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NEWS JOURNAL Weatl Chuckle ler Cool, chance of showers tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight, 50. High Thursday, The average bachelor would get married if he could find a girl who loves him as much as he does. North Central Ohio' Foremost Newspaper 88th Year, No. 121 PHONE (419) 522-3311 Mansfield, Ohio, Wednesday, July 5, 1972 United Prm lntrntionl, Auocidtd Pri Whlnton Pott Lot Annlet Tlmtt torvict TEN CENTS Bern Delegates New Japanese Chief to Repair Ties With U.

S. Case Returns to Lower Court versy over the seating of delegates from South Carolina, Georgia. Rhode for an injunction to stop the Illinois challengers from going to Miami Beach to take their seats at the convention opening July 10. Jerome Torshen, representing the Daley group, said the delegates in question were elected by close to one million voters and that it was wrong to use the reform rules to overturn such an election. The credentials committee Tuesday completed action on 82 challenges to 1,829 delegates from 30 states.

But at least nine of the committee decisions will be challenged on the convention floor in what promise to be bitter floor fights. In addition to California and Illinois, there still is contro and mounting domestic difficulties. Little change would have been expected had Fukuda been chosen. Problems with the United Stales developed when Japan achieved a favorable balance of trade, then steadily widened it with a river of low-cost. high-quality goods poured onto the American market.

Angry talk combined with American restrictions soured the old relationship, and relations are still strained despite a visit last month by presidential adviser Henry Kissinger. President Nixon's unexpected rapprochement with Peking without prior consultation with Us chief Asian ally, also hit Sato in the political jaw and weakened his standing within the country and the party. And Peking said there could be no real improvement in Japanese. Chinese relations until Sato went. Would-Be Hijacker Holds Knife on Girl, Surrenders By MARVIN R.

PIKE BUFFALO, N. Y. (AP) A man who held a young girl at knife point in an apparent attempt to hijack an American Airlines 707 at Buffalo International Airport surrendered to an FBI agent early today. apparently decided he was not going to get out" of the airport, said Tanaka should be well fitted to deal with the economic problems between the United States and Japan, having served both as Minister of Finance and as Minister of International Trade and Industry. Short, dynamic and outspoken, Tanaka is the son of a poor horse trader-farmer turned carpenter.

He did not go beyond high school, served in the army during the war as a calvaryman, got out because of illness and started a small construction business in Tokyo. As his business prospered, he studied law at nights and made his debut in politics at the age of 28, winning a Diet seat in 1947. ippir 'Sorry? Chess Match in Jeopardy KAKUEI TANAKA represents change aboard the plane and confronted the man. After the agent assured the man there would be no shooting, the man threw down his knife and carried the girl in his arms down the ramp to a waiting police car. The child was not harmed, Ash said.

Blood on the child's clothing, Ash said, was from a slight wound the man had suffered. Police identified the man as Charles Smith, 23, of Buffalo. Police said Smith had allegedly scabbed the guTr mother and a man earlier in Buffalo. The woman was reported in critical condition, the man in fair condition, at Deaconess Hospital. Police said Smith apparently slipped aboard the unoccupied jet about 5 a.m.

and demanded that American Alirlines provide a pilot for the craft. "I want a pilot," he shouted to police and FBI agents who surrounded the plane as it stood at a terminal gate. A group of FBI agents and police gathered near a ramp to the plane, using a baggage cart as a barricade. A man and woman took turns using a bullhorn to call up to Smith. The woman, identified by an FBI agent as Smith's mother, walked part way up the ramp at one point, talked with Smith, then returned.

Smith and the girl were visible just inside the plane. Scores of airline passengers passed through the terminal as usual. Many seemed unaware of what was happening at the American gate. From the upper level of the airport terminal, newsmen could see Smith holding the girl in his arms. At times he and the girl could be seen sitting in a front seat.

Now and then he would carry the girl to the rear and then return to the front. All available Cheektowaga police, FBI agents and Buffalo homicide detectives rushed to the airport and surrounded the plane at Gate Seven. Probe Ordered of Gus Hall Petitions COLUMBUS (UPI) Secretary of State Ted W. Brown today ordered a full scale investigation of possible misrepresentation of facts in securing signatures on nominating petitions of Gus Hall, an independent candidate for President. Brown said he had received an unusual number of complaints regarding the procedures used by persons circulating petitions for Hall, in the past identified with the Communist Party in the nation.

