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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 tin stars and Strikis Hociy augut 3q. Humphrey wins nomination on first ballot continued from Page Hgray and third party candidate George c. Wallace of Ala Bama i. The Wallace and Bry ant votes came from the Ala Bama delegation. Illinois moved to make the nomination unanimous setting off wild jubilation among the vice president s backers As Dele Gates waved their hands an state banners frantically. Convention chairman Carl Al Brt declared the motion a  without the formality Ofa vote setting off a round of Boos and catcalls from Mccar thy supporters. Tho biggest Day in the life of the former South Dakota drug Gist began with the collapse of desperate draft Kennedy move ment. The momentum built when important favorite son delegations swung to his Side and when the balloting finally began there was no doubt of the  was really great cried Humphrey in his downtown hotel suite when Pennsylvania put him Over the top. Fie jumped from his easy chair clapped his hands jubilantly and then Bent Over to kiss a color television set show inn his beaming wife Muriel inthe convention . With Humphrey s selection foregone conclusion attention Al ready had turned to his Choice Ofa vice presidential running mate. While the balloting was still under Way placards danced in the air promoting ambassador Sargent Shriver goes. Richard j. Hughes of new Jersey an Philip Hoff of Vermont and  s Triumph was marred by violent clashes in the streets below his hotel room pitting police and National guardsmen against thousands of Antiwar protesters who tried unsuccessfully to March to the International  records showed at least 267 arrests wednesday and Earl thursday and 39 persons injured including six newsmen who fell victim to Billy clubs and Mace along with the  denounced storm trooper tactics in Chicago and Rowdy ism on the floor of the convention by dissident  he decried both police violence and he unruly mob of Youthful Antiwar demonstrators who have disrupted the party convention Headquarters in the Conrad Hilton hotel he defended the massive Security precautions surrounding the . Humphrey and 1 have been threatened with assassination half a dozen times he said in an interview taped shortly after he won the nomination and televised thursday  was Chicago mayor Richard a Daley to do a violent confrontation be tween helmeted police and the demonstrators wednesday night set off an uproar on the Conven Tion floor by furious delegates who accused club swinging police of Gestapo  Jet mishap closes Field in Stuttgart Stuttgart Germany is the commercial Airport Here was forced to suspend operations lat thursday afternoon after a . Air Force Jet fighter made a emergency Landing. The plane an f102 of the496th fighter interceptor so at Hahn air base blew a tire an skidded into the mud just off the Only runway. Officials ordered the Airport closed and several incoming flights diverted because the plane s nearness to the runway constituted a Hazard. Takeoffs also were cancelled. Partial traffic was resumed for smaller air planes about 10 p.m., a Stuttgart Airport official  Safe he spokesman said that an air Force team fro Ramstein air base was expected to have the plane removed by about 3 . Friday. The f102 s Pilot on a training Mission was uninjured. His plane had experienced technical difficulty forcing him to land at the nearest Airport. Play it Safe this weekend the forthcoming labor Day weekend Means pet alas boat ing and above All or Vlag Usa eur Drivers will be Cor Erial Many More Miles than Asahal. Thomas h. Ayers us a eur and seventh army director of safety suggests that Yon hold your trip to a distance reasonable for the Tim allowed that you leave Early drive cautiously he prepared to yield the right of Way at All times and fasten seat belts while your vehicle is la motion. Why let an Accident kill your Holiday drive As if your life depended of it it does an never forget that gasoline and alcohol do not mix 2 boys kidnapped in Texas Calif. Cars. Continued from Paga v iceman who want Low Cost transportation appears to be gaining Pentagon acceptance the added. The used car plan still on Yin the discussion stage Wouk allow servicemen to buy car from other servicemen during their overseas tour without having to go on the outside Marke for an Economy car and contribute to the Gold flow. The suggestion to ban foreign cars from registration and Exchange s. E r v i c e and gasoline sales was killed because of its obvious unpopularity with the owners of Small cars and be cause it might create an unfavourable reaction in Host countries such As West Germany that also produce automobiles. If the . Declined to offer facilities for servicemen with foreign cars Host nations might turn around and ask that the same ban be extended to .made cars it was explained. Baseball by the Assoc lated pre american league California 000 000 000 0 3 2 Ujj Elrodt 000 100 Olx-2 5 1lirunct, Wal kill 8 and Kun in Illch Ami i re of. W Lollich 13-8. A Brunei 1313 us a fruit Hurton 31. Oakland 002 000 000 282jjoatotj 301 600 1011 14 3 Nttah Aber 3. A Nance Bogle 7 and i or Cari More head juju Orui 2 Wui Jibson w Elu Mortti 12-. Lnaah10-11. Uil Roaton. Fly Niue 10voy from a and kidnappings in two state wednesday set in action intensive searches by the Fri another authorities for two Small children and their abductors. The cases involved a Beverly Hills Calif.,banker s son Stanley Stalford jr., 4, being held for a reported$250,000 Ransom. A 4-Day-old boy drek Greg Ory Reese taken from his hos Pital crib at port Arthur  Beverly Hills a Man posing As an electrician kidnapped the banker s son after tying up the boy s Mother. He said he woul Call about a $250,000 Ransom police  millionaire banker made arrangements thursday to pay$250,000 Ransom and it was re ported the Money already had been paid. The Fate of the child abducted from his Home Clad Only in a bathing suit was not  chief Clinton Anderson would say Only that arrange ments have been made for a  reports of Contact there were unconfirmed re ports pieced together from police radio Calls and other sources that the father had made Contact with the kidnapper in Coffee shop and that the Money had been dropped from a car Onan off ramp of the san Diego freeway near the los Angele International Airport. The Federal Bureau of investigation and the police had 300 men working on