Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archive
A Publisher Extra® Newspaper

The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 1

Location:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Issue Date:
Page:
1
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

Thundersbowers Partly clouly today with 'a chance of afternoon and evening thunder showers. Highs in the mid to upper 80's. Sunday's Pollution Index: 3 Average Summer Index 4-6 Full Weather Report Page 36 TEN CENTS m. 7 7 Oldest Daily Newspaper in the United States Founded 1771 MONDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1972 Vol. 287, No.

10 FINAL CITY EDITION 9 McGovern Woos Regulars for Daley -Calif. Deal Exclusive Interview house suite atop the Doral Beach Hotel. Nearby suites had been converted into offices, a political boiler room and situation room to round up support from delegates, keep others in line and maintain constant contact with McGovern troops at dozens of meetings, barroom conversations and coffee klatches with delegates and pols. Far below, the traffic crawled along Collins ave. and a minor candidate's loud speaker blared.

McGovern, perspiring, shed his coat, put his foot on a coffee table and radiated confidence that he would leave Continued on Page 8, Column 7 By PAUL FRIEDMAN Inquirer Convention Bureau MIAMI BEACH. George McGovern, in a new overture towards party regulars, said Sunday he would accept a plan to seat Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and his delegation at the convention, if his California delegates also were returned. McGovern said he would prefer compromise which he has proposed to seat both the Daley delegation and the challengers, giving a half-vote to delegates of each side. But if the convention voted to reseat the original California and Illinois delegations, McGovern said: QUESTION: Would you offer any assurance to your critics who didn't think much of your original tax and welfare reforms that the new one won't be any worse? McGOVERN ANSWER: (Chuckling).

They'll be better. They'll be better. It always bothers you to say that you made a mistake in trying to present a full-blown program before we had all the facts But nobody's getting killed by it. Full Interview Page 8 "I wouldn't object. I would accept that.

It is a fact the voters of Illinois acted in good faith" when they elected the delegation. THE SOUTH DAKOTA senator, whose huge lead in delegate totals has put him at the edge of the nomination, made his remarks during an exclusive interview with The Inquirer's convention bureau. He sipped coffee and relaxed in his pent- Rnlin Boost McGovern gs Highlights of Convention '72 But Bitter Battle Is Toni rw. 1 Reversal Possible On Convention Floor By WILLIAM MONTALBANO Inquirer Convention Bureau MIAMI BEACH. Front-running Sen.

George McGovern stands on the brink of winning the Presidential nomination this morning. But powerful anti-McGovern forces are intensifying a relentless campaign to stop him. A pair of parliamentary rulings gave the South Dakotan a significant boost toward the nomination Convention coverage continues on pages 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 22 McGOVERN BOOSTED to the brink. Page 1. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with McGovern.

Page 1. SEN. MUSK IE is under heavy and growing pressure to take his 200 "swing" votes and defect from the stop-Mc-Govern coalition and throw his critical support to the front-rurner in tonight's convention floor showdown over seating the California delegation. Page 5. LOOKING AFTER women's interests and still treating them as part of the convention's political process is a delicate balance to maintain.

Page 6. McGOVERN IS now a familiar figure to 75 of the nation's electorate, but only 38 agree with his kind of change. Harris Survey. Page 7. WOMEN ARE pulling hair over abortion issue and the woman candidate exhorts soul brothers "Don't play yourselves cheap." Page 12.

BLACK CAUCUS fails to reach agreement on whether to support McGovern's bid to regain 151 disputed California delegates. Meeting disintegrates into chaotic shouting match. Page 7. LONG HAIRS and White Hairs find harmony within the encampment of anti-war demonstrators in Miami Beach's Flamingo Park. Page 8.

Mrs. McGovern Does Dishes MIAMI BEACH, Fla. George McGovern Sunday. -DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL Chairman Lawrence O'Brien ruled that 120 California delegates committed to McGovern will be eligible to vote in a key California credentials test tonight. "-1--irTinfrimMMMMwiMf-irTf---0-fnTi'if niiii" ni REP.

JAMES G. O'HARA, the convention parliamenta IRA Wing Ends Truce, Kills Five BELFAST The Irish Republican Army's militant Provisional wing called off its flimsy truce Sunday night and launched a ferocious offensive in British-controlled Northern Ireland. Five persons were reported killed in the first hour. Four civilians were reported seriously wounded, apparently in a major gun battle between British troops and gumnen in the Roman Catholic Ballymur-phy section of Belfast, a staunch IRA stronghold. One of the dead was a 14-year-old girl carried bleeding into a hospital.

