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See related pictures on pages 2 and 16. AP THE SLAYING OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING took place at the motel where he was staying in Memphis last night. His room was on the second level, to the right of the pole and is indicated by a circle. King was standing in front of this door when he was shot.

His widow heads for her home in Atlanta, shortly after King was killed. IN HIS LAST PUBLIC APPEARANCE, Dr. Martin Luther King was photographed at the Mason Temple In Memphis Thursday. The 39-year-old civil rights leader was shot in the neck later In the evening and died in less than an hour. AP Violence Erupts At King's Death A W4 though If was not known if the "latter death was related to tha violence.

See RIOTS, page 8 PFC. KEVIN W. MOORE Ex-Newarkite Killed In Viet Action Pfc. Kevin Walker Moore, 20, of Milwaukee, a former Newark resident, has been killed in Vietnam. Moore was killed March 31, in Tajoa Thien, Vietnam, where ha was serving with the Marines.

He the service last June. See MARINE, page 8 i it 0 Civil Rights Meeting At White House Johnson Delays Hawaiian-Iri Negro community for consultation, and went on to say: "No words of ours no words of mine can fill the void of the eloquent voice that has been stilled." He avowed his belief that King's dream would live on, and closed his message with these words: "The work we have begun is not done. "But, together, a nation united, a nation caring, a nation MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Atty. Gen.

Ramsey Clark said today that "substantial leads" had been developed in the hunt for the killer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Clark said the slaying appeared to be the work of one man. "We've got some substantial leads," Clark said, after flying here from Washington. "We're very hopeful.

We've got some good breaks." King's slaying Thursday sparked Negro violence across the nation, but most of it subsided at daybreak. And President Johnson delayed his departure for Hawaii and a strategy conference with U.S. officials from Saigon. Clark told newsmen "there is no evidence at this time of any conspiracy." President Johnson held a late morning meeting of civil rights leaders in the White House in the convulsive wake of reaction to the death Thursday night of the 39-year-old King. King died in a Memphis hospital less than an hour after he was shot in the neck as he stood on the balcony of his motel.

Police searched for a white gunman. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, newly named to succeed King as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, called for silent marches Sunday around the nation in King's memory. He said he and other SCLC officials would return Monday to lead a silent march. Memphis was relatively calm this morning after six hours of looting, arson and shootings set off Thursday night by the slaying.

The dusk-to-dawn curfew was lifted this morning and National Guardsmen and police patrolled possible trouble areas. The Memphis Pres-Scimitar said police arrested a short, balding white man this morning as he left a rooming house near the shooting scene. He was reported turned over to the FBI, but the FBI agent in charge, Walter Happel said he had no information on the arrest. King's widow flew to Memphis in a plane chartered by Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy to claim the body of her slain husband. She remaind aboard the plane at the airport. The body, in a bronze casket, was put on view and hundreds of Negroes passed to pay their last respects. A large crowd was still -at the funeral home when the casket was loaded into a hearse to be taken to the airport. As Abernathy closed the door on the hearse, he said: "Long live the king." In Washington, Black Power advocate Stokely Carmichael urged Negroes to arm themselves with guns and take to the streets in retaliation for the assassination of King.

He told a news conference he wants black America to "kill off the real enemy." Carmichael blamed President Johnson and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy along with the rest of the nation's white population for the death of the Nobel Peace See MANHUNT, page 8 Arson Suspected In $350,000 Columbus Fire COLUMBUS. Ohio (AP) A fire that caused $350,000 damage roared through the Dealers Lumber and Coal Co. yard on the city's East Side early today, bringing nearly 100 firemen and 25 pieces of equipment to the scene to battle the blaze for hours.

When finally brought under control, the fire authorities say may have been set deliberately, destroyed seven trucks, three fork lifts and several thousand cord feet of lumber. Fire Lt. Kenneth Gilbert of the Arson Squad said he has investigated a report by an Railroad workman that several men were seen driving away from the fire scene shortly before the fire was reported. The same workman had reported the file at 53 a. m.

