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UM II PARTLY SUNNY Partly sunny and pleasant with highs in the low to mid 70s. Wednesday's Pollution Index: 1 Average Sunmer Index: 4-6 FULL WEATHER REPORT, PAGE 30 Market Climbs 4 Points; Stock Tables, Pages 19-23 Oldest Daily Newspaper in the United States Founded 1771 THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1972 TEN CENTS Vol. 287, No. 6 FINAL CITY EDITION Democrats Squabble Flood Victims 'A id Stalled fro 1 1 IK Deadlock on Budget Halts Welfare, Pay By DANIEL J. BALZ Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau ARR1 SBURG.

Closed-door negotiations on the state's stalled budget broke down again Wednesday leaving the Commonwealth hamstrung on welfare and salary payments and flood relief. The bind on salaries and re lief results from a constitutional ban on issuing checks A Flood Victims Wait Anxiously for Aid Page 35 UlifcLnilJllLUliyBJU JMlW1. J.iJIlk jWi 1 riiflTritimr Hi 111 Mll'l MMHinlHil UBillllilnlllll III i i IIWHIIIIIW PI in1 Mli'iw IBiII in i i 1 i mi i'n iiiim ii rr- awwmbhmmwhw Inquirer photo by EDWARD J. FREEMAN While State Legislature stalls' on flood relief, George Hitner of Corps of Engineers inspects mounds of flood debris collected near Fort Miflin Story, Page 13 Appeal, Floor Fight Still Possible Court Returns 151 Delegates rm McGovern; Rebuff Daley ROBERT GEBHARDT 'had to stop it' 2 Hijackers, Passenger Slain in Jet SAN FRANCISCO. FBI agents killed two hijackers Wednesday in a shootout aboard a seized airliner carrying 86 persons.

A passenger was killed and two others wotnded when the FBI thwarted the attempt to hijack the pUne to Russia with $800,000 ransom. The first FBI agent gained entrance to the Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner by posing as a pilot, end he was followed aboard by a second agent who had been hiding beneath the plane parked at the edge of San Francisco Bay. A number FBI agents surrounded the aircraft after it had sat on the ground for more than four hours while airline officials gathered the demanded ransom, two parachutes and maps showing the route to Russia. SOME OF THE agents had come ashore from a Coast Guard boat that had maneuvered to a landing place in the bay beneati the 737 jetliner and out of fight of the two foreign-born hijtckers. The passenger was killed by shots fired by the hijackers, the FBI said.

The gunmen also wounded two other passengers, including veteran movie and television actor Victor Sen Yung, 56, who Continued on Pi ge 3, Col. 3 Humphrey Pledges To Continue Fight By ROBERT S. BOYD Of Our Washington Bureau MIAMI BEACH. A U. S.

Appeals Court handed Sen. George McGovern two precious gifts Wednesday. It said he should get back the 151 California delegates he thought he had lost to an anti-McGovern coalition that took over the Democratic National Convention's Credentials Committee 10 days ago. And it said he could keep until a budget bill or temporary funding is passed. The state has the money, but can't spend it.

Money for flood relief is in a separate bill, bottled up in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Chairman Benjamin R. Donolow Philadelphia) says it needs minor alterations. A HOUSE-SENATE conference committee tried to meet several times Wednesday on the budget. Each time, a postponement was requested by Democrats seeking to find a way to please the governor and rural Democrats who have been voting to cut administration proposals.

The committee has another meeting scheduled for 10 A. M. today. Despite Donolow's statement about needed alterations in the flood-relief bill, others have charged he is holding it up until an agreeable budget bill is passed by the General Assembly and sent to the governor. It is now the difference between a House-passed bill cutting $150 million from the budget and a Donolow-spon-sored bill adding more money for the big cities which remains at issue.

Until the Democrats can reach an agreement with the rural bloc, headed by Rep. Kent D. Shelhamer, there is little hope that the budget can be passed. Democrats in the conference committee reportedly met with Shelhamer Wednesday evening and emerged discouraged at the prospects for compromise. Both Shelhamer and those who support the governor's proposals are reluctant to budge on the issues.

ONE REPUBLICAN member of the conference committee said Wednesday evening that the Democrats were "just shifting figures, rather than cutting things." He said there does not seem to be disagreement within the committee on total money in the bill, but on where the money should go. Shelhamer has charged that the Senate version of the budget proposal is a big city bill, and that he will oppose any attempts to give increased funding to the cities. One of the issues among the Democrats on the conference committee is the question of whether to work on a report which would be voted on along party lines in the committee, or to come up with something which would be agreeable to all. Rep. K.

Leroy Irvis Pittsburgh) said Wednesday that they hoped to find some arrangement that would be acceptable to all, but that he wasn't sure what chance there was to pass it. 3-' U- fe" -5 1 4 "4 1 1 the 40 to 50 Illinois delegates he picked up the next day, when the Credentials Committee kicked out Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's handpicked delegation. If the appeals court decision stands, it would virtually assure McGovern the Democratic Presidential nomination on the first or second ballot next Wednesday night. BUT THE PRIZE, so close to McGovern's grasp, is still dangling just beyond his fingertips. The Supreme Court of the United States or the convention itself, the supreme thority of the Democratic Party, could still reject the appeals court ruling.

McGovern wasn't considering that possibility. The South Dakotan, who had denounced the Credentials Committee decision as "a dirty, rotten political steal," welcomed the court's action with soft words. "I am pleased by the decision this decision reaffirms the choice of the California voters and the rules of the Democratic Party," he said. "I hope now that the convention can proceed in a lawful, orderly and satisfactory manner to ratify a platform and nominate a candidate who can take that platform to the country in a victorious campaign next fall." SEN. HUBERT HUMPHREY, a prime mover in the challenge to the winner-Continued on Page 4, Col.

