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| should “look as attractive as pos- _ trying to look and act like men. Inter - American News for English- Speaking people 4th YEAR @. A. SAN ROMAN Ww. c. President Vice FRANCISCO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Eliseo Riera-Gomez Advertising and Circulation Mgr. President 8S. SMITH Vice President SMITH HORACIO AGUIRRE Vice President, Editor and Manager Antonio Ruiz Managing Editor ser een cn A A EP ESSE Published daily except Monday — Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Miami Springs, Fla., on February 8, 1956. EDITORIAL ec RE EL SS PUERTO RICO’S INTERNATIONAL PRESTIGE International prestige of the Puerto Rican people increases day by day, as well as that of the! political entity known as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. That prestige rests, fundamentally, on the solid foundations of a democratic life in that country and of its Government. The new formula of the Commonwealth is being noticed by international public opinion, because it has the support of the majority of the people and because that support has been manifested in an absolutely free manner, as free as the Puerto Rican citizen is. With a highly republican system of government, within the modern concept of the Commonwealth, the Puerto Rican people are demonstrating to the world that they possess enough political maturity to be able to dignify their autonomy. There is no doubt that there is much to be learned by foreigners about the Puerto Rican reali- zations, and it is evident that the formula of the Commonwealth has not been fully developed, for lack of time, not as fully as it can develop within the field of Public Law. The formula admits a) greater development, is eminently dynamic and is) marching toward perfection. The enemies of the United States, or those who refuse to accept modern character, or others with concepts of institutional different arguments, are inclined not to give the Commonwealth the impor- tance it really deserves. To this it must be added the systematic campaign of the communists, who are gravely concerned and feel hurt because in Puerto Rico there is a genuine democracy. Of course, within the island there is a sector struggling for another formula, which is not in- dependence, a sector which, in good faith, with a sense of responsibility is making use of the freedom existing in Puerto Rico to express its way of thin- king, and works, under the auspices of democracy, to achieve victory for its aims and purposes. Currently, hundreds of students from the Amer- icas, both English and Spanish speaking, are going to Puerto Rico in interesting educational tours. There they find a country with well defined perso- nality, with solid historical background, with cultu- ral ambitions, and fully enjoying the fruits of de- mocracy. All this contributes, naturally, to enhance the prestige of Puerto Rico. With the constant effort of her sons, the noble Puerto Rican Fatherland steps toward the conquest is progressing with firm of a better future, making a substantial contribution to the prestige of Amer- ica, San Juan Mayoress Advises Women in Politics to Retain Femininity By BETTY PRYOR UP Staff Correspondent SAN JUAN, P. R. — (UP) — Dofia Felisa Rincén de Gautier, mayoress of San Juan, believes wo- men must be feminine to succeed in politics, “We should work hard but al- ways remember we are women,” she advised. Doha Felisa, who once ran a dress shop, said women in politics sible’—they will never succeed by Doha Felisa, a plump, vivacious woman of 59, gave her views to 22 visiting U. S. newspaperwdmen at a reception in San Juan’s City Hall. Her attire clearly followed her own advice, She wore a black dress, black and silver shawl and silvery drop ear- rings. In her gray hair —braided into a high coronet— she placed a Ted hibiscus blossom. 10 YEARS IN OFFICE During the interview she took time out to show a Washington Rewswoman how to imitate her dis- tinctive hair style. Although she said she is not a Politician, Dofia Felisa has been in Politics a long.time. She has serv- ed 10 years as mayor and city man- ager of this city of nearly 500,000 and was reappointed last month to another four-year term, She credited a “liking for peo- ple” for her success. house with love for all citizens,” she explained. Dona Felisa keeps in close touch with San Juan’s citizens through an “open house” every Wednesday morning. Anyone with a problem or complaint can speak to her per- sonally about it. Dona Felisa, daughter of a law- yer and a school teacher, started her political activity after Puerto Rican women were granted the right to vote in 1932, Husband Objected In 1940 she helped form the Popular Democratic Party, now the dominant political group in Puerto Rico. In its early days, she became treasurer of the party when no one else wanted the job. She accepted appointment as mayor in 1946, after refusing the post ‘two years earlier, She said her husband, lawyer Jenaro A. Gautier, at first opposed her becoming mayor, but later withdrew his objections. As mayor, dofia Felisa is credited with physically cleaning up this