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3 DECATUR DAILY REVIEW VOL. 91 NO. 82 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1968 2fl)pAGES 2 SECTIONS 10 CENTS 'Break' Seen In Nationwide Search for Slayer of King ket, was put on view and hun Clark told newsmen "there is no evidence at this time of any with the FBI acting on personal orders from U. S. Atty.

Memphis, Tenn. (AP) Dr. Martin Luther King leading advocate of nonviolence in civil rights campaigns, bent over the balcony of his motel room Thursday and was fatally wounded by a rifle shot fired from a sniper across the street. Police issued an alarm for a single white man, who Memphis Police Director Frank Holloman said checked into a flophouse opposite the motel three hours before the slaying Thursday. King died at 7:05 p.m., less than an hour after being rushed to St.

Joseph's Hospital. The search for the slayer technically was nationwide, conspiracy. One Suspect Held The Memphis Press-Scimitar said police arrested a short, balding white man this morning as he left a rooming house near the shooting scene. He was re ported turned over to the FBI, but the FBI agent in charge, Walter Happel said he had no information on the arrest. King's widow flew to Memphis in a plane chartered by Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy to claim the body of her slain husband. She remained aboard the plane at the airport. The body, in a bronze cas- -r- rrr -mm 1 r-J 4 Associated Press Wirephoto A woman weeps at a Memphis funeral home as mow ners file past the body of Dr. artin Luther King.

Dr. King Mourned Decatur Feels Shock of Murder the civil rights movement. h) -FX "1 dreds of Negroes passed to pay! their last repects. Holloman said the investiga-j tion showed the assassin checked into a main street flophouse at midafternoon, shot King from a second floor window of the building three hours later and then disappeared in the resulting confusion. The murder weapon apparently was a new Remington pump rifle with telescopic-sights, Holloman said.

The assassin also carried a new set of binoculars and a new suitcase. A Remington pump rifle was one of 15 weapons stolen a night earlier from a Memphis sporting goods store, but Holloman refused to say immediately that the stolen gun was thi death weapon. "As far as we know, and from the evidence at this time, there was only one man in the physical area of the slaying," Holloman said. Many Police Near He said one of the 30 to 40 officers on duty in the vicinity of the motel saw the bullet strike King, and all immediately converged on the scene. The fatal shot was fired from the window of a common bath room in the flop-house, Holloman said.

King's room was 205 feet away, through trees and: across a street but in "clear" view of the window. Holloman said the assassin was a white male, between 26 and 32 years of age, standing six feet and weighing 165- 17o pounds. Police radios said be had dark to sandy hair, me dium build, a ruddy complexion and was wearing a black suit and white shirt. Carmichael Urges Armed Rtfalioo Washington (AP) Black power advocate Stokely Carmichael urged Negroes to day to arm themselves with guns and take to the streets in retaliation for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Carmichael told a news conference he wants black America to "kill off the real enemy." "We have to retaliate for the death of our leaders," he said. "The execution of those debts will not be in the courtrooms. They will be in the streets of the United States of America." "When white America killed Dr. King she opened the eyes of every black man in this country," Carmichael said. Carmichael blamed President Lyndon B.

Johnson and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N. along with the rest of the nation's white population for the death of the Nobel Peace Prize winner. "Bobby Kennedy pulled that trigger as much as anyone else," Carmichael said, charging the senator had failed to push for prosecution of slayers of Negro civil rights workers when he was attorney general.

The militant Black Power leader declared that violence that erupted in city after city across the nation after King was shot in Memphis is "just light stuff" when compared with "what will happen." "We have to retaliate," he added. Carmichael also declared that if Gov. Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland proceeds "with this non sensical charge against fellow Black Power advocate H. Rap Brown, who is accused of in citing a riot last summer in Cambridge, "He ain't seen nothing we'll take our troops back into Maryland we'll turn that state upside down and inside out." Before being allowed to attend the news conference reporters were required to show identification and then were thoroughly searched by two solemn-faced Negro men.

They took items as small as nail clippers away from report from the community. Final arrangements for the program will be completed at a meeting this evening between city, school, and churclurepre-sentatives. "It's too early to judge the effect this tragedy will have on our community and its concerns," said Charles Jackson, newly-appointed community relations director for the city. "We must not let the cause for which Dr. King died become lost, however," he said.

"There is even more urgency to move forward with his work, to create progress in the manner in which he sought it, peacefully," Jackson said. Congressman William L. Springer today called King the voice of reason and justice in I Ramsey Clark. But it was cen tered in the west Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas area around Memphis. A white car was pursued on the outskirts of the city until it was lost.

