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tuA Simla June 9.19(18 Montlt'Lonn Canadian The hHHKVU'uiu Times Passport File Search conduct a good old-fashioned "Bourbon Street Chaplain Ray Found in Check of 200,000 Photos Prominent Man Dies In Pelican Nonconformist Cleric To Preach Revival Here plication to which it was at 21. The man who showed up at her office was "a completely ne- i' 'OTTAWA (AP) A photo-graph unearthed in a check of JiXhOOO to 400.000 Canadian pass-ort applications led to the in London Saturday of iames Earl Ray, wanted in the ayinR of Dr. Martin Luther I lopes He Lives to residents and entertainers, while Stand Trial Brother Surprised Ray Is Captured in London tourists are kept outside. One regular bar customer has been converted and is working on tne Harrington start. The off-bent cleric says his appearances in the New Orleans night clubs arc by invitation of the owners, adding the most of the club owners felt that "if everyone there was converted now, there 11 still be a new batch the next night." Besides the nightly "late show" sermons, the Ministry of Bob Harrington, offers a 24-hour phone service and a round-the-clock "dial a devotional." It is reported that a suicide was once prevented through the service.

The "Chaplain of Bourbon Street" doesn't smoke, drink or carry on with the bar customers. "Those people are lonely, they want a change," he says. "They don't wanl someone to enhance their ways they want someone help change them." Neither does he alter the type of service to fit the audience. "I bulous character." she said. "If there had been anything distin guishable about him at all, I'd probably remember him." The Foreign Affairs spokes man said the "olcossal investi gation" by Ihe RCMP was begun shortly after the FBI started looking for Ray, 40, a fugitive from the Missouri state penitentiary, for the shooting of the civil rights leader, a 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

The second passport in the name of Ramon George Sneyd, was obtained at the Canadian Embassy in Lisbon. Portugal. May 16. They said they didn't know why the suspected wanted two. The Toronto Telegram said Ray had lived at a three-story rooming house on Dundas Street in mldtown Toronto.

The paper quoted Mrs. Yee Loo, who operates the house, as saying Ray "never spoke to anybody." "He came about four weeks ago with only a suit on his back and a newspaper in his hand," she said. Sneyd. the alias Ray chose, is a name widely known in eastern Ontario. It (fates back to British Loyalists who fled during the American Revolution.

Ramon George Sneyd. is the name of a constable on the Me tropolitan Toronto police force. Constable Sneyd, reached at his home in Toronto said he could not discuss the case: "I've been told I can't say anything about it." There were reported Ray mailed his passport application to Ottawa from Toronto, gave his age as 35 and Toronto as his birthplace, and said he was un employed and had no fixed ad dress. A government spokesman said he was "not going to deny" inese aeiaus nor would be confirm them. King a Foreifln Affairs spokesman said.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police found the picture in a month-long search of Foreign Affairs department files and quickly discovered that the ap- before the elder brother escaped from the Missouri prison in April. 17. He said he and an other brother, 32-year-old Jerry, formerly of Chicago, were the closer to James than any of the 10 sisters and brothers. "James would do anything for us and we for him. but he wasn't very sociable with strangers," the tavern operator said.

He described James Earl as "hot-tempered toward anyone that got on him." Ray said before his fugitive brother entered the army he did not drink or smoke and was a hard worker. Outlook Changed "After he came back, he drank and didn't believe in working; the army changed his whole outlook on life," Ray said. James Earl received a general discharge in 1948 for inept-ness and lack of adaptability. He served a three-month term at hard labor while in the army for being drunk and breaking arrest. Subsequent to his discharge, James Earl began amassing a police record and served terms in Los Angeles for burglary; Illinois prisons at Joliet and Pon- tiac for armed robbery in Chicago; the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth for postal money order forgery in Kansas City, and the Missouri prison for a $120 St.

Louis supermarket robbery in 1959. Ray said he did nol know whether James Earl did or did not shoot King and he could have been a fugitive for a simple reason. "He still has 13 years waiting for him to do at Jefferson City, on that 20-year sentence for robbery. Thats enough rea- son," John Ray said. tached, made out in the name of Ramon George Sneyd, was fraudulent.

