2 (Sec 1) Statesman Salem,
Mill Bosses Agree
To Resume Talks
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PORTLAND ( A major group
of employers agreed Thursday to
resume negotiations next , week in
the Pacific Northwest lumber
strike, now 18 days old. .
H. Greeley, spokesman for
the group of employers, said - the
first meeting probably wufvbe held
Wednesday. .The Federal Media
tion Service which, has been at
tempting to get both sides to
gether, will arrange the meeting.
The AFL Lumber and Sawmill
Workers and the CIO Woodworkers
WASHINGTON ( The House
Thursday voted 309-36 for a bill
exnandinjz unemployment insur
ance coverage, after beating down
a Democratic drive to increase
weekly benefits.
The bill, which now goes to the
Senate, would add about four mil
lion workers to the 6 million al
ready covered by the federal-state
jobless insurance program.
It adds about 1V million federal
government employes lor the first
time, and extends coverage to
firms hiring four or more employes
for 20 weeks in year., The present
law, enacted in 1933, covers firms
. iking eight or more employes for
20 weeks. "
President Eisenhower had re
quested coverage for six million
more persons, including firms witn
one or more workers without re-
card to length of service. The Ways
and Means Committee trimmed
down the President's proposal be
fore bringing it to the House floor.
A determined band of Democrats
denounced the House bill as inade
quate and fought for amendments
to increase payments to the jobless
and extend payments for at least
28 weeks.
They were.beaten on a roll call
vote of - 241-110. Supporting the
move : were 18 Republicans, 91
Democrats and 1 Independent
Against were 17 Republicans and
68 Democrats.
Benefits and payment periods
sow vary according to state laws,
with the minimum in some states
as low as S3 a week for six weeks.
The average is less than $25,
An amendment by Rep. For and
(D-RI) would have set the mini-
mam benefit at one-half the indi
vidua! worker's weekly wage, and
th maximum navment at tw.
thirds the1 average weekly wage In
the state. . j .j. .
Final Rites for
Mrs. Semerad
Due Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Julia
Semerad, 93, former resident of
Salem, will be held at 10 a. m.
Saturday in the W. T. Rigdon
ChapeL She died Monday at her
home in Sonoma, Calif.
Mrs. Semerad was born April
1, ; 1861, in Czechoslovakia and
came to this country in 1906.
After settling in Nebraska, she
came to Salem in 1930 and re
mained here until 1946 when she
moved to her California home.
She was a member of the Cathd1
: lie Church.
Mrs. Semerad is survived by
one daughter, Lulu Reber, Sono
ma, Caul; sons, Karl Penny,
Salem, Frank Pyshny, Salem, and
Ludwig Pyshny, Portland; seven
grandchildren and , five great
- grandchildren.
Interment will be at,Belcrest
Memorial Park. i
Polite Bandits
Get $42,755
From Bank
SOUTH GATE, Calif. m Two
gunmen so polite they suggested
theif men victims get up and give
tbeur . chairs . to the women
robbed a Bank of America branch
of 142.755 Thursday.
The unmasked robbers, ; ' des
cribed as about 30 years old jand
goodlooking, forced a teller to ad
mit them to the bank when he re
turned from an early morning cup
of coffee. :
They sat employes in chairs be
hind the tellers cages as they ar
rived for work. Then, with all 10
present, they required eight to sit
on the floor. -
One bound their feet together
with iron wire. His partner forced
Manager Walter J. Behm and a
stenographer, Mrs. Betty Oliver
each of whom know half the com
bination to open the vault.
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who are cooperating in the strike.
agreed earlier to the proposal to
resume negotiations.
Plants Struck
Earlier in the day, four plywood
plants of the M & M Woodworking
Co. in Oregon and California were
struck, adding one of the nation's
largest plywood producers to the
list of idle operations.
The four M & M plants are in
Portland, Albany and Lyons, Ore.,
and Eureka. Calif. About 2.000
workers were affected.
That cut off about 5 per cent
of the region's fir plywood output
M and M has been producing
about 4 million square feet a week.
The industry as a whole produces
around 80 million.
The current production is esti
mated now at about 17 to 18 mil
Iioc, virtually all of it from coop
erative plywood plants, a develop
ment of recent years it which the
workmen are the sole owners. '
Last Struck ,
M and M. working under a con
tract that ran to June 30, was the
last of the big plants to be struck.
This has been the general situa
tion in earlier negotiations which
broke down and resulted in the
June 21 strike in woods and mills.
There were minor flare-ups on
the picket lines, one of them re
sulting in an assault and battery
charge against the president of a
Central Oregon lumber mill.
Hit by Car
Phil DahL head of the Tite-Knot
Lumber Co. at Redmond, Ore.,
was accused of hitting the presi
dent of the CIO Woodworkers
local with Dahl's car in driving
through a picket line. Dahl said
the man appeared to be unhurt.
and so he continued to drive onto
the mill office. .
