Diario las Américas Newspaper, September 18, 1956, Page 10

Inter-American News for English- _ Speaking people 4th YEAR — G. A. SAN ROMAN President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Antonio Ruiz Managing Editor | pubtishea daily except Monday — Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Miami Springs. Fla 56. a LY ATT EDITORIAL THE EXIMBANK IS UNDERSTAFFED Because we believe the Eximbank has an extra- / ordinary mission to acomplish in the economic de- velopment of our hemisphere, we have, on several occasions, made comments about it in this editorial | column. Recently we said George Blowers at the inauguration ceremonies of new presidents in Bolivia, Peri: and Ecuador, as a member of the delegation of the United States, had been received with great enthusiasm, because it re- presented a great opportunity for this distinguished official to bring to his colleagues in the Board of Di-| rectors, his personal impressions. That is a positive achievement for all, including the Eximbank, which Cc. W. SMITH Vice President Vice President, Editor and Manager Advertising and Circulation Mgr S. SMITR Vice President HORACIO AGUIRRE Eliseo Riera-Gomez on February & 195 that the presence of Mr, For WASHINGTON, Sept. 17—(UP) The Export Import Bank said that | its loan of $105,000,000 to the Vol- | ta Redonda Steel Mill, near Rio} Janeiro, was “one of the best loans operations” made by the Bank in the whole world. This statement is included in the Bank’s semi-annual report to Con- gress, report in which the financial activities of the Institution were | also described, among then a loan} of $35,000,000 to the Natioanl Steel Works of Brasil for the enlarge- ment of its installations at Volta | Redonda. | It is expected that the loan will | allow the mill to increase its an-| nual steel production from 700,000 | | as we have said on different occasions, is an organi-| ' zation which should be sensible to the reactions of | its customers, whom it should please as much as pos- sible. Our discussion today is about the fact that the, institution is understaffed. We base this point on) reports given to us by one of the Latin American) officials who have had a chance to be in the closest | contact possible with the efficient personnel of the) Eximbank. Those are the customers who have ex- pressed surprise at the fact that in the bank, for ex- ‘ ample, there is no translation bureau capable and) specialized, in charge of putting in the four official languages of this hemisphere notes and conversa- tions referring to loans being discussed or whose} study is being planned. All these negotiators, whose| opinions we gather, speak with great enthusiasm about the good will of the majority of officials of the Bank, who virtually multiply themselves to) study a series of projects, affirm that the problem provoking missunderstand-| ings, is, on many occasions, the interpretation of translations of documents or of conversations. At the United Nations, in the specialized con-| ferences of the modern world, ‘the simultaneous translation has been incorporated as an urgent, al- most absolute, need. At the International Bank in Washington, at the private banks of the United States, at the credit institutions of Europe, it is re- cognized that the customer has the right to express himself in his own language, and to carry on their commercial transactions they have specialized per- sonnel to achieve such an important task. The Exim- bank has a budget for running it, and it is logical to ' expect the existence of important items, such as the translation required by the customers who speak} other languages. A businessman, who was in Washington for a good thirteen months, told us: “I consider that the sessions could have been it there would have been translation for our conversations and a department specialized in the preparation of translations of do- cuments, written in our language to English and , Viceversa”. To attract customers benefits the U.S. taxpayer who foots the maintenan- ce of the Eximbank as a source of business which, in order to work properly, needs enough personnel. HOMAGE TO CHILE With the occasion of the commemoration today | _of the anniversary of independence of the Republic} of Chile, THE AMERICAS DAILY pays tribute of respect and good will to the cultured Chilean nation, with the most sincere wishes for the wellbeing of the country, both moral and material. On this great date, of such high significance for the Chilean people, we pay homage to the heroes of the war of independence, and send our most cordial congratulations to all Chileans residing in the United States, and in particular Rodriguez, Ambassador to the White House, and the Hon, Carlos Grant. Consul General in Miami, both representing their Fatherland abroad with the dig- nity she deserves. and the same negotiators | reduced to seven months facilities of simultaneous is a policy which directly to His Excellency Mario PRESS LAW TO CREATE RESPONSIBLE JOURNALISTS BELO HORIZONTE, lino Kubitschek reaffirmed his de- claration that the projected Press Law has, as objective the creation _ of responsibilities for the jour- nalist Sut not to limit press free- dom, Jn an informal conversation Ku- bitschek said: “A new law that will not curtail press freedom but, on the contrary, will give journal- ists an ampler sense of responsibi-| lity, is under