European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 Hei the stars and stripes wednesday August 19,1987 Hitler Deputy Hess Dies in Berlin prison from Page 1 experienced that gruesome period and do not feel personally affected by it said a commentator. Those who did experience that time will no doubt feel a certain Relief he said. Hess was born in Alexandria Egypt on april 26, 1894, son of a German exporter. He went to Germany for schooling at age 14. His studies were interrupted by world War i in which he was an infantryman and later a flier. He was wounded three times. After the War. Hess resumed his studies in Munich where he met Hitler and joined the nazi movement. The two were confined in Landsberg prison after the Beer Hall Putsch in which the nazis tried to seize Power in Bavaria in 1923. Hitler dictated his political tract mein kampf my struggle to Hess in prison. Hess became Hitler s personal Secretary after they were released in 1925 and when Hitler was elected Chancellor in 1933, he gave Hess ministerial rank and named him Deputy fuehrer Leader. It was Hess who is said to have inspired the nazis Lebensraum living space ideology the idea that Germany needed More territory for and germans. He ardently admired Hitler and told a nazi Assem Blage Adolf Hitler is Germany and Germany is Adolf  on May 10, 1941, Hess signed out a fighter plane for a flight from Augsburg to Scandinavia but flew instead Over the North sea to Britain. Wearing the uniform of a German air Force Captain he bailed out Over the estate of the Duke of Hamilton. Hess knew the Duke from the 1936 Berlin olympics and said later he thought he would help him achieve a German British peace treaty. A Farmer found Hess and the nazi Leader was taken into custody and remained a prisoner of the British until the end of the War. Hess said his Mission was made without Hitler s knowledge to arrange a separate peace treaty giving Germany a free hand in Europe in return for leaving the British Empire untouched. Soviet and British prosecutors at Nuernberg said they thought Hess wanted to persuade Britain to leave the War so Hitler could attack the soviet Union with out worrying about a second front. In 1946, he was sentenced to life for plotting against world peace and planning an aggressive  that same year he was transferred to Spandau. Initially six other nazi leaders also served time at Spandau a prison built to accommodate 600 inmates. The others died either in prison or after being re leased. By 1966, Hess was the Only prisoner left at Spandau. Former . Army it. Col. Eugene Bird one time commandant of Spandau said up to 10 people guarded Hess at any one time. Hess always maintained his innocence. He told Bird i believe i would travel the same route and end up Here in Spandau prison. I would not have wanted to miss the Opportunity of serving under Adolf Hitler As his Deputy. The allies released few details of Hess years in Pris on and he was never seen in Public. Sometimes secretly taken photographs appeared in West German publications. The latest pictures showed Hess As Bushy bowed and Gray haired with a Droop ing shoulder reportedly caused by a deteriorating spine. Rumours persisted that he was mentally ill but Doc tors insisted throughout that he was essentially sane though disoriented. Until 1968, Hess refused to Sec his family saying he did t want them to see him As a prisoner. The British statement confirmed the longstanding Rumor that once Hess was dead Spandau would be Lorn Down. The statement said the purpose of Spandau Allied prison has ceased on the death of Rudolf Hess in accordance with the decision of the representatives of great Britain France the .a., and the .s.r., the prison will be  Allied sources in West Berlin said privately there were plans for building a British army shopping Center and other military facilities on the site. Allied sources had put the Cost of keeping Hess in the prison at More than $840,000 a year. . Warship Guadalcanal moves through Gulf Manama Bahrain a the am a Hilious assault ship Guadalcanal with a helicopter scouting ahead for mines moved through the persian Gulf on Mon Day As Iran threatened a crushing blow if . Warships attack its ships or ports. The Navy kept a tight lid on its plans to escort another Convoy of kuwaiti ves Sels flying the american Flag through the Gulf. Iraq claimed three More air raids on iranian Oil Fields and Industrial targets  air strikes ended a three week Lull in Iraq s bombing Campaign against Iran s Industrial centers that came after the United nations issued a Call for a cease fire in the nearly 7-year old Gulf War. Witnesses monitoring Gulf activity from chartered vessels said the Guadal canal moved to within about 12 Miles of Bahrain from the mid Gulf area. The warship was first spotted there sunday following a secrecy shrouded passage through the Strait of Hormuz the gulfs narrow Gateway. Iranian president a Khamenei warned monday that the United states faces an Uncertain future in the persian  Tehran radio said in a broadcast monitored in Cyprus. If our ships Are attacked by Iraq we will undoubtedly hit at ships belonging to Iraq s allies with the . Flag or the Flag of any other state flying above them he said according to the radio. If the .a. Attacks our warships har Bors or ports we will Deal a crushing blow at the  a shipping source said a soviet vessel had turned up near the Guadalcanal and apparently was observing its movements from what one called a Safe distance of about three mile. Earlier the Guadalcanal s sea stallion helicopters apparently flew exercises in preparation Tor protecting the kuwaiti Tanker convoys from mines. There was no word on when a Trio of re flagged tankers might begin