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Tl Indianapolis -Where the tpirit of the Lord there it Liberty" II Cor. 317 TODAY'S CHICKU; "I doi't mind mea bo kiss and tell," the girl taid. "At my age I aeed all thtidver-tibiae I can let." TAR VOL 70, NO. 39 it FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1972 Cft DfOVOID 4M K. MOTOR DfltVf 10c nBi ackers Of ox Jfetg Mirreeder KATIIKIt TODAY Showers Hish.

19; Uw, YfuU-rday Hifih, Uw, Mate Eagieton Named McGovern Running 2 Crewmen Injured By Bandits After Landing Disables Plane Bewildering Ballo ting Ratifies Surprise Pick Of Missouri Senator By ROBERT P. MOONEY The Star's Convention Bureau Miami Beach, Fla. (Friday) Freshman Senator Thomas F. Eagle-ton of Missouri, the only big surprise of the 1972 Democratic National Convention, won nomination on the first ballot early today as George S. McGovern's hand-picked vice-presidential running mate on the Democratic ticket.

McGovern's choice of Eagieton followed rejection by Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who first was offered the post. It came as a surprise to many delegates. THIS ELEMENT of surprise and nr 7vr WML TW Vv Finicky Fischer Forfeits Reykjavik, Iceland (UPD-Charging there was "A conspiracy against me," United States grand master Bobby Fischer locked himself in his hotel room yesterday and refused to come out for the second game of the $250,000 world championship chess match, forfeiting the game to Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Despite last-minute attempts by organizers to get him to the hall before the 6 p.m.

(1 p.m. EST) deadline, Fischer refused to listen and turned off his telephone. Fischer later lodged an offical protest against the default ruling. Arbiter Lothar Schmid of Germany said late yesterday he had received a letter from Fischer announcing that the American challenger was protesting the decision to give the game point to Spassky. Fischer complained that starting the clock was in violation of match rules set up by the International Chess Federation (FIDE).

Schmid said the protest wouid be dealt with this morning by the match committee, composed of the arbiter, his deputy, one representative for each 'player and Icelandic officials. AIDES SAID THE unpredictable chess genius stayed in bed to protest the presence of closed-circuit television cameras in the contest hall. He later allowed an old friend, Icelandic grand master Fridrik Olafsson, into his hotel suite. "Talk, to me about just about everything else but the match," Olafsson quoted Fischer as saying. "I am not interested in it any more.

In fact, I lost interest already six months ago." THE AMERICAN camp announced four hours after the game that Fischer was filing an official protest against the decision to give Spassky the second game. Icelandic Chess sources quoted Fischer as saying he was not only protesting the cameras but also the fact that "There is a conspiracy against me here." The forfeiture put Fischer, 29, two games down in his attempt to wrest the championship from Spassky. JUDGE LOTHAR Schmid of West Germany announced the forfeiture when Fischer, playing the white pieces, failed to show up within the alloted hour to make the first move of the second game. "Ladies and gentlemen," Schmid said, "according to rule five of the Turn to Page 13, Column 1 in LONG, BLACK STREAKS OF RUBBER MARK LANDING PATH Big Liner Forced To Brake Heavily To Keep From Running Off Runway (AP Wirephoto) SEN. THOMAS F.

EAGLETON George McGovern's Choice For No. 2 "Are you telling me a delegate and elected United States senator, cannot speak to the people of this Gravel asked. "I'm telling you the rules say you can't speak," Mrs. Burke replied. GRAVEL THEN said he disagreed and was prepared to wait for a ruling "from the leaders of this convention." He was allowed to continue.

In addition to Eagieton, Edicott Pea-body of Massachusetts and Gravel, the candidates who filed petitions to get themselves placed in vice-presidential nomination were S. Frances Farenthold, who lost a bid for Democratic nomination for governor of Texas; Hodding Carter III of Mississippi; Representative Peter Rodino of New Jersey; Clay Smothers of Dallas, and Stanley Arnold, a New York marketing consultant. Archie Bunker even got a vote for Vice-President in the spirited balloting. It came from a South Carolina delegate. Archie Bunker is the television charac- Turn to page 15, Column 1 (UPI Photo) UPI Telephoto) COPILOT NORMAN REGAN Pistol-Whipped By Hijackers I (AP Wireohoto) Gerald Beaver Engineer Shot (AP Wirtpholo) Melvin M.

Fisher Lost His Nerve Inside Today's Slat IWms Summary On Page 3 1 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two armed hijackers forced a National Airlines jet to fly from Philadelphia to a little, out-of-the-way Texas airport yesterday after releasing its 113 passengers. The airliner was disabled in landing when the pilot was forced to brake so heavily because of the short runway that two tires were blown. The pair later freed three hostage stewardesses and surrendered. It was one of two widely separated skyjackings that began almost simultaneously along the nation's air lanes Wednesday night. Both ended with the sky pirates giving up, and with no loss of life.

