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Weather Outlook More Rain Possible (Details on page 10) FREEPORTJOURNAL-STANDARD 125th Year, 20 pages Freeport, Illinois, Thursday, July 13, 1972 10 McGovern Wins Nomination Ted Declines No. 2 Spot inois Casts Deciding Votes MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Ironically, it was Illinois, the state whose bitter credentials conflict posed a threat to the nomination of George McGovern that gave the South Dakota senator the votes he needed for a first- ballot victory at the Democratic National Convention. The Illinois delegation's permanent chairman passed the first roll-call vote Wednesday night but the second time around state Rep. Clyde Choate of Anna was ready.

So was the rest of the delegation. Gary Hart, a top McGovern strategist, had signaled that Illinois could put McGovern over the top. The Illinois people were shouting and standing on chairs, leading all the cheers of McGovern supporters that were ringing through Miami Beach's Convention Hall. Choate went through all the lesser votes leading up to the climactic moment. He announced that Illinois, "a state united," cast 119 ballots for McGovern.

The South Dakota senator needed only 25 to reach the magic 1,509 figure and Choate's call set off the tumult and shouting. Choate's moment in the limelight wouldn't have happened if the Tuesday morning credentials fight had been lost by McGovern's forces. It was there that Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, preparing to serve for the fifth time as chairman of the Illinois delegation, was ousted from the convention. Of the 59 Chicago delegates who replaced Daley and his 58 uncommitted party regulars, 50 gave their votes to McGovern.

William S. Singer, the Chicago alderman who led the challenge to Daley, was hoarse with yelping at McGovern's triumph. He predicted "Daley will work for the ticket. McGovern will win Illinois. He will win Chicago." Choate was asked if Illinois would have gone for McGovern with Daley still leading the delegation.

"There's no need to second guess. Mayor Daley is one of the most renowned political leaders in the country and he will rally the Democratic party." Choate said McGovern's asset to the state ticket in Illinois will be that he can "unite the young people." James Wall of Elmhurst, chairman of the downstate McGovern delegates, said he saw no irony in Illinois nominating McGovern. "All I see is unity and enthusiasm. It's wonderful," Wall said, still holding the clipboard that charted the votes of the Illinois delegation. Wall was congratulated by telephone by a McGovern aide and he recalled the chilly March 21 primary when McGovern won only 13 delegate votes in Illinois.

"The main thing is that Clyde Choate used the words 'proud to announce Illinois casts 119 votes for Sen. Wall said. "We are a unified party." After McGovern on the first roll call, Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington received 30 votes; 6 went to Sen.

Edmund S. Muskie; to Rep. Shirley Chisholm, 3 each went to Rep. Wilbur Mills, and Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy, 2 each went to former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy and former North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford, while vote went to Gov. George C.

Wallace of Alabama. The Kennedy, McCarthy and Chis- holm'votes came from the Chicago delegations and Lillian Singer of the 23rd District cast the partial ballot for Wallace. The Muskie delegates, which once numbered 62 in the Illinois delegation, split for McGovern and Jackson. Most of the Muskie supporters from Chicago suburbs went to McGovern while downstaters strayed toward Jackson. So did several at-large and uncommitted downstate delegates.

The last major internal business for the Illinois group, electing a new national committeeman and committee woman, is scheduled at today's caucus. Choate, who says "I don't anticipate it," is expected to be one of the favored candidates of both downstaters and remnants of the Daley loyalists in the delegation. State Sen. Daniel Pierce of Highland Park and Frank Cicero of Evanston, both elected as Muskie delegates, also are bidding for the post. Singer, may get the nomination from his group and Wall says the McGovern caucus is considering 15 to 18 names.

