European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june a 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 mob demands death of suspected killers Northampton a. A a mob of More than 200 changed kill pm kill pm As police led away two men charged with harming a Small country Bank with guns blazing and killing Ihrck women employees. The Bank manager and a customer were critically wounded in he Friday morning attack. Two of those slain were lying on the flour when they were shot and authorities described those killings As executions. Stanley Joseph Hertzog 29, of Alle mown. And Mirlin Daniel Appel. 28. Of Northampton were stopped about three hours later in a car filling witnesses description. Said slate police it. Robert Wens. They were charged with murder attempted murder aggravated assault Bank robbery and conspiracy. District Justice Charles Kulz scr ordered them held without bail at Northampton county prison pending a june 16 hearing. A crowd screamed kill pm kill pm and you bastards and shoot them Shoal them As Hertzog and Appel were led from the magistrate s storefront office in Handcuffs and put in police can Friday night. People in the crowd surged around he cars and pounded on them As they drove off. Shortly before noon two men burst into the first National Bank of Bath Branch office in East Allen township shooting said Werts. He would not say How Many shots were fired. They then went behind some counters and look an undetermined amount of Money. After the robbery police set up roadblocks and used a helicopter to Kan the area Nar Bethlehem. About 60 Milci North of Philadelphia. They slapped the car near  about two Miles North or the Bonk said stale police capt. Benjamin Brooks. Werts would not say if any Money was recovered but said a gun used in he killings had been found. To dvrs Janice Confer 48, of Northampton and Hazel Evans j5, of Coplay were found dead on the floor at their Bank stations. Werts said. Jane Slartman 34, a Bank Secretary from Catasauqua. Was shot to death at her desk. Customer Thomas Marchol to. 37, of Bath who was Al her desk also was Shol. He was in stable condition sunday at Muhlenberg Hospital Cen Ter in Bethlehem. Branch manager Marcia Jean Hauser 31, of Nazareth. Who was shot and wounded in her office was in critical condition at Lehigh Valley Hospital Center in Allentown. Another Teller and an assistant manager were in a Back room when they heard the shooting and ran out a Back pc cretors tither outside first National Bank in Northampton pa., where robbers killed Chr and wounded two. Door authorities said. They provided a description of the gunmen and their getaway car. It appears to me that the two working in the Teller windows were lying on the floor to escape this and still were executed said Northampton county Coroner Joseph f. Reichel. He called them brutal unnecessary kill  it does t make any sense said Karen Wasilko an employee of a Motel Down the Road. Mostly women work there. And they would have Given them anything they wanted. Why did they have to shoot on May 29, the Bank was broken into about 4 30 . Police said. Equipment inside was smashed including cameras and police said then the vandalism could have been attempt to Knock the cameras out for a later robbery try. The cameras were working at the Lime of the attack War said. Werts said police arc investigating if there was a connection Between Llic attack and that vandalism or a bomb threat received at nearby Al known Bell chem Naston Airport shortly before the robbery. The Allentown morning Call newspaper reported thai Appel is a former Lehigh county prison guard convicted in 1984 of impersonating a police officer. An Fri agent who would t give his name told the newspaper that hurl zog and Appel had been working Asta i Drivers. Hertzog. Wearing a Crew Cut and a tight sleeveless Shin that read hex pump stretch turned to Appel and grinned during the arraignment. The attack was the deadliest in a Bank robbery since dec. A i9h4, when four people were killed and three were wounded during a Holdup at the h irm Bank of Chattanooga in Geronimo okla. Fri spokesman tonic Porter said. Two people were convicted and sentenced to a Cash in that robbery he said. Navy Marine bad discharges ordered upgraded Washington a former Navy and Marine corps personnel who were Given less Lhnn Han Brablc discharges before july 1971 because of drug use or Possession must have their discharges upgraded a fed eral judge has ruled. In july 1971 the department of defense adopted a policy that service members could not be disciplined or discharged Dis honorable for drug use if the evidence was developed by a urinalysis test administered to identify drug users. That policy was congressmen lose bid to Block Loans to Angola Alexandria a a a group of conservative Republican congressmen have failed in their Federal court Effort to Block s9s million in Export import Bank Loans to