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wig mainjmii "1 CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1966 Section 1 Ford Assails President's Club Negro Crowd Stones Cars in Michigan SECOND JUDGE IS PICKETED 100 MILES Benton Harbor, Aug. 31 Special A crowd of Negro youths tonight stoned cars in a Negro neighborhood here as national guard troops stood by for DOING VA WORK FOR 12 YEARS, LUCKMAN SAYS MICHIGAN Bipartisan Probe of Charges to Be Asked BY PHILIP WARDEN Chicago Tribune Press Service IN MILWAUKEE I -w WIS. 1 i effJCTnlPICS 'duty. A white man, William DETROITj 1 Los Angeles, Aug. 31 Special iBenefield 36, of Benton 1 a was arrested and Aosinst charged with the fatal snoot" VA hospitals In Los Angeles and San Diego.

One of the contributors was a Texan, the other a John Birch society chapter leader. Ford implied that the acceptance of a President's club contribution from a John Bircher appeared especially sinister in view of the government contracts his company held. Ford said the investigation should cover the dismissal of a government anti-trust suit against the Aanheuser-Busch brewery after officials gave $10,000 to the President's club: Hint Move G0 i INDIANA 1115 ui a ncgiu took iiigui. Thirvi nnrl Three hundred men in units inira and UOVemOr lin Grand Rapids, Holland, and 1 Grand Haven were ordered to Washington, Aug. 31 Rep.

Gerald R. Ford minority leader, called upon President Johnson today to dissolve his President's club while charges of favoritism and corruption are explored. Ford announced he would introduce a bill proposing a bi gest complaint behind the rioting is a lack of recreational facilities for Negroes. Last night's eruption occurred after a meeting at which city officials agreed to investigate recreational needs and police promised to show more respect for Negroes. Romney, in his Lansing office, expressed concern over indications that Negroes from outside of Benton Harbor had come here and joined the trou-blemaking.

He said Negro leaders had told him they did not know many of the who rampaged thru Benton Harbor Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights. "This has created a lot of concern," the governor said. "The city is close to the Gary and Chicago areas and we have no way of knowing how many of these people are coming in from outside the state." with police in an effort to push into the city's business district. Police Move In When the march turned into a rock-throwing melee, police moved in and dispersed the participants but only after a tussle in which they fired warning shots and brandished night sticks. Hunt was shot after the crowd had been dispersed.

The night before, about 150 young Negroes had gone on a destructive rampage that lasted five hours. Striking in small groups, their barrages of rocks and pop bottles damaged six business places, three homes, and eight cars. A rock was hurled thru a picture window of Mayor Smith's home. Concern Over Situation In discussing the increasing severity of the rioting, the mayor noted that "older Negroes are now joining the teenagers in it," Negro leaders said the big the million-dollar office of eco Wauwatosa, Aug. 31 (UPD Civil rights demonstrators tonight broke a two-day moratorium and began picketing a second judge in their drive to get an all-white fraternal club to lift its membership ban against Negroes.

About 100 demonstrators. their armories to prepare for the riot duty in Benton Harbor, a city cf 20,000 on the Lake Michigan shore near the Indiana border. Shot from Car Mayor Wilbert Smith declared a state of emergency in tha nitv 9nH oclroH Clnv ftanraa nomic oDDortunitv contract Charles Luckman, head of Charles Luckman Associates, today responded to charges made yesterday by Representatives Charles E. Goodell N. Y.

and Donald Rumsfeld 111. on the floor of the House. Those charges linked a $17,500 contribution which Luckman reportedly gave to the President's club with a multimillion-dollar contract which his firm now is sharing for the construction of a Veterans administration hospital in California. Luckman is handling architectural work for the hospital. In a statement released by Carl Terzian, Luckman's director of public affairs, Luckman said: "Our architectural firm has given Consolidated American Services.

over" the bids of shot last night as disorders flared again in the Negro district. He died at a hospital this morning from a bullet wound in the abdomen. Police said Hunt's companions told them he was shot by a bullet fired from a passing car that contained white youths, but police said they could not confirm that the assailants were white. Hunt was shot as he walked with other Negro youths at the outskirts of an area where nearly 300 Negroes, double the turn-cut of the night before, clashed partisan investigation of alleged favors going to President's club contributors. He said he would urge that its chairman be a Republican.

MIX VJWV. four qualified companies after its senior vice president made a $3,000 gift to the President's club and Democratic national committee; and the special Ford told a press conference there is the strongest of evidence in four cases recently un uau Romnev to send the troops. Judge Robert Cannons home in He said the rioting for three this suburb for 11 i successive nights was "getting changed strategy and moved out of hand and that iocal and against the home cf County i state police were making nc Judge Christ Seraphim in north-1 headway in stopping it. east Milwaukee. Cecil Hunt, 18, a Negro, was William H.