Gas Permits Richard Gordon, of the Norwalk office of Columbia Gas said the number of new meters set in the first six months last year is "not a precise comparison" since applications were not required at that time. Columbia Gas received PUCO commission to freeze additional gas to industrial and commercial customers late last fall, claiming the move was necessary to conserve gas for residential customers. Early this year, the gas company made application to the PUCO to extend the freeze to new residential tlx' T'l 7 I By JOHN RODERICK TOKYO (AP) Japan's ruling conservatives today named Kakuei Tan-aka, a 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. Tanaka made a brief, restrained acceptance speech stressing that unity of, his Liberal-Democratic Party must continue. He has said previously that he would give his major attention to repairing the frayed relations with the United States and to bringing about diplomatic relations with Communist China.

The 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 it leadership of the government at a convention of the party's members in the Diet, the Japanese parliament. The vote on the second runoff 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 Boris Spassky Compiled from Wire Dispatches REYKJAVIK, Iceland Bobby Fischer apologized today for delaying the start of his $250,000 chess match with world champion 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 consider starting play only if Fischer paid the penalty for his behavior. Spassky told The Associated Press today he still did not know whether the match would begin Thursday. He said there would be an announcement by the Russian delegation later. The 24 game championship match was scheduled to start Sunday, but Fischer, a 29 year old chess genius from Brooklyn, failed to turn up, mostly because he wanted more money than the $125,000 purse put up by the organizers. All appeared saved when a British On The Inside Is your Social Security number among the 20,000 already entered in The News Journal's Social Security Sweepstakes? If not, you've missed out in chances for $1,200 which have been offered in the past 10 weeks to Mansfield and area residents.

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The District Court ruled Monday that the federal judiciary had no place in the debate over delegates from the two states. WASHINGTON (UPI) Democrats battling for delegates to the party's national convention, now only five day away, awaited federal court decisions today that could have a crucial effect on the choosing of their nominee for president. In disputeand embroiled in court action were the composition of blocs of 153 delegates from California and 59 from Illinois. Courts in Washington, D. and Chicago had been asked to settle controversies that grew out of a pre convention meeting of the Democratic Credentials Committee in Washington.

The committee, which ended an 11 -day session Tuesday night, ruled that front- runner Sen. George S. Mc-Govern should not receive all 271 delegates from California, although the South Dakota senator finished first in the state's winner take all June 6 primary. It decreed 153 of the 271 seats should be distributed among other candidates who ran in the primary. The committee also ruled challengers should receive the seats of 59 IlS-nois delegates from the Chicago area allied to Chicago Mayor Richard J.

Daley. Both disputes were taken into federal court. The U. S. Court of Appeals in Washington, which spent four hours hearing arguments in an extraordinary Fourth of July session, was expected to announce its decision today.

At the same time, Daley forces prepared to ask a circuit court in Illinois Accidents Take Lives of Three From City, Area A Shelby youth and an Ontario woman were killed Monday night near Port Clinton when the motorcycle they were riding hit a boat trailer and crashed head on with a car on State Route 163 and a Mansfield youth drowned in Tennessee yesterday. Dead are Michael Charles Cronen-wett, 18, of 25 Sunset Shelby, Miss Maria Johanna Dame, 20, of State Route 314, Mansfield RD 6, and Joseph M. Zellner, 16, of Crimson Rd. Cronenwett was pronounced dead at the scene of the motorcycle car crash and Miss Dame was dead on arrival at Magruder Hospital, Port Clinton. Both died of head injuries.

They were among the 30 persons killed in Ohio over the July 4 weekend. Also included in the death count was John B. Clifford, 17, of Marion who was killed in a one- car accident, Tuesday at the intersection of Marion County Roads 38 and 47, The weekend toll was the second worst of the year and fell just short of the 32 fatalities recorded on the Memorial Day weekend. Eight of the victims died in four double fatality smash ups. The other 22 deaths occurred in separate accidents.

