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24, 1989 Lottery extra: Monday's number, 392, was drawn five times before. droit Jftee Tapes show Detroit judge gettin cash Hugh mcdiarmid JENKINS: 'I NEED SOME MONEY. MAN' Jenkins used such phrases repeatedly as he discussed 36th District Court cases with Detroit market owner Sabah (Sam) Dickow, the tapes showed. The tapes, recorded by the FBI through hidden cameras and microphones, depicted a friendly relationship between Dickow and Jenkins, who is being tried on bribery charges in U.S. District Court.

The taped exchanges mainly revolved around tickets Dickow would give the judge to dismiss or adjourn, and Jenkins needling Dickow good-naturedly for lunch, money, guns or a pound of ham. Jenkins boasted at one point about dismissing a ticket case instead of merely delaying it. Dickow, shown on one tape giving Jenkins money the judge requested to help pay for air fare for a Brazilian vacation, also testified Monday that Jenkins took film and batteries from his store before the trip. see Jenkins, Page 10A An excerpt from tapes played Monday in U.S. District Court in the bribery trial of 36th District Judge Leon Jenkins.

The Aug. 16, 1985 conversation is between Jenkins and informant Sam Dickow. Jenkins: I want you to give me the stuff so I can deal with it. Yeah, what's happening, you got Suspect says he but screams continued f)Y ft llw I ivt-rl ml' 9 BY JOCELYNE ZABLIT Free Press Staff Writer Detroit Judge Leon Jenkins watched and listened to himself Monday on 18 audio and visual tapes that capture the judge taking money, asking for money and a gun, and discussing the outcome of cases with a man he did not know was the main informant in a federal probe of city courts. Til take care of it." "I took care of it." "It's taken care of." razing Main Workers from O'Rourke Construction Co.

of Cincinnati hose down rubble Monday to settle dust during the demolition of the University of Michigan's Old Main Hospital in Ann Arbor. Right, a jaws-like machine picks up rubble from the building. Story on Page 1C. PAULINE LUBENSDetrolt Free Press 1 VlN "rf '4i Politics Late Blanchard nod can't hurt Wiener im Blanchard finally puckered up 1 1 and delivered his belated and II passionless, ah, support for Rick 1 1 Wiener for the Democratic national chairmanship last week. It was better than a sharp stick in But barely.

That's because word of Blanchard's coolness (though, apparently, not scorn) for Wiener's national candidacy had been running somewhat breathlessly through Democratic National Committee for the better part of two months. And it was repeated and, at times, amplified by supporters of Wiener's principal opponent, Washington, D.C., lawyer Ron Brown, who rather pointedly noted the awkwardness of. a "candidacy that lacked support not only from his home-state governor but also (prior to last week) from single Michigan member of the There was virtually no J'm Blanchard Oh, sure, the guv said soothing things about Rick dear friend," "done a good job," etc.) but that was mainly for consumption in Michigan where rank-and-file Democrats might question the consistency of a governor who appeared to be turning his back i. on the same pol he had anointed for the state chairmanship in 1983 and twice supported for re-election. But for a crucial two months of the chairmanship campaign, Blanchard I did, indeed, turn his back on Wiener.

He preferred, in his own words, "a presidential-style" national chairman and "not simply a nuts and bolts, hardworking, skillful party activist." And that had to hurt. Last week, however with no one who suited him better in sight Blanchard finally said he will vote for Wiener when the DNC picks the new chairman in early February. But he shied away from the word "endorse." And, in case there was doubt, his press secretary, Tom Scott, said Monday of the guv's support for Wiener: "He's not one to call it an endorsement." For Wiener, of course, the governor's support though late and halfhearted can't hurt. It lends some credence to a 10-minute video tape his campaign mailed to all DNC over the weekend (including apro-Wiener remarks from, among "others, Blanchard), and it also assures Wiener three or four votes from "Michigan on the roughly 400-member DNC. But it is unlikely to offset the damage incurred by Blanchard's long and awkward holdout or convert those Michigan DNC members such as Mayor Coleman Young and AFL-CIO President Frank Garrison who have committed to Brown.

