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JULY 13. 1972 to Vt I I UU LJ LJ V-J WW THE WEATHER Clouds and rain ifl come and go, but the deep-summer heat will stay; to Page 2 turn if you wish to know more about a muggy day. VOL 96 NO. 105 Cool Kr 'IT FIFTEEN CENTS zj Night 'fnn-'i' AMfrfffi-Vr-m mi ii hi mil ml What might have been a tired and hot truck resting its weary tires in cool water away from Wednesday's 90 degree heat actually was a battered pickup which had just rolled over and down a 5Q-foot embankment near a cemetery just off Stradling Road on Muncie's west side. The truck had been trying to aid a mowing tractor which was stuck, but the truck's driver got just a little too close to the embankment.

(Star Photo by Phil Cramer) Hijackers Seize 2 Jets at Opposite Ends of U.S. He'll speech he will deliver Thursday night the convention action on television. While Democrats were voting at their, national convention in Miami Beach Wednesday, Sen. George McGovern, their nominee for president, worked 'on tt S.Dakotan Deals Defeat to Party 'Pros' MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-George S. McGovem, the master of "new politics" who beat the old pros at their own game, won his deeply divided party's presidential nomination Wednesday night by an overwhelming margin on the first ballot.

Weary, squabbling delegates in the Democratic National Convention leaped to their feet with a roar shortly before 11 p.m., Muncie time, when Illinois put McGovern over the magic number of 1,509 ballots he needed to nail down the hard-won nomination. Ironically, the Illinois delegation which sealed McGovern's victory included the challenger group that ousted Mayor Richard J. Daley and his 59-member Chicago contingent through party reform rules written under the South Dakotan's direction. Delegation chairman Clyde Choate, relishing his moment in the spotlight before a nationwide radio-television audience, slowly read his group's small votes for other candidates. THEN HE announced that Illinois had cast 119 votes for McGovem, and the cavernous hall resounded with deafening chants of "We want McGovem!" That gave McGovem 1,603 votes well above the required majority and the roll call went on, adding to his margin of victory.

At the end of the first complete ballot, before changes by the states began, McGovem had piled up a total of 1,728.35 votes. After some changes, McGovern's total good!" When Illinois put him over the top, several hundred of the senator's young volunteers in the grand promenade of the Doral Hotel broke into a wild cheer and started chanting, "We did good! We did good! On the convention floor, McGovem campaign manager Frank Mankiewicz, standing with the California delegation, raised his hand in a victory salute even Hoosier Demos Poised to Back Bayh for Veep MIAMI BEACH (UPI) Indiana delegates, sharply divided on a choice for president, are solidly behind one man for vice president and stand ready to fan out over the hall to lobby for him as soon as they get the nod. Sen. Birch Bayh, who gave up his own quest for the presidency after his wife, Marvella, underwent serious surgery, has been circulating freely about the floor the past two days unofficially campaigning for the post. "The minute we get the word 'go' we'll fan out all over the hall," said Gordon St.

Angelo, chairman of the delegation. HE SAID the 76 delegates were prepared with literature and everything else needed to promote a candidate for vice president as soon as they get the word from Bayh or McGovern to put him across in the Thursday night vote. St. Angelo admitted, however, that their efforts will be needed only if McGovem throws the selection open to the convention, which he wasn't believed likely to do. Indiana voters gave 55 votes to Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey in the primary and 21 to Wallace, but bound the delegates, selected not according to their presidential preference, only on the first ballot. Wallace got five of the Humphrey votes when Humphrey withdrew and most of the rest went to Jackson. Earlier Wednesday, Indiana GOP chairman James Neal said in Indianapolis that Bayh's nomination would admittedly make the Republican task more difficult in PHONE 282-5921 Accept on Thursday gene McCarthy the youth movement hero of the tumultuous 1963 convention in Chicago. McGOVERN THEN swamped the surviving contenders, Alabama crippled Gov.

George C. Wallace, Terry Sanford of North Carolina, Shirley Chisholm of New First Ballot Totals Sen. George McGovern 1,864.95 Sen. Henry Jackson 486.65 Gov. George Wallace 377.50 Rep.

Shirley Chisholm 101.45 Terry Sanford 74.50 Rep. Wilbur 32.80 Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey 31.00 Sen. Edmund Muskie 10.80 Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy 10.65 Rep. Wayne Hayes 5.00 Sen. Eugene McCarthy 2.00 Sen. Walter Mondale 1.00 Totals include changes made by delegations from 18 states after the roll call had been finished.

