Statesville Record and Landmark (Newspaper) - April 8, 1968, Statesville, North Carolina MT A F A M Tonight oclock All Members Are Urged To Attend visiting brethren welcome in tht Heart of tht Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Carolina STATESVILLE RECORD a LANDMARK 94 APRIL 1968 85 Communists Suggest Site For Peace Talk NATIONAL RIOTS BY NEGROES KILL 30 i 4 UNION GROVE White is shown driving his huge Holstein weighing in the neighborhood of a ton apiece and said to be the largest in the Ivy wellknown master of the modern Daniel Boone wagon is the Whites oxen will be a featured attraction in the Union Grove parade Saturday which is part of the annual fiddling convention 42 Are Dead In Explosion toll of the Richmond explosion went to 42 today as workers kept up a search of the ruins for more Authorities said 50 persons may have perished Saturday in the blast that shattered the center of this eastern Indiana Twenty persons still were on the missing list and officials presumed many were among the 17 unidentified The many still buried in the were caught inside the collapsing buildings or on the sidewalks or in their cars on downtown Main One of the missing is a boy last seen in a telephone booth that was disintegrated by the The men who had worked without interruption digging in the halted operations temporarily at 7 Sunday and resumed again this morn The investigation to deter mine the triggering cause of the original explosion begins in earnest with a report session this Arson was one of the although Richmond Fire Chief Donovan Johnson I dont think In one identification of the dead was based on a small lapel pin known to have been worn by the missing Dental plates and fingerprint files were also being utilized for Johnson said he was unable to confirm reports that gunpowder in the Marling a sporting goods set off the and Donald who operated the are among the Johnson said an explosion definitely occurred inside the Marting today only a huge hole in the Adjoining buildings were piles of Johnson and Harlan Green said preliminary investi gation indicated the explosion ruptured gas causing them to leak and causing the fires that PRAISE WHERE we be among the first publicly to commend the Negroes of Statesville and Iredell county for having acquitted themselves as first class citizens during the past few days However great the provoca tion local Negroes showed a proper restraint from vio a commendable respect for the rights of others and a sense of responsibility as work ing partners in the preservation of law and No one loses from such con On the no one really gains anything from such ex of mass violence and mad destruction as has gone on in some of our major Everybody When grievances are legal redress is always avail able but when valid grievances are sought to be redressed by illegal the distinction between the offense and the offender is lost and the plaintiff become as guilty as the de Maintenance of law and order is the first duty of The only substitute for that is a system in which the rewards are reserved for those with the quickest trigger on the other is a system of restraints adopt ed by society for the mutual benefit of its It con sists not so much in doing what one is compelled to do as what one ought to Negro citizens Down In Iredell have long since understood these principles and give every evi dence of wanting to live by They in the great turned deaf ears to the organizers and the agitators and have gone about the daily task of trying to improve their own lot by their own Such qualities should not be overlooked by others in the com If rewards are to be they should go to those among us who are seeking to build rather than to All too often it seems to be the other way SEASON we went up into the mountains over the weekend to help open the trout season and we can report that it was duly Public streams were overrun with some of whom had come prepared to There were literally hundreds of fish some lining the wading the or working the we were on a private which was less crowded with but per haps more crowded with They were striking at almost anything and were hooked by the dozen but every one of them was returned to the stream to fight again another We were far beyond the reach of television or radio and it was something of a shock when we returned to civilization after a weekend of looting and It makes those mountains look better all the mus and mild through Local temperatures for the 24 hour period ending at 6 today 67 STATESVILLE SHOTS and Louis MELSHEIMER watching Lawrence WELK David and Martha POPE dis covering that has two teeth Little Stevie age winning third prize at the Carolina Opry Wages Of Sin England Two puppies for advertised the Alan Taylor in his church issue of a clandes tine love affair between his female beagle and a local New Detergent railways board has come up with the worlds most astonishing fruit cleans But its not The cocktail consists of fragments of apri cot plum coco nut and walnut shells and tiny colored glass all mixed in a strong Red Chinese Urging Hanoi Not To Stop TOKYO Hanoi said tonight North Vietnam was willing to meet the American diplomats at Phnom or any other mutual ly agreeable city for ry The broadcast coincided with a statement in Phnom Penh by Prince Norodom the Cambodian chief of that his neutral country would gladly offer the city as the site for Vietnam peace nego A dispatch from Phnom Penh said Cambodian officials had not yet received a formal request from Hanoi to use Phnom Penh as the negotiation Since the United States has no diplomatic relations with Cam thus no