European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. October 14, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 puerto Rico begins final search for dead Ponce. Pucylo Rico aim Rescue workers saturday began a final 72-hour search for survivors of the mudslide that buried the a macs Shantytown five a s earlier. Gov. Rafael Hernandez col said the government would erect a Monument to the hundreds of people believed killed in the disaster and would not allow houses to be rebuilt in the a macs area on a Steep Ridge at the base of a Mountain. The town was devastated oct. 7 by a mudslide Trig gered by a tropical deluge. We arc going to convert it into a Green area where there is going to be a Monument with the names of those who died there Hernandez Colon said after visiting the area and talking to leaders of the More than 300 people involved in the search. Rescue workers remained hopeful of finding More survivors. I think there s a Small Chance there s in conc out there alive but it s extremely unlikely said Ken Hiick an Atlanta based us. Park service official directing the 21 american search dog teams sniffing through tons of mud and debris at mama is. After Barking dogs brought them to a collapsed House saturday. National guardsmen dug out the 36th body recovered from Mac yes where hundreds of people arc still missing. Eighty a conc have been confirmed dead Island id from floods and landslides caused when 10 to 15 inches of rain fell last weekend. Lulick said that by sunday night the search dogs will have covered every Inch except for areas too unstable to walk on. On monday the . Army corps of Engi neers will use special listening devices to make a final sweep of the area and then turn it Over to the National  National  col. Gilberto in Reno said heavier equipment would be used after monday to Clear heavy do bids to Speed up recovery of b Klies. Lively Effort will be made to protect the bodies Moreno added. A. Giordano san Antonio health director for the Southern Region said seven Chil Dren in three refugee shelters had measles and doctors were vaccinating All children under age 15 in the shelters. He said some 3.000 people were in Shel ters in the Region. Officials said More than 5,000 people were in shelters around the Island. Meanwhile a 12-Mcmbcr team from Washington arrived and went to a macs and met with Commonwealth officials. The team includes Sam speck associate director of the Federal emergency manage ment Agency maj. Gen. Henry Hatch director of civil works for the army corps of engineers and col. Edward or incr of the department of army in the Pentagon. Hatch said the department of defense had flown in 4,000 cols from Richmond a. 200 tents from Ogden. Utah a water distribution system from Warner Robins fab. On. And two Bailey Bridges from Pueblo. Colo. The material was from War Reserve stocks at military bases he said. President Reagan has declared Ponce and three other municipalities Federal disaster areas but officials said More areas May become eligible for Federal disaster Relief. Ponce mayor Jose Daphna Thompson has estimated damage from the storm at s100 million in the Southern Region. In Washington the puerto Rico Federal affairs administration said it was collect ing Money to Aid Rood victims. It said donations could be sent to its office at 734 15lh St. New suite 700, Washington d.c., 20005. Upsurge in crime7 heralded by 85 Rise in reported offences Washington up crimes re ported to police Rose 3 percent in the first half of this year with increases mostly in Southern and Western cities that Are Pac ing the rest of the nation in an upsurge in crime the Fri said sunday. In announcing the new crime figures Fri director William Webster said the 3 percent increase in offences reported to authorities is the first semiannual Rise since 1981 last year the crime Index dropped 3 percent. An Fri spokesman said. We re seeing an upsurge in crime. You be seen a decrease in crime in the last few years and now All of a sudden you re seeing an  the Fri s crime Index gauges offences reported to some 12,000 Law enforcement agencies across the country. Nationally violent crime Rose 4 percent and property crime 3 percent. Of most concern to Law enforcement officials is the nature of the crimes on the Rise. The spokesman said. The Bureau reported both forcible rape and aggravated assault were up 7 percent and these crimes Are basically uncontrollable crimes of passion. There is Little you can do to prevent them the spokesman said. Two geographical regions the South and West accounted for the National increase so far this year Webster said. The Midwest recorded a 1 percent decline and the Northeast stayed virtually the same. Historically the spokesman said the South and West have been ahead of the rest of the country. These trends indicate conceivably in creases will spread to other regions of the country Fri investigators told Webster. In Atlanta reported crimes jumped from 23,059 in the same six month period last year to 27,248. Tampa Fla., showed a dra Matic gain from 15,773 to 19,904. Mem Phis Tenn. Birmingham Ala. Fort Lau Der Dale Fla. Jacksonville Fla. And Tallahassee Fla., were among other South Ern cities that followed suit. In the West Phoenix Ariz. Rising from 33,316 to 39,023 and Anchorage Alaska Long Beach Calif. Los Angeles Mesa Ariz. And Portland ore., up almost 5,000 offences showed substantial gains. In contrast several big cities nationwide including Houston Washington. . New York City Detroit and Honolulu showed marked declines. Overall among the violent offences of murder forcible rape robbery and aggravated assault Only murder showed a decline of 2 percent. Robbery stayed the same. In the property crime category All of lenses increased in number the Fri said the volume of crimes reached All time highs in 1980 and 1981, with yearly figures showing More than 13 million offences reported nation wide. A decline began in the second Quarter of that year and followed consistently through the next 13 quarters Fri records show. Overall crime was Down 7 percent in 1983. Followed by a 3 percent drop in 1984, when 11.9 million crimes were reported. However rape aggravated assault and car theft Rose last year. These increases and the Overall increase in the number of offences Sig naked a possible reversal in the period of de Cline Fri researchers reported. The Fri has been unable to identify any common reason for the Rise with most possible explanations seemingly confined to local conditions rather than National  not to worry thirteen tar old Clayton Monte of i o Nia mich., drapes himself in a us. Flag and salutes after learning that the draft registration notice he is holding was sent by mistake. The youth now finds the incident amusing but his father says the High school freshman was scared to death when he received the notice. Black activist cleared on 9 counts of voting fraud Tuscaloosa Ala. A Spiver Gordon a Black political activist accused of voting fraud was acquitted saturday on nine charges by a Federal jury but the panel was unable to reach a verdict on 12 additional charges and us. District judge . Hariom or. Ordered it to resume deliberations tuesday. Meanwhile in Birmingham a jury acquitted another Black activist Bobbie Nell Simpson in a retrial. Her first trial ended in a Hung jury but jurors took Only two hours to reach the innocent verdict saturday. The verdicts leave prosecutors win less so far in live trials stemming from a Justice department investigation of voting activities in five predominantly Black Rural coun lies in West Central  three Perry county Black leaders were found inno it in their trial and the trial of Union mayor James Colvin ended in a mistrial. Prosecutors have said Colvin will be retried. Gordon from Greene county is a National Board Mem Ber of the Southern Christian leadership conference. Jurors on Friday had acquitted his co defendant Fredrick Daniels on All charges. All of the trials have been before racially mixed juries except for the trial of Gordon and Daniels who were tried before All White juries. They were charged with conspiracy voting More than once giving false information to voting officials and mail fraud. The maximum penalty on each count is five years imprisonment and a 510,000 Fine. Gordon a City councilman in Eutaw was charged with 21 counts involving ii Absentee ballots and one voter application in the september 1984 democratic primary and Runoff elections. Throughout the Justice department investigation of voting practices and the ensuing trials defense attorneys and Black leaders have claimed the probe was an attempt by the Reagan administration to intimidate Black voters in Alabama. Federal prosecutors denied that saying the probe resulted from complaints by Black voters. After Daniels was acquitted his attorney John eng land said the government should Stop prosecuting the voter fraud cases. There have now been four trials with More than 150 counts brought by the government against Blacks in Ala Bama and not one single person has been convicted of one single count he said