European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Tuesday May 30, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 could not have done it Sailor says Struiff again denies any role in Iowa blast by Jeffrey Schmal the new York times Miami gunner s mate 3rd class Kendall acc Truitt. Frustrated that he was not getting his Point across picked up a pen and sketched the no. 2 gun Turret of the battleship Iowa "1 was  he said pointing to the lowest level. Clan was there he said pointing to the top floor four Levels above. I could not have done it. A dozen men handled the powder Between me and when it got to where Clay  a 90-minute interview Here sat urday. Ruilt. 21. Talked in depth for the first time about his Friendship with 25 year old Claston Hartwig. One of the 47sailors killed in the april 19 explosion in a gun Turret on the battleship. That relationship has become a focus for investigators trying to establish the cause of the  is the beneficiary of a life insurance policy on Lla Iwig. Who had Bee the beneficiary of a similar policy on to built until the latter married and made his wife the beneficiary. The $50,000 policy has a double in Dimity clause making the payoff to Truitt $100.000. But investigators say it i unlikely Truitt set off the explosion to kill Hartwig and collect the  they say it is possible that Hart wig perhaps jealous that Truiel had mar ried May have set off the explosion to commit  say the suicide theory is Only one of several they have considered. Troubled Man. Although the exact nature of that portrait has not been disclosed. Truitt said in the interview that hand Hartwig had become the closest of friends spending hours  relationship was close but not sex Ual he said. Truitt said that on a ship whose social world was divided along eth Nic and racial lines it was natural that two quiet White somewhat religious men would be drawn to each  never went out drinking or running around like the 9thcrs," he said. We could communicate with each  the two went to Cleveland twice to visit Hartwig s parents. But about a year ago when Truitt me Carole Lorraine Hartwig who was unmarried was shut out More and  turning Point came Truitt said when at the last minute he cancelled another trip to Cleveland with Hartwig so he could spend the time with the woman he would marry. It was t really quite Ever the same Between us Truitt  realized that my love of my fian Cee. Carole was More important to Methan he  both Truitt and his wife said Hartwi was not so upset As to be desperate and they do not believe he blew up the  said he was looking Forward 19 a Transfer to London to work in the Mili tary police which he hoped would eventually Lead to a Job in civilian life wit the Federal drug enforcement Agency. The pruitts said they continued to associate with him. Kendall acc Truitt Losion. She said she agreed with the to uitts that Hartwig who had been in the Kubicina is seeking to have her parents named As the beneficiaries of the life insurance policy arguing that Truiel an Hartwig were no longer friends and that Hartwig would have changed it but was absent minded. Truiel said in the interview that he would Noi renounce the si00,000. Truitt said he did not believe Hartwi had been trying to kill him. As Well As committing suicide because the chances were slim Hal inc blast would kill sailors four Levels below where Truitt  11 sailors who survived were in the Bollom level with  said he believed the explosion was accidental and he had offered a the Ory to investigators. He said they had asked him not to make it  confirmed reports thai he had come a few minutes late to the gun Drill which suggested Hal he might Nave had Lime to Linker with the apparatus. But he said Hal he was late because he was using the  said what he found curious was that Hartwig had nol been listed As the person in charge of loading inc Pun for that Day s Drill the first of the , he said he did not know that Hartwig was even in the Turret. He said twas nol Clear to him How or Why Hartwig came to be doing the Job that  searching Nis Home in Norfolk. Va., and his locker aboard the Iowa. Truitt was looking Forward to going to London. Bui she disagreed about inc depth of his break with Truitt saying in was a cup just two Days before the cruise on " z a  the possibilities thai a spark May which the explosion occurred mrs. To  11. Have ignited the gun powder or that the built said she laundered Hartwig s dress it got to the Point Kubicina said powder ii self May have been unstable. Whites for him. Where in inc last Letler he said As tar but at the same time they say they in Cleveland Hartwig s sister Kathleen As Ken and i we no longer speak to each have put together a psychological por Kubicina said the last letter from her other unless it s inside the Turret and 1 m trait of Hartwig that do pics him As a brother came just Ihrck Days before the sex giving him orders. Ilem a Burlap envelop paper thin Sheet of cad. Such an envelope is placed Between bags of powder in the gun and cleans the barrel when the gun is fired. Published report shave Specula cd Hal it was possible a delo Nator could have been hidden in such a envelope. But