Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - April 5, 1968, Yuma, Arizona Editor's Notebook Adding More fuel To the Fire By JONES OSBORN What bitterness lurks in the hearts of For lenge it requires a towering c hatred in or- der to obtain a lethal pon with tent to Mil to wait hours in cowardly con- and finally to loose the bullet straight at Hie throat of irs victim out a without even a To plan and carry out a de- liberate act like that requires a personality warped by hatred It is especially ironic that America which preaches to the world about her commitment to peace to law and order to non- aggression should be the first nation ever to murder a ner of the Nobel Prize for Peace Our critics will find it easy to forget that there are twisted unbalanced minds in every tion In situations of psychological stress they can flare up where The tragedy is that the der of Dr Martin Luther King will already caused violence Instead of smoothing the path to racial harmony his murder erects new obstacles Instead of damping the fires of racial unrest it only adds fuel In- stead of scoring a victory for the white majority it only adds shame IS Aztec artifacts a quantity pf gold and jewelry was seized yesterday afternoon by customs agents at the San Luis Ariz point of entry Inspector Joseph Garner said there were more than 50 facts and idols a quantity of gold of undetermined value and jewelry valued at mately 5350 stashed in the 1967 Volkswagen station wagon en by a Mexican citizen who gave a Los Angeles address Also found in the car under the driver's seat was a 9 man luger automatic ammunition Garner said He declined to identify the driver due to continuing An expert is being called in from Los Angeles to determine the worth of the gold and artifacts Garner said the man came through the gate yesterday and declared a quart of liquor Inspector Robert Priest then searched the car and found the items secreted throughout the vehicle Garner said and the seizure was made He added that the gold will be sent to a U.S Mint in San Francisco or Denver Market Pays King Tribute NEW YORK New York and American stock ex- changes paid tribute today to the memory of Dr Martin ther King Jr the civil rights leader who was assassinated in Memphis Thursday night Trading was halted on the floors of both exchanges at 11 and one minute of silence was observed At the opening of the session the New York Stock Exchange ticker tape carried this The New York Stock Ex- change shares the shock and deep sorrow of the nation and the entire world at the tragic death of the Rev Dr Martin Luther King YUMA 170 16 Pages Per Copy lOc Yuma Arizona Friday April 5 1968 Phone ARIZONA 22 Assassination Dr King i s Yuma Minister Urges No Reprisals in King Death A statement by Rev A L Reed associate pastor of Phillip's Chapel of the Christian Methodist pal Church in A Plea to All People Another fire has been started by the death of Dr Martin Luther King Let us not sprinkle this blaze with hate and retaliation We are pleading to you to be calm and understanding Fire has never been known to put out fire or water to consume water Abraham said to Lot when there was evidence of a flare-up between their herdsmen Let there be no strife between your herdsmen or my herdsmen or between me and thee for we are brethren We ask all the good people of Yuma to do thing possible to see that there is no strife or reprisal in our city We pray that men everywhere will learn the true value of peace and live by it Yuma Student Is Held In Killing of Roommate A Yuma graduate student at Utah State University is being held for investigation of homicide following the shooting death of night Booked at the Cache County jail was David Lewellyn Evans 22 a graduate student in ento- Dead on arrival at a hospital of a bullet wound in the left chest was Royal Lowe McFarland 22 of Logan Police said the shooting was in an upstairs apartment near the USU campus They said McFarland was leaning a door ing to hold it shut during an apparent altercation when one bullet was fired from a 22 ber pistol It passed through the and into McFarland's chest Logan police told the Sun today that no charges been filed yet and that gation into the case in ing Evans is the son of Mr and Mrs E E Evans 2779 S Avenue A and is a 1963 ate of Kofa High School Johnson Plans Major Address WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson told the nation he plans to address a session of Congress iilly by Monday night to deal with the problems stemming the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King In tribute to Dr King shot dead last night in Memphis Johnson ordered the American flag be at half staff the nation and at U.S installations throughout the vorld He declared Sunday