Diario las Américas Newspaper, January 6, 1957, Page 12

ne Sn as Inter - American News for English- Speaking people 4th YEAR @. A. SAN ROMAN President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Eliseo Riera-Gomez Advertising and Circulation Mgr. “Cc. W. SMITH Vice. President 8. SMITH Vice President HORACIO AGUIRRE Vice President. Editor and Manager Antonio Ruiz Managing Editor ep a a RR SAY Published daily except Monday — Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Miami Springs, Fla., on February 8, 1956. ES SS EDITORIAL THE UNITED STATES AND THE NEAR EAST The events initiated with the Anglo-French attack on Egypt have changed. without a doubt, the course of human history. The position of force assumed by the Western Powers, with the exception: of the United States, defeated—to say the least— part of the policies followed until then by the nations which, representing liberty, acted as a brake to. the characteristic Soviet brutality and, at the same time, of encouragement for the peoples enslaved by com- munism. Extraordinary maturity was demonstrated by President Eisenhower’s Government in keeping away from the theatre of operations in the Mediterranean and taking refuge in the United Nations, a peace instrument embodying the hope for salvation of a world threatened with the desintegration produced by atomic and hydrogen bombs. The Arab world is of such importance in this century, that it can be well said that humanity is turning her eyes on the regions comprising the basin of the legendary Eufrates. To get involved in a policy of force to maintain a position in Suez, was equivalent to bury all the prestige surrounding the thesis of the United States of maintaining the banner of the United Nations as the center of justice for humanity. It is often better to accept a cooling of relations with Britain and France than to destroy the principles of equilibrium with the Arab world. The step taken by London and Paris was afflic- ted with all the international defects that may surround a mistake of such magnitude. The United States, the greatest power of this century in the Western World, was engaged in the last laps of a Presidential electoral campaign. It cannot be denied that President Eisenhower risked his electoral vic- tory when he assumed the “hands-off” attitude in the invasion of Egypt. Besides the electoral situation in the United States, at that moment the torch of freedom was burning high in Hungary. A people represented by their Army first and all proud and worthy citizens later, heroically struggled, between liberty and slavery, in the noble Hungarian land. The magnifi- cent gesture was getting lost, unfortunately, in the labyrinth created by the Egyptian problem. Britain and France with their invasion were creating the pretext needed by the savage forces of communism to destroy the material resistance for Hungarian freedom. . The re-consideration of Anglo-French policies, inspired by the strong position of Washington, has created a danger even greater as far as Russia is concerned. First, because there is. now a visible although temporary crack in the Western block, and second, because the support that all of them have given later to the United Nations in the case of Egypt, has clearly revealed the effrontery of Moscow in the case of Hungary. The first situation creates the atmosphere for an attack, and the second encourages it, out of the desperation created by world reaction to the massacres of Budapest. There lies the importance of having Russia well acquainted -with the true world situation, The message of the President of the United States, re- questing approval of the four points of the Eisenhow- er Doctrine in the Middle East, gives assurances to the world that this great country will not remain indifferent to communist aggression, which seems inclined to follow in other parts of the world the shameful tactics of Budapest, taking advantage of the loss of prestige of Britain and France with their attitude in Egypt. The warning given by President Eisenhower seems to be at this moment the best hope for salva- tion of world peace. Three Hundred Murdered in Colombia in Ninety Days, Ibague Bishop Says BOGOTA, Jan. 5 (UP)—Mons- ignor Pedro Maria Rodriguez An- drade, Bishop of Ibagué, revealed that “in the last ninety days the innocent vietims (of hyghway men) in the capital of Tolima and its surrounding territories, amounted to almost three hundred. He made that statement about the activities of “the enemies of national peace” in a pastoral letter addressed to the farmers of his Diocese with New Years greetings, saying that no other place in Co- Jombia has been more ravaged and vexed by those enemies. ‘The letter said that the fields in almost the whole of the Tolima Department have changed into “a lurking place for human beasts and in a region wrapped in shadows of death.” He affirms he is not Oxagerating and that facts are, eternally, facts. He relates a system of extermina- tion which he says has been put into practice several times by the bandits: In a rural sector, the soulless men locked inside their own home a whole family of parents and children and put the torch to the house. Only sad, burned up vestiges, which the local priets gathered in a bag to show them to the authorities, remained.” The bishop says that it is forbid- den, not to scandalize the readers, to narrate “the moral impurities and insolences of this breed of snakes, of this shameless rabble.” The Tolima Department is, prac- tically, the last bulwark of the bandolerism which plagued several regions of the country during the Jast yéars, according to official affirmations made several times, +n spe dites ti For WIN PENDLETON HAPPY NEW SESSION.