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it -Iceland Chills Bobby's Chess Fee Demand REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) -The Icelandic Chess Federation refused today to meet 1 U.S. chess challenger Bobby Fischer's demands for more money to play the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky for the world championship. "A dangerous precedent would be created if we gave in to Fischer. He is threatening to kill the game of chess by insisting on his own said Gudmundur Einarsson, a member of the Icelandic organization commit- tee. The 24-game Fischer-Spassky match was scheduled to start Sunday but was postponed until Tuesday by Dr.

Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE). Fischer, 29, is hiding out in New York, apparently in a move to force the sponsors of the match to pay him more money for playing Spassky. If Fischer does not show up by noon Tuesday (8 a.m. EDT), he will be disqualified and lose his right to challenge the 35- year-old Russian. In Hilversum, the Netherlands, Max Euwe told the Dutch radio in a telephone interview that neither the world federation nor Iceland was willing to accept Fischer's additional financial demands.

"However," Euwe said, "if the American Chess Federation would be willing to pay extra to Fischer, the world federation would not mind." Euwe stressed that if this solution would be possible the world federation and the Icelandic chess federation would accept it but would be no parties to it. An Icelandic friend of Fischer, Freystrinn Thorberbergsson, flew to New York Sunday to try to persuade the American grand master to return with him. He said he was acting as "a friend of Bobby Fischer" and said only "I know where to find him." He refused to answer other questions. Fischer, who has kept the Fair in the mornings, mostly fair in the afternoons. Slightly warmer.

Highs and REDWOOD EMPIRE Low clouds THE PRESS DEMOCRAT HOME lows: Santa Rosa, 75 and 55; Ukiah, 82 and 54. (Weather statistics on page 2.) The Redwood Empire's Leading Newspaper pre 10 cents Icelandic organizers nervously rushing to Keflavik international airport to meet every flight from New York for a week, simply did not show up Sunday. Officially there was no explanation. He has not been in touch with the Icelandic Chess Federation or FIDE since he sent a cable through the U.S. Chess Federation some time back saying he would show up for the match "under protest." Four times since then, Fischer has canceled bookings on flights to Iceland.

for Living MONDAY -UPI Facsimile ELIZABETH Still Another Phone Call From Martha By HELEN THOMAS Reunion hunting for her mother in 1966 after being informed by foster parents that she was an orphan. Their lives, lived on separate sides of the globe, came together during the weekend in California. "I thought she was dead, couldn't. dream," said Mrs. Morita, who operates a nursery in this San Francisco peninsula community with her husband Henry Morita, an ex-GI whom she married i in Germany.

Mrs. Morita gave birth to her child in a Nazi child labor camp at Wiener Neustadt, Austria at about the same time her first husband died in a separate detention center. Elizabeth married Bela Bartfei the same time she began searching for her mother. She finally tracked down an uncle in Yugoslavia who knew of Mrs. Morita's marriage and from there traced her mother to Santa Clara.

Mr. and Mrs. Bartfei got a three week visa after a year's attempt and arrived at San Francisco International Airport Saturday on the 25th wedding anniversary of her mother's second marriage. INDEX ROSIE MORITA (RIGHT) AND DAUGHTER They Waited 27 Years for This 27 YEARS Her 'Miracle' Becomes Reality SANTA CLARA, Calif. (UPI) -It took 27 years for Mrs.

Rosie Morita's "miracle" -a reunion with her daughter who disappeared while an infant in war torn Germany. Mrs. Morita, wounded while foraging for food in 1945, was unable to find her baby when she returned to a refugee camp near Passau. The daughter, Elizabeth, grew up in Hungary and began JOSEPH SMITH Morman Leader Dead at 95 SALT LAKE CITY (UPI)Joseph Fielding Smith, 95-year-first old patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, died Sunday of a heart attack at his daughter's home. Smith, spiritual leader for the world's 3 million Mormons, would have been 96 July 19.

"I guess it was just old said a church spokesman. The spokesman said the church' council of the 12 apostles would meet at 10:00 a.m. Monday to make funeral arrangements. Smith, the 10th leader since the church was organized in 1830, succeeded the late David 0. McKay on Jan.

23, 1970, at the age of 93. He was born in Salt Lake on July 19, 1876, a son of Joseph F. Smith, sixth president of the church, and Julina Lambson Smith. His grandfather was Hyrum Smith, patriarch to the church and brother of founder Joseph Smith. Prior to becoming leader of the Mormons.