For Blanchard, it can't hurt, either. He can tell Wiener's friends that, after due deliberation, he decided to support Wiener. And he can say to Wiener's enemies: "Hey, I did what I could for you." Wishy-washy? Or smart politics? Answer: Yes. Blanchard among Amway's guests No big deal, surely, but it's worth a mention that Gov. Blanchard was the guest of Amway Corp.

and sat in Amway's box during the festive inaugural gala Thursday night at the Washington Convention Center. Among others in the box: new HUD Secretary Jack Kemp and U.S. Republican Rep. Paul Henry of Grand Rapids. Note: Amway also sponsored a brunch for governors (including Blanchard) on Friday following the inauguration, at the Treasury Department.

Host for the brunch was ex-Gov. John Sununu, of New Hampshire, now White House chief of staff. Getting it straight on contributions This column erred 10 days ago in saying state Rep. Margaret O'Connor, R-Ann Arbor, was the only legislator refusing to accept contributions from special interests last year. She is the only member of the House in that category.

State Sen. Ed Fredricks, R-Holland, has a similar policy. ft ME La any money, man? Dickow: Yeah. I got money. Jenkins: I need some money, man.

Dickow: What kind money you want? Jenkins: I need about a hundred bucks. Dickow: You got it. artin said he slashed the Darnells' daughter, Stephanie, by accident while menacing the adults with a knife. would not pay him. Martin became angry, pulled a gun and slapped Smith, but Bette Darnell was able to calm the situation and he put the gun away.

When William Darnell came home, the argument flared again and again he slapped Smith, then pushed Bette Darnell when she tried to intervene. William Darnell ordered Martin from the house as Bette tried to smooth over the incident, saying Martin was drunk but basically all right. The women and child went into the kitchen while the men continued arguing. "Then," Martin told police, "rfle and him got to arguing about hitting Alicia and pushing Bette. He was saying 'My wife is pregnant, and you just come in my house dispecting (sic) So, I was trying to tell him that I didn't mean to do it.

All I was trying to do was get my money. And I was saying, 'You should listen to your Martin said he went into the kitchen to speak to Bette, but William Darnell grabbed him and tried to force him out the back door. He said he grabbed a knife from the table and began swinging at Wil- See SUSPECT, Page 1 OA JOHN A. SIANODetroit free Press Wayne County officials said Monday the old cannon on thei grass at the northeast corner of Congress and Randolph will be! moved several hundred feet to the north. i i investment, because statistics shdw that for every $3 you spend on child care you get $4 back," he said, i i The program, a non-profit corporation dubbed Wayne County Kidspace will be run by the Merrill Palmer Institute of Wayne State University and overseen by a board chaired by Deputy County Executive Michael Duggan, McNamara's sec-ond-in-com-niand.

Vice chairman will be County Commissioner Arthur Blackwell, D-Detroit. The program, planned to serve about 90 children ranging from infants to kindergartners, will charge between $80 and $110 per week, officials said. Kathy Alessandro, the county's child-care coordinator, said the county would join the federal government, which offers day care at the McNamara Building, as the only employers with day care downtown. 1mw immmnimmim 1 I I- I BY JOE SWICKARD Free Press Staff Writer Holston Martin III, charged with murdering a 2V2-year-old child, her parents and another woman Jan. 1 1 at a home in Detroit's Old Redford neighborhood, told police the stab-bings erupted from an argument over a car repair debt, according to a confession statement obtained by the Free Press.