The Illinois women scheduled a caucus prior to the full delegate caucus to select nominees for committeewoman. The Democratic Nominee And His Wife Movie Cameras Bother Fischer; Plans Boycott Of Chess Tourney REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -Bobby Fischer informed the organizers of the world chess championships today, that he is boycotting further play unless three hidden movie cameras are removed from the hall. A call was made to the organizers at 10 minutes before the scheduled start of Fischer's second game with Boris Spassky of Russia. It said Fischer wasn't coming. Lothar Schmid, the chief referee, said Spassky would have to sit at the chess table by himself for one hour.

Then the game would be forfeited by Fischer. At what point Fischer would be disqualified from the championship series would have to be decided by the International Chess Federation-FIDE, Schmid said. Fischer staged a 30-minute walkout shortly after the play began Wednesday, complaining that a movie camera 150 feet away was making him nervous. The camera was hardly visible in the dimness outside the lighted players' circle, and it could not be heard by Fischer, but aides said the knowledge of its presence unnerved him. A member of Fischer's camp said the "legal aspects are being studied." Richard Stein, a lawyer for the promoter who bought the TV and film rights, Chester Fox, said he was up all night with Fischer's second, the Rev.

William Lombardy, and Fred Cramer of the U.S. Chess Federation. Stein said that at one point Fischer walked in on the meeting, listened for a few minutes and then in a few sentences indicated he was adamant about expelling the cameras. Then he went to bed. In agreement with Lombardy and Cramer, Stein wrote Fischer a letter at 5 o'clock this morning appealing to the challenger to accept the presence of the cameras and go on playing.

"I hope the letter will move him." Stein said. Schmid said he was prepared to in- voke two rules of the match against Fischer. Rule 17 prohibits in the name of "the highest principles of sportsmanship" that either player "distract or annoy his opponent." Rule 21 allows the taking of pictures during the match by official photographers as long as the cameras are "neither visible nor audible." The camera Fischer objected to was officially sanctioned. (Earlier story on the first chess match appears on page 15.) MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Sen.

George McGovern, climaxing his dramatic rise from political obscurity by winning the first-ballot nomination of a divided Democratic party, was considering a broadening list of vice-presidential possibilities today after Sen. Edward M. Kennedy rejected his bid. Soon after the votes of Illinois sent McGovern's total soaring past the magic 1,509 mark in the jammed, brightly lit convention hall, and even before the official result had been announced, Kennedy phoned McGovern from Hyannis Port, to offer congratulations. During their 15-minute talk, McGovern offered Kennedy the No.

2 spot for the race against President Nixon. Kennedy rejected it "for very real personal reasons," according to McGovern spokesman Richard Dougherty. Earlier in the evening, Florida Gov. Reubin Askew, another prime prospect, told McGovern through aides he didn't want to be considered, McGovern aides said the nominee would make no announcement about a running mate before midday. One close adviser said he felt the list of those under consideration was expanding as the victorious nominee sought the counsel of Sens.

Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie, his defeated rivals whose withdrawal from contention a day earlier had signaled Wednesday night's triumph. Those being mentioned include five senators Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, Abraham A.

Ribicoff of Connecticut, Philip A. Hart of Michigan, Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, and Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota; two governors, Ohio's John J. Gilligan and Wisconsin's Patrick Lucey, and labor leader Leonard Woodcock. Within minutes after clinching the nomination, McGovern received congratulations and promise of support from all the candidates he had conquered, except Alabama Gov.

George C. Wallace. But labor leaders in particular remained bitterly opposed to the senator, as did many delegates. One sign in the hall read: "McGovern Will Bomb-in November." Earlier in the evening, as the Democratic National Convention proceeded through its rites of nomination, McGovern left his penthouse suite at a hotel up the beach to tell antiwar demonstrators he stood by his pledge for total U.S. withdrawal from Indochina.

"I'm not shifting my position on any of the fundamental stands I've taken," Peace Talks Resume; Little Is Changed One Hijacker Surrenders; Two Others Hold Plane By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two armed hijackers who received a cash ransom and an escape plane flew to a small Texas airport from Philadelphia today. Two injured crewmen, one shot and the other badly beaten, left the jet as it was surrounded by authorities. The hijacking of the National Airlines 727 jet was one of two that began Wednesday night. The other hijacking was against American Airlines for a ransom of $550,000 but the lone hijacker gave up at Oklahoma City in the early morning. The shotgun-wielding hijackers of the plane in Texas took four National Airlines stewardesses, a pilot and a flight engineer from Philadelphia.