Smith was a The Icelandic federation, which stands to lose much money if the match does not come off, pleaded for Fischer Sunday and convinced Euwe to postpone the start of the match 48 hours to give Fischer a last chance. "But I am not very hopeful," said Euwe, the last non-Russian to hold the world title from 1935 to 1937. He is Dutch. The decision came after several rounds of closed negotiations involving Spassky, Euwe, the Icelandic organizers and AFTERNOON, JULY 3, 1972 Americans representing Fischer but not authorized by him to negotiate. Spassky appeared undisturbed by the crisis surrounding his first defense of the title he won in 1969 from fellow countryman Tigran Petrosian.

He was calm and relaxed in Sunday's negotiations and his seconds said he was in fine spirits. The total prize money of than ten times bigger than any before in the history of chess-will be split with five-eights to the winner and the rest to the loser. On top of this the two players are guaranteed 30 per cent of net incomes on televisions and film rights. But Fischer wants more. He has asked the Icelandic organizers for a 30 per cent share of the gate receipts -something which in the words of Icelandic Chess Federation president Gudmundur Thorarinsson would spell disaster" for the tiny federation in a nation of orly 200,000 inhabitants.

Communist Gunners Shell Hue SAIGON (UPI)-Communist gunners fired 675 rocket, mortar and artillery rounds into Hue and its outer defenses today and two large, equallymatched units slugged it out with tanks and artillery north of the old imperial capital in a South Vietnamese attempt to recapture Quang Tri province. A government force is driving north from Hue to try to take back Quant Trithe only South Vietnamese province ever captured by the Communists. With most of Hue's defenders sent north to try to recapture Quang Tri, Communists increased the pressure on the old imperial capital and threatened a long-expected, major attack on the city. A South Vietnamese paratroop unit, backed by air power, artillery and tanks, fought a savage battle with an North Vietnamese force of the same size only two miles south of Quang Tri City, the provincial capital. While the battle was underway, Communist gunners slipped into the Hue area from the west and bombarded the city and a half-dozen outposts on its inland flanks.

In the air war over North Vietnam, the U.S. command said U.S. jet fighter-bomber pilots destroyed a coal treatment building near the country's major port city of Haiphong, dropped a span on a bridge near Vinh and bombed an oil storage area south of the Chinese border. The command in a delayed report said a U.S. Navy A7 fighter-bomber crashed "from unknown causes" June 18 on a night mission over North Vietnam about 107 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Vietnams and listed the pilot as missing.

A Communist radio broadcast claimed today two U.S. jets were shot down Sunday over the HaiphongHanoi area. UPI photographer Willie Vi- M'Govern Sues For Votes coy said government paratroopers in today's Quang Tri City fighting, 32 miles north of Hue, were backed by allied jets, helicopters and heavy B52 bombers. The B52s overnight dumped more than 500 tons of explosive on the approaches to Quang Tri City. The city and the province of the same name were captured a month after the Communist offensive began 30 in South Vietnam and have been in North Vietnamese hands ever since.

Vicoy said he saw a South Vietnamese armored personnel carrier "sink like a stone" as it tried to cross the Truong Phuoc River 'to join the Quang Tri fighting, drowning about seven paratroopers. Vicoy said the vehicle, overloaded with paratroopers in full battle gear, "plunged downward and seven of the men aboard never came Today's shelling of Hue, the old imperial capital 400 miles north of Saigon, prompted allied fears that the North Vietnamese would try to overrun the city while its defenses are stripped by the government drive to retake neighboring Quang Tri Province. UPI correspondent Barney Seibert said an undetermined number of 122mm rockets hit Hue today but there was no immediate report of casualties. Sunday's rocket and artillery barrage of 80 shells that killed 12 persons and wounded 41 marked the first such attack on Hue since the start of the offensive. Allied commanders noted following Sunday's shelling that the South Vietnamese force of about 30,000 men guarding the city was reduced to the 10,000 troops of the 1st Infantry Division last week for the northward drive into Quang now in its sixth day.

The push, they said, might leave Hue vulnerable to an all-out Communist drive and today's shelling bolstered that possibility. member of President McKay's presidency. He had become a member of the Council Twelve Apostles April 7, 1910, and was president fthat body until April 12, 1951. Smith, named assistant church historian in 1906, became historian and general recorder in 1921 and served in that position until he was called to the presidency. He wrote more than 20 books on Mormon church history and doctrines.

im htaswno nk as a theological conservative and noted for his fundamentalist views. He appeared in public often up to the time of his deah, speaking a emple dedicaions, universiy graduaions and- church conferences. He was scheduled address he church's general conference in Mexico Ciy laer his year. Smih oulived hree wives, he firs of whom he married in April of 1898. She was Louise Emyle Shurliff, who died WASHINGTON (UPI) -Attorneys for Sen.

George S. McGovern's California delegates charged in federal court today that the Democratic convention credentials committee illegally changed the rules in stripping 151 McGovern supporters of their seats. At a hearing before U.S. District Judge George L. Hart attorney Joseph P.

