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Griffin Daily News
Violence Death Toll
Reaches 38 Across US
By United Press International
Negro violence sparked by the
killing of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., spread to Kansas City,
Newark and Trenton, N.J., on
the day of his funeral. White
nightriders shot and killed a
Negro youth in Jacksonville,
Ha.
Since King was shot by a
sniper Thursday in Memphis,
122 cities have experienced
disorder.
Thirty - eight persons have
been reported killed, 2,248
injured and 18,831 arrested.
Authorities have called in 19,200
U.S. Army troops and called up
37,000 National Guardsmen.
Police fatally shot looters in
Kansas City and Trenton
Tuesday night and Newark had
more than 100 fires and some
looting.
Wilmington Trouble Continues
In Wilmington, Del., Negro
youths looted and set fires for
the second day Tuesday. The
entire 3,800-man Delaware Na
tional Guard was called out to
quell the disorder.
Roving gangs of Kansas City
youths hurled molotov cocktails,
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looted stores and sniped at
police. There were 66 fires in
the Negro section and the Negro
bands looted in the plush
Country Club Plaza section.
Police fired at the looters in
Kansas City and one, Maynard
Gaugh, a Negro, was killed
coming out of a liquor store,
police said. In all, 15 persons
suffered gunshot wounds. No
policeman was shot. Police
arrested 240 persons.
Gov. Warren E. Hearns called
up 2,200 National Guardsmen,
1,700 of them two hours after
students of Kansas City’s
Central High School, a predom
inantly Negro school, marched
to city hall to protest the fact
that school was In session on
King's burial day. The 2,000
young demonstrators were met
by hundreds of policemen in gas
m&ks and trouble flared.
Trenton Battleground
In Trenton, the capital of New
Jersey, bands of young Negroes
fought police with their fists,
set fires and looted hi the
downtown section. At one point
the youths took a police cruiser
away from the police. The
police won it back.
Trenton police said the shot
Harlan M. Joseph, 19, while he
was looting near city hall.
In Newark, hundreds were
made homeless by fires in the
central ward, the same area
ravaged by riots last summer
that killed 26 persons. Arsonists
struck in daylight and after
dark. Dozens of stores were
looted.
“Let them have what they
want!” the Newark police
dispatcher shouted to a beat
policeman reporting the looting
of a liquor store.
The Jacksonville authorities
promised a full investigation of
the nightrider slaying of Ru
dolph Hargett, 18. Witnesses
said the carload of Whites went
throurh the Negro neighborhood
twice.
They said the first time the
Whites threw rocks at a group
of Negroes. The second time,
they said, a shot rang out and
Hargett was struck in the head
by the bullet.
Jacksonville Under Curfew
Before the slaying, Jackson-1
ville police had clamped an'
overnight curfrew on a 13-block
Neg ro neighborhood where
there had been rock-throwing
and firebombing earlier.
Minor disorders were report
ed Tuesday in Homestead,
Gainesville, and Pensacola, Ha.
In Wilmington, 41 persons
were injured in two days of
violence. Tuesday, the 29
injured included five Whites who
required hospitalization.
Scattered violence also was
reported for the first time
Tuesday in Farrell and Sharon,
Pa.; New Cassel, a Long Island
Baton Rouge, La., and Grand
Rapids and Niles, Mich.
Troops and police kept the lid
on the weekend hot spots,
including Washington, Chicago,
Baltimore and Pittsburgh.
Washington had a total of 10
dead and 6,423 arrested; Chica
go 11 dead and 2,000 arrested,
Baltimore 6 dead and 5,033
arrested. Pittsburgh reported
1,200 arrested.
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repair the damage done by a
leaky truck which spread
molasses all over the highway.
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MOURNERS JAM-PACK the area outside Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta,
Ga., at funeral of assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King.
King Laid To Rest In
Former Slave Cemetery
By HENRY P. LEIFERMANN
ATLANTA (UPD—The body
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
the nonviolent apostle of mil-
lions of American Negroes, lay
in a white marble crypt at the
edge of a former slave
graveyard today.
