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evening thundershowers today and Friday Highs today and Friday upper 80s to middle 90s Lows to night 60s Interior and low night 60s Interior and low 7 INSIDE Women's Page Pg 12 Bur FinancialPg 20 Entertainment Pg 16 25 Classified AdvvPg: 30 -V ft Served By Associated Press 7 rv A 7r vTTT vT vyMJ jv 1 -jV 'S Serving Biloxi-Gulfport and Coast Since 1884 Volume 88 -Number 282 r7 :7" Mississippi Coast Thursday Afternoon July 13 2 Secttons 34 Pages 70 coast Details on page -p Single CopiMOt: (Vote Table on Page 22) MIAMI BEACH Fla AP) -1 Sen George McGovern climaxing his dramatic rise from political obscurity by winning the first-ballot nomination of a divided Democrat-' ic party was considering a broadening list of vice-presidential possibilities today after Sen Edward Ml Kennedy rejected his bid Soon after the votes of Illinos sent McGovern's total soaring past the magic 1509 mark in the jammed brightly lit convention hall and even before the official result had been announced Kennedy phoned McGovern from Hyan-1 nis Port Mass to offer congratulations During their 15-minute talk McGovern offered Kennedy the No 2 spot for the race against President Nixon Kennedy rejected it very real personal reasons" according to McGovern spokesman Richard Dougherty Earlier in the evening Florida Gov Reubin Askew another prime prospect told McGovern through aides he didn't want to be considered McGovern aides said the nominee would make no announcement about a runningmate before midday One close adviser said he felt the list of those under consideration was expanding as the victorious nominee sought the counsel of Sens Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie his defeated rivals whose withdrawal from con- tention a day earlier had signaled Wednesday night's triumph Those being mentioned include five senators Thomas Eagle-ton of Missouri Abraham A Ribi-coff of Connecticut Philip A Hut of Michigan Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and Walter Mondale of Minnesota two governors "John Gilligan and Wisconsin's Patrick Lucey and labor -leader Leonard Woodcock Democrafic nominee Sen George McGovern South Dakota Democrat works on Ids acceptance speech while watching convention proceedings on television in Miami Beach Fla Senator McGovern won the Democrat- ic presidential nomination on the first ballot of the Democratic National Conventions (AP WIrephoto) i-1 Midway through the evening top McGovern aides were asked to submit lists of four possibilities One aide Rick Stearns said McGovern had narrowed possibilities to four including Kennedy and Woodcock Other aides said a larg- er number remained under consideration 1 Within minutes after clinching the nomination McGovern re-' celved congratulations and prom- ise of support from all the candidates he had conquered except Alabama Gov George Wallace But labor leaders In particular remained bitterly 'opposed to the senator as did many delegates One sign in the hall read: Will in November" Earlier in the evening as the 7 Democratic National Convention proceeded through its rites of nom- nation McGovern left his penthouse suite at a hotel up the beach to tell antiwar demonstrators he stood by his pledge for total US withdrawal from Indochina Wallace faces tough MIAMI BEACH Fla- (AP) For George Corley Wallace It is the toughest of times" Confined to a wheel chair his war chest sagging and facing pol- ltical unrest at home Wallace now must make a myriad of decisions as the Democratic National Convention draws to -a close Although received warmly at the convention Wallace's desires again were rejected by the dele- gates and platform writers The Alabama governor refusing to take refuge with Republicans could undertake another third-party presidential campaign Or if the Democrats experience a shat- tering November defeat as he predicts they will he may try to fit the pieces together into a more conservative party in 1976 1 Wallace's campaign manager Charles Snider said Wednesday the possibility of another third-party race which gave Wallace five states in 1968 was stronger and stronger-every minute" But other spokesman at the gov ernor's headquarters tried to soft-pedal such talk saying no plans nave been made 'for a campaign Snider said he was speaking for the governor who tried in vain to get the Democratic nomination and to rewrite the party platform on school busing and other major issues resume Saigon peace proposals would let those fighting under the National Liberation Front banner "participate in power by legal means" he added He said the enemy invasion