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Eve rywh re That Special Feeling- gest travel days this season," a sales official for an airline said. Other transportation officials agreed. The Michigan Bell Telephone Company expects to handle a record volume of calls spreading Christmas cheer. The rush of calls Dec. 25 will be 50 per cent greater than on an average business day.

I I I I I I I I I I I i i i i of Christmas," from 7:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Originating from Northland Center, the program will feature carols and scripture reading. A solemn high mass will be celebrated during the regular Christmas Eve services in parishes of the Catholic Diocese of Detroit The Most Rev. John F.

Dear-den, archbishop of the diocese, will celebrate a pontifical high mass Christmas Eve at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral. day, the club expects Wednesday to be the most crowded day on the State's highways. "Late Christmas afternoon the highways will start to become congeste the spokesman predicted. The number of Christmas shoppers has dropped off in recent days because of the low temperatures and the "shop early for Christmas" spirit of many buyers. The Retail Merchants Association expects Saturday will be a big shopping day, with the volume dropping off Monday and Tuesday.

Most stores also will close early Christmas Eve. Many downtown stores will close at 5 p.m., and some shopping centers will stay open until 5:30 p.m. GOVERNOR and Mrs. Rom-ney will be in Detroit Monday to greet shoppers and workers to extend "personal best wishes to all the people." They also will attend receptions for State employes in the BY VAX 1. SAUTER Free Press Staff Writer The crowds at airports and railroad stations the tired looks on the faces of store clerks the wreaths going up on the front doors all tell the same story Christmas is near.

An unfailing sign of the final days before Christmas is the deluge of college students piling into trains, planes and buses for the trip home. "The college kids will make Friday and Saturday the big Detroit area and visit the Ingle-side Convalescent Center. The weatherman cautiously predicted a. white Christmas, saying a quarter inch of snow can be expected Tuesday or Wednesday. He also said temperatures will start rising Monday and Tuesday, but probably will remain about 14 degrees below the normal high of 34 and the low of 22.

Perhaps the hardest working people Christmas Day will be Santa and the long distance telephone operators. 8 a a a a 8 8 8 8 8 8 TRAVEL EXPERTS noted, that the mid-week holiday has curtailed the long-weekend trips usually enjoyed at Christmas. "If the 25th fell on Tuesday or Thursday," said a spokesman for the Automobile Club of Michigan, "a person could take the Monday or Friday and make a four-day weekend." Because of the one-day holi MANY PROTESTANT Churches have scheduled candlelight services Sunday, and "Christmas Watch" programs Tuesday night. The Detroit Council of Churches, in co-operation with WJBK, TV, Channel 2, is presenting a program, "The Moods Today's Chuckle New York City may be the country's melting pot, but it's Washington, D.C., where all the stews are made. Free Press Telephones For Home Delivery 222-6500 To Place Want Ad 222-6800 City News Desk 222-6600 Sports (after 2 p.m.) 222-6660 Insurance Dept.

222-6470 All Other Calls 222-6400 THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Saturday, December 21, 1963 Page 3, Section A Officer Jury Clears Of 6 Wimpy 3 111 1 ft A 4 Vi Gambling Houses Hit; 18 Arrested Foster's Job Still in Doubt BY JEROME HANSEN Free Press Staff Writer A veteran Detroit policeman was acquitted Friday by a Recorder's Court jury of the March 4 slaying of a man the officer said was trying to "muscle in" on a boxer the BY RILEY MURRAY Free Press Staff Writer Nine women and nine men were arrested late Friday in a series of gambling raid3 at f'V' several Detroit area homes which police said were turn-in stations for a $1 million-a- year gambling combine. I ,1 All were booked for investi gation of conspiracy to violate the State gambling laws. Armed with five search war policeman managed. The three-man, nine-woman jury deliberated only two hours and 40 minutes before returning its verdict of innocent. Forrest A.

