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o O o O O Ex-Sandy Police Chief Faces Trial -. Oklahoma City (U.PJ A aanity jury today found Otto Austin Loel sane enough to stand trial for murder after deliberat ing 45 minutes. District Judge A. P. Van Me ter overruled a defense motion for a new sanity and selection of trial jury began immediate ly. The sanity jury of seven men .and five women began, deliber ating at 9:45 a.m., after attorn eys gave final arguments. Loel was charged in the slay ing of Mrs. Jeanne Henderson of Compton, Calif., in a motel here. -Mrs. Henderson, 31, was kill-, ed here' in January, 1954, in a cabin shared with Loel on a cross-country trip. Her body was gouged 19 times with a knife or ice pick, and burned numerous times with cigarettes. INJURED IN EXPLOSION Eugene (U.R) Floyd Luther Gay, 67, suffered third degree burns about the face, head and arms yesterday in an explosion, believed caused by leaking gas, at his apartment here. The ex plosion, which heavily damaged the apartment, occurred as Gay lighted a cigarette. Westinghouse, Union Seek Settlement of Nationwide Walkout Pittsburgh (U.R) Negotia tors for Westinghouse Electric Corp. and the CIO International Union of Electrical Workers at tempted today to settle a strike by 44,000 workers which has idled 30 company plants across the nation since last Sunday mid night. V- Company and union represen tatives agreed to take up wage, time-study and length of con tract disputes which have stale- rmated the month-old negotia tions. Federal Mediators John R. Murray of Philadelphia and J. A. Moran of Pittsburgh, who par ticipated in sessions down to the strike deadline, said they would sit out today's meeting but would study results. "We'll let them work it out themselves and then review the progress, if any, later," Murray said. Prospects Dim Prospects for an immediate settlement appeared dim. The chief negotiator, R. D. Blasier, Westinghouse vice- president, and James B. Carey, IUE inter national president, indicated their respective positions were unchanged. "Settlement can be reached if the company offers proper wages and ground rules for time-study of day rate jobs . . . leading to arbitration," Carey said. However, Elasier announced that Westinghouse had made its "final proposal." He said the ma jor obstacle was the union's re fusal to accept a long-term con tract. The union already has reject ed the company offer of a five year pact with annual pay in creases totaling 2a Vfc . cents an hour. The IUE 'hai demanded a flat 15-cent hourlytbopst and a short-ierm contract.' -" Carey said he would stand by the. demand for a flat increase for the final year' of the present contract, -which expires in 1956, but would agree to a two-year extension with immediate bar gaining to determine terms of the extension. Argentina Moves To Erase 'Eva' Shrine Buenos Aires( Argentina U.R) The new Argentine govern ment moved today to erase an other "memorial" to the 10 years dictatorship of Juan D. Peron, the "shrine" of the late Eva Peron. It was announced that the body of the wife of the deposed Argentine "strongman" will be removed from its tomb in the headquarters of the Gen eral Confederation of Labor. It will be turned over to the next of kin for re-burial, the an nouncement said. Japan Plans Memorial For Allied War Dead Tokyo (U.R) Japanese me morial services for American and other Allied soldiers who died in Japanese prisoner of war camps will be held in a Buddhist temple in Osaka Thursday. ' The rites will honor 1086 sol diers of the United States, Great Britain and six other allied na tions who died in Japanese cap tivity during World War H. There were 117,000 men in the Armed Forces in the Mexi can War; the last veteran died in 1929 at the age of 98. Railroads Given Right To Retain Freight Rate Hike Washington (U.R) The Inter state Commerce Commission to day authorized the nation's rail roads to continue indefinitely a 31,000,000,000 a year freight rate increase which it granted on a temporary basis in 1952. The increase, ranging from 12 to 15 per cent on various types of freight, were originally sched uled to expire next Dec. 31. The commission cancelled the expiration date and set no new time limit. Extension Fought The coal industry and other shippers had fought extension of the rate increases. And the Agri culture Department asked the ICC to let the higher rates ex pire on schedule. It said the in creases were one of the reasons farmers are having a hard time. The ICC held hearings earlier this month on the railroads' plea to continue the increases indef initely. The 1952 increase boosted rates on coal, grains, grain prod ucts, sand, gravel, stone and iron ore by 12 per cent and Tuesday. 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