European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april 16,1988 the stars and stripes Page anti nazi group honors sex general Washington Ami a group Organ i cd to hip lilt world i my imbuing a i  atrocities pave award i thurs a u i retired general plus an Idalmy mayor Anil the Aii rns. A is four decades after if War. In Cyri Man if at he slate department the to. Holocaust memorial Council gave its Eisenhower  crating mi1 ill i i retired Gen. James m. Gavin who commanded  Ihal life Rich beat the germans and liberated woh Miu Conan Tralins Camp. We Whu did our share we won t Corgi never will we forget never said Gavin after the audience Al the annual Days of remembrance ceremonies Jave him a standing Oval inn. Mayor Raymond bronc of occur d alone. Idaho also a civil an Eisenhower medal for being arming the firs . Soldiers Inlo womb tin. In adj Linn Stone accepted a certificate honouring occur d alone citizens for standing fast and Scalt ingot in the face of threats and violence perpetrated by the members of a no a i paramilitary group the aryan nation which in 1982 maiii1 its Headquarters near the 1own. Sect Leader Richard or. Busier 70, and 12 others were acquitted earlier this month in Arkansas of charges that icy conspired in overthrow the Federal government and 1o Killa Federal Juder and an a by agent Iione said in an inicmi1 thai tie Cipcic cd butter a return to Coeur d alone but tic said the town of 1s.doo people has nothing to fear la said the aryan nation had dwindled from about 220 members at its  u no More than n handful in the area Slonic said his experience in Germany witnessing slacked runs of Beds with starving and dead concen i ration Camp victims changed his life. Before being elected mayor of the Northern Idaho town in 1986. He had been a High school and College teacher. He said he tried la instill in Hij students the conviction Ihal tins thing must not happen  Deputy Secretary of slate John a will head Lold several Hundred people attending the ceremonies that he was shaken by a visit to Auschwitz concentration Camp in february. Do not forget and do not allow the world to forget the inhumanity of which Mankind is capable when it denies the Sanctity of human life he said. While head warned that the United Slat i should resist the recurrent american temptation toward isolationism and continue to work for human rights throughout the world. He noted thai the High standards of education and culture attained by the germans did not insulate them Frum the virus Norch Juu and racial  the program included an a Moninna Cert Nony. With six members of Congress and us a copy who survived the wave of arrests of Jens in november i9js lighting Candle. Kilga lesser Franks now an . Til., travel agent wept As she participated in inc Candy lighting with rep. John e. Porter. A Iii. She said later she was 11 when soldiers stormed through Berlin burning in a jewish school and the synagogue not to her Home. "1 can t help reliving u and being amazed Ihal i am Here now said Franks she said she had never participated in a holocaust Oscr. Vance program before. Other members of Congress joining in the Candle lighting were Sens. Frank r. La Ulenburg . Paul s. Sarbanis. Did. Richard o. Lugar. R-lll., and reps. Jack Butch nor r-mo., and William Lehman. D Fla. The is member holocaust memorial Council was established by Congress in 191 0 to plan construction of a . Holocaust memorial museum in washing ton. The site for the $50 million building next door to the Bureau of print ing and engraving has been cleared with construction expected to take about 2vi years. Barneset has arrived up photo the massive 57-ton, 25-fool tall is meats he great the Lunell statue tier restored and shipped out of Egypt he arrived in Burkon museum of Sci ence in three Kern ends. After being us Mylod ii will be on display from april 30 id aug. 30 in a specially constructed Temple Matelde the museum. Of Fine drops complaint gaint Blind passenger Chicago a a Blind Man was arrested for refusing to switch seals thurs Day in a United airlines night but the complaint was withdrawn officials said. James Gashel director of governmental affairs for the National federation of the Blind was taken Inlo custody on a charge of criminal trespass after he refused to leave his seat in an emergency a it Row said police sgt. Robert Mcgraff. The arrest Al o flare International air port was the second in recent weeks involving