SEPARATIST MOVEMENT: DeGAULLE ADDS FUEL See editorial page L71 L Sir 4Iai4 COOLER High-SO Low--6 Good chance of thundershowers Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 55 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1967 SEVEN CENTS FOUR PAGES SAGINAW LATEST RIOT: Michigan Communities Erupt With More Violence, Arrests Detroit Violence Subsides; By The Associated Press Eight Michigan cities were em- broiled in racial violence - the latest Saginaw where shots wound- ed at least five persons Tuesday night after the city's Negro mayor rejected demands of a civil rights group. Riots and disturbances, hop- scotching among almost every major Michigan community after erupting in Detroit, also hit Grand Rapids, Pontiac, Flint, Muskegon, Benton Harbor and Mount Clem- ens. The five were injured when Saginaw police battled snipers Tuesday night in the midst of a jeering crowd in the city of 98,000. Saginaw is 100 miles northwest of Detroit. Officers arrested 54 persons in the outbreak that came after the city's Negro Mayor Henry G. Marsh turned down demands of a federation of civil rights groups, United Power, to be heard in a meeting between Marsh and some business leaders on civil rights. Grand Rapids, the state's sec- FOOD AND CLOTHING to be sent to the riot-torn areas of Detroit are now being solicited at St. Thomas Church, corner of N. State and Kingsley. A special request is being made for powdered baby food. Volunteers to sort contributions are also welcomed. All contributions. should be taken to the church cafeteria. * *A MICHAEL RADOCK, vice president for University relations, was elected president of the American College Public Relations Association in Dallas, Tex., at the group's annual meeting. Radock was named director of university relations in 1961 and pro- moted to the vice-presidency in 1964. He has spent 20 years in the field including Kent State University and Ford Motor Co. * * * * SPECIAL MERIT AWARD of the American College Public Relations Association 1967 National Honors Competition was presented to the University Tuesday evening during the ACPRA's annual conference at Dallas, Tex. The award was made for entries judged outstanding in the state-wide or regional infor- mation programs category. The University program which received the award was the ' "Traveling Science Circus Program" originated by the News Serv- ice to bring together scientists and news executives to discuss issues of significance to the public. So far, programs have been established with University assistance in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, North Carolina and New Jersey. UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS will be de- livered at the summer graduation by Lt. Gov. William G. Miliken on Sunday, Aug. 6. The academic procesgion into Hill Aud. will begin at 1:45 p.m. About 2000 students will be awarded degrees, most of them at the graduate level. Miliken will receive an hon- orary doctor of laws- degree from University President Harlan Hatcher. * * * * THE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE. on Retirement and the Individual yesterday opened public hearings in the Rackham Aud. United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther was scheduled to speak but was forced to remain in Detroit. His text, read by an aide, urged Congressional approval of a lower retirement age without loss of benefits. Other speakers included Sen. Walter Mondale (D-Minn), Walter Grimm, director of the Chrysler In- stitute and a panel of the University's Conference on Aging. ond largest city with 200,000 res- idents, seethed after three Negroes were shot and slightly wounded while trying to urge an angry crowd to calm down Tuesday. Houses were burned and snipers fired sporadically in the city 150 miles northwest of Detroit. Pontiac, where two Negroes were killed a day earlier by gunfire, cooled off Tuesday. Police arrested 45 persons in the city of 82,000, only 25 miles northwest of Detroit. But most arrests were for curfew violations. Looting, firebombing and sniping had hit the heavily industrialized city the night be- fore. Flint In Flint, 60 miles north of De- troit, officials tried to head off violence with a unique plan. Prose- cutor Robert Leonard of Genesee County won approval to release 110 persons arrested the night be- fore, on condition the arrested persons go into troubled areas and try to talk their friends out of more violence. Fifty-four Flint residents were arested Tuesday night, but the campaign by Negroes to keep would-be rioters off the streets appeared successful. A half-dozen persons were ar- rested after groups threw rocks and bottles Tuesday night in Mus-, kegon, a Lake Michigan port city1 ' e t '1 Surpasses W atts National Guard Replaces Policemen Inside 92 Square Block Section DETROIT (A)--Tanks and troops out in force in a battle- scarred West Side area brought a semblance of calm last night to the riot-blitzed Motor City. Violence was at its lowest ebb in the fourth day of the nation's worst racial explosion in recent history. Reports from sniper weapons, followed sometimes by gunshots by sol- diers and police, still echoed intermittently in the darkness. But, well past the 9 p.m. curfew hour, the streets were empty except for police and troops patrolling with car and truck headlights off. The death toll stood at 36, one more than the Watts area riot in Los Angeles in 1965, the previous worse loss of life from racial violence. The cost, Sniper Shooting Contrnuei -Associated Press of 46,500 about 190 miles from POLICE AND TROOPS RETURN FIRE at Grand River and 14th Street in Detroit yesterday. Snipers Detroit. began in daylight forays on troops and law officers. Sniping had previously been confined to night- Benton Harbor time in the riot area. Troops moved into the area behind tanks and armored personnel carriers. At Benton Harbor, a city of --------___-- 19,000 in southeastern lower Mich- ABATES: igan, groups of Negro