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Watches As State Votes Primary Mav Give Clue ml To Effects of Recession N1 01 17 1 1 i BY HUB M. GEORGE Free Pre Politira Writer Vol. 128 No. 93 30 LM at his neck. One threw a fluid over him, he said, and the other threw a match at his clothing.

They then drove him to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac, where they dropped him off. The trip to the hospital came only after an argument between the two men, he said. One told the other: "We're not going to let him die. I don't want a murder rap." Shortly after 9 p.m.

Monday, Dr. Norman F. Gehringer, who had attended Kierdorf since he came to the hospital, said it was likely that he would live through tne nignL DR. GEHRINGER said that in severe burn cases, patients who survive the initial shock generally live a few days before dying of complications. He gave authorities hope for more time to question Kierdorf as they returned to take a second statement from the victim.

Waiting in the hall during the interview were Walter Hansen and Sherman Wlllse, investigators for the McCIel-lan Senate Labor Rackets Committee. "We're here on orders from Washington," said Willse. "We want to find out the facts of the case and report to the committee. If it deals with labor and management, we are definitely interested." Kierdorf said one of the attackers, a stranger, knocked on the door of his Flint home, at 613 W. Stewart, about p.m.

Sunday. Kierdorf was alone in the house. THE MAN wanted to a 1 BY JACK CASEY AND RALPH NELSON fre Preaa Staff Writer PONTIAC A Flint Teamsters Union official broke a 15-hour silence Monday afternoon to tell how he was turned into a flaming torch. Frank Kierdorf, 56, business agent for Teamsters Local 332 and an ex-convict, said he was taken to a wooded area in Oakland County by two men, one of whom held a gun Voting in Michigan Tuesday will be watched closely by campaign strategists as a major national test of political repercussions of the 13 i 5 Frank Kierdorf: Out of His Tast, Fire Load of Trouble Hits A 'Cordial' Ex-Tough Sccrccv Shrouds Buriiing Of Tcamsler 'Good Guv' I LCUVJ recession. With presidential elections just two years away, the support given Congressional candidates by Walter P.

Reuther's UAW also will attract atten tion. MAJOR nominations, which seem safe from upsets, except in isolated local contests, will be of secondary import. The turnout expected to be the lightest in years well may measure whether idle workers blame Republicans or Gov. Williams and the Democrats for Michigan's severe business recession. There will be voting in 5,161 Michigan precincts from 7 a.m.

to 8 p.m. Almost 800,000 ballots are expected. Thunderstorms are forecast late in the afternoon. City Clerk Thomas D. Lead-better urged voters to go to the polls in the mcrning If possible.

Unopposed renomination will go to United States Senatorj Charles E. Potter, Republican, who because of business inj Washington cast an absent1 voter ballot. Paul D. Bagwell, for Governor, and Donald A. Brown, Royal Oak, for Lieutenant Gov ernor, likewise are unopposed' on the Republican ballot.

FOR THE FIRST time In 10 years, Gov. Williams has Democratic opposition from William L. Johnson, Ironwood radio operator. Johnson spearheads an insurgent fight that matches Homer Martin against Lt. Gov.

Phil A. Hart for the Senate nomination and Michael T. Mo-hardt against State Senator John B. Swainson for the Democrat Lieutenant Governor nomination. Four Democrat! i Congressional battles especially will test whether labor strength is holding firm a year that has seen contract negotiations stymied, campaign cash scarce, and 12.6 per cent of the work force jobless.

In the First District, the AFL-CIO is backing Rep. Thad-deus M. Machrowicz against Russell S. Brown, a Negro and former parole officer. The district is about 50 per cent white and 50 per cent non Turn to Page 12, Column 2 4 Firemen Felled in Gr.

Rapids Special to the Free Frena GRAND RAPIDS Four firemen were hospitalized with injuries suffered Monday night fighting a fire in the Graphic Arts Building. Police said the fire began with an explosion, and several other blasts fed the blaze that was brought under control after two hours. There was no immediate estimate of damage. Defeat SO-yr old sheriff Andy Elect JOHN MAZER, Democrat. Pol.

Ad. E) BY WILLIAM SUDOMIER Free Pre Staff Writer The lid of secrecy was lifted momentarily when Frank Kierdorf got burned. Then it clamped down again, tight. i Vt V'f You call Kierdorfs offica In Flint, Teamsters Local 332, and the girl's voice, brisk says: "I can give no information." YOU TALK to Owen (Bert) Brennan, Teamster international vice president and No. One Boy to President James R.