Before the changes were made, McGovem had 1,728.35. tectees of the Secret Service," agents said in a news release. One police source said the two belonged to a black separatist organization called the Republic of New Africa. Shortly after the 10:45 a.m. (Muncie time) arrests, McGovern canceled a scheduled 11:15 a.m.

trip to attend a Democratic National Convention caucus of 151 Latin delegates at the Deauville Hotel. McGovern'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 McGovem 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 meet ing between McGovem 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. Car attendants at the hotel said a man had been sitting in the parked Capri sports car for 20 to 30 minutes. The vehicle had Michigan license plates. Detroit, radio station WJR said law enforcement officials had traced the car's registration to a Republic of New Africa member who once lived in the acceptance while watching (AP Wirephoto) FROM THE WIRE SERVICES Two men hijacked a National Airlines jet in Philadelphia with 113 passengers aboard Wednesday night and reportedly demanded $600,000 in cash and $20,000 in Mexican pesos, authorities said. And in the West, American Airlines Flight 633, a jetliner on its way to Los Angeles, was hijacked by one man who demanded $300,000 and parachutes.

In Philadelphia, the sky pirates demanded another 727 and a National jet was due to arrive at 12:40 a.m. (Muncie time) with the ransom. Sarge Glenn, a deputy U.S. marshal at Philadelphia International Airport, said the men there also requested three parachutes. He identified one of the men as an Ethiopian who used the name 'Taffa" and the other as a man who used the name "Green." An operations spokesman at Kennedy International Airport in New York said the captain of the three-engine Boeing 727 radioed he had a man aboard with a sawed-off shotgun and a box which he said contained a bomb.

The flight, which originated in Miami and was en route to New York with several stops including Philadelphia, carried 113 passengers and a crew of five, according to Glenn. A FEDERAL Aviation Administration spokesman at Fort Worth, said the other hijacked jet, also a 727, had been ordered to fly to Albuquerque, N.M. It had been on a flight from Laguardia Airport in New York, headed for Los Angeles. tight landed at Oklahoma City and took off unharmed. It was commandeered in the vicinity of Decatur, north of Dallas.

1 Bin An American Airlines spokesman said Dallas had been the next stop on the plane's route. "We don't know where it's going to go," said the FAA spokesman. "It's holding in our area right now. There is a lot of severe weather. That's all I know right now." The spokesman also confirmed the hijacker had wanted to go to Albuquerque.

Locally severe thunderstorms cluttered skies between Dallas and the Oklahoma border. It was raining in Dallas and at least one funnel cloud was spotted north of the city. THE JET SEIZED in the East was commandeered after it left Philadelphia en route to New York's Kennedy airport Wednesday night. Glenn said the man he identified as "Taffa" earlier had tried to buy a ticket on a Delta airlines plane at Philadelphia. The man was reportedly asked for identification and ran from the ticket counter.

Authorities caught up with him and he produced an Ethiopian passport, Glenn said. HE WAS released when he was found to be unarmed. He then purchased a ticket for the National flight. National had no antihijack devices eratiocal at the Philadelphia airport, Glenn said. Glenn said that, during a conversation with the tower, the pilot mentioned the name of the man identified as "Green." The plane, Flight 496, left Miami at 11:10 a.m.

and stopped at West Palm Beach, Orlando, Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, S.C., and Philadelphia. The airline identified its captain as Elliott Adams of the Miami area. ning mate with Kennedy's personal popularity. They expressed concern that Kennedy might, in the eyes of the voters, overshadow McGovern and relegate him, in effect to the No. 2 post on the ticket.

SPEAKING FQR the governors after their two-hour meeting with McGovern, Gov. Pat Lucey of Wisconsin, himself mentioned as a possible vice presidential candidate, said, "Nothing was definitely decided (about the vice presidency) but there was general agreement that Ted Kennedy would be a great addition to the ticket." Lucey said McGovem "expressed great admiration and respect for Mills," chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. But the possibility of Mills being selected seemed slim because McGovern has repeatedly said he wanted a man with a political philosophy compatible with his. Mills is an influential House conservative while McGovem is a leading Senate liberal. Mills withdrew from the race Wednesday, saying he would support McGovern or "whoever the nominee would be." He expressed disinterest in the vice presidential spot.

Fischer Balks Again REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI)-The unpredictable Bobby Fischer, one game down in his bid for the world chess championship, threatened early Thursday to stay away from the second game unless all television cameras were removed from the auditorium, international chess sources said. Earlier Story on Page .2) before Choate finished reading the clinching vote. WHEN THE pandemonium subsided, Mankiewicz, a victory cigar in hand, refused to speculate on' McGovern's choice of a running mate. "Let's wait a little while," he said, Only four hours before his smashing floor victory, McGovern left the seclusion of his Doral Hotel suite to reassure antiwar demonstrators camped in its luxurious lobby who accused him of-a "cynical sellout" on Vietnam. He was repeatedly shouted down.

