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

Inter - American News for English - Speaking people 5th YEAR @. A SAN ROMAN President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Antonio Ruiz Managine Fditor C. W. SMITR Vice President THE AMERICAS DAILY 8. SMITR Vice President HORACIO AGUIRRE Vice President Editor and Manager Eliseo Riera-Gémez Advt. & Cire Mer. Published daily except Monday — fntered as -second class matter at the Post Office of Miami Springs Fla on February & 1930 EDITORIAL THE LAUNCHING OF AN ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Unless there was fundamental reason, unknown to the public, everything seems to indicate that it was not neces- sary for. the Government of the United States to announce with special invitations the launching of the artificial satel- lite into. space: In the first place, consideration should be given to the fact that all these events implicitly carry many secrets rela- ted with the securitv and defense of the United States which, no matter what steps are taken to hide them, in a more of less public act are caught by technicians who, in one way or another, closely follow these tests. And among these technicians, there are foreign men of science at the service of a foreign power. It is possible that details which for the average person result of little value, including perhaps for the same men of science making the tests, for others, those who from a different field observe the details of those tests, may be of extraordinary importance. On the other hand, it should be considered that the spectacular announcement of the launching of something 80 new and so complicated, as the above mentioned satellite . is involves risks in its success, which may be only transi- tory or of a fatal nature. A test of this nature may result in immediate success, it may require prudent postpone- ments, or may result also in a complete failure. In view of these possibilities, it seems that the wise thing to do would be to maintain these tests in secret —as Russia did when she launched her first satellite— until they are absolutely sure about the results. Considered from a logical viewpoint, the postponement of the launching of the missile which was to put the U. S. satellite to travel around the Earth last Wednesday, does not represent any scientific failure for this country, since this is to be expected in any test of this nature. However, Soviet propaganda started already to use it as a false proof of Russian superiority over the United States, and to discre- dit, with her usual demagoguery, this great North American nation. Of course, this kind of propaganda, designed and without logic, does not surprise anyone who stops to analyze these matters with sober judgment. But, as it is well-known, in the field of psychological relations, any of these cases, maliciously exploited by the enemy, may serve as a basis of publicity campaigns. kok * Latin American Finance and Trade News Reports Colombia Takes Steps to Increase Exports BOGOTA —SICO) A_ decree originating at the Ministry of De- velopment, which was approved by the Council of ministers, estab- lishes. financial corporations, with a minimum capital of ten million pesos, contributed by local and for- eign investors, to finance the pro- duction of certain items, in parti- cular for export. The decree envolves the so-call- ed “Vallejo Plan”, named after the Minister of Development and aimed at putting an end to the single product export. It was studi- ed for four months, with active participation of the National Eco- nomy Council Minister Vallejo, and experts in different fields. The corporations will finance, with dollars obtained from loans guaranteed by commercial banks and the Bank of the Republic, the purchase of raw materials or parts destined to the manufacture or as- sembling of articles for export. These imports will be duty free, and the resulting exports will be subject to a special exchange re- gistry system, without advance de- Posits, The Vallejo Plan, according to observers, offers the following ad- vantages to the national economy. 1. Will not, demand foreign ex- ejhange from the free market, since it will.obtain it from Ioans and from the sales made abroad. 2. It will bring dollars to the country, = * 3. Will encourage the certificate market, increasing those docu- ments. 4. Will give full employment to the industrial machinery of the country. 