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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 22-6400 Today's Chuckle A woman who swears that she's never been kissed can't be blamed for swearing. Tuesday, January 21, 1964 THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3, Section A PERRONE BOMBING WITNESS TELLS POLICE: I Dark edan Before Saw 'BigMan In Mafia' Loses Leg 3Iobter's Strength Amazes Doctors BY HARRY GOLDEN, JR. Free Press Staff Writer Detroit police said Monday they have a witness who saw a car parked next to one owned by Mafia figure Santo (Sam) Perrone' just before Perrone's car exploded, blowing off his right leg and injuring him critically. Chief of Detectives Thomas R.

Cochill refused to talk about the witness other than to say the person was a pass-, ing motorist who saw a "dark sedan" parked next to Perrone's car just 10 minutes before the blast. The witness; a pair of worn, brown fur-lined gloves, and a piece of electrical wire were the only clues police had 'to the bombing of Perrone's car at 4:15 p.m. Sunday in a clean- er's parking lot near his AAA! Auto Wash, 12825 Gratiot. lean forward to start it. The area was shaken by a blast which twisted pieces of Perrone's car and sent some sailing hundreds of feet.

Perrone fell out of the car screaming, his right leg torn off. A passing police car and a fire rescue squad came to Per A ROUTINE day at the car wash for Santo (Sam) Perrone was shattered Sunday when his car was torn apart by a bomb wired to the ignition. The Mafia "Big Man" left his AAA Auto Wash, 12825 Gratiot, at about 4:15 p.m. and walked west on Gratiot to his car, parked in the Aladdin cleaners parking lot at the corner of Gratiot and Goulburn. A Perrone employe, James Phillip, left the auto wash by a rear door, got into his car in the alley and drove on Goulburn to Gratiot.

As Perrone entered his car, two girls were in a telephone booth 20 feet away. They saw Perrone enter his car and rone's aid. Free Press sketch by DICK MAYER Cavanagh, Urges Action in Drive To Retrain Jobless Hiring of Negroes By Police Is Slow, League Reports Detroit Urban League Director Francis A. Kornegay said Monday he has seen none of the "significanthanges" promised by the Detroit Police Department to increase the percentage of Negroes on the force. However, after meeting with I Mayor Cavanagh Monday met with 40 government rep- resentatives in an effort to get a co-ordinated program off ine Commissioner will give us full support." I Girardin said: "I'm sure peo Commissioner Ray Girardin Kornegay said: "I feel that whatever changes are necessary will be made." MKX A TOP ISSUE in the meeting ng, the Department answered between lice officials th charges of racial discnmma- CCRas it was in the Korne-tion by saying that a ack of Girardin talkswas a re- uiiemi'iujmeni.

a- a Thomas Roumell Chrvsler Facility Is Started BY TOM KLEKNK Free Press Business-Industry Writer Chrysler movin its ex nansion bluenrints more than a ahA n. in epni I At Saratoga General Hospital, Perrone still was in critical condition. His strength in spite of his wounds amazed police and doctors. Perrone spent 3 hours in I surgery Sunday night as doctors amputated the remains of right leg four inches above I the knee. His left leg was badly mangled and he suffered severe blast damage around the lower abdomen.

Doctors limited Perrone's vis- 'tors Monday to two members of his family at one time His wife, Ida. o), remained at his side as she has since the bombing. A QUICK-MOVING, sinewy man, Perrone surprised Detective Lt. Robert Slottke, of the Homicide Bureau, by pushing himself erect in bed as Slottke entered the hospital room to question him. A two-man guard of uniformed police officers has been I placed on 24-hour duty at Perrone's room.

His relatives, including sons-in-law Carl Renda, 44. of 5S7 Tino Orlando, 39, of :565 Pear Tree Lane and Vincent Meli, 39. of 711 N. Oxford, al! Grosse Pointe Woods, were close-mouthed as they entered Perrone's room. Orlando was the only one who even stopped when ap-j proached by newsmen.

"He's doing pretty good" was all Orlando would say. Perrone repeatedly told de-, tcctives he "didn't know" why someone would want to kill him. "I'll take care of it," he apparently following the code of the Mafia which says even victims will not reveal the names of their attackers. DEPUTY CHIEF of Detec-, tives Vincent Piersante said the 'bomb which tore Perrone's 1962 Pntiac hardtop into twisted metal apparently was a "black powder bomb. It was triggered ant to speculate why Perrone was marked for death.

