Diario las Américas Newspaper, October 21, 1956, Page 12

Inter-American News _ for English- Speaking people 4th YEAR G. A. SAN ROMAN President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Antonio Ruiz Managing Editor Cc. W SMITH Vice President S. SMITB Vice President HORACIO AGUIRRE Vice President. Editer and Manager Eliseo Riera-Gomez Advertising and Circulation Mgr. —— ed plished daily Office of Miami Springs. DITORIAL except Monday — Bntered as second class matter at the Post Fla. on February & 1956. INCREASING INTEREST FOR LATIN AMERICA IN THE UNITED STATES Although there is still much to be done, in the ‘nited States a marked interest in Latin America developing; about life there, production capacity, iltural level, social and economic, as well as poli- cal problems and, moreover, a sustained concern is oted in strengthening relations with those nations hich jointly represent a total of more than one undred and seventy million human beings. It is important to point out the fact that this iterest and concern is. manifested not only in gov- ‘nment cicles of the Republic, but also in all sectors f the national community. | In the universities, as much as in industrial id commercial centers, one feels the desire of a reater cultural and trade interchange with the atin American nations. dlidarity in the face of tready a collective consciousness of the great value) f the support given to the United States by the And, regarding political world problems, there is wenty Latin American nations. There are plenty of reasons for the existence of 1is movement of Interamerican approachment, | ecause for the United States there is no other | egion on earth whose friendly bonds are of more| iterest, and almost necessary, as they are with) atin America, that region where progress has, een taking place at a faster pace than any other | 1 the world during the | Of course, for the Latin American countries) is interesting, and almost necessary also, to have | ie friendship, support and solidarity of the United tates, ag well as the economic cooperation. It is | his reason, precisely, which makes Interamerican | pproachment so good, because it rests on the foun- | ~<a? ast decades. ations of reciprocal convenience. The courtesies extended in Kansas to the mbassadors of the Latin American Republics is nother proof of the depth reached in the national riterium by the idea of the eutstanding opportu- ities existing in the Latin American countries for he commercial and industrial development of the Jnited States. As it is well known, these diplomats) re now in Kansas visiting the Livestock Fair and forse Show of the progressive city of the State f Missouri. In a significant manner, the leaders of the) ‘ansas community, with fficials of the State Department and the encour-| the cooperation of high gement of such personalities as Henry F, Holland, rought to this city the verything that can be denominated as the Latin) official representation of ,merican World, and from which Kansas will erive multiples benefits erive multiple benefits of commercial character) nd f#fétidly scope. of commercial character It is a crop Kansas is sowing in| the dinner. He finished on a high | he generous soil of good will and it.is also an invest- ossibilities. Care Food Parcels to Help Needy in the Latin American Countries Increased people-to-people CARE d will reach more than a quarter ‘ a million families in five Latin merican countries through the 356 CARE Food Crusade. The American people are sharing teir own agricultural abundance trough the medium of CARE with ie most needy throughout the free orld”, Richard W. Reuter, CARE |the cost of packaging and distribu-|Newspapermen were referred to as xecutive Director, said today. tion in each of the recipient coun-|“the Republican press” and Mr. This year’s Good Crusade aims ; the distribution of five million yecial packages of powdered milk, aeese, rice, beans, wheat flour, om meal and other foodstuffs ‘om U. §. agricultural surplus ockpiles among needy, families as ell as hospitals, orphanages, child- seding centers, old-age homes and milar institutions in 19 countries. The five Latin American coun- ‘ies included in the CARE Food rusade.are. Colombia, Costa Rica, 1 Salvador,"Honduras and Pana- 14, With the exception of Pana- (a, each of the countries will re- sive 60,000 of the special CARE ood Crusade packages with an verage of 22 pounds each, enough » help feed a family of four for month, Panama will receive 20,- 00 of these packages, which will ting the Food Crusade total for '1e five countries to 260,000 pack- fen If purchased on the American | domestic market, the contents of each Food Crusade package would lcost about $8. The food was given | to CARE by the U. S. Department \of Agriculture for foreign relief |purposes. The American people are being asked to contribute at the rate of $1 per package, to cover tries. Distribution of the Food Crusade packages will be strictly on the basis of need and will be under the supervision of the CARE Mission |chief in each of the five countries. “The willingness to help others |less fortunate than ourselves has | always been one of the most out- standing traits of the American people,” Mr. Reuter said. “The Food Crusade provides an