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1972 Humphrey, Muskie Bow Out McGovern Without Major Challenge For Nomination HOME DELIVERY Daily Sunday 50c WEEK 10 (AP NEWSFEATURES) PRICE: TEN CENTS MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) ern with 1,570.75, far bcyondj Alabama remained a candi- Sen. George McGovern strode without major challenge toward the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night after Sens. Hubert H. Humprrey and Edmund S.

Muskic bowed to his towering national convention strength and left. Wallace Continues But Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace carried on his candidacy, seeking to bring his conservative views into the party platform. Amid waves of cheers from the convention minority supporting him, the crippled Alabama governor! came to the convention in his wheelchair to argue his platform case.

Secret Service agents and aides wheeled Wallace to the the majority that will choose the Democrat to challenge President Nixon. Has Votes In simplest terms, McGovern had the votes: on delegate disputes, on the platform the convention was completing Tuesday, and on the nomination itself. date, but his strategists have acknowledged he has no chance on the first ballot. And it was virtually certain there would be only one. Clings To Candidacy Sen.

Henry M. Jackson ofj Rut McGovern's wife, Eleanor, said Kennedy's mind might bo changed. "I don't think he has finally and totally and irrevocably ruled it out," she said. Ott Holiday Kennedy was in liyannisport, Washington clung to his on a sailing holiday, hut reported working on Senate pa- Ainong MeGoveni Aides Kennedy First Choice For Veep Nomination MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) On the eve of George McGovern's likely nomination for president, senior aides said Tuesday they regard Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy as the South Dakota senator's top choice as a running- mate. Biit there is surprisingly strong backing for labor leader Leonard Woodcock. This is the substance of an assessment based on a series of interviews in which toe advisers were asked to list the three most likely McGovern choices if, as expected, he wins the presidential nomination Wednesday night. Not Ploy For Labor "Don't let anybody fool you," one adviser said.

"He's the microphone, and he told the his final delegates the average man isj House, frustrated ment. Reflects Support 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. Jn Final Bid First, Humphrey of Minnesota, a presidential campaign warrior for a dozen years and the party's presidential choice in 1968, withdrew what must be i a insisting thai ticket "is going topers be in deep trouble." Tuesday. bid for the White tired of big govern-; Then Muskie wrote a finish to the campaign that plunged him most serious possibility going. This Ls not a ploy for labor support." Beides Kennedy, the interviews showed considerable backing for three Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, Philip A.

Hart of Michigan and Abraham A. Ribicoff of for Gov. Rcubin Askew of Florida. Ribicoff and Askew have said they're not in-lhaps the five, who were be- Five Killed In Fireworks Plant Fire ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) Flames ripped through a fireworks plant in Roswell Tuesday, killing four women and one man, officials said.

The vice president of Longhorn Manufacturing Don Robertson, said how the victims were caught in the fire is really still a matter of speculation." Returned To Building He at first indicated that per- The ovation he got in his first! major political -appearance ince a May 15 assassination attempt was a reflection of his upport in the convention: cheers and rebel yells from supporters in states that are his strongest, delegates from Flori. da, Texas, Michigan. But much of the convention istened in silence. His speech was vintage Waiace: law and order, demands for tax reform, a protest against foreign aid and mount- ng welfare costs. Denounces Busing As he had on a hundred plat- 'orms before the shots that cut him down in Laurel, Wai- ace denounced "the asinine, senseless busing of little school His partisans cheered, but there were boos elsewhere on the convention floor.

I am here because I want to help the Demoratic 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- intellctual snobbery that it has come to be." Belongs To McGovern But if the evening's momenl from front-runner to loser. terested. Broader Prospects said Tuesday discussions with An aide McGovern's Sens. Hubert H.

Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie have 'broadened the field of those under consideration somewhat but that those listed earlier remain the top contenders. Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri said in an interview he has been told by McGovern aides he is one of three leading contenders, along with Nelson and Hart, for the nomination.

