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Newspaper Page TextFRB9CH KIB WML IiiTIm' Ml JV Dav's tews mm lly FUANK JI'iNKINH Rlioaklug in Hot Hirlnii.i Vir ginia, Aitrlculturu nnicri'tiiry Hen- son tells n nioctliiK ' tho Annul can Plant l'uucl Council Unit lliu two preceding iiihiiliilHlrulluns neg lected MAKK1CTINU lis n solution In Iho problem ul iiliunditiit Infill jinnluclloii, "l'hcy placed prliiiury reliance, lia .aid, on liiuli priuo Huiipuiin niul ntnrngo ut crops unit products In government hands. Ho litem milled: "Tho tiirin ii ciih ii m prupomils ut thin ndiiiiiiislmtloii nrn ti pint of our rllin I to help nuiiculturn MAIl KETI' in production not Muck It itwny In witi-rliotiKCH ul n coal of live inlllluii dollars prr week lor toruuo nlonc." Ho iiiriuin: 'nrni ciup.t nto designed by nn tmu la bn CONHUMKU nut to be Untied wny to keep prices up. AIoiik Will line, Ix'firi.hlng bit ol Irankiiciui developed ycntolduy at mi Invcnllgiiliou ol prices o( cucoii bomiN in Went Africa. A nit llva prince inline of E, Yno Don leiiu wns on tli liul win. Asked why the price ol cocon ucuii ex ported 1 1 oin Ills counlry keeps go ing up mid up. lie replied: "BecuuM) Mo wnnl moro money." Tint reminds inc of a Inle lliey used to tell on Oeoiuit lliildwln, who In Hi" early dnys of Klninuth Falls mil n liurdwnre store al Uio corner of Filth snd Minn. A wom an riiine lo town Iroin up In Lnn uell Vnlley one dny lo buy n broom mid went first lo George's com petitor across the street, who priced Uio bruom Mid wanted nt a dollar. Ueing tlirllty. alio crowed over lo Gcorge'H csliibllMimcnl to shop nrouud. He wnnted $1.25. "Hut, Mr. Buldwm." the custo mer linked, "why do you want II 25 lor the Identlcnl broom your com petitor Is selling lor n dollnr?" Oeorua whs ns Irnnk ns the Afri can prince, lie answered: "Hell, woman, I wiint lo ituikfl more money thiiii lio docs," Hieiikiig of money, there's a pirnled woman down In Sniiiu Mpnicn. bhe's a riveter nt an air emit plain and she nets S1.B3 an hour nnd Ims no side Income. Tlio other day she ftol a govern- menl rheek for M.Ml its a refund on her lucomo tux. She thinks there's a screw loose, because ac cording to her figures the refund Is about 14.000 TOO MUCH. She wants lo return the check. bul Uie Income tax office Is open only during l"e hours she Is at work mill she's afraid lhal II she last drops II In the box 11 will itet lost ui the malls and then she would be In a pickle. no alio lies awake at nlKhl and worries about It. Wouldn't she have been sun prised If the malls had not tan gled and Aha had not a H11J.10N DOLLAR check for the money Uir Kovernmcnl found II had too inuel of In Iho foreign aid till a while back? What's the rustler? Is our novet-uituMil run by nunib- nkulls whoso fingers are all thumbs? No, II li.n'l Hint. The federal government of the Hulled Stales Is Just Betting TOO BIO for mortal it.-n to I' a. idle. Whnt't the answer? Here's one answer: Turn more Kovernmenl HACK to Uie atatehouses. the courthouses and the city halls. I wonder how many of our peo- pio rend Iho Klamath county buditol notice Dial wns printed In tills newspaper laut mitlit. Not many, I'm nlrnlcl. I expect you could count thoso who read nnd DI GESTED It on your lingers with out bothering to usa your thumbs. It's too bud. It's an Inlcrestlnii document, 11 tells all about the money Klnmnth county Is going to levy and spend In Uie next fiscal yesr how much, nnd whnt for. You'd bo surprised nt some of the Items. You'd bo interested, I nuns, in an oi uicm. A vast amount of work Ii a a none Into this document. Three citizens, among others, have wrestled ninmuily with the prob lems Involved, 'iliey mo Allred Collier. Trunk W. Urown and M. P. ElllngMin. They have given their luiw without remuneration nnd 11 has Inken n LOT of time. At the very lenst, If we decline to tncklo tlio tn.sk of rcnillnir n ml digesting the budget wo outiht to glvo these citizens it vole of tlinuks tor tho Job they have done on our bchnlf. They hnvo It comlnit. Housing Graft Uncovered WASHINGTON ifl The Elsen howor ndmlnlstriitlon's Inve.stlgn tinn of reported government lions Ii ft sciindnls hns enmo tin wllh lis flint lint of nlloiictl "wlndlnll" prollteerH nnd more may follow Housing Chief Albeit M, Cole nniiounced Into Friday Ihnl n Iwn niomli lntiilry has discovered SOO minrluient pioinoinrs who he snltl pocketed iienrly in nillllon dollars hi profits llooi lull, ili", ftovcrn. inent-biiikcd