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FINAL edition ita (Tribune WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday. West winds, 5-12 tonight. Lower 60s tonight; upper 80s Tuesday. NUMBER 68 18 Pages LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1967 Two Sections PRICE TEN CENTS Detroit Riots Leave 5 Dead, Million Property Loss President Orders Federal Troops To Stricken City Fires Set By Negroes Unchecked NATIONAL GUARDSMEN WATCH AS ENTIRE BLOCK IN DETROIT BURNS New Rioting Left Five Dead. Scores Injured, Millions Of Dollars In Damages.

-UPI Telephoto LOOTERS PICK THROUGH DEBRIS Detroit: Scene Of Flaming Rubble By FRANK S. JOSEPH DETROIT (AP) It is dawn in Detroit, but the fires are still burning on 12th Street. The neighborhood's Negro residents cluster in the brick- filled streets, talking to one another or just looking over the debris with puzzled scowls. Two men jerk the bottom of the accordion gate guarding the 3 Per Cent U.S. Loan Office, a pawn shop, while a companion scrapes underneath on his belly to reach through the broken window for the watches inside.

The 13-block strip of 12th Street from Bethune at Atkinson is a nightmare. The plumes of smoke billowing from store fires set Sunday night still fill the street with a choking, gray haze. Maybe a fourth of the business places are destroyed-brick and steel skeletons filled with smoking or flaming rubble. Many others are wide open to looters, who climb casually through the broken display windows and walk out with armfuls of fruit, clothing, liquor. There is very little liquor left, though, since the liquor stores were hit first and hardest.

There are no police on 12th Street. There are no firemen, despite the blazes that continue. There arc no National Guardsmen, although Guardsmen block intersections two blocks away in order to keep people out of the area. However, 12th Street, the main drag of this neighborhood northwest of downtown Detroit, remains open. Any driver with little regard for glass in his tires may rubber-neck through the blasted area.

By GENE SCHROEDER DETROIT (AP) President Johnson ordered federal troops into the Detroit area today to stand by to help quell two days of wild Negro rioting that has claimed five lives, injured hundreds and left many parts of the city a smouler- ing ruin. Johnson announced dispatch of the troops less than two hours after Gov. George Romney and Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh wired a plea for help. At the same time, the ordered former Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance to nearby Selfridge Air Force base, where he Is to determine the cessarily attached areas.

Cavanagh commented afterjstores, service stations and citnatinn onH Most recent hke those touring the hardest hit sections many other businesses connect- wnemer 10 jn Newark, Harlem, Rochester, of the near West Side and North-ed with leisure were ordered send the troops into the n.Y., and the Watts section of west Side along with Gov. closed as rioting reached a peak i smoke shrouded, debris- Los Angeles were confined to George Romney. Sunday night, littered city. (Negro ghetto areas. Many banks did not open.

Johnson did not say where There are no such Places in They rode in an armored per-t Schools were closed in much of the troops were coming from although there are pre- sonnel carrier of the Michigan'the city. The two major univer- but it was known that elements dominantly Negro sections National Guard and were ac- Wayne State and the Un- DETROIT LOOTER HAULS OFF NEW TV SET Tied To Trunk Of His Convertible of the 101st Airborne, the crack However, few of these are companied by heavily armed po- iversity of off division o('dums including areas of the lice and guardsmen. There was classes. TT fiercest noting. sporadic sniper fire as they rode As Ca sporadic sniper fire as they rode.

As Cavanagh and Romney but none appeared directed at toured, smoke still rose from the their armored cavalcade. blocks-long sections, torched by As the mayor and governor looters in an area that extended area that stretches sev- toured, fires still raged out of from the swank shops of down- 101st is stationed at Ft. en miles outward from the control in widely separated town to slums up to seven miles downtown area. I areas, but streets were deserted from center city. On their return, Cavanagh told save for bayonet-armed guard- Birch St.

School Bid Opening Is Tuesday H. Pilzner, Businessman, Dies At 66 World War II fame, and the 5th Army at Chicago had becn 1 he call for federal help came alerted Romney and Cavanagh braved sniper fire to tour the I The Campbell and is the division that went to Little Rock, for the riots that came with the desegregation of Little Rock Central Hig hSchool almost 10 years ago. The troops were due at Sel- been men backed up by tanks city and state police. In the wake of 24 hours terror and looting, many people apparently took the day off to- ENTIRE BLOCK DESTROYED Louis H. Pitzner, 66, of 752 The La Crosse Board of Edu- 26-by-42-foot arts and crafts cation will accept bids at 2 p.m.

room, a 24-by-21-foot music Tuesday in the Common Coun- room, a 50-by-80-foot gymnasi- cil chambers for construction uni that can divided by a of an elementary school at 28th movable partition into two and Birch Streets. teaching stations, and a 32-by- Hillview president of Pitz- Thus a school which has been 51-foot multi-purpose room to ners Cleaners and Laundry, under consideration for 10 years be used for the school lunch pro- Lutheran Hospital Sun- wili come a step closer to reali- gram and a small auditorium. day morning, July 23. ty. A 14-by-25-foot kitchen will ad- Services will be Tuesday at It is designated as a two-sec- join the multi-purpose room.

