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53 11 p.m. 51 12 mid. 49 1 a.m. 48 2 a.m. 47 Sunday, October 13, 1963 On Guard for 132 Years Vol.

133 No. 162 isasfes Gift: 2 Italian Tots Rescued horn Ruins U-M 7, MSU 7 new landslides. Italian army trucks transported the 400 villagers to other communities nearby. Meanwhile, a political storm was brewing over the landslide which caused the Vajont high dam to overflow and drown the valley. Four years ago the Communists complained in the party newspaper Unita that it was a wrong location to build a dam.

Only 10 days ago local newspapers in the area warned that there was a danger of landslides because engineer had reported that the earth was moving at a rate of 11 inches a day. At that time they urged that Erto be evacuated but no one paid attention to them. So far, an estimated 1,900 bodies have been found. The final death toll is expected to run between 3,000 and 4,000. Large segments of the once beautiful Dolomite mountain valley were being sprayed with chemicals, and lime was spread on the carcasses of animals to prevent the spread of disease.

Italian Senator Eugenio Artom said he does not believe that the village of Longarone and the seven others destroyed by the flood will ever be rebuilt because there is no one to help rebuild them. THE VILLAGE of Erto, above the dam, was evacuated at noon Saturday because there was a danger of from the wrecked hamlet of Pineda walked into rescue headquarters and said they had been wandering in a forest since the disaster. The rescues gave Italian and American teams digging in the devastated valley towns fresh hope that more lives were yet to be saved. Meanwhile, U.S. Embassy officials were probing in-, sistent but unconfirmed reports that seven Americans were in Longarone's Marina Hotel when it was crushed by the water.

Hotel owner Marco Tovanella, 31, who lost 30 relatives, was in the hospital suffering from shock and could not be questioned. BELLUNO, Italy (UPD Rescuers found two children still alive in the cellar of a wrecked house at Longarone Saturday more than 60 hours after the Vajunt dam disaster virtually wiped out the Alpine town and nearby villages. The little boy and girl, apparently brother and sister, were rescued by Italian Alpine soldiers who heard their faint cries while digging in the ruins for bodies of the estimated 3,000 to 4,000 dead. The two children were rushed to a hospital suffering from exhaustion but otherwise apparently uninjured. ABOUT THE same time 11 persons listed as missing nallen BOW l9 Debate GOP Le Policy City 'Team' In Reich for Olympic Bid Goldwater: Let's Talk About JFK Governor Terms BY LYALL SMITH Free Press Sports Editor BADEN-BADEN, Germany A king-sized delegation of 71 tfetroiters is moving into this scenic Teutonic city of 40,000 famed for centuries as a great place to take a bath.

They hope they haven't come all this way just to take one in their campaign to land the 1968 Olympic Games. Cold water repeatedly has been doused on earlier efforts dating back to 1939. But they are back again, lined up with their hat in hand and best foot for- n.i.- minnrnnl sLJ 1 K. 'Asmmm'li i 'I 'f irMMownwMiiiiimwmnanoiiMiiiiwwi i'ir 'S 188888188 BfflH (m yms jf i-iiiirirrim-iiiiiii -nurm-ni mrt All ajaWftWHWW Nixon a Candidate Free Press Wire Services New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller Saturday challenged Arizona Senator Barry Gold-water to a series of debates on Republican policies, but Goldwater replied that he would only talk about Kennedy Administration "weaknesses." Rockefeller proposed the debates in Eugene, "to sharpen interest in the Republican Party and what it stands Goldwater arrived in Eugene.

Saturday night and said, "If we both Tiappen to seek the Free Press Photos by ED HAUN Angelo Meli, farmer, and his wife talk. Meli says: 'This man (George Edwards) is ruining my life presidential nomination, I ANGELO MELI TELLS HIS SIDE Siowrl Smith ward hoping to get the good word this time from the members of the International Olympic Committee sitting in official session here this week. Douglas F. Roby, of i 1 a one of the IOC officials, sounded a sour note Saturday when he predicted that another member of the three-man American delegation won't vote for Detroit. "I doubt that John Garland, of California, will vote for us," Roby said.

