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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Wed., Oct. 13, 1954 13 to Be Sentenced Jury Convicts Puerto Ricans NEW YORK 1P) Thirteen Puerto Rican members of the Nationalist party involved in two Washington shootings in recent years have been convicted of seditious conspiracy against the United States. The 13, plus four others who pleaded guilty earlier, now face possible maximum sentences of six years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Federal Judge Lawrence E. Walsh fixed Oct. 26 for sentencing after the jury's verdict Tuesday night. Four of those convicted Tuesday night are already un- Ider heavy prison sentences L las i J" - I 111. i i Prison Inmates End Rebellion SIOUX FALLS, S.D. WV-Their 23-hour riot ended, inmates of the South Dakota State Penitentiary were back to their normal quiet behavior Wednesday. The revolt stopped late Tues day, only 25 minutes after the nearly 30O milling rioters in a large cell block were ordered to release the guards they held as hostages or else "face the conse quences." The ultimatum by Gov. Sigurd Anderson and Warden G. Norton Jameson came as some 200 armed National Guardsmen, sheriff's deputies and other officers stood outside the block. The hostages, George Read and E. F. Lambertson, were freed and escorted to safety by 25 highway patrolmen, who were sent unarmed to the block gale The guards said they hadn't been hurt or even seriously threatened. Gov. Anderson called the out break an "unnecessary riot" and said he will order an investiga tion into its cause. The revolt started as the pris oners were finishing their eve ning meal Monday. Using tear gas, guards herded the rioters into the cell block and snapped the heavy doors shut. At first there were three hos tages, but one of them, Guard Melvin DeYoung, was released in the afternoon. The convicts said they freed him to show their "good faith" in their dealings on grievances over prison conditions. Gov. Anderson, in announcing the riot had ended, said, "We made no concessions." 1,000 Pay Tribute To Justice Jackson , , WASHINGTON W-More than 1,000 of the prominent and the humble paid tribute to the mem ory of Justice Robert H. Jackson at a funeral service Tuesday in the Washington Episcopal Cathe dral. Three clergymen conducted the rites. Chief Justice Warren and his seven remaining associates sat beforelhc casket ' of their col league who died Saturday of a heart attack at the age of 62. DRY FISHING MEMPHIS, Tcnn.an Mrs. W. M. Fly caught a nice two-pounder on the way back from a fishing trip. Mrs. Fly left her fishing pole on the car, with bait on it, on the return trip. When she got home she fou-irt she'd caught a two-pound chicken. for shooting into the House of Representatives from its visitors gallery in Washing ton last March 1. Five con gressmen were wounded. Another of the convicted Na tionalists is Mrs. Rosa Collazo, 43, whose husband Oscar is now ser ving a life sentence for an at tempt to assassinate former President Truman in November 1950. The Nationalist party seeks to tal independence for Puerto Rico, now a commonwealth of the United States, even though its people have turned down in ref erendum voting offers of full independence. Puerto Ricans are citizens of the United States. The 13 party members were tried on charges of conspiring to bring about Puerto Rico's inde pendence by force and violence and armed revolution. In his summation, U.S. Atty. J. Edward Lumbard declared, "ev ery one of these defendants has his moral fingerprints on the guns that were used in Washing ton, and those who participated were praised as martyrs." NOT CONSPIRACY Defense attorneys claimed that the Congress shooting and the at tempt to assassinate Truman were actions by individual Na tionalists and not a conspiracy. They said the prosecution used the congressional shooting to "in flame the minds of the jurors." Several defendants had testi fied during the trial that they had no idea when they joined the party that it intended violence or gunplay. In his charge to the jury, Walsh said any defendant must be acquitted if the jury believed he did not know that force and violence were to be used. The trial started Sept. 8. The four convicted earlier for the Congress shooting were Do lores Lolita Lcbron, 34; Rafael Cancel Miranda, 23; Irvin Flores Rodriguez, 29; and Andres Fig ueroa Cordero, 29. OTHERS CONVICTED Others convicted were Julio Pinto Gandia, 45, who the gov ernment said was the head of the party in the United Stales; Juan Francisco-Ortiz Medina, 39; Jose A. Otero Otero, 34; Juan Bernar do Lcbron, 31; Carmelo Alvarez Roman, 45; Jorge Luis Jimincz, 34; Armando Diaz Mato, 39; and Manuel Rabago Torres. All are from New York except Jimincz, Matos and Torres, who lived in Chicago. LANCASTER, Calif. W-Quiet, soft-spoken George Welch, World War II triple ace who shot down four Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor, lost his life Tuesday while testing a jet plane high above the Mojave Desert. Just what happened to his F-100 jet Super Sabre isn't known. Wit nesses said it exploded witn a terrific blast and plummeted to the ground like a ball of fire. But officials at North American Avia tion, Inc., where Welch was chief test pilot, said the blast might have been a "sonic boom caused when a jet pulls out of a dive at high speed. Welch, 36, managed to eject himself from the plane and para- WORKING ON THE RAILROAD You wouldn't know it, but fire battalion chief William Dinicola is walking on the Milwaukee Railroad tracks which lead into Chi cago's Union Station. In background beyond retaining wall is Chicago River. The chief directed crews which worked all day pumping water from Union Station where partial service has been restored. Chicago Faces Flood Cleanup Job May Take Months to Finish rHirAnn an Chicago dried out from snaking rains and a $10,000,000 flood Wednesday, but industries were still crippled and it mav take months to finish the job of cleaning up. - r l,n pitvVc nutskirts vollin- tnprs and more than 700 National Guardsmen fought flood waters that threatened the ncn ttam-mond-Gary area. But there, too, the waters were falling back. In the nation's soaking second city an electrical shortage had forced the lavoff of about 130,000 industrial employes. One. of the city's major news papers, the Chicago Daily News, nnhlishnrl nn its own Dresses for the first time since flood waters from the swollen Chicago Kivcr poured into its sub-basements, ruining ?30,000 worth of news print. The city's largest railroad de nnf tho hurra TTninn Ktatinn. was still partially crippled. One rail road, the Milwaukee Koaa, con tinued to use outlying stations. Thousands of home owners meanwhile struggled with per sonal tiooa promems. Triple Ace of World War II Dies Testing Super Sabre RUSSELL'S ...OPEN FRIDAY NIGHTS UNTIL 9 P.M. --138, i ,,, M,Jf chuled, landing about two miles from where his plane crashed. But he was suffering from multi ple injuries and was dead on arrival by helicopter at Edwards Air Force Base. The plane crashed about 45 miles north of Los Angeles. , When the Japanese attacked' Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, Welch,: then a 23-year-old second lieu-' tenant, became a national hero.! He drove 10 miles from bombed-' out Wheeler Field to an auxiliary, field, commandeered a P-40, took! to the air and shot down four, Nip planes before he was forced to land his bullet-riddled ship.! Only five other American pilots were able to get into the air that. day against the enemy. OSC Enrollment Up CORVALLIS 11 Oregon Stale College this week reported its fall enrollment had reached 5,230. 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