Atlanta Daily World

By Barbee Durham

DAYTON, OHIO--(ANP)--Both front and back porches of the C. Joseph McLin funeral home at 1130 Germantown street were dynamited shortly after 2:00 a.m. Thursday police said. Sergeant H. A. Reid said that he found a piece of the fuse under both porches and that the smell indicated dynamite had been used.

It was believed by those close to the McLin family that the demonstration was the result of his activity in the Dayton Youth Movement. By picketing stores in neighborhoods where large numbers of Negroes live the Dayton Youth Movement has been successful in securing employment of colored clerks. It was believed that some of those who flatly refused to employ Negroes were responsible. No one was injured.

Mrs. McLin said she, her husband, and a 14-year-old daughter, Willa, were sleeping in the room directly over the front porch. Three other persons residing in the house were on the third floor. They were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hendricks and her son, C. J. McLin, Jr.

Mrs. McLin said she heard a noise, like someone throwing a stone at the window. "Then windows all over the house seemed to break in," she declared. "All the windows in my bedroom were broken." The back porch was totally wrecked and portions of the ceiling knocked in. The windows in the rooms off both porches were shattered.