embassy in Phnom would prefer to hold the talks in Burma or The Hanoi broadcast said talks should be on the ambassadorial Communist China has threaten ed to withdraw support from Hanoi if it negotiates with the United States for a compromise Vietnam diplomatic reports said Peking is putting heavy pressure on the regime of North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh to continue the fight against America to the bitter It insists victory is near for the Withdrawal of Peking support would involve the cutting off of economic and military aid to the Hanoi the reports Communist China also was said to have made it clear to Hanoi that she will boycott any peace conference such as the proposed recall of the Geneva conference of which Red China was a full member in Peking has attacked President Johnsons peace offer as a fraud and warned Hanoi against accepting Apparently hopeful to swing its decision in the last moment against after five days of official came out in support of announce ment of willingness to send representatives to meet Ameri cans for a peace Plane Falls On Takeoff LONDON British Overseas Airways BOAC jetliner with 126 persons aboard crashed and burned at London Airport today when it tried to return to the airport minus an engine and with a wing in The BOAC press office said that according to unofficial reports there may be as many as 103 survivors from the crash and that most of them managed to jump from the burning plane as it smacked into the ground and erupted into a mass of The big Boeing 707 had lost an engine on takeoff and its left wing fell off when it hit the The plane took off at 12 minutes behind sche SCENE OF a jeep carrying soldiers on patrol Race Violence Is Reported By 85 Cities By Racial violence unleashed by the murder of Martin Luther King has struck more than fourscore American cities in a destructive orgy of staggering Since Kings assassination in Thursday including the Palm Sunday national day of mourn ing proclaimed by President Johnson in honor of the fallen civil rights at least 85 cities were visited by The macabre box score accompanying the most wide spread racial unrest in Ameri is the only traffic passing row after row of buildings along the citys cas west Christian Art Guard Cities Show Opens Put Under Curfews It was Palm Sunday in States ville and the places of worship were It was brilliant spring day and ministers brought messages of the triumphant entry of our Lord into They prayed for peace in the streets and calm The worshipers moved out of the sanctuaries into sunshine and Holy Hundreds later visited the second annual Festival of Christian Arts at Johns Lutheran Church in wor shipful moved from section to section to study the artists interpretations of the meaning of the Christian This is one of the most ex tensive shows of Christian Art that has come to this entire There are 158 pieces of art crafts not counting the Kiddie Korner where drawings of the children are More than 200 people had come to see the show during the first hour and onehalf and they continued to arrive in droves until closing time at 5 The exhibit opened again at 7 and remained open until 9 It will be open to the public Tuesday and Wednesday from 2 until 4 and from until and Thursday from 2 until 4 There are a number of very fine paintings by but probably the most interesting part of the entire exhibit is the number and the quality of paintings done by local most of them members of the Statesville Artists The following children had drawings of their impressions of various religious themes Craig Julie Chris Gil Barbara Andy Lynn Mark Janice Kim David Michael Steven Harold Robin Middles Susan Tommy Van Greg Cathy Jimmy Thomas and Donnie Ray Up RALEIGH Regin ald Hawkins planned to lead a memorial march in Charlotte today in tribute to Martin Luther King as more than National Guardsmen pa trolled streets in cities through out North Several fires were reported in racial disturbances 14 of them in were relatively calm throughout the state on Palm National Guardsmen dispers ed more than a hundred Negro es in Wilmington with tear gas and fixed bayonets in two clash A bomb scare in Raleigh March In Memphis thousand persons today began the march through Memphis to honor slain integration leader Martin Luther King without waiting for his The march had to start on schedule because of television march organiz ers Kings flight from Atlanta was delayed by weather and she was expected to join the throng later during the The march spread from sidewalk to sidewalk a few blocks from the hotel where King was slain and stretched several blocks at the The arrival of hundreds of other persons from out of many of them wellknown politicians and was also delayed by the The march had barely begun when it was temporarily halted to get better Police and National Guard troops manned barricades along the march route and clamped on the tightest security the city has ever DEADLINE EXTENDED Com missioner of has an that the deadline for filing state tax returns has been extended from midnight April 15 to midnight April since Easter Monday is a legal holiday in North forced memorial services for the slain civil rights leader out More than churchmen marched peacefully through Wil son and did the same in Elizabeth City in memorial tri There were no incidents in either Curfews were Imposed in eight Tar Heel cities from the Piedmont to the Guard troops remained on duty in six cities and Dan Moore refused to send troops into Greenville where minor distur bances flared Sunday Arrest figures climbed toward the 400 mostly for curfew in the