of the South has been double failure military and politically" and called for an Internationally supervised cease-fire throughout Indochina as proposed in President Nixon's plan Pilots from the Hancock also reported seven railroad boxcars damaged In a raid near Hanoi 5 The Navy said in a delayed report that the destroyers Robinson and Hamner sank one barge and 1 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 Navy did not Identify the freighter but it was presumably Chinese It was not attacked North Vietnamese gunners fired more than 30 artillery shells into Hue 32 miles south but about a third of them were duds that did not explode 7 There was no' immediate report of casualties By HOBEKT MCHUGH Editor The Daily Herald MIAMI BEACH Fla Missis-sippi's delegation to the Democratic National Convention listened courteously to representatives of Alabama Gov George Wallace Wednesday night applauded their presentation heard some of their own delegates blister Sen George MCGovem for a then went to Convention Hall to consider their vote for the party's presidential nominee They caucused again at the Hall then in the roll call of states split their 25 votes as follows: ten for McGovern twelve for Shirley Chisholm and three for Terry Sanford The Wallacites were Jack Wood long a friend ans supporter of the Alabama governor and Starr Smith of Montgomery a Mississippi native In a startling statement that indicated Wallace has made his peace with the Democratic party Wood asked the 13 blacks and 12 whites in the Mississippi delegation: we going to win with people like our governor George Wallace who had to be carried to the podium last night or take what I consider the road to doom with Richard Nixon in November? We ask this delegation to please consider his (Wallace's)' candidacy Each of us knows we have to go' with a winner We are in the Democratic party to stay and I want us to beat Richard Nixon in November Let's put our best foot forward and let's win in November" Wood's brief remarks were greeted with applause Smith also reassured the delegation that Wal- (Continued on Page 2) Air By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two airline hijackers armed with sawed-off shotguns flew in a National Airlines 727 jet from Phil- adelphia to a small airport in Texas today with $600000 ransom and four stewardess hostages the Federal Aviation Administration said The plane landed at Brazoria County Airport about 50 miles south of Houston the agency said Police radio reports said officers there shot out the aircraft's tires In another hijacking an armed LOD Israel (AP) An Israeli military court today ordered a sanity hearing for Kozo Okamo-to after he admitted full responsibility for the people he killed in the Tel Aviv airport massa-ere claimed he is a professional soldier in the Red Army of Japanese radicals and warned that the organization "will slay anyone who stands on the side of the bourgeoisie Ours is a -world revolution he said his face impassive SAIGON (AP) Four Americans were killed in combat last week five died from nonhostile causes and another five were missing in action the 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 reported 14 combat dead seven dead for nonhostile-causes four missing and 23 wounded REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer today was reported threatening to break off his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky unless all movie cameras are removed from the playing hall ff- coupie people fainted" said one passenger Tom Herring of St Louis didn't think it was -necessary to go through all the shennanigans with the heat the way it was" t- i i The gunman in the second hijacking identified by the FBI as Melvin Martin Fisher 49 of Nor- -man Okla the father of five children released the 51 passengers aboard an American Airlines Boeing 727 after getting the ran-som at Oklahoma City's Will Rog- either was thrown out or escaped-the FAA said He was taken to a local hospital The hijackers remained aboard the three-jet 727 with the pilot and four stewardesses' The two hijack-ers of the National plane out of Philadelphia released 111 passengers who -endured nine hours of suffocating heat as the aircraft sat on a runway in Philadelphia International Airport while FBI agents haggled with-the gunmen oyer bf delivering-the ransom money ahd freeing the passengers unc "For our part" he continued will' give most careful attention to the views you may express and to any preliminary questions about' our proposals you may wish to present In his formal speech to the session-South Vietnamese Ambassador Pham Dang Lam