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Start Every Day Right Final Edition Weather Forecast COOLER AND LESS HUMID. Temp, range 60-80 Complete Weather, Tides On Page 4 7 CENTS ESTABLISHED 1764, VOL. CXXXII No. 246 HARTFORD, CONN. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1969 -56 PAGES 1 'SIP HJ TVk fl IJ a ---m- mm ma WLIL IHMU.

JOiifn PO'ff roiice mov ji a ii vii if Hi it 11 1 As if 1 Tf I -vi in to idjniorce Curlew Disorders Flare in Kx-Bishop Pike Missing in Desert For Second Day A rampage of destruction that began Monday night in the North End of Hartford continued violently Tuesday night but was under control by 11 p.m., Police Chief Thomas J. Vaughan said. During the day, there had been occasional fires and bottle throwing and considerable shooting of tear gas; the incidents multi-, plied with darkness and in-' phone booths, broken windows eluded sniping. 1 A cty-wide curfew the sec-. fc sajd into effect at 7 p.m.

tllalV: J5JS FnT i a a tande of fires In South Green area 3 3 in? iSf crowd I50 as dispersed short streets, burning buildings and f. jfhFt cPsHororl cVWinnc ThQ nnroctiV 3Iler CUHCW W1U1 tear gaS. A '1 Coursnt Photo by Harry Batz PoKcc Cear ifam Sfreef of Snipers, Rioters, Looters LV-. AllO Mill Wl, spread to the south part of the city, but tfie violence was minor there compared to the activity in the North End. OTHER STORIES, FHOTOS ON PAGES 7, 18, 22, 23, 25, 58 A man was shot in the right buttocks by a policeman at 12:45 a.m.

today while he was looting Danny's Market at 1433 Main police said. He was reported in good condition at McCook Hospital. Two other men with the vic tim were arrested, police said. City Manager Freedman said late Tuesday he will decide today whether the curfew, to be lifted this morning at 5, will be resumed tonight. The state of emergency will continue.

Go Off Duty Freedman also said 100 state! policemen, who were alerted! Tuesday morning and moved in with active help in the after- noon, went off duty at about 11.30j p.m. iney were asKea 10 return today. Arrests totaled about 200 be- i Violence Condemned By Black Leaders City Manager Gets Emergency Powers tween 8 a.m. Tuesday and years old all of 221 Main st Schools Will Open As Scheduled Today Superintendent of Schools Medill Bair said Tuesday Hartford's schools will open as scheduled today. The schools will hold short sessions today as originally planned, Bair said.

North it quits. End proprietor calls Page 25. Manchester, N.H. buries 4 of its sons. Paee 15.

High court justice postpones Kopeclme inquest. Page 7. Hanoi hints new peace terms. Page 17. Page Page Amuse.

12, 13 Legals 33 Ann Landers 19 Obituaries 4 Bridge 16 Society 25.27 City News 55 Sports 45-48 Classified 33-43 Star Gazer 44 11" londy Crossword 44 28 llistorv Devotions Town News TV Radio Br.ady 28 CaUOl'HUS UNeSlMUQ. director of the NAACP, hi a similar reaction. iimi. i i 1 I ine violence ana lawlessness is due to the reprehensible be havior of a small number of black and Puerto Rican citi zens," Jones said. "The NAACP deplores and condemns these actions." He added, however, "It is important that there was a distinct time lag since promises made after the last Hartford disturbance, at which time residents were invited to detail their grievances to the administration.

There has been only the barest implementation since that time." Jones said the city was making the "right move" in declaring an immprliate slafs nf pm. gency and setting up a curfew, but he felt the lone-ranee solu tion must in attacking such problems housing and po- lice-community 'relations. In ad- rlitinn ha orlvrvPatBH By MARILYN BAIN A group of the city's black leaders Tuesday condemned the North End disturbances as "deplorable" and "depressing," but they called on city officials to take preventive measures and avoid future eruptions of looting and violence. Arthur Green, director of thej Connecticut Commission on Hu-' man Rights and Opportunities, said his first reaction to a tour of the North End area was "frustration." He termed the' disturbances a "signal to the leadership politicians, clergy and businessmen that they haven't done anything yet." "The immediate response to the disturbances has to be one of law enforcement," he said. "But the law and order reaction seems to be the primary reaction the city is capable of.

