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“BL. ACK “RESELLIONS IN he: FLEET ‘over 3 thirty black eeanen faced a. eee ~Some trials are already undes variety of charges resulting from fd 3. ‘way” at sea for. those sailors who j;, clashes aboard two US Navy shipa-the ““..’ ‘deotded to go ahead with them, 1A « @ircraft carrier Kitty Hawk and the *‘. - >rothers could all face special flest oiler Hasssyampa, no whites - +° * eourt-uartials. were charged in @ither Anoident. - woos Fagie “one Beodu Jin the ‘straight press” ° claime that thé 'dituation. on the Kit- _ ty Hawk stemmed pout of an argument in! * an enlisted men's olub in Bubio Bay, 2 k. on the night of October llth supposed-.° 4 there was a-fight in & washroom of ‘the club and it spread to the reat.of the club involving about 25. black and* white aailors, mainly from the Kitty © Hawk, : The fight was broken up and | _, Beverah; tanks mpneierneetedeeas ey “, .° In Bnother indident eleven {: blBck saiiora were detained and 6 were formally charged for being 1 - Yolved dn a clash eaboardthe flee ‘oller Haasayanupa while it was in ‘Subic Bay. Im tha incident four . white orewmen wore slightly injut t. (Five orewnembers. were charged wit fia@esault and will receive special court-martials,. One aallor was wana Sink aot uaing etc 4 yord a wi et Bysummary ei: / ‘a agit ms Cra ‘After these two inotdente and ‘others Navy rece relations specie late were forced to admit that. gh Budae who weré arrested were. sont’? back'to the or and the ship sailed,: One of the ship's higher ranking off- icers called re two of the black eali- board tensiond have been greatly -lors who ware arrested on shore for ©: - aggravated on board WestPac ships ‘questioning, Eleven other blaok crew-°»''.-by the unbearable working and liv men went along in an expression ‘of Bol=.1* ing conditions that crewmen, par- idarity, Tha two aailora who had been‘ bhoularly black orewnen encounter called in. and their comrades left’ the :-)'*.” : interrogation sesaion upset about be-~ ‘ing singled out, Later the game’ off= : word fron brothers on either the: ieer want outside to talk to the'men-: - Kitty Hawk or Haasayampa giving - . 4nd tried to calm the men downs ye sheir, account of what Bappanad., de The group of about. a dozen then : left‘ the mess deck and went to the han~ 4 gar deck, The black’ sailors were just. 1° .etanding @round talking in groups of -+ “a3 threes and twoa, however, the Marines © * guarding the planes on. the hangar deck ; *. becane uptight. The Marines tried to. . break up the group, which wasn't doing: ; 7 any thingy, ‘with thelr guns, ° . ; ort - That same night (Oot, 12) through ¥ ‘the ébrly morning hours the next day, - fights broke cut between & ]1tt1a over .100 Black and white sailors, among the. ©. 4,935 man erew, The brass claimed. thaty 7. the fighte which. spread to various. parte of the ship grew out of an initial fight 4n a dining hall. The flight left 46 * srewnen injured - 40 whites and six bla~, eka. Only 3 man were seriously injured. © * & large group of both black and white SIRE ES { eallors yore credited with bresking | Up: ae eA " the % Lents go far’ we have received no - oO hse we -: oT igen a8 = rG Yeast 25 black eadlora have Bla! : 848i" . ready been charged and two more might be. . _* Twenty-one of the men were charged with both ricting and assault, and four were’ charged with just. one of the two counts, - te Nat. tad al fbateaeeteces Fer the tbe st j The lack | sailons on the Kitty Hawk .'¢5//, 7 hava panalvad muinnarts fram aavaral black aor