seating of Blind people on airliners. United later asked that the complaint against the 11 year old Gashel be with drawn pending a review of the Case by airline attorneys Degraf Sald. United tried to get him to comply with company policy of not seating Blind people in  Row seats for safety reasons Mcgraff said. Or. Gasket was Adamant in his refusal to leave or to change seats and United subsequently cancelled the  flight 233 was scheduled to leave for Denver at 3 . The 200 passengers were Nui on a flight that Lett 1 h hours later said United spokesman Joe 1 Hopkins Hopkins sail uni cd s policy is nol to Seal Blind people in emergency exit Row seals because if there were a fire in the Wing area the Blind person might 1 unable to assess the situation. Also if we had to evacuate the plane. It could slow tile  Hopkins said. Mary Ellen Reihing. Spokeswoman for the Baltimore baser federation said Gashel is a leading expert on the Law and Blind people and was headed of a sem Inar in Boise Idaho. She said he boarded the plane and took his assigned seat. When asked to move by an airline representative he refused and quoted the Law that they could not discriminate against  on March Al a Blind attorney from Iowa was arrested on a Midway airlines flight a Washington National Airport after she refused to move from the smok ing Section. Omaha mayor loses cancer Battle Omaha neb. A Bernie Simon who battled cancer while serving As mayor of Omaha last year died thurs Day of cancer. He was 60. Simon who replaced mayor Mike Boyle when Boyle was recalled last year was stricken with cancer two months after Tak ing office. He was hospitalized off and on for treatment but Kepi up a full schedule Al City Hall until enl month. Simon 3 Democrat was elected to the City Council in 1981. He was named mayor feb. 3. 1987, after Boyle was re called to serve the remaining 2w years of Boyle s term. A native of Omaha Simon graduated from Creighton preparatory High school in 194i and then served briefly in the . Navy before the end of world War ii. Survivors include nil wife belly three sons a daughter and sit grandchildren. Honor sought for revolutionary War graveside Washington a la has been about 210 years since members of George Washington s under manned army were buried in 1 Philadelphia but it s not too late to Honor them by making their burial ground a National fail a  panel was told thursday. Some 2.000 of Washington s soldiers Are believed buried in a collective grave at Washington Square which receives scant tourist attention compared with adjacent Independence Hall and the Liberty hell. How pathetic that these greatest of patriots were buried without even a Headstone to Mark their contribution Philadelphia attorney Malcolm l. Lazin told a Senate Energy and lands subcommittee in a pre pared statement. The fact that Washington Square is not a pan of our National Park service is a disgrace to their memory and an embarrassment to All who Pride themselves on being  in 1777, John Adams later to be the second presi Dent whole in a idler to his wife thai "1 never in my whole life was affected with such melancholy at the sight of the Graves and trenches. Adams wrote thai he had been Lold that upwards of 2,000 soldiers were buried Al Potter s Field later renamed Washington Square. Many of the deaths occurred during fighting in the Philadelphia area including Battles a Princeton and Trenton . Some also had died Al Independence Hall which had been serving As a prison. It was nol until 1917 that the flame of the Tomb of inc unknown revolutionary War Soldier was placed at Washington Square. Now it is time that those who fought and died and Are buried in unmarked mass Graves in Washington Square be honoured and celebrated by the United states said William . Gown of the Pennsylvania society of the sons of the revolution. Sponsors have placed no Price tag on the Bill. Sen. John Heinz r-pa., and other backers envision the City of Philadelphia which owns the land leasing in to the National Park service. Tiey said the Square could be administered by the superintendent of Independence National historical Park which has offices three blocks away. Incorporating the Square Inlo the larger and belter known Park would enable Illo "bi1 maintained to the High standards of the National Park service and to be included on Independence Hall Tours Lazin said. A similar Bill passed inc Hou last session of con Gorcsi. But died in inc Senate