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MEMO RNAL 54th YEAR NO. 127 GREENWOOD, S. MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 31972 24 PAGES 2 SECTIONS 10 Talcing Away California Votes fJilc weir oil Sojjrrirteirs n30 yot mi PedsDifi) 00 eS commlttaa rs of Gov. Michigan The ruled that support I V. By GREGORY KOKES Associated Pms Wrtur WASHINGTON (AP) Call-f ore la supporter! of Sen.

George McGovern art seeking to win bach la the courts the lit California dalegatea they lost la tht Dtmocratte Credentials Committee. A suit filed with tha J. District Court la Washington asklnf a restraining order to prevent tha routed California delegation from being seated at tha Democrstle convention, which opens 'July 10 at Malml Beach. A hearing was scheduled this morning before Dial. Court Judge George L.

lUrt Jr. Tha suit alleges that tha Credentials Committee acted unconstitutionally whan It over ruled California's winner take' aD primary, won by McGovern. Tha commute apportioned 1S1 Wallace could substitute thrae of their supporters for three delegates elected on a Wallac ticket but believed leaning toward Sen. McGovern. It also agreed to include 10 women with one-half vote each In tha 27 delegates committed to.

Sen. Humphrey. Maryland-Wallace lost three delegstes on grounds they had not been apportioned according to party rules. Humphrey picked up two of tha delegates and McGovern tha third. Tha action was a compromise proposed by Li.

Gov. Blair Lea III. Virginia Challengers in tha 4th District, Involving three of four delegate seats, agreed on a com promise to share tha seats on a ona-half-vota-per-delegata of tha state's 271 votes among residential contenders Hubert I. Humphrey. George C.

Wallace and others. McGovern, still tha easy front-runner with 1,271.9 com' milled votes with 1,509 needed for nomination, Indicated Sun-. day ha would be willing to com--promise on the challenges to tha California delegation, which ha loat, and to the Illinois delegation, which his forces won. "If I thought It would serve the Interests of a stronger party and heal soma of these wounds and not do any violence to the rules of the 1 would support a com prom ha said on ABC's "Issues and Answers" program. In an effort to beef up his strength la advance of Miami Beach, McGovern said ha will seek a meeting with AFL-CIO President George Meany this week.

Meany Is officially uncommitted In tha race for tha nomination, although ha Is considered a supporter of Sen. Edmund S. Muskle. Tha Credentials Committee, still meeting In Washington, refused convention seats to Mississippi's regular Democrat lata Saturday. It voted unanimously to seat tha zS-m ember Loyalist delegation, which also wss sesled In 1968.

The main charge was thst tha regular party failed to adopt tha party's reform rules In picking delegstes. Other challenges settled over tha weekend Included: basis. A black woman will be 1 7 'tow If ali.1 added. It's Peach Week In South Carolina Meanwhile, President Nixon Sundsy telephoned former Atty. Gen.

John N. Mitchell to "express his understanding" over Mitchell's decision to resign as tha President's campaign manager. Mitchell, whose wife threatened to leave him unless ha resigned from politics, told Nixon thst ha had to meet "tha one obligation which must come first: Tha happiness and welfare of my wife and daughter." Clark MacGregor, counsel to the President for congressional relations, was named to succeed Mitchell. son, left, and AAiss Undo Riley in House. South Carolina claims the copital of tha world.

Harvesting front of tha State title of fresh peach of the S20 million Nothing could ba finer eating during South Carolina Freth Peach Weak than a freth peach. Allen Belcher, president of the S. C. Peach Council and Promotion Board, offers soma fresh peoches to Mrs. Peggy Ander THIS DAY Good af terooon.

Today Is Monday. July J. tha 183th day of 1972. Thcra ar 111 days left In tha year. Tha sun rose this morning at 1:21, wUI set tonight at 1:44 and will rise tomorrow at 1:21 On this dsta In 1608, tha French explorer Samuel de Cham plain, laid tha foundations of tha Canadian city of Quebec.

THE WEATHER Saturday's high was 90, and tha low was 60. Yesterdsy's high was R. and tha low last night was 64. During the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. today.

.60 Inch of rain was recorded. Total rainfall to date this year to 28.17 Inches. Average annual rainfall through July to 29 Inches. Lake Greenwood elevation at I a m. today was 439.79 feet.

The lake to considered full at 44130 feet. FORECAST Mountain. Eastern Piedmont, Foothills. Lower Piedmont: Partly cloudy and hot with a chance of thunders how en today, tonight and Tuesday. High today and Tuesday around 90 and low tonight In tha upper 60s.

