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FORECAST TODAY Fair and Warmer Monday High Low Airport 79 48 Downtown 78 50 (Full Report on Page 2) 90 TH YEAR. NO. 51. TUESDAY MORNING JULY 4, 1972. PRICE TEN CENTS.

SPOKANE. WASH. McGovern, daley rebuffed Court Upholds Action of Demo Committee Both cases will be carried to the United States court of appeals for a hearing and decision in both instances will be made by the Democratic National Convention when it meets in Miami Beach next Monday. All the parties are anxious for a favorable ruling, however, because a high court decision would be a potent weapon in convention debate, even if it did not directly control the delegates final resolution of the cases. McGoverns prospects for a first-ballot victory hang on the California decision, and, to a lesser extent, on Illinois.

In the first case, he lost 151 delegates to other candidates; in the second, he gained at least 41 and perhaps 50 with the replacement of the Chicago Two weeks ago, Hart had found unconstitutional two of the reform guidelines invoked against the Daley delegation those calling for women, young people and blacks to be represented in convention delegi tions in approximate proportion to their share of each states population. He repeated that ruling Monday, but found that two other guidelines that were constitutional had been violated by the Daley organization, Thus justifying the committee in ordering the Chicago delegates expulsion. The guidelines were those requiring all state parties to adopt rules for delegate selection and make them accessible and to hold open, well-advertised meetings when delegates slates are being drawn up, to encourage broad participation. ii, fpf i WASHINGTON (NYT) A federal district judge upheld Monday the Democratic Credentials Committees actions in depriving Sen. George McGovern of 151 of the delegates he won in California and in unseating Mayor Richard J.

Daley and 58 other Chicago delegates. Judge George L. Hart Jr. held that in both the politically sensitive cases the committee had not committed any unconstitutional acts that warranted court intervention. He emphasized the reluctance of the courts to enter the political thicket of such decisions.

Hart ruled that the committee had been within its rights in unseating the Daley delegation, but he declined to say whether its replacement by a largely pro-McGovern contingent, chosen in unofficial caucuses, was legal. McGOYERN TH 3 i i I WWWWWWWSWWWWHHVWWWWWHWV SHORT Jacksons Credentials Bid Wins McGoverns Backers Fail An effort to take at least 15 Washington State delegates from Sen. Henry M. Jackson, failed Monday before the Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee. Meeting in Washington D.C., the committee voted 78 to 53 to seat Washingtons 52-member delegation pledged to Jackson.

A drive by supporters of Sen. George S. McGovern. to replace the Washington delegates failed to come to a vote. However, the committees action will substitute two women delegates for two men in the 6th Congressional District to comply with convention rules on proportional representation of youth, minorities and women in state delegations.

Fight Expected Thomas C. McCarthy, Bellevue, attorney and McGovern state coordinator for challenges, indicated he would take the case to the national convention floor, according to John McLaughlin, a Spokane McGovern delegate seeking to replace a Jackson delegate from the 5th Congressional District. The McGovern appeal to the Credentials Committee stemmed from the state Democratic convention June 24 in Seattle which stripped McGovern of two national convention delegates in the 5th Congressional District and sis in the 3rd. In addition, the state convention rejected a McGovern challenge of four Jackson delegates in the 4th Congressional District. McCarthy appealed the loss of the eight delegates plus the challenges against the 4th District contingent and three male Jackson at-large delegates.

Arguing for the McGovern forces Monday, McCarthy contended Jackson supporters at the states party convention pulled a blatant power play to deprive the South Dakota Democrat of national delegates he had won in three congressional districts. Jack Tanner, a spokesman for Jackson, denied any foul play, saying instead the McGovern forces had offered to make a deal in violation of party reform rules. Heated Debate The lethargic debate on the dispute became heated at one point when committee members swapped charges of delegate stealing. Jean Wallin of New Hampshire contended the Jackson forces had applied to the Credentials Committee for a license to steal. Responding to Mrs, Wallin, Maryland Lt.

