Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 1

The LIGHTER SIDE The latest appliance on the market is a combination record player and air-conditioner. It's desiped for people who like to play it cool. Established January 15, 1836 Vol. CXXXII, No. 203 ELEGRAPH Serving the Alton Community for More Than 131 Years WARMER WEDNESDAY Low 57, High 83 (Complete Weather A-2) ALTON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1967 32 PAGES 35 Arrested In East Side Mob Tumult EAST ST.

LOUIS, 111. (AP) Police arrested 35 persons Monday night and early today in a continuing wave of fires looting, and vandalism in East St. Louis. Firemen answered 30 alarms dence of arson at Daut's Drue A Ort M. A between 4:30 p.m.

Monday and 7 a.m. today. Authorities said arson was found many cases. Two liquor stores, a drug store and a grocery were looted. Motorists Attacked Foui white motorists were attacked and injured as they drove along a street near Im pact House, a recreation center financed by federal antipoverty funds, police said.

The disorder followed a Sunday visit to East St. Louis by Black Power advocate H. Rap Brown, who urged Negroes to arm themselves. Arrests were made about 2:15 a.m. today outside Daut's Drug Store and the Broadway Market, both damaged and looted.

Two nearby liquor stores also were looted. Thirty Negroes marched into police headquarters early today protesting the citizens' arrests by a Negro peace patrol of 10 Negro youths the patrolmen said were manufacturing fire bombs in the Lincoln Park area. The protest group shouted Black Power slogans and dispersed only when police decided not to charge the youths because officers did not witness the reported bomb-making. Street Barricaded Police barricaded Missouri Avenue Monday to route motorists' around the troubled area. But authorities said the barricades were moved and vehicles of several motorists who drove through the area were pelted with rocks, bombs.

bottles, and fire Anthony Middendorf of New Athens, 111., told police a fire bomb sailed into the back seat of his car about 5 p.m. Middendorf jumped from the car, his clothing ablaze, and was strur by several youths. Police said Ronald Hawthorne of Belleville, 111., was pulled from his truck and beaten by a group of youths. The attackers scattered when a white resident fired a shot into the air. Authorities said the two looted liquor stores, both owned by William Skidis, were attacked Sunday night when the disorder first erupted.

Evidence of Arson Police said they collected evi- store, which was set ablaze, and at the Sutherland Lumber Co. Earlier Monday, a group of demonstrators took protests to the City Hall, the police station and the Metro-East Journal. While they stood in the lobby of the newspaper, Photographer Al Mross went down the stairs with his camera on another assignment. The demonstrators apparently thought Mross was.going to take a picture of them. They shoved him around as he tried to get out of the building, but he was not hurt and his camera was not damaged.

LOOTED STORES Scattered debris is all that remains in this East St. Louis liquor store by vandals Monday night. Two liquor stores, a drug store and a grocery store have been looted by roving gangs of youths. (AP Wirephoto) In Stanhope Case I Is Denied By DALE ARMSTRONG Telegraph Staff Writer EDWARDSVILLE A mistrial in the case of Norman Stanhope, accused of the March 9 hatchet murder of his wife, was denied today by Associate Circuit Judge I. H.

Streeper. Judge Streeper also denied a motion by Stanhope's attorney, Malcolm Durr, to set bond. Monday, Judge Streeper had denied a motion by Durr to dismiss the indictment and release Stanhope. Durr asked for the mistrial on the grounds that a Telegraph article Monday, relating that State's Attorney Leon Scroggins would ask for the death penalty, could influence the jurors. Durr declared that although the jurors were instructed not to read newspaper articles about the case, some probably did so.

Durr called the Telegraph article "poison" to a Jury and said that a state's attorney who would give this information to newspapers is creating a "poisonous, corrupt atmosphere." Jurors, Durr said, can't help jut be influenced by such in- 'ormation "fed to the press" by the state's attorney's office, and was a violation of the code of ethics. In rebuttal, Scroggins pointed out that he had informed both Stanhope's defense counsel and the court that he anticipated the death penalty in the case. He said prospective jurors had been warned not to read newspaper accounts and that this is the only protection he knows that can be offered a defendant as far as newspaper articles go. In denying the mistrial motion, Judge Streeper said attorneys always have the right to interrogate jurors as to whether they've read newspaper articles, and have thus formed an opinion, and that this protects the defendant's rights. Judge Streeper also rejected Durr's objections to two handbooks, one regarding criminal and the other civil cases, given to jurors.

