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Page 2r Part I The News April 9,1968 Cornell from lh IM Antctt Vmtt, tht tm Aiwlw Tlmi Wtshlngton Post News Srvlc nd malar wir and supplmmtary new MtnciM. of the Day i w-- i Xx- r--. I I ifi tm 1------v Tv' 1 I n. 'mfiU I tr 4 METROPOLITAN 450 Clergymen March in Tribute to Dr. King A silent procession of 450 clergymen, led by a minister carrying a shrouded cross, marched through the streets of downtown Los Angeles in honor of Dr.

Martin Luther King. (See Page 3, Part 1.) Most city, county and state offices here reported only negligible absenteeism by Negro employes despite a call by the Black Congress for a work stoppage in honor of Dr. Martin Luther (See Page 3, Part 1.) Mrs. Harold C. Morton rejected the demand of Councilman Marvin Braude that she resign from the City Recreation and Park Commission, denouncing him as a publicity seeker.

(See Page 3, Part 1.) Former Undersheriff Harold C. Marlowe was ordered to supply the Internal Revenue Service 37 files of his public relations firm for inspection in a massive investigation of political contributions. (See Page 1, Part 2.) Final arguments will begin Wednesday in the trial of Anthony D. Dontanville, 35, charged with the Aug. 9 rape-strangulation of two Altadena sisters, Cecilia and Roberta Barili.

Both the prosecution and defense completed their cases in the trial which began March 14. Superior Judge Mark Brandler ordered a recess today because of the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King. A 76-year-old man, Marvin J. Hassell, was booked on suspicion of robbery after police captured him a block from a bank which had been held up.

Hassell, who lives at a downtown hotel, is suspected of taking $2,050 from the First Western Bank, 556 S. Spring St. He told a teller he had a vial of nitroglycerine wrapped inside a handkerchief. Long Beach harbor commissioners set June 6 as the dedication date for the new Gerald Desmond Bridge over the entrance to that city's inner harbor. The new bridge, named for a late Long Beach city attorney, will replace a pontoon span built in 1944.

j-- tm I 1 -k llll fill JUST AFTER KING WAS SHOT Dr. Martin Luther King lies mortally wounded on the balcony of a Memphis motel moments after he was hit by a rifle bullet. An aide kneels beside him while others point out to nearby police the direction from which the had come. Photo was taken by Joseph Louw of Public Broadcast Laboratory who was in his motel room two doors from Dr. King's when he heard the shot.

Copyright Tim, Inc. AP Wkephot going to be bullied by kooks Brown's bail was revoked after he traveled to California in violation of conditions set by Merhige. Searchers found four more bodies in the rubble of eight buildings wrecked in the weekend's Richmond, explosion and fire, raising the number of known dead to 44. Only 37 of these have been identified, and 15 persons still are missing, Seventeen of the 91 injured remained hospitalized. The cause of the blast still was under investigation, with the possibility of arson under consideration.

ATLANTA ATLANTA UNIVERSITY "5 1 I -s AUBURN AVF 1 ST. gMBl-- OK1 1 state I BAPTIST fc 5 MEMORIAL DR. CHURCH LtnpKntircfmLT7A--- S7T, Avg- southview C'1 vao: CEMETERY THE WORLD 1 Marines Move Out of Khe Sanh to Hunt Foe The War in Vietnam U.S. ma- rines moved out of Khe Sanh looking for the North Vietnamese who had pounded them with artille-ry and mortar fire during 11 weeks of siege. Light skirmishing was reported as' the' marines, cavalry troops and South Vietnamese para-troopers hunted for the enemy.

The paratroopers reported killing 11 North Vietnamese 4 miles southeast of the base, while losing one of their men. A brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) moved Into the Khe Sanh bunkers and trenches as the marines left. U.S. pilots limited their strikes in North Vietnam for the fifth day in a row to a 170-mile section between the 19th parallel and the demilitarized zone. President Johnson on March 31 directed that U.S.

raids be confined to the area below the 20th parallel, and sources in Saigon said he now has ordered a further restriction to the 19th parallel. South Vietnamese army headquarters announced the end of Operation Resolved to Win, a month-long sweep by 50,000 allied troops in the five provinces around Saigon. A nearly complete tabulation showed 2,658 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese killed, and 521 captured. U.S. losses were given as 105 killed and 920 wounded, while South Vietnamese casualties were reported as 200 killed and 496 wounded.

U.S. headquarters did not immediately confirm the end of the operation. The Viet Cong set off an explosive in a movie house at Quang Ngai, 330 miles northeast of Saigon, the government reported, wounding nine Vietnamese soldiers and 10 Preliminary North Vietnamese- American talks on the war appeared all but certain as President Johnson announced he had received a formal reply from Hanoi. (See Page 1.) President Johnson's Marine son-in-law went on his first patrol in; Vietnam, then took command of a rifle company that has been in daily contact with the enemy. No action was reported on the patrol.

Capt. Charles S. Robb took over I Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, from Capt. James R. Reeder of Evans-ville, Ind.

