Diario las Américas Newspaper, December 10, 1957, Page 12

Inter - American News for English - Speaking people Sth YEAR MIAMI SPRINGS, F a @. A. SAN ROMAN President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Antonio Ruiz Managine Fditor Cc. W. SMITH Vice President 8. SMITR Vice President HORACIO AGUIRRE Vice President Editor and Manager Eliseo Riera-Gémez Advt. & Cire Mer. Published daily except Monday — Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Miami Springs erect ete SN ATES EDITORIAL Fla. op February 8 195 LATIN AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES Here, in this country, where the immigrant finds a hearty welcome, and where his rights as a human being are fully respected by everyone, the Latin Americans in general have an excellent opportunity to show the spirit of singular solidarity which unites them. When Latin Americans are outside the orbit of their countries of origin, as in the United States, for example; when they meet some one of the same origin, no matter what his nationality may be, what prevails above political characteristics of citizenship is the concept of spiritual and ethnic unity, which makes all Latin Americans feel as mem- bers of one family. Sometimes, the border disputes or other controversies among Governments of the Latin American Republics —controversies which are limited to official interests, with- out awakening any popular feeling— have been reason for a belief that the Latin Americans hate each other. Of course, such a statement does not hold against a careful analysis, nor even a superficial one, because there is plenty of evidence demonstrating the tion-existance of such alleged hate. In our Spanish edition of last Sunday, in the “World Events” section, there is a report from England, in which the British Unsecretary of Foreign Affairs declares that “Latin Americans, as countries, hate each other, the same as Europeans”. The example of the cordial way of living among Latin Americans in the United States is enough to destroy this statement of the English Lord, because the spiritual. union prevailing here among Latin Americans, speaking in gene- ral terms, would not be possible if that alleged hate really existed among people who are united by strong historical, spiritual, cultural and ethnic bonds. Above all the differences which may exist between one Latin American nation and another, is imposed the feeling .of special fraternity which humanly emerges from the characteristics. which. make up and define a nationality. The habits, more or less the same; the similar defects and virtues; the sensibilities; the language, religion, the same historical origin, and the same common destiny, all these factors make it impossible to have divisions between the Latin American people caused by hatred. They should not confuse differences and minor strug: gles with lack of a spirit of unity and solidarity, which really unites the Latin American people. x * % Latin American Finance and Trade News Reports Council 10 Oppose Raise in U. S. Load, Zine Tarifi WASHINGTON (UP)— The In- ter American Economic and Social Council may intervene in favor of some of its members so that the U. S. will not increase her zine and tead customs tariffs. The Subcommitte o fBasic Pro- ducts decided, by ‘votes, to take up this. mattering in next week's meeting. The Council wili have to discuss it in case the Subcommittee decides that it should do so. The Bolivian delegate tothe Council, Mario Guzman, said that the most important economic com- mittee of the Organization of Ame- rican States eannot sit by with its arms folded while important de- cisions for the economy of its mem- bers being carried out. duct increased from $6,485,000, 000 in 1989 to $8,340,000,000 in 1946, and $13,500,000,000 in 1956, according to this survey. ARGENTINA PLANS BOND OFFERING WASHINGTON, D. C. — Yaci- mientos Petroliferos Fiscales (Y PF), the Argentine Government oil company. will issue 500,000,000 pe- sos ($12,500,000 at the free rate of exchange’ of bonds on December 43, the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of oi! in Argentina, The bonds are being issued to help fin- ance YPF’s development program, and will carry interest at a basic and guaranteed rate of 6 per cent, but according to the agency’s presi- dent, Gen Alfredo Intzaurgarat, the bonds may earn as much as 20 per cent. The bonds will be issued in de- Guzman propused that the Coun-\ nominations of from $2.50 to $2,- cil should discuss the matter and 500 each, and will pay bonus in- adopt a definite attitude. terest rates as YPF increases its The U.S government, harrassed |i] production. Every production by national proaucers, is studying | increase of 250,000 cubic meters whether the duties on lead and/| will