsi Photo by LEE Louis Bradlin maybe you know better as Louis the Hatter. BY ALLAN SLOAN Prtt Prtst Builnm Wrlttr Five hundred million years ago, give or take a few, Cody, was part of an inland sea, where billions of little sea animals lived, died and were gradually turned into cruds oil. Six weeks ago, give or take a few days, the Marathon Oil Co. pumped the crude oil out of the ground and began shipping it to Detroit to be turned into gasoline.

AND TOMORROW Joe Grish, who runs a Marathon station in Fraser, will pump that gas into the tanks of cars whose drivers will pay him 46.9 cents for each gallon of regular, which they will use up in 15 minutes or so of driving at 60 m.p.h. For years, while gasoline prices were low, the Marathon Oil Joe Grish and thousands of other people In the petroleum industry went quietly about their business, making petroleum products, selling them and struggling to sell more. Now, wltb the current gas shortage and prices skyrocket-ing, people are wondering where gasoline comes from, and why it costs as much as it does. Tracing the oil from Joe Grish's pumps backward to Marathon's oil field is like taking a box of cornflakes and trying to figure out which farmer ew the corn for each flake. It's probably even worse than that because major oil BUYERS MISLED 1 Bill Aimed at Phone Pitches BY MARCO TRBOV1CH Pra Prtu Stiff Wrlttr A man who lives through the Russian Revolution In Moscow and the Superfly revolution in Detroit and profits from both Is a man who knows something about taking care of business.

Introducing, Louis the Hatter! He's the same Louis the Hatter who owns two clothing stores by that name, one on Woodward in downtown Detroit and another on Livernois near Seven Mile, an area called the Avenue of Fashion. The same Louis the Hatter whose name bombards WCHB radio listeners 28 times a day. And though less well-known the name Louis the Hatter who owns the Spee-Dee Laundry on East Jefferson, and Bradlin's Cleaners, around the corner on Randolph. The name suggests to many in Detroit who have heard it, a flashily dressed, profit-wise, sale-promoting, hip young black businessman. Names deceive.

Louis the Hatter Is a flashily dressed, profit-wise, sale-promoting, hip old Jewish businessman. He is Louis Bradlin, 76, once known in his native Ukraine as Lyova Boro-dulin. He is man who has made a good buck without leaving the innir city. "If I'll take you to my store In the Fox Theater building, you'll get scared," said Louis, the deep folds in his face darkening as his eyes widen. "Because you never seen so much stock." THAT'S LOUIS the Hatter.

But first back to the revolution. The tale begins in the Ukraine, where Louis, the son of a baker, was drafted into the army. "I came In the czar's army to Moscow on the twentieth of October, 1917," he recalls, his voice of cave-deep resonance grumbling in retard at the end of each phrase, like a dying phonograph. "In eight days there came the revolution." The profit In this for Louis was that life in Russia was thrown into disarray, which allowed him, In 1923, to escape to Latvia. Even now as he relates the tale, he leans closer and whispers secretively.

"I run away." He talked his way out of being arrested as a Russian spy on a night tram to Riga, Latvia God, we convinced got a visa to Please turn to Page 14A, Col. 1 free booklets on home safety. Intrigued, Roehm asked for a number to call back. When he did, the party answered: Enterprises," which is a profit-making business. Roehm was not the onlyona startled by the misleading sales pitch.

THOMAS S. Maxwell said he retained to procure sales leads for his Michigan BY DAVID JOHNSTON Prtt Prtu Linslnfl Stiff LANSING George Roehm was talking to his wife one afternoon when they were interrupted by a telephone call. The caller told Roehm he represented a non-profit group known as the "Michigan Home Safety Association," which had been endorsed by local school, police and fire officials, and was distributing Home Safety an Oke mos fire detection alarm busi-s ness. Maxwell said he never authorized or its sue cessor, Associates, trj say that a survey was being conducted, that the firm waj endorsed by any government agency or that it was non profit all of which said. Sales pitches like the one Please turn to Page 10A, Col.

1 Snowdon on the Town in Detroit Nigh i fcafttwmww: r-i BY TONI JONES FrtiPrtMSPKliI Wrlttr "How do you do. I'm another Tony Jones," he said, end he laughed, and that was how I met Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdon and husband of Britain's Princess. Margaret. It was 7 o'clock last Wednesday evening. We were in the Salamandra Bar of the Hotel Pontchartrain and I had come to meet Lord Snowdon and his associate, Stephen Aris, there and then accompany them on a sampling tour of Detroit's black night spots.

I brought along an old friend and trusted companion, Ray Graves, an attorney-turned-diplomat, for the evening. LORD SNOWDON has been in Detroit a week. He and Aris, a New York-based writer for the London Sunday Times, are gathering material for an article about Detroit which will appear in that paper. The earl, who was a fashion and portrait photographer before he became a peer and an international celebrity, is doing the pictures for the article. Aris will do the words.

By now many people know they are in town, but last Wednesday the anonymity they had insisted upon when they arrived had hardly been penetrated. Mayor Young had refused an Interview with the unknown British journalists and Detroit police had escorted Lord Snowdon to the First Precinct in an incident involving his taking pictures of an arrest and having an expired British press pass and no local identification. But Wednesday evening was a relaxed and informal time. Lord Snowdon settled the problem of titles and protocol immediately after our introduction, which was made by Aris. he said we would simply call each other "Toni(y) Jones." He, in his tan suede suit, and in my silk print shirtwaist, gathered up Aris and Graves and headed for a favorite La-Please turn to Page 10A, Col.

1 mm. Ton! Jones Tony Jonesr.