Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1933, Page 4

A-—4 ewn. DE CESPEDES ASKS OPEN L. 3. MARKET Cuban Prosperity Depends on Fairer Sugar Terms, Correspondent Told. BY COL. FREDERICK PALMER. By Wireless to The Star RAVANA, August 17~ I have worked around a plan for & new reciprocity treaty with the United States,” said President Manuel Carlos De Cespedes of Cuba in a talk I have just had with him. “We ask the United States to agree to the treaty not only| out of friendship, but because of our common economic interest. ‘uba asks that America’s great mar- | ket be opened to her sugar on fairer | terms. Unless this is done, Cuba can- | not prosper again.” As I walked through the halls of the presidential palace while the new go ernment came to gips with its eco- | nomic problems, the walls seemed 10 take voice in joining in the national| chorus of “Buy our sugar or we cannot buy goods from you.” The man who | had succeeded rough-hewn. ruthless| Gerardo Machado at the presidential’ desk might have been taken at m‘l‘ glance as having risen from the study of a collection of old prints to receive | a fellow connoisseur in bhis library Besieged By Callers. When I rst met him there was a/l s of callers walting in the lobby to him. A few hours later men were with mops and pails clearing the marble floors. An attendant policeman | said there would be no further recep- tions until the following day. However, David Hitchman, a Jamaican by birth and a perfect neutral in Cuban politics who served under Gen. Fitzhugh Lee in the American occupation of 1898-99 and in the secretariat of every Cuban President siuce that day. came to my rescue when I told him I had an | appointment David teok me to the President. who seemed to be secluded as quietly as he had been in his em- bassy in Washington or abroad. al- though there were more papers on his desk demanding immediate attention and more te e calls to answer “As a boy ived the United States.” said the Presic “Then I went back as Cuban Minister to Wash- ington. I fee that I understand your and now that the veil has been our people will better under- stand mine. “It is ti the United best friend. T our independ | | e for candor. We recogni tes as our greatest and! ur timely aid we owe You took up arms ! newspaper MENOCAL'S RETURN 'm AWAITED IN CUBA; | EXILES TO TAKE LEAD| (Continued From_First Page) was learned authoritatively that other important leaders of the deposed re- gime, including Rafael Guas ln(‘luu.; former president of the House of Rep- | resentatl and Narcico Onetti. one- | time secretary of public works, planned to go into exile today. | Ten Machado followers who took refuge in the Spanish embussy were ex- pected to safl for Spain shortly. | n Supreme Court scheduled | ng for (oday to consider re- a body. Already in the resignations of Chief Justice Jose Clemente Vivanco, former secretary of the interior and state in the Machado cabinet, Ricardo Lancis, at.orney general. Court Criticized. Sharp criticism has been directed at thc Suprime Court by the A B C and other opposition groups, who charge it was lax in mot weclaring unconsiitu- tional ceria:n acts of the Ma i:ad> gov- ernment. The 15 members of -the court | met last night, but reached no deci- sion. | Animcsity toward the Machadistas | flared again la:t night. when a crowd | attempted to burn. the plant of the | Murcurio, owned by Jose Obregon. Machado's son-in-law, Pive | persons met violent death yesterday- two in strect fights. two by suicide and one from weunds received in Monday's disorders | Joaquin Martinez Saenz, youthful secretury of the treasury, Las started | conversations wiih United States Am- | s ador Sumner Welles aboul commer- cial relations with the United States Other problems facing new Cuba were | presented by dock workers, wio con- | tinued their sirike: congressmen, of whom so meny have gone into hiding that & quorum cannot be obtained. and laborers, among whom another general strike develop. Guarantees will be given the fright- - THE EVENING. STAR. WASHINGTON. .D. C. THURSDAY. AUGUST 17, 1933. safely. i Efforts have been put forth to scive | ihe strik along the waterfront, which hi ing. the that ferries be wbolished, and that all | ships anchor in midstream instesd of docking. In Santiago abcut 40 per cent of the organized workmen continued to strike. In Camaguey street car men and rail- way workers refused to go back with-| out a pay increase and an eight-hour working day. = | Army officers and members of the A. B. C. arrested Mar: Teresu Betan: private secretary of Machado's released her. She had Mm‘mnCM mymmw! er President’s decor tions from the Cuban and forelgn gov- ernments. | Jose Dzl Valle, brother-in-law of | former Police Chief Alnciarl, was cap- | tured iast night by soldiers after an exchange cf snots. Del Valle had been | in hiding. i Embezziement Charged. | Cuban suthorities asked Florida | police to arrest Espinosa Izquierdo, | | employe of the ceniral district, when board the | Toey charged he !y he arrived a steamer Florida. carided with him $30,000 of tae depart- mcut’s Key Wast Loua~do Corzaler Reul, navy commande., sen: the