Diario las Américas Newspaper, January 20, 1957, Page 12

Inter - American News for English- Speaking people 4th YEAR For ut 4 ROMAN c. W. SMITH praitent Vice President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Eliseo Riera-Gomez Advertising and Circulation Mgr. 8. SMITB 2:5 Vice President HORACIO AGUIRRE Vice President. Editor and Manager Antonio Ruiz Managing Editor Published daily except Monday — Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Miami Springs, Fla., on February 8, 1956, EAE SY eel EDITORIAL PRESS CENSORSHIP IN CUBA In a respectful and judicious message, the Inter American Press Association has requested from President Batista of Cuba the lifting of press censor- ship imposed recently, when constitutional guaran- tees were suspended in the country. The Cuban Government suspended those guaran- tees, according to official statements, for reasons of public order, to end the terrorism which, in the last few weeks, has taken place in some cities, especially Havana. The attitude of the Cuban press regarding ter- rorism has been, generally speaking, of condemna- tion. Editorial comments in leading newspapers and magazines of the capital have criticised those outra- ges which, no doubt, have no political justification, because it is not necessary, in an effort to show displeasure with the regime, to attempt against the life and property of citizens, only to show evidence of political or social instability. The Cuban press has pointed out the consequences of those acts, the injuries caused to women and children, as well as the damages to property, repudiating such proce- dures and making a call to good judgment and pa- triotism, The Government of General Batista, therefore, has had the support of the national press in his desire to eliminate that transitory situation of violence so harmful to the country, more than to the regime itself, and which does not lend prestige to the opposition, the highest representatives of which have rejected and condemned the terrorism. If those are the facts, there is no possible justifi- éation nor logical explanation for the establishment of press censorship as a consequence of the suspen- sion of constitutional guarantees. Complete freedom of the press in Cuba can help the government more, in the re-establishment of grder, that censorship. In the specific purpose of combating the destructible terrorism, incompatible with civilization, political decency and civic norms, Cuba’s responsible press is, surely, ready to co- operate with the government, without this implying, in itself, of course, political solidarity with it, as this is a matter concerning only the internal policies of each newspaper, according to its political belief, or aecording to its own way of interpreting the reality of Cuban politics at the moment. For the Cuban Goverment it is not difficult to re-establish press freedom because, except for very rare occasions, it is accustomed to it. In Cuba they had freedom of the press. This is well-known by Cubans and-foreigners who, in other countries, read the dailies and magazines of that nation. THE AMERICAS DAILY seconds the plea of the Inter American Press Association, addressed to the Cuban government, asking for freedom of the press to be re-established in that country. THE HISTORY OF AN INSTITUTION RESPECTED IN THE UNITED STATES a A AND ADMIRED IN THE WHOLE WORLD As an important service of public interest, we start publication today in “DIARIO LAS AMERI- CAS”, our Spanish section, of a series of articles on the history, functioning and jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, of the United States of America, institution which the people of this country respect and the whole world admires. This Federal Bureau of Investigation is respected by the people of the United States because they see in it a scientific organization at the service of jus- tice and the security of the citizens and of the Repu- blic, The honest citizen knows he has nothing to fear from the F. B. I. and that, on the other hand, has much to be grateful for, because of its zeal for the benefit of social tranquility, of national peace and order in all their manifestations. This institution, universally known as the F.B.I. (Federal Bureau of Investigation) is admired in the whole world because the scientists, dedicated to investigations in all the progressive countries acknowledge that the F.B.I, functions with extra- ordinary precision and a high sense of responsibility. Very satisfactory has to be, for the eminent North-American citizen, Mr. John Edgar Hoover, to have been the first Director and organizer of this prestigious Federal Agency of Investigation, as it functions now and he still heads, which merits, for its efficiency and honorability, the respect and esteem of the people of the United States and the - admiration of the whole world. ATOM REACTOR — xast year the University of Florida put in for one of the Atomic Energy Commission experimental atomic reactor