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iwn.mn i Legal Capital Punishment Urged Shevin Calls for Special Death Penalty Session By WILLIAM COTTERELL United Press International Florida Attorney General Robert L. Shevin asked Gov. Reubin Askew today to call a special legislative session that would uniformly reinstate the death penalty struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Shevin spelled out specific conditions under which the execution of prisoners would probably be legal and said a special legislative session is needed to act on his recommendations.

Shevin called the news conference to release a memorandum on capital punishment sent to Askew, presiding officers of the Legislature, judges and prosecutors. "The governor, in my view, should give serious thought to calling an immediate legislative session for the purpose of disposing of the questions raised by the Supreme Court's action," Shevin said. The regular 1973 session is nine months away, and Shevin said that if a riot broke out in the state prison system now, those prisoners sentenced to life would have nothing to lose by killing their guards. There were 96 men and one woman sentenced to Florida's electric chair when the Supreme Court ruled against the death penalty last week. Their sentences automatically became life in prison and Shevin said they cannot be executed under any law enacted by a special session.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 29 that the death sentence is "cruel and unusual punishment" because it is not uniformly imposed. The 5-4 decision, in which all four Nixon appointees dissented, held that capital punishment is "whimsically and freakishly" imposed because one murderer may be sentenced to die while another is sent to jail for life. Shevin said the high court left open the question of whether a uniformly applied death penalty would be legal. Anticipating that it would be, Shevin proposed that the Legislature make death in the electric chair automatic for any person convicted of: premediated murder in connection with commission of another crime.

Killing a policeman or prison guard. Assassinating a state or federal public official. Killing the victim of a crime to prevent identification by the victim of the criminal. "Moreover, I would recommend that any person convicted of the crime of rape or a homocide under circumstances not specified above be sentenced to life in prison without parole," Shevin said. Shevin also recommended the automatic execution of airplane hijackers and ex-convicts who commit murders after being paroled from a felony conviction.

WASHINGTON (AP) A renewed surge in livestock and meat prices led an over-all rise of five-tenths of one per cent in wholesale prices of food and industrial products in June, the government said today. The unemployment rate dropped during the month. It was the second straight substantial monthly price increase, following a three-fifths of one per cent hike in May for the largest two-month increase since last January and February. The Labor Department also reported that the nation's unemployment rate dropped from 5.9 to 5.5 per cent of the work force last month for the lowest figure in more than a year and a half. The improvement was entirely due to seasonal factors.

But the actual total of jobless Americans climbed 1.1 million to 5.4 million in the annual summer flood of school youngsters seeking work. BECAUSE THE rise in the work force was not as large as expected, the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics figured it as a decline in the jobless rate on a seasonal basis. Livestock prices climbed 4.7 per cent, poultry rose 6.9 per cent and processed meats, poultry and fish rose 3.6 per cent, the report on wholesale prices said. Industrial raw materials rose three-tenths of one per cent and consumer-finished goods those ready for retail markets increased five-tenths of one per cent. The increases pushed the government's Wholesale Price Index up to 118.8 of its 1967 base, meaning that it cost wholesalers $118.80 in June for every $100 worth of goods five years ago.

The index was 3.9 per cent above a year ago. The report said wholesale prices had climbed at an annual rate of 5.3 per cent in the seven months so far of President Nixon's Phase 2 wage-price controls, a larger increase than the 5.2 per cent rate of increase in the eight months prior to the Phase 1 wage-price freeze imposed by Nixon last August. SUMMER STAFF OF LIFE Three year old Ferrito is the newly appointed director of public rela- Jody Schimelfanick and Gypsy, a German shepherd, i of the New York Order of the Franciscan vie for a slice of watermelon being held by the Rev. Monks. (AP Wirephoto) Capistran Ferrito at barbecue in Bogota, N.J.

