Diario las Américas Newspaper, March 4, 1958, Page 12

Inter - American News fer English - Speaking people 5th YEAR @ A SAN ROMAN President FRANCISCO AGU: ARBRE Vice President and Publisher Antonio Ruiz Managine Editor Published dally except Mon@ay — Gatered as second class matter a the Post Office of Milam) Springs Fla. op February & 1956. EDITORIAL FOR THE SAKE OF HEMISPHERIC POLITICS, PRESIDENT-ELECT FRONDIZI AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES With the electoral campaign already over in the great Republic of Argentina, undoubtedly, a critical period of truly diplomatic transition starts in that big and noble country. Arturo Frondizi, a background, has received the vote of confidence of his people. There is no need to ment of the political sources the only thing left to be done is to bow reverently before the mandate of the Argentine people. The Armed Forces have kept their promise. most important objective has been achieved, in that the men who started a democratic movement did not forsake the oath of loyalty they made to themselves and to their The political forces of Argentina, in their varying classifications, used the democratic course and to- fellow citizens. day Arturo Frondizi holds hi banner of the formidable Argentine Nation. For that great nation’s worth in the cultural, political and social fields, which represents so much in the group of Latin American countries —it becomes imperative that whe @. SMITE e President 8. SMITB Vice President HORACIO AGUIRRE Viee President Editor and Masager Bliseo Riera-Gomez Advt. @ Cire Mer. SHOULD TOUR man of an extensive political enter into analysis at this mo- that gave him their support; The igh in his hands the glorious all, without exceptions— plan on a future of balanced In- ter-American relations, with due evaluation of the signi- ficance of the political activity originating in the Casa Ro- sada of Buenos Aires. And, especially, since such activity would represent the will of the larger portion of the popula- tion, that with deep democratic faith has pronounced its wish in elections that were upheld by the Armed Forces of Argentina. It is to be hoped that the foresight of the statesmen of democratic America may let them agree with our opi- nion that, for the good of all, it would be advisable to make possible a visit of President-elect Frondizi to the different pe of those countries where there is patent political affinity in the gorvenment, as refers to the source of its authority: the people. Such tour throughout America, climaxing in Washing- ton, would provide the President-elect with a brilliant op- portunity to become acquainted with the realities of our Hemisphere, and to the coun the opportunity to know personally the symbol of Argen- tine’s choice; and in the specific case of Washington and Buenos Aires, it would mean the unique opportunity to exchange viewpoints that would strengthen the bases for a Pan American union in the field of politics, badly in need of fortification so as to avoid : We are certain that President-elect Frondizi will find im President Eisenhower (both symbols of their people’s will) understanding and friendship. We are most confi- dent, also, that the President of Argentina will convey to the President of the United message of a Nation so rich se enthusiastic about a well conceived Pan Americanism. xk * Ux Latin American Firance and Trade News Reports HOUSE COMMITTEE. INVESTIGATES HUGE MOA BAY, CUBA, CONTRACT WASHINGTON (UP)— House investigators said here they are examing a huge nickel and cobalt contract awarded the Freeport Sul- fur Company at Moa Bay, Cuba, to determine. whether the Govern- ment got “a good deal.” John Hay (Jock) Whitney form- erly was chairman of the Board of the company He gave up the post when he became Ambassador to Great Britain Sources on a House Government Operations Subcommittee headed by Representative Jack B. Brooks of Texas said the staff had been looking into the contract which was awarded Freeport several months ago by the General Servi- ces Administration (GSA). The company has denied that Whitney, a prominent republican, had anything to do with the con- tract award. The firm said it got the contract because it submitted the best bid. The contract guarantees that the Government will buy a large share of the nickel ard cobalt mine at Moa Bay at 74 cents a pound over a five year period, if the firm can not find a market for its total out- put. , Theoritically, the Government could spend as much as $250,000,- 000 for the nickel and cobalt over the five vear period. A