Another was a 60-year-old man. The five victims brought the death toll in the province's three years of sectarian killing to 412. The Provisionals' chief of staff, Sean Macstiofain, ordered his men back on their bloody campaign with "the utmost ferocity." Within minutes of the cease-fire's end, bomb explosions and gun-fights flared in Belfast and Londonderry. THE EXTREMIST Ulster Volunteer Force, a Protestant organization, announced it was being led by Augustus "Gusty" Spence, a 39-year-old Protestant hero who was mysteriously abducted in Belfast last week while on parole from Crumlin Road jail. He was serving a life sentence for killing a Catholic barman.

A spokesman for the Protestants' paramilitary Ulster Defense Association said of the Provisional announcement: "We had expected it and are prepared." Other militant Protestants said civil war could be upon Ulster's six counties by morning. The Provisionals charged the British army wrecked the two-week-old truce by attacking Catholics in the Lenadoon Estate in Belfast earlier Sunday. Army headquarters denied its troopers broke the cease-fire. Inquirer photo by MICHAEL VIOLA Pa. Caucus Breaks Up in Near Chaos By WILLIAM ECENBARGER Inquirer Convention Bureau MIAMI BEACH.

The first meeting of Pennsylvania's 182-vote convention delegation dissolved in near chaos Sunday night after it failed to choose a chairman to lead it this week. The delegation was scheduled to reconvene at noon Monday in another attempt to select a chairman. Leaders of rival Presidential factions within the Pennsylvania delegation had met day and night Sunday in a futile attempt to reach an agreement on the chairmanship. When the assembled delegates, who had been waiting three hours while the leaders bargained, were informed they would not vote on a chairman, the furor began. WHEN DEMOCRATIC State Chairman Harvey Thiemann announced the delegation would meet Monday morning, black delegates surged to the speaker's table demanding that the session be rescheduled because they were to attend a convention-wide black caucus at the same time.

Frankie Mae Jeter, a black delegate, stood in front of Thiemann and shouted, "You can't do this." washed the family brunch dishes in the swank Doral Hotel Sunday, the day before the of the Democratic National Convention. In the rush of the convention, Mrs. McGovern fixed brunch for the senator, their five children, two grandchildren, two sons-in law, two sisters and their four children. Then she even washed the dishes, she said, because "nobody Who Says Women Are Lousy Drivers? Kathy Woods poses with car after winning soapbox derby Girl Wins Soap Box Derby, First in Delaware Valley else would do them. Mn.

Mceovtrn rian, recommended that a majority of delegates eligible to vote on any challenge be able to decide the issue. The rulings are open to reversal by appeal from the convention floor. But they made it more likely McGovern would regain the entire 271-member California delegation he won in a winner-take-all primary. The Credentials Committee had stripped 151 California delegates from McGovern and they are the ones most crucially in dispute. WITH A MAJORITY of 1,433 needed to win the California battle under O'Hara'a ruling, McGovern forces were confident they would carry the day.

McGovern himself expressed quiet confidence Sunday in an exclusive interview with The Inquirer's convention bureau that he would emerge as the nominee. McGovern also said he would accept a plan to seat Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's disputed Illinois delegation if his California delegates also were returned. If McGovern wins the credentials battles in what promises a shoo-in for the nimina-tion Wednesday. CBS estimated Sunday night that if McGovern wins the California delegate fight he will be within four votes of the 1,509 needed for nomination. But the anti-McGovern forces conceded him nothing Sunday.

SPEARHEADED by the lieutenants of AFL-CIO President George Meany with the active support of Hubert Humphrey aides, the cry of "stop McGovern" echoed along Miami Beach. The loose coalition also had the support of George Wallace and minor candidates Wilbur tion. "I had a very streamlined car," she said. "That's how I did it." "I'm happy now, but I was scared for a while." Kathy, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Quentin Woods of 1148 Laurel lane, Huntingdon Valley, will go on to Akron, Ohio, in late August where she will compete in the International Soap Box Derby. THERE SHE HAS a chance to win a share of $30,000 in scholarships. As Delaware Valley winner she receives a $500 savings bond, a plaque and an expense-paid trip to Akron. Teddy Grooms, the 13-year-old runner up By LILLIAN WILLIAMS Of The Inquirer Staff Another bastion of masculine dominance tumbled in sunny Fairmount Park on Sunday when 12-year-old Kathy Woods, roared past the finish line to become the first girl to win the Delaware Valley Soap Box Derby. She beat out 13-year-old Teddy Grooms to do it.

At the finish line, Kathy was speechless. But Mrs. Gloria Jordon, mother of, Bernad-ette Jordon, the first girl to enter the previously-all male annual soapbox derby in 1970, wasn't. "We women did it!" Mrs: Jordon exclaimed. "It was the women's liberation." BUT KATHY later said her victory had no casual connection with women's libera who could not quite beat Kathy's winning time of 33.8 seconds said that he would be back next year to win.

