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Free Press Telephones Today's Chuckle An executive usually follows his work schedule to a toe. To Place Want Ads For Home Delivery City News Desk Insurance Dept. All Other Calls 222-6800 222-6500 222-6600 222-6470 222-6400 THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3, Section A Tuesday, July 29, 1969 (Toss Elections Chief Joins In Ballot Turned into Name Game Question of Ethics Ignored i plans to drop out of the race. Thus Jerome Szymanski will face only Victoria Szymanski of 5469 Grandy and will be able to get a designation of "supervisor" without the risk of being lost in a mob of Friend of Mine is con-v i Somebody Up There Doesn't Like Us. Else "why would we, all Bummer long, enjoy almost perfect weather from Monday through Friday, then have the skies let loose on schedule every weekend with the worst douser of all coming on July 4th? He has given up for this season, hopes that better relations will be established with Whoever' In Charge by 1970.

At 29, Russell Lash, who left the FBI to join the Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce nine months ago, is leaving to take over as warden of Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Ind. It was Lash who conditioned himself to run a 50-mile solo marathon every year since 1963 until this year when a pulled muscle lamed him. Lash expects ponents, because there are too' many of them and they can split the vote through voter confusion. George C. Edwards, a young- attorney running for city cleric: Turn to Page 10A, Column 1-1 Michigan law allows a candidate to ask for a designation if candidates with the same or similar names file for the same office.

ROME CANDIDATES are unhappy about same-name op 1 1 Szymanskis. Black Leaders Unite To Endorse Austin '1 TTOIT-rrr I TT Lmmd i BY CLARK HOYT Pru Prt Politlo Wrlttr Richard Austin, who waited a long time for it, was endorsed for mayor Monday by U.S. Rep. John Conyers and other key leaders from Detroit's black community. "Our main consideration is whether we will turn this city over to a bunch of law-and-order candidates We've got the only liberal candidate running," Conyers said at a press conference called to announce the Austin ment.

He was Joined at the head table by Councilman Robert Tindal, state representatives Jackie Vaughn III and James Del Rio and Waymon Dunn, head of an associaton of Inner City block clubs. Vaughn called Austin "a savior for Detroit." IK THE other black leaders think so, too, they were a long time in seeing the light. Austin became Detroit's first major black mayoral candidate Almost two months ago. Conyers said about 40 members of the so-called Kirwood Group met Saturday and voted unanimously to support the 56-year-old Austin, the Wayne County auditor. Earlier the Kirwood Group, a caucus of black civic and political leaders first called together by Conyers, had looked long and hard to find an alternative to Austin, consid- Prm Prill Phetot bv TOM VENALECK Officers subdue White Panther John Sinclair Sinclair Given Sentence Of 9U0 Years for Pot BY OPPFJMHL Fr Pren Staff Wrlttr John A.

Sinclair, Whits Tan-ther leader, was sentenced Monday to 9'i to 10 years in prison for possession of marijuana. Sinclair, 27, of Ann Arbor, had been convicted Friday by a Recorder's Court Jury of giving two cignrets to undercover polic officers on Dec. lng together with all progrest sive, white liberal elements In the community." Austin has already been dorsed by the powerful United Auto Workers. MEANWHU.E, two contend ders for mayor lumped together by Conyers as "law-candor-der candidates," traded mild barbs Monday. Councilman Mary Beck called Wayne County Sheriff Roman Gribbs "the obvious hand-picked heir-apparent of Mayor Cavanagh" and said Gribbs' candidacy "gives the Detroit voters a chance to express their feelings as jtrt whether or not they want- continuation of the Cavanagh policies or whether they want a chief executive who has pledged to bring law and or der to our community." Miss Beck also accused Gribbs of having "betrayed the trust of those who elected him to office only seven months ago" by running for mayor in the middle of his term as sheriff.

