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Senator Eagleton Selected as Running jungle and out of their celLs and MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern chose Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri to be his vice presidential partner, then keynoted his campaign against President Nixon Thursday night, vowing: American politics will never be the same anyone in this hall or beyond who doubts the ability of Democrats to join together in common cause, I say never underestimate the power of Richard Nixon to bring harmony to Democratic McGovern said in his prepared speech mally accepting the nomination. He said his was the most remarkable political organization in American history, his nomination gift of the most open political process in our national "This is a nomination of the people, and I hereby dedicate this campaign to the said the nominee from South Dakota, last political nobody.

next January we will restore the government to the people. American politics will never be the same Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, to whom McGovern first offered the vice presidential nomination, was flying to Miami to present McGovern to the Democratic National Convention in a show of party solidarity. Eagleton said he was flabbergasted when McGovern phoned to offer him the vice presidency.

The only real business left for the convention was to ratify nomination and hail in person the nominee whose name was newly emblazoned in two-foot-high orange letters on a sign behind the platform. In his acceptance speech, McGovern spoke of the issue on which his long-shot presidential candidacy was founded: the Vietnam war. a democratic nation, no one likes to say that his inspiration came from secret arrangements behind closed McGovern said. in a sense, however, that is how my candidacy began. I am here as your candidate tonight in large part because during four administrations of both parties, a terrible war has been charted behind closed doors.

want those doors he said, I want that war closed. And I make these pledges above the doors of government will be opened and that brutal war will be In an acid reminder of the Republican campaign that put President Nixon in the White House. McGovern told the convention: have no secret plan for peace. I have a public He then recited the pledges he made on primary election campaign platforms in the rare that vaulted him out of the field to Democratic command. 90 days of my inauguration, every' American soldier and every Amencan prisoner will be out of the back home in America where they he said.

McGovern also pledged military strength, in a rebuttal to critics who have charged that his plans for defense spending cuts would weaken the nation. give you my sacrcd pledge that if I become president of the United States, America will keep its defenses alert and fully sufficient to meet any the nominee said. will do that not only for ourselves but for those who deserve and need the shield of our He offered that pledge to U.S. Mate allies in Europe and elsewhere, and specifically to people of Isreal, who will always have our help to hold their promised And that line clearly was designed to put down campaign criticism that McGovern had wavered in his commitment to U.S. support of Israel.

At home, he said. It is time for justice and jobs for 4 The highest domestic priority of my administration will be to insure that every able to work has a job to McGovern said. (Continued on Eight) Vol. 41, No. 245 All Departments Classified 323-3000 323-7000 Pottstown, Pa.

(19464) Friday Morning, July 14, 1972 48 Pages 15f A COPY A WEEK Donations Continue To Increase Fund Flood victims jammed The Mercury office again Thursday applying to the Pottstown Area Flood Relief Fund for aid and for the second consecutive day, all requests for help could be filled. Volunteers said 110 people received aid Thursday and $4.083 was donated to the fund, bringing the total of donations to $62,308. Earlier this week more than 150 people had to be turned away by the fund committee because no more money was available. But since the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Pottstown plant and Firestone Plastics Co.

made their $20,000 contribution Tuesday, all legitimate applicants have been helped by the committee. fund is going very nicely commented Ellis Rietzel, fund chairman and publisher of The Mercury. long as the money keeps coming the way it is, be able to keep distributing it to the people who need The money is given out in the form of vouchers to be used toward the cost of furniture, major appliances and to help with repairing structural damage that occurred in the flood. Flood victims can qualify for help by coming to The Mercury office, Hanover and King streets, and bringing some form of legal identification such as a drivers license or a tax receipt that shows their address. Volunteers are stationed in the office from 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. to screen applicants and write Fischer Forfeits 2nd Game REYKJAVIK. Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer forfeited chess game with world champion Boris Spassky. He stayed in his hotel room, sulking because of movie cameras in the playing hall. His balk for the second in a 24-game schedule left the score 2 to 0 in the favor.

This gave Spassky a powerful psychological advantage over Fischer, who has never beaten the champion. Fischer knew before he came to Iceland to play for the world title that the match would be filmed. And Chester Fox, the promoter who owns the three cameras, said they were out of sight and hearing. said just knowing they were there bothered Fox said, adding later: pity the poor All attempts to get Fischer to the chess he lost the first game to Spassky on futile. The temperamental American chess whizz even turned down an appeal based on his responsibilities as a hero of the The future of the match, said chief referee Lothar Schmid, now depends on whether Fischer persists in his walkout.

out vouchers. Families who need transportation to apply for assistance can call the Chamber of Commerce at 326-2900. The will go to a home, pick up the information necessary for a voucher and bring it to the Mercury, according to Ron Comtois, coordinator of the project. Donations of cash or checks can be brought to The Mercury office or mailed to the Pottstown Area Flood Relief Fund, Box 361, Pottstown, Pa. 19464.

