Diario las Américas Newspaper, April 3, 1958, Page 10

tnter - Ameritan News fer English - Speaking people Sth YEAR 5 Cents—outs oa" SMITH SMITB President Vice President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE HORACIO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Viee President Editor and Manager Antonio Ruiz Managine Editor @ 4 3AN ROMAN President Publshea daily except Monday ~ Entered as second class mater at the Post Office of Miami Springs Fla. on February & 1950. EDITORIAL ULERAS CAMARGO AS A CANDIDATE IN COLOMBIA Because of its political significance, of democratic sense, K is convenient to comment, even briefly, the manner in which the name of Alberto Lleras Camargo has emerged as national union candidate for the Presidency of the Re- public of Colombia. _ The illustrious Latin American statesman, since he resigned as Secretary General of the Organization of Amer- ican States, returned to his country, whose: destiny he conducted as Chief Executive in 1945-1946, to struggle for the re-establishment of democratic life. From the very beginning he placed himself outside any suspicion regarding his intentions, since he categorically declared, and also de- monstrated, that his efforts were not subordinated to personal or political interests of his‘own. His name was left outside the sphere of political nominations, and his gallant, patriotic and decisive intervention in the political life of his country was in favor of high ideals, in which the electoral banner was formed by-other names. Multiple political circumstances have changéd the de- velopment of events, and now there are strong currents of bipartisan public opinion in Colombia who are supporting him for the nomination as presidential candidate. In view of this situation, the attitude of Alberto Lleras Camargo has been maintained within decorous limits, and he has the satisfaction that members of his party, and a good portion of his opponents, are supporting his nomina- tion as candidate for the presidency, a post from which he has maintained a prudent and dignified distance. Since the bipartisan agreement provides that a conser: vative is to be nominated for President of the Republic, with Guillermo Leén Valencia in the lead, Lleras Camargo has declared that it corresponds to the conservative party to say the last word on whether a member of that party should be the candidate for President of the Republic or not. The high moral and democratic values gathered in the vigorous personality of the illustrious ex-President of Co- lombia, are the ones which determine the public confidence they have in him as a candidate. He is remembered as an honest Chief Executive, who presided over free elections which brought an opponent to the Presidency. They think about him for his brilliant work as Secretary General of the Organization of American States, for his elear talent and for his patriotic feelings, ee, es ce a oe: Latin American Firance and Trade News Reports Inter American System Goes Into Action in Coffee Crisis NEW YORK.—The Inter-Amer- American housewife, any more |see coffee priced out of the mar- \ket. On the other hand”, he ad- ded, “I do not think that the than the government of the United States, wants to see a disastrous price decline which would have! Two developments of recent| Ve" more disastrous effects on days justify this conclusion — de. the countries where coffee is pro- velopments which have heartened duced and, ultimately, on the qua- Brazil’s coffee-growers who are lity and quantity of the produce struggling desperately to. find that we have come to depend upon some solution to the problem of to help us get started on our day’s growing surpluses versus | fean system of economic coopera- tion is swinging into action against the acute coffee problem. | ( stable | Work ri | Prices. | The Assistant Secretary of State | First of these developments ee went on te review the ‘coffee si-| the statement by Assistant Secre-|tuyation in some detail — from| tary of State for Inter-American) the México City agreement of last/ Affairs, Roy R. Rubottom, that the Oct ober to stabilize prices signed coffee situation “is under urgent | by the principal coffee producing and continuing study in the De-| nations of this hemisphere, to the partment of State and I am con-| establishment of the International fident that we will find a means | Coffee Organization by the Latin| to work with Latin America on American and Aérican producing this problem of transcendent im-| nations, And now, he said “the | portance”. | United States is searching for the The second heartening develop-' most useful means of cooperat- ae to nae coffee cries ing with its Latin American friends een the temporary suspen: | on the problem of coffee”. sion by México, El Salvador, Cos- Sueuaeseaad ta Rica and Colombia, of exports of their coffee. Rio dispatches say that coffee traders there and in Santos and Sao Paulo view the, WASHINGTON. (UP).