'NO FURNITURE STORE EVER DID ME A FAVOR' See editorial page Y Lilt i-au 743AOFi SUNNY High-84 Low-63 Fair and continued warm; little change in temperature Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 53S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1967 SEVEN CENTS FOUR PAG J 'INS I r its )ET I I. .11 I RI rir T SRN 00 III Reports Indicate Nineteen Dead; Damage Estimate: $150 Million DETROIT. (P)-Grim Army par- atroops rolled into Detroit last night to help city and state po- lice and federalized National Guardsmen dueling with snipers for control of the streets. As 1800 regular Army troops moved, into the city, death toll climbed to 19, injuries mount- ed steadily and property damage climbed over. the $150 million mark. Snipers dueled from rooftops with Guardsmen and police. Fights broke out in widely scattered sec- tions spreading far onto the East Side miles from the center of the first violence Sunday. Strict Curfew A strict curfew between 9 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. was imposed and ex- tended to cover all of the city's suburbs as. well. All - stores and factories were closed and will remain closed un- til the state of emergency has been lifted. Gas stations had been clos- ed all day to avoid the buying of gas for arson attempts. "The situation is more serious than it has b'een and it certainly makes this action very much needed," Gov. GeorgeyRomney told newsmen. Romney and Mayor Jerome Cavanagh appeled with Vance at the news conference. All routes into the city were patrolled and the expressways were blocked to traffic. The tun- nel and bridge to Canada were closed and only returning Amer- ican citizens were permitted to come to Detroit. As the battles intensified Guardsmen opened fire with .50- caliber machine guns mounted on armore; personnel carriers. A raging gunfight blazed within a mile of the affluent Grosse Pointe several miles east of the main trouble center. Looters and arsonists struck Monday night in Pontiac, an Oak- land County city of 82,200 some 25 miles north of Detroit. Isolated shooting was reported) throughout Pontiac's south side. Police Chief William Hanger said arsonists have set a dozen buildings ablaze. State Selective Service Director Col. Arthur A. Holmes today said all selective service inductions for the entire state will be postponed for the balance of the week because of the tense situation in Detroit. Mayor Cavanagh said the em- battled city "looks like Berlin in 1945 or Warsaw after thesghetto uprising. This is an explosion of the completely lawless element." Mounting Reports Reports of battling on the East Side continued to mount. As- sociated Press newsman Justinas Bavarskis reported that the 5th Precinct, only a mile or so'from the fashionable, all-white com- munity of Grosse Pointe Park, was "under seige from four or five snipers." Twice, however, he was forced to duck for cover as Guardsmen and snipers exchanged fire. Fireman Dies 5000-Man Force Deployed in Cit LBJ Speech Appeals to Cities to End 'All Forms of Lawlessness, Violence' By The Associated Press President Johnson ordered federal troops into riot- riddled Detroit last night to restore law and order and said that "we will not tolerate lawlessness, we will not endure violence." Johnson had built the foundation for this ac.tion by dis- patching 5000 federal troops to the area earlier and backing it up with a proclamation and executive order. At midnight he went on the air to say he had acted only because of "indisputable evidence" that Gov. George Romney and local officials were unable to bring conditions under control. Speaking from the movie and television center at the White House, Johnson called upon all the people in all cities to join in a determined pro-$" -Daily-James Forsyth THE RUINS of a burned-out store en Livernois Avenue were typical of the destruction all over Detroit as fires continued out of control throughout the day. 11aM tin lVoqwnl Zifea Local Police Ready For Any Emergency By STEPHEN BERKOWITZ and RICHARDSON McKELVIE Although spokesmen for the Ann Arbor Police and the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department an- ticipate no large-scale racial trou- ble In the wake of Detroit's two days of rioting, they are prepar- ed to meet such an emergency if . it arises. According to Walter Hawkins of the Ann Arbor Police's Uniform Division, "Leaves have been can- celed for all police personnel," but patrolmen about to go on vacation have not been called in. The Washtenaw County Sheriff's De- partment has taken similar pre- cautionary measures. "All of our men not on vaca- tion are on 24-hour alert," Hawk- ins added, "and they can be call- ed in quickly if something hap- pens." Rumors