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Three American Pilots
Get Cuban Prison Terms
HAVANA (fl*j Three American pilots were sentenced
to long prison terms yesterday by two Castro military tri
bunals. They were charged with counter-revolutionary activi
ties. Two got 39 years, the other 25.
Piosecution demands for death sentences for two were
Ban on A-Tests
To Be Studied
By Air Force
WASHINGTON (/l*) —The Aii
Foice has embarked on a special]
study of how to police the tempo-1
rary nucleai test ban, it was dis
closed yesterday.
Known as Project Vela, it will
make use of the science of earth
quakes-seismology.
Dr Herbert F. Yoik, defense
director of research and engineer
ing, said the study was launched
to solve “moratorium policing
problems.’’
The United Stales, the Soviet
Union and Great Britain now
have in effect an unofficial and
temporary hail or moratorium on
atom tests while international ex
perts seek a long range or perma
nent solution to the major prob
lem—liow to insure compliance
with any nuclear test ban.
Information on the Vela proj
ect came out during a news con
ference called to discuss changes
in the Advanced Research Proj
ects Agency.
The choice of the name Vela
was in line with the scientists’
liking toi astronomical or myth
ological tags Vela is a subdivision
of the constellaf ion Argo
Yotk announced that ARPA, un
der its new director. Brig. Gen.
Austin V/ Betts, will report di
rectly to him instead of to the soc
ietal v ot defense as it has since
its creation Feb. 7, 19.18
ARPA, he said, will ask for
about 110 mil'ion dollars in the
new defeme budget for icseaieh
on bolliotie missile defense, solid
propellants and baste rcseaich in
matoi ials
Red Committee to Meet
MOSCOW t/P) The Central
Commit lee of the Communist pm
tv will meet Dec 22 to discuss
fuithei expansion of agricultural
pi eduction. Tass news agency
said vostmlav.
IBSEN
JOHN
GABRIEL
BORKMAN
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
rejected. Death was not asked for
the other.
In Havana, Rafael del Pino, 33,
a Cuban-born U.S. citizen whose
home is Miami, Fla., was sen
tenced to 30 years.
Del Pino was captured last
July when he landed a light
plane on a highway near Ha
vana. He was accused of try
ing to help anti-Castro Cubans
flee the country.
The prosectuion asked the death
sentence but the court in Havana’s
La Cabana Fortress said that de
spite the gravity of the charges
against him Del Pino had not
caused any loss of life and, there
fore. was given the prison sen
tence.
In Pinar del Rio, a two-man
military tribunal spared from
the firing squad Frank Austin
Young, 38. also of Miami. He
was sentenced to 30 years.
His American companion, Peter
John Lambton, 24. London-born
giandson of a British socialite,
was given 25 years. The prosecu
tion had demanded a 30-year sen
tence.
The court in Pinar del Rio also
turned down the demand for a
death sentence for Fernando Pru
na Bertot. 24. a dapper Cuban un
derground worker who once at
tended Columbia University. He
was ordered to prison for 30
years.
$8 Million Nuclear Plant
To Pise Near Bedford
HARRISBURG (/P) The Pub
lic Utility Commission yesterday
opened the door for construction
of an SBV 2 million nuclear reactor
jat Saxton, Bedford County.
The commission authorized Met-
| ropolitan Edison Co., Reading,
and Pennsylvania Electric Co.,
Johnstown, to acquer stock in the
newlv formed Saxton Nuclear Ex
perimental Corp , of Reading.
The firm, set up with two New
Jet‘‘t'v electric power companies, 1
will own and operate the reactor
ptoiect
Sayonara, Women
TOKYO (,Pi The Aizu Bus
Co. unhappily reports 28 of its
gitl conductors will marry soon
! All bridegrooms are .former pas
sengers
Steel Union,
Can Firms
Make Peace
WASHINGTON (/Pj The
Steelworkers Union reached
agreement yesterday with the
American and Continental
Can companies, major steel
customers, and said it should
have a bearing on the steel
dispute.
And as the stalemated steel ne-i
gotiations continued, the union!
gave partial endorsement to a
plan by Secretary of Labor James!