Rietzel said donations still are coming from surrounding communities and other states as well as from people in Pottstown. A major contributor Thursday was the Central Valley Foundation. Received by the fund Thursday: Mr. and Mrs. Earl Shafer, 211 Royersford Road, Royersford, 20 Anonymous, $50.

Mrs. Thesia Groth, Douglassville RD 2, $20. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S.

Homan, $25. Anonymous, $25. Mr. and Mrs. Paul A.

Haring, $50. Melvin Sell, $10. Anonymous, $10. Sara E. Diemer, 158 S.

Pleasantview Road, Lower Pottsgrove, $15. Refrigeration, 345 Morgan Phoenixvilie, $25. Mary E. Holden, 908 N. Warren $25.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dell, 600 Walnut Royersford, $10. Anonymous, $10. Camillo R.

Dinnocenti 413 Walnut Royersford, $10. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Painter, Pottstown RD 1, $25. Bucktown 4-H Club, $5.

Anonymous, $100. Robert W. Deisher, Arch and Wall streets, Spring City, $15. Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Schwenksville, $168.53. John Pfrommer, $200.

Anonymous, $10. Mr. and Mrs. John Montz, $25. Anonymous, $25.

Rita Smith, 119 Fourth East Greenville, $100. William M. Heister, 1222 Monroe Wyomissing, $300. Liny and Marie Giles, 134 N. Reading Boyertown, $25.

(Continued on Page Five) Harwood to Attend White House Briefing Thomas Harwood, assistant borough manager, will attend a briefing at the White House in Washington today, concerning relief for flood victims. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and Frank Carlucci, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, will give the briefing. The borough originally wasn't invited to attend the meeting, but through the efforts of Mayor Brower Yerger, an invitation was arranged. Yerger felt that because of the immensity of the damage in the area, Pottstown should be represented at the briefing.

Armed Hijackers Surrender mm Passengers Shaken by yfiilml Odeal 3 Hostage Stewardesses Are Released By The Associated Press Two armed hijackers forced a National Airlines jet to fly from Philadelphia to a little, out-of-the-way Texas airport Thursday after releasing its 113 passengers. The airliner was disabled in landing and the pair later freed three hostage stewardesses and surrendered. It was one of two widely separated skyjackings that began almost simultaneously along the air lanes Wednesday night. Both ended with the sky pirates giving up. and with no loss of life.

Two male crewmen on the National plane were injured by the hijackers, however. Prior to their surrender, the National hijack team sought to make a deal with the hostages and a small fortune in ransom money in exchange for a private getaway plane piloted by an agent. The airport at Lake Jackson, was to small to safely handle a replacement aircraft the size of their tri-motored 727. A black FBI agent was flown in from Baltimore to aid in the negotiations as the two Negro hijackers kept altering their demands. Also brought in was a Dallas psychiatrist, an expert on the thought processes of aerial hijackers.

Earlier, a man in a pink shirt with an empty pistol lost his nerve after commandeering an American Airlines New York- to-San Diego jet on an Oklahoma City to Dallas leg. He surrendered himself and $200,000 in ransom and was held in $100,000 bail after a tearful court appearance in Oklahoma City. Between them, the hijackers demanded $1 million in ransom they settled for less than that. Both planes involved were Boeing 727s, with a rear exit from which it is possible to parachute in relative safety. Before their release, 164 passengers in the two planes were at the mercy of the three gunmen.

In both cases, passengers complained of lax security that enabled the skyjackers to walk aboard with their weapons. One reportedly concealed a sawed- off shotgun in a cast and sling on his arm. Another apparently (Continued on Page Eight) The Weather Partly cloudy, warm and humid today and Saturday with a chance of a few showers during the late afternoon and evening hours. Highs both days in the mid to upper 80s. SHORE FORECAST Partly cloudy, warm and humid today and Saturday with highs both days near 80.

Precipitation probability 30 per cent today and tonight, 20 per cent Saturday. CRASH The splintered remains of an alpine cable car lie at the ground station at Betten, Switzerland, Thursday after smashing into the concrete walls when the pulling cable snapped on the way up to the peak of the Bettmeralp, background, a ite sightseeing point in the Alps. Thirteen persons were killed as the emergency brakes apparently failed and the cable car began to roll down to the ground station. (AP Wire- photo). PHILADELPHIA (AP) Passengers aboard the National Airlines 727 hijacked Wednesday night made their wav to their original destinations Thursday, a little shaken and tired by the all-night ordeal.

was an incredible way to start a said a 26- year old Charleston, S. C. schoolteacher before boarding a Philadelphia to Rome flight Thursday afternoon. The passengers were held captive in the airliner. Temperatures soared up 20 degrees from the time the plane was hijacked over New York City Wednesday night until they were released here early Thursday morning.

None of the passengers were injured but many fainted from the heat. Only the pilot, Capt. Elliott M. Adams, who jumped out of the cockpit of the aircraft not long after it landed was hospitalized. Adams was being held at St.

