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Fair to Motorcycle Partl y Cloudy Helmet Swap And Wa rmer Classified Section Press Search for King's Assassin Clark Reports Shooting Brings Violence ! Substantial Dozen Cities Leads Found MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark said today that "substantial leads'* Blistered by had been developed in the hunt for the killer of Dr. Martin Lu- ther King Jr. Clark said tha slaying appeared to be the work Riots, Looting of one man. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "We've got some substantial Violence burst out in cities leads," Clark said, after flying across the country in the wake here from Washington: "We're of the assassination of Dr. Mar- very hopeful. We've got soma tin Luther King Jr. as bands of good breaks." Negroes smashed windows, loot- King's slaying Thursday ed stores, threw firebombs and sparked Negro violence across attacked police with guns, the nation, but most of it subsid- stones and bottles. ed at daybreak. And President Johnson delayed his departure A white man was stabbed to for Hawaii and a strategy death in the midst of violence in conference with U.S. officials Washington, and a Negro died from Saigon. of stab wounds in New York, al- though it was not known if the Clark told newsmen "there is latter death was related to the no evidence at this time of any violence. conspiracy." King died in a Memphis hospi- A white youth died in a fire at tal less than an hour after he Tallahassee, Fla., which police was shot in the neck as be stood said was started by a firebomb . on the balcony of his motel. Po- Scores were injured, including lice searched for a white gun- about 50 in Washington, and man. several score in New York. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Two Negro students of Missis- newly named to succeed King sippi Valley State College at Itta as head of the Southern Chris- Bena , Miss., were wounded by tian Leadership Conference, pellets from shotguns fired by called for silent marches Sun- highway patrolmen trying to day around the nation in King's halt 300 student marchers. Po- memory. He said he and other lice said shots had been fired LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE ...Dr. Martin Luther SCLC officials would return from the crowd. Monday to lead King, who was fatally wounded by an assassin's bullet a silent march. Snipers used guns and bows Memphis was relatively calm Thursday night in Memphis, Tenn., is shown during his this morning after six hours of and arrows against police on the last public appearance Wednesday night at Mason Temple in & M. Uni- looting, arson and shootings set campus of Florida A. Memphis. King, 39, was shot in the neck by a bullet as he FIRE IN HARLEM . Firemen battle blaze on 125th Negro neighborhood after it was learned that Negro civil versity at Tallahassee, but no off Thursday night by the slay- Street in the Harlem area of New York City. Thursday rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King had been shot to policemen were hurt. stood on the balcony of a motel. He died less than an hour ing. The dusk-to-dawn curfew later in St. Joseph Hospital. (AP Photofax) was lifted this morning and Na- night. A furniture store was looted and set ablaze in the death in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photofax) Tallahassee Mayor Eugene another city offi- tional Guardsmen and police pa- Berkowitz and trolled possible trouble cial were treated for minor cuts areas. The Memphis Press-Scimitar after rocks shattered the win- said police arrested a short, Carmichael dows of their car. LBJ Pleads for balding white man this morning In Detroit, two policemen as he left a rooming house near were shot and wounded as they the shooting scene. H was r« patrolled a Negro section, but ported turned over to the FBI, Tells Negroes that city escaped the street vio- Americans to but the FBI agent in charge, lence that erupted elsewhere. Walter Happel said he had no In Memphis, where King died, information on the arrest. police shot and critically wound- To Arm, Kill ed a man they said had been Violence King's widow fle w to Mem- Reject phis in a plane WASHINGTON UP) - Black caught behind a store with a ri- chartered by fle (AP) said: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy to power advocate Stokely Car- . WASHINGTON — Presi- More than 90 persons were ar- dent Johnson called on the na- "The dream of Martin Luther claim the body of her slain hus- michael urged Negroes to- rested in Memphis and a like band. She remained aboard the tion today — all men and all King has not died with