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FURR, Manford E., 71, a resident of 2212 Greenville St. and of Montgomery for 45 years, died suddenly Saturday morning. Funeral services will be held from White Chapel at 11 a.m. monday with Rev. Ed White and Dr. Ray Tripp officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. He was a member of the McGehee Road Methodist Church. Survivors include the wife, Mrs. Farrow M. E. Furr, Montgomery; one daughter, Mrs. Louise Allen, Enterprise, AL; two brothers Hugh Furr, Mobile, AL, Dow Furr, Evergreen AL; two sisters Mrs. Rosa Warren, Columbus, Ga., Mrs. Gladys Moses, Montgomery; one grandson Lindel Allen, Selma, AL. Pall bearers will be Clief Ed Wright, Asst. Chief W.T. Sherill, Asst. Chief C.E. Swindle, Asst. Chief O.M. Strickland, Asst. Chief Roy H. Houlton, Asst. Chief Rudolph Stephens.
The Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, Alabama, October 14, 1974

MONTGOMERY, Ala.(UPI)- A group of white-robed black men slashed an elderly black man across the face Saturday, shot a retired white policeman to death and staged a two-hour shootout with police at a radio station before surrendering. Five men were reported involved in the attack, but two escaped before the others holed up in the black oriented radio station, WAPX. Police Chief Ed Wright described the men as part of a "very small, select group of people who are masquerading or are part of the Black Muslims." Authorities said they attacked 78-year-old Aldron Parham on a downtown street for no apparent reason, slashing his face with a machete. They then fled in a car with Assistant Police Chief Roy Houlton in pursuit. The assailants' car crashed, Houlton said, and the men jumped out. Houlton said he shot at them and they fired back with sawed off shotguns. M.E. Furr, a 70-year-old retired policeman working at a department store, was shot by one of the five when he ran to aid Houlton, the assistant chief said. Houlton said he then chased the men on foot Down a main street before two of them disappeared. The other three ran into the radio station three blocks from the state capital, and took two persons hostage. Furr died at a hospital a few hours after the shooting. Parham was taken to surgery. Three other persons were injured.
The News, Port Arthur, Texas, October 13, 1974