Diario las Américas Newspaper, May 5, 1954, Page 8

Inter-American News for English- Speaking people For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity MIAMI, FLA., WE 1954. NUMBER THE AMERICAS DAILY Published by THE AMERICAS rUBLISHING COMPANY . S. SMITH Vice President HORACIO AGUIRRE Editor and Manager G, A. SAN ROMAN President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Carlos E. Simons Managing Editor * William H. Scharrer Head of Circulation Dept. Ralph B. Ross Head of Advertising Dept. EDITORIAL THE THREAT POSED BY COMMUNISM AND ITS RELATION TO WORLD PEACE AND PROGRESS ‘ Before the globe was yet able to recover from the shock of World War II and find the formula for a lasting peace, it found itself drowned in concern over violence caused by the imperialistic advances of international Communism. The threat poised over the heads of world nat jons has been increasing in intensity, year by year, until it has now reached such alarming proportions that many are beginning to wonder whether we are not already on the verge of a third and more dev- astating international conflict. There is no doubt but that world concern over the possibilities of the present situation are pred- icated on solid ground, for the menace of Com- miunism to the world is a real one. World peace and progress have suffered serious setbacks as a result of the present crisis. Even @urrent scientific discoveries are evaluated as to their relative usefulness in military operations. Any undertaking of importance made by nations nowa- days is subordinated to the fact that an armed conflagration may break out at any moment. If the discoveries being made via use of the physical and chemical sciences were devoted to nat- ional and individual ends instead of to those of martial activities, how better off mankind would be! The degree to which our civilization has evolved | hasn’t shown much concern for endowing the peoples) of the world with spiritual tranquility and material advancement. On the countrary, that evolution has only served to taunt and torment the human mind unmercifully. Because of the upsets which Communism has been responsible for provoking, with hopes for world peace being compromised as a result, the democratic nations of our planet should demostrate that they are not going to sit idly by and allow themselves to be subjected to continual Soviet threats. Anyone who gives a minimum of consideration to the benefits, instead of the threats, that scientific progress should be offering us will agree that the Soviet Union merits only contempt and censure for its policies. j BEGINNERS’ SPANISH BY G. B. Palacin Professor of the University of Miami, Fla. Vocabulary (Vocabulario) @J0 ESTO ES LA LECCION DE INGLES no tiene titulo ni nada quiero I want, wish quiero café con leche I want coffee and- milk quiere you, he she wants, wishes usted quiere café you want coffee ella quiere café she wants coffee EXERCISE Translate into English. 1—Quiero agua. 2—;Quiere usted café? 3— Maria quiere té. 4—Carlos no quiere té. 5—El nino quiere leche. 6—No quiero ensalada. 7—José quiere pan y -queso. 8—Juan no quiere pescado. 9—Ana quiere un libro. 10—,Quiere usted fruta? me gusta I like me gusta el arroz.con pollo I like chicken and rice a mi me gusta I like a mi me gusta el arroz con pollo I like chicken and rice A mi is used for emphasis. a él, a ella, a Maria, etc. le gusta he, she, May likes a usted le gusta you like a ustedes les gusta you like gle gusta a usted...? do you like...? gle gusta a Maria. ..? Does Mary like...? EXERCISE A Translate into Spanish: likes fruit (the fruit). does not like milk. 5—The child likes the city. ter. 7—I like the sea. 8—The boy likes the park. 9—The dog does 1—I like coffee (the coffee). 2—Charles 3—Do you like cheese (the cheese), 4—Mary ..—Ann likes but- not like fish. 10—Do you like this book? Complete the following: 1 Los nombres (names) de los dias de la 2—Los nomires de los meses dei auo soa:....... || GENERAL STRIKE HITS HONDURAS TEGUCIGALPA. - (UP). A general strike has spread through banana plantations on the northern coast of Hondu- ras. Workers are demanding higher wages. Other strikes of lesser im- portance took place last week at Puerto Cortes and Tela, but they were easily controll- ed by the government. KNOW THY NEIGHBOR By ANTONIO RUIZ VENEZUELA.— La Asunci6n, capital of the state of Nueva Es- | parta, is situated in a small, fertile valley on the Island of Margarita, just off the Venezuelan coast. The valley’s green fields contrast with the barerounded hills that surro- und the town, upon one of which | is an old castle that overlooks the valley. Near La Asuncion, on the road leading to Porlamar, is the Espiritu Santo Valiey (Valley of the Holy Ghost) where stands the church with an image of the Vir- | gin of the Valley, held by the is- landers to be wonder-working and revered by them as the island’s patron saint. In La Asuncion is one of the most famous of Vene- zuelan churches. Its massive walls, es, are much admired by visitors from all over the country and | from foreign lands. This church |is regarded as one of the finest examples