the  disclosed that offi cers had found the Stalfors 1968 Cadillac in which the kid per , 49, is Board chair higher seat Back urged los Angeles a University of California engineers May Auto Soat backs should be sinches higher to reduce whiplash and other injuries that occur in rear end collisions. Up dispatches Man of the Fidelity Bank of Beverly Hills. His blonde second wife Joanne whom he married in 1962, was bound and dragged screaming into a closet by the armed Abductor who appeared at the front door in mid morning in an aluminium construction helmet and said he needed to Check electrical outlets. About 40 years old she described the Man As about 40 years old 5 feet 11inches tall weighing about 170 pounds Black haired and Wear ing glasses. The Man first demanded Money. When she said there was none in the House he tie her up with masking tape and then said i m taking the child with me. I will Contact your  want $250,000 in $20  the gunman warned her notto Call police. Mrs. Stalford finally worked herself Loose an called her husband in hysteria. Stalford s Bank has an Esti mated $100 million in resources. He was a former assistant to financier Bernard Baruch and was named to the . Nava Academy Board of visitors in 1963 by the late presiden Kennedy. He was formerly married to Lorraine Allen a actress and former wife of band Leader Xavier  Texas distraught parents of the infant kidnapped from his hos Pital crib awaited word thurs Day from a police search that spread throughout the United states and involves the Fri. Or. And mrs. Darrell Reese sat by their Telephone in port Neches near port Arthur waiting for any news of their baby. The couple also has a 17-month-old son. Drek was born . F. M. Mac Phillips of the port Arthur police said the Fri joined the search for a 5 foot-2 woman described Smiddle aged with a dark complexion and tousled hair. Liberalization to be slowed czech says Prague up the presi Dent of Czechoslovakia s National Assembly said thursday that communist leaders negotiating with soviet chiefs for the withdrawal of russian forces have agreed to slow Down the liberalization program to save the coun try and Avert new human  in a Long speech Over radio Prague the Assembly president Josef Smrkovsky said the government would have to crack Down on the free a heeling czechoslovak press and radio and take Steps to prevent the formation of opposition political  spoke amid reliable reports that the soviets were demanding approval of a 150 Man Central committee picked by the Kremlin to Rule the occupied , party chief Alex Ander Dubcek and president Lud Vik Svoboda conferred through out the Day in an attempt to form a new government that would Speed the withdrawal of the 200,000 red army troops who invaded aug. 20. Duly elected political life will be directed not by a government that has been imposed but by duly elected organs of the stale Smrkovsky said in reporting details of the agreement worked out with the soviets in Kremlin talks. The meetings have been called unusual because most of the czechoslovak participants had been arrested. The National Assembly will exercise the functions with which it is charged by the Constitution and other acts of Law. It is fur ther certain that Czechoslovakia s foreign policy will maintain its present course he  some of the harsh terms of the Kremlin agreement Smrkovsky said we shall to forced to take exceptional measures in the sphere of press broadcasting and television in order to prevent anything being written or said in these Media which might run counter to the foreign political needs of the  Gen. . Grant Iii Dies in . At 87 Clinton . Up . . Grant Iii grandson of the civil War general and presi Dent died wednesday night at his Home Here. He was 87.grant, a West Point graduate served in the armed forces i both world War i and ii and was awarded the distinguished serv ice medal and the legion of Merit. Humphrey labelled u it z ssh. 1"l no Tion. Don  up Ople just -.wwedv","01".tve seen far too Mac is about Timeto it have Ashout s4 i l i Lull 1 ill won his party s top pro wrung from the delegates an endorsement of president a son s handling of the War As re fleeced in its 1968 Campaign rial form i buried after an emotion three hour debate was an to Tensive drive by Mccarthy an Mcgovern forces to commit the party to a search for peace not Boid by the restrictions  by the Johnson administration. Although Humphrey and John son were the victors the plat. Form Battle left deep wounds inthe democratic ranks and there former  police commissioner Eugene b. Bull Connor voted for Alabama foot Ball coach Bear Bryant for president because there Ain nobody Here that i think u capable of being  would t take it any. Way he added. He s got better Job than  was talk of trying to organize fourth party movement to rally dovish elements. President Johnson Early thurs Day called for the democratic party to unite behind , rejecting chants of fourth party by his disappointed backers wished Humphrey Well Early thursday but declined to endorse his candidacy at this  said he lost the nomination to Humphrey because the procedures Don t respond to the judgment of the  Mccarthy said "1 deplore Chicago police tactics against the Antiwar demonstrators a i added the Windy City never should have been picked for the convention. Mccarthy s name was placed if nomination for president by Iowa gov. Harold in Hughes. Nominated by Alioto Humphrey s name was place before the convention by Joseph Alioto the mayor of san fran Cisco who called on the Dele Gates to pick an extraordinary Man lest the heavy duties of the presidency crush him. An the turbulence of our nines. Overwhelm  100 of the 339 negro delegates and alternates vote to support the nomination of Phillips the first  to receive that distinction at a major . Convention. Barbee Lloyd a Milwaukee Delegate said Phillips had no Chance to win the nomination but to might As Well have a Little Black Beauty in this a Ghan Stan  Phillips 40, is a a activist and pastor of memorial co donation Church in downtown Ashing on. The vice president was not w a joyous mood As la i of Althis acceptance speech in 25th floor of his hotel. I Don t feel so Nood tolj1 i with what s Guisik � n r there Humphrey said As \ Nui of tear Gas came in thrown a open window. What was oin of  was a pitched Ikumi tween police and 1"T Antiwar demonstrators m heart of the City  
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