Clark, who arrived here from Washington today, said that "substantial leads" had been developed in the hunt for King's killer. He said that the slaying appeared to be the work of one man. "We've got some substantial leads," Clark said, after flying here from Washington. "We're very hopeful. We've got some good breaks." Prom the left are Martin Luther King III, then 5, Dexter Scott, then 2 and Yolande De- dows of their car.

In Detroit, two policemen were shot and wounded as they patrolled a Negro section, but that city escaped the street violence that erupted elsewhere. Memphis, where Dr. King was slain, was relatively calm today after a night of looting, arson and shootings. A strict curfew was imposed by Mayor Henry Loeb immediately after King was shot at a downtown motel. Appeals for reason from public officials and civil rights leaders also helped bring the situation back under control.

Police checked out sporadic reports of minor disorders today as civil rights leaders went ahead with plans for a Monday march in support of striking garbage workers. This was the march King came to Memphis to lead. Bands of Negro youths roamed the city Thursday night, engaging in fights with police while a number of fires broke out over area. New York Mayor John V. Lindsay rushed to the Harlem area, where he has walked the streets in efforts to prevent violence, but was hustled into a car by aides and returned to his home after encountering unruly crowds.

J) 4 Dr. King's Family Bombing Cited Hanoi Snipes at Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta, sit with three of their four children in their Atlanta home in 1963. Igional director of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, and a member of the Illinois Human Relations Commission. "I am very a i NAACP Branch President Rev.

I. M. Muse. "When you step out into life the way he did, I suppose you must expect some misfortune," Rev. Muse said.

"I feel I have lost a personal friend," said Rev. Manker R. Harris, executive secretary of the Decatur Area Council of Churches. He recalled marching with Dr. King in Selma, several years ago.

Rev. Muse, Rev. Harris, and Gude will all be participants -in the Saturday memorial service. U.S. ficial New China News Agency, peace can be returned to Vietnam.

It added the United States will never give up its "aggressive schemes" in Vietnam. Nhan Dan said the fact that President Johnson promised the Saigon regime protection in his address of March 31 proved that the U. S. government had not abandoned its intent of aggression. Johnson ordered on March 31 a partial halt in the bombing of North Vietnam, limiting strikes to an area south of the 20th Parallel.

a.m. The moon, at first quarter tonight, sets Saturday at 2:02 a.m. The planet Venus, now in the morning sky, is nearer the sun than the planet Mars, now in the evening sky. Brilliant Venus is easily seen; Mars, much dimmer, is hard to find. (Additional weather on P.

21) INDEX Many Cities Hit Violence Bursts By Lawrence Reh Of the Review The commerce and daily chores ofDecatur today were subdued under the half-s a American flags of mourning for Martin Luther King. Shock and sorrow edged the words of both national and local community leaders who reacted to the assassination of the civil rights leader in Memphis Thursday. "This senselesf and tragic death of a great leader is a blow not only to those who lpved and respected him, but also to all the freedoms we hold dear," said Mayor James H. Rupp. He ordered flags lowered to half-staff at all municipal buildings for three days in honor of Dr.

King. Rupp and numerous representatives of Decatur's black and white population will participate in a memorial service at 12 noon Saturday in Kintner Gymnasium. The service will include comments by students from each of Decatur's high schools, and will be conducted bv church leaders Johnson Sets Sunday as Day Of Mourning BULLETIN Washington (AP) President Johnson told the nation today he plans to address a joint session of Congress, hopefully by Monday night, to deal with the problems stemming from the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. In a statement broadcast by radio and television he said he wants to give Congress new recommendations and suggestions for easing the plight of the Negro.

Washington (AP) President Johnson today call ed on all Americans to observe Sunday, April 7 as a national day of mourning for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The President, in honor of the assassinated Negro civil rights leader, also ordered that flags be flown at half staff throughout the United States on all federal buildings and on grounds and naval vessels of the government at home and abroad until the interment of King. "In our churches, in our homes, and in our. private hearts," Johnson said, "let us resolve before God to stand against divisiveness in our country and all of its "While others often turned to violence, he sought to accom plish his objectives within the framework of the constitution.

"I am deeply grieved," said the Champaign Republican, "that the loss of a man cf his stature and leadership ability should have come at the very time when those qualities are so badly needed." At Centennial Junior High School this afternoon, a previously scheduled "Sentimental Sing-In" on a patriotic theme was to be followed by a 10-min-ute memorial for King. The addition to the program was led by Rev. Walter Robertson of St. Peter's AME Church. "I am very fearful of the reaction," said James Gude re mese people to bend their knees and surrender to the aggressors by means of a new trick." It was the first Chinese comment on President Johnson's Sunday night bomb pause announcement.

