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1 F iT (?n n 1 o a .H o In Least 20 Die As Racial Conflicts Meightei Washington, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit By United Press International New waves of fire-bombings, looting and racial attacks hit Chicago, Washington and Pittsburgh Saturday. Heavy troop reinforcements poured into riot-scarred Chicago and the nation's capital. Lesser racial outbursts erupted in several other cities across the troubled nation. But in many the tide of violence ebbed and order appeared Testored. Paratroops and Marines moved into Washington and 12,000 troops were expected to be patrolling the streets by nightfall. The force of na tional guardsmen trying to restore peace to Chicago climbed to 7,500. Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley impost a. partial curfew on Chicago. Pittsburg Mayor Joseph M. Rjrr ordered all bars and liquor stores in nLS City closed until Wed nesday. The toll of dead across the country reached at least 20. Chicago had 10 dead, Washington 5, the Detroit metropolitan area 2, and Min neapolis, Memphis and Tallahassee, Fla., l each. Seventeen of the victims were Negroes. In the bitter wave of violence that followed the slaying of Dr. Marton Luther King Jr., more than 1,000 persons had been injured and at least 4,200 arrested in about 50 cities across the nation. A determined show of force by Guardsmen and police forces working around the clock restored order to dozens of cities that had been hit by disorders Thursday night and Friday. In contrast to the rioting in Chicago and Washington, police in Los Angeles reported that "nothing is happening at all" in the Watts area, scene of violent rioting in 1S85. By midafternoon Saturday, Washington police counted 2,520 arrests and Chicago reported nearly 800 had been taken into custody. More than 730 persons had been injured in Washington, more than 200 in Chicago. As Daley issued clamp-down orders, fresh fires blazed on Chicago's northwest side. Snipers shot four persons, in cluding a policeman. Guardsmen traded gunfire with snipers perched in tall buildings. Daley ordered that all persons under 21 be barred from the streets from 7 p.m. until 6 ajn. CST, closed tavens in all troubled spots and ban ned all sales of firearms and ammunition. Twenty-five white persons, most of them hippie types, were arrested when 350 persons tried to stage a "teach-in" at the National Guard Armory where the guard operations are head quartered. Guardsmen repelled them with a show of fixed bayonets and a chemical spray The reinforced troops and police sealed off the worst ragged areas of Washington. MUuary patrols turned back cars attempting to enter the city at the Maryland line. A get-ofUhe-streets deadline was moved up from 5:20 to 4 pJn. EST. Tear gas canisters were fired into crowds that were slow to give way before policemen. 5.- e fresn outburst in Pittsourg at least four business establishments were firehemb ed. Windows were smashed at a big supermarket and eight other stores of the Chateau Piaza Shopping Center. Looting followed. Chicago warmed up under suCTy skies and restless crowds took to the streets ear ly, ftine new fires erupted on the charred West and Southwest Sides. Billowing smoke spread across the near North Side. Marauding bands of looters roamed streets to the southwest, west and northwest of the Loop. A policeman was shot in the leg. Snipers fired on firemen. Brig. Gen. Richard T. Dunn, commander of 6.000 guardsmen called in Friday, L300 tional asked for troops for "an early show of strength." Chicago's riot dead included a 10-monih-old boy burned to death in his crib in a fire set by arsonists. More than 2.000 paratroops of the S2rd Airborne Division, including many veterans of I) AH i r a Op OCt7 mm Sunday, April 7, 1968 Page 5 Si O pares TTh LB J May Send Humphrey To Nobel Winner's Riles of Kin last summer's Detroit riot flew into Washington and were deployed t o troublesposis. A Marine unit moved in to guard the Capitol which, with the Library of Congress, was closed to visitors. Looting ana arson grew after an all-night curfew ended. Shortly before noon a police official said "the situation re mains serious." Michigan Gov. George Romney extended his state of emergency and curfew orders in the Detroit area at least through Sunday night. Thousands of Michigan Na tional Guardsmen, the 4.200 man Detroit police force and hundreds of state police sought to maintain order. Two alleged looters were shot and killed Friday, at least nine persons were injured, and 230 ar rested. New York police said the nation's largest city appeared to be "cooling off. They ar rested 53 persons in sporadic looting and figh?irg Friday night and early Saturday but the situation was described as "incomparably better" than Friday. Police were out in force in Pittsburgh and nearby rnU towns aware that Saturday night is normally the busiest time of the week in the in dustrial towns. An uneasy calm prevailed after outbreaks of wmdow-smashing and looting Friday night and early Saturday. RALEIGH The mayors of Raleigh and Greensboro im posed curfews and banned all forms of marching Saturday to counter racial cisturbances which