She called on Gribbs to resign Immediately as sheriff. Miss Beck ran for Congress in 1954, while in the middle ojf i a. term as councilman. She did not resign then. Gribbs, responding to Mis Beck, said: "I'm not any one person's candidate; I'm a candidate of all the people.

heir-apparent means I'll be elected appreciate the compliment." tianity," he said. "That is all I am doing." Joining picket lines and sit-ina and petitioning for the proposed Citizen's 1 i Trial Board, he said, is Just part of the job. "I'VE ALWAYS tried to make the Church relevant tfl the society," Father Schillmoeller said. i. "I started coming on stronger about it last fall.

I Someone pointed out to lftjs that nobody else was being relevant and that it was. tftt; to me." Father Schillmoeller hu been moving and shaking the parish by slow degrees inoe he arrived in 1966. He organized block discussion groups, sponsored senu nars on racism, instituted a ment and started a letters column in the weekly Parish BY ANDREW MOLUSON Frt Prtu Staff Writtr In their attempt to win, Detroit's election director and several other candidates in the Sept. 9 primary have arranged for persons with names resembling their own to file as candidates. This makes it possible for the candidate to obtain a special designation after his name on the ballot, such as director of elections.

John A. Smith, rity election director, who candidate for city clerk, made a special trip Saturday to the home of Donald Smith, whom he had never met before, to convince the retired businessman te file for city clerk. With Donald Smith's name filed in the race, John Smith quickly applied for a special designation "director of elections" under his own name, so that It will stand out on the ballot. "I don't see anything unethical Rbout that," John Smith said Monday. "I had no intention of doing It until I found out the deputy city clerk had filed her nephew." -MRS.

Regina M. Kettler, deputy city clerk who is running for city clerk, eald her nephew, John C. Kettler, "said he wanted to help me get a designation, and I was flattered that he wanted to help me and found a way to do it." Because her nephew filed, Mrs. Kettler can apply for a ballot designation as "deputy city clerk" on the ballot. Councilman Mary V.

Beck said Monday that she plans to ask for the designation of "Detroit councilman" on the mayor's ballot because another mayoral candidate is named Rudolph J. Becka. She denied knowing Becka, a Ford forklift operator who ran for councilman in 196.1, thus enabling Miss Beck to get a designation In that race ain. Jerome A. Szymanski, a Wayne County supervisor who is running for the Common Council, almost faced too many same-name candidates, but his son, Frank S.

Szymanski, who had also filed for Council, said Monday that he His Activities Priest BY JULIE MORRIS Pra Prut ItaH Wrltir The talk from the pulpit at St. Monica's Catholic Church in northwest Detroit -comes through loud, clear and unsettling. "It annoys me no end," said one parishioner, "to be told from the pulpit that I am dead wrong." eilly sermons, they confuse said a middle-aged woman; "I resent preaching like that," said another. THE SERMONS delivered by St. Monica's assistant pastor, the Rev.

Father Joseph Schillmoeller, mix politics, religion and social theory. One Sunday ha preached against the war in Vietnam. Another time he talked about police brutality and racism. On morning he didn't preaoh at all. Instead he read the, Black Manifesto of the National Black Economic Development Conference Many of the stable citizens and settled housewives who helped build St.

Monica's at 14591 Heyden are annoyed, confused and sometimes resentful about young Father Schillmoeller, known In the parish as Father Joe. Other younger, more liberal and less established parlshion- ers believe they are lucky to' have Father Schillmoeller, and he has become the rallying force of their social action-projects. Respectable St. Monica's, where the mortgages on the parish buildings have been paid off for years, is beginning to suspect that it has not a liberal assistant pastor, but a radical one. I WHEN FATHER Schillmoeller read the Black Manifesto, the NBEDC document demanding $500 million in reparations fromwhite churches, one long-time parish member gasped: "I thought Father Joe was just trying to integrate the neighborhood.

I didn't know Split Flock Stirs Devil in Lost in WW II, GPs Body Found Sptclal to th Frtt Prwi LESLIE, Mich. The body of Pfc. Donald Seger is on its way home from Germany where it has been missing Binee February 1945. Kuss Lash io be recovered enough to try the run in the fall "hopefully not trying to catch any of my people." He'll have to spruce up his terminology. Speaking of his new base of opera-t i Lash referred to "2,000 employes, errr uh, inmates." Still a long way off, but staff members of the Detroit Institute of Arts are already busily cranking up for the showing of Rembrandt paintings and drawings Feb.

