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1 AAachinisti Reject Shipyard Offer 2 i Sept. 1965 Price Fixing Penalty Near $400 Million Few Clues In Murder Of Widow picket lines and returned to their; $17 million for their part in fix Avar J- jobs. Management naa onerea me machinists a 30-ceht-per-hour wage increase over a three-year period, plus izvt cents in neaitn and welfare, pensions, holiday pay. Tho shinvnrrf marhinist.s sn asking for a 50-cent increase ttf bring them up to the level of OOOmachinists in similar posi- -tions in other industries. Ship- yard journeymen scales are now fO.JU oil iimu management cnnrroc caff? Al Schultz, marine coordinai-; tor for the union in negotiations, -said management offers fell short ot union demands in many: recommended that" members turn down the proposal.

1: rti nuge lexas Tank in Flames MIDLAND, Tex. Jtf) Flames shot 300 feet into the air as out of control last night. The blaze was started when' lightning struck a Magnolia Oil';" Co. storage tank five miles east-of this west Texas community. Members of the International Association of MachjnjstsHbave vntPH tn 1 to refect ment's terms for the settlement of the 62 day strike against West Coast shipyards.

The announcement was made today by Sam Swisher, business agent for IAM Local 824 in Richmond, He said 90 per cent of machinists on strike in Northern California, Oregon and Washington voted in yesterday's election. Other union Officials said the situation is now a "stalemate." Federal mediators had urged that the membership vote be taken in Seattle, Portland, Richmond and San Francisco after talks between the machinists and Pacific Coast Shipbuilders Association broke off in Seattle last week. Bay Area shipyards affected by the strike include Martino-lich and Tom Short in Oakland, Willamette Iron and Steel in Bethlehem in San Francisco and Fulton in Ant och, union officials said. Swisher didn't reveal exact vote'figures either coastwide or locally. United Press International reported that IAM Local 63 rejected the management of fer by an frto vote land Earlier, unions representing 8,500 nonstriking metal trades workers-had accepted management offers.

Nearly all non-strikers have crossed machinist a NEW YORK (AP) Dam ages assessed in a 1960 electrical equipment price-fixing scandal have neared $400 million. The total was increased Tues day when a federal judge fined General Electric Co. and West- inghouse Electric Corp. nearly Quest for Steel Pact Gets Tough By MERRIMAN SMITH WASHINGTON (UPI) Steel negotiations have reached the "hard and tough bargaining" stage, the White House reported White House Press Secretary Bill D. Moyers told reporters at mid-day that he was unable to say whether the negotiators had made any progress, but he added: "They are having some very straightforward confrontations on pensions and wages." Moyers said the contract talks, moved to the shadow of the White House Monday by President have "reached the stage of hard and tough bargaining." The bargaining sessions between union and management teams were taking place in the Executive Office Building across the street from the White House The talks ran until 1:30 p.m 1 EDT Tuesday and resumed at 9:30 a.m.

EDT today. 7 The negotiators included four officials of the United Steelwork- ers Union. They agreed Monday night, to an eight-day postpone- ment of a threatened nationwide strike. The new deadline is Sept. 9.

At today's morning session, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Commerce Secretary John T. Connor held separate meet-' ings with each side. Wirtz and Connor were making frequent reports to Johnson. Johnson asked for a wrapup report on each bargaining ses- sion. He has appealed to both sides for a reasonable settle-I" ment that would not damage the nation's economy or impair the war effort in Viet Nam.

SITE OF AVALANCHE AT HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT IN SWITZERLAND Rescuers search area for persons buried under falling ice. (AP) hUffi AWBCA'SUGESTClOnW ff 2 Found Alive Data Kits Million for anyone on the Social Security rolls. Mailing will continue at ihe rate of 2.5 million a week until the government reaches the 15.5 million Americans now under Social Security or railroad, retirement. Today also is the first day those 65 or older who are not on the benefit rolls may qualify for the hospital plan and enroll in the medical program at their local Social Security office. The two programs become effective July 1, 1966.

Another mass mailing to carry out provisions of the new So cial Security amendments-will FREMONT Police are baffled, today in the three-day-old mystery murder of 73-year-old widow Maria Silva Gabriel. Mrs. Gabriel, a native of Portugal and resident here for 45 years, was found Sunday stabbed to death, lying in a pool of blood on a bedroom floor of her home at 4345 Eggers Drive. She had been killed some 24 hours before, the coroner's office said, dying of loss of blood from five wounds in- the body and throat, coroner investigators said. The body was discovered by her two sons, Joseph, 33, who had lived with his, mother, and Manuel, 40, of 3122 Decoto Road.

