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F1PPP pi ft Buntafc'i Beaumont, a. Monday, July 1, 1972 The Record-Gasette I Reds Pour Rocketon Hue iwpp Battle for Quang Tri Province Continues Is Ready allied fears that the North Vietnamese would try 1o overrun the city while Its defeases sire stripped by the government drive to retake neighboring Quang Trl Province. Stato, Nation and World By United Prut International backed by allied Jets, helicopters and heavy B52 bombers. The B52s overnight dumped more than 900 tons of explosive on the approaches to Quang Trl CUy. The city and the province of the same name were captured a month after the Communist offensive began March 20 In South Vietnam and have been in North Vietnamese hands ever since.

Vlcoy said he saw a South Vietnamese SAIGON (UP1) -COrnmunist gunneri fired 879 mortar and artillery rounds Into Hue and Us outer defenses today and two large, equally-matched units slugged it out with tanks and artillery north of the old Imperial capital in a South Vietnamese attempt to recapture Quang Trl province. A government force Is driv liy north from Hue to try to take back Quang the only South Vietnamese province every captured by the Communists. With most of Hue's defenders sent north to try to recapture Quang Trl, Communists Increased the pressure on. the old Imperial capital and threatened a long- expected, major attack on the cUy. A South Vietnamese para-troop unit, backed by air power, artillery and tanks, fought a savage battle with an North Vietnamese force of the same slxe only two miles south of Quang Trl Mormon Leader Dies at 95 Years UPl correspondent Barney Seibert said an undetermined number of 122mm rockets hit Hue today but there was so Immediate report of casualties.

bally as a youth and maintained his interest in athletics throughout his life, often playing fcamuaii while in his mld-70s. Smith married for the first time in 1898, taking Louise EmylaShurtliff as his bride hi a ceremony at the Salt Lake Mormon Temple. The next year be left for a two-year spell of missionary work in England. On bis return Smith began working for the church historians office. A clerk for a short time at the church-owned department store in Salt Lake City, Smith devoted the rest of his life to religion.

As a prime mover to the Mormon Genealogical Society, Smith built up a collection of 819,200 reels of microfilm containing records of members ancestors vital for the Mormon rite of baptism for Im dead. His first wife having died In 1908 after bearing him two daughters, Smith married Ethel Georgina Reynolds later that year. She bore him five sons and four daughters. After she died to 1936, Smith married Jesse Evans, a former opera contralto who was noted as a soloist with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They often sang duets.

She died to 1971. SALT LAKE CITY (UPl)-Joseph Field-tag Smith became spirttual leader of more than 2 million Mormons around the world at the age of 93. Smith was called at lOthpresldehtof the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Skints on Jan. 23, 1970. The grandson of Hyrum Smith, one of the early Mormon martyrs.

Smith was the grandnephew of Joseph Smith, who founded the church in New York in 1830. The white-haired patriarch, a survivor of three wives and father, grandfather and great-grandfather to more than 140 died of a heart attack at his daughter's home Sunday night. He was 95, Smith had been a member oftbeCouncU il the Twelve Apostles, the church's riding body, for 62 years, serving most of them as church historian. Known as a doctrinaire theologian, Smith, author of more than 20 books on history and religion, spoke often- About keeping the faith of his fathers pun. In a sermon he once criticized "modernists who reject the doctrine of the atonement of Christ, the resurrection of lie Son of God, and consequently the resurrection of mankind.

They have discarded the miracles of the scriptures and make light of the CUy, the provincial capital. the battle was underway, Com-gunners slipped Into the Hue area from the west and bombarded the city and a half-dozen outposts on Its Inland In the air war over North Vietnam, the U.SL command said U.S. Jet fighter-bomber idiots destroyed a coal treatment building near the countrys major port city of Haiphong, dropped a span on a bridge near Vlnh and bombed an oil storange area south of the Chinese border. The command In a delayed report said a U.S, Navy A7 fighter-bomber crashed 'trom unknown causes" June 18 on a night mission over North Vietnam about 107 miles north of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two Vletnams and listed the pilot as missing. A Communist radio broadcast claimed today two U.S, Jets were shot down Sunday over the Hal-phong-Hanoi area.

UPl photographer Willie Vlcoy said government paratroopers In toby's Quang TO. CUy fighting, 22 miles north of Hue, Mrs. Mitchell Airs Views On Politics armored personnel carrier "sink like a as It tried to cross the Truong River to Join the Quang Trl fighting, droving about, seven paratroopers. Vlcoy said the vehicle, overloaded with paratroopers in Adi battle gear, plunged downward and seven of the men aboard never came up." 1 Todays shelling of Hue, the old Imperial capital 400 miles north of Saigon, prompted saving ordinances of the Gospel which the Lord declared essential to salvation," be said. Smith made no move during his two and a half years as president to lift the diurch ban on elevating Negroes to the priesthood, a group which most men Join in their teens.

