European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday. September 24.1989 top american songwriter Irving Berlin Dies at 101 from Page 1 come Hils Over and Over performed by such artists As Frank Sinatra barbra Streisand and Diana Ross. Asap re cords show that 25 of his songs have topped the popular music charts. Blue  a top hit when he penned it in 1926. Reached the Chart again 51 years Jalar on an album by country Singer Willie Nelson. Berlin played the piano by car and never stopped making what he described As songs with  even in his 90s, he talked of adding yet another musical to his credits which included 19 stage musicals and 15 movie scores. Berlin along with 11 other american immigrants received a medal from then president Reagan during the statue of lib erty  in july 1986. On learning of Berlin s death Reagan said Nancy and i Are deeply saddened by the death of a wonderfully talented Man whose musical Genius delighted and stirred millions and will live on  always a private Man Berlin declined to attend a Carnegie Hall gala led by Sinatra and Leonard Bernstein to Mark Berlin s 100th birthday on May 11,1988. He was mourned by artists from across the spectrum of american music. Actress and dancer Ginger Rogers remembered Berlin with a bit of song from his Cheek to Check from the movie top  heaven. I m in heaven she Sang then broke off. It was like heaven she said describing the thrill of working with Berlin and Fred Astaire. The biggest names on Broadway played in his musical successes which began in the world War i Era with watch your  starring Irene and Vernon Castle and ran through such Post world War ii hits As Annie get your gun and Call me Madam both with Ethel Merman. A pretty girl is like a Melody one of Many Berlin wrote for the Ziegfeld follies became the unofficial theme Berlin in 1968 left and As a i Soldier in a Vii this is the army show. Song for every Ziegfeld extravaganza. In Hollywood Berlin did the scores of top hat starring Astaire and Rogers Holiday inn with Astaire and bin Crosby Blue skies easter Parade White Christmas and there s no business like show  his last Broadway show was or. President in 1962. His last song. An old fashioned wedding was published in1966. His music publishing Empire earned him a Fortune which he readily shared with his country in wartime or with favorite causes. Since 1939, the boy scouts and girl scouts of America have been getting the royalties from god bless  Berlin was awarded three medals for his works and a special Tony award for his contribution to the musical theater. He won a congressional medal for the acclaimed world War it musical. This is the army and the Academy award for Bessong of 1942 for while  Berlin was brought up in poverty amid the immigrant swarm on Manhattan s lower East Side. Born Israel Baline on May 11, 1888, he was 5 when his family emigrated from Termun in Eastern Russia. He was one of eight children and acquired his earliest musical education from his father a Cantor. But his father s death put an end to Berlin s formal education and at age 8, he went from the second Grade to the streets to earn a  As Izzy Berlin sold newspapers guided a Blind singing beggar and worked in vaudeville. In 1907, he wrote the words to his first song Marie of sunny Italy in collaboration with the piano player at the Chinatown bar where he worked As a singing waiter. The song earned him 37 cents in royalties and a new name the Sheet music cover erroneously credited the words to"1.  in 1911, at the age of 23, he was contributing songs to the Ziegfeld follies. His Alexander s ragtime band with its ragged meter ushered jazz onto the popular scene and established Berlin As a master of tin pan Alley. Berlin s marriage to Dorothy got the following year ended after six months when his Bride died of typhoid contracted during their honeymoon in Havana. In his grief Berlin composed "when1 lost  his marriage in 1926 to Ellin Macka followed one of the most widely reported courtship of the decade. His wife s father a prominent roman Catholic Lay Man and head of postal Telegraph co., had opposed the Union. Berlin s wife died Ofa stroke at 85 in july 1988. Berlin is survived by his three Daugh ters Mary Ellin Linda and Elizabeth. Hugo from Page 1 in Good shape said North Charleston mayor John e. Bourne jr., in a wry observation about the primitive conditions. Riley said damage in Charleston alone might reach $1 billion but accurate assessments of the destruction would Lake Days at the least. It was the Region s most devastating storm in 30 years. Hugo which first struck land at the Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe on monday travelled 2,500 Miles before slam Ming into Charleston with winds of 135 Mph. As it made its Way Inland it was downgraded to a tropical storm and lost that designation