European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes Page 3 to skip the stardust As up Howard Hughes has abandoned plans to add hotel on the Las vegas strip to his string of properties i wife jailed paroled in slaying now accuses her brother in Law i /l1j i ocl ii uc1q y vj5 a " 0 i i Slac so a Nevada a statement issued Here  gaining commission gave the reclusive billionaire rhe to buy the gambling resort for $30.5 million from one Perm re Chad Gambler Morris Moe Dalit Jim the to before who Purchase was to be completed the i,?.u if ice department ordered the transaction delayed for 90iu a piling an investigation of possible antitrust violations. Avs pending Ledal awarded posthumously Washington up the of or was awarded mosly thursday to pfc. I Lauffer a 20-year-old or killed in Vietnam last or when he charged an enemy Nachine gun emplacement to save wounded companions. Was the 41st presentation of nation s highest military of which 21 have been Post Foh crossm in Vietnam lion said. Humour. Keeping the enemy confused and off balance his one Man j assault provided the crucial moments for the wounded Point Mun to crawl to a covered Posi Tion the squad to move the exposed litter patients to safety and his comrades to gain More advantageous positions his Cita award for heroes Iconium. No anti Humphrey billboard Morristown a. Up a sister of Kravitz. Was executor j i _ a 4- 11 i f. F it raft mrs. Ethel Kravitz mrs. Ethel Kravitz who serve nearly seven years in prison for the bludgeon slaying of her Rich husband has accused a brother in Law of the killing according to a petition filed in court  the brother in Law has in turned filed a libel suit against mrs. Kravitz and her attorney f. Lee Bailey charging that he has been falsely accused of . Kravitz accused Morris Passon an attorney of nearby Wynnewood As the Slayer As she filed a supplemental petition for a new . Kravitz convicted of the murder of her husband Max. In the couple s Home in Wynnewood july 4, 1958, engaged Bailey in a bid to Clear her name and share in the $491,000 estate of Kravitz a real estate dealer. She was re leased from prison in 1966.Passon, an attorney married to his wife an victim were next Kravitz As Bene los Angeles organization called filed the Dreyfus Agency said it signed a contract aug. 2 for immediate erection of the sign with the billboard company of Foster and  Dreyfus owner of the advertising Agency said he received a Call from Foster and Kleiser aug. 12 saying the fir could not Honor the contract because of a previous commit  s i m p 1 y did t want that billboard shown to the delegates he said. Up an dissenting a $100,000iiylllvvl  t. Damage suit thursday charging a billboard company breached a contract by refusing to erect Arlanti Hubert Humphrey sign in Chicago near the democratic National  the sign was to have read millions of democrats Don t want Humphrey who will elect him president Superior judge Robert w. Kenny set aug. 21 for a hearing on a request for a preliminary injunction. I Auto sales figures up in August Detroit up with production of 1969 models getting under Way. Sales of the 1968 models during the first 10 Days of la gust were up 8.6 per cent Over the comparable period of last if year figures released by the. Auto makers show.1 of the four major Auto firms Only Ford motor co. Sold fewer tin the 10-Day period than in the first 10 Days of August 19  general motors corp. With sales of 106,644 new cars in the i first 10 Days of the month topped the year ago period by  per cent. Ford had sales of 50,138, Down from the ,.50j in the Faug. 1-10 period of 1967.c Chrysler s 35,292 compared with 28.494 last year and .13,062 in the 1956 record year. Am the first to show its 1969 models to the Public sold 5,036 of the 1968 models during the firs 10 lays of this month up lf.1 per cent from the similar period in 1%7. Abernathy warns.s. He will not baby sit a y i Ian sets diving record Miami Fla. A Bob Croft plunged 240 feet into the Gulf Stream to establish a breath free dive  34-year-old Navy diving instructor from Mystic conn., surpassed the Mark of 231 feet held by French sportsman ? Jacques Mayol. Mayol witnessed Croft s record plunge beneath the Glassy Atlantic off fort Lauderdale. Fla. Croft used Only 77 seconds in reaching the 40-fathom depth he surfaced with a total elapsed time of two minutes 26 seconds. Huie writing Kay s life Story Memphis Tenn. Up novelist William Bradford ii i e is writing the life Story of the alleged Slayer of or. Martin Luther. King or. Huic asked Shelby county criminal court judge w. Preston Battle who will preside at the trial of James Karl Kay for per Mission to interview Ray in the county  has issued a directive prohibiting interviews with Hay incest by his attorney. Hule of Hartselle Ala., whose Best known \ re is the revolt of Mamie Stover said Battle did not relax is order. Huie said however he already had received about 10,000 words written in longhand by Ray to begin the Book. He said he has an exclusive contract with Ray and his attorney Arthur j. Planes �r., of Birmingham Ala. Discount rate is lowered i Washington up _ the lateral la serve Board loosen the Board Loose screws on the Money now that tax increase if,1 1 1 pm oved a reduce to  per cent thursday in Rato thut member Al Chni Calmore Ivins change that will Money available for invest tier in but will to the signify no real difference average  officials have said privately that once president Johnson s Long sought 10 per cent tax in crease and accompanying cuts in Federal spending were approved by Congress the resulting curb on inflation would permit theban to Slacken its own restraint on the Money  the Texas Whito House. President Johnson announced he was pleased with the Cut. Memphis Tenn. Up the Rev Ralph David Abernathy warned thursday the Southern Christian leadership Confer ence will no longer act As peacemaker in the nation s race riots. Abernathy successor to the late or. Martin Luther King or. As head of the Sulc told to health annual convention of the organization. We will not to violence. But Don t expect us to be your baby Sitters.  