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Mostly Cloudy Tuesday High Low Airport 69 52 Downtown 69 48 (Full Report on Page 2) 90TH YEAR. NO. 59. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 12.

1972. PRICE TEN CENTS. SPOKANE, WASH. vs Demos Defeat Wallace Planks Staying in the Race Henry M. Jackson talks Tuesday to Hawaiian delegation.

Sen. Wallace Acknowledges Ovation Gov. George Wallace at convention. DEMOS KEYNOTER Delegates Adrift Lean to Jackson U.S. Opens Door Wide Gov.

Askew Sees HW4WWWWWWWWW FLOOD KILLS 30 IN JAPAN TOKYO (AP) Thirty persons are dead and 11 others are missing in floods and landslides set off by three days of torrential rains in western and southwestern Japan, national police reported Tuesday. They said another 58 persons were injured by landslides in Kyoto, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Saga, Shimane and Nagano prefectures where about 12 inches of rain were recorded in 40 hours. Humphrey Quest Ends With Tears By LOU CANNON MIAMI BEACH (WP) Hubert Humphreys long quest for the presidency ended in defeat Tuesday with a tear for his staff and a pledge to his country. With his voice trembling and a smile on his face, Humphrey released his delegates and vowed to continue seeking a nation governed with justice and compassion. Humphrey made his statement' to an overflow news conference, but he talked first to his 180 staff members, telling them he would spend the rest of his public life working for social justice in America.

Going to Be a Senator Im going to be a senator, he said. Im not going back to the drugstore. Humphreys comments were directed to the youthful and unpaid volunteers on his staff. Most of them wept openly when he said it was better to have sought the presidency and lost than not to have sought it at all. No one had to be reminded that it was the last presidential hurrah for Humphrey, who lost to John F.

Kennedy in the primaries of 1960 and to Richard Nixon in the general election of 1968 Staff Cries With Him Humphrey remained dry-eyed throughout most of his speech, but at the end he asked his staff if he could wipe away a tear. The volunteers and the cadre of Democratic loyalists whri stuck with Humphrey this year against improbable odds wept with him. "Id rather lose with Hubert than win with anyone else, said S. Harrison Sonny Dogole, the Philadelphia millionaire who un-stintingly gave his money and his time to the Humphrey campaign. Were all sad because we love him so and in life you have only one love affair with a man.

Humphrey and his wife Muriel met at 9:30 a.m. in his suite and told seven of his closest advisers and friends, including campaign manager Jack Chestnut, what he intended to do. There was no disagreement on the decision, which all of them knew Humphrey had been pondering for several days. In his heart, Humphrey had decided last week at Lake Wav-erly, to go out with grace and dignity. Im not going to be a hang-dogger, he told the Washington Post, struggling for a midwest-ern metaphor to express his deeper emotions.

Ill be a good soldier. Ill do what Im asked to do. Maybe Ill even do a little more. Protest Coalition ing todays scheduled balloting session for the presidential nominee. Jackson's presidential nomination petition was filed by the 6 p.m.

Tuesday deadline with 196 delegate signers from 24 states, Corcoran said. The pe- the tition needed only 50 delegate signers from three states, he said. Endorsements for Jackson also came from Alaska Gov. William Egan and Georgias Gov. Jimmy Carter.

Carter is slated to deliver a nominating speech for Jackson. State open can Ill, for Meat WASHINGTON (AP) The Department is calling in ambassadors of 12 major meat exporting countries Wednesday to tell them that the American market is now wide and we will take all you send. Spokesmen Charles W. Bray announcing this move, said REUBIN ASKEW Vital Goals for Democrats. Nixon Ready to Meet Russ Chief Today SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

(AP) President Nixon plans to meet today with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin on substantive East-West questions left unresolved at the recent Moscow summit. Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Tuesday Henry A. Kissinger, the Presidents national security affairs adviser, knew that Dobrynin and his wife were on the West Coast and asked him to visit the Western White House here. Ziegler, asked to characterize the planned Nixon-Dobrynin meeting, replied: 1 dont want to describe it as a courtesy call.