of colonial architecture jin Venezuela. The town has a po- pulation of 6,000. The climate is warm during the day and cool dur- ing the night, because of the sea breezes. La Asuncion, and the Is- land of Margarita in general, can be considered outstanding among |the beautiful places to visit in | Venezuela. The place has great number of visitors now, but when HONDURAS — Copan, where the government plan to develop | the island for tourism is completed, it will be one of the most attrac- tive holiday spots in Venezuela. | are located, was inhabited, accord- inscribed on monuments in the city, from the first century B.C. to the Sixth century A.D. It was the second largest of the cities of |the Old Empire of the Mayas and | appears to have been the cultural | center of the whole region. Then, in the seventh century, the peop- ‘le of the Old Empire left this region and migrated to Yucatan, |in the north, and the magnificent | cities they had built were left to the silence of the jungle, which | gradually enveloped them. No one | knows why the Mayas moved away. | Perhaps it was famine caused by |lands, or perhaps an epidemic of |some kind; some have suggested \ civil war others earth quakes, but, whatever the reason, the Old Em- pire came to an end, and only the | enigmatic ruins of its cities re- main, Excavation of Copan start- ed in 1885, and has been carried on since then, for a time by the Peabody Museum of Harvard Uni- versity, and later by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Today you can walk through this once populous city, and see some of the finest examples of the art and architecture of the Maya civiliza- tion. As you enter the great plaza you are transported to another age. On the east fises the high Acropolis, and the other sides are surrounded by stepped walls and platforms. About the plaza stand striking carved stone pillars, called stelae, representing personages or gods, adorned with lavish styalized decorations, and each bearing a date inscribed in Maya numerals. Stelae like this were erected in all Maya cities at regular intervals, usually every twenty years, and constitute a glorious record of the development of Mayan art. In a corner of the plaza is the ball court, with banked seats on each side, which you will try to imagine as it would have been fifteen cen- turies ago, alive with players and spectators. The beautiful hierogly- phic stairway, adorned from top to bottom, takes you from the plaza to the Acropolis, or upper level of the city. Two large pyra- mids, serving as bases for temples, rise from this level, and there are several sunken courts, Everywhere you will see examples of the re- markable stone carvings of the Mayas, huge heads of animals, re- presentations of gods, and hiero- glyphs. Spanish Version Pag. 3 | view of the coming elections of | mext | which have withstood the centuri- | the famous ruins of the same name | ing to the range of dates found | PUBLIC ORDE STEP TAKEN BY CUBAN CABINET IN AW LIFT VIEW OF COMING ELECTIONS Ministry of Information also suppressed ee ee HAVANA —(UP)— A public order law which was put into ef- fect last year shortly after a July 26 revolt against the go- vernmeni was crushed at Santia- go in Oriente province, has been lifted by the Cuban cabinet— the agency originally responsi- ble for passing the decree-law. The council of ministers (ca- binet) met at a late-hour ses- sion in which several changes were made in election laws in November. The cabinet likewise decided to repeal the public order law which President Fulgencio Ba- tista had on several occasions promised to annul after elimi- nating some of its more impor- tant clauses several months ago. The law had been criticized from various sectors of people | turn te constitutional-type | coming elections of next prominent in national life. It had called for severe sanctions as punishment for crimes then not defined in the criminal code such as “the spreading publica- tion of false rumors or tenden- tious reports against national dignity” which some people des- cribed as constituting press cen- sorship. HAVANA —(UP)— The council of ministers has decided | to suppress the ministry of in- | formation at the request of Er- nesto de la Fe, present holder | of that post. The decision read: “As a re- go- vernment is envisaged by the vember, it is up to the national congress whose members are to | be elected at that time to de- | cide whether the ministry is to be restored.” APA Official Says Soviet Trade Policy Endangering U. S. Position in America Lower prices and easier payment arrangements | attract Latin traders, Ecuadorean newsman adds (° People were ruined financially untries are expecting great things DETROIT —(UP)— A Latin American director of the Inter- |American Press Association told his listeners here that “the new Soviet policy consisting of at- tempts to gain control of the larg- jest possible amount of Latin Ame- | judicial consequences for the U.S.” The statement came from Car- los Mantilla, chairman of the press | while talking before the Economic Club of Detroit. Mantilla said that the Iron Cut- tain countries are