European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 24 the stars and stripes drafting to speech to nation lbs deals with Viet War violence at Home by Merriman Smith Washington up pres ident Johnson dealt saturday with problems in two fronts the racial tension at Home and Possi ble Vietnam peace developments  was on duty until after Midnight Friday receiving up to the minute reports from May ors and governors on the violence that broke out after the slaying of the Rev. Martin Luther King. He was awake before 8 a.  Greet Gen. William c. West Moreland upon the Vietnam commander s arrival in Washington for War strategy  the Day Johnson worked with his advisers on Amajor speech on the racial crisis he plans to deliver to a join meeting of Congress monday. The president went on television to address the nation for the second time in 24 hours telling his listeners americas Hall not be ruled by the bullet0 and calling on Congress to Holda joint meeting to consider new measures he will propose to improve the lot of the negro he asked Congress to meet no later than 9 , monday to hear the president s recommendations and suggestions for action constructive action in Stead of destructive action in this hour of National  before addressing the meet ing Johnson met with civil rights and government Leader summoned from across the nation to help Deal with the violence arson and looting sweeping Many of the nation scities. Later the group went to the Washington National Cathedral where Johnson his face hag Gard from fatigue bowed his head in sorrow As or. King was terror goes Oil in . Cities continued from Page 1ing 200 men 40 trucks six sweep ing vehicles and five water trucks had been launched in the debris strewn streets where the trouble erupted. Another police spokesman be Lacy said that by mid morning saturday 2,123 people had Bee arrested and 734 others injured. Officials said More than 300 fire Shad been set and More than 100 stores  and the reinforced troops scaled off the worst ravaged areas and military patrols turned Back cars attempting to enter the City at the Maryland line. A Marine unit set up a guar around the Capitol shortly after Midnight freeing an army Force for patrol work elsewhere. The unit set up a machine gun  Chicago the Illinois National guard commander declared the situation is in control on the strife Tor North South and West sides one of the Chicago deaths occurred when a Molotov cocktail thrown through a first floor win Dow landed in the crib of a 10 month old  saturday snipers crouched behind darkened win Dows and hiding on rooftops of a housing project shot a firemen battling stubborn blazes set by looters and arsonists on Chicago s West Side. Police and National guardsmen immediately returned the shots. The National guard also patrolled in Detroit and Greensboro and Raleigh . Boston an Pittsburgh also were hit hard by racial  violence was also re ported in Philadelphia Flint Mich. Cincinnati and Toledo Ohio Wichita Kan. St. Paul Minn. Pine Bluff Ark. East Palo Alto Berkeley san Francisco and Oakland Calif. Den ver Jackson miss., and Wil Mington  Chicago 3,000 National guardsmen patrolled the negro West Side where scores were injured five killed and dozens fires set in Street violence Fri  the City s firemen Battle widespread blazes. More thar280 persons were arrested Anc for five minutes just before Midnight snipers fired 20 rounds that pinned Down policemen in a  Detroit scene of racial rioting that killed 43 persons eight months ago police said on looter was fatally shot an nine persons injured during a renewal of violence. At least 35ires were reported and Well Over 200 persons  Jerome Cavanagh mobilized the City s 4,200-Manpolice Force after bands of souths smashed windows an juried rocks and bottles at cars. Gov. George Romney dispatched 400 state troopers sent 3,000 National guardsmen and ordered 9,000 More on Alert. An 8 .-to-Dawn curfew was posed. In Pittsburgh gangs smashed windows and looted stores and taverns in the negro Hill District. About 90 persons were arrested and a Steelworker driving to work was critically wounded by  said nearly every store Usa eur Safe set memorial services Heidelberg special memorial services for the Rev Martin Luther King will be he Din conjunction with sunday services in . Armed Force chapels throughout Europe us Preuit and Safe  announced saturday. In addition special and join memorial services will be con ducted at some  memorial services Are being held in keeping with the president s proclamation of sunday As a Day of mourning. And tavern in the Hill District adjacent to the business District was looted. The City s 1,400police were ordered on 12-hour duty when violence broke out Friday after students were dismissed from school Earl because of or. King s death. Violence continued in Nort Carolina. More than 2,000 National guardsmen patrolled the streets of Greensboro and Raleigh. In Greensboro three policemen were injured none critically in a gun Battle with snipers firing from dormitories on the at u n i v e r s i t Campus. An unidentified woman was seriously injured when struck in the face by a Brick hurled through her car window. Gunfire from a dormitory pinned Down a squad of police near the Campus and 13 nation a guard vehicles rushed in reinforcements. Police credited other students with persuading the snipers to quit firing. Gov. Dan k. Moore banned Sale of alcohol in the state and most negro colleges dismissed students Early for Spring  Boston hundreds of negro youths marched on a super Market and state officials alerted several thousand nation Al guardsmen to mass in Boston armoires. The guar was not ordered into the Street. New York mayor John  continued his strategy of visiting ghetto areas through out the Day and night. He expressed his sorrow at or. King death and urged negro youths to shun retribution a word he said was not in the slain Leader s  s efforts Friday were successful. After a night of heavy violence thursday there were just scattered minor disturbances. The entire 28,000 Man police Force was order