Circulate Rumor of impending racial viol- ence were rife all day yesterday however, and Washtenaw County Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey mo- bilized approximately 100 of his auxiliary deputies as well as all of his 70-man force. "We're sitting on a potential powder keg," he explained, "and we want to be ready for any emer- gency." Despite the fact that the Ann Arbor Police and the Sheriff's De- partment have added men to their regular patrols as a precautionary measure, there was little evidence of any-unusual nighttime activity in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti or the surrounding areas.' Citizens Uneasy Citizen reaction, however, was not nearly as calm as that evi- denced by law enforcement offi- cials. According to, Lt. Eugene Staudenmeier, the Ann Arbor Po- a dozen" purchase permits fo concealed -weapons today. Abou . half of these were issued t women. This. figure represents ai unusually heavy one, despite th increased purchasing of pistol which has gone on during the las several months. The only racial incident of an3 consequence which took place it Washtenaw County last eveninE occurred when a brick was throwi of southern whites living in the thrnugh the window of a family Negro section of Ypsilanti. N one was injured, however. Both Hawkins and Harvey ar confident that local citizens ar unlikely to engage in disturbances similar to the ones taking plac in Detroit. Seifridge I3 Just Like Ca By JOHN LOTTIER and STEPHEN FIRSHEIN Special To The Daily SELFRIDGE A.F.B.-The young N e g r o lieutenant disembarked from the huge, camouflaged, C-130 transport plane, and threw hi dufflebag on a waiting half-track "Strange way to return to my home towne' he observed. "But it's just one of those things, baby." His commanding officer quickly interrupted with terse instructions "not to say anything," and the two joined their company as it march- ed off the runway at Selfridge Air Force Base, some thirty miles from Detroit. Thus, the first members of a 5000-man riot control force began A fireman was felled by a bullet _AW L L5' £jV ".L £ V & 95ITF 95 while battling a blaze and fire- fighters withdrew from the burn- ing building for lack of protection. About 4,000' Guardsmen were in -g the streets with 800 Detroit police- men and 200 state police, clamping an iron-bound curfew on the city By The Associated Press six packs of beer to beleagured sections of the city and secured r in the second night of violence. fir k fom s ste t Arrests mounted to 2,000, in- The trouble began before dawn firemen. some streets. juries totaled 1,000, the number of Nrnigtrpolice had raided ters in Detroit, and officers scur- the touble began, Detroit police ne fires.whit 300.w for the day and 600 Negro nightspot i a predomin- e for the two days of trouble. antly Negro ieighborhood .nd ar- ri upadwthe halls with weae hich sections t A 100-square block area, with rested 73 persons. Sixty-one later arms loaded with .38-caliber am- city were secure, and the answer t whole blocks mere blackened were released. munition. was: "We can't say." skeletons of what once stood on Police said the nightclub was The slo casualttriotapparente of uredathis point the number Y them, was heavily devastated by selling liquor illegally. resulted from orders for police just 20 - and 15 of them were n fires, new and old. Negroes in the neighborhood to hold their fire. Officers re- policemen. g Guards Fan Out claimed police had kicked a hand- peatedly gave ground in the face By midnight Sunday, more than Guardsmen patrolled the rav- cuffed teen-aged Negro down two of trouble and ignored most loot- 200 fires were raging, and thou- e aged area and fanned out across flights of tenement steps in mak- ing and fire bombing, apparently sands of Negroes looted and fire- y a 12-square mile section of the city ing the arrest. The police denied in the hope that the Negroes bombed almost at will as they 0 as 600 firemen tried to bring the it. would quickly vent their wrath. gave ground in the face of slowly blazes under control. Some 200 Negroes milled about National Gaurdsmen, backed by advancing Guardsmen. e The Federal Aviation Agency in a three-block area near where four tanks, finnally rolled into With many businesses volun- e ordered all commercial and private the raid was made and began pelt- the city on Army trucks and city- tarily shut dow nand hundreds of s aircraft coming within 12 miles of ing police with stones and bottles. owned buses and began taking up others closed by Romney's order, e Detroit to maintain an altitude of Fire Started positions around other police pre- Detroiters waited uneasily under 3,000 feet or more. Rioters set fire to a shoe