IN MEMORIAM: MARTIN LUTHER KING See editorial page C I i 4c Sir i!3zr :Iaittj FROSTY High-42 Low-20, Clear, chance of freezing rain Vol. LXXVIII, No. 157 Ann Arbor, Michigan, Saturday, April 6, 1968 Ten Pages I is S I Six In Rioters Slain Four Killed West Chicago Rioters Burn, 16 Blocks In Capital Guard Quells Disturbances In Detroit DETROIT ,P) - Police and the National Guard 'moved swiftly into Detroit's 12th Street area yesterday and put down violence that erupted in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Lu- ther King Jr. Michigan Gov. George Romney said an 18-year-old Negro, a sus- pected looter, was accidentally shot to death in Highland Park, which is surrounded by Detroit. when a patrolman's gun went off as police attempted search him. At 2 a.m. yesterday morning, two Detroit policemen were shot and wounded while patrolling the city's near-west side. A police spokes- man said both officers were shot in the legs by one of three Negro men standing on a street corner. Police later arrested a 27-year- old man and booked him for in- vestigation of felonious assault. Officials said a large quantity of ammunition was found in his car, but there were no weapons. Cavanagh Tours Detroit Mayor Jerome P. Ca-i vanagh, who toured the city's East Side last night, said state and local police and National Guards- men' were "buttoning this thing down very well. "There is a great deal of calm all over the city," Cavanagh said. In the afternoon,'Cavanagh de- clared a curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., and ordered all taverns, 4 liquor stores, gasoline stations, theaters and establishments sell- ing firearms or ammunition to close immediately. Many Detroit suburbs imposed the same restrict- ions. Mayor Cavanagh Campuses ctive ne A e Youth Killed - BULLETIN NASHVILLE, Tenn. UP) - Rifle fire erupted last night on the campus of Tennessee A&I University, in the area; where a three-day riot occurred exactly a year ago. . Police and National Guards- men on duty in the North Nash- ville area converged on the pre- dominantly Negro campus but did not immediately return the fire. In Chicago CHICAGO UP)-Three thousand National Guard troops moved into the streets yesterday as a. day of fires, looting and shooting continued into the night and left six men dead. Fires and looters swept through a large, predominantly Negr o area on the West side where t o Negro men were shot and killedE reportedly by snipers; a third was shot and killed by police after officers said he opened fire on, them; and a fourth was found dead in a burned out grocery store.S Fires caused extensive damage SOLDIERS WITH MACHINEGg along a three-mile stretch of Capitol in Washington as rioting West Madison Street. Police Tauntedxr ICrowds in the ar'ea reportedly Ia taunted police and firemen,ryell- ing, "A white man killed Martin Luther King." Police said bricks and bottles were being thrown at firemen. One fireman was shot k in the leg. At least 20 buildings were burned to the ground and many others were badly damaged. Po- i 'The Asociated Press lice reported more than_ 150 ar- rests in connection" with the dis- Urban violence and vandalism turbances and more than 200 per- spread throughout the nation last sons were treated in hospitals for night.} injuries. Disturbances were reported in' Sporadic Shooting New York City, Philadelphia, There was sporadic shooting Boston, Lansing, Toledo, Denver, during the night as police tried East Palo Alto and Oakland,: to chase looters from stores. Po- Calif.; Wichita, Kans.; Freeport, lice reported an exchange of gun- N.Y.; South Bend, Ind.; Trenton, j fire with a band of youthful loot- N.J.: Jackson, Miss.: Buffalo, N.Y.,' ers, but apparently there were no as well as in Washington, Chica- injuries. go, Detroit, and on many collegeI -Associated Press UNS or with rifles and fixed bayonets stood guard over the rocked the nation's capital. isin Breaks Out PhilaU-1delphia Fires Gut Mile Stretch Of Eye Street in D.C. WASHINGTON (R)-Burning and looting scourged Wash- ington last night and authorities reported at least four people were killed and 350 injured. At 1:20 a.n., EST, Cyrus R. Vance, the White House trouble-shooter who helped plan the show of force that quell- ed the outburst, said the situation appeared to be under con- trot. Vance said more than 800 persons had been arrested. Initially, city officials had reported five dead, but Vance said one of the deaths was in a holdup and was not related to the outbreak. Mayor Walter E. Washington, pronouncing himself hope- ful but cautious, said the curfew enforced against Friday's outbreak will be imposed again at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. At 5:30 p.m. yesterday curfew was enforced by some 5,000 troops ordered into the capital by President Johnson. Only small groups of people were on the streets last night and there were few head-on clashes with troops and police. Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division landed at an Air Force base near the capital early today for possible de- ployment. Military authorities refused to discuss the arrival, but it was reported a brigate of some 2,000 of the Army's !toughest troops were being ferried into the Washington area from Ft. Bragg, N.C. Dan Henkin, a Defense Department official, speaking for the District of Columbia ;reported the deaths in two days of outbursts which followed. r the assassination in Memphis of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther i i i Demonstrations - some violent - hit a number of the nation's campuses yesterday following the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's as- i i 3 I Later, the mayor said fire dam- age had not been great, "con- s i d e r i n g the circumstances." "There are about four more fires than the average, which is not an unusual thing," he said. Heavy Damage Three buildings were heavily damaged after a fire started in a vacant house on the East Side and spread to a four-family house nearby. There were no injuries. Cause of the fire was not clear. Cavanagh also said the num-! ber of arrests was running about average. "There's relatively low activity as far as incidents are sassination Thursday. In Tallahassee, Fla.. a 19-year- old white youth was killed when students from Florida A&M Uni- versity fire-bombed a white-owned grocery store near the campus. A small band of snipers armed with small-calibre guns and one bowj and arrow took pot shots at police from the A&M campus and two trailers near the campus were burned. Several persons, including some students, were injured. In Greensboro,N.C., five police- men and National Guardsmen were injured in an exchange of gunfire with snipers near the Witnesses said portions of a 16-1 block area on West Madison} Street were a solid mass of fire and smoke. The fire department. issued five alarms for the fires M and later added four special alarms. } But people milled through the neighborhood, looting stores of everything from liquor to appli- ances and furniture. Witnesses said police did not try to stop looters but kept them moving out of the area. Elsewhere in the city. there was some burning and looting on the South Side and the Near North Side. Brig. Gen. Richard T. Dunn, campuses.'. Police were on the alert in many | other cities to prevent any out- break or to quell any recurrence of violence by angry blacks in re- sponse to the slaying of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Crowds of Negroes moved into midtown Manhattan last night, smashing windows and looting some stores along Broadway and Sixth and Seventh Avenues. Arson and widespread looting struck New York's Negro neigh-I borhoods Thursday night and ear- ly yesterday. There were about 60 fires and more than 100 arrests, Mayor John V. Lindsay said. Helmeted police arrested about 15 youths at Broadway and 42nd4 Street, part of a group of about 150 that gathered in Times Square and refused to move. The area was saturated with police. Despite the clusters of Negro teenagers at various points in the Broadway theater district. other persons strolled along window shopping and looking at the sights. Earlier, about 1.000 demon- strators surged through and over wooden barricades and massed on the lawn in front of City Hall in late afternoon. Most of the crowd slowly dis- persed when it became apparent that Lindsay would not talk to them. A group of about 30 Negro youths reached the Times Square area about 8:45 p.m., but moved along quietly. Lindsay said earlier the mood in New York was one of "great grief and deep emotion." and said he feared that extremists might try to incite violence. In Philadelphia, Mayor James H. J. Tate, as a precautionary measure, declared- a state of lim- ited emergency last night. Police immediately began closing all tap- rooms. Under the proclamation persons cannot congregate in groups of 12 or more on public streets or sidewalks. The emergency is similar to one put in effect last summer which averted racial violence in the na- tion's fourth largest city. Police Commissioner F r a n k Rizzo had placed his 7,000-mem- ber force on 12-hour duty in the morning. Shortly before