European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes fit pm of a Kef i a i not Only is it leap year it s veep _  defeat in the general election was & a priv a in by Dick West Wasoff Langton up there seems to be a Good possibility that Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon will Bethe democratic and Republican presidential candidates this  so we will be witnessing a typical american Success Story a thrilling Triumph Over adversity that should give new Hope to the inhabitants of resurrection City. For Humphrey is the vice president and Nixon once held that office. If they can overcome such a Handicap it Means the poor the oppressed and the Downtrodden everywhere have a Chance. Overcoming poverty and or racial discrimination should be fairly easy compared with overcoming the vice  is True that two of our last four presidents first served As vice presi dents. But both originally reached the White House by reason of the deaths of their predecessors. With a few exceptions that prove neither the Rule nor anything else the vice presidency has traditionally Bee used As a stepping Stone to oblivion. Nixon of course won the gop nomination once before but his subsequent Defea severe setback for veep  the fact that he and Humphrey Arenow regarded As front runners gives a Horatio Alger twist to this year Campaign. The american image has been badly tarnished in the eyes of the rest of the world at least partly because Vic presidents frequently have been treated As second class  new National respect for the rights of vice presidents also is showing Upin other ways. For instance the National conventions Are some weeks away but Al ready political  this contrasts shard previous convention j presidential nominator less afterthoughts a / a 01 a i-1 i a the delegates would become when someone would come Back Fellows. We mate anyone for vice then they would inthe loser would be it. Chicago gang reported Plannie to join armed negro uprising new camera Angle Singer Lena Home whose films up to now have All been musicals relaxes a bit from the Rigours of her first dramatic role As co Star to Richard  photo Chimp holds key syphilis vaccine reported near. San Francisco up medical researchers said thurs Day they Are close to developing vaccine for syphilis the Scourge of Mankind for generations. At the moment three doctor told the american medical association their Hopes for Ananti syphilis shot rest with a single Chimpanzee and the test tube cultivation of a rare relatively harmless disease sometimes caught by venezuelan  scientists who Are working on the project at the National communicable disease research Laboratory Atlanta,ga., said the vaccine if successful could completely wipe out syphilis forever in just a few  vaccine would in effect rive humans a slight Case of treponema Pinta a disease unknown in America an basically confined to the Indian population of Vene Uola an Mexico.  sailors who have held Pinta appear to be1immune to syphilis the doctors  far the scientists have succeeded in infecting a single Chimp with Pinta. This test i important because the Chimp is one of a very few Laboratory animals susceptible to both Pinta and syphilis. Scientist must now find out whether the Chimp is immune to the syphilis germ. The Bacillus which cause Pinta is indistinguishable from the syphilis Spiro Chete under the Microscope the doctors said. Unlike syphilis however pin to does not cause crippling horrible lesions blindness an insanity. Pinta s effects appear to delimited to some change in skin color. Or. William j. Brown chief of the venereal disease program at the Atlanta Laboratory said the accomplishment so far is a real  he said there Are 20,000 new cases of reported syphilis in the United states each year an the real number might run As High As 80,000.brown, or. U. S. Grant Kuhn Iii and or. Leslie Norm described their research to the american medical association convention Here. Washington a the Blackstone rangers a Street gang in Chicago were armed myself styled revolutionists and prepared to join a National negro uprising investigating Sena tors were told  Rose described As a former Ranger warlord Testi fied that other Ranger leaders told him that at a meeting i Philadelphia in april 1967 with members of the revolutionary action movement Rathe Chicago gang Learned of a plotto assassinate All the nonviolent civil rights leaders of  Rose was under questioningly members of the Senate s per manent investigations subcommittee concerning an office of economic Opportunity Grant forthe rangers and another Chica go negro  said gang members turned Down an offer by two White mento give the rangers guns and Money if they would paint Redhammer and sickle insignia on downtown Chicago  Rose said the rangers accepted a later offer from Blac militant groups to Arm them selves and wait for a general uprising. Contact by in Mcrose said the rangers were contacted by such persons a Stokely Carmichael and h. Rap Brown both leaders of the Stu Dent nonviolent coordinating committee and by Ron Karen a a West coast militant. He said these men and Ranger leaders discussed what we would do if things kicked off allover the  he did not directly connect them wit those he said supplied firearms. Rose told the committee Blac militant leaders whom he did not name brought a Large assortment of firearms and a Large Box of hand grenades tothe rangers Arsenal a Tunnel under a presbyterian Church on Chicago s South Side he said the Arsenal include two .22 magnum rifles equipped with sniper Scopes 16 sawed of carbines and 16 full length car Bines among other  said the Black nationalists gave the rangers guns Money and  they wanted us to band to Gether so that the Day the big War really started we would alarmed and be All together Rose  you mean this would be an armed revolution asked chairman John l. Mcclellan , sir Rose replied. Rose said he had been told that ram leaders had an assassination list which included the names of or. Martin Luther King jr., the Rev. Jesse Jack son a Leader in King s Southern Christian leadership Confer ence leaders of the a act and All the big nonviolent Lead ers. Rose told also of what he said were murders shootings and other crimes for which he said couple tries project head Start san Francisco up Asan Francisco couple began their marriage thursday with abroad of 17 children and a Blessing from Pope Paul  Mchugh 48, a san Francisco fireman and  White 45, widow of a fireman were married at nuptial mass at the roman Catholic Church of the Visita  the two front Row pews sat the couple s 17 children Ages 9to 23. Nine of the children belonged to the Bride eight to the  Rev. Lawrence Krause surprised the 300 relatives an friends present wednesday night when he announced that Pope Paul i had sent his special apostolic Blessing As pledge of divine graces and favors to the couple. Father Krause then advised the couple that Only love can make it  Bride confided that they will leave the children for a few  have no reservations no plans nothing special except to be alone for awhile she said. Ranger leaders were Ible. J he said the gang More than j927,, Leo designed As Viand Job training or guns and obtain Bond i Ang leaders. Negro denies i of Gong Chicago up a John Fry accused by All Leader of the blackest olgers Street gang of passing message that a murder be committed denied \ accusation Friday. He outrageous false and  George Watusi rom former no. 3 Man , testified Friday w Senate subcommittee Ivington that the paste ii first presbyterian pm courage the gang to extortion and once re message from an to Leader to him to Fol a drug peddle who found murdered. There is not the Tenor truth said Fry Church basement is place for members powerful gang. Fry also denied that Ever warned the a impending police raft Church had a weapons or that parties took place to knowledge As Taj adj this is a Hatchet jew Bald is Testudo St Antipates my us Spahe was used by we mouthpiece Forth malicious theories Blackstone rangers. I v who is Atwith the Banuls said they should be