European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse Auguil 1965 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 3 They Blame Police Absentee Idleness Bitter Negroes Say Rioting 6Not Over Yet EDITORS NOTE Riot over says Edmund the Angeles police department and the California National emphatically says a crosssection of Walla Negroes surveyed by two Associated Press Questions were In from of a burned out of mea who helped fire and loot he They refused use of heir By JAMES BACON and BOYARSKY LOS ANGELES AP The riots will continue because as a am Immediately con a criminal by the police and If I have a pretty woman with shes a tramp even If shes my wife or Thats the Watts Negros status with the Los Angeles police de Thus spoke a young man who admitted he helped fire the gut led market he was standing in front He was answering the question Did he agree with Edmund Browns state ment that the riots were over He was one of 90 people ques on the status and cause of the All agreed that its not Ministers Prediction The a Bap tist minister who didnt partici pate in the predicted There will be rioting here until police brutality The gov ernor may say its over but we work among the people and we know Is going The riot is not Its a James 37 and un said the causes have not been He said they are poverty and It may not happen for years but that Is not to say It wont hap if things dont Jewish Scapegoats Police Chief William Park er and absentee landlords anc mostly Jewish seemed to be the favorite scape goats Parker Is the Hitler of Lo said He run the police department like Hit ler ran the Rosalie Richardson com If Parker Is removed the rioting will stop but Im afraid It wont until he Another woman chorused Or if Parker would just kee his big mouth Every Urn he talks about he In suits A man said We need to re move the If he stays her the town will be First Time Parker responded to demand he be fired Its the first Urn In history that it took the sack Ing of a city to insist the nolle chief be An unemployed man who sai he spent most of Friday an Saturday nights throwing rocks at policemen said Maybe th people of Beverly Hills wou riot too If they spent most their life with a cops club i their Or If they had to get out an automobile with their hand over their head to be for doing nothing at An antiSemitic note was i In some All those stores that we burned are owned by Jews w live In Brentwood and Beyer said one Th have been bleeding us for year Even our baked goods are d old when they get here t leftovers from Beverly None of these merchants er have put a cent of their I hack Into bettering the alls business he A others echoed I A Jewish clothing merchant ho owns a shop in Watts and vas In the Beverly Hills area Id a newsman To sell good merchandise DU have to innate the ou have to charge But DU cant sell this kind of mer in a neigh because you cant col ct for So we sell tin less expensive Its an operation at goes on everywhere there are poor or In every As for taking the money out Is anything says a man tins to live whore he hits his store A lot of people live far away from businesses hey Theres nothing unusual about The merchant whose Walts store was not burned or looted insisted that his name not be Some Negroes blamed the riots on other Physical Idleness brings on crime and prostitu Mental Idleness brings on The two together which we have here in abun dance are behind the said Mildred Joseph a said Our people want not They should turn all the welfare agencies Into em ployment I know a 16yeurnld girl who was raised on she has Illegitimate children and they all are on Thills is behind all these riots the people here are just wards of the Smalley I dont be lieve in stealing or kill but I can see why the boys did what they They just wanted to he to let the world know the seriousness of their stale In Ernie Smith of the Afro American Citizens a Negro nationalist said the Negro bitterly resents the sheer presence of a white for eign the police in our It a Negros car breaks down In the middle of the ha feels more apprehensive If ha sees a police The thing that touched It all off Is police bru Another said Every lime I come out of my house and see a while car I myself against a wall because I know that Im going to be The police laugh about it but its serious with I might just as well do It before they forca A 17yearold girl said riots will go on again as soon is the guardsmen leave the streets of And I got a hot dog stand In mind that I missed the other My torch went out as soon as I threw It will slay lit the next Like Korea or London Havoc in Watts Is Vividly Told STEADY Los Angeles policeman uses car door to steady his arm as be holds off Negro rioters la the Watts area during a da of looting and Press Photo Where Will Money Come From EDITORS NOTE UPI sent a veteran correspondent to the area of Watts to assess he flashpoint of the Angeles riot now quieted under military By ROBERT BENNYHOFF UPI highway patrolman shoved a shotgun in my His finger was on he The barrel looked six inches Get out of he 1 got AI of UPI in who has covered almost every major racial disturbance In the United States for the past 20 and I were louring the southcentral Los An geles area at We came across throe police cars pulled up in front of a dam store with several highway shotguns in running toward the I drove up behind the third patrol car and was just about lo get out to sec what was going on when that shotgun changed my We hurriedly drove a block or two and came to the section of 103rd Street which has been dubbed by firemen Charcoal Al ley Number There ore two Can Riot Area Rebuild LOS ANGELES AP The Watts on top of all Its other Is bothered by this question Where will the money for re building and repair come from Or will It ever come Fires alone In the six days of rioting and killing have de more than 900 buildings with damage firemen place conservatively at Officials havent even at tempted to estimate looting Spokesmen have given a rough estimate each for police and National Guard activity in the Thousands of Watts Negroes have been thrown out of work by the destruction of their places of Other businesses notably the Goodyear Tiro Rubber manufacturing plant at Central and Florence have shut until order Is completely re Goodyear employs Who will pay or the Immense destruction ol property and liv Insurance companies It most Insurance company spokesmen on how the violence Is ultimately Most firms Insure against loss from burglary and but specifically ex clude coverage In the event of California Glenn Anderson proclaimed the Watts riots a slate of armed tion Friday when he ordered National Guard troops Into the suffering But two major Insurance firms Travelers Insurance and Aetna Casualty fc Sure ty have said they dont the disturbances as In surrection and Individual claims will be studied and paid on their William president of the Insurance Brokers Association of said he thinks most dam iges will be This in our opinion definitely did not attain the slat us of an or rebel Jon and we therefore feel tha the resulting damage will be covered by most Insurance con Irvine said In a state John Claypoole of the Consoli dated Mutual Insurance Co however Early should apparently be covered but as it got Into the later stage Friday and Saturday the there is a serious question as to whether it was an insurrection It may bo a matter for th courts to Two other firms said they ar withholding a decision for th time City and state officials hav said repeatedly that the Watt riots were clearly In origin and without organize her Charcoal Alleys but this Is big bad A National rifle In told us we couldnt drive own Charcoal After ha our press ha aid we could leave the car here the Guardsmen could watch it and walk through area If we wanted Six days this of 103rd Street was Uia eart of the downtown business of long considered nc of the touchiest Negro dis rids in the Angeles all but a bare half Me In hot ow some still smoulder As an Insurance company would a total II reminded me of of North Korea and the of London during World Var The damage was n some than that done by tests to the mock towns had seen on Yucca Flat in Police curs cruise up and down he street In a steady poked out of the win The most cious eyes wed ever seen look us You feel very And you arent A handful of Negroes walk slowly up and down the staring at the They arc nervous You see You feel Only two establishments in he hree blocks remain in One is a barbecue sandwich owned by a which had been left It seems out of place amid the A handful of customers enter and eying the Guardsman on the c o r n e r as warily as the soldier eyes Stores whose show windows bear crudely and obviously hasti ly printed signs saying they were owned by Negroes general ly escaped major Thank One such establishment is Heaths paint store which suf only one smashed window in a A sign In an adjacent show window reads Negro Thank We walk back to the cur wed left at the barricade under the watchful eyes of the combat equipped trooper who told us we couldnt drive down the We were glad to Char coal Alley makes you feel sick and