ancient city. She has sponsored new housing, schools, street and sanitation improvements. ; She conceded that her program “js not as big as I want,” but said she “has to do the best with the money I’ve got.” Though she has named many women to municipal posts, Dona Felisa said that in making ap- pointments she never ‘thinks ap- “This (city hall) used to be a @old place, but now is a warm terms of men and women,” but ability to do the job, For a better understanding MIAMI SPRINGS, FLA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1957 Venezuelan Progress KNOW THY NEIGHBOR By ANTONIO RUIZ CUBA — The sugar industry, the most important in the country and backbone of the Cuban economy, provides employment for more than 350,000 workers, and the su- gar exported yearly by Cuba re- presents a value of more than 500 million dollars, or about 90 percent of the total Cuban exports. The production of sugar in Cuba is approximately eight million tons per year. A good idea of the im- portance of the sugar industry in the island can be had from the fact that railway lines operated exclusively for service in the sugar mills, owned by them, have more than eight thousand miles of track, while the railroads used for pub- lie service in the whole, country have little more than three thou- sand miles, or less than half. Although Cuba is today the larg- est producer and exporter of sugar in the world, it was not the first country in the Western Hemisphere in which the industry achieved major proportions. Brazil, during the so called sugar cycle of the country’s economy, which ran from approximately 1600 to 1700, was the largest exporter of sugar in the world, and supplied it to most of the nations of Europe. The decline of the industry in that country started w'th the expulsion in 1654 of the Dutch, who took their skills in sugar cane growing} and processing with them. All the production of Cuba is mineous plant originated in India, where it was found by the conquer- ing warriors of Alexander the Great, who were amazed to see that a’ plant could give honey without the help of the bees. The Arabs then learned the secrets of grow- ing sugar cane, and introduced it on the Mediterranean coasts from where it was taken to Green Cape and the Canary Islands and then by the Spanish conquistadores to the New World. The land and the climate in Cuba soon proved to be ideal for growing sugar cane when it was first tried after the discovery of the New World, but because of political circumstances its prog- ress was stopped during the six- teenth and seventeenth centuries, and the growth of the industry did not actually start before the mid- dle of the 18th century. About 1850, Cuban sugar production was less than 300,000 tons, and at the end of the 19th century, before the Cuban war of independence, of 1894, it went up to one million tons. Chemically speaking, sugar is a carbohydrate, so called because the elements composing it are car- bon, oxygen and hydrogen, these last two being combined in the same proportion as they are in water. This substance is a precious food, the richest in thermal energy or calories and is actually elabor- ated in the cane, in the leaves of which Nature operates the marvel- ous phenomenon called photosyn- thesis, during which the chloro- phyllian action of the sunlight com- bines the elements of the water with the carbon of the carbon dioxide of the air. The cane, after having been cut by hand, is carried in oxen-driven wagons or in trucks to the rail- road loading spots. Then it reach- es the mills to be crushed between two steel cylinders, so as to ex- tract the sweet juice. The juice is sterilized and partially purified by heat, calcium hydrate and de- cantation, and then treated to evaporate in vacuum apparatus where the water is separated to concentrate the sugar, which final- ly cristallizes in the vacuum, thus avoiding high temperatures which would destroy the sugar. The sugar indystry, like any other industry, needs fuel, and it is provided also by the sugar cane, in the form of bagasse, or refuse left after grinding. Though the fiber of the bagasse still holds a dampness that amounts to 48 per- cent of its weight, it burns satis- factorily in specially designed fur- naces. Besides providing fuel, the bagasse will now serve as the raw material for another important Cu- ban industry, the manufacture of pulp, paper and cardboard. Con- from the sugar cane, which is a gra- | Most Modern Golf Club in Latin America to be Built in Caracas Soon in Last Few Years Amazing, Mr. Gustavo A. San Roman Says Caracas will have the best golf |course in Latin America in the near futunre, says a report which has been received with enthusiasm in U. S. sports circles. With the purpose of securing the services in this country of an engineer who is an expert in that kind of work, the outstanding Latin American businessman, Mr. Gusta- vo A, San Roman, resident in Ve- nezuela, where he is in charge of important construction and_busi- ness firms, visited Miami. Mr. San -Roman is also President of The Americas Publishing Compa- ny, the editorial house which pub- lishes THE AMERICAS DAILY. With his usual civic