Diario las Américas Newspaper, October 17, 1956, Page 10

Inter-American News for English- Speaking people 4th YEAR G. A SAN ROMAN’ C. W. SMITH Ss. SMITH President Vice President Vice President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE HORACIO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Vice President. Editor and Manager Antonio Ruiz Eliseo Riera-Gomez Managing Editor Advertising and Circulation Mgr Published daily except Monday — Bmered as second class matter at the Post Offie 1056. e of Miami Springs. Fla. on February % 1! EDITORIAL TEACHING OF CIVICS IN THE SCHOOLS AND THE POLITICAL FREEDOM OF NATIONS In our editorial comment of yesterday we| referred to the far-reaching importance which, for the functioning of democracy, has the general education of the people, acquired in the school, in a methodic and well channeled form, We said that ignorance is a fertile field in which absurd demagoguery easily takes roots, as well as facilitating the enthronement of any deceiving system of force, or keeping it in power, because the sovereign will of the people cannot be manifested with the opportune common sense and courage demanded by circumstances. Regarding the theme of culture, as decisive factor for democracy to prevail on logic foundations, it is convenient, and more than convenient, indis- pensable, that the curricula of all the schools give the teaching of civics the great importance it de- serves. With schools accomplishing the mission — of education of children and youths in everything relating to basic elements of human knowledge, and which also accomplish the high mission of impres- ing on them patriotic feelings, as well as the teaching of civics in general, it can be said that much has heen done for the structure of institutional life of a country, especially in the case of a Republic. The teaching of civics realizes in the school-room the work of preparing the individual to exercise his rights and perform his duties as a citizen. With a people who know more or less which are their respon- sibilities before the State institutions, which are _their rights and which their obligations, it is more difficult to dominate them by force, not because they cannot succumb before government coercion, but because they know how to recognize danger on time and,. therefore, they do not fall to the ma- neuvers of those who establish strong regimes, most of the time with the innocent complicity of many persons from the popular ranks, who act in that manner because they lack adequate civic training. However, it would be candorous to accept that all the political ills suffered by many peoples are the result of lack of knowledge of civics among the leaders, because it is well—known that, in most cases, those who draft and conceive the idea of the free- dom—killing laws, or those who, within public power submit voluntarily to the Central Power, renouncig to the authentic dignity of their positions, don’t do it because of ignorance in civics, since in most cases, because of general culture or profes- sional discipline, they know how the official life of the State is directed and which are the rights of the citizens, as consecrated by democratic institu-| tions. The teaching of civics, however, is very useful in a country to strengthen in the public conscience, | in thé |... of the citizens, the principles of liberty—) which is not libertinism—principles constituting resistance to the abuses in which those who govern For Advertising _ Lantaff as Cha a better understanding Bill irman to Serve the Latin American Countries liam C, Lantaff, former U. S. Con- gressman and now president and chairman of the board of the Cur- tiss National Bank of Miami Springs. In announcing establishment of the new Miami agency, MacCory pointed to the growing necessity Miami Springs, Fla. Wednesday, October 17, 1956 Agency With | \ CANADIAN EXPORTS TO LATIN AMERICA ARE INCREASING OTTAWA, Oct. 16—(UP)—Ex- ports from Canada to the Latin American republics during the first eight months of this year amount- ed to 109,100,000 dollars, against $106,600,000 during the same period last year. Canadian exports to the whole world in August were for $419,- Four prominent Miamians have formed an international advertis- ing agency with headquarters in the Roper Building in downtown Miami. Name of the firm is Clay, MacCory and Sorgatz, Inc., and its principals are Everett A. Clay, Wallace F. MacCory and George F. Sorgatz, Jr. |for a “hometown agency with Chairman of the board is Wil-| hemispheric