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McGovern Nominated By Demos MEMBER Oi tt ASSOCIATED PRESS Sees Peace Wins Vote Danville Vat Thursday Afternoon July 13 1972 Price: TEN CENTS Hanoi Haiphong Raided uel Depots Taken Into Custody Eight Killed Near Cities In Ireland Are Bombed On Parade Day service station two released after ex into custody out Two Planes Bobby ischer Hijacked Threatens To Quit Match Phila Women Take Turn to Page 2 A Story No 6 Turn to Page 2 A Story No 7 Active Part Positions Unchanged At Paris At Convention SHOWERS The I Weather around 90 in the Turn to Page 2 A Story No 5 ON THE INSIDE PAGES our our A the not 72 80 86 88 best weak untold volun 1 ounded ebruary 18W Vol LXV No 2468 NW Calm mph 5 6 5 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 US relations with Communist China The ambassador asked for and measured considera of proposals and ROME (P) Andreot middle road coalition won a confidence vote today in the Camara aam4 fC1) 4a aces Noisy Protesters Is to REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Bobby ischer today was re ported threatening to break off his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky un less all movie cameras are re moved from the playing hall quite serious He may not play at said a member of entourage who asked not to be identified ischer was scheduled to meet the world champion from the Soviet Union later today at 1 pm EDT for the second game of their 24 game match The American challenger lost Variable cloudi ness through riday with chance of afternoon and eve ning showers or thunder storms Low tonight in mid or upper 60s west and around 70 east portion High riday around 80 except in 80s ini highlands and on coast EXTENDED VA ORECAST The National Weather Ser extended outlook for Virginia for the period of Sat urday through Monday: Rather warm and quite hu mid with a chance of showers Sunday and mainly in the mountains Saturday and Mon day Daytime (highs will av erage in the upper 80s and nightly lows around 70 ex cept cooler in higher eleva tions and along the shore NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy warm and humid through riday with scattered mostly afternoon and evening thundershowers today Highs and riday in the 80s Me Weekly Delivered Home By Corrler giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim ranging to Sandhills Lows tonight upper 50s and low 60s mountains to low 70s southeast portion EXTENDED NC ORECAST Extended outlook Saturday through Monday Scattered showers and thundershowers in the mountains Saturday and over the state Sunday and Monday Highs mid and upper 80s Lows in the low and mid 60s in the mountains to the low 70s on the coast Ted Kennedy Not To Run Police Occupied By Assortment Of Complaints MIAMI BEACH la (AP) want a repetition of Chicago in Sen George McGovern said after facing 300 noisy pushing demonstrators just hours before winning the Democratic presidential nomi nation McGovern attempted to reas sure the crowd of antiwar and civil rights demonstrators in the lobby of his headquarters hotel: not changing my position on any of the funda mental stands As McGovern spoke more than 1000 protesters gathered peacefully at Convention Hall to hear antiwar activist David Dillinger and other speakers urge them keep the pres sure on The demonstrators in the Doral Hotel lobby had been blocking staircases and eleva tors for more than six hours when McGovern appeared sur rounded by Secret Service agents Security was tight fol lowing the arrest of two men on concealed weapons charges at the Doral earlier in the day have any doubt that within 90 days of 1 my in auguration every American troop and every American sol dier will be home and a pledge I he said Casually dressed in art open necked sports shirt McGovern was grim and firm as he talked and listened to the demonstra tors for 30 minutes you realize that most 1 people here are for 1 shouted a young man love you but you are losing your The rest was drowned out by a girl yelling not Responding to questions shouted by the demonstrators i McGovern reaffirmed his sup port for amnesty for those who refused to fight in Vietnam and his opposition to legalizing marijuana Cheered when he arrived and often as he spoke McGovern was booed loudly when he said he would not sign a proposal Amusements 10B AP News Digest 2A Bread Of Life 3A Bridge 9A Classified Ads 12B Comics 8B Cooking Is un 7A Crossword Puzzle 4B Deaths unerals IB PARIS (AP) The Vietnam peace ttlks resumed today after 10 weeks but the positions of both sides appeared un changed US Ambassador William Porter put before the confer ence the four point package President Nixon proposed on May 8 The Viet 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 chief delegate Xuan Thuy called on the United States to end its bombardment of North Vietnam it really desires to an end to the war The apparent lack of change was no great surprise Any progress toward agreement is expected to come in secret ses sions 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 presi dential adviser Henry A Kis singer or other US officials Porter told the Communists that he felt it possible to find a parallel to other peaceful devel opments in the world since the last session He referred to the peace moves between the two our he continued will give most careful at tention to the views you may express and to any preliminary questions about our proposals you may wish to present We are also entirely willing to go into any other matter you may wish to put He called for serious and MIAMI BEACH la (AP) Activist women at the Demo cratic National Convention are one's ladies in waiting come they say make policy not They show up in