mean an increase of one-eighth zine should, or should not, be in- creased. Brazilian Production Ranks High in Free World Nations WASHINGTON — (UP) — A gurvey of Brazilian economy dis- tributed here says that Brazil ranks ninth among countries of the Free World in terms of gross Dational product. The “Gross National ~ Product” is a comprehensive _ statistical method of measuring the total out- | put of goods and services, and is + seoming into increasing use as a means for making estimates of progress in national economies and comparisosns with other coun- tries. of 1 per vent interest. The venture is considered one of the most un- usual ever atterapted in the coun- try. According to Gen. Intzaurgarat, the bond issue, which will be re- deemable in fifteen years, will pro- vide anti-nflationary protection. The par value of the bonds would be tied to the nation’s economic situation through a direct relation- ship to wages paid by YPF to its employees The General explained that a complex calcuiating system had been establishes to provide such anti-inflationary protection. For example, if YPF had issued bonds at 100 pesos in 1942, they would be worth 2,000 pesos today under this system. This would be so be- The survey, delivered to officials |cause the average wage paid then and newspapermen here, was pre- pared by Jayme Sluan Chermont, Brazilian Consu, General, in New York; Dora Alencar de Vasconce-: llos, Vice-Consul at New York, and Miguel Ozorio ae Almeida of the Brazilian Embassy Economic De- partment. It said that Brazil’s national product is ninth. The first eight countries listed were United King- dom United Stetes, France, West Germany, India Canada, Japan and Italy in that order. Brazil was followed by Argentina. Australia, Belgium, Sweden, Mexico, etc. In terms of United States dol- | tars, Brazil’s gross national pro- was six pesos but today it is 120 pesos, or twenty times as much. At the Buenos Aires Stock Ex. change, orokers speculate on what the fate of this capital raising ven- ture will be. They note that the oil shares are being offered at par at a time when first class industrial pre- ference shares bearing similar interest rates sell at 25 to 30 per cent below par. The Argentine Government, in authorizing the sale of these tax- free bonds, stated that YPF could not float a new series totaling an- other 100 million pesos until 75 per cent of the first issue is sub- scribed, Eco..omic Crisis Danger Economy Mi BOGOTA, De 9 —(UP)— The Minister of Economy, Antonio Al- varez Restrepo, promised that by the end of this year the danger of an economic crisis will have been | averted, speaking before a busi- |nessmen’s Assembly where he an- nounced that Colombia has made | | settlement on all of her foreign will be studied towards decreasing some duties. | One of the last settlements of | foreign commercial debts was that |which was made with Great Bri- tain. | | In his speech, Alvarez, said that the debt with foreign exporters | ceached $442,920.000, of which| they have paid cash to the total) of $289.000.000, leaving a balance of 122 million dollars. | Alvarez blamed hte critical eco- | nomic situation on the govern- ment of ex-dictaotr, Gustavo Ro- | |jas Pinilla) whe was ousted last | May, and stated that the situation | ;has been averted without having Know thy Neighbor By ANTONIO RUIZ HAITI — With an area of 10,- 700 square miles, more or less the same size as Belgium, Haiti has a population of more than 3,500,000 | which makes it the most densely populated of the American Repub- lies. The only large city is the capi- tal, Port-au-Prince. The official language of the country is French, |but a great majority of the people speak only “Creole,” a derivative | of the Norman French of the 17th century sailors with borrowings of Spent, English, and African dia- ects, Haiti was once very prosperous. | It was the world’s leading producer of sugar, and it had abundant pro- duction of other crops as well, which made it France’s richest co- lony. With the winning of the war and independence in 1804, how- ever, the highly organized colonial economy broke down. The large plantations were broken up into a multitude of very small holdings, The good roads and elaborate irri- gation systems built during the co- lonial period deteriorated through the lack of maintenance, Most of the Haitian people have since been engaged in farming small tracts of land in very pri- mitive ways, growing some crops for export, but producing mostly subsistence crops. The principal ex- port crop is coffee, followed by sis- sal and sugar. Coffee grows more or less wild on the mountain slopes and yields are lower than in most eoffee producing countries. Sisal and sugar are the only crops grown on large commercial plantations as