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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 22
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¥ JACK HARTSFIELD
News stall
= ' “MERIDIAN, Miss.”
Law officers were not say> |
ig today whether more ar:
rests are ahead in the night
r attempted bombing of
home of Meyer Davidson,
@ader in Meridian. * + y
olice Chief Roy Gunn,
ould not rule out furl
‘esis, guarcediy commented
fit he was hopeful the con-
tinuing investigation would
fire. up new evidence. -
Meanwhile, the
“underground fighter," Thom.
as A. Tarvants II, 22, of!
jaw officers after one of
Pi Mississippi's wildest running
gun battles remained in seri.
4-0US Condition at Matty Hersee
“Hosp al. He is under heavy
guard.
Across town at Jeff Ander- |
‘son Memorial Hospital a po-"
Bice patrolman and a, bystan-
der, both cut down by subma-
chine gun fire in the chase re-
on the critical
* Patrolman J. M. Hatcher, 31-
year-old father of three, was
“) sprayed with machine gun bul.
# lets while trying to arrest Tar-
the commotion was
» tions under surveillance that
ight. |, affiliated with the APWR and
fnree different Ku Klux Klan @
groups and was a ‘frequent
“man get out. Investigators
minent Jewish Business. ciaimed they challenged Tar:
* detonator beside the Davidson
Mobile, gunned down Sunday;
i.
insworth a4 ‘ict
ie teacher. at Duling Ele-
fas School in Jackson, ¢
was carrying a .25 caliber
pistol‘ in her purse and mer-
bership cards in the Ameri-
cans for Preservation of the
SAID the episcde ,
began in the pre-dawn hour:
Sunday while 10 officers were
staked out at the Davicson
resigence, one of four loca-
Officers moved “in when
they spotted a Buick sedan
stop near the house and saw a
rants as he tried to place a
box of dynamite with a time
home.
The man, officers claim,
ddropped the dynamite and
officers fired as he fled to the
waiting car. Police pursued,
{firing at the auto and finally
rammed it 15 blocks away. _..
Investigators’ said Tarrants «
jumped from the car spraying «
machinegun bullets, ’ injuring
the bystander and officer
Hatcher, before lawmen cut
him dewn with their own fire
while he was trying | to climb
over a fence. “
Chief Gunn said documents *:
recovered from — Tarrants’ ‘;
possession’ spake of a So-cal-:
Jed “Communist - Jew” cons-
piracy and that Tarrants had,
gone “underground” «as
guertilla fighter, ‘0002 2
THE POLICE chief said“;
that Mrs. Ainsworth’s -hus-
band, who was attending sum-_-
mer camp at Camp ‘Shelby,"?
knew she was a member of: i
said Mrs. Ainsworth *
ing
‘tition being pre
“public schools,
; White Race and the Ku Klux te
‘A: native of Miami
nearby Clinton. |
Lyre RIRNTNGHAN
{Indicate page, name of
newspaper, city and state.)
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