Foster, 35, of 8868 Appoline, a policeman for 15 years, originally had been charged with first degree murder for the shooting of John A. (Wimpy) Elliott, 46, a boxing game hanger-on. The charge was reduced to second degree murder at Foster's examination. The jury could have returned a verdict of guilty to that charge or of manslaughter. rants signed by Detroit judges, an army of 40 law enforcement officers cooperated in the raids at homes at 8061 Wisconsin, Detroit: 7144 Larme, Allen Park; 3435 McKittrick, Melvin- dale; and 5416 Jackson and 5632 Beaver, both in Dearborn Heights.

THE WARRANTS were signed by Recorder's Judge John A. Ricca and Common Pleas FOSTER'S FUTURE remained in doubt, despite the verdict. He was suspended from the force after his arrest March 5 by Macomb County Judge John Connolly. deputies. Besides that, Foster was shot Free Press Photo by WALLY STEIGER TEN REASONS why we all should be happy it's so cold arrived Friday noon at the Washington Boulevard island across from the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel.

The nine reindeer, in tints of red, green, blue, yellow and orchid and Santa, in red and white, are solid ice, carved by the hotel's chef, Fred Hagen. Hagen started out two weeks ago at the City Ice Co. with 10,000 pounds of ice and a prayer for heavenly weather support. Saturday's temperature: A co-operative 20 degrees. Detroit to Continue Eligible For U.S.

Job-Aid Funds by a deputy as he tried to escape from the Macomb Coun Ronald W. Ilaughton airline dispute mediator A Cram Course For the Professor BY GENE ROBERTS Free Press Labor Writer The work record of Ronald W. Haughton, a Wayne State University professor, is a college publicit's nightmare. It fills three tightly packed pages of type and threatens to spill onto a fourth. ty Jail garage, and still needs crutches for walking.

He says his right leg is an inch shorter Police confiscated about $3,000 in cash and large quantities of numbers and horse betting materials. Led by Sgt. Robert Bullock, of the Detroit Police Vice Bureau, the raiders Included men from the Internal Revenue Service and the Wayne County Sheriff's and State Police rackets squads. Bullock said the raiders con than his left leg as a result of the wound in his buttocks. Foster's attorneys, Joseph Louisell and Raymond DeRyck said before the 12-dav trial fiscated at least six adding As a sparetime labor-man in downtown Detroit is being built with the help of a ARA loan.

The City recently completed started before Judge Paul E. Krause that they would claim "temporary insanity." But at the trial, Foster's defense was that he acted in self-defense after Elliott attempted to slash him with a knife during an argument in Foster's car. a port development study with ARA funds. It currently has two other studies being readied machines, 15 telephones, 2,300 mutuel betting slips and other gambling materials. Some of the confiscated horse racing betting slips had money pinned to them, Bullock said.

HE SAID the gambling operation did most of its business in and near Detroit-area factories, bars and private homes, Bullock said he will cite two Detroit bars before the State Ray Girardin, who took over only Thursday as Police Com BY JOHN" MUELLER Free Press Staff Writer Detroit will continue to get Job-producing Area Redevelopment Administration funds next year when the rest of the tri-county area is stricken from the assistance list, Rep. Harold Ryan Mich.) said Friday. Ryan said the announcement that Detroit will be allowed to stay on the list, along with several other large cities, is expected to be made Sunday in Washington. "We're very happy to hear about It," said a special assistant to Mayor Cavanagh. Richard Strichartz said continued ARA loans and grants would mean "several thousand" for approval one for utilization of the Research Park near Wayne State University and another concerning shopping strips along major streets.

If Detroit were to lose ARA assistance, Strichartz said, It would mean the City also would become ineligible for Accelerated Public Works Act aid because to get it an area must have considerable unemployment and be deemed a distressed area under ARA legislation. He said Public works grants totaling $15 million have gone to Detroit and projects worth $11 million more have either been, or soon will be, admitted missioner, said, he wanted to Jury Ends Blast Probe Forrest A. Foster, Jr. ty, and his parents, the Forrest Fosters, were jubilant when the verdict was announced at 3:10 p.m. The women cried but kept saying: "It's wonderful, wonderful." Assistant Prosecutor Clarence Laster, who handled the prosecution, said he had "no comment." The jury started its deliberations at 10:10 a.m., but took a long lunch break.

