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Daily News from New York, New York • 5

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DAILY MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1965 fSV'i ft IfeLli fib -T YzjLx fit 1118 UV) (Associated Press Wirefoto) rs. S. W. Boyton (foto right) is aided by friends after injury by police. State troopers (foto left) wear gas masks as they wade (CPITelefoto) into marchers.

Plk Ehrsdmk Wkh, fifloses Asks airage Barnes mounted sheriff's deputies whips, ropes, clubs and tear Robert Moses Triborouffh Bridge and Tunnel Authority yesterday proposed a off-street parking garage at the Manhattan end of the Queensboro Bridge and promptly struck sparks from Traffic Commissioner Henry A. Barnes. The Moses project would oc- renting retail department store cupy an area between 58th and I sPace in the area. and our studies 60th Sts. and Second and Third i indicate that office space might Aves.

Moses declared it would be I be included if necessary for i Burns revenue purposes. The proposed garage "would be of great advantage to the city," according to Moses. "It would provide a place for parking cars from the suburbs so that the owners could proceed on foot and by bus, subway and other forms of transportation fcnd would thus greatly reduce street congestion. "It would provide other transient parking spaces off the streets and would of course promote shopping in the area." Wanis a Monorail Along Expressway City Highways Commissioner John T. Carroll yesterday advocated building a monorail or other rapid transit facility along the Long Island Expressway.

"This is the ideal solution to many of our traffic woes and one of the solutions that we have to come to," Carroll said on TV's New York Report. Mass. He later Up (UPI) State Troopers and by 600 Negroes today, using when they ran into the state police. Three times they were warned to halt, but they came on. One trooper called out: "This march you propose is not conducive to safety." He ordered them to disperse in two minutes.

Hosea Williams, a march leader, asked for a parley, but the troopers refused. When the two minutes were up, about 24 troopers, swinging clubs, assaulted marchers at the head of the column. The column recoiled, only to form again about 50 yards back. Tear Gas Barrage The police then laid down a tear gas barrage and, protected by gas masks, charged again with swinging clubs. Mounted deputies joined in as hundreds of white bystanders cheered them on.

Screaming and rubbing their eyes, the marchers turned back. As the retreat became a panicky rout, the mounted deputies pursued, whacking at stragglers with clubs until those marchers still? on their feet were back at the starting point. Witnesses said they saw several of the mounted men using bull whips on the fleeing demonstrators. (In Washington late tonight I I II lit 1 1 KM hi i KB I in financially feasible if "as in the case of the Coliseum, we can include additional commercial rentable space for revenue purposes in order to carry the heavy costs of acquisition and construction." Barnes Is Sore Barnes, whose department has the responsibility for public parking garages under the City Charter, angrily said that the authority hadn't even discussed the proposal with him. Anyway, he said, his department already had studied the same area and decided it was too far east to have "sufficient justification for a garage." Then he assailed the authority's past and proposed expansion including a Moses idea for a bridge across Long Island Sound which he said is further complicating the traffic picture.

Moses said the authority had been in touch with Macy's, Gim-bels and Bloomingdale's "and find there is considerable interest in Selma, March 7 routed a "walk for freedom" MS. CT The galloping horsemen who broke up the intended march to Montgomery, 50 miles away, pursued some Negroes almost a mile back to their church meeting place, hitting them with billy ciubs along the way. Ambulances Are Busy Ambulances shuttled from the Brown's Chapel Church to Good Samaritan Hospital. A hospital spokesman said 25 to 30 persons were treated for wounds and scores of others for the effects of tear gas. Nine or 10 persons were admitted to the hospital.

Among them was John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, who may have suffered a skull fracture. The marchers started out from Selma to protest to Gov. George C. Wallace against the denial of voting rights. Wallace forbade the march and told the state troopers to use whatever force necessary to stop it.

The marchers, defying his order, moved out from the church after hearing their leaders warn that the going would be rough. They got to a highway bridge only 200 yards outside Selma donated $5,000 to the Red Cross. Red Cross Volunteers Honor Cardinal King Maps Another March Atlanta, March 7 (UPI) The Rev. Martin Luther King, who was to have led today's civil rights march in Alabama but didn't, said tonight as "a matter of conscience" he would lead another march from Selma to Montgomery on Tuesday. First, however, King said he would go into federal court to get an injunction to prevent police interference.

Gov. Wallace Authorizes force the Justice Department said the FBI was interviewing' the battered marchers "to gather evidence that might indicate use of unnecessary force by local law enforcement officers and King said he "permitted myself to be talked out" of leading today's march by aids who feared for his safety. Chicago, March 7 (UPI) An anonymous caller today told police that Mayor Richard J. Daley, 61, would be killed if the Rev. Martin Luther King was slain in Alabama while leading a protest march.

Mrs. Johnson and her mother. Louise Sheppard, 40, took two of Mrs. Johnson's children to safety. Mrs.

Johnson then returned for her other two children. She was trapped on a stairway and perished. A roomer, Charles Gilchrist, 45, leaped from a second-floor window to safety. Blaze 4 Children And Mom Who Saved 2 Four children, and a mother who ran into the blazing building in a vain attempt to rescue two of her children, were burned to death when a fire swept their house at 116 Cardinal Spellman receives citation from James H. Evans, chairman of 1965 Red Cross campaign, at St.

Patrick's Cathedral as volunteers Carol Mates (left) and Mrs. Howard C. Paulsen look on. vv imam nigntstown, JN The victims were: Mrs. Ttesstp Sheppard Johnson, 20, and her two children, Samuel Lee, 4, and Jonnie, Jeffrey Sheppard, 4, Mrs.

Johnson's nephew, and Mary Jane Sheppard, 7, her sister. Police Capt. Cecil Daley said the blaze broke out-shortly after midnight. Roland Schanck, 60, the owner, turned in the alarm while Cardinal Spellman received a citation yesterday from a group of 400 volunteers with the American Red Cross in Greater New York who attended Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral.

The volunteers were participating: in the national celebration of Red Cross Sunaay. The Cardinal presided at the 10 A.M.' Solemn arainai speiiman was citea lor nis gracious and sincere personal support, so meaningful in making possible the many Red Cross services to the community, and for his efforts which are an inspiration to many thousands of Red Cross volunteers" Sir.

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