SF Sunday Examiner & Chronicle 21 Apr 68 Weird Aliases Are Dr. King Clues

"The Ambushers," which goes on to tell how the secret By LESLIE WHITTEN agent is a man "who has to Washington Bureau play God." WASHINGTON — The as- sassination of Martin Luther Harvey Lowmyer, of King has spawned a weird course, raises the ghost of literary mystery — with un- Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin dertones of murder, conspir- acy and even suicide. — Turn to Page 12, Col. 1 At the heart of it are two of President Kennedy in 1963. The name "H a r v e y Low- aliases, Eric Starvo Galt and myer" was believed to have Harvey Lowmyer, used by been used by Ray sometime James Ray, 40, sought by the after Kennedy was shot to FBI in the slaying of Dr. death — like King, with a ri- King in Memphis April 4. fle. Eric Starvo Galt is the Many of the other aliases most intriguing, for "Galt" are common names start- is the name of a charac- ing with James—like names ter in Ayn Rands "Atlas a men named "James Ray" Shrugged," a 1957 novel that might toss off at a momen's has nearly become a bible notice. for some ultra-rightists. But the Galt and Lowmyer Miss Rand's Galt saw poli- names have a strange quali- ticians, pseudo-intellectuals, ty that has given the FBI bureaucrats and many others sleuths cause to pause. as destroyers of Am eric a TWISTED MIND who must be eliminated. Galt Every fact of the literary is portrayed as a brilliant mystery is being considered man, a leader of "loners," by the FBI. but a spokesman although a loner and individ- was as bewildered as news- ualist himself. men over what twisted mind "S tar v o" sounds suspi- would hay.e developed names ' ciously like "Stavro" in so loaded with death and Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the su- with the bizarre. per-fiend of 's "What sort of guy could "On Her Majesty's Secret have thought them up?" the Service," "" and FBI was asked. "We 'll know when we "You Only Live Twice." catch him," said the spokes- In "On Her Majesty's Se- man. cret Service," Blofeld, in a hideout in the Swiss Alps, de- Did James Ray Earl find vises a diabolical plot for the names in books he pe- mass murder. rused with his tenth-grade education? Did he simply In "You Only Live Twice," pluck them from quick Blofeld constructs a garden glimpses on newsstands of of evil in ^ which poisonous the paperbacks contents? snakes and plants are provid- Are the names really some ed for suicides. incredibly long-shot coin c "Eric" is the code name of dence with no literary mean- "Matt Helm," Donald Hamil- ing whatsoever? ton's super-tough secret Or, finally. did some evil agent. genius as corruptly sick as "A quiet mission of assassi- Ernst Stavo Blofield. Bond's nation is no sweat for Matt enemy, dream it up for some Helm," advises the cover of i hired killer as a lethal liter- ary mask?