24-April 5, the largest display of Rem-brandts in decades. The exhibition will also be shown in Chicago and Minneapolis. Our institute's share of the cost of pro-g a i preparation and Installation will come to $150,000, will be underwritten by the Founders Society. Thought for the Day Uncle Sam was once a tall and slender chap who has now developed an extremely large waste. The Passing Parade Tip of the Topper to attorney Harold Love, whose revival of the Tombstone Epitaph a while back has led to many a delightful gander at the earthy way of life of the Arizona Territory.

Now to be missed are reruns of the regular ads inserted in the 1880s by Mme. LeDeau, always pref-. aced by "Our Recommen-. dation: Ask Any Man." An example: "If the Tomb-' stone housewife who spies on our premises at every Dpportuiyy would expend as much effort to make her husba'nd happy as she does hoping to catch him off guard, they would both know a world of bliss. Our 3.1 hostesses think he's grand." Another: "Theresa is mooning over a lost love.

Seems her favorite friend has decided to return to the states find his wife and children. Her 36 sisters hope the dirty dog gets what's coming to him." Today's Worst Joke Then there was the famed Boston outfielder named Newberg who decided he needed extra practice on getting the jump on pop flies. The manager assigned a Puerto Rican rookie to come to the park early fcnd help the outfielder work out. A coach who didn't know of the arrangement wandered onto the field, asked the rookie what was going on and was told: "I'jn'heeting lobs io Newberg." Richard Austin ered too cautious and conservative by many blacks. But, in a prepared etate-ment issued Monday in the names of Conyers and Michigan's other black congressman, Charles C.

Diggs Austin waa generously praised. "Only Richard Austin has spoken out vigorously and without equivocation," the statement said. "He has given his full support to civilian control of the police force, not only in theory but by endorsing completely the petition drive to establish a Citizens' Police Trial Board for Detroit." Conyers said "We know Dick Austin's candidacy cannot begin to go anywhere until he has united black community support behind him Now that we have made that (support) clear, we are going to take the second step of join- Fre Press Photo bv STEVE THOMPSON Joseph Schillmoeller "If he wants to walk the picket line," said one woman, "send him down and let him be the -cardinal's permanent representative on the picket line." Father Schillmoeller lieves he has a mission in St. Monica's. "As a priest I have an obligation to teach Chris- Seger, who waa killed in action in World War II when was 19, will be laid to rest beside the grave of Ms mother, Mrs.

Kenneth Evans, in this Ingham County town. Mrs. Evans died in April not knowning whether her son was dead or alive. Scger's stepfather, Kenneth n. said he watched his wife's health deteriorate as she worried about her son for 21 years.

"She wouldn't emt," Evans said. "She just worried herself to death." Seger had only been in action for two weeks when he volunteered for a apecdal mission to put out a German machine gun nest on a hill. The Arany reported only on soldier survived the missiion. SEGER'S BODY was discovered by diggers in Germany last week. It was Identified by its military dogtiags and a dental bridge.

In prison and it didn't stop the Black Tanthers. They put John Sinclair In and it won't stop the White Panthers." "This is it, man, I'm glad," he said, his voice full of emotion. "I can do the time, I can wait. The people know now. It's out in the open.

There's no way you can hide 9Vi to 10 years for two marijuana cig-arets." Before he passed sentence, Judge Colombo said: "Mr. Sinclair waa not on trial because of his beliefs. He represents a person whrt has deliberately flaunted and scoffed at the law." BEFORE sentencing, Sinclair, weaiing sandals, blue jeans and a blue work shirt, said he had suffered "cruel and unusual punishment" during the 2'4 years since the offense and over the weekend in the Wayne County Jail where "there are no sheets, you sleep on the floor and get pig swill to eat." "Any sentence you would give me would be ridiculous," Sinclair continued, hls voice growing firmer. "I'm going to continue to fight it, the people will continue to fight it there is no justice about this!" His attorney, Justin C. Rav-Itas, requested leniency, noting that Sinclair had a one-year-old daughter and that his wife waa pregnant.

