Diario las Américas Newspaper, January 22, 1958, Page 10

Inter - American News for English - Speaking people 5th YEAR THE AMERICAS DAILY. Fer a better understanding between the Americas ET LT SLY ee @ A SAN ROMAN President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Antonio Ruiz Managine Fditor Published daily except Monday — Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Miami Springs Fla. on February 8 195». EDITORIAL INTERDEPENDENCE AMONG-THE AMERICAN As a beautiful reality nobody disputes any longer, the concept of inter-dependence Earth, has always had in the Americas, extraordinary sig: nificance, which increases as Life in the American countries is so united, that it can be said that even unimportant events affecting any of the twenty-one nations which form the Inter American System, have repercussions in the others, Bonds of friendship, cooperation and solidarity, all that which has its reason for being in the imperative of geography and the mentality prevailing in America, are gaining strength from day to day, and there is a marked current tending to strengthen the concept of a great con- tinental Fatherland. The cultural, economic or historical differences there are between the United States and the Latin American countries are being deluted, American reality, in the sense that, without anyone losing its characteristics, there is a and understanding, Enemies of Inter American solidarity, especially those | who are in the service of communist imperialism, try, by any means, to divide the great American family, exag- en their differences, and their discrepancies, in a tiJe effort to prove that there is no solid link among the 21 Republics of the Western Hemisphere. Of course, these intentio which wants Yo believe, since the taking deep roots in the minds of the people whose unity was proclaimed by Bolivar. The interdependence which links the 21 countries has given more power to the ideal of solidarity and the union of interests, founded on the single aim of the feelings which the 21 countries have and as an example to the world: the oldest regional system in history. oe ® Latin Ameri and Trade News Reports | Trujillo State, was completed some URUGUAY VOTES PUBLIC WORKS PLAN WASHINGTON — The Urugua- yan National Assembly last month approved a five-year public works program and provided 128 million pesos for specific projects, 15 mil- lion of which are to be spent dur- ing 1958, 31 million in each of the 3 succeeding years, and 19 mil- lion in 1962, the last year of the plan. The new program, the first to be elaborated in 13 years, covers 289 projects for highway and bridge construction, public buildings, port and inland waterway improvement, construction and improvement of airports, and national parks. All 19 Uruguayan Departments will participate in the highway and bridge construction program which probably will bring about the much needed improvement in the coun- try’s road network. Almost 4 million pesos will be | spent on improvement of river and port facilities and another 1.5 mi lion pesos will go for the acqui: tion of land for building airports. To finance the program new ta- xes are levied on all types of gaso- | line and oil, and land-holding corp- orations leasing land to tenants will pay a special “rent tax.” A bond issue for 20 million pesos will be floated to cover the part of the program not covered by these taxes. PUERTO RICO PREPARING GHANA STUDY WASHINGTON — The Govern- ment Development Bank of Puer- to Rico is undertaking a study of the economy of Ghana for the purpose of helping the new Afric- an republic set up a development program along lines already test- ed in Puerto Rico. A spokesman for the Puerto Ric- an institution in New York said that Guillermo Rodriguez, presi- dent of the Bank, and John S. de Beers, director of economic re- search, had recently visited Gha- na and would soon report on pro- jects suitable for Ghana’s new state agencies, which will include an in- dustrial development corporation, an agricultural development corp- oration, a housing corporation, and an agency to develop the Tema, harbor. ARGENTINE BANKRUPTCIES WASHINGTON — The _ liabili- ties of companies that went bank- rupt in Argentina during 1957 set a record, according to year-end statistics just released in Buenos Aires. The poor business condi- tions and tight credit situation were reflected by December lia- abilities, which were 500 per cent greater than those for the same month in 1956. 