Gov. Blair Lee III, said, There may be a license to Humphrey of Minnesota, beneficiary of the attack on delegate band, gained 106 He added two more from Sunday. He now has 498.55 Gov. George C. Wallace place with 381.

Sen. Edmund of Maine has 225.55. is still 227.1 delegate the 1,509 it will take for nomination at the convention, opens in Miami Beach Nixon has all but a dozen Republican delegates selected with only 674 needed for Eleven are uncommitted to Rep. Paul N. WASHINGTON (AP) Sen.

George S. McGovern held 1,281.9 Democratic National Convention delegate votes Monday as the Credentials Committee continued to sift through the remaining challenges. Over the last weekend the committee gave McGovern some more delegates and took away a few, but the balance was far from bringing the South Dakota senator back to the strong position he held before it stripped him of 151 California delegates last Thursday. McGovern got 41 delegates Friday night when the committee threw out the Chicago slate led by Mayor Richard Daley. He gained one in Maryland and lost 1.5 in Virginia Sunday.

of Hue. The vehicles were the My Chanh defense line the ancient capital. (AP South Vietnamese peasants continue tending their rice paddies recently, undisturbed by an army tank and truck heading up Route 1 north of the old im North Yiets Slam Hue ith Artillery 83,413 STOLEN While its decisions were being argued in federal court, the Credentials Committee continued hearing more of the several dozen pending challenges to other state delegations. Officials are hopeful that the pre-convention work may be completed by mid-week. On Capitol Hill, 164 aides of Democratic senators and representatives made public a joint letter to Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey in which they protested his action in bringing the California challenge, which they said went against your decency and commitment to fair play. We urge that you reflect now upon the grevious damage you are doing not only to your own image as a kind and honorable man but also tin party which you have done so much to shape and strengthen in the past, the aides wrote, emphasizing that they were speaking for themselves and not their employers. Sympathy, But No Help Questioning Joseph L. Rauh counsel for the McGovern forces in the California case, Hart indicated personal sympathy but no legal assistance for the candidate who lost delegates as a result of the committees vote on Thursday.

It might not be cricket to change the rules, it might even be dirty pool, but is it unconstitutional? he asked. Under the California decision, the 271 delegates that McGovern won in thy primary were divided among Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey and six other candidates in proportion to their primary vote, substituting a system of proportional representation for the state's winner-take-all law. During argument on the Chicago ease.

Jerome H. Torshon, counsel for the Daley delegates. maintained that the guidelines applied to the Illinois State Party and not to the Chicago city organization or any congressional district party units. 1,1 President to Address Nation Today SAN CLEMENTE. Calif.

(AP) President Nixon will address the nation by radio today in a July 4 holiday speech expected to call for unity to meet the great trials the President sees ahead for the American people. Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Monday the chief executives speech will be broadcast live at 9:05 a.m. PDT Tuesday from the Western White House. Nixon will talk for about 10 minutes, Ziegler said.

The speech, which Ziegler said would be carried live by all radio networks, fits Nixon's pattern of using holidays as occasions for nationwide addresses. He made radio broadcasts last Labor Day and Veterans Day. Ziegler said the President would discuss in the speech plans for the Bicentennial observance of the nations Independence in 1976 and touch on other matters appropriate to the 4th of July. After the speech, the President will spend the holiday with his wife at their Spanish-style ocean-front home. He conferred Monday with his chief foreign and domestic advisers, Henry Kissinger and John Erhliehman; signed 13 congressional acts for the relief of private individuals, and declared portions of Arizona and West Virginia as disaster areas, qualifying them for federal assistance.

Bus Hijacked by Two Men Who Rob 43 Passengers STILL FAR the downtown Baltimore Civic Center at about 11 a.m., pulled guns on the driver as the bus neared the Baltimore Beltway on Pulaski Highway, north of the city. He said the iriver was forced to enter the Beltway and drive completely around the city while the gunmen went from passenger to passenger, taking valuables. Forty-three of the 46 pas-en-gers told police they had been robbed. One of them, Harry T. Coffin 72, of Annapolis, told police he lost $519, which he thought was the highest amount taken from anyone.