the ma- yor s news conference announce- ment, Rizzo ordered patrolmen to remain on duty to 3 a.m., instead of quitting at the end of the mid- night shift. * There were scattered incidents of vandalism-mainly the break- ing of store windows and car windshields. In the afternoon, at several high schools, students ex- I . j : . ez ti i .t 4 t E I «t " {{4 E ;i a King. Henkin said Cyrus R. former deputy secretary+ fense, has been aiding in to control the uprising. Vance Aids Vance went to Detroit as dent Johnson's trouble there during the 1967 which seared that city. The dead in Washingt eluded a 14-year-old boy s police, but the circumstance unclear. One account was policeman's gun went off dentally as he tried to stc eral boys looting a store, s the boy, Thomas Williams The other deaths, incl man shot and killed by a man as he looted a liquor an unidentified man foun a playground with his thro another unidentified man Vance, Funeral Set of de- efforts For T uesday Presi- shooter FBI Joins Search rioting For Murder Suspect; ;on in- $150,000 Bounty Set hot by es were ATLANTA, Ga. ()--The funer-" that a al of Dr. Martin Luther King, f acci- Jr., will be held here Tuesday at op sev- Ebenezer Baptist Church, where triking the slain civil rights leader and his father, Martin Luther King, uded a Sr., were co-pastors. police- A spokesman for the Southern store, Christian Leadership Council said d near yesterday that following the serv- kat cut'ices there will be a march to More- lkilled 1n arlraQ nP nint concerned," the mayor said. campus of the predominantly Ne- commander of the Illinois Nation- Earlier in the day, a white cab gro North Carolina A&T State al Guard, sent nearly 3,000 guards- driver was dragged from his taxi University. men to the streets to help quell by a group of Negroes, who then At Western Michigan Univer- the disturbances. set fire to his cab. The incident sity in Kalamazoo, 400 black stu- Dunn said the troops would be occured on 12th Street, on the dents entered the WMU student armed but were to return fire West,.Side, the scene of last July's center at about 6:30 a.m. yester- only when their lives were in riot, the worst racial disturbance day and closed*the building. The danger, and then only at the or- in recent history. The driver was students left the building only! der of unit commanders. treated for head lacerations at a after the administration met a Lt. Gov. Samuel Shapiro or- nearby hospital. list of six student demands. dered 6,000 guardsmen to report See GUARD, Page 2 See DEMONSTRATIONS, Page 2 to immediate duty yesterday. He was acting on instructions from PeGov. Otto Kerner, who is in Flor- Ann Arbor P; i Guardsmen Report Seven hundred guardsmen were " B lk s ordered to patrol the North Side P arley at 10 p.m. There were 1,800 to 2,000 guardsmen on the West Side. None patrolled the down- By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN "We can do no wrong because town district, but 700 reservists and DAVID SPURR we've been oppressed for so long. were being held in the Chicago Ann Arbor remained quiet last Can you dig it? Get the gun!" Avenue Armory, night as over 200 blacks met at King "showed us that racism The guardsmen were requested the Ann Arbor Community Cen- exists everywhere," said Mann. "If by Mayor Richard J. Daley and ter A discuss possible action in they get one of the pacifist lead- Chicago Police Supt. James B. response to the assassination of ers, what are they going to do to ?Conlisk. the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, the others?" Conlisk also ordered all police Jr. Mrs. Albert Wheeler, chairman working Friday to remain on 'duty On campus, the Michigan Union of the local chapter of the Na- until further notice. Grill was closed at 8 p.m. report- tional Association for the Ad- Many offices and businesses in Giedly in respect to Dr. King, vancement of Colored People, the downtown area closed early. City Councilman H. C. Curry urged the group to seek "other Storefronts were boarded on the (D-First Ward) summed up the avenues than the gun" in seeking West Side, the predominantly Ne- mood of the relatively calm meet- emuality in the United States. gro area where racial rioting oc- motd ...,, .h, +~ail -iim meet curred in 1965 and 1966. Viet Bombing Lull Continues SAIGON {P) - U.S. jets have struck no farther into North Viet-t nam than about 130 miles above1 the demilitarized zone for nearlyz The White House announced that Gen. William C. Westmore- land, U.S. commander in Viet- nam, would go to Washington in- stead of Hawaii to meet with the President. Westmoreland was en route to Washington Saturday. 