This resulted in another charge
leaving the scene of an accident
The local union president,
Charles Marrin, 64, was bruised.
but no bones were broken, a doe
tor said. Marrin is to remain in
a hospital under observation for a
few days. t
There were more than the usual
number of pickets there, because
a company letter told workers to
report for work. No worker crossed
the picket line.
In Northern California, however,
men did cross an AFL picket line
at a Redding molding mill, and
eggs were thrown at them. "
Dangling Rope
Strangles Lad
At Medf ord
MEDFORD W A 6-year-old
boy was . strangled to death
Thursday" evening by a 'children's
play rope dangling from a tree.
The rope, tied to a limb seven
feet from the ground, had loops
in it for children to grab in swing'
ing. i Steven Robert Hawkins, 6,
was swinging on it, wnen ne ap
parently lost his hold. His bead
fell into a loop, and he strangled.
A playmate, Daniel Sanger, 6,
called the boy's mother at once,
but artificial respiration failed.
The father, Robert W. Hawkins,
is a Med ford fireman.
Tudor Plans
To Quit Job
With Interior
WASHINGTON Hi Ralph A.
Tudor, undersecretary of the in
terior, said Thursday night he
plans to leave his post and return
to private business "some . time
near the end of Congress.
As undersecretary, Tudor Is sec
ond in command of the vast Inter
tor Department directed by Secre
tary McKay. -
Tudor, who has an engineering
firm in Palo Alto. Calif., explained
his decision:
"I originally agreed to stay on
for a year ending April 1. I want
to get back but I can't leave until
some time near the end of Con
gress because we 'have some im
portant legislation still pending.
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City to Start
Air Attacks
OnMosquitos
Salem's campaign to rid the
area of mosquitos is scheduled to
get under way this weekend when
a BT13 aircraft from KreiUDerg
Aviation win spray the insects
breeding places.
George Kreitzberg, owner of
the company, said the job will
take about four hours and areas
along the river and in West
Salem will be sprayed along with
other low, wet areas. Two addi
tional sprayings will follow at
about two-week intervals. .
Poison used this year will be
new chemical, adjuvasect.
mixed with DDT and oil, Kreitx-
berg said. The. plane will work
at altitudes from 50 to 100 feet.
he explained, most likely during
the morning hours when tempera
ture and other atmospheric con
ditions are right.
House Stiffens
nage,
Sabotage Laws
WASHINGTON vn The House
voted Thursday to make peacetime
spying punishable by death as it
passed and sent to the Senate a bill
drastically stiffening the espionage
and sabotage laws.
Passage was unanimous by a 323
rollcall vote.
It was the third anti-subversive
measure approved by the House in
enactment of the administration's
program for cracking down on
Communist saboteurs and spies.
Three On Tap
On tap are three other adminis
tration-sponsored measures which
would bar suspected Reds and
spies from defense plants, dissolve
Communist-dominated labor unions
and organizations, and strip citi
zenship from anyone convicted of
conspiring to overthrow the govern
ment.
With a minimum of debate, the
House approved the bill sent to
Congress by Arty.- .Gen. Browne II
to make peacetime as well as war
time espionage a -capital offense
subject to the death penalty..
It first beat down, 67 to 29, in a
standing vote an amendment by
Rep. Rogers (D-Texas) to apply
the death penalty to sabotage as
well as espionage.
First Tune '
For the first time In American
history, death as well as imprison
ment would be made the penalty
for spying when the United states
is not actively at war. It would
also remove the existing legal time
limit on prosecution, which is now
10 years. " ? ,; . 1
The bill also broadens the espion
age and sabotage laws by making
them applicable to germ and atom
ic warfare, and other modern tech
nological developments not m ex
istence when the present statutes
were written.
It likewise would require the reg
istration of foreign-trained sabo
teurs, or anyone having knowledge
of foreign espionage, counter-es
pionage or sabotage.
Invaluable Aid
While the bill's sponsors do not
expect saboteurs to come forward
and register, they said it would be
an invaluable aid to prosecution of
subversives before actual sabotage
is accomplished.
Two other key features of the
administration's anti subversive
program have already passed the
House. They would increase penal
ties for harboring fugitives, and
legalize wiretapping evidence in
court in national security cases.
SWALLOW STUDY
OMAHA (INS) live
stock Conservation, Inc., has
formed a Hardware Committee to
study ways of preventing the
loss of cattle from swallowing
metal objects..
Assistant General Manager
Mike O'Connell reports that in
1953 nine per cent of the cattle
condemned at livestock markets
were suffering from pericarditis,
an ailment also known as "hard
ware disease."
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Armas Heads
Junta Killing
In Guatemala
By CARLOS R. ESCUDERO
GUATEMALA tfl CoL Carlos
Castillo Armas emerged Thursday
as the head man of a three-man
Junta ruling Guatemala.
The leader ; of the recent anti
Communist revolt , was elected to
the junta's presidency Wednesday
night but the action was announced
only Thursday by the Junta secre
tary, Rodrigo Robles.
