THE QUEST OF NORMAN MAILER See editorial page Y Sir iA au A6PP AVOMINRFPP"- a t ty DAMP High-72 Low-52 Cloudy all day; rain likely Vol. LXXIX No. 28-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, June 17, 1969 Ten Cents Four Pages 700 persons barricade South U for 3 hours Dancing, fireworks follow police incident Several hundred people barricaded a block on S. Univer- sity Ave. between S. Forest and Church Streets for about three hours last night and enjoyed an evening of dancing, drinking, fireworks and motorcycle stunts. The festivities reportedly began at about 10 p.m. as about 100 people - mostly members of Trans Love Energies and the White Panthers Party "hassled" a policeman, forcing him to leave the scene. The policeman had reportedly been attempting to give a ticket to a person on a motorcycle who was riding quickly, and doing "wheelies" - riding on the back wheel only. A crowd, which was estimated during most of the next three hours at up to 700 people, soon gathered on the block. * * * w * * f I The block was barricaded at bothends with cars, garbage Taube cans, wooden planks'and other easily accessible objects. dd There was one arrest during the d em a n s ,incident. Hiawatha Bailey, a black man, was arrested by Ann Arbor police and held at the station until ;people from the S. University dia~o~ueblock collected the $40 police said he owed in back traffic violations. Bailey returned to the block By NADINE COHODAS ' after his release. He said he had been pulling a garbage can near Skip Taube, spokesman for the Pretzel Bell when he hit a Trans-Love Energies Inc. last car with it. He said he thought night demanded a public dia- the owner might be inside the restaurant and went in to tell him. logue with'City Council to dis Bailey said the owner of the car cuss alleged police negligence then called the police. and harassment. All but a handful of those lining During audience time at the the motorcycle exniaitiin, watuu- council meeting, Taube claimed ing the fireworks, dancing and the police have neglected to re- drinking wine were white. Many search all possible evidence given appeared to be University stu- to them involving the six a r e a dents., slayings of women, and charged One plate glass window at Dis- that the four police agencies in- count Recor~ds was smash~ed by a vestigating the murders are corn- projectile apparently thrown from peting with each other instead of the outside. There did not appear cooperating to solve the murders, to be any other damages. The Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and At 11:35 p.m. a segment of the Michigan State Police and the group started a large, bonfire in Washtenaw County Sheriff's Dept. the middle of the street at the all are working on the murders. corner of South Forest and S. Taube contended the police have' University. been using the investigation to Bt the fire was extinguished harams "street people and, people, about ten, minutes later .when a who smoke marijuana." He also member of Trans-Love who iden- maintained city police and sher- tified himself as Fuzzy Backus iff's deputies recently have tiaras- asked them to put it out. He told s d blacks and White Panther them it could cause an explosion if Party members on several occas- a nearby car were accidentally ig- ions. iited. Taube claimed: There were no uniformed police- -Ann Arbor police would not men on the block after the initial act on complaints by the owner of incident. Det. Lt. Eugene Stauden- the Whistle Stop tlF't his restaur- maeier observed the incident. He ant was ransacked - explained that if police werencall- ed in it would cause an "instant Crowdss urr EXTRA MEETING SET: Bylaw del In Senate, --Daily-Richard Lee 0ound South U. bonfire )ate opens Assembly Fe deral rul ing rent stl Disallows group suit WASHINGTON (R) - The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that landlords must sue tenants individually to collect back rent, even when they have banded together for organized rent strikes and put rent money in escrow. The decision may set an, im- portant precedent for the Ann Arbor rent strike, which is cur- rently facing a conspiracy suit brought by seven landlords who claim the strike is a conspiracy to violate future and existing leases. The Washington decision gave broad protection to the rent strike there and tactics under dispute between tenants and landlords. The appeals court threw out an attempt by owners of aWashing- ton complex to attach an escrow fundset up by a tenantscouncil. About 70 tenants o the complex have been withholding their rent old Dorfman for 14 months, claim- until the buildings meet city hous- ing code standards. The Dorfmans claimed they had a legal right toth money and b n asked the court to take control of Lit and make periodic payment 'to their creditors to ward off fore- closure. Univers A district court agreed with the Dorf mans, but the appeals court Congression found otherwise, ruling that the which woul landlord has a "full panoply of file plans s legal remedies," including suits campus diso against tenants. But Fe Circuit Judge William A g e r BtoFle will be ruling - possibly sometime tion to ma this week - on motions for sum- to halt cam mary Judgment and dismissal in Howeve the rent strike case here, which is should bea in many ways similar to the explained Washington case., Theilandlords, have asked that problem alr Ager issue an injunction to stop Fleming tc the rent strike and return the cation and L money in escrow, while the Ten- the legislatio ants Union has chargedthe land- Edith Green, lords with anti-trust violations Republican n and breach of contract in a coun- mittee, is "u tersuit. than no legi The landlords' suit names 91 It was Fle defendants, and charges 12 with ance before conspiracy. Also named are t h e Last month, "so-called TenantsUnion" and all President Na organizations it is connected with. ised the Hig The case was heard in the Fed- committee th eral Appeals Court at Washington, tion in hand D.C., where Supreme Court Chief ruption is n Justice designate Warren Burger committee w has a seat. However, he did not legislation to participate in what might prove to because of di be a landmark decision, since he Fleming y was not on circuit. ons rikes I court a ssists President Fleming By ERIKA HOFF sible because a certain standard feel the University's onlyo (ncerCn Senate Assembly yesterday be- of conduct is required of medical should be competence in a parti- gan consideration of t cor- students.th cular field, and licensing should versial proposed Regents bylaws The section provides that the be left to the state." on the role of students in decision- faculty of schools whose graduates This controversial section which making and set an "emergency" normally require licensing can Eet Scherer opposed was retained in meeting for next Monday to con- published behavior requirements the bylaws at the insistence of tinue discussion. relating to licensing requiremenats. Medical School faculty. Although Assembly appeared headed for be enesaid, however, it would ad hoc committee members feared extensive debate over certain sec- possible to graduate someone it would prevent approval of the e i b v r 4 - i 44,Idraft byw C the felt its inclu- mingOppose s on disorders ity President Robben W. Fleming yesterday told a ial committee he opposes proposed legislation d cut off federal aid to universities for failing to specifying methods they would use to deal with rders. ming did say that he, favored some type of legisla- ke it easier for universities to obtain injunctions npus disorders once they began. r,' he added that he did not believe injunctions r" te bylaw-draftdespiteifrom the Medical School and thenuy ., yl Skip Taube, of Trans-Love, who recommend that he not be li- sion was necessary for Assembly -SherlaI's aeputies confiscated Si ab.o rn-oe h expectation by Student Govern- censed to approve the bylaws'. a White Panther flag from two had spoken earlier in the evening ment Council that Assembly would censed. o n the ad hocacommitt dis party members walking on S. Uni- at a City Council meeting, said act immediately. ces ssectin on wpa grt of stuonts I hsolved three weeks ago, iteesu-b. versity and have failed to return the city should close off the street Assembly discussed the draftcon the dartt"de mitted its draft to SGC and As- making it a all, or at east close:onth ad hoc committee," MichaelmitdtsratoSG anA- the flag; makng it a ma, or t for only a half-hour, and then Davis, a member 9f the committee sembly for approval. SGC has al- -Police "stopped, harassed and it off on Saturday nights.1 decided to hold a special session Dvs ebro ho~itesml o prvl G a l searched" two people who had By 1 a.m. the crowd had dim- for extensive review of the b that drafted the bylaws, said. "We See FACULTY, Page 3 come to city hall to attend a inished to about 150 people and laws. council meeting which had been blockades were soon removed al- 'Section 7.09, part 2. which hasCu cancelled, lowing traffic through the street.- so far been the center of all bylaw In addition, Taube said police S e v e r a 1 of those leaving controversy, was not a large issue reth "consistently come by the Trans- spoke of returning tonight. Rose in Assembly discussion. Love commune on Hill St. in the Adonna Lee Painter said she went Prof. Frederick Scherer of the late night and put their damned to City Council with Trans-Love. economics department questionednn S search lights all over our house." "I've got brown hair and I don't Ithe provision which gives the fac-' Heachdighsandederou hose.Ind gt bownharisd Idantt'thtprviionwhiheiventhxfc- eann g ememadedanendyo hiswas tnbeth netroe ur-sltiofsoe posesinalschbl police activity and specifically dered," she said, refering to the sole jurisdiction over students' WASHINGTON {R) -- The Supreme Court ruled 7-1 yes- asked councilman Nicholas Kaz- recent string of six local murders. non-academic behavior. terday that the House of Representatives had no right to arinoff (D-Third ward), the "And if they (City Council Shtrakdifi eecn eiv-dn ta h os fRpesnaie a orgtt councilman representing)Trans- members) don't do something" able that someone in the MedicaltwyRep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.) his seat in Congress Love, to take immediate steps to she continued, "I'm going