Diario las Américas Newspaper, August 11, 1954, Page 8

Inter-American News for English- Speaking people 2nd Year For a better understanding between the Americas MIAMI, FLA., W Pubished py THE AMERICAS TCUBLISHIN’s COMPANY G. A. SAN ROMAN 8. SMITH President Vice President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE HORACIO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Editor and Manager Carlos E. Simons Managing Editor Carlos O. Echegoyen Circulation Manager Ralph B. Ross Advertising Manager EDITORIAL THE ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF BRAZILIAN NEWSMAN CARLOS LACERDA An attempt of serious proportions on the free-| dom of the press was consummated a few days ago! in Rio de Janeiro when gunmen fired from a con-| cealed position on Brazilian newsman Carlos La-| cerda who has been conducting a campaign of op position to the present Brazilian government. + . The criminal, cowardly act which took place resulted in a foot injury to Mr. Lacerda and death! to a Brazilian air force officer who was in the, company of Lacerda at the time. | An attempt on the freedom of expression such as the one which was carried out against the life of| Carlos Lacerda can never succeed in stifling the) voices of those who cry out against graft and cor-) ruption. The only useful purpose of such an occur-| rence is to point out that the country in which that} sort of incident has occurred is suffering from a definite breakdown in its social and political insti-| tutions. It also serves to strengthen the men like} Carlos Lacerda to promote the things in which they | believe through the pages of a free, untrammeled) press which ought to exist in any democratic eountry. By yesterday it had been ascertained that a member of the now-defunct presidential guard was! involved in the murderous attempt. Previous to this -discovery, however, elements of the Brazilian press and society in general were saying that the govern- ment was mixed up in the sordid affair in one way r another. Their contentions. were based on some trail leading right up to the door of the Catete Palace. There appears to be some connection bet- ween this fact and the fact that Lacerda has been) extremely vocal in his denunciation of people as’ sociated with the current administration of Getulio) Vargas. The Brazilian government is now faced with one of the most serious crises it has ever been forced to weather, for the entire nation has been stirred up| over such barbaric action. Every report coming out} of Brazil in the past few days is indicative of the critical turn events have taken in that country. Even the government itself is divided over the issue. The very honor of the Brazilian government is at stake in the investigation now being conducted | in connection with the unsuccessful attempt on the) life of Lacerda. As a man who has been the political | target of Lacerda, and in his capacity as Brazil’s) ;, chief executive, Getulio Vargas is under a moral) obligation to see that the proper penalty of the law) be ‘inflicted on each and everyone associated with! this dastardly crime against a human life as well as against law and order, press freedom and Brazil’s national honor. : The Americas Daily joins with responsible newspapers elsewhere in this hemisphere to protest against the crime committed on the person of Carlos, Lacerda, one of the Americas’ foremost journalists of contemporary times. PERUVIAN | KNOW | - THY | NEIGHBOR By ANTONIO RUIZ ECUADOR — (Continued) From Quito, the southern route of the Pan American Highway pa- rallels roughly the route of. the Guayaquil-Quitc Railroad as far as Sibambe; from Sibambe, it follows the line of the Sibambe- oO Cuenca Railway. Forty miles from GUATEMALA CITY Quito the road clmbs the paramo The military Junta (moor) of Cotopaexi, and soon you charged yesterday that re over 11,00C¢ above sea level, | president. Jacooc Arbe! atop one of the highest passes of minded last w the Andes From here the road | revolt from diops to 8,800 feet as it enters |¢2n embassy. | the Ambato Valiey. The first city; 4 communique said Arbenz and of amie ance, eached ee Jeav- | other refugees in embassies here | ne sen Ra ee gre : jare trying te promote a Commun- 8. : S| ai pease ih Re ae sponsored _counterrevolution ga tne ag Way passes rough in Guatemala by “sowing anarchy | Bee cy ot vaaieas | and disorganization throughout the | (Four Corners), where an alter- | at nate route to Peru branches off | ; to Guayaquil, is also known as’ the | Simon Bolivar Highway. Continu- | be issued now, enabling them to | ne fie ron Guttes: Esquinas, |!eave the country. The first safe- chrojgh Résbamba, Guatote, Alaa | oan ictete rer arenes ie hro:s, a, rte, Spanish leftists who have been liy- | si, Tambo and Cuenca. The road | ing here since Generalissimo Fran- | wa ee Henne noes Rane i Franco drove them out of ajillas pass, 11, eet high, | their own country. and down to Loja at only 7,000| Salazar said the junta “hopes feet. The town of Loja anchors! te solve the refugee problem the southern end of the highway| next week”. but he did not indi- before it dwindles off to a mule Refugee Probl Next Week Arbenz Blamed for Counterrevolution —(UP)— government ousted aa nz master- | eek’s regular army | his retuge in the Mexi- r Carlos Salazar | safe-conducts for | 180 of the 1,000-odd refugees will | EDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, ‘rail at Macara, near the border of Peru. Loja was once gay and tich with the treasures flowing im from the Spanish gold road which passed here on its route to | the coast. Every year in Septem-)| ber a great fair was held where vrowas would gather to trade the silks and spices from abroad for the quinine ccffee and tobacco | cate how he expects to work out a solution. The government had indicated previously that refu- gees accused of common crimes will not be allowed to leave Gua- temala, VATICAN TO TRANSFER TWO REFUGEES GUATEMALA CITY —(UP)— The papal nuncio here was re- | which flourished in the hills sur- ...Adegree of fact, for the new development shows the) {ported negotiating for the trans- | fer to another diplomatic mis: ‘on | of the two principal leaders of a : me naa’, thwarted military uprising attemp- teat ease a ainee | ted against the government of Col.) many of whom are renowned in pyeetee enras cigar sarees | canal " A ie two men took refuge in e | Ecuadorean history. |nunciatura in Guatemala City bac tied |when their movement was foiled. | CUENCA — After Quito and | The two “refugees” are Colonel | Guayuquil, Ecuador's. most in-| 4d0l0 Garcia Montenegro, who teresting city is Cuenca. The | »aS been pointed out as the chief beauty and spirit of this venerable | vf the abortive revolt and Enrique city, set apart from the rest of | ©aStaneda Rubic, an engineer. The | the Republic by geography and papal legate has been negotiating | tradition, are feelingly expressed {9% their transfer because the Va- by Albert H. Franklin who wrote | ‘ica does not recognize the right in his book Ecuador: “Cuenca is | d:rlomatic asylum. % a jewel in a sparkling jewel setting, | Up to now the nunciatura has | and, like all jewels, is precious. "¢t Tequested a safe -conduct for | The ‘iligreed ornament, the lilt of | t8 two guests the Guatemalan for- | the Cuencano’s speech, the spiced, |® 2" Ministry reported. | cucalyptusladen air he breathes,| The ministry disclosed at the are only superficial signs. Cuenca | $2M¢ time that twelve others had is baroque, nor only in architec- | 2€en arrested because of supposed ture. art, and jiterature, but in| i"Ve'vemem in the uprising, al- ‘ts vary soul, Cuenca is seven- | ‘houch their names were not re- | feenth-century Spain under glass.” jvealed. | Cuenca’s “jewel setting” is an) | emerald valley rimmed by the An- des, beneath a celestial dome; aj peaceful, smiling valley abound- | ing im green pastures, fruit and | grain and watered by four swift, | clear streams, Unlike Quito’s hilly | legates who participated in the as- serrsin, Cuenca is built on the ; noah tl | sembly voted unanimously to select | kee TOnroe se valley, Ones see. Lima as the site for the next con-| jamed = Paucarbamba (flowery " ? plain) by the aboriginal Indian gress which will be held in 1957. | inhabitants. Here, on the site of the ancient Inca city of Tome-| bamba, where the great Inca Em- perur Huayna Capac was born, | the Spaniards founded Santa Fe! de los Rios de Cuenca in 1557. To- | éay Cuenca is the third city of the Republic, with a population of more