Evening star., 1961-05-23
RACIAL
National Guordsmen Patrol Area
: As Negro Leaders Hold Meeting
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Others May Join
DR.. King said the Freedom
Ride would include most of
those who started out from
Nashville and wound up as
targets of .segregationists in
Saturdays outbreak of violence
here. He indicated others might
come in to Join the group.
1T was our unanimous de-
cision that the Freedom Ride
should and must continue" DR..
King said. I'VE will make that
palpably clear
ItswaS the arrival of 81 Free
dom Riders which set off riot
ing here Saturday and brought
on an even more violent out
burst Sunday. Twenty Of them
still in Montgomery have been
ordered arrested and sum-
moned to appear in Circuit
Court for alleged contempt of
court in violating a restraining
order against their tour.
Judge Walter B. Jones, who
signed the order. postponed a
hearing until Friday, to allow
feelings to cool off.
Students in SecluSiOn
The students. who have re-
manned most of the time in the
seclusion Of private homes,
have not been taken into GUS
tody.
Copies Of the State court in
junction were distributed,
meanwhile, to highway patrol
men with instructions to stop
every bus coming into the State
and read the court order.
Gov. Patterson's proclama-
ton of martial rule brought
about 300 National Guardsmen
into the city under the imme-
diate direction Of Mai. Gen.
Henry v. Graham, the State
adjutant general, and his sec
ond in command, Col. Herman
A. Price.
Rigid patrols were main
tained by jeep and on foot by
soldiers in groups of two to
eight. The bus terminals and
the airport also were under
close guard.
The military commanders
threw a heavy guard around
the area where Negro integra- =
ZIONIST leaders lived and barred
even newSmen from approach
ing their houses after dark.
The units now on duty are
from Montgomery and nearby
Opelika. but the rest of the
States force, which numbers
$4,000, were reported by the
Governors aides to be on alert
status.
,GIardsmen refused to allow
any lettering by teen-age
groups which was a source of
VERY and bother following
Sunday nights rioting.
AS, the troops took over con-
troll in the city. the United
States marshals. sent here over
the week end by the Justice
Department, withdrew to near
by Maxwell Air Force Base.
LiaisOn Maintained
Ldsison was being maintained
between the Guardsmen and
the fnarshals and the Federal
officers remained on call for
any emergency.
Deputy Attorney General
Byron r. CWhizzer) White, who
is in charge of the Federal
operation here, told an i'm
promptu news conference at
the air base, where he has his
headquarters, that there is
enough threat of violence to
warrant our staying a few days
more"
Mr.. White said he had been
rttouch with Gen. Graham and
had offered Government as
sistance "if Federal officers are
needed" Mr.. White later left
for a post midnight conference
in Washington with Attorney
General Robert F. Kennedy. He
was due to return here later
today.
Number to Remain
The Federal force, Mr.. White
added. will remain pretty con-
stant" between 500 and 700
marshals and other officers.
CORE said an additional six
students who have come here
includes Henry Thomas, a STU
dent at Howard University in
Washington.
Mr.. Thomas, 10, was men,
Der Of the Freedom Ride group
which first met violence at
Af,niston and Birmingham
Ala. a week before the Mont
gosnery incident.
The Justice Department has
accused Ku Klux Klan organ
ization of inspiring much Of
the rioting, and a restraining
order has been obtained in Fed
eral Court here against many
of the Klan leaders.
However, Sunday nights mob
seemed to be made up more
of teen-agers ard those in the
early 20s, including women and
girls.
Twenty-six persons have
been arrested here on varying
charges since Saturdays VIC.
lence. In court yesterday two
persons, a man and his wife
we're fined 500 and costs fol
refusing to move away from the
Greyhound bus terminal, scsnt
Of the first disorder, on orders
Of the police.
"Have Bus" Passes
Passing through the city TO-
day was the American Naz
Partys hate bus" Its occu
pants did not speak. as the.
bad honed The bus StODDe(