study”. Kubitschek reminded that his Brazil, \ first official act, as President, was “Sept. 17. (UP) —President Jusce-| to rescind press censorship and “re- establish freedom of thought”. The bill is, at present, in the hands of the Minister of Justice, Nereu Ramos, who is preparing it to submit it to Kubitschek. It is said in Government sources that the main difficulty continue to be the article which would prohibit Senators and De- puties to ocupy administrative of-| fices in newspapers. to 1,000,000 tons. | The report added that. what has | happened in Volta Redonda de- KNOW THY NEIGHBOR By ANTONIO RUIZ VENEZUELA — Although Ve- nezuela is best known as an oil producing country —first exporter of the black gold in the world and second only to the United States in its production — the fantastic mineral wealth of that South Ame- rican country includes also dia- monds, gold, iron ore, coal, asbes- tos, pirites, radio active minerals, and many others in which exploita- tion has not even been started. Most important for Venezuelan economy at this moment, after pe- troleum, is iron, the exploitation of which has a long history in Ve- nezuela. During colonial times, the Spaniards, using the most primitive methods, engaged in the exploita- tion of the mineral. Engineers of the Orinoco Mining Company have found during their explorations the ruins of an ancient Spanish furn- ace, perhaps the first one of its kind established in the New World at a short distance from Ciudad Bolivar. In 1877, George Turnball obtained a concession to exploit iron, but no actual exploitation re- sulted from it. However, 14 years later, 700 tons of iron ore were ex- ported to Baltimore, and more than 70,000 between 1911 and 1913. For several reasons exploitation result- ed extremely costly and, therefore, was abandoned. The next effort started when, in| 1926, rich deposits were discovered | in El Pao, Bolivar State, which to- day are exploited by the Iron Min- ing Company. In 1939, high quality ore deposits were discovered at La Represalia, south of the Orinoco River. In 1945, the Oliver Iron Min-, ing, today Orinoco Mining Com- pany, carried on extensive explora- tion work without any visible re- sults, but later it filed a claim on the discovery of high grade ore de- posits at Cerro Bolivar, in 1947. It} is one of the largest ore deposits | in the world, as well as one of the richest in quality, since the per- centage of mineral is so high that some times reaches 68 per cent. The task of exploiting and bring- ing out the mineral from the isolat- ed jungle in which it is located, has been a gigantic one, which in- clude deconstruction of railroads, towns, dredging of the Orinoco, and construction of adequate ports on that river, with the expense of millions of dollars even before the first ton of mineral was taken out. the first shipment abroad was made in 1954, and today exploita- tion is. going on with considerable success and great profits for the companies; From 199,000 metric tons of iron ore production in Ve- nezuela in 1950, it went up to 5,- 388,638 in 1954 including the ex- ports from Cerro Bolivar, and in 1955 the total was 8,439,450, Puerto Ordéz and Ciudad Piar, both founded as a result of the de- mands of the exploitation of iron mines, are both today prosperous cities of Bolivar State, and with prospects of great progress, since according to the results of explora- tions, there are at least 1,500 mil- lion metric tons of deposits of the mineral in that region. (Continued tomorrow) Spanish Version Page 3 of newspapers, among them De- puty Carlos Lacerda, whose attacks against the Government, in the columns of “Tribuna da Impren- sa”, was the cause for the first At present, several members of Congress are Editors or Direcgors| confiscation of a newspaper, on August 24th. last. |the Railroad, declared SE eet certen aie ama atist a better understanding Miami Springs, Fla., Tuesday, September 18, 1956 Loan to Brazil One of Best Business Ventures, EXIMBANK Report Says monstrates again that the United States export markets tend to in- crease with the industrial expan- sion abroad. It reveals that Brazil imports of U. S. steel articles reach- ed the new high level of 625,000 tons per annum against 200,000 tons that the country used to import before the construction of the Vol- ta Redonda Mill. The loan will also be beneficial for more than 60 analogous by- products industries created since Volta Redonda started operations. Some of these industries are engag- ed in the manufacture of truck and bus bodies, gas drums, pipe and tubing, tin containers, refrigerators steel furniture, etc. Another important share of the $60,200,000 loaned to Brazil this year was for the purchase of rail- road equipment to the Jundia to Santos Railroad. It amounted to $19,600,000, This railroad connects Jundia and Sao Paulo, with the port of Santos. ’ The Bank Report, in mentioning that the Company “had shown important profits and attained high levels of operation and maintenance. fe hae IAN ne RET? Dail between the Americas IAPA Attacked by Colombia's Official Daily | | BOGOTA, Sept. 17—(UP) The | editorial of “Diario Oficial,” gov- to the campaign it says the Inter American Press Association has un- leashed against the Colombian Gov- ernment. is not zeal for the authentic free- |dom of expression which inspires | that campaign of the IAPA, but the | defense