-Mil Detective Inspector Earl C. er, of the Criminal Intelli-' encp Bureau idenrifiprf Per-the 'rone as a "Big Man" in local Mafia. 1 IId-a a reputation as a renegade. a maverick and a loner," and Turn to Page 6A, Column 4 quaiii.ru iii uL auai oias-accounis lorine reiauve-1 i.u.wuci 6 men hired in recent years. And some members of the City's Commission on Commun ity Relations (CCR) said they doubted police hiring practices vere discriminatory.

Urban League officials talked Girardin for an hour Monday about police-Negro problems. Kornegay said the percentage Negroes on the police force las increased less than one-half one per cent since 1958 and 'this is a point we are all con-reined about." He said he had no criticism of former Commissin ner ieorge Edwards, now a Federal judge. But, Kornegay said. Edwards had promised, in March, 1962, "significant changes within a year." Kornegay said "We feel that Julie Boismier oh, you push the More Talk, Less Push-Button Phone Dial Saves tne grouna to neip nara-core Most of those attending the morning session in the Mayor's office were from agencies dealing with health, welfare, employment and education. More than a dozen represented Federal agencies which Cavanagh hopes will foot part of the bill for what he terms "a full-scale action program." The goal is to retrain and make employable as many as possible of an estimated to 60,000 persons in the Detroit area who have no job skills, been displaced by automation or are the victims of "move-outs" by firms that no longer do business locally.

Cavanagh, who serves on a Federal Area Redevelopment1 Administration advisory com-1 mittee, said maximum benefits cannot be achieved without combining the forces of Fed-j eral, State and local agencies. "All of us have a vital stake in achieving this goal," Cava-j nagh said. I He asked that the Federal agency representatives meet with iocad and state agencies during the afternoon and recon- vene as a group Tuesday morn ino- THOMAS ROUMELL, director of the Michigan Employment Security Commission, said 4,300 persons had been retrained in Michigan since the Manpower Development Training Act came into effect in Sep tember, 1962, and that another r- a. a. 3,500 are expected to complete retraining by next summer.

Roumell said 80 per cent of those already retrained had got- ten jobs in welding, general ma chinery operations, 1 i a 1 fields, shoe repairing, in floral snops ami ui a uozen ouier oc cupational areas. John McCullom, a special as sistant in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Wei fare, called Cavanagh's approach "a bold idea." Other Federal representatives expressed a willingness to help make the plan work. 97 Dead So Far In Accidents EAST LANSING ft Traffic accidents have killed 97 persons in Michigan so far this year, according to the State Police. The highway death toll at this date last year was 64.

i i ple can live in harmony in our community. We are certainly going to work toward that rt Urban while De- troit's population is about 30 'per cent Negro, only 3.28 per icent of all policemen are non white. Police 'Personnel Director Fred Wright said, "Our diffi culty is that we can't get enough qualified applicants race" any race' "As a result," Wright said, "the department is considering lowering certain requirements such as 20-20 vision in both eyes and the minimum height of 5 feet, 9'i inches." The CCR made no formal as sessment of the Urban League's complaints, but some commission members said they doubted police bias existed. A Negro commission member, Ernest Shell, said: "The difficulty is that the Police Depart ment has had a bad image with the community for 25 years. It cannot undo this overnight." in an offensive against poverty disease, ignorance and social in justice," he said.

While declaring that high un employment is the main evil in our society, he said that it also was vital that the pressing problems of poverty, civil rights, education and old age health be solved. Reuther's words were echoed in Bedford Township by Mayor Cavanagh who was principal speaker at a similar Jaycee meeting at which Red-ford Supervisor Jack H. McDonald, 31, was named Red-ford's outstanding young man. "As fantastic as it may seem, 25 per cent of the State of Mich igan is living in a world that is far across the tracks. "We all have a normal obligation to con sider this 25 per cent and to do something about them," the Mayor said uuit-, giumiu iui oy tne cars ignition when its new Sterling i Perrone started the engine, plant, designed to increase au-! District Detective Inspector Albert G.

