European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 3, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 5cheaper air fares prompt ticket frenzy by Edwin Mcdowell the new York times the half Price fare War touched off among the nations airlines last week has ignited one of the most frantic ticket scrambles in the history of the Industry. Prospective passengers have swamped reservations systems and ticket offices hoping to buy tickets before the Sale ends Friday. Volume is so heavy that the airlines have put employees on mandatory overtime cancelled Days off and pressed every available hand to help. Moreover new bookings Are so heavy that airline executives who at first expected the lower fares to plunge the Industry deeper into debt now say the carriers could at least break even on the Sale because of the extraordinarily High response. The tickets which must be bought by Friday Are valid for travel through sept. 13, the weekend after labor Day. They must be purchased at least seven Days in Advance and include a saturday stay Over. Not every seat is available on every flight and seats Are filling up fast on popular routes such As new York to los Angeles or san Francisco on which the round trip fare is $200. Spokesmen for the carriers however said seats were still available in almost every Market. A but passengers should have a flexible game plan a said Neil Monroe a spokesman for Delta air lines a because seats they want May already be sold out on the flight they  Delta said the response was so a a incredible that 3.2 million Telephone Calls clogged its 19 reservations centers last Friday almost 13 times the 250,000 Calls on a Normal Friday. It said Calls had abated Only slightly. The airline which normally closes some reservations centers in the evening has kept All 19 operating around the clock. Northwest Orient airlines which touched off the fare War a week ago tuesday with its two for one offer said that new bookings were up 563 percent on sunday compared with the previous sunday and that volume was still heavy monday. Last week Northwest said an adult and a child could travel on the same flight within the contiguous 48 states for the Price of one ticket. That Sale caused a run on Northwest and the other carriers that matched it. The run turned into a Stampede the next Day when american airlines countered with half Price fares for everyone. At that Point most of the Industry matched american including Northwest though Northwest continues to promote its family plan. American said it received More than 100,000 Calls by noon monday about 35 percent higher than Normal. And was getting about 15,000 Calls an hour at its busiest times. Tim Smith a spokesman for american said new bookings outnumbered a bookings 2-to-l on the first Day of the Sale and had since surged so that the current ratio is 9-to-l. A if that pattern keeps up a Smith said Quot the Sale has the potential for being Revenue  the response at United continued to be tremendous through the weekend said Joe Hopkins a spokesman. The airlines received up to 12,000 phone Calls an hour about double the Normal level he said. Like other carriers United has people working overtime and has cancelled Days off. Swamped is How Patricia Goldman of us air described the situation. Calls on sunday were twice the Normal level she said and lines a have been out the door at most of its ticket offices. The Call volume has been so heavy that the carriers usual 20-Sccond response time now averages 11 minutes. Continental airlines said it received a million Calls Friday five to six times Normal and its volume remained tremendously heavy. Unlike rival carriers Continentals half Price fares Are available Only for off Peak flights a tuesday and wednesday plus noon saturday to noon sunday. In the. Stars and s 1 Hlf to s10 year Sago june 3,1982 a the Board of police commissioners issued an official reprimand to los Angeles police chief Daryl f. Gates for his published statement that police choke holds May affect some Blacks differently than a Normal people.�?�20 year Sago june 3,1972 a the civil aeronautics Board ruled that  service members defense department employees and their families As Well As All military retirees could no longer take military air charter flights.30 years ago june 3,1962 a a 16-year-old girl was shot and her girl companion was reportedly dragged through an East German Border Fence by Eastern Border guards. West Berlin police said two other West Berlin youths were also dragged through a barbed wire Fence into East germany.40 years ago june 3,1952 a the . Supreme court invalidated president Truman s seizure of the steel Industry and the steel unions president Philip Murray ordered his 650,000 United steelworkers to strike immediately. The court ruled that Truman a april 8 seizure of the steel Mills was unconstitutional.  