subcom- mittee source said that the con- tract contained numerous of in- centives for the company and the house group was simply interested in whether it was “good business for the taxpayer” “We are trying to make a busi- nesslike examination of the con- tract,” he said, “A lot of money is involved. It bears scrutiny.” “If our invest:gation warrants it, we will hcid hearings on the mat- ter, he said. The spokesman said the sub- (@ommittee was “not making aay tries he visits, it would give misunderstandings. States a sincere and effusive in culture and tradition and kk * charges against amy individuals” in the case, The company has said it needed a guarantee that the government would buy part of its output, if | Necessary so it could obtain a | $119,000,000 baak loan to build | the Cuban plant The entire con- | struction is being financed with private funds, a company spokes- | man said |Panama Canal Zone Workers Entitled fo U. S. Pay Raise WASHINGTON. (UP). — Con- gressional aides said today that classified federal workers im the Canal Zone would be entitled to the pay raise voted by the Senate lat I ast night, but that it appeared the pilots, as well as so-called blue collar workers and others especially employed would not. The pay raise bill as it passed the Senate provided for a little better than a 7.6 per cent increase for classified federal employes, but there is still no assurance that the bill will finish Congress in this form, The bill would be retroactive to January 1, if finally approved by Congress in the present form. It would apply to about 950,000 clas- sified white collar governmental workers. But it must still be approved by the House, and it is indirectly linked with the debate over the general postal pay raise bill and the increase in postal rates, so that the outcome remains uncer- : x*x*x* Subscribe te the Americas Daily eee nee For a better understanding between the Americas Latin Disarmament Plan Finds Strong Opposition in Diploma WASHINGTON, Mar. 3. (UP). Dr. Luis Quintanilla, Mexican Am- bassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), has taken the initiative in efforts to prevent debate in the organization of a Costa Rican plan for Latin Amer- ican disarmament, it was learned here. According te reliable sources, Quintanilla met with 11 delegates at his home, where he summoned them to plan the opposition stra-| tegy. On Wednesday the OAS Council is expected to receive a proposal of Costa Rican Ambassador, Gon- zalo Facio, by which nuclear wea- pons would be forbidden and other armaments limited, investing the funds thus saved in economic de- velopment. The proposal only re- quest appointment of a group to stduy disarmament, but its mean- Know’ thy Neighbor By ANTONIO RUIZ CHILE — Higher education in the country is provided mainly by the University of Chile, the Na- tional University in Santiago, the Catholic University of Chile, also in the capital, the University of Concepcion; the Catholic Univer- sity of Valparaiso, and the Federi- co Santa Maria Technical Univer- sity of Valparaiso. There are, also a School of Industrial Engineering and three Schools of Social Ser- vice, Established in 1842, and opened the following year, the University of Chile had as its first Rector Andrés Bello, author of the origin- al education plan, and distinguish- ed educator and scholar born in Venezuela The. eight faculties of the Uni- versity are Philosophy and Educa- tion, Fine Arts, Juridical and So- cia] Sciences, Commercial .and In- dustrial Economy, Biology and Medical Sciences, Veterinary Me- dicine, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, and Agronomy. Within these faculties there are various institutes and schools. To promote the nation’s cultural acti- vities, the Chilean Government maintains a number of libraries and museums, including the Na- tional Library in Santiago, the Public Library in Valparaiso, more than a hundred provincial librar- ies, museums of fine arts, and his- tory and naturai history, in the capital and museums in Valpariso, Concepcion and Talea. Some of the country’s numerous: scientific, learned and cultural so-| cieties are directly connected with the universities, and others receive aid from the Government to carry on their activities, The Chilean Academy of Natural Sciences, for | example, is under supervision of the Cathclie University; the Na- tic Circles tg has provoked great opposition in ‘extremist-nationalist and com- munist circles in Latin America. Quintanilla declared to. the United Press that he only invited the diplomats for “a cordial ex- change