of commercial interests of | the newspapers that become liable | to official restrictive measures. | The editorial starts mentioning the repeated and unjust attacks which, with intolerable arrogance and scandalous disregard of ele- | mentary norms of courtesy and im- | partiality, IAPA has been direct- ing against the Government of Co- lombia.” It quotes excerpts of a speech of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in | which he referred to the same sub- | ject regarding IAPA, which he call- ed a journalistic “trust,” of which he said functions every time a newspaper is the subject of a meas- ure aimed at lessening or prevent- ing its work of discord.” | The editorial ends saying: “This |is the clear and naked explanation The Bank also made others large } of what is happening here and over- loans to Brazil. One of $1,300,000 to aid a plan of expansion of $3,- 500,000 for Brazil’s first Metanol factory. Two more were for the construction of grain elevators at Pernambuco ' ($1,000,000) and for purchase of machinery for a ball bearing manufacturing plant ($1. 200.000). seas, and this movement of the ‘trust,’ to quote the presidential de- finition, is the one inspiring such organizations as IAPA, which de- cided to disregard its own ob- jectives and stray from the natural roads it should follow, to become another wheel in this crazy enter- prise of libel and difamation.” “ARGENTINA GETS 100 MILLIONS WASHINGTON, Sept. 17—(UP) The United States has decided to loan 100 million dollars to Argen- tina to help her renew her rail- road material and execute other works urgent for her economic re- construction. The loan will be made by the Export Import Bank of the U. S. Government, and the ends for which thé money will be used will be disclosed later. In announcing the decision of the bank to grant the loan, its Pre- sident, Samuel C. Waugh, declared that within a short time other ne- gotiations will take place between the Argentine Government and the Bank, With that aim, a mis- sion of aine bank officials will go to Buenos Aires at the beginning of next month. The official announcement of the ‘bank says: “The Export Import Bank has agreed to establish credits up to 100 million dollars to Argentina, to help that country to purchase in the United States equipment and services required for projects of urgent character in the private and public fields of transport, in- dustry and agriculture. The trans- port field covers railroads, mer- chant marine, ports, highways and commercial aviation.” Then it explains that the credits HEMISPHERIC EVENTS SALVADOREANS MAY RETURN TO COUNTRY SAN SALVADOR, Sept. 17 — (UP)— Following orders received from the President J. M. Lemus, the Ministry of Foreign Relations relayed instructions to the Diplo- ‘matic and Consular Representatives to grant visas to all the Salvador- ean citizens who are in exile for any cause and wish to return to the country. NEW MINISTRY The President, J. M. Lemus de- cided to create the Ministry of Justice and Public Security and appointed Dr. Rafael Antonio Car- ballo to head that high office. Dr. Julio F, Fernandez, ex-Di- rector of Social Security, will as- sume the duties of Undersecretary. Peruvian. Textile Workers Strike LIMA, Sept. 17 —\UP)— More than 23,000 textile workers started a general strike this morning at 7:30, which covers all Pert. According to the report of the Textile Federation, the strike wil be in force until the industry. agrees to payment of minimum sa- laries established by the Supreme Decree of May 23rd, according to resolution adopted by the Textile Workers Assembly. for public services owned by the government will be reinbursed in 18 years, with am interest of five per cent a year. Vance Brand, a director of the bank who has been in charge of | the Argentine negotiations, said that transportation was the most important factor in Argentina’s re- construction needs. Asked whether the fact that Ar- gentina did not have a large dol- lar balance had played a role in the negotiations, Brand replied that this was a factor the same way dol- lar balances affected bank negotia- tions with any other country. At that point, Waugh observed that Argentina has $76,000,000 of outstanding principal with the credit for a steel plant which has Bank in addition to a $60,00,000 not yet been drawn upon. Brand said the bank has been ' studying proposals concerning only the most urgent phase of the Ar- gentine government's reconstruc- tion program. He noted that these concerned hydroelectric power, port construction and capital goods, in addition to transportation. He did not indicate whether once the priority request have been dealt with, the bank would go on to con- sider the over-all phase of Argen- tina’s economic program, The above mentioned decree fix- ed a minimum salary of seven soles for men and women textile work- ers except those who work in mesh net and stocking factories employ- ing forty or less workers, for whom the decree fixes a basic wage of 5.75 soles. PRES. RUIZ CORTINES ROME—(UP)— On occasion of the Mexican National Independ- ence Day, President Giovanni Gronchi wired felicitations to Pre- sident Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, In his wire, Gronchi presented his personal congratulation to the President also in the name of Ita- lian people. A similer telegram, was also sent by Foreign Minister Gaetano