Diario las Américas Newspaper, January 15, 1957, Page 10

j j \ Inter - American News for English- Speaking people 4th YEAR 8. SMITH Vice President SMITH . N ROMAN Cc. Ww. bala) Vice President President GUIRRE Hi Vice brenden. uae Publisher Vice President. Editor and Manager Eliseo Riera-Gomez Antonio Ruiz Advertising and Circulation Mer. Managing Editor | RE TS Published daily except Monday — Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Miami Springs, Fla., on February 8, 1956. |ORACIO AGUIRRE = ae EDITORIAL THE NECESSARY MORAL PRESTIGE a SS, OF THE LAWS | | Nothing makes easier to abide by the laws than | the indispensable condition of their moral prestige. Within the severity of juridical technique, the ideo- logical orientation of laws should always be con- templated, as well as their philosophical inspiration. It is not enough to have a bill enacted into law | through the proper channels, to have that law accomplish its high aim within the social organiza- tion. It is necessary that such instrument is the result of healthy purposes, that the law is born as a collective necessity from authorities with a genuine political right to legislate, who have the ability and decor required to exercise that right. When a law has indispensable juridical for- mation; when those who have enacted it are cons- cious of their grave civic responsibilities; when required consultations have been made in order to have the law adjust itself to national needs, without incurring in arbirtrary measures and without being at the service of a few; then, it can be said that the law is surrounded by the necessary moral pres- tige which makes it easy and agreeable for the citizens to respect it, without resting dignity to the mission of those in charge of its enforcement. The ancient aphorism “dura lex, sed lex”—the law is hard, but it is the law—cannot have logical effect when trying to enforce laws vitiated in their | origin, a product of personal whims without scruples or for the interest of minority groups. “The law is hard, but it is the law” may be invoked and made to prevail in a sober sense, when somebody tries to) avoid it, in spite of the origin above reproach —| philosophical, juridical, logic— of a law enacted without pressures that may rest moral value to it. It is very hard for the people, to say the least, to submit to legal norms resulting from the fulfill- ment of what could be called mechanical require- ments, within circumstances unfit to have sensible and democratic legislation. Before those sorrowful situations, public opinion in any country, as well as international, react ‘in an adverse manner, because the people with a sense of justice, who know how to distinguish between a good law and a bad one; the people aware of the degree of independence and ideo- logical honesty of the Legislative body enacting that type of laws, do not accept them as a mandate of legitimate authority. Circumstances, of course, force them to abide by them. But sorrowful, very sorrow- ful is the opinion the peoples have of those who lend themselves to betray their responsibilities as legisla- tors, enacting whimsical laws, lacking all juridical sense and adequate political orientation, in other words, lacking logic. Any civic effort, perhaps more than political, that can be made to dignify the position of legisla- tors, to maintain them above humiliation, should be made, in order that each country is governed by laws which the people can respect with civic res- ponsibility and the executive authorities can enforce without violence, without arbitrariness, within a climate of authentic democratic peace, of generous and constructive republican composure, Request Dominican Government to Search for Missing U. S. Airman WASHINGTON. (UP) — The| Murphy’s disappearance and the State Department has requested the Dominican Government to continue searching for a 23-year-old United States pilot despite official Domin- ican claims that a Dominican pilot was alleged to have confessed to his death in a suicide note. The U.S. Pilot, Gerald Murphy of Eugene, Oregon, has been miss- ing since Dec. 6 when his car was found outside Ciudad Trujillo on s bluff overlooking shark-infested waters. Officials did not rule out political reasons for his disappearance. They said the United States Embassy in the Dominican capital is following the case “with keen interest”, Officials