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Phoenix, April 10, 1968 16 The Arizona Republic Dr. King's Mule -Drawn Caisson Travels The Last Mile AP Wirephoto Vice President Humphrey AP Wirephoto Speaks To Mrs. King A Brace Of Plow Mules Casket Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In Funeral Procession Thousands Mourn 4 4 AP Wirephoto Gov.

George Romney, third from right; New York Mayor John Lindsey and New York Nelson Rockefeller, third from left in third Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. DURING SERVICE Identifiable persons attending services in Atlanta for Dr. King include, from left, Sen. and Mrs.

Robert Kennedy, Archbishop Cooke of New York, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller, third from left in third row, and Whitney Young of the Urban League speaking to Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen at far right. Standees include Michigan 'He Belonged to the Whole World' Plain Country Wagon, 2 Mules Carry King to Final Place of Rest Pulls Farm Wagon Bearing Mahogany portunity of seeing this service. Please don't make Mrs. King have to fight her way in." No one budged.

Dr. King's brother had to threaten: "If we can't receive your cooperation, we have but one choice to remove the body and bury it privately." After that there was less tumult and jostling. INSIDE THE church, Rockefeller, Romney and Lindsay were led to seats at the center of the church. Mrs. Kennedy, now seemingly recovered from her fright, sat next to Sen.

Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, near the front. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, who entered through a side door just before the service started, walked up close to the coffin and greeted Dr. King's parents in the front row. Although the visiting politicians were received courteously by the largely middle-class Negro crowd and Sen.

Robert Kennedy was cheered, cries of "politicking," greeted Nixon as he entered the church. Some of the younger militants murmured privately about "crocodile tears" and vote seeking. EBENEZER Church is a three-story red brick and stone building with two squat towers at either side of the facade. The sanctuary is painted a dark pink and has a white pitched ceiling with recessed lights. A long balcony covers the rear third of the pews.

On the closed casket, beneath the central pulpit, was a large cross of white chrysanthemums and white lilies. The casket was flanked by banks of roses, chrysanthemums and lilies. There was only one touch of incongruity. The nose of a TV camera protruded conspicuously through red velvet curtains which hung behind the pulpit under an electric cross and a round stained glass window with the figure of Jesus kneeling in prayer. SEATED among the New York, del--gation were the Right Rev.

Horace W. B. Donegan, Episcopal bishop of New York; the most Rev. Terence J. Cooke, the new Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, whose bright purple episcopal robes made him conspicuous among the mourners; Archbishop Iakovos, Greek Orthodox primate of North and South America, and Rabbi Henry Sieg-man, executive vice president of the Synagogue Council of America.

At the request of Mrs. King, the service included taped excerpts from the last sermon preached by Dr. King at the church on Feb. 4. The congregation was visibly moved.

Some wept openly as the voice of Dr. King said: "IF ANY OF YOU are around when I have to meet my day, I don't want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tel lthem not to talk too long Tell them not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace prize. That isn't important. "Tell them not to mention that I have three or four hundred other awards.

That's not important. "Tell them not to mention where went to school" South View Cemetery, where Dr. King was buried, was abloom with dogwood and the fresh green boughs of April. Crowds of Negroes and whites had lined the 4-mile route between the campus and the cemetery. The little hillside graveyard was founded In 1866, right after the Civil War, by six Negroes who were tired of taking their dead to the back gates of the municipal cemeteries.

About Continued From Page 1 the mourners included his rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota. Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the only announced candidate for the Republican nomination so far, was there. And representing the White House was Vice President Hubert H.

Humphrey, who is expected to announce for the Democrat ic nomination soon. THERE WAS A scattering of bishops in ecclesiastical robes, some African en- lCglU ilcUUCa ill tlic lUttfLCl, lilt and sports. From Washington came 50 congress-men and 30 senators. A regiment of mayors appeared, some of them. from cities recently torn by ugly riots.

But the figure that evoked the sharpest naniT of sentiment was Mrs. John F. Kennedy, widowed, like Coretta King, 1 by a lone assassin. Recognized by surging crowds as she was led toward the church, Mrs. Kennedy was suddenly caught up in such a pressure of bodies that she had to be pulled and pushed through the narrow door.

For a moment her face appeared strained and fright- ened. SHORTLY after Mrs. Kennedy vanished through the door, there was anoth-' er commotion. Black Power apostle ctnirnitr Pom nh aol anncarpd wearing a light blue turtleneck sweater under a dark coat and accompanied by six body-; guards. The church already was jammed.

Gov. Rockefeller, Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York City and Gov. George W. Romney of Michigan had yielded their seats to women and were standing in the aisle.

Carmichael had been invited there was a seat for mm dui me uoonucu weic uuuiuuo about the bodyguards. So there was a milling confrontation at the entrance. Some of Stokely's followers, thinking that the Black Power spokesman himself was being kept out, started shouting: "You'd better let him in" and "He's a black man." Finally the whole group was allowed to enter. AT TIMES the clamor for admission was loud enough to disturb the service, which had started 13 minutes late be- cause the principal mourners, including the immediate family, were unable to get into the church. Dr.

King's brother, the Rev. A. D. King, emerged to appeal for order. Stepping onto the back of a black hearse that was to be used to carry flowers, he pleaded: "At this hour our hearts are very heavy.

Please let the family through. You would want Dr. King's wife, children, mother and father to have an op- 120 Million Watch Kins Funeral on TV NEW YORK (AP) An estimated 120 I million persons in this country saw all or parts of the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on television yesterday.

The funeral in Atlanta was carried live by all three networks and was beamed abroad by satellite. The audience was estimated by the Research Department, which projected it on the basis of the New York ratings. The New York Nielsen ratings between .10 a.m. and 3 p.m. showed twice as many people watching television as on a normal Tuesday.