5. Will increase the demand of national raw materials, and 6. The country will take advan- tage of its ‘privileged geographic- al position to enter her products in other Latin American markets. NO SUGAR SHORTAGE Meanwhile, the Ministry of De- velopment has reported that there is no shortage of sugar in the country, and that rumors to that effect circulated abroad are false. ‘With sugar imported from Vene- zuela, the demand in the local market has. been satisfied. MERCK APPOINTS NEW L. A. VEEP Merck and Co. Inc. has announ- ced the appointment of Leo Fer- nandez as Vice-President of its subsidiary, Merck-Sharp and Doh- me. International. Ferndndez will be in charge of Latin American Operations for the latter. In making the announcement, International’s President, Dr. An- toine T. Knoppers, said the ap- pointment is an indication of the growing importance of Merck's ac- tivities in Latin America, which now include both the manufactur- ing and distribution of pharma- ceuticals and chemicals products in that area. Mr, Fernandez has been connec- ted with Merck since 1935, when he joined the staff of their Thera- peutical Investigations Laborato- vy. He took charge of the Market- ing Division of the international subsidiary in 1952 and was named Director of Production and Tech- nical Operations in 1954. Since 1955, he had been General Mana- ger for Latin America of the Co. HONDURAS SHOWS BUDGET DEFICIT The National Economie Council of Honduras just submitted a sur- vey of the country’s present eco- nomic condition and prospects to President-elect Ramon Villeda Morales. According to the report, there is a budgetary deficit of $5,000, 000 this year. A request has been submitted to the International Monetary Fund to- increase the Honduran quota from $2,500,000 to. $7,500,000 to protect currency convertibility in the event of a se- riously adverse foreign trade bal- ance. Net reserves decreased from $11,400,000 in August, 1956, to $11,100,000 last September. The foreign trade picture is tather pessimistic. Imports in 1956 amounted to $6,000,000 and are expected to remain about the same for the current year. But, due to the drop in banana shipments, ex- ports in 1957 are expected to be below the 1956 level of $7,000,000. Jn addition, there has been a con- tinuing flight of capital out of the country. About $17 millfon had left the country by early October. However, the opiniog of the Eco- nomic Council is that the situation can be remedied in a brief period of efonomic and political stability. For @ better understendimg between the Americas MIAMI SPRINGS, FLA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1957 World's Financiers and | Living Standard SAN. JUAN, Puerto Rico — Leading financiers, government of- ficials and industrial executives from 11 nations will soon apply in their own countries methods learned in Puerto Rico during a five day tour of the Common- wealth. They studied economic pro- gress here on a visit sponsored by the Commonwealth Government and the International Cooperation Administration, Before coming to Puerto Rico the international executives spent several weeks in New York study- ing business methods and money- raising practices in the United States, The observers for the most part represented underdeveloped coun- tries of the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and Latin America. They came to Puerto Rico to see how a country once underdevelop- ed as their own has been able to make outstanding economic pro- Know thy Neighbor By ANTONIO RUIZ PERU — Throughout its differ- ent historical periods, Peri has accumulated a notable cultural pa- trimony. At present, the country has several national regional and local museums, besides the diverse and valuable private collections which contain the most interesting manifestations revealing the cul- tural development of the nation. To this must be added many pub- lie and private libraries. More than two hundred news- papers and magazines are publish- ed in the country, and artistic acti- vities such as concerts, theatres and broadcasting shows increase the cultural life of Peru. At the same time, the problem of public educa- tion has been faced with the con- struction of great school units, rur- al school centers, the development of vocational schools and polytech- nies, and also by great importance given to universities and institutes of higher learning. Pert is very rich in minerals, in particular in the region of the An- des, which is the most heavily ex- ploited. The mineral deposits form an important part_in the economy of the country. There are deposits of iron, zinc, lead, vanadium, bis- muth, cadmiun, coal, petroleum, sil- ver, copper, antimunium, and gold among the minerals to be found in Peri. ° In the mining fields of Cerro de Pasco, La Oroya, Morococha and Casacalpa, there are smelting and concentrating plants for the com- mercial processing of ores and mi- nerals. Both at Marcona and To- quepala, in the south of the Re- public, copper and iron mines are being exploited. i The enormous extension of the lands of the different valleys in the Costa, or coastal region, and the Sierra, or mountain region, per- mit the growing of a great