"He was quite hurt that Detroit prevailed over Los Angeles in the bid for designation as the American contender. "But I don't think that will hurt us," Roby said. "On the contrary, the propaganda by people out in California against us might help, because it has been unsportsmanlike." ROBY, FORMER board chairman of American Metal Products has sought since 1929 to bring the Olympics to Detroit. The word good or bad won't come until late Friday or early Saturday. An unofficial survey lists Detroit and Mexico City as the two top candidates, followed by Lyons (France) and Buenos Aires.

The Detroit delegation is the largest. It contains 21 official members, plus an additional group of 50 technicians, advisers, well-wishers and newsmen. A few already are here. Mayor Cavanagh and other city officials are scheduled to motor in Sunday from Frankfort, nearest jet airfield some 100 miles to the north. Gov.

Romney will fly in Wednesday to join Roby, industrialist Fred Matthaei, and other local civic and business leaders in making Detroit's official presentation Turn to Page 2-A, Column 2 Gang Boss or Businessman CD imr 1 Mafia Link Meli paid a $100 fine for carrying a concealed weapon. "The police found a gun in my taxicab," Meli said. There were 13 other arrests; three for murder. Meli can't remember the names of the people he is supposed to have murdered. "They always picked on BY RALPH NELSON AND RILEY MURRAY Free Press Staff Writers A man identified in Washington hearings as a "section leader" of the Detroit-area Mafia was one of three men seized Saturday for investigation of receiving and concealing stolen property.

Police from two Detroit de would be willing to have a discussion with him if he would spend' his time discussing the Kennedy Administration." The senator said a GOP policy debate would disunite the Party. "Debating the opposition (Kennedy) weaknesses is the only productive debate in a primary if Rockefeller wants to do that," he added. Two major television networks, CBS and NBC, said they would provide time for the debates. The challenge was the highlight of a day which saw Republican leaders making political news on both sides of the continent. The developments: In Hershey, former President Eisenhower, rejected the role of possible kingmaker at the 1964 Republican convention.

0 Speaking in Eugene, where he issued his debate challenge, Rockefeller said he thought former Vice President Richard Nixon a potential candidate for the presidential nomination. 0 Back in Hershey, where Turn to Page 4 Column 4 "This ashtray, if we owned it, it would be Cos a Nostra," he said. Cosa or "Our Thing," is what Joseph Va-lachi has described as the Nation's national crime syndicate. AS FOR THE Mafia, Meli said he recalls reading about it in Sicily before coming to this country. Meli's income tax statements for the last four years were produced and examined.

They showed incomes that exceeded $50,000 in some years. But the sources legitimate business and real estate holdings were carefully detailed. Meli's criminal record is extensive but old. At one point he was called Detroit's Public Enemy No. 1.

But the record shows only one conviction in 1920. BY CARTER VAN LOPUt and HAL, COHEN Free Press Staff Writer Angelo Meli, named a ruler of Detroit's Mafia by Police Commissioner George Edwards, Saturday challenged Edwards "to prove it or shut up." In an exclusive Free Press interview his first of any length Meli offered to answer any questions Edwards might put to him and to submit to a lie detector test. "This man is ruining my life but that is not important; I am old, my wife is old," said Meli. "But we have children and grandchildren. How must- they fee1-" Meli picked an ashtray from a desk in his accountant's office and looked at his wife, Jennie, sitting beside him.

partment bureaus, aided by officers from Harper Woods and St. Clair Shores raided the home of the son of the alleged Mafia leader at 20475 Wood- Harper Woods. The so-called section leader, Anthony Imbrunone, was the same people," he said. "Every time something happened they picked them up. The cops would say to each other, 'What charge are you going to and the answer would be 'What's the latest thing that happened Aged and ailing, Meli doesn't look much like a public enmey.

He admits to "selling" booze in various cafes he owned during the prohibition era but denies that he ever transported or bootlegged it. MELI AD3IITS to gambling interests in the 1930's, including a piece of the plush Club Royale, a place old customers say was so honest that it suffered through an almost impossible 47-day house losing streak. He knew radio broadcaster Jerry Buckley because Buckley used to "come up to the Whip (Cafe in Hamtramck) once in a while." Buckley was shot to death in the old LaSalle Hotel, now Car-mel Hall, in July, 1930. Meli claims he was never questioned about Buckley's death. The murder was never solved.