Memphis, Tenn. J.ohnson meanwhile kept in abeyance his plans to fly to Honolulu later in the day for Vietnam policy talks. The President's statement said: "The dream of Martin Luther King has not died with him. "Men who are white men who are black must and will join together now as never in the past to let all the forces of division know that America shal not be ruled by the bullet but by the ballot of free and just men." Johnson said that when he heard Thursday night "the terrible news of Dr. King's death my heart went out to his people especially to the young Americans who, I know, must wonder if they are to be denied a fullness of life because of the color of their skin." He said he had called to the White House the leaders of the tmmmmmmmmmmmmmM WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson told the nation Friday he plans to address a joint session of Congress, hopefully by Monday night, to deal with the problems stemming from the assassination of Dr.

Martin Luther King. WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson called on the nation today all men and all races to "stand their ground to deny violence its victory" in the wake of the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The President's statement was issued after a hastily summoned meeting at the White House of civil rights leaders, government officials and members of Congress. He voiced again his sorrow at the death of the Negro apostle of non-violence, assassinated by a rifleman Thursday night in Repudiation Likely If Thieu Left Out Of Talks AFTER 73 DAYS, WHAT ABOUT THE PUEBLO CREWMEN? Among the Crew Is: ALUAGUE, Rizalino 776 91 68, Stewardman TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) Disr turbances involving an estimated 2,000 young people, mostly Negro, were reported in a one-mile area around Scott High School here today.

Police blocked streets leading through the area and vehicle traffic was detour-ed There were no reports of serious injury, and several fires which broke out in the area were minor and quickly controlled. Classes were dismissed at Scott High School, which is on the city's near West Side and has a predominantly Ne gro enrollment. Newsmen in the area reported rocks being thrown at passing cars and a number of building car windows broken. Fire Chief Arnold Papenhagen estimated that about 2,000 young people were roaming through the area. Col.

Sylvester T. Del Corso, who was sworn in at Columbus this morning as the state's new adjutant general, said he was aware of the situation at Toledo but felt that police there had it under control. Violence burst out in cities across the country in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as bands of Negroes smashed windows, looted stores, threw firebombs and attacked police with guns, stones and bottles.

A white man was stabbed to death in the midst of violence in Washington, and a Negro died of stab wounds in New York, al GET THE 1 I CHAMBERLAIN Bill Russell duel to feature NBA Eastern Division playoff series. Sports Section story has details. TEHERAN GROTTO Auxiliary is planning a couples card party. Get the details in the Mostly for Women Section. NETWORKS' COVERAGE of Martin Luhcr King murder well done.

See Cynthia Lowry column on Amusement Page for details. INDEX Amusements 21-22 Church Pages 14-15-16 Classified 25-26-27-28-29-30 Comics 20 Court News 23 Deaths and Funerals 17 Dr. Coleman 23 Heloisc 13 Investors' Guide 9 I Remember 5 Jane Jewell 7 Opinion Page 4 day night "to reject the violence' that brought King's death. Afterward, press secretary George Christian quoted the President as saying he would decide later whether to go ahead at this time with the Honolulu meeting. Johnson's initial uncertainty appeared to be dictated by at least three considerations: If the President immediate-See HAWAII, page 8 separate Viet Cong delegation at any forthcoming peace conference, and Saigon will not accept peace terms which include the neutralization of South Vietnam.

