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Weather Outlook Predict More Rain (Details on page 10) FREEPORT JOURNAL-STANDARD 125th Year, 28 Pages Freeport, Illinois, Friday, July 14, 1972 10 Cents Illinoisans Hold Rowdy Caucus MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Three hours after the final session of the Democratic National Convention cheered in unity for their ticket, a rowdy caucus of the Illinois delegation adjourned in bitterness, dissension and tears. The argument between the several factions of the 170-member delegation centered on electing six new national committeemen. It began at 4 a.m. CDT with members of the New Chicago Delegation passing out slips of paper bearing their slates.

Backed by suburban delegates, the new delegation, which won the seats of Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 other party regulars, was able to get a quorum of 108. Downstate delegates and the few Daley regulars remaining stood outside the caucus room trying to prevent the quorum. After that tactic failed, they rejoined the other delegates who jeered their arrival. State Rep.

Clyde Choate of Anna, the permanent chairman, ruled it would take 87 votes to elect the committeemen. Alderman William Cousins of Chicago appealed the ruling and warned, "If the chair is going to be fair then by the hair of my chin-chin-chin we'll get a new chairman." Choate shouted back, "I've been fair and you know it." Shirley Sudow, a delegate from Peoria, shouted, "We got rid of one machine and we got another machine." She referred to the New Chicago dele- Connally May Get 'New Job' SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally has arrived in Southern California for a conference today with President Nixon. Connally, until recently the only Democrat in Nixon's Cabinet, just completed a 35-day, 15-nation trip around the world for the President, who has promised the mission would be followed by an important new assignment for the silver-haired Texan.

Asked if the new assignment would be announced today, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said, "It has not been decided." There has been speculation for more than a year that, should Nixon decide to replace Vice President Spjro T. Agnew as his 1972 running mate, he might turn to Connally. The former Treasury chief has expressed disinterest in the job but has never said flatly he would not accept. Another globe-circling traveler, Secretary of State William P.

Rogers, will be at the Western White House on Saturday to report to Nixon on a 19-day journey to 10 countries. Ziegler reported that the President and Mrs. Nixon watched final Democratic convention proceedings on television Thursday night. However, the press secretary kept mum about Nixon's reaction to the nomination of Sen. George McGovern as his November opponent.

"We won't have a specific comment on the upcoming election and proceedings until after the Republican convention," Ziegler said. The GOP meeting begins Aug. 21 in the same Miami Beach convention center where Democrats have just met. Nixon did order Henry A. Kissinger, his national security affairs adviser, to arrange a meeting soon with McGovern to set up a series of intelligence briefings for the Democratic nominee.

Ziegler said McGovern would be kept "fully abreast" of Vietnam peace talks and, in response to a question, hinted the briefings also would deal with any secret negotiations that may be arranged in the weeks ahead. The President and Kissinger received a steady flow of written reports on resumed peace talks in Paris Thursday. In Today's Paper Page Amusements 14 Church news 9 Classified 16, 17 18 19 Comics 14 Editorials 6 Local news 4 10 Markets 10 Obituaries 10 Social news 5 Sports news 11 12 Television highlights 13 gates headed by Chicago Alderman William F. Singer. Anna Langford, delegation vice chairman, and a council colleague of Singer, said, "the chair is absolutely wrong." James Wall of Elmhurst, leader of the McGovern caucus, asked for an adjournment until Sept.

18, but that motion was defeated by three votes. Cousins' appeal of Choate's ruling was then carried by the Singer forces 84-73. A 23rd District delegate, Buddy Davis, representing organized labor, shouted angrily, "I've watched the kind of power plays here yesterday and this morning that I thought we got rid we just got another machine." The Singer delegation tried to shout him down and Mrs. Langford interrupted, "It took a machine to beat another machine. We beat you honestly.

Why can't you accept it?" She left the podium crying. Davis continued, "The Singer machine is passing out slates have the votes and if they want to run everything, I let them run it and let's walk out of here." Singer then said, "It is apparent that no rational attempt to unify this group can be successful." His motion to adjourn until Aug. 5 in Chicago was approved by a voice vote although down- staters wanted the meeting held in Springfield. Singer said he wanted to postpone the meeting earlier but agreed to do so only if a specific time and place were set for the next session. He said Choate refused to agree.

Wall, who lined up with Singer on most issues this week, said Singer refused to compromise on a slate that would include party regulars. Singer flatly denied this. He said he "believed in a fusion slate. There should be party regulars on the committee, probably three or four, maybe more. I never objected to that." Singer also said members of his group made up slates but he did not participate in that action.

One delegate quipped "Four more hours of this and I'll vote Republican." The Illinois vote for the vice- presidential nomination was hardly more unified than the caucus. There were 96 votes for Sen. Thomas Eagleton, 27 for Rep. Frances Farenthold, and the remainder were scattered among 15 persons. The Democratic Party's Standard Bearers Sen.

