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i She Rain Possible City Edition tettepr 101st Year as a Daily and Sunday Newspaper Established as a Weekly in 1839 Shrcveporl, Louisiana, Thursday, July 13, 1372 131th Year Vol. 101 No. 228 Telephone 424 0.173 Ten Cents McGovern Nominated On First Ballot; Running Mate to be Picked Today 1.7 Billion In Disaster Aid Sought SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) President Nixon announced Wednesday he will ask Congress to vote $1.7 billion in disaster relief funds and authorize one per cent interest loans for homeowners and businessmen in Eastern states recovering from Tropical Storm Agnes Hood damage. In a statement, Nixon de Was.

scribed the recent flooding as the "worst natural disaster in the whole of American history" and said our response as a nation also must be massive." The special quest for $1.7 billion if approved by Congress, XCW would be the "largest single amount ever allocated for a recovery effort," Nixon said, and would be used tor every aspect of long-and short-term ft! ''VT- ft assistance. By Walter R. Mears MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -George McGovern won the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday night to climax an incredible campaign that carried him from the back row of the Senate to the pinnacle of party power. Even before the Democratic National Convention had completed its roll call of the states, the senator from the prairies of South Dakota had captured the prize he sought in an 18-month quest he began as a lonely political outsider.

The roll call ended with the McGovern vote at 1,728.35. Jackson had 525. Wallace had 381.7. Rep. Shirley Chisholm had 147.5.

These were the figures before delegations began the traditional switches of votes after the outcome was assured. All that remained for the 36th Democratic National Convention was to do McGovern's bidding and ratify his still unannounced selection for the vice-presidential nomination Thursday night. The name of the absent Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts topped every list of The heavy rains left by the dving hurricane last month in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, and Secret Service Agents hold two men in custody outside the Miami Beach headquarters hotel of Sen.

George McGovern where the pair were arrested on information provided by the FBI. They were charged with possession of concealed weapons. Police said they were identified as Malek Sonebeyatta, 32, and Ahmed Obatei, 33, both of Jackson, Miss. (AP Wirephoto) For everyone, the time was the same, for McGovern with the convention majority, and for former Gov. Terry Sanford of North Carolina who had only a handful of delegates.

Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York became the first woman placed in nomination at a Democratic convention. Ribicoff declared McGovern a winner, not only for himself but for the whole Democratic ticket, challenging an argument advanced by an opposition entry-Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington that his nomination would drag down Democrats.

"If I were a candidate for public office this year, I would want the enthusiastic legions of McGovern workers ringing doorbells for me, too," Ribicoff said. After a night of debate and hours of voting had worked only two minor changes in the platform, the convention adopted it am' recessed in exhaustion at 6:22 a.m. It was the longest session in convention history and it left the delegates a scant 12 hours before the gavel fell again. From the convention rostrum Alabama Gov. George Wallace had declared he had come "because I want to help the Democratic party." But with his platform views spurned with McGovern in firm New York took more than 100 lives and destroyed or damaged 128,000 homes and businesses, Nixon said.

"We must not permit the nightmare of destruction which has wrecked so many of their Two Seized on Weapons Charge in Miami Beach homes and places of business to be followed by the equally grim specter of bankruptcy or ruin," Nixon said in disclosing he would seek legislation authorizing the special disaster loans at one per cent interest and "with (UPI Telephoto) Sen. McGovern smiles on hearing nomination watches from hotel suite control. prospects. But the list that counts is McGovern's own, said to be four or five names long, including Kennedy's. And for McGovern, the challenge ahead was to unite a feuding, bickering party whose power brokers he defied and dislodged in the drive that carried him to nomination.

Sen. George McGovern "will lead the Democratic party to a great victory" in November, Sen. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut promised the Demo Top Vote Getter Chisholm Is Favored By Louisiana Delegation arrests, McGoverii canceled a scheduled 12:15 p.m. trip to attend a Democratic National Convention caucus of 151 Latin delegates at the Deauville Hotel. McGavern's press secretary, Kirby Jones, said the visit was canceled so that the senator could work on a nomination acceptance speech.

Jones said, however, that aides had urged McGovern not to go because of the incident. Secret Service, FBI and Florida Law Enforcement Department agents arrested one man as he sat in a mustard-colored sports car parked on the ramp of the hotel. The Secret Service said two pistols were found under the car's front seat. The second man was taken into custody in the hotel's interior lobby minutes later. Both were frisked, handcuffed and taken away.

