NEGRO RUNS AMUCK

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29368, 22 November 1960, Page 20

NEGRO RUNS AMUCK

Racial Troubles In New Orleans

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 20. A 17-year-old negro ran amuck with a knife yesterday, shattering the week-end calm in the New Orleans crisis over the integration of its public schools. He was shot and wounded by police. Police said the negro, shouting obscenities against “the Federal Government, the courts and white people,” ran in and out of bars patronised by whites only. Suddenly he drew a four.-inch knife and begari slashing at whites, badly wounding a seven-year-old boy. * Last week was one of the unhappiest in the history of New Orleans. The admission of four negro girls to white schools brought knifings, stonings, cross burnings, hundreds of arrests and the use of fire hoses on mobs. The schools will be closed all next week for teachers’ meetings and the Thanksgiving holiday, but New Orlean will be face to face with the integration conflict again on November 28. A three-judge Federal Court has under advisement three issues:— A plea by the Orleans Parish (county) School Board that Federally-ordered integration be set aside until the State and Federal Governments can settle their differences in the courts. A motion filed by the” Federal Government to enjoin State and local officials from interfering with the carrying out of integration orders. Motions asking the Court to give the board full control ’over schools and to keep the State from interfering with the Federal order to integrate.