advertising concepts. “Our agency will offer its clients | | the highest Madison Avenue stand- H K N 0 W ards and techniques, he said. “It | will not only be geared to the local i T H and national needs of Miami and | Y | Florida advertisers, but it will | | service national advertisers in the | N E | G H B 0 R lexport field through a network | jot branches and service offices | throughout: Latin America. By ANTONIO RUIZ “The central headquarters will | be strategically located in Miami, PERU —(Continued) — In the | crossroads of the Americas. When | Spanish colonial system, which | our projected plans are complet- lasted approximately three cen- | ed, we will operate in México City, turies, Peri was of outstanding | Caracas, Rio de Janeiro and Bue- importance, for during a period of |mos Aires. nearly two hundred years the| A New York office also will be} powerful viceroyalty established | opened by the agency, MacCory | by the Crown at Lima in 1542 had | said. | jurisdiction over Panama and all| MacCory, a Miami resident for jthe Spanish territory in South | 18 years, is chairman of the pub- America, except Venezuela. By the |licity and public relations advisory time of the wars of independence, |board of the City of Miami. He Lima had become the most dis-|is president of Wallace MacCory tinguished and aristocratic coloni-| Associates, handling industrial pub-| al capital and the chief Spanish |lic relations. Formerly public re- stronghold in America. \lations director for the American Spains administration of Perd,|Automobile Association, MacCory as in the rest of the colonies, was | for several years has maintained extremely centralized and al-| business interests in the Caribbean. though colonial laws were often| Sorgatz, former advertising just and wise, they were frequent-| manager of Pan American - Grace ly abused by local officials, who | Airways, Inc. (Panagra), came to took advantage of the great dis-|Miami two years ago to operate tance from the mother country.|the Bevis and Tyler agency and, The colonials were also subject to| subsequent to the death of Gray- severe economic and social dis-|don E. Bevis, Sorgatz headed the criminations, Trade with countries | partnership of Bevis Associates, \other than Spain, and that be-|from which he resigned last July. | tween the colonies themselves, was|In New York City he was an ac- prohibited; the colonies were not|count executive with Ogilvy, Ben- permitted to produce goods com-|son and Mather, Inc. Sorgatz con- | petitive with those of Spain, and /|tinues as a director of Resort En- | “eriollos, or Spaniards born in/|terprises Corp. of Miami. America, were generally ineligible| Clay is secretary of Hialeah for public office. Race Course Corp. A former sports Out of these conditions evolved | editor of the Miami Herald, he is a strong movement toward politic-|a member of the Orange Bowl al independence which, encourag-| Committee and was the first presi- ed by the success of the French |dent of the Greater Miami Public | and North American revolutions | Relations Club. and favored by the circumstances| Lantaff, as a member of Con- evolving from Napoleons invasion | gress was noted for his many ges- of Spain, crystalized in the revolu-|tures of friendship to the nations tions of the early 19th. century. of Latin America, He was given Because the Viceroyalty of Pe-| the Alianza Interamericana Award ra was important to Spain, strong | im 1954. He is vicechairman of the forces were concentrated at Lima. | Inter-American Center Authority Hence Pert was late in revolting | (Interama) and chairman of. Flo- and was among the last of the|rida’s Governors Committee for colonies to be freed from the| Latin American Affairs, Spanish yoke. In spite of sporadic, | ——~—~——— unsuccessful prising from 1805 on Peru remained basically unaffect- jed by the revolutionary movement juntil 1820. In that year General José de San Martin, who, leading the victorious armies of Argentina and Chile had freed those two countries, began his invasion of Peru. The viceroy of Pert eventu- ally agreed to withdraw his troops from Lima, and San Martin enter- ed the capital on July 12, 1821; on the 28th. of the same month he raised the Peruvian flag and pro- claimed the countrys independ- may incur. Paintings by Argentine Children on Display at Panamerican Union WASHINGTON, D.C. —(PAU) —An exhibition of paintings by Argentine artists whose ages range from five to 14 years is on display at the Pan American Union. The exhibit, “Through a Child’s