European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Day april 30, 1968 the stars and stripes Page f killer of King Raj a born new York a James fort Ray suspected Assassin of 5 Martin Luther King jr., be Jan his rebellion against author a during a poverty  in the Midwest Andi always known As a trouble maker an article in the current sue of life Magazine disclosed Rayt Lias Eri was a Vlebel. The article said Ray was absent from school 25 to 30, per cent of the time when a child Virgil Oscar Graves. Who was principal of the Ewing mo.,school Ray attended was. Quoted As saying he was a rebel he rebelled against authority and his approach to most of his teachers was very bad. 4 Buthe was a sensitive boy. I re member one Day he came up Tomy desk wearing patched Over alls and asked whether thought the other kids would pay attention to his  Ray the article said was the eldest of nine children of George and Lucille Maher Ray. Ray father died in 1951, probably of alcoholism life said and his Mother in 1061. One of his Sis ters and one brother Are dead two other Brothers also have been in  of these two Gerald was quoted As saying Ray knew that if he were recaptured he faced a stiffer prison sentence eve without a murder accusation. A Deal with a lot of Money would have looked pretty Good to a Man m Tettat circumstance the brother said. The article said Ray s Mili tary career was spent mostly in Germany and that in 1948 he received a general discharge that cited his ineptness and Lack of adaptability to military serv  1949, the article said Ray went to los Angeles and began series of almost clownish  Ray was caught Al most every time he tried a Rob Bery the Magazine said an did not succeed until 1959 when he and a partner stole $800 froma grocery store in St. Louis. Shortly after that Success the article said Ray tried another Holdup which turned but to be typical of his failures. During his escape the article said Ray forgot to shut his car door and fell out As he swerved Theca sharply around a  in prison having been sentenced late in 1959 to 20 years in the Missouri state Penitentiary Ray distinguished himself Only by a series of solitary escape at tempts which earned him the nickname the mole finally a year ago he succeeded in escaping by hiding Ina truck from the prison bakery. Ders see big response to poor people s Campeaj f Ohhi of Washington a Lead ers of the poor people s Campaign said sunday that response has been so Good around the country they might end up wit hundreds of thousands of demonstrators camped All Over Washington. By the end of this Campaign let George say it two Youthful fans of former Alabam governor George Wallace express mixed reactions to his words at a news conference in Dallas during a Campaign tour of  lad at left May be plotting political strategy. A photo i .1 if our demands Aren t met we except Well have an International movement As Well As interracial the Rev. Bernard Lafayette Campaign coordinator told a news conference. Lafayette and other leaders of the Southern Christian Leader ship conference whose slain Leader or. Martin Luther King jr., first thought of the project last year formally kicked off their weeks or months Long Campaign monday with visits to top government officials. Cabinet men on list Secretary of state Dean Rusk atly. Gen. Ramsey Clark Secretary of agriculture Orville Freeman Secretary of labor w. Willard Wirtz and Robert Weaver Secretary of housing and Urban development Whereon monday s visitation list. These officials As Well a congressional leaders will be visited by up to 100 representatives of the poor led by or. Ralph Abernathy who took Overas president of Sulc after King was shot to death As he stood on a Memphis tenn., Motel bal Cony april 4. His killer still is at Large. Abernathy and other leaders will be in the nation s capital until wednesday  they la head for Memphis to Lead one of the several marches that aim to bring in by May 13 the first of what the predict will be Many Waves of people. Arrest protested a panel of 10 Sulc action committee members represent ing negroes puerto Picans Whites and american indians met with newsmen to protest among other things the arrest in new Mexico this weekend of Reies Lopez Tijerina Leader of a mexican american group de manding land  Tijerina is a member of the committee said executive director William Rutherford. He accused officials of arresting Tijerina and his associates on charges already ordered reduced by a Federal court and called the arrest an attack on the poo people s Campaign. It is an injustice he said an the poor people s Campaign is prepared to Aid him asked what would be Dis cussed with Rusk Maria Varela of. Albuquerque n.m., representing the Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres said they would ask that the treaty of Guadal upe Hidalgo signed in 1848 be tween the . And Mexico be  said it guaranteed land rights to the mexicans who live Din what is now the southwestern United states before the unite states took it Over. Among other things she said it guarantee the cultural rights of Spanish speaking americans and their right to a bilingual education. A Catholic priest the re Miguel Barragan of san Antonio tex., said one aim of the Campaign is to publicize everyday events among the poor that the general american Public knows Little about. Long View How s the weather up there w. Marvin Watson i seems to be  Marvin whose dad is the new postmaster Gen eral is measuring president Johnson As a possible playmate at the White House Rose Gar Den. Up photo Success blooms for new York a a new kind of Flower Power is Blooming in Manhattan these Days nurtured not by hippies turned off from society but by youngsters turned on to a differ ent Type of Job training program. The Flowers involved Are being sold at sidewalk stands by boys and girls who Are getting their first practical taste of the business world in a privately financed earn while you learn project. Attractively Clad in Whit Market Coats and Blue berets the boys and girls set up their stands wrap the Flowers sell them and collect the profits. The program called on the sidewalks of new York is sex youths petted to provide jobs for 500underprivileged youths Accord ing to its director and founder Martin Herzog. Herzog a former accounting teacher at a Manhattan High school said he started the project because there Are certain things the kids Aren t learning in  said Here the youngsters can have a feeling of Success an immediate feeling of  participants recruited through newspaper ads the state employment service an Community agencies earn $2 an hour plus a commission on sales Over a fixed quota. They work a half Day either morning or afternoon and attend a training session once a week. Rocky us quests opening communications with red China a a a _.1 i of a mrm Imas to red China tried to do his Best in Ler said a primary fight View York