European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                G air National guard criticized for absenteeism,.Page 5 o Boom Box and Beer on the Job Page 13 q Steffi Graf claims title no 1 Tennis ranking Page 21 the Stas an autuori cd Runoff ocl a of the . Vol 46. To 122 tuesday August 13. 987 d 8693 a 154 killed in fiery crash after Takeoff in Detroit prob trs examine Rockage of the plane thai crashed sunday after Takeoff from Detroit metropolitan Airgun. Romulus. Mich. Up investigators monday tentatively ruled out sabotage aboard a  air lines Jet that exploded in flames and crashed shortly after taking off from Detroit i trop Ohlan Airport killing a least 52 people on the plant1 and swoon he ground. The Dalh toll of 154 equated thai of the second worst air Accident in . History. Flight 255, a do-9 farming j44 passengers a Crew of six and three non working airline employees Hying for free punched through Hie Ron of a car rental Agency sunday evening shortly Afler Takeoff. Ii burst into Llames and slowed through a parking lot. Then skidded along a Street and smashed into a Highway overpass. Police confirmed that at least two people on the ground were killed and Ai least six others were injured in til disaster the first major crash of the year. It was the worst Accident in the 30-year history of he Detroit Airport among the injured was a 4 or a your old Cri Iii ally burned girl who was found in the crash wreckage. There were conflicting reports on whether the girl was aboard the plane or was a passenger in a vehicle on inc ground. Northwest airlines ant polite said they Wen unsure. A spokeswoman n the University of Michigan hos Pital said thai the girl was in critical condition and thai her identity remained unknown. Fri and National transportation safely Board investigators were at the crash scene. Bodies were taken to a makeshift morgue at the Airport As relatives began arriving to begin the grim task of identifying victim John Anthony spokesman for the fill s Octroi Olve said six to Highl agents initially responded to Ilic crash but found no evidence of foul play. An Nash spokeswoman said the plane s Black Box was flown to Washington monday for analysis at the Board s Laboratory. Police said six people it rearrested for looting at the crash site. Witnesses said they heard a loud explosion and then see crash on Page 2b Deputy Hess 93, Dies in was Spandau s Only inmate Berlin a Rudolf Hess former nazi a Puly fuehrer died monday at age 93. The Western allies announced. A statement released by British diplomatic spokesman Anderson w. Purdon said that kiss died in the Spandau military prison in Wesl Berlin. Hess died Alicr nearly half a be Niuro in jail including 20 Yean As the Only inmate at cavernous Spandau i Risum see related Photic on Page 3. The Western allies in a Siat Emem on Hess deals. A confirmed Hal Span Dau would be non Down. Hess an eur la a i a miss who near renounced Adoll Hill it and the atrocities committed b the a i regime was rushed to a British , Hospital furn the prison monday afternoon. The Bush Brt Mcd and gaunt mess was the last lop n pm to die. Family la Jer Alfred Seidl said he Learned of the death from hew Sun Wolf Ruediger Hess Viji said Hess urn was Lold of the death a we Stern Allied author ivies in Lii run Stidl said hew in a Odds afternoon but a he did not know the cause of death. It was Hess wish to be buried in Wun sided a town in far northeastern Bavaria Scidel told the associated press. However for years i Here have been unconfirmed reports that Hess body was to be cremated immediately after his death and Spandau prison was to he Lorn Down to veep it from becoming a gathering place for nazi by mraihi trs. Western Allied sources speak my in Condino of anonymity and earlier monday that Hess had been taken Mon Day from the West Berlin air Conn to Itie Rili a military Hospital in West Berlin.  suffered from lung bean and Sioni. Kiln i Nis and was a Curli Blind Ijmte in his life he was Hosp Ali Edw it Al times in recent Acari. And Alle pled suicide three times while in prison. He had been in custody since i9ji. When he parachuted into Scotland in uha he said was an a tempi to arrange a world War ii peace treaty. In pm no Jim Sirie t need stjii"., Bilam and France had called Lor the release of Fyk on humanitarian grounds bul the soviet Union the fourth to Unity  Spandau refused saying n would constitute an amnesty for fascism. Wesl German leaders also had asked that Hess be freed and his family had filed a writs of lawsuits to get him out of prison. Hess son said his father talked about Lille else except wanting to he Lei  Hoks was Horn in Lexandria. Re r a tin april 2ft, is1 the Sun of a German Sponer he was sent bait u Fie Many Lur m Tir Tulin it Ufa u. His studies were interrupted h world War i in Almli he suffered three minor wounds. He began the War As an infantryman bul then became a Hier. After the War. I less resumed his stud ies in Munich where he Mei and quickly joined Huser in the growing no i Moie Nien. The two  in find Sherg Pris on after ihi1 Al Purtue Beer Hall  in who h the a is tried to Setie Power see Hess on Page 2$ of s Rudolf Hess at s Art of n Teri