Don emergency duty. Eulogized by one of the slain civil rights Leader s closest aide he Rev. Walter Fauntroy Washington y m the president did not indicate what he had in mind for Hii address to Congress but it a almost certain a priority u 6tnwould be an Appeal for House passage of the Senate passed civil rights Bill. -7 the Jill would outlaw discrimination in the Sale rental or ease of about 88 per cent of th6nation s housing and would make crimes like or. King1assassination or other violence against civil rights figures fed eral offences. Johnson who normally is Imodel of coolness was see coming and going from the Situ Atlon room in shirt sleeves his tie loosened and Shirttail out. H4slept Only briefly Friday night in the hours following or King slaying and fatigue showed in Hli lined face and red rimmed eyes in his television address Johnson said men of All races Al religion Ujj All regions mus join together in this hour to deny violence its Victory and to fulfil the vision of brother Hood that gave purpose to Martin Luther King s life  Memphis police hot on Trail of Man suspected of having killed or. King Memphis Tenn. Up authorities indicated saturday that they Are hot on the Trail Ofa neat Sandy haired Man who checked into a flophouse an allegedly used it As a sniper Post to snuff out the life of or. Mar tin Luther King or. The investigation at this Point is very encouraging said Memphis police chief Frank . He would say no More explaining the furnishing of any More details at this time might jeopardize either the investigation or the conviction of the individual responsible. As Soontas we feel we Are in a position to make further announce ments we will do so without  atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark who flew to Memphis on orders from president Johnson to help with the investigation said Friday that authorities were very close to an arrest in therase and that the investigation had spread several Hundred Miles beyond the Borders of  was killed thursday evening by a sniper s Bullet Ashe strolled on the Balcony of his room at the Lorraine . Bessie Brewer 44, land lady of the flophouse from which the fatal shot came said that less than five hours before the shooting a neat Sandy haired Man checked into the apartment under the name of John . Brewer and her Hus band Frank both reported hearing a shot about the time King was slain. They said the shot sounded As though it was fired from the building s com Munal Bath where ballistic experts say the sniper  services for King will be held tuesday both at his Church and his Alma mater Morehouse College in Atlanta be fore burial in Atlanta s South View cemetery. The arrangements made baking s wife and his father the Rev. Martin Luther King sr., include a procession and memo rials at the Church and Colleg because of King s close ties with religion education and marches the body of the slain c i v rights Leader will lie in state a Spelman College s Sisters Chap until 4 . Monday when a procession will take it to Ebenezer Baptist Church. The body will he in state Ebenezer which has been associated with the King family for three generations until a service at 10 30 . Tuesday. 15 Are killed As blast rips Indiana town Richmond ind. A a explosion and fire Tore through downtown Richmond  least 15 persons were re ported killed. The National guard said Thad received a request from mayor Byron klute for 200 mento cordon off the area three buildings were destroyed and five others were burning. Flames advanced Oscity Hall. Don Mcbride City Parks superintendent said he had seen eight bodies. Firemen reported hearing people scream from inside Burn ing buildings but they weren table to reach them. Authorities fearful the death toll May run Many times the first count arranged for a emergency morgue at the National guard armory. State police said Gunpowder apparently exploded in the base ment of the Marling arms  goods store two blocks from the heart of this City of44,000 near the Ohio Border. The blast broke windows More than three blocks away and was heard More than a mile away. 77-d s Khe Sanh lifted continued from Paya / base but about half of them were believed to have pulled Bac gradually into the mountains toward Laos under massive air attacks. Associated press correspondent Lewis m. Simons reported from inside the base that just before the paratroopers landed the rangers charged out of the Bastard seized trenches extending As far As 200 Yards from the Peri meter. They met no resistance. In one Trench Simons reported the rangers found the bodies of three North vietnamese. Al were Well equipped and Hud steel helmets the rangers said. The apparently were the victims of air and artillery strikes. A task Force of 20,000 . Marines and helicopter Riding cavalrymen and South vietnamese troops paved the. Way for the lift ing of the siege in a massive operation launched monday that sent Allied forces pushing toward the base from several directions. Resistance has been Light except for scattered heavy fighting. The push named operation Pegasus for the winged horse of greek mythology could take the allies All the Way to the laotian Border. . Cavalrymen  a reported North Viet namese regimental headquarter South of Khe Sanh reported kill ing 50 enemy troops Friday under a barrage of rockets and machine gun fire from armed helicopters. The enemy troops were spotted late Friday near the town of Khe Sanh which was turned into of North vietnamese regimental Headquarters after the enemy seized it in january. The town is two Miles South of the base and Only six Miles from the laotian Border.. Troops were sweeping the mountains around the base fro the South Southwest East Ana West in what amounted to a u degree  biggest push was a Marine column of tanks artillery an engineers moving West u Ong Highway 8, the Only Overland Supply route to Khe  last report the Road con Voy the first americans to to Down the Highway since Kubuj was within three Miles of w1" san the 8,000 . Marines at Khz Sanh had been resupplied by of drops and helicopters during to siege