Mar- tino to Mexico’s Foreign Minister Luis Padilla Nervo. ARGENTINE WORKERS IN NEGOTIATIONS BUENOS ‘AIRES —(UP)— The Commercial Workers Union, re- presenting one million employes, resumes negotiations with manage- ment tomorrow towards 'a new lab- or contract after a show of force Friday in a twentyfour-hour strike that seriously affected stores throughout the country. Management and labor negotia- tiators, who will resume collective bargaining talks with Labor Minis- try supervision, have failed to reach agreement on the basic wage formula in the six weeks the talks | ernment-owned newspaper, refers | The main point stressed is that it | Argentine Government Begins Drive Against Communist Fronts BUENOS AIRES —(UP) — Po- lice seized five tons of documents in raids on suspected Communist- front organizations in an effort to determine the extent of Red in. fluence on the current Argentine strike wave. A police spokesman said the raids are “only the beginning of a vast anti-Communist drive” this country. Argentina is one of the three Latin American nations which has not banned the party. The Communist Party itself was not affected by the raids, which were directed at such Red-sponsor- ed organization as the League of the Rights of Man and the Soviet- Argentine Cultural Institute. At least 13 persons were arrest- ed, but most of them were later released, Police said the most important result of the raids so far was the discovery in the local office of the rights league that the Communists had been operating a factory for false passports and identity cards. Bales of Communist propaganda, much of it printed in Russia, were seized by raiders in Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities. Argentina recently has been plagued by a wave of strikes aris- ing from efforts to renegotiate most of this country’s labor con- tracts. in| Special Interamerican Commission Starts Its Sessions in Washington For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity Member Inter American Press Association NUMBER 60 Eisenhower Greets Representatives of Other Presidents at a Luncheon WASHINGTON —(UP)— Presi- dential representatives from .the 21 American republics gathered today to seek more effective eco- nomic, technical and social coop- eration in the Western Hemisphere. President Eisenhower greeted the special Inter-American Com- mission at a White House lunch. The commission opened its three- day conference this afternoon. Mr. Eisenhower proposed crea- tion of the commission last July at the historic meeting of Amer- ican presidents at Panama. The commission hoped at its first conference to decide what hemispheric problems the organ- ization might be more effective in combating. Dr. Milton S, Eisenhower, the President’s brother and special presidential representative on La- tin American Affairs, is the U. S. member of the commission. After this week’s meetings, the members of the commission will study the problems and at the be- ginning of next year will preseat their findings to the Presidents. with recommendations for their so- lution: Besides the members of the Pre- sidential Commission, at the Jun- cheon was Dr. José A. Mora, Se- eretary General of the Organiza- tion of American States, which will put into effect any of the recom- mendations of the Commission ac- cepted by the presidents. The members of the commission and their counselors dedicated all morning to register at the head- quarters of the conference, which is meeting in the top floor of one of the buildings of the State De- partment. CUBAN DELEGATE FOR COMPLETE PROGRAM WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 —(UP) —Cuba’s representative at the Special Interamerican Presidential Commission; Gustavo Gutiérrez, said today, shortly before the be- ginning of the sessions that, in his opinion, the studies that are to be started here should go -be- yond the mere modification of the administrative structure of the Or- ganization of the American States (OAS) to find the best means to improve the conditions in the American countries. Gutiérrez made this declaration upon his arrival to this capital. He said that to act in a different manner would be to defraud “the hopes of the opinion of Latin America”. He added that, if the means of promoting economic dev- elopment and wellbeing of the peo- ples of the Hemisphere, and of in- creasing business’ and products interchange are studied, the pur- chasing power “and the culture of the man in the cities and in the farms” would be increased. and the seed of popular discontent, that is painstakingly cultivated, by the demagogues and extremists, would not fructify”. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17—(UP) Argentina will attend the delibera- tions of the Special Presidential Interamerican Commission, which begun its activites here today, with a series of suggestions for tak- ing positive measures in favor of the development of the Hemisphere economy. The proposals that, according to what is said, will be made by Am- bassador Adolfo A. Vicchi, as per- sonal representative of President General Pedro E. Aramburu, will include: 1. Establishment of an Interame- rican nuclear energy commission for peaceful uses and also an Ia- teramerican nuclear energy insti- tute for investigations and prepara- tion of personnel. 