— House move as a welcome breathing spell TePresentative Eye eerc carom for Brazil, an opportunity to redu- the oil State of Texas, Hobe ey ce its surpluses before the end of U-S. should limit oil imports to the current coffee year which ends ‘he proportion of 1954 with refer- June 30th. ‘ ence to the national production, Mr. Rubottom made his state-| A bill proposed by Ikard would ment about the coffee problem in fix this limit ammending the Re- an address at Tyler Junior College ‘iprocal Trade Act, which exten- in Texas, his home state. His talk | Sion is under consideration by Con- covered the broad range of United 8Tess. a tates policy in Latip America, The bill would also limit the but much of it was devoted to the fluorite imports, which mainly feoffee ‘situation, ~~ |come from México, but that also Recognizing the American’s love is imported from Spain, Italy and of coffee, Mr, Rubottom said: “As! Germany. important as coffee is to those, lkard’s bill for the limitation of! who love both the taste and the|the oil imports would authorize) “aroma of a cup in the morning the President of U.S. to assign) - or any other time— coffee is quotas to those countries or zones even more important to our friends | from where the oil comes. to the South— Six of the fifteen| Ikard said his ammendment was | zoffee-producing countries depend Necessary, because the voluntary) on coffee for most of their for-|Teductions have proved unsucces-| ‘2ign exchange to buy what they sful. aeed in the United States”. | After underlining, what could barrier cob 9e called “the two-way street na- BOGOTA, —(SICO).— The Ba- ure of the coffee problem,” Mr. Rubottom pointed out that “No- | varia Breweries Corporation, one of the largest Colombian corpo- vody, certainly not the countries | rations, has bought the Clausen vhich depend on coffee for their | oreign exchange and the live: | Brewery of Bucaramanga, for ten million Colombian pesos, ihood of their people, wants to/ NEW PROPOSAL ON OIL IMPORT RESTRICTIONS ‘ ’ ide Metropolitan area, 1 | Europe and jcially from Argentina. THE AMERIBAS DAILY For a better understanding between the Americas 0 cents, Know thy Neighbor By ANTONIO RUIZ CHILE — Vina del garden city of the Pacifi of the most famed resor in the world. The beauty without parallel of its beaches, its privi- leged climate and the atmosphere of distinction and elegance which} characterizes Vina del Mar, have given it the prestige of high class! resort, comparable to the best in} yy Cuban Envoy Confirms to Negotiate for Mar, After Interview With WASHINGTON, April 2. (UP). = pe ti ariano Puga Vega, Chilean Am- This Great the United States.|passador, confirmed that his gov- us prestige attracts every sum-| ernment had in mind to obtain mer thousands of tourists not only more financial aid from the USS. eon other parts of Chile, but) to face the foreign exchange dif- rom many foreign countries, esPe-| ficulties in which Chile is involv- |ed with the price drop in copper, which is the main source of in- come for foreign exchange. After a half an hour talk with The greatest attraction in Viia del Mar is the Municipal Casino, housed in a sumptuous building| constructed by the sea. The Ca-! the Secretary of State, John Fos- sino is in operation six months} toy Dulles, he declared to “have every year, from the 15 of Sep-| “complete understanding” f tember to the 15 of March. ‘The| e¢ Chiles route profits the Casino gives the Mu- Th fi potite in | ted Press reported 1z nicipality of Via del Mar have Ss Tarea pot Madu sted a ae it to complete many pro-| gotiations with the Export-Import Jects of great importance for the Bank in connection with new cre- progress of the city, such as the gits to strenghten the reduced re- luxurious and comfortable hotels| serves in foreign exchange. Heat and “O) Higgins ;_ the’ ‘The ambassador declared to the Miensinn ‘of the great Vergara) press that the extension of one Aansion, housing now the Muni-| year of the permanent credit of cipal Academy of Fine Arts, where $75,000,000, granted not. by the ay are gardens of extreme jnternational Monetary Fund, U.S. eauty, as well as valuable forest Treasury and a group of nine specimens; the construction of other banks (The First National houses for employes and workers,| city Bank, with a branch in San- and many other progressive pro-| tiago de Chile), would be “merely dae wae th A ._|as a plantform on which all the ong the many interesting jo. of financial aid we are looking places in Via del Mar are the for, lies” “Cerro del Castillo” (Castle Hill),) “Phe Chilean Ambassador show- eens Ne from the ‘Mu-| eq satisfaction in having heard icipal Casino. There is the sum-| Hues say that the U.S, is inform- mer residence of the Chilean Pre-| oq of the measures that the gov- sidents, wihch is surrounded