Rauh said that before the California primary all candidates were willing to abide by the state's winner-take-all provision. County Crashes Kill 2 The record-setting carnage Sonoma County highways continued early today as a threecar smashup on River rd. claimed the year's 57th fatality. Gary Leonard Horn, 25, 2793 Victoria was killed when his unlighted car came down the wrong side of the road and smashed into a second car, California Highway Patrolmen said. Saturday, the death toll reached 56 when a 27-year-old Rohnert Park mother died she was struck by a car while riding a bicycle in Cotati.

Associated Press today identified the dead woman, Donna Conley, 7620 Blair as great-granddaughter of the late Al Smith, New York governor and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1928. The driver of the car which allegedly hit her was charged with driving under the influence of drugs. Mr. Horn was dead on arrival at Palm Drive Hospital in bastopol at 2:15 a.m. He was trapped in the wreckage of his car nearly an hour after the 1:25 a.m.

accident, half mile east of Wohler rd. The CHP said the victim's eastbound auto was driving the wrong lane and without lights when it crashed into westbound car driven by William Richard Stevenson, 17, 2555 Tuscan dr. A third car, eastbound, driven by Edwin John Fleming, 17, 5960 Van Keppel Forestville, than struck the Horn car officers said. Patrolmen said Mr. Horn parently was killed in the initial collision.

Young Stevenson was reported in satisfactory condition Palm Drive Hospital. Young Fleming was not hurt. Officers estimated the car was traveling at 50 to miles per hour. The Sonoma County Coroner's office said today the dead man was reported to have a wife and child, but their whereabouts. were not known.

Other survivors included foster mother, Myrtle Stahl, Santa Rosa, and his half brother, Ronald Schwartz, San cisco. Mrs. Conley died at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the intensive care unit of Santa Rosa Memorial (Continued on Page 6, Col. 4) "Now suddenly what was clear is to be changed." Rauh argued.

"All of a sudden, after it was over, a challenge was filed." The committee created an explosive controversy last week by voting to apportion the 271- member California delegation on the number of votes the candidates received and on that basis ruled in favor of 151 nonMcGovern challengers. Rauh, on behalf of McGovern's California supporters, filed suit asking that the action reversed. However, Hart commented during the court hearing: "It may not be cricket to change the rules, may even be dirty pool, but is it unconstitutional?" He also asked: "How far are the courts going to get into violations of party rules?" McGovern finished first in the June 6 primary. The committee decision could block a McGovern first ballot nomination at the convention, which starts in Miami Beach a week from today. New State Delegates SACRAMENTO (UPI) Almost 400 would-be California delegates prepared today for their trek to the Democratic National Convention next week while party leaders played a serious game of musical chairs to determine who finally will be seated on the convention floor.

New delegations were named during the weekend to represent Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace and Shirley Chisholm at the convention in keeping with a Credentials Committee ruling against California's winner-take-all primary system. Meantime, three California leaders in George McGovern's campaign said they would ask a federal judge to bar seating of delegates fo for losers in the June 6 primary. Newly renamed Humphrey delegates expressed confidence that they would overcome the court challenge, a floor fight and any other obstacles they might encounter in their quest for at least 104 of the 271 California convention seats. Eugene Wyman, Humphrey's top fund raiser in California, said Sunday that Humphrey' delegates "are not too concerned about it (the suit)." "It's awfully late for a judge to get involved in it," said Wyman, a Beverly Hills attorney. "Generally courts have been hesitant to interfere with the workings of the national committee.

And it's terribly late for a judge to get mixed up in it." He said if the judge rules in favor of McGovern, the decision would be appealed. And he noted there isn't much time left before the convention begins. Nevertheless, all of the original 271 McGovern delegates plan to travel to Miami although some delegates are complaining they don't have enough money to make the trip. At the same time, 104 delegates will be going to the convention for Humphrey, 21 for Wallace, 12 for Chisholm, six for Sen. Edmund Muskie and four for Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty.

Two delegates apiece will be representing Eugene McCarthy, Henry Jackson and John Lindsay. Meanwhile, State Democratic (Continued on Page 6, Col. 4) a When the Korean war began, of Kyong Ok Won was two years old and lived with her parents in the suburbs of the capitol city of of Seoul. During June of this year, Kyong Ok graduated from Santa Rosa's Ursuline High School, ap- was enrolled at Santa Rosa Junior College, and, by a special act of Congress, became "the alien daughter" of at Mr. and Mrs.

Andrew L. Goodwin of 2995 Arden way, and a permanent resident of the UnitHorned States. 60 The road from Seoul to Santa Rosa was both long and arduous. It began when Kyong Ok's father, a Major in the goodwin, a Colonel in the Army early in the Korean wife and infant daughter he his his old friend only to lern that Major Won had been killed in 1951 while trying to rescue Colonel Goodwin from Chinese cap-1961 tivity. As happens so often after a war, Colonel Goodwin then tried to locate Major Won's family the wife and infant daughter he KYONG OK GOODWIN Can Stay In SR KYONG OK GOODWIN had known.

