Diario las Américas Newspaper, February 7, 1954, Page 8

Slightly colder. Gener- ally fair weather MIAMI, FLA., SUNDAY FEBRUARY 7, 1954. EDITORIAL WHAT FLORIDA CAN DO TO ALLAY SOME OF THE PRESENT TENSION BETWEEN THE U.S. AND LATIN AMERICA The recent hikes that have taken place in the price of coffee have been accompanied by consumer complaints in the United States and consequent re- actions by coffee-growing countries of Latin Amer-! ica—all this leading to tension on one part and the other with creation of a veritable crisis. In our sincere zeal to see that the peoples of our hemisphere remain strong in their unity and friendly in their reciprocal relations, we have to admit that the present situation is particularly to be regretted. Those of us who have been expecting great things frem-the coming inter-American conference at Cara- cas-are chagrined from witnessing events replete with political overtones occurring in regard to coffee prices just before the important inter-American conclave is to assemble in Venezuela. The agitation going on at present contains within it just the sort of thing liable to endanger a united front by this hemisphere at Caracas. Furthermore, it is liable to produce repercussions which still will be having effects in a more remote future. Faced with these unrosy prospects caused by concern over the rise in price of a basic commodity, the Americas should see the urgency of reaching an understanding and clarification of the matter. Here in the United States it seems to us that because of its position, Florida should interpose itself at the Qresent juncture and seek to elucidate an issue which is causing resentment to the south of us. > Such’ an h to the question would be feasible int viewiof the close ties—both sentimental i economic—which bind the state of Florida to 5 tin” America. These bonds, which have been inh- erited from the past, are strong enough to persuade leaders in public and commercial affairs in the state of the need for understanding and mutual support among our peoples. The Congressional delegation from the state.of Florida comprises people who have more than once shown their interest and friendship toward Latin America. They realize the importance for their constituents of having good understanding with the people of Latin America, and they will able to see that the present occasion lends itself excellently to the formation of a good will mission of people to banish the atmosphere of uncertainty which has been covering our horizons of late and thus dissipate an jacipient crisis. ~~ SPANISH LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS By G. B. Palacin Professor of the University of Miami, Fla. LESSON 41 (c) Bete the difference between the following words: tarde late (la) tarde afternoon, evening. seatar to sit, to set up; to seat ~ seutir to feel; to perceive by the sense; to regret - siento al nifio en la silla siento mucho calor sentarse to sit down sentirse to feel (well, sad, strong, etc.) me siento aqui, en esta silla me siento bien The verbs sentar (se) and sentir (se) have the same form in the first person singular present indicative. Give a word of opposite meaning (antonym) of the following Qunea .. . despacio + ONETAr 2. 5 oe os voce ae tees oe acabar .. .. menos .. .. « + MCOSLATSE.. .. 6. oe oe we oe pe oe ® Translate into Spanish. 1—Dr. Fernandez and Charles are in the United States. 2—Mr. Smith speaks Spanish. 3—Lincoln was a great wesident. 4—Mr. Smith knows Charles. 5—Ann is younger than Mary. 6—They have more money than they need. 7—Is Chicago the largest tity in the United States? 8—The child speaks slowly. 9—I like very much the movies. 10—I bought this book for me. bh} (el) hotel hotel (la) iglesia church (la) escuela shool (el) bance bank (la) tienda shop, store (el) teatro theater (el) cine movies (la) ofieina de correos post office (la) zapateria shoe store (la) barberia or peluqueria barber shop he J BUENOS AIRES. —(UP)— Strong trade. currents —between South American countries like Brazil and Argentina, on one hand, and Communist countries like the Soviet Union and Poland on the other— have apparently been springing up. The people of Chile, for example, are strongly in favor of trading with Soviet Satellite nations, and with Czechs- lovakia and Poland in particular, but unfortunately for that Latin American country, its typical pro- ducts are those of strategic im- portance such as copper and man- ganese, export of which to Iron Curtain countries is looked on with disfavor by the United Sta- tes. Several days ago a Soviet oil tanker named the Aspherson war- ped out of the port of Buenos Aires with a 13,400-ton cargo of vegetable oils. Part of the cargo was a 5,000-ton shipment of lin- seed oil—the first section of a total shipment of 75,000 tons to be purchased by the Soviet