Disenchantment with an earlier McGovem statement which he "clarified" Wednesday about maintaining a residual military force in Southeast Asia spread to the California, Massachusetts and Mis-s i i i delegations. Some members threatened in advance to cast protest votes for other candidates. McGovern's solid claim to the nomination was reinforced before the balloting with the withdrawal of Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas and former Sen.

Eu Agents Nab 2 Blacks Near McGovertfs Hotel on Concealed Weapons Charges Governors Press McGovern to Snare Kennedy for Veep York and Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington the late hour favorite of a desperate AFL-CIO. The only suspense left in the Democrats' 36th quadrennial convention was over the liberal South Dakota senator's choice of a vice presidential running mate. After he talks to Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy by telephone, he will make his choice known some time before the final convention session decides the issue and hears McGovern's acceptance speech. The convention will reconvene at 6 p.m. Muncie time Thursday. Even before McGovem was nominated, circulars were spreading through the convention floor reading: "Help draft Ted Kennedy for President.

It can be done." McGovern, the son of a preacher from the South Dakota plains, triumphed after -a hard fought campaign he began In January, 1971, as a virtual unknown. He fashioned a youthful following of protesters, reform of the party rules and con-sumate political skill Into an unbeatable lead for the nomination soon after the convention began Monday night. Detroit. However, the man was not one of the two arrested. THE REPUBLIC of New Africa was founded in Detroit in 1968 and originally intended to create an "African nation in the Western Hemisphere" in five Southern states Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina.

A year after its founding, one policeman was killed and another wounded In shootings at its first convention in Detroit. Last August, another policeman was killed and 11 RNA members arrested during a police raid on the group's Jackson headquarters. (See Related Stories on Pages 9, 19, 20 and 21) Indianapolis Man Killed on Ind. 67 A 56-year-old Indianapolis man was fatally injured early Thursday morning at Deadman's Curve on Indiana 67 about five and one-half miles north of Muncie. Loren L.

Landers died of head and internal injuries when his car went off the right side of the road, down an embankment and struck two poles. The impact threw Landers against the windshield and door on the passenger side. Police said there were only short skid marks just off the road, indicating Landers hit the poles at a high rate of speed. The Delaware County Sheriff's Office called a deputy coroner to the scene where there have been numerous fatalities in the past Landers' death was the 11th traffic fatality in Delaware County in 1972 compared with 19 at this time last year. FROM THE WIRE SERVICES MIAMI BEACH, Fla'.

Federal agents rushed to the Doral Beach Hotel cn Wednesday and seized two men on concealed weapons charges shortly after Sen. George McGovem 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 Sone-beyatta, 32, and Ahmed Obatemi, 33, both of Jackson, but said that positive identification had not been made. Both carried multiple 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 pro- MIAMI BEACH (UPI) Despite fresh insistence by Edward Kennedy that he will not run for vice president, George S. McGovem came under renewed pressure Wednesday to persuade the Massachusetts senator to join him on the 1972 Democratic national ticket. As McGovern prepared to accept the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention, southern and border state governors met with him in his penthouse suite and urged him to invite Kennedy or Rep. Wilbur D.

Mills, D-Ark. but especially Kennedy to accept the No. 2 spot on the ticket. But Kennedy told reporters in Hyannis Port, Wednesday that his position was "unchanged." ASKED BY reporters what he would do if McGovern asked him to run for vice president, Kennedy replied: "I think we've been answering that question all week. My position is unchanged." McGovern said that after he officially received the nomination, he would telephone Kennedy at his Massachusetts vacation home.

Sources said he would either ask Kennedy to Join the ticket or ask his advice in selecting another running mate. McGovem aides said that he still had not made up his mind about a running mate, but that he has narrowed the selection down to four or five possibilities. And among these, sources said, were no surprises, but men who have repeatedly been mentioned as possible candidates. As Kennedy's name popped back into the forefront Wednesday some McGovern supporters questioned the wisdom of pairing their soft-spoken candidate with a run- What's Inside Thursday's Star Muncie Man Wins Three Photo Contest Prizes Page 11 Girls Take Their Wednesday Softball Seriously Page 18 Big Cities Now a Bit Safer Says FBI Report Page 3 Nicklaus 2 Strokes Behind Unknown at Muirsfield Page 25 Bridge 45 Markets 36-37 If You Miss Your Star, Call Classified 37-40 Puzzle 47 282-5921 Before 10 a.m. Deaths 33 Sports 25-27 Editorials 4 Talk of Town 13 Jack Ferris ....45 28-29 CRIME ALERT 289-1234 Gallup Poll 24 Weather 2 Heloise 14 Week Ahead 22 Weekday Classified Hours Ann Landers 14 Women 12-14 8 a.m.

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