European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 12, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 killer executed in Texas for crime committed As teen Charon Rumbaugh in Hunt Sulla prison. Huntsville Texas a Charles Rumbaugh was put to death by Poison injection Early wednesday for murder ing a jeweler when he was 17 years old  execution in More than two decades for a crime committed by someone under the age or 18. Rumbaugh 28. Was pronounced dead at 12 27 . Cd said Jim Mattox the state attorney general. Hours before his death. Rumbaugh was cutting jokes and laughing As he visited with friends and relatives in a cell a few feet from the death Ciambor said corrections depart ment spokeswoman Sarah Grisham. Amnesty International which opposes capital punishment had protested Rumbaugh s execution saying it Viola a inter National agreements never ratified by the . Senate that bar execution of people convicted of crimes committed when they were under 18. What that has to do with the death penalty i Don t know Rumbaugh said a week ago in his last interview with report ers. It s not g Ling to have any  nine other prisoners in Texas Are awaiting execution for juvenile crimes. Across the country 23 other juvenile Crimi nals Are on death Row according to Victor l. Strib a professor of the Cleveland Marshall College of Law at Cleveland state University. Texas had the last such execution on May 7, 1964, when James Andrew Echols was executed for rape committed when he was 17. Rumbaugh who was convicted of robbing and killing am Arillo jeweler Michael Fiorillo in 1975, had twice tried to kill himself and had physically attacked Law officers in court. He had ordered attorneys not to seek a third stay of execution. Rumbaugh woke up several hours before the 15-mile ride in a prison Van from the Ellis unit where death Row inmates Are housed to downtown Huntsville s Walls unit where the death chamber is located. His visitors included his three Sisters and a brother in Law but his Mother who was in the prison decided not to visit her son said Grisham. Rumbaugh declined to cat lunch and ate Only a flour Tortilla and drank a Glass of water for his final meal Grisham said. Rumbaugh who spent most of his life in Reform schools mental institutions and jails compared his nine years on death Row to serving a life sentence. It s All a game i m tired of playing he said. Texas had already executed nine prisoners since it resumed executions in december 1982, and More than 200 prisoners have death sentences pending in Texas. Two face execution next month. I believe in reincarnation Rumbaugh said. Whatever i did in my previous life must have been pretty bad to deserve this. Maybe when i come Back next time ii have Learned  Rumbaugh s trouble with the Law began at age 6, when he and an older brother skipped school and broke into an old building in their Hometown of san Angelo. At age 12, he committed his first armed robbery using a tire tool to Rob a Gas station and making his getaway on a stolen bicycle. He walked into Fiorillo s jewelery store on april 4, 1975, pulled a gun and demanded Money. He and Fiorello struggled and the jeweler was fatally shot. Sex attache testifies secret report could endanger agents spy trial told los Angeles a a former Mili tary attache testified tuesday that disclosure of a document allegedly Given to the soviets by a former Fri agent on trial for espionage would endanger National Security and agents lives. It would be extremely useful to the soviet Union said Richard Larkin a retired army major general who was the defense depart ment s attache to the soviet Union for two years. He appeared in the Federal trial of Richard w. Miller the first Fri agent to be charged with espionage. Milter is charged with giving the classified report to his soviet Lover Svetlana Ogorodnikova for transmission to soviet officials. A betrays the game plan for collecting information Larkin said of the Fri document reporting guidance foreign Intelli gence  it is our play Book Larkin said. It is the compilation of All our intelligence agencies. I believe it relates directly to the National  Miller s attorneys have tried to minimize the importance of the document saying the information it contains could be gleaned from news magazines. The document which remains secret has been described in court As a guide for Fri agents in writing reports on  Gath ered on foreign activities. The government says an 11-Page Section of the report deals specifically with the soviet Union. It tells the soviet Union what we re after Lark if said. It would allow them to take  he said the report also would betray our ignorance in certain areas in which they do not realize we re  taxpayers Union lobby blasts double dipper7 millionaires Washington a forty eight members of con Gress receive annual Federal or