variety of agricultural products. The Ama- onizan forest constitutes a wealth that has not been properly exploit- ed. Experimental farms devoted to teaching technical methods of ani- mal husbandry are increasing the animal stock of the country con- siderably. Commerce In Pert has increased enormously, specially due to great- er production, the development of roads and transportation methods and the policy of free trade. There are neither limitations nor con- trols to trade in Pert. Imports and exports, as well as their balances, are subject only to the natural laws of a free economy, without large scale restrictions by the State. The country at. present is undergoing a process of industrial- iatizon, with considerable promo- tion work, chiefly in textiles rub- ber, glass, construction materials, chemical and pharmaceutical pro- ducts, wines and soft drinks, pa- per, boxes and canned foods. Pert is engaged in the develop- ment of an extensive project for the improvement of old roads and construction of new ones that lead to production centers and to the jungle region connecting these cen ters with towns and cities that are good markets for their products. With 1,155 miles of seashore, Pe- ra has a great number of ports, of which eighteen are large ones, Ca- llao being the principal port of the country, A large volume of freight and passengers are carried by 17 domestic and foreign steamship companies to and from other Ame- rican countries, as well as the rest of the world. Seven airlines serve the country, and the Limatambo Airport, considered among the best in South America, is only about four miles from Lima, the capital. Spanish Version Page 3 gress in spite of major obstacles such as lack of natural resources Their activites included lectures by leading Puerto Rican authorities on private and government bank- ing and talks and round table dis- cussions on industrialization me- thods. The group also made field trips to government offices and jseveral of Puerto Rico’s 500 fac- tories. Members of this group raised to nearly 4,400 the number of observ- ers and students who have come to Puerto Rico since the Technical Cooperation Program — original- ly known as Point IV — was inau- gurated. Many of the visitors have been financed either totally or in part by Commonwealth funds. The members of the group are Luis Vidigal, bank president and industrialist, Brazil; Mathew Sene- viratne, economist of the ank of Ceylon Rodrigo Madrigal, presi- dent of the Chamber of Industries, Costa Rica Hossein Ahari, director of the credit department of Bank eli, Iran; Abol Moaddeb, manag- ing director, Industrial _ Credit Bank of Iran; Avraham Neaman, accountant general of the Govern- ment of Israel, Marco Asturias general manager of the Bank of Guatemala; Hazem’ Nuseibeti, Un- der Secretary of the Ministry of Economy, Jordan; Alexander Hor- ton, president of the Bank of Li- beria; Eduardo McCullouc Deputy Controller General, Panama; Sheikh Masihuddin National Bank of Pakistan; Nabibaksh Uquaili, deputy controller State Bank of Pakistan; Mumtaz Baysal, assistant general director of the Treasury, Turkey; Burhanettin Marti, direc- tor of the Industrial Assistance Commission of Turey, and Husnu Sabunbuablu, counselor of. the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Economy and Com- merce, Turkey. Industrialists Studying | in Hemisphere Puerto Ricos Progress Must be Raised, Dr. Mora Says CHICAGO, Dec. 5. (UP)— José A. Mora, Secretary General _of the Organization of American States, (OAS), said here today that the preservation of peace in the hemispheve will be a success with- out significance if it is not ac- companied by the betterment of living conditions for the people. “The wellbeing of the people is an indispensible condition for peace to be able to exist in any part of the world”, Mora said. The Uruguayan diplomat, elect- ed a short time ago for a 10 year period as OAS Secretary General, spoke in a meeting sponsored by the U.S. Publie welfare Associa- tion, He said that OAS helps the countries to prepare their own techniques. better their training materials, and solve their por- blems, “Latin America —he ad- ded— is realizing more and more each day that its problems do not exclusively depend on their gov- ernments”. The most important development problems in this region, he said, are those of increasing industria- lization and the shortage of ins- truction, The majority of Latin American School children cannot finish elementry education, and the countries are. revising their. pro- grams in order to take the most advantage of the limited.time they are given. Finally, Mora pointed out that OAS hopes to continue its work not only in promoting peace and friendship in the Western Hemis- phere, byt also to help Latin Americans find a standard of liv- in