Medical and Hospital here Thursday in a room guarded by police. Hospital spokesmen said that Adams condition was satisfactory, but that he would be kept in the hospital indefinitely to guard against Adams dove out the cockpit window head first, landing on his feet and then falling forward on his face, witnesses said he injured his head and wrists. Hospital officials said Adams was in shock most of Thursday, but that he was responsing well to questions Thursday afternoon. Several passengers complained to newsmen after their release that the National departure gate here had no security devices to guard against a possible hijack. (Continued on Page Eight) Index British Soldier Killed by Sniper Editorials 4 Focus 6 TV Schedule 10 Feature Page 13 Society 14-17 Financial 18-19 Sports 21-24 Spring-Ford 24 Comics 25 Boyertown 26 Classified 27-31 Deaths Jack Aston, Gilbertsville RD Albert H.

Longaker, Kenhorst; Howard H. Seivard, Birdsboro RD Wallace Boyer, Phoenixvilie; Mrs. Kate M. Salbert, 57 Walnut Lawrence E. Myers, Pennsburg and Mrs.

Eleanor R. DeBlase, Hanover Gardens Apts. Obituaries on Pages 2 and 8 BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) A British soldier was killed by a sniper in Belfast Thursday as Britain denied making secret moves to restore the broken cease-fire, despite a 24-hour bloodbath which left 10 dead in the province. A single shot hit the trooper in the chest as he stepped from a military observation post in the Ardoyne district of the city where the Irish Republican deeply entrenched. He was the fourth soldier to die in nearly 200 shooting incidents which also killed six civilians.

The violence surrounding mass parades Wednesday by Protestants celebrating a 1690 military victory over Roman Catholics made it one of the bloodiest days in the three years of communal strife. Eleven British soldiers were wounded in sniper attacks that continued until dawn Thursday. At least 427 persons have lost their lives in the protracted sectarian fighting. Rumors of clandestine meetings between the British and leaders of the Irish Republican Army have been rife since the IRA chief in Belfast, Seamus Twomey, called for a new truce Wednesday. Twomey said his forces might consider renewing the cease-fire they ended Sunday after 13 days if British troops stick to truce terms barring them from arresting IRA men.

NO TRUTH British government spokesmen here and in London said there was no truth to reports of new secret contacts with the i ts. Britain's servative government has been criticized for sending representatives to meet secretly with the IRA leaders last week. But William Whitelaw, administrator for this unruly province, defended the meeting as a chance for peace that had to be tried. The British Cabinet met on the Irish situation but departed from practice by skipping weekly report to Parliament. They were believed to be considering a new suggestion by Jack Lynch prime minister of the predominantly Catholic Irish republic to the south.

Lynch told his Parliament in Dublin a broader based system of regional government should bo established in the Protestant dominated north. Pottstown Mercury Paris Peace Talks Reopen, Old Positions are Held KEEP TITLE Schmid said the International Chess Federation could intervene and disqualify the American challenger, allowing Russia to l.eep the world title it has held for 24 years. But at the end of the day, Schmid said there would be a game on Sunday as scheduled. The row over the cameras began early Thursday when Fischer said he play alongside them in the Sports Palace. Fox, whose purchase of television and film rights for the match allowed the Icelandic chess federation to offer a record $125.000 in (Continued on Page Eight) PARIS (AP) The Vietnam peace conference reopened Thursday after a 10-week break, with both the Communists and allies clinging to old positions.

But the U.S. delegation spokesman termed the session businesslike. And the negotiators agreed to hold a new meeting next Thursday. This reinforced speculation that a new round of secret and possibly more fruitful talks may be pending. Politburo member Le Due Tho of North Vietnam, who has held a series of secret meetings in the past with Henry A.

Kissinger, left Peking on Thursday en route to Paris. North Vietnamese Ambassador Xuan Thuy laid new stress on a linkup of a military and political solution to the slightly rephrasing the old Communist demands without fundamentally changing them. He insisted that the United States end support for the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu to permit establishment of a coalition government to be followed by a cease-fire. The U.S. delegate, William J.

Porter, reiterated the allied position that a cease-fire should be put into effect first and that then issues can be discussed by he Vietnamese among am sure, I hope, we will be discussing this matter he added. Porter would make no further comment on the meeting, telling reporters without elaboration: "We will have to have another look at the Picking up after their longest suspension, the talks produced no visible movement toward peace. Instead there were the familiar polemics that have marked the conference during its years. There was no evidence to support a July 8 statement by Kissinger, President curity adviser, that he had some reason to believe Hanoi would take a when the talks resumed. If there was a relatively new approach, it came in the unusually mild tones of a speech by the frequently tough talking Porter.

Porter invited the attention of the Communist delegates to May 8 proposals for an Indochr-1 cease-fire, return of all American prisoners and complete withdrawal from nam within four months of an agreement on the package deal. Xuan Thuy and the Viet Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, poured scorn on plan and reiterated that the Communists' peace plan constitutes basis for a correct, just, logical and reasonable solution to the Vietnam The Communist plan calls on the United States to set a for total troop withdrawal.