European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 3, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7 Day without Art night without Light museums remove paintings cities Darken skylines to Honor aids Day from wire reports activists darkened skylines around the nation to mourn thousands of Bright stars killed by the deadly aids virus. Some 1,000 cultural organizations around the country also presented special programs or speakers on sunday to Mark world aids Day. A Day without arts and a night without Light programs were held to dramatize the epidemic that experts say now kills one person every 10 minutes in the United states. In new York City several landmark buildings turned their lights off for 15 minutes As a memorial to the victims. Among the structures participating by dimming their lights the United nations Empire state building world Trade Center Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler building. Broadway Heaters also joined in. A we Are dimming the Manhattan Skyline. In tribute to people with aids a said Alexander Gray a spokesman for visual aids a collective of arts professionals who organized the Day in response to the number of people who die of aids. A it is the same As a moment of silence in terms of mourning and raising awareness a Gray said. A a it a a Way for the City to show its sorrow for the lives lost to  new Yorkus museum of modern Art put up 13 framed Blank papers and canvases to a represent All the works that will never get shown because of aids said Robert Storr of the museum projects committee. The names of people who died of aids were read aloud at the museum for five hours. A Bell tolled there and at the studio museum of Harlem every 10 minutes to Mark another death from aids. The Art Institute of Chicago temporarily removed one of its famous impressionist paintings Claude Monetes on the Seine at Benne court from Public View hanging a sign of explanation in its place. Museum directors said in a statement that they made the gesture to a signify the tremendous loss that continues to be suffered by the arts Community As a result of the Impact and consequences of  Chicago a museum of contemporary Art also marked the Day of mourning donating All the proceeds from sunday s admissions to the aids foundation. A we re hoping it will Jar some people to go out and take some action to protect themselves or protect others a said Jeff Abell spokesman for Chicago s Day without Art. At dusk sunday skylines in san Francisco Chicago Miami and Austin Texas dimmed for 15 minutes in the a night without Light project. Chicago City officials marked the devastation brought by aids by dimming the lights of the City s Christmas tree for an hour sunday just two Days after mayor Richard Daley pulled a switch lighting the tree. In St. Petersburg fla., people wore red ribbons at the Salvador Dali museum and other galleries in a Community program promoting aids awareness. The Colorado aids project scheduled a candlelight Vigil at the state Capitol in Denver. In Washington 150 people turned out in the rain to Light candles and 2,200 Christmas lights dedicated to aids victims at the Whitman Walker clinic. Christian and jewish clergy shared a message of Comfort Joy and Hope with a crowd that included Many aids patients and friends and family of aids victims. In Seattle 1,600 panels of the 14,000-panel International aids memorial quilt were displayed. The local chapter of act up the aids coalition to unleash Power rallied to promote Needle exchanges and drug treatment programs. In Russia where homosexuality is a crime members of the russian Union of Gays and lesbians passed out free  condoms and Safe sex literature outside Moscow City Hall. A most people said a thank you give us More a a said Marina Demkina 28. At Tel Aviv University condoms were handed out and a quilt bearing names of israeli aids victims was displayed. Israeli radio stations featured interviews with health officials and aids patients a the latter with their voices disguised. The american University in Cairo a aids aware activists in the group act up perform a a die in sunday in Boston to Mark world aids Day. Ness Day featured a videotape of magic Johnson the Aba Star who retired when he Learned he carried the aids virus. In Britain Princess Diana was an honoured guest at a Benefit dance and a Chapel was dedicated As a Sanctuary for prayers concerning aids. The French put candles in their windows. About 1,000 members of act up marched in Paris where a Christmas tree was Hung with 800 ornaments signifying 800 children afflicted with aids. In Belgium an aids information group held a movie premiere for the Fisher King. The fourth National medical conference on aids started monday in  to decide How pop artist Warhol died new York a shortly before his death Andy Warhol had a premonition he was going to Check into a Hospital and die. Warhol proved prescient on feb. 22, 1987, the Pale Prince of pop Art passed away in new York Hospital. But attorneys for the late