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Sunday, June 9, 1968 THE SHREVEPORT TIMES Month-Long Canadian Passport File Search edit Ray Found in Check of 200,000 Photos -OTTAWA (AP) A graph unearthed in a check of 200.000 to 400,000 Canadian passport applications led to the arrest in London Saturday of James Earl Ray, wanted in the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King a Foreign Affairs spokesman said. Royal Canadian Mounted Police found the picture in 8. month-long search of Foreign Affairs department files and quickly discovered that the ap- Hopes He Lives to Stand Trial Brother Surprised Ray Is Captured in London ST. LOUIS (AP) A brother of James Earl Ray, who is charged with murdering Dr.

Martin Luther King said Saturday he was "surprised" that Ray was captured in -London and added he hopes Ray "lives to stand trial." brother did King, he 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 sitting in a courtroom telling everything he said John Larry Ray, operator of a St. Louis tavern. "If he does live to stand trial." John Ray said, "I would like 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 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 interview with the St. Louis Post London authorities said James Ray was carrying two Canadian passports when he was captured while going through customs. Knew He Wasn't Dead "I wasn't surprised that was in London, but I was surprised that he got John Ray said, and added "I knew wasn't dead." The St. Louis Ray insisted that his 40-year-old brother, who escaped from the Missouri Penitentiary last year while serving 20-year term for armed robbery, is not a member of any racist group.

John Ray was the last family member to see James Earl Sears CHARGE IT on Sears Revolving Charge Packable Nylon Sleep Sears Low Price Gown Set of opaque tricot in assorted L38-40. Tailored Pajama Set nylon tricot tels with piping trim. First Floor or Use Sears Complete arrangements plication to which it was 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, have asked for a full study a 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 false 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 off Scotland Yard and headed for, Britain and, tipped. Federal Bureau of Investigation. He said RCMP investigations in the case are closed and added, "From now on, it is up Scotland Yard and the To get a Canadian passport, an applicant must either have a sponsor who testifies he has known the applicant two years, or he must swear before a notary, birth public date that and statements on place, physical Ray description got his are passport true. without al 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 properly 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 Airways plane for London May 6. el agency, Lillian Spencer, said An employe, of a Toronto travshe had mailed passport application forms to a George Sneyd, a "completely normal" procedure in the travel business, and booked him for the London flight and a return flight May Go Further at Sears! 21. The man who showed up at her office was "a completely nebulous character," she said.

"If there had been anything distinguishable about him at all, I'd probably remember The Foreign Affairs spokesman said the "olcossal investigation" the RCMP was begun shortly after the FBI started looking for Ray, 40, a 1 fugitive from the Missouri state penitentiary, for the shooting of the civil rights leader, a 1964 Nobel Peace Prize The winner. second passport in the 1 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 in midtown Toronto. The paper quoted Mrs.

Yee Loo, who operates the house, as saying Ray "never spoke to "He came about four weeks ago with only a suit on his back and a newspaper in his she said. Sneyd, the alias Ray chose, is a name widely known in eastern Ontario. It dates back to British Loyalists who fled during the American Revolution. Ramon George Sneyd, is the name of a constable on the Metropolitan 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 malled his passport application to Ottawa from Toronto, gave his age as 35 and Toronto as his birthplace, and said he was unemployed and had no fixed address.

A government spokesman said he was "not going to deny" these details nor would be confirm them. Prominent Man Dies In Pelican COUSHATTA Roy Herbert Priest, 45, a prominent farmer and business man of Pelican, died in home Saturday of a heart attack. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today in the St. Mary's Catholic Church with Father Giles Boyer officiating.

Burial be in Rambin Cemetery under the direction of RoseNeath Funeral Home of Coushatta. Mr. Priest was a native of Alexandria and graduated from Bolton High School. He attended NSC and served platoon World War II and awarded a sergeant in the ustic during purple heart, the President's Unit Citation, four battle stars, the Tarawa, Saipan, Pinian and Okinawa. Survivors are his widow; one daughter, Linda Priest of Pelican: one son, Roy H.

Priest Jr. of Pelican; three brothers, Guy Priest Jr. of Alexandria, Ralph M. Priest of Beaumont, and 1 B. Priest of Houston, three sisters, Mrs.

James Frank Lewis of Houston, Mrs. Billie Dove of Baton Rouge and Mrs. William F. Roberts of Houston, Tex. DRAG RACE RABBI SPRINGFIELD, Mass (AP) Rabbi Schetman, 28, who drives around town in a white souped-up sports car called "Heavenly Hauler" and who has several drag races in the area, says his car speaks louder to teen-agers than sermons.

"I have been able to show these teen-agers that a religious person is real person. To be religious doesn't mean that one must be Nonconformist Cleric To Preach Revival Here To arrive today to preach revival is the Rev. Bob Harrington, better known as the Chaplain of Bourbon a nonconformist evangelist who's become so much in demand that attendance at some his services held in bars of New Orleans -is by invitation only. "The Lord came to bless us, not bug says the off beat cleric whose trademark is a tie, red handkerchief and red socks. Considered among the 20th Century's most unusual preach: ers, 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 1958, the Rev. Mr. Harrington departed from the usual ways of evangelism four years later and 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 Schiro named him "The Chaplain of Bourbon Now he is better known by that title than by 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 entire courtyard on Bourbon Street with five offices and five staff members. "Chaplain of Bourbon Street" calls his night club services "the late show." They are pre-arranged with bar ownand 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 residents and entertainers, while tourists are kept outside. One regular bar customer has been converted and is working on the Harrington staff. The off-beat cleric says his appearances the New Orleans the the a owners, adding the most of night clubs are by invitation of club owners felt that everyone there was converted now, there'll still be a new batch the next night." Besides the nightly "late Bob Harrington, offers show" sermons, the Ministry of 24 24-hour phone service and a round-the-clock "dial a devotional." It is reported that was once prevented through the service.

The 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 want someone to enhance their ways they want someone to help change them." Neither does alter the of service to fit the audience. conduct a good old-fashioned Baptist service right there in night club," he says, When the entertainers sing for his services, they don't jazz up the music, but sing in hymn fashion. The Bourbon Street evangelist has preached in nearly all churches in New Orleans.

His work has also carried him all over country as well as to Vietnam. Future plans call for the Ministry of Bob Harrington, Inc. to set up a "Witness in Greenwich Village, and similar work 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, was 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" been featured in several national magazines, including Pageant, Newsweek, Saturday Evening Post and Playboy. before the elder brother escaped from the Missouri prison in April, 1967. He said he and another 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 He described James Earl as "hot- 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 ineptness and lack of adaptability. at hard labor while army He served a month 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 Pontiac 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 not 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. That's enough reason," John Ray said. Your Dollars Twosome: Tricot Sets 4.97 nylon S32-34, M36, of shadow-free in assorted pas32-40. Bossier City Floral Service anywhere Phone The only volcano in the contiguous United States which has been active recently is Lassen Volcano, in Califor which last erupted in 1921.

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