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IUI Vol. 89-No. 82 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1968 Four Sections AGES 10 CENTS ffl to lilt ERALD aoti utar Silt nil Tennessee Governor Orders Johnson Delays Hawaii Trip; Hanoi Says Bombing Continues 4,000 Guardsmen to Memphis Vilence erupted again short rmm, I I took some pains to divorce Park's trip to. Honolulu from the meetings which will togethers every half year or so for an across-the-board review of the Southeast Asian conflict. Such sessions have been held before in Hawaii, Guam and Washington.

Greater Potential But this week's spectacular developments toward direct negotiations with Hanoi have greatly heightened the potential of this weekend's parley. This time the U.S. strategists must weigh what shifts may be necessary in the conduct of the war to accompany possible developments on the diplomatic front. White House sources indicated, too, that the choice of a successor to the U.S. commander in Vietnam, Gen.

William C. Westmoreland, would be on the agenda. Separate Meeting Administration authorities Old Guard Out Washington (AP) President Johnson late Thursday postponed until Friday his scheduled midnight departure for Hawaii and a Vietnam strategy conference. He announced the change in plans during a brief message to the nation following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis.

Earlier, the White House had announced that on his way to Hawaii, Johnson would stop at March Air Force Base, to talk with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. It was also announced that South Korea's president, Chung Hee Park, will join the weekend Hawaii meeting Sunday. Meanwhile, Hanoi charged; that American planes bombed a North Vietnamese town northwest of the country's capital-deep inside the territory the President had declared off limits to U.S. air raiders.

The Pentagon quickly disavowed any "present knowledge of any such U.S. attack since the President's speech, Sunday night" in which he proclaimed the curtailment of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam. Probe Ordered "Nonetheless an immediate investigation has been ordered," Asst. Secretary Phil G.

Goulding. said in issuing the Defense Department statement. Johnson met for an hour Thursday with Thant, secretary-general of the United Nations, to discuss peace prospects in Vietnam. The session was held at the U.N. headquarters in New York after the President had attended ceremonies at St.

Patrick's Cathedral marking the installation of the Most Rev. Terence J. Cooke as Roman Catholic archbishop of New York. Pressed for details, a U.N. spokesman said "The conversations were strictly private.

The Honolulu meeting of the President with his top Washington and Saigon advisers follows Johnson's pattern for such get- 20th Parallel LUTHER KING Czechs Finish Shuffle Of Decision Makers DR. MARTIN Looting, Fire By Doug Stone Of the Associated Press Memphis, Tenn. Nobel Laureat Martin Luther King father of non-violence in the American Civil rights movement, was killed by an sassin's bullet Thursday night. King, 39, was hit. in the neck by a bullet as he stood on the jalcony of a motel here.

He died less than an hour later in St. Joseph Hospital. Gov. Buford Ellington immediately ordered 4,000 Na tional Guard troops back into the city. A curfew, which was clamped on Memphis after a King-led march turned into a riot a week ago.

was reimpos- ed. The 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner was standing on the balcony of his motel here, where he had come to lead pro tests in behalf of the city's 1,300 striking garbage workers, most of them Negroes, when he was shot. Two Arrested, Freed Two unidentified men were arrested several blocks from the motel but were released later. Police also said they found a rifle on Main Street about one block from the motel, but it was not confirmed wheth er this was the weapon that killed King. An aide who was standing nearby said the shot hit King in the neck and lower right part of his face.

"Martin Luther King is dead," said Asst. Police Chief Henry Lux, the first word of the death. Asst. Hospital Administrator Paul Hess confirmed later that King died at 7 p.m. of a bullet wound the neck.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said he and others in the King party were getting ready to go to dinner when the shooting occured. "King was on the second floor balcony of the motel," Jackson said. "He had just bent over. If he had been standing up, he wouldn't have been hit in the face." King had just told Ben Branch: "My man, be sure to sing 'Blessed Lord' tonight and sing it well." Shot Rang A shot then ran out, Jackson said.

Jackson said the only sound King uttered after that was 's Death Starts King Sporadic Violence Oh!" "It knocked him down," he said. "When I turned around, I saw police coming from everywhere. I said 'Behind The police were coming from where the shot came. Branch, another member of the King party, said, "The bul let exploded in his face. It knocked him off his feet." King had returned to Memphis Wednesday to lead another massive protest march next Monday in support of the garbage strikers.

Sympathizers from other parts of the country had announced they would join, and as many as 10,000 or more were expected for the march. A similar march March 28 of about 6,000 erupted into the first violence in Memphis since the beginning of the civil rights movement. Police and march leaders, alike, blamed the out burst on Negro youths on the fringe of the march. One 17-year-old Negro youth was killed in the violence after the march, and his funeral Tuesday was attended by sev eral thousand mourners. Snipers Reported.

MRS. KING at her home in Atlanta and expressed his sympathy. In New York, the nation's civil rights and political leaders reacted with anguish, shock and grief Thursday night at the slaying. There also was fear that the slaying could lead to more violence. Vice President Hubert H.

