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

Inter-American News for English- Speaking people 2nd Year — MIAMI, FLA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 7. THE AMERICAS DAILY Published py THE AMERICAS rUBLISHING COMPANY G. A. SAN ROMAN 8. SMITH President Vicé President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE HORACIO AG Vice President and Publisher Editor and Manager Carlos E. Simons Managing Editor Carlos 0. Eghegoyen Circulation Manager Ralph B. Koss Advertising Manager KNOW THY NEIGHBOR By ANTONIO RUIZ COLOMBIA -(Continued)- | events of major importance to cul-| development diring the 18th | EDITORIAL U.S. CUSTOMS DUTIES AND THEIR EFFECTS MY OF LATIN AMERICA From time to time this paper has pointed out not only that the United States would be unwise,| but that it could not afford, for its own sake, to impose certain types of restrictions on products from Latin America without gravely harming the) (crys. were the arrival of the economy of that area. . dain 1787, for which the: colony . ° : : Th | was indebted te the Jesuit father: Lately, certain minority groups in the United) and the founding of the Botanical States which despite that fact nonetheless enjoy | =Xpetition in 1783 by Archbishop an influential position with regard to conduct of | ite", “ibellero y Gongora, soon the country’s affairs, have been lobbying to have) Granada. The original purpose of duties increased, or established for the first time, | ‘b's *xpedition. authorized by the on specific products which originate in Latin Amer- ‘ Mey pected a tte ican nations rely to a great degree on that income for purchasing the bulk of their imports from the)?’ § me % nd to draw maps of th United States. | gions explored. Headed for 20 ye 5 * = Siew by the reknowned Spanish ientist No doubt, certain American industrialists would | José Celestino Mutis, the expedition stand to profit if the plan were to succeed, but this) became a scientific institute and wouldn’t necessarily mean that the overall economy | fo) ye hiuire san the ants, ae ,of the United States would likewise profit. On the) miler progress was made. The ca- contrary, it can be demonstrated that with a decrease | ?''#"’s first theatre, the Coliseum, iin their buying power and a reduction in their im-| 24° 22°D04 ane the first, period ‘an ying power a eduction 1 i | cal was established in 1791.by the / ports from this country, the Latin American nations graphical obser’ re- Two | cel {ballots for Colombians Work on Amendments =a BOGOTA.—(UP).— The Colom- ian constituent assembly met to er proposed amendments to} ation’s constitution and to working committees. Tke only amendment proposal which has beer: announced up to now consists of one being spon- |sored by Esmeraida Arboleda de | Uribe and Josefina Valencia de | Hubach that weuld grant women |civii and politicai rights equal to those now enjoyed by Colombian ;men. The two women are the only feminine delegates sitting in the assembly and they are the first | women eyer to have taken part in the election of a president of |Colombia. Botk of them cast their President-elect Gusta- vo Rojas Pinilla who will take of- on Saturday. | Another item on the agenda is one armed at proscription of th | Comunist party in Colombia, al- though no formal bill for this purpuse has yet been worked out. |The government had previously | announced that it would introduce no specific amendment proposal other than those general sugges- tions which General Rojas Pinilla |made to the assembly when he ice For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity NUMBER 28 acerda’'s Would-B ctively Sought By |Brazilian Minister Warns Police to | | Track down Attacker Within 24 Hrs. 0. Newspaper cirtles indignant over cowardly attack |He was to hand poet Neruda the 1953 Stalin Peace! RIO DE JANEIRO—(UP)—Jus- , sulting from a beating by police. | tice Minister Tancredo Neves said| MEXICO CITY —(UP)— Mi- | he w:ll “take the most e tic | gue! Lanz Duret, president of the measures at my command”, un-/| Inter-American Press Association, |less the woula-be in of | vigorously condemned the attempt erusaaing editor Carlos acerda lis captured within 24 hour Neves’ statement was_ inter |preteo as 2 warning to police that | |they had better track down the killer without delay. Lacerda escaped from an am-| bush outside his apartment early ‘Thursday with a minor wound in ja twice decorated hero of the air \force, was tataily shot. Vaz was buried Thursday in Sa Jcay Baptista cemetery. Gen do de Castro, President (€ | Varg chief military aide, | other high-ranking officials attend- ed the rites. Lacerda is the editor of the out- spoken opposition newspaper Tri buna da Imprensa, which Thurs- day blamec tie Vargas govern- menr for the shooting. Lacerda is a member of the executive board of the Inter-American Press As- | | with the incident: