FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE Riot Commission Urges Brown Calls SOUTH VIETNAM ELECTIONS: Civilian Candidates May Unite I MoreI Recommends Expansion Of Training Johnson Sends Note To DOD Requesting Immediate Attention WASHINGTON (A) - President Johnson's special commission on riots recommended yesterday that more Negroes be recruited into the National Guard. The Presi- dent promptly asked the Defense Department to move toward this goal. The National Advisory Commis- sion on Civil Disorders recom- mended also that riot-control training of both the Guard and the regular Army be improved and expanded, and that greater care be used to insure that the Guard has Competent officers. Johnson acted affirmatively on these requests also. In a memo to Secretary of De- fense Robert S. McNamara, John- son called the commission's first r recommendation "a matter of the highest emergency and added, "I know you will give it your immed- late attention. March The commission, named last month in an aftermath to the rioting which scourged Detroit and other cities, is not expected to make its first over-all report on the causes of and possible cures for the disorders until next March. But D a v i d Ginsburg, the group's executive director, told re- porters it was decided to make these interim recommendations after hearing testimony Wednes- day from Cyrus Vance, Johnson's special representative in the De- troit crisis. G insburg said the commission decided to write to Johnson after reviewing a state-by-state statis- tics chart which showed that as of Dec. 31, 1966, only 1.15 per cent of the Army Guard and only .6 per cent of the Air Force Guard is Negro. "The commission had the feel- ing that Negroes are. 1adequately represented," Gin bu iatd. "And the commission felt that Negroes should be fairly represented." Individual States At the briefing, Ginsburg gave examples of individual states which had a disproportionate ra- tio of whites and Negroes, includ- ing three-Wyoming, North Da- kota and New Hampshire-which Chad no Negro Army Guardsmen. In answer to a question, Gins- burg said the commission feels more Negroes in the Army and Air National Guards would make them more effective as an instru- ment of the federal government and in quelling .riots in urban centers. Ginsburg said one of the main factors behind the lack of Negroes in the Guard is the reluctance of some employers to allow workers time for training. "The commis- sion is looking further into this," he added. Negro Guardsmen --Associated Press SGT. JOHN UGVARY of the Cleveland Police Department, yesterday, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee urged enactment of a Federal aid program for development of new riot control equipment. Kennedy roes Investigators To Summon Romney, Hughes On Negroes To 'Get Guns! Florida Governor Says SNCC Leader I Didn't 'Incite To Riot' JACKSONVILLE. Fla. (A:) -- Pushing aside an unexpected wel- coming hand from Florida Gov. Claude Kirk. Black Power leaderY H. Rap Brown urged a crowd of Jacksonville Negroes to "loot your- self a gun store." "Get ready, that's the whole thing," Brown told a Negro rallyI Wednesday night at Jacksonville. "You got to get yourselves some1 guns, brothers. I don't care if its a BB gun with poison BBs. You better get yourselves some guns." Brown continued, "Loot your- self a gun store, brother. Get yourself armed. That's the only thing that'll keep that man off your back." Kirk Remarks When the rally ended Kirk was asked about Brown's call to arms and said. "He didn't really say that. That's what I came here to find out." "Too often the media reports what he did rather than what he said" Kirk said. "I said he knew very well that inciting riot is against thetlaw here in Florida and he didn't incite any riot so there is no problem." Brown addressed a ball park rally highlighted by the unexpect- ed appearance of Krk. The gov- ernor and a few reporters were the only white men at the ball park which seats 1,500 and was more than half full. Brown Speaks Brown was addressing the crowd when Kirk arrived at the stadium. The governor entered the ball park ad headed for home plate where the rally sponsors had park- ed a car with a public address sys- tem. "Welcome to Florida." Kirk said to Brown, offering to shake his hand and taking the microphone. "We want Rap. We want Rap," the crowd chanted as KBirk tried to talk. Brown left town for Atlanta soon after the rally and officials said there were no racial incidents connected with his visit. One ob- server said the city's streets were deserted three hours after the ral- ly was over. Kirk's office said yesterday the Republican governor "felt he had to go into the park to "offset any- thing said by Brown to prevent a riot or disturbance as a