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On the 29th Ray appeared at the Aeromarine Supply Company, 5701 Airport Highway in Birmingham, Alabama, and using the alias Harvey Lownyer purchased a Remington .243 caliber rifle, Model 700 with a 2x-7x Redfield telescopic sight mumted on it (432). Almost certainly because the breech of the .243 caliber weapon was caked with a hardened preservative (cosmline) and could not be loaded, Ray returned it the following day (not having fired it). He explained that his "brother" didn't Like it, and exchanged the .243 rifle for a Model 760, 30-06 caliber Remington. The scope was transferred to the latter rifle. Throughout these transactions the package for either rifle was a Browning shotgun carton which was large enough to hold the scope-equipped Remingtons (432). The Atlanta rooming house operator, Jimny Delton Garner stated he had Ray print his name (Eric S. Galt) on an old envelope at Garner's request so that Garner could transfer the name properly to his official records; the handprinting is a matchup with other Galt-Ray printing samples (1033). ~79- March 31