opening “big holes” in the Latin American trade picture and that trade agreements are being negotiated with the So | viet Union and its satellite na- tions. “Russia has already sent an of- \ficial trade mission to Latin Ame- | rica and it has extended a very friendly invitation ot Latin Ame- rican countries to visit the U.S. ‘S.R. next fall and observe econo- | mic development in that nation,” Mantilla asserted. The Ecuadorean newsman not- ed that the Soviets are importing greater amoumts of goods from | Latin America, while the U. S. is ‘curtailing its supplies from that | area. He added that U. S. exports to he 20 Latin American nations tl body’s export. publicity committee, | 0 peat a high point in 1952 when |$3,480,000,000 worth of goods were exported. Last year those exports dropped in value by $350, 000,000 and the trend is still in ja downward direction. “American traders will have to rican trade could have very pre-|show a lot of initiative in order|pened since devaluation of the ; | to keep the Latin American mar- | ket secure for U. S. exports,” Man- | tilla stressed. Mr. Mantilla said that’ lower | prices and easier payments ar- |rangements are the principal rea- |sons why Latin American coun- |tries find trading with Iron Cur- |tain nations worthwhile. The Ecuadorean urged the go- vernment and merchants of the |U. S. to work fast in order to | fight a Communist invasion of the | Latin American market. “Americans who trade with La- tin America,” Mantilla said, “must pay close heed to the needs and potentialities of each market and |they must revise their methods |and sales practices in order to sa- |tisfy local conditions by offering |longer purchase terms.” | The speaker ended by saying |that the government of the U. S. | could do its part by lowering cus- | toms duties and allow Latin Ame- lriea to purchase greater amounts of American goods with the money saved through such lowered duties. ‘FOA EXPERT TO WASHINGTON. —(UP)— The Foreign Operations Administration announced that it has sent an Honduran government on proposed improvements to that Central Am- The engineer in question, Colo- Miami for Honduras by plane. Gillette will present a report jon technical and economic aspects of the project following a three- EAL to Start Low-cost Service to San Juan ape mestic trunk carriers, announced an “all-out” plan for low-cost air travel Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, chair- man, said that starting May 16 Eastern will step up its air coach service from the current 22 per tire trunk operations. Rickenbacker described the move as “a gamble.” He told a press conference that the change- over is necessary to meet the economic situation. The expanded coach service will send planes on this lower cost basis for the first time into such cities as Louisville, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Houston and St. Louis, Eastern also is adding new coach service to Miami both from Chica- erican country’s port of Amapala. | nel George W Gillete, left from) NEW YORK (UP) Eastern Air | Lines, one of the “big four” do-| cent to about 50 per cent of its en- | HELP HONDURAS GOV'T IN PROJECT OF AMAPALA Will present report after a three-month study ob See ,month study of the port of Ama- | pala. | Amapala is located on Tiger Is- |land in the Gulf of Fonseca aro- und 16 miles from the mainland coastal town of San Lorenzo, which is connected with Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, by a good, 100- kilometer-long highway. Because the waters between Amapala and 'San Lorenzo are so shallow, cargo being loaded and un-loaded in | connection with ships that call at |Amapala must be transferred by lighters. The coasts of Honduras, El Sal- | vador and Nicaragua all touch on the Gulf of Fonseca, with the Salvadorean port of La Union be- ing located along the northern reaches of the gulf. The area as a whole became im- portant around the start of the present century with conclusion of the Bryan-Chamorro treaty bet- ween the United States and Nica- ragua. By terms of the treaty Nicaragua leased the United States May eae and the right to main- tain a naval base on the Gulf of Fonseca —both for a period of 199 years. In 1928 President-elect Herbert | Hoover visited the port of Amapala | during a good will tour of Latin America. Gillette is a specialist in port | development matters and he has been head of the Port Authority ‘of the state of North Carolina sin- \ce 1948. The ports of Wilmington |and Moorehead City were both re- habilitated under his supervision, |He has also served as head of the Association of American Port ED IN HAVANA FIRE DESTROYS BIG STORE IN MANAGUA MANAGUA. (UP) —One of the largest department stores in town, one owned by Julio Cardenal, was destroyed by a fire which threatened the downtown section for several hours. Damages caused run up to about one half million dollars, PANIC STRIKES TAMPICO BANK | o——— TAMPICO, México. —(UP)— In order to dispel the effects of a {panic which arose as the result jof false rumors circulating among | depositors that a Tampico ban was in poor financial condition, the | Bank of