European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday june 16, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 21 new York it was a time to be particularly Alert. The .44 killer wrote me a letter and we Hope there will be another one an maybe a Call and you must be ready or anything at All hours. Therefore the first thing i did on sunday was Rush to the bar where i first place i hit on sunday night was Bill Chan s Gold Coin on second ave. Chi Nese restaurant bars Are the land mines of drinking. Every place else there is a Hance bartenders talk so much about race the nation s no. 1 topic that you canst for a week with an empty Glass. But Chi Nese bartenders like Wayne at the Goldcoin say Little and pour so quickly they leave you for the the Gold Coin we went Down to Wall st., which was dark and soundless. However Jim Brady s on Maiden Lane was Roar ing. A big crowd of the Irish had gathered for the christening of Singer Jesse Owens baby. The Mother was in the Back of the dining room feeding the baby a bottle and everybody else was jammed against the night grew Long. Gerry Toner drove me Home and i sat in the Back seat with Bride Mcmanus proprietor Liffey tavern. We talked about the amnesty International report on the British troops torturing people in Northern Ireland. This is what gov. Carey left out when he made his famous attack on his own kind. The Anglo philos have lauded him Ever since. Then we talked about a Friend from Derry Samm Robinson who has 12 kids and was coming Home from work last week when he passe through a British checkpoint and the sol Diers surly As usual said something to him and Sammy said something Back and a sol Dier put a gun to Sammy s face and shot plastic Bullet that knocked out one of Sammy s eyes. They be been doing it for centuries and everybody loves them Bridey said Goodby and groped my Way up to bed. I was asleep for an hour when the phone woke me up. It was my Friend Mel Lebetkin the was just thinking he said. Of what if this .44 killer wants to meet anybody it s 50-30 that you get killed you know that Don t you it has been mentioned i la go Mel said. Let me go right now. I la either be dead or i la be Rich. Liat s Soba about that i Hung up and went Back to sleep. An hour later Lebetkin called again to Wake me be had a Little time to think he said. Maybe it s really 6040 that i could be deader Rich. Let me have two More drinks and give me the 40 percent and i la still i woke up yesterday morning monday morning i was unfit. On the television was the today show coverage of the 25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth s be coming Queen. The anglophile Are cease less. They la devote hours to glorifying a anachronism and meanwhile Sammy Robin son sits in Derry with his 12 children and on Eye and nobody mentions things like this be cause this is the week television genuflect again. 1 happened to read a Book about British Royalty Over the weekend. The Book was about a Duke of Clarence who a lot of people Felt was the real Jack the Ripper. I read the Book of course because in the letter sent Tome by the .44 killer he said he liked his work which is just what Jack the Ripper used to put in his notes. The suspect the Duke of Clarence was inline to be King. He also was arrested in a male House of prostitution. He and his friends were watching a boxing match be tween two naked women. The Duke eventually succumbed to venereal disease. The British always had sickness to give turned off television which was focused on the Queen at a race track and went for spot of Coffee. Then i left for the City As we living in Queens say of Manhattan. Squirrel nuts about Golf balls Indiana a. A Andy Twerdok says he May never return to the Pennsylva Nia veterans of foreign wars Golf tournament. Last year his favorite wedge was stole during the tournament. This year he says he was robbed by a had to hit his tee shot on the 327 Yard Par four 16th Hole at the vow country club Over a flock of geese that was crossing the Fairway. His shot flew Down the Middle of the Fairway. But before he could reach the Ball a Squirrel picked it up and scampered100 feet up a tree. Tournament officials ruled that Twerdok had to play it As a lost Ball. When i got to work the phones started right in. I m calling from a phone Booth Down the Corner from the police station the first Guy said. ".and? Well i got something about a Guy who could be the killer and i think the cops ought to know about it he said. Well go up and Tell them i got to guarantee me something he ?" that the cops won t keep on Why would they do that Well i done some things in the past you know and if they Start going into my Back ground Well i Don t want them looking pall that old stuff on How far Back Are you talking about asked. Last week the Guy next Call was from a minister in Stroudsburg a. The killer says he is Theson of Sam the minister said. That s i can get you to Sam he said. You see the killer is two people Sam an himself. Sam is an evil spirit. I know How to reach ?" i asked. How much do you know about the world of spirits " the minister asked. Too much i said if you stay there i la drive in and help you. I be performed Nany three Calls after this one were either from architects or craftsmen who said they resented the newspaper Story saying the killer s printing appeared to show that head received some training As an architect. Architects Don t kill one of them ," i said. Outside it was starting to rain. Now the dirty streets of the City became wet dirty streets. Somewhere out there was the answer to nine shootings five of them fatal by a tormented Guy who uses a gun that could put a doorway into a Wall. The .44 kill Ings Are of the Type that have been with Manall through the Ages. There is no Way to pre vent a Man s becoming deranged. But on to of this we allow other conditions to exist that could be eliminated and Are not an which give us even More killing and Vio Lence. The South Bronx is a the phones rang through the Long gloomy Day the bar became just As Good an idea better than it was the night before. 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Solution time 23 min. 6 -1c answer to yesterday s Puzzle. 23 regard intently 25 Workbench device 26 27 dispatched28 elapse 29 inner comb form30 speak bitterly31 cupid 35 animal Burrows 38 ostrich40 River in wales42 thing Law 45 Aleutian island47 fervent 48 silkworm49 Finno Ugric language50 Bluegrass 51 recede52 tease Slang 53 word of approval Detector today s crossword dear meanders dear Ann Lander drove from Boston to Connecticut a distance proximately . I lip my Speed at 57 Miles per Hourt two Hundred and eighty five cars passed me. Many were going at least 70 Miles an hour. A few weeks later i drove fro Boston to Springfield on the Massachusetts Turnpike a distance of about 85 Miles. Again 1 kept my Speed at 57 mite an Hundred and eighty four cars passed me on that 55-mile-an-hour limit is a joke. I Hope you will print my letter and remind All americans that it is their patriotic duty to conserve fuel. . Dear or. . Right on but something More important than fuel can be conserved by respect ing toe 55-Mue-per-Bour limit life. Traffic fatalities have dropped considerably Tynce the Energy shortage has made i mandatory for motorists to reduce the rate of . Where Are Massachusetts and Connecticut Highway patrolmen anyway dear Ann Landers pleas help me understand my husband. Sid and i have been married Little Over three years. He has been Good to me and i always trusted him until now. Last night we went to a got sloshed. He is the jealous Type so i am very careful about keeping my distance from other men. When i walked into the bar area to freshen my drink i was stunned to see Sid on the Patio kissing another woman. They did t see me which was just Aswell. On the Way Home i told Sid what i had witnessed. Head fitted it immediately said Heddin t know Why he kissed her said she was nothing special and sheepishly mumbled i must have been drunker than now i am filled with doubt Sand suspicions. If he could kiss a woman while i m with him what might he do when fro not around jittery dear Jit never men Tob the id Dent again. Behave As if i never happened. Some Hin Hartt like children will live of or Down to the standards Yon set for them. Don t become a nervous Nellie and give Sid the notion you Don t Trust him or be May figure so Long As be has the name be might Ai Well play the game. Dear Ann Landers i just caught up with your column in which a Reader took you to task for using the expression do the dishes. The proper word you were told was Wash not apropos of ethnic cultural and geographic terminology in England we always said Lay the table. The first time i used that expression in new York waste last. I Learned to say set in a hurry. When in Rome dear Rome i m not up Rudd. Thanks for writing. Dear Ann i m a Guy 17 and4 10". I get awfully tired of people asking me How tall Are you i hate to give them my measurements. Do you have an suggestions half pint dear . Juk say that should do to. C 1wi shia enuf Palm me
