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2- Section 1 Wr Chicago Tribune, Saturday, July 1, 1972 Reformers Dance in Delight Fischer Still Missing BY LOUISE HUTCHINSON Chicago Tribune Press Service Chess Cliffhanger WASHINGTON, June 30 -It was like one of those Irish cele brations they used to hold on "It just shows you minority power is tougher than Daley power." The Daley troops were here in force. There were five Daley aldermen? all of them convention delegates until tonight. There was Neil Hartigan, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in Illinois, There were two Daley sons, Michael, 28, and John, 25; Daley aides and more Daley lawyers than you could count. There were people on the Credentials Committee trying to help the Daley cause for one reason or another. It was no good.

The onetime kingmaker of the Democratic Party, the shrewd politician that Democratic Presidential candidates came petitioning, was denied a seat at the convention of the party over which Chicago's South Side. People cheered. They laughed. A few wept with joy. There was a sense of hysteria in the air.

Some hugged and kissed each other in disbelief over their victory. Warren Widener, 34, the black mayor of Berkeley, and a couple of friends circled' arms around each other and did a dance in front of the Democratic Convention Credentials Committee while it was still in session tonight. Tears of Happiness The committee had just ousted Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and his convention delegation. It had seated the challengers and added 41 supporters of Sen. George McGovern S.

D. in the reform delegation. Chicago Aid. Anna Langford brushed happy tears from her eyes. She is one of the leaders of the insurgent delegation.

"We're going to make him a he had seemed invincible. Of course, there will be a minority report to the convention. Delegates in Miami Beach could reverse tonight's action. So, too, could the cowls. Tempers Flare But the melee, the hysterical REYKJAVIK, Iceland, June 30 AP Organizers of the world chess championship reported considerable progress tonight in their negotiations with Bobby iFscher's lawyer over a last minute demand for more money by the American challenger.

However, after an hour and a half session with Andrew pavls Fischer's atto.rney, officials of the. sponsoring, Icelandic Chess Federation said they had been given no assurances Fischer would appeal- for the beginning of the match Sunday with Russia's Boris Spassky. Compromise Sought A spokesman for the federation said he got the impression Davis was seeking a compromise in the dispute over the new financial conditions posed by Fischer. Davis, Fischer's confidant as wellas legal adviser, arrived here today on a flight from New York which was to have carried the 29-year-old chess genius to the site of his 24-game match. Fischer had reserved space on the plane and checked his luggage on before he changed his mind.

He suddenly called for his bags from the air-craft and disappeared from New York's Kennedy Airport after holding up the flight for more than two hours. Seeks 30 of Gate Davis and officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation must discuss a fresh demand by Fischer for 30 per cent of the gate receipts collected during the match. Without the extra money, he threatened to boycott the match scheduled to begin Sunday. It was learned that Gut-munder Thorarisson, the federation president, spent most of the night in some- IAP Wlrepholol Bobby Fischer at Kennedy Airport, New York City, late Thursday as he apparently was preparing to fly to Iceland for the championship match. Seconds later, he broke away from a crowd and raced from the airport out into a driving rain.

democrat with a small 'd she said of Daley. Jerome Torschen, one of the two lawyers who pleaded Daley's cause before the committee, was not weeping with joy. The Daley forces will return to Federal Appeals Court here, he said. "The court will say 'you can't voilate the constitutional rights of voters by setting aside candidates chosen at a legal he said. He charged that freedom of speech had been abridged by the action.

Credits Minority Power Widener, spokesman for the caucus of minorities among the committee membership blacks, Latins, and Indians cried out: joy of the reformers and the McGovern people and the Credentials Committee members who just don't cotton to the idea of bossism, the women who felt they deserve more representation on the Daley slate these cannot be erased. Passion and tempers rose as the long debate wore to an end. A Latin from California, Francisco Morano, dramatically warned the committee. He pointed to the one Latin on the Daley delegation in a city that is 10 per cent Latin American. "If you vote to seat this delegation, you will be telling us you don't care, you don't give a damn," he said.

In an aroused voice, arms flailing with emotion, Matthew Troy, Irish city council member from New York, told his fellow credential committee members: "All they did was put the old AP Wlreptioto Raymond Simon left, attorney for the Illinois regular delegates, talks with Aid. Claude Holman, Illinois regular delegate, under exit sign last night at Democratic Credentials Committee hearing in Washington. times heated telephone conversation with Fischer's representatives in the United States, A Moscow dispatch indicated Russian concern over developments. A Tass writer claimed Fischer was disrespectful to the organizers and was placing the value of money over that of the sport of chess. Until the new demand for a share of the gate, Fischer and Spassky had agreed to compete for the biggest prize in chess history: a division of with five-eighths going to the winner, and an even split of 60 per cent of the film and TV rights sold to a promoter.