"The men will be watching him," said Reeder, "but I'm sure he will do well. He's a good officer." Five hundred extreme leftist Ja- panese students, wielding long staves and hurling rocks, clashed with police in a march against a U.S. Army field hospital in a Tokyo suburb. Fifteen students were ar- rested and a number of police Injured. It was the 10th demonstra- tlon against the hospital, opened March 18 to treat U.S.

soldiers wounded or. ailing with diseases caught In Vietnam. A Saigon firing squad publicly executed -Nguyen Van Phuc, a South Vietnamese army warrant officer, for embezzling $16,000. "I am a sacrifice," he told officers moments earlier. "This punishment is out of all proportion to the crime." Two hundred persons, most of them children, watched the execution at Chia Hoa prison.

Phuc had pleaded guilty to embezzling the money when he was a paymaster in 1966. A British jet airliner caught fire THE NATION Mrs. Martin Luther King led a mammoth march to the Memphis City Hall to honor her husband and plead for the poor. (See Page 1.) Thousands of persons gathered in Atlanta for the funeral of Dr. Martin-Luther King.

(See Page 1.) More federal troops were moved' into Baltimore, as, violence spread. New violence erupted in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Youngstown, Ohio, and Wilmington, Del. (See Page 1.) The Supreme Court scrapped the death penalty provision of the federal Lindbergh kidnaping law. (See Page 1.) 1 In memory of Dr. "Martin Luther King, the National Urban Coalition declared, the nation must take immediate action on.

"the crises confronting our cities." Member Whitney M. Young, executive director of the Urban League, said he will be forced to become a revolutionary if America is not shocked into action by Dr. King's slaying. The coalition mayors and i leaders of business, labor, church and civic groups throughout the nation. The Senate sent to President Johnson a bill authorizing $2.6 billion for activities of the Atomic Energy Commission in the coming year.

The Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee had cut the total $293 million below the President's request by scrapping nonmilitary projects. Three farmers from Marshall County, Iowa, who participated in a pig massacre March 26 to protest low pork prices were indicted under a 1919 state ban on destroying food products. Henry Steenhoek, Jesse Wright and his son Gary were charged in connection with the National Farmers Organization protest. A plea to free Negro militant H. Rap Brown in the interest of racial harmony pending an appeal was turned down in Richmond, by a federal district judge.

Replying to a defense attorney's suggestion that "we may be fiddling while our cities are burning," Dist. Judge Robert Merhige, who earlier revoked Brown's bail, retorted: I'm not Mrs. Lyndon Johnson escorted 38 foreign travel writers to Corpus Christi, where she dedicated the Padre Island National Seashore. trip was part of a "Discover America" program. Detroit's newspaper unions rejected a plea by Mayor Jerome P.

Cavanagh that their members return to work at least for the time being to help avert a racial blowup. Cavanagh has been fearful that rumors in the ghetto might trigger another riot like last summer's, and 1 he contends newspapers could1" quash such rumors. So the 145-day-old walkout at the News and Free Press continued. Fifty inmates at Lewisburg, Federal Penitentiary refused to wbrk in prison industries, complaining that their wages of $10 to $25 a month were too low. Prison officials isolated the malcpntents and reported there was no trouble.

Fellow-prisoner James R. Hoffa, former president of the Teamsters Union, lectured the inmates recently on unionism. Television cameras were ordered removed from the first two manned Apollo spaceships to save weight, meaning the world will lose its chance to watch America's first two Apollo crews in orbit. The decision is under review, however. Tuskegee Institute closed its doors "until further notice," and students were told to be gone by noon today or be prosecuted as trespassers.

The decisive episode at the violence-plagued Negro college in Alabama was last weekend's siege in which 250 students held captive the college president and the board of trustees, including an aged Ohio congress-woman. It took the National Guard to free the prisoners. ROUTE OF CORTEGE Funeral procession today for Dr. Martin Luther King will start at Ebenezer Baptist Church after brief services there. It will pass the Georgia State Capitol and City Hall on the way to Morehouse College where an outdoor service will be held.

Burial will follow at Atlanta's Southview Cemetery, shown at the lower right. storywiPagai Times map by Harlan Kirby THE STATE He toppled the San Mateo County power line transmission tower because of his opposition to Vietnam war, an unemployed construction worker from Rifle, confessed to Redwood City police. Dale Frederick Morrow, 28, will be arraigned today on a charge of interfering with an electrical transmission line, a felony. Police accused him of stealing a bulldozer belong ing to the San Francisco Department to ram the pole. Most of San Mateo County was without power for more than two hours after the tower fell.

A "caravan of hope" delivered six truckloads of household goods, clothing and other necessities to residents of the Tule Indian Reservation. The caravan was organized by Lions Clubs in coastal counties. It began in San Luis Obispo, and an estimated 300 club members made the trip to the reservation in the Sierra foothills near Porterville. The Tule Indians suffered major property damage in flooding a year ago. Homage was paid throughout California to Dr.