here said that the United States Embassy in the Do- minican capital was informed that Octavio de la Maza, a well-known Dominican pilot, had confessed to Murphy’s murder in a suicide note to his wife. The two men worked for the government-owned Domini- can Airlines, subsequent explanation of his death have stirred public opinion in Ore- gon. Oregon Senator Wayne Morse and congressman Charles O. Porter of Murphy’s district have told the |State Department to view the do- minican Government’s explanation with “Skepticism” and not to con- sider the case closed. Information here about the case has been inconclusive. Althoug the Dominican Govern- ment was reported to have an- nounced de Ia Maza’s suicide and his confession note some days ago, Dominican Ambassador Joaquin E. Salazar professed complete ignor- ance about the case. United States officials were known to have been informed by the Dominican Government that de la Maza hanged himself in jail after having been arrested in con- nection with Murphy’s disappear- ance. He was supposed to have taken his life out of remorse, For a better understanding between the Americas MIAMI SPRINGS, FLA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1957 Venezuelan Economists Will Visit Colombia to Discuss Trade Treaties BOGOTA, Jan. 14. (UP)—With a big title four columns wide, in its front page, the “Diario Oficial” announced that a Delegation of Ve- nezuelan economists will come to Colombia at the end of this month or beginning of February. The announcement says _ that the group “will study bases that could be used as the foundation for a commercial treaty between the two countries. The, Colombian government of- ficial organ stresses again “the am- ple scope of\mutual cordiality and understanding” which, it says, the Colombian-Venezuelan rela- tions have attained. It also says that “1957 will bring the culmination of important joint- ly achievements between the two sister nations and a direct inter- KNOW THY NEIGHBOR By ANTONIO RUIZ HAITI — In all the seaports, the chief cities of the Republic of Hai- ti, beautiful green mountains form the background of the charming landscape. Of the total area of the country of 10,700 square miles, 8,- 000 square miles are mountains. There are three principal ranges with several large plains lying be- tween them and along their out- er fringes. One range, including large groups known as La Horte and La Selle, extends from east to west along the lower peninsula, while the other two stretch from the southeast to the northeast across the mainland an northern peninsuta. The highest mountain in Haiti is Morne La Selle in’ the southeast, which reaches an altitude of 8,700 feet above sea level. There are four plains of major importance in the country: the North Plain, lying along the northern east coast be- tween the mountains and the sea; the Central Plain, a large interior flatland, bordering the Dominican Republic, and the Artibonite and Cul-de-Sac Plains, which spread eastward from the Gulf of Gonave. Haiti has numerous rivers, most of them short, rapid streams coursing down the mountain slopes into the sea. The Artibonite River, however, which drains the Arti- bonite Plain on its way to the Gulf of Gonave, has a length of 200 miles from its headwaters in the Dominican Republic to its mouth. It furnishes the water for the Re- public’s principal irrigation system and is the only river of sufficient size to be of importance as a means of transportation. There is one large lake in Haiti, the Etang Saumatre, and a number of small ones. The Etang Saumatre, with an area of approximately 43 square miles, is located east of Port-au-Prince, on the Dominican border. It has no visible outlet to the sea, but the fact that its waters have been receding for some years seems to indicate the existence of a subterranean chanel between the lake and the Gulf of Gonave. The temperature in all the main centers of population of the Re- public of Haiti, must of which are seaports, is warm and uniform. In the chief cities, the yearly range is from 70 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit, with a slight variation of three or four degrees between summer and winter. The mountain heights are considerably cooler, and sometimes are-event subject to frost. Rainfall is highly variable in the different sections of the country being abundant on the windward