Father I Declare! McGovern's Fafe Rests In Hands of High Court Sa igon Command Report Of Quang Tri Fall Denied 1 By Malcolm Johnson SAIGON (AP) -The Saigon command claimed today that elements of a South Vietnamese paratrooper task force spearheaded by tanks had Lookina Forward forsed neart of Tri City, and seized control of SOUTH VIETNAMESE marines were closing in on the city from the east One task force was reported to have advanced half a mile to the eastern outskirts and was a little more than a mile east of the Citadel, at the center of the city. A second marine task force made a helicopter landing 2lk miles southeast of the city. Scores of U.S. Navy jets from 7th Fleet carriers off the coast scrambled into the night skies to attack the North thrust into the northern half of the city. A senior military source said there were no South Vietnamese units of any significant size in the city.

He left open the possibility that reconnaissance teams might be operating there. Field sources said South Vietnamese paratrooper and marine units were closing in on the city but were meeting tough resistance. A huge American air and naval armada covered the advancing South Vietnamese. WASHINGTON (AP) The fate of a bloc of Democratic National Convention delegates that could give Sen. George McGovern a first-ballot presidential nomination rested today with the Supreme Court The court must decide whether to convene a rare special session to consider an appellate-court decision which returned to McGovern 151 California delegates he lost in a party Credentials Committee fight.

With their convention only a weekend away in Miami Beach, Democrats found themselves faced with an agenda whose main item was hold a hearing and announce a decision before the Democratic National Convention opens in Miami Beach Monday night. On the other hand, Burger could refuse the appeal, thus letting the Appeals Court decision stand. OR HE COULD delay implementation of the Appeals Court order until the Supreme Court convenes its fall term, well after the convention ends. In that case, McGovern might be expected to ask the convention to overrule the Credentials Committee and return the 151 California votes to him. two thirds of the northern provincial capital.

But field reports and senior U.S. military source sharply disputed the announcement made in Saigon. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the front he had no information to indicate a Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Thursday suspended implementation of the lower-court decision while he attempted to poll the other eight vacationing justices to determine if there was sufficient support for a special session. Should Burger call the court into emergency session, the justices might be expected to $2-AAillion Effort Is Set To Help Heroin Addicts Meany Fights McGovern WASHINGTON (AP) The White House today announced a major new $2 million intensified effort to produce longlast-ing non-addicting chemical compounds for treatment and prevention of heroin addiction.

The planners envision the possibility of using such "narcotic antagonists" to prevent youthful experimenters with heroin from ever becoming addicts. The White House's special action office for drug abuse prevention and the National institute of Mental Health told a news conference that nine research contracts totalling more than $2 million for the clinical and pre-clinical testing of experimental compounds had been awarded. "This represents a major drive to develop new therapeutic agents which will assist patients to rid themselves of addiction and avoid returning to previous drug habits once they have been rehabilitated," said Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe, director of the special action office.

At Convention Looking forward at (not especially to) next week's Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach McGovern seems unstoppable for the presidential nomination. Even if the U.S. Supreme Court should reverse that lower court award of disputed California and Illinois delegates to him, convention psychology should accrue to him. He'll get to parade his bandwagon twice before any other candidate can begin to build and crank one first in the vote on acceptance of the Credentials committee delegate seating decisions, then on the nomination itself. A coalition could stop him, but where is the man they can thrust forward in his place? Humphrey's goose seems cooked.

He may win delegates from McGovern in the credentials contest, but never enough to win the nomination in the face of resentment from Mc-Governites who would mark him as principal architect of their man's downfall. A lot of them, remember, were parading at Chicago four years ago with signs that begged the party to "Dump the Perhaps even the old guard that went along with HHH to defeat in 1968 won't be inclined to try that track again. Muskie, No. 2 last time, is farther back this time. A new name? Or an old one, dredged up from the bay? Kennedy? The speculation won't stop until the balloting ends.

Next question: Who for Vice (Continued on Page 12) WASHINGTON (AP) AFL-CIO President George Meany headed for the Democratic National Convention today, reportedly determined to block the presidential nomination of Sen. George McGovern. Driven by personal as well as political antipathy, the labor titan has launched a drive that commands the sympathies of most union presidents if not their wholehearted support Some have voiced misgivings that an unrelenting anti McGovern campaign could destroy a tenuous party unity and encourage the re-election of President Nixon, like McGovern the target of numerous Meany barbs. If McGovern wins the nomination despite Meany, labor leaders would be confronted with limited options, none palatable to them. Meany and his chief political strategist Al Barkan, were counting on union presidents to sway convention delegates away from McGovern, the front-runner on the verge of capturing the 1,509 delegates needed for nomination.

