European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I wednesday May 31, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 delectable urchins Dennis Mccrath surfaces with a sack or sea urchins collected from off the Maine coast for use by University of Maine researchers who Are trying to make the creatures More desirable for diners. Scientists Are looking for ways to improve the color and Roe Content of urchins prize in Jabaji for their meat. Gunner s mate but not lawyer allowed on Iowa Norfolk a. Up Navy gun Ner s male 3rd class Kendall Ruilt the focus of the investigation into the explosion aboard he battleship Iowa that killed 47 sailors briefly boarded the damaged battleship monday but Navy officials kept his lawyer off the ship. The lawyer Ellis Rubin said he is tired of being Given the runaround and every Dodge and excuse that could pos Sibly exist by Navy officials. Rubin had hoped to examine the battleship s no. 2turret, where a series of explosions killed the sailors april 19. This is memorial Day and what arc they doing instead of saying a prayer for the memory of those Guys who died they re refusing me to go aboard he said at a news conference outside the Neo nazis held in attack on couple la Verne Calif. A pour Neo nazi skinheads at tacked a couple they thought was jewish and a Black Man who tried to help them and were pulling out baseball bats when police arrived officials said monday. Bystanders applauded sunday As police arrested William r. Kilt Ackey 21. Of Yorba Linda his sister Amy 19, of West Covina Scott Wilson 28. Of West Covina and Timothy Zaal 25, of Glendora. The four were booked for investigation of assault and Viola Tion of civil rights and were held in lieu of $50,000 bail each said police sgt. John Ortega. There is Zero tolerance in our City for any racially motivated Cnoc Ortega said. We just will not tolerate that in our  the four apparently stopped just before 5 . Sunday at shopping Center to buy Beer Hen began shouting ethnic insults at a couple they believed to be jewish who were loading Groce Ries into their car. Ortega said. The 30-Ycarold Man was knocked to the ground and kicked inthe Chest he said. The 28-year-old woman was beaten As she tried to protect her 2-Weck-old son. Ortega said. The infant was unharmed. As a Black Man attempted to intervene the four Neo nazis began shouting racial insults at him police said. Once he came to their Aid they even threw a shopping cart at him Ortega said. The victims were treated for bruises and scrapes at the scenery paramedics police said. They were not hospitalized. The victims whose names were withheld by police Are of Middle Eastern descent and speak with accents but officers did i ask them if they arc jewish said officer Edward Carca a who investigated the attack. He said the couple was t wearing any religious garb and there was no indication that they were jewish. Police said the family was from Glendora an Eastern los Angeles county City near la Verne. The four All of whom had shaved Heads or close cropped hair were pulling aluminium baseball bats from their cars As police pulled up Ortega said. They then cooperated with the arresting officers and were taken into custody about five min utes after the incident began he said. The reason they gave for stopping was that the officers were White and they did t want to fight while people Ortega said. Bystanders in the parking lot cheered As the four were Takeaway the sergeant added. Former pos reunited by German phrase Syracuse . A Good Luck bad Teeth and a German phrase combined to reunite two former prison ers of War who had not seen each other since they were freed from a German Camp More than 40 years ago. Bernard Brown and Edward Molnar who live 55 Miles apart were at the Syra Cuse veterans administration medical enter on april 26. Brown saw a dental assistant struggling with a computer and jokingly said Raus Allis kaput a phrase he Learned during 3 a months in the bad orb prison Camp East of Frankfurt Germany. The guards often shouted the phrase loosely translated As out everything s on the  the words startled Molnar 72, who was at the clinic to have a tooth pulled. Molnar looked at Brown and Brown Aid i know you from  a Toon As he mentioned his name remembered right off the Bat Brown 6recalled later. We were both medics attached to the infantry and we worked together in a dispensary at the prison  Brown is a retired insurance agent and Molnar is a retired Broom county sheriffs Deputy. Germans captured the two on dec. 19,1944, during the Baltic of the bulge. The