a day of national mourning light looking and arson spread Into lice sealed off six blocks tear gas the crowds in an at- tempt tb the violence The 1 PH Philly Group Buys Queen LONDON AP Britain's Queen Elizabeth the passenger liner in the has been sold to a group of businessmen in Philadelphia Pa for the Cunard Steamship Company announced today The contract was signed at the Savoy Hotel by Cunard aging Director John and representatives of the adelphia Marina Corp the aware River Port Authority and the Central Penn National Bank The mighty liner launched in 1938 will be used as a hotel convention center ond tourist attraction moored in the Delaware River near phia's International DAVID EVANS Open Housing Passage Urged Ey Republican House passage of the Senate's civil rights and its strong open housing provision was urged today by Rep William M McCulloch a key Republican leader on civil rights The Ohio Republican before the House Rules Committee in support of the but was summoned to a civil rights conference at the White House before lie could testify He told newsmen he favors the legislation and hopes the Rules Committee will vote day to permit the House to vote on the next week The com- later canceled its sions unable to muster a quorum House leaders confident the Rules Committee will approve the measure Tuesday have ed it for debate Wednesday Passage would send it to the While House The has been held in the Rules Committee by the ence of the Republican ship that it go lo a conference with the Senate to seek a com- promise on open housing In a further crumbling of the GOP leadership position 10 er House Republicans joined in a statement urging immediate enactment of the Senate Registration for City Vote Bo sure to register City office April 19 20 22 28 or 24 to In revenue bond financing Issues relating lo Water System nnd sower Election to bo April FOK Memphis detectives climb oil a rail outside of Dr Mai tin Luther King at the Lorraine m- Thursday night for clues King's assassin has not been apprehended SAIGON AP of Klie Sanh was lifted today U.S officers said but spearheads of a big relief fores less than a mile away made no attempt to enter Hie Marine combat base The Marines at Khe Sanh were still under fira from North Vietnamese gunners who pounded the base in the west corner of Vietnam with 100 rounds This was one reason for keeping any of the relief forces out of Khe Sanh And members of the garrison sallied out two miles for the first time since the siege began nearly three months ago and beat back an attack by 400 North Vietnamese with heavy losses With the North Vietnamese force around Khe Sanli once estimated at to about by official estimate the possibility of a big decisive battle went mering Khe Sanh stands astride one of the invasion routes from Laos North Vietnamese cap- tives early in the siege said they were the coming battle for Khe Sanh would be the last tle of the war if won Now that the siege has been declared lifted the U.S tive is to seek out the North Vietnamese around Khe Sanh We've moved out and taken a senior officer said The basic concept of the my besieging Khe Sanh is over Kill Real Carmichael Demands WASHINGTON Black power advocate Stokely michael urged Negroes today 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 en- emy Wo have to retaliate for the death of our he said The execution of those debts will not ba 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 Carmichael said Blames LBJ Carmichael blamed President Lyndon B Johnson arid Sen Robert F Kennedy along with the rest of the white population for the death of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Bobby Kennedy pulled that trigger as much as anyone Carmichael said ing 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 across the nation after King was shot in Memphis is just light stuff when compared with what will happen We have to he added Frequently Carmichael has frequently urged violence on past sions in speeches and tours around the country Carmichael also declared that if Gov Spiro T Agnew of Mary land proceeds with this non- sensical charge against fellow Black Power H Rap Brown who is accused of ing a riot last summer in bridge Md He ain't seer nothing we'll take oui troops back into Maryland we'll turn that state upside down and inside out THE WEATHER Highest yesterday 84 Lowest this morning Tern per a lure at 11 today 78 Relative at 11 Average high this date Average low this date FORECAST to Saturday Portly cloudy through Saturday Slightly warmer this afternoon and tonight Breezy and cooler Gusty southwest winds 10 to 15 Saturday High this after- noon SS Low tonight 5S High Sunset Sunrise Atty Gen Clark Heads Hunt Sees No Conspiracy By JOHNSON Associated