teenagers V O E C looted a grocery store and dam- aged four other business places. Police arrested four.L A fire bomb police said vas tyouths caused $100,000 damagef Tuesday night to anapairtment a s R o s R building under construction at ount Clemens, 21 miles north of Detroit. Another fire caused of th coun mate millic Fir duty mitte ilies battl: which As firing ically, peace Side men I LIST OF CITIES GROWS: Chicago, Cleveland Mionor Outbreaks of By The Associated Press Like a spreading disease, mob violence wracked the nation from coast to coast again yesterday, leaving at least 15 communities writhing in civic agony. Several Negro leaders pleaded for peace, but one screamed: "We'll burn the country down!" Detroit, the worst hit, seethed through a third night of terror and death., Sniper fire continued through much of yesterday. In Toledo, Ohio, a dozen fires were set by firebombs and at least 37 arrests were made Tuesday night in that city's second conse- cutive night of turmoil. Some 500 National Guardsmen were alerted, but were not called upon to help quell the disruption. Police with riot equipment were rushed to the predominantly Ne- gro area of Avondale in Cincinnati, Ohio last night after firemen were stoned while battling the flames at the Warwick Apartments. The three alarm fire at the old five- story building was brought under control when the trouble erupted. In Cleveland's Hough district, where five days of race rioting took four lives a year ago, Tuesday night brought a number of fire- bombings. a band of Negro youths roamed the business section. There were intermittent rifle shots in Phoenix, Ariz. Some 30 police officers were used to move a gang of vandals into a housing project where they took refuge. President Johnson called on the nation's youth to be reformers, not wreckers. "To be a reformer is to be re- sponsible," he said. "It is to be a remaker-not a wrecker-of what man has made. It is to be restorer -not a destroyer-of truth and good. $20,000 damage to a race track By URBAN LEHNER Jobs are more plentiful than in Rain most of the day apparently quell garage at the sity of 21,000. Special to The Daily some places, although a distress- dampened potential violence but snipin Grass-Roots Grou Daily News Feature ing number of young people can- police nevertheless continued GrAssAPootsaGroup not find work. While the situation their patrols and barricaded At Saginaw, a member of Unit- cruised Southside streets here ye is probably of little consolation downtown exits of the U.S. 131 city p ed Power, a grass-roots civil rights ceye- to the Negro population, it does expressway as a precaution. A 9 area- group, declared "The only way terday in two-car patrols, their kdestr blak pope cn gt ear istorife arrls oitin ou te wn-make the Grand Rapids problem p.m. to 5:30 a.m. curfew was in dsr black people can get heard is to rifle barrels pointing out the win-distinctly different. effect and a ban on the saleof Sni march." dows grim and menacing. Si Soon, 50 marchers were heading Racial violence in Grand Rap- Property damage here is esti- alcoholic beverages in Kent Coun- menF for downtown Saginaw. They satid appeared to be under control mated at $500,000, and there were ty and gasoline in Grand Rapids lice down in the main intersectionyesterdayrLt. Gov. William G. over 50 fires, many in homes. and six suburban areas remained near t gradually being joined by more Milliken said. There were personal injury intact. Detro than 400 sympathizers. "The plan to bring in the Na- cases reported, although as of yet, Police courts arraigned some of came Marsh acceded to demands for tional Guard has temporarily been no deaths. the more than 200 persons arrest- a blaz aseetg andeheld da 20-inute called off," Milliken told news- City officials and police hoped ed during the violent outbreak Se grievance session in a downtown men. He was acting for Gov. the worst was over last evening uesday. for t hotel, George Romney, who was in riot as reports of sporadic rock-throw- The rioting injured 44 persons ee When the Negroes left the ses- stricken Detroit. ing and bottle-tossing incidents include two Negro task force work- traffi sion they were stony-faced and Although the riot in Grand continued to filter into police ers who were urging residents to urba disregarded newsmen. They sent Rapids for the past two days and headquarters. return to their homes. the sit-ins home and shortly aft- from the situation in Detroit, it Th erward violence began. Fires werehsntheenitatcaron i coit, it~7c I fi~ fn ua set at three housesand a garageha not are th carbon coptore win- Com.mi ssio I Seeks D efinite unin dows, the burned buildings and the prohi crackle of sniper fire in the night.- a1a S utl prices Low-Keyed existi But the destruction has not The been as all-consuming, the mobs By LUCY KENNEDY a definite role in helping to de- porte so large, determined or effective, nor the air so filled with hate. The question "What Do Stu- termine the type of research done short @1There have as yet been no deaths, dents Want?" based on an outlinebyuhecniversityaesaly inofer /~~~~~no city iiay blocksens leveled, no quasi - written by Student Government such controversial areas as Chem- offer milit " a enamns btween.l po- IonclPesidn BruaceKahn,"'68, ical andbiological warfare." tructi lice and rioters. was the main topic at yesterday's Also was questioned by faculty busin "It is, beyond all else, to respect Throughout the disturbance, in- meeting of the Presidential Com- members on the commission. were the -laws of society-to rebuild so- cidents have been sporadic rather mission on the Role of the Stu- Dean James Robertson of the alone Ciety-to rebuild society by chang- than concentrated. dents in the Decision Making Residential College commented, destr ing law, improving law, using the Early Stages Process. "I'm all for it but I'm afraid that law." The early stages were character- Prof. Maurice Sinnott of the en- at the