ni- Sletten-McKee u- tion school for kindergarten neral Home- Rev- Robert Man' through sixth grade, but its The school will have a wdL Committal planning differs from conven- nostic and treatment area, 56 Wld bc conducted bv the tional school building of the by 70 feet, for speech therapy, Masonic Lodge 45 in the Oak past, social work, guidance testing Grove Cemetery. Most prominent is the team- and special education. teaching concept for grades! Other space in the building Mr. Pitzner, who had been ac- N1S01 three through six which allows will be devoted to administra- Republican party politics the 40-by-40-foot classrooms to tive offices, faculty lounge and and Shrine organizations, had be divided by sliding partitions, work room, storage area and bcen associated with sanitary facilities. Cleaners, 119 N.

7th for 45 According to Evan Lowrey, Superintendent Edsel Vergin ycars- The flrm vvas La Crosse- one daughter Joan director of educational services, said the school is being built as at home; one Harthe idea that it will be used oW W. ol La Crosse; one sister, Ruth Radtkc of La Crosse; and The room will accommodate quested for the entire building. The total area will be membership in ron- Lodge 45, Scottish Rite LOUIS II. pitzner Wisconsin National He was born in St. Louis, Survivors include his widow.

newsmen the riots had temporarily contained. the looting and arson said the mayor, I am concerned about what fridge, about 20 miles northeast seems to be a carnival atmos- day and stayed out of the city, of Detroit, by nightfall. Movie houses, bars, liquor The final decision on whether ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------to send the troops into the beleaguered city lies with Johnson, but he vowed every needed assistance. The regular troops would join more than 7,000 Michigan NVA tional Guardsmen, city and sub- uraban police, and state police troopers who have braved sniper fire, fire bombs and missiles in trying to halt the violence. In announcing his plea for federal help, Romney told newsmen experience had shown that and The entire riot area is predominately Negro.

Negroes make up of about 30 per cent of the 1.7 million people. Thousands of Negroes rampaged through the fifth See DETROIT, Page 2 Police Battle Fire Bombers, Looters In Spanish Harlem Ricans spilling from tenements spread crowded violence team teaching allows the team to divide teaching responsibili- year-around, and for this reason ties into what each does best, air-conditioning is being d7 cleanin8 concern. twro grandchildren Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday morning the seoend night of racial agam lence was worse than today- bottle-bombmg the help, the situation room 60 pupils. The ideal pupil load per teacher in the convention- approximately 11 a.m. until "the al classroom is 30, say city leet.

It will be built on the west rhanter A Fan school administrators end of a site 450 feet wide and SmithChapter 13 Lau stnooz auininisudiuib. Claire Consistory, Zor Temple iui iviiaamu The idea behind team teach- L000 met long- nr thp were Negroes, ing is that 60 pupils represent- The school will face west onlLa Crosse Shrine Club $tate today and the ing two classes can assemble See SCHOOL. Page 2 other Shrine activities includ-i GRAND PORTAGE, Minn, death. for a single presentation of a lec- directorate of the Zor guardsmen enter- ture or film, then divide into (3irl Severely Hurt tal Band and association with tained slim hopes of success to- The discovery of the ithe Shrine Circus for many day as they entered their fifth dramatically underlined By JON VINOCUR dows but most shopkeepers the Bronx were brought NEW YORK (AP) Puerto opened their stores as usual, into the area, and police in the three other boroughs w-ere The renewed violence in frozen on duty for a while. Spanish for Police patrolling the mile-long came late Sun- stretch of street found protec- police from streets and rooftops (jay night as Puerto Rican lead- grillework torn from and looting stores from the gj-g discussed with Police Com- shops, their windows broken could become 1 uncontrollable high-rent white neigh- missioner Howard R.

Leary a and display cases looted. The he told newsmen. borhoods to Negro Harlem. similar five-hour outbreak Sat- seemed to aim particu- The latest deaths were that ol Rian L000 helmeted offi- ur(jay. Lindsay had worked out a supermarkets, clothing a Negro looter, shot down in a s.truggl.ed for a short-lived truce with commun- and furniture stores, supermarket bv a Negro guard, refurn caIm to ily spokesmen after the first and that of an elderly Negro trouble.

police commissioner found burned to death in an frst while called the lrouble ma'or dls' ley on the city's East Side. thc had gone back on its turbance," but said it had not The latter was the first death word by sending the riot-trained reachcd thc 0, a reported on the East Side, al- ihnft a i Tactlcal Patro1 Force into tho riot. most a dozen miles from where a 5 buildinc and fThe Lindsay had come to thc riot the rioting looting and fire- p. anu elite corps consists of six-footers mnrninir cleared street corners with their sneciaiiv trained for such dis- Sunday morning bombing erupted early Sunday nightsticks fiailing Chances Thcv were rushed and W8S ablC t0 COnVCrse and took its heaviest toll in turuances. incy were lusneo jy WJjJl the tje told property damage and to Rie scene when the first t'hem that they had mjsiecl Of the five dead only two Pollf otfieial reported that bottles began to fly shortly after bv a faIsc that a while hlnek- nn Irtirrl Avenue he- 1 SunHsv J.

the looter East Side shot on Third Avenue be- p.m. Sunday. fire two classes for discussion. The four first and second grade rooms will be 28 by 34 feet, or the size similar to those found in other city schools. There will be two kindergarten rooms 29 by 40 feet each which will allow for innovations at that level.