4 1st Lawyer Suspended In Probe By ANTHONY LAME Of The Inquirer Staff A three-judge Common Pleas Court panel has suspended a Philadelphia attorney from the practice of law for six months because of unethical conduct. The suspension of Morris S. Finkel marks the first disciplinary action to result from a Bar Association investigation into the practice of unethical solicitation in accident cases. The panel's decision, dated June 27, was obtained Wednesday by The Inquirer. A KEY ELEMENT in the case against Finkel was the testimony of Dr.

Joseph S. Torg, an orthopedic surgeon, who claimed that the lawyer had solicited him to refer ac- cident cases. Torg testified that Finkel offered him $50 for each medical report on accident victims plus 10 percent of Finkel's fee in cash if a succesful lawsuit resulted. Torg said he refused the offers but claimed that Finkel persisted in his requests by pointing out what the cash Continued on Page 2, Col. 6 Nixon's Chinese Art Unveiled at Franklin Institute Republicans paid $50 to see bamboo parasol, needlepoint, elephants.

Rush-Hour Tip: Watch Broad St. Starting toda, the Broad st. traffic will be evenly divided during rush hours-three lanes in each directionfor the rest of the summer, from Belfield ave. to Norris st. Police Comir.issioner Joseph F.

O'Neill said the change will allow the reassignment of 45 traffic policemen to patrol areas with a high rate of street crime. Rush hour a i on Broad st. had been four lanes one way and two lanes the other way during the morning and late-afternoon rush. Republicans Take a $50 Look At Nixon's Gifts From China By DAN LYNCH Inquirer Political Writer Despite all the stir that preceded it, the affair Wednesday night was predictably sedate. Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott wandered about blissfully peering at the sou pota Chinese teapot." Attorney J.

Welles Henderson, who is chairman of the Southeast Pennsylvania Committee to Re-elect the President, said his group merely rented the hall and in no way deprived the public of a look at the artifacts. "If the Democrats want to rent the hall," he said, "they're free to do so." when local Republican fund raisers rented the room from the institute at a price of $250 for an after-hours showing of the artifacts and Philadelphia Rep. Josha Eilberg found out about it. Eilberg, a Democrat, called for a congressional investigation. "This whole business," said GOP fund raiser Frank Mc-Glynn, "is a tempest in a tea In Today's Jfltqttircr Chess Match Opens Sunday or Tuesday REYKJAVIK (UPI).

The Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship match will open Sunday, or Tuesday at the latest, the International Chess Foundation (FIDE) said early Thursday. FIDE president Dr. Max Euwe said he felt the major outstanding differences had been settled at a meeting with the Icelandic organizers and Spassky's advisers, ending early Thursday. BUT LOTHER SCHMID, the FIDE arbiter of the match, warned that "this is if everything goes according to plan. Things can still go wrong." Schmid added that the draw of lots, to decide who is to play white (and thereby play first) in the first of the 24 games in the $250,000 match, will be held today at 8 P.

M. (4 P. M. Philadelphia time). Dr.

Euwe said a new meeting, also involving Fischer Continued on Page 2, Col. 3 Oh to Be Young, and Female, in New Jersey EVONNE GOOLAGONG ends Chris Evert's Winbledon tennis hopes. Page 25 SECRET BRITISH papers blame the Russians for the World War II Katyn massacre of 10,000 Po Page 3 venirs of President Nixon's China trip. District Attorney Arlen Specter held court. Perhaps a hundred monied Republicans sipped cocktails and casually looked over the big color pictures of Mr.

Nixon laughing it up with Chou En-lai. It was the $50-a-head Republican fund-raising reception built around the artifacts the Nixons received from the Republic of China this spring. The collection of Chinese statuary and knick-knacks is making a tour of the nation. In Philadelphia, the show-place is the Franklin Institute, where the display complete with photos of diplomats, pandas and heads of state in China is open to the public during the day until July 16. THE STIR DEVELOPED GOOLAGONG when they register to vote was "the beginning of complete recognition of women.

This is legislation that is long overdue. It does not grant a new right, but it removes an old wrong." The youth rights bill which becomes law on Jan. 1, 1973, has the more far-reaching impact. The estimated 350,000 Jerseyites between 18 and 20 will be able to: RUN FOR PUBLIC office. BUY ALCOHOLIC beverages.

MARRY without parental permission. GO INTO business. UNDERGO SURGERY without parental consent. -RECEIVE CIVIL Service appointments. By ROBERT FENSTERER Inquirer Trenton Bureau Trenton.

Youths gained new rights and women lost "an old wrong" Wednesday in New Jersey. Gov. William T. Cahill signed a pair of bills extending a variety of rights to 18, 19 and 20-year-olds and dropping a requirement that women indicate their marital status when they register to vote. Instead, they may register as Ms.

"Today is independence day for the youth and women of New Jersey," said the governor. Cahill said the bill ending a requirement that women indicate their marital status lish officers. Ask Your Doctor 30 Bridge 31 Business News 19 to 23 Classified Ads 37 to 47 Comics 30, 31 Corrs Column 35 Death Notices 36 Dixon Horoscope 31 Editorials 6 Entertainment 17, 18 Foreign Datelines 37 Ann Landers LivingWomen's Obituaries Opp-Ed Page Puzzle Corner Ruth Seltzer Sports Suzy Talk Page Television and Radio Weather 11 10 to 12 36 7 38 10 25 to 29 12 35 14, 15 30 GOV. CAHILL OKs rights bills.

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