Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - April 5, 1968, Winona, Minnesota Fair to Partly Cloudy And Warmer WINONA DAILY NEWS TOMORROW SUN RISES SETS FULL MOON APRIL 12 YMP of Publication WINONA MINNESOTA 55987 FRIDAY APRIL TEN CENTS PER COPY Motorcycle Helmet Swap Classified Section 2 SECTIONS 18 PAGES Press Search for King's Assassin Shooting Brings Violence FIRE IN HARLEM Firemen battle blaze on Negro neighborhood after it was learned that Negro civil Street to the Harlem area of New York City Thursday rights leader Dr Martin Luther King had been shot to night A furniture store was looted and set ablaze in the death in Memphis Tenn AP Tells Negroes To Arm Kill WASHINGTON Black power advocate michael urged Negroes day to arm themselves with guns and take to the streets In retaliation for the of Dr Martin ther King Jr told a news conference he wants black America to kill off the real enemy We have to retaliate for the death of onr he said The execution of those debts will not be in the courtrooms They will be in the streets of tile United Slates of America When white America ed Dr King she opened the eyes of every black man in this Carmichael said Carmichael blamed dent Lyndon B Johnson and Robert F Kennedy D- along with he rest of he nation's white lation for the death of he Nobel Peace Prize winner The militant Black Power leader declared that lence that erupted in city after across he nadon after King was shc in is jus light stuff when compared what will happen have to he added Partial Bombing Halt Not Enough TOKYO Hanoi said today he partial cessation of bombing of North nam is no sufficient to show ha he Stales wants a peaceful settlement The statement was con- in a commentary of Nhan Dan the organ of the North Vietnamese Workers communist parly Nhan Dan said he fact I h a I President Johnson promised Ihc Saigon regime protection in his address of March 31 proved that he U.S had not abandoned ils intent of CAR SET AFIRE Car burns in front of an automobile dealer in Negro hood of Northwest Washington Thursday night after crowds gathered following King Practiced His Preachings ment of slaying of Dr Martin Luther King Jr Heavy looting was reported in the block area AP Dozen Cities Blistered by Riots Looting By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Violence burst out in cities across the country in the wake of the assassination of Dr tin Luther King Jr as bands of Negroes smashed windows ed 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 died of stab wounds in New York though it was not known if the latter death was related to the violence A while youth died in a fire at Tallahassee Fla 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 sippi Valley State College at Itta Bena Miss were wounded by pellets from shotguns fired by highway patrolmen trying to halt 300 student marchers lice said shots had been fired from the crowd Snipers used guns and bows and arrows against police on the campus of Florida A 4 M Uni- versity at Tallahassee but no policemen were hurt Tallahassee Mayor Eugene Berkowitz and another city cial were treated for minor after rocks shattered the dows of their car In Detroit two policemen were shot and wounded as they patrolled a Negro section but that city escaped the street lence that erupted elsewhere In Memphis where King died police shot and critically ed a man they said had been caught behind a store with a ri- fle More than 90 persons were ar- rested in Memphis and a like number in New York and scores in other cities in the midst of the violence As word of Dr King's death spread through Memphis groes in scattered areas tooled stores stoned police and fire trucks and threw fire bombs The violence continued today National Guard troops were rushed back to Memphis after having been pulled out only Wednesday Troops also were sped into Nashville where lence flared shortly after the shooting There were disturbances in Hartford Conn Tallahassee Fla and and on Page IDA Col 2 VIOLENCE LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE Dr Martin Luther King who was fatally wounded by an assassin's bullet Thursday night in Memphis is shown during his last public appearance Wednesday night at Mason Temple in Memphis King 39 was shot in the neck by a bullet as he stood on the balcony of a motel He died less than an hour later in St Joseph Hospital AP LBJ Pleads for Americans to Reject Violence WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson called on the tion today all men and all stand their ground to deny violence its victory in the The dream of Martin Luther King has not died with him Men who are who are and will wake of the slaying of Dr together now as never in the past to let all the forces of division know that America shall not be ruled by the bullet but by the ballot of free and just men tin Luther King Jr The President's statement was issued after a hastily meeting at the White House of civil rights leaders government officials and bers of Congress He voiced again his sorrow at the death of the Negro apostle of assassinated by rifleman Thursday night in Memphis Tenn Johnson meanwhile kept in abeyance his plans to fly to Honolulu later in the day for Vietnam policy talks The President's statement Clark Reports Substantial Leads Found MEMPHIS Tenn AP Atty Gen Ramsey Clark said today that substantial leads had been developed in the hunt for the killer of Dr Martin ther King Jr Clark said the slaying appeared to be the work of one man We've got some substantial Clark said after flying here from Washington We're very hopeful We've got some good breaks King's slaying Thursday sparked Negro violence across the nation but most of it ed at daybreak And President Johnson delayed his departure for Hawaii and a strategy conference with U.S officials from Saigon Clark old newsmen ii no evidence at