The city has got to learn to mobilize its resources in non-stressful sit. uations. We've got to find nov el, dramatic and immediate solutions." William Jones, state executive By THEODORE A. DRISCOLL Deputy Mayor George B. Kin-sella declared a state of em ergency Harttord Tuesday morning and a citywide curfew was imposed after tne worst disorders in the city's history Labor Day night.

i The City Council met in emer-' gency session and passed an ordinance outlining the powers of the city manager. Councilmen were appraised of the situation then adjourned the emergency session until 10 a.m. today. i Mayor Uccello, who was vaca-' tioning in Maine, came back to the city late Tuesday. Throughout the day meetings! were held at City Hall and po-' ilice headquarters, some behind closed doors, others before television cameras.

I Kinsella, acting in Mayor; Uccello's absence, declared the state of emergency at 11 a.m. Immediately this empowered City Manager Freedman to take charge of the city's forces to cone with the emergency. Freedman announced a city-' curfew from 7 p.m. Tues day until 5 a.m. this morning.

All stores, and public gathering places were to be closed and persons on the street, for other than city or emergency business, would be subject to arrest. At 2 p.m. Police Chief Thomas J. Vaughan and Fire Chief Edward M. Curtin gave the City Council a brief rundown on Monday night's events and what was being done to cope with the continuing violence.

Vaughan said the State Police had sent in a task force unit of 80 men to assist city police. He said Hartford officials requested help because firebombing and looting began anew Tuesday morning. While the State troopers would operate under their own commanders, there would be close coordination between them and local authorities, he1 said. Extra Hartford policemen were called in from other shifts See CITY, Page 22, Col. 1 JERUSALEM (AP) Dr.

James A. Pike, controversial former Episcopal Bishop of California, was missing and the object of a search Tuesday after a car breakdown in a sun-scorched Dead Sea desert area near the Israel-Jordan border. After some initial uncertainty on the identity of the missing man, his hotel here and his family in California confirmed that the 56-year-old Pike was lost. His third wife, Diana, 31, was rescued from the desert by a Bedouin Arab and taken to Bethlehem. Pike vanished after their car failed while he and his bride Diana were driving along the Israeli shore of the border and Salt Sea Monday night.

The couple began walking, but Pike fell ill and his wile went on looking for help. Vote of Confidence BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark of Northern Ireland won a crucial vote of confidence Tuesday from legis lators of his governing Unionist party. After meeting privately for three hours, the Unionist parliamentary party unanimously agreed to back the peace package Chichester-Clark worked eut last week with Britain's home secretary, James Callagh-an. Road Toll Is 60.9 There were 609 persons killed on the nation's roads and highways during the three-day Labor Day weekend, summer's last holiday. The death toll was lower than the National Safety Council estimate of 625 to 725 fatalities.

For comparison purposes, The Associated Press made a survey during a three-da wrnd in June. Deaths totaled 435 for the nonholiday period. Dirksen Has Surgery WASHINGTON (UPI)-Doc-tors removed part of Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen's right lung Tuesday after they discovered a tumor. Dirksen, 73, organ-voiced leader of Senate Republicans for 10 years, was reported in satisfactory condition after the operation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

But a brief statement from Dirksen's Capitol office did not make clear whether doctors thought the tumor, discovered recently during a routine chest X-ray, was cancerous. Tickets on Sale To Fall Fanfare Starting today, tickets to The'Courant's Fall Fanfare benefit show for Camp Cou-rant may be picked up at The Courant's main business office, 285 Broad at Eastern Airlines city office in the Hartford Hilton, and at the Travelrama office, 55 Farmington near Broad Street. Tickets to the two-hour fashion and decorating show will be sold Thursday and Friday, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Sage-Allen's Hartford and Wethcrsfield stores and Lord Taylor's, West Hartford.

Fashions will be shown from the New York Couture Council at the Sept. 16 show at the Hartford Hilton. Ralph and Terry Kovel, newspaper columnists and TV personalities, will speak on "Think Antique." General admission tickets cost $2.50 for the matinee and $3.50 for the evening performance. Reserved patrons' seats are $7.50 each. a.m.

wudy, aixwumg 10 1 vaugn were taken to Hartford Hospital an. Arrests totaled 125 before 8. suffering from inhalation of tear a.m. Tuesday. Because of They were said to be iQ number of arrests, the jail in-satisfactory condition.