rejected one' of the two key points of the munist peace plan: establishment man who collected $550000 ransom abandoned an apparent plan to try to escape by parachute and sur- rendered meekly to a stewardess His pistol had no bullets but offi- cers did not know that until the hijacking of the Dallas-bound' American Airlines jet was all over Both planes were commandeered Wednesday night After the National Airlines place landed at the Texas field its stairs were lowered and the flight engi- neer who had been pistol-whipped SAN CLEMENTE Calif' (AP) Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin an overnight i guest at a private home near the Western White House prepared to "return to Washington today after the meeting with President Nixon The chief executive the ambassador and Henry -A Kissinger foreign policy adviser met for about an hour and a half Wednesday in the presidential office 9 HUE Vietnam (AP) The mine blockade of North harbors has had appreciable effect on the fighting in jQuang Tri Province a senior source said today North Vietnam Vietnamese stockpiled for this operation -for several months and I don't think they have been hurt" the source re-' ported MORGAN CITY La (AP) Wild well fighters today studied how to control a gas well that blew out July 5 in the Belle lie field about 18 miles southwest of here Equipment has been "moved in to tame the Sun Oil Co well but a spokesman for the company said it had not been decided whether to try to cap it at the surface or choke It off underground through a killer well ers -World Airport this morning Fisher had boarded the Dallas-bound flight there and took over the aircraft about a half-hour after it was in the air ordering it to return to the airport He demanded the money in $100 bills and a parachute released the passengers and then ordered the plane to take off again Crewmembers said Fisher ordered the pilot to several sites in -Oklahoma City while apparently pondering a parachute escape as ta of a coalition government in Sal- gon' He said that any solution at imposing in South Vietnam a prefabricated government must definitely be set aside since it would violate in a blatant manner the right to self-determination of the South Vietnamese population and the most elementary rules of democracy" was shot mandas ment on charges down The US Corn-usual refused to com-the North Vietnamese Navy pilots from the carrier Hancock reported wrecking 12 buildings in strikes against the Van Dong storage area 20 miles northeast of Haiphong Other attack planes' set afire the Yen Cu and Hon Gai fuel depots 13 and 21 miles east and northeast of Haiphong the Navy said 7 Three buildings were damaged at an island supply base 35 miles cast of Haiphong and two buildings 7 and other equipment were de- damaged at the Hon Gai port facility the 7th Fleet said area city PARIS (AP) The 'Vietnam peace talks resumed today after 10 weeks but the- positions- of both sides appeared -unchanged US Ambassador William Porter put before the conference the -four-point- package President Nixon proposed on May 8 The Viet chief delegate Mrs Nguy- en Thi Binh told newsmen she was ready to negotiate on the basis of the seven-point proposal she made a year ago chief delegate Xuan Thuy called on the United States to its bombardment of North Vietnam It really desires to ne- an end to the war The apparent lack of change was no great surprise Any progress toward agreement is expected to come in secret sessions Politburo'' 'member Le Due Tho is due back" from Hanoi in the nextfew days and this could mean more be-hindUie-scenes sessions with pres-" i idential adviser Henry A Kissinger or other UA' officials Porter told the Communists that he felt it possible to find improving' developments in the world since th a i He erred to the peace moves between the two Koreas and the two Ger- many and the agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to 'settle 'differences by -peaceful means He did not men- 7 tion UBV relations with Commun- 1st China -v'T The ambassador asked for 7 and measured consideration" of -Nixon's proposals: SAIGON AP) American fighter-bombers hit -North Viet- nam Wednesday with the heaviest raids in 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! equalling the number on July 5 and said the closest to Haiphong was within a mile of the-city It i made no mention of any plane losses i North Vietnam charged that Vmanjr waves" of US planes' at-tacked areas inside and outside Haiphong that dozens of persons were killed and nearly 200 houses destroyed Hanoi said an American RF4 reconnaissance plane 3 -(i i- 7 i i u- rtui v1.