FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1954
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON '
' PACK THREE
Triumphant American On
Way To
Freedom After
Yeird Game With Reds
MUNICH, Germany Ut A trluriv
pliant young American named
John Hvasta heads borne by plane
today, the winner in a grim cat-and-mouse
game with the Com
munist regime of Czechoslovakia
that lasted, five fantastic years.
First a prisoner, then a fugitive,
then a refugee sheltered for four
months in the U.S. Embassy In
Prague, the 26-year-old Ozecho-
alovakia-born U.S. Navy veteran
Plan Funds
Rule Change
MIAMI BEACH ( AFL leaders
today were reported considering
drafting a set of rules for manag
ing union ' welfare and pension
funds to head off the strict legis
lative curbs, recommended by
President Elsenhower.
- One of the top leaders of the
AFL Executive Council said the
council at its winter meeting may
recommend a cod for AFL union
handling of; such worker trust
funds.
, Eisenhower recently proposed
that Congress conduct a broad
investigation of union management
of welfare and pension funds ana
enact striet-lr safeguards. He sug
gested Including such new rules as
part of the, Taft-Hartley labor law.
The AFL may run into problems
in trying to set up its own set of
rules. In the first place all mem
ber unions of the AFL are autono
mous and have the right to opes
r.te their trust funds as they see
lit. '
However, member AFL ' unions
often follow the advice of the AFL
Executive Council, which Is made
up of leaders of most major AFL
groups.
Union leaders claim that actu
ally their union trust funds are
already well safeguarded, but they
want to avoid the restrictions they
feel would come if Congress should
decide to make such funds subject
to the rules of the federal govern
ment or of 'state banking commis
sions. . . . i
Roosevelt To
Air Finances
t PASADENA, Calif. 11 James
Roosevelt, who says he is broke,
and his estranged wife Bomelle,
who contends he is worth two mil
lion dollars,'' will talk' about money
today and .not about the infideli
ties she has accused him of.
A hearing in Superior Court here
will air the finances of the eldest
son of the late President Franklin
Roosevelt to determine if he Is
able to meet his wife's demands
for S3,500-a-month alimony and
support for their three children.
In her separate maintenance
suit. Mrs. Roosevelt listed her ex
penses as $2,455 monthly and those
of the children as a total of $1,515
a month.
She broke her expenses down
partly as follows: help S58o, food
i350, clothingi S850, house main
tenance, utilities and auto ex
penses $100 each; medical and den
tal $150, furnishings $100, charity
$50, house payment $190, insurance
$50, travel $60, entertainment $50,
and other expenses for other items.
Among expenses for the children
she listed tuition $175, special in
struction $270, musical instruments
and instruction $130, clothing $300,
dental $225, other medical $100,
travel and recreation $160.
Mrs. Roosevelt has asked for the
support money pending trial of her
sensational separate maintenance
complaint In which she accused
her husband of intimacies with 12
women and her release of a letter
signed by him in 1945 admitting
Improper conduct with nine.
Roosevelt replied that the letter
was false, but said he signed it to
hvold a scandal. Last Tuesday her
.attorney said they have proof to
back her charge. .
I starred catching -up on freedom
when a. State . Department car
whipped him' through- the Iron Cur
tain at the Csecho-Oerman border
yesterday. ' .
The full story of at '. least one
phase how be bounced from pillar
to post as a hunted man In Czecho
slovakia for 21 months, always one
step ahead of bis Red pursuers
mav never be publicly told. , It
could touch off a reign of terror
against the anti-Red Czechs who
sheltered him.
Like AP Correspondent William
N. Oatls, freed from Czech im
prisonment last May 17, Hvasta
was accused by the Red regime
of espionage. He was sentenced
to 10 years. . He had served 2 Va
vears when he took part In a five-
mar, break from Leopoldov Prison
near Bratislava early In 19o3. 'men
came his 21 months as a fugitive
and four months In the Prague
embassy, technically American
soil, while diplomats' dickered over
his fate.
The Prague Radio, skipping the
details, reported he bad been
"released" and ordered expelled.
U.S. military palicemon stood
guard as Hvasta slept overnight
at the Orand Hotel in Nuernberg,
86 miles north of Munich.. His final
steDDlna- stones to safety were all
arranged by a Jubilant U.S. gov
ernment: mree comniciciai tiu-linest-Munich
to Zurich, to London,
to .New York. He arrives at New
York's Idlewild Airport tomorrow.
He looked forward to the reunion
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Hvasta of Hillside, N.J.,
like him naturalized citizens of the
United States. The family came to
the United States in 1939.
Their Joy at his release .was re
flected in ' the tumbled words of
Mrs. Hvasta In Hillside: "We
waited for this day; oh, how we
waited for this. day."