There have been complaints In the past that foreigners are too easily able to obtain Canadian passports. Foreign Secretary Mitchell Sharp said Saturday. "In the light of this case, I have asked for a full study and report on whether stricter requirements for identification of persons applying for Canadian passports are necessary or desirable." Sharp said the man arrested in London was carrying a Canadian birth certificate in addition to two Canadian passports under a falsa name. Birth certificates in Canada are issued by provincial governments: there was no indication whether the one mentioned by Sharp was forged. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman said the RCMP had traced Ray's journeys in Canada, learned he was headed for Britain and tipped off Scotland Yard and the U.S.

Federal Bureau of Investigation. He said RCMP investigations in the case are closed and added. "From now on, it is up to Scotland Yard and the FBI." To cct a Canadian passport, an applicant must either have a sponsor who testifies he nas known the applicant two years, or he must swear before a notary public that statements on his birth date and place, physical description are true. Ray got his passport without a sponsor. The application was reported submitted by mail "from a point in Canada" and issued in Ottawa on April 25 A Foreign Affairs Department spokesman said the government has tried to tighten passport requirements but at present, "When the application is prop erly notarized, there is not much the Passport Office can do." The spokesman said Ray took up quarters in a Toronto rooming house April 8 four days after King was killed in Memphis, Tenn.

and lived there and at another rooming house until he boarded a British Overseas Air ways plane for London May 6. An employe of a Toronto trav el agency, Lillian Spencer, said she had mailed passport appli cation forms to a George sneyd, a "completely normal" proce dure in the travel business, and booked him for the London flight and a return flight May To arrive today to preach a revival is the Rev. Bob Harrington, better known as the Chaplain of Bourbon Street," a nonconformist evangelist who's become so much in demand that attendance at some of his services held in bars of New Orleans Is by invitation only. "The Lord came to bless us, not bug us," says the off beat cleric whose trademark is a red tie, red handkerchief and red socks. Considered among the 20th Century's most unusual preachers, the Rev.

Mr. Harrington will conduct a revival tonight through next Sunday at Calvary Baptist Church. Time of services will be 7 p.m. Sundays and 7:30 p.m. daily on weekdays.

Beginning his ministry in 1938. the Rev. Mr. Harrington departed from the usual ways of evangelism four years later ana began preaching in the bars on Bourbon Street in New Orleans setting up offices in a former liquor store. In an official proclamation, New Orleans Mayor Victor Schi-ro named him "The Chaplain of Bourbon Street." Now he is better known by that title than bv his name.

Since the evangelist started his offbeat ministry in 1962 the work has demanded growth of staff and office facilities. The Ministry of Bob Harrington. now occupies an entire courtyard on Bourbon Street with five offices and five staff members. The "Chaplain of Bourbon Street" calls his night club services "the late show." They are pre-arranged with bar owners, and he enlists the aid of entertainers in hymn singing. He has become so well known that invitations to the services are sent to the French Quarter 0 0 0 7" to to FEIBEL'S INC 1006 CRESWELL ST.

LOUIS (AP) A brother of James Earl Ray, who is charged with murdering Dr. Martin Lulhcr King said Saturday he was "surprised" that Ray was captured in-Ixm-don and added he hopes Ray "lives to stand trial." "If my brother did kill King, he did it. for a lot of money. He didn't do anything if it wasn't for money. And those who paid him won't want him silting in a courtroom telling everything he knows," said John Larry Ray, 34, operator of a St.

Louis tavern. "If he does live to stand trial," John Ray said, "I would Uktr to see him get the same sentence as the guy who killed Rockwell." He referred to the 20-year sentence handed John Patler for the slaying of American Nazi party leader Lincoln Rockwell. "A friend of mine in Canada called me around noon to tell me they had caught my brother in London." John Ray told an interviewer. The brother made his comments in an interview with' the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

London authorities said James Ray was carrying two Canadian passports when he was captured while going through customs. Kaew He Wasn't Dead "I wasn't surprised that he was irt London, but I was sur prised that he got. caught." John Ray said, and added "I knew he wwsn dead. The St. Louis Ray insisted that his 40-year-old brother, who escaped from the Missouri pern tentiary last year while serving a 20-year term for armed robbery.

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Future plans call for the Ministry of Bob Harrington, Inc. to set up a "Witness Station" in Greenwich Village, and similar work in Las Vegas, on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, and in Paris. Born In 1927 in Alabama, the Rev, Mr. Harrington is a graduate of the University of Alabama and attended New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, before he began his evangelistic career, he was a successful businessman. He says he knows how the people on Bourbon Street feel because at one time he was a "playboy." The "Chaplain of Bourbon Street" has been featured in several national magazines, including Pageant, Newsweek, Saturday Evening Post and Playboy.

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