European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes july 1985 toasting stacking Bounty a photo treasure Hunter Mel Fisher without the head of treasure toasts his Good Fortune with employees in photograph at Fishers company has won Legal Possession of All it recovers from a 17thcentury Spanish Galleon found in the Florida at Bill an employee of trea sure loads one of approximately 200 Silver bars aboard the Salvage ship the Salvage company estimates that the cargo of the Spanish Galleon sunk in is Worth sunken treasure site near Florida called richest lobster bed in world7 key a a reef of Silver bars five feet High found in the Florida Straits where a Spanish Galleon Sank in a Hurricane in 1622 is being called the richest lobster bed in the until divers found the cargo hold of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha on the Florida lobsters and tropical fish had the riches to themselves for More than three treasure Hunter Mel who Heads treasure paid a visit sunday to the 40 Miles West of on the decks of three of his Salvage boats were piled some of the 200 or so 75pound bars of pure Silver that divers have brought up since the main wreckage of the Atocha was found in a said Don with tears of Happi a vice president in Fishers has spent years looking for pieces of the three master that went Down after leaving Havana on in route to you cant put a Price on its Fisher said sporting around his neck an 12pound Chain of pure Gold retrieved years ago from bits of wreckage scattered across the Ocean the Atocha and a sister the Santa Sank less than three Miles apart in 50 feet of but another storm ended Salvage efforts in october 1622 by smashing the two vessels on the Ocean Bottom and scattering debris and riches Over 8 Square Fishers group has already recovered millions of dollars Worth of treasure from the wreckage of the Atocha and the Santa but saturdays discovery was the High Point of a 16year Effort filled with work to Trace the court Money problems and one of Fishers sons and a daughter inlaw died when a Salvage boat overturned in a storm 10 years theres a Wall of Silver bars Down there at least five feet Kincaid Copper ballast thousand of coins and the Silver bars were buried under several feet of Silt and the Arochas found in archives in indicated bars of Silver had been loaded in the ships said Bleth another Fisher twelve Hundred Silver bars weighing about 75 pounds each would be Worth More than million at today Price of about per Troy without considering their value As Arche logical estimates of the value of the cargo on both at today have been put at around Back at Fishers Headquarters at an old two Story Navy preparations were under Way to beef up Fishers said that when the treasure is divided she might buy a new car to replace her 1964 battled with the state for years Over the right to keep the the supreme court ruled in 1982 that treasure salvos would be the rightful owner of any ancient riches its divers found on the Atocha in Fisher ran into trouble with the Federal securities and Exchange commission when he was accused of Selling unregistered the Sec said Fisher tried to raise Money for his operations by forming a number of satellite corporations that sold Stock to the Public and then funnelled the funds Back to treasure the lawsuit was settled when Fisher without admitting guilt signed a consent decree agreeing to cease 3 jews get life for vengeance on palestinians Jerusalem a three members of a jewish terror ring which attacked palestinians in the occupied West Bank were sentenced to life in prison monday after being convicted of ending one of the most divisive trials in israels the who were greeted with loud applause when they arrived at the packed were convicted july 10 of killing three palestinian students during a shooting spree at the islamic University in Hebron in 1983 which also wounded 33 twelve other israelis received lesser prison terms of up to 10 years for conducting a fou year Campaign of terror ism against West Bank the three who were sentenced to life Are Menachem accused of being the planner and ringleader of the Hebron Shaul and Uzi Nir and Shareaf were named in the charges As gunmen in the underground exposed the 15 Are part of a 25member underground exposed by israeli Security forces in april 1984 after a plot to blow up palestinian buses was foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir and leading Mem Bers of his righting liked bloc have already said they would seek presidential pardons for the president Chaim Herzog has said he would examine individual clemency appeals on Merit after the sentence the group went on trial last with its members claiming they acted in Sel defense after the police and the army failed to curb attacks by palestinians on jewish the trial in Jerusalem District court set off a Public debate and deepened the political schism in pit Ting nationalists who condone the vengeance attacks against liberals who say the underground took the Law into its hands and harmed efforts to achieve jew Sharab ten members of the group were sentenced during the past year to terms ranging from 11 months to 10 years for other two have already been freed after serving their sentences and getting time off for Good Blue Angels Honor Pilot killed in crash Ohio up the navys Blue making their first appearance since one of their pilots was killed in an air performed a missing Man forma Tion sunday at the Dayton air show to Honor the fallen on july commander Mike Gershon was killed in a crash at an air show in Niagara Andy the other Pilot involved in the parachuted to Caputi performed in the Dayton show As the Solo Pilot of the fireman the Canadian the precision flying team of the Canadian armed also performed at the Dayton International Airport saturday and on saturday night they received the spirit of flight award during the Hall of Fame program in which four aviation pioneers joined the see details on Page jazz musician Stewart Davis Dies new Orleans a Stewart a jazz Bas Sist who played at preservation Hall and sat in with papa Celestin and kid died Here at the age of guardian Angels ride Manhattan elevators to Stop rapist new York up the guardian Angels will Start Riding elevators in mid town Manhattan skyscrapers to help text women being terrorized by the so called Midtown Angels spokeswoman Lisa Sliwa said ten women have been attacked in mid town elevators in the past two said who believe All the attacks were committed by the same ail the at tacks occurred in Busy Midtown office buildings Between 1 and 6 Sliwa said about 50 members of the civil Ian ant crime which mostly guards the subways of new York would Start patrolling elevators in Midtown Manhattan after an 11 news conference monday in front of the new York Public Library on 42nd the Angels will work in teams of three Riding walking stairwells and checking tunnels in the Midtown she they plan to focus on the area around Rockefeller where the mugger was last till be a very Strong she on Sliwa the Angels will expand their efforts by putting on a self defense demonstration on 42nd Street to show women what they can do to defend themselves against the of the 10 women who reported being five were sexually some were just and two thwarted their attacker by police the suspect was described As a 25yearold Black standing 5 feet 8 inches he was had a slight wore glasses and carried a Kitchen or Steak