Truitt said a Detonator would have created a bulge sure to have been noticed. Memorial to Yankee disaster put up in Memphis Memphis. Tenn. A before crowd of about 50 people a for foot Gran Ite Marker was unveiled in this onetime Confederate City sunday for some 1,500 Union soldiers who perished aboard steamship More than a Century ago. The dead most of them  of Confederate prison Camps during the civil War. Died in the 1865explosion of the paddle Wheeler Sultana in a disaster to rival the sinking of the titanic. The Muddy Mississippi River coughed up burned and bloated bodies for weeks afterwards. But until sunday s ceremony at Mem Phis Elmwood cemetery no memorial had been created As a reminder that the Sultana went Down in flames just seven Miles North of the City s downtown  for 300 passengers and a Crew of 76, inc paddle Wheeler was carrying More than 2.300 people in addition to 100 horses and mules when three of it four boilers exploded Al 2 . On april 27, 1865, less than Ihrck weeks after the end of the civil War. Most of inc More than 1.500 people who died had recently been freed from prison Camps in Alabama and were headed North to be released from the army. Many were crowded onto two decks directly Over the paddle Wheeler s 18-foot boilers one of which had devel oped a leak and been hastily repaired. So Hon one of the boilers blew setting off two others the upper decks collapsed escaped teen awaiting trial in  parents caught forming a funnel that dumped do ens of the victims into the fire said Hugh bar Ryman a forensic pathologist at the uni verily of Tennessee in Memphis. Jerry Potter a Memphis lawyer who has researched the disaster for a dozen years and is writing a Book on it said Union offi cers May have overloaded inc paddle Wheeler to inflate troop transport  were two other Sulca Boals Hal were trying to gel a portion of themen. The Only explanation 1 have been Able to uncover for Why the Sultana go them All is bribery Potter said. Potter and Berryman Esi Imald the Sultana death toll at 1,547. By compari son 1,503 lives were lost when the Ocean liner titanic hit an iceberg and Sank in the Remote North Allan tic in 1912.other counts of the Sultana victims have put the total Between 1,400 and 1,450, but Berryman said those estimate failed to include one of three train loads of soldiers which boarded the Boal a Vicksburg miss. Our figure is probably a conserva Livrone Berryman said. The Sultana Monument financed by three Memphis residents will be the Sec Ond of two major markers to the  other in Knoxville tenn., was put up in 1916 by Sultana survivors who raise Money for the Mon Umcil themselves. Researching the disaster has been difficult because newspapers of the Day were still primarily concerned with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln iwo weeks earlier and with inc end of the War Berryman said. It was just lost to history because ofic other events that were going on at the time Berryman said. Shell Lake wis. A a teen Ager awaiting trial in the shooting deaths of his parents was captured with a com Panion sunday a Day after the two broke out of jail. The Washburn county sheriffs office said both fugitives were still in jail uni forms and were shoeless when they sur rendered Wilhour resistance to police Man Don Esser in Spooner about similes North of the jail. Todd a. York 18, of Rural spoon Rand Keith Thompson 17, Oft go Werc discovered missing saturday morning said sheriff Don Fuller. They had used Hacksaw Blades to Cut through the bars Ofa jail window Fuller said. York faces an oct. 2 trial in circuit court on charges Hal he murdered his parents in september after overhearing Idem Lalk about enrolling him in a drug counselling program. The sheriffs office said Spooner police were notified someone had seen two Young men fitting the Fugi lives descriptions. They were found about 1 30 . Behind a bottling Plant and were Laken Tournell county jail in Grantsburg. York was later transferred to Douglas county jail in Superior. Fuller said Law enforcement agencies throughout Wisconsin and in neighbor ing Stales had been alerted to inc jail break. All they had on was jail coveralls an Small sandals almost Barefoot the sheriff  and Thompson had been cell mates since May 13, when Thompso was jailed on a burglary charge and for probation violation Fuller said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 30, 1949 despite thunderstorms an Cost Imald 30,000 people mostly germans attended an open House Al Rhein main Ablo View a display of air planes. 30 years ago foday. May 30, 1959 the International olympic Commilles bowing to Strong communist pressure expelled nationalist China from the olympics on the grounds that it did not control sports in inc entire country of  20 years ago foday. May 30, 1969 new York gov. Nelson Rockefeller was greeted by student shouting death to imperialism As he arrived in Ecuador for the second Stop on a latin american tour. 0 years ago foday. May 30, 1979 Secretary of state Cyrus Vance told a press conference i Amsterdam incl Horlands he hoped nato allies would endorse the Salt ii agreement reached by the soviet Union and inc United slates