European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday april 13,1987 Julian Bond s wife retracts claim he used cocaine daily Atlanta a the estranged wife of Civilli Guti activist1 Julian Bond told police her husband urn cocaine daily but the later retracted her claim. In their combined saturday editions the atlant journal and the Atlanta Constitution said Atlanta police hid not launched an investigation of charges Alice Bond made to narcotics officers March 19. But asked saturday about the status of the affair polite spokesman Kevin Forier said there is an ongoing investigation but not toward anyone in particular. 1 cannot comment further at this  Bond a former hate legislator made an unsuccessful bid for Congress last year. The newspaper and web to of Atlanta quoted a internal police memorandum As saying mrs. Bond told officers her husband used cocaine daily. But the newspapers reported that mrs. Bond called their combined offices late thursday and said toe information Given was not Correct and was out of Domestic dispute and arose out of a time when i was emotionally  she would not  Axam an Atlanta lawyer who said he rep resented Bend told the newspapers or. Bond has no comment. This is a Domestic affair and is of no con Cern to the general  efforts by the associated press to reach Bond for comment saturday were unsuccessful. A Telephone an swering machine was on at his Home and a woman who answered the phone at his office said Bond was Oul flown. However the Atlanta newspapers in their combined sunday editions quoted a feature writer for the papers assaying he spoke briefly with Bond at a local tavern Friday night the writer David Nordan a longtime acquaintance of Bonds said Bonde prised anger Over the news reports accusing the newspapers of using a Domestic quarrel to assassinate his Chancie and expressing con Cern that the publicity might harm his career. The newspapers said mrs Bond originally went to police after filing an assault complaint against a woman she identified As Bond s drug supplier. A woman Wilh a similar name at the Saine adores was indicted this year for cocaine trafficking the newspapers said. In a March 25 meeting with police and Fri agents mrs. Bond said she was worried about leaks by the police and would not cooperate further according to the internal memorandum. The newspapers quoting the memo Sai d in. Bond also reported a personal Friend in politics had advised her not to talk to police or Federal agents became they were seeking information on corruption data they planned to use against the City s Black leaders. She would not identify the Friend but mayor an Drew Young told the newspapers he called met. Bond just before her second meeting with authorities. I said if she really had evidence Fine but if she was just telling pasting rumours. She should t do anything in a fit of emotion Young said. The three officers who originally interviewed mrs. Bond have been transferred out of the narcotics unit. Detectives Lance Alford and Richard Hyde were overdue for return to the uniformed division Afler temporary narcotics assignments and capt. Lee new had earlier requested a Transfer but new said some of the officers seem to feel their Transfer and mine were the result of  police chief Morris Redding Lold the newspapers the transfers were unrelated to mrs. Bond s allegations Caldwell who shocked South in 32 with tobacco Road Dies Paradise Valley Arit a Erskine Cald Well whose earthy depletion of the Rural poor in to Bacco Road and god s Little acre outraged fellow southerners but placed him in the pantheon of the Region s leading writers died saturday. He was 83. The author s widow Virginia Caldwell said he died at Home shortly before 8 p.m., said Paul messenger of messenger mortuary. A heavy smoker since 1918, Caldwell had suffered three times from lung can cer and had twice undergone operations for removal of portions of his lungs. The most recent Case proved inoperable Caldwell a min ister s son who worked As a Seaman Cotton picker and profession Al Fop Obaji player be fore settling Down to write was a prolific author producing some so books and 1 so Short stories. But he was Best known for his novel tobacco  published in 1932, and for cod s Little acre published the following year. Both portrayed impoverished cruel ignorant share Cropper families struggling to survive in the Augusta ga., area. The characters were amoral and highly sexed and the language was considered by Many to be profane and blasphemous. Southerners were shocked and infuriated at being lumped in the eyes of the world Wilh such characters As Peeler Lester Tyty Williams and Darling Jill one Georgia congressman calling the play based on tobacco Road an infamous wicked and untruth Ful portrayal of his District tried unsuccessfully to have the House halt a production at the National the Ater. The books were barred from some Library shelves and the play was banned in Detroit and Chicago. Bui Caldwell s work proved highly popular in other quarters. Tobacco Road sold More than 3.5 million copies. The stage adaptation which emphasized the comedy in the Story ran for 7 a years on Broadway a record for a drama bested Only by life Wilh  More than 8 million copies of god s Little acre found their Way into Homes. Together the works were translated into 40 languages and Caldwell was popular in the soviet Union. His later works Drew far less Public attention and while some critics listed him with William Faulkner