Tuesdc s 12 . 717 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Thre City hears voter registration talk By DAVID WHITING A proposed door-to-door voter registration resolution received a strong majority endorsement from local residents at last night's City Council meeting. Council plans to vote next Monday on the resolution, sub- mitted by Mayor Albert Wheel- er. Local City Hall watchers expect the motion to pass. ALTHOUGH MOST of the speakers voiced approval for the proposal at a public hearing on the issue, two residents lash- ed out at Wheeler's motion. They claimed the motion is an attempt to thwart the expressed wishes of a majority of city voters. A proposed door-to-door City Charter amendment was defeated by some 5,000 votes last April. Roberta Schropp declared to Council, "You should respect the appeal of your voters." She contended that if such a voter registration proposal is to be voted on, "It should be return- ed to the polls to be reviewed." LARRY CLARK echoed Sch- ropp's words and further threat- ened a class action suit should Council pass the motion. H o w e v er, a spokeswoman from the League of Women Voters (LWV) explained that there are sharp differences be- tween Wheeler's registration proposal.and the one previously defeated. She branded the April ballot issue as "vague" in parts and restated the LWV's position that the defeated voter registration charter amendment was unac- ceptable. She then said that the LWV found Wheeler's motion "commendable" with its clearer provisions and more stringent rules, Wheeler's resolution includes regulations on the political con- duct of registrars and notes, "any registered voter in Ann Arbor may be appointed as a volunteer deputy registrar after successfully completing all nec- essary training and being sworn (in)." Because Council has no direct authority over the City Clerk, the mayor's motion is merely a directive to institute door-to- door registration. Gay Cox, a deputy registrar, spoke in favor of Wheeler's mo- tion. She said it is needed be- cause "people have no idea that they are eligible to vote." Police shoot youth after break-in Michael Collins, 17, arrested Sunday during a house break-in in which city police shot and seriously wounded Willie Wilson, also 17, as he fled from the burglary scene, was arraigned in Washtenaw County Circuit Court yesterday and released under his own custody. Wilson remained in fair con- dition in the intensive care unit at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital last night, according to a local police sergeant, as Councilwo- man Kathy Kozachenko (HRP- Second Ward) announced plans to demand a full investigation into the shooting tomorrow. "NO WARNING shots were fired," contended Kozachenko at last night's Council meeting. A third youth, 15, arrested at the scene of the house-burglary at 1116 Packard, was taken into custody at the juvenile court center Sunday. Water sports Patty Cake, the star attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo, reacts gleefully to the cooling spray of water from a hose as her keeper helped her beat the city's heat. Patty will be three on Sept. 4. VALIDITY OF AMENDMENT QUESTIONED Supreme Court refuses to consider Gandhi's appeal NEW DELHI, India (A) - The Indian Supreme Court refused yesterday to hear Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's appeal of an election law con- viction until it determines the validity of a new constitutional amendment which would acquit her. Shanti Bhushan, chief lawyer for Gandhi's op- ponents, said the decision of the court, all of whose members were appointed by the prime minister, "further demonstrates the continuing independence of the Indian judiciary." GANDHIS lawyers asked the five-man bench to overturn her June 12 conviction immediately arguing that the constitutional amendment had arised the guilty verdict. The amendment states that courts no longer have jurisdiction to hear election cases involving the prime minister, the president, the vice presi- dent and the speaker of the Parliament. It also says any court judgments involving the prime minister "shall be deemed always to have been void and of no effect." Atty. Gen. Niren De told the court that "if Parliament could not amend the constitution as it had, it could lead to a situation where the constitution could be changed only through a revolution." De's remarks were carried by an Indian news agency and by the government radio network after approval from censors. Gandhi's conviction on two charges that she illegally used government officials to aid her 1971 campaign for Parliament touched off In- dia's worst constitutional and political crisis since independence in 1947. Police report reveals small rise in city crime By TRUDY GAYER City Council will receive a report next week revealing that some 10,067 major crimes were committed in Ann Arbor during the last fiscal year, according to Police Chief Walter Krasny. "The figure looks disastrous," remarked Krasny, but "major crimes are actually down a very small percentage." Major crimes are defined by the city police department report to in- clude murder, rape, robbery, burglary, assault, larceny, and auto theft. BICYCLE thefts show a slight decrease of 25 over the previous year's figures while car thefts are on the rise. Krasny points out that auto theft has been in- creasing steadily o v er the years. "Automobiles offer instant cash," he said, explaining a car can be painted, camouflaged and sold on the used car mar- ket, or stripped down guaran- teeing the thief resale value for the tires and other parts. Many of the auto theft cases which have been c lea re d (arrested or charged) were per- petrated by organized gangs, said Krasny, while othersaare done by "a guy who doesn't have enough courage to break in and rob a place." "THERE IS nothing you can do to stop them (thieves)," Krasny declared. "Just make it more difficult for them." He said the use of locks and other deterrents will help. Rapes increased by 19 over the previous year. "We're prob- ably getting more reportings," remarked K r a s n y. Forcible rapes increased by four and assaults with the intent to rape were up by 15. The official crime index re- port for the fiscal year is ex- pected to be released at the end of August. KRASNY explained that the city's crime rate has been hold- ing steady at the relatively high level described in the report even though the police force must deal with an increasing workload. Asked how much longer the force can keep the crime rate steady, Krasny replied, "I don't know. We have to keep our fingers crossed. There is no money in the city budget." The police chief said the force is working with 35 fewer people than two years ago. Little says Alligoodi demanded oral sex RALEIGH, N.C. (am) - Joan him. Little, speaking a hushed, break- Little said Alligood was stand- ing voice, told the jury in her ing in the doorway of her cell murder trial yesterday that when she left the jail with a Beaufort County jailer Clarence "silly little grin" on his face. Alligood forced her to have oral After Little left the witness sex with him before she stabbed stand, defense lawyer Jerry him with an icepick last Aug. 27. Paul asked J u d g e Hamilton Little, a 21-year-old black wo- Hobgood to rule out in advance man, said the white jailer began cross examination by the prose- making sexual advances to her cution that would delve into two or three weeks after she en- Little's past character. The de- tered the jail early last June. fense asked that details of the Under cross examination she breaking and entering convic- told prosecutor William Griffin tion, for which she was jailed that she did not report the ad- at the time of Alligood's death, vances because she did not to be excluded. think a black woman would be believed. HOBGOOD made formal -an "MR. GRIFFIN, sometimes earlier ruling excluding Little's you have the evidence and you health records and jail records tell the truth and they twist it as evidence. He delayed a rul- in a way so to make you not tell ing on the other material. the truth," Little said. Little was still on the stand "In Washington, N.C., coming for cross examination when up as a black woman, it's dif- court adjourned yesterday. In ferent saying what you did and his questioning, Griffin sought have your word go up against to portray Little as a person a white person," she continued. desperate to get out of jail. He Earlier, Little broke into sobs asked her to read numerous as she described a struggle entries from journals she made with the jailer for. the icepick while in jail that spoke of a which she said he used to desire to get back to her boy- threaten her the night he was friend. killed. She read a note which Griffin said she had written to her SHE SAID she had oral sex boyfriend, Julius Rodgers, that with Alligood, 62, for "three or said, "I miss you so much I'm four or five minutes" before she about to go crazy here. I've got tried to wrest the icepick from to do something."