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SD NC. C. ASSAILED" . ON ATLANTA RIOl City Officials Show Anger, but Criticism by Negro Leaders Is Tempered By ROY REED Special to The New York Times ATLANTA, Sept. 7 - The . Student Nonviolent Ooordlnatlng Committee,. .chief advocate Of black power, encountered mounting hostility today as a result of the Neg-ro riot here \ yesterday. White officials and state pollI ticians placed all the blame fot tho riot on ithe student commit~ A few Negro leaders added cautiously worded criticism, bu others said a potential for racial explosion had existed in he.no area '"ft)r some time. Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. and Police Chief Herbert Jenkins promised stern offic~al action to keeg the studllnt committee from inciting trouble. "It is now the Nonstudent Violent Committee," Chief Jenkins said as he announced that the police force was strengthening its riot control organization. "We must and will deal with it accordingly," he said. Several candidates for the ' on Page 36, Column 1 ' Continued �] .N.C.C. ASSAILED ON ATLANTA RIOT Continued From Page I, CoL 4 I Democratrl.c nomination for Governor in next Wednesday's primary joined in the condemnation. . Ellis Arnall, the most liberal of the candidates and the election favorite, said th:e student, ~omm,ittee was "shameful. "I denounce black power, racial violence, insurrection and civil anarchy," he declared. Stokely Carmichael, the 25I year-old chairman of 1lhe ~ " mitte&, who made famousthe cry of plack power, was singled out for severe denunciation. Mayor Allen, clearly angered, said : - -'-'"J.1'- Stokely- Carmiehael is looking for a battleground, he I created one last hight, and he'll be met in whatever situation he cares to create." However, some disputed whether Mr. Carmichael had created the battleground. Dr. King Comments The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who was in Chicago t oday, ' issued a statement through his Atlanta office. It said: "It is still my firm conviction that a riot is socially destructive and self-defeating. On the other hand, while condemning riots it is jus t as important to condemn the conditions which bring r iots into being. "A r iot is the desperate language of the unheard. What has America failed to hea r ? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro p·o or has worsened and that the promises of equality have not been m et." The C ommunity Council of t he Atlanta Area, Inc., recently studied the area where the rioting occurred and reported that the chances of an outbreak were "good." It cited poor h ousing, dislike of the p olice, few r ecr ea tion facilities and s kepticisrn toward the city's p romises of help. Some r esidents of ,S ummerhill, the scene of t he disturbance, met today to draft a list of grievances t o present to the city. Committees w· go from door to door to gather complaints. The Rev. Roy WilliaJJlS, vice president of the summei·hill Civic League, contended 't hat the swdent committee had whipped them up with hate" yesterday. But he added: "I have told our city politl· cians we were sitting on a powder keg. Conditions here are some of the worst in Atlanta." The scene of the Tiot Is a deteriorating neighborhood tha has almost completed a transi ,t ion from white to Negro. The stud.ent commtttee reportedlYi Tas worked itnere severa months. Yesterday afternoon, a cit~ detective shot and wounded a fleeing N eg,ro he w~ trying to arrest as a suspected car thief. Several hundred angry Negroes ,g athered and soon were join lby leaders of •t he s91den.t comitte P'.!Ign;rlng the pleas Of Mayor Allen, some Negroes attacked the poliee with stones, sticks and bottles. The police broke up the mob with tear gas and by firing guns into the air. William Ware, the committee's Atlanta proJec 1recfor, was charged with 1nciting to riot and creating a distu1·bance. He had entered the neighborhood in a sound truck and denollJlt:l!d the pollcP.. His hond wa/1 set 1tt 10,050 and he r mained ln jail today. ·1xtee11 person. were lnjur d, seveml cars wcrr. damaged and between 60 and 70 p~r. on.,; were 1 $Ufe;t arrested during the rioting, whic)I. occurr d on Capitol Av · "" tum t,!,.,. i'l' M• nt • · �door to door to gather complaints. The Rev. Roy Williams, vice president of the Summerhill Civic League, contended 1lhat the student committee had "whlppeci them up with hate" yesterday. But he added: "I have told our city politicians we were sitting on a powder keg. Conditions here are some of the worst in A!tlanta." I The scene of the riot is a. deteriorating neighborhood that has almost completed a transition from white to Negro. The student commit-tee reportedly "mis worked •tinere several I mont hs. Yesterday afternoon, a city detective shot and wounded a fleeing Negro he was trying to a rrest as a suspected car ,thief. Several hundred angry Negroes gathered and soon were joined lby leaders of the student com~ r i n g the pleas of Mayor Allen, some Negroes attacked the police with stones, sticks and bottles. The police broke up the mob with tear gas and by firing guns into the air. William Ware, the ~ture;t committee's Atlanta proJec 1rector, was charged with inciting to riot and creating · a dis- . turbance. He had entered the I neighborhood in a sound truck a nd denounced the police. His bond was set at $10,050 and he remained in jail today. Six.teen persons were Injured, several cars were damaged and between 60 a...TJ.d 70 persons were arrested during the rioting, which occurred on Capitol Avenue two blocks from Atlanta.'.s new $18-million .stadium. About 750 city policemen were in the area and 300 state police troopers stood by. A large police force patrolled the 11rea toda.y, but only a few Incidents were reported. About 10 persons were arrested this afternoon when they refused to break up a street-comer "black power" rally. · Fire Bomb Thrown A Molotov cocktail was throw into a building a t a nother Negro area about two miles away early this morning. The building, 'housing a tire company, was heavily damaged. Four other less serious fires that officials considered possible case of arson were reported. Fire fig hting was hindered because about 500 firemen are on strike. Atlanta officials never have been friendly toward the t deot cmnmi~ee, which has id its headquar ers here since it was organized in 1960. But the

tttitude has become more hostile in recent months as the

organization has turned toward black power and way from nonviolence. The st~de~t 1,ammjtte,e has been iifvo ve in at least two other disturbances In Atlanta in the last month. First, a. Negro crowd tried to free a committee worker who was being arrested on a. traffic charge. A few days later, several committe~ members -were among a. group of anti-war demonstrators who tried to force their way into an Army induction center. �