European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 24. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 stakeout links mayday Calls to 22-year-old Washington api when the Call mayday mayday barked Over the radio at the coast guard s Gloucester City ., Rescue station officers were cer Lam it was their Long time hoaxer crying Wolf again. _ but though the radio operators had come to recognize the voice Over nine months they responded As urgently As they had More than 15 times before. The coast guard dispatched a Rescue boat Noli tie focal authorities along the Delaware River and readied a helicopter to Pluck survivors from the supposedly sinking ship. Bui this Lime last january. Fri agents also were listening on an electronic stakeout along with Engi neers from the Federal commune Illions commission. Using James Rondish equipment mounted in unmarked cars the broadcast detectives were Able to drive to the source of the illegal signal. As a result the alleged hoaxer 22-year-old Bruc Humenik of Maple Shade ., is now undergoing a court ordered psychiatric study in Federal prison. Humenik was sentenced on june 2 to the maximum of five Yean in jail and a 1250,000 Fine by a Federal judge in Camden , the defendant pleaded guilty to threatening a coast guard radio operator during one of what authorities allege were dozens of bogus Marine broadcasts beginning in May 1985. . District judge Garret e. Brown has agreed to review the sentence after a psychiatric report from the prison in North Carolina. Humenik s lawyer Charles Nugent said his client did not deny any of the allegations against him. The coast guard says phony distress Calls amount to a relatively Small portion of the enormous radio traffic handled by search and re scum stations along the nation s coast Bays and Rivers in 1985, according to statistics from coast guar Headquarters the service responded to 67,775 distress Calls last year. Of those 4,876 were hoaxes or false  coast guard rules Call for responding to every Call Over Marine Channel 16. Reserved by Law for emergencies As Ifil were a matter of life or deals. You Call we go. Thai s our Job. There s no judgment Call at All said la. Matthew Carr spokes Man for the Gloucester City station. The Calls linked to Humenik began in Short spurts with Crisp urgent messages mayday mayday. Ship sinking in the Vicinity of inc  Bridge Carr  sounded very genuine said Carr who was on duty when several of the Calls were received by the station located across the River from Philadelphia. In each Case Carr said the search station directed Rescue boat toward the ship s reported position. Local authorities also were asked to Send boats and helicopters were prepared at the Cape May ., base More than 60 Miles away. What we try to do is gel somebody there As Quick As possible Carr  infrequent during the summer. Carr said the radioed hoaxes began to come More often in the fall and Winter months. The Calls also became More elaborate with the hoaxer playing he part of other ship captains and Bridge tenders Catling in to confirm the emergency. He was serious about making these Crank Calls. He knew what he was doing Carr said. As the Calls became More abusive and  coast guard notified Itie Fri and the acc. Since inc Calls were made on interstate airwaves they Vio lated Federal Law. But catching the Marine hoaxer was made difficulty his random pattern of broadcasting and his habit of talking in Short bursts. Only when Humenik began Oget abusive sometimes taunting the coast guard for hours could engineers Zero in on i signal said Enni Stolcman Engineer in charge of the acc s Philadelphia  get a pattern. We just kind of put it together he , after several nights on patrol inc acc used its automatic direction finders to track the trouble some broadcasts. Engineers in two cars got a fit on the signal and pinpointed it geometrically. Aids not being spread in classroom Pat told Little Rock Ark. A the chances of aids spreading among Chil Dren in the classroom Are about the same As being hit by lightning on a sunny Day a specialist in the disease told the National Pat convention sunday. As of january there had been 231 re ported cases of aids among children under age 18, but no reported cases of children transmitting the disease to schoolmates said Maggie a Jinx a health service specialist Wilh the american red Cross. Knox said the statistics mean that school District need not screen All Chil Dren for the virus. They should spend their time Effort end Money on education and Preven Tion she Laid. The first step is to provide information about aids so people will be Les afraid of the disease she said. Sometimes it helps if you put it int proper perspective she said. The chances of your child catching aids from another child Are about the