European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 25, 1968 prison stud dts recalls remark a million for King i la collect it Dalton a. Up a prison buddy of James Earl Ray said tuesday that when Ray hear there was a million Dollar Bounty on or. Martin Luther King jr., he smile and said ill collect , a 40-year-old fugitive from the Missouri state prison is accused by the Federal Bureau of investigation of assassinating King in Memphis on april 4. In the Dalton Jaii. Raymond Curtis 40, awaiting Appeal on a murder sentence said he has known Ray in the Kansas City jail in Federal prison at leaven Worth Kansas and in the state prison at Jefferson City to. On the Day president John  was assassinated nov. 23, 1963curtis said he Ray an about 150 other prisoners were in an exercise Yard when the heard the news. He said Ray remarked Well somebody made a pretty Penny on  a week later Curtis said he and Ray were in the Yard when a new Man just in off the Street told them the business men s association has a million Dollar Bounty out for Martin Luther  Ray smiled Curtis recalled and said if there s a million dollars out for King i believe if i Ever get out i la collect  said he never figured out what the new Man mean by the businessmen s Assoc a  he said he could t re member who the Man was. Authorities in Jefferson Cit confirmed that Curtis and Ray were in prison at the same  in Dalton said that the Fri had interviewed Curtis on sunday and again on monday night. It refused comment on the matter. Curtis convicted of Shotgun Ning a Man in the Holdup of a poker game Here last year said that when he heard of King s death he did not connect it with Ray because he did t know Ray had escaped prison. Meanwhile the Justice depart ment announced in Washington that 46 persons were killed Tii disorders that broke out around the nation after King s murder. The compilation based on re ports from. 76 cities listed a total of 2,561 injured and 28,271 arrested. The 46 deaths occurred in 13 cities. That nationwide figure compared with 43 deaths in de troit last july 23 deaths in the Newark riots also last july and 34 persons killed in Watts Losangeles in August 1965. Denies Paris report Raymond Curtis. Bounty qu6te Katzenbach to of peace talks soon London up . Undersecretary of state Nicholas b. Katzenbach said wednesday the United states was hopeful agree ment will be reached soon with Hanoi on a time and place for preliminary Vietnam peace  he said no agreement has been reached yet. He specifically denied a Paris press report that the talks will open there Friday. In Washington state depart ment press officer Robert j. Mccloskey said wednesday the United states had within the last several Days sent another Mes Sage to North Vietnam in its attempt to reach agreement Ona site at the United nations Secretary general u Thant wednes Day issued a fervent Appeal tothe United states and North Viet Nam to agree on a venue for preliminary talks. He said Warsaw or Paris were suitable  Cento meeting Katzenbach in London for Atwo Day meeting of ministers of the Central treaty organization cent told a news conference he did not know on what than based a prediction tuesday that talks might begin this week. I have no information that talks will be held in Paris nor that they will begin this week he said. To the Best of my knowledge no agreement has been reached with Hanoi on either a time or a place for  Katzenbach s denial came soon after the French government too said it had no information that the United states and North Vietnam planned to open Nego jordanians israelis clash Amman Jordan up Jor Danian and israeli troops dulled with machine guns across the Jordan River for 65 minutes wednesday in the sixth outbreak of shooting this week. To nations in Paris this week. French information minister Georges gorse told newsmen after the French Cabinet s weekly meeting there is no new element beyond the information we had last  Valachi emerges front Ceil to testify in Hija chitin new York a five years ago Joseph Valachi sent a shiver Down the nation s spines he ripped the mask from organized crime. Thinner now and older the Cosa Nostra in Formant emerged from solitary Federal confinement for his first reappearance in Public tuesday at a Brooklyn hijacking trial. Defense lawyers fighting in vain to Block Valachi s testimony asked the 64-year-old mob Ster How Long he has been in sol itary at the Federal correctional Institute in Milan mich., where he is doing life for. Murder. Two years25 months to be exact replied Valachi with a convict s precise knowledge of time s passage. Valachi his hair still in the sit in carries to Bonn Griesheim Germany is peace Hope fully has been restored to the asparagus Fields Here where irate Farmers monday had staged tractor sit in to Block bulldozers starting Airfield  announced wednesday that a joint Resolution worked out Between the embattled Farmers and authorities in Darmstadt of which Griesheim is a suburb had Bee sent to Bonn for Federal approval. According to the Resolution the 14 Farmers affected by the Extension of a runway