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Western Over Counter Stocks Peninsula Weather Fair through Friday with patchy low clouds near coast tonight. Cooler Friday. Low tonight 55 62, high tomorrow on coast 63 73, Inland 83 93. SAN MATEO TIMES AND DAILY NEWS LEADER A HOME OWNED NKW9PAPKR (See Page 1 5e PER COPY $2.73 PER MONTH Vol. 72, No.

167 5 Sections 48 PAGES SAN MATfO, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JULY. 13, 1972 Hijackers, Nominee's Advisers Can't Agree on V.P. Authorities At an Impasse MIAMI BEACH (UPI) i was injured tfter the landing nominee from Senator Ed their votes for the token ward M. Kennedy. But Kennedy candidates or for Jackson, a said he would ftv Massa party warhorse, rather than go chusetts to the convention hall, with the obvious winner, once the speculation over No.

2 Jackson and Wallace remain near this coast city 50 miles 17th floor penthouse for nearly Vk hours this morning with McGovern elsewhere in the suite going over least a dozen names of potential No. 2 candidates. George S. MoGovern inched toward selection of a running mate today, with close advisers unable lo agree immediately on iouth oE Houston. All U3 passengers aboard the Melvtn Martin Fisher He Surrendered Meekly was ended, to endorse Motov cu "lw and some Democratic old pros' who doubted he could beat President Nixon November 7.

Convention rules require that he submit his choice three hours before tonight's closing session starting at 7 o'clock EDT. McGovern staff members and advisers, including Actress Shirley MacLa'ine, sat around a conference in MeGovarn's who he snould be. 10 a II uaiiuiudty uu a McGovern Xaco.d a 4 p.m. The meeting brake up without! priority recommendation being! FREEPORT, Tex. (UPI) Two heavily armed hijackers commandeered a jetliner from Philadelphia to' the Texas Gulf Coast today with ransom, three parachutes and six hostage crew members.

The plane blew four tires landing a small commuter field and couldn't take off. At least one crew, member National Airlines jet, originally hijacked over New York Wed: nesday ght, were released at Philadelphia where the' skyjackers transferred to another plane EDT deadlinein his search for. a liberal platformand so did Wallace's antibusing supporters and Jackson's labor supporters. vice' presidential candidate ac em in person. High up in speculation about Veep possibilities were Rep.

Wilbur D. Mills of. Arkansas, President Leonard Woodcock of' the United Auto Workers' Un agreed on, according lo woww ern aides. ceptable to both the coalition of discontent which nominated him Thare was' one firm no to the with their hostages and ransom. The votes of Illinois delegates who had ousted and antago (Please See Page 10, Column 1) They can't possibly take off ion.

Senator Abraham Ribieoff! of the tires," said a at Lake Jackson Air Pirate Gives Up to Stewardess of Connecticut, and Governor Patrick J. Lucey of Wisconsin. Mills, who earlier had said he Airport. "We also do not have facilities to refuel the The hijackers held the re maining three stewardesses hi the plane at the sound end of Peninsula In Grip of A Heat Wave could not share a ticket with a man he differed with ideologically, remained silent. But his aides stood by at his hotel, dearly hoping the powerful congressman wouid be tapped.

the 5,000 foot long runway. A steady rain fell on the areas at midmorning. OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) Marina Lagoon SJF. Student Injured by Power Boat A gray haired gunm'an, claim Eight FBI armed itn While advisers haggled over ing he had a bomb in a suitcase and waving a gun Chat turned high powered rifles and Shenft who they thought the No. 2 man Robert Gladney sealed off the put to be empty, hijacked an should be, McGovern worked on a plan to take his appeal for area for a radius of one mile.

San Mateo County continued to sizzle today with near record American Airlines jet wiih 57 The hijackers, two black meni pUier persons on board last campaign funds to the. American people. high temperatures expected in believed armed with a pistol night. ajid shotgun and carrying a He plans a direct mail effort designed to raise $25 million He received a ransom pack A 23 year old bomb, ordered the plane flown from Philadelphia to Texas ear age in a mail pouoh today, freed the 50 passengers, ordered Hie plane to leave for an unknown ly totiay. They bypassed Dallas and headed south to Houston Other Convention Steries Pages 3, 4.

