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Rain Eases Tension
In Dixie Hills
“ ATLANTA (UPI) — Rain
averted a possible showdown
between police and militant
Negroes over a curfew in riot
*> wracked Dixie Hills Wednesday
night. There was a chance of—
and an official hope for—more
rain today.
« Shortly before the showers,
the city’s first in 18 days.
Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. had
acceded to the urging of Negro
„ leaders and eased the dusk to
dawn curfew to a midnight
starting time.
Only a few Negroes milled
around the Dixie Hills shopping
CRITICIZE BRITISH
WASHINGTON (DP) —Rep.
H. R. Gross, R-lowa, told the
b House Monday that for “unadul
terated gall” it would be hard
to beat a British Embassy party
here last weekend for wounded
• V.S. veterans of the Vietnam
conflict.
“Scores of ships flying the
British flag have gone to North
b Vietnam to help keep them in the
business of killing and wounding
American soldiers,” Gross said.
“With one hand the British are
making a profit, and with the
other dishing out tea and
crumpets to our wounded
veterans.”
• TO SEE DE GAULLE
PARIS (UPI) — Algerian
Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bou
teflika arrived from Algiers
t Tuesday with a personal mes
sage for President Charles de
Gaulle from Algerian President
Houari Boumedienne. The con
t tents of the message were not
disclosed.
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Thursday, June 22, 1967
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center, focal point of two nights
of rioting that claimed one life
and injured at least nine other
per s o ns, afte r Wednesday
night’s rain. Two police patrol
cars were on duty in the Negro
apartment district.
Allen imposed the curfew
early Wednesday to restore
order, hut said later it would be
lifted if calm prevailed.
H. Rap Brown, chairman of
the Student Nonviolent Coordin
gating Committee (SNCC), had
vowed Wednesday that “black
people will not abide by the
curfew.” He called Dixie Hills
“a Nazi concentration camp”
patrolled by “police armed to
the teeth and canine dogs.”
State Sen. Leroy Johnson and
other Negro leaders asked Allen
to lift the curfew because it
would keep residents indoors in
the 90-degree heat and cause
hardships on night workers.
Allen, in modifying the
curfew, said “the only thing the
curfew says is that you may not
congregate in large groups on
public streets. No one will be
kept from leaving their home on
personal business.”
Police Lt. W. K. Perry, Chief
of Homicide, said an investiga
tion had begun to determine
who shot and killed Timothy
Ross, 46, during Tuesday night’s
rioting. Ross and three other
Negroes, including Reginald
Rivers, 9, were struck by
gunfire as they sat on steps in
front of an apartment. Witnes
ses said a policeman fired the
shots, but police said it was the
act of a sniper. Rivers
remained in critical condition
with wounds of the side.
Jones Found
Guilty; Gets
Death Sentence
ATLANTA (DPl)—Jesse Leo
Jones has been found guilty of
murdering an Atlanta police of
icer and is scheduled to die in
the state electric chair Aug. 1
The 24-year-old Negro was
sentenced Wednesday by Judge
Luther Alverson after the jury
of 10 men and two women de
liberated four hours and re
turned a guilty verdict without
a recommendation of mercy.
One of the jurors was a Negro.
Jones was accused of the
shooting death of Lt. E. B.
Mitchell Jr. May 17 in south
west Atlanta. Mitchell was
found dead in his patrol car in
an area where he had been
called to investigate a sus
picious person. He had been
shot twice.
Jones was found hiding in an
attic near the scene
Police Sgt. W. E. Spiva told
the court Wednesday finger
prints found on a car near
Mitchell’s patrol car belonged
to Jones. A pistol police de
scribed as the murder weapon
did not carry Jones’ prints but
state’s witness John F. Shanks
testified he handled a pistol af
ter Jones came into his house
and said “I just shot a police
man.”
MAGISTRATE DIES
HOWE, England (UPl)—Sir
Robert Blundell, London’s chief
magistrate, died Monday night.
He was 66.
Blundell had been chief
magistrate since 1960. He
officiated at Bow Street, Lon
don’s main magistrates court.
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(NEA Radio-Telephoto)
TOPPERS are as much of
the scene as the horses at
the Royal Ascot race meet
ing in England, where open
ing day tradition brings out
the fashions.
Police To
Probe Death
In Dixie Hills
ATLANTA (UPI) — Police Lt.
W. K. Perry, chief of homicide,
has announced plans for an in
vestigation to determine who
shot and killed 46 - year -old
Timothy Ross during a racial
disturbance in Atlanta Tuesday
night.
Perry said Wednesday wit
nesses said a police officer fired
the shots that killed Ross and
wounded three other Negroes.
Police said Ross was killed by
sniper fire.
Perry said if a policeman
fired the shot, he wanted to
know about it and if the fatal
shot was fired by a sniper he
wanted to know that too.
“We just want the person who
did it,” he said.
Perry said Ross was killed by
shotgun pellets and there was
no way to determine if the pel
lets came from a police weapon.
He said he would question of
ficers in the area when Ross
was shot.
One witness has said she
could Identify the policeman
who fired the shot.
The lieutenant said all leaves
in the department had been can
celed to cope with the Dixie
Hills trouble.
Israel Pull
Back; How
About Russia?
By K.C. THALER
United Press International
LONDON (UPI)—A British
newspaper has published a
suggestion from one of its
readers that the United Nations,
when considering demands on
Israel, should also call on
Russia to set an example by
returning to its pre-war fron
tiers.
The call has struck a chord in
the memories of diplomats who
have not forgotten the vast
territorial gains made by
Russia after World War n, both
at the expense of its enemies
and friends.
The Soviet Union incorporated
in its borders an area of more
than 180,000 square miles with a
Commentary
population of nearly 24 million
between 1940 and 1945.
NATO’s authoritative publica
tions, listing the details of these
conquests, show that Russia has
taken not only most of East
Prussia from pre-war Germany,
but that it also has incorporated
almost, half of pre-war Poland
into the U.S.S.R. It also has
taken Romanian and Finnish
territory plus the three Baltic
republics of Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania.
Millions of people have been
either forcefully taken over by
Russia in this process or have
been expelled or, to use a
courtsy title, “exchanged” or
allowed to go.
Gone are the Germans from
East Prussia. The Poles in
former eastern Poland—taken
over by Russia to straighten out
its strategic frontier—have been
resettled in former German
territory, which has been taken
by Poland.
The territories of east Poland
annexed by Russia amount to
nearly 70,000 square miles with
a population of nearly 12 million
people, according to the NATO
yearbook.
The former German areas,
now taken over by Poland once
had a population of over 6
million. Most of them have
gone.
All this happened not centu
ries ago, but little over 20 years
ago.
UNFOTULAR SHIFT
LONDON (UPl)—The most
unpopular shift in British
industry, according to a survey
out today, is 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Workers say it ruins their social
life.
At least one firm, the Dunlop
Tire Co., agreed today and said
it would pay a bonus to
employes volunteering to work
that shift. The bonus will total
slightly less than five dollars a
week.
TRUCK KILLS SEVEN
PRETORIA, South Africa
(UPl)—Seven persons were
killed Tuesday when a 25-ton
truck and trailer loaded with
cement blocks careened out of
control on a busy downtown
street.
It smashed 17 vehicles before
crashing into a house.
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COUNT
I ISRAEL TOTAL
3,342
Killed 679 Wounded 2563 ■ ■■' ■'
Captured 100
13 - 000
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Captured
Early casualty reports show minimal losses for Israel in its stunning desert victory but a
heavy cost of defeat for the Arab nations. There was no immediate figure on Egyptian
wounded, but Israeli sources estimated it at "many thousands."