The State from Columbia, South Carolina • 1

r-r -V Inside IFcatJier Jrtly cloudy to cloudy ind warmer Thursday and Thursday night nd warm High Thursday 5 to 80 Sun rises 5:52 am sets 6 57 pm Details on 8-A 77lh Year No 109 Columbia South Carolina Thursday April 18 1968 Telephone 763-2111 Daily 10c Sunday 20c Five Sections 88 Papes Murder Warrant In Assassination Of Eric Galt Is Subject Of Manhunt Related Stories 8-B MEMPHIS Tenn (AP) -Mysterious Eric Starvo Galt a March graduate of a bartender school was charged Wednesday night with murder in the April 4 sniper assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr Nobel-pmc winning minister and wot'd leader of nonviolence A state warrant charging first degree murder was issued in Memphis five hours after the FBI announced a federal complaint charging Galt with conspiracy in the slaying SECOND FLOOR King 39 was shot to death on the second floor balcony of Memphis motel the day after he returned to lead garbage workers in another march Murder is a capital crime in Tennessee The FBI complaint charges that Galt a white man who has been hunted for a week entered into a conspiracy about March 29 in Birmingham Ala with a man who Galt claimed was his brother The FBI warrant was issued in Birmingham OTHERS There was no indication that other persons would be charged with conspiracy nor was the second man who Galt said was his brother identified or charged A Memphis witness said an FBI photo of the wanted man does not resemble the man who fled the scene after the shoot-ing WEARING WIG he was wearing a wig or had had a face lift or something it's not the man I saw" said Charles Stevens a resident of the Main Street rooming house from which the sniper was believed to have shot King hair is ton full and the face is too young" said Stevens He said he only pit a side view of the fleeing man however The FBI did not indicate when the photograph was made but a source said it was taken within the past three months VERY NEAR In Birmingham Galt's landlord for six weeks last fall Peter Cherpes told The Associated Press that the FBI photo might be a picture of Galt very near but not sure" said Cherpes He remembered his hair being much lighter The FBI description said has brown hair" The AP reported Monday that Cherpes had identified FBI drawings as the Eric Galt who had lived at the Birmingham rooming house from Aug 26 to Oct 7 1967 An Atlanta taxicab driver said an FBI picture he identified as a two-block fare the night after the slaying was different from the one released Wednesday is definitely not the man I picked up" the cab driver said CLARK Atty Gen Ramsey Clark who went to Memphis after the slaying of the civil rights leader announced in a statement released by the FBI that Galt was being sought as a fugitive on the charge of conspiring to injure oppress threaten or intimidate King in the exericse of a federal right the right to freely travel from state to state" Police director Frank Holloman of Memphis said a state warrant would be drawn for Galt as soon as practicable The FBI declined to comment on whether there might be an early arrest nr if the filing of the charge and release of information indicated little headway was being made in finding Galt It was the first disclosure that authorities had evidence of a conspiracy in slaying Galt was charged with conspiring to violate King's civil rights A Nightmare A passerby takes a long look at the conglomeration of pipes in front of the Atlanta Gas Light Co building The massive stainless steel sculpture has 400 individual pipe sections and 42 burners symbolizing the use of gas It stands in a reflection pool looking much like a giant candelabrum (AP Wirephoto) Charged By FBI The FBI Wednesday night released this photo which it identified as of Eric Stravo Galt a man it charged with conspiracy in the slaying of Dr Martin Luther King Jr The FBI said the eyes were drawn in by an FBI artist because the eyes were closed in the original picture (AP Wirephoto) North Tone Hardens US Peace Sites Rejected Soviets Hurl Charge DESCRIPTION coupled this statement with a reassertion of its hard-line stand that if the United States really wanted peace it should immediately halt all air raids over North Vietnam withdraw troops from South Vietnam and the Vietnamese people settle their own The broadcast coincided with disclosure in Tokyo that Japan TOKYO (AP) North Vietnam its tone seeming to harden rejected Wednesday as inadequate the sites proposed by the United States for preliminary talks on the Vietnam war A Hanoi broadcast once again claimed that world opinion demanded the Americans stop creating in the selection of a meeting place It cast Saturday was an official Foreign Ministry reply That statement like the latest accused Washington of talks and creat-ng unfavorable conditions for them Hanoi challenged the US statement that bombing of the North had been curtailed It said the United States as must completely halt the bombing and other acts of war against North Vietnam it really wants a settlement of the Vietnam and that Washington had no right to seek