European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 14, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9surplus sales the defense re utilization and marketing office is conducting several property sales in West Germany this month. The Furth demo will hold a special Sale from 9 . To 1 . Today to dispose of excess household furnishings. Only . Identification card holders May participate. The Sale is in the town of Schwa Bach Bayer at the Schmid and Kahlert warehouse on Piesens Tasse. Among the household items available Are easy chairs sofas several sizes of carpets wardrobe closets dressers bookcases dining room tables with chairs and assorted living room and bedroom tables. Items Are sold As is and payments must be in dollars. Purchases must be removed immediately following the retail Sale. The Meckenheim demo will hold a property Sale from 9 . To 11 . Every Friday. These Public sales take place in building 1040, the Friedrich eld service Center. Items available today include general merchandise carpets household goods and furniture. Each weekly Sale will be different depending on the availability of excess property. Transactions May be in dollars or Marks and All sales Are final. Customers must remove merchandise by 1 30 . The Day of the Sale. Further information is available from the Meckenheim demo at ets 380-6022 or German civilian 0621-473231. The Augsburg demo has planned a property Sale from 9 . To noon on sept. 20 in building 121 on Sheridan Cavern. Only . Identification card holders May attend and All prices will be marked in dollars. Items available include automobiles in a the $200 category a assorted hand tools military sleeping bags used Library books calculators and unclaimed household goods. Furniture items include desks dressers assorted tables sofas and chairs. All sales Are final and customers must remove purchases immediately following the Sale. Further information is available from the demo at ets 434-6268 or German civilian 0821-4487029. European Region demo employees and their family members Are not permitted to make purchases at these retail sales. My acquitted in songs death but convicted of other abuse by Ron Mckinney staff writer Darmstadt West Germany a an army military policeman has been acquitted of murder in the Christmas eve death of his infant son but sentenced to 11 years in prison for earlier attacks on the child. Pfc. Douglas Hailey of the 6th my co in Munster was convicted by a military judge wednesday of attempted murder two counts of assault and making a false sworn statement. He was also reduced to Al and Given a dishonourable discharge. Medical experts who testified at the court martial could not pinpoint what caused the death of 9-month-old Jeremy Hailey. They did establish however that the infant had suffered fractures five times before his death. One of those a severe Skull fracture occurred two months before his death and resulted in the attempted murder conviction. Hailey told authorities that he was holding the child in his left  while making baby formula when the child jerked free falling Back and hitting his head on the Kitchen counter. Hailey a expression remained stoic As the military judge col. Peter e. Brown Back Iii announced the guilty verdicts after deliberating 90 minutes. The Soldier displayed the first sign of emotion moments later As the prosecutor capt. Peter m. Cullen called for a 20-year prison term. At that Point Hailey leaned Forward in his seat looked Down and Shook his head. A i loved him a lot a Hailey told the court before sentencing. The defense attorneys capt. Shawn Kee and John Beffel called several medical authorities to dispute the prosecutions claim that Jeremy a injuries were evidence of a pattern of child abuse. The defense attempted to show that Hailey a wife spec. Caroline Hailey also assigned to the 6th my co May have been involved in the injuries. A there were too Many possible people. Places. Times where Many of these incidents could have occurred a Beffel said in his closing argument. He contended that the Mother was frustrated at work hated her supervisors and did not like living in West Germany. He cited a sept. 16,1989, entry in her diary in which her anger was clean a i feel like tearing someone apart. 1 Haven to gotten out since fort Sam Houston. Ill have to do something about that. You la  during testimony wednesday night the defense attorneys called Sandy Hess a Friend of the Baileys who lives in Neu Ulm where Douglas Hailey had been assigned. The Baileys were frequent weekend guests of the Hess family until Douglas Hailey joined his wife in Munster in september 1989. Hess testified that during those visits Jeremy fell several times from her Couch and once from a bed onto a tile floor. She also said that a neighbourhood girl dropped Jeremy once and that her son May have fallen onto the baby on another occasion. In the prosecutions closing argument Cullen said Hailey was angry because he believed his wife was preoccupied with memories of a former Boyfriend. A it was the easiest Way to lash out at that relationship a Cullen said. A the took out his frustration and anger by abusing that  Cullen also said that not Only did Hailey lie about How Jeremy suffered life threatening injuries but he did nothing to get his son medical Aid. Airlift not affecting Europe mail service by Deedee Arrington Doke Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a West Germany a . Military mail service to Europe is not being affected by the steady flow of aircraft and equipment to operation desert shield military postal authorities said. Rumours that the Middle East crisis has slowed the arrival of mail