More Pictures on Pages 3, 6, 8 destination and then, surprising Iv handed over his empty .38 where the Federal Aviation Administration reported the let caliber revolver to a circled down to 14,000 teet be outsidte regular and perhaps and surrendered mained in critical condition in Chope Community. Hospital today after he was strtiofc by a' power boat oh" Marina Lagoon while sailng a city owned Ei Toro sailboat yesterday, accord ing to San Mateo police. The ac cident happened at 4:20 p.m. in an area posted for a five mile speed limit. The victim was identified as Joseph Chow' 500 Parnassus Street, San Francisco.

The ad fore flying' on to Lake Jackson foreclosed party channels. The plane landed and the hi Airport. jacicer, Melvin Ma ma isner, some ot ute men The flight engineer, Gerald 49, iof Norman, was takeni bested for the nomination, including Senator Henry M. Jack to jail Beaver, was shot an the right side. He was taken to Freeport Community Hospital in good son of Washington' and1 Governor Federal agents searched the plane and found tfie ransom Georee C.

Wailace of Alabama. condition. most areas. "It will be continued warm today, but a little cooler on Friday," is the way the Weather Bureau at San Francisco International Airport summed up the situation. Yesterday was hot, almost unbearable in some areas.

The mercury climbed to 106. at the Skylonda station of the State Division of Forestry. Woodsi.de recorded 103 degrees, whiie Redwood City reported 102," hottest ever on that date in tne county seat. It was 97 in San Mateo yesterday, fallowing close the high for any July day which was 101 in 1970. The airport recorded a high of 86 degrees yesterday, setting a new record there where the previous high temperature of 85 was set on that date in 1954.

Temperatures began to soar again this morning with the mercury hitting 84 degrees in Belmont at 10 a.m. Redwood trackage but no (bomb. dress is the dormitory of. San Raeman W. Reagan, the copi He demanded and Francisco State College remained unreconciled.

But Wallace at least was reported backing away from the Third suffered a fractured pelvis parachutes in exchange: for the! and1 right wrist phis other, less was participating in a San Mateo city recreation de Party effort his aides had ear ip asscngers. The returned serious, injuries. He was listed to Oklahoma City and tended. lier called a growing possibility. mfaar condition.

partment sponsored a class at the time. He was sai but the mi acker forced it While the McGovern camp Reagan flew the plane from take off again and circle the Philadelphia alter tne pilot Capt. Elliott M. Adams, 55 city while the ransom was being tried to consolidate its victory, President Nixon's operatives were already in Miami Beach ing the seven foot, 11 inch, craft and making a turn when it was rammed broadside by the power boat. The fiberglass sailboat shattered and splintered; police delivered leaped out of the cockpit win The FBI said the hijacker was dow and escaped at miaaei attempting to cash in on ami McGovern discontent.

given or, parachute said. 000 in a mail pouch and in tarn Adams was in fair condition Interior Secretary The powerboat operator was released the passengers at St. Luke's Hospital in Phila B. Morton a member of the identified: by ponce as inch Mer harmed. The jetliner took off, delphia.

The hospital and feder DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE Senator George McGovern, S.D., worked on his acceptance speech while watching the convention proceedings on television Wednesday night in. Miami Beach. McGovern won the presidential nomination on the first ballot of the Democratic National Convention. (AP Wirephoto) Nixon re election committee again with the seven crewmem al officials would not permit said there was a "fertile field" ritf Sturgis, 38, of 1537' Lago San Mateo. According to bers as hostage and a short City reported 82 at that hour and San Mateo City had 7fi de anyone to talk witn him of dissatisfaction which' the GOP could work.

time latCT the hijacker surren their report he was driving i 1972 model Caravell inboard An Eastern Airlines' employe said Adams came out' of the grees. A prime tactic Nixon will use outboard 17 foot motorboat Ihe weather Bureau reported degrees at San Frandsccr cockpit of the original hijacked against McGovern in the elec with a 165 horsepower engine. tion, Morton said. was to try to Airport at 10 a.m., but down jetliner "lite a saoK of pot a toes." The first plane commandeered was a 727 stretch1 jet. disprove McGovern "has a magic wand that.

can cure all the nation's problems." Officer George Welling said witnesses told him Chow was thrown into the water by the impact. The sailboat mast broke off and. came crash "We started to go for it but a Nixon's Peace Plan Rejected As Paris Conference Resumes police car sped out to the plane The final official first ballot and an officer reached out and (Please See Page 10, Column 1) Vote was: ing down on his head 1,864.95 dered to the stewardess, i "We recovered evry penny," said an FBI agent. The skyjacker, described as a nervous man about six feet tali who took swigs of a white liquid from a bottle as the hijacking progressed, forced the pilot to turn back to Oklahoma City shortly after it left Dallas. But after landing in Oklahoma City, he forced the into the air again to await delivery of.