One juror said the verdict came on the third ballot and that the first two were 11-1 for acquittal. Foster had managed a welterweight boxer, Gene Gresham, 26, and claimed Elliott was trying to get Gresh-am's contract from him. Gresham testified for th prosecution and said Foster once had threatened that if ha ever caught up with Elliott ha would "get a fellow to break his arms and legs." Foster and Elliott met by chance, according to Foster at a Detroit boxing gymnasium the night of March 4 and had an argument. They got into Foster's car and continued the argument as Foster drova around until, at Woodrow Wilson and Webb, Elliott pulled a knife, Foster said. THERE WAS a struggle and Foster shot Elliott.

Then he drove home and called a friend, Harry Command. 34, of 93 La-Belle, Highland Park, who went to Foster's home. Foster and Command put Elliott's body in the trunk of look at the details of the court verdict before making a decision on what action the Police Department will take." agement peacemaker, Haugh-ton's job is to work himself out of one. He settles one labor management dispute, moves onto another. Now, another item and perhaps th single most important has been added to Haughton's list of troubleshooting assignments.

President Johnson named him chairman of a special fact-finding committee, asked him to investigate a series of disputes between the International Association Machinists and six major airlines. Like all of Haughton's assignments, the airlines dispute will be a tough one. He'll have to convince two "The man is under suspen WINDSOR A coroner's jury said Friday no one specifically could be blamed for an oper- sion," Girardin said. Foster said he didn't know i Liquor Control Commission for fallowing employes to take bets in the bars. Bullock said the raids were Imade after a three-month po-jlice investigation into the operv whether he would press for a return to duty.

He said he iating room explosion which killed a patient, Joseph O'Con-nor. 55, of Windsor, on Nov. 29. The jury, investigating the planned to discuss that Monday with his attorneys. for approval.

These include re-paving, sewer and water lines and a City Airport building. FOSTER AND his wife, Bet- more jobs for Detroit. It also means continued employment for laborers working on related Accelerated Public Works projects in Detroit, Strichartz said. HE SAID the Ponchartrain Hotel now under construction blast at Grace Hospital, called for more co-operation between surgeons and anaesthetists in the operating rooms of local hospitals. A spark touched off an anaesthetic in last month's accident.

Bullock credited Patrolmen William Nosworthy and Eugene Caviston, of the Vic Bureau, with a major part of the investigation. The sergeant Identified as ringleaders: Alfred Varga, 47, of the Allen Park address, whose wife, Julia, 47, was also arrested; and Vincent Jackson, 48, of the McKittrick address, whose wife, Helen, 45, and son James, 20, were also seized, and Escapee, 15, Is Killed In Crash Wanted: 180.000 Voters hostile camps he's as fair to one as to the other. Haughton looks impartial. HE PUFFS an executive-type cigar, peers at the world from under John L. Lewis eyebrows, always looks one-third management, one-third labor.

The other third is professor the kind who ab-sentmindedly ambles away from the mirror after three strokes of the hairbrush. It was Haughton's background, however, that won him the Presidential assignment. After graduating from the University of Washington in 1937, Ilaughton, 47, earned a Master's Degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin. He spent the first eight years of his career in state and Federal government, working with the Washington State Unemployment Compensation Division, the U.S. Social Security Board, the War Labor Board and the U.S.

Conciliation Service. Son of an Irish father and a British mother, Haughton was born in Canada and moved to Washington in his early teen3 when his father took a job as a photoengraver in Seattle. NOW, he lives with his wife, Anne, and four children at 264 Lewiston, Grosse Pointo Farms. He plans to stay. "I spend half my week at the University, the other half on labor management problems and on the weekends I write up the arbitration reports.

