European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. March 25. 1387 the stars and stripes  7 state dept. May have to Cut prison visits Washington Lvi j More than Uoo Ameri cans Are in foreign jails and the stale department san it in unable in ensure humane treatment for some of Ihm according to Sci Vitry of state George i1. Shrill. Al inc end of Lam ear. I.1hk americans were wry ing sentences or awaiting irial in t rations on charges ranging from Border jumping 10 murder according in a recent state department report. Mexico with i fed the it Folio wed by Ami Germany with 166, f Una Ila with i63,ind Brilain with 88. There were m confirmed caws of mistreatment of americans in foreign custody last year and the stale dip Armeni is required by Law to try to prevent such occurrences or make sure i hey Aren t repeated. Shull said  budget emiling is reducing the number of visits . Consular officers will he ask to make to Check conditions in prisons where Ameri can tire Hong held. Over the pail year the state department has announced plans to close 14 consulates and Shult said that More than 20 additional consulate will he closed if cuts arc made in inc department s request for $2.7 billion for foreign affairs administration. That would mean consular officers would have to travel longer distances to visit prisoners the task has chanced but the territories have expanded and inc number of visits might have to be Cut in some areas John Adams director of inc stale department s citizens emergency Center said in a Ren it Init Kwh. Adams brushed aside Sugerik Tiona thai i program 10 Aid and Comfort lawbreakers might be a duo scandi Date for budget culling. Congress has made Clear ii concern for american in prisons abroad he said. Al s not our Job to make value . These Are americans in irn Uhle and it s our right in Sec that countries adhere to generally acceptable standards of behaviour in  Accord inn to Adams most americans jailed abroad fit two categories hardened criminals and people who have gotten in Over Ihei Heads and need  the toilet category includes hundreds of americans caught with Small quantities at drugs in countries cracking Down on narcotics offences. Go Den Gate Bridge reaching half Century Mark san Francisco Al _ with grandiose plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate. Bridge bogged Down in controversy a local author and a history Buff have dared to question who actually designed the Span. Was in Joseph Baurmann Strauss the project s chief civil Engineer whose statue stands at the suspension Bridge s South Anchorage or was it Charles Alton Ellis a Little known professor of engineering on monday a group of Legal and historical buffs calling themselves the court of historical review met in a Light hearted lunch session to Ponder inc Issue and ruled against retired newspaper reporter Russell Cone and author John Van Der Zee. The two contend the soft spoken Ellis designed the Graceful Rusl Rcd Span that links san Francisco with Marin county and serves As Gateway to the Pacific Ocean. But municipal judge George Choppe Lus who ruled for the moot court said he would allow the image of the legend of Joseph b. Strauss to remain but did not reject the challengers Contention. There s been a lot of documentary evidence presented Here today thai Charles Ellis did have a big hand in de signing the Golden Gale  the judge said after a id minute hearing in the All to Lunier court. But we must remember Hal it was Joseph b. Strauss Bridge he was the Man who pushed for in. He was the Man who got it  Cone said he could t disagree with the open ended finding from the court which also has considered such issues As whether babe Ruth called his famous world series Home run against the Chi Cago cubs More than half a Century ago. We Don t want to Lake credit away from or. Strauss who was the abiding thrust and Genius in making the project happen Cone said Jusi before the hear ing. But in was Charley Ellis who in seven or eight months in 1930, produced a flight of Vintage aircraft above strolling pedestrians marked inc 40lh hurl Day until a mrs 15 . In he huh Hosier building and remained out of control for hours authorities said. Firefighters from neigh Boring communities reported seeing inc flames from 10 Miles away Thompson said. The fire shot an Orange glow several Hundred feel into inc air and Orange flames shot out of broken windows. Firefighters from Massachusetts and nearby new Hampshire towns had trouble controlling the Blaze because of the highly flammable Oil based varnish in i to ilium sure i Harv cad tears. Three Bui lil s in thir to building Complex collapsed. Curl of inc Complex had been  in Lor use in in planned �300 million expansion of the University of Lowell. It s just Complete diva in Idun Iid major Kobe i Kennedy. It s terrifying. How Many jobs Are involved and How Many Busi Nesses have been loss. That s the main thing Lite mayor said. The lire was within blocks of the historic Mill area Soliai has been developed As it major Touris stir Ilion. Thompson compared monday s Blae to a Jan. 12 ire in fill Kher to i i ii d Siu Nii Liun damage. There was no immediate damage estimate or cause of the Low Ell fire. The fall River fire wiped out inure than 650 jobs and forced Tho temporary evacuation of 700 people from their Homes