But, once again his search led to tragedy. Mrs. Won, he learned, had died in and young Kyong Ok was leading the difficult life of a war orphan in Korea. When the colonel returned home, he and Mrs. Goodwin decided they had a moral obliga- Stephen Reinhardt, Democratic national committeeman from California and a cochairman of the state delegation, said McGovern approved the legal move.

"He told us 1 he thinks we are doing the right Reinhardt said. In Los Angeles, California delegates for Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, who were selected after the Credentials Committee decision, said they were not concerned about the court suit (Continued on Page 6, Col. 7) Man, 36, Slain At River GUERNEVILLE A 32- year-old Ca a de man was jailed as a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Healdsburg man outside the Surrey Inn late yesterday afternoon.

John David Carroll, 15503 Old Cazadero a fireman, was booked on suspicion of murder. The sheriff's office identified the victim as Stanley Laverne Daveiro, 36, of 1790 Chiquita rd. The District Chief Deputy District Attorney Ronald Fahey said the shooting, reportedly witnessed by several persons is still under investigation. He said it occurred between 5 and 6 p.m. in the resort's parking lot.

Mr. Carroll was arrested in a washroom at the resort. Sonoma County Coroner Andrew Johansen said Mr. Daveiro died of a bullet wound in the throat after what was described as a scuffle over the gun. Witnesses seem to disagree over whether two or three shots were fired, he said.

Mr. Johansen said it was un(Continued on Page 6, Col. 4) March 30, 1908. He married his second wife, Ehel Georgina Reynolds, on Nov. 2, 1908, and she died Aug.

26, 1937. His hird wife, Jesse Evans, whom he married April 12, 1938 died Aug. 3, 1971. She had been a former operaic conralo and concer singer wih he Sal Lake Tabernacle Choir. Two daughers were born Smih's firs wife, and his second wife bore him five sons and four daughers.

Smih was a srong. promoer of church-relaed spors and was ineresed in flying. He was an honorary general in he Uah Naional Guard. Smih lef more han 140 children, grandchildren and grea-grandchildren. If normal church procedure is followed, his successor will be Harold B.

Lee, a member along wih Smih and N. Eldon Tanner, of he Firs Presidency, he execuive group ha runs he church. WASHINGTON (UP I) Martha Mitchell rejoices that her husband has gotten out of full-time politics, but she still Mr. Mitchell made another call to this reporter Sunday and gave her reaction to the announcement of her husband, John N. Mitchell, Saturday that The was leaving his job as chairman of the committee to re-elect President Nixon.

"Sure, that's what I wanted." she said when asked how viewed the resignation. But she spoke in a low voice, did not talk long, and hung up the telephone abruptly. "I'm still a political ner," she said. "I can't talk long. I am calling surreptitiously" She said she was at the Watergate Apartments, where the Mitchells maintain their Washington home.

She wondered during the course of the conversation why no one had asked a question about her at Nixon's news conference Thursday Mitchell the former attorney general said when he anounced his resignation that he hoped to spend more time with his wife and their daughter He will continue to work as a parttime adviser to the President's idence back to Rye NY a Westchester County suburb of New York City Mrs Mitchell made public her unhappiness with her husband's political role in a telephone call to UPI on Jue 22 from Newport Beach Calif She said she had given Mitchell an "ultimatum" to get out of politics or she would leave him During the conversation she said "you just get away" and the call was abruptly broken off (Continued on Page 6, Col. 6) SR tion to young Kyong Ok and that obligation could best be fulfilled by adopting the yoong girl and bringing her America. C- lonel Goodwin wrote Congressman Don Clausen and said: "We want her here so that she might have the same chance for a good life that her father unhesitatingly gave me 18 years ago." Because Kyong Ok was over 14 at the time adoption, immigration law prohibited automatic naturalization as an American citizen. Nevertheless, in January, 1970, Kyong Ok was granted a visitor's visa for a three-month stay with her newly adopted parents. At the end of the threemonths, an extension was granted while the Redwood Empire Congressman looked into their case.

Special legislation dealing with immigration quotas and the status of aliens is very rigid and requires not only considerable time but overwhelming justification. After meeting and talking (Continued on Page 6, Col. 4) ASTROGUIDE BRIDGE 7 CARMICHAEL CLASSIFIED COMICS 12 CROSSWORD EDITORIAL PAGE 4 OBITUARIES 6 SPORTS TV PAGE VITAL STATISTICS 6 115TH YEAR-NO. 218 1.

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