The Daily Telegram from Adrian, Michigan • Page 2

TWO ADRIAN DAILY, TEUIGRAMf. ADRIAN, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JUNE STREET FIGHTS MARK DETROIT RACE RIOTING POOCEISEARCH FOR.WEAPONS RIQTERS15TOP CAfc IN. DOWNTOWN-DETROIT This "Kick Attack" was one of frequent individual skirmishes in Detroit, after fighting broke out between whites and Negroes. In a resumption of the rioting, which started with an isolated fist fight on the Belle Isle bridge, 23 were killed and hundreds were 'injured. Mayor" Edward J.

Jeffries ordered every saloon and bar in the city closed, and Gov. Harry F. Kelly planned to return from the governor's conference which is being held at Columbus, Ohio. Police search a Negro for weapons, after rioting broke out in Detroit between whites and Negroes. Twenty-three persons were reported killed and hundreds were injured in the worst race rioting in the city's history.

VICTIM OF RIOTING AUTOMOBILE OVERTURNED DURING RIOTING Rioters are shown surrounding an smashing the windshield during the race riots with a Negro occupant and forcing it the curb in the downtown area of Detroit. 23 DEAD IN DETROIT RACE RIOTS youths help-a Negro to his feet after was badly beaten in street fighting during riots between whites arid Negroes which iu 5 ittv Cars entering fighting zones in Detroit during I attacked and ofter overturned as was this one shown raged in several parts of downtown Detroit. None the persons rioting on the edge of the downtown area of Dethe race riots between whites and Negroes were above is identified. troit. The outbreaks between whites and Negroes Police try to break up an incident during race HUDSON Mr.

and Mrs. Bert White have received word that their son Pvt. John White has been injured and is in a hospital in Los Angeles. He is a member of the ground crew, army air force, fighters squadron. His wife and child are in California.

Pvt- Elmore Frost of Camp Grant, spent Sunday with his wife and mother Mrs. Mary Hashley. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mrs.

Blanche Neu and Miss Laurabelle Pangborn of Jackson were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Pangborn.

Donald Simons who is spending the summer with his uncle Fred Simons near St. Clair spent the week end with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Simons. Miss Marilyn Hollis of Armada also was a guest in the Simons home.

Mrs. Jessie Delore of St. Clair is spending the summer with her sister Mrs. Simons. Miss Hazel Gregg of Adrian and Miss Elizabeth Kenyon attended the wedding of Miss Charlotte Roseboom and Oren Bennett which took place Sunday afternoon in the Methodist church at Paulding, Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Kurtz visited their daughter and husband Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leonard at Concord Sunday.

Barbara and Billy Hutchins are visiting their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Severs at Jonesville. Mrs. Rena Vinaske was a weekend guest of her aunt Mrs.

Carl Skinner at Dearborn. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Goodsell have TODAY-WEDNESDAY PLUS COMEDY NEWS Starting Thursday NOEL COWARD'S received word that their son Karl las been made a warrant officer at San Luis Obispo, Calif. Mrs.

Alvah McLouth went to lake today to visit her son jloyd Armstrong and family. Mrs. C. Vi Ballard of East Lansng is expected to come Wednes- 3ay to -Visit heir mother- Mrs. Mary 3eorge.

were the most, serious in the city's history will hundreds injured and more than 1,300 under arrest Twenty-three were killed. Hospital Notes David Fellows, three year old son it Mr. and Mrs. Ansel Fellows of Waldron, was treated at the hos- aital Sunday for a laceration of his which was cut by a wire when he was playing in the barn. Miss Verona Hayries of Detroit ell from a bicycle Sunday near and injured her right thigh.

3he was brought to the hospital vhere an examination showed no woken bones. Born, June 19, to Mr. and Mrs. Dean Lockwood of Prattville, a aughter. Mrs.

Florence Hammond of Vtanitou Beach, Mrs. Paul Adams North Adams, Miss Helen Ames, vtiss Mary Denig and Mrs. Robert 3rey and infant son of Pittaford eturned to their homes Saturday. Born, June 20, to Mr. and Mrs.

Poland Nelson, a daughter. Born, June 20, to Mr. and Mrs. -owell Barkway, a daughter. Massachusetts was the last of the 13 original states to adopt a writ- en constitution.

City Commission Official proceedings of the Adrian City Commission, Adrian Michigan, June 21st, 1943. Mayor Lundahl in the chair. Present Commissioners Ger- mohd, Minutes of the last meeting were approved as printed. RESOLUTION By Commissioner Vedder: Resolved, that the proprietor's Plat of "Hutchings Park," City of Adrian, the same being a part of Section 35, T65, R3E, Adrian Township, Lenawee County, Michigan, as executed and acknowledged June 19, 1943, by George -E. Hutchings, Proprietor, and Mays- yille State Bank, Maurice Eveland President, as mortgagee, be and the same is hereby approved and that the City Clerk be authorized to endorse the approval of the Adrian City Commission thereon.

