European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 31, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 news updates Peru sub death toll Lima Peru a an injured Sailor pulled from a sunken peruvian submarine died monday in a Navy Hospital bringing to at least five the number of seamen killed in the Colli Sion a Navy spokesman said. Navy divers searched monday for three other seamen still missing after the vessel plunged 110 feet to the Bot t9m of the Pacific Ocean after a Colli Sion Friday with the 412-ton Japa Nese fishing boat no. 8 Kiowa Maru. The Navy does not hold any Hope for the survival of the missing men. Four others died on Friday. Elevator rapist new York a a Man known As the elevator rapist was sentenced to the maximum 175 years in prison by a judge wr�9 said he had never seen a More violent or predatory  Ronnie Matthews 29, was sentenced in Manhattan state supreme court monday to consecutive terms on 15 counts of robbery rape Sodo my and sexual abuse. He was convicted july 11 of raping and robbing seven women ranging in age from 18 to 25 years old from september to december last year. An eighth victim was robbed but not raped. Police said Matthews confronted his victims at knife Point in elevators at three Harlem housing projects then forced them into stairwells where he assaulted them. Corrections the list of new school principals that appeared monday was incomplete and incorrect. Omitted from the list were Rae Ann Bridge of Idar Oberstein elementary mar Garet Hoffman Otto of Kaiserslautern elementary Ynez Olshausen of Munster elementary and Karen Hill of Munich elementary. The Correct name of Mainz Elemen tary s new principal is Meren James and the new principal at Schwabish a mind is Janette Johnson. There was an omission in the list of air show crashes that appeared on Page 2 yesterday. More than 110 have been killed in 13 air show incidents in Europe since 1982. The list should have included a May 22, 1983, crash. Five members of a German family died when a Canadian f-104 Star fighter crashed during an air show at Rhein main a West Germany. The family burned to death when the Jet hit their car As they were driving along a Highway. The aircraft s Pilot ejected safely be fore the crash. Property sales Wiesbaden West Germany de sense re utilization and marketing offices at several locations in Europe will hold auctions in military communities in september. Auctions Are set for thursday at John son Barracks Niernberg and at Mcnair Barracks Berlin Friday at Pitburg a and sept. 9 at Mainz Kastel and sicken Heiton. Bidder registration begins at 8 ., and All auctions will Start at 9  A variety of items Are to be sold As is at each event including household goods furniture electronic equipment and military clothing. All sales will be final and Only dollars willbe accepted. The auctions at Mcnair bar Racks and at Pitburg a Are open Only to holders of . Identification cards but All other sales Are open to the Public. For additional information Contact the demo at the various locations. Economic indicators Down biggest decline in 9 months Washington up higher unemployment and lower Stock prices helped Send the government s Index of leading economic indicators Down 0.8 percent in july the sharpest drop in nine months the Commerce department said tuesday. Analysts had looked for a july decline of about 0.5 percent after an unusually Strong 1.4 percent Advance in june and a revised 0.7 percent decline in May. The 0.8 percent decline took the Index to 192.1 and was the sharpest drop since november when the Index plunged 1 percent the department said. The Index is watched closely by analysts and financial markets for signals of where the Economy will be heading three to six months Down the Road. Seven of the 11 factors collected in compiling the Index took away from eco nomic performance in july including More unemployment claims slower applications for building permits and fewer manufacturers orders for both consumer and capital goods the department s Bureau of economic analysis said. Also subtracting from economic performance were lower Stock prices and a smaller Money Supply As Well As vendors getting deliveries faster from suppliers a signal the suppliers business is not booming the Bureau said. Only one of the nine indicators Avail Able for the july report higher prices for raw materials made a positive contribution to the Index and the average work week was unchanged from june to july the Bureau said. Everything is Down David Wyss chief economist for data resources inc. Of Lexington Massachusetts said Mon Day. Factory orders Are Down some what. The Stock Market is Down. And the biggest contributor should be a Rise in unemployment  Wyss noted that the june jump was pushed off by unusually brisk orders for aircraft and business investment equip ment. The two months together Don t look too bad Wyss said. The Bureau s Index of coincident Indica tors designed to measure the Economy s present performance increased 0.6 percent in july while the Index of lagging Indica tors which confirms the previous reports increased 1 percent in july. The report follows a series of govern ment releases last week that showed con Sumer prices creeping up. In its report on the nation s Gross National product last week the Commerce department said inflation in the second Quarter of the year had shot to a six year High. Also last week the labor department said consumer prices had increased 0.5 percent in july a 5.2 percent annual