Durr had said the criminal case handbook did no give the defense "equal time' and the civil case handbook was confusing to prospective jurors To Durr's assertion that he understood Judge Streeper hac adopted the for the press as set out during the tria of Richard Speck, accused kill (Continued On Page 2, Col. 9) Man Sentenced for Robbery Is Freed EDWARDSVILLE John Wesley Harris, 31, of Alton, waived his right to a new trial granted two months ago on appeal from a jury conviction for armed robbery of an Alton Liquor Store, and was resentenced Monday to a prison term of 12 to 18 months and then walked out of the courtroom a free man. Harris was found guilty by a jury June 22 last year East Alton, Alton Pair Are Victims of Mob's Violence By JOE MELOSI Telegraph Staff Writer Violent racial mobs attacked and terrorized two area married couples in their cars late Sunday during Black Power riots in East St. Louis. Rock throwers and club INSIDE Today EDITORIAL A-4 Carpenters' local domestic problems need probing.

ROWDY A-2 Alton school board takes steps to combat rowdyism at sports events. CHOUTEAU A3 Alton sets up $2,500 yearly budget to pay for Chouteau Island landfill use. HARRIS A-5 Romney now drawing mixed responses from public as presidential possibility. FAMILY A-6 Seamstress plans transitional outfit: Sewing Bea. BARRETT A-12 How's Cy's lighter side? Like a Bridesmaid? SPORTS B-8 Twins come from behind to keep lead.

wielders battered the car, breaking all the windows, and pulled Robert Gayan, 20, of 444 George East Alton, from the driver's seat and onto the pavement to beat him. His wife, an 18-year old expectant mother, was punched several times in the stomach after she shouted "Oh my baby! Oh my baby! 1 Someone in the mob yelled "kill that white baby. Get it." Mrs. Gayan was seated in the car when attacked through the side window. No attempt Was made to pull her from car.

Clothes were ripped off a back seat passenger, Mrs. James Menzie, listed as living in the 300 block of Dry St. in Alton, while her husband fought off attackers on his side of the back seat. While Gayan scuffled on the street, a member of the Negro gang rushed to his aid, firing warning shots in the air to hold back an advancing crowd. The Negro, who had been standing near the car while Mrs.

Gayan was being assaulted, yelled to Gayan to "run. go get help. Get an ambulance for your wife." Gayan managed to free himself and escape pursuers to make a phone call to the police station, which summoned an ambulance. Police dispersed the mob momentarily to allow the couples to enter the ambu- atace. All were taken to St.

Mary's Hospital. The two men were treated for cuts from flying glass and bruises from attackers blows and were released. Mrs. Gayan was later transferred to Alton Memorial Hospital, where her condition was reported today as "good." Mrs. Gayan suffered superficial cuts to her legs from flying glass and bruises from the punches to her stomach, but the baby was reported unharmed.

The couples had driven to East St. Louis to locate an auto mechanic school, where Gayan was to enroll Monday. On their way back they encountered the angry mob at llth Street and St. Louis Avenue. The riots erupted following an earlier appearance of Black Power Leader H.

Rap Brown, who had stirred a crowd at Lincoln School. More than 100 city, St. Clair County and State Police routed a crowd of riotous youths about 9:20 a.m. Three hours later, one youth was fatally shot by police near National Stock Yards where the youth jumped from a wrecked stolen car. of holding up John Oetken, owner of the Ridge Street Package Liquor Store at 512 Ridge Alton, on March 20, 1966.

Amount of the loot was $186. Presiding Circuit Judge Joseph J. Barr subsequently sentenced Harris to a prison term of 3 to 6 years, and he was transported to the Penitentiary to begin serving the sentence. Meanwhile, Harris took an appeal to the Fifth District Illinois Appellate Court at Mt. Vernon, which last July 24 reversed the circuit court conviction and sentence, and ordered a new trial.

Harris was brought to the county jail on July 26 and had remained there since while awaiting the new trial granted by the Appellate Court on grounds of error in the trial court, with a finding that such errors had prejudiced the defendant's rights to a fair trial. Monday afternoon Harris appeared before Chief Circuit Judge James 0. Monroe with Public Defender Robert E. L. Trone, entered a plea of guilty to the original armed robbery indictment and was sentenced to serve a prison term of one year to 18 months.

