Sunday, April 7, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Sunday, Ap~iI 7, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Indiana Blast Fire, Kill 16, Injure 100 RICHMOND, Ind. P-An ex- National Guard troops cordoned plosion . and fire ripped through off the area. nearly two blocks of Main Street Inside the cordon, three build- here yesterday, killing at least 16 ings were left with nothing stand- persons and injuring more than ing higher than a man's head. 100 others. Flames damaged five other build- Capt Robert Konkle, state po- ings, leaving only the .walls stand- lice chief of operations, said the ing. The buildings were two and .rubble of eight buildings-three three stories tall. destroyed and five damaged-may State Police said gunpowder ap- yield "10 to 50 more, depending parently exploded in the basement on how many were in the build- of the Marting Arms Co., a sport- ings." ing good store. Bulldozers were brought in to There was no immediate word as shove aside the debris piled- up to what touched off the gunpow- along the two-block stretch of der., Main Street, which is also U.S. 40. "It seemed like somebody pulled the whole world out from under An emergency morgue was set me," said Leo Collins, a paint store up at the National Guard armory. employe who was walking along, the sidewalk across the street TTfrom the sporting goods store. Tru'deau u ew "It knocked me down." Open Housing Bill Expected To Pass Canada Chief O T T A W A ,(IP) - Pierre .Eli- ' liott Trudeau, 46-year-old Que- bec intellectual and relative new- comer to politics, was chosen by the Liberal party yesterday night as the next prime minister of Canada. The decision came on the fourth ballot at the Liberal convention after a last minute stop-Trudeau move failed to halt the band- wagon, which picked'up strength on each successive ballot., Trudeau received 1,203 votes of 2,342 cast. As leader of the ruling party, he becomes the 15th prime min- ister of Canada when Lester B. Pearson, steps down later this month at the age of 70. Piece of Iron "Just about 10 , feet away," Col- lins said, "a woman was hit by a large piece of iron and killed. Ix went back to the paint store and got a cloth and covered her." A half-block away, Mrs. Kath- leen Chappel, in the restaurant she operates, said: "I thought somebody had thrown a bomb through the window."' Shattered glass flew through the restaurant. "We got everybody-about 50 customers-out the back door, ex- cept for two women sitting in ,a both who were cut," she said. "An ambulance picked up one 'of the women. The other one wasn't hurt badly." Throngs of Children At the request of city officials. the FBI dispatched its disaster squad from Washington, D.C., to assist in identification of Rich- mond blast victims. The injured were taken to Reid Memorial, the only hospital in this eastern Indiana city of 44,000 population. -Associated Press Looters move along a downtown Washington street. King AssassinationAftermath May Mark End to NVon-Violence House- WASHINGTON (P) - Swelling support for a Senate-passed open- housing bill gave promise yester- day that the House will pass it this week with votes to spare. The shift in sentiment toward the previously stalled legislation came in the wake of the assassi- nation in Memphis of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a longtime champion of civil rights. . As supporters see it, the bill's chancesnow areclouded only by the smoke blowing over Capitol Hill from looters' fires touched off in the violence that followed King's murder. Bill in Trouble Should disorders grow worse, the bill's backers concede it would be in trouble again. But they feel for the most part that the res- ponse:to the Memphis tragedy will help more than hurt the pending legislation which is now in the House Rules Committee. The supporters claim to have picked up four firm votes among Friday's waverers and assert they are on the verge of nailing down a clear majority. Rep. Clark MacGregor (R- Committee asking them to drop their opposition to swift vote on the bill. Nixon Helped MacGregor said Nixon, the frontrunnef for the Republican presidential nomination, told him that he - Nixon - had helped change the position of one of the three. MacGregor, who is not a com- mittee member, did not say which Rules committeeman changed his views. But he said "The bill should be on the President's desk by Thursday." On Wednesday the vote will come up on the Senate-passed bill, which contains a ban against racial discrimination in housing, The bill also includes a provision aimed at protecting civil rights workers, an antiriot measure, and an extension of constitutional guarantees to American Indians. President Johnson had been ex- pected to make a strong plea for By AUSTIN SCOTT Associated Press News Analysis MEMPHIS, Tenn. (/P) - With troops again patrolling city streetsj after a great chain reaction of trouble, what lies ahead for the non-violent civil rights movement so eloquently preached by the late Martin Luther King?' Many Negroes here and else- where say the answer depends on what President Johpson will tell the joint session of Congress and on what federal, state and city governments and private industry plan to do. Shock waves from the bullet that ended Dr. King's life Thurs- day appear to have undermined the faith of many Negroes that his methods