Authorities said the bandits, one of whom carried what was described as a derringer-type pistol, forced an unidentified passenger to walk down the aisle and hold the white paper bag into which the victims dumped their money. Police said the robbers spotted Benjamin Titelman, 76, of Philadelphia, trying to hide $219 under his belt. One bandit reportedly slapped him and ordered him to stand up. The money fell down his pants leg and onto the floor. George Dotson, the bus driver, said the bandits ordered him to stop the bus at the interchange and that both fled on foot over an embankment and across the busy highway.

LIIOUR OUTING Hubert H. the chief McGoverns in California. Maryland delegates. Alabama holds third S. Muskie McGovern votes short of a presidential which next Monday.

President of the 1,167 so far, nomination. and one belongs A it i 5 War and Peace of the same size. The casualties in the Sunday attacks were 12 persons dead and more than 50 wounded most of these civilians, the Saigon government said. On Monday, the Communists fired 27 shells during a two-hour barrage of Hue, and followed this during the afternoon with a bombardment by the 130-mm guns. Intensity Increases The intensity of enemy shelling throughout the northern area has increased sharply during the last two days.

On Monday the North Vietnamese reportedly fired 14 rockets and shells into the Phubai military base seven miles from Hue. Some 500 Communist shells exploded at a Saigon position five miles south of Mychanh the western anchor of the defense line protecting Hue. Another government position, Firebase Bastogne southwest of Hue, reportedly was hit by 750 enemy shells Sunday. Despite the enemy shelling, South Vietnamese forces claimed to have fought to within three miles of Quangtri City, causing heavy enemy losses. President Nguyen Van Thieu, who visited the northern front Sunday said he expected all of Quangtri Province to be back in friendly hands by the middle of July.

3IoveI Io Hospital JESSUP, Md. (AP) Arthur H. Bremer, charged with shooting Gov. George C. Wallace, was moved Monday from the Baltimore County Jail to Clifton T.

Perkins State Hospital for his court-ordered mental examination. the FBI said. IN BRIEF ment officials took issue with one another as to whether former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara specifically ordered the Air Force to stop rainmaking activities in late 1967 or not. Two high-ranking Johnson administration officials recalled rain-making efforts as little more than experiments stopped by the end of the Johnson administration, a position disputed by Nixon administration officials.

NATIONAL WASHINGTON (NYT) The Democratic Credentials Committees decisions to unseat Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 other Chicago delegates and to deprive Sen. George S. McGovern of 151 of the delegates he won in California was upheld by Federal District Judge George L. Hart who held that in both politically sensitive cases the committee had not committed any unconstitutional acts that warranted court intervention, story on page 1.

perial capital bound for which guards wirephoto) Court Denies Dismissal for Ellsberg LOS ANGELES (AP) The judge in the Pentagon papers case ruled Monday that Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo have not proved that the government. singled them out for prosecution because of their antiwar views. U. S. District Court Judge William M.

Byrne Jr. denied a request for dismissal of espionage, conspiracy and theft charges and refused to allow a special hearing in which the defense proposed calling witnesses to support the contention that Russo and Ellsberg were being prosecuted unfairly. However, Byrne ordered the government to give him any written material that the prosecuting authority has discussing the reasons for initiating charges against the defendants. He said this would include records, letters and memos about telephone calls. Should that information show any discriminatory conduct, Byrne said, this matter will be reopened by me on my own motion.

In a flurry of rulings that cleared the way for the trial to start next Monday, Byrne also granted a government request for an inquiry into who leaked new segments of the secret Pentagon papers on the Vietnam war to columnist Jack Anderson last month. However, he said the defendants had filed statements denying their involvement and he accepted that as truth. The portions leaked to Anderson dealt with diplomatic efforts to end the war. The inquiry, he said, will concern persons not before this court at this time. JAMES D.