Citizen Groups Join in Efforts To Halt Rioting NEW YORK (AP) While armed troops kept order by force yesterday in many of the nation's cities, civilians, Negro and white, began quiet efforts to prevent more violence from erupting. In New York City, Mayor John V. Lindsay credited the -work of two unidentified "militant" groups with calming Harlem residents. Lindsay himself and members of his Urban Task Force have toured slum areas, talking to residents and urging them to avoid violence. A Bronx armory was jammed with 5,000 residents of New York suburbs who answered a call for volunteers for a massive spring clean-up of slums scheduled for April 20 in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan.

A SIMILAR CALL last year brought 200 volunteers. Many of the 5,000 volunteers Saturday were middle-class whites who explained they came because of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I'm here because I felt we have to establish person to person communications with those who live in the slums," said Robert Schocnberg of Fair Lawn, N.J. "Most of us are living in a psychological ghetto.

Dr. King's death proved that to us." In Chicago, two rival Negro street gangs called a truce so their 3,000 members could work together restoring order in the city. The Blackstone Rangers and the Disciples crossed each other's "turf" to calm slum residents. From the suburbs and other Chicago neighborhoods food, clothing, furniture and other material aid were sent to those left homeless by the fire that erupted last weekend. CIVIL RIGHTS leaders, Hollywood celebrities and sports stars made public statements urging people to observe Dr.

King's principles of nonviolence. clouds as the great crowd began to form around the church in the early morning. Some women opened umbrellas to shade themselves. People used their handkerchiefs as fans. Men removed their jackets as the temperature rose into the 80s.

Even an hour before the service was scheduled the distinguished guests who held reserved seats were having trouble getting through the throng and inside. There was great excitement at the arrival of celebrities like Sammy Davis Bill Cosby, Floyd Patterson, Wilt Chamberlain, Eartha Kitt, Leslie Ug-gams. There was oddly and not disharmoniouslyan almost festive quality to the assembly. Part of this was simply the thrill of seeing so many notables. But a larger part was the pride everyone felt that such renowned, illustrious and glamorous figures should come to honor the dead young copastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church.

SOON THE CROWD was so thick that it spilled off into the side streets almost as far as the eye could see. The handlul of Atlanta policemen on duty were overwhelmed and became enveloped by the people. In order to watch the church door and see who was arriving, people stood on cars, shinnied up light poles or climbed up to adjoining rooftops. At last the service got under way-more than a half hour late. The crowd tried to listen to the service over a public address system but much of it was drowned out by a picture-taking helicopter which hovered overhead.

Still there was no -impatience and heads nodded and people said "amen" as the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Dr. King's close friend and successor as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, delivered a ringing denunciation of violence. It was one of the few things the helicopter let them hear. Then, after more than an hour, the service was over and it was time for Martin Luther King to leave the Ebenezer Baptist Church for the last time.

By RICHARD DOUGHERTY Los Angeles Times Service ATLANTA Black and white, of high station and low, they massed by the thousands and they marched under the warm Georgia sun to express the only hope that matters or has ever mattered to Americans: that this be a good country. An evil act had brought them here. But the goodness of the throngs that milled and sweated outside the Ebene-zer Baptist Church, at the corner of Auburn Avenue and Jackson Street, was as firm and stolid as their patience and good humor. INSIDE, the vice president of the United States headed a visiting delegation of strangers to the little red brick church which included governors, senators, high churchmen, diplomats, mayors of great cities and celebrities of all sorts. Would-be presidents were there: former Vice President Richard M.

Nixon, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy.

New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller was there. So was Michigan Gov. George Romney.

Greatness either greatness to come or greatness missed was a supreme incongruity in this simple house of God. There was bitter irony in the way so many had been joined together by the common experience of an assassin's bullet. The brave, controlled widow of Martin Luther King Jr. had her counterpart in the small, historically brave figure of the widow of John F. Kennedy.

NEAR SENS. Robert and Edward Kennedy was Charles Evers, brother of the murdered Medgar, the Mississippi NAACP leader who was shot down in 1964 with the same incomprehensible brutality with which King was shot down last Thursday night In Memphis. If there was hope to be found in the wake of this latest assault on the decency of the nation, this latest martyrdom in the struggle for justice and brotherhood, it was to be found here. King managed to find it somewhere in the vicinity of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He was born in a house only a couple of blocks up Auburn Avenue from the church.

His maternal grandfather, the late Rev. A. D. Williams was pastor then. His father, the Rev.

Martin Luther King became pastor when the son, who was to become a Nobel laureate, was 2. So all the dead man's 39 years on earth had been molded and conditioned by the Ebenezer Baptist Church a not very prosperous church, in a simple un-prosperous neighborhood; a church which has steeples that were never brought to full height, a church that has a small blue neon sign with a white cross above the main entrance. DIRECTLY across Auburn Avenue from the church is a high earthen bank. Only the vast throng which occupied it during the church service concealed its essential ugliness. Diagonally across from the church is a parking lot pitted with mudholes that are a foot deep and littered with broken cement building blocks.

Right across Jackson Street is a new low-lying building occupied by a laundromat and a record shop. The immediate impression is that prosperity has yet to come to either. There are two big elm tres near the church, but nowhere are there the white and pink dogwoods and the variety of flowering shrubs that make other parts of Atlanta a pleasure to the eye this time of year. It is apparent that the beauty that. Dr.

King found in this setting had to be a beauty seen only in the mind's eye. Something like the same beauty, it might be assumed, that he saw in his enemies when, even under the most extreme duress, he preached the doctrine of love and nonviolence. THERE HAD been predictions of rain for the day but the sun was fiercely hot and there were only small patches of.