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Curfew lifted in Memphis
despite more disturbances
Vandalism and fires ripped
sections of Memphis Wednesday
afternoon.
Police closed a 10-block section
of Park Avenue because of rocks
thrown at passing motorists.
In Nashville, an aide to Gov.
Winfield Dunn said Memphis
Police Chief Henry Lux had been
in contact with top olficei s of ‘he
Tennessee National Guard. But
the aide said, “the guard is not on
alert and there are no present
plans for it to act.”
The trouble began Tuesday
night following the funeral of
Elton Hayes, 17, who died Friday
night after police said he was
injured when his pickup truck
crashed during a chase by traffic
officers.
But the district attorney later
termed the death a homicide,
caused apparently by blows to
the head. Twenty-three
policemen were suspended
pending an investigation. They
remain on the payroll but off
duty. Wednesday’s trouble began
at primarily black Melrose High
School and quickly spread
throughout the Orange Mound
section of the city.
Pope and Trant Elementary
schools were dismissed early and
a fire was reported by police at
Humes Junior High.
Three youths were arrested at
Melrose after a woman in a
passing automobile was injured
by a thrown brick, police said.
Dist. Atty. Phil Canale entered
the Hayes case when two youths,
who said they were in the truck
with Hayes charged they were
beaten by policemen.
Canale said Tuesday a
preliminary autopsy showed
Hayes died from “two primary
blows to the head.” The district
attorney also said investigators
found “important physical
evidence” at the scene but
declined to reveal it.
Major shakeup announced
in wake of investigation
NEW YORK AP—Police
commissioner Patrick Murphy
announced a massive shakeup of
his plainclothes division Wed
nesday, even as a special com
mission on police corruption
heard new testimony about graft
taking cops.
The star witness before the so
called Knapp commission, for
mer plainclothes patrolman
William Phillips, told of a police
bagman in Queens who
distributed $80,000 among fellow
officers, after seizing the cash in
a narcotics raid.
Also related by means of tape
recordings was the tale of a
greedy police inspector, on the
take for $1,500 a month in payoffs,
but tripped up because he also
solicited sides of beef and cases
of soda pop He was not iden
tified
It was the second day on the
witness stand for Phillips, a
veteran of 14 years on the police
force When he was exposed as a
bagman a distributor of graft
among fellow cops—he went to
work as an undercover man for
the Knapp commission, set up by
Mayor John Lindsay to prove
police misdeeds.
Presumably, Phillips sought by
his testimony to gain immunity
or leniency in any prosecution
subsequent to the commission’s
public hearings Without any
reference to the commission
testimony, Murphy transferred
338 policemen in or out of the
department's 400 man plain
clothes division A spokesman
said the moves were part of
department policy in rotating
plainclothesmen on a two-year
basis The New York police force
numbers nearly 32,000
In his testimony Tuesday,
Phillips said that “to my
knowledge" there wasn't a
plainclothesman in the city who
wasn’t "on the pad” taking
graft
“I know it is not a fact,”
Murphy told a news conference
Wednesday "1 am saying that a
lot of plainclothesmen are not on
the pad."
"Do you say that that is a false
charge?” he was asked
“I think so," replied the
commissioner, who is completing
his first year in office.
“This is a long story told by a
corrupt policeman," Murphy
declared at another point “He
obviously now is a man on a hook,
squirming to get himself off the
hook.
“He admits he was a bagman
who attempted to make deals,
and has created his own selfish
impressions on every officer in
the department.”
Outside the commission
hearing, a lone picket marched
with a sign directed at the
commission chairman, Whitman
Knapp, which read: “Whitman
Knapp is a witch hunter. Joe
McCarthy is alive and well—now
they call him Knapp.”
The demonstrator, in civilian
clothes, identified himself as
Bronx patrolman Joseph
Sprowls, 24, and told newsmen:
“I and every other police officer
in the city who is honest have
been slandered and libeled by
this hearing 1 couldn’t attempt to
judge the 32,000 men in the
department and I don’t think they
have proof that cops are crooked
If they do, why don't they go to
district attorney Hogan’s office
and get indictments?”
During the day, Murphy an
nounced the reinstatement of
Chief of Detectives Albert
Seedman. The Knapp com
mission had revealed Friday that
the New York Hilton Hotel picked
up Seedman's $83 dinner tab, in
an incident prior to his elevation
to the chief’s post earlier this
year. Murphy transferred
Seedman to another assignment
pending investigation of the
matter.
Murphy said the investigation
within the department had
satisfied him that Seedman was
guilty of “no serious
wrongdoing.” His action against
Seedman had drawn criticism
from a number of sources.
Phillips testified that the
plainclothes bagman he knew in
Queens told him about the nar
cotics arrest, during which
$137,000 in cash also was seized.
He did not identify the policeman.
Phillips was scheduled to take
the stand again when the hearing
resumes Thursday.