They demanded $600,000 ransom but officials would not say how much was paid. The National Boeing 727 landed at Brazoria County Airport, near Lake Jackson about 50 miles south of Houston, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The pilot and flight engineer were taken to a local hospital, the latter with a gunshot wound in his side. It was not known immediately how he was wounded or how the two crewmen were gotten off the plane. The hijackers, who in addition to sawed-off shotguns had a box thev said contained a bomb, remained on board with three stewardesses.

The fourth stewardess escaped, the FA A said, in a manner not known. The plane's tires blew on landing, authorities said. Earlier police reported the tires were shot out. An FBI spokesman at the scene said negotiations continued with the hijackers. Asked if this meant the FBI would bring in new tires and jet fuel, the spokesman said, "If that's necessary, we'll do that." The FBI agent, referring to the shortness of the runway, which is about 5,000 feet, said, "I'm no pilot but I've talked to several and they've said they wouldn't like to take it off." The pilot, identified as Norman W.

Reagan had suffered a fractured pelvis, broken wrists and face bruises. The engineer was identified as Gerald Beaver. In the American Airlines hijack of a Dallas-bound jet, the lone gunman apparently abandoned a plan to try to escape by parachute and instead surrendered meekly to a stewardess. He left behind the ransom package, which actually contained less than half what he demanded, and the gun turned out to have been empty. The two hijackers of the National plane out of Philadelphia released 111 passengers who endured nine hours of suffocating heat as the aircraft sat on a runway in Philadelphia International Airport while FBI agents haggled with the gunmen over details of delivering the ransom money and freeing the passengers.

"A couple of people fainted," said one passenger, Tom Herring of St. Louis. "I didn't think it was necessary to go through all the shennanigans with the heat the way it was." The gunman in the second hijacking, identified by the FBI as Melvin Martin Fisher, 49, of Norman, the father of five children, released the 51 passengers aboard an American Airlines Boeing 727 after getting the ransom at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport early this morning. Fisher had boarded the Dallas-bound flight there and took over the aircraft about a half-hour after it was in the air, ordering it to return to the airport. He demanded the money in $100 bills and a parachute, released the passengers and then ordered the plane to take off again.

Crew members said Fisher ordered the pilot to several sites in Oklahoma City while apparently pondering a parachute escape, but finally decided iumoing and surrendered. PARIS (AP) The Vietnam peace talks resumed today after 10 weeks but the positions of both sides appeared unchanged. U.S. Ambassador William J. Porter put before the conference the four- point package President Nixon proposed on May 8.

The Viet Cong's chief delegate, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, told newsmen she was ready to negotiate on the basis of the seven-point proposal she made a year ago. Hanoi's chief delegate, Xuan Thuy, called on the United States to end its bombardment of North Vietnam "if it really desires to negotiate" an end to the war. The apparent lack of change was no great surprise. Any progress toward agreement is expected to come in secret sessions.

Politburo member Le Due Tho is due back from Hanoi in the next few days, and this could mean more behind-the-scenes sessions with presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger or other U.S. officials. Porter told the Communists that he felt it possible to find a parallel to other peaceful developments in the world since the last session. He referred to the peace moves between the two Koreas and the two Germanys and the agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to settle differences by peaceful means.

He did not mention U.S. relations with Communist China. Tho was in Peking Wednesday and held a "very friendly and cordial" conversation with Premier Chou En-lai, Radio Peking reported. The long series of secret talks between Kissinger and Tho have covered a broad range of issues but have not produced any significant change in the conflicting negotiating positions. Washington has always preferred private talks, contending that the Communists used the weekly semi-public sessions only as propaganda platforms.