Asked if substantive matters would be discussed, the Nixon spokesman said, Yes. He declined to elaborate. Zeigler said Dobrynin was in San Francisco to visit the recently opened Soviet consulate there and was invited by Kissinger to join him in the Los Angeles area. The two men and Mrs. Dobrynin got together Tuesday in Los Angeles and visited the Universal movie studio, then went to dinner.

At an afternoon press confer- the aim is to bring down the price of fresh and frozen beef and veal to the American consumers. Undersecretary of State John N. Irwin has asked envoys- of ence before Tuesdays convention session, Jackson said it is important that there be a candidate to represent those American people who support these things opposed the 12 countries to meet at the by McGovern. State Department Wednesday "I shall continue to Treasury Secretary By ROBERT HARPER Spokesman-Review Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH Many delegates turned to support Sen. Henry M.

Jackson, in the wake of the withdrawals Tuesday of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, and Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, for the Democratic presidential nomination.

But the nomination appeared to be locked securely in the hands of Sen. George S. McGovern, on the heels of Mondays convention vote to restore 151 of his California delegates. Brian Corcoran, Jackson Press secietary, said early today Jackson now had more than 500 first ballot delegate votes. He said Jackson forces looked for as many as 100 delegates from Pennsylvania, a 182-member delegation.

There were projections of 70 delegates from Ohio and 50 from Missouri, Corcoran said. Dolph Briscoe, Texas delegation chairman, said Jackson made a favorable impression on the states 33 uncommitted delegates at an afternoon caucus. Other delegates were picked up Tuesday in Kentucky and Kansas, according to Jacksons aides. Corcoran said the votes came from uncommitted delegates and from former Muskie and Humphrey backers. Endorsements also rolled in Tuesday and early today.

They included Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia, Gov. William Egan of Alaska, and Gov. Michael OCallaghan of Nevada, Corcoran said. The Jackson press secretary said Gov.

Warren E. Hearnes of Missouri was expected to add his endorsement today. Carter, meanwhile, was scheduled to nominate Jackson dur MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Florida Gov. Reubin Askew said Tuesday night that Demo-crats are responding to a new )' coalition in this country a coalition of protest and to a thunder of discontent coming from rich and poor alike.

Delegates to the party's national convention, Askew said in the traditional keynote speech, were chosen in a ballot-box rebellion from Florida to California. This is indeed the most representative convention in our listory. Its impossible, in fact, to look upon this group without feeling that one has seen the face of America. If the new elements in the party stay together and work together, they can elect an administration which will win a better life for all Americans, the governor said. But, he went on, its impossible to ignore the forces of iivision that pull at us from very direction tonight, forces that would deny that people can stand together for the of each, and the happiness of Let us remember that this nation was founded on diversity; that our differences can he i source of strength as well as weakness; that a good and pen fight can be a vigorous way of searching for the truth; bat while no one person or Ejroup possesses the absolute ruth, every person and every roup has something of value offer.

Askew said that if divisive forces in the party can be kept check, nothing car, stop re-vitalized Democrats from making needed changes in the McGovern Win Called a Certainty By WALTER R. MEERS MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Sen. George McGovern strode without major challenge toward the Democratic presidential nomination early Wednesday after Sens. Hubert H.

Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie bowed to his towering national convention strength and quit the race. Despite a dramatic, personal appeal from Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, still a candidate, the Democratic National Convention shouted down his proposals to write more conservative terms into a liberal party platform tailored to McGoverns views.

Wallace Cheered Amid waves of cheers from the convention minority supporting his candidacy, the crippled Alabama governor came to the convention in a wheelchair to argue for his views of what the platform should say. The convention minority that whooped it up for Wallace provided the only support as eight Wallace planks, including a demand that the Democrats call for an end to school busing for racial balance, were rejected in a succession of voice votes. Busing Wanted The platform committee had endorsed some busing as a tool to improve educational opportunity. It called also for immediate, complete withdrawal of all U.S. combat forces in Indochina, wohel the rejected Wallace plank set the release of American prisoners as a condition for a pullout.