-Col. Elfego Monzon, head man
of a five-man Junta since last week.
remains ' a member of the ruling
committee along with Maj. Enri
que Oliva.- ' ,
Members Dropped -Two
members were dropped Lt
Cols. Maurkio duBois and Jose
Luis Cruz.
Robles said bom resigned after
Castillo Armas election and re
fused to reconsider their action aft
er being urged to do so. They were
given a vote of recognition for their
services since the junta was formed
last Friday. .
The third member of the new
junta, Oliva, was defense minister
in the provisional government
which Castillo Armas set up soon
after the invasion started. ; t
Keenly Disappointed
Castillo Armas supporters were
reported keenly disappointed that
he did not emerge as top man in
the original fusion with Monzon.
Tommygunners from among the
exiles who shared the risks of in
vasion with Castillo Armas sur
rounded him whenever he ap
peared in public. " -
Even Thursday a half dozen men
armed with submachineguns and
rifles fanned out in front of him
as he left his residence, apparently
fearful their leader might be at
tacked. .
Castillo Armas has not brought
the bulk of his liberation troops
into the . capital, keeping them
around the headquarters he set up
early in the invasion at Ququimula
and at Zacapa in Southeastern
Guatemala.
Visits Headquarters
He visited both those places Wed
nesday as rumors grew the men
were highly dissatisfied with politi
cal developments. Castillo Armas
may have brought up their discon
tent when he attended the crucial
junta meeting Wednesday night
Announcement of changes in the
government's top command came
as the junta clamped a tight guard
around foreign embassies in an ef
fort to prevent the escape of Com
munists and other enemies of the
new regime. .?(... "
Half-Million
Minus Bread
In Two Cities
VANCOUVER W Half 'mil
lion people in Vancouver and Na-
naimo were cut off Thursday from
regular bread supplies.
tsaKers started a strike in one
Vancouver plant and six other bak
eries locked out their workers
Two bakeries enforced lockouts in
Nanaimo. Affected were 439 union
workers.
Breadlines formed in stores
throughout Vancouver as house
wives sought supplies. Most stores
were sold out by noon as buyers
left with armfuls of bread.
JET HELP
TOKYO, (INS) Modern Amer
ican manufacturing techniques
are helping Japan move back in
to the big leagues of world jet
aircraft production. Lockheed
Aircraft Company technicians,
and U. S. Air Force jet advisors
are working alongside Japanese
engineers in the recently rebuilt
and.re-equipped Kawasaki Air
craft Company plant near Gif u
to aid the nation get into almost
full-scale jet production by the
end of the year.
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Cherries Add
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Area Drivers
A California driver may think
twice before driving through Ore
gon again during cherry season,
state police reported Thursday
night.
His troubles started, police said.
when a pickup truck, loaded with
100 boxes of cherries, overturned
on Wallace Road near Lincoln and
scattered cherries over the high
way v Truck driver Bruce Austin
Wendt, 1380 Wallace Rd., was un
injured.
A few minuter later Billy Carl
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control of his car on the cherry
slick stretch of pavement and
crashed into a ditch. Both car and
truck were towed from the accid
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off the road.
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Of Control at Big
Club in Spokane
j SPOKANE (II A fire was re
ported raging in the Brotherhood
of Friends lodge, one of the city's
largest private clubs, late Thurs
day night.
First reports by police radio in
dicated the blaze was temporarily
out of control and that one or more
patrons may have been overcome
by smoke. ' '
The club is located in the down
town section of Spokane. Police
were blocking off streets leading
to the scene to aid firemen.
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Puerto Ricans
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Prison Terms
WASHINGTON tfl Four Puer
to Rican terrorists drew the maxi
mum sentences Thursday for what
a federal judge called the "atroci
ous crime of shooting up the
House of Representatives March 1.
The three men involved each
were sentenced to serve from 25
to 75 years in prison, wfiile fiery
Lolita leBron, 34-year-old bru
nette, was given a term ranging
from IS years and 8 months to 50
years.
Claim Patriotism '
The four insisted they were pat
riots, acting for the freedom of
Puerto Rico, but U. S. District
Judge Alexander Holtzoff declared
their foray was so heinous, so in
famous, so atrocious"as to justify
.the severest possible penalty.
But for the grace of Ch, said
the U. S. Atty. Geo. A. Rover, the
Puerto Ricans would be in court
to hear the imposition of death
sentences.
Five House members were felled
by bullets fired by the .Puerto
Rican nationalists from the visi
tors' gallery. All have recovered
and resumed their seats.
For Great Ideal
Mrs. leBron, who did more talk
ing in the court room than the
others, said she participated in
the pistol attack "for a . great
ideal." ..
"We are not free, she told the
judge. i
Mrs. leBron, who appeared on
the verge of hysteria, said: "My
dear Lord, I ask Him to come to
you.
Judge Holtzoff. like everyone
else in the courtroom, appeared to
have difficulty understanding Mrs.
leBron. He leaned forward.
"I kve you, I love the world.
and I love God," she said. "I don't
deserve this.'f
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