Hardy of Indian-! covered that persons making substantial contributions to the President's club got anti-trust suits dismissed or received other special administration been working almost continuous Lohman Sees Increase in Segregation in U. S. apolis, a field director for the youth council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said ly for the Veterans administra tion during the last 12 years. The regated textbooks the segre- said that all-white draft boards gated and segregating use of are among the problems facing words, symbols, and ideas Negroes in the south nowadays, are as dangerous to the internal Wilkins, who was in Grand peace of America as segregated Rapids to address the fifth bi-schools and residential areas," ennial fair practices and civil W. Christenberry warned parish officials against using threats to stave off court-ordered desegregation.

The judge denied motions for a stay of his order to six various contract awards for this Veterans administration work have been made under both Republican and Democratic administrations. "During this same 12-year period, our firm has participated in a total of 19 government contracts. Twelve of these have been awarded by a Republican White House message to congress to fund Project Mohole after the family of the contractor, George R. Brown of Brown Root, Houston, gave $25,000 to the President's club. Wants Books Open 'I respectfully call upon President Johnson to suspend the operations of the President's club without further delay," Ford said.

"He should declare plainly and publicly that no more contributions will be accepted by the President's club and than any received will be returned. The accounts of the President's club should be frozen. Its books should be thrown open to the press without further transfers of funds in or out. 'This step, if undertaken promptly and in good faith, will spare both President Johnson and those who support him politically and financially from further embarrassment." the demonstrators would picket 1From Tribn wire sr.cesi either the home of Judge Robert' Segregation has become far Hansen or Gov. Warren P.

i more idespread in the United Knowles tomorrow. States since the passage of anti-segregation laws than it Belong to Eagles was wnen segregation existed Cannon, Seraphim, and Hansen legally. Joseph D. Lohman, are members of the Eagles club I clean of the school of crim-and each has said he will not inology at the University of give in to a by the California in Berkeley and youth council either to resign former sheriff of Cook county, from the club or the bench. said yesterday.

There was no immediate ex- Lohman was among a num-planation as to why Knowles ber of specialists interviewed Bennett said. rights conference sponsored by I students for open a new suit in ne i ecuniiueiiueu wu uic mc uimcu nuiu vvumeia, aaiu i first- time and for United States office of educa- he did not doubt the sincerity triaj of tne fe(jerai tion convene a national con- or ability of the all-white draft wnjcn it was eiven Cites Building Jobs Membership in the President's club is limited to persons giving $1,000 or more to President Johnson for political use. Special White House contacts and favors are promised doors. Ford listed the Veterans administration hospital architectural and engineering contract tagged for Charles Luckman, the "meatless Thursday" administrator of the Truman administration, as the newest case. Two VA Contracts The value of the architectural engineering contract was placed as high as $800,000.

President's administration. I feel this speaks rather eloquently for the quality of our professional services." ministrators, teachers, and Ne- interpret properly the case of the Negro and his individual background. No racially integrated classes were held as parish schools opened their doors. But white attendance was a surprising 1,082 at parish schools, altho gro and white scholars for a study of the textbook situation. was mentioned as a oossible wiieie mey are attending the convention of the Raises Draft Issue target.

not a white pupil showed up at Collapse of Boycott In New Orleans, a threatened white boycott of schools in segregated Plaquemines parish club gifts totaling $17,500 were traced to Luckman. Ford linked Luckman with two other President's club contributors and construction contracts for two 20-million-dollar American Sociological associa- i Grand Rapids, Roy tin- Wilkins, president of the Na- The criminology expert said tional Association for the Ad Woodlawn High school where five Negroes became the first of it was ironic that segregation vancement of Colored People, crumbled after Federal Judge 1 their race to enroll has increase He said that "the 1 There were only a few onlookers and little trouble outside Seraphim's home. Nate Harwell, council public relations director, said after a meeting with Cannon tonight the N. A. A.

C. P. group was "starting to feel sorry for Cannon. Cannon is a liberal and basically a good guy. He just won't budge." Decided After Meeting Harwell said the N.

A. A. C. P. presence of subtle discrimination is pervasive." Quote from Studies He and other specialists said studies show that big city schools in both the north and the south are resegregating, that more Negroes live in segregated neighborhoods now group decided only after the than 20 years ago, and that conference with Cannon that the school integration in most small picketing would be switched to towns is oniy token in most Seraphim tonight.

Jli a pre-mixect cases. Lewis M. Killian of Florida State university said that the 1 race riots in Chicago, Los An- geles, and New York are a demonstration of Negro power "that place Negro leaders in a position embarrassingly like that of the southern white politician during the early days of the movement." Sees School Failure In Washington, Lerone Ben-, Seraphim said he didn't pay much attention to the demonstration. He said he would comment "at the proper time. A lot has been said already." Seraphim said he had "read in the newspaper I might be picketed." The demonstration broke up in about a half hour and most of the group returned to their headquarters while the Rev.

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