European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday july 7, 1988 Carlucci aides in dark about contract freeze Washington a Pentagon officials acknowledged tuesday they Are still trying to figure out the effects of a potentially far reaching freeze on tainted contracts announced last week by defense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci in the weapons buying investigation. Defense contractors said they also remained in the dark about what Carlucci s action would mean to them and their employees. We worked that one very quickly and we gave you the Best information we had defense department spokesman Dan Howard told reporters at a briefing that chiefly concerned the Downing of an iranian Airliner by a missile fired by a . Warship in the persian Gulf. But when asked about details of the freeze such As which contracts were involved and How Long it will last Howard said i Don t know the  Carlucci announced last Friday that payments on contracts Worth an Esti mated $1 billion were being suspended because the pacts May be tainted by the ongoing criminal investigation by the Justice department. The probe involves allegations that de sense contractors and consultants Many of them former military men bribed Pentagon officials for contracting details that could be vital in winning contracts Worth billions of dollars. Carlucci s announcement came at a hastily called news conference one Day after affidavits in support of search War rants were released by a Dallas Federal court. Carlucci said he was acting on the basis of information in the affidavits about contracts that could be involved. Howard indicated tuesday that pres sure for action from Congress and else where was behind the freeze. While he had few details on the action Pentagon officials and contractors were scrambling tuesday to gather them. A Navy spokeswoman it. Barbara Kent said no information is available at this time. We re working on  one of the contracts involved is be tween the Navy and try inc., to build new operating centers for anti submarine warfare. It was let in october 1987 and is for $36.7 million said Johann Whitney a try spokeswoman. To the Best of our knowledge try is not one of the companies involved in this probe and we have no idea Why this action was taken Whitney said. We Are working with the Navy to try to get some Clar cation on Carlucci s announce  another contract is Between the Navy and Litton to build hand held computers for use by the Marine corps for sending out grids and coordinates As part of targeting information. The contract was originally awarded in 1982 and the remaining part is Worth $23.5 million according to John George a spokesman for Litton. The devices Are produced by Litton s Colorado Springs colo., Plant which employs about 100 people he said. But As of tuesday George said we have received no official notification on the action which was announced Friday. We do not know the allegations if any or the government basis for stopping  stateside clean head Vinson 70, Dies in California Hospital los Angeles a blues Singer and Alto saxophone player Eddie clean head Vinson known for his coarse swinging instrumental style balanced by mellifluous vocals has died. He was 70. Vinson who had been suffering from cancer of the oesophagus entered the California medical Center in mid june for treatment. He was stricken by a heart attack Hospital officials and family members said. Vinson who Sang with the Cootie Williams orchestra in the 1940s, was Best known for such songs As Cherry red kidney Stew blues and somebody s got to  he got his Nick name for his Bald head which he often joked about in the lyrics of his songs including clean head  lung transplant patient gets married in Hospital Columbia . A rep. Floyd Spence r-, recovering from a double lung transplant was married in his room at the University of Mississippi medical Center. A spokesman for Spence said tuesday that he married Deborah Williams of Lexington ky., in a private ceremony in Jackson miss. The 60-year-old Spence had the lung trans Plant in May. Hospital spokeswoman Barbara Austin said tuesday that Spence is continuing to Progress and is in satisfactory condition. This is the first marriage for mrs. Spence 37. Spence s first wife died in 1977. Teen critically burned while playing atop train new York a a Drunken teen Ager was critically injured when he struck an Over head electric Cable while playing atop a parked Long Island rail Road train in Penn station a spokesman said tuesday. Liar spokesman Grian Dolan said 11,000 volts of electricity shot through Humerto e. Diaz s body setting his clothes on fire. Diaz s Friend John Zokowski suffered minor Burns to his hands while pulling his Friend from the train s roof and trying to extinguish the fire. We really Haven t been Able to talk to Diaz at great length so we Don t know what led him to climb on top of the roof Dolan said. But blood tests from the Hospital show he had consumed an awful lot of  both teen agers who live in suburban port Washington were taken to new York Hospital Cornell medical Center s Burn unit. Diaz was in critical condition with second and third degree Burns Over 40 percent of his body said Hospital spokesman Jonathan Weil. American soviet peace walkers on 2nd leg of Friendship journey a photo Coralville Iowa a soviet and american peace walkers journeyed Westward across Iowa tues Day after spending nearly a week in the Eastern part of the state and celebrating the fourth of july with a Parade and cookout. Members of the american soviet peace walk car ried soviet american and Iowa flags in the two mile Parade monday. This has been a great walk. American and soviets do a great Deal of work for the cause of peace said Valentina Belik a Kiev resident who joined about 220 other soviets and 100 americans on the Cross country journey. Coralville mayor Michael Kattchee smiling broadly under a Straw hat said the peace walk had a special significance for him. This is great. I was born in Lithuania so for me it is a great pleasure to see this happening the 56-year old mayor said. Maybe events like this will help open Borders Between the two countries. I m Able to speak a Little russian but i slip into German and then i m lost Kattchee said. Lithuania was under russian control from 1795 to 1918, under polish domination from 1920 to 1940, then was occupied by soviet troops and absorbed into the soviet Union. The peace walkers have been in Eastern Iowa the second leg of their three stage journey since last a Lawn sprayer near Iowa City. Where members will begin the ast leg of Thor trek dead end kids Star Gabe Dell Dies los Angeles a Gabe Dell who parlayed his Youthful Success As one of the original dead end kids into a career spanning More than 50 years As a writer director teacher and stage and film actor has died. He was 68. The Brooklyn  Dell whose real name was Gabriel Del Vecchio died at his North Hollywood Home sunday of leukaemia. That leaves two of us said or. Bernard Pursley a Torrance physician who is one of the two surviving dead end  the other is actor Huntz Hall who was in mourning and declined to take Calls tuesday. Dell Pursley Hall and the other dead end kids shot to Fame on Broadway in 1935 in dead end Sidney Kingsley s examination of slum life and its connection to crime. Following the play s Success the Young actors were brought to Hollywood to Star opposite Humphrey Bogart in the movie version. Like the Rowdy characters they portrayed on stage and screen the actors pulled pranks on the por ters and played Ball in the aisles during their train trip to Hollywood. Meanwhile their movie went on to Garner four Academy. Award nominations and the Young actors went on to make a number of major films and Low budget productions under the names the bowery boys and Eastside kids. Among them were Angels with dirty faces and crime  some of the other dead end kids such As Leo Gor Cey Billy Halop and Bobby Jordan were unable tossed their bad boy screen images in later years. Gabe Dell poisoned juice threat believed isolated los Angeles a an Orange juice Carton found with a threatening note attached by a drug Nee dle was considered the result of an isolated act and no More Cartons were pulled from supermarket shelves officials said tuesday. Laboratory tests found no Poison in the 64-ounce Carton of minute maid Orange juice that was discovered by a customer monday at Vons grocery store in Woodland Hills said supermarket spokeswoman mar Mcaboy. The discovery prompted company officials to pull the store s Supply of the product but no other stores removed their minute maid Orange juice while the investigation continued police and Vons officials said. We pc believe in to be an isolated incident Sai Mcaboy. There was no indication of anything like this in any other  no injuries were reported after a customer alerted store officials about 2 . Monday of the Carton Saidt. Lee Lorenze. "it5e note threatened contamination Mcaboy said. Authorities refused to release its exact wording