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WEATHER-FORECAST Partly Tonight Chance of 1 Thundershowers THE YORK DISPATCH NEWS TODAY Home Edition Circulation Books Always Open VOL 194 NO 36 YORK PA MONDAY EVENING JULY 10 1972 PRICE COPY 10 CENTS A Mn VfOR T7 PER WEEK 50 CENTS AI INtJ MOKJC Caucus Chaos Good Rock Festival DEMOCRATS SET TO OPEN THEIR HIE REJECTS LURE JUST 'IN Hanoi Old Negotiator Repeats Proposals to End War in Vietnam Lovers Quarrel She Botnbs Him With Watermelon LOS ANGELES Police held a 51-pound watermelon today as evidence in the unusual assault on OC Henry Henry 29 told police he had an argument over a welfare check with his girl friend Ofen Jones 25 and as he stalked out of the house she called to him from an upstairs window When he looked up she bombed him with the giant watermelon he said The watermelon which was weighed by police survived the impact with Henry unbroken But Henry was hospitalized with a broken right shoulder two broken ribs and other injuries Detectives were seeking Miss Jones I i 0fficias Runner With Harsh Advisory Bulletin MIAMI BEACH Fla! (AP) Sen1 George McGovern rejected today the bid of Sen Edmund Mus-kie to settle the California seating dispute at a closed meeting before opening of the Democratic National Convention PARIS (AP) chief peace negotiator Xuan Thuy returnee to Paris today repeating the old Communist proposals to end the war in Vietnam Thuy told an airport news conference: We still consider was noj extensive that the seven-point solution is Despite massive and several state police fans were well Marijuana and available but! Dreaming Fearful Delegates of Rescue From McGovern By Peter Lisagor Chicago DaUy News and Sun-Times Service MIAMI BEACH Many disgruntled estranged and fearful delegates at this 1972 Democratic Convention still nourish toe dream that the man who here will rescue them from George McGovern It is a dream as formless as it is forlorn amid the maneuvering of anti-McGovern forces hoping that somehow the South Dakotan can be stopped and the convention deadlocked In that increasingly improbable event the dreamers tell themselves and one another Sen Edward Kennedy would be swept up in a vast emotional embrace despite his Sherman-like disavowals and convention rules that now bar an unwilling nominee down here enjoying the sun relaxing and pulling for George says one old friend and retainer of he Kennedy family doing anything If a a genuine draft were to develop just say in Keunedy-Mills The Kennedy-Mills stickers that have cropped up were produced by supporters of Rep Wilbur Mills of Arkansas who has publicly said he would be available as a vice-presidential candidate only if the Massachusetts Senator were the nominee Humphrey Forces Threaten to Throw Convention Into Tail spin if Ruling in Credentials Battle Is Allowed to Stand i Party Bosses Accused of Stacking the Deck I By Peter Lisagor Chicago Daily News and Sun-Times Service MIAMI BEACH An acrimonious dispute over procedural rules threatens to turn the opening session of the 1972 Democratic Convention tonight into In a desperate effort to prevent Sen George nomination forces representing Sen Hubert Humphrey warned they would throw the convention into a tailspin if national chairman Lawrence ruling in the credentials battle were allowed to stand Charging the party's managers with stacking the deck for McGovern Stan Bregman a Humphrey representative said he would seek convention disapproval of the credentials committee final report The strategem could foijce a convention recess until the credentials committee held hearings and prepared a new report Emerging from a late session of the rules committee last night a McGovern spokesman Frank Mankie-wicz said would rather see the convention in shambles than see George McGovern MIAMI BEACH (UPI) Sen Edmund Muskie still resisting pressure to throw his support to Sen George McGovern said today he would remain a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination this convention is restatement of the I stand he took several weeks ago followed a meeting with1 One delegates pledged to him after speculation he might take on the 1 role of kingmaker by annointing McGovern who could virtually wrap up a first ballot victory if Muskie delegates switched to him I But Muskie after the unity meeting with his delegates at the Americana Hotel said still a candidate and will be a candidate until this convention is Visit joint youth and to Russia Shocks Radicals Young Maoist Winds Defending Nixon America LA Times Washington Post News Service MOSCOW Several Young American radicals invited to a conference with Soviet have gone home angered disillusioned by their ex- Pa Delegates Still Seeking A Chairman MIAMI BEACH (UPI) delfigates quar reled over who would be their leader today only hours before the start of the Democratic National Convention The badly fragmented state caucus erupted in chaos when private negotiations failed to produce a compromise chairman Delegates jammed up against the platform shouting insults at each other Frankie Mae Jeter a black delegate from Pittsburgh ran to the podium when she