American officials said they were not surprised by Thieu's position and "not necessarily in disagreement with it." "We have always said we don't want to impose a political solution on Vietnam, that it's up to the Vietnamese to decide," a U.S. spokesman said. A Saigon government communique issued after Thieu's meeting with the ambassadors welcomed moves to bring an early end to the war "in justice and freedom." It said the allies had agreed to remain "in constant consultations on any points of substance or decisions" which might arise in the talks with Hanoi. South Vietnamese officials from Thieu down were clearly worried that the talks could be the beginning of a snowballing succession of peace moves which might end with an American withdrawal from Vietnam. Thieu told a news conference Sec THIEU, page 8 Bridge Collapses HAMILTON, Ohio (AP)-Two trucks plunged 25 feet into shallow Gregory Creek near Monroe in Butler County after a bridge collapsed early today, but bolh drivers escaped with minor concerned together, we shall overcome." As copies of the statement were distributed to reporters in the lobby of the White House office wing, Johnson left by another exit to attend a special memorial service for Dr.

King in the Washington Cathedral. Johnson, who had originally planned to leave in the middle of the night for the Hawaii conference, had told a national television-radio audience Thurs Authoritative informants said Thieu told the diplomats that the United States has no right to discuss any political questions concerning Vietnam in its direct talks with Hanoi. Thieu also re-emphasized the position of the Saigon government that: There can be no coalition government including the Communists in South Vietnam. Saigon will not accept a Killing America power of hatred to rescind." Samuel J. Cornelius, a Nebraska state official, said, "When things like this take place, you wonder if there is any hope at all." Leontyne Price, Metropolitan Opera soprano, a Negro, said, "What Dr.

Martin Luther King stood for and was can never be killed with a bullet." James Farmer, former national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, said, "Dr. King hated bloodshed. His own blood must not now trigger more blood letting." Mrs. Bennie Mae Fowler, of Harlem said, "1 shed all my tears. I don't know what we're going to do now." Minnesota Sen.

Eugene J. McCarthy, campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, said, "We can only grieve." See SHOCKED, page 8 Shocked World Reacts To In Newark In JL SAIGON (AP) President Nguyen Van Thieu has warned the United States that he may repudiate any political agreement on Vietnam in which Saigon has no say, diplomatic sources reported today. Thieu summoned the envoys of the allied governments to the presidential palace Thursday to express his misgivings over the coming U.S. contacts with Hanoi. NEW YORK (AP) Black and white, famous and unknown, Americans reacted to the news of Dr.

Martin Luther King's assassination Thursday night with shock, sorrow and prayers that the violence of his death would not overshadow the nonviolence he preached. President Johnson, addressing the nation on radio and television, said, "We have been saddened. I ask every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck Dr. King who lived by nonviolence." Jackie Robinson, the first Negro to play major league baseball, said, "Oh my God, I'm frightened. I pray to God this doesn't end up in the streets." Mrs.

Joanna Ryan of Harlem said, "You feel like flying away from this damned cruel world." Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, a Negro, said, "He changed the world. He changed it enduringly, far beyond the 3 in civil rights and those who want and deserve civil rights will use Dr. King's non-violence as a model the others must realize that Negroes must have equal rights." "I'm shocked this really hurts me but this shows how deep racism is embedded in. American society," commented James Clark, president of the Newark Chapter of the Association for the A a e-ment of Colored People. "I think this should be a message to both the black and white communities that white people should begin to look at and understand the racism that the president's commission is talking about." Clark said the black community should be motivated to struggle for those things Dr King was seeking ''that it is time to get this thing settled See NEWARK, page 8 i Local Negroes and others Involved with civil rights efforts expressed shock at the assassi-n a i of Dr.

Martin Luther King but are somewhat divided as to what effect the non-violent leader's death will have. There was a general expression, however, that the minister's death last night in Memphis should be impetus for greater action on the local level. At least two local memorial services are being planned for Sunday. "I was completely shocked I don't think there is anyone who has reached the stature that Dr. King had in the field of civil rights," Robert Weaver, city council president told The Advocate.

"It well might result in a longer, hotter summer than anticipated," he However, Weaver expressed a hope that "people who are interested Country Parson 1 1 lllll fill mL-mr j-: "All boundaries (national, racial, social and economic) make enemies of folks who otherwise would be friends." Radio Log 22 Sports Pages 101113 TV Log 22 omen's Pages ..6 7 A XJ in --tin IrV 4.