McGovern aides confirmed that Eagleton is one of those under consideration. Woodcock Reform Woodcock, who discussed the vice presidency with McGovern a week ago, asked in an interview Tuesday if he wouid accept the No. 2 spot. "It would of drama belonged Wallace depend on all the circumstances," be said, adding he expects McGovern's foes in the labor movement to swing behind him in the fall campaign against President Nixon. The interviews were ducted both before and con.

after jlieved to be outside the building jwaiting for a lunch wagon, had run into the flaming structure in an effort to save a fallow worker. But he said that new information indicated perhaps "something happened outside of the building," and two persons out side returned to the building where the other three were. 'Never Know Cause' "We probably will never know the cause of the fire There was no apparent' he said. The plant, which has about 100 employes, was "for all general purposes closed on I a two-week vacation," Robertson said. Persons in the plant were there to do "general cleanup," he said.

Work More Than Hour A newsman at the scene said the building exploded into flames, and firefighters worked for more than an hour before tre fire was brought under control. Robertson said, however, "As far as I know, there was never an Dr. Lee F. Wollard, Chavez politically, 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 early evening, The Associ ated Press count of delegate commitments showed McGov- 'It is apparent to all of us that Sen.

George McGovern is this convention's choice as the nominee of our party," said the senator from Maine! 'Waged Good Baltic' Hart said there were fewer Reps. Wilbur D. Mills of Ar-Uhan five names on the vice kansas and Shirley Chisholm of presidential list, and that of New York and former Gov. Leonard Woodcock, president of i Terry Sanford of North Caro- the United Auto Workers, was lina were candidates without ajanothcr of them, chance. Labor Effort Failed Kennedy Tops List Already, McGovern strategists were talking of a vice presidential running mate, with the name of the absent, reluctant Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy atop their list. And already, they were beginning the nominee's quest for party signals that it will be hard to achieve. McGovern's campaign manager said Kennedy was one of I But the elders of organized i labor, after a harsh, futile ef- i fort to top McGovern, gave voice to the problem of forginj; i Democratic unity behind thci liberal senator. "If they had their preference we would have no president for the next four years," said spokesman for George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO.

Fence-Mending McGovern fence-menders HUBERT H. HUMPHREY Great Dream two or three Democrats atopisought out Meany, and also Humphrey, his eyes brim-j ming, withdrew saying "we've waged a good battle," and stating he would do his level best to unite the party and help the 1972 ticket. That left McGovern with lesser rivals to confront in the climactic nominating roll call. Gov. George C.

Wallace of the list of potential vice prcsi dential nominees. May Make Offer Gary Hart there was a good chance McGovern would offer the nomination to Kennedy some time no guarantee that it would be accepted. Kennedy has said he does not intend to run for national office in 1972. allace Takes Platform Ideas To Convention Floor Unlike HHH To Quit Quest For Top Prize MIAMI BEACH, Fla. For a man in pursuit of his great dream for Hie third and almost surely Democratic power broker.

la.st time, it just wasn't like Hubert H. Humphrey McGovern allies sought aito give up. And vet the question was his own: "Why compromise to seat Daley jow i Four Die In Irish Violence sought peace with the forces of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, denied a seat in the convention after decades as a the sake of party unity, bull couldn't hold their own reform-! He decided, in the end, to an minded delegate troops in line! swcr Ulc curtain call at Con- Sec I) KM OS, Page Two MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Gov.

George Wallace of Alabama won an ovation Tuesday night as he came smiling before the Democratic National Convention in a wheelchair to plead for greater conservatism in the parly's liberal, McGovern-slanled platform. Appears Doomed But the convention seemed sure to flatten the Wallace drive, because Sen. George McGovern already had passed the word to his delegate big enough to assure him the party's presidential vote "no" on all eight parts of the Wallace package of dissenting planks. Wallace won cheers and whis-1 students both to improve vent ion Hall but withdrew Tuesday before the final act. i "After all," he said in a pre- withdrawal interview, "I'd still be a senator.

