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fulcSpvern Caiiiplfpi Han! Wor By DON McLEOD the Democratic National Con he would win and led him and which decided firmly a year and a half ago just what he had to do and how he would do it. His grasp of the time and just the right issues to use seemed to put him there first and to leave little ground for the competition. McGovern got into the presidential game in 1968 when he picked up the fallen Robert F. Kennedy campaign and managed to get 146 votes at the Chicago convention. He' came away convinced that if he had staiced soner, he might have won it all.

An immediate discouragement to any further presidential effort was the presence of a remaining Kennedy who was the logical heir to the Democrats' liberal wing. McGovern ultimately decided to go matter what Sen. Edward M. Kennedy did, but Kennedy's personal tragedy at Chappaquiddick seemed to leave the field clear. In the meantime, McGovern had taken on a job which was to lay the groundwork for his miracle.

He became chairman of the Democrats' Commission on Party Structure and Dele-gate Selection, or the "McGovern Commission," as it came to be called. This was the body, created at the Chicago convention, which was to reform the ancient methods by which Democrats nominated their presidential candidates and to assuage the anger of dissenters within the party. McGovern was tapped for the job because the party leadership felt he was more moderate than such reformers as Sen. Harold Hughes of Iowa, the chief instigator of the restructuring drive. McGovern's selection came chiefly on the preference of his long-time friend, titular party head Hubert H.

Humphrey. (See McGOVERN, Page 7) AP Political Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) A sense of history which told him times were changing and a passion for organization which helped his youthful armies beat the Old Guard at its own game are the simple secrets of George McGovern's boom from oblivion to presidential nomination. There is little revolutionary about it. It's a story of hard work converted into votes at vention which gave him: the, party's nomination Wednesday night.

If it seems miraculous -that this could happen to a soft-voiced, Farm Belt senator-whose name was recognized by only per cent of the American public when he began his quest, there are some answers which make it more plausible. First of all, he carried supreme self-confidence which' assumed from the very start that his staff to proceed even in the darkest days of the campaign as if he would. His organization became the envy of the political world for its thoroughness and effi- ciency. He recruited a staff which complemented all his best traits and shored up his weak- nesses, and attracted untold thousands of devoted volunteers. He adopted a strategy Secrets JOURNAL ALABAMA FINAL EDITION FOX NVYS IULLET1NS DIAL 245-8244 PRICE 10c WEATHER Fair to partly cloudy and warm, with slight chance of afternoon and evening thun-dershowers through Friday.

High today and Friday 90s, low tonight 60s. 84TH YEAR NO. 167 56 PAGES MONTGOMERY. ALABAMA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 13, 1972 mm AflcSovern Checks Iraadeined list Stall rhX iCcds r5) Nl L2)U For Spot ui i if -r 9 (Related Story And Pictures On Page 7) MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) -Sen. George McGovern, winner of the Democratic presidential nomination, huddled Thursday with a score of advisers over a list of possible running mates. The South Dakota senator, whose rise from political obscurity climaxed with a first-ballot victory Wednesday night, also summoned as many governors as he could muster to bolster a show of unity at the windup session of the National Convention. Frank Mankiewicz, national political director for McGovern, said he expected the choice of a vice-presidential candidate to be made shortly. But an hour after Mankiewicz gave this word to newsmen surrounding McGovern's headquarters there was no word on who would take the spot spurned earlier "for very real personal reasons" by Sen.

Ed ward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The roster of names was compiled during a two-hour meeting by McGovern aides. No one outside the McGovern camp attended. Similarly, only McGovern staffers 21 in all sat down with the senator in his 17th-floor hotel suite to go over the list and settle on a final choice.

The roundup of governors, including John J. Gilligan of Ohio, is part of McGovern's strategy of healing party wounds in preparation for the forthcoming campaign to oust President Nixon from the White House. Gov. Milton J. Shapp of Pennsylvania also was said to be on his way.

Ohio and Pennsylvania, with their big electoral vote counts and strong labor elements, are considered vital to any presidential race-especially this year when labor (See NO. 2 SPOT. Page 2) By JUDITH HELMS A Montgomery County grand jury reported today that an alleged plot to drown Prison Commissioner L. B. Sullivan required no action by the jury.

"We find that there was a discussion of drowning the commissioner by persons under the influence of intoxicating liquors but definite plans or conspiracy to carry out the act were ever reached. "We further find that there were certain violations of the policies of the Board of Corrections by the deputy commissioner and that the Board of Corrections handled these violations administratively," the jury said. An Advertiser-Journal story in May reported that an ex-convict, Donald Albert Fant, had told officials that former Deputy Prison Commissioner Joseph Morrison asked him to cause Sullivan's death. Around The World HacrC Hostage Is B'ham Girl Wilson Forgot Wallace's Call During Speech HHa ft I 'W I I A I yfsK Jf: AP Wirphot iSen. And Mrs.