the ieft foot, but Maj. Ruben Vaz, | J Rodriguez. It was called Papel Pe- jconvened it las: week. sociation. | In New York, Iapa executive | that was made on the life of Brazil- ian newspaper publisher Carlos | erde Zi APA president issued the | following statement in connection | | “Newsmen of the Americas vi- gorously condemn the criminal attempt that was made in Rio de ro on the life. of Brazilian paperman Carlos Lacerda, editor of the Tribuna da Imprensa and TAPA official who has per- formed commendeble services for the latter organization. “The Inter-American Press As-| sociation trusts that the Brazilian government wili inflict the pro- ver punishment on those respon- sible for the crime against Mr. Lacerda an independent news- paperman whe has distinguished himself in his own country through his campa on behalf of free- dom cf expression. “It was ne who denounced for e Killer olice Ike-Ellender Discuss Sugar, Rice Problems SREY (pee WASHINGION —(UP)— Sen. Aller J, Ellender (D—La.) confer- | red with President Eisenhower on| probtems facing sugar and rice pro lucers. After a visit tu the White House, El'erder said he told Mr, Eisen- hower that mainland sugar cane farmers will have to destroy near- ly 30 percent of their planted crop this year unless the Sugar Act is amended. “I ‘old him that immediate and temporary relief could be accom- plished by administrative action and 1 urged that such action be taken as soon as possible”, Ellen- der said. As the law stands, Ellender said, foreign sugar producers —princi- pally Cuba— get the benefit of mereasing consumption while do- mestie producers are squeezed be- tween fixed quotas and higher yields, “I also discussed with the Pre- MIAMI’S SOCIAL SPOTLIGHT By MARTHA LUMMUS The Poetry Page of Good Housekeeping magazine fre- quently carries the work of Miamians, for there’s a group of enthusiastic feminine poets in this area who hit big time magazines aimost everytime they manuscript. Current (August) issue of Good House- keeping is by lined Daniel keeping has a poem, title of which is “Portia’s House”, that is authored by none other than Virginia Meody Hagan, wife of the editor of the Miami Daily News, Tom Hagan. Mrs. Hagan is active in club groups, parti- cularly the poetry division of the local branch of Pen Women, and is noted for the interesting book reviews she gives before various graups in Miami. “August Garden”, poem on the same poetry page of Good House- Whitehead Hicky — Atlanta, Georgia peet who frequently visits at Miami Beach. send out a | And speaking of “Atlanta, Bea (Mrs. J.W.) Hunt, Miami musi- cian has left for Atlanta where she is going to attend the Choris- ters Guild training course at sident the possibility of working | bun writer, Manuel del Socorrro . would unintentionally cause overall income and pro- : : t o de la Ciudad de Santa Fe Bogota. The origin of/the Na- duction in the United States to fall off. | tional Libr ot Bogota goes back | When the Latin American nations are prosper-| to 1177, when the Royal Library ous, the United States feels the effect of that si-jof Santa Fe wos opened to the | tuation directly and exports from here to the Latin) ®""/° For) See Lees ope ee 2 fe of the late 18tn centusy was. crys- | American remain at high levels. talized by the French Revolution| nd’ late! i | Manuel Tello, the Mexican ambassador to Wash- Spain fy Napoleon, inane Weve ington, just the other day paid a visit to the State) men fo -iberste the ey Department to protest against a proposed raise of | fhe revolt aveinst Spanish rule was enry duties on lead and zinc, two products which) not the work of the downtrodden | Mexico exports to the United States in large quant-| "357s Dito! the Upner: lass ities and which alone account for 23% of Mexico's) duates'of the seminary of Popa-| entire dollar income. The ambassador presented a) yan, of San Bartolome and El Ro- wealth of data and statistics to show how important {47/0.,( members of Merary ter it was for his country to be able to continue exporting | documents of ‘the emancipation | those two products at present levels. He also showed! movement on the continent was -how the United States benefits from the purchase | {he Memorial de Agravios del Peu.