Monroe, however, granted credit to the defendant for the time served in the state penitiary on the reversed conviction and sentence, and in the county jail while awaiting retrial, and ordered Harris released. Harris had been represented on his appeal to the Appellate Court by Attorney James Almeter of Alton, appointed by the appellate court to represent him during the appeal from the original conviction and sentence on grounds of error. lOc Per Copy Member of The Associated Press. U. S.

Pound Haiphong Targ By GEORGE MCARTHUR SAIGON planes hit (AP) U.S. Navy the cenler of Haiphong was an four targets inside attack last April on a cement Haiphong Monday in the closest plant and power plant 1.1 miles raids ever made to the center from the center. The spokesman said none of were lhe targets had been hit of the port city. The dock facilities Cl 11MV4 lilt spared, but raiding jets from previously. The most recent tack close in to Haiphong was on Sept.

4 against the big rail carriers Coral Sea and Oriskany hit two of the main bridge main uiiugca Liit, uijj JLeii in North Vietnam's chief port, bridge about three miles south the main rail yard and sprawling warehouse area. Antiaircraft and missiles barrages sent against the raider included two Soviet-built SAM rockets that apparently wen out of control and exploded near three ships, including one Polish and one Italian, anchored in the Red River mouth 20 miles from the port. One missile exploded 1,800 feet above the ships and the other exploded in the water about 2,000 yards away. Maintained Policy The raids into the heavily defended heartland of North Vietnam maintained a U.S. policy of putting as much pressure as possible on the Hanoi regime before monsoons curtail air operations against the North in about a month.

The intensified air war was paralleled by heavy grounc fighting Monday and today ii South Vietnam's northern zone where U.S. Marines have been fighting off freshlj equipped North Vietnamese reg ulars. The Marines reported 40 Com munist soldiers and 14 Marine: killed and 35 Marines woundec in two actions Monday and two shelling attacks today. Meanwhile, South Vietnamese forces suffered heavy casualties in two attacks early today south of Da Nang. B52 Raids U.S.

B52 bombers made the raids early today on North Vietnamese positions inside the demilitarized zone from which the Communists send troops south against the Marines and bom barded the Leatherneck out posts just below the zone. Navy pilots returning from the Haiphong raids reported a tiail of SAM missiles and an tiaircraft fire, and Hanoi Radio claimed two U.S. jets were shot down. The U.S. Command reported no losses on the Haiphong strike, but said a B57 Canberra was shot down Monday north of demilitarized zone and the two crewmen were missing.

It was the 674th U.S. combat jlane reported lost in the air war against North Vietnam. A comprehensive estimate of he damage in Haiphong Monday was unavailable until film rom photo planes was developed. Main Rail Bridge The bridges spanned the big that bisects Haiphong and carried the main rail and road raffic for Hanoi to the west. They were located one mile and eight-tenths of a mile from the center of the city, he U.S.

Command said. The closest raid previously to east of 'the city. Air Force, Navy and Marine pilots flew 110 missions against North Vietnam Monday. In addition to the targets in Hai- phong, they pounded the two rail lines from Hanoi to Red China and ranged southward to strike supply targets, missile sites and gun positions down to the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam. Just north of the DMZ a flight of Phantom and Thunderchief jets destroyed one of the mobile 37-foot, Soviet-made antiaircraft missiles.

In the ground war, military communiques reported at least 175 Communists killed in scattered fights in the preceding 24 hours. Park District Eyed by County Madison County Board of Supervisors today adopted unanimously a motion by Alton Township Assistant Supervisor Alton May to study the feasibility of forming a 5-member Parks and Recreation Standing Committee. The committee, if appointed, would make a feasibility study on available land of unincorporated areas of Madison County for possible use as parks and recreational areas, May said. The committee then would report to the county board on whether it would be practical for the county to enter the parks and recreational field. May told a reporter his ac- India, Red Chinese Troops Continue Scattered Shooting By JOE MCGOWAN JR.

NEW DELHI (AP) Intermittent firing continued through the night between Indian and Red Chinese troops on the mountainous border between Tibet and Sikkim, a Defense Ministry spokesman said today. The spokesman said he was uanble to give any reason for (he clashes which India claim; were provoked by the Chinese "It is perhaps part of the frus. tration in the wake of the so- cultural revolution," he said. Peking accused India of start ing the shooting Monday and threatened "crushing blows' against any invasion. Recalling the defeat Chinese administered to Indian forces in their border war five years ago, a Chinese government note delivered to the Indian Embassy in Peking said: 'Do not misjudge the situation and repeat your mistake of 1962." of opening fire first on Monday.