It was not immediately clear which of the two men was inside the hotel. The arrests occurred just after a meeting between McGovern and six governors in the senators 17th floor suite broke up. Two of the governors, Patrick J. Lucey of Wisconsin and Marvin Mandel of Maryland, were holding a news conference in the lobby at the time of the incident. MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(API-Federal agents rushed to the Doral Beach Hotel on Wednesday and seized two men on concealed weapons charges shortly after Sen. George McGovern wound up a meeting in his penthouse suite. The Secret Service said later it had no evidence the men intended to harm the South Dakota senator or any other Democratic presidential candidate. The Secret Service said the two black men identified themselves as Malek Sonebeyatta, 32, and Ahmed Obatei, 33, both of Jackson, but said that positive identification had not been made. Both carried multi-p 1 identification, authorities said.

Two handguns were found under the seat of a car occupied by one of the men. "We have no information at this time to connect the activities of these men with any intended harm to the protectees of the Secret Service," agents said in a news release. Said Black Separatists One police source said the two belonged to a black separatist organization called the Republic of New Africa. Shortly after the 11:45 a.m. 2 Jetliners Are Seized By Hijackers The Associated Press A National Airlines plane en route from Philadelphia to New York and an American Airlines plane headed from Oklahoma City to Dallas were hijacked Wednesday night in separate incidents a couple of hours apart.

In both cases, the hijackers demanded money and parachutes. The air piracy came only a week after two planes on the West Coast were hijacked within 24 hours. Stricter searchers on all commuter flights were ordered by President Nixon after last week's events. The National jet, which carried 113 passengers, was hijacked by two men who reportedly demanded $600,000 in American currency, $20,000 in Mexican pesos and three parachutes. The three-engine Boeing 727 was approaching Kennedy airport in New York when the hijacking occurred, authorities said.

It returned to Philadelphia and circled for an hour while officials tried to decide what to do. It landed just before 8 p.m. CDT at the airport which was closed to all other flights. Passengers and crew remained aboard. A National spokesman said an Army plane brought parachutes to the airport.

There was no word about what arrangements, if any, were being made to deliver the money. About an hour and a half after no repayment required on the first $5,000 of the loan." Nixon also announced that he has invited some 500 mayors, county executives and other community leaders to a special conference with federal officials in Washington this Friday. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew will preside, assisted by Frank Carluocin deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Carlucci is a native of Scranton, just outside the heavy flood damage area in the state, and a former resident of Kingston, hard hit by the flood.

The meeting, Nixon said, is intended to speed up relief efforts, explain the new proposals, and improve federal-local communications. Some state and local officials had complained soon after the flooding that federal assistance was slowed by red tape. Nixon then ordered federal agencies to speed up disaster relief, sent Agnew on an inspection tour of the flood-damaged states and asked Congress for an emergency $100 million in relief funds. The President himself also visited Pennsylvania and said the destruction and loss he found "were almost cratic National Convention tions, this year's could only be described as a collection of individualists. Wallace Says He Plans No Third Party Wednesday.

Nominating the South Dakota lawmaker-populist for the presidency as he did in 1968, Ribicoff told the delegates that McGovern is the man most responsible for strengthening their party by opening it to all segments of American society. A united party is vital if McGovern is to stand a chance in his campaign to unseat President Nixon, whose renomi-nation is assured when the Republicans conveneinthe same Miami Beach setting on Aug. 21. After a raucious session, the convention approved a platform tailored to the liberal posture of McGovern, advocating prompt and total withdrawal of U.S. forces from Indochina.

Every candidate was allotted 15 minutes for nominating and seconding speeches, and for their cheering sessions, too. The limit wasn't quite kept, but party officials came remarkably close. McGovern has sought to be conciliatory. Even a he failed to compromise the Chicago credentials dispute, he still held out an olive branch to Daley, eager to patch things up so he can carry Illinois in November. The defeated groups, labor especially, will have the rest of the summer to decide whether they want the Democrats, led by McGovern, to regain national power or prefer four more yeais of President Nixon.

Already, some members of the coalition that fought McGovern have talked about concentrating on congressional races, husbanding their resources and girding for a fight to regain control of the party over the next four years as the defeated followers of Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene J. McCarthy did after their 1963 defeat. Though McGovern's election is in considerable doubt and the most sweeping party reform, a charter that would create substantial grass-roots control over party affairs, is likely to be postponed, the forces that swept to power here seem likely to stay there. And the man who stands to inherit party leadership, should the 1972 ticket fail, is not a Daley or a George Meany or one of their heirs but Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy, younger brother of the president whose ideals and hopes, if not policies, are often cited by those now taking power. McGovern conferred with six Democratic governors, and one of them said that Kennedy and Mills had been suggested as additions to the ticket" in the vice-presidential spot. McGovern was sure to be on the telephone to Kennedy, in Hyannis Port, soon after the nominating roll call. Kennedy has remained away from the convention but indicated he might come down before the sessions end to heln holster I stroller I I 1 Shf I hrforjiDrt 1 jZtttlPB -rr-r-a JX.