— The | 85th Congress opens today, Jan. 3, 1957. Here is the roll call of the Florida Delegaton. Cut out this list and save it for future reference, SEN. SPESSARD HOLLAND.— (Senior Senator). Bartow. Former Governor of Florida. Chairman of the Commerce and Related Agen- cies Subcommittee of the Appro- priations Committee; Chairman of the Agriculture Credits and Rural Electrification Subcommittee of the Agriculture Committee. On Democratic Steering Committee. SENATOR GEORGE SMATHERS (Junior Senator),—Miami. Second term. Chairman of the Military Pro- curement and Small Business Sub- committee of the Finance Commi- ttee; Chairman of the Surface Tran- sportation subcommittee of the In- terstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. Also, Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committe. CONGRESSMAN BILL CRA- MER. (1st District). St. Petersburg, Florida’s lone Republican Member. Second term. His assignments in- clude: Rivers and Harbors, Flood Control and Public Roads Sub-com- mittees of the Public Works Com- mittee. Also serves on the Claims Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee. CONGRESSMAN CHARLIE BEN NET — (2nd District) — Jack- sonville, Fifth term. Member of Armed Services Committee and the Democratic Congresssional Cam- paign Committee. Responsible for making Fort Caroline on the St. Johns River a National Park. In- troduced the resolution making “In God We Trust” our national motto. CONGRESSMAN BOB SIKES— (3rd District)— Crestview. Ninth term, Has served since 1945. He is the “Dean” of the Florida Dele- gation; affectionately referred to as the “He-coon”. A member of the Appropirations Committee and Chairmafi of the Army Subcommi- ttee. Headed Stevenson’s success- ful primary race in Florida. CONGRESSMAN DANTE FAS- CELL (4th District). Miami. Se- cond term. At present is serving on a special Government Informa- tion Subcommittee of the Govern- ment Operations Committee. Pur- Pose is to study charges that some government agencies withhold facts that should be made public. Also Committee. CONGRESSMAN SYD HER - LONG (5th District). Leesburg. 5th term. Only member from Florida ever to serve on Ways and Means Committee, An expert on taxation. Because of his citrus business back- ground and long service on the Agriculture Committee, he is con- sulted on all matters pertaining to citrus legislation, CONGRESSMAN PAUL ROGER (6th District). Ft. Lauderdale, Se- cond term. On Public Works Com- mittee. Is co-author of the Kenne- dy-Rogers Act aimed at saving $4 billion a year by stream-lining budget and accounting procedures in the Government —as_ recom- mended in the second Hoover Co- mmission report, CONGRESSMAN JIM HALEY (7th District). Sarasota. 3rd Term. Serves on 2 committees: House Ad- ministration and Interior and In- sular Affairs, Is chairman of the Indian Affairs Subcommittee. Was formerly head of the Ringling Bro- thers Circus. Helped make it the greatest show on earth, CONGRESSMAN BILLY MAT- THEWS. (8th District)— Gaines- ville. Third term, Serves on Agri- culture Committee, Noted as a pu- blie speaker and master of cere- monies. Pet Project is construc- tion of a Neuro-Psychiatric Vete- rans’ Hospital on a plot of land alredy owned by the Government at Gainesville, sep te on Post Office and Civil Service | a better understanding between the Americas MIAMI SPRINGS, FLA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1957 States Group Declares SAN SALVADOR, Jan. 5 (UP) — The Organization of Central- American States (OCAS) said that Belize (British Honduras) “is Gua- temalan land” and added that its members “are determined to res- tore it to the Central-American family.” The last bulletin of the OCAS publishes an editorial note entitled “Belize belongs to Guatemala,” in which, among other things, it says: “The presence of colonial rule on Belize — that bit of Central- American soil—is a painful symbol and unpleasant taste of the affronts inflicted by the British Empire on Central-America, in the course of | its history.” “It is still fresh in the memory of the Isthmus the events of Mos- quitia, Rio San Juan and the Bahia Isles, as. well as the invasions of Costa Rica.” “Neither will the Central-Amer- icans forget that the Central America Federal Republic did not obtain, during its ephemeral life, England’s recognition, precisely because