George McGovern 17 States Award Wallace 385 Votes Gov. Wallace Plans To Enter B'ham Hospital By CLAUDE DUNCAN MIAMI BEACH-Gov. George Wallace issued a statement today saying, "We know what we have done in Miami has been good for American people," and addod he will continue to speak out on the issues. The governor did not show up for a scheduled press conference and his press aide, Billy Joe Camp, asked about a possible third party movement this fall, said Wallace "has no political plans at this time other than being governor 0 Alabama." Camp said Wallace will leave Miami on Friday, instead of today, as was reported earlier. The governor's plans to return to Montgomery have been changed.

Camp said he will leave on an Air Force plane at II a.m. and fly to Birmingham, where he will check into the University of Alabama in Birmingham's Spain Rehabilitation Center "for a few weeks. There was some doubt whether Wallace would attend the August convention of the American Party in Louisville, Ky. His national campaign director, Charles Snider, had said on Wednesday that he would. Camp said Wallace con-gratulated Sen.

George McGovern on winning Democratic Party's presidential nomination when the two had a telephone conversation late Wednesday night. The press aide said "thousands of good wishes and encouragements to remain active" have been received by the Wallace headquarters here since the governor's abortive attempt to win a place on the party's presidential ticket. Talks Resume But Positions Unchanged 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 (See TALKS, Page 2) to rush it quite a bit to make the time limit. And when he went to the podium, looked out at te throng of thousands of delegates and observers assembled in the smoke-filled and television-lighted convention hall, Wilson forgot about Wallace's telephone call. Using the sort of method one learns in a high school or college speech class, Wilson picked one delegate sitting among the thousands, zeroed in on her eyes and talked about the man he wanted to see elected president. "The Democratic Party has in the past been the voice of the average working man and woman and has helped make this country great," he intoned.

"I want to see it restored to a position of political leadership and responsibility in this nation. 'We are at the crossroads," said Wilson, who is perhaps the governor's closest legislative confidant back in Alabama. "The Democratic Party has not responded in recent years to the cry of the people who made it great. "The man whose name I will place in nomination will restore this party to reason, responsibility and reality, he will lead the party to victory in November." (See WILSON, Page 2) Bv CLAUDE DUNCAN Journal Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH In another five minutes or so, Bob Wilson would walk to the bright blue podium and formally place Gov. George Wallace's name in contention for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

Wilson, silver-tongued trial lawyer and state senator from Jasper, was standing on the platform behind the podium with other dignitaries, awaiting his turn at the microphone when a telephone rang. It was for him. Wallace was calling from his 20th floor hotel suite where he and his wife, Cornelia, were watching Democratic National Convention proceedings on television. "Tell those folks I am not a third party candidate," the governor told Wilson "Tell them I am in the Democratic Party to stay." All that talk from Campaign Director Charles Snider earlier Wednesday about a third party possibility getting "stronger every minute" had been a bunch of bunk, Wallace said. He wanted every delegate vote he could get.

The speech Wilson had written was already too crowded with details about the governor's background and his political philosophy. He'd have 2 Hijackers Offer Deal For Hostages LAKE JACKSON, Tex. (AP) The FBI said today two armed hijackers have agreed to give up three hostaged stewardesses and their ransom money in exchange for a private plane with an agent-pilot. The deal was the first break in a stalemate which began when the hijackers landed at a small airstrip here aboard a plane hijacked at Philadelphia Wednesday night. After the "National Airlines 727 touched down the wounded pilot and a badly beaten flight engineer left the plane and it was surrounded by armed law officers.

The exchange plane, a single-engine Cessna 182, was sitting halfway down the runway awaiting preparation of another plane to follow the Cessna, the FBI said. The FBI agent piloting the small escape plane was identified as Fred Hartung. The hijackers stipulated that Hartung strip to his underwear. Until the deal was made the hijackers had remained aboard the disabled jet with the three stewardesses. A fourth stewardess, taken hostage in Philadelphia, escaped.

The plane's tires blew on landing, authorities said. Karlier 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 a National Airlines Boeing 727 nlane out of Philadelphia released 111 passengers who endured nine hoars of suffocating heat a3 the aircraft sat on a runway in Philadelphia International At-port while FBI agents haggled with the gunmen over details of delivering the ransom money and freeing the "A couple of people fainted, said one passenger, Tom Herring of St.

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 Anmerican Airlines Boeing 727 after getting the ransom at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport early this morning BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) One of the stewardesses aboard a hijacked National Airlines jet in Lake Jackson, is from the Birmingham suburb of Fairfield, Ala. She is Donna Thomas, 24, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A.

Thomas. A brother. Randy Thomas, said the family was "very terrified that three defenseless women are being held at gunpoint." Thomas said his sister has been with the airline for four years and had told them she could someday be involved in a hijacking. He said an airlines official contacted them and assured them that everything would be all right. Radical Accepts Blame LOD, Israel (AP) Kozo Okamoto told an Israeli army court today he is a professional soldier of the Red Army organization of Japanese radicals and he accepts "full responsibility for the people I killed" in the Lod Airport massacre.