PA KV I Times News Service MIAMI BEACH, Fla. The coalition of George McGovern backers and blacks in the Louisiana Democratic dele-g a i apparently fell apart Wednesday night with black lawmaker, U. S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm, coming out on top in the voting.

The Louisiana delegation passed on the first ballot and Sen. McGovern had already won the nomination by the time the state got its second turn. Louisiana gave 18 Vi votes to the New York congresswoman while McGovern received only 10li. Sen. Henry Jackson also got lOVi votes, George Wallace received three and two more votes went to others.

The delegation had skipped discussion of issues and candidates earlier as it met in caucuses. At the same time, a rift involving Gov. Edwin Ed-waids' sudden decision to resign as chairman and head home appeared to be widening. A large group of Louisiana blacks caucused in the hotel at the end of the afternoon, delaying the bus to Convention Hall by 45 minutes. Wyche, who presided, did not discuss the meeting but a number of the delegates emerged prominently wearing Chisholm buttons.

McGovern forces had reportedly been working throughout i the plane landed, the airport Fire Damages Sound Unit of First Baptist Fire damaged the sound room and destroyed the controls of the public address system of the First Baptist Church, 543 Ockley early last night about an hour after the Wednesday prayer service had ended. Damage was also caused to nnm ortain iricitnr tn shrpvpnort has Dointed out to STROL MIAMI BEACH (UPI) Gov. George C. Wallace sent word to the floor of the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night that he had no plans to run for president the November as a third-party candidate. The statement, which was contrary to hints dropped by his aides earlier in the day, came as Wallace's name was placed in nomination for the presidency.

Wallace's nominating speech was made by Alabama State Sen. Robert Wilson, who described Wallace as "a great American, a true patriot and a proven winner." Wallace conceded in advance that he had no chance to win the Democratic nod, but wanted the nomination made to keep faith with those who had voted for him. Wilson said that Wallace called him on the floor of the convention and said, "I'm not going to run third party and you control tower reported over the police radio that the plane was out of fuel and without electricity and that the hijackers were asking for another plane. In addition, it was reported that the pilot had escaped by jumping out of the plane. LER that there are points of interest within the city for the resident as well as the tourist.

nu ELOISE M. FRUGE of Lake Charles, who visited Shreveport recently with her husband and teen-age daughter, wrote about men uiuo me iiuiwii i. Gallery and the Louisiana State Museum. Rain Possible In Ark-La-Tex Col. Weathervane is not quite whether to take his um the sanctuary by smoke, and some water damage was reported.

The control room is located upstairs in the rear of the sanctuary. The fire was discovered by Raymond Franks, a member of the church, who smelled smoke brella today since a 40 per cent chance of rain is predicted for the Shreveport vicinity today by Match Lost By Fischer REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) With a hopeless position on the chess board, Bobby Fischer walked out for 30 minutes Wednesday, then returned to lose the first game of the world chess championship to Boris Spassky, the Russian title-holder. After the game was over Fischer told the man who taught him he moves of the game when he was a boy in Brooklyn, N.Y., that "it will settle down." Details on Page 4-A the National Weather service the convention area gingerly trying to prevent a sympathy vote for Mrs. Chisholm, who is widely admired by both blacks and women, so large that it would deny the South Dakotan a first ballot victory. me snow eis come they nKMnM be mostly in tteQtJlVn' afternoons andY-.

DAlM 1 can say that in your speech." I Wilson said he forgot to insert it in his written text, There had been some indica--tion that Wallace, crippled by a bullet fired by a would-be assassin, would allow reporters At Least 13 Die in Crash Of Cable Car SION, Switzerland (LTD An aerial cable car sped backward out of control Wednesday and smashed at high speed into the cable station it had left minutes before, police said. At least 13 persons aboard were killed and two others injured, a police spokesman said. The accident occurred shortly before 6 p.m. CDT on the cable line linking Betten with Betten-dorf, some 25 miles northeast of here. Police said the car, which had a capacity of 50, had just left Betten for its climb to Bettendorf.

Just before it reached the first niilar snnnortinff the cable, the evenines. ac- 1-1 n'l from outside the building and went inside to investigate. Fire Chief Dallas Greene said cause of the fire was not known last night. Assistant Chief J.R Fouts led the fire fighting enuinment which responded to the call. Although total damage was likely to be somewhat heavy, Chief Greene said no estimate will be available until today.

cording to the Mrs. FRUGE said the local museum is a must for lovers of history and museums. "It is absolutely the most fascinating I have ever visited," she wrote, adding, "I understand it is unique among museums and is world renowned for its artistic diorama displays." She listed quite a number of museum displays that caught her eye, among them the diorama depictinga marsh scene "with ducks so real it fills one with nostalgia for the cry of the wild ducks in the marshes" and the diorama showing hornets' nests, "here's the only place you can really study and admire one without coming to grief from being so near." She admired also the diorama of Poverty Point and the exhibits of minerals, shells, birds, clays, furs, fish, wild game. "All these are displayed attrac-tivclv and interestingly with notations of history and facts," she wrote. Continuing, she said, 'it is the party unity.