plants and was turned down. They then applied for an educational reactor. It will be ap- proved any day now. This instal- lation will cost about $250,000. It will be a great asset for the University and a feather in the cap for Florida. NEW ASSIGNMENTS — Two Florida Congressmen have been given new committee assignments. Dante Fascell was named to the Foreign Affairs Committee. He re- tains his seat on the Government Operations Committee, but was dropped from the Post Office and Civil. Service Committee. Billy Matthews was voted to membership on the District Com- mittee. The District Committee is charged with the management of Washington — and membership here is almost the same as being a city commissioner in any large American city. Matthews is expect- ed to add strength to the Southern representation on the Committee and “uphold” the Southern view- point on all important matters. This is the committee that held the recent hearings on integration in the District schools. ~ WANTS A CHANGE, — Con- gressman Syd Herlong has intro- duced a bill calling for a change in the Electoral College set up. Herlong wants the Electoral Col- lege vote from each state to be divided between the candidates in the same proportion as their popu- lar vote within the state. “It will reduce the appeal that minority block votes now have,” he said. “It will reduce the importance of small but powerful pressure groups that can sometimes shift an en- tire state’s vote under our present system. This will be a fairer way to count the votes. It is more in keeping with the ideals of our democracy.” NEW PAPER WEIGHT — Sen- ator Spessard Holland is proud of the newest gadget on his desk. It is a paper weight. Made of clear plastic. In its center is embedded a gold medal. A small gold plate fastened to the outside reads, “Spessard L. Holland, award for Distinguished Service to Organized Agriculture.” It was presented te the Senator on December 12th at the Annual Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federa- tion at Miami Beach. The Federa- tion is the largest farm organiza- tion in the country, Has more than six million members. CHANGE OF PLANS — The time and place has been shifted for the big reception for Governor and Mrs. Leroy Collins. Instead of the Senate Caucus room, it will be held at the Kenwood Contry Club in Bethesda. Instead of the 22nd of January,’ the day follow- ing the inauguration, it is now set for Saturday the 19th. between 5 and 7 P. M, All Floridians who can get there are invited,to attend. It is being put on by the Florida State Society and the University of Florida Washington Alumni. Club. MORE ABOUT $4 BILLION — Last year, Congressman Paul Ro- gers helped push through the Ken- nedy-Rogers Act which will put in- to effect some of the money sav- ing proposals contained in the ing proposals contained in the Second Hoover Report. His first move this session was to introduce another bill ~that will take care of a few minor pro- visions of his first bill that were killed in committee last time. On the Senate side, Senator Holland is co-sponsor. ON SICK LIST — Best wishes for a quick recovery are going from every office in the Florida Delegation to Frank Kennedy, confined in the Anne Arundel County Hospital, Annapolis, Mary- land, Kennedy writes Washington news for a large number of Flori- da newspapers and is one of the best known newsmen in the State. SUGAR FOR DEFENSE COMMITTE FORMED WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UP)— The Government established a con- sulting committee on the sugar in? dustry for defense, presided by Federal Sugar Director Lawrence Myers. F. A. Villamil, of the Aguirre Su- gar Mill of Puerto Rico, was ap- pointed as one of its members, and as his alternate F. A. Beale, of the same mill. Gustavo Lobo, Jr., of Olavarria and Company of New York, is an- other one of the 17. members of the committee, a better understanding between the Americas IAMI SPRINGS, FLA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1957 ARGENTINA RATIFIES OAS CONVENTION. —The Argentine Ambassador to the Organization of American States, Dr. Eduardo Augusto Garcia, deposited recently at the Pan American Union the instrument of ratification by his Government of the Convention on Conditions of Foreigners, signed during the Sixth Inter American Conference in Havana, in 1928, Present at the ceremony were, from left to right, the Venezuelan Ambassador to OAS, Dr. Titd Gutiérrez Alfaro; Chilean Ambassador, Dr. Alberto Septlveda Contreras; Dr. José A, Mora,,OAS Secretary General; Brazilian Ambassador Fernan- do Lobo; OAS Assistant Secretary General, Dr. William Manger. Back row, standing, Federico del Solar Dorrego and Constantino Ramos, of the Argentine delegation to OAS, and Godfrey Harvey Summ, of the U.S, delegation, — (Photo PAU) WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UP)— There is certain discouragement in this capital with the rumors that Brazil is making heavy financial demands from the