1957 liabilities totalled about $44,523,000 compared with about $22,580,000 for 1956. The greater tumber of failures appeared to be cw Vice ussia imagines, or the existence of which Russia s Vice HORACIO AGUIRRE Vice President Editor and Manager Eliseo Riera-Gomez Advt. & Cire Mer. . SMITH SMITB President President COUNTRIES among all the countries on time goes by. we may say, in a new Inter greater power of assimilation ms necessarily go against that feelings of brotherhood are created for their own benefit. x * * can Finance augurated it will mean ci GUATEMALA CITY (UP)— | Supporters of rightist Gen. Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, who won Sun- day’s presidentiai election, warned today that if their man is not in- 1 war. Ydigoras won the election by a margin of more than 40,000 votes, but because he did not poll a clear majority of the total vote, the fin- al decision rests with a Congress dominated by supporters of the government candidate, José L. Cruz Sal “Tf Congress should ignore the | will of the Guatemalan people, civ- | il war is inevitable,” said leaders | of Ydigoras’ PRN Party. “The Oct- ober street riots which forced can- cellation of that month’s election j are nothing to what will happen if Ydigoras is defrauded again.” Ydigoras himself threats, saying made no only that “it is up | to the people who voted for me” to choose a course of action, On the basis of nearly complete returns, the choice Congress will | have to make lies between Yido- goras ‘and leftist candidate Mario Know’ thy Neighbor By ANTONIO RUIZ VENEZUELA — As part of an extensive program of highway con- struction, several hundred miles of new roads have been built in Ve- nezuela during the last few years, with particular attention paid to the construction of the missing links in the new Pan Americar Highway, running from the Andes mountains and the shores of Lake | in the metalworking industry, fol- lowed by automobile sales compan- ies and retail textile shops. VENEZUELA OPENS NEW IRON MINES WASHINGTO — Mivenca Corp | oration has announced the opening | of a new iron mine, El Trueno, in the Guayana region of the Vene-| zuelan interior, about 90 miles) from the port of Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco River. The company joins Bethlehem Steel’s Iron Mines, Inc., and the Orinoco Mining Company, a sub- | sidiary of United States Steel | Company, in the exploitation of Venezuela’s estimated reserves of two billion tons of iron ore | Maracaibo, from Barquisimeto to the Colombian border at San An- tonio del Tachira, The 24-mile stretch from Agua Viva to Monay, time ago, and later the 38-mile sec- tion between Puente Torres, La- ra, and Agua Viva, Trujillo, which avoids the long detour through Ca- rora of the old road. Almost all of the Pan American Highway in Venezuela has been paved. This new Venezuelan section of the Pan American Highway, from Caracas to the Colombian border, is 566 miles long, against 692 miles on the old Trans-Andean Tigh- way. Traveling time has been grea- ly reduced, not only because the distance is 126 miles shorter, but also because the new road was laid out for the most part in straight | lines, to allow for an average speed RECORD SUGAR CROP PREDICTED IN MEXICO | MEXICO CITY (UP)— Labor leader José Maria Martinez of the | Sugar Workers Union has predict- | ed a record sugar crop for 1958. | He said this year’s crop will be |“slightly higher” than last year’s output of 1,018.000 tons. Martinez said he based his esti- | mate on the recent opening of new areas for sugar planting. | He said the increase will be |gained despite the recent frosts in ‘the State of Tamaulipas which ‘caused heavy losses to sugar cane | planters. Estimates of the Sugar Growers |with Martinez’ prediction, ARE REDUCED BUENOS AIRES (UP)— The Central Bank has authorized all | time-payment banks to reduce the deposit of guarantee which is re- |quired for all openings of credit | and import documents from 50 per jeent to 20 per cent. The announcement of the mea- | sure says thet this will ease up the |financial problems of companies |which use articles from abroad. CHILEAN PESO SANTIAGO (UP)— The Interna- |tional Foreign Exchange Commit- tee began a study for increasing |the amount of pre-export deposits in an effort to curb the demand of foreign exchange on the weakened banks coffers lar, reached, in ihe free market, its highest quotization, with 830 buyer and 840 seller per U. S. unit. - CHILFAN TELEPHONE RATES INCREASED SANTIAGO, Chile (UP)— The government and the Chilean Tele- phone Company signed a contract by which telephone rates will be increased 90 per cent and the com- pany promises to install 84,300 te- jephones and 421 new long distance circuits within eight years. The investment estimated by the company for these impromements | will reach 19 million pesos, the equivilant of more than 14 million | dollars. Forty pe: cent of the new rates will be used to improve ser- vices, |Federation coincide more or less | of 50 miles an hour, while the | average