would succeed. One of the ministers who in- vited Dr. King to Memphis, the Rev. H. L. Sparks, was asked about the position the assassin- ation left the nonviolent move- This Week. Minn.), told a reporter in Min- passage in a speech to a joint ses- neapolis yesterday that, at his sion of Congress tomorrow night, suggestion, former Vice President but the White House announced Richard M. Nixon phoned three last night that he had postponed Republican members of the Rules that address, with no new date set. he went on to say that he still thought the movement could sur- vive. But Calvin Taylor, 20-year-old member of, a black militant group in Memphis, said: "He was one black man who had faith that, the system could be made to work. If they kill King, if they'll kill a President, what do they care about us? When King is buried, non-violence will be buried." Established civil rights leaders have pleaded for peace and order, saying publicly that the militants, while they speak loudly, command only a relative handful of Negroes who actively support their views. But privately many of those moderate leaders express concern over the number of Negroes who seem to be increasingly disillus- ioned with the progress of civil rights and their economic and social situation. Talks and interviews with many elected Negro officials bring, out their view that young Negroes today have far less patience than did their parents. Most of these Negro politicans thought the past year had brought little real progress on the civil rights front. It's against these moods and realities that the latest out- break of violence in the wake of Dr. King's death needs to be mea- sured. Dr. King tried to embrace both the militants and the more conservative leaders, striving to keep both wings united. There doesn't seem to be any other Negro leader with the personal following and loyalty who has pleaeded so earnestly that "vio- lence is not the answer." The violent death of a man whose guiding principle was non- violence can only sharpen the de- bate. Memphis leaders- appear con- fident that their silent march to- morrow will be peaceful, partly because it has now become a memorial and tribute to the non- violent tactics of the man who was to have led it. Only future events can show whether the nation will indeed be moving "toward two societies, one black, one white - separate and unequal," as the President's riot 'commission has warned, or whether the latest disasters will set the stage for ultimate con- ciliation. 'Committee OK's Anti-Crime Bill Sunday, 7 P.M. CHAMBER SINGERS' from Calvin College Grand Rapids, Mich. LENTEN & EASTER MUSIC by, Schutz, Purcell, Bach, Hassler. i Charles Wright, assistant ad- tministrator of the hospital, said the emergency room had received about 50 injured who would be held for treatment, and that more than 50 others had been given mergefncy aid and released. ment. "Untenable," he said -thoughj WASHINGTON (41) - Federal curbs on sales of handguns have been written into a sweeping anti- crime bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The firearms controls fall short of what President Johnson asked, but in some other respects the legislation goes far beyond what he recommended to combat spi- raling crime rates.' One section of the bill that sur- vived in committee on an 8-8 tie vote is designed to undo what WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOLK MUSIC ASSOCIATION CONCERT featuring JIM & JEAN andx TIHE MISTY WIZARDS U.S. TROOPS MOVE IN: - SATURDAY, APRIL 13 COMMUNITY ARTS AUD. WSU CAMPUS 8:30 P.M. Adm. $2.00 at door Khe Sanh Base Surrounded, But. Now by 'Friendly Forces' 1236 WASHTENAW KHE SANH ) - U.S. air cavalrymen and South Vietna- mese paratroopers moved into this combat base yesterday and gave its 6,000 Marine and South Vietnamese defenders their first rest from war since Jan. 21. Newly arrived troops fanned out into the jungled hills around, Khe Sanh in search of withdraw- ing North Vietnamese forces and met virtually no resistance. Hard- ly an enemy shell fell on the base, which had been pounded daily by mortars, rockets and artillery shells. Take First Showers Some Marines stripped and gave themselves their first com- plete washdown in months, under a gleaming sun. Others did their laundry. W o r k details began cleaning up the messy rubble of structures blasted down by enemy shellings. As many as 20,000 North Viet- namese soldiers at one time sur- rounded Khe Sanh. But U.S. offi- cials said withdrawals have left perhaps only 7,000 in the Khe Sanh sector, possibly to cover the withdrawal of the others. Khe Sanh is still surrounded- but now by friendly forces. It was not known here whether the enemy withdrawal was a peace gesture by Hanoi. U.S. mili- tary men said the pull-out was forced on the enemy by the 20,- 000-man offensive -- Operation Pegasus -launched last Monday to relieve the base. Move to Quang Tri In Da Nang, Lt. Gen. Robert H. Cushman Jr., commander of Marine forces in Vietnam, said he could not discount the possi- bility that enemy troops had moved to the vicinity of Quang Tri, a provincial capital about 35 miles east of Khe Sanh and near the sea coast. "We don't know if they will attack Quang Tri or not," Cush- man added. "We have the initia- tive but they always have the capability of hiding in the jungle and then moving out in one night into the flatlands