learned thestate caucus wanted to meet at the same time as a national black caucus we No we she yelled at Harvey Thieman state' chairman She pounded her fists on the podium About 20 other delegates followed her to the platform all screaming Disposal for parties fish- (Continued on Page 10) Riot Sticks Florida State Troopers Scatter periences The People's Con- t0 the United States ference held twlce repeated his side's June 23-28 in Minsk capital of oW Peace projxBals and gave no a mHlAAtlAM hrtf LlnMAI FA MlW White Russia with 100-member delegations from each country taking part Two of the participants Charles White a 27-year-old to a de compete Vietnam War veteran and 1972 i conditional withdrawal from graduate of Howard University! replacement of in Washington DC and Vietnamese President Michael Cutting 23 a marketing Va? Thieu b7 a coahtion specialist who is on the faculty of the New University Without Tlmy asked about a sta-Walls in Los Angeles told their jtement he made in Hanoi experiences to two American severa weks ago that he was rwfiiwnin rr tinV linAAfitroc correspondents They asked that invective than usual in returning with directives (Continued on Page 10) 1 Millionaires' Homes Open to Dem VIPs Is Like Something In a James Bond Movie Writer Says By Maxine Cheshire LA Times-Washington Post Nws Service MIAMI is a place Democratic senators were hoping start appearing on society pages back home until the convention was over The a compound of a dozen-or-so houses built on pilings in the Atlantic Ocean off Key Biscayne going to be used this week as a hush-hush hospitality hideaway for US senators their wives and special guests is like something out of a James Bond movie The houses costing up to $200000 are owned by people who can afford to have them blow away in hurricanes and built again without worrying about replacement costs Each dwelling generates Its own electrical power and some even have conversion apparatus to use rainwater and seawater for drinking and bathing Private Pow-Wows A friend of Florida Sen Law-ton Chiles who is the official just north of Japan and ending host to his colleagues in Miami in the North Atlantic as the came up with the idea of put-moon comes between the sun ting at the Sena- (Continued on Page 10) Eclipse Today Shadow Will Sweep Across the Earth tfnited Press International The shadow will sweep across the earth today at more than 1000 miles an hour during an eclipse of the sun A total eclipse will occur along a 113-mile-wide strip starting Aging Labor Chiefs Li' I could have in hand the required rignting VCuOV0rnjsignatures on a petition neces- A representative of Alabama! sary to place a name in nomina- ripnrap Wallace Charles jMeany Moans This Is the tion The rules stipulate jGeorge Wallace Charles agents reportedly were scouting delegates to see if they MIAMI BEACH Fla (AP) -AFL-CIO officials leading a drive to block George Democratic presidential nomination privately circulated today a harshly worded attack against the South Dakota Vietnam stand communism labor matters civil rights and a host of other issues notion that an American president should go begging to Hanoi will make sense only to those who believe that in the Vietnam war all right is on one and all wrong on the said the 50-page attack circulated among some 300 convention labor delegates It referred to comment last month that their stories be withheld until they had left the Soviet Union At least one other participant Gov Snider joined Bregman in a bitter assault upon parliamentary decisions and strongly implied his man would have no part of the convention that accepted them While Humphrey himself appeared more conciliatory in public statements party offi-( rials feared the national television audience w'ould be treated to an opening session of prolonged bickering over complicated rules that few viewers are likely to understand I 200000 Jam Poctmo Raceway in Mud Rain LONG POND Pa It was the biggest and most peaceful rock festival since Woodstock More than 209000 people braved the rains mud lack of toilet facilities and cheap wine at Pocono International Raceway over the weekend traffic jams minor accidents reported the rock controlled hard drugs were police said use By Sunday afternoon only a few stragglers remained to pick up broken glass and rake up garbage on the 600-acre track The festival was to last only one day but was expanded when rain forced rock bands from the open stage Saturday night -On a scale of 10 have to give them a said raceway manager Bill Marvel lot of people hear about other concerts but this was the first been involved with and very happy about The biggest 1 problem at the concert was traffic State police said major highways through the resort area were closed because some fans parked their cars on them when the spaces ran out at the raceway While there were no serious injuries at the festival Dennis Fement 17 Wallingford NJ was killed Saturday in a car accident near the site At Monroe County Hospital 15 persons were treated for minor cuts and bruises Fischor's Chair Title Match Can Begin Now Comfortable REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess match can favorite chair has arrived The swivel chair in metal and black leather was flown from New York to Iceland and put on the stage in the Reykjavik chess hall Sunday Russian advisers arrived shortly after the much talked about chair and studied it suspiciously Then they left without comment Now the Icelandic organizers face a new problem: Where to find a similar chair in Iceland would look better if both Spassky and Fischer had the same said Gudmundur Thorarinsson president of the Icelandic Chess Federation Fischer took one look at the dozen different chairs the Icelanders had assembled from furniture stores the other day sat down in some of them and then gave his verdict: in my own Spassky the 35-year-old world champion did not seem to worry much about details of the $250000 match Before leaving for a salmon fishing tour of northern Iceland the defending champion said am not going to argue about chairs chess boards and sets I will leave that to Bobby It makes no difference to Humphrey Says He I Would Not Go Beg For POW Release MIAMI BEACH (UPI) Sen Hubert Humphrey sharply criticized Se George McGovern Sunday for saying he wrould be willing to go to Hanoi and for the release of US prisoners of war beg here in Hanoi or Humphrey said do not believe the word beg represents sound Humphrey said think unfortunate that Sen McGovern used that term There is a difference between tough negotiations and begging not a While denouncing McGovern for his willingness to Humphrey conceded that he had softened his position of peace negotiations with the North Vietnamese have changed the attitude of the people has changed the attitude of the President has he explained told a comparable story to be negotiations with the United another correspondent and other I States With good will and a youths reported their reactions serious attitude we can come to to the US embassy in Moscow a settlement Were Sympathetic TT were sympathetic when 500 YOU Ifl Y0OrS would go to Hanoi and if we came over cutting! I that would obtain release of said were anxious to get Mass Couple Son Begin Trip American prisoners of war into a dialog with the Young Around the World Wrong Vote 1 people of this HULL Mass (UPI)-Goodby He has repeatedly voted when they left the United you in five years wrong on legislation aHecting states the Americans had a Mrs Jochen RobUler working people the trade planned agenda to discuss with their 2-year-old adopted son union movement the document the Soviets Major topics such as: Christian left Sunday in their 46-said in citing McGovern votes rcJd PageTo foot ketch Solange on the first MIAMI i BEACH Fla (UPI) Here is the tentative schedule for the Democratic National Convention subject to I change at any time with the possibility of additional afternoon sessions if business cannot be completed within the panned four days Monday pm EDT: call to order and invocation Welcoming addresses by Sen Lawton Chiles of Florida Rep Claude Pepper of Florida and Mayor Chuck Hall of Miami Beach Speech by Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien' Report of the Credentials Committee1 Debate and vote on the Credentials Committee report Tuesday 7 pm: Election of permanent convention chairman Consideration of Rules Committee report Keynote address by Gov Reubin Askew of Florida Platform Committee report debate' and votes i Wednesday 7 pm: Nominations and balloting for the Presidential nominee i Thursday pm: Consideration of new charter for Democratic party Nominations and balloting for the vice presidential nominee Acceptance speeches Adjournment Craziest Convention Ever Seen MIAMI BEACH While other elements of the Democratic party struggle to come to terms with the an aging band of top labor leaders forms a bridge to the highly successful past js the craziest convention ever said George Meany the 77-year-old AFL-CIO president slowly shaking his head He has seen plenty of them in 30 years at or (Continued on Page 10) Domocrats Scared' prospect of McGovern winning the nomination Whenever three Democrats get together they are talking about losing the Senate and the House" he said But Jackson said he would back McGovern in the general election I am a He also said he could never run on the same ticket with McGovern because views are so far apart on all Savod by a Wir0 Parachute Cords Tangle in Power Line ELSINORE Calif (AP) A power line saved a life when both his main and reserve parachutes failed to function properly say Riverside deputies Gregory Jones 30 of Indio said the cords from his reserve parachute which opened late and only partially bloomed wound around a 30000-volt power line near here Saturday It shorted the wire but saved his life He hung for nearly 30 minutes before being rescued the correct basis for the settlement of the Vietnam He added however: will gladly examine any new pro- posals from the United I The North Vietnamese official also disclosed that Hanoi Polit-1 buro member Le Due Tho will (be returning to Paris but hei idid not say when I Thuy said have come back to Paris with good will and a serious attitude to resume negotiations