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Show f Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Chance of thundershowers in the evening. Daytime highs near 90. Details, weather map or Page 3 7 2 NO. 10c 60 PAGES I THE rfeooi By PETER ARNETT Associated Press Writer The Vietnam SAIGON war has plowed almost halfway through 1969 with no visible signs in the battle areas that its course has changed from that of a year ago, be- fore the U.S. elections. President Nixon said last month: We have ruled out attempting to impose a purely military solution on the battlefield. We have ruled out also withdrawal either a from Vietnam, or the acceptance in Paris of terms that would amount to a disguised defeat." The number of American lives lost in the first 14 weeks of the Nixon Administration was 4,032, nearly double the figure of the last 14 weeks of President Lyndon B. Johnone-side- d sons tenure. The White House United States has not the says escalated the war since Nixon took office, and actually die figures could reflect only the traditional pattern of this war. It normally has periods of Heavy violence Interspersed with frequent pauses. The biggest changes in the war are seasonal, not strategic. American GIs in firebases alotig die borders are being driven from their underground bunkers by the mon-soo-p rains. They are retreating to bases above ground. These same rainstorms are NEWPORT closing off the Ho Chi Minh and Sihanouk trails to attacking U.S. bombers. But hot winds are clearing the skies over Hue and the northern part of Vietnam, parting the heavy cloud curtain that helped to hide enemy preparations for another offensive forecast in captured docu- ments. While the pattern of the war the continues unchanged, strengths and weaknesses of the combatants are becoming more sharply defined, particularly against the background of the Paris peace talks and American public opinion. The great strengths of die allies are firepower and logis- tics. Firepower is being used with devastating results to grind the enemy down under constant artillery a n d air bombardments that roar into die foothills of the demilitarized zone, crash through the canopies of the central highlands, shake the windows of Saigon, and burst amidst the mangrove swamps and pineapple groves of the , Mekong Delta. Logistics are being applied to rebuild a country shattered by 20 years of war. U.S. Army engineers are rebuilding, and rebuilding yet again, bridges blown up sometimes three times a month by guerrillas. U.S. civilian contractors are roads twisted blacktopping out of shape by tanks and halftracks. Timber and roofing materials are being rushed to rebuild hamlets and villages as fast as they are being See WAR on Page A 4 -- Broadcasts By Hanoi Trigger Laird's Ire WASHINGTON about a relatively routine business schedule today with little outward evidence of concern over what he might discuss in the Midway Islands Sunday with President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam. The White House resident expert on Vietnam, Dr, Henry A. arrived in Kissinger, Southern California Thursday night, but the President did not confer with him. Instead, Nixon spent the evening with his family at their new home in San Clemente, 25 miles south of here. Through news reports and private cables, the President was well aware of unsolicited advice and comment coming from Capitol Hill and other world capitals. His Sunday agenda for Midway, however, was well worked out before he left Washington for the West earlier this week. There was his no approach to Thieu had undershift of gone any direction. As for Nixons position on troop withdrawals and coalition goverment in South Vietnam, his senior advisers held solid evidence last-minu- ie MAFIA, INSURANCE -5-24-4445 -5-24-4445 521-353- NEWSPA By DONALD M. ROTHBERG Associated Press Writer A WASHINGTON (AP) Mafia loan shark and his son are involved in a nationwide series of deals in which millions of dollars of commercial loans were obtained by using insureuice poliquestionable cies and bonds as collateral. i The names of John A. Masi-ell- o Sr. and bis son, John Jr., turned up in an investigation of the severe financial problems of insurance companies in Oklahoma, Florida and Arizona. Earlier this year, the elder Masiello was also in the news when the New York State Investigation Commission disclosed that companies he con- trolled had received more in than a Small Business Administration loans. The SBA loans have since been recalled and repaid. commission identified me elder Masiello as a member of the Mafia organization formerly headed by Vito Genovese. Both father and son also are under indictment bribery and conspiracy charges in connection with Post Office Department mail hauling contracts. As part of the insurance deals, the Masiellos received most of $550,000 lent by a New York bank. Collateral for thq, loans was Insurance policies and surety bonds issued by companies in Oklahoma and Florida. And a $150,000 bond issued by the FloFida company was used to purchase a paid up annuity from the Arizona in-- Sec-reta- of Defense Melvin R. Laird today criticized Hanoi for making what he called contrived broadcasts supposedly quoting U.S. pilots as saying they are being well treated during imprisonment in North Vietnam. Lairds comment, sharp given to reporters, was the latest in a public between the' United States and North Vietnam over the prisozer of war give-and-ta- that his stand was and public and they doubled d any dramatic or, for that matter, any dramatic specific announcement well-state- d turn-aroun- would develop quickly from the Midway meeting. So far as could be determined at the West Coast White House, Nixons position had not changed