Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 5

1" aklatib2l4(rrltittne 20, 1967 ES 5 Protesters feers Reinforced Policemen Keep Mob in Control Anti-Draft Vt lilt Hi r'AA: TTSfA V'l 1 1 rr- tr-. Continued from Page 1 inter agency car pool sedan and left it in the middle of Jefferson Street. A second federal oar was shoved into 15th Street midway between Jefferson and Grove, the deflated and wiring ripped celebrate, each in his own way. The rooftop press conference andthe Berkeley rally signaled an end to a tension-filled morning which began when police peacefully swept the demonstrators from in front of the center. The protesters, split into chanting groups, roamed outside a gradually enlarging police perimeter which by 9 a.m.

extended from Broadway to Jefferson along 14th Street and 12th to 16th on Clay. The first clash between po lice ind demonstrators came at about 8:30 a.m. at 14th and Clay Streets. Police, managed to secure the intersection after a brief skirmish. Injured protesters were taken to a medical aid station set up in front of City Hall by "Health Professionals for Peace," a doctors' group made up of physicians from Oak- land and San Francisco.

Ten persons were treated for minor injuries at Highland, Herrick and Cowell Hospitals. Earlier about 200 demon- strators marched in a circular line at 13th and Broadway, blocking the intersection in all four directions. They dragged steel suppdrt piers into the street, threw garbage cans and metal newstands into the intersection and paraded around the heap of rubble. Soft drink bottles taken from a truck were smashed on the street. A number of stink bombs were thrown.

They were finally driven away by a phalanx of 20 Oakland police but moved to 13th and Washington where they commandeered a pickup truck, parked it broadside and let the air out of the tires. Then the crowd swept to 11th and Washington, dumping garbage and boulders into the street A force of 80 California Highway Patrol officers, marching 22 abreast, forced the group up Washington to an area in front of the City Hall and then surrounded them. at Jefferson and 13th Streets, demonstrators let the air out of a federal worn under the hood. At 15th and Jefferson, demonstrators intercepted a third car and began rocking it until the driver opened the door and flPd. Then the car was placed across the intersection.

One monitor shouted: "We'll block every intersection In town.1' Police herded demonstrate s- away from the- four blocks immediately surrounding the center and established one police line across San Pa blo Avenue at 21st St. There the police held fast, while the crowd, in holiday mood, chanted and jeered, not knowing that the inductees' buses were about to arrive. At 15th and Grove Streets, boards were torn from nearby structures and hurled at the police who made several arrests. At 17th and Jefferson streets, cars crashed through the demonstrators' barricades. Then the first two of the five buses inched up San Pablo Avenue, escorted by more than 50 police officers on foot.

A few moments later three more buses came, this time at a 35 mile an hour clip, in the middle of a fleet of police motorcycles. The buses rolled the wrong way down one way Clay Street to the center and the demonstration was nearly over. A few moments later a Navy bus arrived, and like the others, unloaded without incident. When picket leaders declared that the demonstration was over, the protesters moved out, leaving behind a force of police officers which had at one time totaled 1,200 with 800 more held in reserve. National Guard officers were on hand as observers although the guard was not called out jGov JRonald Reagan's office was in continuous contact with the Oakland command center all during the demonstration.

Anti-war demonstrators break and run some falling to the pavement-during a clash with police on 14th Street near Clay Street this morning Downtown Center Garage, 1425 Clay and formed a double line, officers facing to- ward both 14th and 15th Streets. After receivng an or- der from Brown to "watch Shortly after 7 a.m. about a dozen inductees were escorted through the Oakland City Hall and the garage command post ami induction cen- ter by two officers. As the damage mounted and the crowd spread, City Manager Keithley put out the can for help. Nearby city police departments were the first to send men.

The demonstrators had number of times to stay out of tne area between demonstra- tnr. onA n. arnin(J warninS was heeded by reporters and photographers, some of whom uau tuuiaiiicu ucoua, Uio tne demon- strations was heintr hamnered by police. Within minutes the area immediately adjacent the cen- ter was cleared of demonstra- tors. needs no conscription." Nails were scattered over the street, whether to impede police or cause flat tires was uncertain.

The crowds shouted, "We are the people, we are the people. One man arrested in the vicinity of the induction cen- ter had a bottle in his hand, It was a soft drink. He calmly sipped it as he was led away The additional police offi- cers had come from as far away as Calaveras County to support the efforts of Oakland police to control the demon- stration. Th firct lomnnctra peared -at the center before 5 a.m. and within an hour police estimated there were more than 10,000 in the area of 15th and Clay Streets.

Deputy Police Chief Ray Brown, broadcasting over a public address system, repeat- edly warned the crowd to quit blocking the intersection. At 6:20 police moved out of the command post in the VOUT ChemiCalS" the lMeS be- gan moving at the half-step jj 1 7 toward the intersections There were catcalls from the crowd, but the demonstrators heeded the orders of monitors to. fall back and avoid physical contact with the police: Police held theiFbaloiis" in both hands and there was no club swinging. The press was instructed a YOU DRINK" SCOTCH IN SPITE OF ITS TASTE? of these maybe you ought to try 100 Pipers Scotch bySeagram. It's different.

It actually tastes good. Strangetorsay but some Scotch drinkers can. drink Scotch without a secret little shudder. "The reason is simple Whether they admit it or 'mm tors, other protesters swept Demonstrators painted a 30-fbot-long sign in two foot high letters: "A just cause SCOTCH BY gMM U' boasted they would cluse down the induction center. In- stead, they had thrown down- town Oakland into a 6tate of seige.

N.Y.C BLENDED SCOTCH WHHtt See for. yourself. Now you can stop drinking Scotch because it's a habit. And start drinking it because it's a not, they don really like the taste. (They may like the idea of Scotch.

But not the actual drink.) Well, if you're one SEAGRAM IVERY DROP BOTTLED IN SCOTLAND AT 86 PROOF SELECTED AND IMPORTED BY SEAORAM-DISTILLERS COMPANY, $7.40 FIFTH $3.80 TENTH Plus Tx .1 Demonstrators surge behind police lines. Scene is looking' southron Clay from 14th Street .7.