Eared in the cities for the pas three nights Duke University students held a memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. About 200 persons conducted a peaceful march in Charlotte where city officials proclaimed a three-day mourning period for King. Gov. Dan K. Moore's statewide ban on all sales of raained in effect. At least S2 persons had been arrested and 19 injured during disturbances throughout the State. Raleigh Police said 27 were arrested for curfew viola- tirmc TVir?ar n ATLANTA (UPI) The na tion marks a day of mourning Sunday for slain integration leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose fnneral will be at tended by dignitaries from across the land, including presidential hopeful Sen. Robert J. Kennedy. The body of the 39-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner will lie in state, available for view ing day and night by his thousands of followers, until final burial Tuesday in Southview Cemetery. Kennedy, who supplied King's widow with a 74jseat prop-jet to fly to Memphis and return the body of her murdered husband, cancelled all tig campaigning until after the funeral, and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey likewise postponed all political trips. There has been speculation that President Johnson, who proclaimed the national day of moiiniing Friday, may assign Humphrey to represent him at the funeral. King's body arrived back in Atlanta Friday .afternoon and was taken to Hanley's Funeral Home, in a Negro district, where it was kept in seclusion until funeral' plans could be finalized. It was to be taken by hearse later Saturday to Spelman College, a predominantly Negro girls' school, where it will lie in sUte in Sister's Chapel. Monday the body will be moved to King's Ebenezer Baptist Church, and the follow ing, day the casket will be escort by marchers through the heart of Atlanta to Morehouse College, where Mineral services will be held. In planning the funeral, faaly sources said, King's widow, Coretta, and his father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., tried to symbolize the three most important aspects of King's life: religion, educa tion and marches. Two phones rang almost con stantly through the morning and until midafternoon in the green-walled reception room of Kanley's, while the body lay in private in the basement. The receptionist, Mrs. Pinkie Johnson, kept saying into them: "Yes, he's here, but be won't be viewed until four o'clock ... no, ma'am, not til four." Dusky-faced children stood under the arched stucco en trance to the threestory brick building and peered through Venetian blinds of the front windows, gazing past the red-and-white soft drink machine and the water cooler of the reception room to the flcwerladen pews of the chapel beyond. One Negro woman ap proached a reporter and said: "Thev wouldn't let me see bis body. I've got to go back to work tonight. I thought maybe they'd let you white folks in to see him and maybe you could take me ..." As recently as the first week in Fehruarv. Kimi told the mm m v "Tell him not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize that isnt important. Tell him not to mention that I have 300 or 400 other awards-that's not important. Tell him- not to mention where I went to school' Then King said: "I'd like somebody to men tion that day that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to give his life serving others. I'd just like for somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to love somebody." NASHVILLE, Tenn. About 4,000 National Guard troops surrounded and sealed off the campus of Tennessee A L I State University Saturday "to avert any potential disorder." Tennessee Adj. Gen. Robert W. Akin visited the area and said that "guardsmen are con tinuing to take precautionary moves in an effort to avert anv potential disorder. The seal-off was prompted by the gathering of between 500 and 1,000 students on the campus earlier in the day. No arrests, injuries o r violence were reported. Akin said feat the puard had "sufficient people" to insure order. .Nothing Hurt Him ence, As Did r- - ' --it- , Viol By HENRY P. LEIFERMAN ATLANTA (UPI) The widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said Saturday her husband died in pursuit of non violence and begged those "who loved and admired him to join us in Mfilling his dream." In a clear, soft voice, Coretta King said her assassinated husband "knew this was a sick society, totally infested with racism and violence. Nothing hurt hime more than violence," she said. Sources in King's Southern Christi an Leadership Con ference said the White House asked Mrs. King to make a plea for an end to the violence that has wracked the country following her husband's killing in Memphis. But she did not specifically ask for an end to the noting in her brief statement, made in the sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King often preached. "I have consented to appear publicly because thousands of people have asked how they could carry on my husband's work." She said King "gave his life for the poor of the world, the garbage workers of Memphis and the peasants of Vietnam. Nothing hurt him more than that men could at