European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 27. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 headed for a fall precariously balanced i in urn sits Ruh in tit reps Ibon Cobon Falls in Winterford . Rock Gaud Peru ail by rope to get o the Yelde Bat round no one Imide. Police hoped Toner Here the or from the Mohawk hirer saturday. Ford pm reveal some Carsi test driven before shipment Detroit a Ford and general motors said thursday hey follow Chrysler s practice of test driving some new cars to Check for defects before they Are shipped to dealers bin with the odometers connected. Chrysler motors the car making Arm of Chrysler corp., pleaded innocent wednesday in St. Louis to charges of conspiracy to commit mail wire and Odom Eter fraud for allowing employees to drive cars with disconnected Odom lers to whore Selling them. The government charged that Chrysler let employees drive More than 60,000 vehicles with disconnected odometers from july 19b5 to january 19s7. The government also charged that some of the cars were dam aged during the drives. Chrysler has said it does t believe Federal Law on odometers applies to manufacturers. Two Chrysler executives Allen f. Scudder and Frank j. O Reilly who managed All Chrysler Assembly plants during the period in the indictment were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit odometer fraud a Misdemeanour. If convicted they could be sentenced 10 a year in . Attorney Thomas e. Ditto Dierof St. Louis said he would allow the two to surrender at a convenient Lime. A spokesman for . District judge John f. Mangle  iwo would be arraigned by monday at the  believe they be done nothing that violates Chrysler s policies or Federal Law and icy continue in their positions with full support Chrysler spokesman Douglas Nicoll shirt Judder and o Reilly Bath have new jobs with Chrycy r. Nicole said that a a demonstration of Good Faith pending the outcome of this matter we re deferring to the . Attorney even though we disagree with his opinion. The lest is part of the manufacturing pro  said owners of cars involved in the lest driving before october 1986 would not be Able to Tell whether their vehicles had been part of the program. Since october 1986, Chrysler has conducted the lest drives with the odometers connected and notices have been placed in the Glove compartments of tested vehicles Nicoll said he added that the company is contacting owners of cars among Hose the government alleges were dam aged before Sale. If any of the allegedly 40 damaged vehicles Are is ill in the hands of the owners they have been or will be contacted by the company shortly at which Lime they will be inspected Nicoll said. Ford motor co. And general motors corp. Spokesmen said Plant managers and employees also conduct frequent test drives but both companies have had policies of leaving the odometers connected since 1973. About one half of 1 percent of Ford s vehicles Are lest driven on the Road As they come off the Assembly line by hourly workers and management employees who keep them overnight said Ford spokesman Bob Day. The test is not to exceed 75 Miles. Odometers Are running at All times and Are never turned off. Every car that is Quality tested is clearly labelled Day said add ing that a sticker on the Windshield tells buyers How Many Miles each tested car was driven. In addition company test Drivers visit each Plant once a month and drive 20 cars he said. The tests Are pan of our Effort to improve Quality he said. At pm the nation s largest automaker cars Are driven and kept overnight by employees who live near plants said pm spokesman David Hudgens. The lest drives Are among a variety of product evaluation programs within general motors designed to assure thai our customers receive Quality products Hudgens  mileage of the test is reflected in the mileage on the car s odometer when it is purchased Hudgens said. He said he did t know average test mileage but said it was  Chrysler about 25 to 35 vehicles a Day at each Assembly plan Are picked at random and driven no More than 65 mics Nicoll said. Navy Reserve officer charged with taking secret documents san Francisco a a Navy officer has been charged with taking hundreds of secret and confidential documents including photographs and slides of equipment and weapons systems it was reported thursday. La Alan Roger Volin was charged under two articles of the uniform code of military Justice with mishandling classified information and illegally removing government documents the san Francisco chronicle reported. Volin 41, of Chicago worked at Lockheed missiles and space corp in Sunnyvale for two years doing sex Treasury official sentenced for tax evasion illegal Bank new York a former . Treasury Secre tary Robert Anderson was sentenced thursday to a month in prison and five months of House arrest for evading Tain and illegally operating an unregistered offshore Bank. Anderson 77, also was sentenced by . District judge Edmund Palmieri to five years probation and was ordered to try to repay investors. Your record of distinguished service is now sullied by the allegations in the information to which you have pleaded guilty Palmieri told Anderson Anderson who pleaded guilty March 26, apologized for his crimes. Your Honor i can Only express the deepest feeling of remorse shame sorrow and humiliation after having had the privilege of serving in so Many distinguished positions to come to this in the Twilight of my life he said. Anderson was Secretary of the Treasury in the Eisen Hower administration from 1957 to 1961, after serving As Secretary of the Navy and Deputy defense Secretary. He advised subsequent presidents while working As an International banker. Anderson pleaded guilty 10 operating the uninsured. Unregistered commercial Exchange Bank and Trust co. In Anguilla the British Wesl indies from 198 j to 1985, when it  allegedly recruited investors Wilh the Promise that the Bank was insured and its funds would remain in the United states. But the Bank which was unsupervised by government regulators because it was not registered lost its assets in an Oil lease swindle costing investors s4.4 million. Anderson also pleaded guilty to evading personal income taxes on s 127,000 in 1984, including 179,000 he was paid by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon s unification Church for work As a lobbyist and consultant. His lawyer pleading for mercy attributed the crimes to a six year bout with alcoholism and his de Spair Over his wife s affliction with alzheimer s Dis ease. She died this month. I am not sure to use the vernacular he was playing with a full deck  lawyer Arthur Christy. Calling his Case a tragedy Christy urged the judge to consider Anderson s record of Public service and the loss of his reputation caused by his guilty plea. He stands before this court emotionally and financially bankrupt the lawyer said. Contract work for the National aeronautics and space administration. Volin a Reserve intelligence officer attached 10 i refuelling Squadron Al Alameda Nas was arrested june 9 after the secret material was found in his room at Moffelt Field Nas in Mountain View the newspaper  documents included 1,450 classified photo graphs and slides of equipment and weapons systems. The classified material was found by naval investigative service agents after Volin agreed to a search of his room said i. Cmdr. George Farrar. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today june 27, 1947 the american federation of labor rejected pleas from member unions for a general strike to protest the Hartley Taft labor Law. Al officials said they would fight the Law in the courts. 30 years ago today. June 27, 1957 president Eisenhower said that american scientists said they could produce an absolutely clean Hydrogen bomb after four or five years of tests he said tests must continue if the United states was to learn of possible peaceful uses of atomic Power. 20 years ago foday. June 27, 1967 William h. Gurvich quit As chief investigator for new Orleans District attorney Jim Garrison s probe of the president Kennedy murder saying the Warren commission had already solved the assassination Case j 0 years ago  27. 1977 an estimated 40 Maury county jail inmates in Columbia tenn., died when a fire broke out in the facility. Only four or five prisoners survived the fire which broke out in a padded cell