Mexico made a special shipment by plane of 10 million pesos in banknotes of all | minations to the Tampico Mercan- | tile Bank, which is affiliated with | the Bank of Commerce. The bank panic was the worst of its type ever recorded locally, surpassing in proportion one which occurred in 1922 when thousands deno- | |ECUADOREAN ENVOY URGES RAISING LIVING STANDARDS IN AMERICA MIAMI. (UP) — Dr. José R. Chiriboga, the Ecuadorean ambassador to the U. S., said here that lack of greater uniformity in hemispheric living standards is the basic cause of many of the differences among American nations. Dr. Chiriboga made the above statement during an address in the auditorium of the Americas Daily which he delivered on the topic of the recently held Tenth Inter- American Conference at which Chiriboga represented his native country. He was a special guest of the paper. | The ambassador said that “old style diplomacy, with its ambiguous phrases and inflated language,” is unbecom- | ing to democratic nation | Following his address Ambassador Chiriboga announc- | | | | ed that the president of his country—José M. Velasco Iba- rra—had decided to grant the Ecuadorean Order of Merit on Francisco Aguirre and Horacio Aguirre, publisher and editor respectively of The Americas Daily. The ambassador | praised the publication for its work in furthering better inter-American understanding. RIO ECONOMIC CONFERENCE WILL BE -ADECISIVE TEST, NOTED CHILEAN SAYS Former U. N. official, Hernan Santa Cruz, talks | before the Foreign Trade Club in N. Y. | sbi ietenirs NEW YORK. —(UP)— In an address before the Foreign Trade | Club, Hernan Santa Cruz from Chi- |le said that Latin American co-+ of raw materia to conel sales at fair prices, le special pacts bearing on str materials, to encour. age private investments and to grant official loans, whether direct. es Be business concern known | from the coming Rio de Janeiro (38 ne Casa Lacaud declared bank- | inter-American economic conferen |ruptey. \ce and that “they feel that it will Despite statements that the Mer-| put the efficiency of the inter jeantile Bank was in sound finan-| American system of hemispheric | cial condition, long lines of depo-| unity to a de ve test.” | Sitors having savings and checking| Santa Cruz, who is a former ere with the bank withdrew | chairman of the U.N. Economic fee ae The bank panic was and Social Council, was the main | the first of its kind to have hap-| speaker to address a special meet : © jing of the New York University Mexican peso took place last April | Foreign Trade Club which was 19. | celebrating the twenty-fifth an- merchants | Diversary of its founding. 3 and industrialists assured the pub. | Santa Cruz said that the United lic that both the Mercantile Bank | Nations Organization has been ex- and its parent Bank of Commerce | tended an invitation to take part jwere financially sound, but their |i Preparatory work for the Rio Prominent bankers, go and Detroit. Also typical of | the expansion will be new coach| Authority Directors and as vice | flights from Chicago to Miami and president of tle National Conven- San Juan. | tion of River and Port Authorities. | statements failed to impress the depositors who clamored for im- | mediate delivery of their accounts. | Confidence was restored by ar- rival of a plance bringing 38 sacks loaded with 10 million pesos worth of money. Merchants and indus- trialists said that they had full | trust in the bank's solvency and |that they would make large depo- sits at the first opportunity. The bank was unable to close its doors at the usual time last Friday in order to take care of large crowds of people who were Minister Aranha Favors Free Trade With Argentina Ges RIO DE JANEIRO —(UP)— Treasury Minister Osvaldo Aranha said in an interview herewith a reporter from the Buenos Aires magazine Esto Es, that he (Aran- na) is in favor of expanding Bra- |zilian economic contacts with Ar- | gentina. “I feel that the best way of ex- by allowing free entry into Brazil of Argentina farm products and free entry into Argentina of Bra- zilian manufactured products”, the Brazilian cabinet official said in an article published simultaneous- ly by the Rio daily O Globo and the Buenos Aires magazine Esio Es. Replying to questions put to him by Esto Es representative Gabriei Levite, Aranha said that he was in favor of “rational” industriali- zation of Latin American nations. He also said that he would be in favor of organizing a Latin American payments union similar in structure to the now existing European payments union, “but adapted to the peculiar features of our currencies.” Later on he said he felt that foreign capital invested in Brazil had come there “as an uninvited guest which we understand intends to remain here as a guest.” In another reference to foreign vs. domestic capital, Aranha said |that the idea of giving preferen- | tial treatment to the former is | “absurd”. | Alluding to a stepping up of trade with Argentina, the Brazil- ‘ian treasury ministry asserted, “I shall spare no efforts to achieve | that goal and I shall go to Con- gress to explain the benefits to be