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' f Weather Warm, Showers High 85, Low 67 l\Iap, Page 18 VOL. 75, NO. 246 THE DA~LY -! OKLAHOMAN COP YRIGHT, 1966, OKLAHOMA P UBLISHING CO. 500 N BROADWAY , OKLAHOMA CITY, THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 8, 1966 / 285,807 5c in Oklahoma-lOc Elsewhere Average August Morning and Evening Paid Circulation 40 PAGES Atlanta Mayor Faults SNCC for Rioting ATLANTA , Ga . (AP) Ma yor I van Allen jr. char ged Wednesday that Student Nonviol ent Co-or dinati ng Committee m em bers were directly res ponsi ble for Tuesday night's r ioting that shattered Atlanta 's image of r acia l h armony. Allen told a news co nference that the disorders "were the result of a deliberate attem pt by certain mem bers of SNCC to create an incident of this kind." The silver-haired mayor, w o climbed on top of a ca and t ried to calm the jeeri'ng, angr y Negroes duri ng ·the disorder , sa id : 1'If Stokely Carmichael (nat ional cha ir m a n of S;-fCC) is looking for a battleground, he created one last night, and he 'll be met in whatever situat ion he cares t o create. " Carmichael, along with other SNCC members , was in th e ar ea before the rioting began, but he was no t se n t here later. Officers safd SNCC r e pre entatives ur ged the crowd t o demonstrate and denounce d police officer s as they cha nte d " black power. " Seventy-two p e r s o n s were arrested a nd 15 injured during the out break - the worst t he city has exp erie nced in m o d e r n t imes - which broke out after a white policem a n · shot a Negro wanted on a car theft charge. P olice a rrested 10 person s a t the riot scene Wednesday after a crowd gathered and began passing l e a fl e t s and shouting "black power ." Officers ordered the crowd t o disperse and those who r efused were taken a way in pa dd y wagons . Order was quickly restored. " The spark of violence ignited by a few reckless and ir r espon sible individuals touched off a n explosion of civil di sorder t hat sha ttered At la nta' s long and outstanding recor d of racial amity," the m ayor sai d. " F ro m what I heard with m y own ears a nd saw with m y own eyes in the middle of thi s m elee , I feel certai n that hund reds of normally good citizens were infla m ed out of their normal good senses . They wer e victimized by those who sought t o incite viole nce." R e f e r r i n g to recent cha r ges by SNCC m embers of poli ce bru tality, Allen said , hitting a clinch ed fist on the t able for emphasis: "No one need m a ke cha r ges t o m e a bout police bru tality during this di sorder. I saw plenty of br utali- l - ty, but it was all directed against the police officers. " In a separate news confe rence Wednesday, P olice Chief Herbert J enkins said SNCC officials include " irresponsible and hoodlum leaders" and that its ran k a nd file consi sts "mostly of cr iminals, hoodlums a nd outlaws of all types ." Jenkins said t he Student Coor dinating Nonviolent Committee" is no w the nonstudent violent committ ee. And we mu st a nd will deal with it accordingly." Stokely' Carmichael Mayor Ivan Allen �