European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 29, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 fellow veterans vice president George Bush and the oldest retired . Marine 92-year old Dewitt Weible of Missouri wave to a crowd of about 700 marines and others in Dallas on saturday where Bush was giving a Campaign address. 2 women plucked from water near Horseshoe Falls Niagara Falls Ontario a two women were rescued from the Brink of Horseshoe Falls after they jumped from their boat and Clung to rocks until workers rescued them. Janelle Spain 25, and Karen Himmel,23, both of Hammond ind., suffered Only bruises in the incident Friday night authorities said. They were unfamiliar with the River and piloted their boat through control Gates at the International Central dam. Once a boat passes the control Gates it has reached a Point of no return one official said. Niagara Parks police said the women lost control of their boat apparently after it hit rocks in the shallow water near the Falls. They had no knowledge of the danger involved because it apparently was their first venture into the area Niagara fire chief Gilbert Neufeld said. Passers by saw the women in the 16-foot boat above the Falls and called police. When authorities arrived about 20minutes later the pair had abandoned their boat and were clinging to rocks afew Hundred Yards from the Brink. Himmel was rescued by workers who threw her ropes and pulled her Over a retaining Wall. Spain lost her grip and was swept Down the River toward the 173-foot Falls before grabbing another Rock. She was rescued by a fireman who connected to a lifeline swam out about 150 feet to her officials said. Operators closed off control Gates to lower the level of the River and slow its Pace approaching the Falls exposing rocks so the women could grab onto them. The two women who were camping on the Ontario Side of the River we retreated for bruises at a Hospital and re leased. Last month four boaters were rescued from rocks 40 feet above the Falls by workers who formed a human Chain and waded into the River. Those boaters had been drinking while sitting aboard the Craft in a Marina authorities said and adn t realized How far it had drifted. Man uses John Dillinger special1 to flee from jail Chicago a police Are searching for an in mate wanted on murder charges who escaped fro Mcook county jail using a John Dillinger special a fake gun carved from a bar of soap that fooled guard. Victor Thomas 27, told jail officials that he was Illand wanted to go to Cermak memorial Hospital which is connected to the jail by a Tunnel said Rober Glotz assistant director of the county corrections department. In the basement of the Hospital the inmate pulled out the fake gun and threatened the unarmed guard escorting him Glotz said. Thomas tied up the guard then took his uniform badge and Wallet and walked out of the jail Complex. People Here Are saying he got out using the John Dillinger special said an officer in the Cook county sheriffs department. There Are Many ways out and he used the oldest ruse the phony gun routine and i worked. It was quite a work of Art he said describing the gun which was recovered a Block from the jail. It was Black with some Light Blue highlighting probably made with a Marker pen and was approximately the size of .25-caliber automatic pistol with a delicately carved barrel grooves and a trigger  according to legend Dillinger escaped from a jail ingrown Point ind., in 1934 after brandishing a fake gun that he carved out of Wood. The legend live though it later was revealed Dillinger accomplished the escape with a real .45-caliber automatic. Thomas was being held on three counts of armed robbery police said and is also wanted in California for the March 3, 1987, slaying of three alleged drug dealers who were strangled and stabbed to death in the los Angeles area. About 40 officers were looking for Thomas on sat urday interviewing acquaintances and checking areas Thomas has been known to frequent said police  Whalen. According to the encyclopedia of american crime the Story that Dillinger used a wooden gun to escape was a hoax to cover up the fact that the real gun had been smuggled into the jail by an Indiana judge bribed by Dillinger s lawyer. Author of graduate sex wife offered shelter Springfield mass. A abet Selling author whose hard Luck has forced him to live out of his Van was offered shelter by the widow of a Man who harboured a famous stolen violin for almost 50 years. Marcelle Hall of Bethel conn., said Friday she tracked Down Charles Webb author of the graduate and his sex wife at a Massachusetts Motel and offered to take them in after Reading of their plight. She said she hoped Webb would write Book about the stolen violin and How she came to be married to the Man who held it for a half Century. But Webb s sex wife who uses Only the name Fred and who continues to live with him said Webb might not be a Leto write such a Book. The Only problem is that Charles does t know if he can write the Story about the violin. He has t written any thing factual she said. Hall gained National attention Las year when she said her second husband Julian Altman confessed before he died in aug. 15, 1985, that his violin was stolen Stradivarius he had bought for $100 from the Man who had stolen  violin was stolen at new York s car Negie Hall in 1936 from Bronislaw Huberman an internationally known Violi nist who died in 1947. The violin was authenticated for it insurer Lloyd s of London which had paid $30,000 to Huberman. Last year Lloyd s insured it for $800,000 and reportedly intended to sell it and Hall said Lloyd s was going to pay her a Reward. Hall said she met Altman in washingtonian 1968 and they married in Las vegas in March 1985, two Days before he was sentenced to two years in jail for sexually molesting one of her granddaughters. She said Friday that she had married him to regain control of her financial holdings. After serving four months of his sentence he was diagnosed with stomach cancer and moved to a Hospital where he died Hall said. Webb s 1962 novel was made into the hit movie of the same name starring Dustin Hoffman. He and Fred came to Massachusetts in search of a publisher after living for a decade in their Van i Southern California. In More prosperous Days the webbs had Given away two houses out of a need Webb said to get free of  Fred said the couple would drive to Connecticut to meet Hall and consider the offer. Hoffman other hippies recall 1968 convention Chicago a grading but for the most part still True to their ideals activists who demonstrated atthe tumultuous 1968 democratic National convention gathered saturday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the protests. It took quite a while to get Here but Here we Are said former Yippie Abbie Hoffman. About 400 people gathered in the17,000-seat International Amphitheater where the convention was held. Then Chicago mayor Richard  banned the demonstrators from the facility in 1968. Most of the participants including former students for a democratic society president Carl Oglesby and forme Chicago seven defendants Hoffman and David Dellinger agreed that while the goals they sought remain largely unfulfilled their movement an the Chicago protests had a positive effect on the country. What i saw and experienced in Chi Cago the police unleashed like storm troopers. Seeing that repression see ing that violence and then seeing the response the fact that mayor Daley did t scare us out of Chicago. For the first time i thought to not a Radi Cal i m not a reformer. I m a revolutionary " said Stew Albert. We caused a lot of things to Actu ally happen and change. We broke Down a lot of the racial barriers added Bobby scale who was ordered bound and gagged when he stood trial on conspiracy charges stemming fro the demonstrations. I m very proud of my history. Idon t regret one Nickel of it said scale 51, now involved in minority recruitment at Temple University in Philadelphia. During the 1968 convention hundreds of protesters fought with police in downtown Grant Park after Dale said they would not be allowed to March to the Amphitheater. Eight protest leaders were indicted on charges of conspiracy to incite Vio Lence. They were known As the Chi Cago seven because scale was tried separately