any reciprocal concession Nhan Dan the official North Vietnamese Communist newspaper claimed that arguments of (See VIET 6-A Col 2) An FBI statement said Galt has given his date of birth as July 20 1931 has brown hair wears his hair in a brush cut reportedly has blue eyes a straight narrow nose is between 5 teet-8 and 5-fcet-ll and (See GALT 6-A Col 1) mi -M- -v v- pi path of Izvestia said The American reply said that the attaches were engaged in activities are perfectly normal and acceptep on the part of military attaches the world over including military attaches of the Soviet Union in the United States" It charged at the same time a series of violations of immunity that have from minor such as short detention to various serious ones involving prolonged detention forcible search and seizing of personal The embassy said the incidents involved of accepted international norms for the treatment of The latest incident was protested on Monday the US statement said It possibly (See SOVIETS 6-A CoL 1) MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet nion charged Wednesday that five US military attaches and one from Canada had pushed too hard at their intelligence i athering missions and entered I le area of espionage" at shipyard and a military base last week The US Embassy in its strongest assertion here in years of diplomatic rights said le attaches immunity was vio-ated and that the incidents had been Precedent indicated the Soviet government would not expel the men Its official newspaper zvestia said they had gone behind the bounds of permissible lehavior April 8 at a Leningrad shipyard and entered a closed military area at Borisov April 9 crossed the border of curiosity and ended up on the LBJ Park Hold Summit HONOLULU (AP) President Johnson met with South President Chung Hee Park Wednesday for a one-day summit session on major issues of war and peace in Asia Both the conduct of the Viet nam war and bid for peace talks with Hanoi were on the agenda as well as mounting pressure by Communist North Korea against the South The allied leaders gathered with their top aides for a day of talks at a luxury estate outside Honolulu Johnson and Park sat by a red marble table in a com- The State House Filibuster Promised Park Johnson By The Slate's Governmental Affairs Staff lad informally asked the Soviet I Jnion to help arrive at an early decision on selection of a site or the talks The request was made by Foreign Minister Tak-eo Miki at a meeting on another subject with Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky The Soviet envoy was reported replying noncommittally that the Soviet Union also was forward to early peace" in Vietnam In Waralpindi Pakistan visit-ng Soviet Premier Alexei osygin urged in a speech that the United States accept proposals stop all bombing and acts of war against North Vietnam as a first step a settlement" and enter into peace talks The speech seemed to reflect a Soviet anxiety to get the peace talks machinery moving In South Vietnam Premier Nguyen Van Loc declared that only Saigon and Hanoi could decide fate Speaking at bridge dedication at the big Cam Ranh Bay base he repeated Saigon's rejection of a coalition government and negotiations with the National Liberation Front the Viet political arm as a separate entity He vowed that one can force the Vietnamese people to accept any unfair solutions likely to lead them to self-destruction in the near The United States has proposed Vientiane Laos Geneva Switzerland New Delhi India Jakarta Indonesia or Rangoon Burma as prospective sites for the preliminary talks North Vietnam has proposed Phnom Penh Cambodia and Warsaw Poland The Americans have no diplomatic relations with Cam bodia and reject Poland because it is a Communist-rulec nation and thus could not be considered neutral At the United Nations in New York a UN spokesman saic Secretary-General Thant am US Ambassador Arthur Goldberg had discussed on Tuesday several possible sites to be acceptable to both Washington and am that Thant was in touch with Hanoi on this matter The spokesman declined to name the prospective sites but pointed ou that Paris was among the places Thant had suggested to a Hanoi representative in France Much diplomatic speculation centers on Paris as a compromise location Hanoi's latest broadcast accused President Johnson of distorting facts by saying Monday in Honolulu that Washington had not received an official reply to site proposals from the Americans Hanoi said a North Vietnamese statement broad fortably furnished open-sidet living room by a swimming poo and overlooking a bay The two-man summit session at a secluded seaside estate climaxed a fence-mending process begun after Communist North Korean attacks in January set off a crisis in relations between Washington and Seoul Both the North Korean threat and Vietnam where South Korea has nearly 50000 troops in (See SUMMIT t-A Oil 1) Bulletin HONOLULU (AP) The United States and South Korea agreed Wednesday night they would meet any aggressive action" by North Korea within the framework of their mutual defense treaty signed