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Detroit Americani
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Pago Two DETROIT AMERICAN Friday, May 10, 1968 City Airs Arresting Of i cer Beaten From Car-Theft Suspects Rubbish Boy Shot; Sitter Is Held A six-year-old boy is hos ililitk Illllllli Fee Plan KARPOWSKI said she identified himself verbally snatched his handcuffs from as Charles -Mitchell- 27, of Common Council will hold 1235 Edison. his belt and hit mm over pitalized in critical condition a public hearing May 22 on a the head with them. As the two passengers with a gunshot wound of the came out of she store, Kar proposed ordinance amendment to enable the Depart head, and a 15-year-old youth Brooks and Karpowski powski arrested them when is held for Questioning in tielh, slugged Karpowski twice. The driver of the car and the second man who had been in the drug store fled as Karpowski battled Lore and -Brooks joined the melee. At this point police said Love's sister, Linda Love, alias Huntley, 17, apparently came out of the store and joined the fight.

subdued the girl and her ment of Public Works (DPW) they failed to produce ownership papers for the car to charge for collection of what may have been an accidental shooting, police brother jailed Love for resisting and obstructing an refuse from multiple dwell and claimed they didn't officer. Police say he was ings of five or more units. know who it belonged to. Francis of 2096 According to DPW Com carrying $1,000 in his trouser pocket. One suspect, Millon Love, 27, of 1236 Twen- missioner Robert E.

Toohey, A policeman was beaten by a suspect and his sister, while two other men under arrest escaped in a wild street fight at Bagley and Eighteenth. The suspect who was arrested and held, police said, had $1,000 in his pocket. The man's sister, who later escaped out of a first floor window at Detroit General Hospital, was recaptured. The melee began when Patrolmen Patrick Karpowski, 27, and Roger Brooks of a precinct support car, saw a convertible with three men in it run through a stop sign at the intersection. The car halted at a drug store there and two men got out and entered the store.

E. Kirby, was shot as he sat on a fence in front of the Ferry School, -2920 E. Pal DPW's improved once-a- Linda was taken to the week pickup of refuse has mer with several playmates. police women's1 division at police headquarters and later resulted in use of City refuse The youngsters hailed a collection service by more passing scout car crew, who multiple dwelling buildings. rushed the boy to St.

Joseph mi Mercy Hospital. "DPW IS UNABLE to pro The children told Det. Sgt. vide this service to apartment Police Blotter John Domm and Det. John Loch they heard three shots buildings without additional men and equipment.

The collection charges will cover the conveyed to Detroit General Hospital complaining of pains as a result of the battle. While waiting treatment at the hospital, police said, Linda escaped out of a first floor window. A Vernor Station scout car crew later caught her at Michigan and Trumbull. Karpowski was admitted to the hospital suffering head injuries. He was listed as temporarily cost of acquiring the necessary extra personnel and VICE-PRESIDENT Hubert Humphrey pins the Gold Lif esaver Medal, the American Automobile Association's highest award for valor, on Randy Clement, 11-year-old safety patrol boy from Starr, School in Royal Oak, at a special ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Randy, a fifth grader, saved a five-year-old kindergartener from serious injury while on patrol duty last November. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Clement, 2918 Glen-view, Royal Oak. and noticed a flash from the area of E.

Palmer and Joseph Campau nearly a block from the scene. i The officers discovered the youth babysitting at 5710 oseph Campau. In the apart KARPOWSKI questioned the driver, who had no identification, driver's license or Five: more Detroiters, including three women car registr aton. He was placed under arrest and 60 years of age or older, have learned safety is a big ment they found an automa gamble on the city's streets. equipment.

"Under the proposed amendment, each dweUing of five or more units will receive a 20-bushel exemption. The collection charge is to be levied on refuse in excess of this amount." The hearing will be held at 10:15 a.m. in the Committee Room, 13th floor of the City-County Building. tic hidden under a sofa pillow and two clips of ammunition, containing 11 bullets, All of the women were robbed, and two of them 5 Accused knocked to the ground, in broad daylight. in the pocket of a sweater Mrs.

