European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes democratic convention site begins to look like a fortified area Tindoy August 13, Chicago a the inter National amphitheatre looked increasingly like a fortified compound monday As preparations continued for the demo cratic National convention. Work has bean completed on half mile Fence topped with barbed wire to screen the convention site. John b. Criswell convention executive director said plans Are going along on  r. Burke 34, a secret service agent is coordinating Al Security measures for the convention which opens aug. 26.convention officials delegates and others will have to show their credentials at a half dozen checkpoints before entering the amphitheatre an Chicago s South side.5,500 troops about 5,500 Illinois National guard troops will be stationed in Chicago during the Conven Tion. Brig. Gen. Richard t. Dunn commander of emergency operations for the Illinois guard said one battalion about 800 men including three Rifle companies jul be on regular training Assembly duties each convention night at a Chicago  for the convention remained a i  electrical workers have agreed Only to install communications equipment in the amphitheatre. Chicago hotels used by convention delegates will have to use their Normal Telephone hang Over convention  Drivers have threatened to strike aug. 16 against the City s two largest cab Compa Nies yellow cab and checker cab unless the companies agree to install bulletproof partitions Between the Driver and passenger sections. They also want higher commissions. Drivers of buses subway an elevated trains have threatened to strike the Chicago transit authority the Day before the convention opens in a dispute with their Parent Union. The Drivers members of Divi Sion 241 of the amalgamated transit workers Union Are de manding that retired Union workers be stopped from voting in Union elections. Crawford wedding Western Hatte actress Joan Crawford happily shares the camera with her daughter Cathy Cathy s Bride Groom Jerome j. Lalomie and his Mother i Alexandria Bay . The couple will live u Norfolk va., where he is with in. Navy a chronic att ment  threatened strikes also accused Man gets 5-Day jail break Chicago up a clerical error last tuesday allowed an accused killer of a Chicago policeman to go free until sunday morning when he was Recap tured. Embarrassed jail officials said Eugene Armstrong under indict ment for the dec. 14 slaying of policeman Charles Pollard was released from the City House of correction after completing a one year term for armed  were unaware  Strong had been erroneously re leased until an informer called the Federal Bureau of investigation to inquire Why Armstrong charged with murder was re leased and the Fri contacted  was rearrested with out resistance driving on the str. Cd let has Bee launched by House of correction supt. C. William Ruddle who said his office had no knowledge that Armstrong had been indicted for murder or was to be turned Over to the Cook county jail. West  investigation Johnson has More Hospital tests san Antonio Tex. Up Christian declined to comment president Johnson underwent further Hospital tests monday Fortis chronic intestinal ailment. The White House said the results would be sent to the Bethesda naval Hospital i Washington and to the Mayo clinic. The president flew by helicopter from his ranch to the Brooke army medical Center Insan Antonio where he completed a Ray tests to determine the extent of his diverticulosis a series of protrusions in the Wall of his lower intestine. Immediately after the a Ray examination the White House announced that the result would be sent to Calm. George Burkley the president s person Al physician at Bethesda and to or. James Cain at the May clinic in Rochester minn., for comparison with a rays take Dur ing previous years Austin briefing at a briefing in Austin Tex.,White House press Secretary George Christian said the doctors have not informed me of any concern or Lack of concern about the president s health. Christian also said he had nothing new to report on the Paris peace talks or nonrecurring reports that the administration was preparing to halt the bombing in Vietnam. Christian declined to get involved in apparent discrepancies Between vice president Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon about the Paris peace negotiations. After briefings from pres ident Johnson Over the weekend Nixon indicated he though there might be some Progress but Humphrey took the vie that nothing had changed. On Nixon s statement and when asked whether there had been any Progress he said there i nothing new to report to you this  denied reports from Saigon that the administration was preparing for a bombing halt the president has made quite Clear the . Position i regard to the bombing South of the 