Probability of rain 30 per cent today, tonight and Tuesday. Wind westerly around 10 miles per hour today and Tuesday. Light and variable tonight. FLIGHT LOG Southern Airways reports a total of 34 persons boarding ar Greenwood County Airport over tha weekend. On Saturday, 30 boarded with six en route to Dallas, five to Chicago, three each to Miami, St Louis and Atlanta, two each to Santa Barbara, Spokane, San Antonio and Toronto, and one each to Detroit and Do than, Ala.

Sunday's boardings had two bound for San crop will be at a peak for two months. For Use Against Communist Cuba? Arms Smuggling Ring Uncovered Georgia Woman Dies In Sunday Wreck Near Greenwood destined for any country other than Cuba." The complaint charging two of tha men, Murray Kessler of Brooklyn, N.Y., and AdlerB. Seal of Baton Rouge, alleged they "knew and believed that this material would be used In an attempted overthrow of a foreign nation." Tha two men were arrested near the New South Texaa rancher-banker, and Marion Hegler, a former Inspector with tha VS. Immigration and Naturalisation Service. They were taken Into custody at Eagle Pass, where they reside, then released on 123,000 bond each.

The federal complaint alleges dealings by a man known aa "Carloa Diai" to purchase as Francisco and one each for Kansas City and Chicago. Orleans International Airport. much as 11.2 million in munl- By HUGH MORGAN Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) -A plot VS. officials say was aimed at overthrowing a foreign country apparently Communist Cuba has been revealed in the arrest of nine persons in a 6463,000 munitions smuggling scheme.

Allegedly stretching from New York to Louisiana, Texas and Mexico, tha plot came to light with tha arrests Saturday. In addiUoncnearly seven tons of plastic explosives were seised In a DC4 transport plana at Shreveport, federal agents said. U.S. Atty. Gerald Calling-house said Sunday federal officials "have no reason to believe that the munitions were weapons.

ranging from submachine guns to Ml6s. flying tha explosives to an airfield near Vera Crux, Mexico. Tha complaint said that last Friday "Kessler told Carloa (Diax) that ha had no Mil rifles, but ha had tha C-4 as per their agreement," A rental aircraft was flown that afternoon from Hammond, to Shreveport, tha complaint said. "A renta) vaaJhan went to tha South Western Pipe Co. in Shreveport and than picked up 13,500 pounds of a plastic explosive commonly known as C-4," tha complaint said.

"'The explosive was then transported back to the site, where tha DC4 aircraft was being kept and per an agreement between Kessler and Dias, tha explosives were loaded onto tha aircraft," it' said. Federal agenta then moved in. I News Digest precisely that tha overthrow coroner said. People who lived near the scene heard tha crash and found tha wreckage. It was 15th highway fatality for Greenwood County this year.

Tha coroner said there was no Indication of any excessive speed or use of intoxicants. Ha said no inquest is planned. In addition to tha coroner, investigating officers were Lt. Harold White of the sheriffs department, Patrolman C. R.

Keasler of tha Highway Patrol, Sgt. Bill Estes, and special Investigator E. O. Bryan. plot Involved Cuba.

Tha nine were charged with conspiring to smuggle the explosives from tha United States to Mexico for future shipment to a third country. Among those arrested were Richmond Harper, a prominent No guns, however, were aboard the plana raided by federal agents at Shreveport on Saturday. The federal complaint alleges Kessler agreed last Wednesday to sell to Diss 13,500 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives, 7,000 feet of 2,600 electrical blasting caps and 23 electrical detonators for 6430,000. In addition, it alleges that another $33,000 was to be paid for A Georgia woman was killed and a traveling companion was injured in a one-car traffic south of Greenwood jbout yesterday. The victim was Janice Karen Prince, of Sunnyside Drive, Way cross, Ga.

Her companion Jeffery Warren Hall, 19, also of Waycross, was seriously injured and was reported in fair condition this morning at the hospital. The accident took place on highway 221 about eight milea south of Greenwood near Hard Labor Creek. A 1970 Volkswsgen driveo by the Prince woman left the road and struck a tree. No other vehicles were involved. two were pinned in the wreckage and two wreckers were used to pry the car apart to free tha victims.

Miss Prince was a daughter of Gordon and Doris Prince of Waycross and Cherokee, N.C. Miss Prince was hostess at the Waycross Elks Club. Information received from Hall was that the two were going to visit Miss Prince's relatives in Greensboro, N.C. for the holiday. There were no known witnesses to the accident, the Hijack Two-THirds Of Nixon's Time Spent Away Fromhite House Fourth Of July Gets Underway bid for a second term.

The President's current stay is his first since he was in California for six days In January. 8 -Nixon's travel record was further extended, of course, by history-making trips to Peking and Moscow the first ever made to those capitals by an American president. A third foreign journey took him across the border to Ottawa. 1 Strangely, Nixon has done little election-year touring of the home front, criss-crossed all year by potential Democratic rivals. He went to New York for an antidrug conference; to Philadelphia for a cultural and to the Floresyille, home of former Secretary of the Treasury John B.