by ernment of Santiago takes to sta- many other important buildings; | }ijize its economy and combat in- the picturesque race-track of the| gation Valparaiso Sporting Club, where He also said that after he talked horse-races are held on Sundays! with Dulles he was satisfied be- and holidays. These meetings have | cause the U.S. government was| special attraction during the sum-| — i mer months, in which there are| many special features, such as} Paraguay Troops “El Derby”, a classic which takes | raiso, Santiago and many other Chilean cities. the world, according to experts, attempted coup Tuesday in a The “El Tranque” Park, where| Clash in which four men died, a place in the middle of January, wth the attendance of members of the high social cireles of Valpa- f R | iz The excellent golf course of Granadillas, located at the north| ASUNCION, Paraguay. (UP).— of the city, is among the best in| Government troops put down an there is an ample stadium, and| Spokesman _for Paraguay’s gov- the beautiful natural lake, and| ernment said’ today. “El Olivar”, with beautiful gar-) the Oceanography Institute of the the town of Coronel Bogardo, near University of Chile, in nearby|the Argentine border, but was Montemar, with a rich collection|Tepulsed by‘ an army garrison. of Chilean ocean fauna, are also| TWO soldiers and two rebels were places which attract many visitors. killed ‘and at least one person, the The municipal tourist hotel, the | 0Wn’s mayor, woun ded, the “Miramar”, located at the beach spokesman said. 5 th of Caleta Abarca, is housed in a|, Paraguay’s interior minis: modern building and is an exam- try announced it received a re- le of the progress achieved in reat sccotadation’: It has all that Col. Rafael Franco, leader the modern conveniences, includ-|°f the opposition Febrerista Par- ing hot salt water baths, turkish|'Y, and Col. Carlos Civils were baths, warm water swimming | Preparing to stage a revolt. pools, private beach, and a natu-| The ministry said the two army rocks at the beach. men were recruiting rebel groups ‘The beaches, the blue waters of |i" Argentina, principally in Posa- which rival those of the Riviera,| 44s and Formosa. i . form a virtual chain on and around| , A government communique said Vifia del Mar. The most popular) A of the rebels in Tues- are those of Caleta Abarca, Mira- day’s clash had crossed the bor- mar, Las Salinas, Las Osas, Rena- der from Argentina. The fleeing ca, Playa Amarilla and Montemar. rebels left machineguns marked ConeSn picturesque resort locat- a the Argentine emblem, it ed north of Vifa del Mar, is con-| ; nected to the city by an excellent The announcement said army paved highway. The Aconcagua troops captured one rebel, iden- River has a service for tourists of-| tified as Lt. José Prieto of the fering the most beautiful land-| Febrerista Party. scape views, and pours into the| ocean at a point called Concén Alto. A long bridge has been constructed there, which is cros-) sed by automobiles going north, | toward the resorts of Quintero, | HEMISPHERIC EVENTS The spokesmen said 40 men) dens and a good restaurant, and| armed with machineguns attacked) port before the attack warning! Maitencillo, Zapallar and Papudo. foncén is assuming industrial importance, since it became the site of an oil refinery, in which petroleum from the fields of Ma- gallanes is) processed. Spanis Version Page 8 U. S. BRAZILIAN TRADE AGREEMENT DENOUNCED RIO DE JANEIRO (UP)—Brazil has officially denounced the trade treaty signed on February 1935 with the United States, ‘The corresponding decree was in suspense.since June 30, 1948 on account of some notes exchanged between both governments. The minister eannde Barbosa da Silva, from the Foreign Office Economic Dept,, explained that the agreement of 1935 was suspended in 1948 by agreement signed by both parts and that since that date there were mutual tariffs con- cessions within the International Tariffs Agreements (ITA). The repeal of the treaty, Barbosa said, is merely a routine, and will be into effeet on April 11, U. S. AMBASSADOR IN’ CHILE APPOINTED WASHINGTON, (UP). — Pre- sident Eisenhower has nominated Waiter Howe, a foreign aid of- ficial, as United States Ambas- sador to Chile. Howe is a former president of | the Litchfield, Connecticut, Inqui- rer Publishing Company. | He will succeed Cecil B. Lyons, ja career diplomat who is being shifted to the U.S, Embassy in Paris, PERON @N VACATION CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domini- can Republic. (UP). — Ex-Dictator Juan D. Perén of Argentina is still vacationing at the central mountain resort of Jarabacoa, where he went last week, a spo- kesman said. There was no further informa- tion about Perén’s previously an- Rounced plang to go to Europe. MIAMI SPRINGS, FLA, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1958 Tension Chile’s Purpose More U. S. Aid Says