The priesthood carries out the spirttual and worldly affairs of the church. "The Latter-Day Saints, in commonly called Mormons, have no animosity towards the Negro," Smith wrote in 1964. "Neither have they described him as belonging to an inferior race," he said. "There are Negroes in the church who are respected and honored for (heir integrity and fajthful devotion. The door Into the church is open to all.

"We may not ftdly understand but the time will come when all thesq things wUl be explained by revelation, the spirit of sympathy, mercy and faith, we will also hope that blessing may eventually be given to our Negro bretbern, for they are our bretbern and children of God -notwithstanding their black covering." A native of Salt Lake City, Smith grew up on his family's farm in nearby Taylorsville. He took part in sports enthusiasti- all troops from their mutal borders and renunciation of fee use of force in settling future disputes. Present troop positions in the border state of Kashmir, bitterly disputed since the two countries won Independence from Britain 25 years ago, will remain frozen inder fee pact pending future negotiations. Later talks wUl also take up normalization of relations, repatriation of war prisoners, trade and scientific and cultural exchanges. The two leaders declined official comment the nature of the agreement, Bhutto told reporters: "It is more than an agreement.

It is an understanding and 1 am Six hours earlier he told newsmen the talks had reached an unfortunate deadlock." But he andMrs.Gandhlheld further negotiations and signed two copies of the four-page agreement at 12:40 ajn. 2:10 pjn. Sunday, EDT. Mrs. Gandhi and Bhutto appeared weary at toe signing ceremony but both managed smiles.

A small group of officiate ajv plauded lightly when toe two leaders: shook hands after signing the documents. Troop withdrawals along toe troubled border are to begin 30 days from ra title-st ion by constitutional procedures on both sides. -v A transcript of toe agreement, released nine hours after it was signed in Himachal Bhavan, an estate called Barnes court in the days of British rule, said the line of control resulting from the Dec. 17, 1971, cease-fire line "shall, be respected by both sides without prejudice to toe recognized position of either side. "Neither side shall seek to alter it.

both, sides further undertake to refrain from the threat of use of force in violation this line." Indian- troops in their victorious war Pakistan captured 5,619 square miles of Pakistani territory. New Delhi will return 4,765 square miles in toe desert areas of Sind and Kutch and 374 square miles In the Punjab sector bid will con- Beaumont post last Friday. Looking SACRAMENTO (UPl) Almost 400 would-be California delegates prepared, today for their trek to the Democratic National Convention next week while party leaders played a serious game of musical chairs to determine who finally will be seated on toe convention floor. 'New delegations vjpre named during the weekend to represent Hubert Humphrey, Georgs Wallace and Shirley Chisholm at the convention In keeptag with a Credentials Committee ruling against California's winner-take-aU primary system Meantime, three California leaders in George McGovern's campaign said they would ask a federal Judge to bar seating of delegates for losers in toe June 6 primary. Newly renanpd Humphrey delegates expressed confidence toatthey would overcome the court challenge, floor fight and any other obstacles they might encounter in their quest tor it least 104 of toe 271 California convention seats, Eugene Wyman, Humphrey's tap fend raiser in California, skid Sunday that Humphrey delegates "are not too concerned about it ghe Its awfully late for a Judge to get involved in it," said Wyman, a Beverly -Hills attorney.

Generally courts have been hesitant to interfere with toe work-' tags of toe national And It's terribly late for a Judge to get mixed up tatt." He said if toe Judge rules in favor at McGovern, the decision would be appealed. And he noted there isnt much time left before toe convention begins. Nevertheless, all of. toe oritfnal 271 McGovern delegates plan to travel to' Miami although some delegates are complaining they don't have enough money to make toe trip. At the same time, 104 delegates will be going to the convention for Humphrey, 21 for Wallace, 12 for Chisholm, six for Sen Edmund Muskie and four to Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty.

Two delegates apiece will be representing Eugene Mc Carthy, Henry Jackson and John Lindsay, Meanwhile, State Democratic Chairman Charles Maimat Is touring the state in an attempt to make peace among his party members. Tm calling on all the delegates to remember that our final objective Is to defeat Richard Nixon in November," he said. sident Nixon, buoyed by polls showipg him leading all bis likely opanents, plans to leave the spotlight to the squabbling Democrats and spend the next two weeks mapping, hto oro Whtte House aides saM today he still would rely heavily to political advice on former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, who stepped down over the weekend akhls campaign chief. Mitchell, who engineered Nixon's effort and cesstal 1968 efforT and tot the Justice Department several months ago to manage toe campaign, resigned under pressure from his wife after she threatened to leave him if he didnt.

