European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 1 the stars and stripes Legal Drys rejected at polls nations 1 voter november 1950 s proposals to legalize various forms of gambling received rough treat ment from the voters of four states in tuesdays so did proposals aimed at the liquor business in four Oregon and West Vir ran up margins to favor of a Bonus for world War n California rejected by a to heavy margin a referendum proposal to legalise gambling and place it under state backers had Esti mated it would pour a year into the state ear marked for welfare Massachusetts voters rejected a stat lottery plan backed by a society for old age while running up a margin in favor of a minimum old age assistance Benefit payment the lot Tery was designed to local option Arizona voters rejected a proposal to legalize and control Gam and turned Down local option to invoke prohibition of liquor they also Defeated proposals Lor increased Aid to the aged and Lor anti segregation measures in the Montana voted heavily against a proposal to legalize Slot Arkansas the voters turned in a big margin against proposed state wide prohibition on Sale or transportation of and Possession of More than a quart of Oregon Defeated a proposal to ban the Sale of promo timely advertised a proposal to for bid the serving of liquor and food in the same place trailed in South Utah voted a pay raise to Mem Bers of the lawmakers salaries will go up from shoo a year to also will get a new expense allowance while in utahs voters also approved a amendment placing general control of the states pub Lic school system under an elected state Board of education and making the state superintendent of Public instruction an appointive instead of elective poll tax in a proposal to employ the count unit voting system in general is used in the states South carolinians voted to eliminate the poll tax As a requirement for voting Rhode Island approved a proposal to give voting privileges to Narragansett and Idaho voted heavily in favor of granting full citizenship to a strict state anti subversives the Ober was retained by Maryland by a wide gave Over whelming approval to a constitutional amendment to outlaw sub Baltimore voters rejected a move to ban the use of stray dogs for medical the ballots in 34 state carried constitutional referendum and initiative president Truman exercises his right As a citizen and casts his ballot in his Home town of he said later he voted the straight democratic somber pomp Marks rites for Gustav in Stockholm 9 Gustav v of Sweden was Laid to rest today in the pantheon of swedish Kings by the Side of his predecessors of seven the first of three shovels of dust fell on his purple coffin at one minute later the first of 42 volleys from Cannon rolled rumbling Over the Waters of the and echoing Between the House fronts and the massive Walls of the first blizzard hits Midwest 9 seasons first blizzard hit the upper Midwest and a heavy Snow storm lashed the Rocky Mountain Snow piled eight inches deep in Colorado and Wyoming and six inches in Northern Minnesota and North the twin storms snarled Cut visibility to almost closed highways and plugged Mountain while motorists battled snowdrifts and skiers tested the speedy runs on Colorado foot High Berthoud easterners golfer in their but the easts Indian summer would end weather forecasters cold winds whipped Down out of the Canadian speared deep into the Midwest and headed for Dixie and the Atlantic temperatures fell sharply the and fore casters said the cold front would hurdle the appalachians tile Northern blizzard pounded the Northern third of Minnesota and the red River Flats of North Dakota winds up to 62 Mph piled into great rippers a wife testifies at trial 9 divorced wife of Rudolf con rape Slayer of nine to lifted in court today that was equally Normal while married to go Stab German killed in train jeep crash 9 a constabulary sergeant and his German assistant were killed and a second sergeant seriously injured in a train jeep crash Between Fulda and marburg the constabulary Provost marshal Sec Carl of he 24th co Stab and Kurt of were in route to Fulda with another 24th so sergeant to investigate an assault their hit at a was carried about 450 feet up the tracks and totally Weist was killed instantly and the second sergeant died later in a Worlund was seriously the dead sergeants name was withheld pending notification of Century Ridd arholm where the last rites were held Over the King who had ruled his country for almost 50 three mourning three Crown some 90 princes and representatives of 44 foreign chiefs of state attended the earlier they walked through the november slush following the Kings remains from the Royal Royal Hearse was drawn by six Black thousands of swedes massed 10 deep along the funeral route As the procession passed by to the muffled beat of Drums and the cadence of slow Many had been wait ing since Well before the new Gustav followed behind his fathers in the full dress uniform of a swedish his face was Pale and Margaret Knab came from soviet zone to the trip Cost her a Gold ring Rich Pleil had presented her in 1 the court confiscated it As one Pleil had plundered irom one of his the press was excluded when the former Pleil took the but she later related her testimony to the Leils were divorced in 1948 after the Law had put an end to Leils murder career by imprisoning him for his first slaying of a Edith