loans on .71) projects In la ntnlcr nnd Ihe District ol Coliimbln. Wlllliim V. McKninii, Cole's ilepuly ill clinruc n; tho iiivchiirh Ion, an Id It nlrendy hns been t-liown "beyond question Hint cor tu In promoters wcro itlded nnd Itulded by former lop Fodcrnl Housing Atlinlnlstvnllon (FHA) of flclnls In the wlndlnll practices." Colo sent the list of 200 corpora tions lo Uio Justlco Depnrlinent lor "Mich civil or crlmlnnl pro ceeding" ns limy bo Indlcnlcd, In niiiklnit Iho list public, Cole Hold It covers only n liny percent afro ot the spvornl tliousnnda of cii.sca luuler study, I'rleo I'lve t'cilla IS Pages Molotov, Eden Hold Private Talk URNKVA .H Hrlllbh ForelKn Hecretary Anlliony Kdeu and Him nla's foreign mlnliilcr, V. M. Molo tov, mel pnvulcly HuUlidny lo con. sltler lulti of the Geneva confer ence, bul a British spokesman said Uie tnlk was "Inconclusive." The spokesman said the two would Intel attain later. Both the Indochina and Korean pcuca talks wcro In recess alter a crucial week In which Uie West ern powers warned bluntly tliul lliey were ready to admit failure unless Ihe Communists chained their position. Both phases of the conference appeared lo be hopelessly dead locked. Kdeu and Molotov met as co chairmen of the nine-party Indo china parley lo dccldo how to pro ceed next. One of the key conference flliures, French l'orelmi Minister (Iconics Bldaull, was In Uie French rnplUI. Home delciiules observed Uiut a defeat for tho French iioverniiienl which plnya a major role In the IndoclUnese phase of the parley mlxhl provide an excuse for sus pending Uie deadlocked negotia tions. There wns a question of whether Uie oilier nations particularly Uie Communist blocwould be willing lo rtciiltwJIli France on an Interim basts while she sought a new gov ernment. The only Indication that they would was expressed yesterday by Red China's Premler-Foremn Min ister Chou En-lnl who lold the Ko rean parley "there is no reason whatsoever why we should atop going on. Al this session Ellen and oilier Western leudrrs had augKcsted relerrlng the Korean Issues to Uie United Nations In the lace of apparent lallure of Uie lft-nallon parley. ' " Eden said he hail seen no sign of agreement possible on Uie two chief Issues In Uie Korean talks authority of tho United 1 Nations and Uie principle of free elections. "If no way can be found of re solving the difference on theso two main issues we snail nave to an nut that this conference has not been able to complete lis task," Eden declared. On the previous day Eden had made a similar atatcmenl on Indo Chinese negotiations which were deadlocked on the status of the Indnchlnese state of Laos and Cambodia, supervision of an Indo china armistice and the composi tion of a neutral control commis sion. French and - vlctmlnh military representatives continued to meet on Iho question of "re-nssembly" xones for Uie opposing sides In Indochina In Uio event of an armi stice. MILITARY SERVICE THE HAGUE, The Netherlands Mi The Netherlands government plans to cut the military service period of Its armed forces from ?0 lo 18 monUis, an Army spokes man snld Saturday. A recent serv ice cut by Belgium provoked a demand for a similar reduction by Dutch members of parliament. y - 1a.1jj2' ' -'1 ilM ,qa3Wii,mnyTr."sw.iia .syi'w BaaHMBBBBi 1 I - : j N y , '; - r , ; ( y A MINER'S STYLE DINNER will be ttrvad Sunday, Jun 13, at the family home, 2 IS Eldorado, In honor of Klamath County's oldatt eltiion, Willmott Crandall, who will celebrate his 104th birthday, Juno 17. The dinner ft planned for Sunday to permit hit ony ion and dauqhtor-in. Ia, Mr. and Mn. Runell Crandall, from Yreka to attend. Fried chicken will be terved in icrubbed-up gold pan, there will be tin cupi and platei and all the other trimming except wind in the lagobrush and a rock or two. Mr. Crandall followed mining many yean of hit life, still cwm mining property in California. With Mn. Crandall he came to Klamath Falls in 1910 to be identified with the early growth of the city. KLAMATH FALLS, OKKGON, Police Hold Arizona Kidnap Suspect; Ransom Missinc6 PHOENIX, Ariz. 11 Daniel J. Mursin, a 41-year-old unemployed welder was charged Saturday with kidnaping Mrs, Evelyn Ann Smith, and collecting a 76.000 ransom, 'Ihe charge was llled by County Ally. William P. Mahoney alter Mrs. Smith, wile of a Phoenix In dustrialist, Identified Marsln as her abductor, "Thill's him," Mrs, Smith said. "There's no question about It," Tlio complaint was signed by Del. Clem Hoyt of the Phoenix police department. Mursln's wile plendcd with her husband to lend officers to where the $15,000 wns believed to be hidden in the Su perstition Mountains bul he re luscd. Police said they hud no clues Young Wins NY Central . NEW YORK l?