(Services on Page 14) Ottawa County sheriff's deputies said Cronewett's motorcycle, with Miss Dame as a passenger, was westbound on Route 163 when a car pulling a boat on a trailer and driven by Eu-gene Skerkoski, 45, of Euclid, made a left turn in front of the motorcycle. Deputies said the motorcycle hit the right rear of the trailer continued on, hitting an eastbound car driven by Mrs. Dixie Kuntz, 28, of Lakeside, head-on. Mrs. Kuntz was treated for shock at the Port Clinton hospital and released.

A passenger in her car, Dawn Golat-ka, 10, of Lakeside, was treated for fa. cial cuts and released. The Zellner youth drowned in the Little River at the foot of the Smoky Mountains near Townsend, Tenn. He reportedly was vacationing with neighbors, Mr. and Mrs.

Melvin W. McKenna, of 1055 Harlan in the Smoky Mountains. He was reported wading with other youths at the water's edge when he fell Into a deep hole and drowned. Island, Hawaii, Connecticut, Michigan and Alabama. "I'm not sure what's going to hap- npn npvt upplr cniH Prprfontiolc Cnm.

mittee Chairman Patricia Roberts Harris. "But everybody knows what i the issues are." McGovern, whose first ballot nomination may have been blocked when he lost the California delegates, picked up the endorsement Tuesday of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes. Monday, McGovern was endorsed by Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers. Both unions earlier had come out for Sen. Edmund S.

Muskie. Richard Ash, special agent in charge of the FBI office here. "If there's no shooting, I'll come out," Ash quoted the man as saying moments before he emerged from the aircraft carrying his hostage, tentatively identified as Jayton Smith, 14 months. Ash said an FBI agent had sneaked time at 5 p. m.

Monday at the gas company office, 115 Park Avenue West. Days left for filing applications are tomorrow, Friday and Monday. The office is closed on Saturdays. The order was given by the PUCO on Columbia's request to cut off all new residential service. No service will be given unless the new construction is under way by Oct.

According to the PUCO order, "under way" means construction in progress on homes for which applications for natural gas service have been filed by the July 10 deadline. millionaire banker and chess fan dug into his own pocket to offer another $125,000. Fischer was on the next plane to Reykjavik and arrived Tuesday morning, where he quickly left the airport not to be seen since. Came the draw Tuesday to see who would play white for the first game and Fischer was asleep. So he sent his second, while Spassky was there in person.

The world champion, 35, apparently decided he had had enough of Fischer's antics and issued a statement that said: "Fischer broke the rules of holding the contest by refusing to come for the ceremony of opening the match. By this, ischer insulted me, personally, and the Chess Federation of the U.S.S.R., which I represent." He added that since Fischer had broken the rules he "must bear the just punishment before there is a hope of holding the match. Only after this can I return to the question about the possibility of holding the match." He also demanded a personal apology. July to Stay Wet and Cool Little hope is in store for gardeners and farmers whose collective green thumbs have been muddied by a summer clouded with chilly temperatures and little sunshine. The weatherman is calling for more of the same: partly cloudy skies, low temperatures and the chance of showers that have come to dominate the forecasters' promises.

Tomorrow's forecast calls for partly cloudy and cool with a chance of rain and a high of only 70 degrees. Tonight's low should rest around 50, again with a chance of rain. Yesterday's high was 74, with the low this morning a cool 55 degrees at 10 a.m. Looking toward the weekend, the extended outlook calls for fair weather with a chance of showers again on Sunday. Lows will be down into the 50s.

Over the holiday, Cincinnati recorded its coldest July 4 in the city since 1872 when the mercury reached only 66 degrees, while Toledo reeled under a record low of 46 this morning. The water logged gardens and the rained on hay must wait for another sunny day, the type of day which is be- coming a rarity this year. COMFORTING ARMS Fourteen-month-old Jayton Smith is cradled in the arms of an unidentified woman following a three-hour ordeal early today in which a man identified as Charles Smith of Buffalo, allegedly tried to hijack, a 707 jet, at the Greater Buffalo International Airport alter stabbing the girl's mother and another man earlier. (UPI Photo) Home Builders Rush for Mansfield area home builders are making a run on natural gas service in anticipation of the cut off date for applications at 5 p. m.

next Monday. Columbia Gas officials report 649 applications on file in the office, covering 780 dwelling units. In the first six months last year, the Mansfield district office had set 150 new residential gas meters. By Public Utilities Commission order, all applications for natural gas service must be. filed by next Monday for all new construction.

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