European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 21, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7alleged code word has Capitol Hill buzzing Providence . Up a an aide to sen. Claiborne Pell who specializes in paranormal research has been reprimanded for sending defense Secretary Dick Cheney a letter warning that president Bush May have used a code word in speaking on the Gulf crisis. Pella a office issued a statement Friday saying that the aide Scott Jones violated office policy in sending the oct. 3 letter. A the has been reprimanded and we Are confident he will never again do something like this a it said. A we Are convinced that As a retired naval intelligence officer and Friend of Secretary Cheney he was motivated by patriotic concern about National Security but he exercised poor judgment in communicating with the Secretary a office As he  Pell d-., and his staff a regret the episode occurred but now consider it Over a the statement concluded. In the letter Jones told Cheney that the word a a Simone can be heard when speeches by Bush Cheney and Secretary of state James Baker 111 Are played backward. Jones called the procedure a reverse speech therapy a a new technology we Are  a six year Veteran of Pella a staff Jones earns about $50,000 a year and As part of his duties looks into paranormal Phenomena. He told the Providence journal bulletin that he was a a chastised for sending a letter on Senate stationery without approval from Pell or his chief of staff Thomas Hughes or. Pell who is chairman of the foreign relations committee has been the subject of some snickering in Washington because of his interest in esp and other paranormal subjects. He told the newspaper he had never heard of a reverse speech therapy a though he added that he still values the work Jones does for him. Pell is running for a sixth term in the Senate but faces a Tough Challenge from Republican rep. C Lau Dine Schneider. Jones said the theory of a reverse speech therapy is that audio tapes when played backward can reveal hidden or coded thoughts. A Small group of experts mainly in the Field of psychology have been researching the theory and alerted him to the a Simone Quot . Judge told to halt courtroom prayer Raleigh . A a county judge skipped his usual opening prayer for the court Friday after a Federal judge ruled the Blessing unconstitutional. . District judge James Mcmillan ruled thursday that judge Bill Constangy sprayer was tantamount to government establishing religion. The ruling decided a lawsuit against the Mecklenburg District judge by the american civil liberties Union and five Charlotte lawyers who objected to Constangy a morning invocation. A with All due respect for judge Constangy a sincerity i must conclude that his prayer in the courtroom is contrary to the Law of the land a Mcmillan wrote. A judge Constangy sprayer uttered in Good Faith to an audience that May include people of different faiths or no admitted Faith at All is an obvious violation of the first  Constangy said he will Appeal the ruling. A i do not want anybody to be disappointed a said Constangy who was appointed to the Bench in 1989. A this is just the first  each Day since taking office Constangy has recited a 67-word prayer that he composed a ooh lord our god our father in heaven we Pray this morning that you will place your divine guiding hand on this courtroom and that with your mighty outstretched Arm you will protect the innocent give Justice to those who have been harmed and mercy to us All. Let truth be heard and Wisdom be reflected in the Light of your presence Here with us today. Storm damage the remnants of what used to be Paddy a Westerly before a storm hit last week Are Joe and Rhonda Peck. The pecks own a Motel in Misquamicut Beach ., near examined by a Danbury conn., couple summer Home in the area.  Constangy a roman Catholic said he intended the prayer to be a very nonsectarian  a there Are three reasons Why 1 open with prayer a Constangy said. A they Are to express a reverence for god to set proper tone for the court and to continue the american tradition of opening deliberative bodies with  Constangy said that before the lawsuit he heard complaints from Only two attorneys. One of them joined the lawsuit. A. Execution draws chorus of complaints Richmond a. A death penalty opponents believe the states electric chair malfunctioned during the execution of convicted murderer Wilbert Lee Evans. They said witnesses saw the Man bleed profusely when he was electrocuted. But the states corrections director Edward w. Murray on Friday rejected Calls for an investigation of wednesday night s electrocution. A the Man just simply had a nosebleed a its As Plain As that a Murray said. The Virginia coalition on jails and prisons the Virginia association to abolish the death penalty and the american civil liberties Union of Virginia urged an investigation in a letter Friday to Murray. A according to witnesses there is a Strong possibility that the electric chair malfunctioned and that or. Evans Sut feed Quot the letter said. One witness the Rev. Russell. A. Ford said he saw corrections officers and state officials cringe then heard Evans make a sizzling sound when the electric chair was turned on. A something unusual happened the night of the execution i can assure you a said Ford. Woman says last rebel widow has t died Elba Ala. Apr reports that the last Confederate widow died last week surprised an Alabama woman who has evidence that her late husband fought for the South in the civil War. A a in a still Here a said 83-year-old Alberta Martin who married Confederate Veteran William Jasper Martin in december 1927. News reports after the oct. 13 death of Daisy Wilson Cave described the Sumter s.c., woman As the last surviving Confederate widow. But mrs. Martin said Friday that she was 21 and working in a Cotton Mill when she and her husband were married at the Covington county courthouse in South Alabama. She said her husband was about 80 when he died about five years later. Martin was with the 4th Alabama inf in 1864 and 1865, according to the records of his Stepson Harold Farrow of North Little Rock Ark. Mildred Cook president general of the United daughters of the confederacy said mrs. Martin is the Lone surviving Confederate widow affiliated with her 25,000-member organization. Cook said there May be other Confederate widows although she is not aware of any. Farrow a wife Marilyn said her Mother in Law May have been overlooked As a surviving civil War widow because she does not draw a Confederate pension. After Martin died mrs. Martin married his grandson Charlie Martin which apparently made her ineligible for the pension. Mrs. Martin said she can barely remember her husband talking about his wartime experiences. A i heard him talking about Gettysburg a she said. Quot i remember him talking about moving up through the Field picking up potatoes. He said they d come across a Patch of potatoes anything they could come across Quot to eat. Farrow recalled attending his Stepfather a funeral when he was 7 and How he and his half brother William had to relinquish medals the elder Martin had Given them so they could be pinned on his burial clothes. A we had cherished them very much a Farrow said. A i remember crying at the