slopes, while the slopes and en- closed plains in the shadow of the higher mountain ranges usually re- ceive less rainfall, and at times are deficient in moisture. Normally rain comes in two distinct seasons, the first from April.through June, and the second during October and November. The oppressive humid heat us- ually felt in most of the tropical lowlands, is dissipated to a great extent on the Haitian coasts by sea breezes which seldom fail. On the map, Haiti looks almost like a crab whose claws reach to- ward the west; two peninsulas, a long one in the south, and a short- er one in the north, stretch west- ward, and embrace between them the Gulf of Gonave. The peninsulas form a considerable portion of the total area of the country, which is about 10,700 square miles, includ- ing the territory of its dependent islands. The Republic has an ex- tensive seacoast, Spanish Version Page 3 | change.” The information says that “the news stating that the two Presi- dents will meet at the Internation- al bridge, and visit each other’s country after, has caused great im- pression.” The visit of the Chief Executives will be agreed upon during the in- terview they will hold first at the frontier. . The same report says that it is possible General Mreos Pérez Ji- méndez will take advantage of his trip to Colombia to visit, in Cali, the housing unit presented by Ve- nezuela to the people who suffered great loses in last August terrible explosion which caused about fif- teen hundred deaths. Another project he could in- augurate is the ornamental motif, presented by Venezuela, for the San Pedro Alejandrino Estate, in Santa Marta, where Bolivar died. In this manner, Pérez Jiménez trip would cover Santa Marta, Cali, Medellin, Bogota and, possibly, Bu- caramanga and Cicuta. About the Commission of Eco- nomists, “Diario Oficial” says that it will be integrated by officials of the Venezuelan Ministries of For- eign Relations and Development, the Venezuelan Development Corp- oration, the Agriculture and Live- stock Bank, the Chamber of Com- merce and the Venezuelan Central Bank. The information ends by stating: “At the same time it is known that Venezuela, as well as Colom- bia, plan to send invitations to outstanding elements of the respective countries, before the Presidential interviews take place, with the purpose of intensifying the direct relations and mutual knowledge of both nations, in search of firmer ties in the na- tural bonds existing between their peoples and the improvement of official measures in different fields of their respective national activi- ties. BOLIVIA ANNOUNCES NEW CABINET LA PAZ, Jan. 14 (UP)— Presi- dent Hernan Siles Suazo appointed a new Cabinet, in conformity with Petitions from the Bolivian Work- ers Central. The new Ministers are: Educa- tio, Morales, former Minister of Economy; Economy, Tamayo, for- mer Minister of Mines; Health, Dr. Gabriel Arze; and workers Minis- ters, proposed in a ternary list by the BWC., Torres, Lara and Claure. Torres was Minister of Mines. during the regime of Victor Paz Estenssoro; Lara is a textile work- er; and Claure, a railway em- ployee. The New Minister of the Inter- ior, Méndez, is a lawyer, author of the Electoral Code and one of the writers of the Revolutionary Na- tionalist Movement Statutes. ° Dr. Carlos Hevia e One e e Visiting Miami Engineer Carlos Hevia, ex Pre- sident of the Republic of Cuba, has arrived in Miami for a me- dical check-up, accompanied by his distinguished wife, Mrs. Eli- sa Edelman de Hevia. They are. both prominent members of and enjoy high esteem in Cuban and U.S. social circles, as well as among the Latin American re- sidents of this city. THE AMERICAS DAILY ex- tends a cordial greeting to the illustrious travelers, wishing them a pleasant stay in Miami, Cubans Investigate U. S. Yacht Sinking JAIMANITAS, Cuba. (UP) —Ma- rine authorities today investigated the sinking of the “yacht Mary Adams II of Portland, Me., which sank near here Saturday night while returning to St. Petersburg, Fla., fron the Isle of Pines. Six Americans aboard the boat were rescued. They were identi- fied as James E. Balstelder, the owner, and his wife; Railla and Marion Palmer of Woodstock, Mas. Carlotte Balstelder, Portsmouth, N. H., and Chesser Suiving, St. Pe- tersburg. They sailed to the Isle of Pines The Cabinet of thirteen Minist- HEMISPHERIC EVENTS Latin American News in