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THE KANSAS CITY STAR VOL 9 2 NO 30 0 For MAIN EDITION KANSAS CITY THURSDAY JULY 1 3 1 972 -44 PAGES 10e Running Mate Decision Due Miami Beach Sen George McGovern winner of the Democratic presidential nomination huddled today with a score of advisers over a list of possible running mates McGovern whose rise from political obscurity climaxed with a first-ballot victory last night also summoned as many governors as he could muster to bolster a show of unity at the windup session of the national convention Frank Mankiewicz political director for McGovern said he expected the choice of a vice-presidential candidate to be made shortly But an hour after Mankiewicz gave this word to newsmen surrounding headquarters there was no word on who would take the spot spurned earlier very real personal by Sen Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts The roster of names was compiled during a 2-hour meeting by McGovern aides No one outside the McGovern camp attended Similarly only McGovern staff members 21 in all sat down with the senator in his 17th-floor hotel suite to go over the list McGovern singled out two aides Mankiewicz and Gary Govern offered Kennedy the No 2 spot for the race against President Nixon Kennedy rejected it very real personal according to a McGovern spokesman Richard Dougherty Earlier Gov Reubin Askew another prime prospect told McGovern through aides he want to be considered One McGovern adviser said he believed the list of those under consideration was expanding as the victorious nominee sought the counsel of Sen Hubert Humphrey and Sen Edmund Muskie his rivals whose withdrawal a day earlier had signaled last tri-umph Those being mentioned In- elude five Thomas Fj Eagleton of Missouri Abraham A Ribicoff of Connecticut Philip A Hart of Michigan Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and Walter Mondale of Minnesota two governors John Gilligan of Ohio and Patrick Lucey of Wisconsin and Leonard Woodcock president of the United Auto Workers Minutes after clinching the nomination McGovern received congratulations and promises of support from all the candidates he had conquered except See DECISION on Next Page More Convention News on Page 10 Hart for a long private talk Another aide Ted Van Dyke said at a luncheon break that an announcement would be made this The roundup of governors including John Gilligan of Ohio is part of strategy of healing party wounds in prep-a a i for the forthcoming campaign to oust President Nixon from the White House Gov Milton Shapp of Pennsylvania also was said to be on his way Ohio and Pennsylvania with their big electoral vote counts and strong labor elements are considered vital to any presidential race especially when many labor leaders oppose McGovern rejection telephoned to McGovern from Hy-annis Port Mass set off the broadened hunt for a running mate Kennedy also congratulated McGovern in a call made soon after Illinois sent total past the 1509 votes needed for nomination In their 15-minute talk Mc Lori Ralfman of Miami Beach McGovern's final tally was 186495 votes the number required 1509 (Wirephoto) A stuffed toy donkey with fingers raised in a victory sign was presented to Sen George McGovern after his victory was assured The nominee received the Democratic symbol from Victory Symbol Bardgett Rebuked By Supreme Court Air Pirates Hurt 2 Jet Is Surrounded The Weather Fair tonight with light southerly winds is the National Weather Service forecast Mostly sunny tomorrow with clouds increasing in the afternoon Low tonight in the upper 60s high tomorrow near 90 Rain probability 10 per cent tonight 20 per cent tomorrow TEMPERATURES Bulletin primanded one of its members Bardgett has said he plans to file for retention on the court under the nonpartisan court lan in the general election in ovember No supreme court judge has ever been defeated when running on his record The only question before the voters is whether a judge shall be retained in office After the recommendation was announced Representative Webb said: think that he (Bardgett) should have been Texas airport from Philadelphia today Two injured crewmen one shot and the other badly beaten left the jet as it was surrounded by authorities The highjacking of the National Airlines plane was one of two that began last night The other highjacking was against American Airlines for a ransom of $550000 but the one highjacker gave up at Oklahoma City in the early morning The shotgun-wielding high- Lake Jackson Tex The FBI said today two armed highjackers have agreed to give up three stewardesses held hostage and their ransom money in exchange for a private plane with an agent-pilot By Th Associated Press Two armed highjackers who received a cash ransom and an escape plane flew to a small jackers of the plane in Texas took four National Airlines stewardesses a pilot and a flight engineer from Philadel phia They demanded $600000 ransom but officials would not say how much was paid The National Boeing 727 landed at Brazoria County Airport near Lake Jackson Texas about 50 miles south of Houston the Federal Aviation Administration said The pilot and flight engineer were taken to a local hospital the latter with a gunshot wound of the side It was not knrfwn immediately how he was wounded or how the two crewmen left the plane Relative humidity 6 am 90 per cent Barometer reading 6 am 2996 inches Precipitation in 24 hours ending 6 am trace River stage today 84 feet fail of 3 of a foot A part in the decisions When the incident occurred Feb 29 in Jefferson City a case was pending before the supreme Court challenging the residency qualifications of some House members It had been filed by Rep Richard Marshall (R-Webster Groves) Judge Bardgett heard oral arguments on the case but later disqualified himself and did not participate in the final decision when the court ruled once again