Classrooms will be on the perimeter of the building. The center will be comprised of a 72- 8y Whirling Propeller Three policemen and one years. He was recipient of the day of searching for two Mil- unique quality of racial man were injured. I A InrnnUnn mnn hTia a i i patrolman shot and killed Puerto Rican in a dice game. 10 ing wi a 5 ance worsened, Lindsay said the Puerto Rift 'vas, -roye an, bars were ordered closed andean, Rcnaido Rodriguez, had hndv 1 of attempted to stab one of two off- 1SJL0P 101 held over for extended duty.

An duty officers and that the officer tne Three nolicemen and one fire- tween 107th and 108th Streets, usually music, DEVILS LAKE, N.D. Zor Merit Award for service to waukee men who were last seen explosion that it knows no A New Auburn, girl, who the Shrine. July 13 when they set out in a bounds and is showering sparks lost her left hand and suffered small boat to cross a 20-mile 0f unrest over vast and not ne- numerous other injuries when jyjr pjtzner served as com- stretch of choppy Lake Superior. she walked into the whirling mander of the Caduceus Club, a propeller of a private plane Sat- jast organiza- urday night, was in lair condi-' tjon was past president of the lion Sunday at a hospital. La Crosse Police and Fire Com- Devils Lake police said Ruth mission and was elected chair- Ella Ling, 16, had head, face man of the La Crosse County and chest injuries along with Republican party in 1952.

by-54-foot instructional materi- her severed hand w'hen she He was a member of the Goval center which will consist of stepped off the plane, wrhich had Guard Association, Nathe library and audio-visual ma-jjust landed, and walked into the tional Institute of Cleaning and terials. The center will have propeller blade. Dyeing and United Commercial carrels for individual study and; The pilot was her brother, Travelers, four 10 by 10 foot seminar Robert Parish, 25, Hyatsville, During World War II, Mr. rooms. There also will be a 20- and the two were enroute Pitzner served as member of by- 24-foot audio-visual center to Denver, for previewing films.

planned to Other special areas include a meeting. where they attend a church the Selective Service Board, and for 21 years was a member of the medical detachment, 32nd A Coast Guard spokesman said a cutter, a smaller rescue WHERE boat and an amphibious air- plane would press the search today for Charles Goller, 27, and Vito Vioravanti, 28, both of Milwaukee. The two put out from here in a 12-foot aluminum boat July 13. for a 20-mile voyage to Isle; Royale, on a fishing and camping trip. Four days of searching had failed to yield by Sunday any trace of the men or of i debris that might be linked to them.

TO FIND IT ientire 500 men fired in self defense. The officers said they had come upon Rodriguez as he stood over an(other Puerto Rican brandishing Page Births 2 Classified Adv ..........16 and 17 Comics, Movies TV 8 Community News ...............12 Crossword Puzzle 9 Daily 2 Death 2 Editorials 6 Local News ..........................11 Markets 2 and 15 Tri-State Deaths 3 Weather Map 3 The disturbance did not cross A D. into the smart, virtually all-A. L. NlCOl Kites white upper East Side or central Wednesday In Sparta a knife.

Rodriguez had a record Harlem with its enormous Ne- gro population, the scene of ra- SPARTA, Wis. Services for cial rioting in 1964. Alexander L. Nicol, 72, of Spar- After six hours of incidents. prominent Republican and Lindsay met again with com- the glass-littered streets were former speaker of the Assem- niunity leaders Sunday to hear nearly deserted and the major bly, will be at 1:30 p.m.

Wednes- their complaints about police part of the extra force in tbe Sparta Methodist brutality. An assistant was tell- withdrawn. Police still cruised Church, Rev. Stanley Wiese and ing a group of Puerto Ricans streets and men were stationed Rev. Virgil Nulton officiating, that the city had intention at many intersections.

They re- Burial will be in Woodlawn of bringing in the TPF at this ported only four arrests. Cemetery with full military hon- when violence broke out This morning w'hen the area ors. again Sunday night, was quiet again, Mayor John V. Friends may call at the Rob- Spanish Harlem extends Lindsay drove through and ert Page Funeral Home after roughly from 96th Street and the found conditions On the 30-minute tour, Lindsay saw some 40 broken store win- 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and until 11 East River west to Fifth Avenue a.m.

Wednesday, and at the and north to the Harlem River church from 12:30 p.m. until the which divides the boroughs of service. Manhattan and the Bronx..