(Iowa City, Iowa), 1967-07-11

-Police Patrol Trouble Area- Waterloo Sets Curfew WATFP' ')0 - A 10 p.m. curfew for myself when I went into the fray. My jected to the manner Iu which white po. "all > persons" wa put into effect name didn't mean anything to this offi licemen made some arrests. in _. 1U0 Monday night in an effort cer, but my {ace was black and that's Fire bomb& set off several bla!es to " ,ert a repetition of Sunday night's where the problem was." qulcltJy brought under control by fire Negro rioL Police announced the curfew Shtpkteptrs Bitter men, two parked c.rs were overturned would be strictly enforced. Several white shopkeepers in the area and somebody fired a sbot at a police car Mayor Lloyd Turner said the curfew were embittered by the riol but missed. applied to all young persons in the city. carl Neubauer cleaned broken glass Windows of stores run by whites were . , I houjlb there wa no violence late (rom his variety store on East Fourth smashed, but shops operated by Negroes Monday night, WaterlOO police told Tbe Street in the predominantly Negro "North were left untOUched . Negro youths hurled Daily Iowan that "small groups were 8tiII End" section, recalled he carried weap rocks at squad cars, fire trucks and pas forming." ons as a soldier in World War n .and sing cars, sending five persons to a hos Meanwhile, according to the Associated added: pital for emergency treatment. Press, police changed a plan to seal off a "I hoped I never would again, but I'm Five Negroes were arrested after some 12-block predominantly Negro area on the packing a rod now . If it's going to be my 75 city police, state highway patrolmen city's north side, the scene of looting. life or some hoodlum 's, I want it to be and sheriff's deputies pusbed and clubbed window breaking, burning and rock throw his. I've got kids at home . their way down the street and cleared lug late Sunday night. Tbe area was being "u they are di atlsfied with housing everyone out of the area. The rioting heavily patroled in tead. and the police and so forth why take it lasted some live hours before it began Earlier in the day, Negro leaders cri out on the storekeepers? We've lot noth taperinr off. ticized Turner's administration on grounds ing to do with it." Turner said he accepted full responsi of rough police tactics. The Negro spokes Neubauer and Willi am Phennicie, man bility for the way police handled the man themselves conceded they tried but ager of a nearby hardware store hit by situation, and he said he was investigating failed to contain the vandalism. But they looters, planned to empty their display charges that officers were t9C' free with contended it would have been much worse windows of merchandise and leave all their clubs. without their intervention. lights turned on. Other merchants began The mayor explained police bad agreed Dr. Warren Nash. president of the boarding up windows. to stay out o( the North End district Sun Black Hawk County chapter of the Na ''This place will look like it was bit by IIIJ night unless Negro leaders trying to ti01al Association for the Advancement an inva ion." said Neubauer. work out a peaceful solution called on of Colored People, said he didn't accuse Rosemble, Battlefield them for help. the police of "downright brutality" but of East Fourth Street did indeed resemble Somebody called the officers in about being "very rough." a battlefield for a time Sunday night and 10 :30 p.m .. but they were quickly ordered The pbysician said he wasn't at the early Monday as several hundred Negroes out again when they learned the summons scene when trouble began but arrived jammed the area. POlice chief Robert S. had not come from authoriZed Negro shortly afterward. Wright blamed about 100 young men, how spokesmen. The police did not enter the NEGRO CHILDREN play .Ionv Waterloo's Fourth Street Mon W.terloo Mayor lloyd L. Turner said Mond.y that the Incident "I went there to help the police," he ever, (or causing most of the trouble. area again untU nearly midnight, and day wher. a few hours earlier Negroes clefled polIce and loc.1 wu st.rted by .bout 12 tHn.gers and Involved no more than said. "I wasn 't struck, but an officer push It was the third straight, and worst, meanwhile mOlit of the damage had been Negro leaders by smashing window. Ind overturnl", two ur•• 100 persons. - Photo by Jon Jocobttn ed me with his night stick. I Identified night 01 demonstrations alter Negroes ob- done. Nigeria1s Request Soviet Warships For Military Aid oil Iowan To Assist Egypt; • Reiected By U.S. Servin~ the Univer ity of Iowa and the People of