Evening star., 1962-10-01

back a hundred yards from
the marshals.
Mr.. Walker jumped on a
campus Confederate memorial
and yelled:
"If you can't win, go home,
Don't stay at the university.
But, let's not quit. We can
win"
The marshals, while armed,
used only their tear gas bombs
and never fired on their at
tackers, a Justice Department
spokesman inside the belea-
guered building said.
One time they fired warning
shots in the air and another
time punctured Q fire hose
being used by the students.
They we're harassed and
under danger from intermittent
gunfire which came from a
hidden sniper who potted away
at the buildings.
Serious Situation
The plight of the marshals
was becoming increasingly
serious as the first military
unit arrived on the campus.
This was the oxford con
tingent OF the Mississippi Ma
tionaI Guard which had beer
Federalized by the President.
It's commander, Capt. Muir
ray Falkner. a nephew of Will
liam Faulkner, the author who
lived in Oxford, was among
those injured. He was struck
on the arm with a hurled brick.
The students and the out
siders borrowed" as one said,
a bulldozer and a fire engine
and used these in an effort to
run down the marshals and get
close enough to hurl bricks.
The bricks and timber used to
set barricades on the drives
leading to the administration
building were taken from SCI
ence building under construc-
ton close at hand.
The marshals, for the most
part, stayed close around the
building except for forays to
drive the attackers back. They
captured 81 prisoners during the
nights rioting.
Two of these were operating
the bulldozer and the firetruck
The truck made two successful
runs close to the marshals be-
fore it was stopped amid cloud
of tear gas.
Wasn't Student
The operator, a Justic ce
spokesman said, was not a
student.
Most of the action and the
bitterest fighting took place in
front of a tree-Spotted, park
like area called University Cir
Gle. 1t is adorned with a
monument as a memorial to
the Confederate dead in the
Civil War.
The whole area is strewn to-
day with the debris of the
fighting-empty tear gas can
nisters, smashed and burned
automobiles and televisio r
trucks, broken bricks, logs ano
slashed fire hoses.
The rioters went wild wher
they learned that Mr.. Meredith
who had been denied admission
three previous times to the uni.
versity, had been brought with
out incident on to the campus
Obscenities filled the air. "h'
rioters wrath was directed
more at the marshalS than a
| the Negro student who had beer
housed under heavy guard il
an apartment on the campus
to await enrolment today
Officials Arrive
It came after Deputy Attor
! ney General Nicholas de B
Katzenbach and other higl
, Justice Department officials
who arrived here in an All
Force plane, conferred with tn,
university officials, including
Chancellor J. D. Williamson il
the main administration build
ing.
With a wild assortment o
yells. screams and curses tn
rioters moved on the marshal
) surrounding the building. "Yol
; -nigger lover" and "wh,
/ don't you bring Kennedy dow
| here" were some of the erie
= that filled the air thick will
flying brickbats.
When word filtered into tn
ranks Of the rioters that
/ marshal had been shot and Sc
/ riously wounded a cheer wen
: up.
The riotipg broke out il