which would be in accordance with the resources that they have and with human dignity. BONN, Dee. 5 (UP) — West Germany’s Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, has officially accepted an invitation to visit Chile next year, although his doctors have ad- vised him to cut his long distance travels to the minimum. A government spokesman said that the Chancellor, who is 81 years old and convalescing from an influenza attack, has accepted the Chilean invitation, although the date has not yet been set for the trip. Brazil has also invited Adenauer and he has accepted her invitation for next spring. PUERTO CABELLO, (SICO)— The Minister of Mines and Pe- troleum, Edmundo Luongo Cabe- lo, inaugurated the Barinas-Puer- to Cabello oil pipe-line and El Pa- lito Terminal. The work was con- structed by the Socony-Vacum of Venezuela, in association with Sin- clair Oil and Refining Company. The oil pipe-line starts at Sil- vestre Camp, in Barinas State, and passing through the states of Por- tuguesa, Lara and Yaracuy, reaches to El Palito, in Carabobo State, a lenght of 338 kilometers. Silvestre Station is at an altitude of 1920 meters above sea level, with a tank yard which has four tanks of 150.000 barrels capacity each. The El Palito terminal has 5 HOMESTEAD PROGRAM GUATEMALA.— Titles to 1.200 homesteads will be grantes to as many farmers during the month of December. according to an an- nouncemente made yesterday by the Bureau of Agricultural Affairs. This will bring to 17.013 the num- ber of families who have received land .under the new Agricultural Reform law insituted by the Cas- tillo Armas government in 1955. This is the ninth distribution to be made under the program. WORLD‘S LARGEST SUGAR MILL BEGINS GRINDING SEASON NEW YORK.— The world’s lar- gest sugar mill at Rio Haina, Dom- iniean Republic. has begun grind- ing a month earlier than usual vith an estimated 1.500.000 short tons to be redered during the 1957-58 season, the Dominican Re- public Information Center, New York, announces. Rio Haina’s port facilities have been augmented this yar with the installation of a 50-ton crane and dockside facilities for the bulk Adenauer to Visit Chile, Brazil From his residence, it is said that he is gradually improving and has started to again sign official documents and study government matters, Adenauer became ill about a week ago and had to cancel his of- ficial three day visit to London. Heinrich Von Brentano, Foreign Relations Minister went in his place. The government spokesman said that Adenauer will go to Chile af- ter visiting Brazil, if the trip is definitely settled, which will de- pend on the Chancellor’s health. Venezuela Inaugurates New Pipeline tanks with a 267.500 barrels capa- city each They are of the best type which is now constructed for the oil industry. The total cost of the oil pipe line is 87 million bolivars, in- cluding the El Silvestre fire sta- tion and the El Palito terminal, and the radio system which covers the entire work. The benidiction of the work on the terminal was made by Bishop Gregorio Adam Minister Luongo Cabello pushed the button which automatically filled the tanker “Mo- biloil” with 120.000 barrels of oil. This tanker arrived on the eve of the inauguration and left the next day for Europe. loading of sugar and molasses at an additional costo of $4.500.000, the Center said. Sixteen Dominican Republic su- gar mils annually produce 750.000 tons of raw sugar and will have an estimated production of 1.000- 000 tons by 1960, Sugar is the Caribbean nation’s chief money crop, most of it sold to Great Briain, Estimated production for the 1957 calendar year is 850.000 HYGIENE AND SAFETY WEEK tN MEXICO MEXICO CITY — (UP) — The National Hygiere and Labor Safe- ty Week was inaugurated here with a meeting attended by more than 500 delegates representing the government, employers organ- izations and lahor unions, The government was represent- ed by officials of the Departments of Labor, Public Health; Commun- Palen and tal thee so participating are mem of the National University of Mé- xico, the National Confederation of. Industrial Chambers and other industrial organizations. Christmas Party for Children of the Americas WASHINGTON, D.C. (PAU) A Christmas party which will bring together children from all 21 Ame- rican republics will be held at the Pan American Union Saturday, Dec. 7, from, 3:00 to 500 P. M. The “Children of the Americas” Christmas Party, to which appro- ximately 400 youngsters of the Washington area have been invit- ed, will feature Santa Claus and his living doll collection composed of children from the Latin Ameri- can embassies dressed in costumes typical of their homelands. Also on the program are Cap- tain Kangaroo, Sam and _ his Friends, The Little Miss Matador Singing Lady. Jody