United States in exchange for the use of Fernan- do de Noronha Island as an obser- vation station for guided missiles. | According to well informed | sources what the U. S. authorities consider as an ordinary agreement im accordance with the Hemispher- ie Defense Pact, in Brazil has be- come, it seems, a political matter of first order. Brazilian agreement to the in- stallation by the United States of the observation post in the rocky | island, about 150 miles from the | Brazilian coast. appeared imminent last December. When President Juscelino Kubit- schek unexpectedly hesitated in view of nationalist and communist opposition, President Eisenhower sent him a personal message point- ing out that the station is an im- portant link in the chain of guid- MEXICANS EXAMINE TEXAS SEGREGATION MEXICO CITY (UP)— Alleged segregation of Mexican children in the public schools of Corpus Chris- ty, Tex. is under examination by the Mexican Government, it was reported today. A Foreign Ministry official said the * Mexican Consul at Corpus Christy had been directed to in- vestigate the matter and report to the Ministry here. The official said if the consul confirms there is discrimination against Mexican children the gov- ernment here “will take proper ac- Brazilian Attitude on U. S. Base Dismaying to Washington Circles ed missile tests, which extends for 8,000 miles, from Florida to the British islands of Asuncién, in the South Atlantic In spite of this Presidential re- quest, negotiations continue at a standstill. Even more recently, Brazilian authorities indicated they want a considerable increase in the military and economic aid from the United States in case they permit use of the island for the station, according to well informed sour- ces, These sources say the demands have increased in proportion to such an extreme, that authorities have been thinking: about building the post in another place, although they think Fernando de Noronha Island is ideal for that purpose. A high personality has called the Brazilian attitude “unjustified and unreasonable” in view of the great aid the South American republic has received since she was allied with the United States during World War II. Only during the last six months, Brazil received U. S. credits for 250 million dollars, exclusively as economic aid. Besides, the U. S. Navy gave Brazil two submarines as part of the bilateral defense ac- cord. The situation is even more ironic taking into consideration the fact that many Latin American diplo- matic representatives in this capit- al saw with certain feeling of jea- lousy the policies of the U. S. to- ‘ward Brazil. These diplomats think that the Rio Government has re- |ceived more assistance from the nited States than all the other countries of the Hemisphere put tion.” HEMISPHERIC EVENTS PARTIAL PROHIBITION IN EL SALVADOR SAN SALVADOR (UP)— Par- tial alcoholic prohibition went in- to effect throughout’ El Salvador. A decree of the Finance Minis- try limited the sale of alcoholic beverages to from 6 A. M. to 10 P. M. from Monday to Friday, and from 6 A. M. to 1. noon Satur- days. The measure is part of a pro- gram adopted by the government of President José Maria Lemus aimed at reducing crime. Authori- ties hold that drunkeness over the week-ends and holidays is respon- sible for the maunting criminali- ty rate in the country, COFFEE QUEEN TO BE ELECTED IN COLOMBIA MANIZALES, Colombia —(UP) Beautiful girls from fourteen Lat- in American coffee producing countries have entered the contest for the title of Continental Coffee Queen, The contest is one of the feat- ures of the Third City of Manizales Annual Fair, Jan. 19 to 27. West Germany Ambassador An: ton Borman, Canadian Minister Wilfred B. McCullogh and Swedish Minister Leif » Ohrvall will be among the judges of the contest., Coffee queens elected by each individual country will come from together. Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Gua- temala, Honduras, México, Nicara gua, Panama, Puerto Rico, El Sal vador and Venezuela. WARNING IN MEXICO ON INDECENT MOVIES MEXICO CITY, México (UP)— A French delegate to the First International Conference on Mo tion Picture Culture called on Ro- man Catholics to boycott indecent movies. Pierre D,Andre, of the French Catholic Office of the Movies, said in an address to the conference: “Every ticket purchased by a Catholic to see an immoral pic ture is a vote in favor of the cor- ruption of his soul and an encour: agement to the producers of such movies, which tend to the dissolu- tion of society”. D’Andre also told the six-day conference sponsored by the Mexi- can Legion of Decency that “the movie industry throughout the world is faced by a tremendous crisis.” He said the crisis is due to lack of good stories of a high moral character, The French delegate urged mo- vie producers to fight for a better industry and to engage exclusively in the production of films having a “high spiritual, moral and educa. tional influence on the people.” Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Representatives of motion pic- ture producers in 16 European and Sugar Workers Sign Two-Year Contract in Puerto Rico SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Jan. 19 (UP)— J. M. Guzman Secretary of the Sugar Producers Associa- tion of Puerto Rico, announced that the sugar-cane grinding sea- son will start early this year, when 28 of the 32 sugar mills begin operations on Feb. 1. A two-year contract signed yes- terday by the Association and the ‘Sugar Workers Union, has elim- inated the threat of a strike. The salary scale agreed upon is from 2.73 to 5.0 dollars a day, plus six and a half cents for every ten cents that the price of sugar in- creases above $5.00. per hundred- weight. Cuban Molasses for the U. S. A. HAVANA (UP) — Cuban Gov- ernment agents in Washington are seeking to negotiate the “global sale” of this year’s 150 million gal- lon molasses crop for approximate- ly $35 million, quafied sources said. A three-man delegation headed by Amadeo Lépez Castro, Presi- dent of the National Development Commission, was said to be seeking a price of 23 cents a gallon, com- pared to the average of 10 1-2 cents received for last year’s Cu- ban molasses crop. It was understood that the deleg- ation would assure the United States government that Cuba would continue to supply it qth sugar at the price prevailing in the domestic market, despite a sharp rise of prices in the world sugar market. Latin American countries are at- tending the conference. The Unit- ed States is not represented. EXPLOSION DESTROYS BRAZILIAN TANKER RIO DE JANEIRO (UP)— At least two members of the crew of the Brazilian tanker “Amapa” were killed and four others were injured when fire destroyed the five-year-old $4 million tanker. An announcement made; by the “Compafiia Nacional de’ Petrolei- ros” said the fire broke out when the Amapa was unloading gasoline to storage tanks on Rio’s Guanaba- Ta bay. . The tanker was said to be a total loss. It had brought ~120,000 bar- rels of gasoline from a refinery in Santos. The ship was built in Britain in 1951. MEXICO LAUNCHS GREAT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT MEXICO CITY (UP)— The small State of Tlaxcala, just east of México City, will be turned into a “pilot state” for a nation wide agri- cultural and reforestation program Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flo. res Mufioz announced. The official said President Adol- fo Ruiz Cortinez has authorized an initial expenditure of $800,000 to Cuban Press Member Inter American Press Association For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity NUMBER 160 Censorship Strictest Since Nation Won its Independence HAVANA, Jan. 19 (UP)— The list of official instructions given to the censors assigned to the news agencies, reveals that the present supression of freedom of the press is, not only the stricter, but the most restrictive in the 54 years of the Cuban Republi The suspension of Constitutional Guarantees, with the consequent censorship of the press, has been registered 21 times in Cuba since 1902, — the year the Republic was born. The present suspension, which shall end in March Ist., is the third one since Batista assum- ed Power in March 1952. “Only the truth, as divulged by the government,” in relation to the past and present conditions in Oriente Province can be published or wired abroad, as pér Rule 3 of the censorship. It is prohibited to Cuban or for- eign journalist to interview any one of the political opponents of the government, whatever the topic may be. In the same category of political adversaries are included, in Rule 7 “the enemies of peace and public order... . insurrects... communists - corrupt groups; who neither ean be interviewed The press and radio can neither divulge or discuss any information brought in by new agencies, which contains declarations or opinions of one or all of the persons in- cluded under the category of poli- tical foes of the government News agencies are only permit- ted to send out news of “sugar cane fields fires, explosion of pe- tards and bombs; acts of sabotage; attacks against private property; ete., ete., which, according to Rule 9th., “are previously authorized by the government.” The sentences of the courts, pro- nounced against the perpetrators of similar crimes, are not permit- ted to be published. The -rest of the instructions to censors concerns, in general, pro- hibition to publish or transmit any information which could harm the national economy, cause alarm or lower the prestige of the Republic or its elected authorities, or shuf- fle the truth as given out in official communiques, The time censorship will be in force is the responsability of the Minister of Interior and the Pre- sidential Palace press co-dinator. A censor is assigned to the of- fices of each one of the newspa- pers and radio stations. All the news agencies and “The New York Times,” “Time Maga- zine” and “The Havana Post,” the