MELI WAS born In' San Turn to Page 2A, Column 4 No. 54 on Detroit Police Com missioner George Edwards list of Mafia officers. Police Trace Meli's Rise To Power This is the way a Detroit Police Department dossier traces the career of Angelo Meli: Meli became undisputed boss of Detroit's underworld in the early '30s after he helped to weld and control a Sicilian gang that shot its way through the Purple Gang, and rival Sicilian factions. BORN FEB. 10, 1897, in Sicily, Meli came to Detroit from Pennsylvania, where he worked as a coal miner.

"In Michigan, Meli worked as YANKS REACH BERLIN Russian Blockade Lifted in Germany BERLIN (UPD The Russians abruptly ended their new Berlin blockade Saturday in the face of grim American de AFTER THE RAID on his son's home, Anthony, was arrested at his home at 28212 Rosebriar, St. Clair Shores. A high police department of lSpecia ficial called the arrest "highly significant. termination ana anowea a bl-man U.S. Army convoy to roll into West Berlin after holding it at gunpoint for nearly 48 The raid Saturday was the second police strike in 24 hours hours.

at alleged Mafia-linked opera tions. Buried Blasts With adoption of the partial nuclear lest ban treaty underground nuclear blasts are in the forefront. Philip Meyer tells what they're like. Page IB. "we os: an obscure baker and did not Late Friday night State and Madison Heights crushed a plush gambling Goldwater Rockefeller Turn to Page 12A, Column 4 LATEST GALLUP POLL shows that President Kennedy's popularity has tumbled to a new low because of his actions in the racial crisis.

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Rosen come to the attention of the police until it was revealed he was a partner of Black Leo Cellura in the Whip Cabaret in Hamtramck closed by authorities in 1925," the police report states. "This tough, obscure coal miner and baker, along with Black Leo Cellura welded together, dominated and controlled a Sicilian gang. HUSBAND HELPLESS ON TRACKS Fast Wife Races Slow Train 1 i -i BAD NEWS FOR HUNTERS is Jack Van Coevering's report on prospects for the pheasant hunting season. The birds are scarce. See Page 7, Sec.

D. The Army immediately reaffirmed its Berlin access rights by sending- another convoy from West Germany to West Berlin. The situation had appeared so serious Friday the United States fired three protests to the Soviet Union, and the British and French commanding generals in Germany also lodged vigorous protests with their Russian counterpart. Moscow appeared to be the only capital not particularly worried over what had threatened to be a major cold war clash. The Soviet press Saturday blamed the U.S.

Army for the delay, dismissed it as "much ado about nothing" and indicated it considered the matter closed. IN WASHINGTON U. S. officials tended to dismiss the delay as misunderstanding Turn to Fage 2A, Column 1 1 LLxj Meyer ASSIST with housework and 2Vj-vear-old child. Woman 30 to 55 vrs.

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Katherine Powers awoke early Saturday morning and worried because her husband, Earl, wasn't home. He passed her two hours earlier while they were driving home in separate cars. SHE DRESSED, got In her car and retraced her path. After three searches, she saw a tire "near an embankment of the Grand Trunk railroad. She peered over the bank and 15 feet down saw her husband's car upside down in the middle of the tracks.

Ambulance men and Kent County sheriffs deputies got the vehicle and Powers off the tracks just before an express train roared by. Fate was on Powers side. The train was running IS minutes behind schedule. Powers, 65, apparently had fallsn asleep at the wheel. He was taken to St.

Mary's Hospital and was listed in fair condition with a fractured collarbone, cut3 and bruises. The sheriffs report concluded: "Extremely lucky." The gang shot its way through the Purple Gang and Sicilian factions until it had undisputed control of Detroit's underworld. "Nineteen Sicilian gangsters were killed in the three-week showdown battle." Meli has been arrested 16 times since 1919, but was convicted only once in 1920, for carrying concealed weapons. But he forfeited bond on the same charge in 1921. Amusements 6-9B Movie Guide 9B Ann Landers 3C Names and Faces 6A Astrology 12A Sports 1-7D Auto News 10B Stock Markets 12-13B Books 5B Travel 13C Bridge 9B Radio 13C Business News 10B Want Ads 8-14D Crossword Puzzle 1H Women's Pages 1-11C Death Notices 8D Drew Pearson SB HAVE THE FREE PRESS Editorials 2B DELIVERED AT HOME Home Improvements 14B PHONE Z32-6500 The Friendly Free Press is a mighty unusual friend- it doesn't mind being In fact, it welcomes folks who take advantage of it.

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