Hvasta returned to Czechoslo
vakia In 1944 as n student under
the OI Bill of Rights at the Uni
versity of Bratislava. He worked
four months at uie U.S. consulate
general in Bratislava. But Czecho
slovakia stiU considered him a
Czech citizen. He was arrested in
October that year as a spy. The
conviction came the following May.
There was no immediate news
about Hvasta's wife, a beautiful
young Czech he married while in
prison. Ironically, the wedding was
five years ago to the day on which
he left Czechoslovakia a free man.
Gabrlella Danls Hvasta, wracked
with tuberculosis and harried by
Czech police, has been in and out
of sanitariums and jails ever since
her weddlnn Feb. 4. 1949. There
has been no word of ber where
abouts since late I960. .
:The Stat Department revealed
the carefully guaided . secret of
Hvasta's successful flight In an
announcement ' yesterday after
Pratue radio Issued its account.
The State Department labeled tbe
Prague account as phoney as It
had called the charge of espionage
on which Hvasta was arrested.
Suit Threatened
In Film Walkout
HOLLYWOOD ( Marlon Bran
do's studio has announced it will
sue the actor for failure to report
for work on a picture. Tbe amount
of damages to be sought will de
pend upon the sum the studio has
lost through delayed production,
said a 20th Century-Fox statement.
Brando, the studio said yester
day expressed no objection to the
script or bis role in "The Egyp
tian," but disappeared just Detore
filming was to start.
Last Tuesday the studio received
a wire from. Brando's physician in
New York, Dr.' Bela Mlttelmann.
saying he was giving Brando psy
chiatric treatment. The actor
would be unable to work tor 10
weeks, the doctor's message said.
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Union Strikes On Demand
That Factory Agree Never
To Move Sites Of Plants
NORWALK, Conn. '(.) A union
fight reflecting the frequently ex
pressed concern In New England
over the shift of its industries to
the South has produced one of the
longest strikes in recent Connecti
cut history.
Heart of the dispute, now seven
months old, Is a union demand for
a contract guarantee from the Hut
Corp. of America that it will shift
no more of its Norwalk operations
to another state.
Local 15, United Hatters, Cap
and Millinery Workers Internation
al. Union (AFL). calls the strike,
involving some 1,400 workers, a
battle for job security.
Says its president:
"We have no objection to plant
expansion, provided no Jobs are
lost to Norwalk."
The corporation contends that to
yield to the demand would make
it a captive Industry.
W. P. Morln, corporation vice
president puts it this way: "The
company insists it must be free,
If occasion arises, to make what
ever changes are necessary to pre
serve its business."
The corporation has offered to
give severance pay to any dis
placed workers. That's not enough,
says the union. .
Behind the strike lie three years
of union-management Jockeying,
beginning with a corporation an
nouncement in 1950 that it planned
to move part of its straw hat oper
ations from this industrial center
of 60,000 to a new plant in Win
chester, Tenn.
The shift cost 100 Norwalk work
ers their Jobs. The union demand
ed and received in its 1952 con
tract, however, an "employment
stability" clause guaranteeing, for
one year, that no more workers
would lose their Jobs.
With 1953 came a management
announcement in the midst of new
contract talks that the corporation
planned to move more of Its oper
ations to a site "west of the Mis
sissippi." The site was disclosed
recently as Nevada, Mo., a com
munity of 8,000.
The announcement widened a
rift that had developed during the
contract negotiations which opened
in the spring of 1953. It brought
from the union a flat assertion
that unless the company dropped
its plans to move more of its oper
ation, the plant would be struck.
The company refused to give any
such - guarantee. The strike fol
lowed on July 9.
Fending in Superior Court Is a
corporation petition for an Injunc
tion outlawtn g the strike, It
charges that the union, in restraint
of trade, seeks to prevent the com
pany physically from moving Its
property. It challenges also wheth
er the union demand for a Job
security clause Is a valid strike
Issue.
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Classes In borne nursine end
mother and baby care are now in
progress at ue local chapter.
Ten KUHfl alrls are takiner the
class at the chapter office daily as
a part of their health curriculum;
this group meets daily at 11 a.m.,
with Mrs. Margaret Strode B.N.
as Instructor, Mrs. Strode wiu
give training both in home nurs
ing and mother and baby care..
Junior and senior girls at Mer
rill High 8chool are takinir home
nursing, with Margaret Molitor ns
instructor. The class was sponsored
by the Merrill Parent and Patrons
who assembled many of the sup
plies for the course. When the
home nursing section of the class
is complete, the senior girl will
continue with the mother and babv
care course, which will be taught
ay Muriel palmer, public health
nurse,
Mrs. Mildred Martin, R.N. is
teaching a third group of adults
at the chapter office. This class
meets three times a week nnd
will complete their home nurslnc
icourse in seven lessons.
Instruction Is given Iwthout
charge; Mrs.. Eleanor Ball, nurs
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