"It's hectic, but interesting. I grew up wanting to settle disputes. "It's my Quaker background, I guess. I'd rather see something end peacefully than in a fight." 3 Contracts Given Ford The Ford Motor Company was granted three government Fifteen-year-old Gary Ladd, ARA LOANS and grants currently are approved only for metropolitan areas in which 6 per cent of the work force are unemployed. Last summer, when the metropolitan Detroit area's unemployment figure dropped to 3.7 per cent (about 55,000 persons) ARA officials issued a six-month notice that the area would no longer be eligible for its low-interest loans and grants, beginning in January.

Mayor Cavanagh and Detroit congressmen appealed to the ARA to let the City continue to receive the funds since It, apart from the tri-county area, had considerable unemployment. Strichartz said that while no who escaped Wednesday from the Oakland County Children's Center in Pontiac, died Friday in the crash of a stolen car being pursued by police. Ladd, of 889 E. Kenneth, Madison Heights, was dead on contracts Friday, totaling" more than $9-million. The Army Tank Automotive Command awarded two contracts totaling $4,234,644 for 13,016 stake and platform heavy-duty trucks and medium duty units adong with chassis cabs with wrecker and dump bodies.

The third contract, let by the General Services Administration, calls for 3,183 passenger vehicles and vans. The contract is for $4,880,447. arrival at Highland Park Gen eral Hospital. The car was driven by a 16-year-old Fern-dale boy, also an escapee from Mrs. O.

E. Wolford of the Detroit Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, is one of 200 Detroiters pledged to round up 180,000 area voters who haven't been to the polls ia two years. Next Friday, the Elections Commission will mail a notice of suspension of voting registration to each of the By responding on the attached card within 30 days, the voter saves himself a trip to the City Clerk's Office or a registration center. Members of the Mayor's Register and Vote Committee, headed by Joseph Ross, president of Federal Department Stores, mapped extensive plans Friday to prod voters to action. Their theme.

"Your vote is your voice don't lose it." the Children's Center. Casimir Groncki, 50, of the Beaver address. Groncki's wife, Josephine, 47, was placed under arrest but permitted to remain in the home because of the presence of a small child. She will appear for questioning Saturday. Woman Struck By Car Dies Mrs.

Katherme Boyle, 62, of 90 Seward, died in Henry Ford Hospital early Friday shortly after she was struck by a car on Woodward south of Antoinette. The driver, Anthony Ru-zinski, 45, of 32631 Strieker, Warren, had turned from Antoinette and told police he did not see Mrs. Boyle, who was not using the crosswalk. He was not held. HAZEL PARK police pur Clemens.

They had a flat tire and, while it was being repaired in a Mt. Clemens garage, an off-duty sheriff's deputy, Edward Fenn saw the body in the trunk and called his office, but Command and Foster drove away before officers arrived. Roadblocks were set up. Foster and Command were stopped at Gratiot and Clinton in Mt. Clemens.

Taken to Jail, Foster broke loose in the jail garage. He was shot by Deputy William Haines as he tried to run up a ramp. Haines and other deputies said Foster shouted: "Finish me off! Finish me off!" Command still is awaiting trial on charges of being an accessory after the fact in Elliott's slaying. unemployment figures are kept sued the car after they noticed it weaving. The chase, covering about for Detroit alone, City officials estimate that about three-fourths of the area's unemployed workers live in Detroit.

To make Detroit eligible two miles, reached speeds up to 90 miles per hour before the car containing the youths Fatal Crash Thomas McRay, 58, of 3543 Fifteenth, died in Receiving HosDital a half hour after his apart from other communities in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb struck a pole on John just south of McNichols. car struck the oenter abutment 1 i Counties means that the U.S. Labor Department must revise Police said the car had been of a railroad viaduct on Lawton south of Hancock at 6 a.m. its unemployment accounting stolen in Waterford Township Wednesday. system, Ryan said..