Martin Luther King and many local and state agencies will give time off today to enable employes to pay their final respects. (See Page 3, Part 1.) Trial of Augustus Owsley Stanley III, 33, and two associates on a charge of operating an LSD factory in Orinda was set for June 17 in San Francisco. Federal drug abuse control agents at the time of the raid last December described the operation as the "biggest LSD arrest in history," and said the confiscated acid had a potential value of $10,850,000. Stanley lives at 6290 Sunset Los Aiigeles. SOUTHLAND A strong, rolling earthquake followed by aftershocks rocked Southern California and most of the Southwest, causing many power failures and minor property (See Page 1.) 1 Camp Billy Machen, the Navy's new site for training "Seal teams in underwater counter-guerrilla tactics, was commissioned at Lake Cuyamaca near Julian.

The camp was named in honor of Seal Billy W. Machen, who was killed during Vietnam war operations. Machen was awarded the Silver Star posthumously. BUSINESS 1 4 -tf until a space mission is completed or near completion before reporting further on it. Members of the U.S.-Canadian expedition headed overland to the North Pole reported by short-wave radio they are only 100 miles from their objective.

The one Canadian and five Americans left their base camp March 7 to travel overland using motorized sleds. Group leader is Ralph Plaisted, 40, of St. Paul, Minn. The radio report said the "ice party is moving very fast." The expedition seeks to become the first to reach the geographical North Pole by a surface route since U.S. Commodore Robert E.

Peary did it in 1908. President Tito of Yugoslavia arrived in Japan for an eight-day visit and called for "broad common action" to eliminate the causes of war and international tensions. Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Eisaku Sato were at the airport to welcome Tito on his first visit to Japan. Tito said he was confident his talks in Japan "will contribute to the promotion of equitable cooperation and peace in the world." Scott Lindbergh, son of pioneer American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, was married to Monique Dubois, a Paris artist, in the small French village of Chataincourt.

Lindbergh's father and mother were notpresent. Nigeria's federal military govern-, ment has asked for new U.S. Peace Corps volunteers after months of rfefusinsr tn allnw anv mna vnlun. MV4 VfiUU teers in, A request for about 200 teachers went to Washington last week. The number is unusually large for a single group of volunteers, bat small compared to the 700 corpsmen stationed in before the civil war began last July.

There are fewer than 200 In Nigeria now. The first Australian aborigine quadruplets on record were born at the northern territory hospital at Darwin. Their mother, Mrs. Mabel Mein Bel, said she was delighted with the arrival of the four girls. She named them Joan of Arc, Ludi, Regina Ann and Philipa.

Five members of a former Nazi police battalion were sentenced in a Hamburg, West Germany, court to prison terms ranging up to eight years for aiding in the murder of 25,000 Polish Jews during 1942-43. Eight-year prison terms were given to two former police chief commis-, sioners, Wolfgang Hoffmann, 51, and Julius Wohlauf, 55, and to a 58-year-old salesman, Kurt Dreyer. Former police commissioner Anton Becher, 58, was sentenced to six years and a sign painter, Heinrich, Becker, 53, got five years. Six other defendants were found guilty, but were not sentenced because they were subordinates under orders. The project to build a channel tunnel between Britain and France, nonstarter for 166 years, is being revived despite the countries' political differences.

Britain's Transport Ministry reports that officials on both sides of the channel are making final studies on how to finance the 23 mile If all goes smoothly, cars and trains could be, rolling beneath the channel by 1975. SPORTS The Dodgers have postponed their scheduled National League opening game against the Philadelphia Pnil3 to Wednesday night because of the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Balph Boston, the world record holder in the long jump, says he is reconsidering his decision and may join the proposed boycott of the Olympic Games. minutes after takeoff from London Airport, began to fall apart and then returned to make a crash landing which 121 of the 126 aboard survived. (See Page 1.) The Senate military preparedness subcommittee will open a major inquiry today into the adquacy of the U.S.

arsenal of missiles, bombers and other strategic weapons. Richard Helms, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, will be the first witness at the closed sessions. Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss.) subcommittee chairman, said the hearings will center on the present and future strategic position of this country compared with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's new space venture, Luna 14, presumably is speeding toward the moon as some sources speculated that it may be the first attempt to send 1 a craft around the moon and bring It back, to earth.

The unmanned spaceship -was launched Sunday. An official announcement said it was an automatic space station and would study "near-lunar space." The statement said the ship was functioning nor- many, but the Russians usually wait Enthusiasm over peace talk progress spurred the stock market to a sharp gain in heavy trading. Th Do Jones industrial average climbed 18.61 to close at 884.42. Major stock and commodity exchanges will be closed today in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, as will some banks and businesses.

See Financial Section DECLINES TO ANSWER Mel Pierson, former recreation and parks commissioner, appearing before a City Council committee. He refused to answer questions about his part in the award of a $302,000 architectural Left, back' to camera, Councilman Robert Wilkinson, story Pig i Times photoi, by Stero Fontanlnl.

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