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82 8 p.m. 84 12 mid. 71 ttwii Mttt METRO The Weekend In Religion Turn to Page 2B Vol. 137 No. 80 On Guard for 136 Years Monday, July 24, 1967 Ten Cents IT tores 9 Mobs 800 amc Mov In 1FOOD mer gemcy Is On C) Action Line Dial 222-6464 Looter Killed.

724 Held as Riot Spreads Action Line solves problems, gets answers, cuts red tape, stands up for your rights. Action Liae, Box 881, Detroit, Mich. 48231. Or dial 222-6464 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 pan.

Monday through Friday. Gov. Romney called in the National Guard and clamped a state of emergency on Detroit Sunday night in an attempt to quell spreading Negro sniping, burning and looting that broke out in the Twelfth and Clairmount area on the city's West Side. I Tanks, jeeps and 2V2-ton trucks moved in ahead of infantry units to clear a sealed-off area: bounded by W. Grand Chicago, Linwood an4 the Lodge Freeway.

The state of emergency a step just short of martial law was ordered by the governor at 9 :05 p.m. amid re Ux, Plf mi II 'V'; 1 1 -l 1 11 rVsaa. We're preparing a computer exhibit which is supposed to be able to predict the next U.S. president. To do it, we have to program all kinds of voter information including the number of registered voters in Michigan.

Everyone we've called says they only keep track by counties. M.E. Feed ZV2 million into the machine. Last count was in April, 1966, when 3,351,730 voters were registered. Robert Montgomery, director of state elections, says that's a good estimate.

Things should be better after Oct. 1, when a new law will require cities, townships and villages to, report figures to the county clerk within 15 days after registration closes. They still won't be exact, though. Since a precinct has to divide if it's over the quota (1,400 in machine precincts, 800 for paper ballots), they get lots of counts that say 799 or 1,399. Montgomery says "precinct people lie a little." Has a woman ever been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor? L.W., Warren.

Once but they took it back. Dr. Mary Walker, a surgeon for the Union Army in the Civil War, got the medal in 1S66 by badgering her boss for battlefield ports of sporadic rifle fire throughout the city. Three looters were wounded early Monday, one fatally. When the emergency order was issued, more stores had been looted, more than 200 persons were ar rested and hundreds had been treated in hospital erne gency rooms.

At 1 a.m. Monday, Police Commissioner Ray Girardin said a total of 724 persons had been arrested. This include 600 adults and 124 juveniles. The charges ranged from breaking and entering, through felonious assault to curfew violations. I After 17 hours of rampaging by Negroes, triggered by an early-morning police raid on an illegal after-hours liquoif spot, the area was a shambles of shattered and demolished stores and blazing buildings.

ROMNEY SAID 700 guardsmen were in the city and HAVE THE ALREADY! Smoke, barricades and helmeted Pig Raid Was hi police: Detroit's scene Just these loudmouthed onlookers who had no business being there started shouting." As the last of the prisoners were loaded into cars, someone whose name may never be known was prompted to act. He picked an empty bottle off the street and from the protection of the crowd, hurled it toward the building. The bottle flashed in a lazy arc and smashed through the rear window of the squad car. The crowd cheered. An incident had begun.

WITHIN moments, it seemed, the crowd began to break apart and flow like a wave down Twelfth St. More bottles flew, windows smashed and the first hands reached behind the broken glass to steal. old commonwealth status. Amusements 6B Ann Landers 30 Astrology 9D Billy Graham 12D Bridge 9D Business News 7-8D Church 2B Comics 9-11D Crossword Puzzle 9D Death Notices 6C Drew Pearson 11A Earl Wilson 11 A Editorials 6 A Feature Page 11 A Heloise 2C Movie Guide 101 ID Names and Faces 12C Obituaries 12A Sports 1-6D Stock Markets '7-8D TV-Radio 6D Want Ads 6-12C Women's Pages 1-5C HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED AT HOME PHONE 222-6500 1,950 more had been mobilized for immediate call-up. In addition, the governor said, 3,000 more troops had been alerted at Camp Grayling, where they have just completed summer training.

I The state of emergency, which Romney extended tq cover the adjoining cities of Highland Park and Ham tramck, includes a 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. curfew on all but essential travel, a ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks, and a prohibition against carrying arms or flammable liquids "I hope we can handle this situation without resort to whole force," Romney declared. But he said he would move whatever equipment and men were needed in the city to protect life and property, duty. He nominated her for the medal to get her off his back.

