More Race-Riot Clashes

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31118, 22 July 1966, Page 11

More Race-Riot Clashes

(N.Z P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) CLEVELAND

(Ohio), July 21.

Police and stonethrowing Negro crowds clashed afresh in Cleveland last night —but the violence was not on the scale of the previous two nights of rioting, which left two dead and 24 injured.

Last night’s disorders were outside the Hough slum section, sealed off by national guardsmen after the declaration of a state of emergency by Ohio's Governor.

In one incident, national guardsmen dispersed a crowd which had started breaking store windows.

In other sporadic outbreaks, police cars were stoned, but the district was later quiet as 800 national guardsmen with rifles and fixed bayonets patrolled the streets. As the night wore on, police reported that Negroes hurled petrol bombs which started many small blazes.

"They just threw a bomb at us,” an officer radioed from one of the trouble spots.

The fire department said It had run out of equipment to fight the blazes erupting in all sections of the Hough area.

Private guards armed with shotguns patrolled in front of

supermarkets, reportedly the chief target of arsonists. A hardware store three miles north-east of Hough avenue was set on fire and national guardsmen with fixed bayonets stationed themselves around a nearby school to protect it.

Reports of smashed windows flooded the police switchboard. I Firemen had armed police ior guardsmen escorts as they raced to and from blazes.

i National guard troops, reinforced by an additional 400 (men, had sealed off 38 blocks ■of Hough avenue just before

dark in an effort to keep down trouble. They patrolled the nearby streets in jeeps mounted with machine guns.