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WEATHER Fair to partly cloudy through Wednesday, with slight chance of afternoon and evening showers. IOgh today and Wednesday upper 80s, low tonight upper 60s. 84TH YEAR NO. US FINAL EDITION FOX ESWS IULLETINS DIAL PRICE 10c ALABAMA JOURNAI MONTGOMERY. ALABAMA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 11.

1972 16 PAGES Ml Around The World Governor Plans Appeal For Platform Match Starts, Fischer Late Some California Delegates A re Hoppy McGovern Leaders Willie Brown, Frank Mankiewici Elated By Convention Action; But One Objects Woman (Right) Is Angry After Losing Seat Withdr HHH, Muskie MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine bowed to the inevitable Tuesday and dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Muskie withdrew as front-runner George McGovern piled up enough votes to win the nominaion on the first ballot.

Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, another rival, abandoned the race earlier in the day. Muskie said he was quitting because it was now apparent that McGovern was going to be the nominee. Under these cir By RAY JENKINS Journal Editorial Editor MIAMI BEACH Like many of tha Alabama Democratic Convention delegates Richard Alexander had to visit his REYJAV1K, Iceland (AP) The world championship of chess got under way Tuesday without Bobby Fischer, the American challenger.

He showed up seven minutes after Russian titlehqlder Boris Spassky made the first move. It seemed another one of these psychological ploys that chess masters often use in an attempt to unsettle their opponent. Spassky was there on the dot of 5 p.m., waited minute, then calmly pushed his queen's Pawn forward two spaces. Referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany pushed the button on the time clock and the match had begun. Briton Bids To Prevent War BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) The British administrator for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, flew back to the province today in a bid to stave off possible civil war as Protestant and Roman Catholic gunmen fought in Belfast.

His arrival from London brought a temporary lull in widespread fighting that has raged in the province's capital since the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army called off its 13-day cease-fire Sunday night. Rival Protestant extremists and IRA gunmen in West Belfast traded fire in a spate of sniping exchanges. The British army reported 27 shooting incidents in 43 minutes during the morning but the violence subsided by dawn. No casualties were reported. The shooting followed one of the most violent 24-hour periods to ravage the city since sectarian fighting erupted in 1909.

Ex-Aide Blames Congressman WASHLNGTON (AP) The former top aide to Texas Rep. Jim Collins took the stand in his own defense today to say it was the congressman, not he, who arranged kickbacks and House payroll manipulation to pay off 1968 campaign bonuses. George A. Haag also said the Dallas millionaire Republican told him, after kickbacks were reported by syndicated columnist Jack Anderson in March 1070, "he was removing all records from the office for our mutual protection." The congressman, who had been called to testify Monday and then again today in U.S. District Court was put off by defense lawyers gain.

They said he still might be called late today. Collins has not been charged. Grenade Wounds 9 In Tel Aviv TEL AVIV (AP) A grenade explosion rocked Tel Aviv's central bus station today, wounding nine persons. Soldiers struggled to prevent angry bystanders from attacking Arabs in the area. The explosion occurred in a men's room and blew out a wall and window, showering the street with glass and masonry.

The blast site was 10 miles from the heavily armed army base where Japanese radical Kozo Okamoto is being tried for his part in the May 30 Lod Airport massacre. 14 Prisoners Escape KINGSTON, Ont. (AP) Fourteen prisoner through a double chain-link fence during a baseball game Monday and escaped from the Millhaven maximum security prison. Tracking dogs were being used in the hunt for them in dense bush north of the prison. Mel Willard, the assistant director of the prison, said several of the men could be considered dangerous.

Russia Ups 500th Satellite MOSCOW (AP) Tass announced today that the 500th satellite in the Soviet Union's unmanned Cosmos series was sent up Monday. The Cosmos satellites, which have been going up since 1962, are used for a wide variety of missions, including weather observation and spying. But the government says only that their purpose is exploration of outer space or scientific observation. O'Brien Said Ready To Quit MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Sen.

Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut says Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien has had enough "and would like to get out when this is over." "He's in a tough job, a position where he can't please anybody," Ribicoff said Monday in an interview. "Larry indicated to me that he'd had enough and would like to get out after this is over." Sen. George McGovern, the likely presidential nominee of the party in convention here, has said he would keep O'Brien on if the chairman wanted to continue. O'Brien has said only that he has made no commitments.

By CLAUDE DUNCAN Journal Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH Gov. George Wallace plans to personally go before the Democratic National Convention delegates tonight to make an appeal for adoption of his platform proposals. The pre-nominational appearance of a presidential candidate at the convention is perhaps unprecedented in the Democratic Party's 140-year history. The governor's national campaign director, Charles Snider, told newsmen today, "We feel like tonight is the important time at the convention." Snider all but admitted that South Dakota Sen. George McGovern has the presidential nomination wrapped up, but said he expects some McGovern delegates to support Wallace platform proposals in an effort "to make the platform responsible to the people." Snider, when he heard that Minnesota Sen.

Hubert Humphrey had dropped out of the race this morning, said he feels Wallace "will pick up a tremendous amount of Sen. Humphrey's support" Wallace, his campaign manager said, has put the highest priority on an anti-busing planic. "He's not going to compromise i platform," Snider added. No details were issued on Wallace's planned appearance in Convention Hall. A possible ap-pearance by Wallace had been rumored for some time.

Snider reiterated that Wallace "has no intention of bolting the party in any way," but still refused to completely rule out a possible third partv bid this fall. Wallace's platform proposals range from a stand against forced busing on the conservative end to a rather liberal proposal for a national health insurance program. Wallace aides said today they aren't overly optimistic about the platform being accepted by the convention in place of the one drawn up by the convention in place of the one drawn up by the 150-member Democratic Platform Committee in Washington last month. State Sen. Bob Wilson of Jasper, who is a Wallace delegate, said he thinks several (See WALLACE, Page 2) Alabamians Breathe Easier After Victory By CLAUDE DUNCAN MIAMI BEACH Some members of the Alabama delegation to the Democratic National Convention didn't mind saying it as the pressure built up Mondav afternoon; they were scared.

When the convention got around to deciding the fate of the Wallace-controlled delegation around midnight, though, the resounding sound of "no" throughout the hall let the delegation breathe easier. All 37 of them would keep their scats and their vote. To Earl Goodwin, the delega tion's chairman, the McGovern supporters who had political reason to kick out the state's delegation were a bunch of "lunkheads." "We're elated," Goodwin said after the challenge was buried and the National Democratic Party of Alabama challengers were denied entrance to the floor. "At least it proved that even these lunkheads here who have no idea of how to elect a president know they better not ostracize George Wallace." "They were afraid to rub George Wallace's nose in the mud," he said. "They knew they didn't have a chance." Had the NDPA's challenge been successful, there might easily have been a revolt among the Wallace delegates here.

He claims to rave close to 400 of them. And Wallace himself would have found it difficult to stay in the party. It was obvious that the Democratic Party and George Wallace both were better off from the outcome. It was Georgia's young black state legislator, Julian Bond, who went before the convention (See VICTORY, Page 2) aw Meanwhile, the South Dako-tan's campaign manager said Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy of Massachusetts was one of the two or three leading possibilities for McGovern's choice as vice-presidential candidato. Kennedy has remained aloof from the convention itself. He was at his home in Hyannis Port, and planned an afternoon sail to Nantucket after working on some papers sent to him from Washington. Gary Hart, McGovern's campaign manager, said Leonard Woodcock, head of the United (See inni Page 2) For P3 all the money, she was going to hava some of the fun too." Hayden is a house builder and a member of the Uniontown City Council. But the delegates Alabama are fortunate in some respects because of the relative closeness to Miami.

