Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-08-21
NeGF RioR In
Sc. Paul QneIled
BY Fire Hose

II
white woman seen In the area,
around the bars, taverns and the
Illegal spots around the neighbOr-
hood.
Police converged on the trouble
spots from all parts Of the city.
Patrolmen, who were accompanied
by police dogs. moved into the
meaee and kept the gathering
crowd under fair control until the
reinforcements including the IRE
department truck arrived.
While most Of the large crowd
according to spectators did not
participate in the fray, many huri-
ed names and epithets at the
police on duty at the scene. When
the crowd did not dispense the
fire department hose was used to
scatter 1t.
Harold Salters was arrested
when he argued and struck at Of
ficer John Opheim.
In his fight with the officers
Price welded an umbrella which
is being held by the police as evid-
ence.
The crowd was gathered on the
four corners Of the intersections
As the arrests were made some
Of the crowd hurled insults at the
police calling them unprintable
names, communists and sugges-
tons that they were predjudiced
against Negroes.
The crowd was not wholly Negro,
and was sprinlkled with whites
both men and women and there
was no ire or hostility directed
towards any other whites except
the officers.
Officer Ted Peterson arrested
Robert Moody. The man fought
the officer according to reports
and bit him on the arm
Ten off duty police officers were
ordered on duty at the height Of
the trouble.
One Of the police dogs tore the
shirt off Of one Of the men alleged
to be interfering with the arrest
Of the Prices and the others.
One woman in a colored print
dress who had refused to move
according to the police was bitten
in the lower back by police dog
Pal. She told police she was going
to sue Officer Laurence Mcdonald
and the dog.
Even Asst Chief L. McAuliffe
was struck by rocks. His injuries
are on his left shoulder and right
elbow.
Saturday afternoon at the IN
vitation of Chief william Proetz
a hurried meeting Of some Of the
leaders in the Negro community
was held with the chief and his
staff at the Public Safety Building.
MASS MEETING PLANNED
AS a result Of this conference
the st. Paul NAACP called a mass
meeting for 8 p. M. Wednesday
night at Halle Q. Brown House.
PrOetz emphasized that the
routine check which the police are
making has been in the interest
Of a stepped up campaign to ap-
prehend the perpetrators Of a series
Of sluggings which have occurred
in the Cathedral district during
the past month. This district is
contiguous to the Rondo-Dale area.
Participating in the conference
at the Public Safety building
Saturday afternoon were Leonard
J Carter Of the NAACP, Ernest
| Cooper Of the st. Paul Urban
League and the Revs. Jerome Del
Pine and Rneely Williams, pastors
Of the Camphor Methodist church
and New Hope Baptist churches
respectively.
This newspaper received ten
different estimates Of the crowd
which was dispered sanging from
so to 800 persons. From such re-
ports 1t can be safely estimated
that the crowd was probably about
200 persons.
RUcIrer Critical Of Press
Treatment
Clifford q. Rucker, executive
director Of the Governors Human
Rights Commission, a member of
the group which conferred with
Chief william Proetz, Saturday
following the near riot was critical
Of the handling Of the story by the
st. Paul daily paper.
Rucker said the paper was gull