The Daily Egyptian, July 28, 1967

Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC July 1967 Daily Egyptian 1967 7-28-1967 The aiD ly Egyptian, July 28, 1967 The aiD ly Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_July1967 Volume 48, Issue 188 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, July 28, 1967." (Jul 1967). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1967 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in July 1967 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Detroit Uprising Simmers; Snipers • Only Activity Left DETROIT (AP) - Soldiers Romney asked President gained ncarly complete con Johnson to declare Detroit a trol of riot - [Of 0 Detroit disaster area, a request he Thursday, after a $500 - mil conceded was unprecedented lion racial uprising that in the case of a man-made claimed 36 lives during four holocaust. days of lerror in the streets. Isolated snipers, whites in In Washington, the House cluded, still held out in a few Committee on Un-American building5. Activities worked on plans For the first, the military for public hearings into riot commander in the city. Lt. ing in Newark and DetrOit, Gen. John Throck.monon, or With an e ye toward the pos dered his 10,000 troops to sibility of subversion. "sheathe your bayonets:' But he conti nued foot pa Romney declared: " There trol s in many sections of this have been cenain indications ravaged city of 1.7 million, in Detroit of outside agitators, pockmarked by destruction and certainly the tinder was and reeking with the acrid prepared for conflagration by L St ench of buildi ngs put to the outside influences. • • • This was not a racial confronta ARRESTED ON FEDERAL WARRANT-H. Rap unlawful f1i ~F..ht to a void prosecution_ His initial torch by the hundreds, Brown , head of the Student Nonviolent Coordin Republican Gov. George tion. This was started by a warrcnt charged him with incitin lZ, the riot in minority element in a Negro atinf!, Committee, is led into a cell block after Cambrid~e , Md _ Romney foresaw the re (AP Photo) building of hearts and minds, neighborhood." beinr. arrested by the FBI He is charged with the restoration of amity. as a task mor e monumental even than the rebuilding of the na Rap Brown Blames Johnson tion's fifth largest city. De trOit's population is 30 per l>..i4 ce nt Negro • For Riot-Causing Conditions •• As far as I can determine," Romney told a news confer WASHINGTON AP Rap at news conference in SNCC e nce, •. r ebuilding this city Brown, the militant Negro headquarters here. physically is going to be a leader, s aid Thursday the His news conference was lot easier." rioting in the nation's cities is held several hours after he caused by conditions for which was rele ased on $10,000 ball Attempting to console the President Johnson can be held in nearby Alexandria, Va., wife of a wounded police of responsible. accused under Virginia law of ficer, Romney told her during EGYPTIAN Brown, director of the being a fugitive from a Mary a visit to a hospital to hold Student Nonviolent Coor land warrant charging him S~~'IUI IJttUtM4 1t..,~ to her courage, to look. to the dinating Comminee, said with inciting a riot Monday C.rhond.I., lIIin.i. furure . HLyndon Baines Johnsonstart night in Cambridge, Md. Friday, July 28, 1967 The woman, Mrs. Roger ed the rebellion because he The crowd cheered the W. Poikey, replied biuerly: doesn't address himself to 23-ye ar-old Brown when he Volu .... " Numb.r 188 ··Governor, there's going to the conditions that cause said "there is a conspiracy tQ be no future for my family them." run the black people out of in Detroit:' Brown made his comments America but we'll burn it down before we leave." Daley Ready to Aim PUDetuate Lull "The white people are the violent people," he said. "Black people don't know Commltn;"t Gunners nothing about being violent. Cartridges at Rioters We are just defending our selves. Just wait until we want CHICAGO (AP - Mayor Wednes day and at a news con to be violent. Rlcbard J. Daley s aid Thurs ference s aid, HCongress has Hit Three Positions fCGet yourself a gun, day that he Is prepared to act created the atmostphere u for brother. The honky don't res immediately against rioters rioting 0)' ignoring urban SAIGON (AP) - Communist Spokesmen announced 164 pect anything but a gun." and not with blank ammuni problems and emasculating Amerians were killed and gunners punctuated a lull in Honky is a term Brown applies tion. existing programs to aid big the ground war with attacks 1,443 wounded in the week of to whites. Hit will be live cartridge!" OJ cities. before dawn Thursday on three July 9-15. Brown said there was a Daley told news men. "We Asked about King's state allied positions ranging from South Vietnam's armed conspiracy between Maryland, know this is a national pro me nt. Daley declared. ult's eight to 35 miles north of forces reported 183 dead and Virginia, FBI Director J. gram of outlawry and violence, this kind of comment that has Saigon. 