for an attack.. Maj. Gen. John F. Tolsen, commander of the 1st Air Cavalry Division, said he had reports that one of the two North Vietnamese divisions had withdrawn to re- group. Withdraws Across Border Another Army spokesman said this division apparently is the 304th, which is believed to have withdrawn across the border into territory controlled by the pro- Communist Pathet Lao in Laos, after taking a beating from U.S. air strikes. The enemy withdrawal from the Khe Sanh sector coincided with an apparent slackening off in ground fighting elsewhere in Vietnam. The number of missions flown over North Vietnam dwindled Friday, with attacks centering in areas 130 miles north of the de- militarized zone. This appeared to be a further curtailment of the already limited attacks ordered. by President Johnson. proponents call the handcuffs placed on police by Supreme Court decisions. Among other things, it provides that the only test of the admissi- bility of confessions in federal criminal trials shall be whether they were given voluntarily. Confessions could not be ruled out as evidence simply because of a delay in arraignment or because a suspect did not have a lawyer while being questioned by police. Bars Court Rulings The Supreme Court would be barred from reviewing cases in which the highest court in a state ruled that aconfession was volun- tary. Thisbaud other controversial provisions were grafted onto the Safe Streets measure requested by Johnson to authorize federal grants to improve the training, equipment a n d crime - fighting techniques of state and local police forces. The over-all shape of the legis- lation emerged yesterday with the tallying of votes cast by senators who were absent from a Judiciary Committee meeting Thursday. The final count gave 9-7 ap- proval to a prohibition against in- terstate mail-order sales of hand- guns and a ban on over-the-coun- ter sales to non-resident of a state. Rejects Rifle Ban But the committee rejected, 9 to 4, the President's proposal for a ban on interstate mail-order sales of rifles and shotguns. Contrary to Johnson's recom- mendation, the bill also grants the authority to law enforcement of- ficers acting under court orders, to engage in wiretapping and other electronic eavesdropping to combat murder, robbery, kidnap- ing, extortion and bribery. The President asked Congress to restrict wiretapping only to cases directly related to national security. Johnson sent a letter to Speaker of the House John W. McCormack saying, "The time for action is now." The letter, dated Friday, referred to King's death and con- tinued: "This tragedy has caused all good men to look deeply into their hearts. When the nation so ur- gently needs the healing balm of unity, a brutal wound on our conscience forces upon us all this question: what can I do to achIeve brotherhood and equality among all Americans?" "There are many actions Con- gress can take on its part. The most immediate is to enact legis- lation so long delayed and so close to fulfillment. We should pass the fair housing law when the Congress convenes next week." 'Rise to Challenge' "I urge members of the House of Representatives to rise to this challenge." Clarence Mitchell, a represen- tative of the NAACP who has played'ia leading role in lining up votes for the bill, said he felt the assassination of King will make the difference between a "close victory and a substan- tial victory." He tempered his optimism, how- ever, witha plea to "those resort- ing to violence not to betray Rev. King's memory or the efforts of the President and those working to get the bill through." It is believed that the Rules Committeeman who changed his position is Rep. John B. Ander- son (R-Ill.). Earlier, Anderson had joined with the other four GOP com- mittee members to help keep the bill in the committee in hopes it could be sent to a conference with the Senate to work out a com- promise. World News Roundup By The Associated Press PRAGUE - President Ludvik Svoboda yesterday accepted the resignation of the cabinet of Czechoslovakian Premier Jozef Lenart and asked President-des- ignate Old 'ich Cernik to form a new government to be presented to the National Assembly next week. The unprecedented procedure, although a formality, underlines the attempt of the regime of-Com- munist Party first secretary Alex- ander Dubcek to meet public cri- ticism and continue the "Social- ist democratization drive." * * * LUSAKA, Zambia-Six persons were killed and 22 injured in a Portuguese bombing raid recently over the Zambia border, Home Affairs Minister Grey Zulu claim- ed yesterday. He said police re- ports from remote Kalabo, on the border with Portuguese An- gola, confirmed the bombing. "This is another example of senseless, killing in which the supremacists in southern Africa are indulging in their endeavors to stem the tide of African na- tionalism," Zulu said, . . I AAO UNIVERSITY PLAYERS a matinee performance of SOPHOCLES' ANTIGONE Sunday, April 7-2:30 p m. HOPWOOD LECTURE DENISE LEVERTOV Poel AUTHOR OF: Here and Now Overland to the Islands With Eyes at the Back. of Our Heads The Jacob's Ladder O Taste and See The Sorrow Dancl National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant in Literature for 1965 11 Lecture: ORIQINS OF A POEM Announcement of the Hopwood Awards for 1968, will follow the lecture. fir}, K I I I I i I1