store cinct stations. the fading pall of smoke for night Iand looted about a dozen other Then they edged into nearby to come. A *1.fstores in the area, most of them ris e' A i.tr l ft: owned by whites. S B h Stores marked "Soul Brother," Rais Not Prime Factor Gm R anh B aY sympathizer, did not completely)" ~m Ranh Bay 2~goo c t escape destruction by rioters orb edg Planes-eventually, there were 137 owned stores only to see breezes of them-landed and took off carry them through entire blocks By The Associated Press house. They set it any way. He every few minutes bringing in ele- owned by both Negroes and whites. "This wasn't no Negro riot," said tried to put it out with a small fire ments of the Army's 82nd Airborne The dispute simmered through- a Negro woman on smoldering extinguisher he got from inside, I division from Fort Bragg, N.C., out Sunday morning, with the 14th street yesterday, "it's an all but he couldn't." and the 101st from Fort Campbell, number of Negroes growing as of 'em riot." "If it were my store, I'd shoot," s Ky. "Just like Cam Ranh Bay," nearby residents streamed in to Most observers agreed that the said one as he watched 10-year- one Vietnam veteran noted. , see what had been done. incidents in Detroit could not truly olds carry out waste baskets full Clustered on the grass next to Newsmen Targets be classified as "race riots." of odds and ends, "but' it ain't, the field, the troops laid down Newsmen became the targets of Rep. Charles Diggs Jr. (D-Mich), so I don't give a damn." their M-16's, bayonets, and knap- the increasing anger and gangs a Negro, said that the crowds did One man said he did not rec- sacks, settling down for a leisurely chased television crews and news- not show as much interest in ognize any of the looters as being dinner of C-rations - crackers, paper reporters, smashing a bot- racial hatred as they did in grab- from his neighborhood. cheese, soup, stew-and chatting tle against the head of one news- bing as much as they could One Windsor fireman, return- among themselves, man and injuring several more. He said the crowd was in no ing from a 12-hour tour of duty Soon a few started tossing foot- Police sent in special squads of mood for reason and that many Detroit, said he had just "re- balls and baseballs around, playing riot-trained commandos armed rioters were drunk on alcohol or turned from hell." He described cards, and trying to find the near- with shotguns, submachineguns druc how rioters peppered him with est Coke machines, which were and rifles with fixed bayonets. drugs. bottles and rocks as he tried to rapidly emptied. They tried-to clear the streets. . Newsmen observed white looters fight the fires. Stationed along the narrow Looting Begins emerging from the shattered win- "I never thought human beings streets of the base were dozens Looting began sneakily and s sermakets and gro could turn like that, he said. of chartered, green and silver De- nervously, but soon as police stood stores on Third Street, cradling troit Street and Railway buses. by with orders not to fire, the loads of beer and whiskey bottles The drivers gathered in small looting became blatant and looters in their arms. groups, awaiting orders to begin climbed in and out of shattered "There were almost as many'le cn ,u o fhm osw i nt their convoy, but none of them stores with impunity. whites as Negroes," said Theresee seemed especially perturbed, be- Then it exploded. King, a white woman who watched cause; as one said, "I'll wait for Thousands of Negroes and some all evening from her front yard e a ra tts anything at $5 an hour." whites joined the looting in the a3rsv e rns Most of the troops had had only area and elsewhere, and reports was turned into a pile of rubble. a half-hour's notice before being of violence began to hopscotch "They were laughing, talking. NEWARK, N.J. ()-The call airlifted, and were curious about from street to street. having a good time. It seemed like has been sounded for a militant what was happening: "When did Rioters looted and fire-bombed everyone was enjoying them- black separatism that would seek it start? What part of the city 'is practically at will, and beleaguered selves to withdraw the Negro from the it in? I didn't see any fires when firemen, battered with debris de- N"S; to mitram tAerofnomie we flew over. Bigger than New- spite their efforts to put out fires No Stopping mainstream of American life. ark?" destroying both Negro and white The Rev. Robert Potts, pastor of: This was the gist of a final A supporting Air Force officer homes andbbusinesses, withdrew Grace Episcopal Church, said his joint resolution issued yesterday from Selfridge added, "We reac- for their own safety. community