It didn't work. She was back pestering the Army a year later for a military pension, which she got in 1876. A 1916 review board scratched and 910 others from the honor roll when they found out the medal had been awarded to shut her up. Mary went on to become one of the nation's first suffragettes lectured on women's rights while wearing a frock coat and trousers. Line Sgt.

Arthur E. Howison and his squad entered the building and arrested more than 80 patrons who were drinking. Squad cars and paddy wagons from the 10th Precinct made repeated runs, transporting those arrested to the precinct station to be booked and taken downtown. The process took time too much time, it would seem later. Howison's quad cleared the building at 4:45 a.m., 55 minutes after it had arrived.

Attracted by police cruisers, a crowd had gathered on the sidewalk to taunt officers, mock friends now under arrest, giggle with girl friends. As Howison recalled later: "They were across the street and bunched up on both sides of the building. We had no trouble with our prisoners. 1 Disaster Teams Go Into Action When we opened a business on U.S. 23 we were told our neon sign had to be back at least 100 feet from the road.

The other resorts in the area aren't abiding by this rule, and they're getting all the tourist business. If the rule no longer applies, we want to move our sign out to the road. Can we? Mrs. C.S., Oscoda. Wait till the legislature decides.

A 1925 law says no commercial signs may be placed on the highway right of way. In your area, right of way varies from 100 to 150 feet which means no signs for 50 to 75 feet on either side of the road. But when the highway department started enforcing the law by ordering the signs to be removed, owners of businesses along the highway howled. An Upper Peninsula motel owner took it to the state supreme court in 1965, which declared parts of the act unconstitutional. Real problem is that rights-of-way vary from a minimum of 66 feet to a maximum of 500 so that some people's signs can be legally closer to the road than others.

Highway Department is going slow about removing signs till the legislature amends the law. Free Press Photo by JIMMY TAFOYA Spark 5:10 a.m., the 10th Precinct received the first of the calls from the Twelfth St. neighborhood. Why are all the burglar alarms ringing, the callers wanted to know. The number of calls grew quickly, then impossibly.

More men were dispatched in cruisers to the area. Their reports were relayed to headquarters. A major outbreak seemed imminent. At 5:20 a.m., Police Commissioner Ray Girardin was called at home and told of the developing crisis. He immediately called Mayor Cava-nagh.

About 6 a.m., Girardin was at work in his third-floor office, conferring with staff officers. A battle plan began slowly, hesitantly, to emerge. Meantime, the looting on Twelfth St. had increased. At 6:30 a.m., the first fire in a Twelfth St.

shoe store broke out. For more than IV2 hours, firemen fought the blaze without incident. But the fire trucks awoke those who were asleep, drawing larger crowds, and producing more rumors. At 8 a.m., firemen returned to the scene to fight a fire started in rubbish that now littered the street. This time, they were stoned.

POLICE SHD7TS in Detroit change at 8 a.m. and the 10th Precinct's crews were in the process of checking out and Turn to Page 4A, Column 1 A-Sub Hits Buoy On Test Voyage HINGHAM, Mass. W) The atomic submarine Greenling hit a buoy- off Princess Point Sunday, but continued sea trials after a 30-minute delay, the Coast Guard said. Adm. Hyman Rickover was reported aboard the submarine.

Rickover was instrumental in developing the first atomic submarine. A spokesman said there was no damage and no injuries were reported. i-ree rress rnoio oy ji of violence Blind From a dingy, second-floor apartment in the heart of the city's high crime area, the ugly ripples that would become Detroit's first major racial disturbance in 20 years spread like tiny tongues of gasoline, volatile and slippery. The events that brought the city to the edge of crisis Sunday began more than six weeks ago when the 10th Precinct's clean-up squad first identified an illegal after-hours liquor operation in the apartment at 9215 Twelth St. ON THE SECOND floor of that building, in a vacant office, one of the dozens of blind pigs that operate in the 10th Precinct had found a home.

It was placed under surveillance for the next six weeks. Traditionally, Saturday night is a blind pig's biggest evening and the decision to raid was made on that basis. At 3:50 a.m. Sunday morning, Aide Ready To Replace Gov. Wallace MONTGOMERY, Ala.

(UPI) Lt. Gov. Albert Brewer will be called on to take over as governor Tuesday unless Gov. Lurleen B. Wallace re turns before then from Houston, where she is recovering from a cancer operation.

