European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes saturday july 6, 194 . Lawyer talks to Ray first time London up James Earlray s Alabama lawyer saw his client for the first time Friday and said he would plead not guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King if extradited. Former Birmingham Mayo Arthur Hanes. Who flew to London earlier in the Day engaged i a heated Exchange with reporters when he insisted thai no organization or individual other than Ray had contacted him about paying his fee. Assured of fee he assured me that he could take care of my fee Hanes said when British newsmen asked How Ray would be Able to take car of the expenses of Hanes two transatlantic flights plus costs Ofa court trial. Hanes had flown Back to the . After he failed Tosee his client last week. Hanes said he Felt More confident of a successful defense after his meeting with Ray across a wire Barrier at West London s Wandsworth me a successful defense Means a verdict of not guilty he said. Hanes said not guilty no guilty to anything when asked How Ray would said this applied to theban robbery charges on which the United states is seeking Ray s extradition As Well As to the King murder charge filed i Memphis. Tenn. Ordered extradite London s Bow Street Magis trate court tuesday ordered Ray extradited to America on the King murder and the Bank robbery charges. Hanes insisted on identifying his defendant As a. G. Sneyd the name on one of the two forged Canadian passports Ray was carrying at the time of his arrest. He said the United Stales government would have to prove his defendant was anybody else including James Earl Ray As Well As proving the murder charge against him. Frankfurt sniper kills 1, wounds 2 Frankfurt a firing with a Small bore Rifle from the Balcony of his apartment i downtown Frankfurt a 53-year old Man shot three turkish tourists Here Friday police said. Police said Muffet Merancy 45,was killed and veiled Guelen and Mustafa of Tuerk were seriously wounded by the sniper s shots when they left a bar in usually quiet residential City Street police said the sniper Wilhelm Schuber. Fired at least 1j shot sat the three men. Several shots damaged parked Suid the motive for the shooting was unknown. 5 inmates thwarted continued rofl Page it Osborn fort soit 3tf Clyde Gunn,18 and Frank Ross 37. Warden Winston Moore gave this account of the attempted escape the five chose the hour of 11p.m. When the guard is changed. They apparently escaped from their second floor tier of cells by Riding a dumbwaiters to the Kitchen on the ground the Kitchen they overpowered three guards in route tothe Lookout towers atop the jail Walls. The guards were relieved of their uniforms bound and locked in the guards uni forms the five marched across the jail Yard to one of the look out towers. Holmes convince the guard there he was to re acc regulation oars Ataee discrimination Washington up the Federal communications com Mission announced a new policy Friday of denying radio and television licenses to any station shown on complaint to discriminate racially in hiring or i programming. It also proposed a Rule expected to take up to six months for final action requiring that applicants for licenses or License renewals not Only show that they do not discriminate but that they recommitted to racial under Henry Geller acc general counsel told reporters there had been Only six to 10 complaints of this nature in the four years since passage of the civil right act of 1964 made it unlawful to discriminate in employment. The Khe Sanh . Marines evacuate embattled Strong Point Saigon up the . Marines abandoned the bastion at Khe Sanh base had become a Yoke around my neck said maj. Davis commander of the 3rd Marine teams dynamited the last two bunkers one Sedas a command Post the other As a medical Aid station handsome 3,500 marines moved out on trucks and vietnamese troops in the mountains that Tower above the base in South Vietnam s North Early out. I con tinned from Page u to justify their retention on Active the new policy has one peculiarity if a Man returning from Vietnam has More than five months of service remaining in his enlistment or draft tour he May not enjoy the Early out Benefit. Thus the army said enlisted men serving in hostile fire zones such As Vietnam or the demilitarized zone of South Korea May voluntarily extend their Tours to qualify for Early separation from the will permit Vietnam returnees to be released upon completion of their extended Tours in that country the announcement said. Thus a sol Dier finishing his one year Tourin Vietnam but having seven months yet to serve in uniform May voluntarily agree to re main in Vietnam an extra two months in order to qualify for the Early discharge Western Corner sniped at the americans hit one of three truck convoys with mortar fire an blew up a Bridge. But Marine officials said the evacuation was a Davis said As far As i a concerned i still own Khe Sanh. However the base was a Yoke around my still the withdrawal realize what the North vietnamese could not do militarily despite a Furi Ous 77-Day siege earlier this year Force the americans to give up he Sanh As a base they had held for 23 months in an attempt to Cut North vietnamese Supply routes leading into South Viet Nam from Laos. The marines left behind Only 3,000-foot steel mat Airstrip and five aircraft Bays protected by 10-foot-High steel Walls. The rest was dynamited and Bull dozed to ground level a pretty Clear Garden said col. Ross Dwyer Khe Sanh s last . Commander. A Igor up b52s struck North Vietnam s Southern pan handle for the fifth Day in a Rowin one of the War s heaviest bombardments military spokesmen said Friday. The communists tried to Stop the Stratfor tresses with missiles. The spokesmen said crewmen aboard the eight engined bombers saw at least two surface to air missiles Sams fired at them. Both was the first time in two months the North vietnamese had got a shot at the High