than 65,000, and capital of Azuay Province. Although only three degrees below the Equator, the y's elevation of 8,517 feet | gives it an invigorating climate; jJeys are warm and balmy, but) nights are chiiiy and sometimes | very cold. rounding the town. Today life in Leja centers around the Universi- ty, whose fame far outmeasures Congress adjourned SAO PAULO—(UP)— The Pan | American and South American} Congress of Pediatricians ended yesterday. The nine hundred de- He blames speculators RIO DE JANEIRO -(UP)- Bra-; zilian Treasury Minister Osvaldo Ararha maintained here that his government intends no change in its policy toward coffee and said that rumors to the effect that he " would resign were the work of Ft. Clayton Hospital to |* speculators who want to upset the market”, j be shut down Sept. 1 Speaking with newsmen accre- | —o——_ uited to his ministry, Aranha said | that such speculstors had eviden- WASHINGTON—(UP)— ‘The tly experiencec some success last Defense Departiaent said here, in| Friaay wien coffee and cotton an otficia’ correction, that the quotations dropped after a local , Army’s Ft. Clayton hospital in the paper published reports that Aran- , Panama .Canal Zone will be shut | ha had submitted his resignation down on September 1, but will! ty President Vargas. The reports not be turned cver to the Canal | were denied by presidential spo- Zone government kesm en. | The facility will be kept by the | | Army, part of it to be converted into an infirmary and part “for, other purposes ” The department announced las’ week that both Ft. Clayton hospi- | tal aud the Navs hospital at Coco Solo would be turned over to the| Mearwhile the Brazilian Coffee | zone government. There is no institute reported that during the change in plans for the naval faci- rontn of July it exported 592,000 | lity, it was said |bags of coffee. about one-half the | Congress has ruled that no mi-'iigure it had estimated it would litary hospitals may be operated ship during that month. It said that in the Canal Zoue after Septem- shipments coni‘nued at about the ber 1, isame rate during the first week Aranha told newsmen, “I can assure you that the minimum price for (exporiable) coffee will 4 be maintained ana that there will | be no overal! change in present! voffee policies.” 1954. For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity NUMBER 31 _ ABINET RESHUFFLED Gen. Zenon Norie LIMA—(UP)—in i is cabinet. a_reshuffl- President I Odria made changes which included shifting the tep ranking post t a different mi- nister and appointment of new ministers of war and fereign The council ef ministers’ new head, or president, will be Ad- mira: Roque A. Saldias who will also continue to function as navy minister, a post which he held m the former cabinet. David Aguilar Cornejo, who re- presented Peru at diplomatic talks in Bogota connected with the asylum case of Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, was named foreign minister as a replace- ment for Ricardo Rivera Schreiber who reports said would be appointed to some dip- iomatic post. The post of war minister is to be veld by General Carlos A. Minano. General Zenon Noriega, former war minister who also served as president of the ca- binet, is expected to be a can- didate in presicential elections to take piace ins 1955. The following list includes the | mames of the entire cabinet just appointed: President and navy minister, Admiral Roque Saldias, foreign affairs David Aguilar Cornejo; war General Carlos A. Minamo; treasury Emilio Guimoye;’ go- vernment (interior) and natio- Western Hemisphere Sole Source of | | ADMIRAL SALDIAS IS NEW CABINET em CHIEF. DAVID AGUILAR CORNEJ | NAMED FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTE | to be Solved [e) ‘0° de Peralta; | | has been s al police Colonel Augusto Ro- rd Lovo; jusnce and religious Dr. Aiejandro Freundt development and pubhec works, Fernande Noriega Calmet public — ins! tion, lieutenant Col. Carlos Gouzalez Iglesias: p lie health Dr. Armando Montes aeronauti Major General Enrique Bernales Bedo. agriculture, Jaime Miranda Sousa; labor and Indian affairs, | Dr, Victor A. Casagrandi. REVOLT FAILS LIMA-—-(UP)—A military up- rising which broke out shortly after President Odria announced the formation