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Show Chicago Police Quell Rioting ' I CHICAGO. Nov. 11 (UP) Two hundred police quelled-a disturbance disturb-ance early. Friday at a south aide home where thousands of persons gathered and some threw rocks and other missiles. William p rem ley, spokesman for the Chicago Council on Human Relatione, said tha crowd apparently appar-ently assembled In the mistaken belief that a family of Negroes had moved Into the house, located In a back-of-the-yards neighborhood. neighbor-hood. Chief of Uniformed Polica Raymond Ray-mond Crane estimated that the crowd numbered 10,000 persona shortly before midnight, but Grem-ley Grem-ley said ha believed considerably fewer persons were Involved. Eleven persons were arrested and an undetermined number suffered suf-fered bloody noaea, black eyes and other minor injuries in sporadic scuffles. , Rocks, bottles and other missiles mis-siles thrown from tha crowd struck the house, but no windows were broken. Many persons held clubs fashioned from two-by-fours and curtain rod. Gremley aaid the house where tha crowd gathered la occupied by aa official of the CIO long-shoremen's long-shoremen's union. Tha disturbance began Tuesday night when a meeting of union stewards, including several Negroes, Ne-groes, was held at the house to hear a report on the recant Hawaiian Ha-waiian dock strike, Greialey aaid. Aa tha crowd gathered before the house, a special disturbance police plan went Into effect and about 15 squads of officers converged con-verged on tha scene la addition to patrolmen on foot. The police moved tha crowd back to the end of tha block and then threw a protective cordon around the area. |