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-i ft. TV WEE SCENE LATEST NEWS MARKETS SPORTS TTIHIIE 'ATT IE elKDTUMWAIL SIT Michigan's Complete Newspaper PRICE-15 CENTS SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1972 '(0) Lead Dem unanimously ratified McGovern's selection of Mrs. Westwood, a cochairman of his campaign for the nomination. She played a leading role in managing the credentials contest that restored to McGovern his sweep of California delegates at the national convention, and foretold his nomination. Mrs.

Westwood, 48, became the first woman to assume the top post in either national party. Traditionally, in both parties, the vice chairman has been a woman. MCGOVERN REVERSED that. Patterson, a former New York state senator who ran for lieutenant governor in 1970, was elected vice chairman of the committee. McGovern had chosen Pierre Salinger, a campaign aide, former White House press secretary, and briefly a senator from California, to assume that post.

BUT PATTERSON was nominated from the floor by committeemen who said a black should have a role in the party's high command. McGovern said either man was perfectly acceptable to him, and Salinger withdrew his name. "I think I sense the feeling of this committee," he said. McGovern, accompanied by O'Brien, announced Mrs. West-wood's selection.

"I want to do everything can to be a reconciling and unifying force in the Democratic party," McGovern told the national committee. HE SAID he believes O'Brien Woman Neiv Democrat Party Chairman Huddling in an exchange of talk are (left to right) Pierre Salinger, Frank Mankiewicz, Mrs. Westwood and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern selected Mrs. Jean Westwood as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, (right next to McGovern) when National Committee Chairman Lawrence O'Brien quit. Pay Control Above $1.90 Cutoff Raised Per Hour UPI Photo gress had "rejected the poverty level earnings as prescribed by the Office of Management and Budget as a yardstick for determining exemption from wage control." "IT IS the clear intention of Congress that the authority of this Act (the wage-price law) -should not be used to penalize See COURT, Pg.

A-9, Col. 2 GOP Conclave Plot Charged to 6 Vets will play a part in the campaign ahead. O'Brien urged party unity in a positive campaign for the White House. "I would not want anyone in this room to construe my departure now as a departure from the goal I have held," said O'Brien, who broke in as a top campaigner for the late President John F. Kennedy, served two terms as national chairman and was postmaster general during the administration of President Lyndon B.

Johnson. O'BRIEN PRESIDED also over the Democratic National Convention that nominated McGovern, and the nominee called it "the best convention of any political party in the history of this country." Kniffin of Austin, William J. Patterson of El Paso, Peter P. Mahoney of New York, Alton C. Foss of Hi-aleah, and Donald P.

Perdue of Gainesville, Fla. "IT WAS the part of the said conspiracy that the defendants and the individual co-conspirators would organize numerous 'fire teams' to attack with automatic weapons fire and incendiary devices police stations, police cars, and stores in Miami Beach, on various dates between Aug. 21 and 24, 1972," said the indictment. It said the defendants plotted to arm themselves with "wrist rocket" slingshots to fire "lead weights, 'fried' marbles, ball bearings, 'cherry' bombs, and smoke bombs at police cut $30 billion from the defense budget would "gut it," the plan to give $1,000 to every man, women and child in the country was "the height of fiscal irresponsibility," and his position on granting amnesty to persons avoiding the draft was "a glorification of men who refuse their nation." CONNALLY MET with Nixon and Dr. Henry A.

Kissinger, Nixon's chief foreign policy adviser, to report on a 35-day round the world trip to 18 countries. But he left little doubt that much of the conversation concerned domestic political WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge Friday ordered the Cost of Living Council to raise its wage control cutoff point above $1.90 per hour. The order affects about 14 million workers. U.S. District Judge William B.