48 hours, military reports said yesterday. But there was no of-' ficial word of a further curtail- ment of the 225-mile bombing boundary set by President John- son last Sunday. The U.S. Command said the farthest north American fighter- bombers ranged Friday was about 100 miles above the DMZ. It would give no indication whether raids: would continue to be confined to the 130-mile stretch south of; Vinh. Meanwhile, the United States has taken steps "to establish con- tact" with North Vietnamese rep- See Related Story, Page 3 resentatives with the aim of get- ting talks started, the State De- '' i changed blows. A few teen-agers 'when a wall collapsed in the No n in eWIaWAtlantathat suffered minor stab wounds. aVrii Negro institution in Aln a a National Guard units were alert- northeast section, and a Virgina King once attended. man who died after being beaten A memorial service will be held ed in the Greater Boston area, and an tbe aryFia.Ameoilsrie il ehl police sealed off the downtown and stabbed early Friday. there, the spokesman said. Boston business section as a nev President Johnson stayed in: He said King's family felt the wave of violence swept the city's close touch with the situation in funeral and the march would rep- Negro section. Washington and other cities in resent three important. elements Surround Downtown turmoil throughout the evening. in the Negro leader's life: his Police surrounded the shopping He conferred with Mayor Walter church and religion, his education area quietly, and shortly before E. Washington, and Deputy Atty. and intellect and the use of the 9 p.m. began diverting all motor Gen. Warren Christopher, the peaceful march as part of his traffic away from the section White House said. *work which contains the city's largest By mid-afternoon Johnson pro- The Rev. Ralph Abernathy was stores. claimed a "condition of domestic named yesterday as new head of The National Guard was placed violence and disorder" and 500 the Southern Christian Leader- on standby alert. rifle-carrying soldiers in battle ship Conference (SCLC) which Police reported roving gangs, gear were deployed in the down- Dr. King headed. He called for mostly made up of teen-aged town area. They were posted near silent marches around the nation boys, going through the Roxbury : the White House, the Capitol and tomorrow in honor of the slain area, smashing store windows and 'in the downtown area. leader. throwing rocks at any auto- Even as he disclosed his actions, Meanwhile, in Memphis, massed mobiles moving in the section. roving looters smashed into stores:, forces of the local and federal, By mid-evening police said 10 within two blocks of the White governments strove to snare the stores, half of them liquor stores House and black clouds of smoke assassin of Dr. King. and the others radio-television ! from incendiary fires hung low "I am optimistic that this crime shops, had been broken into and over the city. will be solved," said a top police looted. See GUARDSMEN, Page 5 official here. But he added: "We Firemen called to a blaze in the have no one in custody." Grove Hall section and a detail With some 330 law enforcement of police assigned to guard them I FUNDS NEEDED officers seeking the slayer, the rcstfomeoutof thedsan School of Public-Health fac- Memphis city council added No Injuries tyand students yestiaceh $50,000 already posted by news- No injuries were reported, education of Dr. King's chil- papers here. In Lansing, about 100 Negro and dren. Contributions can be sent Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark flew white youths charged through to Dean Myron E. Wegman, in from Washington early in the the State Capitol. They were ' Room 3524, School of Public day and told newsmen: headed off only yards from the Heh"We have put all available re- executive office. Mrs. Jacqueline Evans of the sources of the FBI in this area Earlier, Gov. Romney had joined Center for Chinese Studies an- into the case. We have commit- the crowd of more than 150, and nounced that yesterday's cam- ted everything that could be rea- immediately was surrounded. _ ,1nofi nv. sonably committed to solve this --'FR Calls Civil Joint Rights Session WASHINGTON ('P) - His face deep-etched in grief after the as- sassination of Dr. Martin Luther: King Jr., President Johnson yes- terday called on Americans to: "deny violence its victory." The President announced he will appear before a joint session of Cnngre sn . teiver a new and Iwouldn't wan us toall vtL Commuter rail stations were