"Barkan gave me the spiel labor people are going to try to stop McGovern on the first and second ballots," said Jerry Wurf, a McGovern supporter. rt on I) Would You Believe Chess On Tuesday? REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) After two weeks of behind-the-scene diplomacy and much talking, Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky have agreed to get down to their real business playing chess. The match for the world title now held by the 35-year-old Russian will begin Tuesday in the Icelandic capital. The winner gets $150,000 and the loser $100,000. Spassky, a handsome Leningrad journalist who makes a living playing chess the year around, will make the first move.

He won the draw Thursday night and will play white, meaning he will make the first move. The 29-year-old American will play black in the first game. In succeeding games they alternate. Despite the charges and countercharges exchanged between the two camps there was no sign of personal animosity between the two. When Spassky was intro-duced at the draw, Fischer applauded.

And when the challenger, dressed in a green suit and red tie, was presented, Spassky gave him a big hand. THE REPORT listed increases for gasoline, electric power and some other fuels; wood products; motor vehicle parts; machinery; textiles, clothing and shoes; paper products; rubber and plastics, drugs and paint There were price declines for natural gas; major household appliances; television sets, chemicals and glass. The price of fruits and vegetables increased nine-tenths of one per cent; eggs were up 1.4 per cent and sugar rose four -tenths. There were declines of seven tenths of one per for milk; 1.8 per cent for over-all dairy products and seven-tenths of one per cent for vegetable oils. The report on unemployment said the jobless rate for men declined from 4.3 to 4 per cent with a total of 1.9 million.

The rate for women dropped from 5.9 to 5.5 per cent with a total of 1.6 million and the rate for teen-agers declined from 15.7 to 14.5 per cent with a total of 1.9 million. The total number of Americans with jobs rose 1.4 million to 82.6 million, but the bureau figures it as an increase of only 275,000 because it usually rises more in June. The report also said that wages of some 50 million rank and file workers increased one cent per hour to $3.62 and average weekly earnings increased $2.18 to $135.39. This was up $7.82 or 6.1 per cent in the past year. After deduction for the 3.2 per cent rise in consumer prices over the year, the average worker was still about $3.50 per week ahead.

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Wallace ended 54 days of hospitalization Friday with thanks to those who "saved my life" and sped toward resumption of his governorship in Alabama and his for the presidency in Miami Beach. "I feel good, I feel great" Wallace declared. The disabled governor was pushed in his wheelchair to a limousine amidst the applause of several score of spectators for a motorcade to nearby Andrews Air Force Base and the flight south in an Air Force hospital plane. BUT WALLACE, wounded May 15 at a political rally in Laurel, first paused briefly to thank government and hospital officials and staff members for the care they accorded him. In an accompanying written statement at Holy Cross Hospital Wallace said "Sister Helen Marie, the doctors, sisters and staff of the hospital will always hold a very dear place in my heart.

They saved my life, and I wish God's blessings to all of them." Wallace wore a blue and white striped summer suit with blue shirt and red and blue tie for his flight back toward active political participation. As he shook hands with hospital staffers and other well-wishers, and saluted toward news photographers, it almost seemed as if he were already back on the campaign trail for the Democratic presidential nomination. THOSE ACCOMPANYING Wallace include his wife Cornelia and two daughters, Peggy Sue and Lee. Drs. Josepn Schanno and Herman Magan-zini, who have treated Wallace at Holy Cross, and Dr.

George Traugh and Judy Cantry, rehabilitation specialists from the University of Alabama's Birmingham Medical Center, also are going. MacKay Bridge Comics 15 14.15 Chuckle Crossword Editorial Columns Obituaries Sports Slocks Television Theaters Want Ads Women's News TfcDmocrof Apjriott "We had a most enjoyable and restful weekend," the homeowner declared, "thanks to a few minutes spent fixing the lawn mower beyond Turn to Page 2.