Union in accordance with a new trade agreement recently signed with Argentina. The agreement will greatly favor exports of Argenti- ne linseed oil one of that coun- try’s principal export products when Argentina was the world’s foremost producer of that parti- cular vegetable oil. When the U. S. government decided to pay subsidies to its farmers to grow flax, it cut off the Unit- ed States as a market for Argen- tine linseed oil and helped to contribute to that country’s dollar exchange shortage. But if trade with the Soviet Union —now beginning to assume THE AMERICAS DAILY the greatest proportions it has in the past twenty years— has sery- ed as a stimulus to Argentine trade activities, it has also pro- duced some opposite effects. For example, nothing less than cons- ternation has been caused in Ar- gentina by the news that Brazil is not going to take up an op- tion, to buy a 300,000-ton lot of Argentine wheat in addition to the million tons which Brazil pro- mised to buy in accordance with the most recent trade treaty sign- ed by the two countries. In fact, it has been reported that Brazil has purchased elsewhere 850,000 viet origin, and that it is now asking Argentina to quote it low- er prices on wheat to be deliver- ed next year. According to official reports, the non-Argentine + wheat ship- ment received was made up of 750,000 tons from Turkey and 100,000 tons from Finland. Nevertheless, for all practical purposes Argentina and Brazil must come to an agreement, be- gentina needs every possible out- let for her exportable wheat pro- duction, Brazil finds that main markets for her exports of cotton textiles, pine and cedar woods, bananas and pineapples are located in Argentina. The 5,000 tons of linseed oil shipped to the Soviet Union on board the Aspherson are presu- mably part of the 20,000 tons which the Argentine Institute for Trade Promotion has just sold the Soviets at the price of 95 cents a kilogram. POLICE BREAK MEXICO CITY —(UP)— Two different political demonstrations were broken up in Mexico City ‘by police, who resorted to use of tear gas and billy clubs and ar- rested an unidentified number of demonstrators, The demonstrations were held by members of the Federation of Parties of the Mexican Peo- ple, commonly known as “Henri- quistas”, in two distinct parts of the city —first on the wide, downtown Paseo de la Reforma and then along the street called La Calzada del Nino Perdido. The Henriquistas are partisans of General Miguel Henriquez, a presidential candidate defeated in the latest elections for that office. MEXICO CITY —(UP)—. The Federation of Parties of the Me- xican People complained that UP POLITICAL DEMOSTRATIONS IN MEXICO Henriquistas claim to be victims of persecution. Mexican states have been victims of “persecution, jailings and at- tacks” on eleven different oc- casions recently. The Federation, which gave its unsuccessful support to General Miguel Henriquez Guzman during the electoral campaign for presi- dent in 1952, addressed its com- plaint to the secretary of govern- ment administration. The protest asserted that the attacks to which it alluded had been made by members of the rural protection police and by state police, for the most part. Vincente Estrada Cajigal, vice president of the Federation, ask- ed the secretary “to act im- mediately” so as to assure the effectiveness of “the constitution- al guarantees which the govern- many of its members in several ment is forever telling us about.” tons of ,wheat, apparently of So- | cause while on the one hand Ar- | the | The first shipment of Soviet petroleum meant for Argentina is due to arrive at Buenos Aires February 17 aboard a Norwegian tanker. The shipment is composed | of 7,000 tons of aviation gasoline | and 4,500 tons of fuel oil valued at 80 dollars and 30.12 dollars a ton respectively, delivered at Bue- nos Aires f.o.b. However, the first shipment of Soviet products arrived January 26 aboard a Panamanian boat, | the Canopus, which unload- | ed 10,000 tons of iron ore. Meanwhile, Argentina is send- ing continous shipments of meat products, butter, lard, cheese and vegetable oils to the Soviet Union. Trade with Poland is also constantly climbing, with some 12 ships being chartered for transportation of 300,000 tons of rye purchased by the Polish go- vernment for delivery at the ports of Stettin, Gdynia and Gdansk in February and March. Poland has been an important | supplier of coal to Argentine du- |ring the post-World War II years. Argentina is presently engaged |in negotiations with Poland for | | the exchange of linceed oil for | timber. {ister Vicente Rao, Diplomatic Talks end in Brazil RIO DE 2. —-(UP)— Brazilian ambassadors to various nations in the Americas ended their deliberations after ten days of continuous meetings. The pur- pose of the comerence was to