weather i e. Otherwise In all, the activities on the afternoon of nominating day showed little change in the McGovern or Wallace strength in the delegation. Unlike the traditional Telican State delega Other names on his list of vice-presidential nrns-wcts Worn to be present in his hotel suite while he watched his name placed in nomination, but this arrangement was cancelled at the last minute. skies will be partly cloudy said to include Leonard WW and tcmpera-t will be Seen as oo Liberal for Businessmen Demo Platform Reaches Minorities icar began running backwards. It fathered si)eed rapidly and cock, president of the United Auto Workers, Sens.

Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri and Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut, and Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida.

Nevertheless, bitterness remains. Much, while not directed at McGovern himself, is aimed at his supporters and the way, in state after state, they seized control of convention delegations and party organizations. Labor leaders, in particular, are bitter and unreconciled to McGovern's triumph. warm. The chance of rain will decrease to 20 per cent tonight.

Winds will be from the southeast at 6 to 16 m.p.h. Predicted high for today is near 90 after an early morning low in the upper 60s. Temperature extremes and precipitation recorded in the area yesterday included 87 and 68 with .86 inches of rain in Alexandria. 89 and 66 in El Dorado, 92 and 68 and 1.40 inches of rain in Lufkin and 91 and 67 in Shreveport. The weather map and other weather details may be found on Page 6-D.

fabulous state of Louisiana in miniature." More STROLLER on Tage 13-A legalize abortion, remove discrimination against homosexuals, provide a federally guaranteed annual income of $6,500 for each family of four, and roll back rents as well as Wallace planks to preserve capital punishment and allow prayer in public schools. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -The Democratic party has given Sen. George McGovern a platform liberal enough to embrace most of the nation's deprived minorities and too liberal to suit many businessmen. The final version, adopted at dawn by the national convention, promises immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, federal income payments to replace the welfare system and support of school busing.

jt as if to confirm the stock iffy declaring that business has become "the new minority "It is utterly inconceivable to me that many in business or the professions could support a candidate running on this platform," Booth said. The convention rejected 18 of 20 proposed minority planks before adjourning at 6:22 a.m. EDT. Among those turned down were eight backed by Gov. George C.

Wallace of Alabama and designed in part to push the platform farther right on economic and foreign policy. smashed into the concrete station. They said the identities of the persons killed would be released when their families had been notified. Police mobilized mountain rescue teams to search the area below the cable. A polic spokesman said it was "possible" some passengers had jumped out in panic as the car hoenn to roll backwards.

Tho rahlp link rises about 1200 Inside QfltC QlitMS Stronger antimonopoly laws 10 break up large conglomerates found to violate the antitrust laws." A i 0 to "deconcentrate shared monopolies such as auto, steel and tire industries which administer prices, create unemployment through restricted output, and stifle technological innovation." The stock market, after a three-day sinking spell as McGovern's bid for the nomination surmounted his threatened loss of a big block of California delegates, stabilized weakly Wednesday. Market analvsts said investors by now had discounted the prospective McGovern victory. Arch Booth, executive vice president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, issued a i statement on the platform, Six 7S rages Gov. Kdwards to shun national politics Page 2-A Today's Chuckle "I don't mind men who kiss and tell," thp girl said. "At my age I need all the advertising I can get." Amuse Astrology Rridge Business 5-B 4C 9-B R-D 2-C 1- 2- 9-D 9-D Hcloi.se Landers Lowman Markets Porter market visihie anxiety over the South Dakota populist's emergence as the Democratic nTince.

it ako calls for: Anti-inflation controls over profits, dividends, interest carn-incs anr! executive salaries as as waces and prices. -A graduated corporate in-nriio ta to steepen the rates if ni businesses. feet from Betten to Bettendorf in the southern Swiss Alps. "We understand the car was caught in the wind and began swinging wildly from side to Isidp and then rushed backwards. But the a ti of the a i en has not yet been idetermined officially," the (spokesman said.

talks I McGovern's floor agents had flashed the thumbs-down signal on the Wallace planks. The crippled Wallace visited the hall in his heelchair and got an 'ovation but not. many votes for I his dissents. 1 McGovern also had vetoed all I the other minority planks which i were rejected, including those to to resume Page 8-A Paris peace today ir-1 a cacptcicv', Classified 11 Comics R-D Deaths 17-A Digest 2-A Editorials 6-A Sr. Forum Sports 1-D TV-Hadio 1H-A Weather 6D key Viet army factor in S.

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