Alone in the house after the killings, Martin said he could still hear the victims screaming and had to check to make certain they were dead. He said he went back to the house the next day, before the bodies had been found, looking for an ammunition clip, and that after his Jan. 15, arrest, he initially tried to implicate two other men in the slayings because "I was trying to figure a way out." In the statement to police, Martin said he was drinking and smoking marijuana before he went to the home of William and Bette Darnell in the 12300 block of Cooley to collect money from Alicia Smith, who had lived with the couple, for parts he bought to fix Smith's car. Martin said he slashed the Darnells' daughter, Stephanie, by accident while menacing the adults with a knife, then forced William Darnell to tie up the women in the basement before he killed all three adults after William Darnell tried to grab him. Martin, 30, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder for the fatal stabbings of the Darnells and Smith.

The confession in which Martin said he acted alone is one of three statements he gave police. In the first two, he implicated the other men. Defense lawyer Stanford Rubach said Monday he was "trying to reconcile the discrepancies in the three statements," and declined further comment. In the confession, Martin said: William Darnell was not at home when he went to see Smith, who County's office center to clear way for children Day-care center play area will displace old cannon BY DAVID MCHUGH Free Press Staff Writer An old cannon outside the Wayne County Building will be moved so that children in a new county day-care program can frolic on the lawn. Wayne County officials announced Monday they would offer day care at the county's downtown headquarters, saying they hoped the sight of children playing on the lawn of the Wayne County Building would spur other downtown employers to do the same.

Officials said they would move the old cannon on the grass at the northeast corner of Congress and Randolph several hundred feet to the north part of the lawn, and have the children play where the cannon once stood. County Executive Ed McNamara said employers were too often shirking their responsibility to provide day care for their employees' children. "Everyone has said you won't be able to put a day-care center downtown," he said in a prepared statement. "We decided the county should lead by example." McNamara said the county lost $100,000 per year due to absenteeism and lost productivity stemming from employees' problems with child care. The county's onetime, $350,000 grant to the program is "an Holmes may resign on his own terms Robert Holmes financial burden, in part because his Teamsters pension may be blocked for years until the case is settled.

But Holmes is determined, said the official, not to resign under a cloud of suspicion that he is linked to organized crime. Holmes said Monday, "I know who these people are, but I don't have anything to do with them." Holmes said that if he is asked to resign by Teamsters President William McCarthy, "I may stay just to be a nuisance." When McCarthy was elected Teamsters president last summer, Holmes voted against him. The Los Angeles Times reported Monday that, in preliminary talks, the government is considering dropping See HOLMES, Page 11A ,1 if vtimimmtfwm Irnin mm 5 troit Te eamsters Local 337 and a member of the union's international executive board. An early supporter of deceased Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, he has been a Teamsters official for 50 years. "I have never been asked to resign, but I've indicated that somewhere in the future I may contemplate resigning," said Holmes.

"I'm not a young man anymore, and my family comes first. "It depends on the circumstances, and the most important part of the whole damn thing is this case itself," he said, referring to the federal suit. When asked when he might step down, Holmes said, "whenever it's convenient for me." In the suit filed last June, federal prosecutors charged that a court-supervised trusteeship over the Teamsters is needed to wrestle control of the 1.6-million-member union away from organized crime. The case is to go to trial Feb. 27.

According to a Teamsters official close to Holmes who spoke on condition of anonymity, the lawsuit has placed Holmes under an enormous ft k. 1 1 denies crime link, supports reforms BY JOHN LIPPERT Free Press Labor Writer Robert Holmes, the most powerful official in the Teamsters Union in Michigan, said Monday he is considering resigning as part of a settlement in the massive federal racketeering lawsuit against the union. But Holmes said he won't be forced out by his rivals at Teamsters headquarters in Washington, and he insisted as he has in the past that he has no dealings with members of organized crime. In addition, Holmes said he still supports far-reaching reforms for the union, including direct, secret-ballot elections for top officers and a constitutional convention before the one scheduled for mid-1991. Holmes and other officers have advocated such reforms in part as a way to head off the federal lawsuit.

Holmes, 76, is president of De-.