Thomas Eagleton And Sen. George McGovern McGovern Asks Unity For November Victory MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, vowing to lead a people's campaign, urged wildly cheering Democrats today to put behind "our fury and our frustrations" and unite to capture the White House from President Nixon. And the South Dakota senator appealed for help "from every Democrat and every Republican and independent who wants America to be the great and good land it can be." It was nearly 2 a.m. when the beaming McGovern, introduced by Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy and joined by vice presidential nominee Thomas F. Eagleton and defeated presidential rivals, stepped to the rostrum of a tumultuous, jammed Convention Hall to accept his party's nomination. The victorious nominee had only a few hours to rest up after his triumph appearances before a unity breakfast for the party's House and Sente Campaign committees and a Demo- British Abandon 'Low Profile Offensive Against IRA Guerrillas BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Gun battles raged through the night in Roman Catholic districts of Belfast and continued today after the British army abandoned its "low profile" and took the offensive against guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. Three soldiers and three civilians were reported killed, raising the confirmed death toll to 16 since Wednesday and to 432 in the three years of communal violence in Northern Ireland.

The army claimed to have hit more than 30 gunmen, but recovered no bodies because the guerrillas carry away their casualties. Shooting erupted in all of Belfast's major Catholic strongholds after three battalions of troops invaded the IRA "no go" district of Andersonstown to quell gunmen who had poured intensive fire at an army command post for four days. It was the first time the army had entered one of the districts taken over by the IRA. In the past such areas have been off limits to prevent a confrontation with the guerrillas holding sway there. Protestant militants have been demanding for months that the army go into the no go areas and clean out the IRA.

The invasion of Andersonstown will probably intensify the Protestants' demands that the army now go into the barricaded areas of Londonderry that are the most famous symbols of Catholic defiance, the Bogside and Greggan districts, or "Free Derry," as the IRA calls them. Army headquarters said about 700 men remained in control of Andersons- town early today but said it did not know how long they would stay there. The invasion of Andersonstown was ordered by Britain's administrator for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, Army headquarters said. It marked a reversal, at least temporarily, of Whitelaw's policy of reducing military activity in an effort to wean away the grass-roots Catholic support of the IRA. The retaliation began shortly before midnight.

A sandbagged Army fortification on Lenadoon Avenue had been under heavy IRA attack with guns and bombs for five hours. At one stage a rocket was fired at the post but the missile missed and hit a neighboring house. Chess Officials Consider Fischer's Camera Demand REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Chess officials today considered a demand from Bobby Fischer for a replay of the second game in the world chess championship match which he refused to play Thursday because movie cameras were present. The referee ruled that Fischer, by failing to appear because movie cameras would film the play, forfeited the game to Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky. The challenger's protest also demanded the removal of the cameras, which he claimed affected his concentration.

The protest was being considered by Gudmundur Arnlaugsson of the Icelandic Chess Federation, the assistant referee for the match; Fred Cramer of the U.S. Chess Federation; and Nikolai Krogius, one of Spassky's aides. A decision was promised this afternoon. Fischer stayed in his hotel room Thursday and refused to play unless three cameras filming the match for movie and television sales were removed from the hall. Since the American challenger lost the first game on Wednesday, referee Lothar Schmid's forfeit ruling gave Spassky a 2-0 lead.

Schmid said the third game of the 24- game match would be held on schedule Sunday, but the future of the match was very much in doubt. Schmid said it depends on whether Fischer continues his boycott. He added that the World Chess Federation FIDE could step in at any time and disqualify him. But Dr. Max Euwe, president of the organization, said Schmid was still in charge of the match and must decide how to handle the American.

A spokesman for promoter Chester Fox, who bought the movie and TV rights for the match from the Icelandic Chess Federation, said the cameras had to stay because "the whole financial structure of the match depends on it." It was the prospect of movie and TV sales that allowed the Icelanders to offer a record $125,000 purse to the two players, and Fischer and Spassky are also to divide a share of the movie-TV money estimated at a minimum of $55,000. Fox said Fischer admitted he couldn't hear or see the three cameras, but "he said they bothered him bo- cause he knew they were there." Fischer had objected first to the cameras Wednesday night and left the chess board in the sports palace for half an hour before conceding defeat in the first match. Intense negotiations through the rest of the night and all day Thursday failed to coax him from his hotel room. Spassky had arrived meanwhile at the sports palace and was scaled bo- hind the black figures before a crowd of about 1,000. The white pieces, and with them the first move, were Fischer's as the loser of the first game.

