European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 5 grandmother 77, ordered jailed refuses to cooperate in child custody fight Newport . Apr a 77-year-old grandmother went to jail monday because she refused to Tell a judge where her daughter and granddaughters have been for five years in a child custody dispute. Mary Pigeon said nothing As she stood before Superior court judge Mark a. Pfeiffer for the five minute hearing. She has remained silent or has denied knowing the trios whereabouts during previous hearings. Pfeiffer has accused her of lying. By noon she was being processed through prison Security headed for the minimum Security Section of the adult correctional institutions in Cranston a prison spokesman said. Pfeiffer who had Given Pigeon until monday to Tell him where her daughter Elaine Yates and the girls were hiding said she would remain in prison until she talked. A i feel very sad about it and i wish Elaine would come Home a Pigeon said later As she and her lawyer pushed through a mob of reporters outside the courthouse. A please come Home Darling with your children. We All love  but Neil Philbin attorney for Russell m. Yates jr., the girls father put Little Stock in mrs. Pigeons denials of knowing where her daughter and granddaughters Are. A i believe Elaine will know within the hour what has happened this morning. She is so ruthless that she would allow her Mother to stay in prison rather than return the children a Philbin said. Mrs. Yates and the children Kimberly Ann then 3, and Kelly Ann then 10 months left their Warwick Home in August 1985 after mrs. Yates found her husband with another woman on the family boat. Yates later acknowledged hitting his wife and cutting her forehead with a Diamond ring when they argued about the incident. After she left he sued for the children a custody and won when mrs. Yates did not contest it. He then sued mrs. Pigeon seeking the girls return. The couple has not divorced because Yates says he does not want to give his wife the Legal Opportunity to change her and the girls names. Sending his Mother in Law to prison a does no to faze me a Yates said. A Why should it she a going there by her own  Pfeiffer already has ruled that Pigeon participated in the abduction of her granddaughters and conspired with her daughter to keep them from their father. The judge said he disliked sentencing her to prison until she talked a but we want compliance with the courts  when Pigeon again refused to talk her lawyer Daniel Schrock immediately requested that she be placed in the minimum Security prison and that he be allowed to drive her there instead of having her taken by state marshals. Pfeiffer granted both requests. Yates said he remained optimistic Pigeon would reveal the location of his daughters. Schrock said he might ask the judge to review the Case in a month or two. Pigeon also was ordered to pay Yates $23,000 in damages but has yet to do so. Beginning in May she also performed about 150 hours of Community service at the society for Young victims in Newport. A enough is enough. I think she knows. I think no one thought this would happen that she would end up in jail a said june Vlasaty director of the society. Quot its terrible. I done to want to see anyone smother end up in  Pfeiffer had said he hoped working with the child finding Agency would make Pigeon sympathetic to Yates plight but later conceded it Wasny to working. Yates said he was pleased with the Prospect of Pigeon going to jail but sceptical about whether his Mother in Law would relent. A a she la sit in prison until hell freezes Over a he  House honors 13 . Artists patrons Washington apr president Bush presented the National medal of arts on monday to 13 american artists and patrons whom he credited with helping define America and make it a a cultural  the recipients at the East room ceremony included Broadway director George Abbott who is 103, and Hume Cronyn who took a Bow when the president revealed that Barbara Bush was a secretly in love with the 79-year-old actor. Among the other medal winners were Painter Jasper Johns Soprano Beverly Sills blues guitarist . King choreographer Merce Cunningham and actress Jessica Tandy Cronyn a wife who missed the event. Also landscape architect Ian Mcharg and Painter Jacob Lawrence As Well As Art patrons David Lloyd Kreeger of Washington and Harris and Carroll Mas Terson of Houston. The southwestern Bell corp. Was honoured for its corporate sponsorship of the arts. Mrs. Bush helped present the Silver medals to each artist and Patron. It was the sixth year the White House has bestowed the honors which Are organized by the National endowment for the arts. A embracing an Era that reaches Back As far As George Abbotts birth in 1887 and representing Many generations of american Talent our artists stand alongside the artists who helped define America no longer just another sprawling Industrial nation but one of the cultural giants of the world a he said. A most had Humble beginnings. I think of Jessica Tandy sewing her own costumes in a backroom theater in Soho. . King touring backstreet bars and dance Halls. For Over 20 years before most americans would Ever even hear his  Bush recalled his wife a advice to Wellesley College graduates last june to a go out and seek their own True colors and said that so exactly what our Honoreen have  a actor Hume Cronyn accepts a medal for himself and another for his wife actress Jessica Tandy from mrs. Bush As the president applauds. Tandy did not attend the East room ceremony. Ohio ruling could free some battered syndrome inmates Columbus Ohio apr nearly 100 women could get out of prison in Ohio because they were convicted before a court ruling that said battered woman syndrome can be used As a defense in killings or assaults. The Ohio parole Board has held hearings in 86 cases and at least 11 More Are planned. The Board is deciding whether to recommend clemency Mary Helen Van Dyke spokeswoman for the department of rehabilitation and correction said monday. No recommendations have yet been sent to gov. Richard Celeste who has the authority to reduce sentences or Issue pardons. Recommendations were expected to be sent to the governor in about two weeks Van Dyke said. There were 2,026 women in the states penal system As of monday. Van Dyke said the Ohio supreme court decision in March would not affect the vast majority of them. Celeste supported the court decision and a new Law permitting expert testimony on battered woman syndrome a psychological state brought on by Lon term abusive relationships. The decision and the new Law made Ohio the last state in the nation to allow such testimony said state rep. Joseph Koziura whose Bill becomes Law nov. 5. The court said an expert could testify against misconceptions that women enjoy the beatings and that they intentionally provoke their husbands into  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 12, 1950 a a troop train carrying hundreds of National guardsmen to Indiana for combat training was rammed by a passenger train in heavy fog in Newcomerstown Ohio killing at least 32.30 years ago today. Sept. 12, 1960 a Hurricane Donna leaving a Trail of destruction nearly the entire length of Florida swept out to sea but warning flags remained unfurled along the coast of the carolinas.20 years ago today. Sept. 12, 1970 a Israel submitted to the United states its biggest request for military hardware since the creation of the state in 1948, House armed services committee members reported.10 years ago today. Sept. 12, 1980 a Secretary of defense Harold Brown reported that problems with the dual nature of Home divisions meant that a some army divisions in the United states would not be completely prepared for Battle