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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29--Rifle-armed National Guardsmen, under orders to "shoot to kill" if attacked, kept an uneasy peace today in riot torn Negro areas of San Francisco.
The White House, meanwhile, ordered an investigation of what Mayor John F. Shelley called "the critical unemployment situation" in Negro areas.
"I plead in the name of God and human decency for immediate emergency funds to assuage this situation," Shelley declared.
The Labor Department estimated San Francisco's unemployment rate at five per cent. The August rate for the national civilian labor force was three and nine-tenths per cent. The jobless rate fro Negro males in the San Francisco area is triple the white rate.
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