In a tribute unprecedented in
the nation’s history, King was
buried Tuesday after a proces
sion of 150,000 government
officials, diplomats, entertainers
and private citizens who fol
lowed him for the last time. A
pair of work mules pulled the
burnished coffin on a common
pale green farm wagon.
“He is now in the hands of
the eternal God,” said the Rev.
Ralph Abernathy, a close friend
of the Nobel Peace Prize
winner.
Abernathy took over the reins
of King’s Southern Christian
Leadership Conference when
King fell from an assassin’s
bullet in Memphis, Tenn., last
Thursday.
It was the biggest funeral
ever accorded anyone other
than a President in the United
States. The mourners included
Vice President Hubert Hum
phrey, Mrs. John F. Kennedy,
Senators Robert F. Kennedy,
Edward Kennedy, Eugene Mc-
Carthy and Jacob Javits,
former Vice President Richard
Nixon, the governors of four
states, dozens of diplomats
mayor and other officials.
His People Follow
Behind the creaking old farm
wagon, 40 abreast for mile upon
mile, also walked maids and
farmers and clerks. Dozens of
Negro garbage collectors from
Memphis also walked in the
line. They paid tribute to the
man who came to their city last
week to lead demonstrations in
a nine-week-old garbage strike
tinged with charges of racial
discrmination.
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including many in Europe
where the funeral was beamed
by satellite.
Scores of mourners fainted at
the sun climbed high overhead
and temperatures rose into the
80s. The 4.2-mile march route
wound from King’s Ebenezer
Baptist Church to Morehouse
College, where services were
conducted in a dogwood-dotted
quadrangle.
Nearly half the mourners
were White.
The funeral started Tuesday
morning with a private service
at the church. But it was 5:19
p.m. EST when the body was
laid to rest in South View
Cemetery in a white marble
crypt inscribed with a refrain
from the old slave song:
“Free at last, free at last,
“Thank God almighty, I’m
free at last.”
Abernathy intoned:
“The cemetery is too small
for his spirit, but we commit
his body to the ground. The
grave is too narrow for his soul,
but we commit his body to the
ground. No coffin, no crypt, no
stone can hold his spirit but we
commit his body to the
ground.”
Children Attend
Tlie widow, Mrs. Coretta
King, and her four children
arose from their folding chairs
and approached the crypt,
strewn with hundreds of bou
quets of flowers. They touched
it and left.
Scores of persons later
crowded around the vault to
pluck souvenir flowers, bits of
ribbon and sprigs of fern, but
they barely dented the mountain
of blossoms. A knot of
mourners still stood solemnly
before the crypt at midnight.
Only the family, a few close
friends and dignitaries could get
into the small, red brick church
where the services started with
prayers and Negro spirituals. A
prophetic tape of King’s Feb. 4
sermon was played in which he
told his followers that if
anything ever happened to him,
he wanted to be remembered
only as “a drum major for
justice.”
Mourners Fill Streets
Some sobbing, some singing
“We Shall Overcome,” the
thousands of mourners trekked
to Morehouse, filling eight-lane
streets from curb to curb. The
procession swept through down
town Atlanta under the gold
domed capitol where Gov.
Lester Maddox—a foe of King—
sat behind his desk. He had
announced that his schedule
would not permit him to attend
the funeral.
More than 1,000 policemen
and firemen lined the streets as
an honor guard and 1,000
National Guardsmen stood by in
nearby armories. The crowd
was so orderly the guardsmen
were not needed.
Dr. Benjamin Mays, president
emeritus of Morehouse deliv
ered the main eulogy at the
outdoor services. He praised the
slain 39-year-old civil rights
leader as a “prophet of the 20th
century” and “champion of
all.”
Mahalia Jackson sang King’s
favorite hymn—a hymn King
was speaking about when the
fatal shot was fired outside a
Memphis hotel — “Precious
Lord, Take my Hand.”
Mrs. King had requested that
the tape of her husband’s
sermon be played at the church.
“If any of you are around
when I have to meet my
day,” King’s voice said, “I
don’t want a long funeral. If
you get somebody to deliver the
eulogy, tell him not to talk too
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