Eyes”, is the result of two con- tests arranged by Dr. Guillermo Kraft, head of a leading publishing nouse in Buenos Aires. In one, professional writers sub- mitted folk tales typical of the varied environments and beliefs of all regions of Argentina. In the ather, children of the nation’s kin- jergartens and elementary schools were invited to illustrate the stories. Response to the contests was anthusiastic. More than 700 man- ascripts and 5,000 illustrations were submited for inclusion in a book, “Twenty Children’s Stories”, which finally was published with 40 illustrations by the young art- ists. Paintings which appear in the book and are included in the Pan American Union showing were se- lected by a jury including art critic Dr. José Leén Pagano; sculp- tor Angel Maria de Rosa, and paint- ers W. Melgarejo Mufioz and Al- berto Rossi. Resumes of the stories accom- pany the children’s paintings to assist in understanding the young artists’ approach to their subjects. The exhibit at the Pan Amer- ican Union, open to the public Saturdays and Sundays as well as weekdays, will continue through Oct. 24. ARGENTINA CREATES DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY BOARD BUENOS AIRES —(UP)— A ‘Board for the Defense of Demo- racy” was created by the Revolu- donary Government under an ex- secutive decree issued by pro- visional President Pedro E. Aram- ouru, The Board will depend directly trom the Presidential Office. It will ye empowered to investigate the organization of political parties in wder to determine the true char- tcter of pro-communist and other Otalitarian groups. The decree provides that com- aunist and fellow-travelling or- ganizations are to be classified in three groups: “Communist organizations will be those openly advocating and supporting the communist move- ment; “crypto-communist organi- zations will include those which also support communism but hide their true nature behind. cultural, humanitarian, social, scientific or other activities, and “commun- ist-infiltrated organizations”, com- prising those not included in the previous classifications but which are led, directed or controlled by communists, ence. Strong royalist forces, how- ever, still remained in the country and independence was not yet as- sured. San Martin, in a dramatic con- ference at Guayaquil with Simén Bolivar, the Great Liberator of northern South America, agreed to withdraw from further participa- tion in the revolution. Two years later, on December 9, 1824, Boli-| |vars Colombian and Peruvian for- | jces, under the command of Gen-| eral Antonio José de Sucre, de-| cisively defeated the royalists at| Ayacucho, Peri, completing the emancipation of the colonies. Following the winning of inde- pendence, the Republic of Pert had a period of political turbul- ence which lasted for twenty years. For a short time Peri was united politically with Bolivia, forming the Peruvian-Bolivian Confedera- tion, in 1839, under Santa Cruz, President of Bolivia. The most progressive of the early presidents of Peri was Ramon Castilla, who held office three times between 1845 and 1862. During his adminis- tration numerous improvements were made in the country, includ- ing the developing of the nitrate and guano deposits, the introduc- tion of the telegraph and rail- roads, the emancipation of Negro slaves, and the adoption, in 1860, of a constitution which remained in force until 1920. Political disorders, however fol- lowed Castillas retirement and in 1866 Pert, together with its allies Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile, defeat- ed Spains attempt to regain its lost colonies; in 1879 Spain finally recognized Peruvian independ- ence, Spanish Version Page 3 | failed. 900,000 or $38,200,000 more than in August, 1955, and the total of the eight months was $2,114,300,- 000 a considerable decrease com-, pared with the same period last BILL LANTAFF SOUTH AMERICA IN NOV. ISSUE OF “HOLIDAY” PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16 (UP)—The magazine “Holiday” de- dicates its November issue to South America, publishing about 25,000 words about trips and the many attractions to tourists, Among the informations there are articles dedicated specially to Colombia, Ecuador, Pert, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Besides interesting photo- graphs of each one of these coun- tries, the magazine has comments on trips around the continent by plane, ship and automobile, and a trip up the Amazon River. It also touches on the subjects of origin, social