- The future of Ihe nation's second biggest rall rosd, Ihe New York Central, lay today in the hands of Tcxns-boru financier Robert R. Young. He won tho bitter fight for con trol by a margin of 1,070,000 shares out of the Central's grand total of 0.441,410, an authoritative source who declined to be named said yesterday. The ofllclal results, which may vary slightly from this figure, are to be announced Monday at 10 a.m. EDT by Uie election Inspec tors at Albany, N.Y., where the count of shares has been In prog ress since Uie stockholders' meet ing May 36. Bul there was no doubt about the outcome. In Los Angeles, Young's wealthy Texas friend. Clint W. Murchlson, conllrmcd the smashing victory. It was Murchlson who, with his Icllow Texan, Sid W. Richardson. boUKht the long-contested 800.000 shares which wero'the back-bone of Young's victory. "Yes. we have won the Central fight the Young group, that U," said Murchlson, "it's In Uie bag. even wllhout those tOO.000 shares." But no comment was available from tho defeated Central Board headed by Central President Wil liam While. Young's likely choice to take over White's Job as president Is Alfred E. Perlman. 91-ycar-old executive vice president of the Denver i Rio Orande Western Railroad. Ike May Retire If Demos Win WASHINGTON Ifl President Elsenhower's top aide has dropped a hint lhal a Democratic victory In the (nil congressional elections could mnko Elsenhower think of retiring to his Gettysburg, Pa., (arm nfler his four-year term. The aide, Sherman Adams, said Friday night In an Informal talk to the Cttinens for Elsenhower con gressional committee that he does not know what Uie President might do in 1056. But he said loss of Congress to the Democrats In November could be one of "certain conditions thai might make a certain farm In Pennsylvania an attractive place lo retire to." SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 154 lo what happened lo ti money which Mrs. Sml bund, Herbert, said ho left mountains as directed in a ran som note. Mrs. Smith Mis held 24 hours until the money was paid. Muraln, who has lived In Phoenix with his wile and children since 1051. refused io admit guilt. When Marsln wns arrested five miles Irom Uie puyoff point lute Thursday night, he had only 17 cents in his pockets, Ho wss naked to the wnlst when he stumbled Into a ranch house pleading lor a drink of water, sncrllf's deputies who were ques tioning Uie home owners booked him as a possible suspect. The deputies auld Marsln told them at that time he had been prospecting and run out of water, Uien lore off his shirt and under shirt when he became delirious. Police said he made "several statements last night which con flicted with his original story." Last nlxht he was placed In a police lineup with four men who looked somewhat nllke, and Mrs. Smith promptly pointed to him. "I'm Innocent right now." said Marsln. "I think you understand Uint my life's ill Jeopardy." He demanded lo seo an attorney bul rolused to select one. asking If he wasn't entitled to one paid by the state. Detective Lt. Vic Soulc said Uiat typewriter owned by Marsln would be checked agalnsl Uiat used in Uie ransom nolo to Smith. Olliccrs also were checking wlUi a young service station attendsntt with whom a man left Smith's golf bag with the ransom note. The description given earlier by Uie attendant, Robert J. Plucinskl, was not far Irom that given by Mrs. Smith. Both came close, but did not match, Uie police description ol Marsln. Marsln Is five feet four inches tall, weighs 123 pounds but looks heavier, hus green eyes and brown hair. Mrs. Smith said her kidnaper was 35 to 45 years old, live feet four Inches, 140 pounds, with green eyes and brown hair. " When a reporter asked her how she identified the suspect, she replied, "Uie arms, the voice, and me eyes, and the wny the ears were when Uie handkerchief was Ued around." The kidnaper masked the lower nan of nis face with a handker chief all Uie time he was with Mrs. Smith. Marsln and the other men In the police lineup were similarly masked. Marsln said he was convicted of car theft In Brooklyn In 1937 and "bought" himself a suspended sen tence with