impressive numbers for politically savvy discussions at the daily sessions' of the National Politi cal Caucus sisters have educated themselves on the said Gloria Steinem leading femin ist spokesman and a board member of the caucus worked hard to get she said was like pushing mar bles through a sieve And the sieve will never be the same Thirty eight per cent of con vention delegates are women triple the number in 1968 In four days their leaders have become convention stars Rep Bella Abzug the fiery congresswoman from New York appears in an array of broad brimmed hats that make her as visible 4s she is vocal Betty riedan often called mother of the liberation roams the convention floor with press credentials alternating be tween roles of reporter and lob byist Germaine Greer Australian author of emale Eu stalks through hotel lob bies attempting to convert delegates wives and any wavering feminists At one point she perched herself on a stool in a bar and was overheard chastising one of the omnipresent prostitutes you re a disgrace to she told one off ruining was the retort BOWIE Md (AP) Espe ranza Corzon suspected that the frequent tampering with her typewriter was the wk of vandals so she installed a new alarm system inside her office When that failed the Bowie Police Department assigned two detectives to spend the night inside the store Mrs Corson called the po lice Tuesday and complained someone again had ripped off the ribbon of her typewriter Detective Richard Hart found a field mouse and her three babies nestled inside the typewriter Hart said the mouse family would be released to the cus tody of his children MIAMI BEACH One I wo men taken into custody out side the Doral Beach Hotel Sen George head quarters is frisked by Secret Service agents Wednesday A man who identified himself as an BI agent Said two pistols were taken from the automobile of the men The men appar ently had just arrived in Miami Beach site of the Democratic National Convention (AP Wirephoto BELAST Northern Ireland (AP) Security forces kept the Protestant marchens and the Roman Catholics apart in Northern Ireland on Wednes day but at least eight persons were killed before and after the parades on the Glorious Twelfth It was one of the bloodiest days in the prov three years of communal strife Seamus Twomey chief of the Irish Republican Provi sional wing told newsmen his forces might consider renewing the cease fire they ended Sun day after 13 days But he said the British 'must guarantee there will be no army raids or arrests no of his men and complete freedom for the Provisionals to move freely although in There was no immediate re action from the British The celebration of the Protes tant victory on July 12 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne went off peacefully with 32000 troops militia and police sandwiched between the religious factions to head off violence But in advance of the march ing on its periphery and in its wake assassins and bombers were hard at work Two soldiers were killed and 11 wounded in firefights with IRA guerrillas The troops whose death list since 1969 rose to 91 claimed to have wounded or killed at least five of their assailants The frst to die Wednesday was a Protestant 16 year old gunned down as he walked through a park in the town of Portadown while the Protes tants were preparing their ban ners flutes and drums for their biggest day of the year Then gunmen burst into the Belfast home of a Catholic wid ow and killed her teen age son said to have a mental age of five as he slept in bed? was completely without said a detective the hell are we The hooded body of a man shot in the head and believed a Protestant was discovered dur ing the morning in the capital By DON McLEOD AP Political Writer MIAMI BEACH la (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 boom from oblivion to presidential nomi nation There is little revolutionary about it a story of hard work converted into votes at the Democratic National Con vention which gave him the nomination Wednesday night If it seems miraculous that this could happen to a soft voiced arm Belt senator whose name was recognized by only 5 per cent of the American public when he began his quest there are some answers which make it more plausible of all he carried a su preme self confidence which as sumed from the very start that he would win and led him and his staff to proceed even in the darkest days of the campaign as if he would organization became the envy of the political world for its thoroughness and effi ciency By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 Two armed hijackers who re ceived a cash ransom and an escape plane flew to a small Texas airport from delphia today Two injured crewmen one shot and the oth er badly beaten left the jet as it was surrounded by author ities The hijacking of the National Airlines plane was one of two that began Wednesday night The other hijacking was against American Airlines for a ransom of $550000 but the lone hijacker gave up at Oklahoma in (ho onrh mArmnrf VIICJ AU tliv Vfliir The shotgun wielding hijack ers of the plane in Texas took four National Airlines steward esses a pilot and a flight engi neer from Philadelphia They demanded $600000 ransom but officials would not say how much was paid The National Boeing 27 land ed at Brazoria County Airport near Lake Jackson about 50 miles south of Houston the ederal Aviation Adminis tration said The pilot and flight engineerwere taken to a local hospital the latter with a gunshot wound of the side It was not known immediately how he waswounded or how the two ere men were gotten off the plane The hijackers who in addi tion to sawed off shotguns had a box they said contained a bomb