demonstrations which began Thursday night in anger over the slaying of the leader of nonviolent pro At police arrest ed scores of Negroes Mostly for curfew violations and the New Hanover County School Board called off classes Charlotte police arrested 65 121 were nabbed in 80 arrests were re corded in 20 in Dur 38 in Goldsboro and 45 in An unannounced number of National Guard units were re ported on alert in armor ies throughout the state in case they are A group of State Uni versity students in Raleigh agreed to call off a planned march the governors man A group of 150 white stu did gather at the gallery of the State Legis lative After the meet they presented a list of grievances to an aide of Dan Moore asking for govern ment action to assist poverty stricken Approximately 250 Duke uni versity students ended a two day at the home of the school president Douglas Knight in a similar tion of what they said was white support of Negro They reassembled on the Duke Approximately students at the University of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill conducted a memorial march and held a service without Dead at least Injured more than Arrested Troops National Damage ran into countless Fire destruction in Chicago and Washington alone totaled at least million each Other cities assessed wreckage in many millions The hardest hit Balti Chicago and maintained a fragile peace today under the stern hand of thousands of federal troops and National Guardsmen supple menting local Hard In where bands of Negroes ran for three nights through the Hill District guardsmen were on duty and others were on standby alert through western ready for a renewal of the Chicago had 11 Washington Baltimore Detroit 2 and Tallahassee and Oak land 1 Washington had more than half the arrests and twothirds of the as the nations capital remained in the tight control of more than federal Despite the day of mourning Baltimore and Pit experienced sharp vi In the first major racial disorder in the history of of a 20square block Negro ghetto was ran looted and At least 712 persons were 24 injured seriously enough to require hospital and 188 fires were A police spokesman said it was ble to assess Troops In Baltimore federal troops with bayonets attached to rifles patrolled the Negro sections of Baltimore today after what Fire Chief John Killen Sunday said was the most serious civil crisis the city has faced since the great Baltimore fire of Other cities reporting serious violence since the assassination included Gainesville and Talla Pine Des Iowa Detroit New York City Memphis Dur ham and and Most Wonted Man In America Police Officers Believed To Have Name Of Rifleman Who Murdered Martin Luther King UPD The woman who rented him a flophouse room said he had a silly The police chief said he wasnt necessarily a The attorney gener al said he worked He killed Martin Luther He stood in a slimy rested his rifle on a win dow and with a single shot plunged the nation into mourn Ramsey Clark said all evidence pointed toward the assassin being a Police have described the man as aged 26 to perhaps driving a white Clark said Sunday po lice believe they have identified him by The most difficult questions to answer are how the within a space of just over 24 located the hotel and the room where King was and selected the vantage point from which he Kings whereabouts were not public No hotel in Memphis would confirm or deny his In the previ ous he had stayed in the fashionable Holiday Inn River There was no advance notice that when he arrived he would check into the Lorraine The Lorraine is a big hotel with rooms on several It would not be enough for the assassin to learn that King was His room loca tion would be Perhaps the assassin located him by trailing him in from the airport although his arrival time was not announced or from his speech Wednesday night at a large Memphis would have left the assassin hard pressed for time to find a vantage point for his The most striking point is that the windows of the unnamed flophouse which face the Lorraine Hotel cannot be seen from the A view of them is blocked by a high wall and a growth of peach The man walked into the flop house nattily dressed said he was John Willard and paid for his room for a week with a crisp The only trace he left was an impression on the mattress where he perhaps for half an probably looking out the win Perhaps he decided he could get a better angle from the bathroom down the He went into the bathroom and locked the and failed to answer Willie Anchutz when he pounded on To make the he had tv stand in the He used a scope on his and through a trained on the balcony where King the branches of a tree loom His rifle was powerful and not a mail After firing the he walked but down the long dark hallway and down I lie exit stairs into the late evening His car was parked in front of the flop Normally he could have walked straight out the with his rifle in one hand and his small blue bag in the mid stepped into his But another automobile had pulled up so close behind his car that he could not squeeze He would have to walk around the second He turned left on South Main and when he did he may have seen the three squad cars up the street He dodged into the area of Canipe Amusements 426 South He stood there beside a dusty display cf old phonograph records and a yellowed sign that said Records 25 I saw him drop the but I didnt go If you had seen a man drop a rifle in your what would you have done Canipe went to the back of his The killer deposited the rifle and the bag in the doorway stopped out to his car and the wanted man in