gun- boat Yaia to interccpt the Florida, but th.s was called off due to the fact the steamer carries mall. Izquierdo is a nephew of the former chief of the district, Jose lzquierdo. The Havana commiiiee of the Ger- man- Nationsl Socialist pafty (Naz) | agreed o ask the German government nuot to permic Gerardo Machado to live in Germany A Havina newspaper recently re- ported th* deposed President negotiated two m-uths ago for the purchase of & resudense in the Reici Former King's Fome Sold. Fulwell Park, home of the late King | Man el of Portugal in England. has been sold, to be developed as a build- ing MACHADOS SEEKING PHILADELPHIA HOME Hotel Manager Says Family of Exile Commissioned Him to . Look for One. By the Asseclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, August 17 iel Crawford, jr. menager of the | hotel at which the family of exiled Pres- idént Machado of Cuna is staying. said today the family expects to settle down in the Philadelphia area, and that they had commissioned him to look for a likely home or estate. Crawford said Jose Emilio Obregon, millionaire banker, and son-in-law of the deposed head of the island repub- lic, had delegated him to lock for the home, probably in suburban Wynnewood, bf'onwomery County, just West of the city. The hotel man revealed that Obregon plans to remain at the Hotel P nnsyl- nia, where the family retained a suite alter their unexpected arrival yester- ay, but wants the women and chil- n in the family to b> provided with a home. The family last nigat enjoyed its first sound sleep s‘n.e the preciplated fifght from that island republic on Saturday. They retired early, after receiving teleplfone calis from Senor ‘Machado, himself a political fugitive in Nassau | TU The first call “All's well.” 8cnora Elvira Machado, once the first lady of Cuba. was said to have been too exhausted by her experiences to talk was to tell his family | with her husband, but other members of the famfly spoke to him. Detective John De Young. innermost sentinel at the Hotel Pennsylvanie, had the only news of the before \DEALFOODSTORES XXX SPEC == R R R se Mmmemmar . ¢ . = Another Ideal Food Store MAY’S MEAT MARKET erly Lenbin's 532 8th With a full i most sanitary condition: August 17th WEEK END ;1332 5th St. NE.} of choice meats kept in frigidaire Also a full line of select vege ON CUBA'S DEBTS! Treasury Secretary Says Specific Results Await Beorganization of Department. By the Associated Pre HAVANA, August 17.—Problems of departmental reorganization, - customs cotlections, and Cuba’s large foreign debt burdened the ncw tredsury secre- tary today as he conferred with United States Ambas ador Sumner Welles re- garding Cuban and American commer- cial relations. The secretary, 32-ye “-old Joaquin | Martinez Saenz, was delegated to deal directly with the United States through |Mr. Welles in the matters pertaining to_the two countries. No progress toward specific results will be possible, Martinez Saenz ex- - plained, until reorganization of the de- partment has been effected. He asserted that the department’s most serfous problem comes from the fact that revenues are “minute” as & result of the general strike gripped Cuba 10 da: M-chadn's gove left ceveral periial s.rikes in its wake, one of them almost tying up the Por. of Havana. Collections at the customs bureau \N'r:dunly $4,000 Monday and $14,000 | ay. tinez Saenz was optimistic for | impro.ement, however. | breakfast time—t | peep out of them.’ | the corridor outside their suite. In the hall by the elevator shaft. by the ele- vators in the mszin lobby and at thej entrances to the bullding were other guards, ! he “hadn’t had a De Young was in geeeeseccsctenes, MAIN OFFICE ¥ Just Call Us Lin.. 5598 Jesesssscssssce IALS $t.’S.E. CONFERS WITH WELLES| , re You Keeping Up With Your Home State ACH Sunday The Star, in addition to giving vou a full account of what is happening in the Nation’s Capital, together with news dispatches from all for our cause in 1898, insuring the suc- You are cordially cess of our long stiuzgle which my father. began in 1968 and to which he gave his life Gratitude Shown. groceries at most reasonable prices. X All Gold Sliced Pineapple. . . Our X ? X All Gold Apricots. ....... parts of the world, reaches down into your own State and brings you a complete res'me of the week’s outstand- “We willingly gave proof of all the gratitude in our power as a small na- tion in our immediate declaration of war when you entered the World War and in promptly placing our army, our sugar and all our productive capacity at your disposal. We were the first of | allied nations to repay in full her war | loan to you.” | When I referred to the American part in the recent crisis leading to the overthrow of Machado. President De Cespedes said. “I knew Ambassador | Welles as a young man in your State Department. He has borne out the promise I saw in him then by his able statesmanship and diplomacy. His medi- ation in the political conflict hus pre- | pared the way for the second period of our national rise. In the first period, ] you may have had reason at times to | associate Cuban rule with a conception | that