European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday june 12,1937 3 Federal investigations launched against pal Lynchburg a. A the Justice depart ment the internal Revenue service and the postal service have launched criminal investigations of the pal television ministry the Rev. Jerry Falwell says investigator Are looking at actions taken before there. Jim Saucer resigned As Leader of pal and turned control Over to Falwell in March Falwell said wednes Day night after a Church service and a closed door meeting of the pal Board. They have All advised us it wt-5 prior to our arrival thank god Falwell told reporters. Meanwhile Bakker and his wife. Tammy Faye re turned o the Carolina wednesday Niht to claim be longings from the Tega Cay s.c., mans ii n they left in january. They said they Hope to return i television ministry soon our goal is to be on the air in 30 Days Darker told the Charlotte observer at Dallas port Worth International Airport while awaiting a connect ing flight to Charlotte. Bakker has been living in Palm Springs calif., since resigning amid revelations he had a sexual encounter with o secretory. It was not Clear whether his intentions Are related to or Independent of pal. Bakker has said he wants pal Back but Falwell has said the bakkers will never be permitted to return to pal which Bakker founded. "1 assume he is talking Aboul somewhere else not on pal Falwell spokesman Mark Demoss said when told of Backer s comments the pal Board gathered at Falwell s old time gos Pel hour Headquarters in Lynchburg to discuss the ministry s $70 million debt. During a break in the six hour meeting Falwell said that things keep looking worse for pal. He Hai said he wants to rebuild pal and leave it by next March. Three new directors were added to the Board bring ing the number of director to eight they Are Harry Margrave a pal executive and Pas Tor of Highland Park presbyterian Church in Dallas Richard let pastor of Rehobeth Baptist Church in Atlanta and Jerry Lipps of Lipps trucking in Cap Girardeau. To. Well be adding a couple More in the weeks an months ahead Falwell told the congregation at his Thomas Road Baptist Church later. Speaking with reporters earlier Falwell said he and other Board members had received a detailed report on pal finances from the National accounting firm a thur Anderson and co. We owe 1,400 creditors $70 million he million is delinquent. We obviously have some asked wednesday night whether any of the debt involved funds that had been misspent or embezzled fair eur said there s no Way i can determine the genuineness of the he said the Federal probes were made known tues Day to pal attorney Roy Grutman and they arc believed o involve allegations of wire fraud and mail fraud. It appears that funds apparently were raised under false pretence Falwell said. He repeated his Hope that no indictments Are Forth coming saying i think it would be very hurtful forthe Overall cause of Christ for criminal diaries to be a civil audit of pal by the irs has been under Way for several years. Last year the Agency proposed lifting the ministry s tax exempt status for 1980-83 saying the status was used for the personal Benefit of Bak Lerand other pal officials. Falwell said pal is negotiating with the irs to try o keep in tax exempt status the Justice department has said it is conducting preliminary investigation of pal. Actress Dies after 5th-floor leap known for role in Patch of Blue Ledw Ett Beth a Jutnas Pittsburgh a actress Elizabeth Hartman nominated for in Oscar for her first film role in the 1966 movie a Patch of Blue died wednesday alter the jumped from her fifth floor window police said she was 43. She did t leave nor but she called her doctor and Taid she we depressed and was going to do it told City homicide detective Paul Mccabe. Hartina Bora in Youngstown Ohio tarred in a Patch of Pine with Sidney Pointer beguiled a 1971 film with dint Eastwood the group and you re a big boy now the first film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. She recently was in outpatient at Western psychiatric Institute and clinic in Pittsburgh said her brother in Law Robert h. Shoop. Or. Of Oakmont. She had t done anything for quite a while As an actress. That was a part of it and her illness really incapacitated her to a great extent Shoop said. She bad an unbelievable Talent she was Able to portray so Many people on the stage and yet. She was t like any of them George Anderson film critic at the Pittsburgh poet Gazette said of the actress i think hers was a tragic american career that peaks at the beginning and has no son of for seriously injured Poughkeepsie . A Franklin Delano Roosevelt jr., son of the 32nd president was in critical condition thursday after he his wife and their son were injured while Riding in a horse drawn cart. Roosevelt 73, underwent surgery wednesday night at Vassar Brothers Hospital in Pought Ripsie said a Hospital official who asked not to be identified by name. The switchboard operator at the Hospital would not release information about Roosevelt s injuries except o say that he was in critical but stable condition. Roosevelt s wife Linda 47, and their son Jack 9, were treated and released the operator said. A farm employee Riding with them also was treated and released. The Accident happened about it is . On the family s horse farm in Mill Rook about 10 Miles East of Poughkeepsie according to dutchess county fire dispatchers. Officials said they did not know who was driving the horse draw carnage. My understanding is they said they were just Riding along in the cart when the two horses seemed to have bolted said mall Brook assistant fire chief Edward Marona. The cart was very heavy Black Wood and twas tipped upside Down when i saw Roosevelt is the fourth of the sin children bom to Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt. He was a . Representative from new York from 1949 to 1954. In 1966, he unsuccessfully sought the democratic Nomi nation for governor. Stateside tunnelling warhead study initiated by . Military Washington
