European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday april 16. 1986 Industrial production Falls 0.5% in March from wire dispatches Washington doldrums in the Auto and steel industries and a Steep de Cline in Oil and Gas drilling helped drop Industrial production 0.5 percent in March the Federal Reserve Board said tuesday. Output in american factories mines and utilities slipped Back for the second consecutive month following a 0.7 percent decline in february to just 0.9 percent above the february 1985 level. Prior to the february setback the last decline in the Industrial production came in october 1985, when the Index fell Back by 0.6 percent. The two month decline was the steepest since september october 1982. The sharpest percentage decline was in the durable consumer goods sector As weak Auto and truck sales and excessive inventories that forced the Index Back 0.2 percent in february knocked it Down 2.9 percent last month. The . Attack on Libya boosted the american Dollar against european currencies and the japanese yen in Early trading but dealers predicted the Rise would be Short lived. The Price of Gold fell. Oil analysts said traders were concentrating on tuesday s opening meeting in Geneva Switzerland of Oil ministers from the organization of Petroleum exporting countries. They said prices were up Only Margi Nally because of a consensus that there is Little likelihood the ministers will agree to restrict production. At the new York mercantile Exchange May contracts of West Texas intermediate the Benchmark . Crude opened at $13.05 and Rose to $13.25 in Early trading after closing at $12.97 monday. A Federal Reserve Board report re leased monday showed americans took on $4.97 billion More in consumer debt than they paid off in february. The february growth which was the smallest monthly Rise in eight months represented an 11 percent annual rate of gain. That was Down markedly from Jan uary s 17.2 percent clip when outstanding debt grew by $7.66 billion. The slowdown was largely due to a 39 percent drop in Auto Loans in february reflecting weaker sales As automakers curtailed special financing incentives. Another report showed that february business sales slumped $4.77 billion or 1.1 percent to $427.2 billion. While sales were falling inventories edged up $163 million to $585.1 billion an increase of less than 0.1 percent. Analysts said the continued weak sales and modest bulge in inventories would probably restrain economic activity in coming months As businesses Cut Back on production in an Effort to reduce the inventory backlog. Fri eulogies 2 agents slain by robbery suspects in Miami by the associated press hundreds of Law officers their badges banded in Black crowded a Small Miami Church and a West Virginia Fune ral Home As the Fri eulogized two of its own slain in the Bureau s bloodiest Day. Fri director William Webster tuesday delivered a Short Eulogy in South Charleston w.va., Over the Flag draped casket of special agent Jerry Dove 30, one of the agents killed in a Miami gunfight with two robbery suspects. We expect a great Deal from our special agents Webster told More than 200 mourners including Fri officials state police and gov. Arch Moore. Jerry Dove gave All he can. He served his country  about 200 state troopers in full dress uniform crowded into the basement and Side rooms of the funeral Home to hear the service Over a speaker system. Webster joined about 1,500 others monday for the funeral of agent Benjamin j. Grogan 53, in Miami after visiting agents wounded in the shoot out. Webster who met privately with Grogan s widow after the roman Catholic service vowed an intensive investigation of the two dead suspects William Matix 34, and Michael Platt 32. We have not yet connected them to anyone else Webster said. Before we re through we re going to know everything about them from the time they were born to the time they  the two men opened fire with High powered automatic rifles killing the two agents and wounding the others during a traffic surveillance assignment. It was the most Fri casualties in one incident in the Bureau s 78 years. Local authorities have tentatively linked the suspects to eight armed robberies in the past year plus three robberies and shootings at an isolated Rock Quarry in Western Dade county frequented by target shooting enthusiasts. Authorities Haven t ruled out the possibility that More people were involved in the ring but detectives say so far they know Little More than that the slain suspects were known As Church going family men who had been friends since serving in the military in Korea. Authorities in Columbus Ohio meanwhile said Mon Day they plan to reopen their investigation of the