of a new cabinet | has been stifled by loyal govern- ment troops A communique issued by the government in connection with the incident had the following to say: “Thanks to quick action on the part of the nation’s armed forces, an uprising which broke out among personnel making up | the Army’s No 7 artillery group ifled. Brigadier Ge- neral Ernesto Raez has been ar- rested in cornection with the R e e ga expected to run for president in Mexico | FAO Training Center Opens —— ROME —(UP)-~ The United Na tions Food ana Agciculturs! Orga nizaGon (FAO, anounced here that next October 4 it would open its second Latin American training center in the Mexican capital. | During a tea-week period of in iruction those attending will be | trained in the proper use of fish-| jing resources and will be taught | how to increase popular consump. fion of seafood. | Hexds of fishery departments, | techvologists, biologists and eco nomists from 18 countries have | |been invited tu attend training <uurses organizea by the FAO. Four weeks of intensive ii tion will be imparted at J City; four more weeks will be de- voted to on-the-spot activities In Mexico’s most important Gulf and Pacific coast ports; while the last two weeks —to be spent in Mexico City— wil! be given over to reports | on experiences and tests by trai- |nees who will attend seminars on {diverse aspects of fishery pro- | blems. Countries which have been in- | d to send their speci: to e center include Colombia, Cos- | ta Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Re- | Salvador, Guatemala, | recent afternoon occurrence. Having been infor- med in advance of subversive agitation that was going on, the government took immediate steps to preserve order. Condi- tions are completely normal throughout the nation.” ma, Venezuela, France, Holland, | the United Kingdom and the Unit- led States. | The FAO training center pro- | gram was organized at the second | regional meeting held by the or- ganizution at Montevideo in 1950. | | The first center actually to be} opened was set up at Valaparaiso, | Chile in 1952. Strategic Materials, Report Says Senate survey favors tariff protection, tax allowances and other incentives for expansion o. WASHINGTON —(UP)— A Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. George W. Malone (R-Nev.) has concluded after 10 months of study that the Western hemi- sphere “can become self- suf- ficient” in strategic minerals — if the domestic mining industry is given sufficient tariff protec- { tion, tax allowinces and other incentives to expansion. The subcommittee’s findings are set forth in a 380-page report en- titled “Accessibility of strategic and critica! ed States in time of war and for our expanding economy”. materials vital for our defense are now drawn from the four corners of the world”. More than 80 per cent of the nation’s defense stock pile ot strategic minerals has been imported. “We depend in large part upon India tor manganese, the Philippines for chrome, Belgian Congo for uranium, Indochina for tin and rubber, and Nigeria for Columbite and cobalt”. MINISTER ARANHA RULES OUT ANY CHANGE IN BRAZIL'S COFFEE POLICY for resignation rumors paRSE Say | Veen oy of August and that in order to carry out its obligations, the gov- ernment had been forced to place in circulation 80,000,000 gold dol- lars which it had been keeping in reserve in the U. S. Informed sources among local vinancial circles said they under- stood that the transaction was car- ried out through the U.S, Federal hheserve System and that the step was being takes only on a tempo- rary basis, the hcpe being that cof- soon. Brazil expects by November to have sold enough coffee to take care of its dollar obligations and still have enough reserves left over se 4s to purchase more gold dol- Jars and rebuild its dollar reserves in the U. S. to their former figure of $300,000,000. Some sources said they consider- ed tiss plan to be a “risky” one. dt is known, for example, that the Rank of Brazil nas been buying up green coffee, via the Brazilian Cof- fee Institute and private exporter in onder to take up the slack eaus- ed 5y lessened foreign demand for Brazitian coffee Just how much coffee the bank has purchased via that means up tu now is not known however, erials