determine Brazilian hemispheric policy and to make plans for the Tenth Inter-American Conference at Caracas, The last of the series of meet- ings was devoted to a debate on different aspects of future Braz ilian foreign policy. Foreign Min- several heads of departments in the Ministry, “the members of the House and Senate foreign rela- tions committees and the ambas- sadors participated in the talks The ambassador were given in formational talks by Finance Min- ister Oswaldo Aranha Agriculture Minister Joao Cleophas and re. presentatives from commercial in- dustrial and labor circles. The discussions on Latin Ameri- can matters were so successful that it was reported by well in- formed sources that periodic re- unions of this kind will be held in the future with ambassadors in other areas, and the Far Eag¥. The series of consultatios was officially closed with a luncheon attended by President Getulio Var- gas. ANTI-AMERICAN D GUATEMALA CITY —(UP)—, |President Arbenz and rejection | of foreign intervention” in Gua-| temala. The demonstration was organiz- ed by the University Students’ Democratic Front s(a Communist: | controlled group representing so- | me 15 per cent of all university | students). The group marched past the National Palace with al- lusive placards. One of the signs| read: “Defense of national sove-| reignty against foreign conspira- ” The demonstrators sang the | national anthem in front of the} American embassy, wich is located | about 800 meters from the govern- | ment palace. During the meeting in front of the palace, Ricardo Ramirez, se- cretary general of the University Students’ Democratic Front, deli- vered a speech in which he call- | ed on the people to “fight agains interventionist forces,” pointing | out that the United States go- vernment and that of Nicaragua “have supported the conspira- | tors.” The demonstrators “swore” to | EMOSTRATION EFFECTED IN GUATEMALA CITY ee ee fight for national iiberty and in- Some 3,000 persons carried out a| dependence, and to oppose “with- | demonstration urging “support of out hesitation any kind of foreign | intervention and to fight against the plans of traitors who are gambling with the honor and in- dependence of our country.” Foreign | especially Europe | For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity ME People flee i | TUXTLA, Gutiérrez, Mé —(UP) New tremors have been felt in the state of Chiapas in the wake of the “very destruc- tive” earthquake which lasted more than 20 minutes and de. molished four towns in southern most México sending inhabitants | fleeting into the mounta: Travelers arriving here from “numerous deaths and hundreds of injured walking dazed in the | rubble.” The quake affected an area 50 miles in diameter in hiapas state about 80 miles northeast of this state capital, reports said | Centuries -old stone structures |were said to have toppled and many buildings were _ severely damaged in the four small coffee }centers whose combined popula | tion is less than 5,000. Tila, a town of 1,165 persons was reported “virtually erased |from the map.” In Yajalon, the largest of the four towns with a population of 2,000, the Catholic church was ;destroyed and the city hall, jail, market and other old stone build ings were, damaged severely, the reports ‘said. | An estimated 90 per cent of the homes in Yajalon were dam- aged and abandoned by occupants | fearing new tremors. | Twenty-our houses were level- ed in Chilon and nearly all others | damaged, the reports id | The church and scores of homes were reported leveled in Petal- | cingo. | Since the first quake, six small- }er ones have been felt, the last | NUMBER 181 20-MINUTE EARTHQUAKE DESTROYS FOUR TOWNS IN SOUTHERN Strong Trade Currents Between South America And USSR Develop. Brazilian purchases from Russia reducing imports from Argentina XICO ee nfo mountains. Many | dead and hundreds injured of a.m. to an which was recorded at 9:05 yesterday mor 3, according inouncement made in Tux- tla Guti 2z, the state capital, by Luis Si 0, secretary general of the state of Chiapa Serrano said the ate govern- ment cannot furnish official. figur- es on the number of victims or estimates on damages which oc- curred in areas affected by the earthquak a region of around 80 kilometers in diameter locat- ed at approximately 130 kilome- ters to the northeast of the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez. The government has dispatched food and medicine to homeless survivors and has sent a group of doctors auxiliary person- health department. troops have been or- dered to the scene of the disas- ter to prevent looting and to res- tore order. We are taking. all sorts of precautions to prevent further personal damage in the event new qua Serrano said Authorities ordered the an air force to remain on the alert so to