spirit, Mr. San Roman takes interest in all projects which are a factor of prog- ress, for that kind of project which mean a step forward’ for any city or country. “As a result of my negotiations —says Mr. San Roman— we have secured the services of one of the most outstanding engineers in the United States specialized in golf courses, who will leave for Ca- racas on Jan. 20 to start planning of the “Lagunita Country Club”. He is Mr. Dick Wilson, Florida engineer, who enjoys great prestige in his profession. “La Lagunita, S. A.” is the or- ganization which is going to build the new Country Club, located at an’ eight-minute drive from the fabulous Tamanaco Hotel, on a boulevard which is already under construction for that purpose. “La Lagunita, S. A.” has a capital of 17 million bolivars (about 5.1 mil- lion dollars), and has purchased a thousand acres of land at 1,300 feet above sea level, where the club will be located and where a mod- ern housing project is planned in the vicinity. “This club —Mr. San Roman states with enthusiasm— will have all the requirements for national and international events. The pro- fessional course will have 18 holes. There will be another course of 9 holes par three, plus holes for practice.” The Board of Directors of “La Lagunita, S. A.”, composed by per- sons of great social and business importance in Venezuela, is as fol- lows: Gustavo A. San Roman, Pre- sident; Santiago Alfonzo Rivas, Moisés Benacerraf, Luis Mannoni, directors; Leopoldo Martinez Ola- varria, Ildefonso Itriago, Lt. Col. Alfonso Ravard, Carlos Caleya, Ri- eardo Zuloaga, Manuel Lacayo, and Oscar Suarez Flamerich, alternates. Golf Committee: Johnny Phelps, Carlos Behrens. Mr. San Roman informs us he has made arrangements to return in February for a tour of the most important golf clubs in the United States, with the purpose of adopt- ing the latest improvements for the new one in Caracas, in order to have the “Lagunita Country Club” fulfill the most modern re- quirements. Here, in Miami, cooperation was offered to Mr. San Roman by Mr. C. C. Shaw, who enjoys great pop- ularity in this city, and Mr, Ma- nuel H, Lépez, well known official of the City of Miami, in charge of Inter American relations. Mr. HEMISPHERIC EVENTS PRESIDENT PRADO TALKS OF HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS LIMA —(UP)— President Ma- nuel Prado said that he has re- established democracy in Pert dur- ing his first five months of govern- ment and that the country’s econ- omy, in terms of production, has reached the highest level in history. In his most imuortant radio speech, since he assumed the pres- idency, Prado, however, mentioned the economic problems of the coun- try and asked the nation to back up his “realistic” economic policy, without controls. “As I promised, I have founded a democratic regime which is an example in América. There is not struction of a plant, the largest in the world for the manufacture of paper from sugar cane bagasse, is to be started soon, with a ‘capital investment of about 15 million dol- lars. Should this factory be suc- cessful, the possibilities. of this new industry are enormous, (Continued tomorrow) Spanish Version Page 3 GUSTAVO A, SAN ROMAN Batista Calls For Stop to ‘‘Quarrels, Acts of Violence” HAVANA — (UP)— President Fulgencio Batista has called for an end to the “menacing quarrels and violence” among various pol- itical elements that plagued Cuba in the closing months of 1956. At least 66 persons died in the eruption of political tempers dur- ing December alone, 27 of them between Christmas and New Year. Batista made his appeal for a “ballots not bullets” solution in a New Year’s message to the nation. He said: “We proclaim once more that the best arms for the ex- ercise of right and peace are bal- lots.” The holiday wave of terrorism was climaxed by a bombing New Year’s Eve in the famed Tropica- na Cabaret. Two 18-year-old wo- men were seriously injured in the explosion, one losing an arm. Police reported finding the bod- ies of two men shot to death un- der still unknown circumstances in the town of Manicaragua in the Province of Las Villas. MEXICAN SUGAR MEXICO —(UP)— The Mex- ican 1956-57 sugar crop has been calculated in 950,000 tons. The National Sugar Producers Association said that this product- ion will be enough to cover nat- ional needs, figured at 930,000 tons, leaving a small balance for the new export quota to the United States, fixed in 30,000 tons. The Association also said that there is a new program to increase the production, probably to more than 1,000,000 tons. San Roman visited the Indian Creek, La Gorce and Riviera coun- try Club, all famous for their ex- cellent golf courses. Speaking about Venezuela, the dynamic businessman said: “It is amazing to see the progress achieved by the country in the last few years. During the month of December important public works were inaugurated, and also many projects complete@ by private in- vestors have started to render im- portant services to the community.” The Hotel Tamanaco, of which he is President, will start soon construction of an addition of two hundred rooms, Mr. San Roman said. “This hotel is accomplishing the task for which it was planned and built,” said the distinguished Latin American businessman, who made these statements before tak- ing the plane to return to Cara- cas,. accompanied by his distin- guished wife, Mrs. Olga de San Roman, and their charming daughter Mercedes, a single person jailed for political activities and neither a citizen who has been denied the right to live in his fatherland, I said again that there is something more im- portant: The era of passions which, for such a long time reigned among ourselves and which caused great harm to the country, has come to an end.’ U, S. ACCUSED OF DUMPING SURPLUS WHEAT BUENOS AIRES —(UP)— The morning daily “Democracia” at- tacks the United States for signing contracts to sell wheat surplus to Brazil at a price lower than the international. The paper accuses the United States of practicing “dumping” of the grain in the Brazilian market, thus harming the Argentinian com- merce, and praises the protest made by Argentina in Washington, considering it totally justified. “Democracia” besides, exhorts the United States to desist of its present practice of grain sales in consideration to the interest of between the Americas Ecuador, President PONCE ENRIQUEZ Term as Governo SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Jan. 2 — (UP) — Luis Mujfioz Marin started today his third term as Gov- ernor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which is for four years, During his inaugural speech, the Governor pledged his Administra- tion again “to promote the secur- ity our people feels in its own democratic vigor.” He pointed out that as the con- cept of the Commonwealth ‘grows and incorporates new zones of au- thority, “we must adjust them to strengthen the power of the peo- ple, in accordance with the wish expressed by their votes.” Munoz Marin promised also to out the island, “employing all means to transmit knowledge and increase understanding of the man- ner in which freedom of the hu- man spirit is forged.” He then said the Puerto Ricans must also learn and teach “how to be better citizens of a Hemi- sphere engaged in great and in- spiring tasks; in the North, trying to create peace, not just trying to avoid war... in the south, creat- ing the means to combat the great economic poverty of the people, as well as building up a democracy rooted in the collective aspirations of the people.” The ceremony took place at the Supreme Court Building. More than 70 foreign personal- ities, who came specially to attend the ceremonies were present, among them Arthur Lansen, Direc- tor of the United States. Informa- tion Agency; Ralph Bunche, As- sistant Secretary of the United Nations; several Latin American countries Ambassadors accredited in Washington and high officials of the State Department. A great number of people was congregated in front of the build- ing. From Washington, President international solidarity. ARGENTINA OFFERS WHEAT TO BRAZIL AND CHILE BUENOS AIRES —(UP)— Ar- gentina told Brazil and Chile that she has enough wheat to suminister any amount they may need in 1957, it was reported in authorized cir- cles. Recently the Argentine Govern- ment protested for the sales of agricultural products, payable with local currency, made by United States to traditional buyers of si- milar Argentine commodities. How- ever it was pointed out in some circles that Argentina was not al- ways prepared to make regular de- liveries to these countries, special- ly in the case of ‘supplying wheat to Brazil. According to the above ment- ioned information about Brazil, Argentine would have offered 1,- 200,000 tons of wheat, correspond- ing to the contract which ends in the mid of the year, and also, 400,- expand public education through- § Member Inter American Press Association For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity NUMBER 146 Political Peace Bringing Progress, Stability to — President States Ponce Enriquez Reaffirms Belief in Victory of Democratic Process Warns Ecuadoreans of Fate of Countries, Like Hungary, Dominated by Communists QUITO, Jan. 2 — Political peace, democratic government, and dev- elopment of the natural resources of the country to achieve a better life for all Ecuadoreans, were stres- sed by President Camilo Ponce Enriquez during his New Year Mes- sage to the people of the Repub- lic. Reminding the people that only four months ago he was inaugurat- ed as Chief Executive “in a solemn and significant ceremony which Muftioz Marin Sworn in for Third r of Puerto Rico Pledges his Administration to Efforts to Strengthening Democratic Ideals Governor MUNOZ MARIN Eisenhower sent a cablegram of congratulations to Mufioz Marin. “I take advantage of this op- portunity —he said— to salute the people of the Commonwealth for the inventive, energy and devo- tion which gave impulse to its rapid political, economic and social dev- elopment. “Attained in a few years —he added— its progress has captivat- ed the imagination. It has demon- strated the flexibility and power of the people capitalism, the con- cept of a free people working to- gether in a modern economy to attain its own economic and