his ransom. The jetliner circled Oklahoma City for three hours until the hijacker was told his ransom was ready. One man delivered the ransom package to a spot on the 485 At same time he is believed to have 'been slashed on the foot by some sharp part of McGovern Jackson Wallace Cbisholm 377.5 101.45 69.5 peech, did not voice specific tone, Madame Bmh charged PARIS (UPI) The Vietnam the boat, Welling sai doctors told him at the hospital. support of South Vietnam's re that President Nixon's eight ese Communists today rejected Massacre Admitted 35 fusal to cooperate in.a joint cab point plan proposed January 25 inet with the Viet Cong. and calling for new presidential 32.8 20.8 10.65 Madame Binh charged the town San Francisco had already reached 80 degrees already a new record for this date.

Highs today will be in the 70's along the coast to the high'Sfl's and low 100's iniand. Southern San Mateo County will continue to he hottest, with the mercury expected to reach at least 05 degrees in Redwood City. Wood side is expected to reach the low 100's again. An "air stagnation advisory" was issued yesterday morning by the Weather Bureau, but fortunately it failed to materialize with only "light" smog recorded in most Bay Area stations. It was hot throughout the Bay Area yesterday with 9B degrees recorded at San Jose.

In Marin County the mercury climbed into the 80's and 90's. Downtown San Francisco reported a comfortable 76 degrees, a lot higher The victim had a total of 150 stitches taken. There were three large head wounds, police said. About a hundred witnesses were on the beach and in boats Sanford Humphrey Mills Muskie Kennedy Hayes McCarthy Mondale elections in South Vietnam, was aimed merely at maintaining U.S. Air Force was now i LOD, Israel (AP) Kozo President Nixon's latest peace plan as an "unreasonable and absurd" ultimatum and said they will settle for nothing except acceptance of their own plan.

napalm and toxins in its raids Okamoto told an Israeli army U.S. control of the country. "The demand for an immedi 5 2 1 South Vietnam. court today hejs a' professional at the time. A group rushed to runway and a passenger left the: (In Saigon, military sources soldier of the Red Army organi ate cease fire to come before an accord on military and political the area anapuuea mm out.

de 9.7 jetliner to recover it. Then the said Wednesday. U.S. planes! Abstain. North Vietnamese negotiator tective Sgt.

Kenneth Brooks and were dropping chemical bombs passengers walked to freedom In a living room crowded questions on conditions put for zation of Japanese radicals and he accepts "full responsibility for the people I killed" in the Comm iinist held Quang in with kinfoHt and confidants Welling administered iirst aitf. Witnesses told police that down a special escape snatt. ard by Mr. Mxon on May a McGovern watched his nomina The aircraft toot olt trom La Xuan Thuy and Madame JNgU; yen Thi Binti, the Viet Cong foreign minister, turned down Nixon's 'plan and pushed their own lone rejected peace package, some of them had yelled to the Province. But they denied the (Please See Page 1, Columi 1) and June 29 is in fact nothing but an unreasonable and absurd Guardia Airport in New York tion on television under the heat and of television ultimatum," she 5aid.

power operator to reduce his speed just before the crash, Welling said. lamps recording tne moment. She said the cease fire called and stopped in Washington and Chicago before proceeding to Oklahoma City. It was to have when the Vietnam Conference resumed after a ten week sus Lod Airport massacre. The survivor of the three Japanese terrorists who attacked the crowd in the airport May 30 with machine guns and grenades spoke out shortly after the prosecution rested its case.

The 24 year old Japanese said After 18 months, starting Woman Hurt Erom nowhere, the candidate At' the time of the accident Sturgis was pulling a skier, for again today by U.S. Negotiator William J. Porter and Saigon's Pham Dang Lam "does flown directiy to Los Angeles than the average high for that "a pension. The Communist delegations from Dallas discontent had won. His eyes1'" su ioht th amotion.