Celia Bucher, 70, was standing in front of lying on the floor. Teamste Rescue Delayed by Rising Water of Stealin rs The boy told them he a drug store at 1075 Parker at 2 p.m. when a skinny thug grabbed her by the throat and began to choke found the gun in a closet and had fired it three times her, demanding money. End Strike through the open window of 82 TV Sets Mrs. Bucher managed to scream and the thug an enclosed rear porch.

He denied aiming at any HOMINY FALLS, W. water level in threw her to the pavement. A citizen ran around the soft coal mine where 25' miners have been one, or of knowing he had At Hudson the corner, with a paint brush in his hand which he Arrest of five men charged with theft from interstate shipment was announced hit anyone, the officers said. threw at the thief. The punk escaped with white trapped for four days began rising Thursday after noon, quenching hopes of an early rescue.

The boy -was held at the Wayne County Youth Home Thursday by Paul A. Stod The J. L. Hudson Co. will paint splashed on his coat.

dard, agent in charge of the resume home delivery serv for investigation. Mrs. Bucher. was taken to Jennings Hospital The level had been reduced by pumping to a point where fresh air was reaching a group of 15 of the men, about a mile from the mine en Detroit FBI office. They were accused of tak ice Friday as a result of reaching a settlement this suffering injuries to both arms and shock.

ing a piggyback truck loaded week with some 1,100 strik Greeks Hike Clergy Pay ATHENS Prime Minister George Papadopoulos announced higher salaries for the clergy at a meeting of the Holy Synod, supreme administrative body of the Greek Orthodox Church. A spokesman for the archbishopric said the government's decision to pay the priesthood on the civil service scale would mean a salary increase of about 30 per cent. siaTI i r.Arl KJL.IJ JVLrs. JL.oia Mackie was trance. with 82 color television sets knocked to the ground by a teenaged punk with a ing Teamster warehousemen A majority of the ware valued at $75,000, from a There was still no word of 10 others caugh Chesapeake and Ohio Rail black and white checked shirt and bushy hair as she housemen voted to ratify a deeper in the mine and little hope i held for their survival.

road yard in Dearborn on walked east on Calumet from Twelfth at 1:10 pin Dec. 18. new contract with the com' pany Wednesday, Otto Wen The hooligan 'stole her billfold containing $20 Suicide Center Set Up A 24-hour suicide preven tion center will open in De The miners were trapped when they broke dell, recording secretary of and papers. Seventy of the sets were recovered by the FBI four days later in a Detroit ware through to an adjacent, water-filled abandoned Teamster Local 299, an nounced. Mrs.

Mary Lewis, '74, was molested by a thin house. Stoddard said. shaft. There was no explanation of the rising water. teenager wearing a dark headrag and a black knit Those arrested, Stoddard shirt with gold horizontal stripes as she paused on The warehousemen struck over the issue of swapping said, were William H.

Stern- the corner of Agnes and Iroquois at 1:45 p.m. 1 bergh 44, of 24612 Bolam, troit soon, counseling potential suicide victims who dial the company's pension plan BUNTIN Warren; John T. O'Malley, ior xne leamster pension the number. 38, of 7444 Iowa; Daniel Del- plan. The swap was made The center will be located lin, 25, of 17380 Moran; after a 1 0-day strike.

at Detroit Psychiatric Insti Walter Gordon, 24, of 18566 The punk demanded money and when she denied having any, the thief preceded io search lhe woman. Finding nothing he ran away. Two thieves in their 20's, both with processed hair, threatened Frank Richmond, 60, with a knife as they caught the elderly man entering an apart tute and be under the direc Conant, and Anthony 'News Continued from Page One SWANSEA, WALES Prince Charles, 19-year-old heir to-the British throne, has been initiated into Confrerie des Chevaliers du Sacavin d'Anjou, an an tion of Dr. Bruce L. Danto Cimini, of 1315 Balfour, The company announced that full service to all its stores was resumed Thursday.

chairman of the Mayor's, Re Grosse Pointe Park. Basketball Star Dies Continued from Page One won Big Ten titles and finished third and second in habilitation Committee on ment building at 496 Brainard at 8:20 p.m. with his Skid Row Problems. The men were arraigned Thursday afternoon before Federal Judge Talbot Smith arms loaded with groceries. Volunteers will be re cruited and trained to staff who released them under $1, 000 bond each.