Press Writer MEMPHIS Tenn 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 got some substantial Clark said after flying hers from Washington We're very hopeful We've got some good breaks Clark told newsmen there is no evidence at this time of any conspiracy President Johnson held a late morning meeting of civil rights leaders in the While House in the convulsive wake of reaction Additional stories and tures on Pago 6 to the death Thursday night of the King 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 motor lice searched for a white man Calm Memphis was relatively caln this morning after six hours of arson and shootings sei off Thursday night by the slay ing The curfew was lifted this morning tional Guardsmen and police trolled possible trouble areas The Memphis 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 FBf but the FBf agent in charge Walter Happel said lie liad no information on the arrest King's flew lo in a plane chartered by Sen Robert F Kennedy tc claim the body of her slain band She remained aboard the plane at the airport The body in a bronze casket was put on view and hundreds of Negroes passed to pay their last respects A large crowd was still at the funeral home the casket was loaded into REV KING a hearse to be taken to the port As closed the door on the hearse he Long live the king Single Man Police issued an alarm for a single white man who Memphis Police Director Frank said checked into a flophouse opposite the motel three hours before the We just getting ready to go said the Rev Jesse Jackson director of King's Operation ket campaign to uplift poor Negroes And the conversation was in part trivial It's kind Dr as the comment of Solomon Jones King's chauffeur Yes it King replied Then the civil rights of the fact that lie was hi Memphis to lead a civil rights march and address a rally Thursday to Ben Branch another Operation Breadbasket official My man be sure to sing Precious Lord tonight and sing t he said Then we heard what sounded a said the Rev An- drew Young executive vice president of King's Southern Christian Leadership ence I thought it was a cracker Turn to Page 2 Col 5 Please Deny Violence Its Victory President Urges Nation WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson called on the tion today all men and all stand their ground to deny violence its victory in the wake of the slaying of Dr tin Luther King Jr The President's statement was issued after a hastily meeting at the White House of civil rights government officials and bers of Congress He voiced again his sorrow at the death of the Negro apostle of assassinated by a rifleman Thursday night in HOAX Part Halt Not Enough Hanoi Says TOKYO AP nam'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 newspaper de- scribed the partial cessation of bombing of North Vietnam as a new Irick or peace hoax 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 Intended to force the people to bend their knees and surrender to the by means of a new trick H was the first Chinese com- ment on President Johnson's Sunday night bomb pause an- Peking still held comment on North nam's announcement day agreeing to meet with the United States to prepare for peace talks Nhan Dan official organ of North Vietnam's ruling Workers Communist party made the accusation In a commentary signed Commentator pseudo- nym of a high-ranking official The article distributed by official broadcast monitored here said U.S bombing of North Vietnam has actually been since President Johnson ordered a partial halt to the bombing last Sunday It did not say how hut the of- Vietnam News Agency claimed U.S planes Thursday raided a populated area north ot the Parallel limit set by the presidential order The gon said it had no knowledge of such raids but was ing The article was The U.S has not given up its sive the broadcast said Nhan Dan said the fact that President Johnson promised the Saigon regime protection in his address March 31 that the U.S government had not abandoned its intent sion Johnson ordered on March 31 a partial halt in the bombing of North Vietnam limiting strikes to an area south of the 20th allel Memphis Tenn Johnson meanwhile kept in abeyance his plans to tly to Honolulu later in the day for Vietnam policy talks The President's statement The dream of Martin Luther Kinc has not died with him Men who are who are and will together now as never in the past lo 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 Johnson said that when he 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 White House the leaders ot the Negro community for tion and went on to No words of words of fill the void of the eloquent voice that has been stilled Inside The Sun 13 Crossword 11 Editorial -I H Sports 8 9 Women 8