this time of any conspiracy King died in a Memphis tal less than an hour after he was shot in the neck as he stood on the balcony of his motel lice searched for a white man The Rev Ralph Abernathy newly named to succeed King as head of the Southern tian Leadership Conference called for silent marches day around the nation in King's memory He said he and other officials would return Monday to lead a silent march Memphis was relatively calm this morning after six hours of looting arson and shootings set off Thursday night by the ing The curfew was lifted this morning and tional Guardsmen and police trolled possible trouble areas The Memphis said police arrested a short balding while man this morning as he left a rooming house near the shooting scene H was 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 o in a plane chartered by Sen Robert F Kennedy to claim the body of her slain band She remained aboard plane at the airport The body in a bronze casket was put on view and hundreds f Negroes passed to pay their last respects A large crowd was still at Die funeral home when the casket was loaded into a hearse to be taken to the ort As Abernathy closed the Johnson said that when he live tne King heard Thursday night the rible news of Dr King's death my heart went out to his people to the young cans who I know must wonder if they are to be denied a ness of life because of the color of their skin He said he had called to the Continued on Page 2A col I JOHNSON President Johnson led the tion in mourning and tribute In a nationwide television and dio appearance he called upon every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck down Dr Martin Luther King But violence flared in and the convulsive reaction Continued on Page Col 3 KING By DON MCKEE Associated Press Writer ATLANTA Ga AP When the mantle of Negro leadership fell on the ers of Martin Luther King Jr death fell in behind him to dog his steps until a bullet found its mark 13 years later King long fore had learned to live with the threat of death Don't stop he had exhorted Negroes at a rally in ham Ala only a few weeks before he was killed Let's hava a quality even in the midst of our he said King had the quality of being gentle with courage to speak his convictions We have a weapon so powerful they just don't know what to do with he once said of nonviolence Even if they kill us we have power King received many ors climaxed with the No- bel Peace Prize of 1964 he influenced presidents met with heads of state yet could arouse the field hands the masses He received his Ph D degree from Boston University in 1955 the year he began the boycott of Continued on Page Col S HIS LIFE KNEW IT COULD HAPPEN Mrs It's The Will of God PRESIDENT JOHNSON We Are Saddened VICE PRES HUMPHREY Country Shamed FLOYD MC KISSICK Nonviolence Dead ATLANTA Ga do it's the will of said Mrs Martin Luther King Jr a few hours after the death of her husband We always knew this could happen Mrs King was in ion of her home Thursday night receiving only a few close friends in her room The slender attractive WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST fROM BLACK AND WHITE- Shock Prayer WINONA AND VICINITY Fair to partly cloudy and warm er tonight Increasing cloudiness and warmer Saturday Low night high Saturday 56 LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m Maximum 38 minimum 20 noon 38 precipitation 02 NEW YORK AP Black land white famous and un- known Americans reacted to I the news of Dr Martin Luther assassination Thursday with shock sorrow and prayers that the violence of his death would not overshadow the nonviolence he preached President Johnson addressing the nation on radio and sion said We have been I ask every citizen to re- ject the blind violence that has struck Dr King who lived by nonviolence Jackie Robinson the first gro to play major league ball said Oh my God I'm frightened I pray to God this doesn't end up in the streets Mrs Joanna Ryan of Harlem said You feel like flying away from this damned cruel world Mayor Richard of Gary Ind a Negro said He changed the world He changed it enduringly far beyond the power of hatred to rescind Former Gov George C lace of Alabama said the ing was a senseless ble and tragic act and is an- other example of the breakdown I of law and order in this country which must be stopped George Meany president of the AFL-CIO called the slaying an American tragedy He was killed while aiding striking members of an union in their struggle for human King was in Memphis to help sanitation men in a strike against the city Sen Edward M Kennedy D- Mass said King suffered the fate of heroes he died be- cause he was willing to go throughout this country as a leader and a symbol in an fort to bring men together Sen Edward W Brooke Mass the nation's only Negro U.S senator said in ton the crime is unspeakable The grief is unbearable the savage act of his assassin must not be allowed to overshadow the higher vision which Martin Luther King shared with all of us Continued on Page IDA Col 5 REACTION MRS KING Will of woman was composed hut dazed She wept and accepted a few phone calls one from President Johnson Recuperating from major surgery she reclined on her bed watching television reruns of high moments in her husband's life A half dozen women friends were in the room with her and the King's eldest daughter 12 in pajamas and a robe and her hair in curlers lay on the floor watching Mrs King 41 was told of her husband's death by Mayor Ivan Allen Jr while at the airport waiting to fly to his bedside in The mayor had driven her and her two eldest children Y o 1 a n d a and Martin Luther King III 10 to the airport where he received word hat King had died At Indianapolis a man for Sen Robert F Kennedy said Kennedy had chartered a plane to take the King family to today and return he body to Atlanta