their representatives did not submit to hand over Belize and to sign the renunciation of Central America’s right which Great Bri- tain exacted as the price for such recognition.” “Belize is Guatemalan land and, consequently, Central - American land, and the members of the OCAS are determined, for that reason, to restore it to the bossom of the Cen- tral American family.” ECUADOR TURNS RAILWAYS OVER TO PRIVATE CO. QUITO, Ecuador —(UP)— The Conservative Government of Presi- dent Camilo Ponce has issued a de- cree turning over the National Railways to a private company. The preamble of the decree said Government operation of the rail- ways had resulted in losses dur- ing many years. It added that the time had come to place the 602- mile lines on a paying basis and to modernize them. The decree emphasized that the railways furnish the chief means of transportation between Guaya- quil, Ecuador’s chief seaport, and Quito, the capital, up in the Andes mountains, be a stockholder in the new com- pany, the latter will otherwise operate as any other private enter- prise, under Ecuador’s commercial laws. Government sources said one purpose of placing the railways under private administration is to to modernize and re-equip the rail- ways, HEMISPHERIC EVENTS IBANEZ TO VETO PAY INCREASES OVER 25 PERCENT SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 5 — (UP)— President Carlos Ibéfiez warned Congress he will veto any measures providing pay increases of more than 25 per cent in private trade and industry. The Senate already had approv- ed a bill providing for a 35 per cent nationwide pay boost, which Ibafiez charged would have a tre- mendous inflationary impact on the general Chilean economy. The Senate’s action resulted in an immediate drop in the quotation of the Chilean peso, from 600 to 620 to the dollar. LARSEN PRAISES PUERTO RICO SAN JUAN, P. R. —(UP)— Arthur Larsen, Director of the U. S. Information Agency, said he will leave for the Middle East on Jan. 22, via London, Berlin and, per- haps, Rome. Here to attend Gov. Luis Mu- fioz Marin’s inauguration, Larsen said his tour probably would take him as far East as New Delhi, India. He said he would offer Puerto Rico to the peoples of the Middle East as a “perfect example” prov- ing that agricultural countries can ou. totalitarianism, but within the framework of free enterprise, aid- ed by the Government, Although the Government will: attract the foreign capital needed| Panama Canal is Suggested NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (UP) — James P. Warburg in a letter to the times today on the Administra- tion’s Mid-East policy says: “The Administration could make a vital contribution towards a so- lution of the Suez problem by re- viving its 1945 proposal to interna- tionalize all the world’s strategic waterways. By offering to place the Panama Canal under United Na- tions control the United States could make it almost impossible for Egipt to refuse to take similar action with respect to Suez and the narrow entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba.” A letter to the Herald Tribune by Arnold Peter Moller, head of the Maersk fleet of nearly seventy ships, had written from Copenhagen is in similar vein. Mr. Moller wrote: “If the problem concerned the Panama Canal or if the Lord had not blessed America by enormous oil great natural resources, what would be the attitude of the United States and its people?” Sheriff Kelly To Make Batista Honorary Member Of Air Patrol About 200 Persons Expected to Take ‘ Part in Interesting Cruise to Cuba Sheriff Thomas J. Kelly of Miami will present an honorary member- ship in the Dade County Sheriff’s Air Patrol to President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, on Tuesday, Jan- uary 8th, at the Presidential Pa- lace in Havana, in a ceremony at 5:30 p.m., in which the Cuban Chief Executive will receive a badge and scroll certifying his membership. Badges of honorary members will be presented also to Hernando Her- nandez, National Police Chief; Cos- me Varas, Aide to Pres. Batista; Antonio Pérez Benitoa, Director of Customs; and Captain Guillermo Alexander, of the Cuban Air Force, Director of the Aviation Depart- ment of the Cuban Tourist Com- mission. Sheriff Kelly and his party will leave Miami at 3:45 p.m. on Tues- day, arriving at 4:45 in the Hava- na Airport, from where a Police escort will take them to the Presi- dential Palace for the presentation. Mr. James G. Pace, Cruise Direc- tor of the Florida Air Pilot’s As- sociation, will introduce Sheriff Kelly to Batista, who has invited all the participants in the 15th Annual Miami-Havana Air Cruise of the Association to attend the presentation. Participants in the cruise to Cuba will have a barbecue-dance tomor- Member Inter American Press Association For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity re NUMBER 149 Belize is “Guatemalan |U.N.Conttolot/Susnected Bomber Shot Land’ Central American to Death by Police in GABRIELA MISTRAL, CHILEAN POETESS, SERIOUSLY ILL NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (UP)— The family of Chilean poetess Gabriela Mistral, winner of the Nobel Lite- rature Prize, said today that her condition is critical. The poetess is still at the Hemps- tead General Hospital, where she was admitted, on November last, to be treated for a “possible gastric ulcer.” Up to the earlier hours of the morning her physician, Dr. Martin L. Goldfarb, could not be located. However, it is known that cons- tant observation is maintained on the patient. his Havana Residence HUGO FERNANDEZ BELIEVED TO BE INVOLVED IN TROPICANA BOMBING ' Police Investigating Tragedy in Which Young Girl, Lost Arm Say he Shot First HAVANA, Jan. 5 —(Special to THE AMERICAS DAILY) — Hugo Fernandez Barroso, 29, was shot to death in a clash with the police at his residence in the Ayestarén district of this city. It was reported that Major Cris- tébal Vielle, Inspector of the Ma- rianao district ordered an inves- tigation of Fernandez’ activities, in the belief that he was compli- cated in the bomb explosion of the Tropicana Cabaret, in which outrage a young girl, Magaly Mar- tinez, lost an arm. Complying with the order, several agents, engaged in the investigation, arrested him in a bar in Vedado, and, with the purpose of searching his home, at 20 de Mayo and Martha Abreu, he was taken there, where he suddenly pulled out a pistol he carried at tached to his leg and started shoot- ing--at-the- policemen who were guarding him. The policemen then shot him down with four bullets in.the chest. Carried immediate- ly to an emergency aid station for attention he was dead on arrival. Fernandez Barroso was involved in the holdup of the Banco Con- tinental de la Sierra, in-Marianao, a few’ years ago and was arrested, tried and, upon conviction, sen- tenced to 4 years imprisonment. In that robbery two agents of the National Police were killed. Now he was suspected of complicity in the terrorist outrage at the Tropi- cana Cabaret, - Prio Supports Peace Negotiations — By UNITED PRESS Dr. Carlos Prio Socarras, ex Pre- sident of Cuba, issued statements declaring his support to mediation negotiations between the Govern- ment and the opposition, proposed by the Cuban Press Block. The ex President said that all efforts to re-establish peace in Cuba “merit the cooperation of all Cubans of good will.’ However, Prio Socarris warns from where they will leave for Havana on Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. for the three-day cruise. Besides Havana they will visit Mayajigua and Cienfuegos, returning to Miami on January 11. About 200 per- sons will participate in the cruise. Mr. Pace, who is known in Miami real estate circles as “The Flying Realtor”, has been an enthusiastic member of the Florida Air Pilot's Association for many years, and has done much to increase the in- terest of people all over the coun- try in making each year’s cruise a success. He understands and speaks row night at the Tamiami Airport, Larsen said he would also em- phasize the Puerto Rican land re- form program as a successful. al- ternative to collectivization, and the Puerto Rican “aided self-help” housing program, in which the Gov- ernment provides the building ma- terials and the neighbors build the house. REACTOR FOR BRAZIL WASHINGTON —(UP)— > The Atomic Energy Commission said it plans to give Babcok & Wilcox of New York a license to export a 5,000-kilowatt research reactor to Brazil. | The nuclear furnace will go to the Conselho Nacional de Pesqui- sas, a department of the Brazilian Government, for operation by the University of Sao Paulo. HONDURAN LIBERALS REQUEST ELECTIONS TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — (UP)—The majority Liberal Party has asked the Military Government Junta to issue an early call for. elections of delegates to a National Assembly in order to restore con- 'stitutional rule in Honduras. Gen. Roque Rodriguez, as spokes- man for the Junta, said in a New Year’s message that “the country Spanish quite well. to reconsider its decision “for the sake of internal peace and inter- national. prestige.” At the same time, Dr. Ramén Vi- Neda Morales, head of the Liberal Party, was reported considering re- jecting the post of Ambassador to the United States offered him by the Junta, unless the party’s de- mand for early national elections is met. BRAZILIAN LOSES JEWELS IN SAN JUAN SAN JUAN, P. R. — (UP) — Charles G. Raible, formerly of Cleveland, O., and now President of the Gulf Steel Co. at Bayamén, P. R., reported to police the loss of Mrs. Raible’s jewels, which he valued at $40,000, including a $20,- 000 bracelet. Mrs. Raible is a Brazilian. They live in the exclusive hotel La Rada in the Condado section of San Juan. Police said they would investigate the possibility that the jewels were stolen, ARGENTINA SUFFERS A HEAT WAVE BUENOS AIRES —(UP)— The beer pumps ran dry today with the mercury hitting 96 in the shade on the hottest day this summer. will not be returned to constitu- tional normalcy before the serious economic problems