Tennessee Williams and Flannery o Connor among the top Southern writers others called him a literary curiosity a Flash in the  for his part Caldwell called critics the eunuchs or the procurers of the business of  Erskine Preston Caldwell was born dec. 17,1903, in while Oak a the son of a  who travelled throughout the Region. Caldwell s Mother a former teacher preferred to Tutor her son at Home so he was 14 before he attended school. The family was then in Wrens a believed to be the inspiration for tobacco  his first higher education stint at Erskine College in South Carolina was interrupted when he signed aboard a boat supplying guns to Central America. He entered the University of Virginia on a scholarship from the United daughters of the confederacy but he remained just a year before he turned to playing foot Ball being a bodyguard and Selling bad real estate after another two tries at College the tall redhead went to work for the Atlanta journal but he left that after a year and moved to Maine. Me stayed there for five years producing a Story thai won a Vaje review award for fiction and writing his two novels of the Georgia poor. His other major works include the Bastard poor fool Georgia boy All night Long a lamp for Nightfall some american people and the autobiography Call it experience Caldwell s first marriage to Helen Lannigan in 1925, ended in divorce Afler they had three children. In 1939, he married photographer Margaret Bourke White Wilh whom he collaborated on a text and Pic Ture Book on the sharecroppers plight have you seen their faces Caldwell and Bourke White were divorced in 1942, and he married june Johnson Wilh whom he had a son. He married Virginia Moffett Fletcher in 1957, and in the late 1970s, after years in son Francisco they moved to Paradise Valley in affluent Community Between Phoenix and Scottsdale cancer was first detected in his lungs in 1974, and he also suffered from emphysema. He completed work on his second autobiography with All my might in 1986. Group appeals to Pope to listen to . Catholics Washington up roman catholics upset with t Vatican crackdown on the if a Church hive appealed to Pope John Paul to to Cut in half the number of hit talks to people and instead listen to american Church member. Of we Are to Challenge each other in Faith and Mission it is essential for Yon to listen to the Catholic people or the United stale the a peal by the recently organized Catholic speak out group Laid. It is important for you to listen to our experiences our frustrations our Joys and our vision for the Church the Appeal added 400 Laid off after defeat of school tax proposition Forest Grove Ore. A More than400 Forest grave school District employees have received Layoff notice in preparation Foran Early end of the school year. The notices were delivered after voters narrowly Defeated a property tax Levy needed to keep the District s 10 schools open through june 10. Because of the proposition s defeat schools will close May 21 and employees will be land off May 22. The employees include 270 teachers 22 administrators and 155 other staffers the average teacher will lose about s 1,400 in salary Afler unemployment benefits Are paid District spokeswoman Snail a Church said. The $790,000 Levy failed at the polls by 11 votes. A recount has been ordered. Judge rules theft sentence too easy on school official Eureka 111 a a judge has rejected As Loo lenient a negotiated two week jail term fora former school superintendent who admitted stealing 18,000 from n soft drink machine. Former Metamora High school superintendent James Hauler had immeasurably dam aged student respect for authority said circuit judge Richard Banc this was not a single slip in judgment by a first offender it takes a Long Lime and Many theft to steal $8,000 from a pop machine Baner wrote Bauer gave Hauler two weeks to decide whether to continue his plea of guilty to the theft charge or withdraw it and ask fora trial. Felony theft carries maximum sentence of 364 Days in jail girl struck in head by Dart collapses Dies in Calif. Riverside Calif apr a 7-year-Ou girl has died after being hit in the head by a fool bog Dan being used in a Lawn game officials  Snow was hit As her 9-year-old brother and two other children played with the Law darts. Deputy Riverside county Coroner . Worthington said. The girl ran to her parents David and Linda Snow and collapsed unconscious Worthington said. She was taken to Riverside general Hospi Tal where doctors pronounced her dead. The Federal consumer products safety com Mission outlawed the Sale of Lawn darts in toy stores several years ago saying they Are danger Ous in the hands of children according to spokesman Larry Cornell. . Court to allow protests on military budget april 15 Providence re. A the postal service which boiled anti military protesters from its prop erty last year has agreed to allow peaceful demonstrations against the defense Budgeon tax Day. . District court judge Francis j. Boyle has signed a consent order permitting protests on the sidewalk this wednesday at the Riby s main Post of fice. The american civil liberties Union had sought a temporary restraining order on behalf off Bur people ejected last year when they handed out literature explaining Why they withheld the portion of their taxes they estimate funds the military. The order allows protesters to have banners and signs and hand out literature As Long As they Don t solicit donations and Are peaceful