He planned to return to Ms New York City law practice but will be available as a consultant. The President Sunday conferred by with both Mitchell and his suc-cessorClark MacGregor, a five-term congressman roar Minnesota who lost IT bid for the Senate in 1960 to Hubert -Humphrey-and-bis served on the, White wito Congress. Nixon was reported pleased by results of the latest Gallup and Harris Polls which show him substantially ahead of all Democratic contenders. Aides said he planned to keep a low profile during the next two weeks in order not to detract public attention in anyway from the ta-traparty fighting among the Democrats. The President arrived here.

Saturday for a 2-12 week stay at ths Western White House. HU was Joined by two dose personal friends, CG. "Bebe" Rebozo of Key Biscayne, Fla and Robert H. Ab-ptanalp of Bronxvllle, N.Y. fire still In force despite the heavy gun tattle Sunday morning in Belfasts Old Park area and fresh outbursts earlytoday between Protestants, Cathollca and troops across the Ml superhighway leading to -Dublin.

Children playing soccer found toe bodies of two Protestants Sunday night on a crlckqt ground in Belfast's Old Park dtetrlct, near the scene of an early morning tight between Protestants Catholics and British troops. They were identified as truckdriver Hugh Clawson and busdriver David Fisher, both 30. Like an uniden tified body of a man dumped from a car soon afterward in the Forth River area of west Belfast, they had been shot through the the hallmark of extremist executions. Two more victims of the first weekend the Irish Republican Army (IRA) declared a cease-fire last Monday were Daniel Hayes, 43, a Catholic, and Paul Jobllng, a lft-year-old Jehovahs Witness from England who had been doing voluntary work at a Belfast camplfor poor Hawaii Reprieve HONOLULU Hmil received a temporary reprieve from a sUte-vide dock strike by the fittfpuHoini Lotgsboremeny and Warehousemen's Union, 5 though no negotiations ver scheduled today. The ILWUlate Sunday withdrew its threat -of a strike on1 Hawaii's docks until there Is a settlement or a complete breakdown In Workers Down WASHINGTON A congressional committee report showed today there were .2.85 mill lan federal civilian workers in May, down 19,437 from the previous The Congressional Joint Committee on Reduction of Federal Expenditures said the federal civilian payroll In April was 2.58 Wilton, down $240.77 million from lfarch.

Pay figures available lagged one month be-' hind those showing the siae of 'the workforce. i Chess Match REYKJAVIK, Iceland-Bobby Fischer's time-runs out at 8 a.m. EOT Tuesday. Fischer, the 29-year-old fcByooUm chess genius, must 'tun up ln Reykjavik by then or lose the right to challenge Soviet titlebolder Boris Spes- sky for the world championship, a match that has generated Uhaoorxhess Legislature SACRAMENTO -Legislators resumed their feverish pace today with plans of working through the July 4 holiday to wrap up the bulk of legislative business before, the Democratic National Convention betfns next Monday. The two major Issues still before the lawmakers are a massive tax shut-school fin-, ance proposal and reapportion- Child Killed HAWAIIAN GARDENS -A 4r year-old girl playing in front of her home Sunday night wasklll-ed by a shotgun blast fired from a passing car.

Joyce Ann Huff was rushed to Pioneer Hospital where doctors fought to keep her alive, removing 40 pellets from her body and two from her btain. She died about hour after the shooting. Bacon in Court SEATTLE, Wash. Antiwar activist Leslie Bacon will be prosecuted on perjury charges this fall for telling a grand Jury she was not In theinatlons Capital building Just before the March 1, 1971 bombing, according to government U.S. attorneys said Saturday that the trial would be In "mid-September" In spite qf a U.S, Supremo Court ruling overturn-' log a Contempt at court citation against her.

A 4wnaMiMwAiifi at 4 i WASHINGTON (UPl) Martha Mitchell rejoices that her husband has gottenoutof full-time politics, but she stfll says die is a "political prisoner." Mrs. Mitchell made another call to this reporter Sunday and gave her action to the announcement at her bns-' tthd, John Mitchell, Saturday that be, was his Job as chairman tie committee to re-elect' President Nixon. Sure, thats what I wanted," die said when asked how she ifoved toejsslgnaUf But she Spoke In a loir volwdkl talk long; and hung up the telephone abruptly. 4 "Im still a political prisoner," she said. "I cant talk long.