well as on the small holdings. The density of the population, the lack of virgin land and the erosion of much of the area under cultivation, together with the dif- ficulty of achieving technical ad- vances in agriculture under the present- system of proprietor ship, have kept the Haitian, eco- nomy relatively static. Increases in incomes since the war have been due almost entirely to high coffee prices rather than to increase in output, In recent years, however, the Government has increasingly direct ed itself toward finding ways of overcoming the obstacles to eco-| nomic development. Public invest- ment has been Jargely directed to- ward the extension of the road network and the improvement of irrigation. With the assistance of the Export-Import Bank of Wash- ington, nearly $30 million have been invested in a large irrigation and flood control scheme, in the Artibonite Valley in Central Haiti. This project also makes available a considerable electric potential. The Haitian Institute of Agri- cultural and Industrial Credit, a subsidiary of the National Bank of Haiti, has. been effective in pro- moting agricultural development, particularly through the establish- ment of cooperatives which have proved a useful method of counter- acting the excessive subdivision of land ownership. The Institute has also, by financing hotel construc. tion, contributed substantially to the expansion of tourism, which in the last few years has displaced si- sal as Haiti’s second largest source of foreign exchange. The Govern- ment has received extensive tech- nical assistance in all these activi- ties from the United States and the In Colombia Almost Over, nister States to impose new taxes and without | having to issue money. | Last June the government mod- ified the exchange system decree- | ing the free exchange system and established restrictions on dollar purchases from abroad. Due to this policy, Alvarez an- ; nounced that the commercial bal- commercial debts and that a plan ance is now favorable, to a total} of $38,000,000. The Economy Minister also an- nounced that, in this coming Jan- uary, the coffee producing coun- tries will meet in Rio de Janeiro, and expressed his confidence that 2 world export agreement will be signed on this date, In order to avert rapid price drops of this article, upon which 90 -00 per cent of the country’s income depends He emphatically that the country has “the most difficult stage in the road to economic and _ financial recuperation” and asked for the cooperation of all sectors in order to totally avoid all possible dan- gers,* once an agreement in the political field has been achieved. maintained The Economy Minister’s speech Government took the first steps towards putting price freezes into effect on the sevel of last Novem- ‘ber’s prices. Alvarez asked the in- dustrialists to also make sacrifices in order to avoid the “crazy race between higher salaries and high- weathered | was made when the Military Junta | LA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1957 Police Seeking 4 Venezuelans in Plot to Kill Pérez Jiménez CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec. 9 — (UP)— Seeurity police scoured the country today for four politic- al exiles said to have landed on a desolate coast with a plot to Assas- sinate President Marcos Pérez Ji- menez. Police said they seized a fifth conspirator, Rafael Theilen Cortez captain of the coastal schooner Virgen de Coromoto. The other four were identified as Luis Augusto Dubuc, an attor- ney and former congressman and i} j}a leader of the outlawed Demo- cratic Action party; Antonio Lie- denz, former governor of Falcon State; Jessi Pinto Salinas and Ali- rio Llamozas, two Democratic Ac- tion party officials. (Dubue was located in San José, Costa Rica, by a United Press cor- respondent. He said he had cabled the other three and confirmed they are in México and Colombia. (Dubue said it was impossible he could have slipped into Venezuela. He charged it was a propaganda campaign “created out of the whole cloth” by Pérez Jimenez to crack down on any opposition par- ties.) The Government gave little de- tails of the “invasion” of the five men except to say they landed on the desolate coast of Falcon state. Venezuela is scheduled to hold a plebiscite Cunday in which woters will ballot for or against a “New National Ideal” program — that would continue the Pérez Jimenez regime in office for five more years. The campaign has generated lit- tle steam in Venezuela and Pérez er prices”. MEXICO CITY (UP)— Top re- presentatives of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce began a six-day goodwill tour of México at a joint business meeting with Mexican banking, industrial and trade leaders, The 34-man group arrived here as the guests