progress, imdus- tries and natural beauty of each one of those countries, Argentine Government Takes Steps to Restore Flow of European Immigration BUENOS AIRES —(UP)— The Argentine Revolutionary Govern- ment is taking active steps to re- store the flow of European im- migration that has been the prin- cipal demographic characteristic of this agriculturally rich country for more than seventy years. The Government has important plans for the establishment of agricultural colonies with Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Tunisian farm- ers, to populate and cultivate great extensions of the country which are awaiting a rational, coopera- tive type of agricultural develop- ment. At the same time the gov- ernment has reactivated its emi- grant-selection centers in Europe aiming to attract skilled workers and technicians for Argentina’s in- dustries. In figures, Argentina hopes to bring 15,000 Italians, 10,000 Span- iards and a first group of 5,000 Tunisian agriculturists, in addition to specialized Dutch dairy farmers, and some Greek skilled workers during the coming year. The provinces have pledged their collaboration with the Fed- eral Government in providing land and the necessary local assistance for the colonists, in the form of schools and local aid, Misiones Province, in Northeast- ern Argentina which is subtropic- al, has 500,000 hectares at the dis- posal of suitable colonists, and Rio Negro, a sheep-raising and orch- ard province in temperate, Cen- tral Argentina, has an equal amount of available land. The Ar- gentine army, which has areas of land in many parts of the country, is also interested in developing them through agricultural colon- year, which was $2,761,000,000. HEMISPHERIC EVENTS ists. between the Americas CUBAN GOVERNMENT EXEMPTS. NEWSMEN FROM TOURIST TAX NEW YORK — The Cuban Government has decided to ex- empt newsmen attending the General Assembly of the Inter- american Press Association from payment of the tourist tax of $2.50 per person. The Manager of the Interame- rican Press Association has of- ficially notified all the members of the decision of Cuban authori- ties. The XII Annual Assembly of IAPA will open in Havana on October 28, and journalist Guil- lermo Martinez Marquez, Presi- dent of the Organizing Commit- tee and First Vice President of IAPA, is busy now with prepara- tions for the event. Wage Increases for Panamanians not Related to Treaty With U. S. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—(UP) George Roderick, Assistant Secret- ary of the Army and Chairman of the Panama Canal Company, said today the new wage increases for non- United States workers in the Zone have “nothing to do” with the Panama-United States Treaty. He stressed that the action was taken as part of the routine pro- cedure whereby wages are period- ically revised in relation to the cost of living. In a statement to the United Press, Roderick commented: “The increase has nothing to do with the Treaty. As part of normal review procedures the Canal Board recommended a five-cent-an-hour wage increase for Panamanian em- ployes”. A State Department spokesman took the same position as Roderick. He noted that a wage increase beginning Jan. 1 had been made “imminent by the loss of com- missary privileges for Panamanian workers. Since this would increase their living cost, it was in line with the companys wage policies that some compensation should be forthcoming, he explained. In all cases, however, the Gov- ernment is determined that the new colonization will fix the im- migrants on the soil, and avoid the conglomeration of immigrants driven to Buenos Aires by the fail- ures of colonization projects under the former regime. The government is working with the Intergovernmental Commission for European Migration, the Inter- nal Labor Organization, and the Catholic Migration agencies in bringing its colonization plans in- to line with the successful pro- jects which have been carried for- ward in other countries with the cooperation of these agencies. peoadotes the Newspapers’s QUITO, October 16 —(UP) — Franklin Verdugo Loor, editor of the newspaper “El Popular” of the city of Portoviejo, shot and killed the Mayor of that city, Alberto Po- |lit Ortiz, as a result of the assault and destruction of the plant of his newspaper on October 8. Reports from Portoviejo publish- ed by newspapers here said that Mayor Polit and attorney Julio Ma- rin were the material and intel- lectual authors of the assault, with the aid of several unidentified per- sons. Verdugo