Some faraway delegates had to spend more than $500 on air fare alone to get here. Soma proved to be quite resourceful at raising money and making it go a long way. Jeannie Caswell, a 19-year-old delegate from Oregon, umpired 50 Little League baseball games to raise her expense money. She also threw a beer party for her friends charging than $5 a couple to put her over the top. James Erceg, a McGovern (See DELEGATES, Page 2) ministrative assistants, Jes3 Gann, Ben Hill and Bobby Bowick and Dan Turner; press aides Billy Joe Camp and Elvin Stanton.

And at least a couple of secretaries. From the State Finance Department, Director Taylor Hardin, and his chief assistant, Richard Stone, are among those spending the week in Miami. Several other department heads, including Alabama Development Office boss Red Bamberg, the Labor Department's Howard Hendrix, and State Sovereignty Commission Director Jack Winfield are working here instead of Montgomery. (See ALABAMIANS, Page 2) To Miami Among the group is also State Sovereignty Commission Executive Secretary A.J. "Jack" Winfield.

A large table surrounded by young girls who said they were summer employes were busy stuffing manila envelopes with letters from Wallace and some with honorary lieutenant governor's certificates. "They go all over the United States," said one of the pretty girls. "All of them are signed personally by the governor," another said. The others giggled. 11 rip Muskie's brief statement, delivered with his wife by his side, was an appeal for party unity.

Unlike Humphrey, he pledged his support specifically to the obvious winner, McGovern. Humphrey withdrew with a pledge to keep fighting for "social justice" but without an endorsement of McGovern. Two other rivals, Gov. George Wallace of Alabama and Sen. Henry M.

Jackson, pledged to remain in the race hours before the start of the second session To room with a fellcw delegate. Joe McCorquodale 111, a 2G-year-old delegate from Jackson, said his plane fare alone ran $178. He brought his wifa and expects to spend "at least five or six hundred dollars." McCorquodale called himself "a poor lawyer, just getting started." Jim McKinney, the 27-yaar-old mayor of Talladega, observed that you can spend a hundred dollars a day down here without any trouble. It costs you fifty dollars a day just for food and cabs alone." McKinney isn't complaining, though. He draws a service disability payment of $6,030 a year in addition to bis $12,000 a year as mayor.

Another delegate Jack Wood, a weekly newspaper publisher from Cleburne, said in addition Twenty campaign workers, at hotels, on the convention floor and elsewhere, communicate with each other through walkie-talkie, a two-way political innovation first used by John Kennedy's men at tha 19G0 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. Others can be reached with "beepers," a sort of electronic calling system. The worker hearing himself wherever he might be, then calls the central switchboard. Not all the candidates have individual telephone switchboards. Wallace's works separate from the hotd and convention's system and is paid much attention that anybody's gone." Absent from these offices other than Gov.

George Wallace are the top assistants in government. The top man, Harry Pennington, Wallace's executive secretary, is working Thought For Today In peace, song bury their fathers; In war, fathers bury their sons Herodotus, Greek historian, 5 B.C. cumstances, Muskie said there was not point in having his name even introduced into nomination. "It is apparent to all of us that Sen. George McGovern is this convetion's choice as the nominee of our party," Muskie told a news conference.

Muskie called for a "common cause" between the economically fortunate and other Americans who have been left behind. He wished McGovern every success and said "let's now get going about the business of winning the presidency and governing wisely." 'elegies banker before he left for the convention. Alexander borrowed $400 to pay his convention expenses. And the 21-year-old Mobile student is getting off light. Interviews with a random sample of the delegates indicated that every person will spend between $300 and $1,000 on the convention trip.

Few if any are getting any assistance from the party treasury, which is as bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. "I went to Bob Vance to see if the party could pay some of my expenses" he said. "But he told me I could get party funds only if I was Indigent. So I borrowed the money." Alexander is cutting corners by eating as many hors d'oeuvres as i 1 at the various receptions given for the delegates. He is also sharing a geared to win George Wallace a place on the Democratic presidential ticket.