Decem Ber 1983 death of Matix s wife Patricia. She and another woman were found bound gagged and stabbed to death in a medical Laboratory. No one has been charged in those slayings. In december 1984, Platt s wife Regina died from a Shotgun blast to the head in what was ruled a suicide. Platt and Matix had remarried. The agents carrying revolvers and shotguns were shot when they spotted the suspects stolen car and tried to Stop them. Webster praised agent de Mireles who despite serious wounds crawled to the suspects car and emptied his re Volver at them As they started to get away. He visited Mireles at South Miami Hospital where the agent was in fair condition and with agents Gordon Mcneill 43, and John Hanlon 48, who were in Good condition at Baptist Hospital. The two other agents were slightly wounded. A photo Sandy Grogan right wife of slain Fri agent Benjami Grogan arrives with other family members for funeral services in Miami. Murderer rapist executed after struggle with guards Starke Fla. A a Black Man convicted of murdering a White Man and raping his wife during a crime spree authorities called racially motivated was put to death tuesday in Florida s electric chair after struggling with guards for seven min utes. A defiant Daniel Morris Thomas 37,was strapped into the chair by five officers. Prison superintendent Richard Dugge threatened not to allow Thomas to make a final statement and officials began to place leather strap across his Chin. Dugger then spoke quietly to the inmate and had the strap removed. Breathing heavily Thomas softly gave final statement gov. Bob Graham has politically executed 13 men on death Row. I will be the 14th he said. To this Day Bob Graham is still using the death penalty and politically executing human beings on death Row to further his political  Thomas was the 14th person executed i Florida since the death penalty was re instated in 1976 and the first in the state since May. He also was the fourth person executed this year nationwide the 54th since 1976.he had been scheduled for execution at 7 . A three judge panel of the Lith .circuit court of appeals on monday granted a stay until noon to allow time for Ana peal to the . Supreme court. The High court declined at 11 55 . To Grant stay. He was sentenced to die for the newyear s Day 1976 shooting death of Charles Anderson 48, a professor at the University of Florida. Anderson and his wife Betty were i their Home when a gun toting masked Man climbed through a window. After Shooti Ganderson five times Thomas raped mrs. Anderson and shot the family , two of his cousins and a teen Ager were arrested in january 1976. Al were tried and convicted of various charges but Only Thomas stood trial for  said the ski mask gang was responsible for two murders five rap Sand several beatings during a 10-month rampage against Whites. Police have said they believe the crimes were racially motivated. Possible confab Naf on spurs recalls of bread canned clams by the associated press a bakery is recalling three types of Caraway seed Rye bread in 11 states be cause of possible Glass contamination while health authorities in one new York county ordered a Brand of canned clams off shelves after a Man who ate some became ill. Stroehmann bakeries inc. Ordered the recall of its Caraway seed Rye bread after receiving reports of Glass turning up in loaves purchased at a new York store and in Uniontown pa., a company official said. The products were off the Market by april 8, but the Williamsport  company was concerned about custom ers who might have Frozen the bread for later use said senior vice president Charles Caffrey. We decided we better keep the warning out he said. No one has been reported injured he added. Stroehmann s and the . Food and drug administration said a nether lands imported Caraway seed Stock was the source of the contamination. Caffrey said he selected a new seeds dealer Las week. The potentially contaminated loaves were distributed in Pennsylvania new Jersey new York Virginia Delaware Maryland West Virginia Connecticut Massachusetts Vermont and new Hampshire. The recall affected 129,000 loaves baked in March and Early april in Stroehmann s Hazleton pa., factory which is the Only Plant to bake products with Caraway seeds. In Westchester county North of new York City officials ordered Empress whole baby clams off grocery shelves after a Man who had eaten them came Down with food poisoning said health department spokesman Barry Bowman. Inspectors went from store to store sunday advising grocers to take All 1 flounce cans of the clams off their shelves until further notice. The 38-year-old Man was hospitalized saturday night after eating the clams straight from the can