"I'll win next time," he said after he con gratulated the champion. Philadelphia Democratic leader Peter J. Camiel grabbed the microphone, and Mrs. Jeter attempted to prevent him from speaking. "I don't give a damn how loud you shout, Madame, I can shout louder than you," Camiel said.

He then announced that there was a meeting of the Muskie delegates Monday morning. CIGAR SMOKING Harry Boyer, president of the state AFL-CIO, restored order by warning the delegates that "Pennsylvania will be the Fischer Has Favorite Chair Flown In "YOU CAN'T quit, the party needs you," is a familiar refrain to Democratic Party Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien. Now George McGovern's camp is pressing. Page 8.

FEATURED FIGHT tonight is the seating of the California delegation, but the convention also must settle credential contests in 14 other states. At least 11 state-by-state roll calls are anticipated and the battle is expected to last 20 hours. Page 9. PENNSYLVANIA'S 182-vote convention delegation ends its first caucus in chaos after failing to choose a chairman. Page 1.

NEW JERSEY delegates are beginning a Sen. Mike Gravel for vice president push despite McGovern's instructions. Page 9. WOMEN, LIBERALS and political novices fight among themselves more than past New Jersey delegations. Page 9.

NATIONALLY KNOWN columnists project different views of the convention. One looks to McGovern, one looks to Askew, one looks to deathwish and another looks to a birthday party in 1976. Page 12. CHAOS AT THE convention and the man who must heal the wounds. Two views on the political process.

Page 11. STARS GLITTERED but not enough coins clinked as Democratic furd raising telethon fell about $6 million short of covering debt. Page 22. TV Zeroes In on Convention 7 A. M.

Both CBS (Channel 10 here) and NBC (Channel 3) will preview the Democratic Convention in their news programs this morning. 7 P. M. The Democratic Convention begins in Miami Beach. CBS aid NBC provide gavel-to-gavel coverage.

7:30 P. M. PBS (Channel 12) joins with its own convention coverage. 9:30 P. M.

ABC (Channel 6) begins its nightly 90 minute look at the conventions. Continued on Page 3, Column 3 Continued on Page 9, Col. 3 '1 fr'f 1 In Today's Jfttpker REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI). Challenger Bobby Fischer's favorite chair arrived by air freight from New York on Sunday to help assure the American's comfort in his match against Russian Boris Spassky for the world chess championship. Fred Cramer, a vice president of the U.

S. Chess Federation acting as Fischer's spokesman, said he was certain the first of the 24 scheduled games will be played Tuesday "unless Spassky is still ill." THE FACT that the official match arbiter, West German Grandmaster Lothar Schmid, has returned to his home in Bamberg and will not be back in Reykjavik until Thursday, "will not stop the game," Cramer said. Schmid flew home Saturday after his son had been injured in a traffic accident. Schmid's deputy, Gudmundur Arnlaugsson of Iceland, will take charge of the first game in the $250,000 match for the world title. "The have still to give their official approval to the playing conditions, but Spassky said Saturday before leaving to go salmon fishing that he would not argue about the conditions or the picking of a board and a chess set.

"I WILL LEAVE that to Fischer. It makes no difference to me," he said. Fischer, who has been in the hall where the match is to be played once, complained about a number of things, including the chairs, the light and the board. playing conditions will cause any serious problems," Cramer said. "They are so much better than anything we have seen before.

"And if the two players dislike something then it could be changed during the course of the match." Cramer said Fischer was ready to start play at any time. "I am quite sure we will have the first game Tuesday unless Spassky is still ill. "THE LAST postponement was brought on because the Russians said he was not in a condition to play," Cramer said. The match was ppstponed once last week as Fischer held out for more money and twice more as the Russians demanded the American be penalized for the delay. BOBBY FISCHER to play in comfort Since he could find no chair to fit him the 29-year-old American is much taller than Spassky, 35 Fischer decided to ship his own favorite chair in from New York.

It arrived aboard an Icelandic jetliner. "I DON'T THINK that the Ask Your Doctor 36 Foreign Datelines 4 Bridge 37 Ann Landers 6 Business News 20 LivingWomen's 6 r- i Obituaries 24 Classified Ads 25 to 35 0pp-Ed Page 11 Comics 36, 37 Puzzle Corner 26 Death Notices 24 Ruth Seltzer 6 Dixon Horoscope 37 Sports 13 to 17 Shirley Eder 18 Talk Page 23 Editorials 18 Television and Radio 22 Entertainment 18, 19 Weather 36.

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

Publisher Extra® Newspapers

  • Exclusive licensed content from premium publishers like the The Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Archives through last month
  • Continually updated

About The Philadelphia Inquirer Archive

Pages Available:
3,846,583
Years Available:
1789-2024