European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Re Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday april 6, where it hit the Rev. Andrew Young an aide to or. Martin Luther King in the Southern Christian leadership conference shows where the civil rights Lender was struck by the Bullet. Young was waiting for news in Memphis St. Joseph s Hospital. At right mrs. King leaves the Atlanta Airport for her Home with an unidentified woman after mayor Ivan aha with umbrella brought her news that her husband had died. She hew to Memphis later. A photo Abernathy takes Sulc leadership Memphis up the  Abernathy assumed leadership of or. " Martin Luther King s Southern Christian leadership conference Sulc Fri Day and promised to Lead another March Here monday. He also vowed to carry on wit the scheduled poor people s Campaign in Washington. Abernathy 41, who has Bee Nat the right hand of or. King since the beginning of his civil rights campaigns in the South said the organization would maintain the goals and ideals of its founder. We will conduct our March i support of the sanitation workers in Memphis As scheduled on monday. It will be a silent March in his memory. We have decided that As hedged for the poor so must we work for the poor. After a Nec Essary period of adjustment we will resume work on his poo people s Campaign in washing ton in Hopes that this nation audits Congress will legislate the necessary economic reforms tout an end to  Abernathy also called for silent memorial marches across the nation on  Man can fill or. King s shoes he said. Martin Luther King is no longer with us but his marvelous Loving spirit has been unleashed across the length and breadth of history. His life was taken by a con fused and deranged Assassin for no Man in his right mind could hate Martin Luther  aide of King pleads for non violence Atlanta a Hosea Wil Liams one of or. Martin Luther King s top aides who was stand ing beneath the Balcony on which or. King was shot to death thursday called immediately for continued  s not Burn America Down he , an executive in the Southern Christian leadership conference telephoned his plea to the Atlanta Constitution from Memphis where or. King died. We must we must maintain and advocate and promote the philosophy of non violence he said. Williams considered one of the most militant of or. King s aides told the Constitution we those of us with him during his last moments on this Earth Are concerned that this coun try might go into a turmoil that would cause great  mrs. King hazed weeping i think it s the will of god Atlanta a. A i do think it s the will of god said mrs. Martin Luther King jr., afew hours after the death of her husband. We always knew this could  mrs. King stayed in seclusion at her Home thursday night receiving Only a few close Friend sin her bedroom where she is recuperating from major sur Gery. Friday she flew to Memphis to accompany the body Home. Friends and relatives greeted the Stream of mourners who passed 15 policemen guarding the House thursday night. The slender attractive wife of the civil rights Leader was com posed but seemed dazed. She wept occasionally and accepted a few phone Calls one fro president Johnson. Mrs. King reclined on her bed watching television reruns of High moments in her husband Slife. A half dozen women Friend were in the room with her and the Kings eldest daughter Yolanda 12, in pyjamas and a Robe and with her hair in cur lers Lay on the floor watching. Mrs. King wept softly whether husband s voice rang out again in a speech he had mad Only wednesday night in Mem Phis i am not afraid. Blessed is the name lord the room was silent As Kin moved across the screen in his historic Selma March and again when he made his famous i of the Home was rocked by a  the effects on her four Chil had a dream Washington. Speech in she wept again when he Saidon television my personal life is of no consequence in this fight. My philosophy is what is important 1 mrs. King 41. Was told of he husband s death by mayor Ivan alien or. At the Airport while she was waiting to Fly to his bedside. The mayor had driven Herand her two eldest children Yolanda and Martin Luther Kin Iii 10, to the Airport after he received word that King had died the mayor took mrs. King into a waiting room. She emerged weeping. He then drove her Back Home. We have lived with the threat of death always present she said after her husband received the Nobel peace prize to 1964.since 1954, when King began preaching nonviolence As a tac tic in fighting segregation she had seen him jailed numerous times stabbed once and threat ened often. She was with him in1956 at Montgomery ala., with their first child when their informed by president murder of or. King stuns troops in Vietnam Saigon a american troops in Vietnam were stunned Friday by news of the slaying Ondr. Martin Luther King in Mem  Johnson s talk mourning the assassination was relayed to the 516,000 . Troops Here by live broadcast from the White House. The . Armed forces radio network carried the president s words at mid morning Friday thursday night in Washington. The broadcast was followed Byan interlude of solemn music in place of the scheduled jazz pro Gram the same procedure followed after the assassination of president John f. Kennedy. As in the Case of Kennedy news of King s death spread swiftly ?.hroughout american units in Remote parts of this  negro Soldier told of King s death said you must be joking. I just Don t believe it. This is  Soldier a White Mas Ter sergeant Suid i m  reminds me of the time president Kennedy was assassinated. I be got a Roommate who is a negro and we be talked about our civil rights troubles at Home. I think there s going to Bea lot of troubles at Home a negro army officer it.  Smith said we lost a truly great Man for civil right Sand personal Freedom. It s a thing you Don t anticipate in your own country. I would like to think this happened in another coun try. We lost a truly great Man in our  White Marine Corporal har old Young 22. Said Black or White murder is  another Marino Corporal negro James Johnson 19, said "1 think it s a terrible thing be cause he was t doing anything but trying to make ends Mee Between Whites and  Dren she once said i be tried to give them a understanding that their daddy is trying to help people. The two older ones understand. They take great Pride and accept the dangers quite Well. We All realize that some thing could happen. If it does happen i think it will be the will of god. If it does it would be a great Way to give oneself Toa great  or. King s father or. Martin Luther King sr., was too Dis traught to attend a prayer serv ice for his son at the Ebenezer Baptist Church where he is Pas Tor. Tunnel Job begun at London Airport London is work asunder Way on a $5.7 million Tun Nel 25 feet below the runways a Heathrow Airport the project will provide two Lane traffic for up to 1,000 trucks an hour Between the Airport cargo terminal and  area reducing the present 6j-i-Niilejourney to half a mile. As a result in the speedup of the movement of goods the Brit ish Airport authority anticipates boost in exports. The volume of exports and imports handle Dat Heathrow is expected to Rise from the present 8.1 per cent to25 per cent in 5 to 10 years. Weather . Temperatures h t m 01 Albany 79 61 Atlanta 62 48 Woiton 71 66 Buffalo 64 s0 Chelca