Loor shot Polit twice. One bullet caused a perforation in the lower left region of the torax and the other lodged in his should- er. The Mayor died a few hours later at the hospital. Verdugo was ~ | arrested. “El Popular” published today an article in which it says “there is no perfect crime”, since the guilty ones are always, in the long run, discovered. The newspaper, in de- nouncing the ‘crime of Velasquists’, accuses Polit and Marin (the lat- ter President of the Municipal Council of Bahia, a city near Por- toviejo) of heading the group which, on October 8, forced open the doors of the daily, destroying the machinery and jumbling the type. “El Popular” also says that the For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity Member Inter American Press Association NUMBER 84 n Editor Kills Mayor who Headed Group that Destroyed his Plant ‘Portoviejo’s Mayor Had Forced Open Doors for Assault doorman of the Council of Porto- viejo, Ignacio Cedefo, declared be- |fore the Judge of Criminal Court that Polit Ortiz forced him to par- ticipate in the assault. ECUADOR GIVEN PRESENT OF 500 PEDIGREED LAMBS QUITO, Ecuador, Oct. 16 —SI- CO) — The Heifer Project Inc., a private organization, which does not have commercial character, has sent to Ecuador about 500 pedi- greed sheep to help the develop- ment of wool source in the coun- try. A new application has been sent to the above mentioned com- pany endeavoring to get additional donation of 1,000 to 1,500 more sheep for the year 1957. It is expected that about 125 milking goats, of several breeds, will arrive in Ecuador before the current year is ended. The Heifer has also sent to Ecuador, since October 1955, about 15,000 baby chicks to start the development of aviculture in the provinces of Azuay and Cafar. Heifer has two headquarters in the United States. One in North Manchester, Indiana, and the other in a small city of Maryland. The work of this organization, which was established in the United States after the Second World War, is to help the families who lost their homes in the war. MEXICO CITY —(UP)— The “shrimp war in the Gulf of Méxi- co headed for a diplomatic show- down after a new clash between U. S. fishermen and the Mexican Navy. High level inter-government con- ferences were reported in the of- fing, aimed at a solution of the worsening fishing conflict along the Mexican coast. The Naval Zone commander here maintained a stony “no com- ment” attitude about the latest capture of four Texas “pirate shrimp boats. But elsewhere it was learned re- liably that a complete report on the situation had been forwarded to the Mexican Foreign Office. At the same time, Brownsville, Texas, boat captainss affidavits went to the State Department in Washing- ton. Tampico and Brownsville ver- sions agreed that nets of our U. S. boats were seized but informed sources here denied American crewmen’s charges that their catch- ers were confiscated and that they were forced to sign “confessions” at gun point. The accounts differed also as to the location of the fishing boats at the time they were intercepted by Mexican Navy tugs. A trawler captain in Brownsville said he was 11 miles offshore, but Tampico Latin American News in Brief MIAMI RESIDENT KILLED IN PERU LIMA, Peru —(UP)— The U. S. Consulate today awaited furth- er instructions before shipping home the body of an American civilian pilot killed with two other persons in a crash last Friday. Ambrose Rothery Torregano, 39, whose last known address is be- lieved to be Miami, Fla, died when the light plane he was pilot- ing crashed and burned on a hill- top near Cajamarca in northern Pert, His two passengers were killed. All Torregano’s credentials were destroyed in the crash. The con- sulate said Torregano was believed to have been married twice and had one son, But they said all ef- forts to reach his next of kin had INDUSTRIAL LAW IN ECUADOR QUITO —(SICO) — The Minist- er of Economy, J. Intriago Arria- ta, said a careful study is being made of a new law of industrial protection and development more in accordance with the national reality and which permits an ef- fective industrial development in the country, encouraging, at the same time, the ever increasing in- vestment of foreing capitals. ASSEMBLY DISCUSSES BILL FOR EX-PRE, GOMEZ RETURN BOGOTA—(UP) — The Con- stituent Assembly discussed, dur- ing four hours, a project of resolu- tion asking the Government to au- thorize the return of Conservative ex-President Laureano Lopez, but no decision was reached. The