Jones, in the first successful court challenge to President Nixon's stabilization program, ordered the council to abandon its $1.90 per hour cutoff point beyond which raises are limited to 5.5 per cent. AGREEING WITH labor unions, which charged that the cutoff point was too low, Jones said the council exceeded its authority in setting and enforcing the $1.90 limit. The Cost of Living Council, which had no immediate reaction to the decision, had estimated earlier that about 14 VVAW Florida Chairman Scott Camil was separately indicted on two counts of manufacturing firebombs and instructing VVAW activists in their use charges that could carry a maximum sentence of 15 j-ears in prison and $20,000 in fines. THE INDICTMENT named Camil among the six conspiracy defendants already in the Leon County jail at the close of a secret hearing by the grand jury. The four previously jailed were locked up for the term of the grand jury which could be 18 months for refusing to answer questions put to them by Assistant U.

S. Attorney Stewart J. Carrouth. Indicted with Camil in the conspiracy count were John W. By WALTER MEARS MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) Breaking with tradition, Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern chose a woman on Friday to become national chairman of the party he now commands. Mrs. Jean Westwood of West Jordan, Utah, who helped manage McGovern's campaign, was the nominee's choice for Democratic national chairman. SHE SUCCEEDED Lawrence F. O'Brien, twice the party's chairman.

A 1 a Basil Patterson of New York, was chosen for the committee's No. 2 although he was not McGovern's original choice. McGovern said O'Brien had declined his requests to remain as chairman, citing personal reasons. THE SOUTH Dakota senator spent 2Y2 hours conferring with O'Brien in what he said was a final attempt to persuade him to stay. "I respect his wishes," McGovern said.

"I regret it, but I respect it." The selection of Mrs. West-wood began McGovern's reshaping of Democratic party machinery for his campaign against President Nixon. It is a process McGovern will continue as he takes a post-convention break at Custer, S.D., in the Black Hills of his home state- MEANWHILE, SEN. Thomas F. Eagleton flew off to Kansas City for his first campaign appearance as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee.

The national committee Zeh ra Really Isn't Thugs Kidnap Adriamu Woman Beat Others Connolly to Push Nixon Re-Election TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) A federal grand jury Friday indicted six members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) on a charge of conspiracy to disrupt the National Republican Convention with firebombs, automatic weapons and slingshot-propelled fireworks. UPI Photo Nixon announced his 90-day wage freeze Aug. 15. The council's $1.90 figure was based on a study by the Office of Management and Budget, which said that urban families of four with yearly incomes of less than $3,968 a year are considered poor.

The council said $3,968 a year works out to be $1.90 per hour for a wage earner. THE UNIONS argued the $1.90 figure was unrealistic and asked the court to set a higher figure based on a Bureau of Labor Statistics study. This study says that families of four in urban areas with an-n a 1 incomes of less than $7,000 should be considered poor, and the unions said $3.35 should be substituted for the $1.90 figure. Jones agreed, saying Con said. "I was shaking, I'm cut all over.

One of them had a knife and used it on both of us. The mother one said he had a knife too. I didn't know them, I've never seen them before. I'd rather not talk about it," she said as her voice broke. Her son, beaten and slashed, is in fair condition at a hospital in Adrian.

THE MEN held her and her son hostage. Then they took her car and drove out of Adrian, police said. The car got stuck in the mud and was abandoned on an unimproved part of the road. The two men forced the woman and her son to walk with them to a nearby house. The two men broke down the front door at the home of Mrs.

Lorena Powell, 78, and threatened to kill the elderly woman unless she stayed in her bedroom, Mrs. Powell told THE PAIR, sheriff's deputies said, tied the Foley woman and her son to a bed with electrical cord as they ransacked the house. The men went out to Mrs. Powell's car and Mrs. Powell fled to a neighbor's house.

Mrs. Foley and her son managed to free themselves and ran from the Powell house to a nearby home where they called authorities. SHORTLY BEFORE noon, the car was found by police abandoned on an Adrian street in the neighborhood of the first three assaults. "The descriptions of the men at each house match, we're sure the same two guys pulled the whole shot," said an Adrian police official, sounding a little shocked. million workers are being paid between $1.90 and $3.35 an hour.