vice-presidential level it In New York, four top Negro ized by the looting of expensive gineering college, chairman of the would have no material effect on ThE leaders pleaded for an end to "mob merchandise from the exclusive commission for the summer, said substantive issues of research had 1 law" shops-color TV sets, diamonds, "We asked for a definite statement or, policy. What it would do is of fa ari fashionable clothing. As it drag- of student goals so we could have create a better climate - the above Martin Luther King Jr., A Philip ged on, fire-bombing and sni- something to use for discussion to benefits would be psychological." "ballp Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whit- per fire-wrought for the most avoid generalities." T m oid Young Jr signed a statement r by individuals rather than Students desire, according to rGo in which they called for peace. mobs-were in evidence this proposal, power to make deci- February by President Hatcher on "No one benefits under mob Small Percentage sions involving individual student has bee meeing informayrowner law," the statement said. "Let it Only a small percentage of the conduct at the housing unit level evr ee durin the summeandr end now!" Negro population seems to be in- without veto power from admin- to reduce discussion time during troit volved in the rioting, most of istration or SGC. the fall. which is occurring in the ghetto. M.rthese Some whites are reportedly tak- They also want to be able to sit ing the families of Negro friends on faculty committees, have some into their homes in safer parts of yn e U ry y I thecity.say in general University policy, INE.Z$ IhResictions on the sale of al- and establish a more represent- coholic beverages and firearms, ative student gvernment. as well as limited sale of gasoline A s.t have also been imposed on this for Social Research to design a rwestern Michigan city. poll of student opinion was pre- Young Rioters sented by Will Smith, assistant The rioters are all young, most- director of the office of student ly teenagers. Although the rioting organizations. ' began after an alleged occurence "If a permanent sample could be of police brutality, it does not on established." Smith commented, the whole seem to be racially mo- "we could find student opinion on } tivated. things quickly enough to make Some white persons have re- some use of it in decision-making. portedly participated in the loot- Faculty Skepticism ing, and there have been few in- Several faculty members on the ,,tnce of clerv riot-connected commission were skeptical about , he rioting in the three- ty Detroit area was esti- d to reach as high as $500 on. emen who had been on since Sunday were per- ed to return to their fain- for a six hour period after ing some of the 1,250 fires h broke out in the period. the night wore , on, sniper increased slightly, sporad- police said. A tense semi- enveloped the 92 block West area after National Guards- in battle dress poured in to an afternoon outburst of ng there. Police Withdrew en the shooting erupted, all olicemen withdrew from the -the section hit hardest by action and violence. - per bullets hit two Guards- and the civilian near a po- precinct. Gunfire whizzed the Herman Kiefer branch of it General Hospital. Firemen under attack while fighting ze. 'eral blocks away, Detroiters iany who had come to work he first time this week - winding their way along c clogged freeways to sub- n homes. Profiteering Ordinance e Detroit Common Council Lmously passed an ordinance Emergency session yesterday biting the sale of food at s "greater than retail prices ng prior to the emergency." ordinance was aim at re- d profiteering from food Cages. rried Detroit officials could no breakdown now on des- ion, but said at least 1,500 iesses were looted and there more than 1,500 fires. This could account for anywhere 1,500 to 3,000 damaged or oyed buildings. Homeless ey said many of these fires eft an undetermined number milies, living in tenements burned stores, homeless. A park estimate" ranged from o 3000, v. George Romney made "the gest possible appeal to store rs, merchants of all types real estate dealers in De- not to take advantage of distressed people." Gov. Romney Hits Johnson Troop Delay Republicais Charge Political Maneuvering On Part of President By The Associated Press Gov. George Romney said at a news conference yesterday that President Johnson gave the na- tion an inaccurate version of events leading up to sending Army troops into Detroit. Rom- rley said he was convinced of the need much earlier than Jdhnson, who the Republican governor . said had been vacillating and hes- itant about asking for troops. Romney refused to speculate why federal troops were kept 11 hours at Selfridge air force base before the President ordered them into Detroit. Some Republicans have charg- ed that Johnson tried to give the impression that Romney was un- able to maintain order in his own state. Romney, an undeclared presidential candidate, would not comment on the charge. Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew yesterday said he turned over to federal authorities information which "indicates that' the Newark riots and the Detroits riots 'had a similarity of planning and ex- ecution." Romney said earlier yesterday "there are some indications of outside influence. I don't think Detroit is isolated in this case." Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich), said "I am not trying to contra- dict the governor on any con- spiracy, but I know of none." In Lansing Sen. George Kuhn (R-Bloomfield Hills), said that he will ask a full-scale Senate in- vestigation of what he termed "the nation's worst riot." The probe would seek answers to why "the situation was treated lightly from the police enforce- ment standpoint until it was com- pletely out of control." "It is essential to determine whether or not there were any known agitators or outside in- fluence in the rioting." -~ ~'