20th parallel and that is the position  Christian said. He also denied reports that Senate majority Leader Mike Mansfield was on a presidential Mission when he visited Moscow last week. Christian said Mansfield was not doing any work on behalf of the president. Hospital says Ike past critical stage Washington a army that daily medical bulletins will doctors reported monday that for Mer president Dwight d. Eisen Hower has now successfully passed the immediate critical period following last week s major heart attack and is Mak ing satisfactory Progress. But even barring unforeseen occurrences the convalescence is Apt to be prolonged because of the general s recent previous attacks doctors at Walter Reed army Hospital said in re ply to  declined to say How Long he might remain in the  was transferred there from California May 14 after a hear attack and has suffered two More since he was  first week after an attack is considered the critical  though to underscore their optimism the doctors disclosed tombstones smashed Evanston Iii. A  dals desecrated Calvary Ceme Tery saturday night smashing More than 300 tombstones and statues. Cemetery officials Esti mated that damage will exceed 1100,000, and May run As High As$500,000. 3not Complete mess 9 but new York a the Long Island rail Road cancelled 25 new York bound Rains and jammed thousands of commuters into the remaining trains at the Rush hour monday in a dispute with maintenance men. Although a Railroad spokesman said that things Are not a Complete mess commuters described trains packed tight with standees and Oue likened his trip to Riding in a cattle car. He said there were like five trains Worth of people on one train and the conductor Hud no idea what train it was supposed to be. The train made stops until it got filled then it just kept  parkways traffic moved at Snail s Pace As Many commuters who normally use the rail Road drove cars into the City. The Railroad operated by he state metro Politan transportation authority carries 90, 000 round trip and 80,000 one Way riders on a Normal work Day. Be discontinued barring an change in his present Progress. Today s final bulletin said Eisenhower continues to show satisfactory Progress and he Isno longer requiring oxygen As treatment even on an intermit tent basis. He has continued free of pain and his spirits Are Excel Lent but the bulletin added that visitors Are still being restricted to members of the immediate family. In response to questions the doctors reported Eisenhower has begun to take solid  he had been restricted to a liquid diet. However he is still confine to Complete bed rest and it has not been determined when height be allowed to take a few Steps or sit up in a chair. Shooting joke ends in death Durango Colo. Up Pancho Villa swaggered into the tavern and people  knew it was Gene Gui Terriz 39, who had dressed Ashe legendary mexican outlaw for the Durango Rodeo  of the patrons Claudia Gar Cia 19, jokingly asked him to shoot her. Guiterrez Drew his ,38-Caliberpistol, which was loaded with Blanks and fired in Tho direction of the girl. The joking ended when some one noticed the girl was bleeding. She was taken to a  later confirmed the gun was loaded with Blanks but said the Blank cartridges were under sized and an entire Shell was is my fired when the trigger was pulled. Two women found slain in Kansas Lake Wamego. Kan. Lap the bodies of two Timu vilified Youn women tied together were found sunday in i  Lake no. 1 seven Miles North of warn Jjo in northeastern Kansas. Sheriff Don  said an autopsy disclosed Shoih had been shot to death sith a18 or .32 Caliper Wear uni. There were soother signs of violence. One appeared to be Between 13 and 18 years old and the other from 16 to 22. The sheriff said they apparently had been dead 24 to 48 hours. They both were fully clothe they were tied the legs with and wore shoe together at  bodies Wen found in Yards from Shore by Glen Lesslie and his Yram swi Larry Matson 12, both of Vermillion Kan while fishing in the Lake. Last won i honeymoons new York id few cod pies go to Brooklyn on a Honey Moon. And now two Brighton mass., newlyweds believe they know  honeymooners or. And a 11ct 1 1 i in Iii ii to mrs. Thomas Carey he s 20 and she s 19 derided their new Crl honeymoon would t to Complete without a trip to the fabled Bor Ough of Brooklyn so it 3 . Saturday they found Ite in Albee Square near  that Point thu a fronted by three men Weiwu switchblade knives who Che them of $25 and or a Brooklyn resident Mitchell 45, who happened to walking by was a hold up one of the three. No one As Ere nor however two patrolmen Pas sin. By arrested Philip i Assi Tor. A f. And rjila"0by Arlon Turner l , 24, All of Bevin s widow l i s London my 1 ence Bevin widow of postwar foreign mils uni of Bevin died sunday m j nursing Home. She a � Klor