The platform votes demonstrated anew what was already evident: The convention power was in the hands of the McGovern forces. Secret Service agents and aides wheeled Wallace to the microphone, and he told the delegates the average man is frustrated, tired of big government. The ovation he got in his first major political appearance since a May 15 assassination attempt was a reflection of his support in the convention: Cheers and rebel yells from supporters in states that are his strongest, delegates from Florida, Texas, Michigan. But much of the convention listened in silence. His speech was vintage Wallace: law and order, demands for tax reform, a protest against foreign aid and mounting welfare costs.

Busing Hit As he had on a hundred platforms before the shots that cut him down in Laurel, Wallace denounced the asinine, senseless busing of little school children. His partisans cheered, but there were boos elsewhere on the convention floor. I am here because I want to help the Demoratic party, Wallace said. I want it to become again the party of the average citizen as it used to be and not the party of the pseudo-intellecvtual snobbery that it has come to be. But if the evenings moment of drama belonged to Wallace, politically, 1 the Democrats sweating, sweltering convention resort belonged to McGovern, the senator from South Dakota, longest of long shots when he began his White House quest 18 months ago.

By midevening, an Associated Press count showed McGoverns delegate commitments at 1,582.05, rising from the 1,507.75 he held earlier in the evening and far beyond the majority that will choose the Democrat to challenge President Nixon. In simplest terms, McGovern had the votes: On delegate disputes, on the platform the convention was completing Tuesday, and on the nomination itself. After a night of tumultuous political infighting that kept the Democratic National Convention in session until near dawn, it was a day of political drama. First, Humphrey of Minnesota, a presidential campaign warrior for a dozen years and the partys presidential choice in 1968, withdrew what must be his final bid for the White House. Then Muskie wrote a finish to the campaign that plunged him from front-runner to loser.

It is apparent to all of us that Sen. George McGovern is this conventions choice as the nominee of our party, said the senator from Maine. nations political life. We can do away with dollar democracy and government by the few and fight again and again for public financing of presidential election campaigns, he said. We can do away with those secret documents and secret meetings which only serve to protect the politician, and close the public out of the publics own We can fight the battle for tax reform as its never been fought before, and let others talk of waiting till next year.

And we can pursue the right of every person to decent health and medical care regardless of economic Theres a feeling in the land that policies are dictated not by how they will help the people, but by how they will help the re-election of a president, the profit margin of a utility, the power of a union leader, the bankroll of a multimillionaire, the welfare of an agricultural giant, or the budget of a big bureaucracy. The people seem convinced that such a system has forgotten the average man or wom for the views of these people until the end of the convention, he said. Of McGovern cnances against President Nixon, Jack-son said, I think hes got real problems. I predict he will not have the support of organized labor. I dont know of a Democratic candidate for President who has been successful without organized labor.

That's his first big hurdle. McGovern also will have trouble gaining support of the Jewish voters in New York and California because of his views on the support of Israel, Jack-son said. Jackson said McGovern forces "are strong in districts no Democrat can carry in a general election against a Republican. In order to win, he has to broaden his base, Jackson said. If he does, then he has a chance.