But North Vietnam in the past has refused to participate in secret talks unless the regular weekly sessions were also being held. Dobryn in, Nixon Hold Meeting In California SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, an overnight guest at a private home near the Western White House, prepared to return to Washington today after meeting with President Nixon. The chief executive, the ambassador and Henry A. Kissinger, Nixon's foreign policy adviser, met for about an hour and a half Wednesday in the presidential office.

"The discussion involved a general review of U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations during the post-summit period," the White House said. "It covered a number of International and bilateral topics." While acknowledging that the quest for a Vietnam peace doubtless was discussed, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said that topic did not prompt the meeting. President Nixon watched a portion of the televised Democratic convention which nominated Sen.

George McGovern for president but "didn't follow it all," Ziegler said. Ziegler said Nixon had no immediate comment on the South Dakota senator's nomination nor was he expected to be in contact with him. said McGovern, ringed by security agents as he faced the noisy, shoving demonstrators who had occupied the lobby six hours earlier. After two straight all-night sessions, the climactic round of nominating speeches proceeded swiftly, with little semblance of the old-time hoopla and floor demonstrations. At last the roll call was reached and, as the clock struck midnight, McGovern's nomination was assured.

Bedlam burst through the vast hall as supporters celebrated the victory of the man whose youthful legions had humbled the party's mighty. Forty-five minutes later, when Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien announced the final totals, the hall again went wild. Jubilant McGovern workers, their long quest against what seemed overwhelming odds crowned at last with success, kissed and hugged one another. A third roar went up five minutes later as O'Brien declared McGovern the party's nominee and designated a committee to inform him of his designation.

The committee is headed by Ribicoff, who nominated McGovern in a losing quest four years ago and again Wednesday night as "a candidate tuned to the challenges of the future." When the roll of states was concluded, McGovern had 1,728.35 votes 219 more than he needed. After many votes had been changed, he wound up with 1,864.95. Behind him, in order, came Sen. Henry M. Jackson, who inherited much of Humphrey's labor support, with 486.65; Wallace 377.50; Rep.

Shirley Chisholm 101.45; former Gov. Terry Sanford of North Carolina 69.5; Humphrey 35; Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas 32.8; Muskie 20.8; Kennedy 10.65; Rep. Wayne L.

Hays of Ohio former Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota and Sen. Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota 1.

As he sat in his hotel suite, surrounded by family, friends and aides, the victorious McGovern took phone calls from Kennedy, Humphrey and Muskie. Jackson sent a telegram pledging support. Mrs. Chisholm, the first black woman ever nominated for president, took the rostrum to pledge a coast-to-coast campaign to oust President Nixon. Wallace, whose supporters sat silently while the McGovern backers whooped it up in the hall, remained in seclusion at his hotel.

Earlier in the day, his campaign manager, Charles Snider, said chances of a repeat of the governor's 1968 third- party race for president were growing "stronger and stronger every minute." But Dolph Briscoe of the Texas delegation said Wallace had told him there would be no third-party movement In 1972. Although his rivals were falling into line, one major holdout was the barons of organized labor who fought McGovern's drive for the nomination to the bitter end. I. W. Abel, president of the United Steel Workers union, seconded Jackson's nomination by denouncing McGovern's labor record and warning of the risk in a McGovern nomination.

Ribicoff declared, however, that McGovern "will lead the Democratic party to a great victory" in November and added: "If I were a candidate for public office this year, I would want the enthusiastic legions of McGovern workers ringing doorbells for me, too." And those legions were on hand for the night of triumph. In the senator's hotel, about 250 volunteers erupted in a loud cheer as the senator's total went over the top. They chanted, "Beat Nixon! Beat Nixon!" In a box to the right of the rostrum, Mrs. McGovern beamed, kissed her daughter and said, "It's unbelievable." (Additional convention stories appear on pages 8, 15. Journal-Standard coverage Is on page 4.) In Today's Paper Amusements Church news Classified 16, 17, 18 II Comics Editorials Local news.

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