The clash occurred at Nathu La Pass, a Himalayan ridge about 20 miles from Gangtok, the Sikkimese capital where the former Hope Cooke, an American socialite, reigns with her husband the Maharajah Palden Thondup Namgyal. Red China said 36 of its frontier guards were killed or wounded in the clash, the second outbreak of fighting at the pass in five days. India said the Chinese opened fire with rifles and machine guns and followed with mortar and artillery barrages, killing and wounding some Indians. "For the defense of the sacred erritory of their motherland," note continued, "the great Chinese people and the Chinese People's Liberation Army will certainly deal crushing blows at any enemy that dares invade India proposed an immediate cease-fire and a meeting of the ocal military commanders "to reduce the tension and prevent he situation from assuming a ery serious aspect." Each side accused the other tion was spurred by the limited number of parks and recreational areas in unincorporated areas, and Gov. Otto Kerner's veto last week of a legislative appropriation of $400,000 for purchase of approximately 1700 acres of Horse Shoe Lake bottomland as a beginning phase in the proposed development of a lake surrounding area in Madison and St.

Clair Counties. "Horseshoe Lake is an eyesore now, but it could be developed into a beautiful park area," May said of the lake, located near Granite City. May's proposal will be referred to the board's steering and rules committees. The committees will apparently study possible formation of a Parks and Recreation Commit- lee and make a report to the board on their findings. In years past, the board-has been requested to move for creation of a park and recreation Horseshoe cvcl there has been no definite action on such proposals at the county level.

Although Gov. Kerner vetoed the Horseshoe Lake appropriations bill, the Illinois Horseshoe Lake Commission has pledged to continue efforts toward development of the lake area as a state park and recreation area. More than 20 years ago voters of Madison County, rejected a proposal in a referendum which would have created a forest reserve district for recreational development, encompassing all of the county. area embracing Lake. However, Jerseyville Marine Dies A 19-year old Jerseyville Ma- was killed after his 9-member patrol was completely wiped out during an enemy ambush Vietnam, it was learned today.

Pfc. William F. Miller, a Marine infantryman who jlanned to study for the minis- ry after his release was killed the bitter fire fight which flared against his patrol last Thursday. The young Marine, who graduated from Jersey Community High School, will be buried from the State Street Baptist Church in Jerseyville. The body will be brought to Jacoby Brothers Funeral Home, Jerseyville where the date of funeral will announced.

Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery. His parents, are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller of 903 Giddings, Jerseyville. Indian Cemetery A Burial Mystery NEW INDIAN MOUND The roped off area is an Indian burial ground discovered two weeks ago.

Several cartons of human bone fragments have been removed from the site, as well as flints and pieces of chalky rock, evidently as cere- monial paint by the Indians. The new mound is further proof that Calhoun County is rich in Indian relics. Two Indian mound archeological experts were scheduled (o examine the site today. By JIM KULP Telegraph Staff Writer HARDIN The presence of nails have added mystery to a centuries-old Indian burial ground which has been discovered on the property of Tom Collins about 6 miles south of Hardin in Calhoun County. Collins uncovered the mound by accident, when clearing trees for a a road to a boat launching ramp on the Illinois River at Hadley Landing.

He found a large flint about two weeks ago, but thought nothing of it at the time since he says it is common to find arrowheads in the area. However, on Labor Day Collins found a couple more large flints poking through the ground and began to dig. To date he has gathered a total of 144 large flints, measuring to 5 inches across. Also in the mound are a number of skeletons, fragments of skulls and human bones, with the nails giving a note of mystery. According to one amateur archeologist digging in the mound, the Rev.

James Jar- INDIAN FLINT One of 144 Found rell, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Hardin, wherever a bone is found, a nail is discovered also. The nails are square and some appear to be imbedded in the bones. They are about 2 inches long 'and rusty. An expert in Indian artifacts, Allan Hani of the Dickson Mounds, Museum of Illinois Indians at Lewis- tovvn, said the nails could have been put in the burial ground by settlers sometime in the recent past. He said these nails have been found in other Indian burials and are believed to be part of the fill which souvenir hunters who opened the graves, shoveled back in after removing some artifacts.

However, Harn, who is familiar wilh another Indian Mound in the Hardin area, the "Peisker Mound" dis- (Continued Oa Page 2, Col. 2).