European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday Jan 29, 1968 the stars and stripes convicted murderers infants Asylum inmates May sell guns in Texas Austin Tex. Up a convicted murderer can become a licensed pistol dealer in  officials say there Are no rules against licensing a infant an insane Asylum inmate or even a convict while he instill in prison to sell guns. State Law Only requires pistol seller to pay a $10 occupational tax  receipt from the state comptroller s office makes Hima licensed gun dealer. No qualifications Are stipulated and Only the person s  address and occupation relisted on the License application. State officials have no authority to turn Down anyone who pays the  re not in the business of finding out about their integrity said . Schulle assistant director of the comptroller excise and store tax division. Miami Beach oks act for gun control Miami Beach a a emergency gun control act re Quiring registration of All guns including fishing speargun and packing a mandatory 30-Day jail sentence for carrying a gun with no permit has been passed unanimously by the City Council  Law bans display of guns in store windows and requires Purchase permit and registration even for shotguns an rifles. Registration of All guns no owned by residents will be required when the Law goes int effect next month. When guns Are registered police will fingerprint and photo graph the applicant. Minors felons drug addicts alcoholics and persons released from mental hospitals within five years Are prohibited from owning guns. Dorothy Gish s estate May be $1 million new York a actress Dorothy Gish who achieved silent film Fame with her sister Lillian left an estate valued at $500,000 to $1 million it was Dis closed when her will was filed for probate. Miss Gish died i Rapallo Italy on june 4 at the age of 70.she made a number of minor bequests but left the bulk other estate to Lillian in lifetime Trust. The Law does t say a thin about their  Schulle said officials do not even know How Many licensed dealers there Are in Texas. Theta payments Are recorded on computer cards but not coded so pistol dealers can be counted. 2, trek for mom fun tiny fights deportation Elpaso Tex. Up for10 months mrs. Hortensia Bel Tran Rivas and her five children slept outdoors with Only blankets for Protection. They ate what Ever they could find waded across neck High Rivers an walked and walked and walked. Mrs. Rivas said she and her children walked 2,000 Miles from their Home near san Salvador Al Salvador in Central Ameri Ca to Albuquerque n.m., i Hopes of becoming United states  she is now being held for possible deportation by  officials mrs. Riv As said she still Hopes to Gether . Citizenship. She wants very much to be come an american citizen her attorney William c. P. Dudley said. She said the american people helped her More than heroin government through care  Dudley asked wednesday for a Jet suit suited up with a Model of setback pack being developed for the defense department William suitor demonstrates i Washington control of the Turbojet engine whose thrusts will enable soldiers in the Field to7x of for minutes and Miles in contrast to the seconds and feet provided by the Bell systems earlier rocket Belt. A photo continuation of her deportation hearing so he could have time to study the Case. The hearings now scheduled for next tues Day.. Rep. Thomas g. Morris d-n.m., has interceded on he behalf and is introducing a Bill to have the woman and he children granted citizenship. Sought help Dudley said he and his part ners Charles f. Anderson too the Case at the request of an Albuquerque Law firm after  was detained when she sought help from the salvation . She told officials she had been picking onions near Albuquerque. A Spanish speaking employee of Dudley s Law firm talked to mrs. Rivas who does not speak English and was told the fam ily waded across the Rio grand Enear Elpaso and ended up in Albuquerque after working a migrant farm workers. Weapon goes on Sale Pittsburgh a chemical weapon with effects similar to that of the controversial chemical Mace used by Many police departments in . Has been announced for Public  to protect individuals from attacks by criminals the device is about the size and shape of a Fountain pen and can be carried in a woman s purse or clipped to a Man s coat pocket. The weapon according to authorities releases a Jet of Chemi Cal droplets that will instantly Alt an attacker and leave him practically helpless for five to15 minutes. The effects Are virtually the same As those of the Mace pro fuse watering of the eyes temporary loss of vision and a Burn ing sensation of the skin. Love