And, more impor-j tant, I'm a free man. It's nott like 1968. I've even told Murielt that we' should look upon this' as a wonderful time in otirj lives, ho matter what hap-! BELFAST, Northern Ireland pens." Four men died on Praised Nixon jTticsday in shooting incidents Even so. for Humphrey the eve of the big Protestant the contemplate capitulationjparadcs that threaten to touch ties by asserting that the Amer-m lia of education and to help i seemed most uncbaracteristicloff widespread clashes with ri- ican people were frustrated (achieve racial balance. This of the prairie politician whoseival Roman Catholic mobs, tired of big government, and was the McGovern-endorsed po-1 unbridled optimism had been a TraiTic Banned knew tnfll frovprnmpntl i knew that big could not solve their problems.

The average citizen, he said, feels government pays attention sition. (lifelong trademark, whose Police banned all traffic from Other Challenges note of praise for Richard N'ix-ithe center of the capital. They Other challenging is that "he came off downtown streets in an attempt to head off bomb leeis government pays attention i an ks called for release of war fought back to them only on election day prisoners as a nrpconrtition of and taxpayin" day. Blasts His busing to achieve racial ance seemed likely to the night's i it, I prisoners as a precondition ofj cTantcd Humphrey's spirits! an gun attacks before the tra- jU.S. withdrawal from been dampened di docnma and thc maintenance of California, the state Istronc defense forces.

The Wal-i "ihr. or iggest like the July 12 parades, poten- thc occasion for the worst Istrong defense forces. The Wal-i called "the" Super" Bowl of the; commiinal violence of the year. oal Vietnam plank guaranteed; primaries" which, on that' The British army stepped up janother clash, because the con- basis, had given George its troop strength as a further vention's 150-member platform McGovern a first and other! committee had submitted a i for the nomination. And Hubert One Soldier Killed Wallace proposals, faced dl aft ca ng for as the firsti Humphrey'," at age" 61.

does 'not' Two "young civilians' and Grl Ul OOOOSItlOn, -T t-i i i t- erful opposition. The official platform com- jorder of business, an inime- relish playing defense. Not His Way A idiate and complete withdrawal mittee's draft plank on 1T fn in See VEEP, Page Two County coroner, said all dead had blast injuries. the Bobby Fischer's Attack Repulsed Iii Opening Game Of Chess Match British soldier were slain in 'sporadic outbreaks of gunfire. all U.S.

forces in hel Ollt feel." he The fourth victim, hit by sniper endorsed the transportation of, Qther jssents thc WaHacc "that I might very well bcifirc Sunday, died Monday in a bundle called for planks "uar cct not on lo speculation jhospital. Two bomb attacks in anteeing the right to praycw in! but for standing in -Londonderry damaged property the power of states eo way. And I surely took no casualties. impose the death penalty, oppo-j do warlt he casl ln fhat f. Br tis 1 holding line between Catholic and silion to drastic gun-coatroi: Humphrey was'.

Protestant private armies was Thcn REYKJAVIK, Iceland Bobby Fischer made his opening assault on the Soviet Chess the night, there was little left on the board: a king and five paAvns for Fischer; a king, fortress Tuesday night, but three pawns and a bishop for Spassky. cuit television in the corridor, recipients. world champion Boris Spassky repelled it and left the American with a tough fight for a draw when their first gameJByrne said: "Fischer is going sipping a cup of coffee. Trouble Making Draw Drastic Tax Changes of come down to a fetid withjclite armored units. They McGovern, "a good friend andibrought the total of British sof- weuare one grca res pect." Despitejdiers in Ulster to 17,000, the.

i their political differences, hci highest in three years of secta- iwcnt on, "I have told Georgetrian battles. "What do you think, Grand-; Sen. Fred Harris of Okla-j thal if he the nominaUon nay Before Parades ITS OP! Robert maslcr Gcllcr? he askcd ma Plugged, for drastic taxi wil do cvcrytn ing in my power! Bombs and gun battles U.S. grandmaster Robert (IT 3m nnf hintino am jchangcs assuring "equal tax- was adjourned. to have trouble making a draw.