THE THUGS, one of whom wore a pencil took the groceries and $4.50 from the victim, the center around the clock The phone number has not then forced him to let them into his apartment, where yet been announced. Jeweler Intruder Robs Householder, 88 A thug wearing a red jacket burst in on 88-year-old Julius Collins as he sat alone in? the dining room of his home at 288 Belmont, grabbed the victim around the neck and ran with his wallet containing $132, police reported. Police said the thief sneaked in through the front door. Handicapped Pupils Show Art Work they stole a small radio. Joseph Dqrsey, 20, told police two hoodlums in their early 20's and a woman, also about 20, got into his car at Townsend and Mack as he waited in traffic to make a turn at 1 a.m.

He said they, robbed him of $13, and ran. One thug had a gun, he Said. Gun Fights 2 Bandits Vistors are urged to come to the Art Festival at Oak A 42 year old east side man School for Handicapped jeweler got into a gunfight Children, May 13-17 from a.m. and with two bandits as they fled from his store at 1424 p.m. Jefferson after robbing three persons, the cash register Art work done by the children, who -range from Aged Couple Beaten And Robbed in Home and jewelry trays.

pre-school to ninth grade. Sought are two bandits will be displayed. The works cient French wine-drining order. He pledged to promote and drink wine from France's Anjbu district. When the prince was 14, he got into the news by taking a nip of cherry brandy in a country pub.

LONDON A survey taken among 4,000 workers, union officials, and management representatives had both sides agreeing that production is often hit by time-wasting and inefficient work practices. A third of the workers said shop floor employes did not put enough effort into their jobs. Management cited over-long tea breaks, smoking in lavatories, bad timekeeping and overmanning. WASHINGTON Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas is in Walter Reed.

Army Hospital suffering from a low-grade infection caused by two abscessed teeth. MILWAUKEE Some 5,000 complaints have been made here to the post office since a new federal law went into effect April 15 which allows individuals to determine for themselves whether material is "erotically arousing or sexually provocative." The post office is supposed to order the sender to remove the objector's name from the mailing list. ACAPULCOA prison fugitive who lined up five adults and four children and killed all but one of them with shotgun blasts is being sought. The gunman had quarreled with a fellow jail breaker after they escaped last August and vowed revenge. The victims included that man's family and a neighbor's in this Mexican city.

each about 20 who fled in a include original paintings. car as Sidney Ross fired five sculpture, ceramics, murals shots at them from his-snub-nosed .38 caliber revolver. and jewelry. On Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in the auditorium W.

Ferry and escaped with One bandit fired once in $655, police reported. a music program will feature return. the Bell Choir. John Andrew, 26, said the gunman came up behind him Ross said he saw one ban as Andrew worked in the fur dit jerk as Ross was firing and believed he may have nace room and demanded the Aerial Photos wounded him. rent receipts.

peared at their bedroom door and said "Be cool and no one will be hurt." Mrs. Wing" screamed and the prowler fired. The thug escaped out the rear door and Mrs. Wing was admitted to Redf ord Community Hospital. A HEAVY SET gunman wearing a stocking over his head and black ballet slippers on his feet held up the manager of an apartment at 68 Ross said the pair entered The gunman escorted the An elderly Detroit couple were terrorized in their home by a thug who viciously beat the woman about the face and head in one of four more raids by gunmen and prowlers on private homes and apartments.

In another incident a 17-year-old housewife was shot by a prowler as she lay in bed with her husband. Mrs. Rose Chene, 67, was admittedto Zieger Hospital suffering severe lacerations of the head and face she suf the Ross Jewelry shortly be manager to his apartment, the NCAA national college tournament. The 1965 learn was ranked first nationally in the wire service; regular season polls, but was routed by UCLA in lhe NCAA cham-' pionship game. Buntin was twice all-Big Ten and received All-America mention.