Brief AIRLINE POOL FOR SOUTH AMERICA BUENOS AIRES — (UP) — A triangular airline pool involving Argentina, France and Germany and serving North and South America and Europe is believed to be in the making. The announcement just made in New York by Arturo Llavallol, Pre- sident of the Argentina State Air- ways (Aerolineas), that his com- pany is in the market for several four-engine turbo-prop Constella- tion Super Star planes, was seen as the latest step in that direction, Earlier reports said the Aeroli- neas, Air France and Germany’s Lufthansa would each put five new Constellations in a pool to fly the authorized routes of the three air- lines on a single ticket arrange- ment that would permit inter-con- tinental passengers to reach their destinations without changing pla- nes, The use of Lockheed Cons tions was said to be a basic of the proposed arrangement. Aerolineas is equipped almost. ex- clusively with Douglas aircraft, whereas the French and German lines have Lockheed equipment, PUERTO RICO JAILS NARCOTIC PEDDLERS SAN JUAN, P. R. —(UP)— A city-wide anti-narcotics drive net- from St. Petersburg last month. ers includes eight former members of Siles government in last August, ‘but not in the same posts they oc- cupied at that time. The main changes were the re- Placement of the Minister of the Interior, Arturo Fortin, and the designation of the persons recom- mended by the BWC, as Ministers of Labor, Mines and Public Works. The new Cabinet is now inte- grated as follows: Interior, Rober- to Méndez, Foreign Relations, Ma- nuel Barrau; Treasury, Hugo Mo- reno; Education, Carlos Morales Guillén; Economy, Jorge Tamayo; Labor, Félix Lara; Minas, Mario Torres; Farm Affairs, Alvaro Pé- rez del Castillo; Agriculture, José Cuadros; Health, Gabriel Arze Qui- roga; Defense, General Julio Pra- do; Public Works, Ramén Claure and Secretary General of the Pre- Member Inter American For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity Press Association NUMBER 155 | Cuban Gunmen Fail in Attempt to Kill Chief. Perén Adds Chapter on “Imperialism” to His Famous Book CARACAS, Venezuela. (UP) — Ousted Argentine ex President J. D. Perén has added a chapter to his book, “Might is the Right of Beasts”, assailing U.S. “imper- ialism” and inter-American co-ope- ration, it was announced today. The revised version of the book, published by a Caracas firm, went on sale here Friday. Pictures of its “baptism” with champagne in keeping with Venezuelan custom appeared as advertisements, in newspapers here. The added chapter is consider- ably more violent than the earlier —published portions of the book in its denunciation of Perén’s foes- especially Argentina’s current lead- ers —who are described. as “trai- tors. . . murderers. . . thieves. rabble” Peron reserved special condem- nation. for the United Press “Tt is at the service of the mer- cenary interests of the dictatorial rabble the present Argentine gov- ernment”, he said, “Even when it tells the truth, nobody believes it”, he said. NEW GRACE SHIP FOR CARIBBEAN SERVICE WASHINGTON —(UP)— The keel of the new Grace Line pas- senger-cargo steamer Santa Rosa will be laid at Newport News, Vir- ginia, on January 15, marking an important step in Inter-American shipping relations. The 20-knot 300-passenger San- ta Rosa, estimated to cost’ nearly *| $23,000,000 will be one of the finest and fastest vessels ever built for service to Latin America. When completed it will operate on route connecting New York with ports of Colombia, Venezuela, and the Netherlands Antilles. It is being built by the Newport HAVANA, Jan. 14 (UP)—A high officer of the National Police came out miraculously unscathed from an attempt against his life, early this morning, by a group of unknown persons. Colonel Orlando Piedra, Head of the Investigation Bureau of the National Police and two agents guarding his car, came out with- out a scratch, although the terro- rists opened machine gun fire against them from a speeding outo- mobile. Acar, parked next to the one belonging to Colonel Piedra re- ceived the fusilade and was per- forated with bullets all over. It seems that the aggressors had the movements of the police officer watched, but miscalculated the time which, coupled to the speed of their car, impeded their concen- trating the fire with precision. One of the bullets, however, went through the tunic of one of the policemen