of the Mexican Gov- ernment and private industry. During a morning meeting, de- voted to an exchange of informa- PAN AMERICAN UNION GETS LEATHER BOUND ATLAS OF AMERICAS WASHINGTON (UP)— The Pan American Union received a leather bound edition of an Atlas of the Americas, published by the news- Paper, “The London Times.” In a ceremony held in the Union’s building, the Librarian of Washington, Sidney Cramer, pre- sented the edition to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, José A. Mora. Cramer said that the Atlas is the first one to be dedicated exclusive- ly to the Western Hemisphere. The Atlas of the Americas is part of a series published by “The London Times” Next year the newspaper will publish another de- dicated to Russia and Asia, Upon accepting the edition, Mo- ra pointed out that it would be of great value to the member coun- tries of the Organization of Ameri- ean States. Jiménez is considered sure to win. N. J. Chamber of Commerce Members in Good Will Tour Through México tion and ideas, Mexican business- men spoke of the prospects of fur- ther growth of Mexican industry and of the development of trade U. §. Lead, Zinc Tariff Increase MEXICO CITY — (UP) — US. Senator George A. Smatehers (D- Fla) plans to confer with Mexican congressmen and officials on pro- blems of common interest to Mé- xico and the United States. The american lawmaker, who is here on the first leg of a goodwill visit. to several Latin ‘American countries, said that in his opinion “the U.S, Tariff Commission should not authorize an increase in U.S. import duties on lead and zinc”, Senator Samthers made the statement in reply to questions by | Mexican newsmen who wanted to know his opinion on this very im- portant problen: which greatly af- fects México’s economy. The threatened increase in im- ports duties on lead and zine has caused alarm in Mexican mining circles, The semi-official agency Nacio-| nal Financiera reported a few days ago that recent drops in the| prices of copper, lead and zinc had Caused an estituated loss of $48, 000,000 to the Mexican mining in- dustry during the first 8 months| of this year, The agency added that Mexican zine and lead interests would suf- fer another heavy blow. with an increase in the U.S, tariff by the Commission, which is expected to submit its recommendation to President Eisenhower. Senator Smathers, who will be in México until Wednesday, flew to Veracruz and Tamaulipas to visit sugar plantations and other agricultural enterprices, After México, the Florida sen- ator plans to visit Panama, Pert and Ecuador, and commerce between México and the United States. The visitors exhibited a docu- mentary film entitled “This is New Jersey” which showd facts of in dustry, specialized _ agriculture, shipping, educational and cultural facilities, suburban living and air, rail and highway transportation in the area, B. L, England. president of the Board of the New Jersey Chamber and head of the group, said the purpose of the tour is “to share our experience in order to try to contribute to the development of Mexican business and industry.” After the formal meeting, Eng- land presided over a work session during which questions were asked and answered by members of the visiting group and the Mexican or- ganizing committee, Among the installations to be inspected by the visitors is the vast Miguel Alemdn hydroelectric sy- stem, built and operated by the Federal Electricity Commission. The visitors paid a courtesy visit to the Ministry of Economy. On Saturday and Sunday the vis- itors were at the Pacific seashore resort of Acapulco. They will have a free day today for shopping and sightseeing México City and the surrounding area, Tomorrow they will inspect the Miguel Aleman hydroelectric sy- stem and on Wednesday they plan to return to New Jersey, HEMISPHERIC EVENTS Argentina - Chile Highway Planned BUENOS AIRES, Dic. 9 (UP) ~—Through an agreement signed by the Federal government and the Province of Mendoza, a new high- way will be ouilt between this capital and the Chilean city of Con- stitucion fron the Pacific Coast, which will be the shortest route between Chile and the Atlantic and will give Chile access to the products of the San Rafael région. The highway trom this capital to Lincoln, which 1s the western zone of Buenos Aires Province, which already is paved, will be the main artery of the route. Construction work from Lincoln to Bowen, to the east of Mendoza, which will unite the network of highways of United Nations. ' Spanish Version Page 3 | Mendoza to that of Buenos Aires, will soon start, Latin American N NATIONAL UNITY GOVT, URGED IN HONDURAS TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — (UP)— The Army was reported to have urged President-elect Ra- mén Villeda