I am calling sur- reptittously. She said she was at the Watergate Apartments, where toe Mitchells maintain Washington home. She wondered during the course of the conversation why no one had asked a question about her. at Nixon's news conference Thursday. Mitchell, the former attorney general, said when he announced his resignation that he hoped, to spend more time wife, his wife and their daughter.

He will continue to work as a part-time adviser to the Presidents campaign, but toe Mitchells are expected to move their residence back to Rye, N.Y a Westchester County suburb of New York City. Mitchell made public her. unhappiness with her husbands political role to a telephone call to UPl on June 22 from Newport Beach, Calif. She said, die had given Mitchell an fultlmatum" to get out of politics or she would leave him. During the conversation, she said "you Just get away, and the call was abruptly broken off.

On June 25, Mrs. Mitchell called UPl again, this time from the Westchester Country Club at Rye. She said she was leaving Mitchell until he decides to leave" Nixon's re-election campaign. India Intense war The station Prime and office. Both Kleselhorts and Coomes retired on is Mrs.

Kieselborst. -Record-Gazette staff photo SERVICE AWARD Beaumont postmaster. Chuck Cootnes presents postal employee, Don Kieselborst with a certificate of merit for over twenty years of fine service to toe tinue to Kashmir. Among the issues to be worked out later at a "mutually convenient time by both sides, according to the pact, is the repatriation of about 93,000 Pakistani war prisoners held by India. Bhutto wants them all back but Sheikh Mujlbur Rahman, prime minister of what was once East Pakistan but emerged as tadependent Bangladesh after fee war, has demanded war crimes trials for an 1,500 of them.

Bloody Weekend Erupts In Belfast; Seven Die McGovern Supporters Seek Court Decision After( Summit Meet SIMLA, India (UPl) The leaders of and Pakistan, following five days of summit conference talks, signed an agreement early today returning to Pakistan all territory lost in the December with tadlaiexcept the areas along the Kashmlre cease-fire line. agreement was signed in a fire-minute ceremony at this Himalayan hill 240 miles north of New Delhi by Minister Indira Gandhi of India President Zulfikar All Bhutto of Pakistan. It also calls for withdrawal of right thing, Reinhardt said. In Los Angeles, California delegates for SoC Hubert H. Humphrey, who were selected after the Credentials Committee decision, said they were not concerned about the court suit or a potential 'convention floor flight over seating of their date.

Eugene Wyman, Humphrey's top fend raiser In California, said that "Its awfully late for a Judge to get involved In it." He said the decision, would be appealed if the district Judge rules In favor of the McGovern backers. -Earlier Sunday, In a television Interview, McGovern said he had not 'the slightest doubt" that the fell convention would reverse the Credentials Committee decision. He said the convention was going to be The most open, the lead bossed in American and he said he was convinced he was going to be the nominee. But whether I am the nominee or not, IS lUTtBSllIUllJ will be, 1 will be backlni the nominee of party," McGove: If the process Is fair, asl tolly expect it the Democratic party," McGovern McGovern was Interviewed on the ABC television program "Issues and BELFAST (UPl) One of the bloodiest weekends of 'Ulster violence pushed the death toll today to 400 fox toe three years of Northern Ireland terror and threatened to smash the week-old cease-fire. said two bullet-riddledandhood-ed bodies were discovered in Belfast today, bringing to seven the number of persons killed In gunbattles or executed by militants this weekend.

The body of a man was found in a car abandoned near Belfasts Crumlta Road Jail before dawn, and a pasferby on his way to work in the same area found toq tody of a young man dumped in Twickenham Street; said they also were on the lookout for a man who maybe still another execution victim A gustos "Gusty Spence, a 39-year-old Protestant who had been serving a life sentence for murdering a 1 Roman Catholic bartender in 1906. Gunman kidnapped Spence Sunday night as he was turning to-Jail from a two-day parole granted to allow him to attend his daughter's wedding ind visit' his alltag mother. Both the IRA and the British army" emphasized they Considered the' cease WASHINGTON (UPl) Supporters of Sen. George S. McGovern said they would go to U.S.

District Court today seeking to overturn a Democratic Credentials Committee decision tlpt took away 151 of his national convention delegates. District Judge George L. Hart Jr. scheduled a hearing this morning on a suit filed by California delegation backers of McGovern. They argue that the Credentials Committee acted unconstitutionally last week when It set aside 'California's winner-take-all primary election rule and the 271 delegates should be apportioned on the basis of percentages of the popular vote received by each candidate.

McGovern finished first In the June 6 primary. The committee decision could block a McGovern first ballot nomination at the convention, which starts In Miami Beiach week from today. Stephen Reinhardt, Democratic national committeeman from California' and a co-chairman rof the stalk delegation, said McGbvbn approved the legal move. He told its be thinks we are dninft the V. t- r.

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