The survivor of the three Japanese terrorists who attacked the crowd in the airport May 30 with machine guns and grenades spoka out shortly after the prosecution rested its case. The 24-year-old Japanese said the attack, in which 28 persons were killed and 67 were wounded, was to "benefit revolutionary warfare, which I define as a war of justice." Fischer Forfeits 2nd Game (Earlier Story on Page 2) REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer forfeited his chess game with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia on Thursday by failing to appear at the playing hall. Fisher boycotted the game because he objected to the presence of movie cameras in the hall. The forfeit gave Spassky, who beat Fischer on Wednesday, a 2-0 lead in the scheduled 24-game series. It was uncertain whether the match would survive.

Wallace To Get Motorized Chair SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) A motorized wheelchair is being given to Alabama Gov. George Wallace by a retired businessman who no onger has any use for it. Lester Hutchinson, who moved here from San Francisco in 1965, offered it to the governor, crippled by a would-be assassin's bullets, through the Wallace-for-President headquarters, and it as accepted. Hutchinson said he had no interest in politics, sul wanted the governor to have it since he now other means of getting around.

By CLAUDE DUNCAN Journal Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH An unofficial count of the Democratic National Convention votes for the party's presidential nominee in the initial rollcall of the states on Wednesday gave Gov. George Wallace 385.7 votes from delegates in 17 state delegations. When it became clear that South Dakota Sen. George McGovern had won the nomination, some delegates changed their votes. But the original balloting was the general indication of Wallace's strength.

Here is that tabulation: South Carolina, West Virginia, Indiana, 26; Florida 75; North Carolina, 37; Georgia, 11; North Dakota, Maryland, 38. Alabama, 24; New Mexico Virginia 1: Tennessee, 33; Pennsylvania. Illinois, Michigan, 6 7.5; Louisiana, 3 and Texas, 52. In the Alabama delegation, the 23 Wallace delegates elected in the May primary voted for Wallace. So did Sen.

Bob Wilson who was named an at-large delegate. State Democratic Party Chairman Robert Vance cast his vote for Duke University President Terry Sanford. Democratic National Committeeman Albert Rains and Committeewoman Ruth Johnson Owens voted for Arkansas U.S. Rep. Wilbur Mills.

Isom Clemon, a black labor leader from Mobile who was an elected delegate, cast his vote for Washington U.S. Sen. Henry Jackson. The other nine blacks on the delegation refused to take part in a move to support New York U.S. Shirley Chisholm, an.d instead voted for McGovern; Tenn-Tom Case Gerald Wallace And Snider Pover Play Aims At Hardin Speaker G.

Sage Lyons. The power play bein engineered by Snider an Briefs Filed mm aside and not given anything to do. Not only is Hardin's job in jeopardy, but other posts in the cabinet may also go to cronies of Gerald Wallace. Snider, would become finance director if the coup is successful. Banking Superintendent Bob Gulledge and Insurance Commissioner John Bookout also may be under the gun.

Acting Highway Director Ray Bass may become the full-time director if the plan works out. Bass is in Miami, is one of those with access to the governor and is close to Snider. Snider Gerald Wallace group is finding every way it can to undercut Hardin. Beasley is being used in this respect and it has long been known that Beasley has no love lost for the 'Present finance director. (See GERALD, Page t) By DON F.

WASSON Advertiser Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH A "palace conspiracy," brewing for months in Montgomery, has all but broken into the open here and has hurt Gov. George Wallace's bid for the presidency. The Advertiser has learned. On one side are the governor's youngest brother, Gerald, national campaign director Charles Snider, Lt. Gov.

Jere Beasley, former House Speaker Rankin Fite of Hamilton, Wallace confidant and adviser jimmy Faulkner of Bay Minette and Montgomery lawyer Frank Long. Arrayed against them are Finance Director Taylor Hardin, State Sens. Jimmy Clark of Eufaula, Pierre Pelhara of Mobile and Bob Wilson of Jasper, Executive Secretary Harry Pennington and House Gerald Wallace aims at removing Hardin from his post and replacing him with someone more willing to do their bidding. Hardin will be offered the post of president of Livingston State University. If he turns it down, he will be out in the cold.

Pennington is reportedly on the verge of resigning. The Gerald Wallace-Snider group is insulating the governor from contact with the other group. All of those mentioned were brought to Miami to aid in the Wallace presidential cam Eaign. But it has been evident ere that they are being largely ignored and some of them have said they don't even get in to see Wallace anymore. They have been shunted ABERDEEN, Miss.

(AP) -Attorneys for opposing sides in a suit challenging construction of a controversial 153-mile waterway have completed actions in the case with the filing of witten hriefs, U.S. district court officials said here. The proposed Tenncssce-Tom-bigbee Waterway was challenged by environmentalists, who contended it would upset the ecological balance of the area. The waterway would connect the. Tennessee River directly with the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile, Ala.

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