Morales to name a “National Union” cabinet when he takes office Dec, 21, The move was said to have been made at a meeting of the two mem bers of the Military Government Junta. the present cabinet and Vi- Neda Morales, What his reply was had not heen disclosed. A National union cabinet would have to include ministers from Vi- Neda Morales Liberal Party and from the opposition’s Nationalist and Reform Movement parties, VENEZUELA-TRINIDAD DISCUSS SEA BORDERS PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — (UP)— The Governments of Tri- Argentine Trade Balance Again is Unfavorable BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 9 —(UP) — Argentine foreign commerce interchange during the month of October reached an unfavorable balance of 37.7 millions, higher by 5.2 millions that that registered in September, according to reports from the Minister of Economy. The monthly statistical bulletin indicates that exports were valued at 77.4 million dollars, with an in- crease from the previous month of 2.6 millions, since imports rose to 115.1 millions, also with a 7.8 millions increase from September. During the first ten months of the year, exports reached 815.7 million dollars and imports reach- ed 1,082.9, leaving an unfavorable balance of 267.3 million dollars. In the same period of the previous year, the foreign commercial de- ficit was less by 67.8 million dol- lars that of 1957. In the same ten months period, Argentina had a favorable balance with the United Kingdom (122.4 million dollars), Holland, (53.8 million), France, (20 million), and Italy, (18.4 million. Her major deficits were with the U.S., (168.7 million), Venezuela, (89.0 million) Brazil, (42.3 million), and Austria, Burned Southwest BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 9 —(UP) — Rescue parties are battling through swamps and flooded roads to reach a remote spot in Buenos Aires Province where an Argentine Airline plane crashed and burned during a heavy storm last night. The 61 persons aboard were all killed. Rolando Ferrari, who originally was suposed to take the plane as an additional captain for a prac: tice flight, did not make it at the last moment due to a change in orders. Previously, it had been re- ported that 62 persons had died. The plane, a four-engine DC-4, was en route to the Andes’ resort town of San Carlos de Bariloche with 55 passengers and a crew of seven. It crashed about 15 miles from the town of Bolivar in Bue- nos Aires Province, about 220 miles southwest of this capital. Several rescue parties trying to reach the blazing wreck were halt- ed by roads made impassable by torrential day-long rains, One party with a tractor finally made it and reported by radio there were no survivors. An air line official confirmed the report. Airline officials said the airliner left’ Buenos Aires Ezeiza Interna- tional Airport in mid-afternoon. Most of the passengers apparen- tly were going to San Carlos de ; Member Inter American Press Association @ For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity NUMBER 133 Torrential Rains Hamper Argentine Rescue Parties As 16 Are Killed in Crash Smathers Agcinst Plane in Route to Mountain Resort of Buenos Aires Bariloche for vacation since this is the beginning of summer in Ar- gentina. Radio reports to provincial pol ice headquarters at La Plata said the plane was demolished. The rain knocked out the other forms of communications in the area. 2 Meanwhile, a tropical storm with winds up to 70 and 80 kilo- meters an hour, accompanied by torrential rains, lashed this capital last night. Buenos Aires was completely isolated from points in the inte: rior due to fallen telegraph and telephone poles and lines. Street: cars and buses were marooned in many streets due to fallen trolley lines, or water that covered the streets since the drains could not carry off the water fast enough. Three persons were wounded during the storm when a wall fell. The gales fell many trées, bram- ches, and blew off many roofs, The radio towers of the police station and the Argentine Automobile Club were blown down. The districts of Buenos Aires Province. and the city of Monte- video were unreachable by phone, Air traffic was also surprised by storm, many planes having to re turn to their take-off points. WASHINGTON, D.C. (PAU)— Ambassador Ricardo Arias. Espi- nosa, of Panama, has been elected President of the newly-formed In- ter-American Diplomatic Circle of Washington. The election of the Board of Di- rectors of the society was held in the Hall of the Americas of the Pan American Union. Among the 125 persons attending the meeting were Dr. Eduardo Augusto Garcia, Argentine Ambassador to the Or- ganization of American States and Chairman of its Council; Dr. Fer- nando Lobo, Brazilian