Police Detective William Shii- ey said today police have no. concrete leads. Reports of a mysterious paper bag left, by the victim for safe- keeping with a neighbor before her death have only added to the mystery. Shuey said the neighbor, not identified by the detective, ac cepted the paper bag one day several months ago and re turned it to the victim the next day without ever finding out what was inside. "If there is money in the bae you'd better take it to the bank," the neighbor advised.

Gabriel. The- bag and the fact that MfSTGabriel sometimes kept as much as $1,000 in cash at her home makes robbery a possible motive for the slaying, Shuey said. He added that detectives are not ruling out any type of motive at this time. Police are still seeking the weapon-usedby Jierassailankl Shuey said the victim may have heenstabbed with one or more knives. Full Accord On Dominican Peace Formula ican Republic (AP) The Or ganization of American States secured a full agreement today terminating the 4-month-old Do minican crisis.

The peace formula insured I the installation of a provisional1 government Friday as a first step-toward general elections in nine months. I Rebel leaders cheered the i peace plan. Heads of the armed 1 forces, taking over after the 1 rival civilian military junta stepped aside, pledged full sup port to the provisional government. 1 ne peace proposal wasi signed first by the insurgent regime behind rebel lines Tuesday night. Then Dominican armed forces leaders, meeting at the headquarters of the junta, signed a declaration of support for the peace plan and the pro-visional, government.

The government terminated nearly three months of peace efforts by the-three-man OAS political committee of Ambassadors Ellsworth Bunker -of the United States, Ramon de Clair-mont Duenas of El Salvador and Ilmar Penna Marinho of Brazil. INTERIM PRESIDENT The formula, calls for a 44- year-old lawyer diplomat, Hec tor Garcia-Godoy, to become president of the interim regime. He will be installed Friday. His-provisional government will negotiate withdrawal of the OAS peace force, composed of U.S. and 2,000 Latin-American troops, still patrolling the battle-scarred capital.

The peacekeeping troops took over after the initial U.S. intervention in the rebellion which erupted April 24 abortive I effort to bring former President Juan Bosch back to power. The final phase of the agree ment came at midnight in the offices of Armed Forces Secre tary Francisco J. Rivera Cam-" inero, the only member of the junta who did not resign in opposition to the. peace formula.

Other junta members, whose resignations prevented a serious deadlock in the peace negotia tions, were absent. SIGNERS Rivera 36, the tough-talking armed forces strongman, was accompanied in he signing by the three chiefs staff, Commodore Ramon Emibo Jimenez of the navy, Gen. Jacinto Martinez Arana of the army, and Gen. Juan de los Santos Cespedes of the air force. Gen.

German Despradel signed as commander of the national police. Because the civilian-military junta resigned rather than ac-j cept "the peace formula, the armed forces leaders signed a revised version identical to the one approved by the rebels but containing at the end a statement of support for the provisional government and the institutional act through which Rusk Apology to ing prices, rigging bids and dividing markets on electrical equipment "'valued at $1.75 billion annually. The companies had been found guilty in 4961. The ruling by U.S. Dist.

Judge Wilfred Feinberg 'was irt a civil case tor determine damages. Judge Feinberg ruled that Ohio Valley Electric Corp. and its subsidiary, the Indiana-Kentucky Electric were fraudulently overcharged by for 11 steam turbine generators they bought in 1952 to supply the Atomic Energy Commission' plant near Portsmouth, Ohio. TRIPLE DAMAGES He awarded triple damages of $7,424,373 for Ohio Valley Electric and $9,448,830 for Indiana-Kentucky Electric; The case was one of about by private utilities and public power agencies throughout the country to recover damages. They resulted from the government's breaking a criminal conspiracy among 29 electrical equipment manufacturers.

CLAIMS SETTLED The conspiracy has cost General Electric more than $225 million and Westinghouse more than $110 million. Spokesmen for the two companies said 99 percenrbfthe foliar claims have been settled. Most ot ine cases never went to court. A spokesman for one of the companies involved in Tuesday's decision said that they were unable to reach a pre-trial agreement with the plaintiffs. DEDUCTIBLE EXPENSE What has touched off as much versyas-the-cases-ihem selves was an Internal Revenue Service tax ruling last year allowing the companies to deduct the.

cost of damage settlements as "ordinary and necessary" business expenses. Judge Feinberg, in finding the companies guilty of violating the antitrust laws, concluded that from 1939 through the spring of 1959 a conspiracy existed between GE, Westinghouse and other manufacturers of steam turbine generators. Stocks of both companies fell on the New York Stock Exchange following news of the fines, then rose. GE was off 1 at 104 at closing and West inghouse closed at 53, also off 1 State Department Press Officer Robert J. McCloskey said that a formal denial made Tuesday by the State Department was in error.