remained on board with three stewardesses The fourth stewardess escaped the AA 1 said in a manner not known To 1 Hour tern 7 am 9 am 11 am 1 pm 24 hour low temperature 70 24 hour high temperature 88 24 hour precipitation12 in rain All readings from The weather station atop the news paper building HAL'r HEROIN TRAICKING Report Information on pushers at any hour of day or night by calling Heroin (800 368 nationwide toll free telephone number manned by trained operators in Washington DC The caller need not identify himself and his rights will be fully protected DOWNTOWN WEATHER LOG Today bar wind dir 3010 3011 3011 3010 recruited a staff which complemented all his traits and shored up his nesses and attracted thousands of devoted teers adopted a strategy which decided firmly a year and a half ago just what he had to do and how he would do it 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 presi dential game in 1968 when he picked up the fallen Robert Kennedy campaign and man aged to get 146 Vi votes at the Chicago convention He came away convinced that if he had started sooner he might have won it all An immediate dis couragement to any further presidential effort was the pres ence of a remaining Kennedy who was the logical heir to the liberal wing McGovern ultimately decided to go no matter what Sen Ed ward Kennedy did but Ken personal tragedy at Chappaquiddick seemed to leave the field clear In the meantime McGovern had taken on a job which was Editorials 4A Local State News IB Lovelier You 6B Markets 2B Mary Haworth 1 3A Pointers 4B Sports 11 13B Television 10B News 3B PHNOM PENH Cambodia Cambodia believes that Paris negotiations on Indo china showing certain tendencies 'toward Premier Son Ngoc Thanh de clared today Thanh who is also his coun foreign minister told foreign correspondents he be lieved that American bomb ings of North Vietnam mining of North Vietnamese harbors and the fact that enemy offen sive had been beaten back in South Vietnam would work in favor of the North Vietnamese concessions Cautious Reaction MIAMI BEACH la (AP) Sen George Mc Govern climaxing his dra matic rise from political obscurity by winning the first ballot nomination of a divided Democratic party was considering a broaden ing list of vice presidential possibilities today after Sen Edward Kennedy rejected his bid Soon after the votes of Illinos sent total soaring past the magic 1509 mark in the jammed brightly lit con vention hall and even before the official result had been an nounced Kennedy phoned McGovern from Hyannis Port Mass to offer congratulations During their 15 minute talk McGovern offered Kennedy the No 2 spot for the race against President Nixon Kennedy re jected it very real 'person al according to McGovern spokesman Richard Dougherty Earlier in the evening lori da Gov Reubin Askeiw anoth er prime prospect told Mc Govern through aides he want to be considered McGovern aides said the nominee would make no an nouncement about' a running mate before midday One close adviser said he felt the list of those under consider ation was expanding as the vic torious nominee sought Jthe counsel of Sens Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie his defeated rivals whose withdrawal from con tention a day earlier had sig naled Wednesday triumph Those being mentioned in clude five senators Thomas Eagleton of Missouri Abra ham A Ribicoff of Connecticut Philip A Hart of Michigan Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and Walter Mondale of Min nesota two governors John Gilligan and Wiscon Patrick Lucey arid labor leader Leonard Woodcock Midway through the evening top McGovern aides were asked to submit lists of four possi bilities One aide Rick Stearns' said McGovern had' narrowed possibilities to four including Kennedy and Woodcock Other aides said a larger number re mained under consideration Within minutes after clinch ing the nomination McGovern received congratulations and promise of support from all the candidates he had conquered except Alabama Gov George Wallace But labor leaders in particular remained bitterly opposed to the senator as did many delegates One sign in the hall read: Will in No Earlier in the evening as the a tic National Con vention proceeded through its rites of nomination McGovern Sense Of History Organization Know How Simple Secrets Of Sen McGovern's Boom The tires blew on landing authorities said reject ing earlier police reports that they were shot out An BI spokesman at the scene said negotiations contin ued with the hijackers Aked if this meant the BI would bring in new tires and jet fuel the spokesman said necessary do The BI agent referring to the shortness of the runway said no pilot but talked to several and said fhnv lika tn tal A it The pilot identified as Nor man Reagan had suffered a fractured pelvis broken wrists and face bruises The engineer was identified as Gerald Bea ver In the American Airlines hi jack of a Dallas bound jet the lone gunman apparently aban doned a plan to try to escape by parachute and instead sur rendered meekly to a steward ess He left behind the ransom package which actually con tained less than half what he demanded and the gun turned out to have been empty The two hijackers of the Na tional plane out of Philadelphia released 111 passengers who endured nine hours of suffocat ing heat as the aircraft sat on a runway in Philadelphia Inter national Airport while BI agents haggled with the gun men over details of delivering the ransom money and freeing the passengers I Bulletins A felonious assault incident that reportedly occurred in lunch area yester day afternoon was still under investigation by Danville po lice this morning The probe was launched after Delma