to military customers in Europe Are a absolutely false a said it. Col. Edward t. Stanford commander of the 7025th air postal so. A there Are no changes in Airlift and no changes in transportation a he said. The Squadron oversees air Force postal operations in Europe. Most mail headed for service members deployed to the Middle East is routed through Heathrow Airport in London on commercial airlines. . Military mail authorities there Only observe and direct the Transfer of that mail to flights headed to the Middle East. A your people at the Heathrow airmail terminal Are watching a lot More transfers now a said maj. Kathleen Tierney the postal squadrons operations director. Mail for troops in England also arrives at Heathrow but is handled by . Military mail handlers at a . Terminal there. Mail for service members assigned to Europe generally goes to a . Military mail terminal at a major Airport within each country where troops Are stationed. In West Germany for example . Mail for military people goes to a military terminal at Frankfurt. The amount of mail headed for serv ice members in the Middle East is expected to increase with the lifting last week of a 12-ounce weight restriction. Backup plans for routing Middle Eastern bound mail through additional carriers and airports such As Brussels Belgium and Paris have been worked out to prevent backlogs in London. But restrictions remain in effect on the types of mail service members can receive while they Are in the Middle East. Publications that feature nude or scantily Clad people a including department store Cata logs and sports magazines swimsuit issues a Are nigh on the list of banned items. Also forbidden Are firearms alcoholic beverages pork and pork byproducts and religious materials that conflict with the teachings of islam the regions dominant religion. A bomb survivors decry pilots sales Toura Schaffenburg go found dead in room Aschaffenbur West Germany a amps a an Aschaffenbur Soldier was found dead in his room Over the weekend a Community spokesman said. The Serviceman was assigned to he co 1st in 7th inf. His name is being withheld until his family has been notified. No other details were available. An investigation is being conducted to determine the cause of  Valley Pioneer Thomas Davis Dies Menlo Park Calif. Apr Thomas Jefferson Davis jr., an investor who helped launch Many Silicon Valley electronics companies has died at a convalescent Hospital. He was 77. The cause of death was not  an article yesterday gave the wrong unit for the Usa eur Soldier of the year. Pfc. Michael s. Brown is assigned to co a 6th in 6th inf regt a 1st army div unit in Bamberg West Germany. Tokyo up a survivors of the . Atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima said thursday they have written a protest letter to the planets Pilot for Selling a bomb Memorabilia in the United states. The Japan confederation of a and a bomb sufferers organizations sent a letter to Paul Tibbets Pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the device asking him to Stop trying to make a profit from their tragedy. The bombing they said killed a innocent people like Mere Worms in the hellish  a a news report says that you have started a tour of Booty hawking a a bomb goods a a said the letter dated sept. 7. A in the name of humanity and along with All the people who love peace we strongly condemn this ant human and immoral  the letter also stated a we want to ask you or. Paul Tibbits How do you see the fact that some 65 percent of the people who died in agony from the bombing. Were children women and the elderly a it was signed by Satoru Konishi the director of the groups International commission and himself a victim of the Hiroshima bombing. The group also sent Tibbets two volumes of eyewitness accounts of the aug. 6, 1945, bombing that killed 140,000 people. The Asahi Shimun a major japanese newspaper reported in August that Tibbets was touring the United states Selling a bomb Memorabilia. The group wrote Tibbets in response to the news Story a spokeswoman said. The Japan confederation of a and a bomb sufferers organizations has approximately 200,000 members. They estimate that 360,000 people in Japan Are still suffering from the aftereffects of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A you and president Harry Truman killed those innocent people like Mere Worms in the hellish conflagration a the letter said. A and another hundreds of thousands who barely escaped the immediate death had to suffer from acute symptoms and delayed effects of the a bomb radiation. A have you Ever turned your ears to the Appeal from the hib Kusha bomb victims a the letter asked. Child abuse allegations still being probed Wiesbaden West Germany a amps a army criminal investigators Are continuing to probe allegations of child abuse by a Wiesbaden child care worker following a Community review boards dismissal of the Case a Community spokesman said. The family advocacy Case management team a multidisciplinary review Board found at a meeting aug. 21 that allegations against the 21-year-old caregiver were not substantiated Community spokesman George Polich said. The employee a family member who no longer works at the Center was alleged to have roughly handled children at the Haine Berg child development Center on four occasions during a six month period. A was far As the Community is concerned the Case is reviewed and closed a he said. A it there was definitely no child  five workers at the Center reported the alleged incidents in which infants and preschool children were harshly treated. The Center located in the Haine Berg housing area cares for 40 children