Iowa City Hussein In Cairo WASlIINGTON 1.4'1 - The Johnson ad 10 cents a CoPY Associated Presa Leased Wire and Wirephoto Iowa City, Iowa 52240-Tucsday, July 11, 1967 CAmo (.4'1 - Twelve Soviet warships ministration rejected a request for mili .teamed Into Egyptian ports Monday, and tary aid to Nigeria Monday after an angry a Soviet admiral said the ships were outburst in Congress greeted the sending "ready to cooperate with the Egyptian of three U.S. transport planes to the Congo. armed forces to repel any aggression ." Democrats as weH as Republicans criti City Police Court Backlog Clearing Up Reporting this , Egypt's Middle East clzed President Johnson's dispatch of car News Agency said eight of the ships - a go planes and about 150 men to the Congo. Iy ALBERT O. GRENDLER Neely said Lhat two of the court's He explained, "Three years ago allorn· missile carrier, a cruiser, a de Iroyer lind Some members expressed fears of a Viet The backlog of cases which has been problem had becn that thcre were no eys werc noL appointed to represent de five landing ships - arrived at Port Said nam·type involvement in Africa, or worse. burdening Polloe Judge Marion It Neely's regular trials and that no bond was re fendants. Now they are appointed and at the north end of the Suez Canal. near Secretary of State Dean Rusk was called court has almost been eliminated. quired in many cascs. Because of these this takes time." where Israeli and Egyptian forces clashed to explain the move at a closed meeting Neely told the Iowa City council, at an things, defendants did not appear for Mayor William C. Hubbard asked Neely Saturday. this afternoon of the Senate Foreign Rela Informal meeting Monday, thai only "a trial. The court now requires a bond tions and Armed Services committees. if the court load would lead to a municJ Another missile carrier, two submarines Cew" cases remain on the pollce court commensurate with the case and charges. pal court system (or Iowa City. and an oil tanker pulled into Alexandria , Announcement of the turndown of Ni docket. More Sp.c' Requested Neely saJd tbere were many things where Soviet Adm. Igor Molochov made geria's request come from State Depart "We are comparatively up to date since Neely requested more space for the ad which pointed to recommending a munici his implied warning to Israel. ment press officer Robert J . McCloskey. I dJsmissed about 400 cases which were ministrative work of the courl. He said pal court system. He said the basic dJf McCloskey said the United States had it was important that the police court Hussein Arrlv •• five and six years old," Neely said. "Tbe (erence bet ween police courts and mun· At about the same time, King Hussein "consistently pointed out to all Nigerian keeping of a docket book with progress be separated from the police department icipal courts was in jurisdiction. leaders thaL we regard their conflict as and that their records be separate. of Jordan arrived unexpectedly in Cairo. reports on each case has been a big help. Neely said the police court handled all possihly for a little summit meeting of a purely internal matter involving only We know where we are now." The police department's records are Nigerians, which must be resolved by the open to the public. In the past, police violations of city ordJnances and prelim· Arab leaders to deal with the aftermalh Nigerians themselves." When Neely wa appointed police judge court charge and records have dJsap inary hearings on felony charges. The of the dis trou June 5-]0 conClicl with in 1966, there were 600 cases pending. municipal courts handle all matter. in BORIS GOLDOVSKY Israel. McCloskey said the request for aid was peared or have been found in th pollce To Give Recital made about a week ago by the Nigerian Some of the cues were dated 1960. department's or city atLorney's files, volving claims up to $2,000 and IndJctable Both Egypt and Israel were reported regime of Col. Yakunu Gowon, which Is Neely said. misdemeanors, he explained. He said the weighing the question of allowing U.N. fighting to put down a secessionist rebel Neely said that he and City Clerk municipal courl judge also acted as a military observers inside their lines along lion. Glenn Eckard planned to inve tigate the jUvenile judge. Goldovsky Gives the uez Canal, where a U.N. cease-fire The Nigerians were reported to have Cedar Rapids Police Court system and to City Atty . H. Honohan said a referen halted the war . The Security Council early asked for help from a number of other NEW make recommendaUons to the counell.

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