social salvation. “The people of the Common- wealth has dramatically proven that with courage and intelligence a free people produce wealth at a considerably accelerated rhythm, with greater opportunities for all, better homes and education, and also more free hours for the in- dividual to enjoy his own forms of culture.” Latin American News in Brief | According to the reports Chile was offered any amount of the cereal she may need. The annual Chilean imports amounts to about 200,000 tons, GUARDS PUSH PRISONERS INTO RIVER, 41 DROWNED RIO DE JANEIRO — (UP) — News Agency ASAPRESS announc- ed that 41 prisoners were drowned when pushed into a river by drunk members of the Minas Gerais State Police. The dead were part of a group of .45 men and 6 women, all of them arrested for misdemeanors, being transferred from Belo Hori- zonte, capital of the Minas Gerais State, to Bahia. They were taken by train from Belo Horizonte to Pirapora, where they were put aboard the vessel “Bajendi”, to make the trip to Bahia by the San Francisco River, According to a message from ASAPRESS, four of the men did not perish —although thrown in 000 more that were not supplied | in 1956, the waters like all the others— because they fell in shallow water.|and Happiness!” showed the soundness of political institutions and the international prestige of the country”, the Pres- ident said his government is “a product of free and democratic electoral process and was born from the will of the majority of the people, their wish for better living conditions, their noble as- pirations for something better, and is also-the channeling power for the life of the people, from whom it received a mandate. Therefore, it is its duty to return to the peo- ple, in creative acts, the confidence deposited in it.” “J thank God, the Supreme Creator—continued the President— because in these four months the Republic has stabilized to a ‘sur- prising degree,” adding that the political struggle continued even after the elections but today Ecua- doreans of good will are working, together with the Government, for a general improvement in the country. Mentioning his Message to Con- gress on September 1st, Ponce En- riquez reaffirmed his belief that “there are three concepts, three words, that envelop everything and rest on the moral order: Justice, Law, and Peace. Justice as a norm, creates the Law as a meth- od, and Peace as a consequence. Peace is born from Law in the same proportion that the latter is based in Justice, I: declared then, - “And what I said then, I have been applying during the four months of my Government, abso- lutely sure that it constitutes a sound and unchangeable formula.” Regarding that political peace, he added: “It is not the peace of the dead nor the peace of the graves. It is not a peace imposed by official threats. Nobody is or- dered how to think, nobody is threatened because he does not think as the Government. Every one thinks as he pleases, expres- ses his thoughts freely, acts with freedom and, since nobody gives any motives for repression, the Government can devote its time to correct administrative irregular- ities, to re-establish credit, reduce debts, to promote the creation of wealth continue its program of pub- lie works, to speak the truth in international affairs and struggle for the strengthening of the moral and material personality of Ecua- dor, so that the precious time lost in political struggles and excesses will be recovered.” The President declared that a partisan government is not conve- nient for Ecuador, it is impossible for Ecuador, adding: “After se- venty years, determining factors, both in the world and in the coun- try, make advisable the policies of right-of-center policies the Govern- ment is following.” He mentioned the policies of li- berals, conservatives and independ- ents, and their differences, in the field of western democracy, “and all would be the victims of annihi- lation and massacre if, as in Hun- gary and Poland, as in Czechos- lovakia and East Germany, Ecua- dor would fall into domination by communism, either open or coat- ed with sweet appearances. We are living in an era so full of dangers, that it is much better to have a doctrinary armistice, with mixed formulas of civilized way of living, to struggle against a common enemy.” Regarding fiscal policies, he said the confidence has returned to the public and commercial transactions and banking operations have in- creased, inspiring abroad possibil- ities of credit, of which the im- mediate future* depends. “We are negotiating loans for public works, in particular for highly important highways, and many others.” Ponce Enriquez said he will con- tinue his program, with firm steps, to achieve the greatest develop- ment of the country and the great- est degree of wellbeing for the people, saying that “with the help ‘of Providence, and faith in the destiny of Ecuador and the co operation of those assisting me,” it will be achieved, “demonstrat. ing to the world that, in spite of family, struggling in the fields of the spirit and in material ones, in search of Beauty, Glory, Harmony, our differences, we are a great. “ y gee ee a