He! whicn is 64 degrees identified by Officer Welimg as i coupled with a violent One of the passengers Mike G. Loskutoff, 18, of 1B69 Oakland recorded. 88 degrees, not aim at ending the war, but simply at legalizing' the Nguyen the attack, in which 28 persons condemnation of U.S. air strikes in Vietnam, failed to move the Bahia Street, San Mateo. There were six people in the boat, it Van Thieu Administration and In Train Fall An elderly woman was seri were killed and 57 were wound ed, was to "benefit revolution the American military pres conference off dead center as leased, Tony Castello, 48, of Harrisonburg, W.Va., said the gunman took frequent swigs from a medicine bottle filled (Pleax See Page II, Column 1) kissed his sisters and his nieces and shook hands with the men, then went back to writing on a yellow pad with a felt tip pen the acceptance speech he will deliver tonight.

was ence, while depriving the South had been hoped in Washington ary warfare, which I define as a The area in which the coili Taking an unusually harsh Pleise See Page Column 7) war of justice." ously injured after she slipped Vietnamese people of the. legitimate right to self Madame Binh said. but at Pleasanton, the temperature reached 100. Weak sea breezes along the coast are responsble for the hot temperatures, according to the Weather Bureau. The sea breezes are expected to "pick up" this afternoon, hopefully providing cooler weather for the area by tomorrow.

fell from a southbound But hostility remained trom Southern Pacific commuter Earlier, the Saigon delegation train shortly before it pulled the old guard. On the convention floor, the die hard supporters of Hubert Humphrey bluntly told the Communists it New Flap at Chess Match will never accept their plans tor and Edmund S. Muskie casti South Vietnam's political iuture into the San Bruno depot at fir45 a.m. She was tentatively identified from a rent receipt as Rosalie Garcia, 2 Turk Street, San Today's 150th session was the first since May A when Nixon said this was a onetime One U.S. chess source said The match could go as many 5 24 games.

Spassky needs REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI)' Bobby Fischer's representa sion. broke off the talks because the Fischer was unlikely to change Francisco. Communists showed no willing The 29 year old American only 12 his world title but Fischer needs MVi to An unidentified passenger on ness to negotiate in public or in News Index his mind: ''You can talk to Fischer when he is winning but walked out Wednesday night be tives met with officials of the TV company on a closed circuit the world chess championJiips today to the train said he was standing private. The United States' agreed win. Si hmirl demanded a mr toause two tiny iv cameras not when he has lost," the behind the woman in the open doorway of the train when the sonai apology from Fischer.

The we: hidden above the stage source'said try to prevent Hie temperamen accident occurred. Lothar Schmid, the official tal America challenger from arbiter said Fischer called hm Hand used for flie closed circuit' a liar Schmid went back TV.in the hall. referee in the said walkinc out. return to the conference table today, the President announced June 29,. because there were indications the.

Communists would adopt a more flexible attitude. South Vietnamese Ambassador Pham'Dang'Lam told Hanoi Fred Cramer, a. vice presinem Fischer, who held up the first She tumbled from the train as it crossed the Angus Avenue crossing, heading south. She had been standing in the Fischer would forfeit the secoridptage Wednesday to try to talk game if he did not show upfeschar into rtuiun g'' the of the Chess Federation LLAMAS ousted by planners from Redwood City pens. Page 29.

Births 31 Peninsula News 29 30 Business 25 Sports 19 22 Classified ...31 36 Stocks 24 Comics :.28 TV, Radio 16 Editorial 26 Theaters 17 Features 27 Weather .14 Obituaries 31 Women's News 12 13 lW also said the or fend acting on behalf. of Fischer. within one hour of the scheduled game for 35 minutes Wednesday because be objeoted.to'its being filmed on closed circuit television, sid he would not show up teanizers would be. allowed to fill said were under starting time of. 5 p.m.

middle car' of the three car commuter train. She was taken to Peninsula Hospital and later hvay with Richard G. Stein, a two front rows of the specta EDT.) Fischer lost the iirse game to Spassky, putting him that Saigon would never accept! imposition of a coalition govern ment to replace President Ngu tor seats in the. 3,000 seaf hallfflawyer tor unesar ox, inc. for toda v's eame with Worldl irafov ntd the comoany winch own ChamDion Boris Spassky of Rus one point behind Russian.

A transferred to Chope Community Hospital, suffering from multiple contusions and abrasions. the TV and rights the; the two rows Wednesday a' unless all the TV cameras! forfeit today would put him two yen Van Tnieu. Porter, in his prep are Fischer's request points behind. were removed from the hall..

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