ss.ooo. He refused to explain. He Insisted Uiat was his only police record. rat kidnapuig took place as Mrs. Smith left a beauty parlor. A man hid In her car and sur prised her nt the point of a gun Ho drove her to the Superstition Mountains and held her there untu Ihe ransom was paid. The ransom note was found in the golf bag left at a service station about 13 miles west of the Superstitions. A bouquet of roses, delivered by a messenger, con tained another note directing SniiUi to take Uie nionev to drive near the mountain and look .for further Instructions. Smith withdrew the J75.0OO from a bank and drove to the mountain pnyoff point while a sheriff's plane pilot watched from overhead. "i 1 2866 ff6IGCt . Proposal LONDON '.ti Western officials said Saturday Russia hus turned down a broad new Western pran to end the world arms race hi both atomic and convention wea pons. The Western Allies', at the aame time, were reported to have re jected Russian proposals lor: 1. A Soviet American agree ment to renounce Uie use of atom ic weapons. 2, A pledge by the Big Four pow ers and Red China not to use any weapon of mass destruction. The Soviets called for these agree ments as first steps toward a wid er disarmament program Uiat would Include a total ban on atonv lo weapons. As a result, Uie Informants said, a deadlock seems Imminent In secret talks here among Uie five leading1 atomic powers on a pact lor worldwide disarmament. CONFERENCE United Slates, British, French, Canadian and Soviet envoys have been conlerring here since May 13 under United Nations auspices lo discuss "any and every aspect of disarmament." They have been meeting as a subcommittee of Uie U.N. Disarmament Commission, to which they must report by July 15. Details of the new Allied pro posal ware not disclosed official ly. But Uie Informants said Uie plan firmly links any future con trol of atomic weapons with con trol and reduction of naUonal forc es. Its general aim seeks military parity between Uie great power blocks. Provisions for Ught, inter naUonal supverlsion are stressed to Insure Uiat any program for a gradual and balanced reduction really Is carried out. FIVE-POWER TALKS The' five-power talks here were tne urst between the Russian and since disclosure of the effects of Uie hydrogen bomb which Uie united States was first to explode two years ago. The conference was arranged largely at BrlUsh InlUaUve after public expressions of concern at Uie H-bomb danger by political and religious leaders Id these exposed, crowded Islands. The American delegate at the talks is a New York industrialist who holds Uie rank of special am bassador, Morehead Patterson. Minister of State Selwvn Llnvd speaks for Britain, former De fense Minister Jules Moch for France, High Commissioner Nor man Robertson for Canada and Ambassador Jakob Malik for Rus sia. Calif. River Group Named Members and officers of the Cal- IfSrnla Klamath River Commission were named at a meeting of Uiat organization In Yreka on June 0, with William o. Hagelsteln, Dor rls, taking over as chairman and Bert Phillips. Douglas City, as vice-chairman. Other members of the groun in clude A. D. Edmonston. state en gineer; Kelson C. Bowles. Eureka and James G. Stearns, Tulelake. Frank Lalhrop, Trcka, was named as acting secretory of the group. The California group will work In close cooperation with the Ore gon Klnmnth River Commission in mntters pertaining to use and stornge of the waters of the Klnm nth River watershed. Senator Randolph Collier pre sided nt the Yickn meeting as 1cm potary chairman and addressed the group on the Importance of the Job ahead. The California commission hns announced It will hold monthly meetings, but not noccssmily al ways in Yrekn. A Joint meeting of the two bonrds and the governors of both stales, hns been tentatively slated for tKlamnth Falls some time In July. Selassie Train To Stop In KF A royal visitor," Halle Selassie. emperor of Ethlonln. will nnv a short visit lo Klnmnth Falls Sun day morning. On a tour of tho United States, he is cn route from Scnttlo lo Cal ifornia. His entourage, consisting of three prlvato railroad cars, will be nttached In Poitland to the Southern Paoiflo's train, the Klam ath, due to arrive here at 1:40 a.m. Sunday. 4 Tho train remains at tho station for 35 minutes. SouUiern Pacific officials stated they had not' been advised thnt any program' had been arranged for the emperor. ', , Telepl 4 "Operation Alert" will be held Monday and Tuesday across the nation. Listen for the warninq sirens In Klam ath Falls and do your part In carrying out this vital test of qr- defense. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and lcinity: Cloudy with occasional showers Saturday night and Sun day with some partial clearing Sunday. Low Saturday night 43; high Sunday 63. High yesterday 5 Low last night 40 Senator Urges Curb To Powers WASHINGTON L Sen. Cooper (R-Kyi said Saturday Uiat no mat ter what Uie outcome of Uie Mc Carthy-Army dispute, it "will not settle" what he called "an aouse of Uie investigatory power" of Sen. McCarthy (R-wisj. Cooper was the only senator so far to line un publicly oemna aen. Flanders IR-Vt), whose motion to oust McCarthy as chairman of the Senate InvesUgations Subcommif- tee and Uie parent government op erations committee ? before the. uenaie. i m un wllhout being approved by a In an interview, Cooper said of Flanders' motion: , "The issue had to be raised. It Is whether the Senate will take steps to correct an abuse of the in vestigatory power by a committee member. That is also an aouse oi the Senate itself." Speaking of Uie Investigations subcommittee's televised inquiry into Uie dispute between McCarthy and top Army officials, Cooper said: "It is my view that any con clusion reached by the subcommit tee will neither setUe this issue nor make this decision. I think the Senate his Uie facts. It is its own responsibility." Flanders said In a separate in terview Uiat he acted wholly on his own responsibility Friday when he proposed that McCarthy be "sep arated" from his chairmanships after "sufficient time" has been given him to "purge himself of contempt" of the Senate. Cordon Lauds Food Industry Oregon's Senator Guy Cordon, speaking in Washington, ranked the frozen foods industry as the great est single contributor to the stabi lization of the farm mnrkct; The industry is observing its 25th nnniversnry this month. Scnntor Cordon stated. "It's diffi cult to conceive of- any single tech nological development during Uie past quarter of a century which has made such a revolutionary change In American dietary habits as the frozen foods industry. Nor one that has contributed so much to a long sought stabilization of the farm market. "Alrendv our old concepts of sea sonal fruits nnd vegetable have undergone a radical change. Con tinued advances in this field are bound to contribute materinUy to Improving the nutritional picture all over the world during Uie next 35 yenrs." As the frozen foods Industry hns grown, tanners In Oregon and other suites have been able to put more and more acres to profitable u.e in growing crops that would hp.vo only limited market without (lUlck-frceziiig, Senator Cordon in dicated. Police Seek Three Prisoners Oregon polico authorities have been alerted to be on the lookout for thrco men who escaped from a prison farm near Mnrysvllle, California Thursday. Ono of the escapees Is Donnld Brnnt Hoover, 19. convicted of our glary in Tulclnke last year. The other two nro Hnrold Ray, 19, and Milton Knight, 17. After leaving the prison farm the trio reportedly held up a scr vlco station nearby, obtained money and two revolvers, stole a '61 Mercury sedan with Georgia license and headed north. , r4 ''' J Civil Defense Test Planned Portland Is one of 42 American cities which will be theoretically A-bombed during "Operation Alert" Monday and Tuesday, June 14 and 15. Every civil defense unit in Uie state will be called into action; every citizen of Klamath County may be asked to help. Here's how the alert will work: When the alert is sounded, prob ably from the nation's capital, and is communicated to the state civil defense headquarters, it will be relayed to counties. In Klamath County, Joe LaClalr, county civil defense director, will Issue or ders for Uie alert signal to be sounded here. A three minute wraUtog blast will mean Klamath County's alert is on. LaClair will contact the proper deputy directors who in turn will contact civU defense workers on weir respective teams for confir mation of Uie assignments. for (rst M AocUTSi fire Klamath will most likely be asked eouipraent. emergency policemen. ambulances, nurses, air search and S J0 t.nTescue' workers to rush blood to target areas. When the deputy dr rectors in charge of the various I divisions UttVC lCJUimi U1C himj- power and equipment avauable, Uie information will be relayed to Uie distress area. Since Uie