2. Encouragement of an intensi- fied program of technical aid. 3. Creation of an Institute of have lasted so far. The union is asking increases that begin at for- ty per cent. VISIT TO VICKERS LONDON —(UP) Argentine Am- bassador Alberto Caleiote. visited the Vickers Armstrong Company at Barrow Furness. It was an official visit accom- panied by Minister Dr. Carlos Echa- gue. WORKERS MEETING RIO DE JANEIRO—(UP) Lead- ers of Brazil’s Maritime Workers Union met with shipping company representatives in an attempt to head off a strike slated for Sept. 21. The walkout, affecting an es- timated 30,000 workers, would be called if management and labor fail to reach an agreement on wage in- creases. COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION OF OIL IN COSTA RICA SAN JOSE, Costa Rica —(UP) The Ministry of Industry said that an oil well brought in recently by the Union Oil €o, of California in its Costa Rican concession will be exploited commercially,.its daily production being estimated at 2,- 000 barrels, The well, known as Cocles No. 2, is believed to be Central America’s first well to produce oil in com- mercial quantity. The Union Oil Co.’s concession Agriculture and Livestock. 4. To give special attention to the construction of low cost hous- ing and technical investigations on transport, hydro - electric energy and navigation. 5. To create, within the Organiza- tion of American States (OAS) a Committee of Interchange, to study the commercial possibilities and methods to eliminate the obs- tacles that may hinder Interameri- can Trade. 6. Creation of a Special Commis- sion, under protection of the OAS, to intensify the campaign against illiteracy and to promote basic edu- cation. 7. Improvement of a system of. consultations to use it in relation to topics such as dispossal of sur- plusses of basic products and other commercial problems. The Inter- american Economic-Social. Insti- | Latin American News in Brief is located in the area of Coclés River, near the border of Panama and the Caribbean coast. George Underwood, noted Ame- rican geologist, said in New York last week that discovery of oil in the Cocles area “may well be the first step in the development of a new major oil area in the Western Hemisphere.” Underwood said there were “marked similarities between the structures existing in Costa Rica and Panamé and those which pro- duce such vast quantities of oil in East Texas.” MASS VACCINATION IN ~ ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES—(UP)— Mass inoculation of children aged be- tween six months and three years against infantile paralysis began today, with Salk vaccine supplied by the United States. Vaccination centers were set up in 250 schools throughout Buenos Aires. Inoculation was voluntary and gratis, the only requirement being presentation of proof of the childrens’ age. The Public Health Ministry said efforts were continuing to. obtain |. additional vaccine from the United States so that children ‘of all ages might be inoculated, QUAT” 8ORN IN B. 5 AIRES BUENOS - —(UP) Frau Margarit Lei. 2 Grobner, 33, gave birth to quadruplets — three ¢ ‘Argentina Suggests Nine Points to Help Western Hemisphere Economy tute could play an important role in this problem. 8. That Latin American Govern- ments interested in getting North American capital investments, con- tinue adopting measures to com- bat inflation, to establilize the currency and to improve the balan- ces of foreign exchange. 9. That to encourage said private investments, it would be an import- ant factor if the United States would accept full elimination from their legislation of the taxes now being assessed to profits on these funds. ‘ In regard to the nuclear energy proposition, Vicchi said: “The urgent need to adopt con- erete measure to assure Interame- rican cooperation in the develop- ment of nuclear energy for peace- ful uses is clear. Only through co- operative action is possible to un- dertake operations in which costs are of a magnitude exceeding in- dividual economic posibilities. It is estimated that it would contribute in this manner to the elevation of living standards of the inhabit- ants bringing to them the benefits that it affords in the fields of health, food, agriculture and in- dustry.” i Argentina’s propositions consti- tutes the first series of concrete suggestions officially made bef@re the initiation of the talks of the Presidential Commission, which started its three days of delibera- tions late today. Ambassador Vicchi, in making known the Argentinian proposals, also announced that he has desig- nated the following assesors to Argentina’s representation: Dr, Edgardo Grumbach, Financial Ad- viser of the Ambassy; Ovidio V. Schiopetto, Economical Adviser of the Ambassy and Argentinian rep- resentative before the Interamer- ican Economic-Social Council and Constantino Ramos, Counselor of Argentina’s Delegation to the OAS and alternate at the Economic So- cial Council. : boys and one girl at the German Hospital here. She is the wife of mechanic Ju- lius Grobner, 40. Both are Hungar- ian-born but naturalized Argentines since 1948. ae The first birth, a boy, occuréd at 8:54 P. M. local time and the last, a girl, at 9:24, This was ufderstood to be the first case of quadruplets in Ar- gentina during the past 25 years) The hospital donated the services of German doctors, headed by Prof. Otto Jurgen, chief of the Maternity Ward. es All babies were reported well but kept in incubators.