Angola. . District court judge James c. Ca Chris dismissed the suit Friday on the grounds it was a political matter not subject to his court s jurisdiction. The suit by six congressmen filed against the Bank in february contended that he leans violated . Nyics Lilac make it illegal for the government Agency to Deal with a communist country. I think it is a political question As to whether a country is a communist one and is such this court should not interfere with that the judge said. The Mil had sought o Slop the Bank from disbursing any More funds under a 1984 loan package for an offshore Oil project involving Angola s government owned Oil company. Made retroactive the next month by then defense Secretary Mclvin Laird according to . District judge George ii. Rever comb. Revercomb said Friday the policy devel oped in response to the increase in drug use and addiction during the Vietnam War also slated that a service member could not be disciplined or Dis honorable discharged solely because he person volunteered for treat ment of drug use. The Vietnam veterans of America and iwo former Navy men contended that de sense department policy and Laird s memorandum require an upgrade when the sole basis Given for the discharge was personal use or Possession of  Revercomb denied the Navy s argument that Laird s memo gave the service discretion in upgrading discharges of service personnel separated before july 1971. He also said. The intent of the Laird memoranda was to give service members discharged before the. Policy became effective the same Benefit is service Mem Bers received Afler the policy was instituted the suit As brought by the Vietnam veterans of America and Roosevelt l. Rob Inson of Hartford conn., and Jorge i. Fuentes of Spokane wash., because the army and air Force automatically up graded discharges while the Navy did not. The plaintiffs said they believe at least 500 former service members would be Eligi ble to have their discharges upgraded. Playboy asks court to order retraction of intimidating letter by porno panel Washington a an attorney for Playboy Magazine has asked a Federal judge to order the attorney general s com Mission on pornography to retract a letter that it says intimidated Chain stores into not Selling Playboy. Bruce j. Ennis made the request Friday during a hearing on suit brought against the con Mission by Playboy and Penthouse magazines and the Magazine publishers association. Ennis was referring to a feb. 21 letter still to 23 Large corporations on commission stationery and signed by Allen Sears executive director of the i member panel. In the letter the commission noted that it had received testimony during a Public hearing in october to the effect that the stores were involved in the Sale or distribution of  among the recipients of the letter was Southland corp., Parent company of eleven convenience tories which announced in april that it would Stop Selling Playboy and Penthouse. In the four months since the letter was Send Ennis said Al least 12,000 retail stores have slopped Selling Playboy. Others arc thinking of doing the same thing he said Ennis asked . District judge John Garrett Penn to order the commission to retract the letter and advise the companies that the panel does not consider Playboy to be a pornographic publication. Vim also was asked to order the commis Sion to Send a second letter saying hut the views contained in he original were those of a commission witness the Rev. Donald Wildmon of the National federation for decency and not its own. Andrew Lipps representing the Magazine publishers association said the commission s Teller a Fecu the whole publishing Industry. American photographer Magazine was re moved from distribution by is nem co., Wichita Knny and the Eagle supermarket Chain in the Midwest took the Magazine off its shelves because there was a photograph of a woman with a Bare breast Lipps said. He also said cosmopolitan was removed from the Winn Dixie supermarket Chain in Jacksonville. Fla. Because of an advertise ment for Calvin Klein s obsession perfume which depicted a woman with one breast partially exposed and teus monthly was re moved from Tom thumb a Texas retailer for the ume reason. Robert j. Cynkar a Justice department attorney representing the commission said the suits arc without Merit and should be dismissed. In its original suit Playboy asked the court to enjoin the commission from wiling its final report in july because it said the report Wai to contain a list of publishers distributors and vendors who the commission says sell porno graphic material however after government attorneys de Nied that such a list would be included in the final report Playboy asked simply for a retraction of the feb. 21 letter and the issuance of one to clarify the commission s views. Penthouse filed a similar suit in new York but government attorneys asked that it be consolidated with the one by Playboy