attack is theoretical, response will merely be simulated. "There is sUU a great need. How ever, for addiUonal civil defense volunteers for ground observer per sonnel, emergency policemen, nurses aides men or women," La Clair pointed out. Willing work ers may contact any of Uie de'buty directors or LaClair, phone 1292. French Await Red Attack HANOI, Indochina UP The French poured reinforcements into the vital Red River Delta Satur day as speculation grew that massing Vietminh legions would strike there wiuun tne next lew weeks. French Union sources predicted Uie Communist-led rebels would launch Uietr expected big thrust before the monsoon rains hit their peak at Uie end of June. If they don't, they will probably have to wait until the monsoon season ends in early October, Several large rebel units which helped destroy Uie French bas tion of Dien Blen Fhu 220 mile3 west of Hanoi are already back at their old posts on the Thanh Hon Plain. They form part of an arc the vietminh is welding around the rice-rich delta. 1 VI M:;::.:L FRYING AN EARLY HAMIURGER this morntnq ai the early morning photographer came by wai Paul Thomas of Paul's Drive In on Spring Street. , : , I Premier, Cabinet Quit After Vote PARIS Wl The French Na tional Assembly Baturday defeated Premier Joseph Lanlel's govern went oo a vote ox commence 306 to 293. Lanlel and his whole cabinet turned In their resigna tions but President Rene Coty de lated acceptance, apparenUy to give himself time to line un a new premier. As the ministers left a cabinet meeting- at the president's official, residence, they told reporters Coty had declined to make up his mind Immediately but would give them rn answer Monday afternoon. . Later lt was learned the presi dent confronted by the first gov ernment crisis since he took office in January wanted to make a snow of Having a continuous gov ernment and had. asked the pres ent ministers to remain in office over the weekend. , LEADFBS CALLED . ' He started casing in the presi dents of Uie two chambers of par liament and later will receive heads of the political parties. He apparenUy was hopeful th.M a new premier could be found quickly and that there would be no break down In the Geneva conference because of France's lack of a gov. ernment. Many others believed, however, Uiat it might be extremely diffi cult for another man to rally a majority in this assembly. If the difficulties should prove insurmountable in Uie near future. Coty then might be able to call on Uie present government to re main in office a lltUe longer. f oreign Minister Georges Bi dault said he planned to be back hi Geneva Monday to work at th conference. He quipped that h would be there "to follow my per. sonal policy" since the assembly cannot agree on Uie instructions it wishes to give him. ADVERSE VOTE The adverse vote left Laniel with a moral obllgaUon. The assembly would have had to cast 313 votes against him to force him out, ac cording to the constitution. - but past pracUce has been to get out whenever the vote went against the cabinet. A few minutes after the cabinet meeting broke up, Xaalel went alone to Coty's office tor another talk. This led to speculation that .1. HM . . i u i : . still be "salvaged from the '..aitua Uoo. Coty's maneuver was Inter preted as a move to let tempers cool, in the hope that some sort cf compromise could be worked, out over the weekend. Puerto Rican's Trial Goes On WASHINGTON W Dark-eyed Mrs. Lolfta Lebron says she begged to Join three other Puerto Rican Nationalists and "to die with them" in a shooting demonstration in the House of Representatives. Mrs. Lebron, 34, spoke emotion, ally on the witness stand in federal court Friday the first of four Puerto Rican independence-seekers to testify at their trial on multiple assault charges in connection, with the March 1 shooting of five Con gress members. The other defendants are Rafael Cancel Miranda, 25, Andres Flgu eroa Cordero. 29. and Irving Flores Rodriguez, 28. Each faces up to 75 years in prison if convicted on charges of assault with a dangef ous. weapon and assault with in tent to kill. The case is expected to go to the Jury next Tuesday. . At one point in her dramatie testimony. Mrs. Lebron declared: "God knows I am not guUty." She said the four Nationalists came to Washington expecting to die as a sacrifice to the cause of Puerto Rican independence. "What I did I don't deny," she said. "But we didn't think to kill. We thought of dying."