artists estate say Warhol Wasny to psychic a the Hospital and its staff were simply negligent. Today nearly five years after Warhol a death a jury will begin hearing evidence in the Case. A a we re not saying new York Hospital killed Andy Warhol a said Steven Hayes the attorney representing the Warhol estate. A a we re saying there was am inadequate level of care and attention paid to  jury selection was completed last week in the malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit being heard in state supreme court in Manhattan. The wrongful death lawsuit names As defendants the Hospital plus 11 individuals two doctors staff nurses and interns and a private duty nurse assigned to Warhol a room. Hayes says the lawsuit is seeking several million dollars on behalf of Warhol a Brothers John and Paul Warhol. Pretrial depositions from friends of the late artist revealed Warhol a eerie feeling about a final trip to the Hospital the iconoclastic celebrity had a lifelong fear of such facilities. These facts Are not in dispute his doctor of 27 years Denton Cox put Warhol in the Hospital on feb. 20. Or. Boom Thor Bjarnarson performed surgery on the artists gangrenous Gall bladder on feb. 21. Warhol was dead before the Sun came up on feb. 22. After Warhol a death the Hospital said the artist was in stable condition following Gall bladder surgery but then suffered a fatal heart attack in his sleep. Hayes presents a far More sinister version of Warhol a final hours the artist in a weakened condition after Gall bladder surgery is pumped full of fluids via an intravenous Hookup. The Hospital nurses fail to Monitor Warhol a fluid output and intake although he is not getting rid of much fluid the in continues unabated. Warhol a lungs begin to fill with fluid eventually causing his heart to Stop. No one checks on his condition As it worsens and he Dies. A basically we re contending or. Warhol drowned from the inside a Hayes  judge Dies of apparent suicide by the new York times Clarence w. Allgood the Federal judge in Birmingham ala., who dismissed a 1963 Appeal by 1,100 Black students suspended for demonstrating against segregation died of a gunshot wound Over the weekend. He was 89 years old. Allgood a body was found at his Home on saturday by his son and a handgun was nearby reports said. A everything indicates it was self inflicted a sgt. Lafa ree King Walker of the Birmingham police said. Allgood served on the Federal Bench for More than 50 years starting As a Federal bankruptcy judge in 1938. In working out bankruptcy settlements a judge Allgood fought . Steel and some other people a said Stephen Coleman jr., the son of one of Allgood a colleagues on the bankruptcy court and a co author of a biography of the Veteran Jurist. A at that time if a Man got several garnishments the big corporations would just fire them. Largely due to the efforts of judge Allgood that  president John f. Kennedy nominated him Tor a Federal judgeship in 1961. In the 1963 school Case the 1,100 students Cut classes and marched in the streets. The Birmingham Board of education announced that those under the age of 16 would be suspended and the rest would be expelled from school. Black leaders went to court demanding that the students be reinstated on the ground that they had been illegally barred from the schools without hearings. Allgood who was considered a segregationist dismissed their plea. He was soon overruled by chief judge Elbert p. Tuttle of the . Court of appeals for the 11th circuit in Atlanta. In 1966, Allgood sentenced Eugene Thomas one of three Kun flux klans Meri charged in the slaying of Viola Liuzzo to two Allgood years in prison for a Federal fire arms violation. He imposed the sentence after a jury found Thomas guilty of failing to Register a sawed off Shotgun and pay taxes on it. The weapon had been taken from Thomas Home by Fri agents. Liuzzo was slain on March 2, 1965, after aiding desegregation efforts in the South. Born in Birmingham on sept. 12, 1902, Allgood attended Howard College in that City for three years. After transferring to Auburn University where he received his bachelors degree in 1926, he lost both legs when he fell under a train. He and some friends had been sneaking a ride on a Boxcar Coleman said. A at their destination a said an account prepared by the Birmingham historical society a they jumped off but Clarence was struck from behind by a swinging door from the freight car and fell beneath the  Allgood Learned to walk again using artificial legs. In the 1950s he helped to found the crippled children a clinic in Birmingham. President Franklin d. Roosevelt appointed him to the bankruptcy Post and judge Allgood went Back to school taking courses in Law at night. He received his Law degree from the Birmingham school of Law in 1942. Lie was Given senior status As a judge several years ago and had been hearing cases with the court of appeals for the 11th circuit. In addition to his son Clarence w. Allgood jr., he is survived by five grandchildren