Humphrey said the slaying "brings shame to our country. An apostle of nonviolence has been the victim of violence." The vice president said, however, that his death will bring new strength to the cause he fought for. A spokesman for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said, "I am shocked and grieved by this wanton murder of a peace-loving man, a dedicated, courageous man. This murder certainly does not solve anything and it will be deeply resented by Negroes through the country and by other people who believe in nonviolent protest." Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon sent a telegram to Mrs.

King which said: "Dr. King's death is a great personal tragedy for everyone who knew him and a great tragedy for the nation. Mrs. Nixon joins me in sympathy ly after King was shot. Police reported snipers firing on police and National Guard units and several persons were re ported hit by the shots.

Several firebombings and oth er acts of vandalism also were reported. Police director Frank Hollo- man ordered a curfew back in to effect "until further notice." as youths ran rampant, many of them with fire bombs in their hands. National Guard units, which had been deactiavated only Wednesday after five days on duty here, were called back to active duty and rushed to Memphis. Holloman said early investigation indicated the assassin was a white male, who was "50 to 100 yards away in a flophouse." He said police had no definite leads, but that two persons were in custody. In Atlanta, Mrs.

King was at the airport waiting to fly to her husband's bedside in Memphis when she learned of his death. Related stories, pictures, on Peers 3, 44 IN ATLANTA and prayers for you and. your family in this terrible ordeal.H Join Hands New York Mayor John V. Lindsay: "The people of our city of every race, I am sure, will join hands in paying tribute to him. Our greatest tribute to him will be to bear ourselves as he would want us to-with dignity and prayer." Sen; Wayne Morse, said Dr.

King's death is "one of the saddest tragedies to befall the nation'! and warned that the shooting will add to "a very serious domestic crisis. It's going to increase marching across our country." Fred Meely, a spokesman for the militant Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, said, "There is no real comment that we can make. Everybody knows what happened and everybody knows why it happened and the black people in this country know what they have to do about it. That's all I have to say." In Washington, Attorney General Ramsey Clark ordered an immediate inquiry into the shooting, the New York Times said. Clark said the purpose of the inquiry was to determine whether any federal law was violated in the attack on King.

precede his arrival. This was to avoid pressure from other allied, leaders to attend the conference too. The growing caution in Wash ington quarters about peace talks in some cases ranging to pessimism stems from more than North Vietnam's accusa tion of U.S. bombing far north of the 20th parallel limit set by Johnson in his Sunday negotiations offer. Some U.S.

sources said that while no response has been received yet through diplomatic channels to Johnson's agreement Wednesday to establish contact with Hanoi representa tives, the North Vietnamese have shown no evidence yet of backing down from their earlier demand. criticized his own role in the Stalinist purge trials of the I9o0s, tne official news agency, CTK, said. The election of the balding. 44-vear-old Cernik as candi date for the premiership had been forecast since the new reformist wing, under party cnairman Alexander DuDcek, took control in an earlier plen um last January. Dubcek re placed iNovotiiy, who afterward resigned as president.

Cernik, up to now deputy premier and head of the central planning authority, occasionally had come under criticism the recent free-wheeling debate over the nation's future course He was accused of having placed too much emphasis on heavy industry at one time. In a postscript to 20 vears of hard-line rule, the Central Com mittee also approved Novotny's relief from the last high-level function still held and his re placement by Frantisek Krie-gel as chairman of the Com- munist-iea National Front. This organization, which also includes non-Marxist parties, the trade unions and other mass organizations, is to play a great role under the new "action program" also being discussed by the Central Com mittee. Outgoing Premier Jozef Le- nart and former transport mi nister Alois Indra, rated as able technocrats, became new party secretaries, while old- guaro memDer L.ubomir Strou- gai lost a secretary post. Central Illinois Clearing and cool Friday.

Fair and cold again Friday night. Increasing cloudiness and warmer on Saturday. High Friday mid 40s. Low Friday night mid 30s. Inside Today Bridge Page 27 Central Illinois Scene 35 Classified Comics Crossword Editorials Markets Modern Living Obituaries Radio-TV Sports Weather 3943 36 27 8 38 13 12, 39 16 23-26 33 U.S.

May Have Limited Bombing Still Further U.S. Leaders Anguished Johnson Condemns Violence Prague (AP) Czechoslovakia's Communist party completed Thursday night a sweeping reshuffle of its Dolicv-makine bodies and proposed outspoken Oldrich Cer- mk as head ot a new government likely to be formed next week. In two hours of secret balloting, advocates of the new course of "socialist democratization" emerged fimly (entrenched in key positions. A few old-guard supporters were left with second-string posts. Earlier in the day, Antonin Novotny, the ousted Stalin-line ruler of Czechoslovakia, recanted before the reformers who forced him from power.

He admitted "serious errors and abberrations" during his 15 years as party chief and 17 Americans had been killed and 159 wounded in the first four davs of the Khe Sanh relief drive, which began Monday. A North Vietnamese Droaacast monitored in Tokyo claimed 400 of the Americans were kill ed in fighting Thursday. The U.S. Command declined comment on missions flown to day over North Vietnam, leaving unconfirmed the speculation about new bombing curbs near the 20th parallel, set by Presi dent Johnson as the northern limit for U.S. raids under his order announced Sunday to de- escalate tne air war.