state pensions of from $4,000 to $60,000 in addition to their salaries the National taxpayers Union lobby group said tuesday. Ii called them double dippers and said those receiving the highest benefits Are 59-year-old sen. Daniel Evans r-wash., whose pension from state service including governor and legis Lator is $40,527 a year and 69-year-old rep. Lindy Boggs. D la., who receives a $47,274 annuity As a congressman s widow. It muted sen. Alan Dixon a 58-year-old millionaire demo crat from Illinois As receiving $30,400 a year in retirement benefits Tor nearly 30 years of service in his slate s government the group said House speaker Thomas p. O Neill d mass., 5 paid $13,735 a year in combined benefits from social Security and a pension from his Days As slate legislator. The wife of the 72-year-old speaker also receives $5,035 in annual social Security payments the group said. Each member of the House and Senate receives an annual congressional salary of $75,100, while the speaker is paid $97,900 a year. The National taxpayers Union a lobby group which Points out what it considers waste in government said it obtained the figures through Freedom of information act requests to the government and reviews of the lawmakers financial disclosure statements. A Federal pension bomb is ticking away in Washington that is about to explode in the taxpayer s Wallet said Sid Taylor the group s research director. We do not question whether these members Are entitled to their military retirement pay veterans compensation. Social Security state or City pensions he said. We question whether the american taxpayer can continue to support Dou ble dipping or dual compensation from a variety of govern ment pension systems which have huge obligations. Taylor whose organization compiles pension lists annually suggested prohibiting any Federal officeholders or workers earning More than $20,000 a year from accepting any state or Federal pension while they Are still working for the Federal government. But Dixon spokesman Wade Nelson said it would be unfair to impose such a limit on people who have earned retirement pay. He Thixon paid into the system All those years and it s appropriate for him to receive his benefits now that he s reached the proper age Nelson said. The suggested $20,000 ceiling is an arbitrary number and i Don t think it s right to comment on  Evans called Taylor s proposal a bad idea and said he collects his state pensions based on 30 years service As state legislator educator and governor. "1 Don t think i or any other legitimate Retiree of the state ought to be penalized for that service or deprived of the Opportunity to carry out other responsibilities Evans said. Taylor said members of Congress should be especially willing to sacrifice some of their retirement benefits ii an example to other Federal workers and to All americans. To continue to subsidize i my dipping As an exclusive Benefit for 20-year service retirees is ridiculous in View of a National debt now at s2 trillion plus budget deficits Over $200 billion a year Taylor said. He estimated that there Are now 35 pension million Aires in Congress who Are Likely to live Long enough to receive at least $1 million in Federal pension benefits if they would retire immediately. When the approximately 178,000 double dippers collecting both a government salary and a government pen Sion Are included we estimate there will soon be More than 1,500 Federal pension millionaires Taylor said. Bank robber 75, too old to change his profession new York a seventy five old Fred Smith has been robbing Banks for 57 years and he tried it again tuesday in Busy times Square less than three months after getting out of prison for his last heist police said. The shabbily dressed sex convict was captured by police before he had a Chance to leave a Branch of the bowery savings Bank on Broadway at 47th Street about four blocks from a hotel where he lived. He said i Haven t eaten in a Day so we got him a Sandwich. He s a hungry tired old Man sgt. William Rath said. Rath said Smith charged with robbery and Dos session of stolen property told him he had been released from Priscil in june after serving time for a 1983 Holdup. Smith gave the Teller a stick up note that said he was carrying a bomb said police spokesman John Clifford. After turning Over si.506, the Teller triggered an alarm and Rath who happened to be across the Street went to the Bank with two other officers. They captured Smith and recovered the Money before he got out of the Bank Clifford said. Smith s Bank stick  Date from March 24, 1928. His most recent previous arrest was june 16, 1983, when he pulled a knife on a Teller in a Bank just South of Rockefeller Center. That time two mounted policemen galloped to the Bank and found Smith still inside counting the Money the Teller had just Given him