result of the people hearing only one side." Brown Bewildered "Brown was 'bewildered and sur- prised' that the governor came up to the stand and took the micro- phone. He never got over it," said Tom Ferguson, Kirk's top aide. At Tallahassee, State Comptrol- ler Fred Dickinson, a Democrat, held a newsrconference and blast- ed Kirk for going to the rally. SAIGON (-) - Most of South< Vietnam's civilian presidential: candidates are reported 'discussing1 among themselves the possibility of pulling out of the race to rally behind one ticket, that of former; Premier Tran Van Huong.s Informed sources said yester-f day the mass pullout, if it comes,l would be accompanied by a pub-I lic denunciation of the govern-I ment of Chief of State NguyenI Van Thieu and Premier Nguyen1 Cao Ky, who are running as a military team in the election Sept. 3. They said Thieu and Ky would1 be charged with everything from police harassment of representa- tives of the civilian candidates in the countryside to sabotage of the election progress, which would be difficult to check out in the time remaining before the vote. While the political pot boiled, South Vietnamese police sources reported the police have arrested 23 Viet Cong terrorists, seized sev- eral arms caches and broken up Rebels Hold Oil Regions In Nigeria LAGOS, Nigeria MP)-A Nigerian government spokesman confirmed yesterday that the oil-rich Mid- west region is in the hands of Biafran forces and Nigerian army mutineers. The Biafrans struck a two- prong attack across the Niger River Wednesday and joined up with army rebels to capture the Midwest region's capital. of Benin and the oil port of WariB. The Nigerian government in Lagos said in a statement that of- ficers of the Ibi tribe "deceived their loyal colleagues into believ- ing that a federal attack on the Eastern region was imminent and that they were to be used in this attack." The government said that under this guise loyal troops were dis- armed. The statement said the govern-' ment had evidence that food and other commodities have been con- fiscated and are being transported to the east. The breakaway Eastern terri- tory, which calls itself the Repub- lic of Biafra, has been short of food since the federal government clamped a navy blockade on the eastern coast. Asked about a Benin radio re- port that Lt. Col. Victor Banjo is now in charge of the Midwest region, a government spokesman said, "I wish him luck. He will not last long." He said there had been no ma- terial resistance to the rebels throughout the Midwest region, except in Benin where shooting continued until early evening Wed- nesday. NEW YORK (P)-Eight Repub- lican governors, charging yester-' day that the federal government has failed to supply adequate so- lutions to the nation's urban problems, offered solutions of their own, including an urban ac- tion center to "tailor specific pro- grams to the needs of individual states." The federal government is "not providing financial resources on a scale commensurate with the dimensions of the problem," the governors said. "In many cases, the effective- ness of federal programs is inhib- ited by unnnecessary inflexibility in their administration." The governors met to discuss ways to ease racial tensions in American cities. Several of the governors, in- cluding Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York and George Romney of Michigan, have experienced ser- ious mob violence in their states in the past month. "The lesson of the Michigan ex- perience," Romney said, "is that prompt action must be taken." Detroit Recent. violence in Detroit was the most costly in its toll of life and property that the nation had ever experienced. The urban action center, as out- lined by the governors, would be funded by two foundations. It would have a team of experts in each of nine areas discussed by the state executives which would channel information back and forth so that each state could ben- efit by the experiences of the others. Rockefeller said the concepts contained in the plan put forth after the meeting "reflect the thinking of all of the nation's governors." They suggested several programs of their own including a pooling of local enforcement and fire of- ficers and their equipment so that a city in trouble can call on the men and equipment of neighbor- ing cities if needed. They also recommended the strengthening of the state police to better assist local authorities. Equipment The governors urged the federal government to provide more ade- quate equipment for National Guard forces, to review the plan- ned reorganization of the National Guard in relation to its tactical role in maintaining civil order, and to implement improved and expanded riot control training for the guard immediately. The governors' meeting