McCloskey said that "Those who were consulted within the government on this matter yesterday were not uHy aware the background of an incident that occurred 4 years ago." "The secretary did write a letter expressing this government's regret over the incident," McCloskey said. McCloskey refused to discuss the subject or comment further. The letter from Rusk which Lee made public in a news conference after the State Department denied his allegations, said that the administration of John F. Kennedy took; a very serious view of the incident. Rusk promised to "review the activities of these officials for disciplinary action." The letter was dated April 15, 1961.

8 Die, 6 Missing in Ancles Air Crash BALBOA, (UPI) The crash of a U.S. Air Force plane in the Colombian Andes Satur day killed at least 8 of the 14 U.S. servicemen on board, it was announced today. A search party which reached the scene of the crash late yes terday located 8 bodies in the wreckage. The search for the other 6 is continuing today.

Col. Oscar Bradford, who Is directing the search, said there appears to be no hope that any of those on the plane survived. The twin-engined C47, en route from the Panama Canal Zone to Cali, Colombia, crashed on the slopes of Mt. Calima, 60 miles northwest of Cali. Marine Training Cur to 8 Weeks WASHINGTON (AP) The Marine Corps announced today it it is compressing recruit training from 12 weeks to an eight-week course.

The action, effective immediately, follows a pattern used by the Corps in World War II. and Korea. Verified -Sing a pore heginDt5nd4akeb3uiaOTer-4h were no injuries. Steel plates in the tank glowed-cherry red as workmen on bull-dozers built double dikes to con- ill a "ViitufiTiiiT ml in At 7 Art 4 4 Kr Lalll UJC UUiiUilg UU 111 CVCIH MIC tank buckled. for 5 Medicare Go to 2.5 WASHINGTON Beginning today, 2.5 million retired Americans are getting word from the government on two new medical programs available to them under the expanded Social Security System.

The information includes an application card for the volun tary program the medical plan which provides protection against most doctor bills. The first of the kits were sent out Tuesday night. No action is required for the hospitalization and nursing care program. Inclusion is automatic Battle of the Back-Fences' Flares Anew Continued from Page 1 Gujphard is hedging on the real issue the fences. He says the letter accompanying the ballot is "worded obscurely in order to cloud' the issue and confuse the tenants." One paragraph of the letter informs the tenants: "One aspect of the' program envisions modification affecting backyard fences in order to accomplish integrated landscaping," CRUX OF MATTER York says this meanT the fences will be torn down.

He says Guichard could have said it simply. Guichard also informed the tenants the authority is charged with the responsibility for managing the three Various projects and'has embarked on a beautul HCdUUIl JJIUgl cUU, "That it may effectively discharge its responsibility," Guichard said, "the Board of Commissioners wishes to ascertain the views of the residents of these communities." York boils this down to mean "Do you want a fence?" He wants to know why it couldn't have been worded like that. He claims the tenants are being intimidated because they were asked to sign tneir ballot. He says this plays on the "evic tion-fear" of the average tenant. HURLS CHALLENGE He caps his conplaint by challenging the authority to make its beautification plan public.

He claims "The work done so far appears to be a 'lower-the-maintenance-cost' program." He calls it "haphazard destruction of our property and an unplanned comedy of errors." York said his group immediately sent out a leaflet "deciphering" Guichard's ballot so the residents will know what they are voting on. The battle broke out early in July when anti-poverty program youths started tearing down fences at Peralta ViJUa and Lock-wood Gardens anoyjcplacing them with turf. In Ice Slide Disaster Area MATTMARK DAM, Switzerland (UPI) Swiss officials said today they had found alive two Swiss tourists missing in the area of the Mattmark avalanche disaster that took nearly 100 lives. Six German tourists were still missing. All eight had been feared swept to their death when 500,000 tons of rock and ice broke off a glacier and roared down on a dam construction site.

