European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 29, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 5 twister hits family reunion kills 2 Germantown Tenn. A a Tornado demolished a Home where 16 people were attending a family reunion leaving two dead and burying injured survivors in the debris. The deaths were among 10 attributed to the weather from Snow slicked North Dakota to storm ravaged parts of the Southeast. A powerful storm that piled  now in the Northern California mountains last week was moving East stymie ing Holiday travellers around the country. Thunder storms stretched from Ohio to the deep South while parts of the upper Midwest were digging out from the season s first big snowstorm. Snow and freezing rain pelted new Hampshire roads during monday morn ing s commute. More than 4 inches of Snow fell in Concord . There Are vehicles off the Road allover the place new Hampshire state police communications supervisor Jack Zemla said. " highways must be terrible because nobody s on them they re All off in the  a pile of bricks and boards was All that remained monday of the Home that land scape planner Walter person or. Bought recently for about $380,000 in a new sub division of Germantown a fast growing suburb of Memphis. Person 44, and another Man whose identity was not immediately release were killed when a Tornado struck the two Story Home sunday afternoon. Thir teen others were hospitalized Deputy police chief Brian Roper said. Rescue Crews aided by search dogs and spotlights dug through debris monday morning searching for the missing 16th person. V the twister ripped a ragged path through the Well to do neighbourhood destroying 13 houses and damaging 25 other buildings. It was like apocalypse now said Steve Johnston who along with other neighbors dug into the rubble with Bare hands to help the trapped person family. Bricks broken lumber and other debris littered the area for blocks. A twisted Van Lay on its Back and the crushed remains of a sport Utility vehicle stuck out from what appeared to be the remnants of a garage or perhaps parts of a nearby House. By the time ambulances arrived Johnston a Federal express manager had a half dozen bleeding survivor stretched but on his Den floor. We could t Stop to take care of the because there were still More Back in the House he said. About 70 Miles away in Friendship Northeast of Memphis Katherine Thom As 75, died when a Tornado smashed into her Home authorities said. Two people in Magee miss., died in storm sunday. Their names were not immediately released. The High winds just ripped up the tree and it fell on the trailer a police dispatcher said monday. Ducking death Jay Knudsen has brought a new dimension to the Ameri can Way of death. For a fee the resident of pcs Moines Iowa will put the ashes of departed loved ones into Golf clubs basketballs and even Shotgun shells. Above Knud sen shows off another Ash Holder a stuffed Duck that May even have awakened his dog s Hunting instincts. Doubts shroud 53 death in Ltd Case Washington a pathologists who exam ined the remains of a germ warfare researcher say the can t Tell whether he was murdered or leapt 13 stories to his death Days after the Cia gave him an experimental dose of Ltd in 1953. We did t find any smoking gun James e. Starrs professor of Law and forensic science at George Wash Egton University said sunday. The nonscientific aspects though Are frankly and starkly suggestive of Hom Icide. There s no other Way i can read  a final report of Starrs six month forensic probe into the death of Frank r. Olson was released i Washington on monday exactly 41 years after Olson plummeted to his death at the Statler hotel in new York  s relatives initially were told that the biochemist employed at fort Detrick in Frederick md., had committed suicide by crashing through the hotel win Dow. Twenty two years after his death however the family Learned that Olson had been Given Ltd As part of mind control  Cia financed during the cold War. Upset and depressed after the Experiment Olson was rushed to new York to see a specialist who was working with the then Little known Hallucinogen. To resolve suspicions of foul play Olson s sons Eric and Nils had their father s body exhumed in june. Members of a forensic team led by Starrs could see an appendectomy scar on Olson s Well preserved body but there was no evidence of the multiple cuts noted on the original autopsy report. What explains that he went right out a window that was closed without getting any cuts on his body Starrs asked. It s not inconceivable that someone could have broken the window after he went through to make it appear As if he had gone through a window As a crazy person would. I m sceptical that anyone could Clear a Radiator a31-Inch-hign Windowsill pass through a 3-by-5-foot window opening obscured by a drawn Shade All in the darkness of a hotel room at  Starrs who has conducted forensic investigations into the deaths of explorer Meriwether Lewis the a murdered parents of Lizzie Borden and assassinated Louisiana sen. Huey Long also is puzzled by a Hema Toma a swollen area filled with blood Over Olson s left Eye. Or. Jack Frost Deputy chief medical examiner of West Virginia who examined the exhumed body said he did not believe Olson suffered the injury in the fall. It was smooth Frost said. If you hit Concrete you re going to see  the injury could have come if Olson had rammed his head through the window Frost said Starrs said it also was possible that someone hit Olson on the head an threw his body out the window. But we can t prove it he said. Court to Avyay out Joe Washington a the supreme court on monday refused to kill a lawsuit that accuses a cigarette maker of using Joe Camel that suave cartoon character to entice children to smoke. The justices without comment turned away arguments by r./. Reynolds tobacco co. That Federal Law pre Emp Tsany such proceeding in a California state court. Reynolds which manufactures Camel cigarettes was sued by san Francisco lawyer Janet Mangini in 1992,two years after she Learned of a report that said Joe Camel was As familiar to children As Mickey mouse. She sued in state court alleging that Reynolds subsidiary of Rwjr Nabisco inc., had violated a califor Nia Law barring unfair business practices. Mangini sought a ban on Joe Camel ads and a com Pany financed Campaign advising children that smok ing is not  trial judge threw out the lawsuit ruling that state regulation of smoking was blocked by a Federal Law the Federal cigarette Labelling and advertising act. A Section of that Law says no requirement or prohibition based on smoking and health shall be imposed under state Law with respect to the advertising or pro motion of any cigarettes Fin packages carrying the fed Eranuy required warnings. A state appeals court reinstated Mangini y lawsuit and its ruling was upheld by the California supreme court last  state court did not Rule that the Joe Camel Campaign is aimed at minors an allegation Reynolds de Nies. The Issue was left for Resolution at a  that minors Are banned by state Law from buying or being furnished cigarettes the Californi Acourt said Congress left the states free to exercise their police Power to protect minors from advertising that encourages them to violate the  Mangini s lawsuit is not based on smoking an health and therefore is not preempted by the Feder Al Law the California court said. His infected reservist loses Case against . Washington a a Navy reservist who says the government should pay her because she contracted the aids virus by having sex with a Navy enlisted Man lost a supreme court Appeal monday the court without comment refused to reinstate Diane Washington s lawsuit. She says Navy doctors failed to order the Man to Tell potential sex partners that he carried his the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. John Joseph was court Martiale in 1990 and convicted of aggravated assault. One of his defences was that Navy doctors never ordered him to Tell any Poten tial sex partners that he carried his. Washington sued the government but the Case was dismissed by a judge who cited a 1950 supreme court decision that barred lawsuits against the government for injuries sustained As a result of military service. Washington s supreme court Appeal said she should be treated As a civilian because her injury was not re lated to military duty