As- sembly was convoked for next Wednesday to continue the de- bate. SHIP AGROUND IN HAVANA HARBOR HAVANA —(UP)— The 4,325 tons S. S. “Oriente” of the Ward, Garcia Line, ran aground at the entrance of Havana Harbor. It was announced that the 82 persons on board the ship — in- cluding 12 pasengers from New York — are unhurt. The maritime police brought tugs to pull the ship away from the narrow entrance of the bay and now it is near the reefs, less eén Avenue joins with the famou: Paseo del Prado. ; The ship owners said they ex- pect the ship to refloat again dur- ing the afternoon. BANANA CONTRACT FOR UNITED FRUIT GUATEMALA CITY—(UP) President Carlos Castillo Armas announced that the government has signed a contract with the United Fruit Company calling for an additional investment of $5 mil- lion to develop banana plantations in Northern Guatemala. The contract calls for payment by the company of a 30 per cent tax on its profits and “other ad- vantages for this country,” the President said. The fruit company also agreed to return to the government an ex- tension of 33,500 acres in the area to be distributed among landless peasants under the government's land reform program, the Presi- dent added. CHILE’S LIBERATOR LIFE NOVEL ON SALE. TODAY than thirty meters from the Male- cén (sea wall), where the Male- NEW YORK—(UP)— The life berator of Chile, is the topic of a novel written by the renowned Northamerican author Carleton Beals, put on sale today. The novel, entitled “Taste of Glo- ry” has been edited by the New York firm Crown. Beals, writer and journalist, is the author of other books about Latin America. This is the second novel on the life of O’Higgins appearing in the United States in less than a year. PERUVIAN AMBASSADOR SAILING FOR EUROPE NEW YORK—(UP)— Ex-Vice- president of Peru, Engineer Hec- tor Boza, appointed Ambassador of his country in Paris, will sail for Europe Oct. 24th. aboard the French steamer Liberté. Boza outstanding figure in Peru- vian mineralogy, arrived in New York last Sunday. PERU'S EX-PRESIDENT RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL WASHINGTON,. — (UP). — Ge- eral Manuel Odria, ex-President of Pert left the Walter Reed Hospit- of General Bernardo O'Higgins, Li- al, of this capital, where he was “Shrimp War” in the Gulf of México Headed now for Diplomatic Showdown fishermen said the foreign boats were visible from the shore. (Navy Minister Roberto Gémez Maqueo was out of town, on an in- spection tour at Minatitlan, South- ern Veracruz port, and his office here declined to comment pending his return.) Meanwhile, México was intensi- fying its patrol, adding three Cata- lina flying boats to the Air Force craft on duty along the Gulf Coast between Tampico and the U. S. border, at the mouth of the Rio Grande. Mexican fishermen reported that the American “Pirates” had moved out of territorial waters following last weeks incident and that as a result Mexican shrimp catches had been considerable larger in the past few days. The only stories published here on the net seizures appeared Sun- day in El Sol, which stated that the “mysterious silence of the naval officials had led to conjectures about what really happened when the U. S. boats were approached. Tampico newspapermen said they were “asked not to print anything more about the latest incident in Méxicos “war” against the Ame- rican shrimpers it charges with plundering its maritime wealth; ROJAS PINILLA IS INVITED TO LA PAZ BOGOTA, Oct. 16 (UP) — The President of Bolivia, Hernan Siles Suazo, has invited the Colombian President, General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, to visit his country at his convenience. the ex ambassador /of Colombia in La Paz, Carlos Arturo Torres Po- veda, who has returned to assume the position of Minister of Labor. Officially there has bene no in- dication of the possible time for the visit, in case the invitation ‘is accepted, as it is assumed it will be. ; operated on a fracture of the hip. He remained at the hospital sever- al weeks convalescing. An aide declared that Odrfa will have to continue for sometime under a treatment of rehabilita- tion. Odria, who is accompanied by his wife and other members of his family, moved to a Hotel near the Hospital. The aide explained that Odria will have to visit the Hospital every day until he is completely recovered. Until then, he added, the ex-President will not make any public declaration in regard to the charges made against his a tration, The invitation was made through. a ch actor