and burned his. shirt. The other officer, notwithstanding the surprise of the attack, answered the fire. The authorities immediately placed special agents in the Al- mendares River tunnel and two bridges, which separates the ca- pital from the suburb, in an effort to arrest the attackers. The assault on Colonel Piedra is the first against a high rank official since the attack in which Colonel Antonio Blanco Rico, Head of Investigation Bureau of the Military Intelligence Service lost his life in one of this city night clubs. A few. days. after, Chief of Police, Colonel Rafael Salas Cafiizares, was killed in a burst of fire‘from a group refuged at the Haitian Embassy. MINISTER: BARRETO PRAISES TRUJILLO CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Jan. -14— (UP) Cuban Minister of Agricul- ture Fidel Barreto declared today that the President of his country, General Fulgencio Bartista, con- sidered convenient the attendance of Cuban:eattlemen to the fair’ tak- ing place in this capital, and-point- ed out that Cuba has nothing to gain and much to lose in interna- tional discrepancies. The Cuban Minister visited the town of Bani, birth place of Gen- eralissimo Maximo Gémez, one of the heroes of Cuban independence, and declared that “with the visit to the Cuban shrine in Dominican land” he was paying homage to “the Dominican Republic, as well as to Rafael L. Trujillo, who by his actions and rank is the Supreme Chief of this noble and hard-work- ing Dominican people.” Barreto also visited the ‘arms factory in the city of San Cristobal and affirmed that it contain great basis for the war potential of the country. Official circles consider that the visit. of Barrets will contribute to strengthen Dominico-Cuban friendly relations. CUBA DECORATES ANTONIO FERRE PONCE, Puerto Rico —(UP) — Dr. Luisa Cebollero, Cuban Consul, imposed on Antonio Ferré Baca- lao, 79, Cuba’s highest decoration, the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, in the grade of Officer. The ceremony. was held at Pon- ce during a traditional dinner of- fered by Ferré Industries execu- tires in honor of its founder, An- tonio Ferré. News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. BUENOS AIRES. (UP) — Ma- rio Amadeo, leader of the catho- lie-nationalist “Popular Centers”, said’ he considers the abrogated 1949 Peronist Constitution the law of the land, which only a conven- tion called by an elected Govern- ment can reform. He questioned the revolutionary government’s right to call the cons- titutional reform convention sched- sidency, Marcial Tamayo. Commonwealth Treasury agents under the command of Pedro A. Vélez carried out a series of raids on warrants issued by Federal Di- strict Attorney Rubén Rodriguez. Bail of $10,000 was set for almost all of those detained. Five wo- men and one girl claiming to be only 15, were among the prison- ers. A large number of the males held were in the 22 to 25 age bracket. 4 LLOSA APPOINTED TO WASHINGTON LIMA, Peri —(UP)— President Manuel Prado appointed Rear Adm. Luis Edgardo Llosa as Per- uvian naval’ delegate before the Inter American Defense board and Naval Attache in the Washington Embassy. Llosa was Foreign Minister dur- ing the final months of President Manuel Odria’s government which preceded the Prado administration. He is a 53-year-old career diplo- mat, with Ambassador rank. PEMEX PRODUCTION SETS NEW RECORD MEXICO CITY —(UP)— Méx- ico’s nationalized oil industry an- nounced that its 1956 production was the largest in 30 years. Petréleos Mexicanos, “Pemex”, produced 94,200,000 barrels, a rec- ord for government operation of ted 39 peddlers in 12 hours ,au- thorities announced, < the industry which was nationaliz- uled to be elected this year. Ama- since 1926. Pemex director’ Antonio J. Ber- midez said in a report that do- mestic demand jumped from 180,- 009 to 238,000 barrels daily. in the past four years. Average yearly production for the same period was 85 million barrels. Oil and gas reserves have been increased from 2,234 million bar- rels in 1952 to 2,955 million barrels in 1956, the report said. Construction of pipelines was particularly stepped up in the past four years: of 3,786 miles of oil and gas pipelines now in operation, 2,628 miles were built prior to 1952 and the remaining 1,158 in the past four years. Bermudez predicted that 1957 will be an even better year. He said the company