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Maryland Collegians March; Battle With State Police
PRINCESS ANNE, Md.—(UPI)— Scores of state troopers enforced an uneasy calm today in this college town where an anti-segregation demonstration erupted yesterday into a pitched battle between police and 300 students.
Students from predominantly Negro Maryland State College hurled rocks and bottles at troopers who charged into the demonstrators with swinging night sticks, fierce dogs and high-pressure streams of water from fire hoses. White residents of this Chesapeake Bay community used their automobiles as battering
rams in trying to disperse the 300 anrry collectians.
POLICE ARRESTED 27 students. More than 50 were treated at the college infirmary for injuries, including a score of dog bites inflicted by two snarling German shepherds the troopers sent into the milling students. A state policeman said a student threw acid in his eyes.
Gov. J. Millard Tawes put Maryland National Guard units on standby alert and at least 80 state police were ordered here after the melee broke out.
The 27 students, including four girls, arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and refusing to obey an officer, were released on bond. A civil rights leader said she telephoned the Justice Department in Washington to protest the use of dogs and the "general actions" of state police.
By United Press International
By United Press International
Two Southern communities not very well known outside their own environs are cropping up ominously in the news as the racial revolution takes a new tension turn. One is Princess Anne, Md. The other is Canton, Miss.
Princess Anne is on the Delmarva (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia) peninsula, commonly known as the Eastern Shore. Attitudes in the area are strongly pro-South. Princess Anne is not much further north than Charlottesville, Va. It has a large Negro population.
PRINCESS ANNE, scene of violent racial demonstrations this week, is in the midst of flat agriculture country and farmers, white and Negro, make up most of the population. It is about 50 miles southeast of Cambridge, site of other racial troubles of long duration.
Civil rights demonstrators apparently figured their big push on the Eastern Shore would be at Cambridge, home town of a recognized Negro leader, and that victory there would bring other communities into the integration transition without a campaign.
An agreement was worked out last year which stopped the worst of the Cambridge trouble, but tensions have mounted again recently. Now, it has spilled over to Princess Anne where two police dogs, clubs and fire hoses were used by state troopers to sweep demonstrators off the streets yesterday.
THE MILITANCY of the state police is the new thing in Princess Anne. Last year at Cambridge, troopers remained fairly neutral. Until toward the end of the tensions there, the officers simply formed a human barrier between Negroes and whites. They escorted Negroes back into their areas. The troops did not try to break up Cambridge demonstrations.
Canton, Miss., lies about 20 miles north of the state capital of Jackson where police have gone through some strenuous "on the job training" in riot control in recent years.
Until this week the Jackson officers were restricted to the city limits. Now, through a hastily-passed new state law, they can go anywhere in the state on request of authorities.
THIS NEW law makes the Jackson police force—equipped with an armored car, highly-trained police dogs and an arsenal of shotguns, gas, gas masks and other riot equipment—a formidable flying wedge for action in distant "emergencies."
The first prospective use of some of these forces is likely at Canton where Negroes have been engaged in intensive voter registration activity. Integration groups have announced a big push for Friday. Part of it apparently is an effort to register new Negro voters and part of it may be a march through town to demonstrate what the registration activity is all about.
The violence ended before dusk but, during the evening, groups of whites and Negroes roamed the downtown area, hurling insults at each other. Five white men in a car flying a Confederate flag were stopped and searched by police. The flag was ordered taken down. By midnight, only a few whites remained on the streets.
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Troopers then sent the two dogs into the crowd and finally dispersed it with fire hoses.
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Private citizens bulled automobiles and pickup trucks into demonstrators and beltected state troopers charged in swinging nightsticks. The enraged students retaliated by hurling rocks, bottles and sticks.
THE RIOTING started when 300 students marched about a half mile from the Maryland State campus into the downtown area of this town of 1,300 and blocked a main intersection. The singing and clapping demonstrators were protesting restaurant segregation.
"Frankly, it was a very militant group and the treatment given was what was necessary to bring them under control," said Mai. George Davidson, commanding officer of the state police here. He said the demonstrators first were asked to leave and then were warned in advance that dogs would be used.
AT LEAST A DOZEN students were clubbed to the ground during the afternoon melee. Some were kicked.
A Negro girl, who was both struck on the head and bitten by one of the police dogs, was escorted away, sobbing, "They turned the dogs loose . . ." Troopers denied, however, that the dogs were unleashed.
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