Two male crewmen on the National plane were injured by the hi-, jackers, however. Prior to their surrender, the National hijack team sought to make a deal with the FBI the hostages and a small fortune in ransom money in exchange for a private getaway plane piloted by an agent. The airport at Lake Jackson, was too small to handle safely a replacement aircraft the size of their tri-motored 727. AN FBI AGENT was flown in from Baltimore to aid in the negotiations as the two Negro hijackers kept altering their demands. Also brought in was a Dallas psychiatrist, an expert on the hought processes of aerial hijackers.

Earlier, a man in a pink shirt with an empty pistol lost his nerve after commandeering an American Airlines New York-to-San Diego jet on an Oklahoma City-to-Dallas leg. He surrendered himself and $200,000 in ransom and was held in $100,000 bail after a tearful court appearance at Oklahoma City. Between them, the hijackers demanded $1 million in ransom although they settled for less than that. Both planes involved were Boeing 727s, with a rear exit from which it is possible to parachute in relative, safety. Before their release, 164 passengers in the two planes were at the mercy of the three gunmen.

In both cases, passengers complained of lax security that enabled the skyjackers to walk aboard with their; weapons. One reportedly concealed a sawed-off shotgun in a cast and sling on his arm. Another evidently wore i gun holster. ONE OF THE PASSENGERS aboard National's Flight 496, which was forced down at Philadelphia along its Miami-to-New York route was Gene Burroughs, 48, of Los Angeles. He said of the shotgun-carrying hijacker and his pistol-waving companion: "Anybody that would have checked with any type of metal detecting device would have found something of that size.

I saw them before they got on. One had a cast and his arm was in a sling. Later, looking back, I wondered why no one checked him out. Apparently, he had a gun in his cast." Deputy Marshal Sarge Glenn of Philadelphia, where the skyjackers boarded the National flight before forcing its return, said the airline had no metal detector there. Some National passengers also complained because the pilot, Elliott Adams, abandoned his aircraft by diving to freedom through a cockpit window while the plane was on the ground at Philadelphia.

He said the aircraft was virtually out of gas, and he feared subjecting the passengers to a crash if forced by the hijackers to take it aloft again. A COPILOT, Norman Regan, captained a substitute 727 jetliner which carried the skyjackers on a meandering route that eventually brought them down at a small airport at Lake Jackson, about 50 miles south of Houston. They found themselves trapped their jetliner out of gas, two tires blown, on a runway too short for a 727 to take off. Regan was badly beaten by his captors before being released, and his flight engineer, Gerald Beaver, was shot and wounded. The American Airlines hijacker, Melvin M.

Fisher, 49, a Norman (Okla.) painter and the father of six, brought his Turn to Page 13, Column 1 Today Prayer When I look into Your face, Oot, I see a promise of hope; when I look into my heart, I sec hesitation and fear. Forgive my temerity, especially when I try to protect myself In some advantage, and look with understanding upon my fear. Help me to trust more fuljy in You. Amen. grumblings that McGovern had "forced" Eagieton on the convention resulted in a long, sometimes bewildering, sometimes acrimonious, sometimes comic roll call that stalled the Eagieton nomination beyond midnight.

Delegates cast ballots for several minor serious candidates, but also for a strange assortment of other people, including Martha Mitchell, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, and Roger Mudd, a CBS newscaster. Everyone knew what was going to happen, but the delegates played their game into the early-morning hours before the votes of Texas put Eagieton past a nominating majority. Eagleton's name was picked from a final list of seven shortly after 3 p.m. McGovern spent most of the day discussing the selection of several possibilities with some party leaders, staff members and political allies before making his decision.

GORDON WEIL, executive assistant to McGovern, said a woman and a Negro man had been considered by McGovern, who won a smashing first-ballot victory Wednesday night for the presidential nomination. Eagieton, who once thought his political future was buried in one term as lieutenant-governor of Missouri in 1964, is a 42-year-old freshman senator from St. Louis and a Roman Catholic. Weil said after much discussion and conference with others, both in his suite in the Hotel Doral and on long-distance telephone, McGovern said: "I think it will be Tom Eagieton." Gibson of Newark, N.J. Breaking with long-standing tradition, Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska went directly to the delegates and seconded his own nomination.

Gravel took convention co-chairman Yvonne Breathwaile Burke by surprise when he appeared on the podium. Mrs. Burke told Gravel he was out of order but the senator continued to talk. Convention News On inside Paycs GOP Campaign Chief Opens Doors Of Republican Party To Democratic Defectors Page 14 Dedicated Democrat Amateurs Seen Hurting Own Ticket Page 14 Young Political Scientist Eyeing State Youth Vote Page 14 "Poor" Demos Aren't Big Tippers Page 14 Barbara Eagieton Busy With Campaigns And Her Family Page 14 Eagieton Regarded Generally More Moderate Than McGovern Page 14 Nixon Arranges Top Briefings For McGovern Page 15 Still Anti-McGovern, Labor To "Sit It Out" Page 15 "Kindly Step To The Rear," An Editorial Page 28 Werner Cartoon Page 28 The Weather Joe (row Says: Think nothing Senator er of it, ah Eagieton, four years ago nearly everyone was asking, "Who is Spiro?" Indianapolis Variable cloudiness with periods of showers and thunder-showors today and tomorrow. High tomorrow upper 80s.