The tear Hartford overflowed and an un- gas had en fired to break up disclosed number of prisoners the South Green crowd were taken to the jail in Had- J545 on Vaughan cited numerous fires i(e of the Plice 20 building fires, eight tear gas mto the doorway fires, 11 rubbish and street firos.l0 f.n pahrtmel1nt( hmS shout.S several dumpster fires and 30 frm the rCSI' false alarms. I Looting was heavy on i the second night of trouble and, fired at about 9:30 a man lead" many stores looted had been hit! inS a bov about 2 years old. ani the night before. a woman holding an infant A policeman was shot and came out the doorway and said woumfed Monday night, but the gas was too much to bear-Vaughan said no police were jured Tuesday. He said five per- Minutes later' another man and sons were hurt while looting.

woman with a small child sniper briefly pinned down po licemen there and a rifle was later found by police on a root at 211 Main St. However, the worst of the action was in the North End, where three snipings were reported before 10 p.m. State police troopers were pinned down behind their cruiser by shots on Florence Street and were res- cued by a back-up cruiser that came in with tear gas. Another sniping, believed to be .22 caliber fire, was reported on Mather and East streets, and, on Seyms Street, police took cover Behind an.overturned truck when gunfire rang There were fires periodically through the night in the middle of streets a dumpster set ablaze in the center of Goodwin Street, another fire blazing sev eral feet high on Pavilion Street. The streets were acrid with tear gas that was shot into and over buildings, Children Gassed Three children.

Nancv Santia- go, 5 months, Carmen Santiago, 3 years, and Carlos Sarraggoris, See North End, Page 22, Col. 3 The Lombard boy was one of five persons injured in the accident. His condition was described as critical by officials at St. Raphael's Hospital in New Haven Tuesday night. The massive collision occurred about five miles north of a section of 1-91 where cars piled up in December of 1967, the State Highway Department said.

Smog was a contributing factor in poor visibility conditions which lead to that crash, but the highway department indicated Tuesday that "there appears to be no relationship between the incidents two years ago and the accidents today." Robert M. Williston, director of traffic for the department, said after a preliminary survey of the crash area that he "found nothing in the highway condition or design that could have contributed to the accident." See 3 KILLED, Page 8, Col. 1 Today's Chuckle If you don't think we owe a lot to daytime television, just think of all the women who otherwise woald be out driv tog. communications between city em- TPlcp5 20 Women Pg. '(Financial 50-52 30-32 See DISORDERS, Pg.

22, Col. 1, Later Years 28 The destruction-toppled tele-1. 14 Vehicles Pile Up In 1-91 Fog-; 3 Killed r.i.k-- szr 'fr" .1 'It If if 1 By RICHARD M. KAUKAS I NORTH HAVEN Three charred bodies were found in the wreckage Tuesday morning after six trucks and eight cars piled up and were engulfed in flames on a foggy stretch of 1-91 southbound here. Bethany State Police Bar racks said the bodies were so badly burned and mutilated that a dental check would be necessary for positive identification.

But an Associated Press re port said state police think the dead are members of a Red Bank, N.J., family. David Lombard, 11, of Red Bank, told police he, his parents and younger brother were returning with two horses in a van from a horse show in Maine, according to AP. No members of the Lombard family could be located after the crash and police at Bethany Barracks said a New Jersey man had been asked to come to Yale-New Haven Hospital for identification of the bodies. Officials at Yale-New Haven indicated the bodies of an adult male and an adult female and the body of what appears to be a small boy were brought to the hospital as crash victims. In the Fog: Disaster Three persons died Tuesday morning when this tanker carrying fog was so thick "you couldn't see across the road." Exploding gas tanks for Guyott Bros, cf New Haven, five other large trucks and seven col- caused almost vehicles in the accident to catch fire and the southbound lided and caught fire.

The accident occurred on a fog-bound stretch of 1-91 lanes of 1-91 were closed to traffic for more than six hours. A state trooper in North Haven. One of the drivers of a car involved in the crash said the called it "a disaster" (Courant Photo by Robert B. Ficks)..

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