of views, some cocktails”, without any special relation with the question of disarmament. He declared he has no instructions from his Government on the mat- ter, nor can he comment it in| public. Some of the diplomats attending the meting said, howe- ver, that they were invited with the speeifie purpose of examining} Facio’s proposal. Neither him nor| U.S. Ambassador John Dreier were invited. The United States is in favor of a limitation of military expendi- tures in Latin America, but they are of the opinion that this is a problem each country must solve by itself. President Eisenhower, | in his reciprocal aid program for 1958-59, offered to assit any La- tin American nation willing to} dedicate equipment of the Army Engineers for civilian public works, a suggestion contained also un Facio’s proposal. It was also learned that after the meeting, the Council’s Chairman, Eduardo A. Garcia, of Argentina, requested Facio to limit himself| to submit the motion for a resolu- tion. and leave the debate for other | occasion. If this procedure is fol-| lowed, the General Committee of the Council could postpone debate indefinitely. Garcia argued that the ambas-| sadors have had no time to con-| sult. their respective governments and that a question of such im: portance requires careful study. On the other hand, supporters of Facio’s proposal make the accu- sation that it is only a diplomatic maneuver to shelve the proposal, | in order to save the OAS Council | from a debate which promisees to} be very heated. They affirm that} the meeting was the same as those| convoked by Quintanilla in Decem-| ber to organize opposition to an U.S. proposal to establish closer | relations between OAS and other regional alliances of the free world. It has been reported that at the| meeting, the Mexican Ambassador | attacked the Costa Rican idea, say-| ing that “it weakens the weak and strengthens the strong.” Frondizi Confers With 62 Peronist Union Leaders BUENOS AIRES. (UP). — Dr. Arturo Frondizi held a conference with the leaders of the 62 Unions of the CGT, of Peronist tendency. As he finished his conference he said to the nswmen that the Union representatives asked him a lot of questions “which I con- sider logic”, adding that the lea- ders had “demonstrated great knowledge and dominion of the po- tional Committee on Geography, | litical union process of the coun- Geodesy and Geophysics receives funds through the run Military Institute of Geogra- phy; and the Chilean Historical and Geographic Society is given some government support. The Chilean-North American Cultur- al Institute, the Chilean Academy of the Language, and the Society of Chilean Writers, are but a few of the other organizations that in- fluence the nation’s cultural life. During recent years University groups have taken the lead in pro- viding Chileans with good thea- | tre. The University of Chile’s Ex- | perimental Theaire not only stages first rate performances of classic- al and modern drama for Santiago audiences but through its. Depart- ment of Extension Theatre, travels throughout the country, playing at schools, army camps, labor union halls, and rural centers. In 1945, A School of Dramatic Arts was established; besides offer- ing classes, it now maintains a lib- rary and encourages study abroad through scholarships. In order to encourage literary activity among Chileans, an Experimental Theatre prize, in the form of an annual cash award, was also established. Another important experimental theatre group is apart of the School of Fine Arts of the Catho- lic University. It hasbeen success- ful in presenting works by Chil- ean and foreign playwrights and offers a three-year specialized course of study. Organized more recently than these two groups, the Free Theatre encourages the pro- duction of national dramatic lit- erature by sponsoring regular broadcasts of new works and round table discussions on the pro- blems faced by the Chilean Thea- | j try”. Government- | “T have told them we are study- ing the economic and social pro- blems desiring that on May 2 we could adopt concrete measures to enable the country to work peace- fully”. HEMISPHERIC EVENTS NEW OFFICIALS FOR AMERICAN CLUB Rhuberry, general manager of the Ford Motor Co., of México, was installed as President of the Ameriian Club of this city. Also taking office were Frank L. Marx, Vice President; Al Dennis- ton, Treasurer; and E. Raidy Stet- son, Secretary. The club numbers over 1,000 members. U.S. TOURISTS SPEND MORE IN MEXICO MEICO CITY: (UP)— The Me- xican Tourism Association said that 58,150 