Jones, in his 20-page opinion and order, did not spell out precisely how much money a person must make to come under the 5.5 per cent-a-year limit. But he suggested that $3.35 an hour, which figures out to about $7,000 a year for a family of four, would be reasonable. THE RULING does not automatically guarantee salary increases to level, but it entitles employes to negotiate for such increases, something that couldn't be done under past regulations. The case arose from a suit filed by AFL-CIO President George Meany and other unions against the Cost of Living Council soon after President THE GIRL'S roommate, a 22-year-old woman, came to help, and the Blaker woman said she broke away, grabbed a broomhandle from the kitchen, and hit her assailant as hard as she could. The blow hurt him, she said.

"I'm coming back to get you," he told her as the man's partner pulled him out the door. The two returned a short time later, but were greeted at the door by a male friend of the girls who pointed a gun at the two and told them to leave. Again, they left, Adrian police said. THEIR NEXT visit, authorities said, was to the home of Mrs. Mildred Knapp, 72, and her daughter, Florence, 52.

They crashed open the front door, the elder Mrs. Knapp told police. "We don't want any trouble, we need help, a doctor," one of the two with a shirt wrapped around his head, said. Mrs. Knapp offered to call the police for them.

They said they would wait outside and they left, she said. Mrs. Knapp said it "looked as though the one guy was hurt." THE TWO walked out of the Knapp residence and went to the Foley home nearby. When they smashed through the front door, they awoke Mrs. Foley and her son.

They assaulted and cut Mrs. Foley and they slashed her son and beat him with the butt of a broken pistol, Mrs. Foley told police. NONE OF her knife wounds are serious, Mrs. Foley said.

"I was scared to death," she 'X Tn i N-'y "I i jt I V'V I LI- m-t I Asfey tMX I .1 Is vJ Y'r I ta Is i -vA TfJ ''j if I Trv "i'X ff I 1 SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) Former Treasury Secretary John B. a 1 1 emerged a three-hour meeting with President Nixon Friday and announced he would attempt to organize disenchanted Democrats behind Nixon's re-election. He accused Democratic presidential nominee George S. McGovern of sabotaging Nixon's efforts to negotiate an end to the Vietnam conflict by promising he would withdraw all U.S.

forces from Vietnem within 90 days of his election. HE ALSO blasted McGovern for some of his other positions. He said McGovern's plan to 48 PAGES 80s. ADRIAN (AP) "If you had the knife marks I've got, you'd be scared too." In a frightened voice, Mrs. Donna Foley, 45, of Adrian, described a Friday morning filled with terror.

IT'S THE kind of terror that comes when two men have broken into your home while you're asleep, assaulted you, cut you with a knife, kidnapped both you and your teenage son and left you alive to remember it all. The two men still are on the loose. Mrs. Foley and her son, Dwight, 15, were but two of the victims. ADRIAN POLICE and Lenawee County sheriff's deputies said the two mysterious young men went on a spree of door-smashing, house break-ins, and assaults early Friday.

In four hours, the pair broke into four homes, stole two cars, abducted Mrs. Foley and her son and beat or threatened the lives of eight persons, police said, but they did not appear to be after money. "They might have been on narcotics, but we don't have a motive," said Lenawee County Undersheriff Arthur R. Kerr. BOTH STOLEN cars have been recovered and police theorize the two men are in the Adrian area It was shortly after 2 in the morning when two men, both about 19 or 20, went to the home of Jackie Blaker in Adrian, first asked for a drink of water, then to use the bathroom.

The woman refused. The two forced their way in and one of them started to choke her, Miss Blaker said. SHOWERS Turning colder. High today upper 70s to lower Low tonight about 60. VIETNAM FLARES Severe fighting rages around Quang Tri and South Vietnamese troops are reported within 500 yards of the enemy-held capital.

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