has earmarked $93,840,000 for. the construction of oil and gasoline pipelines, a crack- ing \plant, shipyards for Pemex tankers in Veracruz and other im- provements. : MEXICANS HOPE TO HAVE A CARDINAL MEXICO CITY —(UP)— Cath- olic Church sources said there is a good chance that Pope Pius will name México’s first cardinal in his- tory when .the forthcoming consis- tory meets in Vatican City. * They pointed out that among the three North American nations -and ed in 1938, and the largest output without a cardinal, them more in line with prices. the major Latin American Repub- lics México is now the only one|This must be done, he said, before Ferré, born in Havana, Cuba, deo promised to “unfurl the flag of the validity of the 1949 constitu- tion” in the pre-convention cam- paign. * Amadeo insisted that he favored an eventual reform of the 1949 con- stitution, nullified by the Revolu- tionary Governmente May 1, 1956 in favor of the reestablishment of Argentina’s original 1853 constitu- tion, but only after the election of a representative government to For this reason, and in view of the. market improvement in relations between the Mexican Government and the . Catholic Chureh, qualified church circles said they have founded hopes that one of the ten new cardinals to be elected at the next consistory will be a Mexican, Archbishop Miguel Darfa Miran- da, present head of the church in México, is mentioned as the strong- est possibility for the post. The fact that no diplomatic relations exist between México and the Va- tican should not prevent the Pope from chosing a Mexican national as cardinal of México, the sources said. FREEZING OF PRICES -ASKED IN MEXICO .. MEXICO_CITY — (UP )— The. Mexican Confederation of Labor asked the government to freeze all prices at their present levels. Confederation secretary general Fidel Velézquez said the measure is necessary to halt what he cal-| led a “widening gap between prices and wages.” Velazquez also asked for a gen- eral increase in wages to bring came to Puerto Rico in 1898; and a8 a pioneer, developed the island’s greatest in lustrial Empire. Ferré said he received. “the honor in humbleness but conscious. of the great deep meaning for Inter American\uuits”, \ Ferré was accompanied to the ceremony by his four sons and daughter, Luis, Herman, José, Car- los and Rosario. Peronist: Constitution Considered Valid by Argentine Catholic Leader suceed the present revolutionary authorities. “A ‘de facto’ government born of a revolution to restore legal order cannot convoke a constitutional re- form convention, “Amadeo said, “Our position therefore is the con- vocation is not valid, and we could. only go to the convention to de- clare this and ask for its immedi- ate dissolution”. Amadeo made his comments on the proposed constitutional reform, which promises to be the major po- litical issue of the year, in an in- terview in which he was asked to state his position on a proposed “Calholic Civie Front” to coordi- nate catholic opinion. Amadeo said he was unalterably opposed to the formation of a “Catholic Party of a confessional character in Argentina. However, he said there was a minimum pro gram with respect to an eventual reform of the constitution which hethoug would be acceptable to all catholic currents. These points, he said, were? 1, Separation of the church and state through a concordate with the Vatican. Amadeo said the ob- jective of the concordate should be to establish a “harmonic col- laboration” between the Church and State. He said, however, that a constitutional reform would be ne- cessary to make possible a con- cordate, because the present clau- ses on the argentine goyernment’s part, with respect to the naming of bishops, and to the recognition of papal bulls, would have to be changed. “ 2- Specific clauses on: education, detailing the manner in which the freedom to teach and learn, em- bodied in the present constitution, is to be applied at all levels of the educational process. Catholics, gen- erally demand the right to establish universities, which are now.all of- ficial institutions, and that their children receive religious instruc- tion in public schools. 3. ‘A ‘constitutional clause speci- fically establishing the “indissolubi- lity” of the marriage tie, in Other words, constitutionally banning di- vorce. There is no divorce in the Prices are frozen. Argentine now. eG