tourists spent a total of $49,600,000 in the republic in December. The figures represent a substan- tial increase over December of 1956 when 51,249 visitors spent $39,880,000 in México. Border vis- itors and minors are not included in the totals. UNIVERSITY CITY GUATEMALA — Work is con- tinuing on the buildings of Guate- tre, Spanish Version Page 3 oa mala’s ‘University City” which is rising on a 150 acre campus at the MIAMI SPRINGS, FLA, 1 MEICO CITY (UP)— Fraine B. | ESDAY, MARCH 4, 1958 El Salvador and Honduras United fo Fight Reds in COLONIA DEL REFUGIO, El Salvador, March 3, (UP). — José Maria Lemus and Ramén Villeda Morales, Presidents of El Salvador and Honduras, respectively, agreed to “unify the procedures of the two countries to oppose the disu- nity work of extremists combat- ing democracy”. The agreement was made in a meeting the two Presidents had in the village named Poy, of Chala- tenando province. Their wives participated in the meeting, too, and agreed on their part, to unify their work done for the benefit of children, Villeda Morales declared to the United Press that his Government program included the support to the Central American integration economic plan, the fight against communism, and the road construc- tion to link Honduras with the neighboring countries of Guatema- la, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Lemus offered in this summer resort a banquet to Villeda Mora- les and members of his group. Ministers of both Governments, newsmen and notables of ‘both countries attended the banquet. Salvador and Tegucigalpa. Bank Employees on Strike in Bolivia LA PAZ, (UP). — The com- mercial activities were paralyzed by a general strike of bank em- ployes, who demand their sepa- ration from la “Caja Nacional de| Seguros” (National Insurance), considering this affects their in- terests. The strikers request permission | to establish their own firm. The National Insurance said it is short of funds to restore the deposits made. The strike of the Panagra’s em- ployes was postponed until next) Saturday, when the Company will) show the scale of proposed in-| creases in salaries. Meanwhile, still on strike are employes of “El Diario’s” and of the InterAmerican cooperative ser- vices of agriculture and educa- tion. The employes of “La Nacién” announced that they will initiate tomorrow their strike if the Com- pany does not pay their “indem- nities”, Guatemalan President Honor Mario Echandi GUATEMALA. (UP). — Presi- dent Flores Avendafio offered a jreception in the Presidential House to honor President-elect of Costa Rica, Mario Echandi, who arrived in this Capital with his wife, The President-elect of Guate- mala, General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, who will take office Sun- day, attended the reception. Echandi has come as a special guest of General Ydigoras Fuentes to attend to his inauguration. southern end of the capital. When completed. the University of San Carlos’ new home will include 25 buildings. At present the School of Agriculture is the only functioning | on the new campus, but work is being rushed on the School of En- gineering’s six buildings which should be ready for occupancy when the 1959 term starts next January. The remaining schools of the University (Humanities, Law, Dentistry, Farmacy, Economics and five stand-by members, the locations in town as their build- ings ave completed, on the new | campus. LEOPOLD MAY GO TO WORK IN PTO. RICO SAN JUAN, P, R. (UP)—Gov. Luis Mufoz Marin said he has no objection to Nathan, Leopold com- ing to work in Puerto Rico after he is released on parole from the Illinois Penitentiary where he has served 34 years for the murder of Robert Franks. Mufioz told a news conference that officials of the “Church of the Brethren” asked him 10 weeks ago The Presidents returned to San! Europeans Offer Oil Equipment to Brazilian Firms RIO DE JANEIRO, March 3, — (UP), — Lidio Lunardi, President of the Industries National Confe- deration, declarted to United Press that some European suppliers have offered oil drilling equipment to Brazilian Companies operating in Bolivia. He added he is not permitted to {mention names of -the suppliers, | but that he can say the best of- fers were made by West Germany, Italy and Poland. \ The Germans are able to ac- cept payments at ten years terms, he continued. “The other offers are more or less alike, he said”. Lunardi is at the same time Di- rector of Kessler & Coelho de} Unhuj, one of the 14 Brazilian} | Companies applying for permission | |to operate in the six millions hec- tares region embracing the Boli- vian concession to private Bra-| zilian enterprises for oil exploita- tion. The National Development Bank has reported that the Bolivian con- cession will be divided into ten sections for distribution. This was decided after the Bank rejected the idea to mix the 14 Companies) applying for permission. The Bank oppossed too many controversial interests hampered the formation of a big Company. Honduras and Salvador Presidents Meet Today TEGUCIGALPA. (UP).