| : blo Americano (Declaration of of those metals from Mexico. Grievances of the American Peo- “i . i = ple) written in 1809 by Camilo The Peruvian ambassador has likewise been act-| torres, the outstanding philoso- ive in recent weeks in Washington in an effort to) Pher of the revolution, Show how his country too would be adversely affect- uN ADDITION ‘to the works of . ‘ Hi 4 ae a the conqueror an ecolonizer 0 ed if the contemplated hike in duties were to go) es (rntGa. Gonzalo Jimenez de through. Quesada, the literature of the early The possible effects. of this proposal should be colonial period included important presented to the people of the United States, as well! yriters born on Colombian soil, Lu- *as to their government officials—and at the same} cas Fernandez Piedrahita y Juan time it would be good to review the issue of oil | Rodriguez Freyre, both natives of 2 Santa Fe de Bogota; the history of imports from Venezuela—so that the duly elected the conquest ir verse by the Spa- ' representatives of the American people will refuse nish soldier and priest, Juan de to enact any restrictive measures that would tend to] Castellanos and the mystical poe : . . Fi ry of Mother Francisca Josefa del weaken hemispheric unity and the domestic economy | castisto. The rise of the colonial | of the United States, and help to foment social and | journalism at the beginning of the | political strife in certain Latin American nations. | 19th century, following the pu-| “ae | blicat.on of the first periodical by Io Rodriguez, was marked by the ap- pearance of a celebrated scientific journal, “El Semanario”, founded in 1808 and edited by Francisco! Jose de Caldas; and another along the scientific lines founded by i ano. During the | revolutionary period, the emphasis | ntifie writing was transfer- red to political philosophy and na- tionalism as illustrated by the po- tent and spiritual writings of Ca- milo Torres, Antonio Narino, Francisco Artonio Zea and Fran- cisco de Paula Santander. Luis Var- | gas Tejada was a poet, dramatist and political writer of note. An- other gifted poet of the period was José Fernandez Madrid. Spanish Vers.cn Pag. 3. BRAZILIAN DOCK WORKERS RETURN oa SANTOS, Brazil—(UP)— Fol-| lowing a meeting held here by | the Dock Workers Union, strik- | ing stevedores agreed to return | to work after receiving a promise | irom the federa! government that | before the end of this month the workers would receive differential pay which has been due them since August of 1953, More than 6.000 _ stevedores | practically paralyzed all activity at this humming Brazilian port) when they went on a two-day | the Docas de Santos Shipping Company to nav them differential ‘ing out the hecessary arrange- | wages which were long overdue. | However a group of delegates are expected to introduce a bill that would provide for the “pros- cription of international parties” in general although everyone is oware that the obvious ‘reference | is to the Comunist party in pa: cular. Castillo is Holding Strong, Peurifoy States —-96 MIAMI. —(UP) John Peurifoy, U. S. ambassador to Guatemala, said here that the situation in the Central American republic is sta- | ble and the government headed by President Carlos Castillo Armas is ‘firmly entrenclied”. The diplomat paused briefly at Miami’s international airport on his way to Washington and granted his first interview in this countay since the recent revolt which rout- ed the administration of Jacobo Arbenz. Peurifoy said the recent rioting involving Guatemala’s military students is far more serious than some reports indicate. He said he believes “it was deeper than it ap- pears”. Peurifoy said some army leaders | who were “not exactly in sympa- thy” with the present government tried to use the riots as a spring- board for counter, revolt. He said these persons were “not thorough- iy cleansed of the Communist view- point” The government of Castillo Ar-| mas, he said, “has the support of responsible elements of the nation —not just the Army, but even | more important, the great mass of the people’. He added that when a government has that support, “it has rothing to worry about”, Peurifoy said he would report in Washington Friday that peace and stability have returned to Gua- temala”. He said the dissident elements have been jailed, and that Castillo Armas will continue to im- prove conditions along democratic iines. The carrier diplomat called the| overthrow of the Red- infiltrated government a lasting and signifi- cant victory for the free world, STATUE OF LATIN HERO BUILT IN N. Y. NEW YORK-~(UP)— Manhat- tan’s Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) will soon be graced with the statue of another Latin America here that of José Bonifa- | cio, the father cf Brazilian inde- pendence. Statues of both Simon Bolivar and José de Sar Martin are alrea- dy located at the Central Park end of the avenue. The sculptured image of José Bonifacio will be placed in Bryant Circle, at the corner of Sixth Ave. and 42 St. Work was started last Monaay to prepare the plaza for reception of the statue, including emplacement o: a pedestal. The Brazilian government furnished $60.000 for the purpose of carry- ments. , ree chairman John R Reitmeyer de- | all to know the underhanded way | nounced the a sinationn attempt ‘in which semi-official agencies | |as “reprehensible and cowardly.” |can 1e used te commit economic | Herbert Moses, president of the |aggression against independent Brazilign Press ‘institute, appealed |nespapers. He achieved a signi- fo” Neves for “energetic and ef- | ficant victory in that campaign. \feetive action to bring about the | “The fashion in which the at- unishment of those responsible tempt on th e life of Mr. Lacerda for the attempt.” lone worthy of ruffians — was | A note distributed by Moses | carried out is indicative of the poinied out that he made a simi-| sort of enemies that must be faced lar avpeal to Neve less than three | by those who carry on the fight months ago, after reporter Nestor for freedom of the press in this { Moreira had died of injuries re- nemisphere.” |“Miami is the World’s Crossroad”, Says Honduran Ambassador Valle | Well kown Central American writer refers to cultural development of Florida’s universities 0. The following represents a commentary specially written for The Americas Daily by Dr. Valle. It contains some impressions which | were gleaned by the illustrious writer during his recent stopover in Miami. After leaving Puerto Rico where I found a people bubbling over with ideas and plans for the future—a people who should be imitated elsewhere in Latin America by nations whose happiness | will be attained only through hard work and a reign of peace— I stopped briefly in Miami, the crossroad of the hemisphere. The | university here has some distinguished faculty members, and stu- dents from Honduras and other parts of the Americas are in at- tendance. An independent press, of which The Americas Daily is an example, publishes information about activities in the restless countries of the Caribbean which seek genuine friendly relations via the path of mutual acquaintanceship. I believe that like its counterpart in Gainesville, the University of Miami has reached a stage in its development where it could convene a meeting of scholars from neighboring countries to talk about problems related to cultural and intellectual cooperation. This city is a most appropriate place for such an assembly from | fhich we could all expect to derive profit. It is high time for such a thing to occur. It is time for Hispanic America to become more united than over before, to understand itself better and to tighten the bons of spiritual nature which link it together in he presence of a world where sinister historical forces have combined to divide the Hispanic American nations and deprive them of their due as heirs of Western civilization, I am convinced that this desire is shared | by many men in the Americas who are busy at making new friends through attempting to accomplish more than their governments have succeeded in achieving through diplomatic and political means. I have happily been able to put the finishing touches on my book entitled “Ideas Contemporaneas de Centro América” (Contem- porary Ideas in Central America) which is being published by the Institucion Interamericana in Mexico City which originally commis- sioned me to write it. Miami’s sun stimulates one to work. Red Writer Ehremburg Admitted to Chile After Careful Search Award and diploma signed by Russian writers SANTIAGO, Chile -(UP)- The because he was traveling under a Soviet’ Union’s famour writer, Ilya; diplomatic passport. | Ehremburg, finally reached down- When his protests went unheed- | town Santiago following a six-hour ed, he announced that he would | sitdown strike at the municipal air- | spend the night in the airport and | port in protest against an inspec. | take the next plane back, but un- | tion by Chilean authorities of his| der the arging of Neruda and | baggage and the seizure by them | others who had come to greet him, | of documents and books which po-| he finally yieldea and decided lice describea ae Communist lite-| against this course of action. | | rature. Ehremburg spent the six hours | Ehremburg, who had arrived | of nis “sitdown strike” drinking | from Stockholm by plane in the | coffee and cocktails and lunching comnany of his wife for the pur- | on sandwiches is: the company of | pose of delivering to Chilean poet | Chileans who had gone to Los Ce. | Pablo Neruda 2 gold medal and a rritos airport to welcome him. diplema signed by Rusian swriters, | The chief ot Chile’s secret police told airport officials that his bag-| said iater that t | gage wasn't subject to inspection |the gold medal figured among ma.