to the Unit-; SWEEPING J.AW CHARGES The subcommittee said many of these raw ‘materials sources are ‘under the control of possible fic- kle allies or timia neutrals, some veritably under the guns of our potential enemies” To remedy this “vulnerabili- ty”, Malone’s group recommend- ed sweepimg changes in U.S. for- eign, trade, tariff and tax poli- cies to concentrate on making the hemisphere “self-sufficient” in strategic minerals. In this connection, it asserted that the ‘Western hemisphere is the only dependable source of the neces- The report notes that “strategic : sary critical materials in time of war”. Surveying U. S. needs and hemi- sphere’ deposits of 77 minerals ranging from antimony through zireunium, the subcommittee con- cluded that it is possible to made this hemisphere “self-sufficient” in ali necessary minerals except in- dustrial diamonds. Accomplishing _ this, of production of many minerals, land the working of deposits which i | fee sales would be stepped up; 4 are now uneconomic because their production costs considerably ex- ceed the cost of imported ores. POLICY MIS-DIRECTED Malone said U. S. foreign policy cold war alliances and defense commitments— has been mis-di- rected for a long time by the “er- roneous” idee that the U S. is short of strategic minerals and therefore must cepend on imports from far-off lands. War Trophies Returned to Paraguayans BUENOS AIkES. —(UP)— Two Argentine minesweepers, the Mu- rature and the King, left the Ar- gentine capital carrying on board a number of war trophies which were capwred trom Paraguay by Argentine troop: during the War of the Triple Alliance during the past century. The trophies are to | be returned to Paraguayan au- thorities later this month by Ar- gentine President Juan Peron, The trophies being carried by the Murature and King are in- eluded among ar. overall shipment, parts of which have already been taken to Paraguay aboard the freighter Atenas; tow gunboats, the Criollo and Acavera; and an- other Argentine navy vessel, the Humaita, ‘| | |ships to be converted for military | —notably this country’s far-flung | | FAILS IN Grace lies Gets ‘Two New Ships 0 | NEW YORK -UP)- The Grace Line will replace two of its ships —the Santa Rosa and the Santa Paula— with two new vessels to | |carry both passengers and cargo | that can be adapted to military use | | if the need shouid arise. | The company will receive gov- ernment aid for the construction | }of its two new ships amounting | to 45 percent of their total cost. | Both vessels will be used on. Grace | |Line routes between East Coast | jports of the United States and ports in the Dutch West Indies, | ; northern Colombia and Venezuela. Acvording to pians which have | been announced, both vessels will | measure 578. feei in length and | each will have a dead weight of | | 8,100 tons. Heavy cargo will be car- |ried in 292,800 cubic feet of holds, while 78,600 cubic feet of space will be available for refrigerated |eargo The gross weight of each} | vessel will be 16,000 tons, while their operation range is to be 13, | 200 miles. however, | wou.d require a sharp expansion | Louis S. Rothschild, director of the National Maritime Board, | | which disclosea the existence of | the project noted that the board | has the right to modify the plans jand specifications and said that they will be submitted to the Navy | Department for approval and sug- gestions that weuld allow the two use swiftly and economically. KIDNAP ATTEMPT |in a shooting fray with two indi | | viduals who tried to kidnap Flo- | | party congressman, | heels. CUBA HAVANA -(UP)- Two agents of the national police were injured | rencio Nibot, one-time opposition According to the police account, two unidentnified men who were | traveling in a car being driven by | Ricardo Homero, a second rate Cu- | ban political figure, used guns to force Nibot his 18-year -old son | ! Eugenio Nibot’s brother and the| |Nibot chauffeur into the family car All of them then drove off at | bigh speed. | When a police patrol car tried | jto draw near the kidnapers and| their victims, they were greeted | vy shots which were immediately | answered. As a result of the shoot- |ing two police agents and Nibot's son were wounded, although none wf them