Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, June 28, 1968

Issue date: Friday, June 28, 1968
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Previous edition: Thursday, June 27, 1968

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday june 28, 1968 never knew or. Says Ray continued George Jacob Bonebrake an Fri fingerprint expert testified he found Kay s prints on the Rifle telescopic sight and binoculars that were dropped at the doorway of a shop near the Motel shortly after King was slain. Under questioning by his court appointed British lawyer Roger Frisby Ray declared in a soft Reedy drawl he had never met King and that he bore him no grudge. Did you kill Martin Luther Frisby Aske d. No the prisoner re plied. Magistrate Frank Mil ton later adjourned the hearing until next tuesday. It is expect what makes the perfect wife Why do most women give a Stream of logical reasons for choosing a mate yet men Are so different in their assessment july Reader s digest turns up illuminating answers on what men look for in their Choice of mates. Learn what most men see As the essence of feminine what do some wives do in Public that husbands consider the no. 1 intolerable sin learn where a wife should not surpass her husband in intellectual qualifications and the male formula for the perfect wife s attitude toward sex. Be sure to read this revealing and enter Taining article in july Reader s digest now on Sale. Also in the same Issue the sober truth about social drinking Aad the naked de to be completed then. A went Back to prison. British lawyers retained b the United states told Milton o witnesses to the Purchase of the Rifle and of How Charles Ste Vens 46, said he heard the Fata shot fired from the commo bathroom of a Rooming Nous near the Lorraine Motel. But Ray resisted moves to extradite my to stand trial of King s murder with All the Lega ammunition provided by Brit Ain s extradition Laws. If the court s decision Goe against him Frisby is expected to Appeal to a higher court on the ground that King s assassination was a political crime for which Britain does not permit extradition. Frisby electrified the court by summoning Ray to the stand of a six minute unworn appear Ance. Ray was formally addressee As Ramon George the alias under which he is Hek Here on charges of entering Britain on a forged Canadian passport. He sat rather than stood in the witness Box apparently to make less of a target in any at empt on his life and Scotland Yard detectives clustered around him in a human screen this was the Exchange Frisby did you know Martin Uther King personally Ray Sio sir. Frisby had you Ever me him Ray no sir. Frisby have you any kind of a grudge against him Ray no sir. Wholesale products 1147 Fife St. Pm. 589-2989 ladies sleeveless blouses. By Monarch Wear. Sizes 10 of is regular to a. Sal. Pric. A. To j factory discontinued kid Dies ieans. By Monarch Wear. 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In the Winnipeg free press Frisby Dick you Mil Marti Luther King As Ceil by the court clerk t sign a summary of this for eve Dence Ray turned to his la Wye and said How would i sign it went into the record unsigned. At no Point during the hearing did tas lawyer adm that the prisoner was Ray. The . Case was Presente by David Calcutt a British Law yer. It took him one hour and 1 minutes to Tell the Story Ray wore the same dark Blu checked sports jacket in which he had appeared briefly in the same court twice before. Wore no tie with his. Dark Blu sports shirt. This was Calcutt s version o i de n c e against Ray drawn from submitted by the . Embassy on March 29 Ray went inti the Aero Marine Supply co. I Birmingham ala., and bought Rifle with a telescopic sigh from Donald Wood the son o the owner. The next Day he came Bac and exchanged it for a reming ton 760 Rifle serial no. 461476 with a telescopic sight numbered a17350i John Deshazo of Montgomery ala., another customer in the store told Fri agents later tha a Man he ten Tivel identified As Ray through pit bought a Rifle an said he was going Hunting in Wisconsin with his brother o brother in Law. On april 3, according to sworn statement by recept Oais Henrietta Sagermaster Raj booked into the new Rebe motor hotel in Memphis. The he went to a Memphis store Ruby a or. York and bought pair of Bushnell binocular numbered dq408664 with a Cas and strap in a yellow and Blac Box and wrapped in a Grey Blu paper bag. He got a receipt of the next affidavit came from Stevens one of the govern ment s key witnesses. On the Day of King s death he was Liv ing with his common Law wife in apartment 6b of the Rooming House in Memphis which from the rear faced the Motel where King was shot. On that Day he said he Sav the manageress Bessie Brewer standing near apartment s3 just Down the Hall from his with an unidentified Man. Ste Vens apartment was next to the common bathroom separate irom his Kitchen by Only a thin plywood partition. Stevens who spent most o Lis time in bed said he heard footsteps on april 4 leading rom apartment so to the Bath room. The affidavit continued on the first couple of times did not stay Long. On the hard time the person stayed Here what seemed like a Long Ime toward the end of the afternoon Between 5 and 6 . 1 wanted the toilet. I was in my Kitchen working on a Small radio when i heard a hot. I could Tell that it came rom the bathroom because in Vas very loud. Then i heard voices Yelling and hollering in the Lorraine Motel. I went out and saw a Man running and carrying a bundle about three or four feet Ong and six or eight inches Luck wrapped in newspaper. Although i did t get a Long ook i think it was the same Man i saw earlier with mrs the owner of a music store Vas inside 6 . He said be heard a thud and found a bundle in front of his store. He a a White Man walk away ind then saw a Small White car pull off. He could Only see one Man the Driver i officer Zachary of the Mem i his police retrieved the bundle Side he found binoculars a file and a telescopic sight. All Vith the cited serial numbers Liere was a receipt for the bin Cullars for and a yellow and Black Box. Inside apartment a he reported finding two traps to match the binoculars. Join the famous circa of those who know a Good Rye. Calcutt reported an Fri ballistics expert examined the by let found in King and said tha it was of the Type fired by Remington 760, but he would no say if it had been fired by the one although there was Strong likelihood it was. Frisby asked agent Bones Rake and Peter Hopkirk a co respondent of the London time who had been in the . At the time of the killing for the views on the activities of King Frisby told the magistrate Thi questioning was directed at establishing