Knight Hill Dies wrote oregonian column 9 one of the Pacific coasts Pioneer woman Edith Knight died in a Portland mrs better known As Marian of the Portland died after a series of diabetic attacks that took her from her work three weeks born Edith Marian Knight in she joined the oregonian staff in pair go on trial in atom spy Case new 9 Ham Brothman and Miriam Mosko Witz went on trial yesterday charged with conspiracy to obstruct Justice in the Fri probe of a soviet atomic espionage Federal judge Irving Kaufman ordered their bail revoked and remanded the couple to jail he directed that selection of a jury take place tomorrow and that presentation of testimony begin there Brothman and miss a each face two years in jail and fines of if one of the principal government witnesses is expected to be self confessed atomic spy Harry of Austria nips plot by reds to stir partisan War 9 safety officials today disclosed the arrest of a red extremist in the British zone in connection with the discovery of a communist plot to murder austrian Cabinet members and seize Power by partisan the officials said Large quantities of firearms and explosives were found in the House of the arrested they refused to re veal the mans yesterday the arrest of two other communists had been the officials said the plotters operated very carefully and we dont know How Many members their organization we do that they planned to or1 Ranize partisan and sabotage War against the government to culminate in the liquidation of the Cabinet members and final seizure of charges of High treason were filed against those under arrest prominent War criminal to be freed in Japan 9 wartime japanese for eign minister and a major War will be released on parole Gen Douglas Macarthur the first prominent japanese War Leader to be slated Lor has been in Tokyo Sugama prison since april 1946 serving a seven year lightest handed out to a major at the japanese War jealousy blamed in Munich suicide coi Stab Salute to Mark 32d armistice Day 9 a dignified and quiet ceremony marking armistice Day and the 32d anniversary of the cessation of hostilities in world War i will be held at constabulary a a saturday a single gun Salute will Start the ceremony and the constabulary band will play appropriate including the National at Bobingen co Stab units to celebrate armistice 9 constabulary units at Panzer a Serne will join with Bobingen sub Post Here saturday in an armistice Day ceremony to be observed at the site of the Post it has been Post chaplain Theodore will make a Brief including a and a composite Honor guard and firing squad will take Field music for the Cere Mony will be played by a ulary Montana votes vets bonuses 9 Montana has voted a Bonus to the states world War ii the sponsored by the veterans of foreign was put on the ballot through in j Itiat Ive a tax of 2 cents a pack on Tina in addition to the tax now i would be imposed to retire the Bonds to be issued to finance j the each Montana resident would get for each month of service and for each month of foreign service during world War a soldiers Bonus was voted after world War but the state supreme court declared it Union West Virginia ratifies vet Bonus amendment 9 veterans Bonus and school Bond constitutional amendments were ratified overwhelmingly by West Virginia they rejected a Constitution change that would have doubled the pay of state under the veterans pay ments will be paid on the basis of a month for each month of Over seas service and a month for each similar period of Domestic limits will be for sex servicemen who saw foreign serv ice and for veterans who served Only within the Continental the Premium will be financed by new taxes on either sales or personal in the legislature is empowered to Levy the taxes on any one or two of the by win fanning staff correspondent 9 ency Over the failure of a three year courtship motivated the fatal shooting of a i and the subsequent suicide of his German girl Friend at neg itching near Munich Mon it was disclosed by the Munich Provost marshals office Here investigation of the murder and suicide has revealed the sgt Lane det 7822d longtime manager of the Sharnberg officers had recently switched his affections to another girl after dating dark haired Elfriede hat Check girl at the for More than three girl hid in car As the crime was reconstructed by army miss Fuchs hid herself under a Blanket in the Back of Conns car outside the yacht club the evening of she remained in hiding while Conn drove the car to the Home of Johanna a German woman with whom he had recently had several after Conn stopped the vehicle miss Fuchs Rose up out of her hiding place and shot him once through the Back of the head a Sauer she then shot herself once through the heart both shots were immediately it was about 10 minutes after hearing the continuous sound of an automobile miss Koeppl came out to Conns car to find him slumped Over against the Horn but attracted by the woman a neighbor notified Ger Man state Conn is survived by his Eleanor of Bounty posted for China officer with South korean ii 9 colonel posted a Reward of korean the capture of the i first chinese officer on this front it would be of inestimable value if we could interrogate a chinese col Frank senior adviser to the Rok ii heretofore our men have had no incentive for bringing in the Reward is a months pay for a South korean Gen i you of the ii joined Gillette in posting the 5 i