Bell 12 Lansdale Drive reported being struck in the head with a gash resulting Also under investigation ear ly today were reports of break ins at Westmoreland School and the Riverside Citgo sta tion plus Memorial Drive laun dry malicious damage and au to tampering on Washington St along with malicious dam age to property on Westmere Drive and a car on Melrose Ave At the teen agers were apprehended but were owner of the concern chose to press charges At the school there was tensive damage to inside doors police reported and missing items included two stop watch es a radio and some food A driver stopped at 3 am today at Riverside and Robert son Bridge for drunk driving wound up facing four additional charges today Larry Eugene Wall 26 of 58 Glen Oak Drive was accused of drunk driving at Memorial Drive and Bishop Turn to Page 2 A Story No 4 systematic dialogue on matters of as way to' make progress In his formal speech to tho session South Vietnamese Am bassador Pham Dang Lam re jected one of the two key points of the Communist peace plan: Turn to Page 2 A Story No 3 IlllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllW LONDON Sen George Democratic par ty victory evoked kautious largely uncommitted reaction from European commenta tors both left and right wing but Arab newspapers slam med his pro Israel stand Hia Cairo newspaper Al Ak hbar said McGovern and the Democrats had become mere pulpit for Zionist 1 Israeli Court Deliberates 1 LOD Israel (AP) An raeli army tribunal began day to weigh the fate of ac cused Lod airport slayer Kozo Okamoto following brief sum mations by the prosecution and defense Okamoto admit ted his full responsibility ear lier in the day The court comprised of turn to a much repeated po three lieutenant colonels will sition that he has no plans announce its verdict on Mon for a third party bid but would day not flatly rule it out SAIGON (AP) American fighter bombers hit North Viet nam Wednesday with the heavi est raids in more than a week setting fire to fuel depots and supply and port facilities in the Hanoi Haiphong area the US Command announced today The command reported more than 340 strikes were flown equalling the number on July 5 and said the closest to Hai phong was within a mile of the city It made no mention of any plane losses North Vietnam charged that of US planes attacked areas inside and out side Haiphong that dozens of persons were killed and nearly 200 houses destroyed Hanoi said an American R4 recon naissance plane was shot down The US Command as usual refused to comment on the North Vietnamese charges Navy pilots from the carrier Hancock reported wrecking 12 buildings in strikes against the Van Dong storage area 20 miles northeast of Haiphong Other attack planes set afire the Yen Cu and Hon Gai fuel depots 13 and 21 miles east and northeast of Haiphong the Navy said Three buildings were dam aged at an island supply base 35 miles east of Haiphong and two buildings and other equip ment were destroyed or dam aged at the Hon Gai port facil ity the 7th leet said Pilots from the Hancock also reported seven railroad boxcars damaged in a raid near Hanoi The Navy said in a delayed report that the destroyers Rob inson and Hamner sank one barge and damaged two others after they had unloaded war materials from a freighter Tuesday northwest of the port of Dong Hoi near Hon La Island The Navy did not identi fy the freighter but it was pre sumably Chinese It was not at tacked North Vietnamese gunners fired more than 30 artillery shells into Hue 32 miles south but about a third of them were duds that did not explode There was no immediate' re port of casualties pilots flying from the Kitty Hawk swept to within one mile of Haiphong where they reported three supply Turn to Page 2 A Story No 2 Senate The count was 163 to 155 As in the Chamber of Depu ties a week ago the center alliance of Christian Demo crats Democratic 'Socialists and Liberals was opposed bit terly by Communists and So cialists of the left and neo ascists of the right In the 630 seat chamber the new government 34th since the war was approved by 329 votes to 288 Dollar Drops LONDON (AP) The US dollar dropped to its floor lev el in several European foreign exchange markets today un der heavy selling pressure European government cen tral banks were forced to in tervene with support buying to keep the dollar from falling under currently permitted lev els To Define Plans MIAMI BEACH la (AP) The chance that Gov George Wallace will launch a third party campaign for the presidency appeared to day to be diminishing despite his campaign hint to the contrary Wallace was expected to de fine his plans more clearly in a statement Jater today A spokesman said the Alabama governor probably would re Sen McGovern 1 uuay a Queer Story llllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Named On irst Ballot to lay the groundwork for his miracle He became chairman of the Commission on Party Structure and Dele gate Selection or thk 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 assauge the anger of dissenters within the party McGovern was tapped for the job because the party lead ership felt he was more modern ate than such reformers as' Sen Harold Hughes of Iowa who wanted the job and had been the chief instigator of the re structuring drive selection came chiefly on the preference of his long time friend titular party head Hubert Humphrey who' later was to tangle with McGovern over the new rules in this California dele gate challenge When the work was done the Democratic party had opened up the process of delegate se lection to the rank and file and Turn to Page 2 A Story Ito 1 li jiii ipu IM? 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