Evening star., 1943-06-23
Plans 10 Prosecute
|nstigators Of Riot
In Detroit Mapped
Governor May Request
Special Grand Jury;
Deaths Now Total 29
BY the Associated Press.


DETROIT, June 23.-Plans for
finding and Furnishing the insti-
gators of the race riots that brought
death to 29 persons and injuries to
hundreds of others were being made
tooay by State and local authorities.
Meanwhile, Army troops numbering
fed torm Of military control as they
patrolled DetroitS colored sections
Gov. Harry F. Kelly and Mayor
Edward j. Jeffries announced they
were giving serious consideration to
asking for a special grand jury.
Promising punishment "commen-
surate with their crimes the Gov
ernor said:
The real meters and assaulters
are the ones we are after. They will
be found by sorting out the more
than LOGO prisoners we have and by
seeking them out in their hiding
places if they are not among tie
prisoners
FBI Interviews Pisoners.
The Governor also announced he
had called States Attorney General
Herbert J. Rushton from Lansing
to aid in preparing for prosecutions.
Gov. Kelly also disclosed that John
S. Bugas. chief Of The Federal Bureau
of Investigation here, Is interviewing
prisoners and aiding in the sorting
out of the minor offenders from
those against whom more serious
charges will be brought
The city was calm today after a
night in which lew sporadic out
breaks occurred
Gov. Kelly modified his state-of-
emergency proclamation to permit
the playing of double Header today
between the Cleveland and Detroit
American League baseball teams and
the resumption of horse racing at
the Michigan Fair Grounds Some
$50 State troops were assigned to
the ball park
Still banned Indefinitely was the
sale of alcoholic beverages. Motion
picture theaters must close at 9:15
pm. and curfew regulations between
10 pm. and m. remained in effect.
Thousands Return to Work.
A quick survey of the major war
production plants today showed
thousands of workers who absented
themselves Yesterday had returned
to work. Some plants reported alb
SenteelSm at only about normal
while others said working forces
we're 'rapidly returning to normal"
Latest victim of Mondays out
break to Succumb to wounds was
Mrs. Sally Grabowski. 58-year- old
white woman. shot in the head
Monday night while walking near
her home on the East Side. She
died in hospital last night
Recorders Judge John P. Scallen.
who yesterday sentenced more than
three score Negroes to 80 days in
the House of Correction for partici-
patton in the riots, meted out similar
sentences to a group of white youths
today
Five white boys ranging in age
from II to l0 were in the first
group
This court makes no distinction
OF color the judge told them as he
pronounced sentence.
Following a tour of inspection in
the colored districts. the Governor
declared, L am thankful for the CO.
operation of the citizens of Detroit
and of the Army, whose forces
patrolled the city. I believe that
this modification of the regulations
Will help restore the city to nor
NAL basis"
More than TOO persons were in
jured in the fighting, which started
Sunday night from a minor dis
turbance on famous Belle Isle resort
in the Detroit River.
Two Shot Last Night.
Two Negroes were shot during
forays last night. One, Ernest Lilly
was wounded during the police at
tack on a Madison avenue rooming
house. Lilly and four other roomers,
all colored, we're arrested.
Julian Witherspoon, colored, was
shot in the foot during an alteration
at Witherell street and Adams ave-
nue., with Ted Anders of the State
troops, and a group of policemen
who had stopped three Negroes in
an automobile at about II pm. to