Ambassador to the OAS; Dr. Luis Quintanilla, Mexican Ambassador. to the OAS; Ecuadorean Ambassadors Dr. Jo- sé Chiriboga and Dr. Gonzalo Es- cudero; Dr. Guillermo Sevilla Sa- casa, Ambassador of Nicaragua; and Dr. Gonzalo Facio, of Costa Rica. Elected Vice-Presidents of the Diplomatic Circle were Dr. Gusta- (ve Borno, Haiti’s Representative to the OAS; and Mrs. Carlos Mo- Inter American Diplomatic Circle in Washinaton Elects First Board ternate Representative to the 0, AS. The other members of the Board of Directors are Mr. Mario Guz- man Galarza, Alternate Represen- tative of Bolivia to the OAS, Dr. Ricardo Pillado Salas, First. See retary of the Argentine Delega- tion to the OAS; Mr. Italo Zappa, Adviser to the Brazilian Delega- tion to the OAS; and Mr. Joseph montillor, of the U.S. State Depart ment. ; The meeting chose Dr. Alejan- dro Orfila, Director of Public Rela tions of the Pan American Union, as its Permanent, Secretary, and Rafael Sarda, also of the Pan American Union as Assitant Se. cretary. All diplomats in this capital ag well as United States officials with diplomatic rank are eligible for membership in the society, Princi- pal purpose of the Diplomatic Cir- cle is to increase “personal con tacts among the diplomats of this Hemisphere, as well as to spread cultural values of our America, thus strengthening the existing rales Chac6n, Minister Counselor of the Ecuadorian Embassy and Al- Propaganda is a LIMA, Dic. 9 (UP)“It is our duty to fight against anything that constitutes anti-democratic propa- ganda for our young and easy to reach people. It is for this reason that the I.A.N.O, identifies itself with the governments, which (9.5 million), ews in Brief nidad and Venezuela were report: ed to be seeking an agreement to fix their maritime boundaries in the Gulf of Paria especially as con’ cerns their rights to drilling for offshore oil deposits there, The Gulf separates Trinidad from Venezuela and is only seven miles wide at its narrowest point. Three Trinidad Oil companies are drilling for oil there and Vene- mielan authorities were said’ to take a dim view of their stepped up activities, Trinidad’s Chief (prime) Min- ister Erie Williams and Trade Min- ister John O, Halloran returned from Venezuela and immediately called an emergency meeting of the Executive Council. The reasons for Williams and awakening from their apathy and erally believed to be connected with ‘the definition of the boun- dary across the Gulf. COLOMBIAN GOVERNORS O RESIGN SOON BOGOTA —(UP)— The Gover- nor of Cundinemarca Department, Carlos Holguin, announced that there will be soon a meeting of the Governors of the country in. order to submit a mass resignation. This will be as a consequence of a resignation of the Cabinet min- isters, who submitted it to the Mil- itary Government Junta; to leave it free to choose its collaborators. The ministers and governors be- lieve that the Junta may take now the first steps for the constitu- tional reform approved in the ple- biscite, DOMINICAN JOURNALISTS . PROTEST AGAINST IAPA CIUDAD TRUJILLO — (UP) — The National Assembly of the Do- minican Press Association approv- Halloran’s trip to Caracas had not been made public but were gen- bonds of friendship and solidar- ity”. Fight Against All Anti Democratic Duty, Cuban Says indifference, prohibit the com- munist diffusion in their respective countries”. This statement was made by Cu- ban author and journalist, Salva dor Diez Versén, President of the Inter American Anti-Communist Newspapermen’s Organization, in a press conference. f Diez Vers6n is visiting Lima in order to contact the General Se cretariat of I.A.N.O., which has its headquarters in Lima. Besides, he will discuss with the executive com- mittee of the organization’s Se- cretariat the date of the first Con- gress of American’ anti-communist newspapermen, which will probab- ly be held about the middle of next year. : In his press conference, Diez Versén said that western democ- ratic publications are absolutely forbidden in the Soviet Union. He stated that if the Sputniks had been launched by the U.S, instead of Russia, the Russians would have ignored the event, contrasting with the great number of reports giv- en by the western press. He outlined 1.A.N.0’s mission, say ing that they were trying to ob- tain the unification of American newspapermen for the anti-com- munist campaign warning of the danger of Marxist infiltration and for democratic education of the masses, 5 pr sn Xe Se | tion “for its faise accusations and its.subversive intervention in the internal affairs of this Hel sphere”, y The Dominican association a@- cuses IAPA “of interfering in 4 ed a-resolution protesting against the Inter American Press Associa- affairs of the free countries America”... “shi «