since May 14 when he told the American people: What kind of settlement will permit the South Vietnamese people to determine freely their own political future? such a settlement will require the withdrawal of all Vietnamese forces, including our own, from South Vietnam, and procedures for See NIXON on Page 4 Giant Step sensitiiy; camera being used to detect breast cancer years earlier than usuaL A heat- - mear in the control of uterI ine cancer. Others currently associated with Hoffman in the project are Drs. Purvis L. Martin, and Wayne B. Henderson Thomas A. Slate, all San Diego obstetrician - gynecologists, and John W. Merritt, a : Is More than 5,000 women In San Diego, Calif., have been photographed during the last four years with the camera, which is called a thermograph. The project is one of the to'Egest research trials of thermography since it first was applied in medicine 12 years ago. Dr. Ralph L. Hoffman, director of the study, said project findings point toward a major advance in controlling breast cancer an advance perhaps as great as the pap medical cian. techni- laboratory breast tumors Malignant kill some 28,000 American women annually, more than any other form of cancer and the toll Increases every , . not diagnosed until it Is too late. He said most malignant tumors are not found until they are about four centimeters in diameter, about the size of an average marble. Research suggests that it takes about eight years for a single breast cancer cell to grow to a tumor 1 centimeter in diameter. From that point, the cancer growth is phenomenal requiring only two to 2 years more for the tumor to grow front one centimeter to year. fatal proportions. Hoffman reported the reThus, women in whom a sults of his study and specucarcinoma is lated on the future of thermoclose to found are in interview: an perilously graphy The cure rate for breast death. Most doctors consider cancancer today is almost identical to what it was 30 years cer to be cured after the ago. The reason for this is patient has survived five that many breast cancers are years. The breast cancer cure ! rpVn & A-- Students Polio victim Carol K. Loftis studies up for U. of U. final exams. In Jeopardy WASHINGTON -H(AP) of banks and other money lenders, setting the stage for what one official says will be a real loan crunch, are telling the government they may have to sharply curtail or end student, undreds surance firm for John Masiello Jr. Annuities from the Arizona firm also are being used as collateral for loans. Rep W Patman, chairman of - the right House Banking Committee, recently warned federal banka large ing officials that number of banks across the country stand to lose millions of dollars in loans collateral-Se- e MAFIA on Page 2 A-- loans, It may just be sabre rattling, said an official of the insured loan bureau in the U.S. Office of Education, but we are definitely concerned over a real loan crunch this summer. At stake is more than $640 million in government guaranteed loans now going to 750,000 students under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Under the act the government guarantees loans of up to $1,000 and a large part of the interest for almost any student certified as attending a college or university. RAISED RATES commercial' interest As TOKYO (AP) Red China rates climbed, Congress last charged today that Soviet .year raised the ceiling from troops have fired across the the original 6 per cent ceiling Manchurian border and have to 7 per cent. sent hundreds of armored Earlier this year, however, vehicles into Sinkiang Provthe prime interest rate the ince in the far northwest in rate banks charge their most incidents still occurring favored customers spurted incessantly. to 7 per cent. With the actual rate that most lendere Moscow promptly denied the charges. Peking probably charge being closer to 10 per wanted to get its message cent, most institutions prefer to sink their money Into someacross while world Communist parties are meeting in thing besides students. The executive of one MidMoscow. Red Chine has boycotted the meeting but it has western bank with $5 million in student loans said it would its supporters there. The Chinese charged the be folly to continue them Russians have been carrying unless the law is changed. CUT PROGRAM border provocations and The kidnaping Chinese since the official government clashes on the Manchurian also said the crisis arises at a frontier in March. The latest time when the government alincident was an ready is under fire from colreported incursion by Soviet planes leges and universities for cutnaMay 3L ting back the tional student defense loan Russia Sends Vehicles Into China - Breast Cancer Bn ' Vf i khr-.- non-Sout- h program. By CLIFF SMITH Copley News Service 6, 1969 JUNE FRIDAY, Loans For Questionable Deals Unfold The - - BEACH, President CALIF. (UPI) Nixon has decided to go ahead with his Midway conference on the Vietnam War with little consideration for the critical storms beginning to break in Washington and other parts of the worid. The chief executive goes These broadcasts, like others before them, are a feeble gesture and no substitute for the humanitarian guarantees that we are seeking, he said. In the last few days, Hanoi has beamed a series of radio broadcasts at South Vietnam using what it said were the voices of several imprisoned crewmen, among them Navy Lt. Cmdr. John S. McCain HI. McCain, a pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam nearly two years ago, is issue. the son of a widely known Hanoi has chosen to readmiral. The broadcast had spond to our plea for humane him saying he has received treatment of our prisoners of very good medical treatwar with a series of contrived