Adopted: Germond, Vedder, Mayor 1 Miscellaneous Applications for Limited Trailer Camp Licenses received from the following named persons were approved. Mrs. Jessie I. Hussey, 403 West Beecher Street. W.

Caswell, 1001 Railroad Avenue. On motion the Commission ad- I Alii Today Wed. GIIDY'S" A SCREEN STAR For the first time he brings you radio's most unforgettable lough in his own hilarious hit show to ave you howling; HAROLD PEARY JANE DARWELL PraduadbT HERMAN SCHLOM. Dirtaxi br GORDON DOUGLAS. SoMnPUy by lick Townbr ADDED- HATTER AS HONKERS" journed until Monday, June 28th, 1943, at 3:30 P.

M. E. A. Ballenberger, City Clerk. (Continued From Page One) be amplified today so that they could patrol the pubUc transportation lines.

Fights on street cars had become so extensive that some crew men refused to work. Mayor Edward J. Jeffries ordered all transport employees to return to the job today, however. Federal troops came to the city upon Gov. Hairy F.

Kelly's request as rioting swelled to new peaks late last night with both mob fights and individual battles so numerous that police 'were virtually helpless. 2 Negroes -Killed Two Negroes met death from police guns in a battle at an apartment hotel where, police said, Negro snipers were firing from upper windows. Gun fire and gas grenades from the police drove out all occupants, including pajama-clad tenants. In that fight, Patrolman Lawrence Adams was wounded in the groin. Residents in neighboring buildings cowered behind locked and barricaded doors.

Time and again fights broke out in the Hastings street district, a section of the city near downtown known as Paradise Valley. It was at this point that federal troops concentrated attention upon their arrival. In the nearly 24 hours of almost constant fighting, automobiles were upset and set afire, stores were pillaged, and windows wantonly smashed. One brickbat killed a Negro woman. Loot was extensive and many arrests were made for theft.

In the hospitals nurses and doctors were hard-pressed to take care of the injured brought there in ambulances with sirens screaming and in private cars. Early last night Gov. Kelly, declaring a state of emergency, ordered a 10 p.m. curfew, banned the sale of alcoholic beverages, directed that amusement places close up at 9 p.m. until further orders.

The governor's order, announcing military rule with, the state's militia directed to assist local 'officers, covered the tri-county area known "Metropolitan Detroit" with more'than 2,000,000 inhabitants. This area, strategic in war production, covers Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Rioters, however, ignored the curfew order. Fights continued, and police squad cars dashed up and down in answer to alarms: Then came the'governor's request for troops and upon their appear- MANHATTAN ance rioting subsided almost immediately. Investigan Started The army today began an investigation to determine the riots' effect on war production.

Major fac lories kept production going but reported that many workers, both Negro and white; failed to. come to work. Climaxing three years of unrest between Negro and white residents, the rioting began about midnight Sunday. A fight on the bridge over the Detroit river to famous Belle Isle, amusement spot, seemingly minor at first, spread ultimately into a bedlam. There had been previous flare- ups in this smouldering situation, aggravated in recent months by housing shortages and heavy influx of war workers from other sections of the country.

On Sunday, June 13. Negro and white youths clashed in suburban Inkster and last week there was a clash of similar nature at an amusement park. had also been a number of racial incidents on the factory production lines. The most important of these was early in June at the Packard Motor where a strike was attributed to white workers' protests against "upgrading" of Negro workers. White and Negro leaders joined in deploring both the rioting and the conditions behind them and called for renewed efforts to solve the basic causes.

The rioting began about 10:45 Sunday night at Belle Isle bridge, and spread during the night through the east and north sides of the city, with white and Negro mobs roaming the streets. By Monday afternoon it spread along Woodward avenue, extending as far south as the city hall. Both Sides Aggressive In the earlier stages the Negroes apparently were aggressive, but later the whites were aggressive, attacking and beating Negroes on all sides. The biggest pitched battle of the evening occurred at Brush St. and Vernor highway, than 200 State Police and Detroit officers fired 1,000 rounds into the Vernor Apartment Hotel to dislodge Negroes who were sniping from upstairs windows.

At least two Negroes were killed and a police' officer wounded in the battle which lasted more than an Clouds of tear gas poured into the building dislodged tenants from lower floors but failed to cow rioters on upper floors. After 12 hours of rioting, injured patients were still arriving at-Receiving Hospital at the rate of'one each two minutes. Surgeons said that some of them, apparently still under the influence of mob hysteria, attempted to knife or injure the doctors and nurses attending them. At Beaubien and Mack Streets about 1:30 p. police narrowly averted an armed battle between a Negro and a white mob, each numbering about 3,000 persons.

Tear gas was used- to' disperse th'e crowds. A white woman about 50 years old was walking on Theodore Street about 7:45 p. when she was shot in the head without warning by a Negro who was in the second story window of a house on the intersection. A fight between a and a white worker broke out on a street car at Fort and Shelby Streets. The" Negro drew a knife and slashed the white man across the arm and The niotorman left the car, which was immediately surrounded by a milling throng of whites trying to enter the car and drag half a dozen Negroes to the street.