The child, Sunny, waa in court Monday with Sinclair's mother. Ravitz said Sinclair had been "led by police to be an in-termeditary in a transaction he should never have been party to." Ravitz said the only way to check the "unmitigated power" of narcotics officers was to have "independent jurors and judiciary we didn't have that in this court." Judge Colombo noted that Sinclair had twice previously pleaded guilty in Recorder's Court to charges of possession of marijuana. FOR you to assert the law is out to get you is sheer nonsense," Colombo said. "John Sinclair Is out to show he and his Ilk (can) violate the law with impunity," Colombo said, his voice rising slightly with evident emotion. "WeJl, his day has come," Colombo said, staring at Sinclair, who the Judge thought waa smiling.

"You may laugh, but you will have a long time to laugh." Colombo then pronounced the sentence. He denied bond, pending possible appeal, saying Sinclair had a "propensity" to use drugs if freed. Sinclair suddenly shouted at the Judge, "You have exposed yourself even more and the people know that. He had been standing with his arms around his wife, Magdelene, when police led him away. Judge Colombo said later that Sinclair would be eligible for parole in six years.

22, 1966. The maximum sentence was 10 years. AS HE was led from the courtroom, he shouted, "You are a punk, you will die" at police. Other police wrestled him into a holding cell. "They set me up," shouted out between the bars.

"It's obvious why they did it. They don't want ms out on th street. "They put Hiiey V. Nwton DONALD SEGER: His body was found after 24 years. Evans said that his wife was notified by the government in 1951 that 'it had given up the search for her son.

But, he said, she kept hoping he was alive. the young man, who wore his hair shoulder length, was a self-styled poet. O'CONNELL'S father, Dr. Francis P. O'Connell, is an assistant professor in chemical engineering at the University of -Detroit.

According to police, O'Connell lived with his parents at 546 Leroy in Ferndale. Police said O'Connell, who was separated from hla wife, shot himself with a gold-plated .22 caliber revolver. They said he had 15 rounds of live Ammunition in his pocket. pmmmsmmmmmk 1 mMW: 'iilt 1 It i lllll jlll! Ifilr HI Hjl ft 1 ktMBttSSMl til Illli lif: liilf 1 (7-D Student Commits Suicide During Class parish bulletin. "There are those who by Father Joe and there people In the parish who thinkj; he is doing his utmost to detT.

stroy the parish," said thsrjj Rev. Father Thomas J. Suih erland, archdlocesan vicar for west Detroit and one of Father Schlllmoeller's superiors. The people who like Fatheri Schillmoeller call him Christ figure" and "zealous hard working, They add: "You really tools 'I forward to going to Joe's masses. They are scT'i much more meaningful." Non-admirers say Father-i Schillmoeller is "a fat's''! prophet" and "young and lnjj; pulsive." Some parish mem'" bers, they relate, have out of his masses because 'i "they didn't even feel they were at mass." FATHER Schillmoeller, grew up on Detroit's east a few blocks from Donald singer, leader of the wing organization through, and attended John Provincial Seminary Plymouth- He was assigned Turn to Tage 10A, Column'ilf Conall C.

Oonnell, a 23-year-old senior at th University of Detroit, stood up in class at 6 :22 p.m. Monday night, said, "It's cold outside and it caused me to freeze," and eihot himself in the head. O'Connell died an hour later in Mt. Oarmel Mercy Hospital. On the cover of a report due for his philosophy of education class Monday, O'Connel had typed his birth date followed by: 'Died Inly 28, 190, :22 p.m.

It wa cold outsirlfc and it naimed me to freeze." Students, in his class said St. Monica's Father he Was interested In it his. o. When Father Schillmoeller joined a sit-in conducted by People: Against Racism (PAR) and then announced his support of the Black Manifesto to the newspapers, seme parishioners were shocked. V'.