Hoffa, who says: "Kierdorfs a good guy. certainly don't know of any trouble that would lead to anything like this." But there was trouble bad trouble. Kierdorf stumbled, rombie-like, early Monday into Pon tiac's St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital and told the girl. "Can you get me to the emergency room Kierdorf was charred.

Second and third -degree burns covered his stocky body, except where he might have had shorts on and except where lie iiemueu mi nanus njaiiiou the horror. UP IN FLINT, a 35-mil drive from the hospital, his green 19 5 6 Chevrolet was parked in his two-car frame garage alongside his white frame home at 613 W. Stewart. Kierdorf hadn't taken the Chevie. Talk to the neighbors and they tell you Kierdorf was "cordial." One.

Charles Babierackl, of 621 W. Stewart, a plumber, says he saw Kierdorf when the Local 332 business agent walked around his kitchen about 10:30 p.m. Sunday night. Kierdorf went into the basement, where the lights were on. ANOTHER, Mrs.

Edna Bergeron, 58, of 607 W. Stewart, says she saw him, too. She says she got up about midnight, saw Kierdorf and a man In a black shirt load something Into a black car. The men made several trips. She couldn't tell what was loaded.

Kierdorf got into the black car and drove away with th Torn to Page 5, Column 4 nim 4Rf.ES N. DIAMOND, Dem. Situ lc. 12th Out. iri.

foi AH. 4- Herman Kierdorf Vows to Avenge His Nephew Vengeance Voived By Victim's Uncle He's Warned: 'You're Next'; Then He Disappeares BY ROBERT BOYD Free Fres Staff Writer A balding, heavy-set man trembled with fear and rage in a Pontiac hospital Monday. Raise Stock Margin To 70 Pet. U.S. Acts lo Curb Speculation New York Time Servtca WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve Board has increased margin requirements for buying and selling stocks and bonds from 50 to 70 per cent, effective Tuesday.

The board said the move was taken "to prevent excessive use of credit for purchasing and carrying securities." The margin requirement had been reduced from 70 to 50 per cent in January. MARGIN requirements govern the "down payment" that a buyer of stocks must pay. The new 70 per cent requirement means a buyer must pay $70 of his own money for each $100 worth of stocks he buys. The requirement also covers short sales, in which the trader borrows stock and sells it in the hope of buying it back later at a lower price. Stock markets had closed for the day when the Reserve Board made its announcement.

Changes in margin requirements need have no long-term impact on prices on the market. Typically, there is a quick reaction in the market up when margin requirements are reduced and down when they are increased but the longer-term movements have sometimes been in the opposite direction. THERE HAS BEEN an air of concern at the rather dizzy pace at which the market has been rising in the last month, as well as concern at the increased use of margin accounts. Whether Monday's action will slow the rise in stock prices remains to be seen. The total of customer credit for purchasing and carrying securities has risen from $3,576,000,000 at the end of December to $4,069,000,000 at the end of May and at the end of June.

The Reserve Board spokesman said Monday that prelim-Turn to Page 5, Column 1 You'll Find: Amusements 11 Astrology 10 Auto-Business 17-19 Billy Graham 30 BriCge 16 Comics 28-29 Drew Pearson 19 Editorials 6 Movie Guide 29 Radio and Television 27 Sports 21-23 Stock Markets 18 Want Ads 24-26 Women's Pages 14-15 TO HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME PHONE WO 2-8900 Hof fa Faces Senate Quiz On-Burning He Denies Knowing Anything About It BY WILLIAM McG AFFIX ttaahlnrton Hureaa Staff WASHINGTON Teamster President James R. Hoffa will be quizzed Tuesday about burning victim Frank Kierdorf and his revenge seeking uncle, Herman Kierdorf. The Senate Labor Rackets Committee says Hoffa helped both men rise from ex-convicts to Teamster officials. COMMITTEE Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said Monday he "assumed" the burning of Frank, business agent for a Flint Teamster local, would come up when Hoffa testifies.

Hoffa, in Washington Monday, said: "I don't know what this Is all about. How could I know whether it was an accident or something else? I just heard about it." Frank Kierdorf, 56, was dumped on the lawn of St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Pontiac, early Monday, so badly burned he could be identified only by fingerprints. HIS UNCLE, Herman. 67, a recently resigned Teamster official, who was threatened Monday, swore he would seek revenge.