An Al pine fog meanwhile halted search for bodies still buried by the glacier. There still was uncertainty official estimates have ranged from 90 to 100. Six bodies have been recovered and officials said there was no hope the missing would be found alive. Rescue operations today were being hampered by the threat of more landslides. Swiss army drivers were using bulldozers in the search.

14-Day Toll In Viet Nam: 68 GIs Dead Continued from Page 1 Force HH43 "Huskie" helicop- ier. "The bridge way-destroyed by nine tons of 750-pound bombs," the spokesman said, In another development, U.S. rescue crews ended a week-long search without success for a U.S. Navy pilot whose plane caught, fire Aug. 24 during bombing mission in North Viet Nam.

The 'pilot was seen to have parachuted from -the disabled A4 Skyhawk about 40 miles south of Thanh Hoa U.S. spokesmen reported these other raids over North Viet Nam Tuesday: Two missions of 13 planes from the carrier Independence sank one PT boat and damaged another about 160 miles south of Hanoi. An attack on the Ban Lau storage area 125 miles west of Hanoi by four Air Force Thunder- chiefs with pilots reporting 14 buildings damaged. A raid on the Ban Non Luc barracks and supply area 60 miles east of Dien Bien Phu by eight F105s. Pilots said the barracks area was left in flames.

Seven missions by 15 Navy Al Skyhawks and four Skyraiders over targets ranging from 55 miles north of the frontier to 110 miles south of Hanoi. Highways were reported to have been watered and buildings, bridges, barges and vehicles damaged. Asthma Hits Young Asthma affects more than 3 children, according to the Allergy Foundation' of America. WASHINGTON (AP) The state Department today ac knowledged that Secretary of State Dean Rusk had witten a letter of apology to Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew for the "improper activities" of certain XLS. officials in Singa pore." Lee has said a $3 million bribe had been offered to him by the JJ.S.

Government to keep quiet about the arrest of an American Central Intelligence Agency official froni Bangkok who sought to buy secret mior-mation in Singapore. In confirming the Rusk letter, Polish Consul Seeks Asylum STOCKHOLM (UPI) Poland's consul-general in Stock holm has defected from -com munism and been granted political asykinv in Sweden, the Swedish foreign office announced last night. Swedish officials identified the Pole as Edmund Michalski and said he walked into Stockholm police headquarters last month to request asylum for himself, his wife and their two daughters. Tl'e request was granted a few days ago." Swedish officials said Mi'chal-skidefected for political reasons'? but they did not elaborate. He had been in Stockholm for a year when he decided to fore- sake communism.

S.F. Man Gets Ppar a Corns Job week. This will include checks totaling $885 million to cover the 7 per cent increase in Social Security cash benefits retroac-tiveto Jan. 1, 1965. The applicatimrcard for the voluntary medical plan should be returned to the Social Security Administration in the postage-free envelope included in the kit.

This option must be exercised by March 31, 1966, to qualify. Cost will be a month. The payment may be deducted from the monthly Social Security benefit check beginning next July or paid in cash. The government will match the payment. An estimated 90 per cent of Americans 65 and olderwill be mailed kits.

More than haif the remaining 10 per cent receive old-age assistance-arufcwilHiear-from state agencies. The remaining 5 per cent will be informed of their rights through organizations in touch with older people and through other publicity U.N. Fellowships To Honor Adlai WASHINGTON (A The United Nations will honor Adlai E. Stevenson's memory with a fellowship program paid for by the United States. The program, proposed by President Johnson and approved by Secretary-General Thant, will divert $100,000 contributed to the organization's institute for training and research for the At the start the number is expected to increase eight to 10 foreign youths will be given the fellowships to serve as "interns' at the United Nations.

Russ Warn Japan On 'Aggression' MOSCOW (UPI)-The Soviet Union charged today that the United States is using Japanese territory to launch "aggressive actions" in Viet Nam. The charge was contained in an aide memoire delivered to the Japanese Embassy here. The official Soviet news agency, Tass, said the document called on Japan to stop use of I its bases for U.S. "aggression." mmmmmmm EXTRA; Boys' Sport Shirts reduced from $2.98 each 2 NOW Long-wearing dripdry combed cottons. Plaids, stripes, solid colors.

6-18 iiW s'i. Thomas S. Page, a San Francisco public relations man, has been named director of public Information for the Peace Corps, it was announced today in Washington, D.C. Page, 48, has operated his own public relations firm specializing In political campaigns and the institutional and corporate field for the last five years. Before that he was' a reporter for United Press International.

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