ideal means to share through CARE. Groups as well as individual citi- zens, will be able to augment the Good Neighbor policy of our Gov- ernment on a people-to-people basis | by contributing to the Food Cru- sade”. Food Crusade donations in any amount may be forwarded through any local CARE office, or directly to CARE, 660 First Avenue, New York 16, N.Y. J hed} For a better understonding between the Americas Nicaraguan Journalist. Rejects Accusations on to, ex-Director of the daily “La | Flecha,” of Managua, declared that the reports accussing him and WIN PENDLETON SUNSHINE POLITICS — Watch | out when Democrats get mad. That jis when they win elections. And they are mad in Florida. They seem to be at their best after they have taken a beating and are get- ting “needled” about it by the Re- publicans. And the Republicans | have rubed the Florida Demo- crats the wrong way. | We are just back from a flying | trip to Florida where we took a} quick look at the political pot as it its boiling in the dep South. As |we did during the recent elections in Georgia, we traveld around a| bit, talked to a lot of people —| and listened to political speeches. We can’t say for sure how Flori- da will go in November, but we did come back to Washington with one firm conviction. Florida De-| mocrats are fighting mad—mad| enough to get to work — mad enough to do something about los- jing their State to the Republicans four years ago. | We saw how determined they are when we ate a free meal at a Democratic dinner in Lakeland last week. The Speaker of the House, | Sam Rayburn, was the principal speaker. Also dozens of local elect- ed officials and party leaders were on hand. The place was packed — with a small number actually being turned away for lack of room. The meeting started out in high gear when the chairman ridiculed stories that Florida Democrats were fighting among themselves. He said that where he came from when cats or Democrats sounded like they were fighting with each other, it generally resulted in more | eats or more Democrats. This crowd put on a full show for their visitor from Texas. Mr. Rayburn was given the key to the | city by the Mayor. Then former | |Congressman J. Hardin Peterson | \presented him with a box of fish-| ing tackle — which Congressman Syd Herlong invited him to use the next day. Everybody praised everybody | else. Florida political _hatchets were buried (or at least kep out jof sight) because “company” had | come. One speaker used 20 minutes to thank the folks who helped put on | note by thanking the man who jhauled the organ to the banquet hall. Another man, presented as “our genial tax collector,” set out | to introduce everbody there. He! almost succeeded. The only person he missed was an inebriated gen- | tleman who had been diplomatical- | ly removed before his turn. After that warm-up, the show really got on the road. The Demo- crats seemed to vie with each other | pretext of the government for words of denunciation against the Republicans. Once, when the} public address sytem acted up, the toastmaster accused the Republic-\ ans of trying to sabotage the meet- | ing. The “GOP” was described as the “Grabinest Old “Party.” The, Rayburn was called the greatest American since. Thomas Jefferson by one speaker and the greatest since Robert E. Lee by another. Still another said that when the Republicans elected Dwight Eisen- hower President of the United States all they did was to ruin a good general. Everybody reached for the heights of eloquence, Old jokes, old puns, old political stor- ies, filled the hot and stuffy room. At one exciting point the toast’ master cried out, “I wish the Re- publicans could see us now.” The guest of honor himself suc- cumbed to the spirit of the even- ing and in closing he declared, “I'm a hard-shelled Baptist — and predict that you fighting Demo- | crats will carry Florida for the party this time — and that with your help, Stevenson will be our |next President.” Could you expect |ea, N. Y., and John A, Thompson, Somozas Murder Report MEXICO, Oct. 20—(UP)— The other Nicaraguan political exiles Nicaraguan exile Hernan Roble- of being involved in the assassina- tion of President Anastasio Somo- za, “are completely false and fan- tastic.” Robleto issued a signed declara- tion in which he accuses the au- thorities of his fatherland of having invented the plot to assas- sinate Somoza, “to justify the ter- ror created in the country by Somoza’s sons,” and he added that the proof that there was no plot is the fact that after the death of Somoza there was no rebellion by the Nicaraguan people and nothing extraordinary happened. After he dubbed as false and fantastic the charges of the Nica- raguan authorities that there was | a plot, Robleto said that “it has to be taken into consideration that in Nicaragua no news are publish- ed unless they emanate from the regime, and that the foreign cor- respondents can transmit only whatever news the regime has in- terest in propagating for its own | ends. The charges of a vast terror- ist plot that culminated with the death of Anastasio Somoza, is a and Somoza’s sons to exercise repris- | als even against the families of | those who were always oppossed to | the Somoza System and to main- tain the horror of the