Peking still withheld comment on North Vietnam's announcement Wednesday agreeing to meet with the United States to prepare for peace talks. Peking urged the Vietnamese people to continue to fight untfl they drive U. S. troops out of Vietnam. By doing so, said Peking's of Fair, Warmer Decatur and vicinity: Fan-tonight and Saturday.

Warmer Saturday. Low tonight around 30, high Saturday in 50s. DECATUR WEATHER Compiled by the Review High Thur. 59 7 a.m. Fri.

33 7 p.m. Thur. 34 Noon Fri. 37 Low Fri. 33 Precip.

Humidity Fri. Noon, 46 pet. Precipitation Probability Tonight 5 pet. Sat. 5 pet.

7 p.m. mid 7 a.m. noon Bar. 29.95 30.1- 30.25 30.3 Degree Days 19 Since Sept. 1 4,955 Same period year ago 4,763 Same period 39-yr.

avg. 4,924.6 DECATUR SKIES TODAY Sunset 6:24 p. rise 5:32 I I Associated Press Virephoio nise, then 7. They have a girl, Bernice, younger than Dexter Scott. Out Police officials ordered 7,000 men to remain on duty during the night on the New York streets.

The disturbances broke out first in Harlem, then spread to Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section and nearby Crown Point and Fulton Street areas, and to East New York. Washington Looting Widespread looting was re ported in a Negro section of the nation's capital, where stores were broken into along a six-block section of 14th Street in the Northwest section. A crowd of Negroes threw stones at six police cruisers near a Negro housing project Boston's Roxbury section. Cars carrying newsmen were stoned later by angry bands of youths in Roxbury. In Little Rock, an aide to Gov.

Winthrop Rockefeller said the governor had alerted the 175-man National Guard unit at West Memphis. Thirty Arkan sas state troopers were dis patched to Memphis at the request of Tennessee authorities and were to be deputized. Chicago police officials can celed all days off for Chicago police until further notice "as a precautionary measure only." Some marches in Negro neighborhoods were broken up by police without Tokyo (AP) North Vietnam's official newspaper charged today the United States "has not in the least given up its aggressive design" in Vietnam. At the same time, Communist China's official newspaper described the partial cessation of bombing of North Vietnam as a "new trick or peacehoax." The North Vietnamese said the partial halt was not enough to testify that the United States wants peaceful settlement of the war. Peking said President Johnson's bombing order was intended to 'force the Vietna- King's Duties ToAbernathy Memphis, Tenn.

(AP) The Rev. Ralph Abernathy was named today the new head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He quickly called for silent marches on Sunday around the country in honor of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Abernathy, 41, a cofounder with King of SCLC 11 years ago, said the assassination in Memphis Thursday means he and his staff must work even harder to make nonviolence work.

Abernathy, who cradled King's bloodied head on a towel in his lap while waiting for an ambulance Thursday, was elevated to leadership automatically from vice president at large, a spokesman said. By the Associated Press Violence burst out in cities across the country in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as bands of Negroes smashed windows, looted stores, threw firebombs and attacked police with guns, stones and bottles. A white man was stabbed to; death in the midst of violence in Washington, and a Negro diedj of stab wounds in New York, al though it was not known if thej latter death was related to the violence.

A white vouth died in a fire at Tallahassee, which police; said was started by a firebomb, Scores were injured, including about 50 in Washington, and several score in New York. Two Negro students of Mississippi Valley State College at Itta Bena, were wounded by pellets from shotguns fired by highway patrolmen trying to halt 300 student marchers. Police said shots had been fired from the crowd. Snipers used guns and bows and arrows against police on I the campus of Florida A. M.

University at Tallahassee, but no policemen were hurt. Tallahassee Mayor Eugene Berkowitz and another city official were treated for minor cuts after rocks shattered the win Radio-TV 18 Movies, Amusements "4 Comics 20, 22 Editorials 8 Puzzle 18 Obituaries '23 Womens News 17 Ann Landers 17 Doctor Molner 22 Sports 14, 15 Something To Do 4 Youth News 5 ers. Only once did Carmichael raise his voice. When a newsman asked him if he feared for his life, Carmichael exploded: "To hell with my life, you should fear for yours, I know I'm going to die." Editorial on Page 8.