Jackson said he intends to support the party's presidential nominee. George Shultz and representatives of the Department of Agriculture, the Cost of Living Council, the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers and the office of the special assistant to the President for consumer affairs. Imports to Increase Bray said it is anticipated that President Nixons freeze on voluntary restraints on meat exports, announced in late June, would bring an 11 per cent increase in meat imports this year. The new appeal to the 12 nations for all the beef they can ship here will boost imports still further above the 11 per cent already expected. The 12 nations and the amount of their exports to the U.S.

in 1971 in millions of pounds were: Australia, 600.4 million pounds: New Zealand 250.9; Mexico 78.2; Ireland 74.7; Guatemala 25.3; El Salvador, 3.0; Honduras, 16.7; Nicaragua, 44.8; Costa Rica 39.8; Panama 6.1; the Dominican Republic 12.5 and Haiti, 2.6. ON THE INSIDE In Todays Spokesman-Review Comics 20 Pictures ....26 Crossword ..12 Radio-TV 2 Editorials 4 Records 20 Inland Sports Empire 7 Star Gazer 5 Markets .14,15 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 an in America today. THE NEWS IN BRIEF It will be explained to the ambassadors that countries which help the United States now with larger meat imports will have this factor considered when import quotas for 1973 are set. During 1971 there were 1.112 billion pounds of meat imported into the United States under the voluntary restraint program. Total U.S.

meat production this year is estimated at 23.3 billion pounds. With a boost of more than 11 per cent in meat imports, in the vicinity of 1.3 billion pounds will be furnished to American consumers with the hope that this will bring down soaring meat prices. pistol in exchange for a confes. sion to Kozo Okamoto, the surviving Japanese terrorist now being tried for his part in the Lydda Airport massacre of last May. Asked in court whether he intended to keep that promise, Gen.

Rechavam Zeevy God forbid! It was just faked. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (NYT) The first game of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky match for the world chess championship was adjourned after 40 moves. Although the consensus of experts gave the Soviet champion the edge, it was felt that the American challenger still had good drawing chances. The match is to resume today at 1 p.m., EDT, NATIONAL WASHINGTON (NYT) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has reprimanded the Apollo 5 astronauts for smuggling 400 specially stamped envelopes to the moon last July. Later, 100 of these were sold by a German stamp dealer for a sum reported to be more than $150,000.

story on page 21. MIAMI BEACH (AP) The anti-establishment people camping out at Miami Beach's Flamingo Park have set up a little hierarchy of their own. A 12-to-16 member governing council represents all the nondelegate protest groups camping at the park, a few blocks from the Democratic National Convention. THE CONVENTION MIAMI BEACH (NYT) -Sens. Hubert H.

Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie surrendered the Democratic presi-dential nomination Tuesday to Sen. George McGovern and urged him to reunite the party. McGovern responded by asking his followers to give a respectful hearing to the views of two of his remaining rivals, Gov. George Wallace and Sen.

Henry Jackson. MIAMI BEACH (NYT) -Sen. George McGovern is reported to have narrowed his choices for a running-mate to three or four men, but campaign aides disclaim firm knowledge of their identity. They say Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy still heads the list even though they see little hope that he can be persuaded to accept the vice presidential nomination. Other names mentioned include Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, and Gov. Reu-bin Askew of Florida. INTERNATIONAL SAIGON (NYT) Saigon has dropped previous claims of the recapture of -Quang Tri, and military sources say the South Vietnamese army apparently will not try to seize that provincial capital. Instead, it may lay siege to the enemy forces dug in there, thus avoiding costly hand-to-hand combat.

JERUSALEM (NYT) A top Israeli general has conceded that he promised a suicide No Compensation No, the man behind the desk explained to the little girl, you cannot collect unemployment compensation simply because your mother has bought an automatic dishwasher! If you find modern appliances tempting, and are interested in mobile quarters, too, count on the Classified section to provide you with helpful information. Here, for example, is a Want Ad offering for sale the cleanest travel trailer in town; 22' AIRSTREAM, cleanest travel trailer town, ice electric refriqeration, gas range with oven, shower, toilet, cash or terms. See at $1507 Cedar Street. i i A. R.

Burke, S1507 Cedar, says, Im very pleased with the results of my ad in The Spokesman-Review. I sold the trailer to the first person who saw the ad. Let a Want Ad work for you. Call TE 8-4664. Farewell to Presidential Hopes Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey gives tearful wife Muriel a kiss..

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