derived from making trade _ be- tween our two countries a two way street.” panding those contacts would be | conference, which was by a resolution adopted recent Caracas Conference. aid will the speaker said, “but the key to the conference’s success and to the demands of the Latin Ameri can nations is in the -hands of the United States. There is no doubt about this, It is up to the U.S, to liberalize its trade practi to {drop some of its customs riers, to contribute to the stabilization at the “Its convened | sa certainly be welcome,” | ly or whether through heavy con- tributions to the proper world agencies.” Hemispheric ministers of econo- my and treasury are to attend the Rio conference that will be held in the Brazilian capital toward the end of the present year. Santa Cruz said that “Latin Ame- rica’s number one problem con- sists of transforming a backward, semi-colonial and dependent eco- nomy that is unable to effect a considerable expansion of output and individual worker productivity into a modern, dynamic and well developed economy.” Hernan Santa Cruz went on to “It is absolutely necessary for the United States to try hard to understand that hemisphe soli- darity is in serious —very serious— danger because the people are los- ing their faith in it. The United States cannot afford to be misled by the fact that it was able at an international conference to secure the support of 17 or 18 govern- ments for its foreign policy in the name of hemispheric solidarity.” “FREE LABOR MEETING IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY -(UP)- A con- ference of free labor leaders in exile opened here with a warning that Communism and the Guate- malan government ‘are turning {our October revozution into a to- |talitarian dictatorship.” | Ruben Villatoro, president of |the National Union of Free Gua- | temalan Workers, explained that |“the small Communist forces of my country have succeded in cap- | turing Guatemalan President Jaco- bo Arbenz Guzman.” The labor leader promised to give a “complete” report on the |Guatemalan labor movement that would show “that free labor unions have been destroyed in Guatemala”. The conference, which was BUENOS AIRES —(UP)— Ar- gentine President Juan Peron speaking during May Day celebra- tions, said that “just as the work- ers of the world recall ‘the crime of Chicago’, we Argentine work- ers must recall the crime commit- by the bombs of the Radica A speech delivered by Peron in honor of World Labor Day lasted only 18 minutes —one of the | shortest on record for the Argen- tine chief executive. | Before speakers began a series of speeches, which were delivered lfrom a platform built in front |of the Pink House in the Plaza de Mayo, a iarge throng of people gathered in the square below and observed a minute of silence in memory of Evita Peron. In an allusion to six persons who were killed in connection with acts of violence that occurr- ed on the same date in 1953, Pe- ron asked for observance of an- ther minute of silence for those “who were felled in this very square by Radical bombs.” Peron went on to refer to his Peron Blasts Radicals in Speech Before Huge Labor Demonstration ———_0 ———- ted a year ago in this very square | waiting to withdraw their accounts. WARNS AGAINST GUATEMALAN REDS sponsored by the Inter-American Regional Labor Organization, has attracted representatives from la- bor movements in Peru, Venezue- la, the Dominican Republic, Gua- temala and Argentina, in addition to observers from Mexican and U. S. labor unions. Luis Alberto Monge, who is se- cretary general of the Inter-A rican Regional Labor Organiza- tion, said that the conference was meeting to “work out a program of effective action against the op- pression of dictatorships in Latin America and against Communism, and to give powerful aid to orga- nizations fighting both of those movements.” The conference was to have end. ed by yesterday. out letup and for spreading the Peronista doctrine. “T am requesting each and every workers to preach the doctrine of st 1 Justice”, the president said. “Never forget when you are preach ing that our doctrine has three main principles —social justice, |economic independence and na- tional sovereignty.” Eduardo Vuletich, secretary ge- neral of the General Labor Con- | federation, had some bitter things }to say about the political opposi- | tion at the beginning of the speech making. Vuletich said: “On an election day that was featured by spotless honesty, the |ballot boxes handed down a ver- | dict condemning the criminal for- | ces of reaction. However, the same | ballot boxes have shouted with the | eloquence implicit in their 6 mil- lion votes that this nation of work- ing peopfe has exhausted its pa- tience, and that because it is with reason indignant at such barbaric joceurrences, it has earned the right to request its friend and president for a vigorous repres- sion of criminal acts by political party’s electoral victory of April | leaders who, instead of being such | 25, and he emphasized the need | leaders, are criminals unworthy of for organizing the people with-/ co-existing in a civilized society.”