Miller, the Air Force’s Scotch Bagpipe Band, and Chuck Winslow, Walt Disney’s ta- lent search winner. Master of cere- monies of the party will be Mark Svans. For the occasion, the Pan Ame- rican Union will be decorated with Christmas trees. A Manger Scene, prepared annually by the Pan Ame- rican Union staff, will greet the children as they enter the -lobby and a gingerbread house will be the center of attraction in the tro- pical patio. The program for the Chirstmas party will be produced by Miss Marjabelle Young, Director of the Little Miss and Teen Finishing and Fashion Modeling School. Re- freshments will be donated by the Aluminum Company of America and its Latin American affiliates. Somoza to Send Mission to the Inauguration of Villeda Morales MANAGUA, Dee. 5 — (UP) — The President, Luis A. Somoza, said that he is going to send a mis- sion to Honduras when the new President, Dr. Ramén Villeda Mo- rales is sworn in as President. Honduras did not send any re- presentation to Managua when So- moza took over the Presidency of Nicaragua. The President stated that he has held conferences with Indepen- dent Liberal leaders, his own party with whom he has spoken of the possibility of freeing some of those who were sentenced by Court Martial with relation to the assassination of his father and pre- decessor to the Presidency, Gen- eral Anastasio Somoza, in Sep- tember, 1956. The atmosphere of the coming Christmas and New Years holidays may be favorable towards grant- ing amnesty. The President is also studying the irrigation Bill presented by U. S. magnate, Glen McCarthy, which covers drilling 500 artisian wells in order to increase agricul- tural crops. McCarthy proposed to Latin American News in Brief Aim of the conference is to dis- cuss the latest methods for the protection of the health and safe- ty of workers in industry. ARGENTINE CADETS END VISIT TO ITALY ROME —(UP)— A party of ‘34 Argentine Airforce Cadets and six’ officers left for home tonight at the end of a goodwill visit during which they toured Italian airforce bases and installations. The group, second to visit Italy in two weeks, was led by comman- der Luque Amuchastegui. It left for Buenos Aires on an Argentine airliner. Argentine Ambassador to Italy Gen. Dalmiro Videla Balaguer saw them off at the airport. a ARGENTINE PIANIST IN LONDON CONCERT LONDON —iUP)— Ariel Rami- rez, the Argentine pianist, gave a recital of Argentine folk music at Canning House under the auspices of the Anglo-Argentine Society. The large audience, which in- cluded Argentine Ambassador Al- of Complicity in Communists Score Wins GUATEMALA, Dec. 5. (UP)— A special committee of five depu- ties has recommended breaking di- plomatic. relations with the Dom- minican Republic, whose agents they accuse of having intervened in and promoted the movement which resulted in the fall of the Provisional government of Luis Arturo Gonzalez Lépez, Gonzalez Lopez, who succeeded Carlos Castillo Armas in the Pres- idency, was ousted by a state coup due to the recent Presidencial elec- tions which were annuled, Registration for ; Member Inter American Press Association e For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity NUMBER 130 Five Guatemalan Deputies Recommend Relations With Dominican Rep. be Broken Accuse Dominican Representatives Driver's Murder as Party Elections The committee, designated by Congress to investigate the assas- sination of President Castillo Ar- mas, also says in its report that Juan Abbes Garcia and Onesimo Valenzuela, ex Military Attaché and ex Secretary of the Dommini- can Embassy in this capital, toge- ther with other Domminican agents were implicated in the assassina- tion of Narciso Escobar Carrillo, which happened during the same time that Gonzdlez Lépez was oust- ed. The report adds that Escobar Carrillo was “serving international interests” Victory, REDS REGAINNING STR GUATEMALA, Dec. 5. (UP)— Four months after the assassina- tion of President Carrlos Castillo Armas, communism threatens to regain the strength that it had be- fore 1954 in Guatemala. Its position is. strengthened now since the Electoral Board regist- ered the Revolutionary Party — the name under which the Com- munist Party goes here— after the request which this political body presented. in order to assume the character of an institution of pu- blic rights, was approved. Shortly after the Cout’s resolu- tion was announced, several miles of party memebers congregated in their headquarters to celebrate what was considered as a triumph, since they will now be allowed to participate in the presidential elections of next January 19Th. The Revolutionary Party an- nounced that they will ask for the registration of their Presidential candidate. Mario Méndez Montene- gro, attorney, this very week, The gobernment of Castillo Ar- mas