he Found “Complete Understanding” Secretary Foster Dulles really interested to find out the| means to help Chile face her pre-| | sent emergency. He said nobody could figure out | exactly at the present time how| much money did Chile need to| | balance her economy in the next | fiscal year. | Finally he said that in the case | of Chile, the government of Hisen- ‘hower could not “fix any other limit than the fact the U.S. consi- jders it has a responsibility with |the entire world with regard to financial problems”. The Secretary of State showed! to him “his great pleasure” for| |the next visit of President Carlos |Ibahez del Campo, who must | reach Washington April 29 for al three days official visit, upon | the invitation of President Ei- | senhower. U. S$. Families in Oriente Ask For Navy Pretection HAVANA, Cuba, April 2. (UP).| — Forty-five American families in| rebel-infested Oriente Province have asked the U.S. navy to send | warships there as a protective | measure, reports from Santiago de | Cuba said today. The reports said the families, }employes of the U.S.-government | | owned Nicaro nickel plant on the) | north coast of Oriente, forwarded | their request to the Guantanamo | Naval Base in event civil war| makes their flight necessary. The U.S. Navy base at Guanta-| namo itself cancelled all leaves! and took what authorities describ- ed as ‘emergency measures’ in pre- paration for the expected start of | an all-out war against the govern- | ment by Fidel Castro’s rebels. | | About 250 dependents of navy | personnel were moved into the} | naval base from the nearby eities |of Boquerén, Caimanera and Gua-| tanamo City. Castro has threaten- ed to start his April “blood bath” | campaign against President Ful-| | gencio Batista in that area. | Reports from the mountainous | province of Oriente said a “busi-| ‘ness as usual” uotlook prevailed | | with only minor skirmishes report- ed between government and rebel troops. ' | (The National Broadcasting Co. | reported in New York that 16 re- bels were killed in fighting with |Government troops, on Tuesday.| | NBC correspondent Ed Scott also said the rebels attacked an Amer-} ican-owned mining company at | Mora Bay and that some soldiers | were killed. CONSULAR APPOINTMENTS BY VENEZUELAN GOVT. CARACAS. (UP)—The Foreign Ministry announced that following appointments of Consuls: Havana, Raul Hernandez; Cadiz, Oswaldo | Pérez Esteves; Geneva, Jorge Cruz | Bajares; Zurich, César Reina Anto- ni; Hamburg, -Lt. Col. Enrique Rin- cén Caleafio; and in Trinidad, | Benjamin Delgado Leffman. MEXICO GETTING NEW POWER PLANTS MEXICO CITY. —(UP).— The private exterpye power company, Compajiia Impulsora de Empresas Eléctricas, said it will add 88,000 kilowatts to the national power pool by augmenting production of thermoelectric plants in six pro- vincial cities in 1958. Slated for expansion are plants in Celaya, Puebla, Aguascalientes, | Durango, Mérida an Mazatlan. MILK: STRIKE IN ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES. (UP). — Milk distributors announced they went on strike in protest over the new official prices, for the. winter season, » PHONE STRIKE IS AVERTED IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY. —(UP).— A telephone strike which would have paralyzed phone service to 95 per cent of abl telephone users in the an Ter Grows as Rebel Activity in Oriente Increases ‘Government Troops Chasing Rebel Communications With Oriente Virtually Suspended; Cubana Airline Stops Flights HAVANA, Cuba. (UP). Govern-) cago with signs protesting the | ment troops are chasing two reb-| Brownsville capture. el bands through the mountains} Nine more’ rebel sympathizers | of Oriente Province following a) were conducting a “sitdown hun-} series of sharp clashes with] ger strike” in the lobby of a Mi- troops of rebel leader Fidel Cas-| aim television’ station. tro, the army announced today. i Communications with Santiago] Miami Police Holds 22 Bands to Mountains After Clashes geese | Member Inter American, Press Association | Oey For Liberty, Culture and! Hemispheric Solidarity, NUMBER 229 "TEMPERATURE an ed) |e centigrade @| Be Varona’s Successful Bid in Washington According to the United Press, the efforts, made by the former President of the Cuban Senate, Dr. Manuel Antonio de Varona, led to the attitude assumed by the Foreign Relations Commit- tee of the U. S. Senate, in the sense of calling a special ses- sion “to hear testimonies on as- sassinations and atrocities sup- posedly committed by the Arm- ed and Police forces of Cuba in dealing with Cuban citizens who have been critical of the Batista regime”. The reason why these testi- monies were requested —the de Cuba were disrupted id it} | al. strike wag) C¥bans on $100 Bonds appeared a general strike was| abe ge 7 se going into effect there. The situ-| Miami police jailed 22 Cuban ation inside the city was