latter a paper edited in English in this Cuban capital, have only one censor for the whole. IAPA’S President Attitude on Cuban Censorship Praised by La “Prensa” BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 19 (UP) “La. Prensa” publishes today an editorial in which it praises the at- titude of Dr, Guillermo Martinez Marquez, President of the Inter- American Press Association (IA PA),- in. submitting his resigna tion as Editor of the newspaper “El Pais” of Havana, a few hours after the setting of censor- ship and suspension of Constition- al Guarantees by the Government of President Fulgencio Batista. “The attitude of the distinguish- ed Cuban journalist is worth of be- ing pointed out” — La Prensa says and reminds of the wire sent by Martinez Marquez to President Batista, protesting for the adopt- ed measures. “The acceptance of certain hon- orary posts — and the one of the TAPA its so in high degree — bring. in it some foreseen as well as unforeseen respon- sibilities,. which have to be con- fronted on similar circumstances, in accordance with the principles which accounts for the existence of an Institution.” After reviewing the principles adopted by IAPA in the declara- tion called “Charter of the Inter- American Press,” “La Prensa” says: IAPA has been complying with them without deviation and has obtained appreciable results in an era,which we suppose will not be lasting, of crisis for public li- berties. “His defense, in regard to journ- alism, is maintained by the above mentioned institution with pride and serene energy. This time the JAPA President, editor of an im- portant Cuban daily, confronts that conflict in his own country. He does not hesitate. His compromise of honor, which the acceptance of that high post implies, exact from him the sacrifice of his personal position as a newspaperman, to comply with the duties of the en- tity. defender of the freedom of the press, He has shown, therefore, to be worth of the post.” “Santa Rosa” to Promote Good Will With Countries of the Caribbean NEWPORT NEWS, Va., (UP)— The keel for the new Grace liner steamer Santa Rosa was laid at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company yards. Latin American News in Brief start a vast plan almed at Tlaxca- la’s economic rehabilitation. The plan calls for the planting this year of 300,000 fruit trees, one million other trees to serve as windbreakers, and 900,000 timber trees, Direct credits will be granted to increase pautry farming and the establishment of 600 family hen- codps. Other phases of the program, Flores Mujioz said, call for electri- fication, irrigation, social assist- ance and public education. The pian was announced on the occasion of the installation of oa- quin Cisneros Molina, as Governor of Tlaxcala. RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR REACHES ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES (UP)—Mikhail A. Kostylev, new Russian Ambassa- dor to Argentina, arrived by plane from Moscow. Kostylev, who was Ambassador to Italy for eight years, succeeds Grigory Resanov who left here last month after serving as Am- bassador to Argentina for nearly six years. The new Ambassador was met at the airport by diplomats of satel- lite Eastern European countries and by a few groups of local fel- low travelers who carried banners praising Russo-Argentine rela- tions, Four young ladies representing Embassies of Colombia, Venezuela; the Netherland and the United States pulled chains that lowered the keel-assembly into place. It was a cold, windy day, the temperature 20 ‘degrees, chilling two hundred spectators from New York and Washington. Laurence F. Lee, representing the hamber of Commerce of the United States, said that the keel- laying marked a milestone in the building of goodwill and unhder- standing among nations of the Western Hemisphere. “W. R.Grace and Co. is the sym- bol — a symbol of the spirit of pioneering and adventure and achievement that we like to think of as the American spirit,” he said. “I express not only my own opi- nion but the considered policy con- victions of organized American business when I urge the need of a continuing program for under- standing and solidarity for mutual- ly advantageous trade and travel exchange among the nations of our Hemisphere. The reasons for such a program are so obvious as scarce- ly to need stating, involving first of all intelligent self interest, and second, the hope of security in a world of uncertainty and conflict. “Men of goodwill and vision in all the Western. Hemisphere na- tions: have the solemn task of avoiding the pitfalls and taking ad- vantage of favorable factors, to the end that we shall have better un- derstanding, firmer strength, and surer trust in one another through- out our half of the world.” Walter Williams, Undersecret- ary of Commerce, in extemperane- ous remarks, said that the imau- guration of the Grace Line co struction program “is a major de- velopment in U, §. maritime his- tory.” | j } |