Police dispersed the mob with tear gas bombs. 2 Houses Burned At Hastings" and Kirby Streets a white mob burned two houses occupied by Negro families at about 5 p. m. The Fire Department reported 80 calls during the day, most of which were in the affected area. Jesse Riley, a Negro who was shooting out of a window, was charged with felonious assault.

Bertram Trombley, was stabbed through the heart by a gang of Negroes at Hancock and Brush Streets as he was on his way to Woman's Hospital to get his wife, who had given birth to a baby at the hospital. Trombley is not expected to live. On Woodward, between Stimson and Peterboro, a white mob stopped street cars and pulled Negroes from them, stopped and overturned automobiles driven by Negroes and burned them, and chased and beat the drivers. The crowd overturned two cars at Adelaide and Brush, chased the Negro drivers away, and burned the cars. A Negro man tin the roof of 260 Adelaide shot at the mob, striking a white man in the neck.

The white crowd grew more violent, and set fire to an apartment house at 242 Adelaide. The fire was extinguished, and the crowd proceeded literally to tear the house apart. Only the bare walls were left standing. A white mob at Woodward and Charlotte overturned. and burned a police scout car in which two patrolmen were attempting to take two Negroes to the station.

The mob had attempted to take the Negroes from the officers. The policemen narrowly escaped burning by leaping from the flaming car as the Negroes fled before the mob. Reporters! downtown and in the Woodward-Mack sector observed a virtually; endless: series of attacks by white rioters upon Negroes who had wandered unknowingly into the danger zone. Crow Hunts Negroes A crowd of. white men, mostly youths, wtih a sprinkling of soldiers and sailors, ranged up and down the six-block stretch on Woodward north of Peterboro, attacking every Negro man they could catch.

'A northbound 'Woodward street car was stopped when the rioters pulled the trolley from the wire- Mobs poured in the front and side doors after two Negroes. Screaming women in the rear of the car jumped or were carried out the open back window while the mob dragged its two victims out the doors. The tw men were beaten into semi-consciousness before police and took them to Receiving Hospital. At least" 25 cars driven by Negroes were turned over arid burned on Woodward and adjoining streets and Rioters ranged the alleys looking forstones and pieces of metal which they threw at Negroes' cars that were" going too fast to be'stopped. youthful bands o'f white makers circulated- through the area some with the knuckles of their right hands bound with tape so that they might more effective in combat.

Whenever policemen rescued a Negro from the crowd, the rioters jeered the police. When officers attempted to drive them back to the curb fay means of tear-gas bombs, a mighty roar of indignation arose. Trucks Stoned Trucks with Negro drivers were storied on sight. Negroes on foot were beaten. As soon as one appeared on Woodward, the shout, "There's one, go get him!" went up along the street and running men converged from all sides.

Usually the Negro was caught, beaten and allowed to limp away before police reached the scene. On E. Grand River, near Woodward, police dispersed a group of 14 or 15 white boys attired in white sailor hats, who had been beating a Negro lad. In front of the City Hall, a small gang of white youths began- to surround a Negro at the bus stop. Three sailors, none of them more than 20, stepped in arid broke it up.

In front of the Family Theater on Cadillac Square a Negro youth was rescued by a scout car after being struck several blows. Policemen rushed another Negro youth into the City Hall after he had been assaulted. Another melee found a Negro youth pummelled by several whites in the middle of Michigan at the City Hall crossing, until police rescued the victim. Between 1 and p. four riots occurred within a stone's throw of the City Hall, with only three policemen available to break them up.

At 7:30 p. m. a white mob of several thousand persons gathered before City Hall and rushed a Negro who had just got off a bus. The Negro ran to two patrolmen whereupon the mob attacked the patrolmen. A cruiser happened by and dispersed the mob for the moment with tear gas.

Hundreds of the mob mounted the City Hall steps and shouted encouragement to the" group attacking the officers. The mob closed in again on the officers and the Negro at Monroe and Farmer Streets. The Negro ran, pursued by 300 whites. Leading were three men in the uniforms of Greyhound bus drivers armed with ticket punches, swinging their heavy uniform belts toward the Negro. 'The Negro continued to run, though slashed by the punches and belts.

the continued, a military policeman stepped from behind a building and, holding up his hand, told the firmly to stop. They stopped. held them until the Negro escaped. The Weather Local Obitrvitlooi Lower Michigan: Scattered thundei showers early tonteht in ISftn Continued warm except portions. southwest Upper Michigan: Little cbanxe in tern, jerature tonight and WednSdaf teeSS except cooler west and central porUonj7 Temperatures Monday: tow- est.

mean. 80. Temperatures one year aeo torfavi JgnesVso. lowest. 59; mean 70 Temperature this date in past 70 years i Highest, 93 in 1943.

lowest. 45 in MM The sun sets today at 9:11 p.mTanl rises tomorrow morning at 5:57 a.m. TM moon rises tomorrow at 12:55 am. sets tomorrow at 11:01 aji nua night the U. S.

government: vreatherS struments here registered the followlni temperatures: 6f Precipitation, inch..