He toured Europe with a team of Michigan basketball players, and returned to i begin his career with the Pistons weighing about 270 pounds. The Pistons ordered him to lose weight, and Buntin was engaged in a constant battle from then on with both his weight and Dave DeBussahere, then the Pistons' player-coach. BUNTIN WAS suspended for a time, then released during training camp before the 1966-67 season began. In his rookie year, the overweight Buntin who had been the Pistons' number one draft choice played in 42 games, averaging 7.7 points per game and about 6.5 rebounds. Unable to continue as a professional athlete, Buntin still loved to play basketball.

Thursday he was playing at Cathedral Central when he complained of being tired and short of breath. He went outside the gym and apparently, collapsed. Police said they found him unconscious and rushed him to Detroit General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Attending physicians said the cause of death was probably a heart attack, but the official verdict awaits the findings of a coroner's examination. 5 Services are pending for the Detroit athlete whose life ended at 26 as he played the game he loved best.

fore noon. Show Pueblo Is Moved where he took $300 from a closet and $355 from a desk drawer. When Andrew tried HE SAID the pair took $75 from his wallet, $40 from a customer, Mrs. Elsie Ciam- to grab the bandit, he was slugged over the head with beller, 65, and $30 from an TOKYO The North Koreans have the captured U.S. Navy surveillance ship Pueblo out of Wonsan Harbor, aerial reconnaisance the gun.

other Michael Ko-renchuk, 19, who entered Andrew said the bandit also wore a black jacket with a large brass ring attached while the holdup was i in progress. Another employe, Henry Levin, 69, was not molested, Ross said the bandits then showed Thursday. It was believed taken to another North Korean port but so far the location has not yet been revealed. The 82' crewmen are reportedly, held in several different places. to the zipper.

A policeman fired a shot at a man he saw carrying a television set thai had been stolen from a home at 8659 Grandmont. The thief escaped, apparently unhurt. I ordered all Of them to lie down. xnen tney tooK an un Known amount of money from the cash register, and an unknown number" of rings and watches from dis Patrolmen James Radcliffe and Bernard BTophy went to the home when a neighbor reported that a prowler had been seen to leave the house play trays, and fled. Ross grabbed his revolver.

fered when she was beaten by a slim-built thug with short, black, kinky hair and a brown corduroy coat in her home at 4156 Lovett. PATROLMEN Brent Glen-dening and Paul Lawrence said the woman was home with her husband Leon, 78, when the thug knocked on the door and the husband opened '3-. -r; i The round-faced thug slammed Chene against the wall arfd demanded money. Mrs. Chene went to her husband's aid and the prowler attacked her with his fists.

The thug then stole 000 from a purse he found in the dining room and escaped out the rear door. Mrs. Judith Wing, 17, was shot through the right arm by a prowler who invaded her apartment at 20817 Jen-kell, police reported. Mrs. Wing was in bed with Arsonists Hit Again at Stanford 17.

STANFORD, The Naval Reserve Officers Training Corp building on the campus of Stanford University was destroyed by fire, the second fire this year. The six-room building was being repaired, from $35,000 fire damage from a blaze in February that fire investigators said was undoubtedly arson. i It was believed that Tuesday's fire was also arson. 'Although 200 students were holding a sleep-in at the administration building, protesting the proposed suspension of seven others, they were not believed responsi-. ble for the fire.

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The officers found the burglar had entered after break Shotgun Bandits ing the glass in a rear door. Cruising the neighborhood, Rob Gas Station Send News Of Ethnic Events All Ethnic Groups of Metropolitan Area of Detroit are asked io send their announcements on their "happening" for publishing in the Detroit American to Mrs. Malvina Haug-Abonyt 10131 West Warren, Searnborn. 48126. they saw the suspect with the television walking on the Two bandits armed wit sawed-off shotguns, held up Grandmont mall.

The officers shouted four the Standard Service station at 2605 W. Boston and rob times for the suspect to halt. bed the attendant, Rober They said he put the tele Knight, 40, of $230. vision down and ran. Rad Old Language BOMBAY, India Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language that developed from classical Sanskrit about 1000.

cliffe fired one shot at the Knight said one of the man, who fled in the thugs fired a warning blast her husband when a man ap as they fled..

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