Isaac has been named tomotive stamping capacity by 101 -Mco-ordinator of the mvestiga- 20 per cent. jtion into the bombing of Per- The $40 million faculty, sche-. rone's car. duled to be in pilot production! Police officials were reluct- JAYCEES HONOR PETER CLARK Reuther Urges Drive To Cure Social Ills America must shift the emphasis of its economy from a jcfensive posture geared for possible nuclear war to an offensive against many serious deficiencies in" the American social structure, Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers Union, said Monday.

Free Press Photo by RAY GLONKA buttons down Action Time, Fingers phone devices such as remote control of many kinds of devices by sound signals." This' means that someday a housewife may push buttons to place an order at the supermarket. Instead of the flat dial tone and the old hum, the buttons tap out a series of musical tones similar to those in the human voice, directing the call3 electronically through the central switchboard. You'll need a cool head You can dial the Los Angeles weather bureau in 10 seconds. There'll be no more cupping the telephone over the shoulder while dialing. No time.

Push buttons' are nice on fingernails. Thousands of swizzle sticks will be saved. And there'll be no more frantic chasing of "VXY-9" In tests in Findlay, and Greensburg, people like the new technique. They made fewer dialing mistakes. So far, Michigan Bell has not invented a way of getting people to answer Uieir calls promptly.

And there's all that saved time to consider Day, who has had a pushbutton telephone for months, is apparently still running short. He didn't have time for lunch. City, Monroe, Midland, West Bloomfield, Ann Arbor, Howell, Lansing, Centerline, Flint, Birmingham and Farming-ton. TEX BUTTON'S replace the old disc. Beneath the three rows is a single button which corresponds to the operator position on the present dial.

Day, who dialed the Weather Bureau a number of times Monday, said the new facility "would eventually bring about many other advances in tele- Rusly Plates Draw Her Fire LANSING Rep. Lucille H. McCollough Dearborn) opened an anti-rust campaign Monday by proposing aluminum auto license plates for Michigan. "They will look better, last longer, and cost less than the present plates," Mrs. McCollough said.

"Sixteen other states now use aluminum plates." Mrs. McCollough said Michigan has the finest highways, the best automobiles, but is cursed with rusty license tags. BY JEAX SHARLEY Free Press Staff Writer With the new push-button telephone, you save six seconds every time you dial a number At a Monday luncheon in the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, a group of people including William M. Day, Michigan Bell Telephone Co. president, saved all kinds of time.

Six seconds here. Ten seconds there. IX AX HOUR of demonstration (the weather will be damp Tuesday) at least 12 minutes were saved. This time was spent discussing how much time had been saved. It takes six to 15 seconds to dial a number using the finger-in-the-hole dial.

Push buttons take two to five seconds. The optional push-button telephone will be available first to downtown Centrex customers and to those in Southfield, following approval by the Michigan Public Service Commission. It will cost $1.50 extra per month per line. The first out-state community scheduled for 'touch-tone" dialing is Ionia in mid-March. In April, Dearborn will have a chance, followed through the year by Traverse next January and full produc later in 1965 wiI1 empIoy! peak of 3 000 people on two shifts and have an annual pay roll estimated at $20 million, ITS 2.500.000 square feet of snace will make the nlant not cility in the tj.s.

automobile but also the largest ever DuiIt Dv Chrysler. I The site is located along ai burgeoning industrial corridor' at Van Dyke and Fifteen Mile! Roads. The Structure will consist of a one-story main manufactur ing building, a basement for storage of dies and an office building. It will house 30 lines of stamping presses, which will turn out a wide variety of stampings for the company's assembly plants, including a new one to be. constructed at Belvidere, 111.

Of 251 large presses and 155 smaller ones, which will consume 2,000 tons of steel daily at peak, the largest press will weigh 1.300,000 pounds. Reuther spoke at me ueirou. lunior Board of Commerce din ier where Peter 3. Clark, pub-isher of the Detroit News, was jresented with Jaycees' ward as the outstanding young man in Detroit in 1963. Reuther said that Americans Clark stand in a 'world caught up in the convulsion of revolution" and must harness their economic tools for Deace and human fulfillment if the nation is to achieve freedom and social wellbeing for all Us citizens.

"WE HAVE ALL the tools ef production we need now to meet all the needs of the human family. We must use these tools Santo (Sam) Perrone.