523 wounded and the other Edgar Hoover and the and h could break out here ." caused this son of thing- Spokesmen said a rain of allies 16 dead and 34 wounded. President to blame tbe riots Mayor Dale y said at a news rioting." 137 rounds of 82mm mortar The South Vietnamese had lost in the cities on him and the confe re nce he has consulted "If he lived in Chicago, he shells and 112mm rockets 202 killed and the other allies SNCC . National Guard officers . and would know the kind of pro killed I i Americans and 25 in the previous week. "We make ir clear "the y are pre pared to act im grams we have available : wounded43at the headquarte r s The U.S. Command said individuals do not c reate re mediately" and coul d "have the mayor conti nued, of the i st Brigade, U.S. 1,702 of the VietCongand their bellions. Rebellions are thousands of me n in the s treets "But he lives in Atlanta 1st Infantry DiviSIOn, and an North Vietnamese aUies were caused by conditions which within the hour." whe re they have ho us ing pro adjoining air strip at Phuoc killed, compared With 1,995 Lyndon Johnson can be he ld He said he ha s had assu-r blems the s ame as we ha\'e in the week before . Vinh. res ponsible for. ances from Pue rto Rican and he re , He has refused to come Light damage was reponed Premier Nguye n C ao K y an "Black peopie have no Negro leaders that what is up and discuss with us these [Q material and equipment. nounced the South Vi etna mesl.: recourse othe r than rebellions happening in other cities will problems." armed forces w i 11 be 'j =_n American guns and planes be..:.ause the governmenr does not happen in Chicago. r esponded b)' [he light of para creased by 65 ,000 me n to nO( s p:.ak to these people nor Daley discussed Chicago chure fl ar es. U.S. patrols 700,000 , with equlpment to be do black ie ade r s s peak for progra ms de si gned to he i p later in the day found several supplied by the United States. these people." residents find e mployme nt . rocket positions four miles get an education and cleanup nonh of the ba se that had neighhorhoods . been bauc r ed by the countcr Chrysler, General Motors He said Urban Progress fire, but no e ne my dead. Centers throughour the city A militia PO St at the hamlet have 80 age nCies with score e:: of lch Thie n and the district Report Million-dollar Drops of dis advantaged persons. town of Tan Uye n we r e other He s aid violence , arson and Red tar gets . Withour disclos DO'T ROIT (AP) - Two .ma Rhare , to S66.9 miHion, or looting are acts of c riminals ing militar y casualties, South jorauro mobile companies. I:ey 5 i .45 a s hare. and hoodlums. Vi etnamese headquar ter s said segme nts in the nation's econ Out at the same time the Asked if he had given or [hn.!e civilians wer e killed and o my. report million - dollar nation's third big~es t auto ders to shoot, he said, HThe 13 wounded at Tan Uye no declines in profits despite ris builder said its s ales had order is to preserve law and The U.s. Command said ing sales. inched up to 52.9 billion from order. " over aU action was light and 52. 86 billion. He said he has asked cle r gy scatte r ed, though 36 allied The latest is Chr ysle r A day earlier the industry me n to cooperate ill his pro operat ions of battalion s izeor Corp. whic h Thurs da y said giant, General Motors Corp., gram to thwart violence in large r were under way. its e arnings had falle n 550 reported a drop in first six Chicago "and not SI!C C hi ca~o A drop in combat deaths million in the first s ix months month earnings from S1.1 bil in ashes a~ has happened in on both s ides last week r e rhis year from the s ame period lion in 1966 to 5902 million othe r places." Gus says the one thing he '$ flected the: decline in signifi of 1966.

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