to per-,I School could pass all academic re- two years ago. stop the early morning searches. sonally burn down every store on1 quirements for a medical degree,: Chief Justice Earl Warren in announcing the decision,* Although Taube demanded an this street." but be refused it for behavioral said "The House is without power to exclude any member immediate dialogue with council At the council meeting. Taube reasons. who meets the constitutional requirements for membership," last night, Mayor Pro-temn LeRoy, said the police were using the Prof. James Greene of the Medi- Teeaeta eb 5yasod iie fteUie Cappaert (D-Fifth ward refused murder investigation as an excuse cal School who was observing e These are that he be 25 years old, a citizen of the United the request and promised to meet to harrass "street people" and I Assembly meeting said it was pos- States for at least seven years and that he is a resident of in the very near future with Taube. people smoking pot. . - -... -.-...the state which he represents. "In judging the qualifications of its members, Congress is limited to the standing qualifications prescribed by the con- i i i lI stitution," said Warren. , *-~-~- -~~_ The decision drew a distinction between expulsion of a member A u -u- and keeping an elected member e from taking his seat in the first case. right to punish members of disor- n o derly behavior a n d, in extreme cases, to expel a member by two- By TOBE LEV thirds vote. The decision reverses a U.S. Ann Arbor police, state police detectives, and detectives from the Court of Appeals ruling upholding Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department are investigating several the House- "tips" on the murder of Alice Kalom, sixth in the series of area Chief Justice-designate Warren slayings. E. Burger was one of the judges Police also investigated an attempted break-in at Miss Kalom's who nade this ruling. apartment at 311 Thompson St. on Saturday night. But an uniden- The lone dissenter, Justice Pot- tified state detective said the 'attempted break-in was probably a ter Stewart, agreed with House "souvenier hunter's prank." lawyers t h a t Powell's reelection P last November made his case moot. Police said the window screen of the apartment had been removed Powell was excluded from the and the window ledge partially sawed through. However, nothing was House M a r c h 1, 1967. A select missing and detectives said entry was not gained. No fingerprints committee had found him guilty have been found, of "gross misconduct" as a con- Ann Arbor Police Chief Walter Krasny said, "Most of the tips' gressmanand recommended that we investigate are somebody's theory as to what happened and not he be seated but censured, fined co~ncrete in'for'mation., would deny schools. that of conduct an disorders wit commissioner, "My basic ( Fleming said, federal govern able way int tions of thet "In any of have sort of x going on," h unwise to fo down. ' Fleming sa rowly defined taining feder might be hel campus violan against giving authority to t He also rec Commissioner fice offer assi informationo sities are doing llowed when there that they should eady exists. old the House Edu- abor Committee that n, sponsored by Rep. (D-Ore.) and other members of the com- inwise" and "worse slation." ning's second appear- a House committee. along with Harvard than Pusey, he ad- her Education Sub- hat federal interven- dling of campus dis- ot called for. The 'as then considering cut off aid to schools sorders. esterday voiced h i s o proposals which federal funds to failed to file codes nd plans for handling h the office of t he of education. objection to this bill," "is that it moves the rment in an undesir- o the internal opera- university." our institutions we an uneasy coexistence e said. "It would be rce us into a show- Id he favors a "nar- d" procedure for ob- al injunctions which pful in stopping the nce, but he cautioned g a broad injunctive the universities. commended that the r of Education's of- stance in the form of f what other univer- ng in crisis situations. is only a threat of violence. He be granted only where the Senate probes radicals, WASHINGTON ( - A Sen- ate subcommittee identified nearly 100 persons yesterday as key members of Students f o r a Democratic Society, which it tied to campus vio- lence. Then the chairman said none would be invited to tes- tify in rebuttal. "I don't propose to give them a forum to preach their dictrines or spew their venom against our in- stitutions," said Chairman John L. McClellan, (D-Ark). McClellan said a n y of those named as Students for a Demo- cratic Society leaders could come to the hearings but they would have to abide by rules of the Sen- ate permanent subcommittee on investigations. "It's in the discretion of t he subcommittee to hear them," he said, "but we don't have to." McClellan said the hearing is to help the subcommittee determine what legislation is needed to deal with organizations which have been "preaching hatred and ad- vocating violence and revolution." Names of key SDS members were displayed on a 6-by-6-foot chart in red and black ink which was uncrated by subcommittee --- NZ A . WA 'c'.' -- -