when its winds dropped below 40 Mph around Pittsburgh late Friday. By saturday morning Hugo s remnants had been absorbed by a stronger weather front in Eastern Canada. In South Carolina where police reported isolated cases of looting the governor deployed 2,600 members of the National guar to enforce a 7 . To 7 . Curfew help remove debris purify water and perform other duties. President Bush declared seven South Carolina coun ties with a total of 750,000 residents a disaster area freeing up Federal Aid. Along the coast Folly Beach Isle of Palms Pawley Island Myrtle Beach Cherry Grove and Garden City were devastated. Residents of the Isle of Palms and sullivans Island which were among the hardest hit Barrier islands were kept from even inspecting their Homes because the swing Bridge that provided the Only link to the Mainland was knocked out. It was unclear when residents would be permitted to return to their Homes on the Barrier islands. But mayor Carmen Bunch said homeowners would not be allowed Back to the Isle of Palms before sunday or monday. Although Charleston a City of 65,000 people look the full Force of Hugo most of its historic antebellum mansions facing Charleston Harbor survived. Fort Sumter the first Union stronghold fired upon by the confederacy it the beginning of the civil War suffered $1 million damage from a 17-foot Wall of water Federal officials said. Cocaine from Page 1 lion if Colombia would end the War declared on drug traffickers after Justice min ister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was murdered. The government rejected the offer but a few weeks later the army stopped confiscating property of suspected traffickers. My Dullin mayor Juan Gomez Marti Nez has been the biggest advocate of negotiations with drug traffickers. A . Embassy official said earlier this month that the traffickers specific demands have included full pardons in Exchange for removing All of their drug operations from Colombia perhaps to Bolivia and Peru. The officials also said traffickers offered to invest pan of their fortunes in helping government Security forces rid the country of leftist guerrillas. Barco has refused to negotiate with the traffickers. Forbes Magazine recently ranked Escobar As having Between $2 billion and$3 billion. Colombian Media have re ported that All five members of the me Dullin Cartel arc billionaires. The . Justice department has Given priority to the capture and extradition of 12 colombians facing drug charges in the United states including Escobar and Rodriguez. None of the 12 has been captured. Also saturday colombian newspapers reported an army claim that two suspects time to fall Back it s time for that biannual chore of springing Forward or falling Back. If you Haven t turned your clocks Bacone hour now is the time to do it. Most of Western Europe went Back to Centra european time at 2 . Today inhabitants of Britain and Ireland Wilt turn their clocks Back one hour on oct. 22, when the United kingdom returns to Greenwich mean time. In Galan s killing had confessed. The claim was made Friday in a new conference despite the fact that the two men have not been questioned or charged by civilian authorities. The newspapers quoted Gen. Ramon nibbles As saying the army now knows who hired the two men it says confessed to kill ing Galan the leading presidential Candi Date when he was assassinated aug. 18 at Bogota rally. But the reports said the Gencur Al did not say who ordered the killing. Galan s killing led the government to declare an All out War on drug traffickers. The two men who confessed were Partosa band called the Blackis the general was quoted As saying. Two other men in the band Are thought to have set off a500-Pound bomb sept. 2 that seriously damaged the Bogota daily Al  four men were captured thursday in a House in Bogota where the army found weapons ammunition and 220 pounds of dynamite packed under a car scat the general said. Twice before police have said they captured Galan s killers once firemen and once 11 men. Both times the suspects were released after a few Days. The army has a reputation of forcing confessions from people who later recant in civilian courts. Colombia s armed forces have the authority to arrest and detain people under a state of siege. 265 vehicles involved in 5 pileup in Bavaria Munich West Germany a heavy fog and High speeds caused five huge pileup saturday involving at least 265 vehicles on autobahn in Bavaria police and radio reports said. West German radio reports said 6 people were seriously Hurt on the Auto Bahns the West German highways where there Are no Speed limits. Bavarian police blamed the crack  on excessive speeds combined with dense fog. At least 150 of the vehicles were involved in two separate accidents both on the autobahn linking Nurnberg and Wurzburg