that King had been political figure. Then he read out from the extradition code the Section Sayin that a fugitive criminal Sha not be extradited if his offence is one of a political character. A dramatic High spot in Ca cutt s Case was a report b chief superintendent Thorn a Butler of Scotland Yard of a a cell meeting with Ray. Butler testified the prisoner on hearing that police had identified him As an american waned for a killing rather than a Canadian Ramon George Sneyd sat Down put his head in i hands and said of god feel so Frisby said Ray who charge that some parts of the prosecution testimony were false wished in particular to stat most emphatically that he i not make the observation feel so trapped nor did he say of no did he collapse on the seat i the manner which the chief superintendent Frise said. Cleric to fast in jail continued it seems that even the Batty or the right of poor people to Ive decently requires an Almos revolutionary Impact on con Gress and the nation before the will he said. Or. Abernathy s Jailhouse Ress conference granted by District officials at his request was a rare occur Rene. Veteran ail administrators said they could recall Only one or two similar occasions. Late thursday general ses Sions court judge Harold h Greene agreed to sign an order permitting or. Abernathy to be examined by his Persona physician rather than the jail doctor. Or. Abernathy said the Pool eople s two most conspicuous symbols resurrection City and the poor eople s mule train have been moved by the police will it mobilize economic Boycott n 40 cities across the nation including Washington. Other Campaign leaders said arlier the Boycotts will Start Lext week. French franc plummets continued whether the newly reported 162 million Sale included the arlier transaction was unclear sources at the German Bank either confirmed nor explained in figure which nevertheless As been widely published Here. The Bank of France Reserve statement for the week through Une 20 appeared to include the Oss of about million in listing reserves plus use of the 140 million which was the second of her two drawings rom other members of the of. According to some experts substantial losses Are Likely to continue through the Middle of uly presumably requiring Nore sales of Gold. Like other if members is duty bound her serves of dollars or other Ard currency to buy Back " Rench francs As needed to keep their Price from falling Elow a specified minimum Evel. When a nation runs into economic trouble through chronic balance of payments deficits or a crisis such As the nationwide strikes France As just experienced the fre sent result is that others Are reluctant to hold her currency heavy Selling threatens to rive the currency s Price below in minimum level the govern Lent whose currency is in olved must step in As a buyer self. Seize ship Captain London a _ the foreign office reported thursday a Brit h ship Captain was seized in tuna about three weeks ago ringing to More than a dozen in number of britons believed retained there. Capt. P. M. Vill master of the motor vessel Ota Jaya registered in Singa Ore was reported detained in in port of Tanku on or about Une 3. Russian offer hires . Hopes j continued we have not yet begun to deploy our system., however the Senate voted on monday to give us the go ahead and we wiil be deploying it. Conceivably we May be Able to come to an agreement with the russians that they will dismantle have built and return will not build our system. The savings would be and As lie pointed out the savings need not be limited to elimination of. The anti missile missile he said a building More offensive Wea Pons. We Are. Improving of nuclear striking Power. The great thing would be to read agreement at a Point where w would both Stop. The matter of reduction in strategic weapons opens up Vas possibilities for savings. Jus the expense for Upkeep of thes weapons and systems is Verj Large. This is All Well Down the Road of course. There a problems. But i would remind you that Gromyko soviet for eign m i n is t e r Andrei a Gromyko did not make i offer of talks at the commence Niento exercises at Moscow Hig school. He made them in a speech before the supreme soviet. So this is now the highest policy of the Sovie the United states first pro posed talks with the Sovie Union about limiting production and reducing numbers of of Fen Sive and defensive nuclear weapons including anti missile missile systems on Jan. 21 1964. After this Long lapse Wenj has the soviet Union Finall agreed High officials Here speculate on a number of reasons including the soviet Union already is heavily burdened with Aid to St Orth Vietnam Cuba and the United Arab Republic. The soviet government is feeling the sting of Public dissatisfaction Over the Stan Dard of living and realizes tha internal spending will be required to improve conditions. With All these strains the soviets cannot afford to Steric billions and perhaps ultimately ens of billions on an anti missile missile system. With much gratification administration officials noted the sequence on monday under pressure rom president Johnson am Secretary of defence Clark m Clifford the Senate voted to go head with a limited antimissile missile system. On thursday Gromyko went before the supreme soviet and proposed Alks on the reduction of strategic weapons including the Nti missile missile system administration officials took Lis. Sequence As a dramatic indication of their position that a Oce Eding with the missile system would not escalate the rms race would rather offer a Hope of curbing it. Salaries increase to continued j ors John p. Sulymko Andrew Obertson John w. Mcgurran Cenneth j. Talanchuk Charles Huband lome a. Leech and Thomas b. Findlay. Metro chairman Jack Willis was t at thursday s meeting and there is one vacancy on Council. Coun. Coulter referred to Ostly duplication of services in greater Winnipeg which he Aid resulted from the Large umber of municipal councils and Many administrations in Reater Winnipeg. He said this should be flanged before metro Council ranted itself a salary increase. I know i would gladly work Oward the elimination of other councils and would gladly do a t of. Work in this direction at o coun. Huband said the raise is modest one and that there is every justification for it. Coun. Mcgurran said that though their responsibilities a similar our work Load is out double that of any Lember of the police shoot Man London Reuters a Lon on detective thursday shot and funded a to be first shooting victim of Brit in s normally unarmed police n 57 years. Police Here said the St known victim of a police Bullet was a Man shot dead in 911. 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