used by a . Army Airfield will each receive a new plot to replace his lost acre of Sand soil be compensated for the loss of this year s crop and be reimbursed for advancement on the land. The Airfield is made available to american units in Darmstadt under the status of forces agreement. The runway Extension was mad necessary because of land lost to a new Auto Bahn project. Rifles hidden too Well gis capture Saigon up a Large Vietcong Force marching toward Sai gon presumably in preparation of a new major attack on the South vietnamese capital was captured by american infantry men without a single shot being fired. American military spokesmen said a total of 268 Viet Cong were captured before Dawn tuesday inthe Village of Chanh Luu in Binh Duong province. A band of . 1st inf div troops hiding in the Jungle watched the Viet Cong troop monday March into the Village to spend the night there. They hid their weapons in the Village and could t find their arms fast enough when american troops with helicopter borne reinforce ments surrounded and seized Chanh Luu without a fight. Britain to continue Cento responsibilities by Bob Hoyer is . Bureau chief London is Britain will maintain capability of discharging its military obligation to the Central treaty organization Cento after withdrawal fro the near East in 1971, a foreign office spokesman said wednes Day. Goronwy Roberts minister of state for foreign affairs said these responsibilities can be carried out to the five nation defense pact from the unite kingdom and Cyprus. But what the future will bring is not certain Roberts told a press conference at the conclusion of the Cento foreign ministers meeting. Despite Britain s projected bureaucratic swirl now ended Washington a the private War of retired army col. Zebulon l. Strickland against what he Calls Bureau cratic swirl came to a Quick decisive end tuesday. Those in the swirl agreed to remove from Public View two portable toilets temporarily placed near Graven at Arlington National , whose Battle to ban the toilets began april 9, said monday those allowing the toilets to remain in sight just Don t seem to realize that a temporary desecration of a grave is just As bad As a permanent  i m just going around in bureaucratic swirl he said of his efforts to have two toilet banished. Late tuesday Robert Bella civilian Engineer for the army s support services said one of the toilets is no longer needed an already had been removed for  said the other one would definitely be taken away an placed in a warehouse area away from my grave or the Public View. Said the toilets had Bee used by workers installing an underground sprinkler system for the 420-acre cemetery. Withdrawal from the Middle East and the relative Calm in the area of the three regional cent members Iran Turkey and Pakistan Roberts said there still is a need for the defensive posture of the Alliance. He declined to answer a ques Tion about the increased presence of the russian Navy in the East Ern Mediterranean. Roberts attributed the detente in the Cento regional area in recent years to the existence of the Alliance. Indications of Progress he stressed the economic an Industrial aspects of Cento and cited increased Gross National product figures As indicators of Progress. Roberts said that Britain will play Host to an Industrial sem Inar for Cento nations in delegates to the two Day meet ing reaffirmed their desire to continue the economic and social developments of their countries. The United states an associate member of Cento has bilateral agreements with the four signatory members. Leading the 15-Niembor .delegation at the meeting was . Under Secretary it stat Nicholas Katzenbach. The defens him mentally testify. But Federal familiar Crew Cut but his Sui now too Large for his once portly 5-feet-5 Frame was interrogate first in the absence of a Federal jury. Sought to prove incompetent to judge John  allowed Valachi to proceed As a government witness against five men accused of a $50,000 hijacking in 1959. One of the defendants is Carmine the Snake Persico 35, one Tim Comrade of Valachi in the old Joseph Profaci Cosa Nostra family in Brooklyn. Valachi s 33 years in the crime Syndicate ended in 1963 when he broke his blood oath of secrecy to Bare the inner work Ings of the Cosa Nostra to a sen ate rackets subcommittee in a sensational series of televised hearings described meeting allowed to testify before the jury Valachi described a meet ing with Persico and two other of the defendants after their arrest for the 1959 hijacking. Headed of Persico he wanted to know he d been paying taxes tribute to the mob on All of his hijackings and he wanted to know if he should pay on the one that he was on trial  on trial in Brooklyn Federal court with Persico Are Ralph Spero Hugh Mclntosh Salva Tore Albanese and George la Fante. They Are accused of hijacking a shipment of textiles from a truck in Brooklyn june28, 1959. There have been four earlier trials resulting in Ahung jury a mistrial and two appellate court reversals of convictions. 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