tempt no way to solve pro blems except through violence. "He gave his life in search of a more excellent way, a more effective way, a creative rather than a destructive way." intend to EO on in Ring a thick wooken cross with a flickering orange light bulb over it, Mrs. King gazed at the television cameras and said "our children say calmly 'Daddy is not dead. He may be physically dead but his spirit will never die.' " , She praised the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who succeeded King at the helm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. "My husband always said that if anything ever happened to him, he would like for Ralph Abernathy to take his place," she said. Abernathy, sitting beside her, looked into the cameras and said "Even though you may have been able to stop the heartbeat of Martin Luther King, you cannot stop the movement he led." v, I h 11 -O..Q v .:.rJ. : 'King's Murder Will Put Spur To Congress 9 " w 71 T ivioujr A small child expressed a grief she may or may not completely 1HI. H. WH.K understand during mourning vigil held on Franklin Street Satnr day for the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Pro SporHs P&sHpoimed of that way, search said. "The day that people and others are truly free, I husband will rest aeserveu She said King she the Negro in bondage know my in a long- "knew that at any moment ins yy j life could e cui suurt, we faced this Possibility squarely and honestly. My hus band faced the possibility of th not with bitterness or hatred.- He knew that this was By United Press International American sports, acting in deference to the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., mov ed Saturday to cut activity sharply from Sunday through Tuesday by postponing or cancelling a majority of the scheduled pro events. For the first time in history, the start of the major league baseball season was pushed back a full 48 hours from Monday to Wednesday. . Not even two world wars had forc ed the delay that baseball voluntarily made in order not to conflict with Dr. King's funeral in Atlanta on Tuesday morning. I addition, the National Basketball Association and Na tional Hockey League an nounced plans to move back Among the events scheduled to be held Sunday were the final 3 holes of the Greater Greensboro Open golf tourna ment and an exhibition a every now and then I think Jsu" d his motives and about my own death and I views, which wink about my own "v- 1t?rnatrfv iead to his vvvu - sick society, totally infested baseball game between the Los Mpicm ana violence iuu iigcit uuugers ana funeral." King said didn't want And if you deliver the at the time he a ions iuaei". get somebody to euloffv tell him not to talk too long." The minister went on to say, death, and he struggieu wiu every ounce of his energy to save that society from itself " Dressed in black, seated on a worn wooden chair before Cleveland Indians at San Diego. The nine other schedul ed exhibitions were can celled. The Washington Senators an nounced Saturday morning that the presidential opener against Minnesota will now be played Wednesday, but still be the season opener. National League President Warren Giles also announced that the Pittsburgh game at Houston Monday night will be pushed back two days to Wednesday night. Earlier Giles had announced 4hat the Na tional League opener between the Chicago Cubs and the Reds in Cincinnati was being moved back 48 hours to Wednesday afternoon. The Baltimore Orioles an nounced their opening baseball game, scheduled for Tuesday against the Oakland Athletics, will be played Wednesday. Frank Cashen, Oriole presi dent, said it would be "inap propriate" to play on Tuesday due to the funeral of Dr. King. In a statement from its New York offices, the NHL an nounced that the second game of tiie Eastern Division playoffs between the New York Rangers and Chicago Black' Hawks will be played Tuesday night in Madison Square Garden rather than Sunday. The Western Division playoff series between the St. Louis . Blues and Philadelphia Flyers also will be delayed with Mon day night's game postponed to Wednesday and the fourth game pushed back to Friday. Both of the division playoffs in the NBA met similar fates. The Philadelphia 76er's game against the Celtics in Boston has been postponed from Sun day to Wednesday night as has the San Francisco War riors game in Los Angeles against the Lakers. The American Basketball Association postponed the Pittsburgh-Minnesota and New Orleans-Dallas playoff games scheduled for Sunday, but con tinued to hold emergency meetings Saturday afternoon to fix revised dates for the best of seven Eastern and Western Division eliminations. By TODD COHEN of The Daily Tar Heel Staff "The racial problem today stems from a lack f o com munication between the races at the basic levels" "What is needed is a massive program of social reorganization." This interpretation was given yesterday in an interview with Kelly Alexander, Jr., Vice president of the youth division of the state chapter, National Association for the Advan cement of Colored People. Alexander feels the violent response to the assassination of Martin Luther TTing "isnt the way to alleviate the pro blem." He said the American Negro comprises only a small faction of the population of the United States and it would be "physically impossible for this faction to take over." He explained the violence as an outlet for the people "who just wanted to react in someway." 