ment from the North Vietnamese. broadcasts, Laird stated. (AP) Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South Prepares To Meet Thieu End In Sight . . -5- 24-2840 rntiknsmro On... No PrWnt -5-24-4400 O) War Grinds Editor's Not Wht It ttw sihMtiwi Vietnam en the eve t Nixon's trip to M Sway for talk with the Saipon leadership? Her is an analysis by an Associated Press reporter wh has covered h w- -r lor inr than tlx years. FIRST WEST'S MOUNTAIN o In News, News Tips Home Delivery SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH B-- 9. VOL. Our Phone Numbers ERET Evening Showers rate most often cited ranges from 75 to 86 per cent. However, these figures are for localized cancer that is cancer that has not spread beyond the breast. When all breast cancer patients are r surconsidered, the vival rate drops to 56 per five-yea- cent, according to the American Cancer Society. Hoffman said he and his colleagues have been able to detect tumors as small as four millimeters in diameter 10 times smaller than the avearage breast tumor when detected. The detection instrument was the thermograph. The thermograph is a type of camera and it does produce on pictures photographic paper but the similarity to c o n v entional photography ends there. Under that program col- leges and universities make loans directly to needy students with money that is 10 per cent theirs and 90 per cent federal. But its the poor student who will get hurt. Banks and other lenders probably wont turn away the sons and daughters of good customers, said the Insured loans official. Several proposals have been made in Congress or are expected that would raise the guaranteed rate or provide some alternative such as granting lenders the right to charge a fee for each loan application or making some free arrangement for volume. Pol io V ictim B attles v. . : Her Way To Degree a. Rehabilitation began at Georgia Warm Springs where L got fixed up with a back brace and arm gadgets. Just Polio may have struck to be able to feed myself after Carol K. Loftis, 1947 E. 33rd a year and a half was one of South, but it didnt strike her out. the biggest joys imaginable. A quadruplegic since 1951 sets gave when paralysis crept from her Miss Loftis her first chance at toes to just short of her wind- eyeballs. ! regaining some coordination. ' At first, I didnt believe Now, using a stick in her pipe, Miss Loftis will graduate tonight from the University of the paralysis was going to mouth, she can type 30 words Utah. stay. I kept thinking, This a minute, dial the telephone she and take notes in class. Nor-- " Graduating with a 3.2 isnt really happening, ' said. grade-poishe spent average in elemally hos4 Lofin Then Miss months the three months learning how mentary education, tis said, Aless stubborn or pital and 10 months bed- to write again with my left person would have ridden at home brought a hand. She guides the hand : "boredom you cant express. with the long stick held in her gotten discouraged long ago mouth. bank You've heard the expression, She was a frustra-- . bored to tears? I used to lie sheer bookkeeper when the cripThrough and cry by the hour, she tion, she also mastered such pling' disease grasped the nation in an epidemic, and said. See POLIO on Page A--ll . By KATHY CRACROFT Deseret News Staff Writer evey hospital in town, full of polio patients. It' started out as a bad case of flu. Within four days, my life was completely changed," said Miss Loftis, who awakened in an iron lung, unable to move anything but my . Paint-by-numb- er right-hande- pig-head- Old Allies Walk Beaches, Relive 25 Years Ago D-D- ay SAI FRANCE (AP) "Under the command of Gen. Eisenhower, Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces, began landing Allied armies this morning on the northern coast of France." This message from Col. Ernest Dupuy in London came at 9:33 a.m., London 25 years ago today. had begun and Hitlers four-yea- r grip on Europe would be smashed in 11 months. time, D-D- AmeriThe liberators cans, Britons, Canadians and soldiers of the Free French army were back on the beaches and in the villages today where people can be grateful to them without embarrassment and the old soldiers proud without com- plexes. They came late Thursday night to this village which says it was the first in Europe to regain its freedom in 1944. Paratroopers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division jumped into Saint after mid- shortly night. One soldier caught his Today's Thought chute on the church steeple and hung from it for hours, n 4 a.m. the Wisdom is the ability but by German garrison had pulled to discover out and the village was in Paul Eldridge American hands. 100-ma- the Gavin, who landed Col. William Sharp of Pen- -' N.J., then lieutenant, drovei an armored vehicle onto thq beach at 11:45 a.m. nington, a in s noon. swamp outside the town, said his memories of are strangely hazy. I was occupied with what I would do on the ground. There were people down there with guns that did not like us and my mind just moved from one thing to another without saving much of it. At 6:30 a.m. men were movthe ing into the beaches, at Omaha and Americans Utah, and the British and Canadians to the east at Juno, Sword and Gold. We went straight ahead,,, he said. My orders were to proceed to a certain point and take the waterproofing off mjr vehicle. To the right and left' people would be killed, but we were occupied with our waterproofing. We were safe on the beach, but three days later my unit was nearly destroyed in a Panzer attack. American casualties in the first 24 hours were put at 6,60? by the 1st Army, including more than 3,000 dead and missing. 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