Because his religious sect, the Chiurch of God, recognizes Saturday as the Sabbath, i er won't travel between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday. It appeared the only time left for him to leave New York and still make the Sunday afternoon deadline, was a flight late tomorrow night getting him into Reykjavik only hours before the first game at 5 p.m. noon Chicago time. Daley Delegation Dumped Almond said the attitude of line political hacks into the be the first time since 1956 that Daley has not led the large Illinois delegation to the convention so they would do what he Daley told them to convention. ed Wayne Whalan, attorney for the Singer group, how many of the delegates he was proposing sought election in the Illinois primary, "Of the 59, approximately 33 filed," Whalan said.

"How many are committed to Continued from first page bers that -the opening of the party processes to more than a selected few has offered the opportunity for the most vital and important political movement in America today. Altho supporters of Senators do." Nun Favors Action I Casualties along with Daley the McGovern Democrats against a compromise "gets you nowhere but $9 million in debt." He referred to Democratic Party debts carried over from the 1968 Presidential campaign. The Singer-Jackson challeng i (Chicago CTtibune included six congressmen Rep. Roman Pucinski, a candidate for the Senate; and two of Daley's sons, John and Michael. A Roman Catholic nun, Sister Clara Dunn of Arizona, another committee member, said that ousting the Daley group might cause some upset but it was worth it.

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The rest, he said, were uncommitted. Mike Almond of North Carolina, who offered a compromise calling for the selection of new delegates also decried the delegation offered by the Singer group. "We should not substitute one boss-controled delegation for But there were also the political pros, the people who are afraid McGovern can't win in November, the people used to political compromise who pleaded Daley's cause. "Not to get Daley, but to win in November is what we should be concerned with here today," James P. Harrelson of South Carolina warned in urging that the Daley group be seated.

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"The committee usurped the right of the people to vote for themselves," Daley's son Michael said. Debate of the Chicago delegate challenge began at 5:12 p. Washington time, and continued for three hours. Holman Pleads Case "I just ask you to remember that a house divided against itself cannot stand," said Chicago Aid. Claude Holman 4thl, leader of five of the six Chi-cagoans on the Credentials Committee.

"If there is onj man laughing at today's proceedings, that man is Richard Nixon." Otto Wendell, a Michigan member of the committee, ask the election of a slate of delegates that failed to meet the party's reform guidelines. These specify that women and blacks and other minorities be represented in proportion to their numbers in the local populace. The challengers put up their own slate reflecting those numbers. The 24 additional delegates to be added downstate would, include at least 22 women, all of whom would have only one-half a vote in the convention. The compromise also reduces the votes of the regularly elected Humphrey and Henry Jackson Wash.

offered two possible compromises, McGovern forces were adamant that Daley and his slate be thrown out. "There could have been a compromise before the California vote and there might be one tomorrow but not tonight," declared Allen Baron, one of McGovern's workers. Five of the six Illinois representatives on the Credentials Committee had voted to deny seats to 151 McGovern delegates in California yesterday. If the vote is upheld thru fights on the convention floor and in federal courts, it would MAIL SUBSCRIPTION PRICES If vou live within 150 miles of Chicago, and home delivery Is not available In your urea, you may subscribe by mall at the have gone up 34 par cent and medical care by 78 per cent. following raw; i Year 6 Mot.

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for Vice President. However, Bakalis1 influence in the national party Tickvs The old mark of 1,004 feet was" set in 1962 by two Swiss divers, one of whom died in the ascent to the surface. Continued from first ige mayor had expressed confidence that the committee would seat him and the other 58 uncommitted delegates elected with Democratic organization support in the March 21 primary. So confident was the mayor of victory that when asked if ho would fight for his seat at the convention he said, "I don't think we will have to face that." And when asked if lie thought the convention might rule against him, Daley said, "You know they wouldn't do that to me." Political observers doubted that they would do it to the mayor, but had little doubt the convention would do it to some of the 58 delegates he controls. One of those is the mayor's City Council floor leader, Aid.

Thomas E. Keane 31st. Keane said yesterday he did not intend to go to Miami Beach to cast a half-vote at the convention. One of the compromises heard before the Credentials Committee made its decision was that it might give the Daley-backed delegates half a vote and name additional delegates who also would cast half a vote. Michael J.

Bakalis, state superintendent of public instruction and a delegate to the convention, yesterday announced 1 FIT-ALL HJ" MEWS py I SHOP HLjki I ft A Accepted CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHONE NUMBERS mend it seating on the convention floor," the Rev. Mr. Jackson said. "The mayor has to understand that this is a new day," the Rev. Mr.

Jackson said. "He has to respect people he did not respect before, because it is true that the Democratic Party is a party of the people. "It is necessary for Chicago-ans to come together in Chicago. It is incumbent on Daley to request a meeting of the leadership of the challengers and his leadership." At such a meeting, the Rev. Mr.

Jackson said, Daley and the challengers could put together a slate of delegates "lo fit the McGovern committee rules." He added that such a meeting is not possible unless Daley abandons his "either or" ultimatum. structure is regarded as limited. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Operation PUSH and one of the leaders in the fight to deny delegate status to Daley forces, said last night that he "finds no solace in the fact that Daley has been unseated." He also said he doubts the challenge group headed by Aid. William Singer 43d would be seated at the convention itself.

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