on the old road was no more than 28 miles an hour. Motor- ists have been covering the di- stance between San Cristobal and Caracas. in less than 15 hours of | | actual driving. On the old Trans Highway it takes a minumum of | two days of hard driving to travel | | between the two cities. What is considered an extension | of the Pan American Highway Sy- stem in Venezuela was completed | | not long ago. This is an 808-mile | Road from Caracas to Santa Elena | der, which crosses the Orinoco | River at Ciudad Bolivar. Most of it has already been paved. It in- cludes a climb of 108 miles to the Gran Sabana, which presented very difficult problems to the engine- ers in charge of the project, since the road had to be carved for a distance of 16 miles, out of a sheer rock 3,200 feet high, to the top of the Gran Sabana plateau. More than 16 million dollars were in- vested in that section alone. | A short but vital sections the |one from Caracas’ to Los Teques, capital of Miranda State, which re- placed a narrow and antiquated road. The 20-mile stretch has four | lanes and goes from Los Teques to Tejeria, 16 miles beyond Los Te- | ques, continuing then to Valencia, 63 miles away. The new parkway | is 92 feet wide, with two double | lanes, 26 feet wide each and a part- ing strip 20 feet wide, which has At yesterday’s closing, the dol-| heen landscaped at each side. Com-| pleted a little more than a year ago, at a cost of $45,000,000, the new parkway was designed for maximum speeds of 80 miles per hour, Also opened to traffic about the same time were the sections from Petare to Guatire, from Calabozo to Puerto Miranda, through Ca- maguan, from Carora to Lagunillas, and the 104-mile froad from Coro | to Palmarejo. With the completion | of the Cauecagua-Barcelona and jthe Giiiria Sristobal Colén roads, the so-called Caribbean circuit, | which starts at Paraguaipos, north east of Maracaibo, and ends at Cristobal Colén, opposite Trinidad, has been completed. Spanish Version Page. 3 | de Uairén, near the Brazilian bor- | MIAMI SPRINGS, FLA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1958 Supporters of Ydigoras | Caracas Without Threaten Civil War if he is Not Inaugurated | Méndez Montenegro, who nosed | Cruz out of second place. | However, Méndez’ margin over Cruz is so slight that it was con- sidered possible that the govern- | ment candidate might yet move up | to second place , Near-final returns, covering all but a handful of votes gave Ydi- goras 140,802 yotes to 98,238 for Méndez and 97,768 for Cruz. The other two candidates received too |few votes to matter. A ment congressmen might use to make Cruz eligible for the presi- dency lies in the fact that official returns submitted by provincial governors musi be Congress before becoming formal- ly valid. Sunday’s election was Guate- mala’s second in three months. Government candidate Miguel Or- tiz Passarelli was elected Pres- ident in ‘October but a riotous protest organized by Ydigoras foreed the annualment of the elections, Deported Guatemalan Arrives in Managua MANAGUA (UP)—Colonel Car- los Paz Tejada, Chief of the Gua- temalan Army during the Arbenz regime, arrived in Nicaragua, ac- cording to what he says, he was deported by his government. It says that he was accompanied by members of the Guatemala Security Seryice. Paz Tejada also said that he had entered Guatemala from El Sal- vador, without a passport. loophole which pro-govern- | accepted by | to the plane which brought him | Newspapers as General Strike Hits Venezuela An anti-government strike depriv- ed Caracas of morning news- | papers today, hours before the ci- | ty’s church bells signaled its offi- cial start at 11:35 A. M. EST. Opposition as well as pro-govern- | ment organs among the city’s half- dozen morning papers were affect- | ed by the walkout of editorial and | mechanical workers, which began | Monday night. aldo, Caracas’ only evening paper, is not expected to appear. Printers and other newspaper | employes prepared for the strike by melting down all the lead type and “boiler plate’ — previously | prepared pictures etc., and turning | off equipment to they could not be | forced to publish. Heavily armed troops and police stood guard in the streets, under orders to protect owners and em- ployees of non-striking factories and shops. Police headquarters ordered special efforts to keep “banks, schools and _ business houses” open. The Labor Ministry instructed employers to prepare lists of all absentees, presumably as a basis for retaliation. The strike was the latest de- | velopment in a campaign of noisy but generally ineffective civil dis- orders which has plagued Caracas since the failure of the New Year's Day revolt against the government of President Marcos Pérez