dreadful situation now reigning in Nicara- gua.” “The charge that I am involved in conspiracies, is one of the most capricious charges made by the de- spots in my country. against me for many years.” “My attitude is and always will be maintained with only the might of the pen in favor of the freedom which for a long time has been held in irons by the most shameful tyranny of the continent, inherit- ed today by beardless youngsters, irresponsibles in morals, in po- litics, and in any thing. “The proof that the heroic act of Rigoberto Lopez Pérez did not have instigators or conexions, is that there were not subsequent events, in the country, which would denounce connivances with the executioner of Somoza’s death. “The Mexican authorities will be able to say if Lopez Pérez was in México. “Everything else that may be said to justify the terror imposed on Nicaragua by Somoza’s sons is nothing else than the product of fear and the desire for venge- ance against ninety per cent of the population, which have always re- pudiated, by licit means, the re- gime of oprobium.” CONGRATULATIONS The home of Manolo Fernan- dez and his beautiful wife, Shirley Smith Fernandez, has been blessed witl the arrival of a beautiful habv girl, who will be named Ana Maria. On this occasion, THE AME- RICAS DAILY takes special pleasure in sending to Caracas, where the Fernandez reside, the most cordial congratulations. Miami Springs, Fla., Sunday, October 2 1, 1956 os Guatemalan Gvt. Lists Exiles Who May Return More Applications to be Considered GUATEMALA, Oct. 20—(UP)— The Ministry of Foreign Relations published a list of 156 exiles whose return to the country has been authorized by the Govern- ment. The majority of these persons left the country right after the fall of the Arbenz regime. The Ministry is studying now the complete list of exiles to au- thorize “who else can return to the country immediately.” Officials of the Ministry said that the Government has received a great number of applications from exiles who want to return to Gua- temala and cooperate with the gov- ernment in the work of the coun- try’s economic development. These applications are being considered by ‘the Ministry of Foreign Rela- tions and decisions will be made known shortly. Meanwhile, preparations are be- ing made to celebrate the twelfth anniversary of the October 1955 re- volution, when Ponce’s dictator- ship was overthrown. The country labor unions — among them the Autonomous Labor Federation — jealled on its members to aid in the celebration, The government have also prepared an official pro- gram. On the other hand it has been informed that the authorities ar- rested Gerald 0, Elsner, 35 year old Costa Rican citizen, when he came back to the country. Elsner, of British origin, has been accus- ed of being “an international agi- tator” and according to informa- tion received, was an instructor of the Costa Rican National Police. Fer Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity Member Inter American Press Association NUMBER 88 Mexican Church Praised for Attitude on Civic Activities of Citizens Participation in Civic Affairs is a Duty of Social Charity, Says Church - Panama Government Studying Suez Toll Payment Problem LONDON, Oct. 20—(UP)— The| Panamanian Government made it | clear today that any orders to! ships flying the Panamanian flag in regard to the payment of Suez Canal tolls must emanate from Pa- nama. So far the Panamanian Govern- ment has given no orders to Pan- amanian ships to pay dues to the Suez Canal Users Association, Following press reports that the | United States intended urging Pa- nama to block American - owned ships flying the Panamanian flag from paying Canal dues direct to Egypt, Dr. Roberto Arias, the Pan- amanian Ambassador in London issued the following Statement: “Government guidance to mas- ters of ships in regard to conflict- ing claims for payment of Suez/| Canal tolls by vessels owned by | corporations organized under the laws of Panama and-which sail un- der the flag of Panama cannot va- lidly enmanate from London or Washington or Cairo but from Pa- | nama. ‘The Government of Panama is watching developments carefully but it has not announced its offi- cial position in the matter.” LONDON, 20 (® Eng. and. Cap. | Oscar A. Quihillalt, president of Argentina’s . .ational Atomic Ener gy Authority, said that during his brief visit to Britain he made con- tacts with several British engine- ering firms able to build an atom- ie factory in Argentina for pro- ducing uranium bars. He said: ‘We already have one but we need a bigger one and that will probably be built near the site of the present one we have.” He said his visit to Caldor Hall, Britain’s and the world’s first atomic power station for general usé, and to Harwell, the research station of Britain’s atomic energy commission, was full of vital in- terest for Argentina and her atom- ie program. Captain Quihilalt said: “In fut- ure the line we in Argentine must follow in regard to the use of the atomic reactor is the British line. The British use natural uranium and we wish to do the same be- cause we can then use our own uranium which will make us inde- pendent of outside supplies.” Captain Quihillalt said that with the great and growing demand