European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Ripi s unofficial a Lipop of . Fores in Euratt North Africa and a. My dds vol. 26, no. 354 if 21855 a 5 Dally 0 sunday monday april 8, 1968 hits tree Jim Germany by Randy Barnetts a racing columnist i Bockenheim Germany is Jim Clark of Scot land one of the greatest racing Drivers in the history of motor sport was it Fleck Here sunday when his formula 2 Lotus Ford went out of control and smashed into a tree. Clark 32, died instantly of a broken neck and multiple Skull fractures doctors at Heidelberg University clinic said. At the time of the crash Clark was running seventh in the first heat of a 40-Lap race. The track was wet and exceedingly Slippery. The crash occurred on the Long Back stretch in the forests behind the grandstands. Race officials estimated that Clark s car was travelling about 170 Miles an hour when it left the track. Biography on Page 21. None of the approximately 85,000 spectators at the 6.76 Kilometre track was near the scene. They were told Only that Clark s car had crashed. It was not until four hour Slater after the second heat had started that Clark s death was announced. Flags were lowered to half staff and the spectators were asked to Rise to pay tribute to the Man who was one of the greatest names in grand prix racing. Track officials said the car was so torn to bits the cause of the Accident probably will never been known but fellow cant. � pa30 24, col 1 before the end this picture May be the last close up one Ever taken of Jim Clark for he started his final race a few minute later. Below he is shown just after the beginning of the 20-Lap beat at hoc Kuheim. Is photos by Charles Cooper Russ launches automatic Moon station Moscow up _ russian h Lem Isis sunday launched an unmanned automatic station Luna a toward the Moon Tass news Agency announced. A report did not specify a Luna 14 was intended to the Moon like Lunas 10, 11 Ilu 01 land on it like Lunas 2 5,7, a 9, and 13. It was Iho first soviet Moon probe since dec. 21, 1968 when Luna 13 was launched. It landed on the Moon on Christmas Evertmm a miniature Laboratory study soil. The main purpose of the t. On Pago s3, col flares in Pittsburgh from of and up dispatches president Johnson placed the 15,000-Man Illinois National guard in the Chicago area under Federal control sunday. At the same time 5,000 Federal troops were be ing airlifted into the City to help quell three Days of loot ing in the Wake of the assassination of or. Martin Luther King. Gov. Raymond p. Schaefer also ordered two National guard battalions about 1,000 men int Pittsburgh sunday to reinforce 500 guardsmen called out earlier to control looting and fire bomb ing in the City s negro Hill District. He also declared a state of emergency and ordered a cur few from 7 . To 5 . There must be More than1,000 persons running wild on the Hill a police spokesman s getting harder and harder to Cope said nearly every store and tavern in the Hill District was looted. Meanwhile Maryland t. Agnew ordered the National guard into Baltimore saturday night to quell wide spread looting and disorder i that City. Also gov. Dan k. Moore sen National guardsmen into Wil Mington and Goldsboro uneasy peace returned Sun Day to other . Cities an towns torn by racial violence As army troops National guards men police and state troopers enforced strict death toll since the Vio cont. On Page 24, col 1 Man on run is sought in King s death from a and up dispatches Washington atty. Clark said sunday that enforcement agents have Oneman on the run As a suspect in the assassination of or. Martin Luther King. We have a name we Are work ing on. Whether it is the right name Well have to see Clar said. The attorney general said that the Trail has lengthened 1 since Friday when he said that the investigation had spread several Hundred Miles beyond Memphis co tit. On a