facing it are solved.” develop a diversified economy with- |' Rodriguez said that would not happen in 1957, “in any case.” The Liberal Party’s Central Ex- ecutive. Council asked the Junta With the relative humidity at 73 per cent, the capital was one vast Turkish bath. Residents scanned the skies for the long-forecast and eagerly-awaited rains which would cool the city, but the weatherman ht had apparently tired of pre- that “it is illusory to pretend that peace can. be restored without previously obtaining effective re- establishment of constitutional guarantees and security which per- mits the people to freely direct their own destiny through elect- ions respecting the will of the peo- It is illusory —and these: four years of convulsions prove it—. to pretend to re-establish peace, with- out attaining previously the effect- ive re-establishment of constitutio- nal guarantees, and the assurance that the people will be permitted to choose its destiny freely through elections in which popular will is respected, as done in 1944 and 1948. If the Press Bloc bases its efforts on these two principles. it will certainly count, not only with the backing of. the people; but also of the members # the Srmed Fer: ces to whom a dangerous and re- pulsive policy, of official crimes, try to convert in rivals of Ainciarte and Arsenio Ortiz, for shame of the Republic and serious weakness ple, as those of 1948.” of Military Institutions, Twenty - Two To Go On Trial For Complicity In Somoza’s Murder MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 5 —(UP)— Twenty-two men ‘will go on trial Jan. 8 before a special Court Martial on charges of com- plicity in the assassination of Presi- dent Anastasio Somoza last Sep- tember, it. was announced today. Somoza’s twenty-year rule ended | when he was. shot and critically wounded while attending a dance in his honor in Labor House, in the City of Leén, the night of Sept. 21. He died Sept. 29 in Gorgas Hospi- tal in Panam, without regaining Latin American News in Brief never came, He did, however, forecast lower humidity tomorrow. U. S: NAVY TO HELP SOUTH AMERICANS BUENOS AIRES —(UP)— The U. S. Navy is going to bring South American navies up to date on anti-submarine tactics, naval sourc- es said here. + A U. S. Navy destroyer and sub- marine group will conduct separate exercises with units of the Argen- tine and Uruguayan fleets between Feb. 15 and 30 to demonstrate the latest anti-submarine tactics, the sources said. : The American group, consisting of five destroyers and one subma- rine will conduct similar exercises with the Brazilian Navy before ar- riving in Montevideo, Uruguay, about Feb. 15. The exercises with the Argentine Navy will begin about Feb. 23. “4 Another American destroyer-sub- marine ‘group will go down the west coast of South America ‘to conduct similar exercises with the navies of the Republics bordering on the consciousness, The assassin, Rigoberto Lépez Pérez, 27-year-old Nicaraguan jour- nalist,. was killed_on the spot by Somoza’s bodyguards. The Gov- ernment claimed the assassination was part of subversive plot against Somoza’s regime. Congress elected Luis Somoza, the ‘slain President’s eldest son, to succeed him. Another son, Anas- tasio Jr., is head of the National Guard, Nicaragua’s sole armed for- sce, After a Military Court of Inves- tigation headed by Maj. Luis Ze- peda examined the evidence, army prosecutor Lt, Agustin Torres La- 20, filed indictments against the defendants. Some were- charged with being co-duthors of the assas- sination, some with concealment of the crimes of assassination and re- bellion, and others with conceal- i ment of rebellion, Military authorities said several | of the defendants had signed ‘con: fessions admitting their guilt. The special ten-man Court Mart ial will be headed by Col. Ernesto Matamoros. It, will meet in the Hail of Justice, in the Campo de Marte headquarters of the National Guard. The list of the defendants follows: Edwin Castro, chief suspect, a [university student, married; Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, director of the newspaper La Prensa; Dr. Enoe Aguado, a lawyer and presidential candidate defeated at the polls in 1946; Francisco Frixione, Emilio Borge and Gabriel Ureuyo Galle- gos, all- lawyers; Ricardo--Wasmer, and Enrique Lacayo Farfan, both physicians, Also,-Ausberto Narvaez Parajén Pacific. - UNFAVORABLE BALANCE ICO CITY —(UP)— México had an unfavorable balance of trade for the first ten months of 1956, official figures. show. The National Bank of foreign trade reported imports for the period amounted to $878,912,000 as against exports of $584,232,000,- a toni, dicting “rain tomorrow,” which deficit of $294,680,000, and Tomas Borje, both students; Juan’ Calderén~and Herminio La- ‘trios, both’ mechanics, Abelardo Bal- dizon “Aratiz, Benjamin Robleto, Cornelio Silva, Noel Jirén, José Barrera, Hernén Argilello, Alonso Castellén, Julio Alvarado, Ramén Martinez, and Abelardo Baldizén. he trial is expected. to last sew eral weeks, - 2