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LOCAL WEATHER Partly cloudy and mild Slight chance of showers and a few thunderstorms today, High in mid 80s. Low tonight upper GOs. Ha.ifctiesbiirff AMERICAN VOL. LXXVII-No. 160 HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI Wednesday, July 5, 1972 fc Associated Press News Wirephoto 111 rv yrt lhiiinid nfi rri 2sr 3 Deteir ft Me Reverses decision on California delegates I iU "VET -'V -V 1 I- 'w' I rri "--A' 1 4 i 1 till i tin-if -i, -i if In the court fight over the Illinois and California challenges, Califano argued that the party may do as it wishes.

To illustrate, he said some believe seating Daley and letting McGovern have the delegates he won would be the shrewd political move. But, he said of the party, "If it wants to push the self-destruct button on these issues, that's its 1st Amendment right." Arguing for McGovern forces in the California case, attorney Joseph L. Rauh Jr. aid the party reforms (Continued on page 16) Regulars take case to federal court follows Smith while Special Agent Richard Ash waits for him. Smith held the baby hostage for nearly three hours, demanding a pilot fly him overseas.

(AP Wirephoto) GIVES UP Charles Smith, 23, of Buffalo carries his daughter from an American Airlines 707 jet today after surrendering to the FBI at Buffalo Airport. An FBI agent Aitempied hijack DAMAGED BRIDGE This United States Air Force aerial photo, released today in Saigon, shows the damaged 96-foot long Vu Chua railroad bridge hit by guided bombs June 22. The bridge, located 38 miles from Hanoi, crossed the Suoi Ngang River in North Vietnam. (AP Wirephoto by Radio from Saigon) Three major depots Wrecked hear Hanoi Man surrenders after holding girl hostage By VERNON A. Gt'IDKY Associated Press Writer "WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals here today handed a victory to the forces of Sen. George McGovern in their battle with the Democratic Credentials Committee for California delegates. At the same time, forces of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley were given a setback by the court in the second half of the dual attack on the committee's hotly disputed decisions. The appeals court reversed a District Court decision which had upheld the committee's action of stripping 151 delegates from California.

The Circuit Court ordered the district bench to rewrite its decision in the California case in accordance with an opinion not yet filed. The Circuit Court rejected the appeal of Daley's forces in one case and in two others directed that state court action be prohibited insofar as the delegates from Illinois which were rejected by the committee are concerned. The brief order of the appeals court carried no reasons for the action. The judges were expected to file opinions later in the day. The District Court ruled Monday that the federal judiciary had no place in the debate over delegates from the two states.

The Credentials Committee had issued decisions that stripped Sen. George S. McGovern of 151 California delegates and told Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 other uncommitted Chicago delegates to stay home. The committee decisions were likened to a "self-destruct button" by the party's lawyer Tuesday even as he fought to uphold them before the appeals court.

Party counsel Joseph A. Califano told the three judges that federal courts have no business in the party's business. His argument echoed the decision of a U.S. District Court which prompted the Fourth of July appeal. Meanwhile, the Credentials Committee completed its pre-convention agenda and passed on to the convention the job of settling 13 contests over the seating of hundreds of delegates.

Many of the dissents concern issues raised by the mandate from the reform commission originally headed by McGovern: that women, young people and minorities be represented at the convention in proportion to their population. Police said Smith had allegedly stabbed the girl's mother and a man earlier in Buffalo. The woman was reported in critical condition, the man in (Continued on page 16) BILOXI, Miss. (AP) Mississippi's Regular Democratic faction argued in federal court today that it was not given sufficient time by the national credentials committee to counteract a 10-day campaign by the Loyalist faction which resulted in the Loyalists being certified by the committee. The Regulars are seeking a court injunction to capture the state's National Democratic Convention seats from the civilrights-oriented Loyalist faction.

Regular attorney Melvin Bishop of Jackson, who presented the Regulars' case before the national committee in Washington, took the stand this morning to answer questions from Attorneys George Woodliff representing the Regulars, and Charles Morgan Loyalist lawyer. At the hearing before the national committee June 22, the Loyalists presented a petition signed by 93 committeemen. The petition was said to have been presented before the hearing in Washington actually began. The Regulars also argued today that they were given only 30 minutes to present their case before the national committee while the Loyalists were given 50 minutes. Governor Bill Waller used 15 minutes of the Regulars' time before the committee, and Bishop used the rest.