d 50 years ago today 3 june1 a 9 4 2 . Reconnaissance planes flying from Midway Island locate part of tee approaching japanese invasion Flat about 600 Miles to tee West but attacks by army air forces bombers cause no damage. The american carriers Enterprise Yorktown and Hornet move to 200 mile6 North of Midway the . Ships carry about 250 planes compared with about 330 on the tour japanese carriers. Senator to propose handgun ban but even gun control advocate wary Providence . A sen. John h. Chafee , said monday that he plans to introduce legislation to ban handguns with provisions for the government to buy Back weapons from gun owners. Chafee said americans own an estimated 67 million handguns More than twice As Many As 20 years ago and the guns contribute at least $4 billion a year to health care costs. A this staggering shameful carnage and the costs a both human and financial a that accompany it should hold no place in our society a Chafee said at a news conference. A pretty soon a handgun death is going to affect every family in  the proposed Bill would establish a Grace period during which handguns could be turned in. Gun owners would receive the fair Market value of the gun or $25, whichever was greater. Chafee conceded there was Little Chance the Bill would be passed this year. Chafee said he would not try to persuade president Lush to support the Bill concentrating instead on lobbying his congressional colleagues. Gwen Fitzgerald spokeswoman for the Washington based handgun control inc., said Chafee a proposal went beyond the organizations goals which have included enacting waiting periods and background Chafee checks for gun buyers. A we would Stop Short of this Type of Effort to get at the problem a she said. A we believe there Are ways to get guns out of the hands of criminals and yet not inhibit Law abiding  Bill Mcintyre a spokesman for the National Rifle association scoffed at the proposal saying it violated constitutional guarantees regarding weapons Possession. Quot his proposal is no better than Banning cars to solve drunk driving or Banning religion because a criminal televangelist fleeces his flock a Mcintyre said. He added a How is sen. Chafee going to come up with prison space to incarcerate 65 million Law abiding gun owners who May not turn in their guns a explosives Lead to Beach evacuation Virginia Beach a. A hundreds of Beach goers were evacuated after a 5-year-old boy found a Squishy Ball of duct tape that exploded when he tossed it near the Waters Edge. No one was injured sunday but two similar devices were found on the Beach. One already had been detonated and police blew up the other. Authorities were fearful More might exist. The boy Kyle Peterson found the 2-Inch, cube shaped device near the water and tossed it around for a while with his 8-Ycar-old sister police and fire officials said. The device exploded after the youngster gave it a final toss toward the water but missed and it landed on Sand. A it sounded like a gunshot a said Julie Peterson the boys Mother. A then 1 saw this smoke around him and he came running Over to  police spokesman Lewis b. Thurston said he does no to believe the explosives washed up on Shore. Beach goers had reported seeing people throwing a firecracker Type things from the balconies of nearby hotels he said. A maybe these were the items they were throwing out a Thurston said. He refused to disclose the Type of explosive used in the devices. A they done to want a lot of people trying to copycat this thing a Thurston said. After sweeping the area police reopened the Beach about three hours later. Some visitors were frustrated by the Days events. A first it Rains and Rains and Rains a said Henry g. Moore of Philadelphia. A then we finally get on the Beach and it blows  new evidence key to arrest in actor s slaying cd 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith a shers inc. World almanac Book of world ii Bison books corp. 1961 Phoenix a a Friend of hogans heroes Star Bob Crane who Long Nad been considered the prime suspect in his slaying 14 years ago was arrested monday on a murder warrant in California. New evidence helped Lead to the arrest of John Henry Carpenter 64, said Richard Romley attorney for Maricopa county Ariz. Romley  detail the evidence but the murder complaint indicated it entered partly on a determination that human tissue possibly brain matter was found in carpenters rental car. Carpenter was arrested in a los Angeles suburb and made a Brief court appearance monday acknowledging he was the person sought by Arizona authorities. He was held without bail until a july 1 hearing. His attorney Gary Fleischman said outside court that his client was eager to Speed his return to Arizona to Clear his name. He said Montley was Basing his Case largely on the same evidence available since the june 1978 killing. Crane played the title role in the comedy series that ran on lbs from 19651971. His body was found in his Scottsdale apartment with a crushed Skull and a Cord wrapped around the neck. The murder complaint also showed that authorities now identify the murder weapon As a camera tripod and that one was missing from cranes room. A rental car driven by Carpenter had smears of blood on the inside of the Pas Senger door. Tests showed it was Type a the same As cranes but genetic testing was inconclusive because the Sample was too Small authorities said. Carpenter has Type a blood. The complaint said Crane was the Only person with Type a blood to ride in the car while Carpenter had it. The murder complaint also said human tissue was found on the car door. Authorities said monday that the tissue determined to be either brain matter or fatty tissue had been found at the outset but was later overlooked. Carpenter and Crane were known to have argued in a nightclub two Days before Crane died. Carpenter was the last person known to have talked with Crane y phone the Day he was killed and Carpenter left Scottsdale that morning