'Teople aren't thinking now, they're reacting, feeling. If you don't have the empathy, you cant understand," he added. Alexander further said "more immediately, people are thinking about keeping the peace." "It takes an act of senseless violence, such as the murders of John F. Kennedy, or Martin Luther King, to galvanize the American consciousness and the Congress into immediate action," he said. Alexander compared the civil rights legislation subse quent to the Kennedy assassination to the special meeting of Congress called for Monday by President Johnson as a result of Thursday's slaying of Dr. King. ; . . The NCAACP leader believes "dramatic steps" by Congress, as well as state Legislatures, and municipal governments. He called for passage of such legislation as guaranteed minimum income, a federal job placement service, and in tegration from the grass roots level. "It takes a federal level ef fort and a universal program to alleviate the problem," he said. Alexander said legislation win require money, and ques tions the rarwillingness of Congress to provide the necessary funds which com prise only "a fraction of the money being poured into the Viet war." Regarding the Socialist Worker Party's platform ad vocating "black control for black communities," Alex ander said, "I'm all in favor of Negro police and not forcing people to live with people with who they dont wish to live." "But isolated all-black com munities don't bring the necessary communication," he added. Following word of the assassination, Alexander said he first reaction was "shock and surprise." "But then I realized this represented a turning point. I can't think of one leader who can take Dr. King's place; . he was a symbol and symbol's are dfificult to replace,' he said. Alexander said he is doing his "bit to contribute to the stability, but so is everyone." He spent Friday imerviewing people in Raleigh for a WMO radio broadcast to "inform Morrison's residents of the situation." 'Police At Fault' Shaw Presidem ii Brick Miller, editor of the N.C. State University Techni cian, interviewed Shaw University President James Cheek Thursday night. Here is this story. By BRICK MILLER Special to The Dally Tar Heel RALEIGH "They had been asked not to go," Dr. James Cheek, President of Shaw University said, "but then emotion was such that they went anyway. It was a peaceful march." Dr. Cheek "was talking about Thursday night's clash between Shaw students and Raleigh police. He was relating the Shaw side of the story as it was told to him by Bill Jones, Shaw's student body president, who took part in the march, and as he himself witnessed the later events. According to Cheek, when Dr. King's death was an nounced Thursday night, about 25 to 30 Shaw students started in a sympathy march to the Capitol building, at the other end of Fayetteville Street. "They were stopped on Federal Street by about fifteen policemen and told they were in a riot area," Cheek con tinued. The policemen were wearing riot helmets; they called for reinforcements. The students and police talk ed for several minutes. Then the police handcuffed an unidentified student. At that point fighting broke out between the two groups; the students retreated back to the campus. "There was no riot at that point," Cheek said. "The students gathered at the north end of the campus they were being intimidated by police across the street. Cheek asked the police to withdraw and took the students to the gym to try to calm them. As they left the gym, they heard shots from the police; a car was seen on fire on the street. Cheek claims that tpeople" in the parking lot of Memorial Auditorium started "sporadic sniping" onto the Shaw cam pus. Cheek was unable to say whether the snipers were whites or Negroes. One student was reported by Cheek to have suffered a minor flesh wound. There was no confirmation of this incident by authorities. Cheek places the blame for the incidents on the police. "I think I have had fairly good cooperation from the police chief and his two assistants," Cheek said, "but I cant say the same for the rest of the police force. "H we had a riot in Raleigh it was because of the police. They tried to prevent Shaw students from doing anything not students from outside the campus from doing anything to Shaw." Cheek also claimed that the Shaw incidents have been blown out of proportion by the press. "The daily press is trying to make these acts seem to be those of Shaw students," Cheek said. "Heel that close investigation will show students from off campus doing most of the roiting." Cheek feels that the con tinued presence of police and National Guardsmen in Raleigh will keep the situation tense. He also feels that the death of Martin Luther King was not the cause but the catalyst for the nation-wide disturbances. "The decision-makers must make redresses for the grievances of the Negroes or said.
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