European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Car driver9 motorcycle cop hit fires at cosmonauts in Moscow Moscow up a gunman fired  at a motorcade carrying soviet cosmonauts d communist leaders to a Kremlin fete for the or newest space heroes it was officially an bounced  the four Rode in an open car toward the Tremlin s Borovitcky Gate wednesday thou cube Assassin directed a burst of fire at a flowing hard top limousine filled with Cosmo nauts who had made earlier  official news Agency Tass said that the limousine s Driver and a motorcycle policeman were wounded b3fore the gunman was detained on the  Istone of the cosmonauts was injured Tass added the gunman s motives were not Clear from the Tass report or indeed whether he had deliberately picked  his Targer afro Why he ignored the four easier Marks in the open  party Secretary general Leonid i. Brezhnev and soviet president Nikolai Podgorny who greeted the four soyuz heroes at Moscow s Vnuk ovo Airport were believed to have been inthe motorcade several cars behind the Cosmo  source said however that the hard v front. On Page 2t, col 2 unofficial newspaper of . Frets in Europe North Africa and the Middle East vol. 27, no. 279 Friday january 24, 1969 if 21855 a 5 Dally 10 sunday Mississippi areas hit by twisters 29 killed Wall of mud hits of los Angeles los Angeles up a storm which has claimed47 lives in Southern California wednesday sent a 12-foot Wall of Rainwater and mud ripping through suburban Glen Dora calif., damaging nearly 150 expensive Homes and routing residents in the Glen Coe Heights Section. There were 29 traffic Fatali ties 14 drownings and 3 Light plane crash victims. One Man of s Stripe quota raised is Washington Bureau Washington is Theair Force is authorizing a total of 23,132 promotions to the to six enlisted grades in february it was disclosed  is one of the highest pro motion figures in More than year and a half. The Large quota is due to the16,675 approved for e4. The Large e4 figure includes 5,875regular and 177 Reserve and air National guard carryovers fro the last promotion Cycle. Authorizations for the other i Ades e9, 77 e8, 273 e7, 766 e6, 1,625, and e5, 3,716. Photo on Page 4 died from a heart attack while on flood duty. No injuries were reported when a Mountain Runoff of debris and mud smashed through an eight foot sandbag barricade at the Mouth of Harrow Canyo nand into the streets and Homes of the Glencoe Heights Section. Flooded Cree ten of the drownings occurred when a group of eight campers including six boys and three rescuers were swept monday night from a Navy Rescue vehicle stranded in the Middle of flooded Sespen Creek cont. On Page 8j, col 1 Dawn patrol a line of gis moves through the Early morn ing Mist during a patrol in a Coconut Grove in South Vietnam s Mekong Delta. The troopers members of the 2nd brigade 9th in div were assessing damage by a b52 strike. A photo rescuers sift debris for victims Hazlehurst miss up deadly tornadoes sliced through the heart of Southern Mississippi s gently rolling Hill country at Sunrise thursday tossing Homes and cars about like playthings an killing at least 29 persons. More than six hours after the tornadoes began their terrifying sweep across the state rescuer were still sifting debris along the storms paths searching forthe missing. The Mississippi Highway patrol said there were 10 known dead in Hazlehurst and Copia county where 30 to 35 Homes were damaged and about 20demolished another 11 were reported dead in neighbors Gsimpson county and eight More persons four of the members of the same family were killed when a twister touched Down near the Community of Sardis in East Mississipp  Hazlehurst 12 children were blown from their Home into nearby Lake. All but four were rescued. Dragging operation were underway for the missing children All of them feared  Hospital in Hazlehurst cont. On Page col be 20 Marks by Peter Kuhr staff writer Heidelberg Isth mum Fine motorists May pay on the spot to German police after feeling stopped for a a Jar traffic violation a been raised from 8 to 21 Marks an army spokesman said Here ibis week. This also affects .  is one of the changes brought on by the new West German Law of Public order which took effect with the be ginning of this year he  the Motorist declines to pay the administrative warning fee on the snot a form will be mailed to him giving eight Days either to make his payment or to return the document with a written explanation Why pay meat is refused. The Case will then resettled through a regular court hearing actually the new Law is not aimed specifically at traffic sinners rather it is a catch All statute governing minor violations which previously were handled under the West German Crim code and which Are now administrative matters. As reported in the stars and stripes Federal authorities have coupled the new statute with a voluminous Cata Logue Matching these fines ranging from two Marks to 1,099 Marks wit specific violations of the motor vehicle of Page 1, col $