Connelly. Nixon has insisted he will do no politicking until after the -Republican convention late next month. Evert Vill Meet Goolagong WIMBLEDON, England, (AP) Teen-ager Chris Evert of Fort Lauderdale, beat Pattl Hogan of La Jolla. 6-2 4-6, 6-1 today and moved Into a women's singles semifinal match with defending champion Evonne Goo. gong.

Miss Goolagong, the top seed, advanced to the semis, beating Francos le Durr of France 8'6, 7-5. Fischer Sticks To Demands REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The world chess championship was threatened with collapse today 24 hours before Bobby Fischer's deadline to show up or forfeit his match with Boris Spassky of Russia. Fischer, the American chess champion, was reported sticking to his demand for more money. He told the New York Daily News he wouldn't yield. Troops Will Be In Miami WASHINGTON (AP) The Army will station between 1,000 and 3,000 paratroopers near Miami by the time the Democratic National Convention opens a week from today.

Defense officials said the timing and eventual size of the fed- eral-troop movement from North Carolina to Homestead AFB. will depend on how Miami Beach authorities size up the threat of disturbances by militant groups and whether outbreaks develop. i Gallup Poll Has Nixon Favored PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) President Nixon continues to be favored by voters over his possible Democratic rivals, according a recent Gallup Poll. The results of the survey released Sunday Indicate Nixon would gain 53 per cent of the popular vote if his opponent in the presidential election were South Dakota Sen.

George McGovern. The survey showed McGovern receiving 37 per cent of the ballots with 10 per cent of the voters undecided. Gandhi, Ali Bhutto Reach Agreements Tickets to tha $300,000 extravaganza were free but the ticket holders had to come dressed in the colors' of the f)ag. NBC taped the show for broadcast at 9:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday.

"The National Yankee Doodle Dandy" will be selected in Philadelphia from among 13 feen-agers who were born on the Fourth and who represent the 13 original colonies. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fireworks, patriotic pageants and family picnics are among the traditional Fourth of July highlights as the nation celebrates its 196th birthday over a four-day weekend. An audience dressed in red, white and blue was on hand Sunday In 'Oklahoma City for "The 1972 Stars and Stripes Show" featuring comedian Bob Hope, singers Anjta Bryant and Nancy Wilson and baseball's Mickey Mantle. Thoughts For freedom, Christ has set as free; fast, therefore, and do not submit again to a 'yoke of slavery. Galatlans 5:1.

There is always one man to state the case for freedom. That's all we need, one. Clarence Darrow, American jurist. By FRANK CORMIER Associated Press Writer SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Halfway through this election year.

President Nixon has spent about two-thirds of his time away from tha White House, where his lease is up for grabs. During the first six months of 1972, Nixon spent all or part of 121 days away from Washington. There were 182 days during the half year. The chief executive, who flew here Saturday for a stay of about two weeks, has adopted Aspen Lodge at the Camp David, Navy-Marine base as his favorite retreat. Nixon spent all or part of 53 days there during the six months.

Runner-up in presidential favor was the Nixon home at Key Biscayne, Fla: He spent all or part of 32 days there or at the Bahamian island of Grand Cay, commuting distance away by helicopter. Grand Cay is owned by New York industrialist Robert Ab-. planalp and Nixon's closest neighbor at Key Biscayne is banker-investor Charles Attempt Foiled S. Viets Move On Quang Tri With' Aid Of U. S.

Bomb Runs The youngsters competed in an essay on "What My American Freedoms Mean To Me." Acting FBI Director L. Patrick "Gray III wiU deliver the key-' note address during Tuesday's festivities at Independence Hall. While the Dandy hopefuls -declaim, President Nixon and his wife plan to spend a quiet holiday at the Western White House in San Clemente. The President said in his annual Fourth of July message that the spirit of the first Independence Day lives on that "no evil is too strong to be overcome by the American people. In Miami Beach, meanwhile, the Youth International Party sponsored a picnic Sunday and urged those attending to bring enough food to share with ev- eryone young and old.

By RICHARD PYLE Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese marines, supported by U.S. fighter-bombers dropping cluster bombs on fleeing North Vietnamese troops, moved forward today toward Quang Tri City. Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported rom the northern front that the "Bebe" Rebozo. Both men are with Nixon, as is his wife Pat, who arrived Sunday night from Chicago. Ironically, Nixon has spent the least time "at his oceanside mansion here, his voting residence in a state important to his ment troops in two positions west and northwest of Hue were hit by more than 1,200 rounds and by a ground attack at one position Sunday and early Monday.