‘ | | | | out some equitable arrangement with Cuba whereby we can obtain fair treatment for American rice producers”, Eliender noted. the matter now stands, we are re- quired to ailocate to Cuba the be- nefit of increased sugar consump- tion... while the Cubans have refus- ed to live to the spirit of existing irade agreements with this country concerning rice”. Elender said Mr. Eisenhower seemed “most interested in Both of tnese problems”. He said he also urged Mr. Eisen- | hower to have a quick study made of the need for direct air service between New Orleans and Mexico City The President, Ellender said, “seemed surprised to learn” that no such direct air connection now exists. Attractive Plan for New Investors —o-——_- BUENOS AIRES-(UP)-Throngs of people here mobbed the Insti- tuto Mixto de Inversiones Mobi- liarios in an effort to speculate on the jocal stuck exchange with- out running the risk of losing their investments ana with earnings even guaranteed ip advance. The Argentine government has evolved a plan whereby the small investor is urged to invest his money on the stock exchange with government coverage of his invest- ment. A minimum of 3 per cent interest is assured the investor who will open an initial account of 500 pesos, paying subsequent installments of 500 pesos each. The Instituto then takes the in- vestor’s money and invests it in stock of varruus private companies. If these trapsactions turn out to be profitable, the investor will receive up to five, six, seven or |an even greater percentage on his |investment. If, on the other hand the stock falls in value, the I.M.I. will pocket the loss itself. Study is being given to the pos- sibility of exempting earnings from such investments from income tax Jaws since business concerns al- ready pay a 6 per cent on all aividends. Despite appeels from exchange employees to return at another ti- me the crowds remained adamant and refused to leave. Employees were forced to work two hours and fiften minutes longer than usual in order to accommodate the many customers, terial that was taken from Ehrem- burg. According to Neruda, the two objects represented the Stalin Peace Award for 1953 which had | been conferred on the Chilean | poet Neruda said that Ehremburg | had come to Chile to bestow them on him personally. The police also seized written material representing a speach which Ehremburg had prepared in connection with delivery of the wards to Neruda, three books of Neruda’s works which had been transiated into Russian, an album of poems and a French magazine conteining crossword puzzles. Newsmen were unable to inter- view Ehremburg who went to Ne-| ver, “As | Columbia seminary, Decatur, Ga. From there the Miamian will motor to Bristol and Roanoke, Va., returning home the latter part of September. Mrs, Hunt is choir director at the Coral Gables Presbyteriam) church, ee Billy Parker, son of the W.F. Parkers of Miami Shores has been in Miami for some days, but has now returned to Andros | Islaad, where he makes his home. | | | Thomas Armour, director of the baliet department of the Mimi Conservatory and Artis- tic Director of the Ballet Guild of Greater Miami, is this week teaching at the Normal School of the Chicago National Associa- tion of Dancing Masters and next week will attend a con- vention in that city. The ballet | department of the Miami Con- | servatory will resume its classes Sept. 1 at 8027 Biscayne Blvd. and also at 2973 Coral Way. Mr. Armour wili teach. at both studios and will be~assisted by Miss Laura Hopcroft who is now teaching at Camp Chic-A-Lac in New York. Mr. Armour will hold auditions early in Septem- ber for new dancers for the Bailet Guild concerts in nNovem- | ber and March. Annual visitors to Miami, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Koehn of Cleve- land, Ohio, recently entertained at Jamaica Inn for Mrs. Helene Anderson of Evanston, Ill, and Horace Koehn of Cleveland. All are guests at the Key Biscayne hotel. Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Pryor of Calhoun City, Miss, who are here to see their son, David, a senior at the University of Mia- mi, entertained at dinner re- cently at Jamaica Inn for David and two of his friends, both | students at the U. of M. Jeanneane Johnson and Pat Lane of Wichita, Kans, ‘ Seeing Florida for the first time are Mr. and Mrs. Homer Daggett of West Haven, Conn., guests at the Castaways. They plan to spend two weeks in Miami Beach, then several days in Havana, Mr. Daggett is an accountant with the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft corp. of North Haven, Conn. Pat (Mrs. John) Mercer, and daughter, Frances of 3887 Main Highway have returned from an automobile trip through the West. They visited Denver, Hot Sulpner Springs, Carisbad Ca- verns, Santa Fe, Texas and Vir- ginia, The Mercers, members of the Key Colony at Key Bis- cayne, ex! to entertain there in the very near future, when Mr. Mercer returns. from a cur- rent business trip to” Bimini. LONDON TIMES FORESEES DELAY IN TRADE TALKS The London Times. column en- | titled “City Notes” said that trade talks between Great Britain and Argentina now underway in Bue- nos Aires are likely to take some {ime inasmuch as they are now centered around estimates of the extent of Argentine exports to the British, Such estimates are needed in order to be able to determine how much income in he diploma and | ruda’s home as a guest of the edtee ay sterling Argentina will re- 7