was called by Rockefeller as chairman of the Policy Committee of the Republican Governors' Associa- tion. Also attending the meeting were Govs. John Love of Colorado, Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland, John B. Chafee of Rhode Island, Raymond P. Shafer of Massachu- setts and. Nils A. Boe of South Dakota. elaborate plans to spread death Saigon, charging arrangements and destruction in Saigon before made by the government for the the election. campaigning were inadequate. They said the crackdown devel- In other action in Vietnam yes- oped after investigation showed a terday, two Communist MIG-21 youth arrested at a suburban jets were knocked from the sky checkpoint July 26 was the lead- over North Vietnam by U.S. Navy er of a Viet Cong special action pilots firing air-to-air missiles. It platoon, the Communist name for was the first such dogfight in two a terrorist unit. Captured Commu- weeks in the intensified American nist documents revealed orders for air offensive. action intended to disrupt the re- The count of enemy fighters turn of South Viet Nam to civilian destroyed in aerial action since rule through the people's ballots. April 1965 rose to 82. The U.S. Seven of the 10 civilian candi- lists 20 of its 638 planes shot dates earlier announced they were down over the north as felled by boycotting the government's free Communist pilots. transportation to the provinces. The U.S. Command said there They had called off a trip last was only light contact on the Sunday in Quang Tri, the first ground in 34 allied operations in stop, and returned in a huff to South Vietnam. Republican Governors Hit Solutions to Urban Crises WASHINGTON (R) -Sen. Ed- ward M. Kennedy said yesterday that Senate riot investigators are getting a distorted view of racial outbreaks, and urged that Govs. George Romney of Michigan and Richard J. Hughes of New Jersey be called as witnesses. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Dem- ocrat, made his complaint and his request after the Senate Judiciary Committee heard a fifth day of police testimony. ."To date, the witnesses have presented a distorted view," the senator said. Joined by Sen. Philip A. Hart, (D-Mich), Kennedy asked Chair- man James 0. Eastland, (D-Miss), to broaden the inquiry so that it will cover social and economic aspects of city turmoil, as well as racial agitation and law enforce- ment. Eastland said he will take up their request at a closed session of the Judiciary Committee within a few days. "We've got to set down guidelines," he told newsmen. "We've certainly got to hear from people who oppose the bill." The bill is a House-approved measure which would 'make it a federalcrime to cross state lines with intent to incite riot. Policemen f r o m riot-scarred cities have unanimously endorsed the measure. Sgt. John Ungvary of Cleveland urged the committee to toughen and broaden the measure. "This should be changed so that a single act of violence by one person who is a member of a mob will bring the bill into play," Ungvary said. He urged also that Congress en- act a program of federal assist- ance for the development of new riot-control equipment. "The riots in Cleveland were planned and plotted," Ungvary testified. "The Communists at- tempted to exploit the riots." Ungvary said also that people involved in the antipoverty pro- gram are among Cleveland's ra- cial agitators. He mentioned one name: Harlell Jones. Ungvary said Jones is employed in the Head Start program and is known to be associated with militant, revolutionary Negro or- ganizations. Hart pointed out, however, that he sought testimony about the conditions of life in the Negro sections of Cleveland. Kennedy's complaints paralleled those of Hart. Ih addition, to Romney and Hughes, Kennedy said he has asked that Mayors Je- rome P. Cavanagh of Detroit and Hugh Addonizio of Newark be called as witnesses. He proposed as well that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who has been reported as saying he has no evidence of a conspiracy in racial outbreaks, be asked to appear. He also seeks testimony from John C. McCone, chairman of a state investigating panel which studied the riots in the Watts dis- trict of Los Angeles. Kennedy said he is asking as well that "spokesmen from the ghetto," other police officials and academic experts appear before the committee. WI UAW Charges 'Bad Faith' In GM Bargaining Practice TONIGHT-8-1 UNCLE RUSS PRESENTS LIVE, FROM SAN FRANCISCO THE GRATEFUL DEAD DANCE CONCERT "And the Southbound Freeway" GRANDE BALLROOM J Grande River at Joy DETROIT (AP) - The United Auto Workers union has accused General Motors Corp. of bargain- ing in bad faith over the issue of equal pay for American and Ca- nadian workers, the union an- nounced yesterday. The