The spokesmen said the attackers might be trying to pull South Vietnamese troops away from the drive on Quang Tri. The Saigon command reported fighting continuing for the third day 75 miles northeast of Saigon. It said a North Vietnamese attack on a district headquarters at Phuoc Binh was repulsed and 120 of the at- -tackers were killed, most of them by air strikes. former East Pakistan. The agreement gave no timetable, but called for measures to resume communications and air links, promote travel between their countries, reopen trade, and carry out scientific and cultural exchanges.

Excluding Kashmir, India during the December war seized a total of 5,139 square By WILLIAM C. MANN Associated Press Writer SIMLA, India (AP) Prime. Minister Indira Gandhi and. President "Zulfikar Ali Bhutto reached their first peace agree-: ment early today and promised future negotiations on the other issues between their two nations, Including Kashmir and the Pakistani POWs In India. By RICHARD BLYSTONE Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) A young Vietnamese man who tried to hijack a.

Pan American jumbo jet with 153 persons aboard to Hanoi in revenge for U.S. bombing of North Vietnam was overpowered by the pilot and shot to death by an armed passenger Sunday. The hijacker was tentatively identified today aa a speaker at antiwar rallies at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he had studied fishery science on a U.S. government scholarship and graduated with last The young carrying a South Vietnamese passport in the name Nguyen Thai Binh, met violent death after the pilot tricked him and landed at Saigon, the flight's scheduled destination, in defiance of his demand to fly to North Vietnam. The 135 other passengers were safely evacuated by sliding down emergency, chutes, used to empty the plane quickly in case of explosion.

To back up his threats, the, hijacker carried a long knife, and a package which he said contained a bomb. Vietnamese police sources said two. homemade grenades were in the packaget and there was no indication whether they could have exploded. But the airline described them as harmless "egg-shaped objects" wrapped in aluminum foil. North Vietnamese were fleeing in small groups the steady movement of the ma-, rines, apparently hoping to escape the U.S.

air strikes and the shelling of American Navy ships offshore. U.S. B52 bonibers flew 13 missions around Quang Tri City, striking ahead of the marines to within three miles 'of the town's southeastern edge. U.S. fighter-bombers hit the North Vietnamese with antipersonnel cluster bombs.

The marines reported the North Vietnamese attacked them on their eastern flank with a force of infantry and tanks. But spokesmen said the South Vietnamese, and their air and artillery support drove off the attacks, killed 100 of the North Vietnamese, destroyed four tanks and captured another. Thirty miles to the south, 30 rounds of heavy artillery fire hit Hue, military spokesmen' said, but there was no immediate report of casualties. Nearly 70 shells crashed into the former Imperial capital -Sunday, killing 12 civilians and wounding 53. It was the first, shelling of the city since the North Vietnamese offensive began Mardh 30.

Spokesmen also said govern Thp Airreement. which came miles of territory in West Paki- SEN. EDMUND S. MUSKEE SAYS it is vital that the Democratic National Convention "avoid the appearance of the after five days of talks in this -j stan. while Pakistan took Himalayan resort, said Indian square miles of Indian territo Truman Condition Said Satisfactory win oi tne convention oeing frustrated oy some back room rv.

In Kashmir, where tne GeorgecGovern's 'presidential cabal" against Sen nomination. 18. DEATH TAKES JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH, the 95-year-old president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day faints Mormon. 6. and Pakistani forces will withdraw from the territories they seised iast December along India's western border except in Kashmir.

There they will maintain the cease-fire line established by the two-week war in December. The pact also contained a pledge to settle all disputes bilaterally and peacefully, and said steps should be taken to restore and normalize relations, which Pakistan severed Dec. 6 when India recognized Bangladesh, the 'f i troops will remain in position, India took 480 square miles and Pakistan occupied 53 square miles. The agreement said the troops withdrawals would take place within 30 days after ratification by both governments. Radio Pakistan announced that the Pakistani National Assembly would meet July 10 to ratify the agreement.

Under the Indian constitution, parliamentary ratification is not necessary. KANSAS CITY (AP) -r Former President Harry S. Truman has entered Research Medical Center for routine examinations for what his personal doctor said was a "lower gastrointestinal problem." The condition of the 88-year-old Truman, who was taken to the hospital last week after falling in his home, was termed satisfactory by his physician. Dr. Wallace H.

Graham. Dr. Graham said the former president's Intestinal ailment is related to one which put Truman in the hospital for more than a week early in 1971- Truman fell at his home last Tuesday. He spent an hour at the hospital having X-rays taken of his back after complaining of Hospital spokesmen said the X-rays were negative. A HEALTHY FLOW OF PENTAGON BUSINESS, a huge federal loan guarantee and a helping hand, from Britain have failed to lift 4he Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

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