In its this morning's commu nique. U.S. headquarters mentioned a strike 225 miles north nf the demilitarized zone and less than one mile south of the 20th parallel during the early morning hours Thursday. Operation Pegasus, the drive to open Khe Sanh, reported meeting only light opposition from artillery and mortar fire since jumping off from Ca Lu, 12 miles away, soviet reports London said Thursday that the North Vietnamese were beein- ivng to withdraw as a good-will gesture, out mere was no confirmation from Hanoi. Another reason advanced for the lack of sizeable opposition was the incessant American bombing by planes and from artillery in Khe Sanh itself, of North Vietnamese positions during the past three months.

groes on Raleigh's main down town street -Thursday night aft er several store windows were shattered. The incident occurred after the Negroes had marched within two blocks of the capitol on a brief rock-throwing spree. They shouted obscenities at police and the word "King" could be heard amid the shouting. The incident occurred about 90 minutes after word of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination in Memphis had been broadcast.

Jackson Young Negroes smashed car windows and burned a newsman's car in the Jackson State College area Thursday night after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Charles Evers, state field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Negro ministers sought to calm the Negro community at a rally at the Negro Masonic Temple while other Negroes milled about the area. i The trouble broke out after Evers reported he had received a threatening telephone call shortly after the death of Dr. King in Memphis.

Nashville About 4,000 Tennessee National Guardsmen were ordered to duty in Nashville Thursday night as scattered violence occurred following the assassination in Memphis of Martin Luther King Jr. A guard spokesman said the troops would report to stations they were assigned to during a March 9 riot control exercise. The spokesman said the troops would be moved into the area as quickly as they can assemble. Boston Shortly, after news was flashed of the fatal shooting of Dr. Martin Luther King Thursday night, a large crowd of Negroes stoned six police cruisers near a Negro housing project in the Roxbury section, police said.

One person was taken to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital with undetermined injuries after the outbreak. Police said some persons in the crowd carried clubs and lengths of chain. By the Associated Press The fatal shooting of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis, Thursday night touched off sporadic looting and property destruction by Negroes in several major U.S. cities.

Police reported that most of the violence involved Negro youths. The cities reporting incidents are: Harlem Sporadic looting and rock-throwing broke out in Harlem and Bedford Stuyvesant, the city's two largest Negro areas, Thursday night as news spread of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Looters set a fire in one store and battled firemen trying to put it out. Mayor John V.

Lindsay sped to Harlem to help calm angry youths as police rushed reinforcements into the area. In Bedford-Stuyvesant, youths stopped a city bus and pelted it with rocks and bottles. None of the 30 passengers, almost all Negro, appeared hurt. A 'crowd of about 100, screaming "Yeah, man!" and "Get Whitey!" watched as about 30 youths began pulling merchandise out of John's Bargain Store. Then they set the fire and battled the firemen who, in turn, turned their hoses on the youths.

The crowd, which appeared to comprise mostly teen-agers, surrounded a police car, but permitted it to drive off after a few minutes. Washington Crowds of Negroes gathered in a predominantly Negro shopping area Thursday night and looting broke out in an apparent angry reaction to the death of Dr. Martin Luther King. Stores along a six-block section of 14th St. in the near Northwest were broken into.

Glass littered the streets and Negroes clustered at the corners hooted and called "whitey" at passing whites in cars. A spokesman at police headquarters said some youngsters had broken store windows. He added: "It is not what we call a major disturbance." Raleigh City police clashed with a group of about 30 young Ne Saigon (AP) American sources said Friday no U.S. air strikes had been reported near the 20th parallel in North Vietnam for more than 24 hours, prompting speculation that President Johnson may be further curtailing the bombing of the North. On the ground, the relief of the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh, in South Vietnam's northwest corner, appeared imminent.

Lead elements were reported within half a mile of the beleaguered base's perimeter. The U.S. Command said only Maryland College Closed Annapolis, Md. (AP) Bowie State College was or-dered closed by Gov. Spiro T.

Agnew Thursday night in the wake of demonstrations which resulted in the arrests of about 225 students. State Police arrested the students, most of them Negro, after they refused to leave the State House as ordered at the 5 p.m. closing time. The governor emphasized that the dispute was "not a racial one. Students have demanded immediate action by the governor to correct certain conditions, which they term deplorable.

By the Associated Press President Johnson spoke Thursday night in Washington of an "America shocked and saddened" by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King as he condemned violence, lawlessness and divisiveness. In a brief, solemn message to the nation, Johnson disclosed that because of the slaying at Memphis he had canceled plans for a political appearance to night and postponed until Fri day his scheduled midnight departure for Hawaii and a Viet nam strategy conference. The President appeared in the doorway of the White House of fices, stern-faced and spoke on all television and radio networks. "I ask every American citizen," he said, to reject the blind violence that has struck down Dr.

King, who lived by nonviolence." The President urged prayers for peace and understanding in the land and said: "We can achieve nothing by lawlessness and divisiveness among the American people." He said he hopes all Americans would search their hearts. Called Mrs. King The White House said John son had telephoned Mrs. King.