for power in Argentina atomic power stations could and would fill a vital role in the-nations economy and he forecast that Argentina would have her own atomic power sttaion within a few years. He said: “at the moment the in- stallation cost of one such atomic electrical plant is higher than a HEMISPHERIC EVENTS Argentina to Follow Britain's ~ Line in Atomic Energy Program conventinal plant. But we are sure that in a few years the situa- tion will change and the cost of such.a plant will be lower. The cost of coal is increasing yearly and as the cost of producing elec- tricity from coal rises that of pro- ducing it from atomic processes falls.” He said that on his visit to wit- ness the opening of Calder Hall atomic power station in Cumber- land he had met Sir Edward Plow- den, Chairman of Britain’s Atomic Energy and had had “some very in- teresting conversation” with him. He said he had also met Sir John Cocheroft the Director of the Atomic Energy Researh es- tablishment, when he visited Har- | well. He described .both meetings as “very fruitful” and added: “T hope there will be more con- tacts between the atomic energy authorities of both countries as well as private manufacturing and research quarters.” He said there were now con- siderable numbers of Argentine scientific students studying atomic energy questions in Britain. Some were at Cambridge and others at Birmingham University, both the chief centers for atomic research in British universities. He said that there had been three Argentine professos at the main British re- search station at Harwell but that these men had now completed their studies and returned to Argentina. He said more would be coming | step, | stained MEXICO, COt. 20—(UP)— The Mexican Nationalist Party and the National Action Party declared that the Catholic Church took a “transcendental and exceptional” when it earnestly recom- mended the Mexican people to par- ticipate more actively in the po- litical life of the country. The Institutional Revolutionary | Party, — the government’s — ab- from commenting the Church Manifest published here. However, some members of the groups said that the declaration should be studied carefully to ap- preciate its political content and its possible repercussions. The Popular Party, leftist and headed by Vicente Lombardo To- ledano, announced that it will com- ment on the Manifest once it has been examined amd analyzed. The Church document, signed by ten archbishops and thirty two bishops, exhorts all Mexicans, in particular the Mexican women, to take an active interest in politics beause “the fate of the family and of human relations, are hanging on it.” Participation in public activi- ties, it said, “is a social charity duty as each citizen, within his re- sponsibilities, should comribute to the well being of the nation. The National Action Party maintains that the Manifest of the Prelates “is of exceptional value to guide the civic conscience of the Mexican people. Political du- ties are not of secondary import- ance; on the contrary, they have exceptional importance, because the integration of the State and of | the common well being reality de- pends on its compliance.” In its part, the Nationalist Par- ty points out that the document “is of transcendental importance for all Mexicans,” and promises to make a complete study of it at the National Convention, after which it will formulate a more am- ple declaration. Saving and Loan Association in Pera, Starts With §300, Succeeds LIMA, Pers —(UP)— Father Daniel McLellan, of Denver, Col., a priest of the Order of Maryenoll, said that a savings and loan asso- ciation he organized last year is making small capitalists out of heretofore poverty - stricken In- dians in the Peruvian Andes. The association, first of its kind in Pert, also makes possible for an Indian to borrow money for emer- gency needs at reasonable rates. Loan sharks in remote mountain areas charge as high as 25 per cent monthly interest. Father McLellam organized the “Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de San Juan” in Puno, with a cap- ital of $300 and 20 members. To- day the credit and savings coopera- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MOURNS DEATH OF PINA CHEVALIER CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Oct. 20 — (UP) The Government of the Do- minican Republic has decreed three days of official mourning for the death of Plinio Pina Chevalier, uncle of General Héctor B. Truji- llo, President of the Republic. Pina Chevalier, 70, for 10 years Minister Counselor to the Domini- can Embassy in Washington, and a former cabinet minister, died at St. Luke’s hospital, New York, of a heart ailment. An uncle also of Generalissimo Rafael Leondias Trujillo, Domini- jean strong man, he was credited with introducing his nephew into politics prior to Trujillo’s taking up a military career with the U. S. Marines during the American oc- cupation of Santo Domingo. His body will be taken to San Cristobal, Dominican Republic, where he was born. He is survived by his widow, Se- over. fiora Hercilia Pina Chevalier. Latin American News in Brief — ONE YEAR TRIP TO ARGENTINA ROSARIO, Argentina —(UP)— Two American canoeists have ar- rived in Rosario on a trip from the Caribbean through he