workers "went from by leaders of the first national tivaed tis prt o thebasewithman to man" and "couldn't get conference on Black Power as they tivated this part of the base with - Smoke Covers City sybd tietd u ummed up a fou-ay sesion that only three hours preparation. t Smes ty h anybody interested" in avoiding summed upafr-a seitat, - . )The blazes swept through whole , tha nh~indria ,T.rvernand c tah- attracted nearly 1000 delegates gram to maintain law and or- der-to condemn and combat lawlessness in all its forms- and "firmly to show by word and deed that' riots, looting and public disorder will not be tolerated." "In particular," he said, "I call upon the people of the ravaged areas to return to their homes, to leave the streets and permit the authorities to restore quiet and or- der without further loss of life or property damage. Once . this is done, attention can immediately See earlier story, Page 3 be turned to the great and urgent problems of repairing the damage that has been done. "I appeal to every American in this grave hour to respond to this plea." In strong, firm language, John- son said law and order have broten down in Detroit and thus federal intervention was required. Not Civil Rights "Pillage, looting, murder, and arson have nothing to do with civil rights. They are criminal conduct. The federal government in the circumstances here pre- sented had no alternative but to respond, since it was called upon by the governor of the state and presented with proof of his in- ability to restore order. "We will not tolerate lawless- ness. We will not endure violence. It matters not by whom it is done or under what slogan or banner. It will not be tolerated. This na- tion will do whatever is neces- sary to suppress or punish those who engage in it." Speaks With Staff Johnson spoke for about 10 minutes. With him were members of his staff and top-level govern- ment executives, including Sec- retary of Defense Robert S. Mc- Namara and Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark. Putting the Michigan National Guard under federal control would make it possible to place one com- mander over all state and federal troops on the scene. Johnson em- powered McNamara to federalize the Guard for an indefinite period -any or all units of it.k Puerto Rmean Mob Pillages East Harlem NEW YORK (W) - A mob of nearly 2,000 Puerto Ricans ramp- aged along an 18-block stretch of Spanish Harlem last night, looting and burning in a third successive night of violence. One man was killed and two injured by gunfire. The rioting spread along Third Avenue from 95th Street to 112th Street. Helmeted, riot-trained members of the Tactical Patrol Force of the police department fought for the upper hand amid a carpet of broken glass that glit- tered along the avenue. Firebombs were hurled, police were belted with bottles and an American Broadcasting Co. news car was overturned and set afire. There was no injuries to the net- work personnel. At one point, a police car was reported under gun- fire. Police sought to contain the crowd by firing shots above their heads. The mob looted a filling station, after vainly tryingto set it afire. The pattern of bottle-throwing, and looting began early Sunday after a Puerto Rican was shot to death by a policeman. Exploded firecrackers added to the tension as police moved in to try to disperse the crowd off Third Avenue and onto side streets. Meanwhile, Third Avenue was closed to traffic by barricades to traffic by barricades at 109th Street. Police cars converged on the area but drivers were under orders not to sound their sirens or use their revolving turret lights, ap- parently to remove a possible cause of mob incitement. Fire equipment was moved up from downtown to reinforce ap- paratus in Spanish Harlem. Many merchants had anticipated a re- newal of disturbances And had utilized -the relative calm of the daylight hours to board up their stores. lice Detective Bureau issued "about I arriving late yesterday afternoon. er Leaders Order n to Obtain Equalityv in strong language "because I wrote that I was against looting." Dr. Nathan Wright, conference director, was asked his reaction to assertions that militant separ- atists had won complete control of the conference. "The mood of black people in the United States is one of mili- tancy," he said. "I'm just surpris- ed that there was no evidence At one point, Wright asked the press to quit using the word "Negro." He asked instead that he and other delegates be re- ferred to as "black men." In light of some statements made during the course of the conference against the war in Vietnam, there was some sur- prise among newsmen that the , .: . . .: f .; r. :.. :. .. . _ . '