rate. Earlier indications of inflation in the Economy led the Federal Reserve Board aug. 9 to raise its Benchmark discount interest rate to 6.5 percent from 6 per cent. Many analysts expect another in crease if the Economy shakes off the restraint and continues to expand. Talks promised if Solidarity Calls off strike Warsaw Poland a talks be tween the government and Solidarity on solving Poland s problems can begin As soon As Lech Walesa Calls off a strike at the Lenin shipyard a government spokesman said tuesday. The stoppage of strikes by or. Lech Walesa and the shipyard where he works would mean automatically convening a round table chief government spokes Man Jerzy Urban told reporters. Urban said there were no preconditions on what subjects could be Dis cussed adding the starting of talks will be a common  the Interior minister Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak would mediate the talks Urban said. Urban declined to elaborate on other possible participants but he hinted that the head of the official Pozz Union would be included. Wednesday is the eighth anniversary of accords signed in Gdansk guarantee ing the right to free Trade unions. Soli Darity once the Only Independent Trade federation in the soviet bloc was outlawed after the imposition of martial Law in 1981. If the talks do take place they would be the first direct Contact Between Walesa and High government officials since he was jailed after the martial Law crack Down that crushed Solidarity. Talks were proposed first Friday by Kiszczak who said there would be no preconditions although he indicated the strikes must first end. Aides earlier quoted Walesa a founder of Solidarity As saying he would not Call for an end to the strikes without pledges that talks involve the Issue of Union pluralism. He also was quoted As saying he should take part As recognized chairman of Solidarity. No gets four years for theft bad checks Wiesbaden West Germany is a 39-year-old air Force no was sentenced by a general court martial thursday to four years in prison for stealing about $6,000 from cafes and writing $4,700 in bad checks a base spokesman said tuesday. Staff sgt. Lawrence s. Montgomery with the 2063rd comm so at Lindsey As Wiesbaden also was ordered to forfeit All pay and allow ances Given a dishonourable discharge and reduced to the lowest enlisted rank said staff sgt. Donnie Veasey. Montgomery was working part time As the night manager at the Taurus theater in the Haine Berg shopping Complex when the Community Bank uncovered irregularities in deposits from the movie receipts according to Exchange officials. Cafes reported that Montgomery had used altered Deposit slips from nov. 9 to Jan. 14. The Bank discovered the stealing april 20. Montgomery had been in charge of his unit s logistic support. He will be jailed in Mannheim for two months and will serve the remainder of his sentence at fort Leavenworth Kan. Montgomery joined the air Force in 1967 and got out in 1973. He rejoined in 1982. Canadian is first to swim All great lakes Toronto a a 27-year-old swimming instructor waded out of Lake Ontario tuesday the first person to swim All five great lakes. Canadian marathoner yield Keith took just less than 24 hours to make the 31-mile crossing much faster than her original estimate of 36 hours despite using the difficult Butterfly stroke for most of the swim. She began at Niagara on the Lake Ontario and was supposed to finish her swim at the Canadian National exhibition grounds in to Ronto but Strong currents pushed her about three Miles East. She started her five Lake Marathon in july in Lake Erie crossed sections of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan later that month and completed a 21 mile  of Lake Superior on aug. 15. The swims were organized As part of a drive to help pay for a swimming Pool for the disabled in Toronto. She has raised half of her $243,000 goal. Memorial rites scheduled for boy struck by car Berlin memorial services will be held thursday for a 7-year-old boy who died sat urday after being struck by a car on stadium Barracks a command spokesman said tuesday. Conroy Daniel Elliott was Riding his bicycle near the British base Exchange at about 2 . Saturday when he Rode into the Street and was struck by the car said Ron Gardiner. The boy was transported to the Rudolph Virchow Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He is survived by his father staff sgt. Conroy s. Elliott of the Berlin Field station his Mother Bea Trice m. Elliot and a 17-year-old sister Nicole e. Elliott. The service will be at 6 30 . In the an Drews Barracks Chapel. Damage estimate is $200,000 in battalion Headquarters fire Furth West Germany a fire saturday destroyed the attic of a battalion Headquarters building at William o. Darby Cavern a Community spokeswoman said monday. The fire was discovered in the attic of the 793rd my in building at about 11 . By soldiers living on the third floor Elaine Hinsdale said. The soldiers tried to control it with fire extinguishers she said. There were no  City firemen extinguished the Blaze in about four hours Hinsdale said. Only charred supporting timbers remained in the attic. Damage is estimated at More than $200,000. The attic had been used to store furniture and sol Diers personal items such As Luggage Hinsdale said. Some soldiers living on the third floor of the build ing have been relocated because of minor ceiling dam age she said. German and military officials Are investigating the cause of the fire