supply survivors with food by air. Mexican aid soci- eties have readied packages of victims The area hit by the temblor is located along the edge of the mountainous Sierra Madre of Me- xico. The state of Chiapas is border- ed by the Pacific ocean, Guatemt, ala and the isthmus of Tehuan- tepec, and the region affected by the quakes is fertile and covered with thick woods, of Mexie- uerto Rican Sugar Industry to cut cost Through Mechanization The speakers read the texts of, ANnual report rendered by president of P. R. Sugar Producers Association. i telegrams sent by supporting political government- parties k- |ing “all Guatemalans to join in the fight against intervention.” GUATEMALA CITY, (UP). The Guatemalan gover- nment rejected the declarat- ions made by the State De- partment on January 30 and termed them “an insult to Guatemala’s sovereignty and not worthy of two sovereign states”. Foreign Minister Toriello is- our next issue). malan note will be carried in (The full text of the Guate- “campaign of lies”. the U. S. government for its worded communiqué assailing sued a lengthy and strongly NEW YORK —(UP)— Sebas- tian Bucellato, a priest of the Franciscan order expelled from Guatemala several days ago, told reporters that “the real reason” why he was thrown out was that the Communist party had been losing ground in those areas where he had been preaching. “The legal reason was alleged to be the fact that my passport had been taken. They threw me attorney had been negotiating its renewal,” Bucellato said. In alluding to his having been “tossed out of the country,” the priest said that he was indignant at the way in which this action had been taken. Theyt hrew me out just as if I were a head of cattle...” Father Bucellato said that shortly after he had been arrested a second time, the police of Ju- tiapa questioned him about. his passport, which he wasn’t carry- ing with him at the time, because it was being renewed, According to Father Bucellato, “then three policemen got in a Jeep with me and after a half hour’s ride we reached San Cristobal de la Fron- tera, El Salvador, where they dropped me without having al- lowed me to take along even es- sential articles -money...nothing.” “During the trip they made fun colleagues in El Salvador would help me in my plight. One of them told me that he was a Com- munist, that he wasn’t afraid of Uncle Sam or of what they might say about my expulsion...” Father Bucellato, who was born February 24, 1925 in Brooklyn, was under assignment by the pro- vincial curia of the Inmaculate Conception, directed by the Fran ciscan order, to preach in the Valley of Asuncion Mita, whose church bears the same name as the valley, which is part of the department of Jutiapa. It was in that department that Political elements of the Revulo- tionary Action party —alleged to be Communist-directed and in- luenced— lost ground in recent elections. Father Bucellato told newsmen November, 1953 (also because his visa had expired), personnel of the foreign relations ministry as- sured him that he wouldn’t be bothered again by the police “Even more,” Father Bucellato said, “Raul Osegueda, who was then minister of foreign relations, had my passport renewed until February 2.” Asked whether he had ever used his Jeep for political purpo- ses, as he had been accused of doing, Father Bucellato stated a ‘lof me and of the situation I was {flat “No!” and added: “Their po- in, and they told me that mylitical charges were not and never have been proved.” “That’s the main reason why they were angry with me; it was because they couldn’t prove char- ges that I had meddled in poli-, ties,” Bucellato went on to say. | A reporter asked Father Bucel- | lato whether he thought that the | step which had been taken a gainst him was only the first of others yet to come, and the priest FRANCISCAN MISSIONARY TELLS HOW HE WAS EXPELLED FROM GUATEMALA He was abruptly taken to the Salvadorean border by government party officials. answered: “They don’t want to have trouble of any sort with the Church, because they know that the people wouldn’t stand for it. In my case they alleged legal reasons —that my pasport had expired. That was the only thing hat they took into consideration. Political Parties BUENOS AIRES —(UP)— Po- litical opposition parties, includ- } ing Conservatives, Radicals, So- cialists and Communists, have be- gun’ to show signs of activity as the date for elections -April 29- draws near. The national committee of the National Democratic Party (Con- servative) will meet Feb. 15 to determine whether it will enter candidates or not. There are two wings within the party. One fa- vors participation in the elec- tions and the other wants the party to boycott them. The Radicals are likewise di- vided into two factions, those who want to enter elections and those who