European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                14 a prisoners perish in atom base Blaze 30 injured fighting fire March 9 Flash fire killed 14 prisoners last night trapped in a Flimsy wartime guardhouse at the super secret Sandia special weapons base where the atomic bomb is More than 3c other persons were injured fighting the the prisoners didst have much of a said maj Roi base Public relations one of the first persons to reach the physicians said the Only two in mates to escape the flaming prison were severely burned and had Only an even Chance to they were being Given transfusions and oxygen treatment two guards injured two pvt Wilbur of South and Cpl Rich of were injured in an heroic attempt to save the prisoners after the fire broke out the first we knew about Miller was when the men in the Back started we tried to get to the Cellblock but were driven Back by an intense blast of heat and smoke Henry said he ran outside the building and around in Back to open the rear door of the Cellblock but i ran into the same he and  even get past the outside both guards were Given Emer gency treatment and placed under observation at the base officers said they would not permit them to make any further state ments until after they had been questioned an investigating although the cause of the on Page s raise voted Eugis Iii postal service March j the House approved and returned the Senate a Bill to raise the pay of world War ii veterans employed n the postal by As much As a the which was approved by a standing vote of would Cost the government an estimated Over the next eight under the veterans employed by the Post office As of next july automatically will qualify for pay increases based on time spent in it applies Only to veterans who joined the department since their veterans who worked for the department before going into uniform were Given credits for military service under previous the so european edition stripes unofficial publication of occupation forces in Europe weather forecast noon minimum w 3t Stutt off afternoon 371 34 m with 33 34 ing afternoon 3fi partly 43 weather Central volume number 314 8 cents month March 1950 go bitches get 15 years Sander freed by mercy jury March 9 Herman Sander was today acquit Ted of a of having killed a patient by injecting air into her veins As an act of the Al male jury found the country doctor not guilty of charges that he in an act of Abbie a suffering cancer patient whom he could not the jury deliberated less than 75 Sander showed no Trace of Emo Tion at the but there was a chorus of ohs from women spec when the jury was discharged by judge Harold chief defense lawyer Louis Wyman walked smiling and crying at the same he threw his arms around crowds gathered around Wyman and Sander and rushed to shake hands with she looked Happy for the first the Sanders were almost sub merged by cameramen who flocked into the tiny courtroom when tie verdict was the jury included nine interviewed Sander said it is wonderful to have it Over crying with added i am very i feel the doctor said he had no definite but might take a on Lief ins sentenced Judith Coplon and her chief Samuel leave Federal court in new she was sentenced to 15 years in jail yesterday on three counts of March 9 a Secretary of state Dean Acheson today called on All americans to join with their government in concerted Effort to defeat russian plans for world Acheson said the free world was engaged in a straggle fully As decisive for Mankind As the successful fight against March 9 hungarian government tonight asked Britain to recall two High ranking diplomats from its Buda pest paratrooper 65 Hurt lit mass leap Vieques puerto March 9 army paratrooper was missing and believed dead last night and 65 others suffered broken limbs and bruises in a mass Parachute jump on this Island part of training Maneu nearly paratroopers of the 82d an div floated Down on the rugged plateau of the Island be ginning at 8 preceding a simulated invasion by a fill borne paratrooper fatality we not he was listed Only As but officials said he prob ably had been the percen Tage of 6 per cent was much higher than usual in training spokesmen said none of the injured was in a serious although eight were evacuated by the remainder were treated in Field hos the terrain into which the Para troopers jumped was fairly level but and included Palm tree Madsen Case note purports to Tell of wife fear by Howard Kennedy staff correspondent March 9 the prosecution today introduced a purportedly written by Yvette which said the 22 year old Mother intended to shoot her husband to save herself from an anticipated the which described her husband As a a and a Low the prosecution con was written while Madsen wanted in her darkened buc Schlag living room with a army automatic for 1st it Andrew Madsen to return from a party she had left earlier in the two Page note said maybe everyone will think in on Page 3 tribal chiefs exile protested in us March 9 mounting wave of Public resent ment flared against the govern ment today Over the dethrone ment and exile of a Young african negro Monarch and his White less than 24 hours after the government confirmed that it had banished 28yearold ser else Khama from the chieftain ship of the a Mangalo tribe of British the Case had be come a cause romantic aver Sion to mixed marriages is less pronounced than in the aroused Over the governments a representatives of Britain negroes planned a protest meeting but russian is ordered deported in 2 weeks new March 9 russian was sentenced to 15 years in prison today for attempting to obtain defense secrets from Justice department employee Judith the sentence will be suspended on the Day he is deported from the miss Coplon was ordered to spend 15 years in Federal prison As a traitor to her Federal judge Sylvester Ryan agreed to suspend go bitches sentence at the per Sonal request of Secretary of state bean Acheson and attorney general Howard who recommended he be deported and leave the within two Ryan said he would suspend Gubitch evs sentence the Day he left the and ordered him accompanied to a departing ship by a marshal but there was no leniency for on Page 4 labor nears test us March 8 prime minister Herbert Morrison said today that tonight vote in parliament on the nationalization of Iron and steel would be considered an Issue of Confidence and he indicated the government would quit if it lost labor Bac Bencher Tenner Brockway asked Morrison if a conservative motion deploring the governments refusal to say it will postpone nationalization of Iron and steel until after the next election would be regarded As a vote of censure involving the resignation of tie government Issue of Confidence cried the conservatives sitting behind Winston everyone must Morrison that it involves an Issue of Confidence so far As the government is the government normally resigns if loses a vote of and Morrison reply was taken to mean this government would do so thus Britain was faced with the possibility of the fall of the government and an Early election Only 14 Days after the last general elec lion and four Days after the open ing of the new to drop charges against russian woman March 9 charges against a 24yearold rus Sian investigated As a pos sible soviet confusion will dropped tomorrow in District a Hico court official said the Regina was arrested 14 for mailing to produce a valid identity document at the request of a army Neucom he announced when the woman was arraigned for violation of the Hico Security she was freed from a German r France halts Light tie up Gas strike on March 9 French government tonight ordered Frik ing Gas Plant workers Back to their jobs under threat of heavy jail sentences As a nationwide walkout left Paris and Many other cities almost without electricity were functioning at 98 per cent of Normal after Security guards and police in full Battle kit seized eight big Paris Power plants in a pre Dawn both Gas and electricity walkouts began at the government yesterday issued a Blanket order requisitioning All workers in the two under of prison sentences and key electric Power Plant workers received the order yesterday and almost All reported for work Bon proposes soar authority March s West German government today International administration of the Saar on the lines of the seven nation authority which now controls the Industrial this proposal was in a while paper on the Saar question published Here the White paper was drawn up following the Franco Saar agree ment which gave the mile territory almost compote self in return for its coat for 50 the agreement caused a storm of protest from All political sides in West a special session of parliament is to debate the matter the Federal government demanded flatly that any special government in the and a possible political Severance of the area from Ger Many should be the subject of a genuine plebiscite under the same conditions As that of then the in league of nations voted to return to thieves get new March 9 men held up the Long Island City Branch of the manufacturers Trust today and escaped with seventeen employees were in the none waa