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
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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
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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.
That is an eight per cent in
crease over last fall's 4-868 and
the highest since 1950. Sophomore
enrollment jumped 14 per cent
and freshman registration 10 per
cent.
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