European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Mgr Jim Muff a Hill voice at rites says " ? Amous pay at husband s funeral the wife of slain civil rights Leader or. Martin Luther King arrives at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to attend the funeral rites for her husband. Alright is the Rev. A. D. King his brother. The woman at left is unidentified. A photo at Rita a. A an audience of America s famous said goodbye tuesday to or. Martin Luther King jr., whose taped voice dramatically keynote his formal funeral serv ice say that i was a drum major for the audience of 1,300 persons assembled in Ebeneze Baptist Church was still As the taped excerpt from one of King s last sermons rumbled across the room in that familiar oratorical voice that has aroused thousands. If you want to say that i was a drum major say that iwas a drum major for Justice. Say that i was a drum major for Freedom said the voice of King in the Sermon in which he said he had been thinking of his own funeral. Senators governors civil rights leaders religious figures and others led by vice president Hubert Humphrey rep resenting the White House sat in the audience. So did Black Power advocate Stokely Carmichael and three Robe negroes with shaven Heads. Outside a crowd estimated by police at 150,000 stood for blocks around and As the service went on they began funeral March. Every now and then i think about my own funeral said the King tape. Tell them not to mention that i have a Nobel peace prize. That s not important. Mention that Day that Martin Luther King or. Tried to give his life. Tried to love somebody. That i tried to love and serve humanity. His words came As the Climax to a quiet dignified ser vice. Minutes later the body in its Bronze casket was carried front. On Page so col. I1 unofficial new Pap a of . Fortt in Europe North Africa and it my dds East vol. 260. 356 if 21855 a wednesday april 10, 1968 3 Dally 10 sunday d gunfire erupts in hard hit Baltimore i i Mossage 1 r a Thurmont. My. Up president Johnson said the touch win Hanoi tuesday in an it to arrange an initial King to discuss conditions Vietnam peace talks. The president who disclosed monday that to had received a Ai message from Hanoi ing his March 31 bid for Pac e talks said of High level Vietnam policy talk sat the presidential Retreat in nearby Camp David to Tel reporters about the message to Hanoi. U. S. Officials said in response to private reports of North Vietnam s desire for a cambo Dia meeting that this govern ment was not anxious to Send ambassador Averell Harriman and the rest of the u. to any area where this country did not have secured communications Back to Washington. However Washington Likely quibble Over phenom & y s ii. Penh As the meeting place if Hanoi insisted. Harriman has been designated by Johnson to make initial Contact with North Vietnam representatives. He was summoned to the new Vietnam talk sat Camp David tuesday. Johnson announced the u. to Hanoi following the first two hours of discussions the second round of High level talks on the situation in recent Days. Ambassador Ellsworth Bun Ker flew in from Saigon Early tuesday and went directly to the Mountain Retreat. Snipers Blaze away in Many parts of City new York up heavy sniper fire which broke out Early tuesday in several sections of Baltimore made the City the hardest hit trouble spot on the sixth Day of violence since the assassination of or. Martin Luther King. A 70-year-old Man burned to death in his second floor apart ment the sixth victim of the riot ing. Fire officials identified the dead Man As Colie Hutson one of about 10 occupants Over a Gro Cery store which had been set afire in West White looters in Baltimore were wounded by a merchant soon who shot them As they entered his store. Troops and police crouched or Lay in the c0mt. Of i of col. I
