European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 3, 1991 the stars and stripes b 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 Quot 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 arc 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 organize 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 sundays admissions to the aids foundation. A 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 awards 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 8 h 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  deny huge award in airline Downing Washington a the supreme court refused monday to reinstate a $50 million award to the families of passengers killed when a korean air lines Jet was shot Down by the soviet Union in 1983. The court without comment let stand a ruling that Shields International airlines from huge awards in air disasters. The justices also rejected an Appeal by korean air lines challenging a jury a finding that the airlines wilful misconduct led to the soviet attack. All 269 people aboard Kal flight 007 from new York City to Seoul South Korea died sept. 1, 1983, when a soviet military aircraft shot Down the plane Over the sea of Japan. Among the victims was rep. Lawrence Mcdonald a a. The Jet for reasons still a mystery had strayed several Hundred Miles into soviet airspace. Families of the victims said in a Federal lawsuit that the Jet ended up in soviet airspace because of a flight course error that was apparent shortly after Takeoff. The families said Crew members tried to cover up the mistake by continuing on the erroneous course fearing they would be suspended from their jobs if they owned up to the mistake. Airline officials said there was insufficient evidence to support that theory. They also said the theory improperly received backing from an inconclusive report by the International civil aviation organization. The report should not have been admitted As evidence the airlines lawyers said. They also objected to admission of a report in which the soviet Union claimed the Jet was a spy plane. A jury awarded $50 million to 137 plaintiffs after finding the airline engaged in wilful misconduct which includes reckless behaviour or intentional actions Likely to result in injury. The . Circuit court of appeals in Washington overturned the award in May. The appeals court said the jury had enough evidence to decide the airline was guilty of wilful misconduct even though a no one knows exactly what happened. But the appeals court said the damage award May not stand because of the so called Warsaw convention which limits the amount of compensation for a passengers death or injuries on an International flight to $75,000.segregationist 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 it 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 for 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 a fat eals for the 11th circuit in at Anta. In 1966, Allgood sentenced Eugene Thomas one of three Kun flux klansmen 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. He 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