Bishop said the 50 minutes used by the Hattlesburg's traffic toll So far this year, two persons have been killed and 204 injured in 739 accidents within the city limits. For the same period of 1971, five were killed and 154 injured in 750 accidents. The Police Traffic Dept. urges you to drive safely and help reduce this toll in deaths, injuries and property damage. Loyalists included time used by Morgan to answer "seated" questions.

Bishop also contended that the Regulars were not given rebuttal time to respond to the Loyalist's arguments. "The substance of the whole hearing was not directed at the (U.S. District) Court's findings, but at Mississippi's entire racial history," Bishop said. U.S. District Court Judge Dan Russell ruled, before the hearing, that the Regulars were Mississippi's legal party, but he stopped short of directing the National Convention to seat the faction.

Bishop said that remarks by Hodding Carter III, vice chairman of the national credentials committee and a Loyalist leader, "were racist in nature, inflammatory in nature and prejudicial in nature." Late this morning, attorneys for both factions were preparing their final arguments to be presented to Judge Russell. The suit asks Russell to pro-continued on page 16) Near Poplarville 2 killed flips off Two young Poplarville men were killed Tuesday in a one-car crash near their home town and a Hattiesburg youth drowned Monday afternoon while swimming here in a gravel pit lake these accidents becoming a part of the state's grim holiday statistics. At least 28 persons died in state mishaps over the long weekend, 19 of them in traffic accidents and eight by drowning. One youth was killed when he fell from a farm tractor. James Ronald Byrd and Thomas B.

Holliday, both 22, of Poplarville, were injured fatally in the car smashup early Tuesday morning 10 miles south of Poplarville on Highway 53. By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) American jets wrecked three major depots on the edges of Hanoi Tuesday in the heaviest raids as car highway Byrd was driver of the car which apparently ran off the shoulder of the road and flipped when he tried to swerve back onto the highway. The car came to rest against at4ree. Byrd was a student at Pearl River Junior College. Survivors are his wife, a son, John Paul Byrd of Poplarville; his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. James Byrd of Poplarville; four sisters, Theresa, Patricia Lee and Toni Byrd, all of Poplarville, and Mrs. Ronald Ladner of Ford's Creek. Services for Byrd were to be at 3 p.m. today at First Baptist Church with Dr.

Robert Barnes officiating. Burial was to be in Forest Lawn Memorial Park with Jenkins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Services for Holliday were to be at 4:30 p.m. today at Jenkins Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Ralph Brand and Rev.

Joe Wright officiating. (Continued on page 16) infant's clothing was Smith's from a wound he suffered earlier. Ash said Smith would face a charge of attempted hijacking. Humphrey, aides spar By CARL P. LEL'BSDORF AP Political Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) Aides to Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey and George McGovern are sparring verbally in a warmup for next week's Democratic National Convention while a federal appeals court considers the crucial California and Illinois credentials cases. Jack Chestnut, Humphrey's campaign manager, demanded that McGovern fire or repudiate Rick Stearns, one of his campaign aides, for saying that he favored a third party to "punish" Humphrey should the Minnesota senator win the Democratic presidential nomination. "Talk of punishment of the Democratic party is irresponsible and can't be tolerated," Chestnut said, reacting to the Stearns comments which seem to be part of an effort by some McGovern aides to convince party leaders that denial of the nomination to the front-running South Dakota senator would split the party.

Both Humphrey and McGovern were resting cautions agreement agreement was disclosed. He said nobody should believe that territorial reunification is around the corner. "Our political ideology cannot agree with that of the Communists," he said, "and although our dialogue opened as a result of the joint communique, we cannot change overnight our ideas, systems and life." South and North Korea announced Tuesday that they had held secret, high-level talks in Pyongyang and Seoul in May and had agreed to set up a joint committee to negotiate exchanges in a number of fields and to promote reunification by peaceful means. (Continued on page 16) By MARVIN R. PIKE Associated Press Writer BUFFALO, N.Y.

(AP) A man surrendered to an FBI agent early today after holding his 17-month-old daughter hostage at knifepoint and threatening to kill her in an abortive attempt to hijack an American Airlines jet, police said. The FBI said the man, identified as Charles Smith, 23, of Buffalo, agreed to give up after being assured that police would not harm him. According to the FBI and local police, the entire episode began with a stabbing incident in Buffalo's inner city during uie eany iiiuriimg iiuuis. Richard Ash, special agent in charge of the FBI office here, said Smith boarded the unoccupied jetliner as it stood near a terminal gate about 5 a.m. at Buffalo International Airport.