the 550 mile trip through the perilous Gulf. Shipping sources said the tankers have been loaded and ready since saturday but might now delay their departure until the mine sweeping begins. The eight big helicopters which swept for mines in the red sea in 1984, we redeployed in the Gulf after the kuwaiti supertanker Bridgeton bit a mine july 24 in the first Convoy. Sources at the United Arab emirates port of Fuja Irah said searchers had ended efforts to find five men missing in saturday s mine blast that destroyed the Anita a 240-ton offshore Supply vessel. The British Captain three Indian crewmen and a korean Seaman Are presumed dead said a source it the Gulf Agency the Dubai based firm that oper ated the Supply boat crash from Page 1 airline believed at least 154 people died on the plane. The infant count is going up he said. The airline said 155 people might have been on the plane. Late monday officials confirmed that a 4-year old girl hospitalized at Ann Arbor had been a Passen Ger on the plane. She was identified As Cecilia Cichan and was in pm sixth born sept pled a 20-ounce girl Dies Liverpool England a one of Brit Ain s six surviving sep Tuple died monday morning and the survival chances of the remain ing five babies Are less than 50 percent their doctor said. Or. Richard Cooke speaking in a British broadcasting corp. Television interview said one of the babies deteriorated badly and  the other five tiny infants three girls and two boys were doing better in Liverpool Gen eral Hospital s intensive care neonatal unit but still face a struggle to survive he said. A Mersey regional health authority spokes Man identified the baby who died As Leah the sixth bom who weighed i Pound 4 ounces. The cause of death was not released. Britain s first sep Tuples bom 15 weeks pre mature were delivered during a seven minute period saturday in Liverpool in Northwestern England. One of them a boy weighing i Pound died 25 minutes after the caesarean delivery. Critical condition. The child was found in the wreckage under the body of a woman. Her survival was due to being padded by her Mother at least we assume it was her Mother said  Davidson a paramedic who was present when the child was found. The girl who suffered bums Over a fourth of her body was in critical condition at the intensive care unit of . Mott children s Hospital in Ann Arbor. State police dosed interstate 94, and the Michigan department of transportation said it would stay closed for at least two to three Days. Once you move evidence in certain situations you re destroying facts we need to know. Things such As where they find bodies where they find parts of the air plane Are crucial said Alan Pollock a spokesman for the National transportation safety Board. Pollock said the Mack Box and cockpit voice recorder from the Mcdonnell Douglas md-80. An updated version of the dc-9, had been recovered and were sent to Washington for analysis in Nosb laboratories. It would be 60 Days before a transcript is released he said. Meanwhile authorities confirmed monday that the engine involved in the crash May be susceptible to failures and the danger of breaking apart. De Cowles a spokesman for Pratt & Whitney and Fred Farrar a Federal aviation administration spokesman said the plane was powered by two Pratt & Whitney jt8d 200-series engines that have been the subject of government concern in recent months. Investigators have yet to determine Why the jetliner crashed moments after it took off but one focus has been possible engine failure. At a monday night briefing Lauber emphasized that the Day s Effort was preliminary and refused to discuss the cause of the sunday night crash. Lauber did say that a Check of the engines found no evidence of unrestrained failure meaning that no parts from the engines came free and sliced through their Cowlings. Some debris had been taken from the site and seven people were arrested for looting sunday night officials said. Wayne county sheriff Robert Ficano said the people were carrying items ranging from purses to pieces of the plane but his office refused to give out any More  monday afternoon workers were recovering bodies and beginning to map the location of each Large piece of the wreckage of flight 255, said Lauber an Nosb Board  Agency had formed 11 technical teams of Marly 100 people and More experts probably would be added later he said. An Fri forensics team was working to help identify bodies. The Agency was called to the scene sunday night after reports of an explosion before the . Joseph Jackson the assistant agent in charge of the Fri s Michigan s operations described the agents presence As routine and said there s absolutely no indication of anything other than an Acci Dent flight 255, which had originated in Saginaw was in route to Phoenix ariz., and suburban los Angele when it crashed in Clear weather at 8 46 . Investigators were checking reports it was on fire before it plunged it was already on fire said  Hughes an Avis rental car employee who was at work when the plane clipped the Avis building. "1 saw a Wing fall. It was so close. I could see the windows. Those windows keep bothering  relatives rushed to the Airport monday and a few identified their loved ones said Archie Rich an episcopal priest and chaplain for the Wayne county sheriffs department. It s a very slow process. They re handling that with a great Deal of delicacy he  least six people All of whom had been on the ground were treated at hospitals for injuries caused by the crash. The death toll from the crash made it the nation s second worst. The crash of an american airlines do 10 on May 25,1979, at Chicago s p Hare International Airport is the nation s worst air disaster. It killed 275 people