Indiana-Variable cloudiness, warm and humid with chance of occasional Hhowers and thundcrshowcrs today and tomorrow. Highs today mid 80s north and upper 80s south. DIRT-DUST COUNT 127 micro-grariMt of dust per culjlc meter of air. McGovern Vows To End War, Keep Up U.S. Arms 26,000 More Pupils To Get Free Lunches An additional 26,000 Indiana pupils will be eligible for free school lunches under new guidelines announced yesterday by Superintendent of Public Instruction John J.

Loughlin. These pupils previously were not eligible for either free or reduced-price lunches, Loughlin said. In addition, the new guidelines will enable 4,700 pupils who previously received reduced-price lunches to receive free lunches, he said. LOUGHLIN SAID the new policy is the result of a revision in poverty guidelines by which local school administrators determine eligibility for free lunches. The new rules are based on Indiana Department of Public Welfare statistics.

The United States Department of Agriculture requires all states taking part in the national school lunch program to update their income poverty guidelines annually. THE DEPARTMENT of Agriculture will pay all of the additional cost involved, according to Loughlin. Indiana now has 2,170 schools taking part in the school lunch program. During the fiscal year which ended June 30, these schools served 111 million lunches, of which 16 million were provided free or at a reduced price. CiUME ALERT Emergency Only Other Fire Rescue (First Aid) 634-1313 Emergency Ambulance 630-7111 cus in Mexico.

"FRASIER is so old his tongue muscles have collapsed and his tongue lolls constantly from his mouth," Seibert wrote. "He walks with difficulty and can no longer lead the hunt." Seibert then told of the 11 young Kalahari Desert lionesses at Safari Country who had rejected one young male after another, leaving several of them biidly mauled. Then, almost as a joke, Frasier whs introduced to the pridep Amusement Finance 42-44 Pages Obituaries ..22 Area News ..18 Sports 36-41 Billy Graham 25 TV-Radio 23,26 Bridge 17 Want Ads 45-59 Comics .1..32 Weather ...59 Crossword 25 Werner .28 Editorials ...28 Women Court News And Statistics .59 Miami Beach (UPI) George S. McGovern accepted his badly divided party's presidential nomination last night with a vow to end the Vietnam war and never to allow America to become a second-rate military power. The 49-year-old South Dakota senator pledged again to halt the bombing in Indochina and withdraw United States troops within 90 days of taking office.

But in his address to the final session of the Democratic convention, McGovern seemed to be trying to answer criticism that the nation would become militarily inferior under his plan to cut defense spending by one-third. "IT IS necessary in an age of nuclear NtASIKK (iOIvS OUT HAPPY power and hostile ideologies that we be militarily strong," he declared. "America must never become a second rate nation. "As one who has tasted the bitter fruits of our weakness before 1942 I give you my sacred pledge (hat if I become president of the United States, America will keep its defenses alert and fully sufficient to meet any danger," said the World War II bomber pilot. "We will do that not only for ourselves, but for those who deserve and need the shield of our strength our old' allies in Europe and elsewhere including the.

people of Israel who will always have our help to hold their Turn to Page 15, Column 4 combination of old age and kidney malfunction. Frasier was somewhere between 17 and 20 years of age at his death, the equivalent of a human 85 to 100. But in the past two years Frasier had sired 35 cubs by his pride of 11 young lionesses, Frasier was brought to world-wide fame through a dispatch by United Press International UPI correspondent Barney Seibert last January telling of the aged lion being brought to the tourist anlmul sanctuary from a traveling cir All You Older Cats, The King Is Dead (Sigh) Slar Telephone i timbers Main Office 633-1240 Circulation 633-921 1 Want Ads 633-1212 Scores After 4:30 p.m. 633-1200 "Next morning the lionesses were found purring contentedly in the sun about an exhausted but happy Frasier who lay on his back, paws in the air, tongue protruding," the dispatch repotted. "Now when Frasier is hungry, he has a nubile Nubian to fetch his food and place it at his feet.

When he walks, a lioness takes her place on each side of him to hold him up." AT FIRST there were skeptics. A Turn to Page I I. Column I Laguna Hills, Calif (UPl)-Frasier, the sensuous lion, an Inspirational example to elderly males everywhere, died yesterday in his sleep with "a look of contentment on his face. "It is with deep regret that we announce that Erasier passed away very quietly, very peacefully, in his sleep curly this morning," said a spokesman at Lion Country Safari, where the superannuated lion became a legend In his own time. THE was attributed to a.

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