At least it hopes to make his iniluence felt in the outcome of the week's Democratic National Convention. The place was a veritable beehive of activity Monday when Alton Dauphine, the governor's slight-built brother-in-law, stood in shirtsleeves, pointed toward a harried switchboard operator in an anteroom and said, "We're doing what we set out to do." Dauphine, tha man in charge of the governor's convention communica tions, doesn't hesitate to take pride in the setup. The governor's legal adviser, William A. Jackson, said Monday, That's right. I'm the man.

"Nothing's happening but routine stuff. We are having the same visitors we always have. The state business keeps going on as usual." While the responsibility for stale government rests on Jackson's shoulders, he appears to be taking it in stride. A secretary in the governor's inner offices said, "The same folks who usually come inhave been filing through. Nobody's ot the nominating convention.

His eyes brimming with tears, Humphrey bowed out at a news conference. "My withdrawal from the presidential race is a withdrawal of candidacy only," said the Minnesota senator, who first began running for the White House more than a decade ago. His move was almost dictated by McGovern's sweeping recapture Monday night of lot disputed California delegates, putting him within about 25 votes for a first-ballot nomination. Borrow to his convention expenses, he spent $1,800 just getting elected." Mrs. W.L.

Petrey of Crenshaw County accompanied her son, Joe, who is a Wallace pledged delegate. A student at the University of Alabama, Joe had expected his expenses to the convention to be paid. "But we're having to pay every bit of it out of our pocket, and it's tough, too him being a student." One of the black delegates, A.M. Hayden of Uniontown, confessed that he was spending "really more than I can afford, but the only way we can help our people is by participating in politics. His wife also accompanied bim to the convention.

"She told me that if I was going to spend connected to a number of phones. The hookup goes into each of the hotel rooms used by Wallaca workers. The bulk of the campaign rooms are at the Sheraton, 90, and the Dupont Plaza, SO. There are at least 300 Alabamians dovn here this week working as volunteers. Many of thorn have doubled up in the shortage of hotel rooms.

Most of them are likely to see little or nothing of the sand and surf of Miami Beach while the convention is in progress. From the governor's office alone, volunteers include the governor's executive secretary, Harry Pennington; four ad with the Wallace For President forces in and out of the con vention. Billy Joe Camp, the press secretary, has teen with the entourage since Wallace received five bullet wounds from a would-be assassin's gun about two months ago. Others in the south Florida eity are Jesso Gann and Bobby Bowick, both executive assistants of the governor. Even Lt.

Gov. Jere Bcasley, who was acting governor when Wallace was out of the state for more than 20 days, is helping the politicking governor. Alabamians Galore 'Working7 In Miami Beach By CLAUDE DUNCAN Journal Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH Between trailers marked "Peabody" and "Chisholm" just outside Convention Hall here are three light brown residential types marked "Wallace." Running between two of than is a wide, freshly red-carpeted ramp, the kind that a man in a wheelchair might use. Several blocks from the hall on Pennsylvania Ave. is a campaign office.

Across the a 1 1 i causeway in Miami, at the plush Sheraton Four Ambassador Hotel, there is the third-floor nerva center of a highly-organized machine Little Happening At Capitol As Spotlight Shifts By WAYNE GREENH AW It's like the night before Christmas around the Alabama Capital not a creature is stirring. Or at least, not many creatures. A check with the hallowed halls of government proved that very little business was taking place Monday in the northern wing where the governor's office is located. While all the big shots in that office are down in Miami at the Democratic National Convention, only a skeleton crew is left back home to mind the store. ABBY BRIDGE CLASSIFIED IMS COMICS 11 CROSSWORD 11 DEATH NOTICES EDITORIAL HOROSCOPC 16 MOVIES SPORTS 64 TELEVISION 16 OR.

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