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Police * - . wok {Mount Clipping in Space Below} Arrest. T / Picketers AITRe Released; CrommelinSaid Maker OfBonds By DAVE CITESNUTT Aad GILLIS MORGAN Journal Slaff Writers Seventeen sedremationist dem- anstraters were arrested al the atute Capito! by city police today after refusing to break up their picket line proicsiing the con- asrence between Gov. George wallace and Atty. Gen. Robedt ennedy. The arrests were made mi ates before Kennedy arrived at ihe Capitol. Asst, Police Chief D. H. Lackey, director of local officers at the scene, Said the men were charaed with parading wilhout a permit. MOST PEACEFUL All but two of the pickets went peacefully with the pouce, The ‘ast two scuffled with police and one of them went indo the police paddy wagon upside dawn as five policemen forced him into the vehicle. AN 17 men arrested today for warading without a license have, heen released aller making bend, icting Police Chief Marvin Slun- ley said. Tt was learned thal Adin. Juhn G Crommelin made bond for een ad all 1 = = ; . we = I gp - mil. Wosi.-DB.C., Mn LEAVE Asst. Police Chlef Lackey told the Journal that originally (there | had been 19 demonstrators at the Capitol. “But afler the first warn- ing,”* he said, “two of them left.” “One of them came back lal- er.’ he said, “and thaaked me for letting him know that he was breaking the law.’ The demonstrators, ied by Adm. Crommelin of Elmore County, set up the picket line al about 8:30 this morning and were march- ing back and forth in front of Lhe Capital. Chief Lackey, with a loudspeak- er in his hand, ordered the dem- enstrators to disperse hecause they were parading without a per- Two of them teft, but the ' 1 others refused. \BOLATION Lackey then tuld them: aye eink arrested far vidlalis city ordinanee.” While the police were waiting for the paddy wagon, Crommelin | stood in front of the demonsira-: tors and read [rom the First! Amendment of the Bill of Rights. He was reading oul loud the Part of"... right of the people to asemble peuceably” when Lackey told him to stop or hie would he arrested. The admiral stopped, and he ‘vas nol arrested, The signs carried by the pick- els carried such sloguns as “Mis- sissipi Murderer"; Kennedy, Kosher and) Nhrushchey; and Wy ) A Disgrace to the White People. And one sign er- roneously read RK instead of RFR when referring to the At- forney General. Highway patro!men, armed cap- iol guards and plain clothes stale investigators were stationed both inside and outside the capitol awaiting the attorney general. Lackey cxplained that the demansirators were arrested un- der a city code which jirohinits—a “SBu key toi waza wijhout a permit fram the city commission. Ironically, this is a similar charge to one under which Ne- gro demonstrators have been ar- rested recently during a deseg-' regation campaign in Birming-' ham. 1 Some of the demonstrators car! ried signs identifying themselves’ with the national States Rights Party. One of the signs read: “'Ala- bama will resist with Vigah.”’ One of the two derronstratlors who had to be foreed into the paddy wagon by police was iden tified as James Warner, 25, of ,1865 Bessomer Ra., Birmingham. } The other 16 were identified iby City Police this morning aftrr ithey had completed booking the “men on coarges of parading wifh- wt a permit. ‘LOCAL MEN Seven from Montgomery: were ‘iWfentified as R. L. Moncrief, 24, jand John W. Moncrief, 21, both jof 2081 Oklahoma St.: Floyd Cul- ‘pepper, 20, 3108 Goode St: Curtis R. Culpepper, 26, 129-B Noble Ave.: Howard Hudson, 4, of 490-8 Lanier Court; Odis D. Carver, 32, of 24 Houser St.. H. N. Bailey. 36, Lewer Wetumpka Rd.: and William Blasingame, 26, of Rt. 2, Box 77-B. The other nine were identified as H. L. Howard, 41, of iimore County; Jerry Dutton, 21, und James QO. Murray, 19, both of 1865 Bessemer Rd., Birmingham; B. C. Engiand, 34, Re. 1, Deats- ville; Paul M. Hudgins, 26, of Re. 3, Prattville; Oscar W. Baz- zell, 28, of Rt. 2, Prattville: Paul E. Mims, 22, of 720 Lower Kings taut un Nyattville; and G. B. Wat: ner, .G. Box 391, Pravvilte:: / a ao a. {Inaicate page, name of a Poe ay: an re er Pe Fm ae Pete NE rd ean ae I ate! As! ae pt ee newspaper, clly and state.) _2 ALABAMA JOURNAL MONTGOMERY, ALA, 4/25/63 Date: Enytion: Pinal + dytor: pues VISIT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL TO MONTGOMERY, ALA., 4/24-25/63 or MO 62-1098 MOBILE Clpassitpoertpoanms: waoubimai liane Clee. —— me . : - . i. = ee oil ae et on, -=——- a coe at eee. wrk Poa