Jimén- nez. RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 21 (UP) The Secretary General of the Organization of American States, José A. Mora, told the coffee pro- ducing countries of the world that the sale of this product has a won- derful future, since a sixth part of the population of the world con- sumes, at this time, all of the cof- fee that they produce. Mora added that, by using ap- propriate methods, the per capita quota could be increased. The OAS Secretary Geneeal gave a speech in the conference of 37 nations of America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, which met to establish an International Coffee Organiza- tion. The organization will try to (1) increase world coffee consump- tion (2 find new uses for the cof- fee bean; (3) improve statistics and prognostics for consumation and production. The conference will not deal with prices. Mora stated that with an ade- quate spirit of cooperation, the conference will be able to estab- lish a program which would be “of mutual benefit for producers and consumers.” On pointing out what coffee means to the economy of the coffee producing countries which are re- presented in the conference, Mora said: “The importance of coffee to the economy of the American coun- tries explains the attention which the Organization of American States has given to the problems of this product. “In our Hemisphere, whose cof- | fee production in recent years has represented 75 per cent of world ; Volumen, this bean is the single pro | duct which is common and im- | portant to most of the countries, “In recent years Latin American | coffee exports have reached a fi- | gure which is near 2 billion dol- lars, representing more than 80. | per cent of the value of world ex- | HEMISPHERIC EVENTS Dr. Mora Sees Good Economic Future for Latin American Coffee Producers | ports and almost a fourth of the | value of all Latin American ex- ports.” Mora stated that OAS has play- ed an important role in making the conference possible through its Economic and Social Council and said that many of the points which the conference will try to include in its discussions were ori- ginally presented by OAS in a re- port at the beginning of this year under the title of “Proposals for an International Coffee Organiza- tion.” “It is for this Secretary General — he added — a great satisfaction that this document has served as a basis for outlining the project which will be considered in this conference.” New Air Service N. Y. - Buenos Aires ito Begin in Marc WASHINGTON ge Carnicero, U.S. Director of the “Empresa Aérea Argentina Trans- continental, S. A.” announced that | this company is planning to start | its services between Buenos Aires | and New York next March. The Civil Aeronautics Board has | just given Transcontinental per- mission to/ carry out this service | between the two cities for three years, with stop-overs in Sao Pau- lo, Rio de Janeiro, and Caracas. Carnicero said that the line will charge tourist rates, but he gave no figures. He added that the line, at the start, will use three Lockheed Sup- er-Constellations, but the company has ordered four Convair 880 Jets, which it should receive at the end of 1960 and whose total cost will be twenty miliion dollars, CARACAS, Venezuela (UP) —{ The government organ El Her- | — (UP)— Jor} Brazilian Cellist Plays Tonight at ' Panamerican Union WASHINGTON, D. C. (PAU) — Aldo. Parisot, Brazilian violoncel- list, will be the soloist in a con- cert in the Hall of the Americas |of the Pan American Union to- ; morrow at 9:00 P. M. Tickets for the concert may be obtained with- Pan American Union, Seventeenth Street, and Constitution Ave., N. W. Parisot, a native of Natal, made his first public appearance at the age of twelve, playing the Haydn Concerto with orchestra. In addi- tion to recitals and solo appearan- ces with leading Brazilian orches- tras, he also organized and played with the Jacovino Quartet, to whom the composer Heitor Villa« Lobos dedicated his Quartet No. 8. The artist came to the United States in 1946, playing first at Tan-| glewood and then with several oth- er orchestras, including eight solo appearances with the New York Philharmonic. It was with this or chestra that he played the world premiere of a violoncello concerto by Villa-Lobos, written especially for him. Parisot is now on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Mu- sic in Baltimore. His instrument for the Pan American Union con- cert is a famous Stradivarious for- merly belonging to the late Ema- nuel Feuermann. Scripps - Howard Gives $2500 to IAPA Scholarship NEW YORK (UP)— The Scripps Howard chain of newspapers has contributed $2,500 to the Inter American Press Association (IA PA). scholarship fund, announced Robert W. Brown, President