P. Mitchell to let some third par-j
ty recommend a labor peace pact
for industry.
David J, McDonald, the union’s
president, announced the agree
ment with the can companies cov
ering 45,000 workers. It calls for
a 30-cent-per-hour raise over a
three-year term retroactive to
Oct. 1 Wage increases averaging
9 y er eight cents an hour provided
in each year.
The agreement raises pensions
and provides, for the first time
the union said in a major labor
agreement, for heaßh cost pay
ment for retired workers.
Earnings in the can industry av
eraged $2.73 an hour in Septem
ber, including overtime and other
pay premiums.
Shortly before industry and un
ion negotiators met with federal
mediators in the steel dispute,
Mitchell told a news conference of
his plan to bring in third party
help.
He said he felt the time has' 1
come for both sides to submit
their dispute to outsiders. The
Cabinet officer then advanced
three methods he said seemed to
him to fall within the realm of
free collective bargaining and the
views of President Eisenhower.
One would be to submit the
problem to fact-finders for rec
ommendations. A second would
be to agree to let the Federal
Mediation Service perform the
same function of making settle
ment proposals.
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20 Hardened Cons
Flee Southern Pen
IVY BLUFF, N.C. ( fP) Twenty dangerous criminals —
heavily armed and at least four of them killers —broke out of
the tough Ivy Bluff prison for incorrigibles yesterday.
Six guards were overpowered and left locked up. The
convicts had eight rifles, eight pistols and a sub-machine gun.
Transit Strike
In Pittsburgh
Cripples City
PITTSBURGH (>P) A strike
of trolley and bus operators for
higher pay forced some 115,000
daily patrons of Pittsburgh Rail
ways Co. to seek other transpor
tation yesterday.
It was the third such strike ini
this steel metropolis since 1954.
Pittsburgh Railways, privately
owned, is the largest mass transit
firm serving the city and its sub
urbs and the only one operating
on area-wide basis. I
About 1700 operators struck]
with expiration of their two-yearl
contract at midnight Monday
night. They were out for 56 days]
in 1957 and 35 days in 1954. |
As in previous strikes, most 1
stranded riders turned to private
autos, taxicabs, railroads and 23
independent bus lines. Other resi
dents hitch-hiked; some just
walked.
Despite the extra load of autos,
traffic moved briskly except on
arteries leading into the city from
heavily populated suburbs to the
south. There several big jams re
sulted. ;
Merchants in the main down
town business district fear the
strike, if it continues long, will
|cut sharply into their Christmas
business.
No negotiations are scheduled!
between the company and the up-i
ion, Division 85 of the Amalga
mated Assn, of Street, Electric
Railway and Motor Coach Em
ployes.
Union officials rejected a last
minute compromise proposal
worked out by Mayor Joseph Barr
and government mediators.
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120 E. College Ave
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1959
Despite a huge manhunt cen
tering in North Carolina and Vir
ginia, only one of the convicts
had been reported captured.
A posse, following a blood
hound, captured Charlie Ed
wards, 28, a Gastonia, N.C., Ne
gro serving a life term, about
eight miles south of the prison
during the afternoon.
The FBI joined in the hunt.
With a four-hour start before
the break was reported, the con
victs might easily have driven
beyond Charlotte or Richmond
and nearly to Bristol, Tenn.,
Chaileston, W. Va., Norfolk or
Washington before roadblocks
could be set up.
Ivy Bluff is in an isolated area
about 65 miles northwest of Ra
lleigli and seven miles south of
ithe Virginia border.
! Six of the escapees were serv-
I ing life terms for such crimes
] as murder, rape and kidnap
| ing.
Ivy Bluff, normally housing
, about 40 convicts, is used only for
the state’s worst prisoners. The
state prisons director, William F.
ißailey, has described the in
mates as “incorrigibles, hardened
criminals—the type you find in
Alcatraz.”
Bailey promptly fired tw o
guards, one a 15-year man, for
laxity.
Twenty-one other prisoners re
fused a chance to escape despite
[the reputation of Ivy Bluff, where
many men have maimed them
selves to gain a transfer.