SLATER LONDON (AP) James D. Slater, a British banker, Monday offered Bobby Fischer a deal worth $130,000 to entice Fischer to play his Soviet rival Boris Spassky for -the world chess title. Story on page 11. DETROIT (NYT) For the third time this year, the General Motors Corp. recalled its small Vega cars to correct a safety defect, this time a problem that could lead to tire lear axle and wheel falling off.

Story on page 2. Bv MALCOLM W. BROWNE SAIGON (NYT) With strong South Vietnamese forces fighting their way into Communist-occupied Quangtri province Monday, North Vietnamese forces farther south replied with heavy artillery barrages. For the first time, the city of Hue came under fire from long-range Communist 130-mm guns. For the last two weeks, the bulk of Americas air power in Indochina has been concentrated on the destruction of enemy guns and supplies in Quangtri Province and adjacent provinces in North and South Vietnam.

Last week, South Vietnamese paratroopers and marines began a ground offensive into Quangtri Province, which fell to the North Vietnamese on May 1. Red Forces Strong But Communist forces in the area have remained very strong, constituting a continuing threat to Hue. There have been apprehensions that even as Saigon troops were attacking northward, the Communists were preparing an offensive aimed at taking Hue. For the first time in the war, projectiles from 130-mm guns with a range of 17 miles, crashed Monday afternoon into The Citadel of Hue. The Citadel, a walled inner part of the city, was the site of some of the heaviest fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet offensive.

The shelling of Hue began Sunday morning when 30 to 40 rockets and shells hit inside and around the walled city. Sunday night, there was another bombardment, lasting half an hour, of about 30 shells THE NEWS INTERNATIONAL SAIGON (NYT) Heavy artillery barrages from North Vietnamese forces crashed into the citadel of Hue, a fortress within the city that saw some of the heaviest fighting during the 1968 Tet offensive. This is the first time Hue has come under fire from long range Communist 130-millimeter guns. Simultaneously, Saigon forces are fighting their way into Communist-occupied Quang Tri Province. Story on page 1.

WASHINGTON (NYT) It is probable that China will send engineer battalions to the northern areas of North Vietnam to aid in the reconstruction of its bombed-out railroad lines to China, according to diplomatic and intelligence reports. These sources warn that China has felt under increasing pressure to aid its southern ally due to the American bombing in North Vietnam and the mining of North Vietnam harbors. WASHINGTON (NYT) -Present and fqrmer govern- BALTIMORE (AP) Two armed men commandeered a busload of race track fans Monday and forced the driver to circle the city while they robbed the passengers. The two men, one armed with a shotgun, fled the bus with $3,413 an hour later at the Baltimore Beltway Interchange with Route 95 in Halethorpe, a small suburban community fo miles south of here, police said. No one was hurt.

Thomas M. Manning, manager of the Baltimore Motor Coach said the bus carried 46 passengers and was en route to Delaware Park Race Course at Stanton, Del. Manning said the gunmen, who had boarded the bus at ON THE INSIDE In Todays Spokesman-Review Comics 13 Pictures 18 Crossword .13 Radio-TV 2 Editorials 4 Records ....14 Inland Sports 10, 11 Empire 7 Star Gazer 5 Markets .12,13 Weather 2 Movies 5 Women 8 News Service Symbols (AP) The Associated Press (NYT) (c) New York Times (WP) (c) Washington Post (WS) (c) Washington Star (LAT) (c) Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES (AP) Joyce Ann Huff, 4, was the victim of a senseless joy killing Sunday night, a sheriffs deputy said Monday. The girl was playing alone in a neighbors yard about 7:30 p.m. in suburban Hawaiian Gardens when she was gunned down.

An all-points bulletin was issued Monday afternoon for four men in connection with the shotgun slaying. A witness reported seeing the four(suspects in a light-colored car cruising in the vicinity at about the time the girl was shot. JOYCE ANN HUFF No getaway car was seen, Dot-son said. The three passengers who were not robbed said they merely told the gunmen they had no money. Manning said one passenger scribbled a note calling for help and dropped it from the moving bus as the robbery was in progress, but it was lost in the stream of 65-mile-an-hour traffic.