him. day to arm themselves wi th number in New York, and plane at the airport. gnns and take to the streets scores in other cities in the races—to "stand their ground to "Men who are white—men The body, in a bronze casket, was put on view in retaliation for the assas- midst of the violence. deny violence its victory" in the who are black—must and will and hundreds join together now as never in of Negroes passed to pay their sination of Dr. Martin La- As word of Dr. King's death wake of the slaying of Dr. Mar- last respects. A large spread through Memphis, Ne- the past to let all the forces of crowd ther King Jr. tin Luther King Jr. division know that America was still at the funeral home Carmichael told a news groes in scattered areas looted when the casket was stoned police and fire The President's statement shall not be ruled by the bullet loaded into conference he wants black stores, a hearse to be taken to the air- trucks and threw fire bombs. was issued after a hastily sum- but by the ballot of free and America to "kill off the real just men." port. As Abernathy closed the enemy." The violence continued today. moned meeting at the White door on the hearse, he said: "We have to retaliate for House of civil rights leaders, Johnson said that when he "Long live the king." , National Guard troops were government officials and mem- heard Thursday night "the ter- the death of «nr leaders " rushed back to Memphis after President Johnson led the na- he said. bers of Congress. rible news of Dr. King 's death tion in mourning and tribute. In "Tlie execution of those having been pulled out only He voiced again his sorrow at my heart went out to his people Wednesday. Troops also were a nationwide television and ra- debts will not be in the the death of the Negro apostle —especially to the young Ameri- dio appearance he called upon They will be in sped into Nashville, where vio- courtrooms. of non-violence, assassinated by cans who, I know, must wonder "every citizen to rejec t the the streets of the United lence flared shortly after the a rifleman Thursday night in if they are to be denied a full- blind violence that has .struck Stnte-s of America." shooting. Memphis , ness of life because There were disturbances in Tenn. of the color down Dr. Martin Luther King. "When white America kill- CAR SET AFIRE . Car burns in front ment of slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Johnson meanwhile kept in of their skin. " . Hartford , Conn., Tallahassee, But violence flared in Mem- ed I>r. King she opened the of an automobile dealer in Negro neighbor- Jr. Heavy looting was reported in the six- abeyance his plans to fly to He said eyes of every black man in Fla., and Monticello and Green- he had called to the phis and the convulsive reaction hood of Northwest Washington Thursday night block area. (AP Photofax) Honolulu later in the day for this country," Carmichael (Continued on Page 2A . col. S) (Continued on Page announce- (Continued on Page 10A, Col. 2) Vietnam policy talks. 10A , Col. 3) said. after crowds gathered following JOHNSON KING Caxmichacl Warned Presi- VIOLENCE The President's statement dent Lyndon B. Johnson and 'KNEW IT COULD HAPPEN' Robert F. Kennedy, I)- N.Y., along with the rest of the nation 's white popu- King Practiced lation for the death of the Nobrl Peace Prize winner. The militant Black Power Mrs. King: Its leader declared, that vio- His Preachings lence that erupted in city after city across the nation By DON MCKKK know what to <lo with it , " after King was shot in Mem- Associated Press Writer he once said of nonviolence. The Will of God phis is "just light stuff" (AP) ATLANTA, Ga. — "Even if they kill us, we ATLANTA , Ga. Ml— "I do when compared with "wliat mantle of Negro have power." woman was composed but When the think it's the will of God , " will happen," leadership fell on the should- King received many hon- neemed dazed. She wept oc- to retalia te ," he .said Mrs. Martin Luther "We have ers of Martin Luther King ors , climaxed with the No- casionally and accepted a added. King ,Ir ., a few hours after Jr., death /ell in behind bel Peace Prize of 1964 ; he the death of her husband . few phone calls , one from li ini to dog his steps until influenced presidents, met "We always knew this could President Johnson. a bullet found its murk 13 with heads of state, yet happen . " years later. King long be- could arouse the field hands , Recuperating from major Mrs. King was in seclus- surgery, she fore had learned to live the masses. Ho received his ion of her home Thursday reclined on Hanoi: Partial her bed watching telev ision with the threat of death.