when the 150th session of the peace talks is scheduled The talks have been ''suspended by ihe United States an South Vietnam since May 4 Xuan Thuy who has been in Hanoi for about two months appeared to be relaxed and in good humor and some of his listeners thought that he used less He replied with a broad smile instructions were to come back to Paris to continue leg of their five-year trip around Robiller 36 a native of Germany and his wife built the boat from the keel up with the aid of friends during the years at Boat Yard Except lor the wire form the hull is made of cement Their first stop will be at Morehead City Beach in North Carolina where they will instal a self-steering system and stock up on food fuel and other supplies The Robillers financed their boat and trip by selling their Hull home is a once in a lifetime Robiller said should try Bulletin NEW YORK The Insurance Services Office has recommended to its member companies a 10 per cent cut in collision Insurance on 1973 cars because of improved bumpers Richard Savage vice president of the adivsory organization said today hundreds of insurance companies affiliated with the office are expected to put the lowered rates into effect with a potential saving to consumers of $20 million impact is on 1973 Savage said the improved bumpers show that losses are reduced by more than 10 per cent even further savings will be passed on to the Inside Reading The old line labor leaders are the earth working feverishly behind the! A partial eclipse will be visi-! scenes in an effort to prevent bJe in Amnca ganging from i the nomination of Sen George 14 cent in MrOnvprn THav a atv CISCO to DO per Cent 1X1 Boston NATO Envoy Says McGovern MCjOVern- iney appear to op- Plan BRUSSELS David supporters 'as they do for hls'S electronic observation Kennedy the new US am- proposd defense cutbacks or planned to track the bassador to the North Atlantic his one-time vote in support of eclipse from land sea and air Treaty Organization (NATO state right to work laws said today that drastic Ameri-j No Bloc can troop cuts in Europe are But there is no solid labor bloc pose him almost as much for the I mod lifestyle of some of his 1 Scientists using sophisticated instruments including rockets Experts warned amateur astrologers and others that looking directly at the eclipse could the world A Coast Guard siren and boat nr ij horns from other vessels sound- SthCkS brokeUn ateerton 'some dvJury Selection Begin Today iJi the mainsail waa hoisted up a demonstration by a group sand caught in the wind Chris- iwage voted I Bos I tian crying because of the I LOS ANGELES The1 noise ran to his side Pentagon Papers trial of Daniel but was1 soon smiling and wav-Ellsberg finally begins today ng at well-wishers Such cuts up to 170000 of the 300000 US servicemen stationed in Europe have been advocated by Sen George McGovern But Kennedy in an interview with United Press International said that would be very badly taken by our European allies and very widely appreciated by the cause permanent eye damage The total eclipse was scheduled to begin at sunrise (2:29 EDT) near Sakhalin Island north of Japan and travel eastward across the Sea of Okhotsk and the peninsula of Kamchatka in eastern Siberia the Bering Straight northern Alaska and Canada Hudson Bay and the Canadian maritime provinces It will fade out at 5:03 pm EDT in the North Atlantic Domocratic VP Miami Beach Hits Full Speed MAMI BEACH (UPI) The Democratic reached for vice presidential possibilities today Among those mentioned was Edmund Muskie who once thought the presidential nomination was his for the asking Muskie who ran for vice president with Hubert Humphrey four years ago emphasized that he was not seeking that role again and there was no sign it would be offered to him However Muskie stopped short of saying he would not accept it name was among a dozen or so being mentioned by convention delegates as possible running-mates if Sen George McGovern locked up the prize None of the speculation seemed to have much to support it Others mentioned included: Sen Edward Kennedy D-Mass whom McGovern himself named as among the first persons he would call to talk about the second spot dn the ticket although he did not say he would offer the post to him Kennedy still was saying no to all talk Woodcock president of the United Auto Workers and one of the few' top union leaders friendly to McGovern (Continued on Page 10) Russians Sen Jackson Think McGovern Can Beat Nixon MIAMI BEACH Sen Henry Jackson will support Sen George McGovern if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination but he think McGovern could beat President Nixon Jackson a conservative and dark horse challenger' for the nomination himself said Sunday the real facing the Democratic convention is to someone who can Of McGovern he said television and notice a delegate don think he clamoring for recognition Democrats Jackson said are but not getting it blame to at the jCongress against minimum increases unemployment rights votes and against others had i 1964 Sen McGovern joined 22 other senators 18 of them from Southern and border in