that the House was the sole judge on qualifications of its members It was the first time the new Commission on Retirement Removal and Discipline of the Judiciary had been faced with a disciplinary question It was the first time in memory that the Missouri Supreme Court has re- Truman Improving Harry Truman showed slight improvement overnight Research Hospital officials said today The 88-year-old former President who entered the hospital 11 days ago with an inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract was listed in good Heavy Raids on North Jefferson City (AP) The Missouri Supreme Court officially reprimanded Judge John Bardgett today as recommended by a special disciplinary commission Five judges signed the order against their fellow court member but Chief Justice James A Finch Jr disqualified himself Judge Robert Donnelly acting chief justice Judge Robert Seiler Judge Morgan Judge Lawrence Holman and Judge Fred Henley signed the reprimand order The commission found that Judge Bardgett by socializing with the Missouri House speaker Rep James Godfrey (D-St Louis) in a Jefferson City cocktail lounge last February while a case involving Godfrey was pending in the high court gave the of But it exonerated the judge on charges that he acted with impropriety or that he was intoxicated and cursed another House member Rep John Webb (R-Webb City) Under the court rules Judge Bardgett could have filed objections to the findings and asked for a hearing but he decided last Friday not to appeal Judge Bardgett has been disqualified from sitting with his colleagues and has taken no The FBI agent referring to the shortness of the runway said no pilot but talked to several and said they like to take it The pilot identified as Norman Reagan had suffered a fractured pelvis broken wrists and face bruises The engineer was identified as Gerald Beaver In the American Airlines Tiighjacking of a Dallas-bound jet the lone gunman apparently abandoned a plan to try to escape by parachute and instead surrendered meekly to a stewardess He left behind the ransom package which actually contained less than half what he demanded and the gun turned out to have been empty The two highjackers of tha National Airlines Boeing 727 plane out of Philadelphia released 111 passengers who endured nine hours of oppressive heat as the aircraft sat on a runway at Philadelphia International Airport while FBI agents haggled with the gunmen over details of delivering the ransom money and freeing the passengers couple of people said one passenger Tom Her See AIR on Next Page Saigon American fight-t South Vietnamese push into er-bombers have hit North Viet-1 Quang Tri Province remained nam with the heaviest raids in stalled for the seventh succes- The highjackers who tion to sawed-off shotguns had a box they said contained a bomb remained on board with three stewardesses The fourth stewardess escaped the FAA said in a manner not known The tires blew on landing authorities said rejecting earlier police reports that they were shot out An FBI spokesman at the scene said negotiations continued with the highjackers Asked if this meant the FBI would bring in new tires and jet fuel the spokesman said necessary do in action the US command announced in its weekly casualty report Eighteen other Americans were wounded The American toll was 33 per cent less than that of the week before when the command re ported 14 combat dead seven dead from nonhostile causes four missing and 23 wounded The South Vietnamese command reported 661 government soldiers killed and 2585 wounded last week It claimed 3320 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed These represented increases of 15 to 25 per cent over the previous week due largely to the fighting in Quang Tri Province The Allied commands now have reported these total casualties for the war: American 45810 killed in action 303208 wounded 10234 dead from nonhostile causes 1-639 missing or captured South 149526 killed 384398 wounded northeast of Haiphong Other attack planes set fire to the Yen Cu and Hon Gai fuel depots 13 and 21 miles east and northeast of Haiphong the Navy said Three buildings were damaged at an island supply base 35 miles east of Haiphong and two buildings and other equipment were destroyed or damaged at the Hon Gai port facility the 7th Fleet said Pilots from the Hancock also reported seven railroad boxcars damaged in a raid near Hanoi The Navy said in a delayed report that the destroyers Robinson and Hamner sank one barge and damaged two others after they had unloaded war materials from a freighter Tuesday northwest of the port of Dong Hoi near Hon La Island The freighter was not attacked The Navy did not identify the freighter but it presumably was Chinese US Casualties Saigon Four Americans were killed in combat last week five died from nonhostile causes and another five were missing more than a week setting fire to fuel depots and supply and port facilities in the Hanoi-Hai-phong area the US command announced today The command reported more than 340 strikes were flown yesterday equaling the number on July 5 and said the closest to Haiphong was within a mile of the city It made no mention of any plane losses pilots flying from the Kitty Hawk swept to within one mile of Haiphong where they reported three supply warehouses heavily damaged after a strike on the Haiphong vehicle repair facility south of that the 7th Fleet said in a communique In another big raid Air Force F4 Phantoms using both iaser-guided and general purpose bombs attacked a fuel depot 35 miles northeast of Hanoi Pilots reported many direct hits numerous secondary explosions and fires and a pipeline cut On the ground the 20000-man sive day by tough North Vietnamese resistance that triggered a series of battles on three sides of the provincial capital The Siagon command claimed more than 200 North Vietnamese troops were killed and 26 tanks