European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday november 20, 1994 . The stars and stripes jazz world Maestro new York a cab Calloway the prancing dancing bandleader whose shouts of hide to resounded fro the stage of Harlem s famed Cotton club has died. He was 86. Calloway who suffered a severe stroke june 12 at his Home in White Plains died Friday night in a Dela Ware nursing Home with his family at his Side said his wife nuffie. Afterwards she spent a quiet hour alone with him i put my head on his shoulder and that was very Healing she said. He had two separate lives his life onstage and his life with the family. When he closed the door on his dressing room he came Home As a husband father and As a bandleader Singer author dancer and songwriter Calloway per formed for More than 60 years fro Chicago jazz joints to the Cotton club on Broadway and in influence in the music world was huge. A Calloway was the Man who hired an unknown dizzy Gillespie and promoted the careers of Pearl Bailey and Lena Home. He later became known to a younger generation through the 1980 hit film the blues Brothers. Even in old age he was a Marvel to watch. A veritable Dervish who dashed from one end of the stage tothe other his limbs and his mop of unruly hair flying in All directions Ashe flashed an enormous smile. His trademark song was Minnie Themo odier and audiences would re Spond in kind when he Sang the Cho rus of he said his scat refrains were the product of faulty memory he could t recall the words. \. Cabell Calloway Iii was born i Rochester n.y., in 1907 and raised in Baltimore he studied Law a Crane College in Chicago and was offered a contract to play basketball forthe Harlem globetrotters in 1928, but became a song and dance Man in Stead inspired by his musician sister Blanche. Cab Calloway Alfito Fri assails Clinton budgets. .-.". Washington a bluntly criticizing the administration that appointed him Fri director Louis Freeh says he lobbied Congress this year for More Money than president Clinton requested because Fri agents did not have enough ammunition for target practice. A explaining in an annual report to his employees Why i strayed from administration requests and sought More funding for the Fri Freeh cited the shocking Inadequacy of body Armor supplied to agents and the sheer lunacy of lacking bullets for target practice. He said he had talked the administration out of Cut Ting 540 Fri agents shortly after he became director in september 1993 and this year confronted a fiscal 1995budget from Clinton that had no Money to hire new agents a / \ Freeh called that intolerable because the Burea Uhas not had a regular class of new agents in nearly two years a this past summer Freeh said wandering storm has watchers still wondering nags head . A what s Gor Don going to do next forecasters Aren t sure. The storm keeps fooling them. When they said Gordon would weaken it strength ened. When they said it would blow out Tosea it turned toward Shore. On Friday the forecast was for wind rain and coastal flooding As far North As new England by , Gordon stalled off North car Olina As a minimal Hurricane causing Only minor Beach erosion and toppling a few condemned houses on the Osterbanks then retreating southward and fizzling into a tropical m not sure anybody really knows Why said Jerry Jarrell Deputy directorate the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables , a Hurricane or a tropical storm is a summertime phenomenon an this late in the season they re being plunged into almost a wintertime environment up North Jarrell said late Fri Day. It gets us out of the premise that our models were All developed in Florida where Gordon was blame for six deaths and $200 million in crop losses emergency officials were concerned about a return engagement. I went to members of Congress time and Tim again for More Money reminding them that violent crime and drug trafficking were growing and that Congress itself had Given the Fri the responsibility for enforcement against a Range of new Federal his personal lobbying in Congress won a $2.204 Bil lion Fri budget. That s $75.8 million More than president Clinton re Quested. the Fri will add 640 agents to return to its Peak of10,475, each with 1,000 rounds of practice ammunition a year -.-. A ".",-. New body Armor is being developed. Last week Freeh sent every Fri employee a copy pea 69-Page annual report the first Ever prepared by a Bureau director. In addition to the Blunt discussion of his Boss s Bud get Freeh discussed a wide Range of Bureau issues witha Candor unprecedented for those in his office. A. Radio Host quits after shop Ting Flap by the los Angeles times Denver a conservative Host on a radio talk show has called it quits amid threats from people who believe his hard nosed opinions about president Clin ton May have incited a Colorado Man to Spray the White House with gunfire i m leaving Chuck Baker 50, told listeners of his popular show on the carpet which has aired for six years on kor am in Colorado Springs. I m sure that will make you left Wing liberals out there very Happy Baker said but it will be a Long time before we have an Opportunity to visit Here again in the in the same Farewell last week Baker fumed Over re mors that Francisco Martin Duran the Widefield Man who fired at the White House from a semiautomatic assault Rifle last month told investigators that he was influenced by on the carpet. So what if the Jerk the wacko the creep that shot the White House said that. If this Man thinks i or Rush Limbaugh Are the reason he went out there he needs psychiatric counselling in the first Baker could not be reached for comment. Butk Vor general manager Donn Seidholz said Baker was pushed to the Edge of a nervous breakdown by flood of hate mail and Telephone Calls immediately Fol lowing the oct. 29 shooting incident investigators wanted to indict him for co conspiracy All that coupled with the fact that Chuck had not had a vacation in six months exploded on him Seid Holz said now he s trying to get his head together Seidholz denied that Baker had Ever urged anybody to shoot Clinton. However Baker May have figured in a Telephone Cal that Duran placed to democratic sen Ben night horse Campbell s Colorado Springs office aug. 23. That Day Baker urged listeners to take action against the crime Billy which included a ban on certain assault rifles. Duran called us and said this is very bad. I will Goto Washington and take someone out " said Alton Dillard a spokesman for Campbell. A Peculiar thin about it was that Duran also gave us his on thursday Duran 26, pleaded innocent to a fed eral charge of attempted assassination. If convicted he would face a maximum punishment of life imprison ment. 4-, of few " the remains of cottages battered by Hurricane turned tropical storm Gordon utter the Beach in Kitty Hawk ., on Friday. A