Monday will be the gover nor's 20th day out of the state. The Alabama constitution pro vides that when a governor is out of the state for more than 20 days, the secretary of state must call on the lieutenant gov ernor to take over. Spokesmen for the governor say the decision on when she returns to Alabama will be made by her doctors. Mrs Wallace left Montgomery July 4 and was operated on July 10. Doctors removed sev eral tumors.

The primary mal ignancy was one lodged in a coil of the sigmoid colon. A portion of the colon was also removed. Doctors predicted complete recovery. Puerto Rico Votes Against Statehood SAN JUAN Wl Puerto Ricans Sunday voted solidly in Action Detroit Police Commissioner Ray Girardin ordered police to return fire if they were fired on. In addition to the guardsmen and Detroit police, 370 state troopers were called in to help put down the violence.

DEAD AT Detroit General Hospital was Walter Grzanka, 45, of 641 Charlotte, who police said was shot in the chest byj an unknown person as he came out of the Temple Market at Temple and Fourth. Police said the store had been looted earlier and had not been secured. Richard Johnson, 17, of 1705 W. Philadephia, was admitted to the same hospital suffering a bullet wound of the neck and the shoulder. Police said John son and two companions, who were under arrest, had been looting the Celeste Cleaners, 2588 W.

Grand when an unknown person opened fire Johnsons companions were identified as Victor Vernon, 17, of 3268 Clemens, and Ralph Williams, 21, of 9759 Goodwin. In another shooting, Robert Boyd, 31, of 5201 Spokane, was admitted to Henry Ford Hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound in the groin. Witnesses said a crowd of looters in an alley west of Twelfth near Pingree fled when an armed private guard ap- Turn to Page 2A, Column 1 Violence In Detroit Clergy maps Us strategy for peace. Page 3 A. Neighborhoods burn as residents watch.

Page 3A. The meaning of Detroit's race riot. Page 4 A. Picture pages: 8B through 11B and the Back Page. Sunday's rioting threw intd action the police department's two command posts designed; to control disasters and wide4 spread disorders.

One post, at police headquarters, was staffed by a dozen men under the command of! District Inspector Henry Sed-mak. The second, at Herman Kiefer Hospital, nearer. -thef trouble zone, was under the; leadership of Inspector Charles Gentry. Commissioner Ray Girardin was at the headquarters post in overall command of all defensive operations. ALL INFORMATION, from the public and from all law en-' forcement forces in the first to headquarters.

There calls were filtered from" citizens, from policemen equip-! ped with shoulder-radio, from; police cars, as well as from National Guard squads In the area, from state policemen and firemen who relayed calls to headquarters through Fire Department dispatchers. The headquarters post took: the calls and relayed orders tot Gentry's post. i Gentry then sent forces where needed: Policemen to accompany firemen on runs, extra police and guardsmen to help law men in extreme trouble spots, and ambulances for the injured. Race Car Kills 7 LOURENCO MARQUES, Mozambique UP) Seven persons were killed and 10 injured Sunday when a car skidded on a racetrack and I thought we were using zip codes on our letters because mail was being sorted by machine. Now I find out most post offices don't even have the machines.

Mrs. R.P., Roscommon. Zip, schmip. You've just been doing it for practice! Postal service expects to have electronic scanners in every major city within two years; meanwhile, they want people to get used to using the numbers. Legally, only third-class mail is required to carry the Zip, but don't stop using it just because you don't have to.

Even without the machines, Zip codes cut handling and delivery time in half. Detroit PO, which has an optical scanner, says 80 percent of co-operate. It helps them move eight milion pieces of mail a day twice as fast. favor of keeping their 15 year With all voting districts counted, the state election board reported that commonwealth received 425,081 votes; statehood 273,315, and independence 4,205. The total vote of 702,601 was 65.8 percent of the island's 1.1 million registered voters.

THE ISLAND has been under the jurisdiction of the United States since 1898. Voters apparently favored statehood only in Ponce, the island's second largest city and home of industrialist Luis Ferre, a chief support of statehood. Election officials had forecast a 70 percent turnout of the 1,067,000 registered voters. Scattered rain showers had little effect on the voting. Before the election, it was forecast that 60 percent of the vote would go to commonwealth status, 39 percent to statehood and one percent to independence.

EVERYBODY complains about the DSR, but they sure come through in an emergency. After I'd changed buses, I realized I'd left some important papers on the other bus and told the driver about it. He radioed the dispatcher, who found the right bus and my papers. When they found out I had no car to go claim them, an investigator personally delivered them to my home. I had them two hours after I lost them.

Pretty good service. J.M..