destroyed and one captured in fighting yesterday around the city The command said South Vietnamese losses were 46 troops killed and 72 wounded North Vietnam charged that of US planes attacked areas inside and outside Haiphong that dozens of persons were killed and nearly 200 houses destroyed Hanoi said an American RF4 reconnaissance plane was shot down The US command as usual refused to comment on the North Vietnamese charges Navy pilots from the carrier Hancock reported wrecking 12 buildings in strikes against the Van Dong storage area 20 miles A On Inside Pages Convention Starbeams Hoopla Loses To Seriousness Miami There was none of the traditional floor demon strations after the nomination of each candidate at the Democratic convention Party reform is tough on the balloon business While one convention speaker was castigating the administration for keeping the media in the dark the lights were -turned off in the press fiction HARD TO TELL who gets more slams at this convention Henry Ford or nonunion lettuce George victory came as a surprise He demonstrated that even a front-runner can win Johnny Miller shoots a course-record 66 in the British Open Golf Tournament but Tony Jacklin holds a one-stroke lead with a total of 141 Jack Nicklaus has his problems but still shoots a one-over-par 72 to share second place early in the second round with Miller Gary Player and Peter Townsend Page 21 and Viet North Vietnamese 861420 killed MILLER Fischer Stages a Boycott Bulletin BILL VAUGHAN SAYS At least eight persons are killed in Northern Ireland before and after parades on the Protestant's Glorious Twelfth in one of the bloodiest days in the province's three years of communal strife 8 The Vietnam peace talks resume but the positions of both sides appear unchanged 11 An Israeli military court orders a sanity hearing for Kozo Okamoto after he admits full responsibility for those killed in the Tel Aviv airport massacre 13 A 28-year-old woman tells what it was like to be reared as an adopted child 19 The National Transportation Safety Board palls for Improved disaster Training for local fire departments across nation to avert potential disasters spawned by derailments of freight trains carrying explosive cargoes 20 The leading editorial: Bonds to complete the new Muni cipal Courts Building are of urgent priority but voters will have to look carefully for them on a crowded Aua 8 nrimarv ballot 42 Reykjavik Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer forfeited his chess game with Boris Spassky of Russia today by failing to appear The forfeit gave Spassky a 2-0 lead in the scheduled 24-game series It was uncertain whether the match would survive Reykjavik Iceland Bobby Fischer today informed the organizers of the world chess championship that be is boycotting further play unless pictures during the match by official photographers as long as the cameras are visible nor Russians Happy Moscow AP The Soviet press today cautiously savored Boris victory yesterday and awarded him a psychological edge Tass said in Iceland had noted that brought off victories in all the preceding opening games in the tournaments of contenders And now he has But the official news agency quickly added main struggle is ahead although the world champion must be congratulated on his well-d Schmid wTio makes the decisions on all contested points in connection with the match told Fischer during his walkout that there was nothing he could do about the camera Film and television rights for the match have been sold to an American promoter Richard Stein an attorney for the promoter who bought the TV and film rights Chester Fox said he was up all night with second the Rev William Lombardy and Fred Cramer of the US Chess Federation Schmid said he was prepared to invoke two rules of the match against Fischer Rule 17 prohibits in the name of highest principles of that either player or annoy his Rule 21 allows Uk taking of by himself for one hour Then the game would be forfeited by Fischer At what point Fischer would be disqualified from the championship series would have to be decided by the International Chess Federation (FID) Schmid said Fischer was scheduled to meet the world champion from the Soviet Union later today for the second game of their 24-game match The American challenger lost the first game yesterday Fischer staged a 30-minute walkout shortly after the play began complaining that a movie camera 150 feet away was making him nervous The camera was hardly visible outside the lighted circle and it could not be heard by Fischer Aides however said the knowledge of its presence unnerved him movie cameras Some delegates count for only one-tenth of a vote in the convention but the hotels charge them the full rate THIS IS BASICALLY a serious convention Veteran correspondents who save the word for quadrennial use needed it The Democrats made it clear that George opponent is to be Richard Nixon but the Republicans will hold their convention anyway IN REFERRING to the President here he is usually called Richard Milhous Nixon Nothing sounds meaner than calling a man by his middle name First-ballot nominations have become the political rule not that there is more party harmony than there used to be as much as it is that nobody can afford to stay around longer than the minimum three hidden are removed A call was made to the organizers at io minutes before the scheduled start of second game with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union It said Fischer coming Lothar Schmid the chief referee said Spassky would have to sit at the chess table PAGE MARKERS Bridge 41 Comics-Features 41 Death 31 Editorial Pages 42-43 Financial News 30-31 Movies Society Sports Want Women's 27 TV 43 21-25 Ads 3140 News 18-19 McGilley Memorial Chapels Antioch Chapel Linwood Sc Main no Sunday Want Ads in be-am Sat Adv Phor Mali Ford Dail Brd 3rd Dally "ord rental andor leasing 34th Adr.