want to abstain from them. The party’s recently elec- ted national committee is headed by former deputy Dr. Arturo Frondizi. The committee as formed after a hot fight between | the party favor participating Active in B. Aires unionists and intransigent forces. The leaders who presently rule in the coming elections, The Communist “politburo” will convene Feb. 13 to consider participation in the coming elec- tions. In principle, the party has decided to enter the electoral battle and vote for Communist candidates only. PEURIFOY BACK IN GUATEMALA, GUATEMALA CITY —(UP)— U.S. ambassador John E. Peurifoy returned here from Washington after several days of consultations with President Eisenhower and State Department officials. The American diplomat de- clined to make any statement in regard to present relations bet- ween the United States and Gua- temala, WASHINGTON —(UP)— {Puerto Rican sugar industry will | concentrate for the time being jon cost-cutting through mechani- zation and has abandoned any jidea of seeking quota increases | general review in 1956. This was how sugar circles here | | interpreted the latest annual re- |port by president F. A. Lopez | Dominguez of the association of }sugar producers of Puerto Rico. | The report asserted that con- | gress recognizes shares of the an- ‘nual increases in United States sugar consumption to be “the in- {herent right of Puerto Rico and | other domestic areas.” “Puerto Rico believes that su- |gar quotas should reviewed and revised regulz the report | said. But the occasion for Puerto | Rico to submit own “claim jfor an equitable share of the in ereased consumption,” the report added, would be “when such re- | visions are proposed in the fu- | ture.” “An increase in the island’s mainland sugar quota,” the report said, “would go far toward res |toring the sugar industry to a profitable level, but the present sugar act does not expire until 1956 and there is no assurance that quota changes will be made in the meantime. Consequently, the industry is compelled to look elsewhere for relief.” Meanwhile, with federal crop restrictions holding production to 14 percent below the previous year, the report said, the Puerto Rican industry in 1953 “experi enced its most unsatisfactory year” in a decade. sors’, the report said, “dropped sharply, on the average, and ma- ny experienced serious loss The report claimed that crop res- he report claimed that crop res- trictions caused 80,000 tons of sugart to be left unharvested in the fields; “substantially decreas- ed” the income of the industry's 14,000 workers; and reduced to- tal employment by an estimated 1,500,000 man-hours. F Commenting on last | year’s boost of federal minimun wages lin Puerto Rican mills from 55 |to 75 cents an hour, the report said: ‘ “One result...was to reduce still further the number of jobs in the sugar mills, as processors were compelled to carry the mechani- zation process still further in The | “Profits of growers and proces- | order to avoid serious out-o- pocket losses.” Another result, the report said, was the first island-wide sugar congress, held: in December un- der sponsorship of the association and the Puerto Rico farm bureau, “The congress,” the report said, |““was eminently succesful in that it impressed on everyone con- cerned the inescapable facts that Puerto Rico’s sugar industry must mechanize as rapidly as possible and must finance an expanded | program of research if yields are to be increased and cost are to be reduced sufficiently to restore the industry to a profitable level.” The report forecast “little like- lihood” that Puerto Rico will find a market in 1954 for the un- ‘marketed, 145,000-ton, overquota ‘surplus still on its hands at the end of 1953. The island sold. 70,000 tons abroad earlier in’ 1953. “The en- | tire carry over might have been |disposed of to foreign assistance ‘ countries,” the report lamented, \“...but further purchases later in \the year were made from foreign }areas at prices so far below the cost of production that the Puerto Rican industry could not possibly compete.” | The report also struck one par- |ticularly ironic note, Despite the chronic unemployment which | plagues overpopulated Puerto Ri- co, the report said, growers in }some parts of the island were unable last year to hire enough workers to keep cane flowing to the mills. Increased seasonal mi- gration of workers to the main land was blamed for such labor shortages. Amnesty Decreed in Honduras TEGUCIGALPA, —(UP)—_Af- |ter a lengthy session the Hon- | duran congress approved an am- nesty decree including all cases }of political and military crimes from 1933 to 1948. This long requested measure |will authorize the release from |prison of all Hondurans still in | jail and the return to the coun- try of Hondurans exiled for pol- itical causes.