Play Called I don't see how Spassky can: 1 Ncvi The first game of history's lose." am nQf lhinkingi drinking coffee," Geller to help. I hope he understandsjerupted across Belfast and oth- richest world chess title match re-iationol all income," wiping out; cr town jn thc province Iess exemptions and deductions; Spurred Challenge than 24 hours before the sched- Nevcr Beat Russian replacing them with a uni-; McGovern understood ulcd start of the parades cele- Wart! Fischer has played Spasskyjform mcome tax credit. The a well is that Humphrey then brating historic events in the it is cioummi wncmer (imes jn the past he Harris dissent called for a proceeded to try to wrest a way 'centuries of Protestant-Catholic graduated business tax, to in-the nomination for in Northern Ireland, crease the tax load on big cor-- Most notably, he helped spur; The slayings raised the num- I ricnesi wona cness iiue is uuuimui uiav-n. lvc tj es in the past The was called after 40 moves and 3j ca n.save a draw" Fischer is( three times he played the'black hours and 34 minutes of play. Iljpteying the black pieces and ces he osl la inff white he will resume Wednesday at IjSpassky the white, which p.m.

EDT, or 5 p.m. Reykjavik the Russian had the first time. move. inc. When play was called off for! Yetim Geller, the Russian was able to salvage two draws.

porations. the Democratic of known dead in three IRISH, Page Two Apollo 15 Astronauts Disciplined By NASA For Carrying Collectors Items On Voyage but has never triumphed oven But these dissents seemed to Committee into stripping years of communal violence to the Soviet. Spassky made his first move See WALI.ACK, Page See Two See (Tuesday all by himself in the shadowlcss illumination of the stage at Reykjavik's iSports palace. i About $300,000 Prize There was something surrea- about the world cham- SAIGON" rescue operations, the U.S.IsauUed listic jpionship series with prize mon-i Allied Marines Dropp eel Behind Enemy Lines, Helicopters Downed In Effort is about 2li miles WASHINGTON (AP) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration disclosed Tuesday that the Apollo 15 astronauts, on their round trip to the moon last summer, secretly ried permission, with-Dynatherm Corp. of Los question Eiermann in about S300.000 dollars dred South Vietnamese marinesjCommand disclosed that a Ma-inorthwest of Quang Tri It is out official knowledge and in es, a contractor involved inimany as to details of the trans- starting with only- one man sit- iwcre dropped behind enemyjrine A6 fighter-bomber jj.

ncs Tuesday north of Ua ngi shol down lasl Friday 33 811 violation of NASA regulations, heat-shield work. along wih 232 Apollo 15 covers that had the agency's full approval. carried 400 souvenir stamped ASA said it permits astro- envelopes that could have been nauts, within established proce- man dealer in stamps, adver-iwas not known here, ised tha 100 postal covers sale at the 51,500 sold to collectors for $600,000 or more. Tfoe three have been disciplined, NASA said. One hundred of the unauth- dures, to carry personal souvenir-type items, including postal covers, oa space flights.

These articles are to be re- received; Fischer, as usual, was late.JTri City in heavy ground fire i west-southwest of Quang Tri in arrived seven minutes after jacked down three Amer-hhe Khe Sanh area near the moved his queen ican helicopters ferrying thenrLaotian border. The two crew-i' price. Ajfrom space flights and particu- pawn and referee Lothar in mcn were llslcd as missing.I?.; spokesman said the lariy from lunar landing mis-Schmid pressed the button to Ficld rcpor lS said the ma-Radio Hanoi claimed in a ear- 1 'fo rr i HP Hi vision souvenir envelopes apparentlyjsions, are a hot item the Fischer clock. rincs camc undcr immediate licr broadcast that one of them hV Vnrth vinir orized envelopes were given to tained by the astronauts or giv- an acquaintance of the astronauts and were sold at a reported price of $1,500 each. Thc astronauts, in an apparent change of heart, declined to take any of that $150,000, NASA said.

The 300 unsold envelopes, known to the philatelic trade as postal covers, have been impounded at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. NASA said in a formal announcement that the Scott, Alfred Worden and James exercised poor judgment. "Therefore they will be reprimanded their actions will be given due consideration in their selection for future assignments," NASA said. The three astronauts have declined to comment, the Houston space center said. The 400 envelopes were car- en to personal friends, and are not to be used or given for commercial purposes or personal gain, the agency said.