The company executive said eight of the buses leave the Baltimore area daily for the Delaware race track between 10:30 a.m. and noon. Baird C. Brittingham, president of Delaware Park, said after learning of the hijack: It seems like everything is going wrong this year, what with the floods washing everything out and now, now they start hijacking our buses. My God! Brittingham said this was the first he had heard of such an incident.

It could well discourage other track fans from coming over by bus. he said when contacted at the track. Maybe armed guards on the buses would be a solution, he said. Of course Im talking off the top of my head just now, but 1 guess well have to meet with the bus owners to see what their opinions are and to see what can he done. back seat of a limousine when i he returned to the hospital at 6.25 p.m.

His wife was seated next to him. Mrs. Wallace emerged from the car first and a security officer then lifted Wallace into a wheelchair. One of the bullets fired in the assassination attempt lodged in the governors spinal canal, partially paralyzing him from the waist down. The bullet was removed in surgery June 18.

The security agent wheeled Wallace to a curb corner in front of the hospital so that photographers could take pictures of him. Wallace smiled slightly, waved, saluted and raised two fingers in a sign. No newsmen were allowed to talk to him. Photographers and newsmen were stationed behind a barricade in a parking lot, about 50 feet from where Wallace entered near the back of the building. (Continued on Page 6) Reunification Aim of Secret Korean Talks SEOUL (AP) North and South Korea have held top-level meetings aimed at peaceful reunification of the peninsula split by World War II and ravaged by the Korean War five years later, the two governments announced jointly today.

Agreements were reached at meetings in Seoul and Pyongyang to refrain from slanderous statements or armed provocation and to install a telephone hot line between the two capitals in order to prevent the outbreak of unexpected hostilities, the announcement said. Charges of war preparations have flown in both directions across the 38th parallel recently, raising the specter of renewed hostilities. The three-year conflict that began in 1950 cost two million lives. Of the dead, 54,246 Americans. Only the Beginning The South Korean negotiator, Lee Hu-rak, told a news conference at which he issued the announcement: This is only the beginning now enter a confrontation with dialongue, while we had a confrontation without dialogue in the past.

Lee said South Korea did not consult its allies including the United Stales and Japan prior to the meetings with North Korea, with which it still is technically at war despite the 1953 armistice. He added, however, that he believed south Koreas allies had been told of the impending joint announcement. In Washington, State Department press officer Charles W. Bray called the agreement most encouraging. He said the United States had no role in the negotiations, but that the South Korean government kept the Nixon administration Wallace Gets Furlough for Dinner With Doctor Great Day Probably no American needs to be reminded that today in Independence Day.

Some may not remember, however, that it is also the birthday of our great jazz musician, the late Louis Armstrong. And one of the days largest July 4th celebrations is held annually in Jutland, Denmark, where Americas independence has been celebrated since 1912. Why not let the Want Ads make the day memorable for you with such buys as the camper described here: 168 9' CARAVEL camper, licensed, like new, lacks, gas electric retnq erator, porta-potty, etc. $1400 or best offer A 4-8421 Mrs. Lewis Paris, 182 Ganazick, says.

We made a sale the first thing in the morning, thanks to our ad in The Spokesman-Review Classified section Let a Want Ad work for you. Call TE 8-4664, (Picture on page 2) SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace left Holy Cross Hospital Monday for a four-hour outing to eat an early dinner at his physician's home in nearby Bethesda.

Md. It was the second time that Wallace had left the hospital since he was wounded at a political rally in Laurel, May 15. The recuperating governor left the hospital at 2:30 p.m. with his wife, Cornelia, for the home of Dr. Joseph Schanno, who has been heading the medical team treating Wallace's gunshot wounds.

The short trip was unannounced and the hospital public-relations staff did not know of his absence until reporters telephoned them with rumors that the governor had gone on the outing. Wallace, dressed in brown slacks and a white short-sleeved shirt, waved from the.

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