supporting the last-ditch effort to emasculate the voting rights provisions of the landmark Civil Rights Act of said the labor document McGovern sees communism as just another economic which some people to be organized a they have made Presumably the people who live under Communist regime have freely made that The document also criticized McGovern for urging amnesty for draft evaders for suggesting that no one should go to jail for smoking marijuana and for not speaking strongly enough about controlling crime Phila Pbillies Fire Manager Lucchesi GM Takes Charge PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia Phillies who have the worst won-loss record in the majors today fired Frank Lucchesi and replaced him with general manager Paul Owens for the remainder of the season owner Bob Carpenter who announced the firing at a hastily called noon news conference said he was making Owens manager so that we can evaluate every individual player on the Owens was named earlier this year as general manager to replace John Quinn after the Phillies started a slide that took them to a 26-50 record mired deep in the cellar of the National Eastern Division FOAM RUBBER Cut to any size shape or thick ness Sofa and chair cushions refilled 9 to 5 daily YORK BEDDING 330 Queen 854-5551 Adv 124-tf of ragged pickets in front of the I swank Playboy Plaza Sunday night It was the first was uie first confrontation between demonstrators and law officers at the Democratic National Convention There was no violence and no one was arrested Well-drilled members of the Florida Highway Patrol wearing helmets and marching with swift precision scattered a group of about 50 pickets blocking the driveway of the Playboy Plaza The demonstrators chanting slogans for a variety of causes said they pickeed the Playboy Plaza because it was the scene of a dinner by well-heeled party sponsors About a half hour- later the same demonstrators representing Students for a Democratic Society and a group called Workers Action Movement-demonstrated briefly in front of the Fountainbleau Hotel the convention headquarters State troopers i again with riot sticks and wearing helmets blocked the driveway and no attempt was made by the young people to move past the line Bob Tobthon Comedian to Raise Money For Agnes Victims BALTIMORE (UPI) Comedian Bob Hope has recruited a of Hollywood personalities to appear with him July 22 in a six-state telethon to raise money for victims of Tropical Storm Agnes Hope compiled a list of stars including Zsa Zsa Gabor David Jansen Fess Parker Mike Douglas and Miss World USA within hours after a request froma Boston television station CLERGY RETIREMENT LONDON The General Synod of the Church of England voted overwhelmingly today' to retire archbishops bishops and most of its clergy at the age of 7a I and it could bring a parade of former government officials testifying about the practice of classified informa- lion A panel of 100 prospective jurors was summoned to appear in 'US district court in the theft and conspiracy case against the 41-year-old Ellsberg and codefendant Anthony Russo Selection of 12 jurors and six alternates is expected to require about a week with the total trial lasting 10 to 12 weeks In pretrial hearings the defense produced affidavits from a number of high government officials that it was common practice to make secret information available to the news media Among them were John Kenneth Galbraith 1 former ambassador to India Kennedy White House aide Theodore Sorenson and former assistant secretary of state for public affairs Robert Manning Russia-US Commerce Secy to Work on SAN CLEMENTE Calif (UPI) President Nixon will send his secretary of commerce to Moscow this month to work on comprehensive new to US-Soviet trade following up the unprecedented $750 million grain deal i He will bring up the old Russian World War II debt i Plans for the trip by Secretary Peter Peterson were disclosed tlhis weekend by Henry Kiss mger policy adviser The President wants comprehensive new approach to the issue of US-Soviet economic chief foreign (Continued on Page 10) MONEY SAVING AUTO LOANS EAST PROSPECT STATE BANK Phone Ken Nicko) at 252-2511 Adv 13-natf Ihe chairman Instead of bellowing in the time-honored tradition of political conventions delegates will telephone the rostrum when they wish to be recognized'" "telephone is located at the seat of each delegation chairman and he must ring the rostrum stating why he wants to be recognized Then a message is passed to the presiding officer The presiding officer then decides who to recognize and when Another network of phones links more than 300 different positions on the convention floor with dozens of hotel and party offices and news media locations Thus a delegate on one side of the hall will be able to telephone a delegate on the other side MIAMI BEACH Fla (AP) The Democratic party says nearly $45 million was pledged during its 19-hour money-raising telethon But despite the financial success of the program the party is still more than $6 million in debt (Continued on Page 10).

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