Advertisements of Apollo 15 covers at 4,850 deutschmarks or about $1,500 each, in a West German stamp-collectors magazine, called the attention of space officials to an apparent violation of the rules. NASA said it learned in the course of its inquiry that the Apollo 15 crew, before the flight, had agreed to, provide 100 postal covers to an acquaintance, with the revenue to go into a trust fund for their children. The acquaintance was identified as Horst (Walter) Eiermann of Stuttgart, a naturalized American well known in the Cocoa Beach, area. NASA said Eiermann formerly worked at Cape Kennedy for Herman Sieger, a West Ger- $150,000, Eiermann i action. What part, if any, of the ting at the chess table.

fm-mr, that In- envelopes sold at a brisk pace. Space Agency officials plan Sec APOLLO, Page Two u-a Sec CHESS, Page Two ifire as they moved out of the was captured. by the Vietnamese, who Proponent Of War Removed From Jury. Four Daves Remain In Ellsberg Trial LOS ANGELES (AP) A gen, a Bendix Corp. halted questioning, j.sk-| cla i proponent of the Vietnam warj was removed as a possible ju- clearing whore thc helicopters The arc a the marines See WAR Pace Two landed.

"Initial action on the; ground was hot as the South i Vietnamese marines moved off fe the helicopters and onto the of-if rrj 1 fcnsive," a U.S. 7th Fleet an-' oounccmcnt said. The Saigon commands 12 North The Weather Readings From Atop Register Building ror in the Pentagon Papers trial Tuesday, but four who said they want the United States to get out of Vietnam were allowed to least temporarily. The two men and two women who oppose the war swore they could be fair and impartial jurors in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, and the judge did not entertain any challenges for cause on their eligibility to serve. Either side has the option to remove them with a peremptory challenge later.

Gray-haired Francis G. Hou- VIRGINIA: Rain with scattered show- rjwas excused after he said of ing that the judge inquire ro ps We 7e support 'ing southeast portion tonight and prs mainly northeast. In moun- -S. involvement in the war, into panelists' views on: rrom U.S. fighter-bombers, at a rest of cast portion early ns ariaW think it's right." In judgingjdissent and disobedience cost of 23 marines dead and a vor the one that went with my opinion." He was the first juror dismissed for cause on a de- government and defense rules.

he added, "I probably would fa- "You've asked them none of wounded Field reports said showcrs helicopter rnay and Chanceof the questions we're interested have been downed, but the U.S. in," attorney Leonard Weing- command said it had no con- after the judge queried one po- already asked general questions of the group en masse. 111, LIUL lltj" TI lass told U.S. District Court fense challenge since jury se- Judge William M. Byrne Jr.

lection began Monday. By day's end, seven potential jurors had been scrutizined on their views regarding the war. Two men and two women said they favored American withdrawal. Two men said they had no strong opinion concerning the war. Questioning continues Wednesday.

Earlier, defense attorneys fir ma lion. High Wednesday mid 80s west to around SO cast. Becoming partly cloudy Wednesday night and Thursday thundershowers. Lows from upper 50 to near coast. High Wednesday 70s to low and mid 80s.

Warmer Thursday with high in 39s. U.S. Marines from 7th a chance of showers. High carriers flew the ferry hehcop- iin the mid 80s DOWNTOWN WEATHER LOG dcr sc rl NORTH CAROLINA: Gale U.S. Army Cobra helicopteri warnJnRS in rfcct from Cane southward.

Tides operating with one The crews of two of the: what ahovc norraal 1th a risk hand tied behind our back in! judging the jury," said Weinglass. Ellsberg's chief defense atlor- downed helicopters were res- of shallow Hooding at high tide. cued uninjured, but two crew- East of mountains, rain and See TRIAL, Page Two men and a South Vietnamese SC a tte red thundershowers aboard the third were Wednesday with rain the command reported. (heavy at times. Decreasing In a report delayed by search (cloudiness Wednesday nigW.

and Hour 7 p.m. 9 p.m. II p.m. 1 a.m. Tncsday Temp.

Bar. Wind 78 Calm 74 3fl.35 NE.S 72 3fl.35 E-t Wednesday 72 NE-5 24-honr low (to 1 a.m.) 24'hour nigh SS precipitation, trace.