European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. January 30, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 82-year-old Man awakens after Coroner s staff arrives from wire reports san Leandro Calif. An 82-year-old Manas found stiff and cold on his bedroom floor and authorities thought he was dead until he Gaspe faintly at the Flash of a Coroner s camera. Frederic Green was in critical condition Friday inthe intensive care unit at san Leandro Hospital spokeswoman Barbara Maroni said. He was being treated for a number of problems and doctors believe he suffered a stroke she said. A neighbor called police after noticing two weeks of mail and newspapers piling up outside Green s door. Officers broke into the House wednesday an found Green on the floor. He did not appear to be breathing his flesh Felt hard and chilled and the stench of decay permeated the House. As is routine in cases where someone Dies alone a Coroner s office technician was sent to gather evidence and take  the technician s camera flashed there was a very soft gasp or other slight sign of life it. Dennis Lover told the Oakland Tribune. Booby trap injures teen Jacksonville Fla. A Man trying to thwart burglars Booby trapped a compact disc player that later blew up burning a teen Ager s face police said. Johnny Pennington 43, was charged with constructing an explosive  powder packed cd player exploded dec. 26, three Days after it was stolen when 16-year-Oldricky Barton plugged it in. The teen Ager had received the cd player As a Christmas  boy s Mother Trudy Barton 31, was charged with making a false police report for allegedly telling police she got the cd player at a Flea  actually had bought it for $30 on the Street police said. Student dials up trouble Beaver Falls a. Revenge had a familiar ring for a student bothered by noise in his dormitory he rigged his computer to dial up seve College administrators four times in one night. The stunt earned Geneva College senior Mark Schaefer a one week suspension and 200 hours of Community  think it s a Little bit stiff but it s better than being kicked out he  said the dormitory s malfunctioning Security system kept sounding an alarm nearly every time the front door opened and two months of complaints went  president Jack White one recipient of the Calls said the administration should have Bee More responsive to the problem with the door. 2 firefighters die in Blaze Philadelphia a fire that quickly engulfed Church killed two firefighters and injured at least eight others  fire began in the basement of the rising Sun Baptist Church and required 135 firefighters from throughout the City. It was t immediately known i the building was occupied when the fire broke out. One firefighter died of smoke inhalation and the cause of death for the other was t immediately determined. Their names weren t released. All of the injured firefighters apparently suffered smoke inhalation. At least three were admitted to hospitals. All required treatment. The cause of the fire was under  Willis who lives nearby said she noticed the fire after smelling natural Gas fumes and hearing a popping sound. Amtrak hit with sex suit Bay Shore . A South Carolina woman who took the train because she s afraid of flying is suing Amtrak for $1 million Over an alleged sexual attack by a conductor on a new York bound train. The woman 30, who filed the Federal lawsuit Las week also claims the Railroad refused to investigate alleging that other conductors she sought help from chuckled and walked  alleged attack occurred Between Washington and new York s Penn station on july 5,1992,according to the woman s attorney Andrew Siben. The lawsuit alleges that the conductor forced her into a private compartment fondled her and performed a sex  woman told Amtrak police about the alleged attack when she arrived in new York but there was no investigation her lawyer said. Evers widow provides Only copy of 64 Trio is Jackson miss. A just one transcript of what witnesses said 30 years ago in the Medgar Evers slaying trials has survived his widow saw to it. I held onto the transcript All those years and i m so glad i did Myrlie Evers said Friday after jurors were read testimony of six witnesses five of whom Are dead. The sixth was described As infirm. The testimony originally was Given in two 1964 trials for Byron de la Beckwith who is being retried on charges he gunned Down Evers As the civil rights Leader returned Home in the Early hours of june 12,1963. The first two trials ended in Hung juries. Evers widow gave the transcript of the testimony to prosecutors after they told her they knew of no other copy that had survived the years. The transcript and testimony Friday from surviving witnesses showed Beckwith traded for a world War i Era Rifle suspected of being the murder weapon his fingerprint was on its scope he was in Jackson the week end before the killing and he had asked where Evers lived. The Rifle was found about 200 feet from the Evers. Home. Beckwith 73, a retired fertilizer Salesman says he