Commenting on the burning, Kennedy said: "This shows that those Involved in labor racketeering not only breed colusion, extortion and shakedown, but often violence of the most extreme kind." The committee counsel called I for a new. government agency to investigate incidents of labor violence. But he said the committee itself cannot deal with violence effectively because it is not an enforcement agency. Both Kierdorfs have testified before the confmittee and both have been accused of using Teamster muscle to coerce employers. Both have been reluctant witnesses.

FRANK KIERDORF testified last November and was Turn to Page 12, Column 1 OK Grants Bill WASHINGTON UFi The Senate Monday passed and sent to the House a bill authorizing basic scientific research grants by Federal agencies to educa tional institutions and non profit research institutions. Senate Unit Supports School Aid WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Labor Committee approved a $1,489,400,000 Federal program Monday night to help gear American schools, teachers and students to meet the Space Age challenge of Soviet education. The bill would authorize four- vear scholarships and loans for 8tudents, fellowships and re- fresher courses for teachers and loans to colleges and other schools to buy modern equipment and laboratories. LIKE THE House bill. Senate measure would create a four-year aid program.

But the cost of the program would run for eight years because students selected for scholarships in the fourth year of the program still would be receiving benefits four years later. The cost of Ihe bill was estimated at $1,259,400,000 for the four-year period and $1,489,400,000 over the eight-year span. The Senate bill would set up a 174-million-dollar fund to finance four-year college scholarships for bright students, ranging in size from $500 to $1,000 a year, depending on need. Based on an average of $750, about 23,000 scholarships would be available yearly. The bill also would authorize 220 million dollars in loans, ranging up to $1,000 a year for four years, to bright students.

The loans could be worked off in later years. OK Mothballing WASHINGTON (UPI) The Navy Monday ordered work resumed on the mothballing of 10 ships in a move indicating that the Middle East crisis was easing. "I don't have any idea who did it, but I'm going to find out." vowed Herman Kierdorf, 67, ex-convict, ex-Teamsters Union officer, ex-closed mouth witness before the Senate Rackets Committee. Herman's nephew, Frank Kierdorf, lay near death on the next floor up, his body charred beyond recognition. HIS SON, Frank, 30, a milkman who lives at 15626 Thatcher, had just identified his father in a makeshift room behind a curtain at the end of the third floor hall in St.

Joseph Mercy Hospital. "His face is twice its normal size," the son said. "But I'm pretty sure that's him." Herman, who suffers from a heart condition, sat shaking between a doctor and a nurse. "Let us take care of this one," begged Lt. William W.

Nesbitt, of the Pontiac Police Department. "Not if I get there first," said Herman. "I know it sounds silly, but I got to do it." And by midnight, police feared Herman Kierdorf might have begun the business of vengeance. He got their permission at 7:30 p.m. to meet the plane bringing Frank's wife to the hospital from Florida.

But later police said Herman did not meet the plane, and had not been seen since he started for the airport. A FEW MINUTES before, he had looked at the blackened body of his nephew. "Yes, that's Frank," he had mumbled, barely able to get Turn to Page 4, Column UN Plane Crashes LONDON (UPI) The Arab News Agency, in a dispatch broadcast by Beirut Radio, reported Monday night that a United Nations reconnaissance plane crashed Monday in Leb-a Territory held by the rebels. The broadcast heard here said that "whether the plane crashed because of engine trouble or was forced down is not known." A UN observation team has been stationed along the Lebanese-Syrian frontier for several weeks investigating Lebanese Government charges that Lebanese rebels fighting loyal troops have been receiving smuggled arms and reinforcements from Syrian territory. Going Up WASHINGTON W) A record in new construction activity for July was reported in preliminary estimates by the Commerce and Labor Departments.

about some organizing problem, Kierdorf said. Kierdorf said he slipped a robe over the undershirt and trousers he was wearing and entered the stranger's dark Packard, either a 1952 or 1953 model. He did not give a reason for not getting dressed. Kierdorf said there was another man he did not recognize in the car. Both were wearing work clothes.

Both were about 40 to 45 years old, he said, and "good-sized." He went with them because they told him they were meeting some men in a Pontiac bar so the men's bosses wouldn't know of the meeting. The car headed for Pontiac. Kierdorf said when he "got suspicious" en route, the man in the back seat pulled a gun and pressed it against his neck. Then the car turned to a lonely road in a wooded area, where Kierdorf was ordered out. Oakland County Prosecutorl Frederick Ziem said Kierdorfs description of the route indicated the burning took place west of Pontiac.

AUTHORITIES will search for the spot Tuesday morning. Kierdorf said he rolled over and over after he was set afire and the men left. They returned in a short time and had an argument before he Turn to Page 2, Column 1.