—It was officially confirmed that the in- terview between Presidents, Ra- mén Villeda Morales and José Ma- ria Lemus, from Honduras and Salvador, respectively, will be held tomorrow in some place of the border of both Republics. It was reported the interview was of an informal character, but it has been said the two leaders will discuss matters concerning | least two persons in a fresh wave THE AMERICAS DAILY Cuban Army Reports Eight Rebels Killed, Ammunition Central América Arms, Captured in Oriente Terrorism, Arson * Member Inter American Press Association ,@ For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity NUMBER 203 , Reported From Several Parts of Island Republic HABANA, March 3. (UP). — An Army communiqué reports that military patrols killed eight rebels in Belic, near Niquero, Oriente Province, and that they seized arms, ammunition, and eampaign equipment. The communiqué admits loss of a soldier, adding that it continues pursuing the “attackers”. * Rebels burned schools and a wa- terfront warehouse and killed at of hit-run arson and shooting raids from their mountain hide-outs dur-| ing the weeke-end. Eyewitnesses reported two men, one apparently an American and the other a Briton, were operating with/ rebel bands in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra mountains in rebellious Oriente province. The rebels organized by Fidel Castro struck in widely separated localities from Havana to Santia- go, the capital of Oriente. A rebel-set fire on the Santiago waterfront caused an estimated $500,000 in damage. Some 20,000 sacks of sugar were ruined by water from firehoses in the ware- house owned by Gaston Godoy, who is presiding officer of the Cuban House of Representatives. Sailors from the Soviet freighter Leonid Leonidov helped fight the blaze. Another rebel band fired on a sugar mill train, killing the en- gineer and wounding two soldiers assigned as guards on the train. The management of the Cuban Consolidated Railways said all night train service to Santiago would be canceled. In Santa Clara, rebels shot and killed one man and wounded an- other. Apparently, they believed the slain man was a police in- former. PROMINENT ARGENTINES SUPPORT CUBAN REBELS BUENOS AIRES. (UP). — A group of outstanding writers, and artists has issued a statement on the current situation in Cuba, de- claring their solidarity with those who “in other countries of Amer- ica struggle for liberation of their respective countries, subject to re- gimes of force’. The statement adds that the Cu- ban people, “highly outraged and suffer persecutions, humiliatins |and tortures, anud struggle with | admirable decision and courage to vanquish the dictatorship and res- | tore, in the Land of Marti, the re- gime of freedom and justice on the foundations of the sovereign- ty of the people and the respeét for law”. 2 STUDENTS KILLED . NEAR SANTIAGO HAVANA, Cuba, March 3, 1958. —(Special to THE AMERICAS DAILY). — This morning a stud- ent strike of all private and pu- blic schools of Santiago de Cuba was declared as a result of the death of teenagers Angel Espino Sarmiento and Antonio Fernandez Leén, who were found killed on the road near a farm known as Cerca de Piedra. The two were 15 years old and were students of the private school La Luz, located on Aguilera and Pedrera st. in the East capital. It was reported that an attack to a patrol car of the army was made Saturday night on front of the school of which Espino and Fernandez were students, and in which the the teenager Ramon Gue- rrero Rivera 18 years old was kil- led. It was reported the patroi car was raiding the place when three teenagers threw grenades |which did not explode and the crew of the military ear returned fire killing Guerrero. Brazilians Get News . in Portuguese Over Phone in Washington WASHINGTON, D. C. (PAU).