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WhiterRacial TensionGrows in SouthOther IncidentsBy ASSOCIATED PRESSA savage fight betweenNegroes and white vouthsclimaxed weeks of racialtension in Savannah. Ga,where Negroes have beenstaging sit-down demonstrations and boycotting storeswith segregated lunch counters.Ax handles, pipes, knives and other weapons, were swung in the brief but vicious clash in a park Monday nilt;?ht A white youth was hospitalized with a serious knife wound in the neck. The otherwhite youths and a Negro were treated at a hospital and released Police iniled two Negroes andseven white persons and began an extensive search of the area for20 others believed to have taken part in the fight in the Georgiacoastal citv.Cause of the burst of violence was not determined. Investigators said the teen-agers who were arrested gave conflicting accounts.Melvin Bryan, 18, suffered a deep stab wound in the side ofthe neck.Allen Louis Johnson. 22 vear-old Neg/a. received- -a badly-bruised elbow when he was struckby an ax handle.The battle in the park occurred a few hours after police reported a white man struck a Negro stu-M during a lunch counter sit-down demonstration at the S. H. Kress Co. store. It was the second such incident in three days.A white man, knocked a Negro demonstrator from a lunch counter stool in the same store Saturday. The Negro’s jaw wasbroken.An explosive believed to have been dynamite shattered the home of a Negro member of the Nashville City Council todav. HeYouthsinBOMBING—An explosion early today ripped into the home of Z. Alexander Looby, Negro member of the Nashville, Tenn., City Council and attorney for Negroes arrested in sit-in demonstrations. This was the scene inside the Looby house, look-in? across the street toward Maharrv Medical College. Police said the bomb apparently was dynamite thrown from a passing car. AP Wirephoto.Park Funds Short/SecretaryQuitsFrieid WelcomeGiven Visitin0Chinese LeaderDELHI, April 19(/P)—Chou En-lai arrived today and was promptly toldby Prime Minister NehruRed China s border actions“have been a shock to all ourpeople.f *44Our relations have been imperiled for the present and future.” he told the visiting Red China premier.Chou, grim-faced, had voiced hope that the Chinese-Indian border dispute could be settled ‘‘in accordance with the principlesof coexistence.”Nehru smiled as he made his statement—but his words were tough and sharp.the Indian presidential palace, where Chou will stay. 70 demonstrators who sought to protest with black flags were lockedup for an “imminent breach of the peaceArrives Bv Plane.Chou arrived by plane Rangoon, Burma, for talks with Prime Minister Nehru on 51.000 square miles of disputed territory along the India-Tibet border. The Chineseborder crisis, and Chou is one of the most unpopular visitors in recent Indian history.An agreement appears unlikelvto result from the talks between Chou and Nehru.Nehru headed a few Cabinet members and other officials greeting Chou at the airport. Security guards were posted all along the route from the airport to the city, but there were virtually no spectators.President Rajendra Prasad boycotted the arrival ceremony. Since Chou is not the chief of the Chinese state, protocol did require Prasad’s presenceNehru was certain to put
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Terre Haute Tribune
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Tue, Apr 19, 1960
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