European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday november 13,1907 stateside 109 Navy workers sent Back to Homes in far East Long Beach Calif. A the Navy has sent Home 109 japanese and filipino people it brought to this country As temporary workers Al Navy Yards in Long Beach and Philadelphia. The foreign workers were scheduled to work for 30 to 0 Days but were Send Home after Only five Days on the Job. The Navy said it brought Ihm to this country because it was having difficulty finding skilled americans to work at wages the Navy was offer ing which arc below what is paid in private Industry. Some lawmakers had criticized the Navy s decision to import the foreign workers. Unusual Ransom try fails accused jewel thief seized River Ridge la. A a Man who demanded nude pictures of a woman As Ransom Tor her stolen jewelry was arrested when he dropped off a camera for her to use to Lake the photo graphs authorities said. Eric Sentilles 31, was booked with simple burglary making an obscene phone Call and re sisting arrest 5gt, John fortunate spokesman for the Jefferson Parish sheriffs office said tuesday Forunato said Sentilles delivered pizzas Tor a living and had delivered one o the woman be fore about 11,200 Worth of her jewelry was Sto Len oct. 30. A Man called monday and demanded nude pictures of the woman Fotunato said. The woman told the caller she had no camera or film so he said he would leave a camera behind her Apan ment Complex and told her logo to a drugstore for film. Detectives Dennis Thornton and Bruce Sand ers followed the victim when she went to pick up the camera and saw Sentilles watching her then pursued him Down Jefferson Highway before slopping him Forl Nalo said. Green thumbed thieves Active in Palm Beach Palm Beach Fla. A a Bunch of botanical thefts has police speculating about Green thumbed thieves who Are snatching orchids swiping begonias and uprooting impatiens. Police say it s probably gardeners stealing from each  but hat was Little Consolation to a Gardener who planted dozens of Salmon hued impatiens Matching a new Home s Barret tiles that were stolen on three occasions. Somebody was probably watching me Plant them said Jean Fler Aal whose firm Emile & Jean landscaping is under contract to a Miami Developer building the two Story Home. You Plant them today and they re gone  about four blocks West six orchids valued at $400 disappeared last week and plants and Trees valued 31 s 1,200 were reported stolen recently from another Home. Vav Hie 18-by-32-Inch All painting a of purple Irlow with one White Flower prominent among the Grcen stems. Van Gogh pointing of Garden Sells for a record $53.9 million new York a Vincent Van Gogh s irises the depiction of a Flower Garden Al an Asylum the Painter entered shortly before he committed suicide sold wednesday fora record $53.9 million. The identity of the buyer who bid by Telephone was not immediately disclosed. The previous record for a painting was set by another Van Gogh masterpiece sunflowers which sold for s39.9 million earlier this year to a japanese insurance company. The whole world is looking very closely at the Sale of this painting John l. Marion chairman of soothe by s North America where the irises auction was held had said earlier. Some see it As an indicator of what the Art Market is  some of the approximately 1,000 people attending the auction applauded when the Price topped $40 Mil lion. Marion had said Stock Market woes would not affect the Sale because other auctions since the oct. 19 col lapse had gone Well including a nov. 4-5 Sale in which rotheby s recorded the second highest Sale for contemporary an at $23.4 million. He had said before the auction that the Price paid for irises would be dictated by the Sale of sunflowers and the $20.2 million Sale in june of Van Gogh s the Bridge Al  irises is among 95 works of Art being auction cd in rotheby s fail Sale of impressionist and modern Art. The works include an Early Picasso Oil painting Boulevard de Clichy expected to bring $2 million to $3 million Claude Monet i antics vue do plateau notre Dame which had an estimated Sale Price of to million and Paul Cezanne s a bras it Maison a bord de i eau expected to bring Al least $2 million. Irises a 28-by-32-Inch Oil on Canvas depicts a Patch of purple irises and one while Bloom in a set of Green stems. It is a study of a Flower Garden at the Saint Rumy Asylum which Van Gogh entered voluntarily in 1sb9 for treatment of his mental illness. He lived there until his suicide in i890al the age of 37. He told Lew if any paintings during his lifetime. Irises had been owned by John Whitney pay Ion an an consultant from Maine whose Mother philanthropist Joan Whitney Payson acquired it for $80,000 in 1947, and Hung it Over the fireplace in her living room. After her death in i97s, the painting was displayed at Westbrook College in suburban Portland Maine in a gallery Payson bum in his Mother s memory. Payson said he decided to sell the painting after the Sunflower auction because he Felt fib could not Gua Rantee the safety of a painting potentially Worth $40 million or More. He also cited nigh insurance costs u a reason for Selling the work. Payson a pledged a portion of the proceeds toward establishing an endowment to support the work of artists and to secure the future of the gallery. Hours before the auction a number of Art lovers were at rotheby s for a last minute viewing. It s a Beautiful painting but hard to believe How much it will be Selling for said one woman from new Jersey who added that she was not and never would be in the Market fora multimillion Dollar painting. Ronnie Dewillers Mother balks at transplant Bill Miami a the Mother of a 7 year old boy who died after three liver transplants said wednesday that she docs not want to pay the Bill for the highly publicized operations until she learn. More about Llic care Given her son. I have withheld final payment be cause i feel that my son is not a piece of meat with a Price tag attached Maria do silly said at a news conference. Ronnie Dewillers made nationwide headlines in february when shortly aft a receiving a get Well letter from president Reagan someone stole $4,000 collected by his classmates in fort Lauderdale Fla. Contributions poured in from around the country including $1,000 from the president. By the time the boy died april 29 As he awaited a fourth transplant at Chil Dren s Hospital of Pittsburgh some $4 50,000 had been raised. The Hospital filed suit against Dosu lers on monday saying 1261,000 is still owed. Dewillers says $196.000 is left in the fund. She said that she paid the hos Pital a Deposit of $162,000 and that More than $65.000 went to other Chil Dren who need liver transplants. Flanked by an attorney and a 5-j car old Costa rican girl who is awaiting a liver transplant Dewillers said Hal she has no problems with the Hospital s surgeons but that she questions the effectiveness of her son s other care. "1 want the nation to get the answers they want to gel. What happened with his third liver Why was it turned Down by three other centers and they is ill put in in Ronnie she said tuesday. The boy s third donor liver came from a brain dead child with Down s syn drome. Or. William Donaldson the Hospital s medical director said he did not know whether other transplant Centris had rejected the liver before it was accepted for Ronnie. There was no other donor available Donaldson said. His Situ Alipo was so desperate thai our people decided Loac cent the Down s donor rather than to do  de Sisters 31, who lost her insurance when she quit a Public relations Job lobe with her ailing son also said she believes the Hospital tailored her son s Bill be cause of he donations. Her attorney Stanley Rosenblatt Aid he is investigating to determine whether or not to file a malpractice suit