At 5 p.m., the scheduled starting, Schmid started the playing clock. When the hour time limit for the first move by Fischer passed, the referee declared a forfeit. Spassky was given a standing ovation as he left the hall. Jivo Nei, a Spassky assistant, called Fischer's refusal to appear "a grave insult not only to the Soviet people but to the whole world." cratic fund-raising group were scheduled before he returned to Washington later today. McGovern also had to decide on a chairman for the Democratic National Committee.

The committee, meeting for the first time under newly adopted organizational rules, held a session this morning taken up with procedural matters but adjourned for lunch without getting around to election of officers. McGovern had pressed Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien to stay on at the DNC, but O'Brien was reported reluctant and informed sources said if he resigned McGovern would ask Jean Westwood, the Utah National Committeewoman, to take the job. In the final moments of the convention that his supporters dominated all week, the triumph belonged to the onetime college professor from South Dakota. Waves of applause rocked the hall as Hubert H.

Humphrey, Edmund S. Mus- kie, Henry M. Jackson, Shirley Chisholm and Terry Sanford lifted high the hands of the 49-year-old nominee and his 42-year-old running mate from Missouri. Reviewing the way his campaign swept aside the established political leadership, McGovern said he would dedicate his White House campaign to the people, declared that next January he would restore government to their hands and added: "American politics will never be the same again." With some labor leaders still determined to sit out the campaign and other delegates grumbling about the ways in which his operatives dominated the convention, McGovern forecast the battle against Richard Nixon would bring the party "together in common cause" this fall. "He is the unwitting unifier and the fundamental issue of this national campaign," McGovern said, adding that "all of us together are going to help him redeem pledge he made 10 years ago: that next year you won't have Richard Nixon to kick around any more." delegates who supported the absent Gov.

George Wallace; joined the ovation when McGovern vowed to wage a national campaign and said, "We are not conceding a single stale to Richard Nixon." Earlier in the long evening, the convention ratified McGovern's choice of Kaglelon as the No. 'i man on the 1972 Democratic ticket. But it took a one-hour, 20-rninule roll call that saw votes cast for candidates ranging from television commentator Roger Mudd, to TV character Archie Bunker, to the senator's wife, Eleanor. Even Martha Mitchell, the wife of former GOP campaign manager John N. Mitchell, got a vote.

McGovern chose the handsome, arli- culale, first-term Missouri senalor, a border-state Catholic with strong ties to labor, from a field of a half-dozen senators, governors and mayors. He was Ihe senator's second choice: Kennedy rejected an offer of the vice presidency shortly after McGovern swept to first-ballot nomination Wednesday night. With reform rules that produced massive increases in the numbers of women, black and young delegates, it ratified a transition in party power from the big-city chieftains and leaders of labor, dominant for 40 years, to the forces of what Kennedy termed "a new wind rising over the land." Starting an hour late, the convention's final session fell steadily further behind as the delegates ratified an overhaul of the party's national committee in one lengthy roll-call vote, then fell into another over the vice presidency after seven rivals formally were nominated to oppose Eagleton. Amid the unprecedented splintering of ballots, it took until the next-to-Iast state, Texas, before the Missouri senator passed the 1,509 total that marked the needed majority. Then, after delegales sang "United We Stand, Divided We Fall" while waving their fingers aloft in the V- shaped peace symbol, Convention Vice Chairman Yvonne Braithwaitc Burke, a black Californian, brought Eagleton to the platform.

After acknowledging the cheers, he praised the delegates from Wallace's Alabama for their "gracious courtesy" in supporting the presidential nominee's right to choose a running mate, and vowed to carry "a new message of hope to the American people" in the campaign ahead. Then came Kennedy, last man of the family which has seen two other sons fall before assassins, declaring the party "has met the test of greatness" by nominating McGovern and Eagleton. The thunderous reception accorded Kennedy, who sat out the convenlion at his llyannis Port, home, rivaled that given McGovern, whose candidacy fell heir to much of the support of Kennedy's slain brother, Robert. Then, as the convention band blared Ihe slrains of "Happy Days are Here Again" and "When Ihe Saints Go Marching In," McGovern came forth, followed by the rivals who had earlier pledged to back his effort this fall. Chants of "Let's go, George" filled the hall as the Democratic ticket, beaming and waving, stood before the crowd.

Actress Jane Fonda Denounces Bombing On Radio Hanoi TOKYO (AP) Actress Jane Fonda has gone on Radio Hanoi and denounced the U.S. bombing of dikes in North Vietnam, the Vietnam News Agency reported today. The agency said the broadcast was directed to "all the U.S. servicemen involved" in raids against North Vietnam. Earlier, the agency reported that Miss Fonda had visited an area east of Hanoi where dikes had been damaged by U.S.

planes. Miss Fonda was quoted as saying "there are no military targets" in the area..