He demanded that the airline provide a pilot for the craft and said he would kill the child if his demands were not met. "He apparently decided he was not going to get out" of the airport, Ash said, describing hnw Smith nut down the knife he was carrying and walked down the ramp of the plane 21 a hours later, carrying his daughter. He was accompanied by an unidentified FBI agent who had sneaked aboard the plane. The child, identified as Je-tuan Smith, was not injured, Ash said. Ash said blood on the South Korea pooplo about SEOUL (AP) The South Korean government warned its people today not to expect speedy results from its agreement with North Korea to work for improved relations and reunification of the Korean peninsula.

Premier Kim Jong-pil urged the nation to maintain its vigilance, asserting that a piece of paper from the Communists containing promises does not mean anything unless the pledges are implemented. Kim told the National Assembly that Park Sung-chul. Korea's second vice premier, used "un-describably abusive" words in attacking the South on the same day the North-South on North Vietnam in weeks, and a 7th Fleet task force sank or damaged 12 supply barges off the North Vietnamese coast, the U.S. Command announced today. In South Vietnam there was heavy fighting on the northern front and Hue was shelled for the fourth day.

But no progress was reported from the paratroopers who reached the outskirts of Quang Tri City on Tuesday. North Vietnam claimed that U.S. planes bombed and strafed residential areas of Hanoi, "killing or injuring many persons, and destroying or damaging hundreds of dwelling houses." The U.S. Command denied ordering any attacks on civilian targets and said it had no information "indicating other than military targets were hit." But spokesmen acknowledged there may have been people working in the three supply and vehicle depots that were attacked during more than 320 strikes in North Vietnam Tuesday. North Vietnam also claimed that two F4 Phantoms were shot down during the raids.

The U.S. Command said it had no plane losses Tuesday to report yet. But it did announce that MIG21 interceptors shot down a pair of Phantoms southwest of Hanoi on June 27 and a surface-to-air missile brought down a third Phantom 40 miles northpast of Hanoi July 1. Two of the fliers were (Continued on page 16) ballot was 282-190, with four blank votes. The Diet will meet Thursday to confirm Tanaka as prime minister for a three-year term, a formality since the party has a sizable majority in both houses.

He is expected to announce his cabinet on Friday. Tanaka's victory resulted from growing restlessness within the party over Sato's inability to cope with the problems of China, the United States and mounting domestic difficulties. Little change (Continued on page 16" AAcGovern verbally Humphrey at his Waverly, lakeside home, McGovern at his Eastern shore Maryland farm while their supporters spent the Fourth of July arguing the California and Illinois credentials cases before the (Continued on page 16) Bobby apologizes for delay (Earlier Story Inside) REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer apologized today for delaying the start of his $300,000 chess match with world Boris Spassky of Russia. The American, whose dispute over prize money forced organizers to postpone the world championship round, said he had the greatest respect for Spassky as a man and as a player. The statement, prepared by Fischer's lawyers, was read to newsmen by Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation-FIDE.

It was not known whether this would be sufficient to overcome Russian objections to starting the match. In a statement Tuesday, Spassky said he would con-continued on page 16) The weather Official weather report: 8 a.m. temperature 74 degrees. Highest 89 and lowest 72 during preceding 24 hours. No rain.

River stage 5.1 ft. Sunset today 8:11 Sunrise Thursday 6:00. Forecast: Mississippi Partly cloudy and mild through Thursday. Chance of showers and few thunderstorms extreme south today. High today and Thursday in the 80s.

Low tonight near 60 north to near 70 south. Japan's conservatives name new prime minister By JOHN RODERICK it leadership of the govern- Associated Press Writer ment at a convention of the TOKYO (AP) Japan's party's members in the Diet, ruling conservatives today the Japanese parliament. The named Kakuei Tanaka, a vote on the second runoff to dynamic rags-to-riches construction man turned politician, to be prime minister with a mandate for bold new approaches to the United States and China. The Liberal-Democratic Party in effect turned its back on the cautious establishment politics of Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, who is retiring at 71. It decisively rejected the bid of his protege, 67-year-old Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, to succeed him.

Tanaka, at 54 the youngest prime minister since 1945, won the party presidency and with convention today in Tokyo. Since the Liberal-Democrats are the ruling party in Japan, Tanaka is automatically in line to become Japanese prime minister. (AP Wirephoto by cable from Tokyo) NEW LEADERS Kakuei Tanaka, 54, left, is congratulated by retiring Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato after Tanaka was elected president of the Liberal-Democratic Party in Japan at the party's.