in 1953 Prison Battle Scene TRI-COUNTY COLLEGE A Tri-County College for Charleston Berkeley and or Chester was imposed Wednesday by several members of the House of Representatives Lawmakers from the three counties introduced a resolution calling for a committee to study the creation of a junior college in the north Charleston area T' committee would report to the General Assembly by next January Armors of the c-lution were the Tiarleston delegation Rep Jarvis Morris D-Berke'ay Rep No a West D-Berkcley and Rep Carlisle McAlhany D-Dorchcster guards During the sitdown the prisoners controlled the prison chapel (center) and the clothing building (left) The inmates set the clothing building afire (AP Wirephoto) This a scene within the walls of Central Prison where a sitdown by 500 inmates developed into a melee in which five prisoners were killed and 80 persons were wounded including five GIs Corral Enemy In Mekong Delta Hail Of Buckshot Kills 5 Prisoners Unless a compromise is reached GOP Minority Leader Rep Jerry Hughes Jr of Oangcburg is promising the House of Representatives a filibuster over the proposed $55 million bond issue for State College BAIJ)WIN Rep Frank Baldwin Jr D-Jaspcr who has headed a subcommittee studying the matter said Wednesday a compro-r ise version is expected to be presented to the House Ways Means Committee today There is reported to be considerable opposition on the committee to the bond issue which was recommended by Gov Robert McNair Hughes said he opposes providing funds to add two new dormitories for the college but will not oppose providing money to improve present faicilities OVERTAX The Gop lawmaker said his hometown of Orangeburg where the Negro college is located is extremely worried that the college will outgrow the town There is a fear that large expansion of the college would overtax the policing power of the college woul overtax the policing power of the town ishould racial disturbances occur such as the one Feb I when three students were killed Hughes said he would be aided in his filibuster efforts by at least three other Rupublicans and possibly some Democrats to nine known enemy dead reports said The Khe Sanh combat base near the western end of the DMZ shelled furiously during its recently lifted 77-day siege came under more heavy bombardment Tuesday the US Command reported Wednesday North Vietnamese guns firing from positions still largely im mune from US air power and mortar and rocket squads hit the base with about 250 rounds the command said In other action Wednesday mortar barrage hit Marines moving into night defense pos -tions four miles northeast Hue killing four Elements the 101st Airborne Division reported killing 14 of the enemy (See VIETNAM l-A Col 3) SAIGON (AP) US infantrymen corraled a strong enemy force in the Mekong Delta Wednesday while artillery and Jet fighter-bombers blasted the enemy positions the US Command said Thursday It said 78 of the enemy and four Americans were killed The action involving 9th Infantry Division units 43 miles south of Saigon was the biggest US troops met with less success in far northern South Vietnam where 16 Americans were killed in five ground actions Marine units fought battles of five and seven hours near the big Dong Ha base south of the demilitarized zone in Quang Tri province Ten Marines died in the two engagements compared they would not leave the prison yard until they could discuss them with Bounds The correction commissioner out of the state at the time returned late Tuesday but refusci to negotiate with the prisoners under pressure He said later talk to in mates daily but I do not yield to inmate demands that I do Bounds said at a 4:30 am news conference was clearly a case of according to demands under pressure or of tak- (See PRISON 6-A CoL 6) to a demonstration which began as a sitdown strike by about 500 prisoners at the maximum security prison Tuesday The demonstration erupted into a torchthrowing melee about 1:30 am Wednesday State Correction Commissioner Lee Bounds said guards and state troopers had the situation under control within 10 minutes of the first shot The strike began when prisoners refused to return to work after the noon meal Tuesday They presented a list of grievances to prison officials saying RALEIGH (AP) -Guards fired a hail of buckshot into a crowd of more than 400 rioting prisoners at North Central Prison in Raleigh early Wednesday killing five inmates and wounding 78 Eight of the wounded were reported in critical condition Two prison guards and two highway patrolmen were hit by ricocheting shots Another guard was struck in the face by a thrown brick None of the officers was seriously injured Prison spokesmen said the gunfire brought an abrupt halt Sgt William Edwards Spartanburg Goodman Laney Lancaster Sheridan Rutland Winnsboro James Davis Greenwood Carl Stubbs Aiken Mrs Rosa Lester Prosperity Mrs Mildred Whittle Columbia Erwin Brown Conway Mrs Mary Broadway Sumter Walter Atkinson Hartsvflle Mrs Maggie Hutto Pelion Buist Keel Elko Mrs Hugh Little Spartanburg Adrian Green Spartanburg Details 6-D 1 'I.