is not uncommon in the United | States about Latin American countries. | Ours was a cruel history under a colonial system. Naturall and inevitably came our leaders They were born un- der colonial tyranny and could not alto- gether escape the influences of its pre- cepts.” “Judging by the vouth of the leaders of the new regime.” I said. “the younger generation of Cuba has certainly come into its own.” The President smiled and mentioned his own age. “I find myself an elder among my young cabinet officers and *he declared. “I hope that rce in European and American as well as home affairs| I may serve with a little of the wisdom | and spirit exerted by Benjamin Frank- | lin amone the vouns statesmen of your | revolution of “I have be many of your men speak | English well.” I said. | | Influenced by U. S. Cuiture. i “They have been much in the United | States and under the influence of your | culture and institutions rather than the | European.” President Cespedes replied. | “This very measurably differentiates Cuban habits from thai of other Latin American nations which are less ac- cessible to the United States. Our youth go to New York and Washington rather than to Paris and Madrid for many of their ideas and ideals. But | we shall always remain fundamentally | Latin in culture, with its classic strain, though the breadth of outlook which | makes for world civilization and cul- ture invites us to share in and profit | by your culture. progress and organi- | zation. Geographically we are your | nearest island neighbor, and flight has brought us still nearer to you in al two-hour plane service between Miami | and Havana. | “The young men of our new gov-| ernment have the same spirit to mould | Cuba’s future in the second period of | this republic as the soldiers of our rev- olution had in freeing Cuba to enable her to begin the first period of her national existence. The first duty of the new era is to establish liberty, jus- | tice and order from which happiness will flow. Liberty requires the freedom | of the press and of tie courts of jus- tice, which are ruthlessly suppressed under the recent regime.” “And then? " T asked Economic Problem Pressing. “The supreme. pressing and very try- | ing problem is financial and economic,” the P answered. “Cuba was the first nation to suffer from the world | depression. Her misfortune is singular-" 1y hard owing to the extrav nt spen ing of prodigal borrowings by the re cent regime ‘in the era of high pros- | perity. Once we have straightened out the tangle of maladminisiration and of corruption we must continue with se- Vere economy in_an honest adminis- tration to meet all our obligations and insure the complete restoration of credit. Our wickedly onerous and com- plex system of taxation must be re- placed by a scientific system. “Our great staple is sugar. You buy much of the sugar you consume from sources remote from your shores. The dollars you spend for our sugar are re- turned to you in the purchase of your | goods. We aspire to become your best | customer. Are you not willing to ex- tend to us-a just opportunity to become | 80 to our mutual economic and finan- cial adsantage? Time will tell.” The President concluded with another tribute to the way Ambassador Welles | had respected Cuban sovereignty dur- | ing the revolution. {(Copyright. 1933. by North American News- paper Alliance’ Tuc. World rights reserved.) Elected to School VBaard. with how ‘WINCHESTER, Va., August 17.—Four new members of the Winchester School | Board were elected by the Common ' Council here last night. Stewait Bell and Howard Shockey were unanimously selected to succeed themsclves at the expiration of the present teim.. Dr. B. B. Dutton was chosen to succeed William C. Hardy, who resigned, and Ray Robinson was selected to succeed W. O. Talbot, who had announced that not be & candidate (qh- . « he hides ““cheap road” budget “Hr” Drivinag CosT gets the last laugh when cheap roads are laid. For it’s High Driving Cost —the excess cost of use—that makes taxpayers pay plenty for “bargain’ roads. Every type of road has its dollars-and-cents cost of use. These costs have been obtained by impartial road tests carried on by government and state engineers since 1917. They show why the “cheap’’ roads cost more than the high-type roads, even when traffic And they prove, as you probably thought, that a CONCRETE ROAD costs LESS TO USE than any other kind. Insist on CONCRETE the most and best road for the money— and the maximum employment for labor! PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION dg., Washington, D. C. National Press HERE'S the Cost-Per-Mile Difference Between Concrete and Less-Than-Concrete Roads IT COSTS, on the Average: % e more per mile to drive on bituminous macadam than on concrete. 1%ec more per mile to drive on gravel than on concrete. 2¢ more per mile to drive on an earth road than on concrete. % eFthemoney spent an [oncrete behind the volumes are moderate. for your roads—get For further information write the Cement Ser- vice Man, care of Portland Cement Association. [anstruction gues to Laher! 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