same As being hit by lightning on a sunny  about 1,000 people from the 50 states the District of Columbia and Germany Are attending the 90th annual Confer ence which wat to end monday. Acquired immune deficiency syn drome it virus that destroys the immune system s ability 1o fight disease leaving the victim susceptible to a variety of cancers and infections. A of june 2, aids had been diag nosed in 21,302 people in the unite state and claimedl645 live Accord ing to the centers for disease control in Atlanta. Aids i i new cases diagnosed deaths among those cases 6,922 5474 2,740 1,002 259 12 50 236 3.u7 2,111 3,913 1979 to 81 82 83 84 85 deaths securing anytime during or alter year of diagnosis Chicago Tribune Chart source centers Tor disease control j3,000 bikers blessed to dispel outlaw image Columbia . Up Cash Olic priests blessed and sprinkled holy water on about 13,000 motorcyclists and heir bikes sunday at an annual event created to dispel he rider s image As a Rowdy  i oth annual Blessing of the motorcycles at the shrine of our lady of Grace went off with no traffic deaths or arrests reported police  s a Nice quid crowd. We be been amazed every time they be come 10 see How Well behaved the Yare. They re very respectful said brother Donalo Daigle director of the outdoor  wearing uniforms or to shirts and Blue jeans sat on Inci bikes and on inc grass listening Quici Lyas priests gave a Sermon and a Ben  the More than four hour ceremony was the dedication fan 18-ton Granite Monument depict ing a Man and woman kneeling i prayer beside a motorcycle. Five priests stood in aisles at the outdoor shrine giving blessings and sprinkling holy water on cyclists an their bikes As they left the ceremony. 374-Pound Mechanic admits he sat on crushed prostitute d1xmoor, Iii. Up a 374-Pound Auto Mechanic has admitted crushing a prostitute to death by silting on her Dunn a struggle in his pickup truck police  Brown til 28, was charged Wilh murder in the june 7 slaying of Yolanda Washington 21, in suburban Chicago. Brown being held on $100,000 Bond was arrested thursday after he showed Washington s body to a Friend who then called  told police that Washington solicited him and he agreed to pay $20 for sex detective Michael Morgan said sat urday Fbrown said he and Washington began to fight in the pickup truck but  remember the reason for the dispute Morgan  went to hit him and that s when he grabbed her and pulled her under Neath him on the Bench seat on the truck Morgan said. Brown who is 6-foot-4, crushed the woman he said. An autopsy showed Washington died of strangulation and fractured neck. A couple of blocks later he found Shehad stopped moving. So he propped her up in the truck and drove to our town Morgan said she was t moving w he took her out of the truck and Laid he Down on the ground by  ., soviet women meet on satellite Hookup Needham mass. A -. Soviet and american women commiserated with each other Over common problem such As divorce and working mothers in a televised satellite Hookup sunday but disagreed on issues such As nuclear Power and politics. Two Hundred women including phys Cinns housewives and labourers in lend irad and 200 of their counterparts � Shii Boston suburb quizzed each Otter for three hours on Issue ranging from nuclear War w Lazy husbands. Producers of the citizen Summit stud it will be televised in most major  Cities beginning wednesday. Soviet National television a expected to air the program in a one or two hour segment. The first such satellite Summit linked men and women in Seattle and Lenin Grad in december. An estimated 125million to 150 million soviet citizens watched that show on television its producers said. Sunday the women watched each other on Large screen monitors and convened through a Battery of  show Host Phil Donahue in the Needham studio and a soviet commen Tator in Leningrad moderated the talks. The chernobyl nuclear Accident was brought up by the american women. They asked Why the soviets were no protesting to try to close Down atomic plants in their  Down comrades one soviet woman chided the americans. Every thing is Back to Normal. We coped with it As an entire  the participants by a show of bands indicated they believed that Bot governments should be working to end the nuclear arms race. The women shared common prob lems including High divorce Rales an trying to juggle the responsibilities of a Job Husban and children. A working woman ii an extremely Busy person. We have husbands. We have children i think right now this is Universal problem a Mother from Leningrad  american single mothers complained about the tack of Day care while the soviet women told of round the clock facilities available to them. The soviets brushed off questions about human rights violations against jews