of this fund. The contribution will be used for a scholarship which will carry the name of the donnor, and which, like others, will be given to news- papermen and students of journal- ism in the Western Hemisphere, whe will be selected by the Fund Committee. The winners of Eng- lish-speaking countries will spend a year in the University which | they choose in any Latin Ameri- can country and the Latin Ameri- | can winners will study for a year in the “U.S or Canada. Brown said that at least 10 com- | plete scholarships will be distribut- | ed this year, each ‘of a $2,500 dona- out charge at the Bookshop of the | WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UP)— Former Sécretary of State Dean Acheson accused the Eisenhower Government of letting relations of the United States with Latin Ame- | rica to become “the most abandon- ed aspect of our- foreign policy.” He then called for a total effort of the Government to aid the Lat- in American countries to speed up their industrial development At present, he said the Govern- ment “tends to neglect that vital zone of the world.” Acheson spoke to the press after a meeting of the Foreign Relations Advisory Committee of the Demo cratic Party, of which he is Chair- man. Also at the meeting was E. | G. Miller, ex Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs. Acheson indicated that critic- ism by democrats of the present Government policies for the West- ern Hemisphere will play an im- portant role in the forthcoming electoral campaign. The ex-Secretary of State re- minded his audience that he had always advocated larger Govern- ment expenditures to aid the Latin American countries to build their railroads and public works. He said the Latin American countries have reached the point where they need more production means and_ specialized workers, adding: “Only government loans can help those countries to speed up their industrialization.” He pointed out that the Eisen- hower Government seemed to be | concerned only with the develop- ment of countries of Asia and Africa, and he expressed complete disagreement with the position often expressed by Secretary of State John Foster’ Dulles and As- sistant Secretary of State for Lat- in American Affairs, Roy Rubot- tom, that private capital is best suited to help Latin America. As an example of the manner in which the government can oper- ate in a beneficial manner in Lat- in America, he mentioned the joint Brazil-U. S. Commission for Eco- nomic Development he created in 1951. “We went direct to basic de- velopment of Brazil that private | capital could not touch,” he said. “Private capital has no funds to build railroads, ports and hydro- electric plants, which constitute the backbone of a country’s eco- tion. WASHINGTON, D. C. (PAU) — Coffee is not just another crop in; Latin America. The income deriv- ed from its export forms the ba- sis for the economic and social de- velopment of 14 of the 20 republics south of the Rio Grande. That is why Brazil, in the in- terest of all the Latin American coffee nations, called the meeting nomy.” in Rio de Janeiro of the world’s producing countries to consider setting up an International Coffee Organization, Beset by fluctuating coffee pri- ces in the international market which have all but wrecked their plans for financing a continuing program to improve the wellbeing of their people, the Latin Ameri- Latin American News in Brief | FOREIGN CREDITS MEXICO CITY (UP)— The Fed. eral Government announced that |44 million dollars in foreign cred- jits will be distributed to the na- |tion’s railroad, iron, cattle, agri- cultural and electrification indus- tries during the first quarter of 1958. Of the total, 38 million will come from the Export-Import Bank |of Washington, and six million |from the International Bank «of reconstruction and development, HEMISPHERIC U.S. WARSHIPS AT SANTO DOMINGO CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominican Republic (UP)— Nine U.S. war- ships arrived here on a Caribbean cruise, ; The 5,000 officers and bluejack- ets of the crews are getting shore leave here and their sightseeing and shopping groups were very much in evidence today through- out the city. CHILEANS CUTTING COPPER PRODUCTION SANTIAGO, Chile (UP)— Ana- conda Corporation, largest copper producer in Chile, has cut produe- tion by 10 per cent, in compliance with recent Chilean Government suggestions, a company spokes- man said, Rodolfo Michels, Vice President of Anaconda’s subsidiaries Chile ‘Exploration and Andes Coppere Mining Companies, said “we have already reduced our production rate.to 90 per cent of the 1956 le- vel.” Michels added that “any surplus production manpower will be us- ed to advance development work ; and in preparing our mines