Triangle killer of Viet vet gets 50 years Palo Pinto Tex. Up a 25-year-old fireman was sentenced to 50 years in prison thursday for killing a newly re turned Veteran after allegedly carrying on an affair with his shapely wife while the Soldier was in Vietnam. Donald Mcgaha who had Beena prosecution witness in the earlier murder trial of the wife appeared stunned at the sen tence. District judge w. J. Oxford imposed it after a tearful plea for mercy from Mcgaha s  s testimony was a key Factor in the earlier conviction of mrs. Susie Bradley who is now serving a 10-year sentence for her part in the murder of sgt. James Bradley 40. The prosecution charged tha Mcgaha and mrs. Bradley after living together for 3mj months plotted to murder Bradley when he came Home from  was shot to death after answering a Knock at thedoor at the couple s new Home at Mineral Wells Tex., Las sept. 22. Mcgaha testified in mrs. Bradley s trial that he pulled the trigger. Mcgaha a fireman in Mont Gomery ala., testified he drove from Alabama that night an then drove Back after the shoot ing. He was arrested in Alabam and returned to Texas for the trial. Mcgaha recovered from the initial Shock of the sentence and said he wanted to get Dow there and Start the  Mcgaha had been assured by dist. Atty. Sam Cleveland that a life sentence was the Maxi mum he would get. He pleaded guilty to charges of murder with malice. Bradley got Back to the unite states late last year from Viet Nam. He was being assigned Toft. Wolters at Mineral Wells near Palo Pinto. He and his wife moved into a Home in Mineral Wells. Several hours later at3 a.m., there was a Knock at the door. Bradley answered and a voice called out  Mcgaha testified at mrs. Brad Ley s trial that when Bradley opened the door he shot the ser Geant and fled. Bradley wounded in the stomach died two Day Slater at Beach  Hospital. No More business with government millionaire planter quits after wages Fine Clarksdale miss. Up Roy Flowers Plantation on the Mississippi Delta was a touch of the old South. There were sprawling Fields of Cotton clusters of workers shacks and hundreds of negroes Labouring in the Fields. Flowers boasted of the bes Cotton crop and the Best bean crop in the  the .department of labor said he made $1 million a year from his various Plantation enterprises. But there was one big difference Between Flowers and the Ante Bellum planters flow ers did t think he was big a Ough to tackle the Federal government. He said wednesday he was quitting. The decision came after a Federal judge ordered Flowers to pay $50,000 in Back wages to his 250-300 tenants inthe nation s first wage recovery for farm workers under the fair labor standards act. Flowers paid the Fine levied by judge William c. Keady to get it out of  then he intends to rent out his 16,000 acres of Farmland after the current crop is harvested. The government is causing me to quit i m Happy that i be got plenty to live on he said. I m settled up with the government to Date. I m doing this just not to have any More business with the  the labor department filed suit against Flowers after sending investigators to Check on the operations of the White landowner. Flowers was accused of failing to pay minimum wages to his Field hands and of hiring workers under 16. The suit said Flowers overcharged his ten ants for Coal and Wood used for heating and cooking and that Inmany instances he charged labourers for Cotton sacks use for Cotton picking. Also the labor department said Flowers charged his tenants As much As $70 a Mont for houses when a reasonable Cost would have been $5 per month. Flowers has agreed to i lower the rent to $5 monthly Federal housing authority j appraisers sent to the Plantation by the labor department said the 158 tenant houses were woo with corrugated Metal roofs. All but three of the houses Are without inside plumbing or water the appraisers  water Supply of most of j the houses is an outdoor h a n d p u in a although some houses have Access to Community  Many of the tenants used newspaper to Patch holes in the ceilings and  labor department said Flowers had a $1 million income in 1966 from his Cotton and soybean farming Cotton ginning and Sale of raw Cotton Cotton seed and soybeans. He received$210,832 on Federal acreage allotments alone in 1967.most of Flowers operations Are in Quitman county one of the nation s poorest farm areas and whose county seat Marks was the starting Point of the symbolic mule train of the poo people s March on Washington. Flowers said he believe whoever rents the Plantation land will keep the tenants."1 have families in every House and i have never mad anybody move lie said