union said its charges filed with the National Labor Rela- tions Board accused the giant auto firm of refusil~g "to bargain on a union proposal aimed at protect- ing jobs and standards of the cor- poration's U.S. workers." The union has made wage parity between Canadian and American 1 World News Roundup workers one of its top demands in 1967 round of negotiations. Since the union cannot legally bargain in Detroit for pay raises for workers in Canada, it has sought a clause in . its contracts covering American workers which would prevent the company from paying lower wages for the same work done by Canadian employes. Accuse GM The charges filed with the NLRB accuseGM of refusing to bargain on that proposal. GM said it would not comment until it has had an opportunity to study the charges. "UAW members on both sides of the border do the same work, on the same machines, producing the same product for the same market,' said UAW Vice President Leonard Woodcock, head of the union's GM department. "But one country's workers are paid sub- stantially less by GM than the other's," 43 Cents Less Woodcock said the company's 25,000 Canadian workers are paid an average of 43 cents an hour less than the 400,000 American workers. The American workers earn an average of $3.41 an hour, The union has been bargaining since mid-July for new contracts, covering close to 700,000 U.S. workers at GM, Ford and Chrys- ler, to replace those expiring Sept. 6. 'r i i l i } i r r s i 'v a a J i ro i r r Anyone interested in keeping an outdoor life companion dog for a boy who would otherwise have to get rid of him, please write: David, Wilder 7800 Crossland Rd. Baltimore, Md. 21208 Involves no feeding, cleaning, or other care. I By The Associated Press ODESE, Denmark-A speeding Danish passenger train smashed yesterday into the rear of an- other passenger train that had stopped on an overpass near here to cope with a small fire aboard. Fourteen persons were reported killed, among them three from Ohio. Twenty-nine persons were re- ported hospitalized, 15 with seri- ous injuries. The U.S. Embassy in Copen- hagen announced that two Ameri- cans were injured slightly. The crash on Denmark's central island of Funen was the nation's worst rail disaster in more than 50 years. Rescue workers crawled ginger- ly over the maze of twisted steel, searching for survivors, but their efforts were slowed by hundreds of gallons of spilled diesel oil which made it dangerous to use blowtorches. * * * SAN JUAN, P.R.-Adam C. Pow- ell, ousted Democratic congress- man from Harlem, is scheduled to FWhere T he Action Is! IWee The be tried on Sept. 6 on charges that he transferred ownership of property in Puerto Rico to his wife's uncle to avoid payment of a court judgment. Mrs. Esther James, who won the judgment in 1963 after accusing Powell of having defamed her in a television interview, sought to attach property owned by Powell in Cerro Gordo, Vega Baja dis- trict, toward payment of the judg- ment. Her attorneys filed a claim in 1964 saying they found the prop- erty had been transferred to Gon- zalo Diago, an uncle of Mrs. Pow- ell, to avoid settling a debt. * * * PARIS -- The newspaper Le Monde published yesterday what it said was a letter by Soviet poet Andrei A. Voznesensky criticizing the Soviet Writers' Union for call- ing off his appearance scheduled at Lincoln Center in New York City last June 21. The letter was said to have been addressed to the Soviet Com- munist party newspaper Pravda, which did not publish it. The source of the letter was not dis- closed. "The writers' union does not consider writers human beings. They are real chameleons full of scurvy tricks. All around them- lies, lies, offensiveness and lies." the letter said. Lincoln Center received a tele- gram on June 20 saying, "Can't come--Voznesensky," and the writers' union said he wasdsick. "The 16th of June, the writers' union told me officially that my trip to New York was inoppor- tune," Voznesensky's letter said. "I warned the union of the conse- quences that this could have. For six months the evening had been publicized; posters had been put up and tickets sold. NOTICE THIS WEEK ONLY! Look for a Sky of Blue.. f MUS. a rollicking musical satire set in the Colorado Rockies Tomorrow, Saturday, Aug. 12, will be the last issue of the summer Michigan Daily. Publication will resume with the Preview Edition on Aug.31. 1 1, I Discount Photocopies Immediate Service Sample Prices" to ALL MICHIGAN home football games frmTHE LINCOLN INN Tell your Folks, Friends, Relatives about this Package Deal Motel Room Brunch-Saturday A.M. Bus to game and return Box lunch and refreshments on the bus -fr .. _ . _L . : ..n - - ... . 4 Wednesday-Saturday August 9-12 8 P.M. Sunday, August 13 7 P.M. 6Ae I I 1111