reported |@volutionaries who staged an| nearly normal but apparently | Uprising at a railroad station here) traffie to and from the city had| Tuesday. It was the third incident) halted. ke less than 24 hours involving! An army communique reported | South. Florida’s large Cuban po- 16 rebels and one civilian killed) Pulation, restlessly awaiting the) in‘at least four clashes along ma-; evolution” promised by rebel jor highways in the Oriente sec-| leader Fidel. Castro. tor:as the rebels tried to make| Nearly 100 men stormed the} good their threat of blocking com-| Seaboard Railway passenger sta-| munications in the area. | tion when word got around that} Cubana Air Line has suspended/15 Cuban government emissaries| services to the eastern part of Were en route to Washington to| Oriente Province, after one of its| Seek renewal of U. S. arms ship-| planes was fired upon when it) ments. One unconfirmed report | was trying to land at the Baracoa| Widely circulated by the hot Cuban/ airport. The cities to which ser-| “grapevine” in Miami said the vice was suspended do not include| Wife of Cuban President Fulgen-| Santiago, but other cities as im-|¢Cio was among the delegates. portant as Manzanillo, Bayamo,| Police quickly broke up the Holguin, Guantanamo and Ba-| demonstration, arresting 22 on) Facoa. |charges of disorderly conduct by Telephone and telegraph eom-| unlawful assembly. Seven were munications between Havana and) Charged additionally with tres- Oriente are virtually impossible,| passing. Bond of $100 was set on and subject to great delays. each charge. Government sources denied re-| Earlier, federal officers arrest-| ports the rebels had ‘captured the|/ed two Cuban nationals at Key| port of Munzanillo, a city of 100,-| West on charges of trying to | 000 about 50 milles west of San-| smuggle arms to Castro’s moun-| tiago. | tain forces in an outboard motor-| The army said five rebels were| boat. Nine other rebel sympathiz- killed in a skirmish on the road|ers continued their sitdown hun-) between Buey Arriba and Bay-|ger strike” in the lobby of a Mi-| amo and another four were killed| ami television station. near Rig Abajo in the Holguin | Police Sgt. Kenneth Fox said! zone, Four rebels and one civil-| the prisoners arrested at the train) ian were killed on the Bayamo-| station indicated the demonstra- | Holguin highway and three rebels} tors planned to attack Cuban gov-) were killed near Aguacate. ernment men aboard the train. | Reports reaching Havana said a| He said police found a home made | general strike seemed to be de-| blackjack and two clubs hidden | veloping in Santiago more by error} under benches in the station. than by design. About. half the workers were obeying a strike call Three Arrested At Winchester, Va. because ‘they had not heard gov- At Winchester, Va., three men ernment orders to return to work. arrested in an allegedly stolen car | Telephone and telegraphic com- munications between Santiago with a cargo of knives, bayonets and a sawed-off shotgun, said| and Havana still were im opera-| they were part of an army of| tion, but with difficulty, partieu- larly telegraph cireuits. ‘ 1,500 to 2,000 men being trained Cubens’ Hunger Strikes here to join the Castro forces. h U.S.A, | They gave’ their names as Forest} Spread Throug Lipscomb, Patrick Patterson and BROWNSVILLE, Tex. (UP).—|Harry Voelker. Thirty-five captured Cuban rebels carried a hunger strike into its) CARLOS ROMULO 10 ATTEND FRONDI'S INAUGURATION second week today, joined in their MANILA. (UP) Carlos P. starvation protest by rebel groups in New York, Chicago and Miami. They and the other hunger} Romulo, Philippine Ambassador in United Press says— “is the list of accusations made by the for- mer Prime Minister of Cuba and former President of the Senate, Manuel Antonio de Varona, who now lives exiled in Miami, claim- ing that the arms sent to Cuba by the United States are not being destined to the use called for by the security program. Varona wrote a while back to Senator Wayne Morse asking him to press on the Government to stop the shipment of U.S. arms to Cuba. He also asked the United States to recall its military, naval and air missions in Cuba that are in charge of training the armed forces of that country. The communique in question also says that for reasons of his nationality, Dr. de Varona will not be able to ap- pear before the Committee, but that this will be done by his secretary and interpreter, Mr. Joaquin Osorio, who is an Amer- iean citizen of Cuban origin, and who is fully familiar with the viewpoints of the noted po- litical leader. Judging by these reports and by the matter of fact, the Party of former President Carlos Prio Socarraés, which Manuel Antonio de Varona presides, has attained a political victory of national and international significance, as Dr. de Varona’s efforts found echo in Washington’s Capitol Hill. This is an indication, if it is not wished to consider it a proof, that Dr. de Varona acted with reasoning and ability. Of course, this victory is beneficial to the cause of the opposition im general, which includes dif- ferent groups and parties. — It is evident that the Cuban oppositionists have |this time succeeded in bringing to the U.S. Congress, through one of - its Committees, Cuba’s political problem in the one or other aspects it concerns the United States of America. México Warns OAS en Emergency in Mining Countries WASHINGTON. (UP). — Méxi- strikers are protesting also con-| washington, will represent the tinued shipment CEU S.