flying b52s. Five of the Strat forts have crashed due to accidents in Viet Nam but none has been shutdown attempt to Hijack jetliner vails vegas Nev. Up Ai my prisoner tried to Hijack a commercial Airliner thursday by falsely reporting he Hail dynamite on his person. His High Altitude plot failed. The prisoner who was permit Ted to go to the restroom Ulhand Euffie d by two .marshals who had him in custody told a stewardess he would blow up the plane if the Pilot did not Fly to her Rosillo Mexico. He also said another Man with him had a gun. He had no companions other than the marshals who of course were armed authorities Suid stewardess overheard the conversation and rushed tothe Pilot with the false information. The Pilot advise the Federal aviation Agency Tower Here by radio Ana returned the plane off course to confuse the would be the marshals became aware of the situation the scuffled with their prisoner and had him under restraint when the plane landed Here at Mccarran Airport. There were 71 passenger aboard the plane a trans world airways 727, on a Cross country flight from Newyork. The Fri identified the prisoner As John Hamilton Morris 48, of Martin Mich. Law forbids discrimination by employers of at least 23 persons who Are engaged in interstate Commerce. This effects 80 to 90 per Centof the nation s 650 television stations and 10 per cent of the6,500 radio stations. Geller said the acc had never denied a License or License renewal on the basis of racial discrimination. Ever station must seek renewal of its License every three years an approval has almost always been routine. The commission acted unanimously in response to a petition filed april 24, 1967, by the United Church of Christ asking that no License be granted station that discriminates in employment on the basis of race color religion or National origin. The opinion emphasized the conclusions of the National advisory commission on civil disorders on the importance of broadcasting to racial under standing. It asked for a commitment by broadcasters to find and train negro editors and reporters. The proposed Rule would require broadcasters to show they comply with the equal employment Section of the Law and Are encouraging negroes Tenter the Industry. This would include seeking out Youn negroes in schools and paying to train them. Slaying. From Page i revealed that the cause might have stemmed from a reprimand Given one of the three negro victims by one of the Cook Brothers caucasians Sev eral Days earlier. The Cook brother was verbally threatened at the time with ill get even with you whence re not on duty German investigators said. German authorities said themen apparently confronted each other on a Street in a bar area Short distance from the Back Gate of the Cavern and the three victims were fatally stabbed. One fell on the sidewalk an two in the intersection. Police said they found a switch Blade knife at the scene. There were conflicting report that the men had started an altercation in a nearby bar an then later faced each other on the Street. In an attempt to avoid an incidents As a result of the Stab bings German police said the would beef up patrols in the immediate authorities Suid the investigation has been turn Dover to the c1d. Scandal figure weds Munich a Gerda Mun Singer key figure in a Canadian sex and espionage Grandal two years ago married German Cigar manufacturer Ernst wag Ner on Friday. Liec him and took Possession the guard s shotguns on 1 the five then split into a soups and attempted lost la the jail Walls. Ull Moore said Holmes and do Janis were atop a 12-Fooi ii when guard William Smith Spoleta them. Smith shouted for Tiu. Nun a Stop und fired a number of shots. Holmes shot in the Cost toppled Back inside the Wall l Dennis lost his footing and adj outside the Wall flu Nho i i seized. Fortson Ross and com were rounded up elsewhere inside thu grounds. Moore who recently took Over As Warden of the jail blamed i the attempted breakout on a guard he said was lax in Mak-1 Fng a head count of said the guard should have i discovered the men wore miss-1ing from their tier during a i . Head count but did not. Moore said Holmes is under i sentence of 100 to 150 years in prison for murder. Dennis is in i Der sentence of 40 to 80 years Ifor armed robbery. Fortson is i serving 10 to 20 years for rape and armed robbery. Gunn is 1 awaiting trial on a charge of murder during two holdups. I Ross also is awaiting trial on a robbery charge. I no More food for gunman continued from pave 1 on Allan for supplying the sniper Rifle and 200 bullets to Mellish. The police chief said he had no Choice. The chief said Mellish demanded the weapon and ammunition under threat of shooting his Bride and the baby. Allan Anil jail chaplain Clive Paton had gone into the House to talk to refuse Mellish meant a death sentence for the baby wife the Clergyman und very probably myself too. I had to weigh the immediate reality against the meant he had one More weapon and he has an ars Nalof assorted bombs grenades pistols and a sawed off Shotgun the chief explained miss muddle forced to Marr Mellish at gunpoint after he broke into the House tuesday was proving Little help to police. Allan said she. Kept guard while Mellish Nappel. She also apparently tasted the food to make sure it contained no sleeping chief Don be Nilsson said he believes Mellish eventually will surrender peacefully. He said police will Honor s ill another Promise made under threat not to prosecute met ush for the siege of the Sydney suburb. Allan said to is waiting for Mellish to Telephone for sur Render disagrees one detective disagreed on in waiting game. He told the s Ney Sun that Mellish s threats Are nothing but Bluff. He Jimi Mellish would not shoot if a l churned into the House. Mellish is a Coward. " could t shoot anyone in "u1 blood the detective Suid police said miss muddle imported by Telephone that net bridegroom is More pi1"1 0 Able now that police sent in to