heart of South America. Henry W. Ferris, Jr., 25, of Itha- of Portsmouth, Ohio, 28, started their journey on Oct. 26 last year. They used two aluminum canoes, with pirogue sails and paddles. During the final stage of their trip through the South American jungles they subsisted on a diet of monkeys, alligators and snakes, where nothing else was available, Their route took them up the Orionoco River and the Rio Negro by the Cassaguare channel. Then south to the Amazon and up the Tapajés and Arinos rivers, until there was not enough water, They then made a portage across ‘any less? country to near the source of the Paraguay river. On their way down the Paraguay they took a long rest in Asuncién. They are both Korean veterans and so moaest about their feat that their arrival a few days ago pass- ed unnoticed in the 15-mile stretch of wharves in Argentina’s second largest port. ARGENTINE PRODUCTION OF HIDES INCREASES WASHINGTON — (UP) — The United States Commerce Depart- ment reported that Argentine pro- duction of cattle hides and calf- skins in the first half of 1956 was estimated at about 6,000,000 pieces a gain of 10 to 15 per cent over the 1955 level. A dispatch from the United States Embassy at Buenos Aires, published in the Foreign Com- merce Weekly, said that the larg- er introduction of hides and skins was atrributed by traders to in- creased slaughter for meat exports. Argentine sheepskins produc- tion the first half of 1956 was es- timated at 4,000,000 skins, a-10 per cent drop from the 1955 estimate. This decline was explained as due to betterprices for wool than for meat. Argentine exports of cattle hides and calfskins in the fivet six months of 1956 were 4,500,000 pie- ces compared with 3,500,000 in the same period of 1955. The Netherlands was the prin- cipal foreign market for Argentine cattle hides and calfskins, purchas- ing 1,053,870 units. BRITISH EXPLORERS HELP ARGENTINES LONDON—(UP)— British Ant- arctic exploers went to the aid of an Argentine soldier seriously in- jured in an accident on a glacier A message received at the Colon- ial Office said a medical officer and other Britons from the Antarctic base at Hope Bay, Graham Land, had set off to the aid of the Ar- gentines following receipt of a call for help. An Argentine officer in charge of a survey party operating 13 miles south of Hope Bay had ra- dioed ' for assistance following a glacier accident in which one of his men had fractured his back, the message said. The Argentine party had also lost three dogs, a sled and much of their equipment. The Colonial office said it did not know whether the mercy mis- sion had been successful. The base at Hope Bay, which has a garrison of 12 Britons, was established in earlier this week, the colonial of- fice said, 1945 for meteorological surveying. . tive has $20,000 in outstanding loans, another $5,000 waiting for customers and more than 300 “stockholders.” “We had two goals,” Father Me- Lellan said. “First, we wanted to encourage systematic savings among the Indiand and laboring people. Second, we wanted to make reasonable loans available to them.” Indians pay back their loans promptly, he found, So far, only one borrower has defaulted. He owes $11.50. He is not an Indian. “We think we are proving the In- dians and working people of Peri can pay for their own homes,” Father McLellan told this corres- pondent. “There has been a lot of talk about the need for a government housing program, financed by U. S. or international lending agen- cies. We believe the homes can be financed locally. There is a lot of money under mattresses out there in the provinces.” He said a home can be built in Puno, Southern Pert, for about $1,000. Withing the next year the San Juan cooperative will be able to make such a loan. With pay- ments of $17.50 a month, the home would be “clear” in five yers and 10 months, the priest said. Father McLellan came to Lima from Puno this week to try to per- suade the Government to start local loan associations throughtout Pert. This, he said, would be the fastest solution to the housing problem. “We know now that the Indians and working people will repay their loans on time,” he said.» “But banks in Perd, by law, can make only commercial loans. Many In- dians speak no Spanish and do not unedrstand ‘finance. There are few reliable loan agencies for them anyway. They must turn to loan sharks for homes or emergencies”, OAS President Decorated by Haitian Govt. WASHINGTON, 20 — (UP) — The Haitian Ambassador to the Or- ganization of American States, L, Leger, imposed the highest decora- tion of his country to the President of the organization, Dr. César Tu- lio Delgado, of Colombia. At the ceremony were the La in American ambassadors to the OAS, high officials of the Colomb- ian Embassy, and a delegation of the OAS itself. Leger delivered to Delgado de Great Cross of the Order of Mer- - it, saying: “As President of the Or- ganization of American States you are a crusader for peace in our hemisphere. Since your efforts and personal prestige are part of the great success of the OAS, nobody is better qualified to receive the highest decoration of my country.” Delgado answered he was highly honored with the distinction and assured that day after day he will try to be worthy of \