-arms to President Carlos P. Garcia: in the the Batista government. | inauguration ceremonies of Pres- In New York, 14 men and four jgentelect Dr. Arturo Frondizi, women members of the Orthodox May 1. The announcement was Committee, headed by Barron, be made by the Foreign Minister, Fe- gan a hunger strike at 7 p.m. Fri-| jixberto ‘Serrano. day and were still on it today. Off At the same time Serrano reveal- 10 members of the rebel Revolu- eq that an Argentine-Philippine tionary Labor Directorate, only | cultural and friendly agreement two remained on ‘a similar hun-' petween both countires will be con- ger strike today. Two became ill! cluded, probably in the same oc- Monday night and four more were casion of the Presidential inaugura- forced to begin eating again late tion ceremonies in Buenos Aires. Tuesday night. | The agreement will have proto- Another group of Cubans pick- cal validity to save the approval eted the U.S. Court House at Chi-| of both Congresses, agreement was reached granting, the workers “benefits totalling more than 100 million pesos”. The Telephone Workers Union had asked for a 40 per cent wage increase, in addition to a number of “social and administrative bene- fits”. Teléfonos de México said this would have mean additional yearly expenses of over 140 mil- lion pesos (19,200,000 dollars). Round - the -clock negotiations were held since early yesterday and at 3:05 am today it was an- nounced that an agreement had been reached and that the workers had accepted benefits totalling more than 100 million pesos (eight million dollars). NEW ANTLILLITERACY CENTER IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY, (UP). — The National Bank of México has an- nounced it will inaugurate another “Anti-Illiteracy, Center” here this education José Angel Ceniceros. Angel Ceniceros issued a call to private enterprise to help stamp out illiteracy in the Republic. The new school will be located on the Toluca highway in an area where children are far removed from the school districts of the Federal District. ASTA CONVENTION IN GUATEMALA GUATEMALA. — Private en-| terprise is enthusiastically, back- ing the National Tourist Bureau in its plans for entertaining dele- gates to the upcoming Convention of the Midwest and Southwest Chapters of the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA), sche- duled for the first week of May. Various organizations have volun- ners, while others will cooperate in furnishing transportation to tourist centers, such as Chichicas- teered to offer luncheons and din-| leo warned the Organization of | American States (OSS) that the |Latin American countries mineral | producers, specially México, Bo- |livia and Pert, are facing a “dif- ficult emergency”. The Mexican ambassador, Luis Quintanilla suggested to the OAS’ | Council to send to the United Na- |tions a memorandum showing the effect of the drop in prices of lead and zinc in the economies of some Latin American countries. México, Bolivia and Peri have | protested before the U.S. in con- | nection with the increase in tariff on the import of those metals. _ Quintanilla made special men- tion in regard to the effect the |low prices have on México, saying | that every cent reduced on each |dollar per pound in the prices of lead and zinc, represents $10,000,- | 000 less in foreign exchange for Latin American News in Brief | his country. ECUADOREAN ARRESTED FOR ARMS SMUGGLING LIMA (UP)—In the Limatambo airport, the Equadorean merchant Guillermo Maser Aquin, was arrest- ed by the customs officials, for smuggling arms. Maser Aquin tried to take to Ecuador three cases containing German made pistols 22 caliber, as “toy pistols’, - The airport authorities confiscat- ed the pistols. It was said Maser did not have invoices in order. CHILEAN MINERS VOTE TO DECLARE STRIKE SANTIAGO (UP)—After failure of the negotiations for a renewal of the agreement with the Anacon.- da Company, the 6,300 laborers ind employes of the copper mine Chuquicamata, declared a strike. The laborers ask for an increase, week in conjunction with the cam- country, was averted when en peign lewnehed by secretary of tenango, Lake Atitién and eolonial Antigua, of 40 per cent in their wages the eompany offered 20 per j ,