seriously. The would-be kidnapers manag- |ed to escape at this point, fleeing ‘in the direction of the Havana semetery with police hot at their a MIAMI’S SOCIAL SPOTLIGHT By MARTHA LUMMUS “No place like home”, might well have beeu theme song at a tea given by Mrs. John M Carlisle at her Miami Shores home, for her two honor guests, the Carlisle sisters, were home or vacations after wandering around quite a bit in and out a this country, and an- | other guest, a popular Miamian who has been making her home in. Washingten, but with her Congressman husband has just returned to their Miami honie, was greeted on all with “welcome homes”. Sylvia Carlisle Alch, colora- tura soprano, and her husband, Marion, a tenor, have been in Europe the past three years sing- ing in opera and in a very short while will return with their young daughter, Saralynn Alch, ‘wno witr her Mommy greeted guests at the recent fete), to Germany to again make their home there The Alches have ap- peared in singing roles in Milan, Berne, Witzerland, and Germa ny. Sylvi ister, Kathryn (Mrs. Paul) Schwartz, didn’t travel quite so far when deciding on a home, for she, her husband, and their seven months old daughter, as well as their two year old daughter, Angela (she also “received” guests at the party) live in Gambier, Ohio. Mrs. William Lantaff, wife of Congressman Lantaff also greet- ed friends she had not seen in mapy months. The Lantaffs ar- rived at their Miami Springs home last week —children, bags and baggage, a truck and two cars—, and it you don’t think it’s a job to get here, get a house straightened out and the menage ready for all the company the Lantaffs have in- vited down from Washington this winter, then yaqu should hear pretty, blond-haired Betty | vell you all about it. Retiring from Congress at the conclusion | of his present term, Bill Lantaff and his Betty are glad to be home, aren’t a bit afraid Miami. will seem tame after Washing- ton, which they loved but which was, at times, a pretty busy and hectic place in which to live, and just as soon as they get settled again, will continue their study | of Spanish, a subject in which both are interested. To be continued. Another long-time Miamian, who spends some time in Wash- ington, was home again, and like Betty Lantaff, attending one of her first parties since her re- turn, She was Mrs. F.A. Maple- ton. Mrs. Mapleton was with her daughter, Mrs. Don McIntosh, Flowers in the Carlisle home, and the pretty pink dyed fern on the dining buffet, were con- versation pieces. In case any guest wondered about the num- ber 17, that topped one arrange- ment, that figure represented the number of years the Carlisles have been married they cele- brateé their wedding anniver- sary the day before the party. There were lots of cute costumes on guests aj the fete, but none cuter than the “pineapple dress” worn by a miniature old-fashion- ed dol: that stood in the center of a sandwich tray. Her parasol was pineapple foliage; her dress, round slices of pineapple. Another “home again” person, whe with her Fusband lived in Jacksonville for a while but now as returned and bought a home in North Miami, was Mrs. M. J. DeMauro. She came to the Car- lisle fete with her mother, Mrs. | Otto Goll. Another mother-daughter two- some at the party was Mrs. Roy Schneider, one of the assistants at the party, and her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Licker, whose pretty after-five frock was pink taffeta. . John Prunty, smartly at- tired in blue, was among friends giving Betty Lantaff a warm welcome home, and a long-time Miami resident, Mrs, W.M. Mc- Donalé, was there. Mrs, William J. Barge, getting ready for a norihern trip to meet her daughter, Sybil, attended the Carlisle fete, and among the bevy of assistants were the two Tarboux sisters Frances and Louise, who have taught many a. Miamian to musical fame. Mrs. W.H. Walker Jr., smartly out- fitted in brown and white was a guest, as were Mrs. Roland Phillips, an assistant and a re- gular fashion plate in blue taf- feta; Mrs. Grover Morrow, Mrs. Ben McGahey, Mrs. Dick Bran- ham, Mrs. M.A. Schofman, Mrs. W.F. Parker, Mrs. George - Bar- wick, Mrs Clarence Phillips, Mrs. Hansford Tyler, Mrs. Marshall Luce. Mrs. Perry Nichols, Mrs. | Nathan Meltzer,