Six high court nominees
said to be considered
WASHINGTON AP — A
California woman and an
Arkansas attorney were reported
Wednesday as probable choice of
President Nixon for two Supreme
Court vacancies.
A senate source who is in a
position to know told reporters he
has every reason to believe that
Nixon will nominate Herschel
Friday, a Little Rock attorney
A separate source went along
with that and said his information
is that Judge Mildred Lillie of Los
Angeles would be the first woman
chosen for the high court.
The sources indicated the
nominations will be made to the
SenateThursday.
However, the White House said
Nixon has not made a decision on
the nominations
When reporters asked deputy
press secretary Gerald Warren
about the report of the choices,
Warren referred to an earlier
statement of no decision and said.
"That stands.”
Warren declined to comment
on whether the White House has
received word from the
American Bar Association on a
list of six possible nominees
An ABA committee met in New
York Wednesday to check on
qualifications of the six.
Two senators have criticized
the list, indicating a Senate battle
over nomination of any of them.
The senators are Edward Ken
nedy, D-Mass., and Birch Bayh,
D-Ind., both members of the
Judiciary Committee which
considers the nominations before
sending them on to the full
Senate.
President Nixon had promised
he would announced this week his
choices to fill the vacancies left
by the retirements of John
Harlan, who is ill, and Hugo
Black, who died soon after he left
the court.
However, the White House said
Wednesday this no longer is
certain, because the ABA
committee did not meet until this
week.
Friday, 49. a Democrat, is a
municipal bond attorney and a
lawyer for school boards in
desegregation cases.
Mrs Lillie. 56, has had 24 years
of judicial experience and for 13
years has been a California state
appeal court judge.
News Roundup
from AP reports
NEW YORK — In a bedside arraignment, black militant H. Rap
Brown was ordered held in $250,000 bail Wednesday after he
vehemently scorned the court, the judge and the attempt to designate
William Kunstler as his attorney. The man authorities have identified
as Brown was captured with three companions in a shootout with
police after a holdup attempt at a West Side Manhattan bar early
Saturday. He was seriously wounded. Radical attorney Kunstler
continued to maintain , as he entered the 10th floor room in Roosevelt
Hospital, that the man in the bed was not necessarily Brown. Police
have said the identity was established by fingerprints. The patient has
identified himself as Roy Williams.
UNITED NATIONS, N Y. AP — The Soviet Union Wednesday
urged that Red China be seated in the United Nations and said
Peking’s opponents were fighting a rearguard action to disguise their
retreat. Joining France and other Peking supporters in the third day
of the U.N. General Assembly’s China debate, Soviet Ambassador
Jacob Malik called for the expulsion of Nationalist China and the
seating of the mainland government as the only solution to the 22-year
old controversy over Chinese representation.
WASHINGTON AP — A Federal grand jury indicted Wednesday
on conspiracy charges the former Grand Dragon of the Michigan Ku
Klux Klan and four of his associates in connection with the bombing of
ten school buses in Pontiac, Mich, last August. Atty. Gen. John Mit
chell said the indictment was returned in U.S. District Court in
Detroit. Named in the indictment were Robert Miles, 46, Howell,
Mich.; Alexander Distel Jr., 28, Clarkston; Wallace Fruit, 29, Drayton
Plains; Raymond Quick Jr., 24, Pontiac, and QeYinis Ramsey,
Drayton Plains. The five are charged with conspiring between July 4
and Sept. 9 to intimidate black students in the exercise of their con
stitutional rights to attend Pontiac public schools.
OTTAWA — Premier Alexei Kosygin, winding up the Ottawa
phase of his Canadian tour, blasted as “riffraff” Wednesday those who
protested his visit. He denied that the Soviet Union has any Jewish
problem and he urged members of Parliament to put pressure on
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau to support Moscow’s campaign
for a European security conference. The Soviet leader, confidently
facing a huge news conference, insisted he saw nothing but good in his
reception here despite wild scenes of protest which dogged him
throughout the first two days.
CHICAGO AP — Macrobiotic diets that claim to be the key to good
health may be hazardous not only to health but to life itself, a medical
group warns in the current issue of the Journal of the American
Medical Association. The alert was issued by AMA’s Council of Foods
and Nutrition. A spokesman for the group said there were at least
three cases on record, of people dying while observing the diet, which
is primarily vegetarian, relies heavily on whole grain cereals and so
called natural foods and minimizes intake of fluids.
TOKYO AP — Dr Henry Kissinger met with Premier Chou En-lai
in Peking Wednesday, the official New China News Agency reported.
In a four-paragraph report from Peking, the agency said Chou was
assisted by Yeh Chien-ying, vice chairman of the Chinese govern
ment’s military commission, and acting Foreign Minister Chi Peng
fei. The dispatch did not say what was discussed. However, it added
Chou, Yeh and Chi gave a banquet honoring the Americans, who
arrived earlier in the day in a U.S. presidential jet to finalize details
on President Nixon’s forthcoming visit to Red China.
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