and plants for more efficient produc- tion when it is 4gain required.” Anaconda’s subsidiaries produce 70 per cent of exportable Chilean copper, MEXICAN LANDMARK BEING DEMOLISHED MEXICO CITY (UP)— Demoli- tion began today on a México City ‘land mark — the _ International Building at Paseo de Ja Reforma Number One, one of México’s first “skyscrapers” — which was con- demned: after being severely dam- aged in last July’s earthquake. Luis Dangniny. Gabirel Carmo- na and Everardo G. Villalobos, ma- nagers of “Associated Wrecking Technicians,” said only men with the building since vibrations from machinery could bring it crashing down on the capital’s main street. They estimated the job will take one year, The 16-story building was built in 1939 at a cos! of $1,600,000 by Pedro Corcurra. It is now owned by nis four children. The edifice was said to be one of the tallest all-concrete structures in the world — it had no steel. superstructure, This lack of steel had been blam- ed by local engineers for the building’s susceptibility to quake damage. It was cracked in pre- vious earth tremors in 1941 and 1942, and had to be completely re- novated in 1942, Former U. S, Ambassador to México William 0’ : Member Inter American Press Association e For Liberty, Culture. and Hemispheric Solidarity NUMBER 168 Acheson Hits At “Neglect” by U. S. Government on Its Latin American Relations Private’ Capital Alone Not Enough for Needed Development, he Says Hemisphere Policies to Play Important Rohe in Next U. S. Electoral Campaign He said “Brazil is one of th greatest countries of the future,” and compared Brazilian economic progress with that of the United States when this country had a population similar to Brazil’s to- day. “Tf Brazil can exploit her petro- leum,” he said, “there is no reason she should not reach our size and power.” Acheson also stressed that more economic aid should be given to Pert, Colombia and México. “Here, in our own Hemisphere,” he declared, “we have the oppor- tunity to help the people to de- velop strong and free socieites, but the Government does not seem to realize it.” He attacked John Foster Dulles for allowing relations with friend- ly countries “to deteriorate,” but agreed with him that talks of chiefs of state would not do any good now. He declared that the Committee he presides, in its present meet- ing, is drafting a series of docu- ments on foreign relations, which will be used in the next electoral campaign. These documents will contain, he said, certain detailed proposals on “a more positive ap- proach” on foreign relations. Giant Waves Hit Chilean Port ANTOFAGASTA, Chile (UP)— Six meter-high waves reached 150 | meters depth on the coast of the neighboring port of Mejillones, causing much material damage, but there were no victims, accord- ing to reports received today. There were also tidal waves, al- though not too severe, in several ports from Arica. at the far north of Chile, to Valparaiso, At this 1ast port, the waves flood- ed the avenues of the coastal city and caused damages in custom houses, The phenomenon is linked with the tidal wave at the port of Es- meraldas, in Ecuador, where on Sunday, there was an earthquake and tidal wave which left 20 dead and 300 wounded. Two barges were damaged, but were later recovered. A part of the dock was destroy- ed by the violence of the waves. Economic Development of Hemisphere Countries Tied to Export of Coffee can republics decided they had to take action on a world scale to stabilize their economic situation. Key to their problem, they be- lieve, is understanding among con- sumers of the beverage of the im- portance of coffee, They are convinced that coffee drinkers, particularly in the Unit- ed States, would not object to pay- ing a fair price for their brew if they realized the tie-in between sales of the bean and the welfare of their Hemispheric neighbors and also the effect on their own ta- xes of instability in the coffee mar- ket. The Latin American coffee pro- ducers maintain that the conse- quences of a one or two cent drop in the price of their product are a stoppage of construction of schools roads and hospitals and a stagna- tion of general economic activity, all because, of a decline in the in- come expected from their basic ex- port. Conseqtiently, thay must ask the United States for loans to con- tinue purehase of equipment and goods in this country. The money for these credits eventually comes from, taxes paid by U. S. citizens; Instead of being forced to ask for loans to finance their buying in the United States, the Latin American producers prefer an equitable price for their coffee Dwyer had his law offices in the hand-tools will be used in razing building. that would enable them to pay fom their purchases, ata