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aa WVierigian = F:BY JACK HARTSFIELD -News stall writer Be Mentpiay, Miss. fle officers were not says @ today whether more ar - ge rests are ahcad in the night ne home of Meyer Davidson, prominent Police Chief Roy Gunn, who | i ould not rule out fur resis, guardediy commented at he was hopeful the con- | stinuing investication would d fee unBew evidence. nthe ther | . Meanwhile, the self-styled underground fighter,” Thom- 22, of Mobile, gunned down Sunday »by law officers after one of ‘Mississippi's wildest running gun battles remained in seri- ous condition at Maity Hersee -Hospital, He is under heavy gree Across town at Jeff Ander- | son Memorial Hospital a po-" en patrolman and a. bystan. i A. Tarrants III, ee der, both cut down by subma- ; * chine gun fire in the chase re- mained on . the — ¢ritical “list. . * Patrolman J. M. Hatcher, 31- year-old falher of three, was “2 sprayed with machine gun bul- “lets while trying to arrest Tar- ‘“ranis. Navy machinists’ mate #, Robert Burton, a bystander, “was oil in the yard of his home: “when he rusned out to the commotion f.The raging battle on Meridi- Fn streota enc ; at ° } t ider attempted bombing of © Jewish business , eader in Meridian. oy FS Mrs, , cans for Preservation of the ' stop near the house and saw a Claimed they challenged Tar” * _ rants as he tried to place a ~ _ box of dynamite with a time -- * detonator beside the Davidson grade teacher. at Duling Ele-? ' {mentary . School in ‘Jackson, dwas carrying a 25 caliber * -s . » pistol” in her purse ‘and mem- 1", “bership cards in the Ameri- : While Race and the Ku Klux i. Klan, 7 Sunday while 19 officers were ‘staked out at the Davidson Tesigence, one of four loca- : tions under surveillance that ne ivht. ! Hiss | Officers moved ‘in when they spotted a Buick sedan Investigators _ man get out. home. ~ The “man, officers claim, fcropped the dynamite andj -fofficers fired as he fled to the waiting car. Police pursued, \firing “at the auto and finally|: ’ rammed it 15 blocks away. wad Investigators’ said Tarrants . at jumped from the car spraying ‘machinegun bullets,” injuring the bystander and officer Hatcher, before lawmen cut .. him down with their own fire while he was trying | to climb . ; over a fence. “s Chief Guna ‘said documents * ” recovered from Tarrants’ “: possession’ spoke of a So-cal-~; led “Communist-Jew’ cons- , piracy and that Tarrants had , gone. “underground” «. as a guerrilla fighter. ©. THE POLICE chief’ that Mrs. Ainsworth’s hus band, wha was attending sum-_ _ Cams Shelby," said : mar camn at- mer, Camp av Vaeilyp knew she was 4 member of the Amesicans for Preserva- : White Race, “a... gvegationis. gcoup-”_ a Tt. Pie! 701, presi dent of. oWa's Jac "son ck + IT bod Riws* tion a the ‘+ public schools, GUNN SAID the episcde | { “began in the pre-dawn hours {groups and was a “frequent } months.” “Not agreeing nd . Claism being pr romoted in o she tried _ to: | teach .. "American | tian beliefs,” Pickel continued: ‘A native of Miami, “she” moved to , Mississippi and { | “| her ., ‘ graduated from Mississippi | College at nearby Clinton, | Police said she _had__been aitiliated with the APWR and | |e different Ku. Klux Klan Speen . Segregationist ~. BERMINGHAM POST- HFRALD BIRMINGTAM, 7-2=68 Rate: Vale. € Editlon: Author: Editor: John We Bloomer Title: _GREENBONB- | Character: .. . . or (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) - ver RBIRMINCHAN NEWS Classification: J 15 at Submitting Office: “RIRMINGH AN, ry | Being Investigated "| SERIALIZED — ALABM A Metra ‘Jack Hartsfield 572369-5Fe- nah OS * ED = INDEXED oe JUL +=. 1968 FEI— BIRMINGHAM