Gaols Packed After Biggest Protest

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30125, 8 May 1963, Page 15

Gaols Packed After Biggest Protest

IW.Z Press Association—Copynptit) BIRMINGHAM (Alabama), May 7. • Rocked by 34 days of racial demonstrations, the Southern city of Birmingham braced for further massive protests today, with city gaols already crammed tight with an estimated 2400 negroes, the Associated Press reported. Yesterday about 1000 negroes, most of them teen-agers, were arrested by police as they marched through the city in their fight for equal rights. There was no violence.

Lute last night negroes spilled out of four church meetings and demonstrated again, ‘ angered at hundreds of the young negroes arrested earlier in the day being left outside in a thunderstorm without food or shelter. Among those arrested yesterday was negro comedian Dick Gregory, who appeared in anti-segregation incidents in Mississippi early lasi month Yesterdays protest march was the biggest demonstration for civil rights ever seen in toe South The young negroes were herded into police waggons and school buses and driven to the Birmingham gaol singing, “Bull Connor (the

police commissioner. Eugene Connor) ain’t goto’ turn me around.” Almost simultaneously about 150 negroes carrying signs protesting against racial discrimination appeared in front of stores in the downtown area Police promptly arrested them A special committee of negroes and whites was re-

ported last night to be meeting to try and work out a solution to the racial strife Authorities are puzzling out the problem of whait to do with the estimated 2400 prutoners Sheriff Melvin Bailey Mid that county gaols were already overcrowded before yesterday's arrests. There were nearly 600 prisoners in accommodation tor 500 The city gaol, with a capacity of 000, held 646 before yesterday The sheriff saad It was possible that some prisoners would have to be moved to gaols in other counties Many teen-agers were taken by school buses to the grounds of the State fair, where 318 negro girls have been housed since last Friday Last night's march was called off when the negro leaders were assured the children were being well cared for.

Faulkner Book Wins Prize tUZJ* A .-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, May 7. William Faulkner's novel. “The Reivers," has won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Faulkner died last year, about the time the book was published. It was Faulkner’s second Pulitzer prize. He won his first in 1954 with his book “The Fable " He was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.