— Brazilian residents in Washington can now get an up-to-date sum- mary in Portuguese of what’s hap- pening back home for the price of a phone call. Dialing Adams 2,4451 sets off a recorded resume of the high- lights of Brazilian news, based on short-wave broadcasts received from that country. ‘The service is furnished through the courtesy of Brazil’s diploma- tic delegations to the White House deprived of the elementary gua- the Central American economic in- tegration. * | P)— Supporters new president — but they will op- pose his administration. vote for Frondizi for “strategic” reasons, partly because some of ideas coincide with his own. | about bringing Leopold to work for their organization and that he told them it would be allright. The Governor said he had such a high opinion of the “Brethren Church” he told them “whatever you consider good, I must consider good, too”, * Mufioz said the Church officials described Leopold as a “comple- tely rehabilitated person” who could greatly help them at their Castaner Medical Mission Hospi- tal, near the mountain town of Adjuntas. EIGH ARGENTINES ARE RESCUED FROM CAVERN SALTA, Argentina. (UP).—Two- hundred-fifty volunteers working around the clock succeeded in res- cuing alive eight men entombed nearly 24 hours in a tunnel they were digging. The men were driving a six-foot diameter water tunnel through a mountain as part of the Corralitos rantees of political civilization, BUENOS IRES, Argentina )u| that Frondizi was elected only with of exiled Dicta-| Perén’s suppor: tor Juan D. Perén helped elect} now announced, as one newspaper Arturo Frondizi as Argentina’s | headline put it: But they have “The strategie support has end- ed, United we must now oppose Peron ordered his supporters to | the winner.” PARTY WAS OUTLAWED — The Peronistas are now organiz- the President — elect’s economic | ing fromal opvosition to Frondi- zi even though they are outlawed The Peronista newspapers boast! as a party. Latin America n News in Brief Digging night and day in relays, the volunteers finally reopened it. The entombeds were uninjured but weakened by the ordeal. DELTA SIGMA PI OPENS CHAPTER IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY. (UP). — México City College announced that Delta Sigma Pi, America’s largest pro- fessional ‘commerce and business administration fraternity, will in- stall a chapter at the College on Mar. 8. ‘ “The chapter will be the only one in Latin America, and the 98th in Delta Sigma Pi. Joseph Lacascia, New Hyde Park, N. ip tt President of the group said the international aspect of the frater- nity will be emphasized in its re- lations with the Mexican business community. \ ; ‘Expected to attend installation ceremonies are Grand President Homer J. Brewer,’ Atlanta, Ga.; Post Grand President Harry Fel- hydroelectric project when masses of earth and reck tumbled down from the summit completely block- ing the mouth of the tunnel, tham, Baltimore, Md; regional di- rector Joe M. Hefner, Lubbock, ‘Tex; and Executive Director Jim % D. Thomson, Oxford, Ohio, and the Organization of American States. Peronists to Oppose Frondizi During his Term as President of Argentina Their stand is that the election was not valid because they were not represented. On the basis of latest returns, Frondizi received 4,009,000 votes to 2,517,000 for Ricardo A. Balbin, of the People’s Radical Party. It is estimated that about 1,400,- 000 of Frondizi’s votes came froni Peronistas. In addition, there were cast by Peronistas who refused to, follow instructions to vote for Frondizi. Frondizi is now working out his plans to take over the presidency on May 1 as the first freely elected chief executive ir. 30 years. He has announced that he does not intend to try to make him- self a dictator. He will govern, he says, like any other president in a free country, in cooperation with congress and the courts, HAS FAVORABLE SENATE ~ Frondizi will have a Senate com- posed entirely of members of his Intransigeant Radical Party and he will have nearly all the seats in the chamber of deputies. d = Frondizi has announced that he proposes to send to Congress @ bill to grant amnesty to some or all Peronistas. He intimates a will be up to Congress to decide the extent of the amnesty law. Many members of the incoming Congress fought Peron bitterly” for 10 years, many were forced to exiie, Others were imprisoned, Hence the question of approving a liberal amnesty — or even of permitting Peron to return —-lies with his former enemies. cod A good deal may depend on the attitude of the Peronistas. them- selves, With their newspapers ab ‘ready attacking Frondizi, congr sional action on the amnesty bill The Peronistas say sition to Frondizi does not they intend to tise inrevolt. a newspaper article by a Pi ta leader says that “if” Fron manages to take office, * will be because Perén wills