Abernathy said. Give jobs if you want to Stop riots then give jobs to the jobless an help to the  Abernathy recalled that he walked with gov. Claude Kirk of Florida through Miami s Liberty City ghetto to Calm a riot during the Republican National convention. When you get in trouble anymore Don t Send for me because i won t walk with you no  he said. Abernathy said Black and White can make a common cause in this struggle for  an indication the Sulc will continue its biracial policies. Derisive comment he told More than 1,000 persons nearly All of them negroes at the South Parkway me Church that Memphis is the capital of Mississippi derisive comment on the City where or. King was assassinated april 4."Memphis is swarming with brutal racist cops who made tout of the swamps of Mississippi and crossed the line into Memphis Abernathy said. Abernathy who intends to take his poor people s Campaign to the democratic convention in Chicago later this month said Black voters May have a blackout on the presidential election this  said that he is not enthusiastic about the Republican nominee Richard Nixon. And May be even less enthusiastic about vice pres ident Hubert Humphrey. He did not mention sen. Eugene j Mccarthy or sen. George j Mcgovern. The other announced democratic party candidates. Abernathy outlined a Broad program of political and econ Omic activity for Sulc during the coming year. He demanded turn i that White owned businesses in negro ghettos be ultimately under the control of Black ghetto  said the Sulc s operation breadbasket and economic Boycott program in 30 major cities May one of these Days hold a coast to coast Boycott in a demonstration of negro buying  re going to Hurt you where it hurts the most no with a Rock or a bottle on the head but hit you in the  he said. Of the estate. A brother of the in line to . In its Case against mrs. Kravitz10 years ago the Commonwealth contended she shot her husband with a revolver and then beat him with the gun butt a hand Mirror and a Silver hair  the crime she went to Passon s Home the stale alleged then returned to her own dwell ing and staged a discovery of the body. Shaking her the petition claims that the first thing mrs. Kravitz remembered after discovering the body j was Passon s shaking her and Tel j Ling her to shut  she con-1 tended further that Passon told her he would in some Way clearer and that it would kill his wife if she told what happened.1 a hearing on the petition was set for sept. 30.Passon, announcing the libel suit said i have determined to do what any person who has been the victim of monstrous lies should do to protect his family his name and his  Passon said he filed the Sui against attorney Bailey for fail ing to exercise that degree of intellectual honesty and responsibility that would have mad obvious to him the transparent falsity of the accusations before lending his name to their Public  destroy the rest he said he instituted the suit against mrs. Kravitz for now trying to destroy the rest of our family."1 mrs. Kravitz was the chief beneficiary of her husband s estate but because of her conviction she was disqualified by state Law from sharing in the estate. Passon was named chief executor of the estate which is i in the final stages of being Dis  Passon said Bailey could not be served with a summons in the libel suit As Long As he is in attendance at court in this Case but challenged him to accept a i summons and be Man enough to i stand up for what he has  Aidos Rono orned negro response to gop is Cool museum strike kills new York a a week Long strike of guards that closed the museum of modern Art ended today when local 32h of theakl-c1o service employees International Union ratified a tentative contract agreement. San Diego Calif. A a negro adviser to Richard  said thursday that some of the Republican presidential candidate s top aides seemed very much concerned about seeming negro revolt from the Republican party. After conferring with Nixon. J. Earl Dearing Louisville prosecuting attorney told a news conference that the selection of Maryland gov. Spiro t. Agnew Jas vice presidential candidate had made negroes Cool to the  afterwards Nixon s press aide Herbert Klein told news men he believed Dearing was referring to vocal negro groups and that the Nixon a i now ticket was receiving Broad support in the Black  is a member of Tho Nivon advisory Council on crimean Law enforcement which met j with the candidate at his working vacation Headquarters. Be tween the sessions Dearing and other members of the group j briefed news Mon and he was asked about negro reaction to Agnew s  replied that Agnew s gubernatorial Campaign had left a Good impression but since that time after the riots occurred in Baltimore he apparently had a change of attitude in dealing with the negro problem i Hope he will do something Between now and the election to improve his image Dearing  questioning Dearing said that i did t exactly mean revolt when he discussed negro feelings about Agnew. He said seeming dissatisfaction or coolness would be a More accurate Ter Dearing said to became aware of concern in the  during Comers icon with the candidate s strategists. Lie recommended Agnew meet with negroes from the ghetto Sand formulate some positive  said the Nixon Campaign will stand on gov. A new s record. It s Good one m this