St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-08-21

riot, and which was so describ
and radio newscasts occurred ei
Kent St, and Rondo Av., in st.
Before it was over 40 pol
dogs had participated, and the
had been dispersed by threat o
hoses and six persons had been
booked on charges of disorderly
conduct.
The police welded night sticks
readily to enforce their orders and
there were cracked and bruised
heads, few bites by the police
CANNES, before the crowd was off
the streets at 2:3O am.
Most of the st. Paul community
was asleep during all of the near
riot but people in the immediate
neighborhood plus the patrons of
the bars which let out just about
the time the trouble began swelled
the crowd.
Although there were reports
that the crowd of 300 participated
earlier it was soon ascertained by
this newspaper that only a hand
full of persons, not more than IL
in number were actually involved
although the presence of such a
large crowd could have material
lied into a vast riot.
The trouble all started when De-
tectives Frank Yost and Robert
Moorehead cruising through the
neighborhood noticed a crowd they
claimed was lettering on the corn
er.
In the crowd they saw two white
persons, both women. They stopped
and questioned Donna Mae Jordan,
%, 289 Goodhue The officers
asked the other woman Mrs. Robert
Price, 1887 Fuller for identified
ton which she refused to give
until they identified themselves as
officers. She then gave them her
name but said she had no identifi-
cation upon her person.
Mrs. Prices husband Robert, 26,
interviewed police claim and told
her not to give the detectives any
information. Yost and Moorhead
then asked Price for his draft
card They were informed he did
not have it with him and the
officers thereupon informed him
that it was a federal offense
not to carry his card with him at
all times and placed him under
arrest.
The officers claim Price resisted
and they had to subdue him and
also his wife who interfered. An
other man whom the detectives
said they did not know also in
terfered. In a few minutes a full
scale battle was in progress.
Yost ran to the squad car to
summon help and he was hit by
a rock, while Moorehead grappled
with Price Moorehead, also suf-
fered a bruise as a result of a rock
which hit him.
The riot call went out and when
several squads Of officers arrived
the crowd had grown and the po-
lice claim they were greeted with
a stone and bottle barrage. A fire
truck was also dispatched to the
scene.
Jailed with the Prices and
charged with disorderly conduct
were Sherwood L. Salters, %, 953
Carroll Av., who was released
on bail and faces the court on
August "a; Louis J. Thomas, 26,
473 Iglehart whose trial is set for
September IT; and Robert L.
Moody, "a, 500 st. Anthony whose
trial is also set for September II.
Mrs. Price charged with dis
orderly conduct and released on
bail will face trial September II as
will her husband who, originally
was booked on three charges: Vio-
lation of selective service act
resisting arrest and melting a riot.
Another man arrested at the
scene of the ruckus was Roland
Carroll, 80 of 97o Aurora, who
pleaded guilty to being drunk and
was fined SIS.
Recent sluggings in the Cath
edral area and considerable dis
orderly conduct in the Rondo-Kent
area have caused increased check
ing by police recently. The police
check has not been confined to
the Negro" district.
There has been some resentment
by operators of eight known
Joints" in the area because police
check whites, mostly men who
come into the district looking for
"a good time" Some of these men
are robbed and slugged, and po-
lice say privately the checking of
these individuals is their way of
avoiding such trouble, as muggings.
sluggings, robberies or worse.
Some of the residents say the
police not only question the white
men frequenting the district at
night but some officers make a