last time they saw each other was april 2, 1945, when . Troops freed them from the prison Camp. They Bot said they plan to keep in Louch. Sands of time Gates of the Norfolk naval base. They re refusing to acknowledge that Truitt was smeared said Rubin a former Navy commander and military  re afraid to explain what  Truiel was reassigned to Mayport naval station fla., after published re ports linked him to the disaster. He has repeatedly denied any involvement in the incident and speculation that he Hada homosexual relationship with one of the sailors who died in the explosion. That Sailor. Gunner s mate 2nd class Layton Hartwig made trill the Benefi Ciary of a $100,000 accidental life insurance policy. Rubin said he has asked rep. Glen Poshard d-ii1., to help launch a congressional inquiry into How and Why an who. Leaked parts of an ongoing investigation to the  Rubin said Trail would answer questions from the House armed services committee. Truitt 21, said he is angered at the Navy s treatment of him. He joined his wife Carole and Rubin in urging the Navy to Issue a formal Public apology. Maybe something in writing some thing not from an unidentified but from an identified Navy  Truitt  something from the  Truitt said he was allowed on the Iowa for Only about 30 minutes to remove his belongings. He said he was accompanied by Navy personnel and not Given any extra time to did Farewell to friends in the Crew. The Guys that i did talk to said i and i wish you Luck " Truitt  new York times reported monday that Navy investigators believe it is unlikely Truitt set off the explosion to kill Han wig and collect on the insurance policy. But the times said investigators arc still looking into the possibility that Hartwig May have set off the blast to commit suicide perhaps out of jealousy Afler Truitt married. The Navy also has considered the possibility that powder used in the firing of the ship s 16-Inch guns was improperly stored and that the Accident which occurred during exercises off puerto Rico May have resulted from human error. Rubin said he believes the Navy Willtry to blame the Accident on Hartwig and Truitt said that would be  Rubin said Truitt still intends to col Lect on Hartwig s insurance policy but noted his client had thought it was a joke when Han wig first offered to make Truitt the beneficiary. After year Long quiet spell Kilauea again on the attack 40 years ago today. In the stars and stripes Kaapana Hawaii a i Lauca the world s most Active Volcano has begun ravaging private property again after a year Long quiet spell. The Volcano destroyed four houses in May for a total of 68 houses destroyed since Kilauea s latest eruption began More than six years  lava overtook the 68th Home saturday and on sunday Cut off the Only Road to 21 surviving Homes in the Royal gardens subdivision said Hawaii county civil defense administrator Harry rim. He said All residents were evacuated before the Road was  most of the past year lava flowing to the Pacific Ocean had been hidden from sight. It was confined inside tubes hidden beneath the Gray moonscape of hardened lava that cuts a two Milc wide Swath through the otherwise Lush Pun coastline on Hawaii Island. But the tubes became partially blocked earlier this month and overflowing lava oozed into the mostly Rural subdivision which has been devastated since the eruption began in january 1983, scientists said. Approximately 40 percent of Kyj Iaukea daily lava output of 500,000 cubic me ters was creeping through the lower por Tion of Royal gardens which stretches up a slope overlooking the Island s South East coast said Reggie Okamura a spokesman for the . Geological sur vey s hawaiian Volcano Observatory. May 31, 1949 despite protests by the roman Catholic Church the czechoslovakian Congress approved a program granting the stale Complete control of education in the country. 30 years ago foday. May 31, 1959 Rodger Ward a 38-year-old former army Pilot from los an Geles won the Indianapolis 500 with a record breaking average Speed of 135 601 Mph defeating Jim Rathmann by 23 seconds. 20 years ago foday. May 31, 1969 at a meeting of nato s nuclear planning group defens Secretary Mclim Laird warned european allies to beef up their conventional forces and not rely on the use of strategic nuclear weapons in the event Ofa Tlack 0 years ago foday. May 31, 1979 dozens of dc-10 jumbo jets were cleared for flight just hours after All of the wide bodied planes were grounded for safety inspections but Federal officials said quite a few of them had failed to pass inspections