and the U.S. invested large sums of money at the beginning HAVANA, Dec. 5. (UP)— Cu- ban rebels committed last Thurs- day acts uf sabotage against elec- trie cables of the Nicaro Nickel Plant, property of the U.S. Gov- ernment, located in Oriente Prov- ince, it was learned today. Well informed sources said that the rebels apparently in efforts to paralize production in the plant, which is worth millions of dollars, dynamited the cables bringing el- ectricity to the modern plant. Officials of the Nickel Process- ing Company, in charge of the plant, said they had no informa- invest $7.000.000 in the project. The Military Council which is trying the nine military men ac- cused in the abortive revolutiona- ty plot of November has suspend- ed sessions for eight days in order to give the defense time to study the correspondig summaries. berto Candioti, enthusiastically ap- plauded Sr. Ramirez’s rendering of traditiona! Argentine folk music. MICROWAVE CONTRACT GUATEMALA — The interim governmett of President Flores Avendafio decided to withhold fur- ther activity on the contract for the construction of a microwave system in Guatemala. The decision was taken because the microwave system involves an expenditure of several millions of dollars, and the Flores Avendafio government be- lieves it is a matter that should be decided by a government that will serve for a full term, rather than by a short-lived interim govern: ment, ON INSPECTION TOUR GUATEMALA — Minister of Agriculture José Guillermo Pache- co de Leén visited the north-cen- tral Department (state) of Baja Verapaz to inspect progress of ir- rigation, electrification and agri- cultural development projects in that area, The Minister assured lo- cal farmers that the bro- ENGTH IN GUATEMALA of 1954, the vear when Jacobo Arbenz’s government fell, in a pu- bliccity campaign to show the people that communism had been harmful to Guatemala. For three years the U.S. has con- tinuously helped this country. The total amount aid has come to $60.- 000.000. Nevertheless, four months have been enough for the communists to destroy this three year campign. The communists have managed to discredit the anti-communist government through clever propa- ganda which has created an ad- verse atmosphere for the anti-com- munists. Observers agree that the Rev- Olutionary Party will come into the power in the Presidential elec- tions of next January 19th, and add that “it will carry the com- munists in its wake”. Whether communism is or is not in the Revolutionary Party, it is Promoting its opinions about dif- ferent problems. The Revolutionists won a consid- eable number of posts in last Sun- day’s munnicipal elections in all parts of the country, Cuban Rebels Sabotage U. S. Govt. Nicaro Nickel Plant in Oriente tion about the attack and added that production was not affected. Reports from Santiago said that a man was killed and several wounded in three explosion in the zone. It is understood that da- mages were not serious. Cuban authorities arrested U.S. engineers and plant workers dur- ing more than 24 hours of investo- gation, but later released them. It is understood here that authorities informed the General Services Ad- ministration in Washington about the. incident, This is the second rebel attack against U.S Government installa- tion in Cuba. A few months ago there was a robbery of an im- portant quantity of arms and am- munition in the U. S. Naval Base in Guantanamo The-rebel plan to burn the sugar cane crop continues without let up, and the Government has autho- rized the sugar mills in the “dan- ger zones” to start. grinding im- mediately, a month before the ap- pointed time. : REBELS KILLED The Cuban Army reported two rebels were killed and several wounded in clashes in three sectors of Oriente Province, where soldiers frustrated efforts to burn sugar plantations One of the 161 sugar mills will not grind this year, said Agricul- ture Minister Fide] Barreto, “due to shortage of cane” ‘He declined to indentify the mill, but well in- formed sources said it is the one “Central Pilén” in Oriente Prov ince, property of Julio Lobo, the most important sugar producer in the world The mill is the heart of a rebel territory, in the Sierra Maestra siopes. In trade circles it is said that three quarters »f the cane planted in Centrai Pilén were burned by the rebels two weeks ago. It pro- duces around 20.000 tons a year. jects planned for the Salama val- ley are now completely designed and ready to enter the construe- tion stage He «also told of the hy- droelectric plant to be built at the Matanzas waterfall, which is scheduled to supply both Alta and Baja Verapaz with electric cur- rent. The Minister emphasizrd the importance of these development projects to the improvement of the lot of small farmers in that area.