was 90 Miles away in Greenwood at the time of the slaying. The Rifle he claims was stolen from him. Jurors got their first Chance Friday the second Day of the retrial to hold the Rifle As Ennis Thornton Mclntyre Iii testified that he traded the gun to Beckwith in 1960. Jurors passed the gun from hand to hand some nervously others with the steady grip of experienced marksmen. Another witness former police identification officer Ralph Hargrove leaned on a Cane As he made his Way Byron de la Beckwith arrives Friday with his wife Thclma at a Jackson miss., courthouse for his third trial in the 1969 killing of civil rights Leader Medgar Evers. To the witness stand. He was Able to recall in detail How he matched Beck with s fingerprint with the one found on the Rifle. But he later became confused about which direction a fingerprint had pointed on the Rifle. But or. Hargrove in 1963 you would have had much easier time would t you defense attorney Jim kitchens asked. That s right Hargrove replied. Thirty years is  Florida May give $ 7 Mil lion to survivors of 23 massacre Tallahassee Fla. A when Fannie Taylor claimed in 1923 that a Black Man broke into her House and beat her while her husband was away a posse quickly formed to track Down her attacker. Before it was Over the Drunken mob had wiped out the mostly Black Hamlet of Rosewood torching houses a store and even a Church. At least eight people died in the we Klong rampage including two mob members. Blacks have always suspected that Taylor had a fight with her Lover both of them White and lied to cover up her marital infidelity. But that did t save Rosewood. Only a Green Road sign Marks where the Hamlet once stood. Now More than 70 years later the Florida legis lature May soon decide whether to pay $7 million in reparations and thereby become scholars say the firs state to compensate victims of racial violence. We were eradicated killed assaulted. We had our livelihoods As it relates to our spiritual and economic assets taken from us said Arnett doctor whose Mother survived. It s Only right just and proper that we should be compensated for  Rosewood was a Community of a few Hundred people near the Gulf of Mexico. Most of the men worked inthe turpentine business or were Farmers. In the Early 1980s, some survivors and their descendants started holding annual reunions and decided to seek restitution. The House of representatives last year commissioned five scholars from three Florida universities to piece together what happened Back in 1923, at a Cost of $50,000. They issued their report in december. Eleven survivors and 45 descendants would share the$7 million under a Bill now set for debate As Early As this week. Gov. Lawton Chiles recently threw his sup port behind the Bill. The seeds of Rosewood s destruction were sown on Jan. 1, 1923, when Taylor was beaten unconscious in her Sumner Home. Taylor s Black maid claimed she had seen a White Man visit Taylor on several occasions including that Day. But just about everyone in the White Community believed Taylor s Story about a Black intruder. Some news accounts at the time claimed she also was raped and robbed. Sheriff Robert Elias Walker gathered a posse and a pack of bloodhounds to search for an escaped Black prisoner suspected in the attack. A group of Whites confronted Sam Carter a Black Man they believed helped the attacker flee. When he did not confess Carter was tortured and his body was riddled with bullets and then hanged from a tree the scholars said in their recent report to the legislature. By the next Day a mob estimated at 400 to 500 had descended upon Rosewood. They split up to search the Hamlet. Violence escalated two Days later when a group of Whites approached a House with about 15 to 25 Blacks inside. Two White men who stormed the House were shot and killed. Two Blacks inside died in the gun Battle. The others fled during a Lull in the shooting. The mob proceeded to Burn houses and other build Ings in the settlement and killed at least three other Blacks. The escaped prisoner was never found. City plans Tough stance against hate crime Boston a scrawl racist Graffiti in suburban Marlborough someday soon and the City might just take away your Library card and Stop picking up your trash. Under a Marlborough City ordinance nearing final approval people convicted of hate crimes could be fined $300 and permanently lose City services. We be become a nation of hand wringers said Cit councilor James Agoritsas a lawyer who drafted the ordinance. We sit Here and say there s nothing we can do. I say Hogwash. We cannot rely on the state and the Federal government to legislate against hate  the measure was approved unanimously last week bythe City Council and goes next to the City attorney to make sure it does not conflict with state or Federal  it would go to the mayor for approval. It defines a hate crime As a criminal act couple with overt actions motivated by bigotry and  City employees convicted of hate crimes would be fired an youngsters would be expelled from school. I